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My eyes shot over to my clock as I woke up, 5:20AM, Great. I'll have time to get ready and wake up James. See, the thing about James is-when he gets to sleep in, he sleeps in, and is so hard to get up, unless Catherine's' in the building. At the base we all got up at 4:30 AM each morning, here breakfast is at 6:45 to 7:30 and classes start at 8:00.
I got up, got dressed, and got everything else ready when I looked at the time 6:25, perfect. I walked out the door to their room with a knock, but then I heard it. Yelling, beating and who knows what.
"Hello?" a kid named Grant answered the door, looking…a little rough. I guess they already started getting James up, or for better words tried and failed.
"Can't get him up?" I said knowing he would nod, he did. I pushed past him, in in my sweetest voice whispered
"Oh James! I want the Panda bear! Plleeeaassseee pwetty pwwetty pweeaassee!"
He woke up screaming.
"What the hell!" They all yelled, thinking James was hurt. No he wasn't hurt, maybe a little petrified, but not hurt.
I couldn't help but smirk and say, "Good you're up." He groaned and got up reluctantly. "Damn it Cam, I hate you."
I internally laughed at the awful honey pot mission poor James had to complete. That girl's whiney voice gave everyone nightmares.
I looked around at the guys "how did you do that? We've been trying to get him up for the past twenty minutes." Ryan asked in disbelief. I laughed "you learn a few things after being friends a few years wouldn't you agree?" they all nodded but Zach just looked grumpy. I looked around
"Well my mission is done, see you all later" I said. But I heard it, my eyes met Zach for less than a second, he had scoffed lowly under his breath so no one could hear him. When our eyes met I knew he knew James told me, and that I am not on his good list….great.
~4 days later~
"Hey Zach."
I slid into the chair next to him as I sat through another class. Blackthorne was good so far; I liked training and well, just being around people my actual age. I guess I just missed out on it. Having more people remotely close to my age than just James, I haven't had this since I was a little girl….before everything.
Zach didn't say anything, and just kept ignoring me. I sighed he wouldn't talk to me no matter what I tried. He knows that James told, he's done barley as much as look at me since that conversation with James. On the other hand Ryan was being the perfect target for James, seriously how do guys bond so fast? I mentally laughed at the question; I sounded like… an actual teenage girl for once. I smiled slightly and leaned back in my chair for the rest of the lesson
~After class~
I had a plan, a crazy unpredictable plan, something they don't teach how to do at Blackthorne, or the COC. I had to tell him the truth, not the truth about my mission but… about everything. I couldn't get though to this kid, he would not trust me. I have to do this or I fail.
I waited by the door as our class started to fill out, Zach appeared and started walking away but I pulled him back
"Look I need to talk to you" he crossed his arms "No thanks" he spun around but I grabbed his arm and yanked him into a secret passage way. He gritted his teeth when he looked at me. "Look" he stepped closer "I don't want to talk to you, I despise my mother, and what she does" I blocked the passage way behind my back. "Why do you hate her" I said in a very calm voice. He shook his head as if I was joking "You know why" he tried to push pass me but I blocked him. "I don't know why Zach!" I yelled, he looked a little surprised I was I stepped closer to him.
"I don't know why! I don't understand why you would just leave your family, because you know what? You might not like what she stands for but she is your mother. My family was killed by the CIA, and I have no one left. You take your own family for granted!" I stepped closer.
"Do you think I wanted this?" I shook my head "all I wanted was a family and Catherine gave that to me, she treats me like family. Ask James if you don't believe me, I've seen the way she looks at her workers but then me…she treats me like her own. I'm not like Catherine Goode Zach" I stepped back
"but she's the one who saved me, and I owe her everything."
A/N
Heavy stuff right? So yea I'm pretty sure y'all weren't expecting that but while I was away this scene just kept playing in my head. Please R and R!
-Alexandra
*This is final/ re-edited version