Chapter 14

Wounded

"Honey, Bex and Macey are missing."

I swear my heart stopped beating.

I could feel my lungs screaming for air but I couldn't breathe.

"Honey! Come on breathe!" Mum yelled. "Some one help!"

I was gasping for air but I couldn't fill my lungs.

I could hear the sound of people running towards my room.

I started to feel light headed but I couldn't do anything about it.

I could feel people trying to calm me down but after a minute I gratefully slipped into the darkness.

Zach's POV

I watched in horror as Cammie plummeted from the window. The sinking feeling in my stomach caused me physical pain as I realised there was nothing I could do. I slumped to the ground as the man pressing the gun to my head jumped out of the window after her.

My head was pounding and all I could think was 'she's gone. She's gone.'

Liz's screams of pain brought me back to the present.

I crawled over to her and ripped her trouser leg to just above her knee. She grimaced in pain but I ignored it. Just below her knee there was a bloody wound.

I ripped the material in my hands into strips and I tied them tightly around her leg to stop the steady flow of blood.

She hissed in pain but whispered "Thanks."

I nodded slightly and slumped against the wall.

"It's going to be ok Zach." Liz slurred her words slightly. "Cammie is strong. She will get through this. She has to."

I inclined my head slightly to show that I heard her, inside my heart lifted slightly.

This is Cammie we're talking about. She is the best spy here. She is even better than me and if, when, she gets out of this I will tell her just that.

Suddenly I realised someone was shouting at me.

"Zach? Can you hear me?" Solomon's face appeared in front of me. I nodded, showing I heard him. "I need you to take Liz to the hospital. Can you do that for me?"

(A/N I know in previous chapters I said Bex took her but I decided I wanted Zach to take her.)

I gazed around me, slightly dazed before I stood up.

My head span and I stumbled slightly. Solomon grabbed my arm to steady me but I shook him off.

"I'm fine. I'm fine." I mumbled.

I walked over to Liz and gently pulled her into my arms. Her arms snaked around my neck to support herself.

"It's going to be ok." Liz murmured in my ear.

She sighed heavily before going limp in my arms. I staggered to the hospital wing on the first floor. They needed one so when all the girls got injuries they could just go there. A normal hospital would ask too many questions.

Doctors crowded around me and pulled Liz from my arms.

They settled her on a gurney and wheeled her away.

I waited until they were around the corner before I crept out and slipped behind the tapestry detailing the Gallagher Family Tree.

I made sure I was alone before falling to the ground.

I tried to control the sobs that were fighting to get out but in the end I just broke down.

I let her get taken. I watched as she was thrown from the window and I didn't try to help her.

I would never admit this but right now I was so weak that I think if someone was to attack me right now I would give up without a fight. I wouldn't have the will power to fight back.

I love her so much and the thought of losing her scares me so much.

After an hour of moping I slipped out of the tunnel and may my way back to the headmistress's office. As I passed the great hall, I heard the sounds of people laughing and eating, all completely unaware that one of their numbers was missing. Until the headmistress went down and told them. If I am right, and I am pretty sure I am, Headmistress Morgan will be too busy right now abusing the CIA director for not being able to get a location for Cammie.

When I reached the corner I paused as angry voices made their way down to me from the closed office. Once again I was right.

"What do you mean you can't get a signal from her?" Headmistress Morgan yelled. "She knows to keep a tracker hidden on her person at all times after the times she has sneaked out. She knows that."

I didn't hear the reply but after a minute she said, "You're right. I'm sorry Director. I have to go now."

I heard the faint snap of a cell phone being closed.

"She's gone." Headmistress Morgan whispered. "I let her be taken."

I waited a moment before I walked up to the double doors. I knocked lightly before opening the door.

"Zach!" Solomon snapped. "Where have you been? We have had Bex and Macey looking for you."

"I'm sorry." I said. "I just needed time to calm down a bit. I didn't go out of the castle, I promise. I stayed here all the time, I just slipped into one of Cammie's favourite hiding places. They haven't found her yet have they."

I knew that they hadn't, I just needed to hear it straight up.

Headmistress Morgan shook her head regretfully. "No they haven't"

I collapsed on the couch and put my head in my hands.

I always knew that finding a lost agent so close after going missing was almost always impossible but to hear it just like that and about the person I loved just made the news ten times worse.

"Zach, I'm sorry." Solomon said, placing his hand on my shoulder. "I know how much Cammie means to you and that you want to go and find her but you have to go back to Blackthorne."

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A/N ok so there you have it. That's what happened to Zach immediately after Cammie was taken. I hope you liked it. Please R&R.