I was awoken by the screaming of my baby girl. After what happened yesterday, I shot up off the sofa and straight up the stairs. I went into Lucy's room and saw her stood up. I looked around to check everything was safe before taking her out.
"Mama, hungwy." Thank god my baby is fine. I pulled her close and held her for a few seconds before going back downstairs for some food. Once the adrenaline had passed over the nausea kicked in. I practically chucked Lucy on to a sleeping Zach and ran into the bathroom. Zach walked in a minute later.
"Babe, why are you and Lu up? It's 4:37 in the morning." He stood behind me and rubbed my back.
"She screamed, I freaked out, turned out she was hungry. Can you sort her out? I want to go to bed." I stood up, twisted around and rested my arms on Zach's shoulders. He leant down and gave me a quick kiss before pushing me towards the stairs.
***3 hours later***
I woke up again to the sound of my children. Only this time they were laughing along with their daddy. I got out of bed slowly this time and made my way downstairs.
"Mummy! Daddy made pancakes!" The girls all sat at the table, eating their breakfast.
"I wonder why daddy made pancakes when he knows that mummy loves waffles more." I went up to Zach and wrapped my arms around him. I was being more cuddly after our massive spat yesterday. We had fought before but not enough for Zach to think we couldn't share our bed. I kissed his bare shoulder blade and went to sit at the table with the girls.
"Who said daddy didn't make waffles for mummy? I believe Sammy just said I had made pancakes. I do think that this plate of waffles does have world's best wife written on it." Zach placed the plate in front of me and it did say in syrup world's best wife. He kissed my cheek then took the twins and Lucy upstairs to get changed. I sat in silence, taking in whatever peacefulness I could before my hectic day began.
***8:06am***
"Lucy! Stop running around. We need to go. Let's go see Grampy and Granddy." Zach had left with the girls and Lucy decided it would be fun to play catch. Normally catch involves a ball but in my house it involves a Lucy. "Lucy May Goode! If you do not come here right now so help me I will leave without you!" With that she came running into my arms.
When we got to Gallagher, Zach had just pulled up so we all walked in together. I went straight to sub-level 3 while Zach went with Lucy to find Sally before coming to join me.
"Morning, girls. Today's lesson is something we would rather you would never have to use but I know more than most and this is also one of the most important lessons you need to know. You all have about 6 months left here before you join the real world. We won't be here to keep you safe 24/7 anymore and that is one of the scariest things about leaving. It was something I wasn't scared about but should have been. My best friends should have been too but they weren't. I want you to be scared but that is the best way to be prepared. Today's lesson should only come in need as a last resort but the last resort can always become the first resort when we are scared. Today's lesson is to help you keep it as a last resort. Today we are going to be learning how to shoot." I turned around so my back was to the class. "We have to be able to interpret everywhere someone is going to shoot." I heard Zach walk into the room and he knew what we were learning today. I heard the gun click. He was a trained assassin, he would aim for the vitals. Head first, then the heart and if he missed both them the stomach where the person would bleed to death. I heard him release the trigger. I leant to the side which gave him the perfect shot to get my heart. When the released the trigger the second time I flipped over the bullet and was facing the class once again. One last shot, the stomach. He took his ready stance and took the shoot. I back flipped over it. The class roared into applause. "I have been living with a trained assassin for a long time. I know all the tricks in the book. They always aim for the head first, then the heart and then the stomach. If they miss you all three times you have to get in your shot then. It is the only time they will be distracted long enough. If an assassin misses all those shots they worry. That's all you need that second of doubt to get them." I stretched my hand and grabbed my gun for under the desk. I moved so quickly only Zach managed to pick up some of the moves and 2 seconds later I had my gun trained onto Zach's chest. "Those two seconds are all you need." I knew the gun was empty because no one could come down here unless they were allowed and I left it empty. I also checked when no one was looking. I took the shot, leaving everyone gasping at me then turning to Zach to see him perfectly fine.
"Honestly, guys, do you really think I would kill my husband? I might hate him sometimes but I don't want to kill him."
"Sometimes Mrs G, we think you would. Plus he just shot at you." The whole class laughed.
"It was planned and I know the bullet are made of rubber so it would make so difference if he hit me or not. I know sometimes we hate each other but not that much. At least I don't think." Zach laughed with the class and came up to me. He kissed me straight on the lips.
"I don't hate you that much Mrs Goode." He said once I pulled away.
"I don't hate you that much either Mr Goode. Now girls if you will follow Mr Goode out he will show you to where you need to go. I will be out in a moment." Zach led the girls out to the gun range while I took a moment to breathe. This lesson was the hardest to teach out of any lesson I will ever have to teach. This lesson is harder then Zach telling the girls about 'the birds and the bees'. Not that he will be doing that for a long time and he will probably turn it around so I end up telling them.
***9:01am***
ZPOV:
Cammie struggled with that lesson. She always did after what happened when she got taught it.
"Babe, we need to go. I don't want to be late when I'm the one being reinstated. Plus I haven't seen mum yet. She wanted me to come round last night but then everything happened and I haven't had time this morning. She will kill me." Cammie was freaking out big time.
"Baby, we go to CIA headquarters first then when we get back you can talk for as long as you like with her." I wrapped my arm around her waist and led her out to her R8. "I get to drive. I haven't driven her in ages, okay Gallagher Girl?" Cammie nodded reluctantly. "Let's go then." I opened her door then got in my side.
***12:31***
When we got back to Gallagher we went straight to see Rach.
"Hey mum, sorry I didn't come last night or this morning. I have just being to crazy with things. How's Lu and you'll never guess what."
"My Granddaughter is fine...she always is when she's with me and what is this what I will never guess?"
"You are speaking to a reinstated CIA offical!" Cammie was really proud. Her face shone up as she said it. I wrapped my arms around her stomach from the back and kissed her cheek. "So about these people we are now dealing with, our house is on lock down when we are not in it and then it is semi-lock down when we are awake in the house. Gallagher needs to be secure as the kids will be spending more weekends here now. We also need someone on full time McHenry-Winters guard to protect them all. Macey is no way up for it and Preston can't beat a fly. Someone also has to be able to protect Liz, Jonas and Andrew because they aren't field people and can't protect themselves from them. And well Bex and Grant were with us at the time so they can handle themselves as can we. The only one other thing is that we need to contact Blackthorne so they know to keep Morg safe. Shit! What about the girls at school? It cannot be safe there. We need to get someone inside there, ASAP." Cammie began shaking in my hold. I pulled her towards the sofa and sat on her my lap trying to calm her down. I just slowly rocked her until her heart rate slowed down and she was breathing normally again.
"Kiddo, I will have Ed or Joe as a transfer teacher there in less than a few hours. They will protect the girls with their lives and you know it."
"Then what about Sally or Simon? What about if they lose a dad because they were saving their grandchildren? How will they cope with the grief? How will I cope with it? I won't is the answer." Cammie began shaking again.
"When we picked this life we knew what it meant. We put other peoples lives before our own. Innocent people won't ever know just how bad this world is because of people like us. Joseph and Edward both understood what they were going to be doing. Yes they both now have families but their job is still to protect innocent people. Their grandchildren are innocent people who need protecting. They will do whatever it takes to protect them, just like how me and your father did when you were younger. Our lives are about risks and taking them for the right people." Rachel got up from her desk and walked to the door. "I have work to do and you have lessons to teach. I will speak to you later." That was our queue to leave. The thing that needed doing right now was taking Cammie to the hospital wing. She was still hyperventilating and we had to see the doctor anyways.
"Hi Zach," That flipping nurse has the hots for me. She knows that Cammie is pregnant with my baby. She knows that I am happily married to Cammie. She knows I have four kids at home who I love to pieces. Yet she still wants to get me to get into her pants. I ignored her and went straight to see doctor Aswold.
"Good afternoon Mr and Mrs Goode. I was expecting you yesterday until I received the news of Mrs McHenry-Winters. I just have to record the date, 15th October. Okay. From the blood test I have been able to predict your due date. You are seven weeks along. I believe that you will be due on the 10th of June. After you second labour I believe that you get seen every two weeks for a scan is that correct?" Cammie nodded her head. She still wasn't fully recovered from her slight argument with Rach. "Okay then I will want to see you every weeks from now on then please. I wish to keep an extra close eye on you at the moment. Can I just check your blood pressure?" The doctor was taking it when he began to shake his head. I could see that her blood pressure was high, really high. "Cameron, right now I'm not keen on how high it is. Zachary, she needs bed rest with minimum disturbance. Two days bed rest and then taking it easy for a week. How much stress have the two of you been under recently?" I didn't even want to think about how much it us. The amount of stress is bad for a normal person but a pregnant Gallagher girl it is far worse.
"A lot. We had a rather large argument yesterday and then just now Cam was arguing with Rach. Then there is also the fact that we gave three young girls who are a bit too much like me." I slipped out a small laugh while Cammie had a small smile on her face. "But I can handle our girls and Rachel. She will be stress free from for at least a week." The doctor nodded and grinned a bit.
"So Mrs Goode I will see you in two weeks time at the same time. If you wish Mr Goode is welcome to come as well but only if he has been doing as he is told and keeping you stress free." We stood and thanked the doctor before finding Lucy and then going to sub-level one.
Finding Lucy was harder than I thought. I had left her with Sally this morning and Rach said that she was fine with her while we were out so we went to see Sally because we knew Lucy wasn't with Rach. She wasn't in her room. She wasn't outside. She wasn't with Simon and she wasn't in the grand hall.
"Why is so hard to find my sister and daughter in this flipping school? How the hell did I manage to find you when we were here?" Cammie laughed as I got slightly mad. She wrapped her arms around me and kissed my cheek.
"I dunno babe but they could be with mum and I'm ready to face her." We went towards the office. As we got closer, I could hear the squealing of my daughter and the laughing of my sister. I opened the door and saw dad tickling Sally so much she looked like she was about to wet herself and Lucy was sat on Rachel's lap squealing at her aunt who was in tears of laughter. When she saw us she screamed.
"Mada!" That was her name for the two of us. I went to pick her up while Cammie sat down. I put on my strict face and dad stopped tickling Sal. She saw my face and went out of the office to probably look for her mum or go back to her room.
"Right no one is going to start any arguments with Cam otherwise they will have me to deal with. No one stresses her out otherwise they have me to deal with. Babe," I turned to face Cam. "Why don't you go down the your class and I'll be down in a sec. Joe should be there so don't let him stress you out." Cammie stood up and took Lucy from my arms. Then left the office. "I take it dad is going to be watching the girls at school. Let me be the one to tell Cam because anymore stress and she could have a heart attack or lose the baby. We need someone as protection for Cammie." Rachel began pacing thinking of someone to help me protect my family.
"Zach, do you remember someone called Nicholas Cross at Blackthorne?" I shook my head. The sounded familiar but I couldn't put my finger on it. "He was a year above you. He now works for the CIA and I think you would both get on very well. I can put in a call to the director if you like?" Dad was just sat there in silence.
"Dad what is it? You are awfully quiet." Rachel went over to him and put a comforting arm on his shoulder.
"You can tell us Ed."
"It's Cammie and Abby. You see when Cam had her miscarriage Abby took it to heart. She found it harder to deal with than Cammie at times. I can't see either of them go through it again. Zach you need to get whatever help you can to protect you all and both me and Joe are going to keep an eye on the girls at school. We leave in half an hour. Neither one of you can tell Abby about this yet. Let me do it in my own time." I nodded my head at him as did Rach.
"Call the director and get Nick to me as soon as you can. I am going down the the subs to be with Cam and relax her." I left and went towards my beautiful wife.
CPOV:
After Zach sent me out, I knew something was up. He would just tell me to go to lesson unless something was wrong. I knew I shouldn't have worried about it and just gone down to the subs to help Joe but I couldn't. I had to know what was wrong. Lucy had fallen sleep in my arms so she would be quiet. I snuck into my worst passage way. The one that let me hear into mum's office.
All of it was too much to take. I knew I shouldn't have listened in. I can't believe what I heard. Abby was so heartbroken over Scotty yet she never told me. And why did I know the name Nicholas Cross? I heard Zach say he was about to leave so I left the passage way and went down the sub level one.
***later that day***
We were all back home. Back at the ever so peaceful Goode household.
ZPOV:
When we got back I took the girls into the playroom to talk to them.
"Right you three need to be super Goode for mummy. She is poorly and that means you guys have to do as your told and be a bit quieter than normal. We all know that there is no point me saying anymore because I already know you've stopped listening." The twins were staring at the toys behind me and Lucy was playing with her feet like they were the best thing in the world. "Lulu come on let's go show mummy what a good girl you can be." We walked upstairs to look for Cam but she was in the shower so we left it at that.
***9pm***
CPOV:
Dinner was Goode. All the girls ate their food without any fuss and they were all in bed since they were all tired after staying up so late last night. I spent the whole day wondering why the hell I know the name Nicholas Cross. I was sat on the sofa staring out to space when Zach came and sat next to me.
"Babe, what you thinking about?" Zach didn't know I had listened in on their conversation and I wasn't sure if I should tell him or not.
"Nothing important. Can we watch a film? I just want a really Goode cuddle from you." I saw Zach smirk from the corner of my eye.
"We don't need to watch a film for a cuddle you know that. Plus you need rest. So we can lie in bed and watch one and you are staying in bed for the next two days." I let out a massive groan. I hate being on bed rest. I have nothing to do in bed and daytime telly is so annoying! "Gallagher girl, no need to moan cause I'm at home as well and Lucy is going to Bex's. So we will be all alone." Well I guess I will be able to catch up on all my sleep deprived nights. I stood up taking Zach's hand and we went up to bed.
So hey guys I haven't left an A/N for a while so just thought I would say hey and hope you are all enjoying the story. I also wanted to ask if you want Nick to have had a thing with Macey...if you do it will probably consist of Preston and Macey being on a break and Mace when on a mission with Nick and they hooked up once or something like that
Nadz x