A/N: Okay so this chapter was a KILLER to write so I hope you like it… One review I wanted to address asked if I could make Zach a little cheekier and sarcastic like he is in the books. I know Zach's been a little OOC in this story but I'm planning a little something that will hopefully make Zach seem a lot more like he is in the books in the next few chapters. Also, this chapter doesn't mean that Cammie is going to stop being rebellious, hell no, still lots of that to come, I know a lot of you are enjoying the rebellious Cammie. But also she won't be rebellious forever… so I hope to please you all by making her a bit of both. Also some bonding with Macey, Liz and Bex coming up as well as bonding with her mom and aunt and more Zammie!

Also I seem to have forgotten the disclaimer so 'I don't own the books, Ally Carter does'

Previously:

"Where is Zach tonight?" I asked suddenly stopping mid-walk.

Mr Solomon paused beside me.

"Oh, he was out looking for you too" Mr Solomon said puzzled.

That was when I remembered the lesson we'd had on disguises with Mr Solomon. Yes; I'd sulked all through it but I could remember vital bits, like how a wig and some different coloured contacts could change you completely. I thought back to the way I'd remembered Tyler from somewhere. Then I knew; I'd been speaking to Zach in that café.

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"Cammie!"

"No!" I screamed. "Please!"

"Cammie it's me, Bex!"

I shot up out of bed like a bullet. My heart was pounding uncontrollably, my palms were sweaty and I struggled to slow my breathing.

"Bad dream?" she asked in concern. I hated how genuine her voice sounded, I didn't deserve her kindness.

I nodded and sat shakily on the bed.

"Where are Macey and Liz?" I asked suddenly.

Bex looked at me apologetically. "Well, Cammie, you were screaming all night, you wouldn't wake up and it kept us awake, so Liz and Macey slept in Tina's room"

I blushed. "I'm so sorry"

"It's not your fault" Bex shrugged as she sat down beside me on my bed. "And it didn't keep me awake" she grinned suddenly. "I'm a really heavy sleeper"

I stood up suddenly making Bex jump. "Bex" I said shakily. "What time is it?"

I dreaded hearing her answer and cringed as she said "9.45" I had fifteen minutes until Dillon got here and I wasn't even dressed!

I dashed around the room after that, Bex watching me in despair.

"Cammie, don't you want to… y'know… speak to your mom? Or a teacher or something?"

"Why?" I asked in confusion as I pulled on my school skirt and grabbed for my blouse.

"Well Cammie, you were screaming most of the night…"

"It was just a bad dream" I sighed.

"…And what about what happened yesterday? Was it really just because Zach hurt you?"

I stopped for a second, realising maybe the girls here were slightly more perceptive than I'd first thought.

"Cammie I have no idea what's happened but you have people here who you can talk to… Me, Macey and Liz… we're not that bad!"

I felt tears prick at my eyes but blinked them away.

"Thanks Bex, but seriously, it's nothing" My voice held a warning in it that said the conversation was over, but Bex was still staring at me.

"What happened to your arms Cammie?" Bex asked suddenly. I inwardly cursed myself as I quickly pulled the blouse on and pulled down the sleeves.

"Cammie, what happened to your arms?!" Bex repeated more urgently.

I sighed. "It happened when Zach pinned me down yesterday" I lied.

Bex gracefully moved across the room and her hands gently grasped my wrists. She rolled up my sleeves and ran her fingers over the bruises that caked my arms thoughtfully. "These look weeks old" she finally said.

"I guess… some… of them may have been from a few weeks ago… I'm very clumsy" I tripped over my words and Bex was now staring into my eyes.

"There's something you're not telling me" Bex said confidently.

"No there's not" I snatched my wrists away from her grasp and rolled down my sleeves. I glanced at the clock. It was ten. I grabbed my coat and threw it on, pushing past Bex and as I reached the door I shoved past Macey and Liz who were entering the room.

"Are you okay Cammie?" Macey called out after me as I sped down the corridor.

"Fine!" I yelled out behind me.

"Ah, Cammie!" I bumped straight into my mom. "Someone's a bit keen to get to CoveOps!"

I frowned. "But… it's Saturday"

My mom smiled. "Yes, we have lessons up until twelve on Saturday"

I felt my heart drop.

"Cammie… I was wondering…" My mom began to say.

"Not now mom, I'm late… for breakfast"

"One second" She grabbed me by the wrist and I had to stop myself from wincing. "I was wondering if you'd like to come to my office tomorrow at six, I can cook us some food and we can just… talk… take things steady and…"

"No" I replied immediately feeling the anger burning my stomach. How could she think one meal would fix everything?

"Could you at least… think… about it?" She begged.

I rolled my eyes. "Whatever" I snatched my wrist away from her grasp and carried on down the corridor towards the tapestry. I reached into my pocket where yesterday I'd left my phone to text Dillon, maybe he'd be slightly less livid if I let him know I would be a little late, but it was gone.

"Breakfast is this way" I jumped at the sound of Zach's voice.

"Oh… right" I had no choice but to follow him in the opposite direction of the tapestry, Zach seemed to be walking purposely slowly… or maybe I was just walking stupidly fast. I could almost imagine Dillon banging on the door of the school, demanding I show myself, telling the whole school about what I'd done.

We finally reached the food hall and I sat down beside the girls, Zach sitting opposite me. I leant in towards Bex who looked slightly perplexed and didn't seem in the mood to speak.

"Can I borrow your phone Bex?" I asked pleadingly. "I can't find mine"

"Phone's don't work in here" she replied deftly.

I groaned and nibbled at my slither of toast until finally Zach got up to leave.

"Time for CoveOps" he grinned. I was sure my face fell a mile. I had CoveOps with Zach… he would never let me leave his sight!

I stalked down the corridor with him… until a plan suddenly formulated in my head.

"Mr Smith!" I called after the man who was speeding down the corridor in front of us. He stopped and Zach frowned at me in confusion.

"You go on without me; I need to speak to Mr Smith"

"Okay… I'll wait around the corner" Zach said as he walked off.

I kept my voice purposely low as I spoke to Mr Smith. "Sir… I heard you'd made sleeping gas… I just wondered if when the person woke up they'd remember what had happened?"

Mr Smith smiled, obviously rejoicing in the fact someone was asking about his invention. "The recipient won't remember anything from at least an hour before the gas is breathed in"

"Would you mind if I took a small sample?" I asked casually.

"Why in the world would you need it?" Mr Smith frowned. "I'm not meant to give it to students"

"It's for a CoveOps practise" I lied. "Mr Solomon told me to ask you"

"Oh!" Mr Smith suddenly exclaimed. "Of course! I have some right here actually…" he reached into his pocket and gave me a vial. I could hardly believe my ears; a teacher was actually trusting me. I felt slightly guilty.

"Use with caution!" he warned. "Releasing too much could be dangerous"

"Of course" I nodded grabbing the vial and stuffing it into my jacket pocket. I turned the corner.

"Everything okay?" Zach asked.

"Yep" I smiled and we went to CoveOps together, the vial feeling heavy in my pocket.

As I sat listening to Mr Solomon lecture I tried to convince myself what I was doing wasn't so bad. I'd done a similar thing when I'd released the frogs at my old school. I took a deep breath and opened the vial under the table, trying not to nudge Zach.

"And so, people don't notice stillness as… as much… as… move…ment…" Mr Solomon began to slur his words and slowly the heads in front of me dropped onto the table. Mr Solomon was the last to fall and as soon as he did I leapt up from behind the table and ran to the corridor, shutting the door behind me and taking in deep breaths of clean air. I didn't waste any time. I sprinted straight to the tapestry, all the way through it and right into Roseville. I immediately spotted Dillon who looked absolutely livid.

I sped up to him.

"I'm so sorry I'm late! I…"

Dillon grabbed me. "I've been waiting for forty-five minutes" He said bluntly.

"I know, I'm sorry I couldn't find an excuse…"

Dillon gripped me tighter. "Does anyone know?"

"No!" I said too quickly. Dillon's face hardened. "I promise!"

"Fine" Dillon pushed me into a nearby alleyway, and I instantly recognised it as the place where I'd spoken to Zach, the place where I'd lied to him.

Dillon's hands entwined in my hair, but not in a nice way, his hands were groping me and he forced my lips apart as he began to kiss me.

"Not here Dillon!" I spluttered, the full realisation of what he was about to do to me hit me.

"Fine" Dillon spat. "Where else can we go? Where no one can see us?"

"Gallagher" I said immediately thinking about the fact that all my roommates were currently unconscious on the CoveOps floor.

"And no one will be in your room?" Dillon asked sceptically.

"No" I sighed in relief as Dillon's hands left my body.

I led Dillon through to Gallagher, sticking to the shadows and secret passageways until we reached my room. I took a deep breath before leading him in. He didn't even wait until the door was shut before he pounced on me, pushing me against the wall. I tensed up. I just wanted it to be over; I wanted to get it over with. I shut my eyes feeling disgusting as Dillon's hands went all over my body, his lips touching mine at every opportunity. I felt the tears pouring down my face but I didn't try to stop them and I let out huge sobs as he pulled my jacket off.

"Shut up!" He yelled at me as his hand clasped my mouth trying to stop my sobs. He punched me hard in the stomach and I doubled over in pain, gasping for breath. I felt his hands clasp my wrists causing new bruises upon the old. He pulled me up and pushed me over to the bed, I collapsed onto it sobbing as my head collided painfully with the headboard and I felt blood run down my face.

My mind suddenly thought back to a lesson in P&E I had about using the attacker's momentum against them… and as Dillon leant over me I grabbed hold of his wrist and slammed him down onto the floor. His eyes first registered the shock before the anger, and then he came flying at me again, his hands desperately trying to pin me to the bed. I kicked my leg out towards his head like I'd seen Bex do in P&E, hearing a crack as my foot collided with his jaw. He lay on the floor for a while, all the breath knocked out of him, but it wasn't long before he was charging at me again, the anger was practically radiating off of him. He was on top of me again and I was out of ideas as to how to get him off me.

I couldn't see anything anymore, everything felt like a nightmare… until I realised that the weight that had been crushing me was suddenly gone. I dared to open my eyes and almost threw up at the sight of Zach standing over a bloody Dillon.

"Zach stop!" I sobbed as Zach's fist collided with Dillon's jaw and there was a sickening snap. I wanted to get off the bed and stop him but my body felt like it weighed double what it should. I let out another cry of pain and Zach's fist suddenly stopped pounding Dillon's head and he ran over to me.

He didn't say anything; he simply pulled me into his arms as I sobbed into his chest.

"It's okay Cammie" He soothed as he stroked my hair. "It's over"

I wanted to tell him it would never be over, Dillon would never stop, but I seemed to be incapable of speech. Zach didn't seem to mind and it felt like hours that he sat there cradling me in his arms, whispering into my ear, and it felt like ages until I finally stopped crying. But I didn't let go of Zach.

"You should have told me" Zach muttered gently. His words made me cry more.

"Hey, it's okay, it will all be okay" Zach held my face away with his hands and wiped the tears away from my face. He shrugged off his jacket and held it against where I guessed my head was bleeding.

"I'm… so… sorry" I sobbed.

Zach frowned. "What are you sorry about?"

"You probably… think… I'm just… a stupid… pathetic…"

"Shhh!" Zach placed his finger gently against my lips. "I don't think anything like that… none of this is your fault!" He glanced with disgust at Dillon who was passed out on the floor. I shivered and held Zach tighter.

"How did you… know?" I asked.

"I guess I always knew in the back of my mind… The texts, the conversation in the café, the way you acted at the CoveOps practise… But I never wanted to admit it to myself… Then I took your phone… I thought you'd give up on the idea of ever seeing him again… but then I heard you talking to Mr Smith in the corridor asking for sleeping potion…" he paused as if I were suddenly going to get angry at him. But I didn't. "I guessed what you were planning and when you opened the vial with the sleeping potion I tried to hold my breath and didn't breathe as much of it in as everyone else so I was only out for an hour or so… and then I went straight to your room and saw… him… trying…" Zach stopped in disgust. "But… this isn't the first time is it?"

I wrapped my arms around his neck. I couldn't answer.

"It's okay" Zach held me tightly. "I promise I will never let him do that again. Never"

He pulled me onto his lap and I buried my head into his shoulder.

"What are you going to… do… with him?" I asked shakily.

"I think… I'll take him to Roseville High hospital, I'll give him memory modification tea so he won't remember this, say I found him beat up in the parking Lott"

"He'll be back"

"I'll take his phone, he won't have your phone number, he only knows the name of your school… and he'll never get in"

I nodded. Surely it couldn't be that simple?

"I'll do it tonight when no one's up" Zach spoke thoughtfully. He glanced at Dillon and got out a napotine patch, slapping it firmly onto his head. I shivered as Zach dragged Dillon's limp body to a cupboard that no one ever used beside the room.

"I need to clean the cut on your head" Zach said gently. I mumbled something into his shoulder feeling drowsy. I felt him gently lift me and what felt like moments later I was laid on a bed and Zach's arms let go of me. I recognised it as Zach's room.

"Please stay" I murmured.

"I'll be one moment" Zach stroked a finger along my face and then he was gone.

He came back moments later with the trusty first aid kit. I cracked a small smile as he dabbed at my head, when he was done I pulled him down beside me. He gently ran his fingers over the bruises caking my arms.

"How long did it go on for?" Zach asked calmly.

"It was just once… that he…" I couldn't bear to finish my sentence and the grimace on Zach's face was a suggestion that he couldn't bear to hear the words. "But he kept threatening me afterwards"

"He never will again" Zach whispered.

"Tomorrow, we tell your mom" He said bluntly.

"No!" I immediately panicked. "Please Zach, I'll never see Dillon again, please don't bring my mom in to this!"

"What about the sleeping gas you let off in CoveOps?" Zach asked. "What will you say about that?"

"I'm the bad girl of the school remember?" I smiled slightly and whispered sadly "The rebel…"

Zach shook his head. "I know it's a cover Cammie"

"It doesn't matter… please, just promise me you won't tell my mom?!" I begged.

Zach looked thoughtful, and that was when I was sure he wouldn't tell her. He let go of me.

"Grant and Jonas will be back in a minute" Zach muttered and then grinned his signature smirk that made my heart ache. "They're probably going to have killer headaches when they wake up from the sleeping gas"

"Please don't leave me" I croaked.

Zach stared intently at me for a while until he finally lay back down on the bed beside me. Zach pulled the covers over us and we curled up together. Grant and Jonas must have come back in the room at some point but I never saw or heard them enter. Zach must have left some time in the night to take Dillon to the hospital, but I never saw or heard him leave. For once I was sleeping, actually sleeping, and for once I didn't have nightmares about Dillon, I dreamt about Zach.

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