SORRY! Sorry I haven't updated earlier but blame my music assignments, maths and the last minute assignment rush.


Chapter 15: Cammie POV

"So are you going to tell me why you have dragged me to the airport? Liz looked very pretty in her dress you know and I wanted to stay at the bridal shop."

We sat in the international departures lounge, waiting for our flight to arrive – not every spy has the luxury of a private jet. Zach tapped his finger against his Styrofoam cup of Starbucks coffee and began explaining.

"Well you know how my dad was sent to find your dad before he was announced MIA." I nodded. "I found something else, at the Circle base." Zach looked at out the window and took a sip of his coffee.

"What did you find Zach?" I asked, I leaned over the table, bracing myself on one elbow.

Zach set his cup down on the table and began rummaging through his bag. He pulled out a manila folder and set it in front of me. The folder looked as if it had been rolled up and some pages were sticking out of the top.

"I found this." He said, tapping the folder with two fingers. "When they left me alone I managed to get out and I found my mother's office. This was sitting on her desk. I heard circle agents coming so I rolled it up and curled it around my leg under my jeans. When they caught me they brought me to your cell."

I started flicking through the folder. There were grainy looking black and white photos of a man walking through crowds, pages of reports and photocopies of maps. There was writing in red pen on one of the maps and a small place at the end of a street that had been circled. On the back of the map was writing scribbled in the same red pen that had been used on the front. Find Alex here. I looked up at Zach and his signature smirk was plastered across his face. He looked happy and I couldn't say to him that he may be wrong about Alex and that he may be getting his hopes up on nothing, so I didn't say anything, I just smiled.

"How do you know if he's there?" I asked.

"I don't." He admitted.

"How do you know this wasn't planted in the file?" I asked again, more sceptical this time.

"I don't." He replied.

"How do you…"

"Cammie, I just don't know. I just have a feeling that he's there."

We sat in silence, balancing our now cold cups of coffee in our hands.

"Flight A139H to Athens is now boarding." Said a female voice over the intercom.

"That's us." I said. "Let's go."

o.O.o

"Your emergency exits are to the rear of the plane, alongside the wings and at the front of the cabin. In case of an emergency please…"

Zach and I were crammed into the tiny cabin of the plane, listening to the safety procedures. I zoned out and stared out of the window.

At one point I must have fallen asleep because I woke up feeling extremely stiff and with a heavy weight on my shoulder. I tried to sit up straight but Zach had fallen asleep with his head on my shoulder. He looked quite peaceful so I stayed where I was, being careful not to wake him. He was snoring. I pulled out my phone, set it on camera and pressed REC. I sat watching him for a few minutes when I saw a smirk crawl across his face. I stopped recording him. I pushed his head off my shoulder and he jerked awake. "Gallagher Girl, what was that for?" He whined. "I was having a very nice dream."

"I know. You were smirking."

"Really?" He smirked. I nodded.

"Just like that. And you were snoring, again. You have drool on your chin." Zach's hand immediately flew to his chin to wipe the string on drool running of his lip.

"Me… snoring? Never!"

"Wanna bet?" I played the video of him snoring on my phone. He tried to grab my phone but I pulled my hand away. "Don't snatch Goode." I taunted.

"Come on Cammie give me the phone." Coaxed Zach. He moved closer to me, he was almost leaning over me.

"Never." I whispered. I put my hand behind my back. Zach was leaning over me so that I could look into his eyes.

I heard a female voice say, "Excuse me."

Zach shot back into his seat and I sat up. "Other passengers have asked if you could please be sensitive to everyone around you trying to sleep."

"Certainly." Zach answered. "Sorry for any trouble we caused."

The attendant briskly walked away to the back of the plane. Around us more people were waking up and trying to stretch in the small space of the cabin.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. Please fasten your seatbelts, we are about to begin our decent to Athens airport. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for choosing to fly with us."

Zach gripped my hand and whispered, "Here we go."

o.O.o

"Welcome to Athens." Said a voice over the intercom (in Greek though, luckily I've spoken Greek since high school). Zach and I passed through customs and got into a taxi from the line waiting outside the airport terminal.

Zach told the driver the name of the hotel we were staying at. We left our suitcases in the hotel room and hit the streets of Athens. We followed a path that we had mapped out based on what was said in my dad's, Alexander Goode's and Joe Solomon's log books. We passed some beautiful historic buildings and curious little cafes but we didn't stop to taste what claimed to be the best spit roasted lamb in Greece.

After hours of searching we hadn't found anything and it was beginning to get dark, so we went back to the hotel room. Zach and I both had separate bedrooms. The view from the balcony overlooked a village, the whole thing was spectacular.

"So what's our plan of action for tomorrow?" I asked Zach. He joined me out on the balcony in the cool evening breeze. He was holding the map that had been in the folder.

"We follow this."

"Zach that could lead to anything. It was years ago that Alex was here. It could have been a dead letter drop at the time or a cut out."

"I know but it's the only lead we have."

I didn't sleep well. It could be from jetlag but I highly doubted it, I was a world class sleeper. I tossed and turned, thinking about everything that could go wrong. In the back of my mind I couldn't help but think that we were chasing a trail that had long gone cold.


Easter holidays start on friday (yippee!) so I can update faster! I might also upload some new fanfics -I'm working on a crossover and some one shots at the moment :)

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