In Another Life

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A/N: Yo peeps! I'm so glad you guys liked last chapter, I just needed to clear a few things up for ya'll! But now we're back to Cammie's POV. So start reading!

Cammie's POV:

**Previously**

I grin as I feel the kick of the gun travel up my arm yet never once does my grip shake. My eyes twinkle as blood blooms across Preston's chest. I sigh as a thud sounds from where Preston's bound body hits the floor.

It really has been too long.

**Presently**

I stare down at the blood and wonder if I hadn't forced myself away from this for so long if maybe I would have lasted longer before snapping and killing him. Killing this traitor. I've killed for less before, just to feel that adrenaline wash into my system. It's been a little too long since I've felt the kick of a gun beneath my hand and watched the pale face of death meet my victims. It's been a little too… STOP! Both of the voices shout at me at once. And with a little tremor and a soft sight I feel myself come back to the present.

I quickly click the safety on my gun before shoving into the holster. God I cannot believe I just did that. So embarrassing! Embarrassing? That bastard deserved it, and we promised BJ, whatever happened after was a smallprice to pay... Since when did BJ give orders? Since when did you care about jumping the gun? Zach asked us not to! Woah that's a low blow. Oh shut up and talk to him. You shut up! No you! No you!

I sigh as they go on like that for a while. I crouched down and start dragging Nick's body into a corner when I finally said, "I won't say I'm sorry."

"I don't expect you to," Zach replies leaning up against the wall and rubbing his eyes. "I just wished you'd have waited. Or let him get blown up like Macey asked." At that last thing I snort. Zach raises and eyebrow, "What?"

I sigh before turning to him. "You honestly think Macey would have let him get blown up." He doesn't reply and from the look on his face I can tell he does, or he did at least. "You did, didn't you! You actually believed her!" I let out a cackle of mad laughter. "And you think I was stupid for killing him! What about you? The one who was going to let him live to get away with it!"

"I wouldn't have let him get away with it." Zach snaps.

I stroll up to him in an airy sort of way. "Oh but you would have! You would have left him here while we went off to find Catherine and Macey would have snuck up here and grabbed him before leaving and we would have had one very alive Nic-Preston on our hands and two less crew members." Zach just sighs and rubs his eyes again with a little shake of his head.

"Look let's just- go kill Catherine and talk about this later, okay?" I snort and nod.

"Fine," I say switching my coms onto Liz's channel. "Yo Bookworm we're moving out."

"Alright keep in touch." Liz replies and I frown.

"Bookworm, where's everyone else?"

"We're all here, Cam." I hear Macey reply. "You got Preston tied up all nice and tight?" A grin dances along my lips and I make a shushing motion to Zach who had switched his coms to Liz's station too.

"Yeah Macey, as soon as that bomb goes of he'll be dead as a…" I trail off.

"Door nail?" Liz fills in.

"Nope."

"Fly?" Bex asks and I grin.

"Closer."

"A horse?" Macey asks and I outright laugh.

"Nope he'll be as dead as Catherine." I laugh once more before switching my coms off not wanting to hear their reactions. I turn to see Zach with his lips pressed together so hard all you can see is a white line. "Zach, are you okay? You know you can always join the others, I won't mind and I can do this myself." Maybe. Shut up.

"Cam I'm fine… just… you know… look I can't put it into words. I'm good though so just roll with it, okay?"

"I can do that." I say shortly before I start running down the hallway.

"Cam where are you-"

"Oh just follow me dumb nuts." I tease as I start to run faster and from the incoming footsteps from behind me he's catching up. I turn a sharp corner and finally slow down waiting for him to show up and ten seconds later he does.

"Caaam," He complains drawling out the 'a' in my name.

"Zachy," I say back and he gives a huff.

"Do you even know where you're going?" He asks and I raise an eyebrow. Really? Did he just-? Wow.

"Yes I do for you information, now get in the vent." I say pointing to the vent and with no questions asked he unscrews the vent and climbs in. Good Zachy.

Macey's POV

"Good now hold this wire while I…" Jonas mutters as he messes with the wires to the bomb with Jalen. I sigh as I think about Nick. My poor Nick. I knew that he wasn't a traitor, he was just protecting Jalen, helping her seem like she was telling the truth and forfeiting his life to protect this poor mislead girl. She needs some professional help and I'm sure he could see it. Cam never liked him, I'm sure she was just looking for an excuse to kill him, but she hasn't…yet. All she did was tie him up so when the bomb goes off he'll blow up with the rest of the Circle's residents.

"Grant Bex can you go check if there are any prisoners in the cells? Riley will take you there and release all the prisoners you find." Jonas directed and he brings his hand to his ear where he and Liz were on a separate station, weird, I know. "Thanks darling," He whispered, still focusing on what she was saying he mutters, "Jalen can you cut that blue wire? Thanks… Mmm Hmm darling, of course. Yes I know. I'll see you soon I- WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" Jonas screams at Jalen and she quickly jumps back. "One minute Lizzy I got to go." Jonas says frantically before crouching over the bomb. "What did you do?! What did you do?!" Jonas keeps whispering frantically and I feel bad for Jalen as she stares down at his crouched form, upset and a little annoyed at his antics.

"You said cut the blue wire, I was doing that before you freaked out at me." She says, little tears of anger coming to her eyes before she turns and punches one of the concrete walls. I chuckle a little at the crack I hear and the curses that follow.

"I know but you were cutting the light blue wire, not the dark blue wire like I thought you would."

"Well how would I know-"

"I know, I know, you wouldn't. That was my fault but the thing is if you cut that wire there is no telling when the bomb will explode. It goes completely on auto pilot and no one can shut it off, or find out when it's going to explode. It doesn't have one of those cheesy countdowns either. Its timer will span from anywhere between two minutes to two hours, you just don't know. But the dark blue wire enables us to use it for whatever time we want. So like I said, big difference."

"Uh yeah." Jalen says dumbly staring at Jonas wide eyed. "I mean I've worked with bombs before but I've never seen anything like this." She quickly covers.

"Yeah that's probably because I designed it in my second year of school at Blackthorn."

"Oh my god I soo want to go there!" Jalen says and Jonas stares at her with wide eyes.

"Riiight." He mutters before leaning back over the bomb.

I stare over his shoulder hoping to get a good look at the wires and I see what he means. "So does it have to be completely cut for it to enable?" I ask innocently but from the look he gives me apparently not innocently enough.

"No it only has to be a small slice that meets the wire, it doesn't have to slice through the wire."

"Oh okay," I say quickly, "I'm going to go make sure Bex and Grant are okay!" I say making a right at the intersection and walking about halfway down the long hallway, far enough away that they can't sense me and my fidgeting but close enough I can still hear them. As soon as I do I finger my throwing knives that Cammie gave to me. I sigh; I know what I have to do. I know that I have to cut that wire, even with the risk that Cammie and Zach won't make it out alive.

"Okay now hold it still while I make some minor adjustments you see…" I huff at Jonas's scientific talk. Ten minutes pass, yet it feels like hours. I feel a touch of sadness in my heart when I realize I am probably going to kill a few people. But I can't feel sorry for myself now, I have to stay mad to do this, I have to...for Nick…my sweet, sweet Nick. I repeat that over and over again till all I see is red and I want to punch something… someone… Cammie.

I know I have to move now, while I'm still convinced I'm doing the right thing. I sidle my way up to their inter section. You see they are in a cavern and then you can go left or right from the said cavern. Left leads to the torture rooms, right the prisoner holding cells.

Without them noticing I slide along the walls entering the shadows. Being as quiet as possible I take out my throwing knife and some string. I tie the string around the knife and then hold on tight as I throw the knife down the left hallway. It clangs off the wall with a loud bang and both Jonas and Jalen's head whips around to the wall. "What the-?" I hear Jalen say and I jerk the string and just as I hoped it scraped along the opposite wall causing them both to jump up.

"We need to…" Jonas says coming to a pause as he considers.

"I'm going to check that out, you better come to incase I need backup." Jalen says and with one last look at the bomb Jonas nods.

"Okay, let's go." I grin to myself as they leave and I pull the string my knife is attached to back; I'm going to need this later. I hurry over to the bomb and stare at it. This is just so easy! I push all the different color wires away, inspecting each in its turn. I finally find the light blue wire and make a small slice on its underside, so it will take longer for them to find it. With that I gather my things and start upstairs. As I go up the stairs I hear voices.

"Agent Cameron have you really been here all this time?"

"Call me Abby and yeah years. Nine, I think. I don't really know, what year is it?" Their voices fade away but I'm very surprised they actually found someone down there.

I hurry into the prisoner decent room and sigh as I see Nick curled up in a corner. "Nick," I whisper out. "I'm right here, baby. I set off a distraction so we need to leave right now!" I don't know when that bomb is going to go off… "We need to get out of here but don't worry everything will be okay." I coo softly to Nick but I can't help the ragged gasps that escape me as I approach my one true love. My Nick. He looks so sick and limp, I can almost swear he isn't breathing. Oh what did that Cameron do! I rush over to my Nick and am shocked at the sight I see.

"No." I whisper out before falling to the ground next to Nick. "No, no baby you gotta wake up. Please." I beg him shaking his shoulder lightly. "Come on wake up." I caress his face lightly but am only met with a limp roll of the head from him. "Don't worry, baby I'll fix you." I say to him. "But we gotta get out of here first." I grab him under his arms and proceed to try to drag him over to the stairs. "Cooome on Nick, wake up and help me! Fight for me." But my arms grow tired and he won't wake up. He won't fight. And the hole in his chest can't be fixed.

She broke him. She said he was okay. But he's not, he's asleep and he won't wake up. He's broken. And now I'm going to break her. "Cammie," I whisper out into the empty room. "I know you're around and I just want you to know, I'm going to kill you."

I run wildly from the room and down a hallway. With my vision tinted red I didn't know where I was going as I flung open doors, being met with empty bedrooms each time. Barracks for the guards I assume. I fling open another and am met with the same picture. Grey walls, two bunk beds, a lamp, two bedside tables, and one square window. At the end of the hallways I'm met with a round of stairs. I blindly dash up those but am only met with another floor of the same sort of rooms. Five minutes later I dash up a third set of stairs leaving me at the fourth floor and for some reason I just knew it. She was there.

"Cameron," I whisper out, "I know you're out there Cameron. And I'm coming Cameron. Just you wait and see… Cameron." I sing out as I open another door and am met with a fancy bedroom. It has a king size bed and a dresser and a desk. It walls are baby blue and it has gold lining throughout the room, with a big glass window overlooking the building.

I move on to the next room. A storage room. The next room was a bathroom. The next room was a barrack, not a nice room. And the room next to it was a surveillance room. And there standing in front of the computer typing away, was Cameron. I creep up behind her with a heavy electronic box raised. "I found you." I sing into the silent room.

Cammie's POV

Zach and I climb through the vent and he heaves a sigh as he lifts me up a metal cliff yet again. But then it's my turn to huff as I have to pull him up a steep metal wall yet again. "How many more of these do we need to climb?" Zach huffs out as we start to crawl again.

"Last one. On. Level. Four. Now." I pant out.

"Good." We crawl in silence for a few more minutes until finally I see the vent into the surveillance room. Thank god. "Okay there are six guards we need to neutralize in there, be quick and silent, got it."

"Yeah." Zach whispers back and I silently unscrew the vent while listening to the guards conversation.

"Yeah the big guys are ordering a complete coms interference so the agents are walking into this completely blindly." I hear one guy say.

"Which agents? Ours or the kids?" another woman asks.

"Both." The first guy says.

"But wait I can still hear them!" a different guy calls.

"I know, it's authorized to interfere in two minutes, so say your goodbyes and good lucks." The first guy tells them with a huff.

With that I get the last screw out and jump into the fray. Whiping out my gun I shoot the nearest guy not paying attention to the kick that travels up my arm from the gun or the blood that flows from his head. Zach lands next to me and starts fighting one. I shoot three more.

"One down," Zach says, "Fo- I mean one more to g-," I shoot the last guy. "Okay zero more to go, got it." I stare at the guy Zach 'defeated', he was still alive. "Cam why did you kill all of them? They didn't deserve to die."

"Only a select few people actually deserve to die, Zach. But these circle agents are like cockroaches. Nearly impossible to kill and once you do kill one they keep infesting unless you wipe out the whole race."

"What about Grim, Riley and Jalen?"

"In all honesty they're not purebloods. Jalen is anti-pureblood. Riley was saved from believing at a young age and Grim helped him stay strong in his resolution that the Circle is bad and then he passed on his beliefs and thoughts to Georgie." Zach studies me for a minute before nodding.

"Okay, it makes sense."

"You bet it does, now before I start searching for Catherine I'll let Bookworm know…" I trail off as I switch the coms onto her station and only hear static in response. What the… "Oh." I whisper out. "The interceptor is on." My eyes widen. "Zach you have to go tell them! They don't know! They might think we're in trouble and send someone out for us and that really wouldn't be good! Someone would get caught! Oh my god-"

"Cammie please I'm sure they can figure it out!"

"But what if they don't! Someone is going to get hurt!" I plead with Zach.

"But Cam I don't want to leave you alone! What if- what if-"

"No. Nothing will happen. I will find Catherine, you will go back to the prisoner decent room, explain the situation and get back here as soon as you can. I'll make a plan, search bodies, and will absolutely not run off in some act of heroicness to sacrifice myself in place of another person." Zach stays silent for a few minutes before sighing.

"Okay, that covers everything. I'll see you soon and be careful." He says before pulling me to him and giving me a long kiss. Then he lifts himself back into the vent.

I shake my head trying to convince myself that everything will be fine before turning back to the computer and continue searching the cameras for the room Catherine is in.

No. No. No.

Ten minutes pass when suddenly the hairs on the back of my neck prickle. I shake my head feeling my hair swish around before inspecting one of the photos more carefully. That just might be…

"I found you." I hear an eerie voice sing into my ear before something big and heavy slams down onto my head. Momentarily blinded I feel my knees crumple under me as I fall to the ground. A minute later, or what I assume is a minute I regain my consciousness. "The job is done, Nicky. All done." I turn to find a crazed Macey staring off into space as she begins to walk out of the door. How she found me, I will never know. Pure luck I'd guess. Without hesitation I sweep her feet out from under her and give her a hard kick to the abdomen. She flies back into the wall before her eyes flutter open once again and she charges at me.

I grab her wrist before she can hit me but stop myself from reaching for my gun. I don't want to kill her. I caused this; I caused my friend to go insane by killing her lover. When did my life become so Romeo and Juliet? I hit Macey hard in the shoulder causing her to show her back to me and in a split second decision I kick hard at her exposed back before I hear a sickening crack.

Oh my… damn… I…

Macey gasps out in pain before it overloads her senses and she falls unconscious. With a sigh I drop my head in my hands.

I can't believe this is me.

A/N: So long chapter huh! Yay! Let me know what you thought! (Oh and yes Cammie broke Macey's back) Luv ya ~Sunshine

P.S: If you like Harry Potter fanfiction I totally recommend, "Can I Tell You a Secret" by xXFangirlingBookwormXx!

Thank yous to…

Serri5: Hey girl thanks for the review as always!

Kstarrox: Umm… I don't know if you've been reading the story but it's kinda already a Zammie! Anyways thank you for the review!

xXFangirlingBookwormXx: Hey BJ would so smack you if she heard you calling her poor. But I'm so glad that chapter cleared some things up! I just thought it was really necessary! Anyways hope you enjoyed this chapter! Thanks for the review! P.S Congrats on your own story I really like it!

cjffletcher: I'm so glad I posted on time and it was good to hear you liked BJ's POV. I definitely agree she's an interesting character even if you wouldn't want her all the time!

LoveZammie4Ever: Thank you soo much for the correction! I promise once I have the story completed I will go over and edit the whole thing so it all fits better! Thanks for the review too!