All is fair in love and war

Cherub campus was very peaceful that night, all the red shirts had returned to their rooms in the junior block. The basic training people were exhausted from another day of brutal exercise and the older agents were slowly leaving the game room back up to their own rooms. Where constant chatter came from each room but was hardly audible with the walls blocking the sound. For James and Kerry it gave a very peaceful atmosphere to be welcomed back to, after their night out. The stars were all twinkling up above and a moonlit sky shone over campus.

For James, it was more than perfect how this night turned out, it was unbelievable, Kerry had actually said yes to his proposal to the disco, they were actually getting along in their conversations and they were actually flirting with one another at points. The disco had been great as well; they danced together throughout the night constantly, and only taking breaks for refreshments. During the slow dances though, both Kerry and James got lost in each other eyes, looking solemnly at each other as if they were destined to be with each other.

James was still holding Kerry's hand as they reached the dormitory block all the way up to her room door, where he finally let go and faced Kerry.

'Thank you for a wonderful night James,' said Kerry breathlessly

'It was my pleasure Kerry,' replied James 'I don't think I'll be forgetting this night in a long time.'

Kerry smiled cutely at James, who looked back at her smiling, but also knowing that this would be his one shot to get them back together. Holding her hand James leaned in closer towards Kerry, now closer than before Kerry accepted the gesture and both kissed each other passionately. After their long kiss Kerry murmured a 'thank you' and then rushed into her room. James was unsure of Kerry's reaction to the kiss and decided not to pursue anything more of this relationship until they were both on their way to Russia and out of reach from Bruce.

The following days for James went by quite quickly, his mind was still set on getting him and Kerry back together, which he had tried to accomplish during his date with her. Kerry would catch up with James and they would both chat eagerly with each other about the up coming mission and their days. They had both decided to ignore the date that they had on the previous night before, even thought the twins were constantly asking James about what he did that night. James was just happy that they would soon be together again, but he was not still sure how Kerry was going to end her relationship with Bruce. Which she continued with him and this made James wondered did she really still have feelings for him he would have to wait and see on their flight to Russia.

Soon the day came for both of the agents to be whisked away to St Petersburg on a private jet personally used by Cherub agents. It had everything from a plasma screen TV, a bar, a pool table, a posh bathroom and cosy seats that converted into beds. James was gobsmacked by all the accessories that had been provided for them on the plane, and had already sat down into one of the cosy chairs provided that extended all the way around a table. Kerry came over to the table, where she sat down and drew out a piece of paper from her backpack. In it was a plan she had formulated for the mission to come.

''I've managed to come up with a plan on how to acquire both pieces of information, the blueprints to the construction site and the low down on the Gang Warfare.'' She explained

''So what's my role in the mission?'' he asked

''You will find out what is causing the gang warfare, since you know fluent Russia and will be able to better communicate with the gangs,'' she answered ''and I will make my way into the construction site and find the blueprints,''

''Sounds like plan, but how do we go around doing this,'' he remarked

''You will probably have to impress one of the gangs with your expertise to gain their trust,'' she said ''and I will have to use my flexibility to dangle on the poles and work surface and use this zip wire to float down and retrieve the files and wisk myself back up before anyone notices, you will probably have to improvise for most of your part,''

''Will do, I don't think it'll be too hard to befriend a Russian gang, at least its not a mafia gang with their Don bosses,'' he said realising how you had to climb the ranks whilst in regular gangs you just had to show remarkable talent.

So they now had a plan and hopefully nothing would go wrong, James would find out the info on the gang warfare and Kerry would retrieve the blueprints. But one thing the agents didn't realise was that they may be stepping on the tip of the iceberg of a huge organization that they knew nothing about and maybe soon they will realise the complexity of the mission, but it may already be too late.

Now that James and Kerry were both on the plane, James decided to ask the question about the night out at the disco although he would rather call it a date than anything else.

''So Kerry, I was wondering after all of this is over we could start dating again,'' he said nervously

''James'' she sighed ''that last time that we went out I did feel something for you, but the fact that before you had cheated on me three times before, I just couldn't bring myself to be with you,''

''But I'm different now Kerry and you know that.'' He said

''Please James don't make this any more harder than it already is,'' she said before replying ''I know you have change but how do I know I can trust you,''

''because now it's just you and me.'' He whispered and James leaned in to kiss Kerry, who kissed him back but seemed unwillingly on the kiss and broke away.

''I can't do this James, not on Bruce, not on what's happened,'' she cried and ran off to her private room on the plane.

James decided to follow her this time and went to her room door and knocked on it.

'Hey Kerry it's me, can I come in,' he said after saying that it took what seemed a year before the door was unlocked.

James walked in to find Kerry huddled up on her sofa sniffling away, James went over to her hugging her around the chest, saying I'm sorry to her, I should have been more aware of your feelings. This made her look up at James who had now let go of her and was sitting normally on her sofa.

Kerry managed to make a smile, started tickling James on the sofa.

Yeah, you bloody well should have been aware of my feelings,' she laughed as the James on the sofa began begging for mercy before he grabbed both of her hands forcing her to stop. Both were now sitting properly on the sofa, both still quite breathless from the tickling. James began to speak to Kerry.

'So Kerry,' he said who was wearing the similar clothes to her date with James and planned to change when they reached the freezing cold of Russia. 'Do you love me?' The words shooting out of his mouth, he wasn't sure if Kerry was going to end him with more tickling or shoot a no right back at him. But Kerry thought about her answer and soon after a while came up with one, she turned her head to wards James and pounced on him. Now lying back on the sofa, Kerry started to kiss James who was in no means ready to argue on who should be on top. Both were strongly kissing each other on the sofa, Kerry constantly having to straighten her skirt with one of her free hands as James kept flying it back up as his hands were sliding around her body.

Then after a while of kissing, Kerry sat up in the lap of James, who was now embracing Kerry, a kind of thank you for loving him back. Both for a moment were now staring into each other's eyes much like the night they had their kiss in the corridor. James was now quite unsure with what to do next with Kerry, whether to try and pursue the next level with her, but unsure incase she got mad again. But with Kerry looking back at her with her cute little pose, he decided to do a test. He got up placing Kerry of his lap and onto the sofa. Going up to the door and locking it, Kerry rather than getting mad at this was actually quite turned on by this and beckoned James back to the sofa. Where this time James was snogging Kerry on top this time, feeling his arms around her body.

Eventually after a productive kiss James was ready to go further by unclipping her bra, but the flight manager from the intercom said we were arriving at St Petersburg shortly and we were told to fasten our seatbelts. Kerry who had nearly had underage sex, finally snapped out of herself and pushed James off of her and went to her seat James following behind.

After going through the airport the two of them were met by a taxi which took them to their hotel, where they'd be staying for the duration of their mission. James lifted their luggage to the rooms with Kerry leading, who quickly found the room and open the door. It wasn't quite as fancy as a five star hotel but it did have a similar look to the rooms that they had back on campus.

After about 20 minutes they had both unpacked including all the equipment need for the mission, including a mini satellite that could read what people were saying from about a 100m away, a mini, mini camera, the zip wire and a handheld gun which James suppose would be used for their own survival and tucked it away into his backpack. So James after examining his surroundings gestured to Kerry that they better find out the environment better and where this construction site was. Kerry agreed and both left the house together although Kerry was still sharp about what had nearly happened on the plane, so James tried to keep the relationship going at a low for now…