Yea...I had homework and school stuff so yeah..that's why I haven't updated in a while.

Oh and for anyone wondering Erin did eventually get her oroes.

Chapter 10: Cammie POV

Cassandra hadn't changed at all since the last time I seen her. Her expression showed no emotion yet I knew that behind those emerald eyes was a devious mind, with the cogs spinning. The only thing that looked different about Cassandra was the fact that she almost slightly seemed…sad.

She made no move to attack us. Instead she just stared at us, piercing us with her emerald green eyes. When Zach took a step forward I grabbed his wrist and shook my head.

"She won't hurt us, I'm her son." He slipped his hand into mine, his palm was slightly sweaty, and pulled me towards his mother.

"Zachary, Cameron." She nodded. "Zachary I believe you have something that belongs to me. She held out her hand, as if she was expecting Zach to give her something. "My engagement ring please Zachary."

Zach dug a ring out of his pocket. A ring I had only seen a handful of times in my life. Once on a rooftop in Boston, again in a charred version of Blackthorne's tombs and once more at the entrance to a C.O.C base.

Zach placed the ring in Cassandra's outstretched palm. She slipped is onto her middle finger and began to admire it.

"It's finally back with whom it belongs."

"If that is her engagement ring then how did your father get it?" I asked Zach in a hushed tone.

"I can hear you Cameron dear. If you want to know the story all you have to do is ask."

I continued to stare at Cassandra and the ring circling her finger.

"What's wrong Cameron? Don't know where to begin?"

"No." I replied sternly, "I want to know what you have done with your husband."

"Alex? What of him? I haven't seen him in years." We may have been some distance apart but I could see her pupils dilate. Her sudden small gasp showed that she was shocked, that she wasn't prepared for that response and that her heart rate quickened. She was lying.

"You're lying." I stated. I lifted my head up and looked her in the eyes. The fear that I used to feel when I saw those eyes was there no more.

"I loved him. I really did. At Gallagher I was friends with your mother." She smirked. "But you already knew that. It was always Miss Rowts this or Miss Rowts that or Copper Curls on your right. I hated that codename. Copper Curls." She mocked. "When I graduated I went straight on a mission, came back and married Alex. I was happy for the first time in forever. I remember getting the invitation to your parents wedding Cameron. I hated always being in your mothers shadow, she was Buckingham's favourite student, always Miss Cameron how fantastic! Or Operative Cameron great job!

"I still went on missions for the Circle. The operatives at the CIA were all gullible fools. But that had to stop when I got pregnant with Zach." Zach didn't look up, his hand clenched mine harder. This must be horrible for him. Hearing about what she did… "When you were born Zachary I was overjoyed. You looked so much like Alex, except for your eyes, they were always like mine. I started staying at home; I wasn't going to miss out on you growing up for the world. You were six when Alex went MIA with the Circle. I was devastated. I put Zach in a private school and moved him to Blackthorne when he was 12. I spent years searching for Alex. Then I got distracted with a girl called Cameron Morgan and now here we stand." At some points I thought Cassandra was going to cry, but she didn't. She remained the infamous leader of the Circle of Cavan.

"You left out so much. Like what about the fact that you kept his name. Even though he was, is, MIA."

"I loved him. I wasn't about to go back to high school Cassie Rowts and leave what I said at the alter. I may be a liar but what I said at the alter with Alex was true."

"What about me?" Asked Zach. "When I was at school? Were you training me to be in the Circle?"

"Blackthorne is where most of the men from the C.O.C are recruited. These two here were from Blackthorne." She gestured to the men standing behind her. "Alex was from Nebraska." I took a step back in surprise. Zach's dad went to school with my dad. "He stayed with the Circle a lot longer than Matthew and he came across an old artefact. The ring of Isoeph Cavan. A few years later it became my engagement ring." She held her hand in front of her and admired the ring on her finger.

My mind flashed to the first time I had seen that ring, on a rooftop in Boston where one of my best friends had had her arm broken and I stabbed a hand with a campaign button. Zach slipped his hand into mine. The way I was holding his hand I could feel his pulse, his heart was beating fast, as if he knew something was going to happen.

I looked out of the corner of my eye and seen more of the Circle members surrounding us, they had been slowly building a circle the whole time. As the first two came at Zach and me we used each other's hand as an anchor and roundhouse kicked them both. I hit my goon in the side of the head with my foot while Zach hit his in the stomach.

Our hands left each other's as we parried blocks, aimed punches and lent into kicks. One goon struck his palm against my shoulder, knocking me off balance but before I was pushed off my feet I hooked my ankle round his ankle and brought him down with me. I landed roughly on the tarmac. I got back up, circling the man I was fighting, trying to find his weakness when I was grabbed from behind. Two arms had slipped under mine and were clasped behind my head, leaving my arms useless. I struck back with my leg but made no contact with anything. A rag was clasped over my face. I took a deep breath and tried not to breathe in the drugs. The rag was removed from my face and I could see Zach struggling to hold of the fighters. I struggled to try and help him but the drugs were taking effect. My limbs felt heavy and my eyelids drooped over. Before I knew it I fell unconscious.

Yes, not my best fight scene and a bit of a filler, but it was necesary. I will try to update soon (3-4days if I have time)

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