Blackthorne Meet the Chameleon
Chapter 6
Cammie's POV
After a very disturbing lunch break, courtesy of Zach, I lifted the edge of my sleeve and pulled out a small black microchip and crushed it between my fingers.
"You think they bought it?" Bex asked
I grinned "Definitely."
Macey snorted "That was hilarious."
Liz frowned "It was kind of sad actually."
"What's sad is that they believed us so quickly. So how long do you think we can keep up this 'we are evil spies' act."
Macey raised a perfectly plucked eyebrow "Act?"
I grinned.
Zach's POV
Jonas was freaking out pretty good by the time we got back to our room. "What are we gonna do!? What are we gonna do!? FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO!?"
At this point I raised my hand and smacked him sharply across the face.
He clutched his stinging cheek. "Thanks for that." He squeaked
"You're welcome, now let's remain calm and come up with a plan. We should attempt to warn the Headmaster in some way that any information in his office might be compromised and he'll make sure to take extra precautions to-"
"Like he'd believe us!" Grant cut in "He loves those girls way more than us! Besides, you heard them. They're going to try and get through our security. If they can do that, then they sure as hell can do it without leaving any trace that they were there." Grant reminded me.
"Well," I scrunched up my face "I guess we could stake out his office…"
Grant groaned "All night?"
I blinked "You are the laziest spy I've ever known."
He grimaced "Shut up."
"So we watch over Dr. Steve's office tonight and make sure they don't get inside?" Jonas asked.
"It's our only choice." I said "If they really are planning something we have to get there first."
They nodded in agreement.
Cammie's POV
"Are they really that gullible? Like we would plan something so stupid, if I wanted inside information, I'd kidnap Dr. Steve myself." I said
Macey laughed "Without leaving any traceable evidence."
I grinned "Exactly."
"Hey guys," Bex started "Let's focus on the task at hand shall we? Liz you can hack into Jonas's computer right?"
Liz smirked "Cake."
Bex grinned "This will be interesting."
"My thoughts exactly Duchess." I agreed "Time for our real mission. Let's figure out everything there is to know about Blackthorne and its' students."
01:18
The window creaked as I pushed it open. Rule #256 of being a spy, 'the unexpected entrance has much less security.'
I stepped over the near invisible trip wire and scanned the room but saw, and sensed, no other security tactics, except for on the door. But we weren't planning on using the door now were we?
Their room was much simpler than I would have originally thought. Very similar to ours in layout. There were three beds, one in each corner, a desk in the fourth corner, blue bedspreads, white walls, two small wardrobes to share, all of their things lined up extremely neatly, and no trace of dust whatsoever. Not a hair was out of place.
The boy's beds were empty as expected. "It's all clear." I whispered and motioned Bex, Liz and Macy in.
They carefully climbed in after me. "I knew it!" Liz shrieked "There it is!"
"What?" I questioned.
"They're recording our room!" She said gesturing to the computer screen.
I looked, and saw our room exactly as we'd left it just a few moments ago, minus us of course.
"How much of this do they have so far?" I asked
"About twenty four hours now." Liz replied.
"Liz I'm gonna need you to modify that footage a bit. Can't have them figure out we were here."
Liz grinned "No problem, Chameleon." She stretched her gloved fingers and began typing vigorously on the keyboard.
"OH MY GOD!" Macey suddenly said "Those pervs have seen us walking around in just towels!"
My eyes widened. Ohmigod, she's right. "Okay, now it's personal." I growled.
"I feel stupid, we should have realized it." She shook her head.
"Well… I kinda suspected but I guess I didn't want to believe that my teddy bear had a camera in it." I admitted guiltily.
"You knew there was a camera in your teddy bear watching us and you didn't say anything!?" Macy growled, pointing an accusing finger at me.
"You have a teddy bear?" Bex asked raising an eyebrow.
"Now is not the time to blame and judge!" I stated firmly "Let's get this done!"I pounded my fist into my other hand determinedly.
It only took us about seventeen minutes and forty-two seconds, give or take, to finish up going through all the boys stuff, modifying their footage of us and setting up a little surprise for them. Finally we were done; taking care of the evidence was easy. They would never suspect anything was out of place.
The next day
Zach's POV
07:02
"I can't believe we waited that whole time for nothing. Not a peep, nothing out of place, no attempt at a break in." Jonas threw his hands into the air in frustration.
As we walked back to our room Grant glared at the floor as though it had all the answers. "They have us running around in circles, haven't you noticed? They're just playing with us like we're toys! We've got to do something."
I had similar thoughts to his. "And what exactly do you propose we do?" I asked.
"I don't know! But something, and soon." He reached to turn the doorknob to our dorm "I don't know how much more I can-"
We all froze at the same time and gazed into the familiar room we all shared. Nothing was out of place, but I just sensed that something… something was off.
"Search." No more needed to be said, we all sprang into action and began ripping the covers off the beds, threw open the wardrobes, scoured our clothes, searching for anything amiss.
"Zach, there's nothing."
I rubbed the bridge of my nose, a headache beginning to rise behind my eyes from lack of sleep.
"Um.." Jonas began "I wouldn't say nothing."
He opened his laptop and what appeared was not his usual background of outer space, instead the screen was black, but then clear pictures began to fade in. It was a cartoon? Of us?
Three cartoon versions of Grant, Jonas and I were shown skipping along the Blackthorne corridors until we reached the door of the Headmaster's office. It was very clearly labeled "Dr. Steve" in what looked to be child's scrawl. We let ourselves in the door and appeared to be standing guard just like we were last night before Grant drifted off to sleep. You could tell he was meant to be asleep what with the 'Zzzzz' speech bubble coming from his mouth.
I rolled my eyes "That one's on you."
He ground his teeth together "I do not sleep during missions!"
"Whatever you say." I returned to watching the video. The cartoon left us in Dr. Steve's office and moved to show just outside the door. The four Gallagher Girls appeared just outside the office in their own cartoon forms and they were giggling behind their hands while Cammie was waving around a folder that was entitled, 'Blackthorne - Highly Classified' and then they skipped off out of view.
My eyes widened. "No."
Jonas stopped the video before staring at us with widened eyes. "B-but but we would have seen them take it! It's not possible!"
Grant kicked the side of his bed hard enough to move it slightly, his eyes flashed murderously "They already took what they wanted then! I'm gonna-!"
I yelled "Hurry!" And we bolted out the door.
We ran all the way to the Headmaster's Office. I threw open the door "Dr. Steve I-!"
Sitting in front of the Headmaster's desk was Cammie and her friends, cups of tea and refreshments in hand.
"Ah boys, we were just talking about you."
"We tried to stop them Sir! I swear we only broke into your office in order to stop them from breaking into your office and taking classified information Sir!"
"It's true Sir," Jonas interjected as he held his hand to his abdomen and gasped for breath. "We only hacked the system to save Blackthorne from being hacked by-"
"These outsiders!" Grant growled and pointed his finger accusingly at the girls, who for some reason looked relatively calm. Cammie didn't seem seem upset by any means as she casually picked up her teacup and took a sip before returning it to its' saucer.
"They stole sensitive information from your personal files Sir!" Grant got right in Bex's face and hissed "Admit it!"
Then something unforeseen happened. Bex Baxter began to tear up. Her eyes flooded with water and she managed to sniffle out, "Why are you yelling at me?"
I was taken aback for a minute, she didn't seem like the type of girl to cry and Grant must have initially sensed the same thing as he immediately backed up and raised his hands in defence, "What the-? I didn't-"
"BOYS!"
We all rounded on Dr. Steve who had began to stand up, he looked to us sternly. "That's quite enough. Now, these girls have only just come to me this morning to talk about how they haven't quite gotten the lay of the land yet and wanted to see if it was possible that you boys become something like mentor figures to them. Show them around all the areas they haven't seen yet, and help them with school work as we might do things a little differently than Gallagher Academy."
None of us could think of a thing to say.
"Now I see what kind of mentors you would be. Did you just admit to hacking your own school's security system in order to break into my office?"
"I..I didn't.. I mean we didn't have any ill intentions Sir, we just had reason to believe the Gallagher Academy girls were here under false pretences."
"I assure you none of my files are missing and I have full confidence in these young ladies, why I have known Headmistress Morgan for many years and-"
"Morgan?" Grant interjected and we all turned to stare at Cammie.
She smiled, it projected 'genuine' but I couldn't help but see the smirk behind it.
"That's what I said." Dr. Steve continued as if there was no problem. "Now I'm willing to overlook this debacle, even though I should severely punish you, if you adhere to these ladies request for mentors and help them with anything they might need while they are staying here. Is that understood?"
"Yes Sir." We spoke in unison. I couldn't look up from the speck on dust on my shoe, which suddenly became very interesting.
"Oh and if I find out that you're planning to pull anymore stunts like this I will be very disappointed. This is Blackthorne Institute boys, and at Blackthorne we don't get caught, much less admit to it outright, yes?"
I clenched my teeth in frustration at my own actions "Yes Sir."
"Good, glad we understand each other, now get going to breakfast. You are dismissed as well ladies, so sorry for all this unpleasantness. I have no idea what these boys are thinking half the time." He chuckled as though this whole event had been lighthearted.
"Thank you very much Sir." The girls smiled at Dr. Steve as we left the office. My eyes hadn't been able to focus on anything besides my shoes as we left in defeat, I could tell from my peripheral vision that Grant and Jonas were in a similar states.
From behind us a British voice suddenly piped up, "Sooo you're our bitches now, that's cool."
My head snapped around to four grinning Gallagher girls.
"Weren't you crying?" Grant accused.
"Ah yes," she wiped her eyes, though all her tears seemed to be gone. "I get a little emotional when we win is all." If possible Bex's grinned widened even further.
Macey tapped her chin in thought "Say, weren't you boys watching a video? It would be a shame if you didn't finish it. Isn't that right Liz?"
"A right shame I'd say, wouldn't you agree Cammie?"
"Oh absolutely, I mean it seemed to be set up special for you and everything. We'd hate for you to have missed something important."
My blood ran cold. They messed with Jonas's computer, meaning they messed with our personal security system for our dormitory. Meaning they did something else. We missed something. We missed something again.
"Shit." Grant voiced what we were all thinking. Without a word we bolted back down the hallway.
Cammie's POV
"You'd think they'd learn by now to stop running around like chicken's with their heads cut off."
"Boys never learn." Macey said while picking at her perfectly manicured nails.
"Liz? How long?"
"They're arriving, they're watching… video ended, and in three, two, one."
A low 'boom!' could be heard followed by the entire building shaking just slightly before stilling again.
I smirked and turned to Bex "Think they liked their surprise?"
"Oh Cammie dear, I'm sure they'd agree it's to die for."
A/N
*Peeks out from behind laptop*
Sooo... heeey, it's been awhile. Sorry for that uh little delay there, i've only recently become inspired to write more Gallagher Girls fan fiction again after being in a writing slump. I'm not sure how good this is considering it's the first thing i've posted in a long time. Hope you all aren't disappointed or anything, I gave it a shot at least.
See you next time!
She said hopefully...