*Chapter 18*

"I need Cammie and Zach, please." Joe pushed the door open of the classroom, Cammie looked up from her drawing and got dragged out by her backpack. Zach didn't let go until they were outside and then caught her when he did. "What are these?"

"Oh…"

"We were going to tell you."

"But Grace and Abe arriving kind of put us off." Cammie finished, both of them were shrinking under Joe's glare. The corridor was silent but both of their minds were still in overdrive looking at Joes hand.

"Well lucky for you the cleaner found them, he decided to bring them to me without reading them in case. He also thanks you for breaking the boredom of every other room with your bright one. Follow me." The glanced at each other before following the deputy head of the CIA, he never looked behind for them but he stalked off in anger. Neither could tell why he was quite so angry, they had only found out a few hours ago at like 1 in the morning. It was now midday and they had lessons all day except for P&E which they had been excused from to heal from the Townsend ordeal. Joe banged into his meeting room and didn't hold the door open for them, Cammie slid in but Zach didn't feel like being walked over. He pushed the door open himself making it bang slightly, Cammie glanced at him and brought together her own anger she had been hiding. Zach was right, nobody walked over them.

"Why do you need us?" Cammie asked politely, but left Joe slightly shocked from the force in her voice.

"Put these in the right order, when we found them they were all folded up and when we put them in the right order they made no sense. Do it." He pushed it towards them, Zach cross his arms and Cammie raised her eyebrows.

"What's got you so annoyed?" She ignored the bits of paper and looked at Joe.

"None of your classification." He answered before pointing at the paper again, Zach coughed and raised his eyebrows.

"I think you find we are the same as you now, I defiantly am. Cammie plug your ears, tell me then." Zach didn't lean forward and Joe scowled, Cammie didn't plug her ears remembering that she was an agent now too.

"Just do it and get out."

"Just tell us and we do it." Zach countered, Cammie hid her fear of Joe's murderous face and Zach must have not had any, as he glared at Joe.

"Fine." Joe threw his hands in the air then ran them over his face in half exhaustion, "Fine, if anything you deserve to know. This second woman, Abby, she is your Aunt Cammie and she is in circle and I have always thought she is on their side. But maybe not, obviously not. I never really cared about her, but now I am following her activity. She is married, to a known Cavan high level member. Seems perfectly happy there. Townsend was right, which means he might have been right about other things. Went down to see him and he is refusing to talk to anybody but you two." Zach glanced at Cammie who nodded.

"We'll talk to it." Zach sounded emotionless, Cammie placed all the bits of square paper in the square and Zach moved them all around. Cammie noticed he moved them way more times than he needed to, regularly going back on himself. Joe was watching carefully, but he soon gave up and looked up at Cammie and Zach's faces. He finished and Cammie opened them in the right order and turned them to face Joe who read them in silence. Cammie felt Zach's hand in her and she squeezed it, it squeezed back comfortingly, they both knew there would be questions and the thought didn't make them particularly comfortable.

"Oh… Cammie did you know anything about this?"

"No, Zach found it."

"Did you Zach?"

"No, I noticed the hinges and showed it to Cammie."

"How did you know what to do with the paper squares?"

"We both remembered a puzzle we had to solve in a secret passage. It had the same pattern as that one so we copied it to get a face and complete it. Then we opened it in the order the numbers would have been in."

"Where is the passage?"

"Can't remember, I had just had a nightmare and Zach followed me, neither of us knows where it is."

"Did you know any of this either of you?"

"No."

"Nope. Can we go see Townsend yet?" Zach popped the p in a carefree way.

"No, you are being investigated for hiding evidence of a federal crime." Joe had a straight face, and when both of them showed no emotion he leant forward, "I'm not joking, by holding this from me for more than 1 hour than you have committed a federal crime."

"That can join the list, we have now committed a federal crime in England and a few in America. We have attacked a British Agent. Then we broke into a CIA secured position, attacked innocent civilians for no reason which is a federal crime for an Agent now we have withheld information. Anything I'm missing?"

"You could be put in prison for life once this is done if the jury deems your actions inappropriate."

"Can we have a joint cell with the others for the time they are in there too? Oh and I punched a girl called Dee-Dee because she annoyed me, so for no reason. We are in for the same time then, if we survive this." Cammie didn't feel relaxed but she took her cue from Zach, who came across perfectly calm.

"BEHAVE BOTH OF YOU!" Joe stood up and banged his fists on the desk, Zach looked up, his eyes full of anger.

"Then stop treating us like naughty children, we have been though more than you can imagine. I know, I stole your file. You had two parents who sent you letters for the entire time you were at blackthorn, you got straight top marks and got into the CIA directing perfectly. You then adopted the persona of a tough hard-done by when your parents died of old age. Your only problem was when you married Rachel and then she got shot, If I remember correctly you didn't even go to her funeral and instead went to a directors meeting about my latest mission. You then got landed with Cammie, tried to be a perfect dad for a while but never showed her, you ignored her and only got her out so that you could solve another problem to get that promotion you have wanted for ages and to keep Rachel's daughter safe. The reason you dislike us all is because we don't care about breaking rules if we keep those we love safe. Quit the theatrics Joe, I don't care." Zach stood up and walked out, knocking over paperwork as he went. Cammie glared as Joe who began to pace.

"How much of that is true?" Cammie's voice was cold and harsh, and she finally understood how Zach's voice could have been so venomous when he spoke to Townsend.

"None of it." But Joe didn't look at her, and that told her the truth, he wanted answers, not to keep his supposed love's daughter safe. Not because he actually cared. Cammie remembered what Zach had done to show her to look at her file, knocked it over, she walked over to the pile and on the top saw a letter.

Dear Joseph Solomon,

The rule is once a child is 16 or over they can be un-adopted. The form is enclosed.

American Adoption agency.

Cammie saw a bit of paper had been torn off, she looked through the pile, ignoring Joe's yelling at her, and couldn't find the rest. She stood up and suddenly felt a blinding pain across her face, she didn't scream out but she did turn and run, still not knowing what it was. She burst through the door to see Buckingham and Zach glaring at each other and the rest of the team near them looking scared. The all turned to look at Cammie who froze, she could hear Joe calling her back from behind the door, Buckingham was moving forward, Zach moved past her and caught Cammie just as she fainted.

/_(~.~)_\

"…suspended temporarily and under investigation." Cammie woke up, her limbs were all heavy and she noticed a strong hand gripping hers.

"Must have been one of the new patches Fibbs has been working on, currently any Liz?"

"Yes," Liz's voice was weak, "She is lucky if it's what I think it is, it's made to disable a person into a coma semi-permanently, at least a month. I would guess he weakened it to just put her into a coma long enough to get away. Where could he be now?"

"No idea, could be anywhere with his clearance though. What I want to know is why?" Cammie realised they thought she was in a coma. But she didn't feel the same sensation as last time, the weight wasn't there. She tried to wiggle her toes and they moved, at least she hoped they did and she wasn't imagining things.

"She won't be in another coma, her hands feel different." Zach mumbled, "Less heavy, as if they will support their own weight." Cammie squeezed her fingers and felt them move, the response she got from Zach confirmed her knowledge that she was completely fine. He jumped slightly, which was very rare for Zach who seemed to expect everything, and when everyone asked why he had jumped he simply replied.

"She is very much awake." Zach squeezed back Cammie's hand and Cammie brought together all her energy and tried to open her eyes.

"Cammie, squeeze Zach's hand if you want me to explain." Liz sounded tentative, Cammie squeezed and Zach recoiled slightly,

"Owww, yes she defiantly does." Cammie tried to open her eyes again to see the smirk she knew was there, but the effort was too much.

"You have been poisoned, it was a very mild amount. Enough to knock you out properly. We don't know why Joe did it, but he escaped. Your extremities barely got any poison so you will be able to move them, your major organs got a lot and as the poison leaves you they might go into arrest. So you will be in here for about…"

"18 hours and 35 minutes." Jonas interjected, "On your size body that's how long it will take for it to leave."

"Thanks Jonas, well you only have 3 hours 12 minutes left. You have been out a long time and on a blood cleaning drip for a while. You must have fought the poison really hard when you were out. Well I think we are lucky, Joe wanted to take you to the hospital wing saying you seemed off and now you had fainted he should take you. Zach ignored him, thank god your stubborn Zach."

"Won't be any other way." Zach was smirking, Cammie could hear it in his voice, and she was thankful they weren't all downhearted. She ignored trying to open her eyes and instead focused on making words.

"He…Un-adopted…me." She managed before the tiredness overtook her and she went out again.

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Two men stood at the end of a corridor, one had a young boy hanging off his arm. The boy was crying and the man was ignoring him, he was talking to the other man intently. The corridor was bright and had large windows on one side and doors on the other. One man was talking to the other very quietly and the boy's cries stopped Cammie hearing them.

"Shut up Zach." The one man said, he also had messy dark hair but he was wearing a hat over it. The boy must have been about 5, the same age as Cammie, and as he turned round on the man's arm he noticed Cammie. He stopped crying and frowned at her, she noticed she was holding her wand in one hand and her tiara in the other. "Look go to Matthew's flat, another annoying little girl is there go play with her."

"It's a drug Ed, a drug. Catherine made it to control you." Her father spoke quietly, but Cammie just heard. Edward let go of the boy and kicked him towards the girl, but he didn't look over at her. Neither knew she was there. The boy slid across the polished floor from the kick, then dragged himself up on a door handle. "Please listen to me." Her father spoke again, he was pleading.

"Whats your name?" The boy asked, he was weary and didn't approach Cammie. "What is your name?" He said again more clearly.

"Cammie. Who are you?" Cammie was also clear but the boy still didn't move.

"Zach, are you going to hurt me?" Zach was still holding the door handle and Cammie marked how he also had impeccable speech. She had been told she was very special to have learnt to speak so impeccably so fast, almost a Genius. Could he be a genius too?

"No. I guess you won't hurt me either." Cammie responded, the boy finally relaxed and walked forward. He was taller than her by a bit, he had very green eyes. He held out his hand, Cammie tried to work out how to hold the tiara and the wand in one hand and not scratch the diamonds. Zach smiled, and took the tiara of her, Cammie squealed and reached to get it back. Zach put his hand out and she stopped, noticing how he was very adult like he was, he wasn't like who Cammie assumed was his dad though. Cammie put her hands down and Zach placed the tiara on her head and behind her ears.

"I saw one being worn by a princess in a book I read." He spoke unlike his parent too, much calmer and softer. Cammie smiled at him, and he smiled back, "Now you're a princess like her."

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"Princess!" Cammie sat upright, her eyes shooting open, "Zach and the tiara and… Urgh." Cammie lay back down and only then did she notice the team was standing, and Bex sitting, around her bed. Everyone but Zach looked shocked, he just held his hand out to Jonas who put a few dollars in it. Cammie looked around and then at her hands, finally she put her hand on her head to check for the tiara. Then she sat back up again

"Do you care to explain? You have said 'Shut up Zach', 'drug', 'Zach, will you hurt me?' And my personal favourite 'princess'. While you went out again." Zach was frowning at the bed and Cammie glanced at him, he waved his hand in a 'don't-ask' way and Cammie took a deep breath. She was still on a drip but the other needle had gone, she was still in the clothes she had worn when she had gone out. The team however was in their pj's and carrying bags of books Cammie hadn't got yet.

"I remembered something, from when I was younger. I was 4 maybe 5 and in a corridor in a place I don't know. I was watching two men and a boy at the end of the corridor, the boy was hanging of one of the men's arm and was crying. One of the men was my father and the other was Edward Townsend with his son hanging off his arm. I had my tiara in one hand and my wand in the other. I was standing outside my parents and my flat watching them. My father called Edward 'Ed' and was trying to persuade him it was a drug Catherine had made to control him and Ed was denying it. He told Zach to shut up and dropped him before kicking him so he slid towards me."

"I had said that it was stupid that he had to stay with Catherine because they had argued a lot and then he had become so evil and started to hit me and kick me if I was naughty." Zach didn't look up, Cammie glanced at him and he reached out for her hand, she took it. "I was 6."

"You remember?"

"Vaugely, continue the memory I might remember more." The group was looking between Cammie and the very defeated looking Zach in shock.

"Well anyway he asked who I was and I answered Cammie, asked who he was and he said Zach…"

"Zach, are you going to hurt me?" Liz interjected, "He, well you, were worried you were going to hurt him too like everyone else. That is almost cute." Zach sent her a look but she looked back equally tough.

"I said no. I'm guessing you won't either. He held out his hand which is the official greeting in… in…"

"The Circle." Zach answered Cammie and looked up at her, they both held each other's stare before Bex interjected.

"Guys, I want to know why Cammie is pretending to be a princess, please continue."

"Well because I had the wand in one hand and the tiara in the other I tried to work out to hold both in one hand without scratching the diamonds. Zach took it off me and I thought he was teasing me, I tried to get it back but he put his hand out. I noticed how adult like he was and how his speech wasn't like his fathers. Anyway he put it on my head and said…" But Zach put his hand up, Cammie stopped and looked at him. He finally looked up from the bed smiling and said,

"I saw one being worn by a princess in a book I read. Now you are a princess too."

I'm sorry mon-amies i had to do it, its too adorable not to...Everything will make sense in time i promise!

Colleen! I know the feeling, the reason this one didnt go up sooner was because of coursework, I will do, we are doing 'The Adams Family' at school. I dunno if i want to do it, bit weird that play all about witches, goths and stuff... odd...
I hope i made a new favorite now, even if it doesn't make sense now. It will make sense in time!

Guest- THEY WILL CALM DOWN!

Selena- I'm guessing your a Grant fan? He will, he will, dont worry! Thanks i will do!

Anyway, you know the drill by now, blah blah blah. Have fun peoples!

Charlie xx