ZACHS IN THIS! Only at the end though but still. This one I think is a bit boring and I couldn't explain some stuff well. What do u think? Review please. Is it really bad or just a bit bad? By the way the end is a bit soppy but I think I managed it. :P

Disclaimer: I don't own the Gallagher Girl series (sadly)

Home sweet home

Cams POV

No way, no way did I walk down a passage way for three bloody days; with, may I add, a bullet hole in my leg, for it to be a dead end! I ran my fingers through my hair and looked behind me; I could see the straight grey walls for about a mile, before the passage curled round a corner. I no longer had a clue where I was, all the twisting and turning had messed up my internal compass, and I had a feeling that I wasn't even in the same state as before. I sighed. As for what time of day it was, well that was anyone's guess; the light hadn't dimmed or brightened in the time id been here. The only source of lights were little bulbs all along the top of the passage way, they must have used (or invented) some sort of never ending bulb because none of them went out. I looked around me again, there had to be a way out somewhere, I tapped the walls. And floor around me, getting really fed up. I stopped and focused, I found more secret passage ways in Gallagher Academy then any one had since Gilly was alive. I watched the partials of dust in the air; lit up by the light above me. There.

A small indentation, on the wall in front of me, that looked suspiciously like my mothers wedding ring. I moved my fingers over it, nothing happened, I pushed on the wall with all my weight. Suddenly I was falling, the wall had moved side ways really quickly while I was leaning on it, and I hadn't noticed. 'Shit!' I landed on concrete. Then as I twisted round to look at where I had just come from, the panel of wall slid sideways with amazing speed, I only just yanked my foot out the way before it shut completely. 'Bitch' I muttered at the wall (did I mention I was exhausted and really fed up?). I looked behind me at the faces of twenty six shocked girls and one speechless teacher. I looked round, I don't know why I bothered, I knew the layout of this room blindfolded. 'Hi!' I said grinning and staring up at them. I picked myself up off the floor, and watched with amusement as they all took a step back. 'So' I continued, 'tell me why I'm in sub level 2?'

'Ummmm' one of the girls said, she looked at the teacher for help. 'Is this a test? You know like, be prepared for anything?' the teacher in question was agent Townsend and he wasn't even listening.

'Cam?' Townsend said shakily like he didn't know who I was.

'Who else is it gonna be?' I muttered confused.

'its hard to tell, you're a bit of a mess' he said, at first I was really insulted but then I looked down and remembered that my t-shirt was filthy and was missing; not only the bottom half, but also one of the sleeves. My jeans were in shreds, my hair hadn't been brushed in at least a month and I had nasty burns scarring the left side of my face.

'Yeah, well.' I murmured, the thought of the burns brought up too many bad memories. I looked at the girls; they were now looking a lot less worried now they knew I was just another sister. They were in the year below me, I knew them all, a few were even close friends, but they hadn't recognised me, even my own teacher hadn't. I must be a total mess.

They took me upstairs; it must have been just at the end of a lesson because when we got up there, the entire hallway was filled with students. In a normal school they would be so busy that most of them wouldn't even noticed me, but they were trained to notice everything, so I had pretty much the entire school staring at me. I felt something on my leg slip, my bandage was falling off, and just to make things even worse there was a trail of blood now following me, dripping onto the floor.

We reached my mothers office without too much trouble, although the school timetable seemed to be temporarily frozen as students figured it would be more fun to watch what happened to the strange, filthy girl, then go to class. When we opened the door the entire office was full of smoke, Townsend suddenly looked worried.

'What -?'

'She's cooking again.' I said with a sigh of exasperation. Townsend blinked.

'THAT'S COOKING?'

'Well, it's her version anyway.' I said walking in the office.

I walked towards the kitchen area trying to see through the smoke. I saw my mum trying to dislodge what looked like a piece of black coal from a pan. I ran up to her and hugged her round the waist; she let out a yelp of surprise, giving Townsend a confused look.

'She interrupted the last five minuets of my lesson; she defiantly knows how to make an entrance.'

'w-what?' she was still shocked.

'Well falling through a wall swearing isn't how most of my students enter the classroom.' I gave him a filthy look. He smiled slightly at me in return. 'I think we should take her to the infirmary now Rachel, her leg looks bad.' We both looked down to the gradually expanding pool of blood on the floor. My mother went pale.

'Its fine, its not that bad, can't be I've been walking round on it for over a week.' On second thoughts that probably wasn't the best thing to say.

When we left the office, I was brushing the tangles out of my hair trying to look more presentable, there were still kids everywhere watching silently, my mum muttered something about; they should be in class by now. It was then that I saw them, I saw Macy first then Bex and Liz, I grinned at them and they rushed forwards to hug me, I laughed and hugged them back. It was then that the entire school gasped in shock, we looked up confused till Tanya yelled 'What happened to your hand!' I curled up my hand, keeping my eyes to the ground, and stayed silent. I didn't want to talk about this, not now.

I was in the infirmary, it was an hour later, and I was feeling loads better. Id finally had a decent meal and my wounds were all fixed; well sort of, it takes a while for things to heal and they would never sort out my fingers but whatever. My mum was there, Bex, Macy and Liz were too and some other guy I didn't know. There were all watching me like I was a ticking time bomb.

'What?' I snapped

'We saw the video. Then on the camera. They took you.' Liz was mixing half formed questions together not sure of what to ask, so I went with the last one.

'Yeah it was deliberate.' I said vaguely.

'WHAT?' Bex yelled.

'I needed to know why they wanted me in the first place.' They were looking at me like I'd lost it.

'You put yourself though all that, just to find out what they wanted?' my mum looked like she was about to faint.

'Basically, yeah' I replied, maybe I had lost it.

'A little insane.' That was the guy in the corner speaking to my mum 'but still, can we have her when she's eighteen?' my mum just glared at him. Then to me he said, 'I'm from MI6. Where are you thinking of signing up? I know you've probably got tons of offers but we could really use you in MI6. Even our best agents wouldn't be prepared to do that' I think I've just got offered a job.

'Don't encourage her.' My mum snapped.

I'm back in my old room now, everyone else is asleep. I have just spent the last four hours telling them everything I had been doing and trying to explain that, it really was the only way to find out what they wanted and to stop them coming after me. Now the COC were too busy trying to run, to chase after me. I was safe. Finally. A light knock at the door pulled me out of my thoughts. I got up there was a note on the floor.

Hey Gallagher Girl,

Sorry I wasn't there for your big entrance, thought you'd want to be with your friends. Meet me in library?

-Zack x

I smiled, and went down to the library. It was dark and empty, I looked round confused where was he?

'Hey, Gallagher Girl.' I turned round smiling, pain flashed through his eyes as he touched the burn on my face.

'It's okay. Doesn't hurt anymore.' He smiled faintly then.

'You always say everything's fine when it's not Cam. I missed you.'

'I know, I missed you too.' He kissed me then, softly.

'I love you.' He said as I wound my arms round his neck. The perfect end to such horrible few months.

Ok nearly done just one more Chapter to go I think. Do you think I should put something dramatic and cliff-hangery at the end or should I keep her life perfect from now on? I don't know. It will be out tomorrow.