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*Chapter 13*

"Nice of you to arrive, this is first lesson." Zach muttered to three students as they ran in late, they all jumped and turned to see Zach smirking.

"Today we will be doing sparring, or fighting. Each of your names are in these bags and two random ones will be chosen, people may be chosen twice and we will have two fights at once. Grant, Bex stop flirting, you guys govern those fights me and Mr. Un-helpful will do these ones." Cammie handed a bag to the two of them and they moved away, Bex pulled out two tags and two people went over followed by a few of their friends.

"Eva Alvrez and Sam Farrow, you're first. Martial Arts only, no knocking out, to end the fight one of you can say done or you can be knocked out, but please don't." Cammie finished and pushed everyone off the mats and pushed the two onto the mat. They looked at each other, Eva smiling and Sam grinning. He lunged forward and went to knock her over, he had under estimated her, and she spun round and kicked him in the face. He landed on his face on the mat and she pinned his arms behind his back. Then placed a foot between his legs, not kicking but so he knew she had the power to cause pain. He went pale and gulped,

"Done." He cried, and she climbed off, helped him up and they went off to the side. The girls all cheering, on the other side Bex called two names and one person from Cammie's side and one from Grant's left for their mat. Zach pulled two names out, grinned at them and looked up at the crowd.

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"Why don't you two fight?" Sarah clambered up off the mat as Mick Morrison brushed herself off. Zach and Cammie sat at the edge; they looked at each other in surprise. A few bruises were visible in the circle and most had fought by this point. Bex and Grant were both half asleep on the mat and their group was watching a very long fight as one of them refused to say done.

"You don't want that." Zach smirked, "You really don't." The class was now listening to this conversation eagerly, most of Grant's group too. Bex stood up and looked over, followed by Grant.

"Don't get them started!" Bex called over, she pulled Grant over and their group followed, "Please last time it ended up in…"

"Chaos." Grant ended, "Total Chaos and us ending up here. At the old house, these two were paired, we have seen them fight before." The class all grinned.

"So? Go on, if you're both so good." Sarah spat. Zach shrugged and stood up, Cammie was shoved up by Bex. "Go on."

So they did. Zach threw a punch and it started, Cammie spun under his arm and kicked his side then dodged his attempted flip. Cammie then kicked one of his legs out and she started to flip him, he landed on his feet and pinned her arms behind her back. She kicked up, remembering how to tango from C&A, and side stepped.

"Tango." Zach whispered, "Fight or Love." She bent forward forcing Zach over her and back onto his feet, back facing her.

"Rule 1, Zach." She called before flipping him, he landed on his feet again and they began to fight properly. Kicks, punches, flips and chops. Cammie could hear Bex and Grant cheering and the students looking amazed. They were fast, very fast, none of the students had seen anything like it before, they were judging, fast, agile and strong. It was slightly scary how they looked like they could kill each other in one second.

"Guys we are gonna have to stop you." Grant called. The students all looked over at the two friends, they were smiling, un aware of the danger.

"Why don't we wait till one wins, its lunch next?"

"Neither will win, they are so equal and know each other's tactics, they taught each other and are really close. Neither will ever win." Bex added.

"How do we stop them then?" Another student asked, Grant smirked and then wolf whistled. Zach stopped to punch the person that did it and Cammie flipped him onto his back, pinning him down by straddling his stomach. The class cheered and Zach scowled at Grant who was doubled up laughing, Bex ushered the students out and they all went to get changed. Cammie climbed off Zach and didn't help him up,

"Rule 2." She grinned and he pulled himself up.

"You guys just scared the whole class, well done." Grant grinned, "They weren't quite expecting a full on, could kill each other, fight."

"We weren't going to kill each other. Just knock out." Zach smirked and Cammie elbowed him, Zach then looked at Grant and punched his shoulder, "That's for breaking up our fight."

Cammie pulled the two of them apart and dragged everyone into their separate changing rooms, she got changed and was about to leave before Bex pulled her back.

"Cammie, you know I still miss-trust Zach a bit, he could have just killed you then, if you weren't so good." She for once looked slightly scared, Cammie grabbed her wrist and sat her down.

"I'm going to tell you what happened when he followed me behind the fireplace which meant I now trust him with my entire world.

I ran away, as you know, and he followed me though that tunnel. First, he called me Cammie, he had obviously read my file well and cared about it. Number two, he gave me his gun the moment he walked in, he didn't want to hurt me. Number three, he gave me my knife back and had real venom in his voice when he spoke about Catherine… Now I'm going to tell you a story of a girl. A girl was sitting on the balcony, she was crying because she had lost her parents and she didn't want company. A boy followed her, he was kind and when she hurt her fingers he calmed her and sorted her hands. He then opened up to her, he refused that his mother was who she was, he said she may be mother by his birth but by life he has no mother." Cammie glanced at Bex who looked almost in love with this boy.

"Then the next day he found the girl, wound up and angry in the gym. He didn't mention the fact she was wearing little or the fact she was talking about him when she thought nobody was listening, he just told her how to stop hurting herself. He was kind and caring and taught her how to fight better. Then he did something she never thought she would know, proved he loved her by asking her out. Then he left notes for her in her file, he said he hated his mother many times. He then calmed the girl who got scared and he held her till she slept for the first time. Then he showed he loved her by trusting her, and then sharing a kiss. He then showed his love in front of others, making her heart hurt.
She ran away when she was scared and he followed her and saved her embarrassment on purpose. Then when she was hurt and in hospital for 2 days he was there for most the time, he was there when she woke up and he was happy. When he needed her she helped him and then he opened up to her, he told he didn't know whether he could be trusted and was scared he would hurt them all.
Then finally she was in the hall, pretending to fight for her life, he turned her into a ballerina. He made her feel special, and young, he told her how she needed to remember her own power and how she could change the world. She told him how he could do the same, and they agreed neither could without their friends. They never said that, but both knew it was true. That is the story of Zach Goode and Cameron Morgan, the true story." Cammie finished and looked at Bex again; she had tears in her eyes and Cammie hugged her.

"Fine, fine…" She grinned, "Zach, he is amazing. If he has done this to you, he is amazing." Bex ignored the single tear that fell down and hugged Cammie, who gave up breathing for the time being.

"Cammie that is adorable." A female voice called, Macey. Liz had her arms around Macey's waist holding her back; Macey was also crying slightly, Liz was just concentrating on Macey. "I didn't know! I will never ever miss-trust Zach ever ever again. He is just too perfect at first glance, I didn't know he had a dark past and the dark was so dark it outshone the light for a bit. But now there is even more angelness and OH MY GOD!" She started to jump around waving her arms around. Liz just rushed forward and hugged Cammie, not saying anything.

"Guys you're making it sound like I'm getting married!" Cammie laughed, Macey paused then carried on dancing and Bex just sat watching Macey, still grinning. Liz however froze and pointed at the door, she mouthed something and started to grin. Cammie began to turn around and then two hands grabbed her waist and picked her up, Cammie didn't even fight she just prepared herself to flip out of his hands. He was obviously ahead of her though because he began to drop her, putting her off balance, and caught her bridal style. A pair of green eyes looked at her, one eyebrow raised and smirking. Cammie mirrored Zach's face and then stuck her tongue out before going limp and falling into a crouch on the floor, standing back up she rolled her eyes,

"When are you not going to fall for that?"

"When are you going to stay where your wanted!?" He retaliated, also sticking his tongue out. "Anyway, news for you all. Agent Townsend is coming now, he managed to get an early flight and is now on a plane over Belgium, we hacked his MI6 tracker. He will arrive in about 7 tomorrow morning, which is no fun for me."

"Why you get to meet your dad?" Macey added reasonably, "Wouldn't you want family?"

"Got 'em." Zach smiled and motioned to the boys and Cammie, "I choose my family, friends are the family you choose for yourself."

"What about us?" Bex added indignantly. Crossing her arms in the Baxter way Cammie had seen Grace Baxter execute perfectly too.

"Maybe at some point." Zach grinned.

"You guys are family to me, don't worry." Cammie hugged them each, then to the boys shock, grabbed all of them at once and hugged them all together, before moving to stand next to Zach. Preston, who was still a bit red, grabbed Macey's wrist, who grabbed Liz, who grabbed Jonas, dragged everyone out of the changing room and back towards the main school.

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Liz and Jonas left to go towards Fibbs's lab, and the rest of them ambled towards their room. The corridor was packed with students waiting for the next lesson in 3 hours, Sam and Eva were just at the end kissing. Sam pulled away when he saw the group and Grant smirked,

"Don't worry about us, been their done that." Sam looked shocked then at Zach who raised his eyebrow, Sam raised both his and Zach glanced towards Cammie who kicked his shin but grabbed his hand too. Eva grinned and turned back to Sam. The rest of the corridor was bustling with talk; girls were sitting in doorways talking to boys who were all lounged against walls casually. Music was blaring from one of the girls' rooms, out of the 5 rooms occupied by students, two boys, two girls and the team. One of the rooms had a few boys and a few girls all sitting around 4 laptops talking hurriedly. The smell of perfume came from the other girls' room and it had girls and boys chatting, unconcerned about the threat from outside, on the beds and floors. Macey, still holding Preston's hand entered their room and frowned at the plain walls and floor still. They all followed and sat on the beds, finally at peace.

It had lasted a whole 1 hour 7 minutes 23 seconds before the peace was interrupted by Liz. She came bounding into the room screaming something about having solved it and saving our lives and urging everyone to move now. Jonas came in after her, also excited, and explained Liz's nonsense.

"We have created a type of 3D printer that can create fabrics; it isn't connected to anything so if we program it to make a mat in here it will! We have also stolen a poster printer and because the 3D printer can do fabrics we can have pillow cases, pillows, duvet covers and everything!" He bounced around a bit before realising he had missed a key point, "Oh yeh and Fibbs says because me and Liz made it we can use it to make our room as good as we like! We just have to program it in here away from the other students!"

"We can make this place cope able?" Macey asked, still surprised at the good news. When Liz nodded she bounced up and grinned at everyone, first she pulled out a number of home-design magazines and an IKEA (A.N. massive home design place) book from her huge handbag she had brought. Everyone looked shocked and she smirked while opening the book to the page marked, bedding. "Right guys, Zach, Grant, note down your favourite colours here and circle the bedding you like, then go with Jonas and Liz to get the stuff. Guys then the rest of you come over here and choose yours too."

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Some students had tried to find out why a small roundish ball was being carried in by two boys and a A3 portable printer was being carried in by Liz and Jonas. Cammie had explained, in an on the spot moment, that they were testing some new tech and that Fibbs has asked to be tested and nobody had been told any more but that Liz and Jonas should work out how to use it so no students found out in case. They had asked what it did, and because of the perfectly sound proof walls throughout most of the building nobody had heard Macey, and Cammie insisted none of them knew what. She had then sat down outside to deflect anybody else who decided to have a look, Grant had joined her after he had apparently tried to make it draw rude words on the mat. He slid down the wall too and looked at Cammie, then at the floor.

"How do you get away with it?" He asked suddenly, but quietly, the corridor was so loud it didn't matter anyway.

"With what?" Cammie glanced over, Grant was more serious than she had ever seen him.

"Calling him by his full name." Cammie's mouth formed a small o and then she closed it.

"Well, I think it's because we have a sort of connection. We are both orphans, he may not be biologically and I may not be legally but otherwise we are. He told me when he first met me that he was her son."

"Well I knew too, but only cause I stole his file. When you told everyone I didn't want the others to think I knew more than them, to disown me, they know you two know more and know that is for a good reason. But if I didn't tell them that about Zach it is wrong."

"But I don't know fully why, I don't see it as her surname too, maybe that shows." Cammie sighed heavily, Grant smiled sadly. "I'm just worried he might kill Townsend. I mean, he feels like Townsend ditched him on purpose. Left him as a lost cause."

"How do you know that!? Doesn't sound like Zach."

"It isn't, I think in Zach words he feels, betrayed by him. But I just read that from him, he is fairly readable person once you know him."

"Only since he met you, before he was a fighting robot. No thought in his head about anything but getting drunk, fighting and taking down evil, to be honest the only reason we are both still alive is because they put Jonas and Preston with us. Just us two, well let's say we would either be high, drunk, fighting or dead right now."

"You guys and drugs?" Cammie looked shocked, she had recoiled slightly at drunk. Grant put his hand on her shoulder.

"Not yet, it would have been next though. We had both seen too much, the other two were always too computer based, in the van. Me and Zach have killed, I'm not even going to deny it, we are cold blooded murderers." Grant actually looked sad, his whole face had fallen and become more dark, "But because of that, when I looked old enough, I turned to drink. Soon after Zach did too, Preston and Jonas did disapprove to begin with but realised that we were really really bad off. Then I persuaded them all to go to this club, three hot birds had gone in, and Zach ended up single handily taking down two drug lords in 16 minutes. We got sent back to CIA and drugged. We woke up in Joe's house in Roseville, told to save these four girls. One Zach went into that passage; a new one came out with a girl in his arms. He then promised never to hurt her in front of me to her best friend! Well then he really shocked us all by being all noble and offering his seat to the girl, who promptly said his and her best friend's names in her sleep. At this I vowed never to get to the state I was in before again, if Zach did then I needed to care for this girl who was obviously special for a reason nobody knew." Grant raised his eyebrow at Cammie, who was smiling, properly smiling. She reached forward and hugged Grant, who patted her back slightly awkwardly.

"Having fun I see?" A sarcastic voice floated towards them, Zach, Grant pulled away very fast and Cammie took a very long time to turn round to face him.

"You best friend has just told me all about your little Alcohol antics!" She stood up and put her hands on her hips facing Zach, he sighed and looked at Grant who also stood up, looking sheepish. "Promise me you will never get like that again."

"Grant, you had to tell her." Zach rounded on Grant who gritted his teeth.

"Look, it was part of the story I told her of how you became Zach now. You used to be a robot, mission, fight, drunk, mission, fight and drunk. I did too! I told her that as well, she was fine with it!" Grant shrugged and Zach sighed heavily, very heavily.

"Sorry Cam, I didn't mean to. But it was auto pilot after a while." Zach held his hand out and Cammie ignored it, throwing her arms around his neck. He hugged her back and ushered them all into the room.

Macey was the first thing they saw, she hugged them all on her way past. Liz and Jonas were sitting a bit too close for friends, huddled around a computer both of them talking very fast. Cammie then finally looked at the room, posters hung on the walls, a big shag pile rug was in the middle in squares of colour, each bed had covers on them and the small round ball was moving around in the small en-suite adding a mat and some canvas pictures. Bex was fixing the last set of covers and moving a small poster of a band on her wall.

"We waited for you two, you need to do some posters." Cammie looked down at Liz as she dragged Grant over, then she looked up to Zach's bed. It had red and black geometric shapes on it and the poster was a Chevrolet Camero in many parts and each explained what they did. Cammie edged over to it and looked more carefully at the parts, they were extremely confusing and Cammie gave up and just looked at the car. It was orange and had black accents, even Cammie thought it was beautiful.

"Cammie! Design! NOW!" Macey called across the bustling room, Cammie pulled up a few pictures she liked for posters, a raven against the moon, a band called Fall Out Boy and a semi-automatic pistol in many parts. She picked them up and stuck them to the wall with a small amount of BluTack. They went perfectly with her bed, black swirls with a fading from red to purple background. She lay back on her bed and let the perfect calm she had been able to gain a few hours ago fall over her again. Macey was asking about beanbags, Grant and Bex were play fighting on the new mat, Preston was throwing small bits of paper at Zach who was throwing them back like shrunkens. Cammie closed her eyes, remembering what Zach had said earlier. Friends are the family you choose.

Family, Joe wasn't ever around and her parents were dead. But Zach, Bex, Macey, Grant, Liz, Jonas and Preston, the Gallagher Girls, the Blackthorn boys and the teachers. Cammie smiled in her head, she had family.

fangirloxomegan- well i did just read The Da Vinchi Code which is the most confusing book ever and i so love that style so i decided to do my own take on it.

Colleen- I do love the warm weather, but i love the colour black so i would roast in the real south. It is almost exactly the same, except your collage is probably better, ours is blumin' expensive and full of rediculously clever people. Not Dyslexics or anyone with any needs, which sucks.
I'm not going to be able to update every 3 hours either, got an Army Regime thats taking up all of my time when its light, my arm still hurts from press-ups! Also my school starts next week, so your not the only one.

Love, Charlie x