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*Chapter 22*

"ZACH!" A male voice yelled, Zach opened one eye lazily and closed it again when he saw Grant waving his hand in front of his face, "Class is over, we can go. But Buckingham has asked you two to look though the power point on the board for next lesson which was all about the leadership of the Circle. She also says that you two need to remember how old you are and that being an adult permanently will get you this tired eventually." Zach turned his head over and saw Cammie still asleep on the desk.

"You two are lucky, she hit Bex with a book when she fell asleep. Then she ignored you two." Preston laughed, "You really do need to grow down though, being an adult must be boring."

"I dunno." Zach yawned, then he turned to Cammie and whispered in her ear, "Boo." She sprung awake, her hand shot to her tiara and then she relaxed when she saw Zach laughing next to her.

"We tried to wake her three times!" Macey protested, "And you did it in 2 seconds, I can go off some people Zachary!" Zach ignored her and looked at the board, it had Catherine Goode written at the top in big letters and a fact file underneath. He wandered to the front, Cammie still waking up, and changed, BIRTHDAY: UNKNOWN to BIRTHDAY: 23rd OCTOBER.

"She can teach the rest, I don't really care what the idiots know." Zach flicked onto the next slide and saw a large photo of his mother in a glamorous dress on a red carpet. He pulled out a pen from his pocket and wrote idiot next to her in his regular scrawl. Cammie, who was finally next to him, rubbed it out and wrote Total Twat in her much neater writing.

"I'm going for lunch, dunno about you but no breakfast equally grumpy me." Bex rolled her chair to the door and opened it, "Cannot wait to get out of this contraption." Everyone followed, talking longingly of food and getting back into Fibbs lab to solve this drug. Zach and Cammie closed down the power point and followed much slower. Zach stopped and pulled Cammie back to slightly concave bit of wall,

"I'm trying, but Bucky is making my life difficult."

"You need to get out faster. We can't get a tracker on you until you do."

"I'm trying! I have lots of information for you though, I can't tell you here but as soon as I get out I can tell you what these guys know." Cammie's heart stopped and Zach's eyes narrowed dangerously. The team had stopped and were watching in silence, Jonas held up his laptop bag and Zach nodded. Jonas and Liz immediately fell to the floor and opened the laptop, they started to mutter almost silently.

"Please, tell me now."

"I can tell you a bit, but they are behind me. They have discovered who made the COC, I can't say in case my line is being compromised."

"They have! Okay, you must get out very soon."

"Yes Miss Goode. I need to go, I will see you soon." Cammie felt her blood go cold just as Jonas and Liz's jaws dropped and Jonas brought out his phone and called Buckingham. Zach stepped onto the other side of the door and Cammie stepped away from the wall, his meaning was clear, we are going to stop this person now. Jonas began to talk very fast on his phone as the door opened. Grant sprinted past to behind Zach and Macey stood behind Cammie. Harvey walked out and Cammie pounced, she grabbed his shoulders and flipped him onto his back, Harvey pulled a gun but Zach pulled it off him before he was even able to fire it. Cammie pinned him to the floor and Macey sat on him, Grant gave a short bark like laugh and Zach gave the gun to Cammie. She took it from him as CODE RED rang though the building and Buckingham appeared with other teachers at the end of the corridor. Cammie looked at the gun and recognised it was her one, the one she had threatened Townsend with. She looked up at Zach who smiled,

"You can get off Macey, Grant if you stay here in case he bolts . Macey go and explain what we know to the teachers while we get the rest out of him." Zach ordered, Macey stood up and Harvey began to wriggle viciously. "3…2…1." Cammie stood up and Zach grabbed Harvey's shoulders and pinned him against the wall. Zach, being a little taller than Harvey, was able to pin him such that his feet only just touched the floor.

"Now, remember Harvey. I'm actually not at all afraid to shoot you, particularly if you are going to be a lying sneak like you are." Cammie showed the bullet chamber to Harvey, one blank and one bullet. She had a suspicion he would crack much faster than Townsend. Harvey gulped, he was already starting to crack, "Now, who were you talking to?"

"My mum."

"Incorrect, try again." Zach smiled, Harvey's eyes widened in true fear, Zach moved his arm up slightly so it was on his collar bone. Harvey tried to move but Cammie kicked him in the shin.

"Catherine! Fine I was talking to Catherine! Now let me go!" Harvey wriggled and Zach shook his head, Cammie noticed how his arms weren't fully tensed yet, she marvelled for a second how strong he was and then went back to the job at hand. The teachers were moving down the corridor towards them, but nobody told them to stop.

"What about?" Cammie asked, pushing the gun into his head harder.

"Ahgh!" He squealed like a little girl, Grant laughed harshly, "I was going to run away from this place so I could tell her everything I know about what you guys know and join her side forever and take your place Zach. Become the son she has always wanted. Take control of the circle and finally control the empire." Harvey was scarily pale, and Zach sighed.

"She is a monster like you have no idea Harvey, she only wants me back because I'm more powerful than she is. Physically I could kill her in 10 minutes, and socially people like Catherine's charisma and style but luckily for me. I have proved I'm a better survivor than her, and people like survivors. If it's any consolation down in the basement with Townsend, they beat me for 2 years before I ran away. Only reason I didn't die was because I kept running to the Morgan's suite where Rachel and her daughter would be company who didn't hate me. Have fun in prison." Then Cammie elbowed him in the temple, knocking him out cold. Zach let him fall to the floor and he turned to Grant who was watching impressed. They turned back to the group of teachers who stood half impressed and half confused. The students were behind them.

"Do I want to know how you two learnt how to do that?" Buckingham asked, "Because that is your second very successful interrogation."

"It's easy miss, be the person every student is scared of." Zach shrugged, Code Red had finally stopped blaring and the doors were unlocking one by one. Cammie saw the students shift uncomfortably, she could sense Zach was going to use this to his full advantage like he always did, his spy side coming out like always.

"Zach? Cammie? Please don't tell me you're hurt again!" A female voice called through the crowd, "I already have to get Grant to sit on Bex. I do not need another two!" Grace broke through the crowd and saw them standing perfectly clean and tidy. Just with a gun in Cammie's hand.

"We are fine Grace, can we go now. I mean we need to write some of this stuff down." Zach didn't wait for an answer, he just followed Grace, Abe and Grant down the path between the students who all recoiled slightly. As Cammie walked down with a gun however they all practically ran away, Blackthorn Boys and Gallagher Girls alike, her old school friends even were backing away. Cammie felt her blood boil at all of them, they are so narrow minded. She scowled in her head as she broke out the back and followed the group round the corner.

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"No, left over right." Cammie laughed, her poison was finally wearing off and going a whole day without sleeping was finally plausible. Zach sat with three bits of rope Cammie had found and she was trying and failing to teach Zach some knots, he ended up putting them all together and just tying them in a knot before throwing them at Cammie, who caught them and undid the mass. Macey laughed at Zach's sulking face as she wandered past with a white lab coat that had Peacock written on the back in a beautiful blue handwriting. She was pulled on the large white coat which Fibbs had grabbed for all of them, he was very protective of his new, huge, ultra-modern lab and was declaring all people inside had to wear lab coats. The lab was double height and had a platform covering half of it, the platform had large white bookcases on it, a round table and a few pegs for coats. The downstairs was full of white units, racks, burners and long bits of glass tubing connecting bottles with coloured liquid in them. In the middle was an island which had the 3D printer on and a few other inventions. The boys were slightly out of their leagues with the girls and Jonas, all who had much more knowledge than them. Preston was helping out downstairs by collecting stuff and moving stuff around, his jacket had Jumbo on the back in bubbly writing, each letter coloured a differently.

"Why is he called Jumbo?" Cammie had asked Zach when she had seen him writing it on.

"He practically lived in a jumbo jet before he came to us, America to England permanently." Zach finished writing it on and handed it to Preston, who laughed and walked off. Duchess was written regally on Bex's and Bookworm had been written on the cover of a book on the back of Liz's. Cammie had been given the colours and told to be neat while she coloured the letters in after Zach drew them. Their two hadn't been written on yet as they had been upstairs when he had told them to wear them, and hadn't enforced them upstairs.

"What are you guys then?" Cammie finally undid the horrible knot and plaited the three parts together. "What are your alias's?"

"Grant is bomb, we were very subtle with that. Jonas is coder, again we didn't have to look far. Most the year decided mine, I wasn't impressed and nobody ever uses it. I'm just Zach."

"Tell me." Cammie poked him, and continued to chanting tell constantly.

"Shut up! Fine its 007, like always!" Zach threw his hands in the air and backed away from Cammie who's smile grew.

"You really are James Bond, just without the horrible short hair he has currently. It really is vile, dunno if you have seen though. Have you seen the current James Bond films?"

"They are mad, so unbelievable. I mean, only one person I know shot people after being shot, and that was pure…" Zach stopped when a thrilled squeal from below made them both shoot up and look over the glass railing to the lower level. Liz was dancing around while Macey wrote on a piece of paper and then handed that to Fibbs who put it in a laminating machine. "Fluke." Zach finished, almost as a second thought.

"Nice to know I'm going out with him then." Cammie lent on the glass and watched as Macey hugged Preston and he picked her up in happiness. "That sounds weird considering we have been unable to get away at all from the three prisons."

"We'll work out how to get out, I'm sure of it." Zach leant on her shoulders, looking over her shoulders as Bex kicked the door of the lower level open and wheeled in cursing as she saw the chaos before her. "Plug your ears… GRANT UP HERE!" Cammie was glad she had done as he said this time, he was loud right next to her ear and she lightly shouldered him. Bex swore again, this time in Spanish and rolled to the foot of the stairs. Zach raised his eyebrow at Grant who got the gist, how are you her knight in shining armour standing there! He rushed to her side, picked her up out of the chair and effortlessly carried her up the stairs, because even though she could now walk she wasn't meant to and she hadn't even attempted stairs. Cammie ducked out from under Zach's arms and slid down the bannister rail to carry her chair up the stairs. Once Bex was back in it she wheeled over to their original placement around the table. Zach threw their coats at them and they both laughed at the designs on the back.

"Guys, we may have got another step closer to the solution!" Liz called up, they all slid back over to the balcony, and Bex went to the top of the stairs in case she rolled anywhere accidentally. "We only need to test this one, check it dissolves her drug if it does we need to write everything down and give it to him."

"Tell us when you have, I think we are dangerous down there." Grant called, pointing to the tube he had knocked off at some point that Macey was clearing up. He pulled Bex away from the edge and they all sat down, Cammie pulled out the mind map from her bag and they looked intently at it. Bex began to talk to Zach about why he was 007 and Cammie realised how tired she was, closing her eyes she lay on the desk, the memory started like a film had been waiting.

"Cammie? Zach?" A laughing voice called through the hall, "You two are too good at hiding, we need a new game?" It was a young voice and Cammie turned to see 4 girls and 6 boys standing at the end of the corridor, Cammie was sitting under a desk and Zach was crouched next to her also silently laughing. They all looked about 6 and 7 but Cammie was struck how they were in a red uniform and the two under the table were in blue. One boy lifted the cloth covering the table and they started to roll about laughing. He pulled them out with the help of the others and they all followed the girl who had shouted down the corridor into room.

"Mummy, can my friends come round?... 12 of us… Thank you mummy!" The girl ushered them in and they sat in a circle in the living room, a kind faced woman walked in a looked round the circle, her eyes landed on the two in blue and her smile widened. "What game shall we play?" She asked looking round. The mother smiled and walked back out, one boy next to Zach put his hand in the middle, the circles form of putting their hand in the air.

"I saw my big brother playing this game with his friends called Truth or Dare, the played it after their party for the oath." The group nodded and started to play. "Sarah, truth or dare?"

"Truth!"

"Urm… Who is your best friend?" The boy asked, Cammie was stuck how childish the truth was, he could have asked much better ones.

"Judy!" Sarah reached forward and tapped Judy's hand with her own, a form of non-contact hug. The circle had brought it in to reduce germ transmitting between non-partners, to begin with Cammie had listened to this, but as Zach had become more a part of her life she would randomly hug him, he would hug back but it took a while for him to get used to it. Zach sat next to her observing the people in the circle, almost like a machine then he glanced at Cammie and smiled. Cammie remembered how they had met, and her smile snuck back on.

"Cammie! Since you are smiling, truth or dare?" Annabelle asked from across the circle, Cammie snapped out of her trance and looked at Annabelle.

"Truth." Cammie didn't fancy stealing anything from anyone, or doing something stupid in front of her new friends.

"How did you meet Zach?" Cammie was marked how grown up she sounded compared to the rest, "Because I mean you two knew each other before you knew us, right?"

"Well yeh, his dad and my dad were talking…" Cammie gulped, her dad had died a few months ago and it made her chest tighten every time she said it, "And Zach was with his dad and he sent Zach to go to my flat where mum could look after him while they talked. I met him there. Daisy truth or dare?"

"Dare!"

"Mimick your favourite pop song and we have to guess." Cammie grinned and lent back again, her grin fading. She felt Zach's eyes on her but he had been acting weird since dad… She banished that thought again, preferring to think that one day they would grow up maybe even get to stay together. They were in the same class after all and they knew each other well, would their parents let them say together? Would she end up married to Zach? With kids? She felt a knot in her stomach, she so wanted that future but something was wrong with Zach, her mum, Catherine, Ed and Abby. Why was nobody telling her anything?

"ZACH! Ha! Your turn, truth or dare?" Damon bounced up and pointed at Zach who raised his eyebrows and laughed.

"Dare, what did you think?" Damon clapped his hands together.

"Hug Cammie! Ha!" Zach rolled his eyes and Damon clapped again. A bell went off in the distance making everyone stop.

"We are sorry for the inconvenience but recreational time has been cut short due to an argument in the H wing. We are asking everybody to return to the family quarters, Morgans and Goode's please go to the meeting room with children." A mechanical voice said though the speaker, Zach and Cammie shot up as everyone looked at them, they zoomed out. The door slamming behind them.

I told you there was some wicked plots :D

gabergirl, I will be updating as soon as i can. Not always that fast cause its real hard at the moment.

Prishabbhatia, Its a short story still. I plan on getting it above 100K!

COLLEEN! Well i decided not to be in the play, but instead me and my friend are designing and making the WHOLE set for Addams Family. I got big tests next week so its taking me forever. It will get better than this even, i know whats comming :)

Selena, i havent been able to get it yet but i will be asap. I can't update that much even if i do, cause even updating and replying to all of your amazing comments and trying to copy across names which are impossible. As i said, i wont be stopping soon until i reach at least 100K words.

gallaghergurls, I am origonally dyslexic so i have to get people to double read stuff, which means its as close to perfect as three teenagers can get it. You have a long way to go and up and down though the chapters if your only on chapter 2. I know your pain, its really hard and punctuation winds me up the wall too.

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