Chapter 6

(A/N: Hey guys, I know it's been a few days but it's summer! I need to soak up the sun while I still can before school starts. Anyways, a lot of you have started following me! Thank you so much! Just remember to leave a review.)

P.O.V of Cameron Morgan

Number of times I woke up from a nightmare: 3

Number of times Zach tried to calm me down: 4

Number of hours I should have gotten of sleep: 6

Numbers of hours I got sleep: 2

It's 6 in the morning. None of us got that much sleep. We all took turns staying guard around the safe house. Nothing interesting happened but Nick and Macey said they saw a figure running down the street. It could have been overseen, but it was 3 in the morning when they saw it, and 4 degrees below freezing. So something obviously didn't seem right.

"It looked like it was running towards the mountains," said Nick

"The mountains? It's winter in Iceland, why would someone go to the mountains? Even if they were helping someone in hiding," I asked.

"It doesn't make sense, but we should investigate anyways," Liz said.

"Are comms units won't work up there. There would be no way to communicate with you and Jonas," Bex said with concern on her face.

"Zach and I can go, and the rest of you can be our back up," I said. They all thought I was crazy.

"Cammie we just said we can't use comms units up there!" Bex yelled.

"We can use smoke signals. If we are in trouble we'll send up a red smoke signal. If we are doing okay we'll send up a green smoke signal," Zach said. At least he supported me.

"It's a good idea to see if Nabokov is up in the mountains," Macey said. Nick nodded. Liz, Jonas, and Grant also agreed.

"You are all psycho! We are not going to send anyone up to those mountains!" Bex yelled even more loudly and with more anger raging in her voice.

"Majority wins Bex," Grant told her soothingly.

"Whatever, but I'm not helping you two kill yourselves,"

"We don't even know if they are up there,"

"They don't have to be up there for them to hurt themselves! Avalanches happen up there all the time! Almost every day!"

"Bex just stay here if you don't want to help out," I said and she stormed out of the room. I rolled my eyes. The last time she was like this was when the Circle was after me. That was at least a reasonable reason to be worried about me. But this? She is being way out of line. It's a typical mission and on a typical mission you have to take risks. Someone must be dealing with Mother Nature right now.

We decided to leave for the mountains in one hour. Liz and Jonas are going to set up in a motel right by the mountains. Grant, Macey, and Nick are going as far up the mountains with us until the comms cut out so they can stay in contact with Liz and Jonas. Zach and I are going to explore and investigate the mountains. Bex is staying at the safe house since she wants no part of us "killing ourselves" as she refers to it.

"Are you ready?" Macey asks me. I nod my head.

"Okay so red smoke means you are in trouble. Green means you are fine. Blue means you are coming back. Yellow means you found something. Remember to send up a smoke signal every half hour. If you don't then we are coming to get you. And you can always send one up just to prevent us from having a heart attack," Nick said. They all gave us hugs.

"Don't worry Cam, Bex will get over it," Grant whispered to me. I smiled and gave him a big hug.

We had are smoke signals, we were dressed in our snow gear Liz and Jonas designed, and we had light weight hiking gear to help us up the mountain. We traveled about 5 miles up the mountains away from our friends. Nothing seemed suspicious.

"If there still isn't anything in the next 5 miles we should probably head back," Zach said.

"Sounds good to me," We continued hiking. About 3 miles later, I heard something.

"Do you hear that?" I asked him.

"Hear what?"

"SHHH! That!" I said in a whisper. It sounded like a machine. And as we went around a "to perfect for nature to create" corner of the mountain, we saw a huge machine. But no one was around to guard it. BAM! Was the next thing to happen. Zach grabbed me before I could register what was going on. We ducked behind a large tree. BAM! A bullet was shot right above our heads. Sharpshooters must be around and we must be their targets. "Run!" Is what Zach told me. But I wasn't going to leave without him. I grabbed his wrist and guided him to the machine. We hid behind it. They stopped shooting, obviously because they don't want to damage the machine. The machine wasn't that big. Just big enough to give Zach and me a cover spot. It was rectangular with a panel full of buttons on top. Coming from the top was a screen. But it wasn't a normal computer like screen; I don't think calling a screen is even a correct thing to say. It was like one of those old computers that are 6 inches thick but the monitor didn't have a screen. You could put your hand through it. Whatever Nabokov was doing with it makes no sense right now.

The sharpshooters were getting closer. I could hear their footsteps crunch on the snow. I was looking around, so was Zach.

"Look," He said and nudged me. Up above us was a ladder that led to an upper level of the mountain's cave.

"They have guns, how are we going to make it up there without getting shot,"

"You go up and I'll distract them,"

"No! How about we both fight them off and go up there together," I said. And before he could disagree I got up and attacked one of the sharpshooters. They were caught by surprise, so they didn't have their guns ready to shoot. I snapped kicked the first one and knocked him out. Zach followed my lead and snapped two of the guards' necks. One of the sharpshooters was taking aim at me, but I was too busy fighting another sharpshooter who was two times my size.

"Cammie!" Zach yelled, and that's what caught my attention. The guard I was fighting threw a punch at me. I blocked it and twisted it behind his back and used him as a human shield right when the other sharpshooter pulled his trigger. He shot the sharpshooter I was fighting. The one I was fighting went limp and I had to use all my strength from not flattening me. But then there was another shot. And I heard Zach scream in pain. I immediately knocked out the sharpshooter who did it. I ran to Zach. He got shot in the leg.

"Cammie," He said weakly.

"Shhh, we'll get you out of here. Give me your red smoke signal,"

"First let's get out of sight," and he was right. We were in the open where anyone could shoot us. I pulled him over to a spot about half a mile away from the cave with the machine.

"Cammie," he said again just as weakly.

"I sent the smoke signal up; they'll be here soon,"

"No, we can keep going. It's just my leg. Just take the bullet out, put some antibacterial stuff on it, wrap a bandage around it and then let's go up that ladder."

"Okay just hold still," He was right, but I didn't want to pull his bullet out. I ripped some of my pant leg off to clot the bleeding. The bullet wasn't in too deep but he was going to need stitches. And I was never good at needle point.

"Here put this in your mouth," I said while handing him a rope so he wouldn't make a loud yell that would give us away. He did what he was told. I started pulling out the bullet and his face was in so much pain, but he made a great effort not to make a sound. Once I got the bullet out I poured a whole bunch of numbing oil on it and gave him the sloppiest sutures I have ever seen. I really should have tried harder in Madame Dabney's needle point lessons. I wrapped a bandage around it and he was ready to continue.

"Cammie wait," he said.

"What? Does it still hurt? Did one of the stitches come out?"

"No, I need to ask you something, because it might be the last chance I get,"

"Zach can you please hold on to your question? I'm not planning on any of us to die today,"

"No I can't wait," And he got on one knee. No this cannot be happening. Was he crazy? He better be tying his shoe because we do not have time for this.

"Cameron Ann Morgan will you marry me?" he said. The girls and I have been practicing what we would say if any of the guys asked us to marry them. And I gave him the answer I always practiced.

"Yes!" but the next part wasn't so romantic. "Now get up! We don't have time for this!" I said but he just smiled. He got up and we went back to the cave to climb the ladder.

(A/N: How was that? The next chapter is going to be Bex's P.O.V! It's going to get a lot more exciting than this don't worry. Please leave a review so I know what you guys think of this story. 5 reviews would be great! Thanks for reading! I'll try to finish the next chapter today!)