Tell you what, i will have a Latin Disclaimer today, Non habent ista nocturna fabula
*Chapter 23*
"They have to take an oath?" Grant leant forward, incredulous, as Bex wrote down this latest flashback, "I'm guessing at 18, when you become an adult."
"No," Cammie rubbed her forehead, it was pounding from the latest memory, although it was the least harmful it didn't have any explicit instructions for them, she had to dissect it, "19, in the Circle you become an adult at 19. You have different levels of importance too, Blue is the highest and the families of the inner circle are blue. Then you have green, that is the jury and doctors and stuff and everyone else is red."
"No, Yellow is after Green and they are the managers. It's all based on a triangle and doubling. One family of blue, 8 families of green, 16 families of yellow and 32 families of red in each block of residence which is spread out across the world. It all depends on where people are born, we are lucky because we were both born in America so they kept us there." Zach explained to Bex, who wrote this down on a new bit of paper called, Circle information.
"Anyway, you take the oath and start your work at 19. I remember that you cannot hug anybody until your partners, but i kept ignoring that and hugging Zach anyway. It was a dare from Damon that you were meant to hug me for Zach." Cammie turned to face him, but his face was blank of emotion again which showed somebody he didn't trust had arrived, they all turned around to see Townsend and four guards were at the door. Fibbs was talking to them, he ushered the guards in and Cammie noticed they were carrying Townsend because he was sedated. Cammie didn't wait she grabbed Zach's hand and they flew down the stairs and next to the group who were huddled around Jonas and Townsend, who was now in a chair. Grant flew down later with Bex over his shoulder, they completed the circle and they stood watching as Jonas injected it in carefully.
"I suspect if it works then he will be very disorientated when he wakes." Fibbs explained, "It will take a few seconds to start to work then we will test before we wake him, to check he isn't still evil." Liz appeared with a syringe and when Fibbs nodded she pulled out some blood and gave it to Jonas who rushed off to the microscope. Cammie felt Zach pulling her closer and she moved into his side.
"What do I do? I don't know what to do with parents!" Zach breathed, Cammie noticed how he didn't want to show his fear in front of his friends.
"I'll stay with you." Cammie breathed back, "He will need to see us when he wakes, and please don't be all cold with him. He has no idea what's going on." The last few words were lost as Liz squealed and Jonas called over,
"It works perfectly, so we will just let him wake up. Put him upstairs so it's still dark like the prison so he has more of a chance. Zach are you going to stay with him? It's quite late so if you don't mind I want sleep. We know you two can handle him."
"We'll stay don't worry." Cammie assured everyone and followed the agents who were carrying Townsend up the stairs. Cammie took a stretch of rope and tied Townsends hands to the chair and then his waist too. "He is fine Zach." Cammie took a seat on the floor and Zach followed. They curled up and waited.
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"Hello?" A male voice called in the darkness, Cammie jumped awake and Zach flicked a small switch on a remote device to turn the lights on to minimum. "What? Catherine?" Zach stood up and pulled Cammie up too, they could see Townsend fighting against the bonds. They walked over, hands interlinked, and as Townsend caught sight he stiffened.
"Hello." Cammie said, she was calm and in the moment her fear had vanished.
"Catherine? Why did you drug me!? Wait who is next to you, I can see your eyes but why are you with another girl? Who is she?"
"Townsend, listen we are going to turn the lights up are you okay?" Cammie asked, Townsend nodded defiantly and Cammie turned the lights up slightly. Townsends eyes widened at the sight of them. "You know us don't you?"
"Is that you Zach? Rachel thank you for saving Zach! Rach how is your daughter? Where is the Circle? Don't tell me we are in the Circle now, it's bad Zach. Zach I'm so… " He tried to reach out but the bonds stopped him, Zach finally spoke.
"This isn't Rachel, this is Cammie. Her daughter." Townsend stopped struggling, and Cammie finally turned the lights up. She noticed how much softer Townsend's eyes were now and the similarity between him and Zach became pronounced. "What do you last remember?"
"Catherine moving towards me saying this one was better, that I wouldn't remember with this one. It was after the fire, Rachel had run away with her daughter and Catherine was clamping down on us, she suspected us. But Abby escaped by going out with the boy, and I was under her curse. Joe was a triple agent like I had been. Zach? Is that really you?"
"Yeh, it's me. Do you know where you are?"
"No, I was last in our flat. Now I'm here with my apparent son and my best friends daughter. Your both adults, how long… what!" Townsend shut his eyes and shook his head, Zach put his hand on his shoulder to stop him once he had stopped Cammie and Zach sat down, hands still interlinked.
"We are now 16 and 17, it's been 10 years since Zach ran away. 5 years since the fire, what we know so far is that you didn't do much but relay information backwards and forwards between MI6 and Circle in that time. You were called here to answer us some questions which you did under threat of death, we believe that may have been your self-protecting instinct over running the program. You tried to get out and we caught you, you have been in a prison underground the CIA ever since. A group of us have been working on a cure to whatever Catherine gave you ever since. Can you answer us a few questions?" Cammie kept her kind voice for as long as she could before she had to know if it had really worked.
"Sure." Townsend said it exactly the same as Zach did and Cammie fought a smile on her face. She could see Zach fighting a smile too.
"How did Zach meet me?"
"I sent him to your room to get him safe, but the drug wouldn't let me say that."
"Where did Matthew hide the names to the person who started the CoC?"
"In your two names, I don't know. The drug and everything had a fight in my head and I won, I deleted that memory or something."
"Finally, do you recognise this?" Cammie reached for her gun, Zach pretended to drop something and slid under the table, she put it on the desk and monitored Townsends face and upper body, no response. He frowned at it, but then shook his head. Zach appeared from under the table with a pen which told Cammie no response there either.
"What do you want to know?" Zach leant forward and took Cammie's hand in his on the table. Cammie pulled her phone out with the other hand and sent a text to Macey.
"Are you two okay?" He tried to move again but the ropes stopped him, Cammie walked over and undid the knots, he didn't even move.
"Few bruises, you fought really well against us two. Both of us have enough of a history to make our sleeping terrible and we keep having flashbacks to our old life because Abby drugged us to make sure we forgot. But otherwise yeh." Zach answered, he was quite relaxed. Townsend let out a breath he had been holding.
"I fought you?" He sounded shocked, "And I lost?"
"Yeh, you tried to escape from us after we worked out you were a traitor. Luckily for us all we beat you hands down, and then threatened you into spilling tonnes of secrets. Zach then knocked you out. You don't know that your son is now a trained agent and nicknamed 007 because he is the best."
"And Rachel's daughter is a pure genius and again the best." Townsend smiled sadly, then looked down at their hands.
"I'm guessing you are a couple from the hands, but you're not 19… Surely even… Urgh!" He put his head on the desk and Zach gripped Cammie's hand even harder. "Sorry, I assumed because you grew up in the Circle you would follow Circle ways. They dictate you cannot have a serious relationship with anyone inside the circle until you have taken your oath."
"Well, we are ignoring that will full pride. We are against the circle, and if you want to join us, you will be too."
"Of course, only me, Joe and Abby are left, have you got hold of my tracker yet? At 19 you have a tracker put in your arm to follow movement, heart rate…"
"Things said and things heard. We hacked that the minute you entered, they know nothing you said or heard. Then we hacked it and they think your very much dead." A female voice said at the door, "Sorry for the wait guys, slight problem waking the Duchess." Macey entered with the rest of the team after her, Bex was curled up half asleep in her chair with Grant pushing.
"Oh, and the reason she is in the chair is because you shot her in the knee." Grant added looking at Townsend who was looking over the balcony, the colour faded from his face.
"Is that Rebecca Baxter?" He asked weakly, only Cammie and Zach heard and they nodded. "Oh no!" He sunk back down, "What else did I do? I promise I didn't know, please!" He pleaded as the team moved up the stairs.
"Not much, Grace and Abe are here too. They know about the drug and are fully aware you had no control over what you did to their daughter." Grant explained as he placed Bex back in her chair and pushed her over to the table with the others. The all took seats around the large table and looked at Townsend who looked around at them all.
"I'm sorry I don't know any of you but Rebecca, Cammie and Zach. Could you please introduce yourselves?" He was polite and Cammie saw them all physically relax.
"We have, Grant, Preston, Macey, Jonas and Liz. We are all agents from CIA, but we are more a splinter group now." Zach motioned to each person, "These guys are nothing to do with Circle, except Grant's parents adopted Benjamin Brianna's grandchild. He doesn't know where he is before you ask."
"Rebecca?" He asked turning to face Bex who turned round and opened one eye, "I'm so sorry." She reached forward and slapped him.
"That is for calling me Rebecca, I am Bex! How many times!?"
"I have no idea, good to know your alive though. How long you known these guys? I don't remember you mentioning any boys when I had to look after you, you said something about Cammie and Liz… So much has happened! I was under the curse when I had to look after you too, I was told to be normal!"
"Nice to know I never knew you. These four broke into Gallagher to get us out, saved our necks."
"Joe's work I guess?" Everyone nodded at him.
"Can I ask one thing? It's quite personal though." Liz raised her hand, like it was a lesson.
"Urm… okay?" Townsend shot a look at Zach whose face was un-readable.
"Did you ever really love Catherine?" Liz sounded anxious, she shot a look at Zach who just leant back like it was story time.
"To begin with no, but it was me or Joe who had to get into somebody, who had a future in leaderships, personal life one way or another. We chose to target Catherine, he parents were soon to be Blue and she was training to be a logistics manager in Yellow. Matthew and Rachel were engaged and Abby had to get into the Green layer. Whichever one of us didn't tackle Catherine had to tackle Red and Yellow sector. Then Joe got promoted in the CIA and he decided he was now too important to be compromised, so I had to sort Catherine. Problem was, she chose me too, and your mother really was beautiful, kind and clever to begin with. Then her parents abducted from the Blue circle and she was offered to be the head of logistics. She took it up, and brought me up too. Nobody could believe our luck. Matthew was the first to notice, and he warned me, but I ignored him, I had fallen for her. Biggest mistake ever. Soon after I found out she was expecting a kid, I didn't care, I could see he would be safe and I would be able to care for him. Matthew and Rachel found out and Rachel caught on the idea, Cammie was now expected too, almost exactly 6 months later. 5 years past and we were soon to strike an attack, I had put it off until I was sure I could get them all away. Then Catherine took charge of it all and I realised we needed to strike now, then she drugged me, Matthew found things out, these two met and everything went wrong." Zach sat still emotionless, everyone else was muttering, looking sad and glancing at Zach.
"Do you want us to show you what she has been up to now? Show you the monster she has become?" Zach asked from the shadows, Townsends jaw clenched and he nodded.
"Please, I need to see everything. How much am I aloud to know? Can I come out of prison now?"
"Buckingham will say, its 6:14 now so I give her 15 minutes before she finds out we broke yet another Feral Crime by letting out a suspect from prison." Cammie muttered as everyone else stood up and followed Jonas to their meeting room. Townsend trailed at the back and Cammie tried to usher him forward, but he turned to her and Zach.
"I'm sorry I left you Zach, I'm not going to try and be your father. You seem to have built a family by yourself, well done. Even though I don't know you, I'm proud." Townsend turned round, he was standing a bit taller, like a weight was off his shoulders. Zach put his arm around Cammie and whispered so he wouldn't hear,
"I think he is back. This is the Dad I remember." Cammie put her arm around his waist and followed along the slightly light corridor. Nobody was in the corridors and the group entered the room named,
Alpha Team (Zachary, Grant, Jonas, Preston, Macey, Rebecca, Elizabeth and Cameron)
When they entered all but one seat was taken, Townsend stood up but Zach shook his head and pulled Cammie onto his lap instead. Jonas had a pile of glass's in front of him he was passing them around the table, each had a page up on them. He glanced towards Zach and Cammie, who nodded and went to the front like normal. Everyone applied themselves to the board and Jonas explained,
"We go through her 'educational' book to look for propaganda and blatant lies. Also all the newspapers conta…"
"You are going to love this Townsend!" Preston shouted and flicked the paper to the board; a large photo of Townsend was on the front with two small photos of Zach and Cammie underneath. Everyone turned to read
EDWARD TOWNSEND MURDERED BY SPLINTER GROUP
Well liked Agent Edward Townsend has been murdered by the Splinter group of the CIA, containing runway Zach Goode and orphan Cameron Morgan.
Edward Townsend was last seen in the Alps, he was looking for the poor girl who we still don't know the identity of who was also killed by an avalanche, when he vanished and moments later sent a message saying,
He is dead.
A tracking system in his arm moments later sent reports back to his base saying his location was impossible to reach and then heart had stopped and soon after. We believe this is the work of the splinter group. After his marriage to Catherine Goode, so well-known run away Zach may have been angry and so murdered the man.
"I can't believe Zach did it. We need to find them now. Everyone needs to do it; everyone needs to work together all over the world to find them, to save my baby boy." Now poor widow Catherine Goode said to the newspaper. She begs for Zach to come back. But now worse things have come about. Which will be in this evenings paper.
"How long has she done this for?" Townsend was glaring at the screen as Jonas began to annotate it, "Well if I show myself then maybe they will…"
"Not yet, we will need to set it all going at once. She loves…" Liz was cut off by Townsend who seemed to realise something.
"Order. When was this published?"
"This morning, 2 hours ago online." Preston answered, before the door banged open. A woman stood in the doorway, her neat suit was perfect as always and her hair was neat and in a bun. She was holding a folder but in her other hand was a phone with a light blinking and a text message open. She glared at them all before snarling,
"What on earth do you think you are doing?"
Woooh, tension. Sorry for the delay, my boyfriend has been distracting me from writing, but i will still be carrying on, nothing will ever stop me.
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Chamelon (Selena), I found you on quizup, i will be on that more oftern now too, but as i said my version of Zach Goode has been distracting/annoying/ being adorable so i have been unable to go on that much.
gabergirl, sadly most of the flashing is done, but only for now, Mwhahahahahaha it should be awesome
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007 will be continuing on for as long as its not too serious. There might be breaks between things but it should stay on forever and ever and ever and ever. If i can get it in.
Everything is doing actually alright this side of the atlantic, tests are half killing us all but thats Year 11! What about your side of the overlarge duckpond?
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Guest... Now i hate to tell you but it is 2015, nearly 2016 and has been less than 2 weeks since i updated and i have a very very very good, and cute, reason. I will try to be faster but its hard when i have somebody muttering in my ear, "Heya." When i didn't even hear him comming. I will try to make it every week for you, just for you unnamed guest friend.
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