*Chapter 16*

The blank shot made everyone re-coil, Zach and Cammie didn't even jump at the loud noise. Townsend had closed his eyes, but he re-opened them, laughing.

"Two more attempts." Cammie opened the holder and showed Townsend the one space for a blank and then the obvious bullet, "Do you want to tell us now?" Townsend's smile was off his face, he was finally showing his fear.

"Never, you are the daughter of a good man but you mother was good then became bad. Why would I tell such a dirty mix?" Cammie lost her smile and also punched him in the stomach, he bunched up with the strength but they pushed him back down. Then she placed the gun to his forehead.

"Tell me then, I have the dirtiest blood in the building." Zach glared down at his father, they looked so alike. Cammie was struck how they shared blood, yet one was good and the other bad.

"No, you have clean blood. You need to come home Zach, I finally married you mother and now you can come home. She wants you back, she needs you Zach. Bring the girl if you have to, just please come home." Townsend was pleading; he reached up for Zach who slapped it away, looking sick.

"That's what you don't understand, I am home. My family is here, Cammie, Grant, Bex, Preston, Macey, Jonas and Liz. The Gallagher Girls, the Blackthorn boys and all the teachers they are my family. Not shit like you." Zach ignored the intake of breath from around the group.

"Cammie, this is what you don't know. You have family too, an aunt by the name of Abigail. She is one of us, she has a boyfriend and works for us. Wouldn't you want to meet her?" Townsend was clutching at straws, he sounded desperate and sad.

"Oh please, if I even do I wouldn't care. I'm like Zach, these people are my family, I don't need your scum. Now stop with the acting and tell us what we need to know, then you will survive." Cammie pushed the gun against his head to remind him.

"FINE! Fine. Connor." Townsend threw his hands in the air, Cammie fired a shot and everyone flinched again, even Zach.

"He just told us… Oh…" Zach looked down at Townsend, "Who is my god father?"

"You don't have one." Townsend looked at Zach, Cammie nodded.

"Did anybody have access to my Birth Certificate?"

"One man, Matthew Morgan. His daughter had just been born and he discovered a secret, he found out who started the Circle of Cavan and he was a dedicated COC agent, so was you're mother, Cammie. He decided to hide it, the descendant is in charge of most of the world's Mafia's and everything, they are sitting on billions of pounds. We want them to realise its potential, to join us and solve everyone's problems. He hid its name in the name of two people. His daughters and the first one he came across which was the second most recent one within the circle. The son of the deputy head of logistics, Zachary Alexander Goode. So he hid the names in their birth certificates. I only know the boys first name, not his second. Zachary Alexander Benjamin Goode."

"Cameron Ann Brianna Morgan." Cammie added, Townsend sighed. He tried to get up again and Zach shook his head,

"Night night." He muttered and elbowed his temple, knocking him out properly. He then sat back, the whole audience was looking between him and Cammie who was also sitting now.

"We solved it. There is no Mafia group in America…"

"…So they have to take that over normally." Zach finished her sentence. Joe finally stepped forward,

"You two should be in so much trouble you don't even know it." Zach shrugged, and Cammie ignored the statement.

"Who cares? I don't." Zach threw his hands in the air, leaning back so he was lying down.

"Ditto." Cammie agreed, she stood up and grabbed Townsends wrist, "Can I shoot him yet?"

"No Cameron, he is down that isn't…" Madam Daneby sounded shocked, but she stopped at the look Cammie was giving her.

"I… don't… care." Cammie spaced her words with a kick to the man, "Fine you guys deal with him." She dropped him and Bex hobbled in, ignoring the shouts of the two girls working on her bleeding knee. She walked over to the man and punched him in the face, making his nose bleed.

"That is from a girl who trusted you." She spat on his face, he English accent very pronounced. She didn't care; she fell down and sat against the wall near Zach, who was staring at the ceiling. Cammie saw movement in the audience and Grant pushed though, Macey, Preston, Liz and Jonas behind. Jonas was holding the knife in his hand, ignoring the squeals as he walked past. They moved past the line of teachers and into the middle, Grant kicked Townsend with his good foot and then sat next to Bex. Macey and Preston were holding hands and they stepped over him and to the side with the rest of the group. Macey sat next to Grant and continued to tie the bandage around his foot, Preston just stared at Townsend's head. Jonas put the knife back in Townsends hand and Liz scowled down at him.

"How can we trust Zach?" Fiona whispered though the silence, "I mean…"

"I'll go then, but next time somebody like this turns up you guys can deal with him." Zach spoke loud enough that everyone heard, but he didn't get up. Cammie ignored her and continued to spin the gun around her finger.

"But you have dirty blood." Sarah scowled.

"Shut your mouth, did you hear him? My parents were C.O.C too, you don't call me dirty blood." Cammie's voice reverberated around the room, everyone heard it, and everyone tried to ignore it.

"Lock them up." A familiar voice called, Harvey stepped out the shadows, and continued "They are dangerous." A few people nodded. Macey stood up and pulled Cammie so she was next to Zach and then stood in front of them, Bex shuffled over and sat next to Macey, Grant moved next to Bex, Liz and Jonas slid next to Macey on the other side. Preston stood next to Liz.

"Put us away too." Macey scowled, "We are with them, mad or not."

Cammie sat down next to Zach, she was ignoring the conversation, and he turned his head to face her. His green eyes were shining slightly and Cammie felt tears in her own eyes, he blinked and a single tear slipped down his cheek, Cammie wiped it away. He sat up and wrapped his arms around her, Joe was yelling at someone who was repeating sorry over and over. Cammie pulled away and pulled both of them back to the wall, which wasn't far, but he put his arms back around her and she curled up. There was a flurry of movement, people moved forward and helped Bex and Grant to the hospital wing. Joe came over and began to speak to Liz and Jonas about a tracker implanted in Townsends skin that they had kidded to make it seem Townsend had died. Preston and Macey picked up Townsend and Buckingham shepherded them down towards the management chambers. Zach stood up and helped Cammie up too, Joe tried to stop them and so did many students, but they didn't stop. They just walked along towards the hospital and people they needed, Bex and Grant.

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"What do we do next?" Grant asked.

"I don't know." Cammie head-butted Bex's bed then flinched from her cut, "Both of us are sort of stuck, it seems we have messed up parentage. Although we know who we are looking for, some Benjamin Brianna's son or daughter. They still don't know the Brianna part."

"He has a tracker in his arm that monitors, heart rate, location, sends everything heard or said to a reader. The location part was ruined as soon as he walked into our place so they think he is somewhere in Italy. Me and Jonas hacked his tracker and made it seem he had died and intersected the listening part half way through his running in the corridor. They heard nothing important and they now think he has been killed as it flat lined just after the first gunshot." Liz reeled off, Jonas nodded alongside. "So he isn't a problem anymore."

"He is in a prison underground; Joe had set up a couple of guards presently. Fibbs has got some chemical which will keep him asleep until we need him." Preston assured everyone.

"He won't want to escape, he will now be so scared of telling Catherine he told us everything that he won't want to leave or be found. It's good to keep him safe though." Zach muttered from the corner.

"Zach, Cammie can you listen to me a second." Bex spoke loudly, "We are your family. Not them, not anyone like that, us. I don't care about who your parents are, I don't care if they are evil or good, we are your family, and we will stick by you." Cammie looked up, but Zach moved first, he took three strides across the room and hugged Bex, she was slightly taken aback but still hugged back. When he let go, Cammie leant forward and hugged her too, she tried to sit down, but Zach pulled her onto his lap. She realised how tense her muscles were and consciously relaxed them, Zach reached round and began to run his fingers along her hands like he did the first night.

"Zach whatever you do don't go backwards." Preston warned and Zach shook his head silently, "I'm pretty sure none of us care who either of you parents are; we want you guys alive and safe." The whole group nodded quietly. Bex shifted in her bed, scowling,

"Doc says I don't have to stay the night if I agree to go in a wheelchair for at least two months. If I stay then it will only be 1 ½ months, but I hate it here, I want to go back home, I want to talk to… SUGAR!" She whipped out her phone, started to type very fast, and then swore as her password was wrong.

"What Bex?" Grant asked, faces slowly turned to shock and fear as Bex swore again and finally got it right.

"My parents, they need to know about Townsend's true alliance and get out. People there are very smart and if there is any other mole then they will put 2 and 2 together and target Townsend's attackers and their friend/ best friend parents. MI6 know everything about me and Cammie, I don't know how much they know about you Zach, but this could be bad." She finally got in and tapped a few times and put the phone to her ear, but it was loud and the room quiet, so everyone heard the whole conversation.

"Hello Bex, what's wrong?"

"I've just got spare time and realised its nearly winter holidays, can I come visit?" Bex sounded totally relaxed and calm, so did Grace Baxter but Cammie remembered a conversation Bex had once had with her about codes. Her and her parents have codes to get out of places that sound like plausible conversations. Cammie mentally translated, This is urgent, you need to get here.

"Why don't we come to you?" Grace still sounded totally calm, and Cammie tried to remember, Are you safe?

"That would be great actually, you could meet my friends again." Bex was waving her one arm about violently in panic, but her voice was still and sweet. Yes, I'm with my friends.

"When does term break up?" Cammie couldn't remember this, Zach had just rested his head on her shoulder which didn't help her concentration.

"I don't know, you will have to call the head." I don't know, call Joe. Cammie assumed the last question was where were they or something similar.

"Okay, I will contact you as soon as I know." Bex finally let out a breath she had been holding, Okay, we are on the move and will contact Joe.

"Love you mum."

"Love you too." Then it hung up, Bex finally breathed out and lay back on her pillows, everyone else looked confused but Cammie was smiling, they would be safe soon.

"They are brilliant Agents, if they have gone on the run they won't be found." Everyone looked between Cammie and Bex, and Cammie took pity on them, "Bex and her parents have a code of situations like this, both of their lines could be hacked any time and sometimes they pass information that is dangerous, like telling Bex's parents to get out which could alert MI6 and cause a major war over a problem in America we can deal with."

"Clever." Jonas muttered, Liz was obviously thinking and everyone was just in a state of exhaustion over all the drama. Zach's phone vibrated near Cammie's hip and he pulled it out, Joe's name popped up.

"Joe is telling us to go back to lessons." Zach growled menacingly, "I can't be bothered to learn countries of the world, you?" Cammie shook her head smiling.

"But on the message of entering the world again I need to get out of my blood splattered jeans and top, his nose made a mess and I never realised how deep my cut was." She stood up and began to walk to the door, everyone but Bex also stood up.

"Could you bring me some clothes? My jeans have a bullet hole in them, and a large amount of blood." Bex pleaded, Macey agreed and shut the door.

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"Swaziland is a very small country and was originally Zulu inhabited which is why it survived as a country and not a state in South Africa or similar." Professor Smith was pointing to a small country on a map, everyone else was making notes but Grant, Zach and Cammie were playing a very silent version of a card game on the table. Smith had tried to engage them to begin with but had given up; instead he had moved them to the back of the class and told them to be quiet please. Bex hadn't emerged yet, but last seen she was trying a wheelchair in the hospital wing. Grant had offered to be her driver, but Bex had told him that she would run his toes over if he tried.

"Ace of spades, I win!" Cammie breathed, she collected the cards up and shuffled them. She glanced at the board long enough to read, All customs are shared with South Africa along with languages. She realised at this point how little she cared and went back to her game.

34 minutes and 54 seconds later the bell rang, she had been waiting for it to go since Kim Lee 'accidentally' knocked the cards under a table 3 minutes after telling them to pay attention and this might save their life. Zach had replied that him and Cammie were dead anyway and she had left them alone, well until the cards magically flew from the desk to under the cupboards. Grant accidentally tripped her up on the way out, the girls around her snarled and helped her up.

"Put your teeth away kitties." A familiar English voice called at them, "Yeh, I'm in a blumin' chair. Get over it and leave us alone." Bex sat in her chair outside the door, she was wearing a nice dress but a large bandage on her knee. She stuck her tongue out at the rest of the girls and then took a deep breath.

"You okay Bex?" Grant asked, he stepped out the doorway and kissed her forehead lightly.

"Takes more than a lying, evil Englishman to get me down. Anyway, my parents are out of England and in Belgium. Joe says they will be here later some point, he was laughing as he can't wait to see the kids' faces at the second Code Red of the day." She grinned, "I asked him if we were ever going to be moving again, apparently we will be leaving to go to a huge castle and meet the rest of our two schools. Which could be entertaining!"

"Small children to scare too, fun." Zach muttered very sarcastically, then out loud, "How are our lot going to cope with the change? I mean no more 6 o'clock trials and gun train… Cammie."

"What?" Cammie saw him staring over her shoulder; she looked over her own and saw three men in suits staring at them, "Oh… Who are they?"

"Well they will be on our side or moles as they have got in without Codes." Jonas whispered, everyone was closing ranks around Bex, who was growling in her chair about them protecting her not Cammie and Zach.

"Cameron Ann Morgan?" One asked, he took off his sunglasses and looked at them, he had brutally short hair and blindingly blue eyes. "We have a package for you; it has been checked by your father and deemed safe."

"He isn't my dad, he legally is but he doesn't care. What is it?" They walked together over and handed Cammie a brown wrapped box, it was fairly heavy and rectangular. The other two turned round and began to walk off.

"It is from the holding area under the pentagon, it has run out of time for us to continue holding it so we pass it to the nearest relative. Enjoy, it's very balanced and good, I tested it myself." He put his glasses back on and walked off; Cammie looked at the box then back up at the men's back. She ran after them and could hear voices and footsteps behind her, they ignored her calls and walked off round the corner into the main corridor, and disappeared into the crowd of students all talking there near the nearest classroom. Some people sent Cammie an odd look and others pointed at the box, but most ignored her. Bex appeared first, gaining more looks, she also looked after the people and then to the box. Everyone but Zach appeared soon after.

"What is it?" Liz asked when she slid to a stop, even more people were looking now.

"A gun." Zach answered from behind her, "Don't know why or who but it is a gun." Now all the students were watching, the group ignored them again. He walked in front of Cammie and looked at her. He handed her a small penknife and she placed it in the top corner, ripping a small hole. She ripped it more and saw a plain black box, Bex caught the wrapping paper and shoved it under her chair. Cammie pulled the small tab at the side and Bex caught the black outer box, a large amount of foam was wrapped around something black and gold. She reached in and pulled out a beautiful black gun with flecks of gold in it, along the side of the gun was an inscription,

For the one who can hide but shines bright for those who seek

The writing was gold on the black and Cammie was a small note in the bottom of the box, she pulled it out and handed to gun to Zach, he held it out in front of him and bounced it on his palm. She pulled out the card and opened it.

MATTHEW JAMES MORGAN'S GUN
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TO BE GIVEN TO CLOSEST OF BLOOD AT EXPIERY DATE

Hello, i dont know if you guys got the last one so i have no people to talk to today :( Anyway, i seem to have made a mistake with my labling in word so please alert me if i have made a mistake and not noticed.

I would read my personal favorite story The Legacy: Chamelon by sydejilar! It is awesome!

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