Chapter 24

About two months into the new semester we had a random pop CovOps test. The mission was to tail Solomon around Roseville while he ran errands for like 3 hours. Two and a half hours later, Zach and I were the only ones left that had not been compromised yet and, he walked into the one place he knew I would never go unless I was desperate. Meanwhile I watched the door until he emerged 5 minutes later in a completely different outfit than when he had entered the building. We decided to wait a minute before following him, in that one minutes we managed to loose him. He however decided it would be fun to reverse tail us. He revealed that we were caught by saying the most cryptic thing (at the time), "Like aunt, like niece. I have a story that I think you will find intriguing… Later. Your aunt hasn't always been as great as she is now." he said the last section as he started to walk away towards the vans.

~Time Skip~

Later that night right after dinner I decided to go and have Solomon tell me the story he was talking about earlier. When I reached the door I knocked and said, "Solomon open the door it's story time. So stop making out with Abby so you can send her away and tell me the bed time story you promised." I swear I sounded like a 5 year-old using teenager words.

About a minute later (49 seconds to be exact) he answered the door and aunt Abby went out because she needed to ask my mom for help with something he didn't know about (which is strange he always seems to know the details of their meetings but not this one) and he brought me in and proceeded with the story.

"Okay," he began. "Back a little over 18 years ago when she first graduated from Gallagher and joined the CIA she was sent on a mission to Russia to stop a circle member from stealing the artifacts from the royal palace. It was her very first mission and she messed up big time. You see I was also on a mission in Russia at the time showing a MI6 rookie to the CIA's Russian base so she could meet her new partner, who ended up being your aunt Abby. Any questions so far?"

"Just one as of right now" I stated, "Who was the woman that ended up as aunt Abby's partner?"

His answer, "Have Bex ask her aunt Rose about her first mission."

"Okay so it was Bex's aunt Rose got it now continue immediately. " was all I could answer I was so curious.

"Now where was I?" he thought for a minute (probably just to make me mad) and then said, "Oh yeah so she had told me about how she had been beginning to follow the suspect but after a week she had lost sight of him earlier that day. She knew that I had contacts with the Circle, but what she didn't know was that since our last chat Zach's mom and I had broken up and I hadn't been told about her being pregnant before I left her. Your father also had his ties to the Circle at this time. Any new questions yet?"

"Yeah I have a few more now." I answered. "Okay question numero uno: How does my dad fit into this story?, number 2: Is he aunt Abby's target?, number 3: Were you and Abby together at this point?," I pondered for a moment longer and then said, "Okay that's it now answer them and I won't make Zaxter throw a shoe or Morgan throw a block at you in CovOps tomorrow during the lecture portion of the class. Before you ask yes, that is what Zach and I were doing today during the lecture. We thought that we would start teaching them young so that they will get practically the same marks we do if not better. Sorry for making everyone laugh and giving you that bump on the head by the way. We thought that we could maybe get you to laugh or think it was someone else that was laughing."

"All I can say to the last part is WOW. You are definitely a little crazier than Abby is." he answered, "But to answer your questions in a reverse order. Not yet that came about two years later. No he was not you will find out who it is soon enough though because they had also made a mistake on this mission. Finally he had been sent by the CIA to help Abby do this mission by attempting to infiltrate the Circle but not actually get sucked in. then he paused again before asking, "Why did you decide to threaten me with that exactly? Oh now I understand the laughter and smirks in class today. Also might I ask why am I their first target? Oh and have there been anymore attacks made by Zach's mom that you haven't told me about?"

"Just so you would laugh during class for once. Because I said so and I thought you would like the honor case closed. And I'm surprised, happy, and a little scared to say there hasn't been. I wonder where she is now. Anyway finish the story." I pleaded.

"Fine… so anyway the big ending is here now. She ends up finding her suspect again a week later. However he was never formally charged since he used a false identity given to him for an infiltration of the COC by MI6 and he had handed everything back to them as soon as he had shown the leaders so that he wouldn't have any future problems. The End. Oh and by the way when you arrived Abby and I were NOT making out. We were putting our twins to bed." he paused, "So any guesses on who the suspect was?"

"I have two ideas." I stated. I believe it was either Bex's dad or you due to the fact you are he only two I know who ever worked for MI6 that are guys. And the only two who would do as you described at the end. However I can't know for sure which one it is without you answering which one of you it was." "Okay so one of them is in fact the correct answer. But which one? I'd think hard if I were you because if you guess correctly I won't tell your mom what you and Zach did in CovOps today. But if you guess wring not only will I tell her but you will have to go on a solo mission where you have no outside contact for a month." "Alright my guess is that since Bex's dads name never came up it was you. Also you kept saying parts in the first person point-of-view. I win so you can't tell on me." I said the last sentence sticking my tongue out at him like a two year-old would.

"Correct you are but now I just got a text message from Abby, to tell you to go to your mom's office so they can discuss the possibility of a mission with you." he said clearly impressed I could still "notice thing" with all that had been going on lately. He was also laughing at the drop on my maturity level since the pop test. He has a very funny laugh so I just had to laugh at him.