Chapter 14 – Beep, Slam, Cam
Cammie's POV
I was walking through the halls of Gallagher, going to no where in particular. I heard something move behind me. I turned around to find Zach standing there. "What do you want Zach?" I was whispering and I didn't know why.
"I want you to forgive me, you know it was for the best" he stepped towards me and grabbed my hands.
"Do I?"
"Yes you do, will you forgive me Cammie?" I saw in his green eyes how vulnerable he was making himself. I thought back to all the times we had spent together and how happy they had made me.
"Yes Zach" I whispered. He leaned into me and me into him. Beep, beep, what the hell was that? Beep, beep…
Beep, beep, beep. My eyelids fluttered open to see a plain ceiling above me. I looked to my right and saw a window, it was dark outside. I didn't trust my internal clock so I glanced at the one that was on the night stand. 3:30 Am. I looked to the other side and saw a heart rate monitor, which explained the beeping. I tried to sit up but my body wasn't haven't having that. I groaned and fell back into the pillow. The remote for the bed was just in my reach. I pressed the button and slowly felt the bed push me into the upright position.
Now I was sitting properly, I could really see the room. Flowers, teddy bears and boxes of most likely chocolates lined the room. I wonder who they could be for. I surveyed the room and didn't see anyone else. They're for me? What did I do? I was taken by the CoC, but I didn't do anything while I was there. Then it hit me, duh they were get well presents! I can be so thick sometimes.
I looked past the presents and recognised the room. I was in the Gallagher infirmary. I lifted up the sheets. I was in shorts and a shirt. I glanced at my body. Gauze was wrapped around my leg and torso and my arm was in a sling. My shoulder was wrapped in gauze as well. Bullet wounds called for a lot of gauze.
After sitting there starring out the window for about 7 minutes, I got sick of doing nothing. I knew I wasn't going to go back to sleep because this bed was really uncomfortable. So I slowly shifted until my legs hung off the edge of the bed.
I clung onto the edge and stood up. I could walk pretty well; I mean I had run away from the CoC with a bullet in my shoulder and side. So I crept over to the door and opened it just a crack. The hallway was clear so I walked along the halls of Gallagher towards the secret passage way where Mr Solomon had left the code for the journals.
I pressed on the stone and the doorway opened. I slipped inside. I dropped down onto one of the beanbags that the girls and I had moved up here to make it more comfortable. I drifted off to sleep. This was more comfortable then a hospital bed.
-Time Skip-
I was walking through the halls of Gallagher, going to no where in particular. I heard something move behind me. I turned around to find Zach standing there. "What do you want Zach?" I was whispering and I didn't know why.
"I want you to forgive me, you know it was for the best" he stepped towards me and grabbed my hands.
"Do I?"
"Yes you do, will you forgive me Cammie?" I saw in his green eyes how vulnerable he was making himself. I thought back to all the times we had spent together and how happy they had made me.
"Yes Zach" I whispered. He leaned into me and me into him. Slam, slam, what happened to the beep? Slam, slam…
Slam, slam. I groaned and stood up. I staggered over to the window. The schools van's doors were closing as I saw my Cove ops class (which included the Blackthorne boys) climbing in. What they were going on a mission without me? I may have been shot 3 times, I was going to over use this fact I could just tell, but there was no way I was missing this!
I ran out of the passage way and through the halls. Ignoring all the gasps and whispers, I sprinted to the front of the school. I pushed the ancient door open and screamed "where do you think you're going!" the vans didn't stop. Dammit! I had to take extreme measures.
I cut across the lawn, ran and managed, with a great deal of effort, pain and protest from my limbs, to flip onto the top of one of the 3 vans that were leaving the school without me. I sat there for a second to catch my breath. While sitting on top I recognised the van in front of this one, it was the one from the other night that had come with reinforcement gorillas/guards. Then it hit me.
I am such an idiot! The 3 guards were on the ground because what they thought were other people from the circle was actually girls from Gallagher, that's why they were on the ground when I turned around and that's why the people from the van froze when the guy from the ground pointed a gun at them! It all made sense now, they came to rescue me and I couldn't recognise them because my eyes were blurry from pain and anger.
We were almost at the academy's gate; I lay down and slid to the back of the van. I leant over the back of the van and knocked on the door. When I didn't hear any movement from inside I got frustrated. They weren't very good spies if they didn't realise someone was on the roof by now. I banged on the door with my fist. Nothing! For God's sake! I was sitting on a moving van's roof and it was picking up speed, fast. I belted it again with my fist and yelled "will someone open the bloody door already!" That got their attention; I began to lye on the roof again so when they opened the back door I wouldn't get hit. But instead, the driver slammed on the brakes. I rolled along the roof, down the windscreen across the bonnet and onto the road. It was not fun.
I groaned and stood up. My shoulder, leg and body ached and now the whole left side of my body was grazed. I have to stop getting hurt and shot. I was really pissed off now. I saw the drivers shocked face when he recognised me. I held my finger to my lips signalling for him to keep quiet and not tell anyone who it was. I stalked to the back of the van and wrenched open the doors.
Liz, Jonas, Bex, Grant, Macey, Zach and Mr Solomon all turned to look at me. Shock crossed their faces when they took in my new injuries. "Would one of you care to explain why everyone seems to be hell bent on killing me these days?" I said in an extremely annoyed tone. I didn't get a reply; they all just kept staring at me. It made me feel weird because I don't like being stared at. I looked at myself to see what they were all gawking at. My grazes had stopped bleeding which was a plus but the bullet wound in my leg had started instead and so had my shoulder. They stung a bit, like a dull version of what it felt like when I got them. It wasn't anything too major, so I rolled my eyes at them and climbed into the van in between Macey and the wall that divided us and the driver. "So where are going?" I asked with a smile. Finally they all recovered and Mr Solomon spoke, "we were on our way to find you Miss Morgan." Oh no, I'm in trouble.
"Umm, why sir?" I asked innocently.
"We went to the infirmary this morning and when we got there you were gone" Grant said.
"Where the hell were you? We thought the circle had taken you again!" Liz yelled.
"Calm down Liz. Geez, I was just up with the pigeons"
"Why?"
"The infirmary beds are uncomfortable" I shrugged "and I would've come to find you guys if you hadn't been climbing into these vans"
"Yeah, how exactly did you get here anyway?" Macey asked.
"Here? Oh easy, I saw you guys leaving and thought you were going on a mission without me. So I ran across the grass and then when I was close enough I flipped up onto the roof of the van. I was banging on the back door but then the van stopped and I was sent flying off the roof. You guys kind of know what happened after that." They looked at me amazed. "What?"
"Cam, you escaped from the circle 2 weeks ago. You were just thrown off a moving van while you were injured with 3 bullet wounds and yet you're sitting here bleeding form your shoulder and leg as well as the entire left side of your body except for you face, like it's any other day" Bex exclaimed.
"Let's just say I have been through worse, much, much worse" I glanced at Zach when I said this, but I couldn't see his face because it was turned the other way.
"Yes I will need to here all about your little adventure when we get back Miss Morgan" said Mr Solomon.
"I think adventure is a bit of and understatement sir" I closed my eyes and leant against the wall "Oh and Zach" I opened one eye to look at him "your dad is a very bad actor" I heard an intake of breath. I didn't care; I let the exhaustion take me over as I drifted off to sleep.
I was walking through the halls of Gallagher, going to no where in particular. I heard something move behind me. I turned around to find Zach standing there. "What do you want Zach?" I was whispering and I didn't know why.
"I want you to forgive me, you know it was for the best" he stepped towards me and grabbed my hands.
"Do I?"
"Yes you do, will you forgive me Cammie?" I saw in his green eyes how vulnerable he was making himself. I thought back to all the times we had spent together and how happy they had made me.
"Yes Zach" I whispered. He leaned into me and me into him. Cam, Cam, what happened to the slam? Cam, Cam…
"Cam, Cammie, Cameron Ann Morgan!" I sat bolt upright.
"What do you want now?" I yelled. I was sitting on the couch in my mother office. Macey, Liz, Jonas, Bex, Grant, Zach, Mr Solomon and my mom were scatted around the room. I groaned, I knew they wanted a recount of what happened, but at the moment I really couldn't be bothered.
"We need to know what happened the second you left on that Cove Ops mission" Mr Solomon replied calmly. The mission to tail Zach? It seemed like a lifetime ago after everything.
"Sir can't we do it later? I'm really tired and being thrown off a van didn't help" I shot him a death glare; he shrunk back slightly but stood his ground.
"No, we need to know now" I sighed.
"Ok, well let's see umm… We had 5 minutes left of the mission and I was walking between buildings when Zach's mom grabbed me from behind, we fought and then she grabbed a gun and pointed it at my head. I said the circle didn't want me dead and she said they didn't want me dead but they never wanted me in perfect condition. That's when she shot me the first time in my side" I pointed to my side. The girls shuddered and ran to give me a hug. I laughed "Guys it was nothing compared to the other stuff I went through. So on with the story, I woke up and Mrs Goode was there, she asked me what was in the journals, when I refused to tell her she jabbed me with a cow prod right next to where she shot me. It on like that for a while but with a few punches and kicks until I passed out. It was when I woke up that I met Zach's dad." Again there was an intake of breath. I looked at Zach and saw his face was blank.
"I was sitting in the room, me and Graeme, that's Zach's dad got into a big conversation. He told me how he was still alive and how he was kept a prisoner. But he knew too much about Zach and ummm…. some other stuff" I blushed "to have been kept out of the loop. We fought and I blew his cover. Turns out he wasn't a prisoner but a secret spy. He came at me and I knocked him out, then Zach's mom came in and I knocked her out too. Then I started running" that was a mouthful. Everyone had stunned expressions on their faces.
"Liz and I saw you running on a tracker that is on the back of your neck. It's that little bump, Zach was the one who remembered it actually" Jonas glanced at Zach whose expression was still stony "but you kept stopping, why?" Jonas asked.
"To fight guards or rest, a bullet wound can only take so much running at a time" I replied matter-of-factly.
"I ran for 4 miles and then came to an intersection, with guards. I tried to distract them by throwing a radio I stole from Zach's dad, but instead I accidentally set off a bomb. I started running again. They chased me, I went up some stairs. We all jumped behind trees, the bomb went off. I tried to run while they were distracted but the bullet wound in my side had started to bleed, then they told me not to move. Then you guys pulled up in the van and I thought you were more people from the CoC. So I tried running again, but that's when he shot me in the shoulder. I fell to the ground.
"I was ready to give up but then decided if I was going out, I was going out with a bang that would make Bex proud" I smiled at her "so I grabbed a gun that was nearby and stood up. I got really confused when I saw the three guards on the ground but was like whatever. Then the other guy got up, I assume you heard the yelling, he shot me, I shot him and then I woke up in the hospital, got sick of the bed and went up to sleep with the pigeons. You guys know the rest" I let out a breath when I was finished. Everyone looked astounded.
"You are a strong girl Cammie; I can't believe you went all of that then got thrown off a moving van. I am very proud" Mr Solomon smiled so I smiled. We got in a big group hug after that, everyone was in it except for Zach who left the room. I said I had to go do something and slipped out of the room. I followed him into a secret passage. "Zach…."