Here it comes! The big heist! And don't worry, this story won't end after this!
Note: To try to clear up confusion, I will tell you how I picture Gallagher Academy and where this chapter takes place. I imagine Gallagher when you walk in, the Dining Hall is on the right and staircases to the dorms are to the left. The main hallway is the Hall of History. The headmistresses' office is at the end of the Hall of History and the sword is on the left wall, halfway in between the stairs and the office. The secret passageway that the Gallagher group wants to leave out of is directly across the sword on the right wall. Enjoy!
7:00 pm. The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women:
Kat's P.O.V.
"Okay, Simon, try to keep us on the comms for as long as you can. You have to give us time, no matter what the situation." Kat said confidently.
Simon nodded, trying to stop his hand from shaking began to climb up a tree near the school.
Everyone listened through the comms unit as Hale jumped the fence, and they saw the guards sprinting toward the opposite end. Only one guard remained, his eyes fixed on the monitor.
"Nick, Hamish, Angus, I see the class. Go!" Kat ordered. The met the class right at the gates, and began stalling the girls. The teacher looked like he was trying to get them to leave but the girls began to flirt back to them.
Gabrielle scoffed. "Look at that girl! She is all over them." She whispered and began to laugh.
"That's the disadvantage for going to an all girls school." Kat whispered back. They walked in the shadows and squeezed into the side of the group of girls. No one noticed, for they were all swooning at the sight of guys that didn't hate them and where they go to school.
"Boys! Please leave now or I am going to have to force you to leave. You are interrupting a private school field trip." The teacher, who was quite hot, yelled.
Nick met his eyes with Kat's and she nodded. Hamish, Angus, and Nick moved to the side, allowing the girls to pass. Gabrielle and Kat walked with the group in the back, then turned and sprinted to the gate that was about to close. Hamish caught it for them, wishing them luck. Gabrielle could still here Halein her ear, meaning the guards were still there.
"Simon, can you see us?" Kat whispered into her comms.
"I can see and hear you perfectly. I am looping the cameras that point toward the driveway. Walk to the right of it, on the grass though unless you want to be blown up." Simon said seriously.
Gabrielle and Kat looked at each other and walked down the mile (1609.34 meter) driveway toward the Hall of History.
Cammie's P.O.V.
"Are you almost ready?" Cammie asked Macey impatiently as she slowly packed all of her clothes.
"Just because we are going after the oldest and most secret terrorist group doesn't mean we don't have to look nice." Macey snapped back.
Zach stifled a laugh, causing him to be glared at my Bex and Cammie.
"Okay, I'm ready." Macey sighed.
"How long do you think we are going to be gone? Mr. Solomon will know we went after the Circle, but we can't miss too much school. This is our senior year. Everything is important." Liz worried.
"Lizzie, we have lived through more things than some of the more trained agents. Let's face it. We have already learned everything this school can teach us. We probably could have dropped out a year ago if we wanted to." Cammie soothed Liz.
"We probably could have dropped out in our freshman year. What we do, it's in our blood." Bex laughed.
"Yeah. Bex's strength is from her kick ass parents. Macey's lying and fighting is from Gillian Gallagher herself. Cammie's amazing tailing skills are from her father. My fighting and ability to know when someone is lying is from my mom…" Zach grinded his teach together. "And Liz. You don't have spy parents, so you got your smarts from yourself. You are probably the most amazing spy here because of that." Zach added. Cammie was surprised at the truth in his words and his sympathy.
Liz nodded, grinning adorably. "Let's go!" Liz laughed.
"Okay, so we have to sneak down, by the Hall of History to get outside. We can't risk my mom hearing us though, so Zach… could you maybe carry Liz so she doesn't fall?" Cammie tried to say nicely.
"Sure." Zach flung Liz over his shoulder.
"Okay, everyone grab something to carry and let's get a move on." Cammie, Bex, Macey, Zach, and Liz all began to ascend down the dorm stairs toward the Hall of History.
Kat's P.O.V.
Kat and Gabrielle reach the tall doors and wait. Soon enough, they hear a click as Simon unlocks the door from his computer. The girls slip inside, and as soon as the doors close, all Kat and Gabrielle can hear is static from theirs comms. Kat could practically imagine Simon typing on his computer, trying to get the signal back.
Gabrielle led the way toward the hall of History and the sword, both girls keeping to the shadows and not making a sound.
"There it is! It's not even hidden in the wall." Gabrielle whispered in Kat's ear. Kat slid away from the wall and ran silently toward the case. Luckily, it was low enough that Kat could reach it. She knew Simon already disabled all security by the case, so all she had to do was slip a piece of iron the size of nail file inside the crevasse of the case and pop it off. Gabrielle caught the front of the glass and Kat quickly took the sword. She slipped it inside her bag, placed the front of the case back on and ran toward the door. But then, Kat and Gabrielle heard a noise.
Cammie's P.O.V
Even though Zach was carrying Liz, she still managed to make a noise. As he carried her down the stairs Liz felt a spider on her leg, and she ended up kicking he leg out, meeting then wall. Cammie ran forward, blocking Liz's mouth to stop her cry of pain.
Bex silently jogged forward, looking around to see if the noise woke any of the teachers up. But the hallway was empty, so Bex motioned the group to move on.
Kat's P.O.V.
As soon as Kat and Gabrielle heard the noise (that sounded a lot like a foot kicking a wall), they ran behind a giant pillar in the shadows. Kat and Gabrielle didn't dare to breath, and waited for someone to come down the stairs. After a few moments of waiting, they began to slowly and quietly turned right began to sneak pass the stairs toward the main doors.
Cammie's P.O.V.
Macey jogged down to meet Bex at the bottom of the stairs and they lead the way, turning left, away from the main door and towards the secret passageway on the opposite wall.
Kat's P.O.V.
Kat and Gabrielle began to move towards the door when two girls appeared at the bootom of the stairs, looking backward toward some more unknown people. Gabrielle froze, thinking she was caught by the spies, but Kat pulled her into the shadows and pulled her onto her stomach right when the girls turned back around. Gabrielle's heart dropped into her stomach, for she recognized the girls. It was Bex and Macey, the ones who led her tour. Though the plan of telling them that Gabrielle and Kat were excepted and were coming to meet the headmistress could work if they got caught, Gabrielle feared that these girls were close to the headmistress, and they would be told if Gabrielle was actually excepted to this crazy spy school.
Kat and Gabrielle both held their breath as Bex and Macey led three more people, one of them being Cammie and one of them being a frail girl that looked like she was the one who hit the wall. But the weirdest part of the group was the boy that was carrying the thin girl, walking around the school as if he went here. If Kat wasn't about to be caught by spies that could easily send her to jail for stealing their school's prize position, she would have laughed. "So either this school lied about being girls only, or those girls are good enough spies to not be afraid of their professional spy teachers that would defiantly skin them alive for bringing a boy into their school…at night." Kat thought, staying motionless as the group began to walk pass.
Cammie's P.O.V.
They were so close to getting out of the school. Macey reached up towards a picture frame that looked like it was one of Picasso's cubism paintings, but it was actually a picture puzzle that took Liz even a half a month to figure out the pattern and wear to slide each cube. Maybe it was the fact that Cammie was about to quit school, maybe it was the fact that she was about to start a mission that now spy has ever completed, or maybe it was the irregular dust patterns that she saw on the floor. Cammie quickly scanned each of her group member's shoes, none of them fitting the two pairs of footprints. One pair of small footprints looked like they were from sneakers and the other larger pair of footprints looked like the owner was wearing heals, that were padded to not make a sound.
Cammie tapped Zach. He bent down, looking like he was bending over to put Liz down but he really bent down, tilting his head towards Cammie.
"Footprints." Cammie practically mouthed, but said loud enough that here group could hear, but not her enemies.
Macey turned around pretending to ask Liz which piece to slide next on the painting, but she actually was scoping the floor. She followed the footprints on the opposite side of the hallway, looking up, seeing the Gallagher sword missing.
"Sword." Macey whispered. Everyone facing away from the sword used the closest pieces of reflective material that hung on the walls had to hold in a gasp as they saw the empty display case. But Cammie also noticed something odd about the crime scene. A thin shadow of a foot shifted on the moonlight hallway.
"Behind the pillar, girl laying on the ground." Cammie whispered.
Bex smiled wickedly, knowing that the person that was in the school must have been good at stealing, but she must not have been trained by spies, or she didn't know she was robbing spies.
"One second, I forgot something." Bex whispered at a normal volume, but it sounded like she was talking through a bullhorn to the trained spies. She turned around and began to walk toward the stairs, dramatically looking back, pretending she was scared of being heard by the headmistress, which to be honest, she might have been.
"Oh Bex! Hurry up. I want to get out of here." Cammie said annoyed, keeping up the act in case the robbers still didn't know they were in a spy school. She stepped forward slightly, pretending she was getting closer to Bex to talk to her, but she was really getting closer to the girl hiding behind the pillar. Cammie looked slightly to her right at the girl, barely holding in a gasp as she recognized Gabrielle Bishop a.k.a. Tiffany Carter.
"Oh Bex grab the crossbow. And the laser lipstick." Macey laughed wickedly, not even bothering to keep up the act. But she did have a point. By know Gabrielle broke into the school undetected and stole the sword. She obviously knew this was a spy school.
Kat's P.O.V.
The spy girls didn't must have not known that Kat was a trained con artist. As soon as the girl named Bex said she forgot something, Kat knew that the girls must have seen her or Gabrielle. They acted like everything was normal and that Bex was going to go upstairs (walking right past Gabrielle and Kat) to get something. But both girls knew that the spies were going to slowly trap them. Kat moved to stand up, and then gripped the stones that jutted out of the pillar she was hiding behind. She quickly climbed up the pillar and moved up towards the sword's display case. She pulled herself up and sat atop the glass case. The spies already knew Gabrielle was behind the pillar and they saw that the sword was gone, so why would they bother to look back up at the display case. But if they did, Kat would be domed and she would have failed a con for the first time. But during this con, Kat had everything to lose.
Cammie's P.O.V.
Bex began to walk over to the stairs and past the pillar without even glancing at it. Macey walked over to a mirror by the Dining Hall and pretended she was fixing her hair. Liz stayed back by the secret passage, ready to open it when necessary. Zach walked forward and leaned into Cammie, kissing her gently on the cheek. There was a slight noise of Bex coming back down the stairs and instantly everyone moved forward to get Gabrielle.
Kat's P.O.V.
Gabrielle knew what Kat was doing when she climbed up the wall. There was somewhat of an unspoken agreement that during this con, do whatever you can to get out with the sword. Gabrielle knew that she could get off easier for breaking into the school because she could pretend she was obsessed with going here, and she didn't have the sword on her, practically making her innocent. Gabrielle saw the group slowly move toward her. She heard a faint creak as Bex came back down the stairs, and within seconds everyone was running towards her.
Cammie's P.O.V.
Because they all knew Gabrielle wasn't a spy but she was a thief, only Cammie and Bex went after Gabrielle (their excuse was to test her fighting skills). Gabrielle jumped up and began to kick and punch, most of her attempts hitting air. Zach and Macey ran forward to help tie Gabrielle up with the rope Bex brought down. Within seconds, Gabrielle was tied up and Zach carried her upstairs to the girls' room for questioning.
Kat's P.O.V.
Kat didn't want to leave Gabrielle, but she had to get outside before the boys came barging in. When they all moved to tie Gabrielle up, Kat jumped (landing stealthily on her feet of course. I mean her name is Kat!) She ran to the door, making it out with the sword just as they began to bring Gabrielle up to the dorms.
Sorry this was so late. The urge to write want there and I was really busy. The story is about the get even for intense. Please follow, favorite, and REVIEW! (Reviews make me write faster).