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Disclaimer: I don't own the Gallagher Girls...they are Ally Carter's

Chapter 2: Cammie POV

Paperwork.

The worst thing about missions is all the paperwork you have to do during them and after them. I know how important paperwork is, but you can't help but think, "This is boring." (Whoops! I think I might have said that out loud!). Of course I knew I was alone but Bex must think that I have gotten sloppy (I spotted the camera in my lamp 17 minutes 46 seconds ago), after all I was away for over four months but it was a mission, I'm anything but rusty.

"Bex! Get your but in here! I know you're listening." The next second Bex swung through the door and plonked herself in a swirly chair across from my desk.

"You know me to well Cam." I swivelled round and put what I had been working on in my filing cabinet when I heard a click-click and the sound of someone taking weight off a chair. I turned around and Bex had a gun pointed at me. I raised my hands above my head and said sternly,

"Bex what are you doing? Stop playing around. This isn't a joke."

Bex replied robotically, "I know this isn't a joke Cameron, this is real."

Bex put her other hand on the gun but before she could pull the trigger I ducked and the bullet shot through the window. The glass shattered all over me. I covered my face and crawled under the desk, stuck out my leg and tripped over Bex who was off balance from the shot. I got up and kicked the gun away from Bex. I flipped Bex onto her stomach and pinned her down. People were already looking in, having heard the gunshot and the looks on their faces said everything. Why are they fighting? They are best friends.

"Get handcuffs, Bex isn't herself." Three agents ran off in search of handcuffs when another two took Bex for me. I stumbled out of my office, trying to pull shards of glass out of my hair. Zach and Grant came running round the corner.

"Cammie what happened?" Exclaimed Zach.

"Where's Bex?" Asked Grant, he was trying to see past me.

I turned on Grant and asked, "Has Bex done anything weird lately? Seen anyone? Eaten anything?"

"Not that I can think of why? What happened?"

He pushed past me just in time to see Bex being lead out of my office. She was fighting the agents holding her; the woman I was looking at was not my best friend. I walked back into my office and picked up the gun and cartridge that Bex had fired. The bullet was probably buried in the marble stonework of the building next to this one. The glass was sprayed across the floor, I looked for any clue to see why Bex would have tried to kill me but the only lead I had was the camera. I twirled it round in my hand when something engraved in the side caught my eye.

"Zach," I said, fear clear in my voice, "look at this." I felt the blood drain from my face as I looked at the familiar insignia carved into the camera. I have seen that insignia only a handful of times in my life and I hoped never to see it again, unfortunately the C.O.C isn't that easy to get rid of.

"Can you trace the signal?" I asked Liz. Liz had the camera plugged into her computer, she was check what it had seen and where it was sending the footage.

"I'm sorry Cammie I can't find anything, it's like it was just turned off and completely wiped. There isn't even a memory card or anything like that in it." I narrowed my eyes at that.

"Why plant a bug if you can't even see or hear what intel it gathers?"

"I have no idea." Liz looked up at me and sighed, "You still have glass in your hair." I put my fingers through my hair, pulling out more fragments of glass. Zach was in the next room over talking to Jonas.

"So when did Jonas propose?" Liz, obviously happy to change subject, piped up and got an excited look in her eye. A look as if she were daydreaming about something exciting but then her daydream came true.

"He hid the ring in a hard drive we were working on. Oh! It was so romantic. He had been so fidgety the whole time and when he got down on one knee I almost fell off my seat!" She squealed.

I smiled a giggled along with her, at the back of my mind the picture of Bex with a gun pointed at me still stirred. Macey burst into Liz's office and demanded to know what happened.

Macey stormed through the door, her stiletto heels adding to the dramatic entrance, and demanded. "What happened? Are you ok? Where is Bex? I swear once I get my hands on her she will wish she fought me in P&E for the intense training." Macey kept muttering threats under her breath (in German, Japanese and Italian) before I finally managed to yell loud enough to get through all of her thoughts.

"MACEY! Stop! Bex is not herself, why would she try to kill me? And besides Bex would never, ever be with them."

"Wait it was them? As in…"

"The Circle of Cavan." Zach said as he walked into the room, followed by Jonas and Grant.

"I thought you guys took them down." Said Grant.

"Not fully. Taking down a terrorist group centuries in the making in 5 years is harder than it sounds." There was no sarcasm or hint of fun in Zach's words.

"So what do we do?" Asked Liz, "We can't just leave Bex to be used by them."

"True. But we do have to figure out why she did it in the first place, it definitely wasn't of her own will." I replied. I was half listening to Macey who was muttering some very un-ladylike things under her breath in German (Madame Dabney would not have been pleased). "Halt die Klappe Plappermaul." I scolded. (A/N: Translation "Shut up blabbermouth.") "We will get Bex back to normal, but all we can do now is hope that she snaps out of it."

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