6 basketball games in the last 2 weeks! Including our 2 biggest games! Only excuse!
Okay so, I know I said I wanted letters to be a main part of the story… but I'm having lots of trouble accomplishing that while adding all the details I want you to know. Because some of these details Zach can't know, so I can't write them in a letter to him, obviously. So this is the last chapter that will revolve solely around a letter. The next chapter will be purely Cammie (kay, a little Zach too) and her journey. No letters. If you DON'T like that, PM or review and let me know, and I'll see what I can do to incorporate everything while still using a letter. (I don't think anyone will mind though.)
Also, I have a quick question at the end of the chapter…
We attacked the base. I have to say, I was surprised by the lack of defenses and the number of people. I had been expecting a number close to what was there when Cammie jumped off the cliff, but it was probably about a quarter of that. We overpowered them in 6 minutes flat. Not our biggest battle. The only one that even tried to escape was my mother, but Bex chased her down and choked her until she gave in. Go Bex.
We loaded all of the prisoners onto a plane we had waiting at Gallagher's hidden airfield, and walked back to the mansion. When we got there, we found a letter waiting for us. Three guesses.
"Guys." I called out. "She sent another one."
That got them running. I tore open the side of the envelope. (AN: Warning! Preeeetty long letter!)
Dear Zach,
This is probably the last letter I'll be able to send you.
I found the third base. And I've learned some things
that I wish I could forget. But I don't think I'll ever be
able to.
My father has been missing for 11 years. But he's only
been held prisoner for 6. I found the records.
Basically, on my father's mission, he decided to join
the COC. For five years, he let us all believe he was
dead. He abandoned me and mom. When your mother
|started showing interest in me, he tried to get out,
but they wouldn't let him. When he tried to escape,
they captured him, and that's where he's been since
I was 11.
I can't describe how furious… and heartbroken I am.
He left his 6 year old daughter, for a terrorist organization.
And since I found this out, I can't tell you how many
times I've thought about coming home and letting him
rot in his cell, and then changed my mind. For some
reason, I can't just leave him there, not when I have
the power to set him free. Because every time I think of
how he betrayed and abandoned me, I think of the good
memories I have of him. Whenever I think of how he
made me suffer through his birthdays eating a tub of
ice-cream, all the days I wore his sweatshirts and cried
my eyes out all day, I think of the times he made me
laugh. It doesn't seem fair, that he could leave me, but
I can't not rescue him. I'm so confused about what I'm
going to do when I see him. I don't know what to say,
or how to feel, I don't know if I even want to let him back
in my life.
I wish I could talk to you. I miss your voice. I miss your
annoying-ass smirk. I miss you. I find myself wishing you
were here, and then I remember that you could've been.
And then I remember why I left without you. And as much
as I miss you, I realize that I'm glad you're not here.
Because this trip hasn't just answered my questions about
my past, it's also answered some of my questions about
your past.
With the information I've uncovered about my father, I've
also uncovered information about yours.
Your father disappeared when you were 9 years old. Logical
assumptions were made that your mother killed him or
imprisoned him. Neither are true. Your father knew that you
were your mother's single weakness. Until you got involved
with me, you were the one person she wouldn't hurt. So
when your father left, he knew you would be safe. He is a
CIA agent, and is part of a secret branch of the Office of
Covert Operations that is dedicated solely to eliminating the
Circle of Cavan. They are the reason there's only three bases
left. It's amazing what they've been able to accomplish. I
contacted him, and left him with the coordinates of all the bases.
Zach, in a few days, the COC will be gone. Your dad is bringing
a group of agents to my location, where we will free my father
and who knows who else. Another group, headed by Townsend,
(of all people) will go to the third location. We've almost done it.
I expect by now you have attacked your mother's base. I hope
it all went well. Give her my regards. (And by regards, I mean
push her off a cliff for me.)
I'm more confident than I was before that I'll come home alive.
I miss you, and I'll be home soon, where we'll both be able to
reconnect with our fathers. I hope things won't be changed
between us when I get back. But I understand if they are. I
may keep writing letters. But can't send them, because the COC
knows I'm coming at them, they are monitoring everything that
comes out of this city. Mail, emails, telephone calls, I was lucky
enough to get a good friend to deliver this for me, but I won't
be able to mail anymore.
Love you,
Cammie.
Like it? Love it? Hate it?
I told you there would be a question, and here it is. For the next chapter, where would you like me to start Cam's POV? The beginning of the story, where she runs, or where this letter left off, or somewhere in between? Let me know!
