Chapter 4- Responsibility

Liz's POV

It's been a month, and we still havn't found anything that would lead us to Cammie. Everyone is in stage two of the grieving process. Anger. Everyone screams at each other for the smallest of things, if anything at all. They are starting to blame each other for Cammie leaving, but deep down they all know it is no-ones fault. At one point Bex was even shouting that if Cammie hadn't have been so stupid to have run away in the first place, none of this would have happened. Of course, as soon as she said it, she burst out crying, screaming "I'm sorry Cammie I didn't mean it" as if she could hear her.

All hell will break loose soon. I'm sure of it. The doctors have said Mr Solomon will be waking up in the next few days.

We all want Mr Solomon to get better, we do but everyone is dreading the day he wakes up. We will have to tell him about Cammie, and that is not the best news to give to a man who has just woken up from a coma. No-one will know what to say. We don't know how he will react. Cammie never saw it, I don't know how she didn't but everyone else did. Mr Solomon was very protective of her. He really cared about her and wanted her to be as safe as possible at all times. Cammie said that he always tried to pick on her and that he always gave her a harder time than everyone else in the class. Bex , Macey and I are the only ones that know the truth, student wise.

We were walking past Ms Morgans office one day when we heard Mr Solomon and he sounded pretty stressed. He was saying that he would give anything for Cammie not to have chosen cove ops, for her not to have been in his class. We were all very confused until he said "I just want her to be safe".

Ever since then we knew that the only reason he went hard on her was because he cared more.

I feel so useless. I haven't found any trace of Cammie no matter how hard I try. I am the worst spy ever. I can't even track my best friend. As soon as i said this to everyone they ran up to me, engulfing me in bear hugs, telling me it isn't my fault Cammie left without a trace.

I still feel like it's my responsibility to find her. Everyone is relying on me. I don't want to let them down.

_3 Days Later_

Zach's POV

The doctor's have told us that Mr Solomon should be waking up any minute now. Who's going to tell him? Or will he guess that something wrong? He wasn't a top spy for nothing. Everyone is sitting around Solomon's bed waiting for him to wake up. I feel so bad. I know how much Cammie means to him. What will he do?

If only I had found out earlier. I could have stopped this. It's all my fault.

I still feel like it's my responsibility to find her. Everyone is relying on me. I don't want to let them down.

Solomon's POV

I could feel the light burning through my eyelids. I opened my eyes slowly and they soon adjusted to the bright light of the infirmary. Rachel, Zach, Bex, Liz and Macey were crowded round my bed. For a minute I was wondering why they were there but then it hit me. I was in a coma. From the accident in the tombs.

Flashback

I was strapped to a chair with Cassandra Goode standing right in front of me. I couldn't see out of my left eye because it was so swollen it had closed over completely. They wanted Matthew's Diary. Yeah right, like I was going to tell them where it was. Cassandra's smirk grew wider as her guards brought out two teenagers who had been hiding.

No. It was Cammie and Zach. Cassandra smiled evilly at them and I knew she was planning how to get me to talk by using them.

I yelled at her to let them go or else I wouldn't tell them anything. She just ignored me and walked over to Zach. You didn't have to be a spy to see the hatred Zach's eyes were filled with. She asked him if he wasn't happy to see his mother.

I watched Cammie's expression turn from total shock, to hurt. Zach tried to hold her hand and explain, but she just pulled away, saying for him not to touch her. Yet another thing to add to the long list of things Cassandra has done to ruin her son's life.

The fighting was getting pretty intense. Lots of the guards were trying to grab Cammie but she just lashed out at them, wounding them. That's my girl I thought. They should have known better not to mess with Matthew and Rachel Morgans daughter. She wasn't going to give up that easily.

I saw Cammie run towards the waterfall. It was at that point I knew, she was going to be the best spy to have ever lived.

She turned around facing Zach and I and she started screaming "NO!" it was only at that point that I looked up to see Zach pointing a gun directly at the explosives. I saw him mouth what he thought was his final word "Goodbye"

He shot the gun and almost immediately the heat engulfed me. The last thing I saw was Cammie's figure jump from the cliff before the heat of the flames became unbearable and m world faded to black.

Flashback Ended.

They all smiled when they saw me looking at them. "Hello sleepy head" Rachel cooed and then giggled a little afterwards. "It's nice to see you to" I replied with a smile. It hurt when I smiled but I couldn't help it. I was just so happy to be alive. Zach smirked at me. You wouldn't believe how much I've missed him, but something felt wrong.

There was something missing. I couldn't quite put my finger on it. It hurt my head to think but it felt important. Then it hit me. Cammie. She wasn't there. I thought she might want to have seen me but I guess I was wrong. Or what if she was hurt. Did she survive the fall from the cliff? Is she in the bed next to mine? I had to find out!

"Where's Cammie?" I asked the curiosity and worry clear in my voice.

Their smiles slid from their faces, replaced with grim looks. Bex, Liz and Macey started bawling and Rachel held her head in her hands.

It was Zach who walked up to me, tears sliding down his own cheeks, and whispered "Cammie's gone."

He handed me a book and it was filled with cove ops reports. I flicked through it and came to the last page. As I read it I could feel the tears forming in my eyes. My water dams broke and Niagara Falls let loose. Once they got going there was no stopping them.

My world was sliding from under me. I tried to reach out and grab it but it slipped through my fingers. Cammie was gone. I broke my promise to Matthew by not protecting her and keeping her safe.

why hadn't I woken up earlier? Why didn't I put up a fight.

My life was falling apart at the seams. Cammie was the stitching that kept me together. If Cammie hadn't have been born, I would have been a dead man long ago.

She was the reason I kept fighting. I made a promise to Matthew and I planned on keeping it. It was the only reason keeping me here on earth.

"No, it's not true. Your lying. She's here. She has to be here. She can't have just left" I shouted, not caring who heard me.

It was Liz Sutton. The shy girl who chose the R&D track instead of Cove ops, who had the courage, which nobody else had to speak back whispering 1 little word that brought my world crashing down. Destroying my hope that Cammie was still here, that she hadn't left "Denial"

It was true. Rachel, the strong headed principal, was curled up in the corner of the room screaming, while Bex and Macey comforted her, tears streaming down their own cheeks.

Zach, the mysterious, cocky boy, who never showed any emotion, was full on crying.

Liz just stood there, tears dripping of her chin and visibly shaking.

We all needed Cammie back, before she got hurt and before we all had a mental breakdown.

I feel like it's my responsibility to find her. Everyone is relying on me. I don't want to let them down.

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