Hello to all. Here is a post Christmas early New Years chapter. And yes… they have returned. Reviews would be lovely for the epilogue:)

Previously

Not everyone needs to bloody know that Lizzie." Heads whipped around, jaws dropped, eyes widened and tears began to fall.

"No way…"

Macey stared at the back of the Great Hall. Her eyes wide open and tears forming rapidly.

"Cammie. Bex. Is that you guys?" Standing in the back of the Great Hall were two figures. The one to the right had long dirty blonde locks that reached her waist and pale skin. Covering one side of her face including her eyes, were bandages. Her other eye was gleaming. She wore a dark green shirt with cuts on the arms. She wore black short shorts and her legs were wrapped in bandages. The girl standing next to her was slightly taller than her. She had raven colored hair that reached the bottom of her ribs and caramel colored skin. Her chocolate eyes were taking in the whole room. She wore a long sleeved red shirt with her right arm in a sling. On bottom, she wore white short shorts and her legs were blue and purple from bruises..

"We're home." The two figures, Cammie and Bex, grinned as they shouted to the room. The next couple seconds were silent before the whole room erupted in whispers, cries and clapping. Macey and Liz were running down the center aisle, students standing up as the two girls past them, as they ran to Cammie and Bex who were walking towards them.

Reaching them first, Macey stopped in front of Cammie and Bex. Staring at them, she tried to process her thoughts. How did they survive? Are they really back? Questions streamed through her mind as she tried to grasp reality. Unlike Macey, Liz barreled past her and jumped at Bex and proceeded to cry.

"I thought… I thought… you died. Oh my god. I thought you died. Bexie." Liz's voice was barely heard due to her sobbing and wailing. Bex grinned before wrapping the petite girl in her arms and began to smooth Liz's curls with her left hand.

"You're back right? I'm not imagining this right?" Macey said. Her voice was wavering, her body shaking. Her eyes were trained on Cammie's bandaged eye and Bex's arm.

"I'm back Mace." Cammie felt tears begin to fall. Macey flung herself at Cammie and proceeded to lightly hit Cammie on the shoulder.

"How dare you. You left us all alone. You didn't come back. You sacrificed yourselves for us. You left me all alone." Macey was sobbing. She went in for another punch but Cammie stopped her. Staring at Cammie's face, her resolve cracked.

"I'm home. And I'm never leaving you again Macey." Cammie pulled Macey into her grasp and gave her a hug. Unlike all the other hugs, this hug solidified her promise to Macey.

"Cammie… that's you, isn't it?" A voice called from behind Macey and Liz. Directing her attention to the voice, Cammie recognized the voice to be her mom's.

"Mom. I'm back." Macey left go of Cammie and Mrs. Morgan pulled her daughter into a hug and the two began to cry. Cammie was rubbing her mom's back as the older woman was sobbing into her daughter's shoulder.

"I thought I lost you like I did with your dad." Mrs. Morgan held on tight to Cammie, blinking away the tears flooding her vision.

"It's okay Mom. I made it back." Once Cammie was sure her mom was stable and not a sobbing mess, she let go. The rest of the Gallagher girls then approached the two girls and congratulated them, cried and wished them back. Once everyone had approached the two girls, the graduation was quickly completed. The seniors had finally graduated, including Cammie and Bex. They held a party in the Great Hall and all were overjoyed. Once the party ended, the students grabbed sleeping bags and decided to have a school-wide sleepover in the Great Hall.

Meanwhile a certain group of friends were gathered in the Headmistress's office.

"Where have you been all this time?" Liz asked. She was so relieved that they came alive that she totally forgot to ask her questions before.

"Running from Catherine. At the last second, she pulled a lever on the wall and the floor collapsed underneath us. We realized that she knew of our plan all along and quickly ran away from the warehouse We took the next flight out of Rome to track down the rest of the COC and end it once and for all. Catherine caught onto our plan and chased us around the world." Cammie explained, the two girls flinching as they recalled the past year.

"Why are you guys all banged up? And Cammie, what happened to your face?" Macey asked as she lightly stroked the bandages covering Cammie's left eye.

"Yesterday, we confronted Catherine in London. When we were fighting, Catherine had her men surround the area and creep towards us. Cammie realized this and turned around to tell me when one of her men got behind me with a knife. Knowing it was aimed for me, Cammie pushed me out of the way and was cut by the knife." Bex explained.

"Does it hurt?" Macey asked Cammie.

"Not really since I had it numbed at HQ." The girls were the only ones talking. Sitting on a couch on the other side of the room, the boys were staring at the complete Alpha Team, especially two boys.

"Cammie."

"Bex." After all the girls had caught up, Zach and Grant called out to their girlfriends. Cammie and Bex turned around to face their boyfriends. Everything was quiet. No one knew how to start up a conversation.

"Shall we take a walk?" The silence was broken when Zach raised his hand, waiting for Cammie to take it.

"Sure." Grabbing his hand, the couple walked out of the Headmistress's office and down the dark hallways of Gallagher. The two said nothing to each other until they were in the secrecy of a secret passageway.

"You were alive all along." Zach said, staring into Cammie's eye.

"Yes."

"You were alive all along." Zach repeated.

"Yes."

"You were alive…" Cammie's lips cut off Zach. Unlike all their other kisses, this wasn't a passionate, soaring kiss. It wasn't a rough, blazing kiss. It wasn't a kiss that made butterflies in her stomach. It was a soft, gentle kiss. One that was conveying a message to Zach. Once Cammie pulled away, she stared into Zach's eyes and waited for him to make his move.

Zach couldn't move. He was scared. Scared to open his heart again. Scared that it was all an illusion. That Cammie wasn't real. To test it, he reached out to her. He gently traced the outline of Cammie's face before resting his hand of her cheek.

"Zach. I'm back. I'm not going to leave you this time. I promise." Cammie said, placing her hand over his and leaning into it. Zach's eyes widened and it was then that the message clearly sunk in.

"Cammie. Gods Cammie." Caging her against the wall, he fiercely kissed her. Cammie felt it. All of his emotions, his anger, his fear, his sorrow and pain. She felt it all, and she embraced it. When the two were at the end of their oxygen supply, they broke away, breathing heavily.

"I almost stopped trying." Zach wrapped his arms around her petite waist and dropped his head into the crook of her neck, breathing in her scent. Vanilla and Roses.

"The biggest mistake I had was not following you. If I had, you wouldn't have almost died. It's all my fault." Zach was shaking. And this time, he didn't try to stop. Cammie felt her neck wet and realized that Zach was crying. Leaning against the wall, she gently sifted her hands through his hair and whispered promises and soothing words to him as he cried.

"It's not your fault Zach. I chose to take the risk, knowing that I may not make it back. Yes, I did it to save everyone, but I did it mainly for you." Zach lifted his head off of Cammie's shoulder and stared into her sapphire eye.

"I had a relationship before. With a civilian. He found out the truth and didn't accept it. So we had to erase his memory. I thought I would never find someone again. But when the girls and I fell through the skylight in Blackthorne, your eyes were the first things that I saw. And I could tell, that you were her son. At first, I wanted to believe so. But you didn't act anything like her. You are everything she's not. And I wanted to protect you from becoming like her. Because I like you the way you are. Because I love you." Cammie said, wiping the tears off of Zach's cheeks. Zach looked into Cammie's eye, seeking the hints that would tell if she was lying or not. He didn't find any.

Letting go of Cammie, he reached over her bandaged eye and began to unravel it. Cammie didn't stop him. Once the bandage was gone, he dropped it on the floor. Taking the small wad of medical padding off of the cut, he stared at cut. A small line was on her face, just above her left eyebrow. It was short, but it was deep enough to scar. Her left eyebrow and eyelid were tinted red from the blood. Bending down, he gave the cut a small kiss before pulling back.

He placed one hand on the wall next to her head, the other hand grabbing her chin lightly. Smirking for the first time in a year, he stared into her two eyes.

"I love you." Cammie's eyes watered at the confession. Laughing, tears began to fall from her eyes as Zach gave her a bruising kiss. Cammie reciprocated the feeling and threaded her hands into his chocolate tresses. Zach's tongue darted out of his mouth, tracing the contours of Cammie's bottom lip. Giving him an entrance, his tongue danced with hers, his dominating the kiss. When the need for air ended the kiss, they reluctantly pulled back.

"Shall we go back?" Cammie held out a hand. Zach smirked and grabbed her hand and the two left the passageway. They began to walk towards the Great Hall and when they got to the entrance, they found the gang waiting for them.

"Looks like someone got some action?" Bex teased as they took in Cammie's scarred face and bruised lips. Zach smirked and the boys, Macey and Liz were overjoyed to see Zach back to normal. As they walked into the Great Hall to get ready for the school sleepover, Zach held Cammie back.

"Gallagher Girl" Zach called out to Cammie, who turned her attention to her boyfriend.

"Yes?" Cammie asked.

"You are the best thing that ever happened to me. I thought that I would always be known as Catherine's son. But when you came, I wanted to prove to you and everyone else that I wasn't. You lit up my world. You brough me out of the darkness, to the light where I thought I wasn't allowed to be. The day you beat me at sparring, I knew that I would never let you leave my side ever. And that will never change." Zach said. All the students' attention were on the couple standing in the entrance.

"Where is this going Zach?" Cammie stared at the boy kneeling down before her. His emerald eyes were gleaming with arrogance and desire. His famous smirk donning his face. In his hand, lay a small box. Opening the box, he held out a white gold ring. On the ring, there was a green emerald in the center, with small diamonds on the sides. Engraved on the inside, was a small message to Cammie.

"Marry me?

What will Cammie say? What do you want their wedding to look like? Review all the ideas you want. I will try to include as much as possible. Make sure to read my other fanfictions:)