In Another Life
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A/N Hey guys glad to see you liked last chapter! Sorry for the delay I had the chapter done… but then my computer deleted it. Thank yous at the bottom! Enjoy!
**Previously**
I wouldn't recognize him. Except he is the slitting image of my father.
"Georgie," I breath and he sighs with relief.
"Cammie."
**Present time**
I stare at my brother in shock, not able to move or even breath. He really is the splitting image of my father, especially the eyes. "Cammie, are you okay?" Georgie asks looking worried, "You've been staring off into space for the past five minutes."
Macey rolls her eyes. "Don't worry she does that a lot."
"And you are?" he snaps. I resist the urge smile and pinch Georgie's cheeks. My wittle bwother with the perfect manors.
Macey stares untrustingly at Georgie. "Grace." She says making her voice short and clipped.
I glare at her shaking myself out of my frozen state. "Macey! Stop acting as if my brother is an enemy." I see Georgie grin out of the corner of my eye and I pull him into a hug. "Missed you," I breath out quietly before releasing him. "Now who are you?" I snap at the other older looking boy. He has dark brown eyes, a mass of curly light brown hair, and a crooked nose, making it look as if he was punched and his nose set wrong. Which probably happened. He also has one distinct scar right above his eyebrow. It was curved and ragged ending at his hair line.
"You don't remember me?" He asked acting fake hurt. "I thought we were friends!" I pause mid eye roll.
"Friends?" I mutter. There's only one person… "RILEY!" I scream before tackling him in a hug. A minute later I hear a strained.
"Help, can't breathe." He chokes out. And I loosen my hold… slightly. I stand up before yanking him to his feet. Then I slap him across the face.
"I thought you were dead you idiot! And you too!" I say slapping Georgie on the back of the head. "Why didn't you guys contact me? I thought I was alone." I finally whisper out.
"Well heck I didn't you were alive either until your little brother hacked into Gallagher." Riley says his voice turning affectionate when he said my brother hacked into Gallagher.
"He did? Aww my little brother is a hacking genius!"
"Ha you haven't seen him fight yet!"
"Is he good at that too?"
"Nope on Circle standers he sucks… but spy standers…"
"Ooh you HAVE to fight Bex and meet Zach and see-"
"Woah, woah, woah, who the hell is this Zach?" Georgie cuts in.
"Watch your language!" I snap before softly saying, "Zach is my boyfriend."
Georgie and Riley share a look. "Oh, no he isn't." Riley finally says, "Not until we give the okay." I huff.
"You don't control me."
"I'll kill him." Georgie threatens softly and I chuckle.
"You and what army?"
"How about Blue Jay and R.R." I roll my eyes.
"Who the hell are they?"
"I thought you said I wasn't allowed to say that!" protests Riley.
"Well that's you and this is me. Now who are they?"
"Well I'm the R.R." Riley says before sharing a look with Georgie and cracking up.
"Okay I'll bite what does that mean?"
"Well sometimes I'm called R. Rebel." He shares a smile with Georgie, "And other times Russian Rebel."
"You remembered you were Russian."
"Of course, you say that as if you think they would let me forget." I cringe at his words. He's right, they would never let him forget the one thing they have against him.
"Cam," Bex interjects, "Sorry to break up the love fest but we're on a tight schedule and we need to meet up with the boys now."
"They're in?" I ask.
"Sure are, now let's go."
"Right of course." I turn to Riley and Georgie, "Pack your bags. We're getting out of here." They nod and exit to the back room to get their stuff together.
A minute later Macey turns to me with a pained look on her face. "Cammie," she whispers, "we have to leave them." I freeze up, my whole body shutting down.
"What?" I growl out.
"How do we know this is your brother? I mean couldn't they clone him or something? And isn't it just a little too coincidental? Besides who the heck is Riley."
"Riley is the boy I saved. Remember I saved a boy that ultimately ended in the death of my brother? Riley is him. Sure he lost the baby fat from when he was five but it isn't that hard to tell. Same colored eyes, same unruly curly hair. And Georgie." I sigh, "Georgie has always looked just like my father, even when he was a baby. He's the splitting image of him now." I pause looking Macey straight in the eye, "I know it's a risk. But I am not leaving behind my one chance of family here in this place. I'll do a DNA test if it'll make you feel better. But I won't leave him behind." Macey cringes.
"I'm sorry Cam, no." Bex says. "I agree with Macey it's too big of a risk." I take one glance at her and slap her across the face. She stiffens before grabbing my arm and twisting it behind my back and forcing me to look at her in the eye before saying, "This is a team mission so we will take them to the meeting place and vote if they stay or go. We only have your best interests at heart so why don't you stop lashing out and listen to logic for once." She shoves me away, "I put up with a lot Cam. But I'm not taking any more abuse from you. Whether to me, my boyfriend, or any of my other friends."
I take one look at her and nod. "Okay. We'll vote. But I'm telling you now if I have even the slightest notion your wrong. You can leave and I'll take my boys and finish the job myself." I say.
"Deal." Bex says in a hushed whisper.
Georgie's POV:
"So that went well." I say as I pack my shirt into a duffle bag.
"Well? My face is still red from when she slapped me.
"Yeah…" I say happily.
"So how do you think Cammie will take to Blue Jay?" Riley asks with a devious smile, rubbing his hands together.
"I don't know. But either someone will end up dead or we'll have made the most dangerous combination possible."
"Well how will BJ take to Cammie?"
"I'm a little scared for that one. I mean we work for the Circle, but we're not loyal to them. BJ is loyal to them. So yeah I'm nervous."
"I know what you mean."
Cammie's POV:
"You ready?" I ask Georgie still frowning from the conversation I had with Bex. He raises an eyebrow in question but I just shake my head. There's no way I'll be explaining to him that conversation any time soon.
"Yeah me and Riley are good to go." I give him a short nod. "Girls it's time to go onto Liz's station for the coms so switch to channel 9." They nod and we all switch in one quick movement.
"Chameleon? Duchess? Peacock? Are you all there?" Liz says franticly as I walk out the door motioning for the girls and guys to follow.
"Of course," I say with a huff. I see Georgie grinning out of the corner of my eye.
"Are the four musketeers ready?" I ask silently referring to the four boys as we slide along the shadows on the wall.
"You mean the three musketeers" Liz almost silently whispers into my ear, or through the speaker in my ear. You think too much. Oh shut up. We need to focus. Yeah, yeah. Ugh why must I have voices in my head? You're weird. I brush away the goose bumps that the thoughts gave me.
"Bookworm, I was referring to the four boys."
"I know."
"Then why did you say the three musketeers."
"Because there are only three boys. Nick's coms aren't working." Oh sh*t.
"Yes they are." I say vehemently. We checked those coms. Hundreds of times. We packed three 35 cases of batteries and are prepared for every other situation. "Did you try changing the batteries?" I say trying to sound calm, they're probably fixing them as we speak, but even I could hear the hint of worry in my voice.
"Yes, but it still didn't work."
"I-I- ugh. You know what? Do whatever we need to get this mission done, now." I say turning a sharp corner. "Are we still meeting in the prisoner decent room?"
"Yup they're waiting there as we speak." Liz says sounding slightly less hysterical.
"Good we'll be there soon. And please tell the boys we have a little… surprise." I say. I hope they wont freak when they see Georgie and Riley.
"Alright see you soon, Chameleon." I flip my coms to the Circle channel to make sure nothing is being suspected. And I'm met with a piercing siren. I wince and grab at my ear but then suddenly it stops.
"Reminder all Circle Agents there is an intruder among us. Please keep your eyes open there in an intruder among us." A mechanical voice says into my ear and I wince before the siren starts up again. I turn my coms off with a sigh. Double sh*t.
"God dammit." I mutter, "They know we're here." I say so the whole group can hear me. "We need to move faster." We walk in silence for a few minutes when suddenly I hear a rustling in the vents above us. "Georgie is your air conditioner broken." Georgie's face pales as he glances up.
"Call me Grim, Cammie and uh yeah. Don't worry that happens all the time." Did he just? You know ask me to call him Grim? Oh no he didn't. You know I think he did. The little punk! Watch your mouth Cam! This is our little brother you're talking about! Exactly so why is he asking for me to call him Grim? SHUT UP!
Suddenly I hear the rustling in the vents again. Why does that sound so familiar? I mean it's almost like… my eyes widen in realization as I suddenly know. There's a person in the vents.
"Stop." I say loudly and the whole group comes to a stop. I take a step towards the vent and suddenly it flies open and out comes a flying tumbling blur of black and red. What the hell?
The next thing I know there is a blonde girl in black cargo pants and a red tank top with a black beanie covering her cropped blonde hair crouched in front of me wielding a hammer in each hand.
"What the hell," I say this time aloud.
"Look, girl hand over the idiot and my boyfriend I'll let you carry on your merry way." She grins viscously. "Maybe."
I turn to glare at Riley. "You have a girlfriend and forgot to tell me?" I hiss at him.
"Look guys-," Georgie interrupts, she glares at him.
"Shut up."
"Don't you dare-" I start to say but she cut me off.
"I gave you your chance. Now we have to do this the hard way." She grins, "Good." The next thing I knew she was right next to me her hammer about to crash down onto my shoulder. I dodge her and rip my knife out from its sheath strapped onto my thigh.
"Back away." I growl out but she just smiles.
"It's a good thing you have that knife. At least there is some challenge." I roll my eyes and charge at her. I watch as each time she parries my swipe to the left she leaves her right side open. The next time I do that I am about to strike her side with my small knife but two hands grasp me from the behind and pull me down.
"Dammit!" I growl out turning to the person who pulled me down. "What the hell? Why did you do that!" I say suddenly seeing it was Georgie.
"Because I don't want you to kill my girlfriend!" I pause.
"What?"
"Blue Jay stop! I'd rather you not kill my sister." Georgie says and I look up to see 'Blue Jay' holding her hammer above me as if she was about to bring it down any minute.
"Sister?" She says moving her hammer from above my head.
"Hell yeah sister," I snap. "Wanna see the eyes that prove it?"
"Sure." She says sarcastically and I growl as I stand up.
"You're too young to have a girlfriend." I say to Georgie as I look down at him. I mean he's pretty tall. At least an inch taller than Liz and he has pretty light blue eyes framed by his glasses and dark brown hair that's always hanging in his eyes. Then there is her who is at his shoulder and she is hot. Her short blond hair is layered enough to look feminine and cute but pretty badass too. Her light brown eyes contrast greatly with his light blue. The muscles on her arms show she's a trained fighter and she has to be to wield a hammer. Two hammers. Why didn't I train with that weapon? Not the point. They'd be a great couple but they are too young. Period.
"Well you're too old to be his sister. Besides everyone knows she's dead." 'Blue Jay' shoots back. "What's your name anyways." I glare at her.
"I am Cameron Ann Morgan more commonly referred to as Cam. Codename: Chameleon. I am not dead because it is possible to escape the Circle if you're trained enough. For three years the Circle trained me. I managed to escape at age nine, sadly leaving behind my thought to be dead brother and friend. I have been trained by the CIA and worked for them ever since. Anymore questions?"
"Hell yeah. But I'll tell you my name first. Jalen Rose Steve-"
"Woah, woah, woah daughter of Dr. Steve?"
"Yeah you got a problem with that?"
"No, no I love his torture methods; I use them all the time." I say sarcastically.
"You know he's dabbling in brainwash now." Jalen replies equally sarcastic.
"Truly? Why am I not surprised?"
"Oh yes, and he excels as always."
"Please tell me more!"
"Ladies will you stop with the sarcasm it's giving me a headache." Macey mutters.
"Screw you." Jalen and I snap at the same time. Creepy. Creepy! It's a hell a lot more than "creepy". You found your freaking twin and your brother is dating her. Scientifically speaking it is not possible for us to be twins. She's 11 or 12 and we're 17. Oh goodie you can count.
"Creepy." Riley sings under his breath and both Jalen and I glare at him.
"Shut up you, idiot." Jalen says.
"I swear I will not hesitate to slap you again." I say at the same time.
"Right, sorry." He says before muttering, "Thing one and thing two." I sigh and Jalen does too.
"As you we're saying?" I ask turning back to her.
"Right, the name's Jalen Rose Steve. I am 12 years old. Codename is Blue Jay. I am commonly referred to as BJ. I am the founder to using the hammer as more than just a last minute resource and actually made these babies myself." She says caressing her two hammers that each have a strap at the end of the handle so they can hang off a hook on the belt she has. "I am in a relationship with Grim also known as George. Or Geo to me. And he did not tell me his sister was alive so if he is found dead in the morning please don't ask me."
I see Georgi- I mean Grim pale and Riley mouths 'I'll protect you.' To him. I smile.
I like her.
A/N Hey guys! Look it's a chapter! I hope you liked it! Please review! ~Luv ya sunshine Thank yous to…
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