AN: Okay, freaking wtf moment. WHERE HAVE I BEEN? Oh ya know, not updating for 5 MONTHS! I'M SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SORRY! I don't even remember like what my big idea was. Maybe i should go take a shower lol. (I get my best ideas in the shower.) So, please don't kill me for not updating? Please? Here you go, long awaited ch 7. PLEASE REVIEW IF YOU DON'T I'LL CRY. No I won't but I'll still be sad :'(

Cammie's POV

"Well, Princeton doesn't know we know," I started slowly, feeling everyone's eyes on me. "So, if we continued with their plan, we would have the element of surprise."

Everyone continued staring, not understanding where I was going with this.

"We'd be a group of lethal spies, undercover in an enemy base." I said, like I was talking to Kindergartners. Still nothing.

"For Christ's sake we could ambush them and take them down!" I exclaimed, throwing my hands in the air in exasperation.

Immediately, everyone broke out talking loudly.

Being surrounded by spies, you know that too get everyone too listen you have too be the loudest.

Everyone was taking that to the extreme here.

"We cannot do that!" Liz shouted worriedly.

"Why bloody not?! Let's get some payback to them!" Bex shouted, her accent coming in heavily.

"Let's kick some Princeton ass!" Macey shouted from behind me.

"Uh I don't think that's the best idea. Shouldn't we just call the cops or something?" Preston asked, laughing nervously.

My head was pounding from all the noise- I could hear my heart hammering in my chest.

"Joe! This is a perfect opportunity, we can do this!" Abby argued with Joe, who was wanting to get back to Gallagher ASAP.

"No Abby! Let the professionals handle this! We can't risk the kids on a mission of this importance! I can't risk the kids- I can't risk Cammie!" He shouted, and the room went silent, as we all stared at him.

"Joe, nothing's going to happen to me." I said softly, but looking at him with resolve in my eyes.

"You don't know that! Fernando already tried to kill you- and we're not even AT Princeton. If the circle really does recruit there- you're the one they want Cams."

"Joe I'm a spy! I've been training for this moment my whole life- to defeat the circle and avenge my father. I'm going, whether you like it or not." I said coldy, hurt that he would try and keep me from this. My head was still spinning and arguing with Joe wasn't helping.

"Joe, you have to let her do this." Abby said, resting her hand on Joe's arm.

"Then how are we going to do this? Just waltz in and attack? I don't think so." Zach said sarcastically.

"They must have teachers there who are circle members. What if we planned a coup? And took them all out simultaneously, therefore taking control of Princeton? From there it would be easy to get CIA in and have all the students questioned and so on." Liz said slowly, thinking it through as she went.

"That's brilliant Lizzie!" Macey exclaimed, running to hug Liz.

"They say the key to accomplishing anything is with friends." Bex said in a sing song voice, running over to join the group hug.

But I wasn't paying attention anymore.

Key, key, key. Rome, when the time is right, I'll know what to do... I love you daddy.

I fell to the floor, a mixture of shock and horror inside me.

How could I forget?

A young girl was sitting next to her father, on a dock overlooking a large lake.

"Dad? Who were those people that came and visited last night?" The girl wondered aloud. She had laid awake in her bed, her little ears straining to hear the words being carelessly thrown around as if there was no one to listen.

"And why were you talking about circles? Circles aren't very special. Look, I can run in one!"

To demonstrate, she jumped up eagerly and started to run in a small circle, but as she passed her father he caught her around her belly and swung her around.

"Well, this circle is very special. You know, they say a circle is infinite, that it's never ending. I disagree, I think someone could stop a circle." He gazes out over the water for a moment, thinking of all the trouble he is about to bestow upon his 6 year old daughter.

"I think YOU could stop a circle."

"Daddyyyyy, I don't wanna play "clues" anymore! I wanna play with Fernando!" The little girl exclaimed, only this time she was older, 8 or 9 maybe.

Her unruly curls swung freely around her face, making her blue eyes pop.

"Just one more clue and you can find the treasure." Her father says animatedly, wondering if she will ever even remember these moments.

"Fine." She says, pouting and crossing her arms.

"What force and strength cannot get through, I with a gentle touch can do. And many in the street would stand, were I not a friend at hand. What am I?" Her father recited, watching his daughter too see when she gets the answer.

You could almost see the gears turning in her head.

"A key!" She exclaims, running towards the back of the house, where all the keys hang on a neat little bar, waiting to be used.

She picks up the only key hanging, expecting too see a note hangin from it.

"Where's the treasure?" She whined, wanting her cookie.

"Well, what if the key is the treasure?" Her father asks, kneeling beside her. Her little eyes widen and she looks at the key in a new way.

"Keys are important things Cammie. They can unlock someone's deepest darkest secrets." Her father warned.

"Keep this key safe for me, okay?"

"Yes daddy."

"Dad, I don't want you to go." The girl choked out, her throat thick with tears.

"I'll be back soon, I always am." Her father squeezed her tightly in a hug, patting her on the head.

"Do you still have my key?" He asked, his tone light and playful. The girl sniffled and nodded her head, rubbing her nose.

She produced a slim silver key hanging on a necklace from within her shirt. There was one simple word on it: Rome.

"You remember what you're supposed too do with it, right?" He asked.

"Use it when the time is right." The girl recited through her tears.

"I love you Cammie."

"I love you more daddy."

"We just need to get back to Gallagher, as soon as Cammie wakes up." I heard someone say from a few feet away.

I stirred slightly and heard a shuffle as what sounded like several people moved at once.

"Cammie? Can you hear me? Cammie it's me Zach, can you open your eyes?" I groaned and forced myself to open my eyes, blinking too try and focus on the many faces around me.

"Oh thank god you're okay!" Abby exclaimed, clasping my cold hands in one of her warm ones.

"Wha- what happened?" I sat up, disoriented. I looked around the room and recognized it as the living room in the embassy, and I was laying on the couch.

"You fainted. One minute you were standing, the next you were on the floor, knocked out cold. I was so worried." Zach said worriedly, squeezing me in a hug. I squeezed him back.

"I'm okay," I whispered softly in his ear. Then I addressed everyone else.

"I know what to do. Dad left me instructions... he wanted me to stop the circle...In Rome. With this." I said, holding up the little silver key I had dangling around my neck since I was 9 years old.

Had I realized then the importance of those days, I would have locked them away in my memory. But only now do I see what all those instructions he gave me are for.

I'm going to stop the circle.

AN: OK kinda a rough ending but sorry. ANYWHO, I really love reviews and PM's so, send me one? Or go read one of my other stories and review that also? Or both?

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