Author's Note: hey guys! Sorry for the break, but you know sometimes life gets in the way. Hopefully in the coming weeks I'll be able to update more frequently. As always read and review, it makes me super happy! So we left off with Cammie being a complete fool and not professing her love for Zach… chapter ten here we goo…

When I woke up the next morning I was in a haze. Why was I in my room, I didn't remember coming here. I began to get up when I realized I was still in the death trap.

Then it hit me, today was it, today I left for the mission. I finally rose out of my bed and was greeted by a very troubled looking Bex, Liz, and Macey.

"What happened?" Macey said. "We were not supposed to have to drag you from the stairway from the pigeon tower back to the room. You were supposed to float here and tell us how you professed your love back to Zach." Macey said through gritted teeth.

I sighed, starting to remember what happened last night. After everything that had happened I was so convinced that I was going to be able to tell him I loved him back and now with the mission starting who knew if I would ever get another chance. I looked at my friends, they were all waiting for my answer, too bad I didn't have a good one.

"Guys, to be honest I just couldn't do it. We're spies and we're supposed to have no fear, but secretly I have a lot of fear, and hearing Zach act so not Zach kind of scared me, a lot. Usually he's so closed up, maybe it was the pressure, maybe he accidently ate some of Jonas' truth syrup who knows? All I know is I wished I had been the one to break down to him, because now he has to get himself back together in oh I don't know, an hour. I'm used to picking up the pieces of my life, but I don't know if Zach's ever had to do it before" I said, and released a huge sigh of relief telling my friends this made me feel a lot better.

"I get that I totally do Cam, but seriously you do love him." Bex said giving me a knowing look.

"Guys I don't know, but can we just not talk about it, I, we need to focus for the mission"

"That is true, we need to not focus on how much Cammie has just screwed up her entire love life and focus on the mission." Liz said.

We all grabbed our bags which Macey had artfully packed and headed down the stairs for the last time.

We walked into the lobby where my mom, Abby, and the boys were waiting for us. I looked at Zach, he was a mess, and he wouldn't even look me in the eye. I felt miserable inside, I should have said it back, I needed to tell him, of course now wasn't the time. But I would, eventually. We all said our tearful goodbyes and Bex, Grant, Zach and me filed into the car that would be driving us to our new home.

The ride was silent except for Grant humming the '99 bottles of milk on the wall' song, but other than that people just sat there silently, Zach was reviewing papers, while Bex was meditating or visualizing herself side kicking a bunch of Circle agents, and I just sat there, feeling miserable. Long drives give you a lot of time to think. I was sitting there feeling sorry for myself when I thought 'I am a Morgan, mom didn't feel sorry for herself when dad died, and Abby didn't feel sorry for herself when she was shot. I am being selfish, letting my feelings get in the way of me and Zach being together. I love him.' The words were good to hear, and then I was determined to tell him that I was sorry, that I could say it. I looked over at him and started to speak.

"Zach, I…" I started but was cut off, Zach stared at me daggers shooting out of his eyes.

"Cammie, not now, we need to focus." Zach turned his head and went back to studying the files.

I sighed and set my head down. I couldn't think straight, I was being eaten up with guilt. With still an hour left in the ride I decided to try to focus on setting into my cover, I escaped Cameron Ann Morgan the Chameleon and slowly let myself become Genevieve Kester from Texas with mega boobs. Genevieve was lucky she wasn't having relationship issues, she didn't turn down the guy who was willing to shed his thick skin for her, and she wasn't the one now being ignored by that guy.

As I slowly felt Cammie slip away I felt a lot better.

We arrived soon after I had let my cover take over. We all piled out of the cab and thanked the driver. He nodded, probably knowing what we were about to get ourselves into. Bex and Grant took hands and made their way toward the Lincoln Memorial, while Zach and I distanced ourselves. We waited to make sure no one was following us, then Zach snuck behind Lincoln's chair, pressed a series of bricks, then a small door slid open. We all piled in slowly and descended down the long tunnel. About thirty minutes later we found ourselves in the facility. It looked nothing like I expected, I had been anticipating a dark dungeon like place with barbed wire and creepy guys lining the door ways, but this place was exactly the opposite. The lights were so bright, they were blinding and people said "hi" to one another as they passed. There were a ton of new recruits lined up at a desk in the main room, and to the right I could see a hallway that appeared to be living quarters for new recruits. It looked a lot like the training facility for the C.I.A, except we all knew the secrets this place held were far more dangerous and scary than anything you would find in the C.I.A. We waited in the line. Bex and Grant had since separated hands, while Zach and I had further separated ourselves. We were about to get our living assignments as well as our mission assignments when I recalled something Solomon had said, 'since you two know each other you may be sharing a room'. I cringed at the thought of living with Zach the way things were. As the group of us slowly approached the table I saw an all too familiar face approach me, here it goes I thought, this is the end, we've been here for a minute and Ms. Goode was already going to blow my cover.

"Hello, Genevieve is it?" Ms. Goode said placing a hand on my shoulder.

"Why yes it is" I said nodding my head and pulling out my most southern voice.

"Pleasure to meet you Genevieve" Ms. Goode said giving me a knowing look.

"The same Ms. Goode" I said once again nodding and remembering to keep up my cover.

She continued to introduce herself to the other new Circle recruits and I was able to breath, the sheer fact that she, the woman who was out to get me, the woman who was detaining my father somewhere had touched me, creeped me out. On the contrary though, either she was on to me and was keeping up the façade, or she truly didn't know that underneath the wig, the clothes, the voice, the make- up and the boobs I was Cameron Ann Morgan the Chameleon. We got our room assignments and mission assignments. Bex and Grant were in the room right next to me and I had no idea where Zach was, I didn't bother to ask for fear of knowing. I took my papers, my id card, and some Circle contact devices and headed toward my room, I only had an hour before we were given an opening statement from Ms. Goode. I opened the door and honestly I let out a huge gasp, the room was small. There was one bed, possibly big enough for one person and a bathroom. That was it. I slid my bag under the bed and went to check out the size of the bathtub, if Zach was going to be living here too, the bathtub might be more comfortable than the bed.

As I was surveying the room I walked Zach, he looked at me, to the bed, then to the bathroom then back to me.

"Sleeping in the bathtub?" He said with a smirk, but with a look that could kill.

"Yea probably" I said wanting to flush my head down the toilet.

"Good" He said and with that he was gone.

I sat in the room, figuring out how to wire the feed from my Circle communication unit to Liz. However time moves quickly when you're living with anxiety and I soon found myself in the cafeteria/ conference hall of the Circle of Cavan headquarters. I took a seat next to Bex as she and I began to make friendly conversation is if we didn't know each other. I saw Zach enter, he came in and sat next to me. I didn't see that coming until he said,

"Hello Genevieve remember me?" and I remembered that we were no longer Cammie and Zach, we were Genevieve and Nicholas co-workers from the same spy facility who had recently joined the Circle of Cavan.

"Why yes, Nicholas Gregory was it?" I said putting out my hand.

"Why yes it was, pleasure to see you again." He said it with a smile, but knowing the boy behind the cover I saw the pain in his eyes.

Our extremely awkward conversation was cut short by the tapping of a microphone and the sight of Ms. Goode at the head of the room.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to welcome you to the Circle of Cavan. You have been chosen to join this elite group of some of the top rogue agents in the world. Some of you hail from the C.I.A while others from independent terrorist organizations, however I assure you we here at the Circle of Cavan are not terrorists. We pride ourselves on avenging those who have wronged our country, and other countries, our goals are to bring down some of the most corrupt government and religious organizations in the world. At orientation this morning you were all given your first assignments which begin tomorrow, they are simple but be warned it gets more difficult."

I looked at Bex and Grant and to Zach, his mother appeared nuts, the funny thing was she acted just as my mother did at opening night at Gallagher; the thought that the Circle's actions almost paralleled those of my sisterhood was frightening.

"Last but not least there is an assignment that all of you have, and that is to bring me this girl."

I almost peed myself as I saw a picture of me from Massachusetts flash around screens on the room. Bex, Grant and Zach all looked at me, I wanted to vomit, Zach was right they would put every agent on search for me until I was within their walls. Well technically I was already within their walls, but as a prisoner within their walls. I saw a young eager looking new recruit raise her hand.

"Why do you want this girl?" the girl asked.

"Excellent question my dear." Ms. Goode began. "As you all know this is Cameron Morgan, student at the Gallagher Academy. Her father has been in our detainment center for over eight years and we need her to obtain information from him. You see, her father knows everything about our underground organization, and the only way to get into the vault that he has locked all the information in is through her. The vault apparently contains a lock that requires her DNA to open. Not only that we hope the sight of Daddy's little girl being tortured will coax the location of the vault out of him." Ms. Goode smiled deviously.

I was sure my face was as white as a ghost. Ms. Goode had just admitted as to why they want me, she just said my father was alive. I hadn't prepared myself for the truth, and I was now shaking with fear. Ms. Goode finished up her speech, not like I was listening. As we all left Bex and Grant came up to me

"Cam are you alright?" Bex asked.

"Yea I think I will be, at least I know they want me alive and not dead, for now anyway" I said trying to remain calm.

"Cammie, its okay if you want to cry or something" Grant said attempting to be helpful.

"Its okay guys, I'm just really tired and we have not one but two missions to begin tomorrow." I said trying to change the topic.

"Oh yea, what's your first big Circle assignment?" Bex asked

"Um… operation potato chip" I said giggling at the name, "I'm supposed to be getting a micro- chip with some files on it, its not a big deal I just have to intercept it from some CIA people."

"No bloody way!" Bex exclaimed "I'm on that mission too! So is Grant, and well um… Zach."

No way this is not happening, I thought to myself not only did he and I have to live together but now we were on the same mission schedule? This was becoming crazy.

"Well then I guess I'll be seeing you bright and early." I said and with that I turned into my room. I looked at Zach, he was still reading over files, note to self: intercept files ASAP, on the bed so I decided to take to my original plan and sleep in the bathtub with my extra clothing as padding. (A/N okay so idk if any of you ever watched KYLE XY but he sleeps in a bathtub and its so awesome!) I don't know about any of you but sleeping bathtubs is not fun, so as I lied there trying to sleep I allowed my mind to wander. I thought of my mom and my aunt, stuck in the academy waiting anxiously to hear from us but we couldn't call for at least another day until we could check for all and any bugs. I thought about Zach and how weird things would be on tomorrow's mission, I thought about how I needed to tell him I loved him, but wanted to make it as special as he had for me. I thought about a million things like where and when I would finally see my father, getting the codes we needed and trying to free all the people being held at different Circle facilities. Usually on nights like this when I couldn't sleep I would just wander around the mansion, but here things were different and I had to keep myself distracted so I wouldn't go back to thinking about Zach, I don't know how many different things I thought of until I finally fell asleep.

"Hey Genevieve wake up!" I heard someone screaming in my ear. I woke up and rubbed my eyes to see a very tired looking Zach Goode. He was only wearing his boxers and well he looked very good in those boxers.

"Nicholas," I said remembering his cover name "we don't have to leave for the mission until ten" my internal clock told me that it was probably only eight or so, and even though I was Genevieve at the moment I still really, really liked to sleep.

"Yes I'm aware Genevieve but our real mission starts now, I don't know if you recall but we have some codes to find." With that Nicholas Gregory gave me smile, while I saw Zach Goode trying really hard to repress a smirk. I thought to myself, maybe things will go back to normal, so as I looked up to smile at Zach I expected a smile back, but all I got was cold glare. Guess I was wrong.

After eating some protein bars in our room, Zach and I headed out to find the torture/ detainment room of the facility. We tried door after door until finally we found the one we wanted (you would think it would be easier seeing as how the door had a sign that said 'torture and detainment room') We went to open the door, because we didn't see a access pane but as Zach reached for the knob a really high tech key board came out, and so we had to retreat back to our room, hoping in the next to few days we would come across the code.

After we were all dressed with Liz's comm. unit in one ear and the Circle comm. unit in the other we were off, we saw Bex and Grant heading down the hall and sprinted to catch up with them. We all boarded into the Circle car and drove off to complete our first mission.

~G~G~G

I flopped onto my bed. That. Mission. Sucked. I don't know if you've ever tried to intercept a very important microchip from the C.I.A to give to a top secret terrorist facility with a boy who's not speaking to you, and your best friend and her boy friend, but let me tell you, it gets interesting. Once we all arrived Zach insisted that he do all of the work forcing myself, Grant and Bex to stay back. Once Zach had attempted to intercept the chip he got caught but refused to tell any of us, it wasn't until we saw him sprinting away from very angry C.I.A agents did we realize what was going on. We had comm. units so I had no idea why he didn't just tell us to be on the look out. Probably because he wouldn't talk to me and needed to impress me, but who knows? After that Bex and Grant tried to go in and intercept the chip while Zach tried to insist he had everything under control. However Bex and Grant were no better seeing as how Bex is a power mogul and Grant is well… Grant they too failed to intercept the chip. Finally it was my turn to go in and get the chip as casually as possible but then attention hog Zach came in and pushed me aside. In short we did not obtain the micro- chip and when we came back to headquarters we received a very stern talking to from Ms. Goode. Unfortunately for the next week the four of us would be on lock down doing remedial jobs around the facility.

Life is as difficult as a spy when people aren't willing to communicate for the good of the group. I sprawled out on the bed hoping things would eventually get easier. Then I spied the files that Zach was always going over, I carefully looked over at them, and opened the folder carefully. It was the same file that he had showed me that night in the library except for attached to it was a file on Mr. Solomon, as well as Zach's mom. Perfect I thought, everything I've been looking for all wrapped up in one. I started reading, there was no new information, but seeing as how Zach was really obsessed with reading these, there had to be something. I was reading and reading until I found something that was interesting in Mr. Solomon's old Circle file, Joe Solomon: MIA during operation Cameron Morgan. I was in shock, I mean the CIA had just assumed that Mr. Solomon was there to get me, but I didn't know… I needed to call Liz. I punched the call button on my comm. unit and waited.

"Hey Cammie what's up?" Liz said, out of breath, I assumed that she and Jonas had just come out of a long kiss.

"What do you know about Mr. Solomon's missions at the Circle?" I said.

"Not much Cam, they are really hard to break into, speaking of breaking into the Circle any word on those codes?"

"Not a bit" I said.

"Okay Cam, not a problem, how are things with Zach?"

"Not good." I replied

"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that" Liz mumbled.

"Hey Lizzy do you mind forwarding my call to Mr. Solomon?" I said, really needing to get to the bottom of this and not be making small talk with Liz.

"I'll see if he's up" she said.

"Thanks Liz, I appreciate it" and truly I did.

I tapped my foot on the bed, waiting for Mr. Solomon. "Yes Cameron" I heard a highly drugged up voice ask.

"Hi Mr. Solomon, can you tell me what your last assignment was for the Circle? You know research and development and stuff" I said throwing out another useless lie to the best spy ever.

"Zach showed you the file?" He said

"Well yea, sort of." I said not wanting him to know I wasn't supposed to know these things. "Mr. Solomon, did you come to Gallagher just to capture me?"

"Cameron I won't lie to yes." I started to shake, "but let me tell you I didn't stay to capture you, one night your mother and I were talking, I was over taken with guilt that it was my fault your father was captured and I had to make sure that it was me who made sure that you didn't have the same fate. So in the beginning yes, but at the end I just wanted to make sure you were safe." I released a sigh of relief.

"Thank you Mr. Solomon, I'm glad to know I can count on you."

"Your welcome Cameron, now if you'll excuse me I need some rest" with that Mr. Solomon hung up.

I flopped on the bed, and drifted off to sleep. I was abruptly woken by the sound of rustling under the bed. I looked down and saw Zach pulling out is suitcase and getting ready to leave. I looked at him.

"New assignment Zach, why are you leaving this base so soon"

"I'm not leaving the base Cammie" Zach said.

"Did you get a new room?" I questioned.

"No, I'm leaving the mission Cammie." Zach said bluntly turning to the door.

"Why?" I said looking at his sad face

"Think about it" he said glaring at me. I did think about it, and of course I knew that it was hard for Zach to stay here with me when he couldn't talk to me with out getting angry or depressed. I watched Zach leave, I had to stop this I needed him here to protect me, for god sakes I loved him, I could not let him leave without a fight.

"Bye Cammie" he said and turned the door.

"Zach you can't leave, we need you on this mission," I started to ramble, No one knows the Circle like you, you're the most prepared in our group, we can't complete what you've tried so hard to do without you."

"Cammie, I can handle things on my own." Zach said seriously about to leave and getting irritated with my rambling.

"Zach, it's not just the mission that can't go on without you" I said not even aware of what I was saying, just trying to get him to stay "Zach I can't get go on with out you, I … I love you." I covered my mouth after realizing what I had said.

"Wait, what did you just say" Zach said confused but a pleasant smirk starting to grow

"I said I love you" I blinked in shock at how easy it was. "I don't know why I couldn't say it before, maybe I was scared, but those two point three seconds where I thought I wouldn't see you in a really long time made me realize, I can say it, and I mean it. I love you Zachary J. Goode." I got butterflies saying it, and as he smirked and smiled at me those butterflies took over my stomach and pretty soon it felt like the butterflies had been eaten by elephants, but I had gotten used to it, some boys, especially Blackthorn Boys just do that to you.

"Well Gallagher Girl, one awkward night, a car ride, a failed mission and an empty threat later and you finally admit it"

I looked at him in disbelief, he set me up, well at least I had admitted what I had known for so long.

He looked at me. "Just so you know Gallagher Girl I'm going to kiss you know."

I stared at him, "I wouldn't have it any other way"