Authors note: Hey guys! Thanks to everyone who has reviewed, even though I didn't get the amount of reviews I wanted I decided to upload the next two chapters anyway because I wrote them last night and got super excited! However I think this time I'm serious. Twenty reviews I mean it! Okay, maybe not. It depends. Okay so someone just broke down the door and there are six people in the bathtub. (Just a note my friends and I were able to fit seven in a bathtub ) Okay so here we goo…. Please Read and Review and I'll love you forever.
Disclaimer: As far as I'm aware i am not Ally Carter and therefore do not own the Gallagher Girls.
We all sat there in the hotel bathroom wondering "What have we gotten ourselves into?" Everyone in the tub was still occupied with whatever they were doing. We listened to who ever had just ran down our door, while I'm pretty sure Liz was calculating the force needed to break down the door, and how much money we were going to have to pay the hotel manager.
"Well gee Grant, I don't know why Zach called us here, I don't even know why we are here and not at Blackthorn. I don't even know we bothered coming to a little state like Delaware just to help out Zach who will just leave us in a matter of moments." We heard Jonas mutter in the other room, Jonas kept rambling on and on about the predictability of Zach leaving, and the probability of Zach ever saying "thank you" and stuff like that. Meanwhile Zach tried to untangle himself from the piles of bodies while my mother pulled him back.
"Oh no you don't Zachary Goode, I can not believe you knew my daughter was missing, found her, and then did not tell me. What ever this mission is it better be pretty darn good because as far as I'm concerned you are never seeing Cammie again." My mother seethed with anger at Zach.
"Look Ms. Morgan with all respect I understand why you are angry, I would be too. But the Circle found Cammie and I just had to protect her, I was trying to keep my distance because I knew she wanted time to get answers herself. But honestly I could not let her out here on her own."
"Zach, thank you for your chivalry, and thank you for keeping an eye on the Circle, I will let this one slide. The next time you are stalking my daughter and you find her, please let me know because as her mother I would like to be the one to provide back up and not the person so close to the Circle." My mother sighed and released Zach's shirt collar. Zach slowly emerged from the tub and exited to see his old pals from Blackthorn. My mother still seethed and was slowly calming down. Zach should feel lucky, myself, Abby, and my mother had all restrained from killing him in one day.
"Well thanks Jonas! Old buddy, old pal! Good to know how you feel about me" Zach said exiting the bathroom as if it were nothing at all, and then gave his little dorky friend a squeeze. "And Grant," he continued, "always a pleasure."
As Zach saw his old pals from Blackthorn all of the girls in the bathtub slowly arose and went to greet the new members of the team. Well come to think of it, Liz sprinted and greeted Jonas with a small hug, and Bex did a couple of flippy things to tackle Grant into a very, very tight squeeze. I just stood there staring at Zach, did he really not trust my Gallagher team that he felt the need to call in Blackthorn boys as well? Oh, well I thought I suppose the more members we have on our side the better. Right? Well, unless you have Bex on your side and Grant who can't keep a secret to save their lives, and if you have Liz and Jonas who hear the word danger and assume the fetal position. Okay, maybe I lied, WE WERE DOOMED!
After Zach had suggested the idea of joining the CoC I was a little interested, after all, who wouldn't want to bring down the most elite terrorist group ever? But now, after truly considering it, I wasn't so sure it would work. We were spies in training, and although we were able to infiltrate sublevel 2 before my mom, and I had been able to keep up a three month relationship with a boy through my spy skills, I did not believe we were ready enough to tackle to CoC on our own.
"Ahem, Ahem" Zach began to clear his throat. "Could everyone who I have assembled here please come over so I may explain to Ms. Morgan, Bex, Liz, Grant, and Jonas what is going on" Zach said, pulling out what appeared to be Mr. Solomon's journal.
"Woah, woah" Bex exclaimed. "Me, Lizzy and Mrs. Morgan found Cammie on our own thank you very much! We used standard surveillance skills and Lizzy may have bugged Cammie for fear that she would do something irrational like this" Bex said, while Liz blushed out of embarrassment.
I cursed under my breath, how my friends could not trust me! Well actually I could see that seeing as how I was a spy, and had done some pretty tricky things in the years that I had known them. But still, did they really feel the need to bug me?
"Not only that, but we also found Cameron's cove ops report from the spring. Cammie, if Joe ever wakes up, I would highly suggest turning it in for extra credit, then having it filed away somewhere very special, leaving it out in the open like that was not a safe move." My mother said, half gleaming at my spy abilities and half grimacing for my carelessness.
"Yes, and I don't recall you calling me either Zach" Abby sighed. "I was able to find you two because well I'm just awesome and did nothing illegal what- so- ever."
There you have it folks, the reason why despite everything my aunt does to annoy me I love her because she probably breached national security to make sure I was all right. (And probably to see that I was not pregnant by Zach) However after all the trouble in the bathroom you would have thought that Abby would have developed a slightly more elaborate tale to give us, but I suppose the shorter the better.
"Zach, we didn't even really want to come" Jonas started "As good friends as we are, this is taking time away from a very important code we were breaking and we just came because we were little bit afraid of you, what with your mother being the head of a tourist group and all" Jonas said at a hundred words per minute.
"Yea and Jonas probably won't shut up for a while because he decided to test his new truth syrup on himself" Grant said, with a goofy grin.
"So Zach, before you tell us of this important mission please A) apologize for being so conceited and B) you might want to wait because we have to meet Macey at the beach in about ten minutes and seeing as she doesn't really like you all that much we would hate to tell her that one, you left her out of the mission detail, and two you caused us to be late from picking her up." Bex said with a glamorous smile.
"Okay, okay I'm sorry Bex, and lets find Macy, because the sooner we begin training for this assignment the better" Zach said, for fear of Bex and Macey hurting him until no end.