Disclaimer: Seriously?...I'm not Ally Carter therefore I don't own the Gallagher Girls.
Chapter 12: Cammie POV
We ran along the side of a dirt road, keeping close to the tree line, in case we needed to dive for cover. I was exhausted but I kept putting one foot in front of the other, the desire to not be tied up again and shot by the C.O.C driving me. Zach was a step behind me; his footsteps crunching in the dirt.
"We need to hide Zach, I can get Liz to send in a grab team."
"We can stop behind those bushes up ahead."
We crashed through the bushes and lay on our stomachs to avoid being caught. I dug my phone out of my bra (where else is a girl supposed to keep her phone when she doesn't have a handbag?) and immediately called Liz. She picked up on the first ring. "Cammie! Where are you? I've been expecting you to call."
"Not now Liz. Right now I need you to get a grab team and a helicopter together. Zach and I need to get out now." By what I was hearing on the phone Liz sounded like she was running and yelling to Jonas about a helicopter. "I need to trace the call so I can get your co-ordinates." I could hear Liz's fingers racing over the keyboard of her laptop; she must be wearing her Bluetooth. In the background I could hear Jonas saying, "Liz, I've got Grant and Bex, we are ready to go."
"Thanks Jonas. Ok Cammie we are coming."
I stayed on the phone with Liz but we were no longer talking. Zach had his hand on my back, keeping me against the ground. Through the phone I could hear the helicopter blades whirling and Liz talking through her headset to take off. Bex and Grant were told to secure everything in the back. I heard Jonas saying, "Taking off." They must be in the air.
"Cammie, when we get there you are only going to have a short window to get in before the C.O.C aim something at us, 25 seconds at most."
"That's ok, when you get here just be as careful as you can."
The next 14 minutes and 36 seconds were stressful. Zach I were still pressed against the ground. Cars filled with C.O.C operatives thundered past us. They were so close that I could see the colours of their hair and the look on their faces.
"Liz where are you?" I grunted into the phone.
"We are coming Cammie, just hold on a little bit longer."
Zach and I had no choice but to stay hidden.
I heard the sound of helicopter blades whirling and seen as small black dot in the sky on the horizon that was growing bigger with every second.
"Cammie where are they?" Zach asked.
"Look up." I replied.
Zach turned his head up and seen the helicopter.
"Cammie we are at the coordinates but I can't see you."
"Hang on." I looked around, looking for a landmark to let Liz know where we were hiding. "Land on the clear area east of the base."
The helicopter made its way towards the clearing and I told Zach, "Let's go!"
We scurried off the ground and sprinted towards the helicopter. From where we were hiding to the helicopter was over 100 metres and Zach and I sprinted the whole way. My legs were burning and my arms were pumping by my sides, I was breathing heavily. I could see Bex and Grant leaning out of the helicopter, they both had an outstretched hand. I reached out and grabbed Bex's hand and she hauled me into the helicopter. Beside me Grant had hauled Zach into the helicopter and was shouting, "Go Jonas!" I felt the helicopter lift off the ground. We were airborne.
The helicopter was facing away from the base, the blades tilted in the right direction. An alarm started beeping. Jonas was yelling at Liz. "It's a missile, I can't shake it."
"Hold on!" Liz screeched. "I'll try to disarm it." Liz was frantically pushing buttons and flicking switches above her head. The beeping of the alarm sped up and Liz started pushing more buttons.
"Jonas pull to the side." The helicopter banked sharply to the right. Bex, Grant, Zach and I fell against the back wall. I fell into Zach's lap and was about to move when he wrapped his arms around my waist.
"No, stay here Gallagher Girl."
The missile began to change direction, heading straight for the helicopter from the front. Liz flicked a switch beside her and put both hands on the joystick in front of her. She pulled it sharply towards her; the missile angled upwards and went over the top of the circling blades. Liz pushed the joystick forward towards the window. I turned my head to face Zach, he leant in and so did I. Our lips were about to touch when BOOM! The missile hit the ground, leaving a cloud of smoke and a crater in the ground. Jonas steered the helicopter away from the base.
"Thank you so much for this guys." Bex beamed, Grant nodded and put an arm around Bex's shoulders, Jonas waved from the cockpit, keeping one hand on the joystick that steered the helicopter.
Liz said, "Well I couldn't let my Maid of Honour be killed by the Circle of Cavan now could I?"
I laughed and asked, "Where's Macey? I thought she would be with you."
Liz, Bex, Grant and Jonas all shared a look that said that they had no idea what I was talking about. "Macey is on a mission. We haven't seen her since she left not long after you."
"I umm…we um… crashed a car last week together. I haven't seen her since."
I promised a friend that something would go BOOM in a romantic moment so yea...TAA DAA!
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