*Chapter 19*

"Okay, Okay. That is too cute." Macey held her hands up in mock surrender, "You two have been crushing on each other since you were what 5?"

"No, she wasn't going to hurt me. The only person who wasn't going to and you were wrong Cam. I did sound like my father, before she injected him with a drug to control him. He had only been under for a few days by that point, it would have been a few months before your father died. I ran away soon after Matthew died pretty much as soon as I was 7, it was because… urm… Rachel started hiding you away along with a woman who looked like her. Abby I think her name was. You were the only person I was allowed to talk to who didn't hate me. Even our school did because Catherine was important so they thought I would be all stuck up and full of myself."

"Then when I turned 11 there was a fire in the old base and mum snuck me out to Gallagher. All I took with me was my tiara, my wand was burnt. Everyone must have got out alive, but we escaped and I ended up at Gallagher. Two adults picked us up in a helicopter, they were wearing uniforms like mum so I assumed they were escaping too." Cammie crossed her legs and removed the drip, she felt more alive than normal, and the drip wasn't needed. Zach was fighting a smile that was creeping across his face slowly, Cammie stopped fighting hers and jumped off the bed and hugged him with great force. Cammie was surprised enough when he didn't fall over but instead hugged her back.

"I'm not even going to ask why you two are so happy." Preston threw his hands in the air exasperated. "As it makes sense to none of us."

"Townsend is only on a drug! Catherine is controlling him through the drug…" Zach was cut off by Cammie who squealed

"It's a computer run drug too, it has nothing to do with Catherine. She made it but it's being controlled by a computer. I read it on a bit of paper in our house!" Cammie began to jump up and down clapping her hands, "I have literally just remembered! Liz? Jonas?" Cammie stopped as Jonas grabbed Liz's hand and then ran out yelling something about compounds and hacking and solving. The others followed leaving Zach and Cammie behind.

"We are solving it Zach." Cammie smiled at him, "Townsend isn't bad." Zach didn't smile back, he stepped forward and pressed his lips to Cammie forehead and hugged her. She wrapped her arms around him back, knowing Zach was just a little overwhelmed.

"I thought I remembered something about Princesses for a while, ever since I saw that file I thought you were special for a reason I couldn't pinpoint."

"Grant knows that too, he could sense I was special. He told me when we were sitting outside, he vowed when I said you name in that damned van that he would never get into the old state again, even if you did, so he could protect me because he could tell I was special."

"His uncle and aunt were Circle, they came to our side when… the fire happened. Your mum set the fire going, Grants uncle and aunt picked you all up."

"They went to their house first and a boy gave them a first aid kit for mum who was burnt, that was Grant! Then we flew off to Gallagher to drop us off and so they could dump the helicopter somewhere safe, then they caught a train." Cammie grinned again and Zach let go of Cammie's hand and reached into his bag, he pulled out a small amount of stuffing covering the tiara.

"Why…"

"I put it back together minus the paper, this time you weren't as careful and you bent the end. I couldn't get it back to normal so when I was bored and you were sleeping in the morning I made it so it would fit you now. Welcome to a bored spies mind." Zach pulled the stuffing off and even when Cammie put her hand out to take it he didn't let her, he reached up and put it on her head. "Now you are a princess too." And grinned a true grin, Cammie tried really hard to not hug him again. But failed.

/_(^-^)_\

Nobody felt like going to lessons the next day, and Buckingham didn't really feel like much of a fight. Abe and Grace Baxter had taken over CovOps and had refused to hear Buckingham saying they were guests and didn't need to work. Liz, Jonas, Preston and Macey were all working hard on finding out an antidote to the drug and Grant and Bex were covering every body's lessons. Cammie and Zach were making a mindmap, as Liz called it, putting down ideas, as Buckingham put it, and wasting their time and getting out of lessons, as they put it. The A1 page was full of multi-coloured writing in Cammie's neat hand, as she decided nobody would be able to read Zach's scrawl. Lines coming off the main bubble were each labelled things like 'memories' and 'evidence from Matthew'. The Matthew one had the bits of paper stuck near it and lines connecting them and annotating them. Cammie was asleep on the desk and Zach was drawing on her arm, covering a rude image drawn by Grant a few minutes ago between lessons. It had started as a random bird, but he had made it into a raven in flight, didn't know why but he had decided to randomly.

"Don't wake her Zachary!" Liz had warned waving a pair of test tubes around, she had snuck downstairs earlier and asked the guards to let her take some of Townsend's blood for a test. According to her it was disgusting but Jonas had said she didn't show it when he followed her down. They had separated it up loads and had tested one tiny section of it and Liz had bounced in excitement at what seemed to be nothing before she explained how she had ruled out one of the three possible computer based controlling ways and that the one she had taken out was the only one she didn't know the theory of. "She needs all the sleep she can get, that poison could take weeks to fully wear off. Everything she does costs more energy for her than for us." Zach held his hands up in mock surrender and went back to drawing on her arm. He smiled slightly when he saw the tiara in her hair, he knew it was there but every time he saw it he smiled. The diamond was about the size of his thumb and the rubies were about half that size, the carefully made silver that now fitted her head perfectly blended into her shiny hair and made it look like she just had jewels on her head. She had chosen her own outfit for once and was wearing a light blue dress she had stolen from Macey and her blue baseball boots. Bex had said she looked like a modern princess, Macey had said she needed a serious look at her shoe choice.

"Fini!" Zach put the pen down and looked at the masterpiece he had created, it covered the rude symbol perfectly and wasn't too big to overwhelm her arm and look stupid. At the nearly exact same moment Liz squealed very loudly and began to jump around the lab, then the bell for end of lessons went off and then Bex, Grant burst in followed by Dr. Fibbs who didn't seem at all surprised to see them all in here. Un-surprisingly the sudden burst of noise woke Cammie, she sat upright and put her hand to her head to check the tiara, she calmed down when she felt it there and yawned widely.

"What's up Liz?" Bex dropped a pile of snacks on the big table in the middle, Cammie didn't even ask and reached for the closest one. Everyone crowded round and Liz explained, then Jonas translated.

"I have solved the polymer compoundation in the 238th molecule tested…"

"We know what it looks like."

"Which means that we can work out the potency of the drug she used and because we know what it looks like we can solve it!"

"We can work out how much of it there is and I recognise the molecule so we can probably work out the antidote soon!" Jonas grinned at Liz then at the group, "We will have Agent Edward Townsend back anytime now." The group at large cheered and Dr. Fibbs followed the four of them over to a microscope to look at it, Bex and Grant took a seat and looked at Zach and half asleep Cammie.

"Love the raven Cam, I never knew you could draw like that." Bex pulled Cammie's arm across the desk, Grant looked from the bird to Zach who smirked.

"You didn't actually expect me to leave it like that did you?" He asked, Bex didn't hear him but Cammie pointed from the bird to Zach while yawning again.

"Zach! I knew it, Cammie is about as artistic as a snail on drugs! You are bluming amazing!" Bex ran her finger along the carefully shaded beak of the bird as Cammie hit her lightly. Grant made a heart sign with his fingers and Zach copied him pointing at Bex, they both began to laugh. It reminded Zach heavily of the days where Zach had sat alone at Blackthorn after his second mission, Grant had picked up his tray, told his friends where he was going and when they told him not to be stupid he had sworn at them and sat next to Zach. They had got talking about why Zach was by himself, Zach just said he was quiet sort of person, Grant had caught his arm as he got up to walk away and Zach had flinched massively.

"Whats up with your arm then?" He sat back down, he knew Zach enough from being in lessons with him to know he was stronger than him and if he was flinching then it was bad.

"Nothing, just from fights, got caught badly." Grant noticed how he was avoiding using that arm though, it sat limply on the table next to him. Grant had pinned his elbow to the table and as much as Zach told him it was nothing he lifted the sleeve of his uniform and saw a long set of rope marks and long burn marks. Zach had looked up at Grant, fear in his eyes that Grant had never seen in the top student before. They had left their trays and Grant had dragged Zach outside by his shoulder, only once they were outside had he noticed Zach's neck also had rope marks on it. His fists were clenched and once they were in a quiet classroom and Grant let go Zach had put his own hand over his shoulder.

"Explain." Grant had demanded, he knew he could now. He felt dreadful but he knew this boy wasn't in a fit state to fight him, normally he could have flattened him in 5 minutes but today, no.

"I can't, it's not in my jurisdiction." Zach had stood up fully, he was the same height as Grant but Grant felt overwhelming dread when he did.

"Jurisdiction, that means… You have been sent on a mission!" Grant couldn't see why Zach was so sad; he would love to go on a mission. "How come you're so sad? We are all training to be spies here; you have a head start Zach!"

"I have been on two now, the first was when I was 15." Zach had given up standing tall now, he fell back into an empty chair, wincing as he landed. Grant had realised then what the marks were, where he had been when he had been 'ill', why he was now so scared of Dr. Steve otherwise known as the head of the CIA.

"You have been tortured." Grant felt sickness rise in his throat, "You have been tortured!" Zach had started by shaking his head, but he ended up nodding.

"By the Real IRA in Ireland, I got sent by the CIA to work with MI6 to investigate some activity they have been having with the Circle of Cavan. I'm not even aloud to tell you this, why are you here? Why don't you hate me along with your other bratty friends?"

"I don't give, you seemed really off and I wanted to know why then I saw your arm and stuff my ex-friends. You need somebody else in the world, I know you're an orphan and you won't even tell the teachers your second name. You don't trust anybody. Get over it Zach, I'm staying whether you like it or not."

"Zach!" Cammie waved her hand in front of his face, "Back to the real world!"

"Real IRA!" Zach snapped out of his trance, "Grant do you remember how we became friends."

"Yeh, you were sitting alone I told my friends to F-off and came and sat with you. You winced when I caught your arm, I saw your rope and burn marks from the torture the Real IRA which you were went to look at because they were having workings with the Circle of Cavan. Oh." Cammie grabbed the pen and wrote it in memories section.

"You two are a literal mine of information." Bex sounded exasperated but she was smiling, "I'm practically glad you two used to be in the circle. We get tonnes of information that nobody else does! Ha! Suck on that Catherine!" She went to stand up but fell back into her chair when Grant pushed her slightly. Cammie started to listen to the conversation Macey and were having.

"You have to go Macey, the whole group of you needs to go. We need to keep you all together."

"But annoying little students! It rains all the time in Scotland! I don't want to go! We do not need to meet the rest of our schools."

"But we do Macey, we might need to adapt the team…"

"NO!" Bex was evidently also listening, "No, you don't split us up we chose each other as well as you choosing to put us together."

"Listen all of you." Fibbs sounded tired but strong, everyone went quiet, "We are going to be moving you all to the new location, after Joe ran we don't know if here is safe and all the other students from both of your schools have the winter tests to do. Both of your schools have been moved there already, its only your two years that are getting moved. We have more teachers now and the other school is functioning. We are moving tomorrow, Abe and Grace are driving you guys and we have taken pity on you and are letting you leave later to avoid attention and so you can move all your furnishings. The new place was purpose built a few years ago for an escape place, you will have the same dorm rooms as here as they were made at the same time and the only difference is the corridor is much bigger and has all the students in rooms of 8."

"We are moving again!" Zach banged his head on the desk, "Don't let Jonas do the calculations please."

Ello, Ello, Ello.

Colleen! It made me grin just writing it, and i knew what was going to happen! I want it to happen too, i think everyone does! (Boys maybe not so much but i hope so). You will have great fun, don't worry about the auditions and production. It will be amazing. Its getting fluffier, don't worry xx

Selena, i will get that sorted for you in the upcomming world of Gex... I never thought much about Grant (got carried away with Zach) but now you say that i might...

Guest, I WILL I WILL DONT WORRY!

The lad and the wildcat, OMG really? Thank you so much! I did review on your story and it is really awesome! I will get hold of a link and do the same when i can remember the name to do... :)

Anyway, read on people and follow the way of awesomeness.

Charlie xx