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The good thing about being a spy is you know all the parts to everything. Like there is no, I'm just good at hacking computers, no, you have to be able do at least do the basics in everything. You can have a main thing you're good at such as bombs and explosives, but you gotta be good at everything else too. So that's why when they gave me a "tryout" full of an obstacle course where I had to defuse a bomb, army crawl, hack a database, and plan a quick Covert Operation, and do all this in 30 seconds, it was no challenge for me.
After I finished I got a good look at their impressed faces and tried to memorize it, because a thief impressed doesn't last long, they just keep challenging you.
"Ok, fine, you're in for now. But you get to be in a job, you'll have a small part, but we see how you do, and then we decide if you get to stay for another one, guessing you want to be staying here?" Hale asked.
And I nodded quickly, okay, follow me, I'll show you where you'll be sleeping. He led me out of the room, up a few staircases, down about a million and one hallways, until he finally said this one should do and opened the door. It was a really nice room with a bed, couch, walk-in closet and full of beautiful paintings on the wall, that I'm guessing were all stolen and extremely famous.
"Thanks." I said with a smile, and he returned with a grin as he started to walk out the door.
"You were really good out there, during the tryout." he said and I guessed he didn't give out compliments for just anything.
"Thank you." I said as he walked out the door and just as my head hit the pillow I fell asleep.
The next morning I woke up and, after 30 minutes of getting lost and trying to find my way around, I finally found the stairs and walked down them to find everyone in the almost exact same position as yesterday, except today they weren't as surprised to see me standing there.
"Good morning!" The short girl said, "I guess you kind of need to know all of our names." she laughed.
"This," she pointed to the boy typing on his laptop yet again, "is Simon. He's our technical nerd here." she laughed again as he glared at her then she pointed to the tall girl, "this, is my cousin, Gabrielle, she's good at, distracting," then she pointed to the two boys, "this is Angus and Hamish our explosives nerds," and they smiled as if proud of the name, "I am Katerina but don't even think about calling me that, call me Kat," she said seriously and everyone nodded as if they'd been there, done that, then she pointed at the tall boy who always happened to be standing next to her, "and this is Hale, the guy who happened to be home the night I tried to steal his Monet." she laughed.
"Alright, got it. So," I said motioning to the map on the table, "what's this?"
"Um, that would be a map," Kat said sarcastically. I could already tell I was gonna like this girl.
"Thank you Sergeant Sarcasm." I said laughing.
"Wow, never heard that one before." she laughed with me, "ok, so this is the map to the Buckingham Palace, but that's all you need to know for now, we go by a need to know basis." That sounds just like someone I knew would say, Zach, and pretty much every spy, or, every good spy, because it's true, you might not like it, but in life it's always best to go on a need to know basis, because you never realize this until you know, that you wished you didn't. And then I smiled for the first time it wasn't fake because I just realized that maybe spies and thieves weren't so different after all.
My eyes widened and my mouth dropped, wait, did she just say THE Buckingham Palace? I didn't get my composure back soon enough before she said,
"What? Scared? Never pulled a job like this before?" She taunted. You have no idea, I thought.
"Looks like you joined at the right time, you get to be in on one of our biggest jobs yet-" Hale started to smile then paused, "we don't even know your name, do we?"
I laughed, "You never asked," then I smiled, this was the only thing I wasn't going to lie to them about, I couldn't afford to tell them anything but my name, "it's Cammie, but they call me Chameleon."
"And why would that be?" Gabrielle asked.
"I don't know, maybe I hide a lot, but it makes me extremely good at what I do." I said.
"And who is 'they'? You said 'they' call you that, who is it?" Simon spoke up.
"I'm sorry," I said excited for their words to backfire on them, but I was pretty sure spies starting saying this saying first, but getting in a fight over that would be a whole different story; spies vs. thieves, but right now, I had to figure out a way to get them to work together, not apart, "but I go by a need to know basis, and you definitely don't need to know." I grinned.
It had been a week since I "became a thief" and we had been planning the job the whole time, and I gotta admit, a WHOLE lot more work went into being a thief than being a spy, or at least in planning. When I was at a scene where a mansion or a museum had been robbed, I never thought of how much skills and hours of planning it would take to avoid those security cameras, fool those guards, distract those directors, and escape with item in your hand without any suspicion along the way. I mean, I didn't think they just winged it, but dang, this was hardcore. One wrong move, one second off, everything is ruined, and you're done for.
The good thing was, was that I had all the skill, and a little bit more. I was at the top on the all around skills like explosives, electronics, and disguises, but the part they made up for in all around skill, was they had at least one person good at each thing, and they had complete and full knowledge of every con in the book, and dang, there was a lot. I knew operations like how to escape or how to tail someone, but I didn't know a thing about stealing anything.
So that's why when they starting blurting out "ideas," I guess that's what they were, but they sounded a bit like "pigs in a blanket" and "Alice in Wonderland?" I just gave them the dumbfound look like 'you no speak English?' Then they understood, I had the talent, they didn't know how I had it, but I did, but I didn't know cons, at all.
So when one of them would shout out a con, Kat or Hale would turn to me and explain the whole thing, and they were each complex operations in themselves, yet they knew all of them by names like Pigs in a Blanket. I had memorized at least 30 cons just by listening to each of their ideas and getting the explanation for it, but none of them would work for this situation, until they finally found one.
Now don't ask me what it was, because I have no idea what kind of animal or movie title they called it, I just knew the operation and my part in it, which, was quite simple compared to theirs, I guess because they had to see if first I could do it, and second if they could trust me. And believe me, I could definitely do it, it's pretty tough to mess up simply breaking down the elevator on the 2nd floor and disabling all the cameras on each room they needed access to.
I listened as they reviewed the plan over and over again until I pretty much had the map and all their positions and jobs embedding into my mind, which I guess wasn't a bad thing. Afterwards, I walked upstairs to my room and laid down in my bed thinking about everything. I felt bad, because the bad thing was, I didn't feel bad about stealing something, and I didn't feel like I was betraying "my kind," the only thing I felt right them, was butterflies. Yes, I'll admit it, the great Chameleon was nervous. And everyone who know me, the Gallagher Girl, is never, ever, nervous. Not even when she's face to face with the circle. So what was it about this that had me nervous? I guess it was the simple fact that it's dangerous.
They were the bad guys. This was the first time that my fear wasn't death, but jail. It's not just a failed mission, it's jail time. The worst thing that could happen to me as a spy would be getting back from a failed mission and feeling disappointment, but here, it was getting arrested. I was on the bad side this time, and I was scared, because I've never experienced handcuffs being put on my hands, only putting them on others. The Chameleon was scared.
As I woke up the next morning and put on my disguise I tried to hide my nervousness and put on my attitude of bring it, I got this. I do things like rob Buckingham Palace everyday. So as I was walking out of the mansion and to the museum, I put a little hop in my step and smiled, because I was ready. It was time for me to give it all I had because I was once a spy, now a thief.
So what do you think? Pleaseee review, if i should add more chapters because i have a lot more planned out to happen! and any suggestions? do you think i should change and write the next chapter in Kat's POV or go the whole story in Cammie's, please review and tell me your thoughts!:)