A/N : I made the last chapter longer as you all asked. Thanks for all of the reviews, I really appreciate it! hope you like this chapter!
Cammie's POV
I ran, literally! I sprinted down that passageway like there was a lion chasing me. When I was out, I ran the rest of the way to my room, where I threw the door open with wide eyes. They all looked super sad, Bex the most, like they were consoling her, they all got the their feet when I entered.
" I have something to tell you." Bex said.
" Me too." I replied with uneven breathing.
" You first." Bex said.
I took a deep breathe before saying," I may of given Zach classified information. Serious bits."
Liz, being the responsible one said," You may of, or you did?"
" I did…"
After a while Macey asked," What did you tell him?"
" I told him how Catherine died. Then he asked how I knew her. I lied for that part, but I could tell he knew I was lying. I said I was there when she attacked someone. He also knows that I know the circle which means he's probably found out that you guys know them too." Finally I breathed. " He is the son of Catherine Goode, how could I tell him?!"
" Well, at least we're even now." Bex said.
" What?!" I asked.
" I accidently told Zach that you were hunted. Right now I'm praying he won't connect the dots!"
" It'll be fine right?" I asked, trying to make myself and Bex feel better.
" He probably would of found out anyway at some point." Liz said, and because she was the smart one, I believed her.
The rest of the week went in a blur. The classes were easy and the homework load was light compared to Gallagher! The whole week I avoided Zach. I still sat with him and the others and meals, but I kept the conversation short. The rest of the time, I saw him coming, I would blend into a wall and walked past him. Thankfully, he hasn't noticed I've been doing that!
I lay awake in my bed, focusing on my internal clock, waiting for it to strike midnight. As it did, Liz, Macey and Bex's heads shot up and we all quietly slipped out of bed and put simple mission clothes on. I put on my black, block heeled moto boots that went to my midcalf. I wore some ripped black skinny jeans and a black bra with a mesh shirt over the top ( don't worry, the mesh is really dark, you can only just see the bra. It had long sleeves. Just in case I slipped a knife into each boot and put my gun – fully loaded – into a holster at my thigh. My hair was in a tight pony tail on the top of my head and my hair was dead straight. Tip – when doing an interrogation, you have to look the part.
The four of us left our dorm. We walked down the stair without a sound and headed towards the sublevels. The mechanical voice was quiet after it pricked out fingers and said, Agent Cameron Morgan, Agent Rebecca Baxter, Agent Macey McHenry, Agent Elizabeth Sutton. The way these things were designed is to recognise blood, but you also have to use a certain finger. My thumb is Cameron Morgan, my middle finger is Agent Cameron Morgan. The elevator descended with the uncomfortable feeling of your stomach falling out your but. When the shiny metal doors slid open we walk silently down a corridor into a room with eight metal door – two on each side – that all led into interrogation room. Joe opened the door to one of them and the A Team slipped in. We hadn't spoken the whole way to remain hidden.
Tied to a metal chair was Mitchell and he was smiling like a cat.
" Well if it isn't the Chameleon and the rest of her team!" He said cheerily.
" Have you used truth serum yet?" I aske Joe. He shook his head.
" Alright Mitchell, this is what's going to happen, you will answer all our questions and you will answer them honestly, or we can give you truth serum and make you answer honestly." I said, my voice cold.
He laughed, it was colder than my voice. " It's just a little truth serum, what is there to be afraid of?!" he said.
" Well," I said," You will find, that Bookworms truth serum is much stronger than the average stuff." I said with a smirk. I saw his confidence flicker but he didn't say thing.
" Truth serum it is." I said. Joe came forward with a needle and inserted a yellow looking liquid into his arm. The A Team was stationed around the room. Macey was at the door, Bex was behind him, unseen, checking he wasn't trying to untie himself, Liz was in the corner near Joe and I was standing in the middle of the room.
" So," I said, knowing the serum had kicked in by now. " Who is your new leader?"
" I don't know," he replied monotone," he doesn't show us who he is, he stays in his room and orders a small group of people who have seen him who then go and order us around."
" You're sure he is a man?" I asked. I could see Liz holding a small video camera beside her leg, unnoticeable.
" Yes." Mitchel replied.
" Why did he tell you to infiltrate Blackthorne, what was the end goal?" I asked.
" Why wouldn't we infiltrate it? It is a school full of spy's. All we have to do is call the student. They would come thinking about the CIA and MI6, but we would tell them those are the bad organisations. We would show them fake proof, and being the young idiots that they are, they would believe us."
" What about the students that are already here?" I asked.
" Dr Steve is very talented. He would do to them, what he did to you." I nodded. I could see his eyes beginning to droop. He would be out soon.
" Who else is here from the circle?"
His words were slurring but he slurred," Sonly ush. Thisss hiss sonly the beginsing." His head dropped onto his shoulder and his eyes closed.
" What did he say?" Liz asked. I turned to her.
" He said, ' only us. This is only the beginning ' which I think met only the beginning of the mission but I can't be sure. Maybe he meant it was the beginning because there was worse to come?" I said. I looked at Joe. He shrugged and said," I think it was the first one but it could quite easily be the second one. What are you girls doing now?" he asked.
" We're going to go bug dark corners, passageways, places like that." Macey said.
" Make sure you put one camera bug outside each teachers office, just to be sure. Depending on what time they return, it can be suspicious." He said. I nodded my thanks and we left. While we were in the elevator I said to the girls," Alright, Bex, you find dark places that would be good for secret conversations, handing information over etcetera. Macey, I want you to go outside and bug the grounds. Liz find small dark spots that overlook big areas like commonly used hallways and teachers offices." They all nodded. Being the leader of the A Team, they were sworn to follow my orders, even though we are friends, if I told them not to save me and they came, they could be kicked out of the group. But we try not to get into those situations. Thankfully we are all friends and no one takes the harsh stuff personally. They respect me and I respect them.
" What are you going to?" Liz asked.
I winked. " I'll cover secret passageways." The all smirked. We put comms in our ears in case we ran into any trouble and split off in different directions. The zip pockets in my jeans were full of tiny bugs.
I had bugged a majority of the passageways. I pulled the brick that led to the final one and the wall crumpled into the ground. I stepped through and watched as the wall replaced itself. It was near pitch blackness, but my eyes soon adjusted and I moved in silence through the passage, placing to bugs in cracks, holes and dusty corners. I turned from placing my fifth last bug in a corner when I saw something further down the passage move.
When I say my eyes adjusted to the darkness, they did, but it was still incredibly dark! I couldn't make out who it was, but I could tell it was a person. I pulled my gun from the holster at my thigh and held it before me, pointing at the slowly moving figure. He was walking away from me so I sped up my pace and ended up only walking only a few metres behind the person. At this point I could tell he was male. When he reached the end of the passageway, I saw that it was a landing, open to the elements with no railing.
" Who do you work for?" I hissed as I whipped a knife from my boot and held it at his throat while I pointed my gun at his head, my finger millimetres from the trigger. He gasped and tried to stand, but I didn't let him.
" I asked you a question!" I growled in a low voice.
" I was just – Gallagher Girl?!" Zach said, surprised.
" Zach!" I said. " I nearly killed you!" I said in a whisper / shout. But then I realised my mistake. I tucked the gun into the back of my jeans, so he wouldn't see it at my thigh and slipped my knife back into my boot. He lifted a hand to his throat.
" Was that a knife?" He asked.
" No, it was my finger nails." I said, showing him my nails that were just long enough that if you scratched with them, they could do damage! Thank god he hadn't felt the gun at his head!
he shook it off.
" Gallagher Girl?" He said. I nodded.
" I have something I want to tell you…" his sentence faded out as he looked into my eyes. His stare was so intense I couldn't help but stair into his emerald eyes. He took a step closer and before I knew what was happening, he had grabbed my waist with one hand and the back of my neck with the other and pulled me into him. Then he slammed his lips into mine. I stood frozen for a moment before I found myself kissing him back. I wrapped my arms around his neck and his arms curled around my waist. His lips were warm and soft. I felt his lips stop and he froze.
That's when I realised where his hand was. It was resting directly over my gun! " Cam?!" He said. I stepped out of his embraced but he grabbed the gun from where it was tucked and held it in front of his eyes.
" Why do you have this?" he asked, then put a hand to his throat. " That was a knife wasn't it?!" I grabbed the gun from his hands.
" What's going on Cam?!" He asked. " There is something you're not telling me!"
" Swear to me Zach that what happened here will remain quiet." I said, my voice meaning business.
" I don't understand." He said.
" Swear it Zach!" I nearly screamed. He opened his mouth to reply when the sound of a screeching siren pierced the air. His head whipped to me.
" SHIT!" I yelled.
" What is that?!" He shouted.
" Stay here!" I screamed and sprinted back down the passage way the way I came. I could hear the girls in my ear.
" What in hell is that?!" Macey yelled.
" That's the siren from the sublevels, the new ones that Liz set up!" I replied. They all said similar things to me when I heard the siren and I could hear their breathes as they all ran for the sublevels. I had my gun in one hand and I knife in the other. I reached the elevator at the same time the girls did. The doors opened and closed then the voice asked for fingerprints.
" Stupid machine!" Liz yelled and used her own knife to crack open the control box. She pulled a few wires and the elevator began to drop, except slightly faster. The door slid back open and we all jumped out with our guns pointed in front of us. Moments later the elevator doors slid open again and the four boys came tumbling out. The A Team ran through the small corridors to the interrogation rooms, Zach, Jonas, Grant and Nick not far behind. I kicked open the metal door and there it was.
The chair was empty.
" SHIT!" The A Team said in unison.
" What?!" Grant yelled.
All of the girls looked at me, then I looked at the boys.
" Whatever you do, don't get in our way!" I hissed and we all ran. The elevator took us back to ground level. Liz was on her phone and the rest of us had our backs to her with guns pointed at any entry points.
" Got it!" She said. " He is in the corridor leading out to the front doors.
" Go!" I yelled. I ran ahead of the group and saw Mitchell slip out the front doors. I urged my legs to move faster and followed him out the door. I ran with my gun pointed at him.
" Stop!" I shouted. And to my surprise, he did, but he was far away.
" What are you going to do Cameron, you can't shoot me from there!" He said matter of factly.
" Watch me!" I yelled back. The girls were now beside me.
" Give it your best shot!" He yelled, splaying his arms. His hands were dots from where I was standing and his body was so small.
I held my gun an inch higher and shot. I heard the boys gasp behind me and I heard Mitchell scream ( causing more gasps ). He hopped on one leg while gripping his other foot. I took no time before shooting his other foot. He fell onto his knees and emitted another yell. I ran towards him faster than lighting and straddled him.
" You'll regret this!" He wheezed.
" Actually," I said cockily," I think I'm going to enjoy this!" I threw one punch to his face and he was out cold, his head dropping to the ground. I heard his nose crack and felt my knuckles click slightly. I rolled him over and pinned his hands to his back.
Bex was instantly there, taking my position from sitting on top of him. I saw Joe running towards us as the heavens opened and heavy rain poured onto us. Joe reached me and pulled me into a hug, stroking my hair and asking," Are you okay? Are you hurt? What happened?"
" I'm fine." I said. He held me at arms-length, checking my body for injuries before pulling me back into a bone crushing hug. I saw over his shoulder, the four boys. Zach was staring at me with a huge mixture of emotions that I had no idea what he was feeling.
" Joe. You're. crushing. Me!" I said. He chuckled and let me go.
" CIA agents are on their way, and there is something I need to talk to you all about." He said. I was dreading that. My mind drifted back to the yellow envelope he was holding that had distracted me so much. I turned back to the unconscious body that Bex was now tying up with handcuffs she had found who knows where.
" Gallagher girl?" Zach called. Joe read the look on his face then turned back to me.
" I'm guessing that those four saw just about everything?" Joe asked. I nodded sadly.
" You need to tell us what is going on!" Nick said as they stopped in front of me. I sighed. Thankfully the girls came to my rescue.
" No we don't!" Macey said, putting an arm around my cold shoulders.
" But – " Jonas was cut off my Liz.
" Nope!" she said. Bex joined us.
We turned to leave but Joe asked," Cammie?"
I shook my head. " Not yet." He understood then turned back to the guys who bombarded him with questions. I didn't stick around to hear his answer. The girls and I dragged our feet all the way back to our room where we took all our weapons off and flopped onto our beds, not bothering to undress. I didn't even get a chance to take my shoes off before I was asleep.
