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Chapter 13:

Everything was finally set.

I had just climbed back into our room through the air duct, after I planted bugs in Preston's room, his parent's room and the dinning room. That way, once we where gone, we could know when everyone discovered that Preston was missing.

It was Friday afternoon and Macey was insisting we had to start getting ready even though it was 4 o'clock and the party didn't start til 8.

"Cam, come on! We need to look perfect!" Macey said, shoving me into the bathroom to take a shower.

Once I was done, I went out in the robe Macey had laid out for me.

Macey, Liz and Bex and already showered and where in robes too.

Macey had put our dresses on each of our beds, and the other girls where already getting dressed.

Bex's dress was teal blue, strapless, floor length and form fitting. There was a ruffle down her back, following her spine, and the dress accented her muscles and her amazing body.

Liz's dress was skin colored, floor length and fluffy. The front was wrapped and she looked like a princess, but in a good way.

Macey's was one shouldered and form fitting, draped in all the right places. It was navy blue and she looked like a queen.

My dress was on my bed. I didn't want to look at it, but Macey handed it to me and gave me a look saying, don't-argue-and-put-it-on-now-or-I-will-force-Bex-on-you.

I rolled my eyes but pulled it on.

I went and looked in the mirror.

It looked extremely expensive, covered in light gold sequins. It looked strapless, but there where actually thick staps lightly covered in the same sequins. It had a plunging neck line, much lower than I was comfortable with. It clinched my waist but fell down my body to the floor. It was amazing, but I'm sure extremely expensive.

"Now we have to do you hair." Macey said, putting a make up brush to her lips.

Liz styled it so that it was half down and half up, then Bex curled the rest that was down, and Macey did my make up.

She put on nude lipstick and dark black eyeliner and black mascara. She added shimmery light gold eyeshadow which accentuated my eyes and dress.

They wouldn't let me look in the mirror until they where done, and once they were they turned me around to look in the mirror and scurried off to do their hair and makeup.

Once they where done, it was 7:45. We had 15 minutes until the party started and we all looked amazing.

We had already packed our bags this morning so we could make a quick escape once we had Preston.

Grant, Jonas, and Zach knocked on the door, and I went to answer it while Macey, Liz, and Bex all put the finishing touches on their makeup.

Zach's mouth literally dropped. "Wow, Gallagher Girl, you look amazing."

Zach leaned in to peck me, but Macey and Bex had already shouted, "No!"

Bex was at my side in an instant, giving Zach her best death glare. "We just spent a really long time making your girl friend look perfect. You can't just go mess her up."

"She looks perfect no matter what." Zach said, kissing my forehead.

I blushed a bit, and turned to look at Jonas and Grant.

Grant was practically drooling over Bex, and she was giggling. Yes, Rebecca Baxter was actually giggling.

Jonas had only grabbed Liz's hand, not wanting to get the crap beat out of him by Bex and Macey.

All the boys where in tuxedos, and they looked amazing.

"Ready to go? We should stop by Preston's room to get him." Grant said, never taking his eyes off Bex.

"Yep!" We all said, and walked out of our room.

Macey knocked on Preston's door and he came out, looking very dashing in a tuxedo.

Once we where all set, Preston led us down to the first floor and into the huge ballroom.

The party was already in full swing. The party would be going on for hours so we would stay for the first two to make sure everyone saw us there, then we would take Preston and ditch out of there.

"Would you like to dance?" Zach asked in his most charming voice.

We waltzed along with everyone else, our culture and assimilation training finally coming in handy.

I paid attention to every detail though, as if Mr. Solomon where here to quiz me on it later.

Thats why I couldn't help but notice that there where several Circle member here. They where dancing and laughing and having a good time, not paying any attention to us.

We danced for a while, keeping an eye on Preston's father and the other circle members out of the corner of my eyes.

Finally it was 10 o'clock and it was time for action. I saw Liz and Jonas sneak out of the room, not drawing any attention to themselves. They where going to set the video cameras on a loop so that nothing would look suspicious when we took Preston.

We went to get some food to meet Bex and Grant and set the next phase into action.

I saw Macey start kissing Preston, and they left the room.

Then Grant, Zach, Bex and I went up to Preston's father, who was drinking champaign.

"Sir," I said, sounding completely innocent. "I want to thank you for inviting us into your home and letting us come to your party. We're leaving really early in the morning so we wanted to say goodbye now."

"Oh, it was no problem Cammie! You and your friends are always welcome here." Ambassador Winters said, pulling me into a hug.

I grimaced internally, but I kept my calm on the outside.

"Thank you, sir." Grant, Bex, and Zach said, each shaking his hand.

"Where's Macey? And your other two friends? I should say goodbye now, if your leaving early."

"Well, they sent us to say goodbye for them, they where tired and went to sleep. I think Macey is off with Preston somewhere, though." Bex said in her American accent.

"Alright then, tell them it was great to meet them." He said, his attention already drifting.

"We will sir, and thanks again." I said, turning and walking towards the door.

"Lets go." Zach whispered.

We walked down the hall towards the front gates. Liz and Jonas met us there, and Liz nodded to us.

Good. The video cameras where down.

We slipped into the coat closet where we had hidden our bags and started to change. We all put on our black clothes. Sure, it was cliche, but we had to sneak out and we didn't want anyone to notice us.

I grabbed the napotine patches and handed the to everyone. We would need them for the guards.

We threw our clothes in our bags and quietly walked out the front gate. It was weird, everyone was at the party and the street was eerily quiet.

We hid behind a food stand while we waited for Macey and Preston.

We waited for 7 minutes adn 24 seconds in complete silence until Macey and Preston walked out laughing quietly. They looked a bit drunk, but I knew better. Macey was just an amazing actress, and Preston, well, Preston might actually have had some champaign.

Macey was still in her dress, but we Grant had hidded her bag around the corner so she could change.

As they where leaving, 6 guards started descreetly following them. It was there job to protect Preston, but at the moment, we needed them gone.

Just as Macey and Preston turned the corner and the guards where in front of our hiding spot, we attacked.

Well, Bex, Grant, Zach, and I attacked. Liz and Jonas stayed hidden.

One guard attacked me, one on Bex, one on Grant and two on Zach. The sixth ran to Macey and Preston to 'protect' them, but Macey had already changed and knocked him out with one hard kick to the head.

The guard who was attacking me was seriously not the best fighter. He tried to kick me, but I blocked and punched him hard in the kidney and, as he fell, I slapped a Neptune patch on him.

Bex and Grant had done the same, and Zach was just finishing off the last two.

"Are there more?" Macey hissed to us, looking around.

"No." Liz said, holding two fingers to her ear.

It looked like she had taken a comms unit from one of the guards and was listening for more.

"And they don't realize anything is up with the cameras. We set them so they go back to normal at midnight." Liz added.

"Whats going on?" Preston asked, completely sobered up.

"Nothing, hun. You're just going to be coming with us for a while." Macey said, pulling him down the street towards our van.

Just as we where getting in the van though, 10 members of the Circle of Caven stepped out of the embassy and started running towards us. The leaders must have sensed we where up to something and had sent several members to try and stop us.

"Shit." Zach said.

"Is it the splinter group?" Macey asked, shoving Preston in the van, shutting the door and forming a line with Grant, Bex, Zach and me.

"No. Just some workers. But that doesn't mean they're not dangerous. They're going to try to stop us." Zach said darkly.

"Awesome." Bex said, sounding like this was the most fun she's had ever.

As they got closer, they slowed down, seeing that we weren't going to drive away. It was fight or flight time, but we all knew we had to fight. If we didn't they would go tell all the guards and the circle members and we had no way to know if we would make it out.

So it was fight time. They didn't have comms in, so they couldn't call for back up. The best thing we could do was to knock them out and hope that they stayed out long enough that we could get away, undetected.

They where good. They didn't charge at us, instead they walked towards us, not hesitating in the least.

When they got to us, two of them attacked each of us. The two that went at me where much better than the embassy guards, but I was trained for this. I round house kicked one of them, using my momentum to jump and spin, punching the other in the jaw.

They both grunted, and threw punches at me. I blocked and ducked, sweeping my leg out under one, knocking him to the ground and slapping a napotine patch on his forehead. The other came at me again, this time a bit more weary.

He tried to punch me in the kidney, but I blocked it and landed a kick to his chest and then swiftly kicked back his knees while he was struggling for air. He fell to the ground, hard, and I slapped him with a Neptune patch on his neck.

The others where still fighting, so I went to help them. Bex had taken care of one attacker and was struggling to put a patch on the second, because he had already seen what they could do.

Zach was running to help her, and Grant was still fighting his second attacker.

Both of Macey's attackers where still fighting her, although they both looked pretty bloody. Then I realized Macey didn't have any napotine patches.

I ran to help her just as she punched one of them hard across the jaw, knocking him out.

Just as the other started towards her, he brandished a knife, obviously intending to kill Macey.

Macey stood her ground, but I snuck up behind him and kicked him hard in the back, making him fall and drop the knife. Macey kicked it out of his reach and then landed a kick hard to his face.

I grinned.

"Nice one." I said.

I stuck a Neptune patch on both of her attackers so they wouldn't wake up til morning.

They where a special type of napotine patch, though, so they would cause memory loss for the last 8 hours before the operatives used them.

We had used them on the guards too, so they wouldn't remember what happened at all, when they woke up.

As we moved the unconscious circle members, Preston started bombarding us with questions.

"What the hell, Macey? What was that? Why did they just attack us and where are we going?"

"Preston. We'll explain it all later, right now we just need to get out of here." Macey said, pulling him back into the car.

"No." Preston said, trying to stand his ground. "Does this have to do with your spy school? Where are you taking me and why?"

"Preston. Just trust me. We're trying to keep you safe. Those where bad people who attacked us and we need to get you to safety. We're going back to our school." Macey said, pleading with him.

I could tell Bex was getting annoyed and wanted to just pick him up and throw him in the car, but Macey clearly wanted Preston to come on his own.

Preston looked at me.

"Does this have to do with this summer?"

"A bit, but it goes back farther than that. We need to get you out of here before anything bad happens to you." I said, and he finally nodded and stepped into the car.

Zach and I climbed in front and Zach drove us to the airport where Macey's jet was waiting for us.

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