A/n Sorry this has taken so long to update. Christmas enough said. Hope you all had a great Christmas!

Chapter 4

The target? What does that even mean? Who the hell does Lilly even work for? What if she's meant to kill me?

Those were just a few of the questions that were floating around in Miley's head. She was sitting in a room with glass for walls. There was a glass table that she was sitting in front of. If she looked to her right she could see what looked like holding cells, that were down a hall way, then to her left was another hallway but she couldn't see what it led to. If she looked behind herself she would have seen a similar looking area to the one she was in right now, except she would have seen stairs to the left that led up to a door but she wasn't sure what was behind. She did know that if she had gone down the other set of stairs it would lead to the garage that Lilly and herself had driven into after evading the Russian spies. There was a solid concrete wall in the area behind Miley that had 6 computer screens attached to it. They were connected to a couple of fancy looking keyboards that, at this moment Lilly and some guy, who Miley thought looked familiar but she couldn't quite place him, were franticly typing on.

"I should go speak to her, make sure she's ok and explain things. Lilly said to Jake.

Jake looked up from what he was doing and glanced at Miley in the interrogation room. "What are you going to say to her?" he asked looking back at Lilly

"I'm going to tell her the truth Jake." Lily said as she picked up a folder and walked over to the door that led to Miley.

Lilly walked in and sat across the table, in front of Miley. Miley was just staring into space, not even blinking.

"Miley?" Lilly asked tenderly "Miles you in there?"

Miley turned her head to face Lilly but didn't say anything so Lilly spoke first. "Clearly I need to explain some stuff to you Miles." No response "I work for the CIA Miley, that's why I left 5 years ago" finally a response

"That's why you moved? Cause you worked for the CIA?"

"Yeah basically."

"That doesn't make much sense Lilly. How can you even work for the CIA when you're only 18?"

"Well I guess all that sport I played, all those games I played, I was somehow noticed by the CIA and they came to me, offered me a placement as a junior agent, so I took it."

"How old?" Miley asked

"What do you mean?" Lilly asked confused

"How old where you when you became a junior agent for the CIA?"

"I had just turned 16" Lilly answered quietly

"16?" Miley yelled "You have kept this from me since you were 16!"

"Miley I'm sorry. I wanted to tell you!" Lilly said now raising her own voice, "I wanted to tell you from the moment I found out. Ever since I left all I wanted to do was come back and explain things to you, make you understand. But I couldn't it was too dangerous!"

"So that's why you are back now, to explain things? What, so all of a sudden it's not dangerous anymore?" Miley yelled back at Lilly

"No Miley it's much more dangerous, more dangerous than we even thought." Lilly said in a calmer voice

Miley stared at her confused. She wasn't sure what to think anymore. "Who's that guy out there Lilly?"

"That's Jake Ryan. He works for the NSA"

"Wait a second." Miley's brain seemed to click everything together at once. "He came into the Buy More and hit on me yesterday…right before you came in. So what, that was part of the mission? Try to get to me, but then you found out I was gay and so they sent you in. So you aren't actually here to explain why you left are you Lilly? Infact I'm pretty sure you didn't even want to be here am I right?" Miley said as she sat back in her chair and crossed her arms.

Lilly didn't even answer. Miley was right and she wasn't going to correct her. She was tired of lying to Miley.

"Listen Miley. This thing is bigger than you and me. Those two spies today, they are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the amount of people who are after you."

"Why are they even after me and what do you mean when you say I'm the target?" Miley asked

Lilly placed a folder down in front of Miley and opened it up. Two pictures of dead men were looking up at Miley. She had to look away but she recognized the men. The two spies who had chased them earlier. "Did you….did you kill them Lils?" Miley asked quietly

"No. they were found by a special CIA team who are sent out to kill spies who chase down agents but when they found them they were dead. Only two shots were used, one into the back of each man's head" Miley closed her eyes, she didn't want to think about it. "Execution style" Lilly finished. She flipped the photos over to reveal another photo, this time of what looked like a small chip. "Does this look familiar to you Miles? Have you ever seen it before?"

"Well it looks like a computer chip. I've seen hundreds of them." Miley said, looking intently at the photo

"No, you would recognize this one, its different, the size, weight, design, contents. So you're positive you have never seen it before?"

"I'm sure. Why, should I have?"

"The information on this chip is called the intersect. It holds all of our government's secrets. All of them Miley. We didn't know that a copy had been made of the intersect and 2 weeks ago the main intersect, which was hidden at a secure government location, was destroyed."

Miley let all the information sink into her brain as she digested what it all meant. "So this chip has all the government secrets on it and you need to find it to make a new intersect?" Miley guessed

Lilly was surprised Miley had caught on so quickly. "Yeah that's exactly it Miley. That's why the CIA is working with the NSA"

"So let me ask the most obvious question Lils. What has this got to do with me?"

Lilly flipped the photo of the intersect over to reveal another photo. Miley's eyes grew as big as the moon, which she thought she had done a lot of the past two days, because there standing in the picture was none other than her father.

"What? My…my Dad? What does he have to do with this?" Miley said frantically as she picked the photo up and looked as close as she could to it. There was no mistaking it, it was her father.

"You're father worked for the NSA Miley, he was the one who made the copy of the intersect and we believe you have the chip somewhere in your possession, even if you don't know it." Lilly looked Miley in the eyes with dead seriousness.

Miley looked back at Lilly but then started to laugh. She was laughing so hard she held onto her stomach because it was hurting so much.

"Miley this isn't funny. I'm being serious." Lilly said staring at Miley who was still laughing.

"You can't be serious Lilly." Miley said as her laughter seemed to subside. "Because if you were then that means everything I knew about my father was a lie" She said as her laughter turned to tears. Miley had started to cry as she realized Lilly was indeed being serious. That she was in danger and that her father had lied to her. Lilly walked around the table over to Miley and wrapped her up in a hug. It was their first hug in 5 years and it felt so right to both girls. Miley rested her head on Lilly's shoulder as she kept crying and Lilly stroked Miley's long brown hair as she tried to sooth her.

"What do we do now Lils? What's going to happen to me?" Miley whispered as she kept her head rested on Lilly's shoulder.

Lilly squeezed Miley tighter. "I'm not going to let anything happen to you Miley." Miley pulled back and looked into eyes. She knew in that moment that Lilly was being serious and that she would protect Miley. Lilly, on the other hand, looked back into Miley's eyes and noticed her heart starting to beat rapidly. She couldn't explain it; it was like her heart was trying to tell her something. She glanced down to Miley's lips and unconsciously wet her own lips with her tongue. She even moved her head a little closer to Miley's. They both suddenly pulled apart as Jake walked into the room. Lilly went back to her seat as Miley just stared at her with confused eyes.

Did she just try to kiss me or am I just imagining things? Miley thought to herself.

Oh my god did I just try to kiss her? What the hell is wrong me? And why the hell did my heart go into overdrive when I looked into her eyes? Man this has been a long day. Lilly thought to herself

"Hello Miley I'm Jake. I have to apologize for yesterday, as Lilly has hopefully explained; it was part of the mission." Jake said as he smiled and offered his hand to Miley

"Hi Jake. That's fine I understand" Miley replied as she took his hand and shook it.

"Obviously we need to protect you at all costs because you have in your possession the intersect, even though you aren't sure where it is." Jake spoke. "Now as for long term protection, like say, while you are at work and during the day, even night, my boss has just informed me of how we are going to accomplish that task" Jake continued. "Lilly is going to pose as you're girlfriend."

There was a long pause.

Time seemed to stand still.

Girlfriend? I'm meant to pose as her girlfriend? I don't think so. Lilly thought to herself

"Umm why can't I just pose as her best friend?" Lilly asked Jake.

Miley slightly winced at the comment. "Or even ex best friends?" Miley asked him

That comment seemed to make Lilly wince and Miley sent her a look which said hurts doesn't it.

"Look girls, I've got no control over this. Miley, Lilly for all intents and purposes you are now girlfriend and girlfriend. Lilly you will be getting a job at the video store across the lot from the Buy More. You start next week. We are going to install cameras over the parking lot, the Buy more and the video shop which, coincidently is right on top of us and also your house Miley." Jake finished

"So is that what all those staircases lead to?" Miley asked as she pointed to the many staircase that led to secret doors.

"It sure is Miley. There are escape routes and routes to the Buy More but the main entrance to here, we call here HQ by the way, is through the video shop, so that's where you will enter from."

Miley sighed and rubbed her temples. "Can I go home now guys? It's been an incredibly long day and I'm exhausted" Miley looked at Lilly with pleading eyes.

"Yeah I think that would be good Miley. I'll give you a ride home." Lilly stated rather than asked

"Alright, let's go. It was nice meeting you Jake. I guess we'll be seeing a lot of each other now." Miley smiled at him as she walked down to the garage where Lilly's car was parked.

It took about 20 minuets to get to Miley's neighbour hood and so far the whole ride had been spent in silence. "Wow it all looks the same" Lilly broke the silence as she looked around her old neighbour hood "I don't know why but for some reason I was thinking it would all be different"

"Yeah everything is pretty much the same, except Rico's isn't there anymore. His dad went bankrupt." Miley replied

"Actually he didn't" Lilly replied with a mischievous smile

"Huh?" Miley was confused

"His Dad was actually a small time crook. Basically he got charged with fraud and lost all his money" Lilly laughed at the look on Miley's face

"How did I not hear about this?" Miley laughed

"You learn things when you work for the CIA. It was all hushed up pretty quick. Nobody knew." Lilly smiled as she pulled into Miley's driveway and stopped the car.

"Wow your house looks the same Miley." Lilly smiled as she took in the familiar surroundings that she had missed so much.

"We kinda left everything the same after Dad died. It was just so much easier. Now I don't know though, I mean he lied to us but I guess it's just like how you lied to me."

Lilly placed her hand on top of Miley's "Your Dad did what he did to protect you Miles. I don't know what he was doing, making a copy of the intersect, but he must have had a pretty good reason. Your Dad always did the right thing." Lilly smiled at Miley

"You're right Lils, he always had a reason for why he did things, I just wish I knew why he did what he did. It would make things so much easier." Miley looked down at Lilly's hand on top of hers. Lilly followed her gaze then quickly took her hand back.

"Well I guess I'll see you tomorrow Miles. If anything goes wrong we will be there in 5mins tops." Lilly said slightly blushing. "Also you can't tell anyone anything, not Jackson, not Oliver no one"

"I won't I promise." Miley said as she got out of the car "See you later Lils" Miley said shutting the car door. Lilly watched her walk up to her front door and go inside. Lilly sighed as she wondered what the hell was going on with herself and why she tried to kiss Miley earlier. She put it down to being extremely tired. Except as she pulled out of Miley's driveway she couldn't help feel that she was already missing the brunette girl.

Review please! I'm going away for two weeks so i wont be able to update sorry! But i will write some more, hopefully.