JPOV
As I was running in the front doors, Grant and Jonas sprinted out,
"Zachs gone." Grant yelled. He looked down at Cammie, "What happened?" I sighed,
"Explain later. Go help them fight." And with that they took off. I ran Cammie through to my office. I kicked open the door and sat her in my chair. She had a blindfold on and was gagged. I undone the blind fold and she looked at me. She stopped struggling and I undone the gag.
"Its okay Cammie, I got you now." She sighed as I undone the rope around her wrists. Once they were free she flung her arms around my neck.
"Thank you Joe." She pulled away and started to rub her wrists.
"Cammie wheres Zach?" She glanced at the floor blinking away tears.
"They came in, Zach tried to defend me, they were trying to take Zach, but as soon as they realised who he was trying to defend, they started to try to get both of us. They knocked him unconscious and dragged him out the south window." I smiled at her,
"Sounds like your memories getting better." She shook her head.
"No Joe, its getting worse. I'm forgetting more and more things. I keep hearing things. Whispers. I see her sometimes. She stands there and watches me." This shocked me.
"Who Cammie?" She shook her head.
"The same one from the Cove Ops test. She tells me things. And makes me forget. I cant hold onto things and they go. I only know some of the things I do now cause either I peicced it together, been told, or managed to keep hold of it." I nodded kneeling beside her.
"It'll be okay Cammie. You and I both know it will." She nodded just as Liz and Jonas burst into my office.
"I know what they gave her!" Jonas screamed at me thrusting a piece of paper into my hand.
"It's a substance called liqor de fant. Commonly used by terrorists to make their target forget things. Then as the memory gets weaker, they fill it with what they want their target to know through hallucinations." Liz reeled of at me.
"I don't care about that. I just want to know if there is a way to cure it!" Cammie yelled at them. Liz looked a bit upset.
"There is no known cure, me and Jonas have come up with three possible antidotes and sent some samples off to Dr Fibbs at Gallagher. We should know in about ten minutes." Cammie sank back into my chair.
"Well, I can wait ten minutes. But first we need to find Zach!"
ZPOV
I woke up in the back of a van with my head on some ones lap. I shot up and glared at the person who I had been sleeping on. I had hoped I would never have to see her again. But there we were.
"Zachary. Are you okay?" She asked acting all concerned mother. My hands were bound behind my back, a clear sign she didn't fully trust me yet. I nodded.
"I hear your girlfriend got away. Shame you didn't." I stared at her hard. She smiled at me,
"Zachary, why don't you just come back and work with me. Make both our lives easier?" I shook my head.
" Never. I would never leave Cammie, or her friends. She is my family now." My mom laughed slightly at this.
"And you think they are really going to come after you when your mother wants to kill your girlfriend?" The guy on the other side of the van chimed in.
"Shut it Carl. Your just as bad as her." I spat at my brother. He looked at me, and I recognised the look of hatred I would always get before a beating from him.
"Im not scared of you any more Carl." Mum put her hand up, "Enough boys. If you cant play nice, don't play at all." I turned on her.
"So why are you still playing?" She looked at me confused. "Excuse me?" She asked,
"You know what I mean. Getting Cammie is just a game to you. You don't care that's its hurting her, or the people who love her. Its just a game. And your not playing nice." I stared hard at her.
"Zach, it isn't nice to be rude to your mother either." I shook my head and stared at the floor for the rest of the journey.
CPOV
I knew we had to find Zach. He would have found me if it had been the other way round. "We have to find Zach." I voiced to the crowd of people now in Mr Solomons office.
"What? Why?" Shrieked Tina. "His mother is trying to kill you!" Mick added in.
"I know. But he tried to protect me, even when he knew they weren't here for me." My mum knelt beside me.
"What do you mean they weren't here for you?" I looked at her square in the eye.
"They are using me to try and get Zach to go back to the circle. That's why they were here, they were going to kidnap Zach, but when they realised he was trying to protect somebody from them, they tried to take me instead."
Mum nodded. "I understand Kiddo." I smiled knowing she would.
"Ms Morgan, Dr Fibbs just sent this through. He said give it to Cammie and it will fix her memory and erase anything they told her, or put in her blood." My mom took the vial of green liquid Liz was holding out.
"Drink it honey." She said. Everybody was staring at me, so I took it. The mixture burned my throat and tounge.
"Its burning." I gasped to my mum whos eyes went wide. "Liz is it supposed to burn?" Liz looked supprised, "I don't know, I will call Dr Fibbs."
LPOV
I pulled out my phone and dialled his number, he picked up first ring.
" Hey Liz, has it worked?" He asked,
"No, she's saying its burning, her eyes have gone bloodshot and she's sweating. A lot." He sighed.
"Okay Liz. That's supposed to happen. She will probably be in pain for the next few hours, sometimes getting tummy pains that will make her drop to the floor and scream. But its normal. Trust me. Just get her to do exerisise." I nodded taking mental note.
" Okay got it." And with that shut the phone.
"Dr Fibbs said its normal, and that she will most likely be in pain for the next few hours also getting tummy pains that will make her drop to the floor and scream, but to get her to keep doing exercise till its over." Joe nodded and helped Cammie up.
"Where you taking me?" She asked. "The gymnasium." He replied holding her hand and pulling her through the crowd.
CPOV
Joe lead me to the gymnasium. When we got there, he told me to do a hundred chin ups. I started. After seventy I didn't have enough arm strength left to do anymore.
" Joe I cant do anymore." I gasped and he let me down. "Okay Camster." He only called me that when he was proud or I was ill.
"Lets try shuttle runs yeah?" I nodded. As I stood at the line ready to go, I got a sharp stabbing pain in my tummy. I fell to the floor and started to scream. Joe ran over to me uncurling me from my ball position.
"Its okay Cammie. This is supposed to happen. I promise. Just keep breathing." He instructed as I lay there. He helped me sit up against the wall in between my crys of pain.
JPOV
Cammie was leant against the wall crying in pain. I felt sorry for her. She looked so helpless and weak. She has never looked this vulnerable. Never.
"Its okay Cammie. Your doing great." I said as she started to scream again. After fifteen minutes she stopped screaming and looked at me.
"How long till the medicine is supposed to have worked?" She asked. "Not long, about an hour and a half left." She smiled and stood up.
"Can we do gymnastics?" She asked. She has always been more into gymnastics than anything else. She was also one of the best gymnasts in the whole school. Both schools. She tucked her top into her trousers and started to do random bits of gymnastics.
"You've got better at them." I said. "I know. I have been at Olympic level since I was fourteen." She smiled at me as I digested the information gave me. As she started her routine, her mom, Bex, Liz, Macey, Grant, Nick and Jonas walked in.
"Hows she doing?" Rachael asked not taking her eyes of Cammie.
"She's doing fine, had one set of tummy pains so far, it lasted fifteen minutes but she pulled through well." I replied as Rachael smiled. Cammie ran and done a triple back flip tuck and stuck the landing. Bex ran over to her.
"Hey, your medicine should have worked by now. And we have a plan on how to save Zach." She grinned as I looked at Rachael who had her tell you in a minute look on her face.
