Sorry that the last chapter was so crowded, I spread this one out a bit.


After a quick lunch that Sammie loved, Mac lead Sammie into a small room. In the middle of the room was a small cage with a single live chicken in it.
He asked Sammie if she liked chicken and after she told him she did he handed her a biro,
"I want you to kill it."

"No, I don't want to kill it," Sammie objected.

"Are you saying you are becoming a vegetarian?"

Sammie remembered Mac saying the exact same thing to James in The Recruit. "No. I am not a vegetarian and am not becoming one. I have made the choice not to kill the chicken and I am sticking by my decision."

After a few more attempts to get her to kill the chicken, Mac gave up and they moved on to the next test.


Sammie couldn't remember what the fourth test was. She knew the fifth was swimming. The obstacle course jogged her memory. It was higher than she imagined.
Paul and Arif were the names of his guides.
Why do those name seem familiar?, She thought, this is seriously weird deja vu.

After climbing a ladder and making a few jumps, they came to the last part of the course. It was about one and a half metres to the next platform.
Sammie knew she could make it and jumped over easily.
Paul and Arif were surprised that she didn't show fear but chose not to show it, she still had to jump off.
"Only one more bit to go," Paul said, "There is a crash mat at the bottom but you have to jump off."

Sammie pretended to be terrified, "All the way... down... there!?"

Paul and Arif smiled at each other. They knew she had to be scared of something.

Arif nodded, "Yep, Its easy. I'll go first." He jumped. "CLEAR!" He shouted from the bottom.

Paul laughed, "Good to go." Paul was about to push her down when she said, "Wait! I want to do it myself"
She turned around, her back to the open space where she was jumping. "This is going to be so sweet," Sammie said before she jumped backwards, flipping her legs over her head, as if she was diving into a swimming pool. She looked back up at Paul and saw his shocked face before he went out of view. She got the same thrill from the fall as doing flips in gym, but better. She couldn't help laughing every time she remembered his face. She hit the mat and smiled at Arif as she rolled off. "CLEAR!" She called up to Paul.

As Paul jumped down he was still shocked, "You're the first one ever that we haven't had to push down."
"You didn't push her down?" He asked Paul. "No dude, She dived," he said, "That was awesome"
Mac raised his eyebrows and Sammie just laughed. The next test was swimming. Sammie loved swimming. She dove in, collected the brick and swam to the other end easily.


"The first test was great." They were in Mac's office, reviewing the tests, "You knew you couldn't beat Kerry and withdrew before you were seriously hurt. I was impressed by how you managed to avoid being taken down twice."

"She could have done a lot more damage than she did."

"That is true. The intelligence test was good, you passed. The third test was also good. You made your decision and stuck to it. Both the fourth and fifth tests were good. Paul and Arif were surprised at your courage."

Sammie laughed, remembering their expressions, "I've made riskier jumps on beam in gymnastics before. And I knew that it would be safe because CHERUB wouldn't risk anyone's safety."

"That is right. You have passed all the tests and I know how keen you are to be a CHERUB so we need your decision now. Would you like to be a CHERUB?"

"Definitely," Sammie said.

"Good." Mac smiled, "I think you will make a fantastic agent. We need to give you your new last name. You can keep your first name, but what would you like your new last name to be?" Sammie considered.

"Jennings. Samantha Jennings." She laughed and Mac look curious but wrote down the name anyway.

"And what was your previous last name?" Mac asked.

"Johnson," Sammie said. Then she remembered she wasn't an orphan. What if CHERUB wouldn't accept her, "Um... Mac, there's something I have to tell you..."


Uh-oh! What if Sammie doesn't get allowed in? Should she tell Mac the truth or lie?
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