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Recap: "It says here that almost five years ago to the date Benjamin Stiles died on a mission."

"What?" Cammie, Carrie, and I practically screamed. With that, we pretty much got kicked out of the library and relocated to Cammie and Bex's room.

"But how could that be?" I asked, when we finally settled in. "I mean… He's here. Alive."

"Way to state the obvious!" Carrie said sarcastically.

Cammie, always the one to work things out, said, "So that means that the CIA database was wrong (which I highly doubt), the death is just a cover up, or our Advanced Encryption and Decoding teacher isn't Mr. Stiles."

I groaned. "This is too much! First I find out Mr. Solomon is my father and now this?" I screamed.

With that we heard a gasp. We looked to the door, which was opened a crack. Great, I thought. Bex was on her feet and had the door open before I could even register what was going on. Crouching there behind the door was about half of the junior class and the sophomore class.

News that I was Mr. Solomon's daughter spread through the mansion like wildfire. I mean, we are teenage girl spies. It's just that sometimes it's easy to forget the teenage girl part. The part that loves gossip and lives for drama. But I couldn't really worry about that because I was still worrying about the fact that according to the CIA data base, our Advanced Encryption teacher, Ben Stiles died five years ago. But he was here, alive. And that was the problem.

As Cammie, Bex, Carrie, and I made our way to Headmistress Morgan's office I could feel the eyes of my entire sisterhood glued to my back. Watching me. Just when everyone was finally getting over the whole 'me being the new girl' thing, and I'm accepted and not stared at, I blow it. Oh well, I thought, they'll get over it.

While we were walking it seemed clear to me that our Advanced Encryption teacher wasn't Mr. Stiles. We had just entered the hall of history when the sirens went off.

"CODE BLACK CODE BLACK CODE BLACK CODE BLACK" The automated voice said over the speaker system along with a piercing siren.

"What's going on?" I screamed to Cammie, hoping she would hear me, and hoping I'd be able to hear her response.

"Code Black!" She yelled, putting her hands to her ears. We Gallagher Girls were big on stating the obvious.

Just then Headmistress Morgan came rushing out of her office, panicking. The sirens didn't scare me. The code black we were under didn't scare me. The fact that headmistress Morgan was freaking out? Yeah. Definitely grounds for panicking. Though the fact that she probably knew why we were going into a code black (whatever that was) and that that was probably why she was panicking helped a bit.

"Cammie, sweetie?" She said real hurriedly, "I need you to-" Then she stopped short, looked at me, and her eyes widened. "Meg! Look-" But I didn't hear the rest of what she was saying because just then the world started to spin and I felt my legs give out under me. I don't remember ever hitting the ground though. I must have been out cold by then.

The next thing I knew, I opened my eyes and I couldn't see anything. At first I panicked, because I thought I had gone blind or something, but then I realized that I was just blindfolded. I began to move my arm up to remove the blindfold but it was stopped by something. That's when I noticed that my hands were bound by a rope behind my back and I was sitting in a chair. Great, I thought, my tenth day at spy school and I'm already being kidnapped. That's when the 16 year old girl part of me kicked in, and the spy part decided to take a vacation.

I sat in that chair blindfolded, hands behind my back for about three and a half hours, I thought. Cammie was still teaching me how that clock-in-your-head thing worked. It was then that I heard heavy footsteps coming toward me. They stopped right in front of me and then the blindfold was harshly ripped from my head. It took a few minutes for my eyes to get adjusted to the bright light that came from a large lamp on the desk in front of me. I looked around the small room and noticed that the walls were made of cement; there were cobwebs in the corners; and the wall in back of me wasn't a wall but a row of thick bars like in a prison. And then I saw the man in front of me who had removed the blindfold. I would have recognized that crescent moon shaped scar anywhere. It was without a doubt Mr. Stiles. Or at least the guy who was posing as Mr. Stiles.

But why did he kidnap me?

He took a seat on the other side of the desk in a chair that looked far more comfortable than the one I was in. He didn't say anything, and I didn't want to be the one to break the silence, so I just stared him straight in the eye and kept quiet.

Finally "Mr. Stiles" spoke up and asked me, "Do you know who I am?"

I contemplated for a little while whether I should answer him or not. I mean, we hadn't covered what-to-do-when-you-are-kidnapped-by-possible-bad-guys in CoveOps yet. I didn't want to give him the advantage so I did what I always ended up doing. I winged it.

"What do you think?" I asked. He seemed confused at first. I think he expected me to just say 'no'. Never underestimate a Gallagher Girl!

"Now Miss Solomon, no need for sarcasm." He said quietly. "I'm not the enemy. I'm merely here with a proposition."

"And that would be…?" I prompted.

Author's Note: Sorry about leaving you hanging with another cliffhanger! Okay so I have a question for you guys. There are a lot of people who are only reading the first few chapters of this. I mean they aren't even getting to the part where you find out that Mr. Solomon is Meg's dad. So I wanted your opinion on something: Should I put something in the description hinting that Mr. Solomon is Meg's dad or not? You can just put your opinion in a REVIEW :) Oh and if there is anything that you want to happen? I'll see if there's anything I can do. Thanks so much for reading! And don't forget to review! Remember: the more reviews I get the more inspired I am to write and the sooner I can get new chapters out. :) So REVIEW! Thanks!