Yay another chapter! This one isn't very long either I'm afraid..

You know there was an earthquake in the Washington DC area this week? 3.6 biggest one we've had here. Too bad I slept though the whole thing :(

Hope you enjoy the chapter!

Disclaimer: I don't own the Gallagher Girls series.

LINA

Lina was curled up in a tiny alcove that overlooked the long driveway, waiting for her parents to come back. The red velvet curtains were drawn around her and hid Lina from everyone else in the mansion she had called home all her life.

She was thinking…and feeling kind of guilty. Because the one thing Lina wanted most right now was her parents to finally be together, which meant Andrew's parents would have to split up.

She was drawn out of her thoughts when a limousine pulled up to the front gates of Gallagher. Lina raced down the stairs singing "They're back! They're back!" at the top of her lungs.

Andrew found his way to the front doors also and stared at Lina weirdly.

"You're such a kid sometimes that I forget who's younger."

Lina just stuck her tongue out at him.

"You're younger and I'm older. Don't forget it again Andrewww" Lina replied, drawing out his name.

Andrew just rolled his eyes at his half-sister and opened the door to greet his parents and Cammie, but only Cammie was at the door. It was Lina who voiced his thoughts.

"Mom, where's Dad and Chloe? Weren't they supposed to come back with you?"

Her mother gave Lina a weary smile and that's when Lina noticed the puffiness below her mother's eyes that indicated the impossible. It was impossible because Cameron Morgan didn't cry-did she?

Cammie just stood there staring at the two children in front of her, which made Lina want to squirm in the intensity of her mother's gaze. Lina saw Andrew peaking at her from the corner of his eye and they shared a look.

What in the world was going on?

It felt like ages later when Cammie walked up to Andrew, placed her hands on his shoulders and whispered something softly in his ear.

"I'm sorry."

Even after Cammie had left leaving the two standing there in utter silence, neither one had the strength to ask or the will to find out what exactly Cameron Morgan was sorry for.

When Lina woke up the next day she realized that her father and her step-mother had never come home last night after her mother had driven her and Andrew back to the house.

It was 6:28 in the morning. Andrew was still sleeping in his room and her mother was spread out on the couch in the living room since Lina's new room technically used to be the guest room.

Lina snuck downstairs into the kitchen and started to make herself some cereal for breakfast. She was sitting there eating quietly when her mother came in and sat down next to her with a cup of coffee.

"What happened Mom?" Lina asked, "Where's Dad and Chloe?"

Her mother paused before responding.

"The mission is classified, Angel. The only thing I can tell you is that your step-mother got into a situation with her mission partner that your father wasn't very pleased to find out about. As for where they are right now….I don't know."

Lina was shocked.

"Are you saying that she cheated on him?" Lina asked incredulously.

Her mother's silence was an answer enough. It wasn't until they heard the loud angry footsteps up the stairs that they both realized that Andrew had been eavesdropping.

Cammie gave Lina a I'm-going-to-go-because-he-probably-hates-me-now-so-you-go-fix-things look and ran out of the house.

Lina sighed. Her parents' lives were totally messed up.

Lina knocked on Andrew's door and walked in to find him punching a punching bag. Not your normal punching bag though, it was one of those that monitored how hard you hit and wouldn't fly back when you hit it.

A good thing too when you had a pissed-off hormonal teenaged spy boy punching it like it had crushed him in Call of Duty. Or worse, like his mother had just cheating on his father and they just might be splitting up. Would they? Lina didn't know.

Lina decided to sit there and let Andrew run off some steam before trying to talk to him.

When Andrew finally stopped he looked Lina straight in the eye.

"Don't feel sorry for me Lina. If anything, you should be happy my parents will probably split up. It means yours have a chance of getting together."

Lina stared at him.

"Our lives are messed up, but I'm not happy that your parents might be splitting. My parents dated and they broke up. They didn't love each other enough to get married. Simple as that."

"You know it's not that simple."

And she did know. Lina knew that her whole life would always be full of lies and deception and things that she would never know. Nothing in her life was ever simple.

So she just stared out the window and kind of wished that she could go back to being blissfully ignorant as Angelina Jacqueline Kaufman and not Angelina Jacqueline Morgan and whispered.

"I know."

ZACH

Zach floated into the Langley base just like the ghost he was legendary for. Down maze of hallways that he had memorized years ago, Zach found himself where they kept detained operatives.

He walked up to the guard on duty sitting at his desk and coughed to alert him of his presence. The guard jumped when he saw Zach.

"Sorry man, didn't see you there."

Zach rolled his eyes. Langley needed to get better guards if they couldn't see people coming down a brightly lit hallway. Then again, even if Zach was no chameleon, he was still a pretty good spy.

"So anyways, I really need to see my wife. You mind letting me through?"

The guard looked at Zach suspiciously.

"No can do. I'm not supposed to let anyone in here."

Zach gave a sigh of frustration.

"Look here man. I really need to sort things out with her. I'm not leaving until I talk to her and when I'm bored I tend to beat up the person next to me, so what do you say?"

Zach guessed he was probably incredibly intimidating since the guard just nodded dumbly and let him pass.

Detained operatives didn't live in jail cells. The room they were kept in probably resembled something close to college dormitories with their own bathroom to prevent them from communicating.

Zach opened the door to Chloe's room and found her lying down on the bed and staring at the ceiling. He leaned in the doorway and addressed her.

"Chloe, we have to talk."

She bolted up from the bed and gave a short, cold laugh.

"Is this how you greet your wife for the first time in months?"

"It's how you greet your wife when you find out she almost joined an international terrorist group out to kill you, cheated on you, and shot your ex-girlfriend." Zach responded in an equally cold tone.

"How am I supposed to act when I find out my husband has a daughter with his ex-girlfriend?" Chloe retorted back.

"Maturely?" Zach said in a 'duh' tone, "She came before Andrew was born and I didn't even know she existed until a month or two ago! I never cheated on you, but you cheated on me."

Chloe stood there with tears in her eyes threatening to overflow.

"You never cheated on me, but you love her more."

"No I don't-" Chloe cut him off.

"Save it Zach. You've always loved her more than me, it's as plain as day. You came to me to get over her. Every time her name comes up you get a far away look in your eyes. Whenever your friends come over for dinner you stare at wives and look all guilty for not marrying her. Even if you don't realize it Zach, you love her. I want a divorce."

Zach stood there stunned. She was divorcing him?

"Oh…alright. I'll get a lawyer to come by sometime in the next week."

Chloe nodded to him and motioned for him to leave.

Zach awkwardly exited the room and went back to his car to go home. The whole ride home he mulled over what had just happened and decided he really needed to talk to Cammie.

His emotionless mask was back on when he entered the door and found Lina and Andrew watching TV in the living room.

"Where's Cammie?" he asked them.

Nonchalantly they replied back,

"She's out on her date with Elliot."

Look! I figured out the page break thing :)

I felt like this was a good place to end the chapter... even if it's a bit of a cliffhanger. I'm going to sleepaway camp next week so I'll probably not be updating soon unless I can manage a short chapter before I go.

I have to say I'm starting to lose interest in this story so I'm going to try to wrap it up in the most probably 3 chapters. I don't want to discontinue it, but I don't want the ending to be too abrupt.

Don't worry, I have some ideas on how to end this. I also don't want it to be too cheesy though. I've always hated things with perfect endings.

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