(Original) A/N: Hi. Look I'm really sorry it's taken so long but on Christmas Day my computer crashed! I lost Chapters 4, 5 and 6. I think this is slightly better though! Usually I'm the type that writes the original and when asked to change or re-write it never seems as good, but TA DA!

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Title: Danger Isn't A Game
Author: Secret Agent 006
Rating: T-ish M? Language… and a definite M later for… descriptive scenes and gore
Pairings: Read On to find out
Summary: Cammie Morgans life has slowly started to come apart. A new enemy is after her and the school she loves. As new and old faces are coming back into her life, Cammie needs to make a big decision between what she knows and what she doesn't. Before time's up.
Authors Note:

Originally published circa 2009/ early 2010 (as Chapter 3: Strikes)
Updated and edited 14/12/2013

Disclaimer: Ally Carter and Disney Hyperion (?) own everything

Chapter 2: Strikes

Cammie POV

The past two semesters at Gallagher have given me a new perspective on the world. For a long time, everyone at Gallagher had thought we were the only school for spies in the world. Tina had always claimed that there was another school like Gallagher out there. But for Boys. Everyone thought that it wasn't true. This belief was law up until Mr. Solomon took the sophomore class on an assignment to the Mall.

Mr Solomon had set us up. No one knew though. Except for me… and Bex… and Macey… and Liz. All because of one little, basic 'mission' to look around my mother's Head Mistress office.

I'd discovered a picture, hidden underneath her desk. At first it had seemed pretty innocent… except for the fact that Mr. Solomon was in it with my dad. I'd nearly been caught, but mum had believed my 'I-don't-feel-well ploy' and I'd managed to get out alive. On my way out, Mr Solomon had bumped into me. He was holding a file labelled 'Blackthorn.'

Our mission to the mall had been clear: get to the ruby slipper exhibit by 5. Pretty simple really (did I mention we had to lose a tail before we got there?). Not so much. Everywhere Bex and I looked, we saw someone suspicious. We noticed everyone, except for two innocent looking boys.

Strike 1.

I meet one of the boys again in an elevator, were we had offered me candy and started an innocuous conversation. He asked where I was going in such a hurry, I told him.

Strike 2.

He wanted to escort me there, I didn't let him. I thought I had lost him; I actually wasn't looking out for him. That was my third and final strike.

He was a Blackthorn Boy. His name was Zachary Goode.

Soon after I was seeing him regularly (more like avoiding him regularly). Blackthorn was staying at Gallagher for a 'converge.'

But the biggest change was last semester. Before my junior year had even started, I was staying with Macey as her father campaigned around America. I hadn't even seen my room when it happened. Her itinerary said that she had to be on the roof. We went to the roof with Preston Winters, her not-yet SBF. We were attacked. I still remember in perfect clarity what was going on that day. I remember seeing Zach in his disguise. I remember exactly how I got Preston off the roof. I remember the attackers didn't even care. I remember them pointing to Macey and I, and saying Get her.

The Circle of Cavan was Gillian Gallagher's oldest enemy. Ioseph Cavan was responsible for the first attempted assassination of President Lincoln. Everyone thought that the Circle had died with him. They were all wrong.

On that roof, Macey broke her arm, I received a concussion and the Circle announced its return to the world. Everyone though they were after Macey McHenry, last descendant of Gillian Gallagher. They were wrong. That day when the woman pointed to us and cried Get her, she didn't mean Macey. She meant me; plain old Cameron Morgan.

For the rest of Semester, Macey always seemed to be in danger. She had even received an ex-Gallagher girl as a bodyguard: Abigail Cameron.

My Aunt Abby had finally come back to mum and me, but as one of my Best Friends protectors.

Mr. Solomon had the CoveOps class go to rallies where Macey would be; to observe and watch how her secret service did it, their job. Not to be her protectors, but to watch her protectors failing.

Bex, Liz and I broke out of Gallagher more times than we can count, always to watch out for Macey while her father campaigned.

That's when I saw him for the first time since he had kissed me (YES! HE actually KISSED ME!). Zach.

I'd been seeing him everywhere (well I didn't actually see him. I just knew that he was watching). So many questions roared through my mind every time he looked at me. But he always disappeared before I could ask. Like a shadow when the clouds block out the sun.

We were attacked on Macey's last trip. I had gone outside for one minute, so Zach could talk to me.

They came out of nowhere in a dark van. Macey, Bex and Liz had just come outside. I didn't know that these people where after me, and not her. But Zach seemed to. He told me to stop running away from him. I didn't listen. Macey was in danger. I had to help her.

I heard the gun shot before I saw it. And then I heard the scream. Then I was attacked by the Circle. Everything was a blur. But I do remember two things. 1) My Aunt Abby had been shot; taking a bullet for Macey McHenry and 2) The man who attacked me stopped when he saw Zach and said one word. He said: You.

I've thought about that night a lot since then - especially when I was in London with Bex. That's the reason why I was putting myself in physical danger when I fought Bex – so I could be ready if they ever came back for me or my sisters.

Bex, Liz, Macey and I were heading to P &E (did I mention Macey's been bumped up into junior P & E?) when Professor Buckingham stopped us.

"Where do you think you are going, Ms. Morgan?" Her stance was too tight. Buckingham's hands were on her hips, questioning me.

"To P & E?" I said it like a question. Giving me the evil eye, she looked at my friends.

"You as well girls… where do you think you're going?" Liz looked dumbfounded (like when she finds a system she can't crack); Bex looked annoyed (example: when I beat her in a kick-boxing) and Macey looked cool and collected while examining her nails.

"Professor Buckingham, we're going to be late for class," Liz sounded hysterical (anything that could jeopardise or flaw her perfect report would make her hysterical).

"Oh no," Buckingham continued, "Head Mistress Morgan wants to see all four of you in her office now, Ms. Sutton." Liz's eyes widened in fear and her mouth dropped open in a little 'o'.

Elizabeth Sutton never gets called to an office unless it's to receive either praise and/or an award.

Buckingham pointed her finger back towards the building. "Go on shoo," Macey looked annoyed now.

I quickly grabbed my friends and made them follow me towards the school.

"Cammie, what's going on?" Liz sounded scared to death at just asking the question.

"Do I look like I know?" I snapped at her. She fell silent as we climbed the staircase to my mother's office. I stole some quick glances around the Hall of History, before stopping in front of the door. Bex knocked once on the polished wood and almost immediately it opened.

Mum was sitting behind her desk as Mr. Solomon ushered us into the four seats in front of her. No one spoke a word. The silence was eerie.

"Girls, the CIA want to take you in for a debriefing on some certain subjects," mum sounded hesitant, she shot a look at Solomon before continuing. "Macey and Cammie even more so." Mr Solomon finished for her. "On the Circle of Cavan. You'll leave immediately after you've changed."

I froze. I didn't want to tell them about what happened in Boston. I didn't want to tell them about… about Zach.