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February 12th 2003 ~Cammie's first kill~

Cammie had been at the base for a few weeks now. At the moment she was in her room crying from the news Catherine had just told her. The CIA had just sent back her mother and father but there was nothing the doctors here could do anymore. Her parents were going to die during the next few days whether she liked it or not. The next day Catherine came for another visit like she usually did since Cammie had arrived at the base. Catherine saw Cammie's puffy red cheeks and swollen eyes. She gave Cammie a sympathetic smile

"Cameron I have some good news" Cammie's head popped up quicker than you can say 'what' thinking it was about her parents. Catherine shook her head as if reading the young girls mind.

"It's about your placement; I understand you have no living family members besides you parents at the moment?" Cammie nodded. Catherine smiled "well I've been given clearance for you to train here and stay here with me" Cammie moved her head to the side confused "train to do what?" she asked. Catherine sat next to Cammie and put a hand on her shoulder.

"Remember how I told you the people from CIA and the FBI did this to your parents?" Cammie nodded. "Well Cameron you will be staying here and train to fight those people. To avenge your parents do you accept this offer?" Cammie thought for a moment. She was barely eight years old, and was at the simple mind of a child; but there she knew she had to grow up and fight for her parent's death. Cammie looked at Catherine and nodded "yes" she said. A grin spread across Catherine's face "excellent" she said she grabbed Cammie's hand.

"You're first test is now."

She dragged Cammie be the hand and pulled her across the many hallways to a room Cammie had never seen before. It was a dark room with glass on one side of the room, though you couldn't see out of it. A gun was in the middle of the room with two openings at the end of the gun. And in front of it a few feet away was to people.

The woman was bound to a tight rope along with a man beside her. They had duct tape over their mouths and couldn't move. The woman had long black hair with dark brown eyes while the man had red hair with green eyes.

Cammie hadn't learned how to be an assassin or a spy; she never realized the hair seeping out of the woman wig to reveal Cammie's own colored hair. She didn't realize that the two people had the exact same body as her parents. Cammie didn't realize it, any of it.

The only thing she did was when Catherine told her to pull the trigger because they were the ones who killed her parents. But Cammie just never realized they

were her parents.

I woke up with tears streaming down my face. The dream wasn't a dream it was a memory, the day I killed my parents. My breathing was hard as I sat up looking around the room as memories flooded back into my head of where I was and what happened. I looked at my mental clock, 3:09 AM I sat back on my pillow carefully. I stayed awake thinking when someone interrupted my thoughts.

"Couldn't sleep either?"

Zach said, I sat there unfazed and looked next to my bed at him. "You could say" I mumbled, Zach sat up. "I know what you were dreaming about Cam I'm sorry" I stayed quiet. "Hey Zach?" I asked as I met his eyes "yea?" I looked at the foot of my bed.

"How could you leave this place? I mean knowing your family was here. Didn't you once love your mother Zach?"

I tried to comprehend the thought. Why would Zach even do this? I was doing it for my family's revenge and he… he was helping me. He may hate his mother but I know there's more to it. Zach fell silent for a moment.

"I did love her once. Until I understood what she did and why she killed my dad" I gave him a curious look. "What do you mean" he sighed "my mom found out he was a double agent. But he never hurt a single hair on my mom; he loved her too much, and for me in that matter. But mom saw dad as an enemy and shot him. I lived in the base refusing anymore training until she took me to the testing room" he took a deep breath.

"She made me wait on the other side of the glass for hours until you showed up" he wouldn't meet my eyes. "

After she killed my dad I told her she was a monster. She wanted to show me what a real monster looked like…so she showed me you. But I saw what she made you do, so I ran."

I looked at Zach, and I mean really looked at him. Underneath his mask and training was a boy whose mom had killed his father and who had to grow up way to fast, like me. He's still the kid he was when he ran away, just stronger.

Maybe it was because all I could think of was the things we'd both gone through, or maybe the fact that he looked like he needed someone. So I hugged him, for a long time. Neither of us said anything we just laid there together as we both fell asleep.

A/N

Short but sweet…well not sweet but…urgg y'all know what I mean. Anyways….

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