Chapter 3:
"Oh my god, I'm pregnant." Rose stated, still in complete shock. Her hands fumbling as she picked up the test off the floor again and began quizzing it repeatedly.
"Rose, it's going to be fine ill support you in whatever you decide." Carrie replied, leaning into her team mate and giving her a comforting hug.
"You can't be that far along surely, you only said this morning in the car that you had started feeling sick the last few days. I don't think that Oscar picked up on anything; I'll keep it to myself for as long as you want me too I promise."
"Thank you, I.. I just don't know what to think or do. This can't be happening, we only had sex the once." Rose said after stuffing the test back into the rectangle box and walking towards the sinks.
"Then you should know, it only takes the once. Was it with who I think it was with?" Carrie stated.
"What do you think? Yes Vinnie's the father." Rose shouted, her dismay becoming out of control with every passing second.
"No way, oh my god, that is so funny!" laughed Carrie.
"Sorry, I did sort of gather it was him but I can't quite believe it."
"What am I going to do, I'm only 18 also I'm not even with the father how tragic is that." Rose said; tears began to develop rather quickly in her eyes.
"Come here you." Carrie said, walking over towards Rose and holding out her hand for support.
"So then, how many weeks does that make you if the deed was done when Vinnie was helping us?"
"I guess about three weeks or more probable four weeks." said Rose, now looking down at her lower stomach and holding her hand over it.
"I think I can actually see a bump forming" Carrie replied, staring down at Rose's stomach.
"No, surely not!" cried Rose.
"Just kidding." joked Carrie.
"Ha Ha, not funny, this is not something to joke about." said Rose, looking rather annoyed with the recent comment.
"So, are you going to tell Vinnie?" Carrie quizzed.
"You are joking, right?" Rose stated, crossing her arms with fury.
"No, I'm being serious. You can't find out something like that and then keep it to yourself, especially from Vinnie." replied Carrie.
"Just watch me!" shouted Rose, uncrossing her arms while proceeding to pick up her bag from the sink and storm out of the girls toilets.
"Rose wait, Rose!" Carrie shouted, picking up the pregnancy test that Rose had left on the floor and running out the door after her distressed friend.
Oscar had been sat starring into space for the past twenty minutes pretending to be doing his work, waiting for his history lesson to end. He hated history, it was probably the only lesson that felt like an entreaty had gone by before it had finished. Vinnie was sat one seat in front of him, so much for not having many classes with him. Thanks Frank, Oscar thought. It was enough that he had to share a flat with him, but now he was in every lesson.
"Hey Oscar, what do you think is taking Rose and Carrie so long to come back from there pretend toilet break?" Vinnie quizzed, turning round to Oscar to find he was not there.
Vinnie was just about to turn back around when he saw Oscar out of the corner of his eye running out the class room door. Oscar was running to the caretaker's cupboard to meet the rest of the team as his pencil had started to flash when Vinnie began talking to him.
As Oscar ran, he started to think about what Vinnie had just said to him. Where were Rose and Carrie? Vinnie had a point Rose and Carrie were not the sort of people to skip class or even be late, maybe Carrie on occasion but definitely not Rose.
Vinnie had began to pay attention again to the teacher when he opened up his tin pencil case and saw a glowing ruby light flashing every 2 seconds or so.
"Bother, I'm late!" Vinnie muttered, pardoning himself to the teacher with the excuse of having an appointment with the head teacher.
Vinnie speed walked to the class room door and then when he was out of site he proceeded to run to meet the rest of the team.
"Rose!" Carrie shouted, she had only just caught up to her which was a surprise to Carrie as she was the one who was a gymnast and to her knowledge Rose was not into sports.
Both Carrie and Rose came to a holt when they noticed their communicators were flashing. Jolting back down the previous corridor, they ran to the nearest staircase and darted down to the ground floor where they bumped into Oscar.
"Wow, watch it Oscar. You nearly knocked me over." Rose ranted.
"Sorry, just really needed to get out of that classroom." Oscar replied, bending down to tie his trainer lace back up.
"So where have you been all this time, it's not like you two to miss lessons."
"We, we had to go to the nurses office. Carrie tripped over after trying to show me one of her gymnastic moves." Rose said nervously.
"Oh right, well that does sound like you Carrie." Oscar replied, smiling over at Carrie.
"Right, come on. Were already five minutes late we don't want to be any later or Frank will have us sacked." interrupted Rose, barging past Oscar and proceeding to the lift.
Carrie and Oscar looked at each other and rolled their eyes. Carrie was getting more and more concerned about her team mate, every second that past. After catching up with Rose, Carrie and Oscar unlocked the door and descended the lift. On the way down there was total silence, with Rose displaying no emotion what so ever. The lift door opened and Frank appeared before them carrying a giant chocolate bar.
"Hello agents and about time to, was getting rather impatient." Frank ranted, realising he was getting rather odd stares he put down the giant chocolate bar and explained that it was an invention that went wrong.
"Great, might have to have a try of that later and yeah, sorry that was my fault. Shouldn't of shown off my gymnastic skills to Rose and fallen over a.." Carrie replied, trying to look guilty but failing rather miserably.
"Right.. Well never mind, you're here now." Frank began.
"No, it's not right. Carrie thanks for carrying on the story but the truth is it was me that made us late, my grandma has had a fall and I persuaded Carrie to stay with me. Mr Flatley said we could use his office to wait for anymore news." Rose interrupted again.
Oscar looked over at his team mates, puzzled by the strange behaviour they were displaying.
"Well thank you for that but where is Vinnie?" Frank stated.
"Ah, well when I left to come here he was still sitting down in the lesson." Oscar replied, trying to cover up the smug smile that was developing across his face.
"Great, so you're late and you didn't think to bring along the new agent." Frank said, crossing his arms and walking towards the desk.
"Vinnie, where are you? Come in agent.." said Frank, pressed down on the controls of the communicator.
Whoosh. The elevator door began to open.
"Sorry should have read the instructions, if I had any to look through." Vinnie said, moving towards the rest of the team.
"The communicating device I mean, I should have begun with saying that."
"Yes, right well your here now. No harm done and Oscar should have given this to you." replied Frank, throwing a small match box sized book towards Vinnie.
"It's the instructions."
"Really, are you sure?" Vinnie said, looking rather puzzled.
"It's so small."
"Well what do you expect; it's for a pencil communicator, very basic stuff." Frank continued.
"Yes, thank you for that insight but I would rather listen to something a little more interesting and read something a little more mentally stimulating than a children's pencil invention." said Vinnie, trying to look down on the rest of them.
Rolling their eyes they, looked towards Frank for information on their new mission. Rose was starting to feel a little hot and walked over to the water dispenser that was displayed next to the desk.
"Yesterday at 3.45pm five of the six MI9 agents were intercepted while on a mission in central London. It is to our knowledge that they have been taken by SKUL and are now hostages." said Frank.
"Their mission was to retrieve a combination for a volt that we had uncovered near Chelsea football stadium. We believe that SKUL have done this so that we stop our pursuit, however the mission was not a complete disaster and the combination was half memorised by the sixth agent before the rest of the agents were captured."
"SKUL want MI9 to pay a ransom for the safe return of the agents and the rest of the combination." said Oscar, looking over towards Rose who was now on her forth cup of water. He wondered why it was that she suddenly needed to drink that much water, when she usually hardly drank anything.
"Yes we believe so, your mission is to work out the rest of the combination and to go undercover as a SKUL agent and feed information from the inside. Plus any Information that will help us bring down SKUL and the location of the hostages. You will have back up when needed and there will be a camera on you at all times." Frank relayed.
"Now that sounds like my sort of mission." said Carrie, kicking her legs up into the air and jumping onto the desk chair in front of her.
"Look at my moves, impressive or what" Carrie continued, back flipping off the chair and landing perfectly next to Oscar.
"No Frank this is totally my mission." Oscar complained.
"Calm down both of you, Oscar they might remember who you are if you go in there so it might be better if Carrie goes this time. Hmm, but then again I guess if we get you to wear a wig and some glasses or something like that, Carrie actually I think it would be best if Oscar goes undercover. You can help Rose and you can do field work, plus be back up." Franked replied, trying to put it as delicately as possible. To Franks surprise Carrie looked pretty content and didn't even shout in reply.
"Fine, that's absolutely fine." Carrie replied, biting her lip as hard as she could.
"I'll help Rose here and what about Vinnie?"
"Ah yes, Vinnie I think that it would be good for you and Rose to go to the location where the volt was found." said Frank.
As soon as Frank had said this, Rose's face dropped. No way was she going to be staying on her own with Vinnie for most of that day not without Carrie.
"That's fine with me, more than fine." Vinnie replied, winking at Rose as he spoke.
"No actually Frank I think it would be good if Rose stayed here and began trying to work out the rest of the combination." said Carrie.
"Right, fine okay that is a good idea but you will have to go with Vinnie instead yes?" said Frank.
"Ok, that's fine with me." said Carrie, looking over to Rose and gesturing to her bag and then proceeding to point in Vinnie's direction."
"What about me?" began Vinnie, staring over at Rose and then over at Carrie.
"The bag and me, what are you trying to whisper to Rose?"
"Huh, oh nothing I was just saying that her pencil case was in my bag and that there is some paper over there in the draw." Carrie replied, trying hard to think of something quickly and to not look guilty.
"Wow that was more than I thought I was going to get out of you." Vinnie said, looking rather intrigued.
"How do I look?" Oscar interrupted, coming out in a brown wig and a pair of big dark eyebrows that looked more like hairy caterpillars.
"Ey up Oscar could hardly recognise you for a moment." Carrie laughed, looking her team mate up and down and then started to giggle.
"Looks good, you just need to put the camera contact lenses in and the SKUL uniform on and then you will look the part." said Rose, passing Oscar the contact lenses container.
After telling Oscar how he can get into contact with them and that he better be careful Rose turned back around and went to pour herself another drink of water. She didn't understand why it was so hot in there and that the others didn't seem to be complaining. She had just managed to reach the water dispenser when she started to become dizzy, the walls felt as if they were closing in on her and then everything went black.
Carrie, Oscar, Vinnie and Frank looked in Rose's direction and saw that she was starting to wobble as she went to get another drink. As Rose began turning around looking rather confused and petrified she fell to the ground. The MI9 team ran over to her and Oscar managed to stop her head from hitting the floor.
"What do you think happened to her?" said Vinnie, pacing up and down the room.
"Not too sure, just that she fainted and now she's not waking up." Carrie replied staring down at Rose and then looking up to Oscar.
"I hope she's okay, she's got to be. Rose I said I'd keep my promise and I will."
"Carrie, what do you mean?" said Oscar looking rather confused.
"If there's something that will help us to help Rose then you need to tell us." said Oscar, reaching for Carrie's hand and pleading for her to tell them.
"Nothing, it's nothing." Carried replied looking rather guilty.
"Carrie, please come on. How long have you known me?" Oscar pleaded.
"If you tell me I won't tell anybody else ok, I promise you that."
"She needs an ambulance Frank, she's been unconscious for over two minutes." said Vinnie, after he had finally stopped pacing.
"Yes you're right, we need to get her to the lift and back into the school we can ring on the way." Frank said, springing into action.
"The mission will have to wait, I'll get agent Stark to get a few other agents onto it for now."
"Oscar, Carrie you two grab her legs and me and Frank will grab her arms." Vinnie said, as Rose began to return to consciousness.
"Oscar?" Rose quizzed faintly.
"Rose!" Oscar said kneeling back down by the side of Rose.
"Are you okay; you gave us a bit of a scare?" said Oscar.
"Yes I'm fine, just a little hot that's all. Oscar, I heard you ask Carrie if she knew anything that could help you help me." Rose continued, grabbing Carries hand to help pull herself up and sit back against the water dispenser.
"You heard that? Well I heard her say that she promised you something, so I was intrigued." Oscar replied.
"Well ill whisper it to you but you must promise me that you won't say anything to anybody. Promise?" said Rose.
"Rose, I promise I won't tell anyone." said Oscar, moving his head closer to his team mates.
Rose tilted her head as Oscar moved towards her and as she began to attempt to say the words, she wondered if she was doing the right thing. Carrie definitely thought so, as she had kept nodding and smiling when she heard Rose say that she was going to tell Oscar. Although it would be so much easier if Vinnie and Frank weren't in the room, hovering around trying to listen in on what was being said. She knew that it was Vinnie that she should be telling but she just couldn't at the moment not in till she had gotten used to it herself and decided what she was going to do.
"I'm Pregnant." Rose finally babbled out.
Oscars face dropped.