Authors Note: You know what's a good way to get me to write fanfiction? Snow me in for four days. Although I wanted to update this story on Sunday anyway because I'm such a nice person like that. Yup, England's currently one giant popsicle so if it carries on I might be able to get the next chapter's up in the next couple of days! Although, I'll try anyway :D
I think I'm going a bit power crazy over the whole 'Zammie would be unlikely for this story' thing because I know what's going to happen and you don't so I've decided to stop talking about it. You can feel free to squirm as much as you like though! MWAHAHAHAHA!
Disclaimer: Unless you've been kidnapped and raised by the circle for almost a decade and taught you everything that is good is a lie. It would not have escaped your notice that Ally Carter is the Author of Gallagher Girls and not me.
Chapter. 8 - Breakfast and Covert Operations.
"That's her. The one with the scars."
"She beat Baxter?"
"That's what I heard."
"Apparently she worked for some group of bad guys."
"Then why is she here?!"
"She's a Morgan that's why."
These words followed Cam everywhere she went. Or something to that effect. She wasn't used to being talked about behind her back and the concept seemed strange. Teenage girls were always complaining about their own problems weren't they? So why were they so fascinated by a girl with scars above her eyes and the last name of two teachers? She knew full well she was more 'exceptional' than the young women around her but was that corse for so much gossip? As she didn't really care she put it down to jealousy and left the thought for more pressing matters.
She'd tried the passage way she had met her mentors son in three times in the week that followed. Twice she had found the same arrogant, broad shouldered fool waiting for her and once after she had found something much smaller and curiouser than before.
[Flashback]
Water dripped from the tunnels roof where there must have been a leaking pipe above. Cameron's thoughts immediately leaped to the hope of the whole mansion breaking down behind her due to water damage. Be it a large leap.
Halfway down the tunnel she had come to expect a tall and broad shouldered silhouette standing before her, but this time it was smaller and huddled against the wall as if the cold was more pressing than the escaping victim. Not Zach.
The figure sat up suddenly and stood so their eyes were barely level. The figure was a girl and that's all Cam could make out in the lack of light, she didn't chance waiting for the features to present themselves encase of an attack so she chose to distract with questions instead.
"Who are you?"
"K-Krissy." She said through chattered teeth and as she did Cameron's eyes began to function properly as proof that it was in fact the Solomon's daughter.
"You honestly think you can stop me leaving?! What are you a freshmen?" Cam asked holding back a laugh at the very idea.
"No! I just started my fourth year if you must know and anyway...I'm a Solomon." She defended, sounding a little more upset than angry,and standing up straighter with pride. Cammie scoffed and rolled her eyes.
"Is that supposed to be a threat?!" She questioned folding her arms and genuinely wanting to know how she would answer.
"Yes!" She said indefinitely "And the longer you stay here the more you'll understand that. I can't let you go any further Cam." Her voice was strong and cool and even. There was no way she would be persuaded away from the thought but Cameron just laughed at the ridiculous notion.
"And how are you going to stop me?"
"Try and I'll show you." She said with sass and sounding far more brave than she probably felt. Cam scoffed and looked down at her barely noticeable face trying to decide how best to attack.
She couldn't do it, when she had first met Krissy she had promised herself to take her with her, She had thought the younger girl was in the same circumstances that she had once been in; Time went by and that suspicion was proved quiet obviously wrong. But Krissy had everything Cam could have have had. She was a Cameron from a parallel universe and Cam had become protective over her without meaning to; And that thought,even of her being protective over anyone that wasn't Catherine and Martin, terrified her.
She turned in a huff and stormed back down the tunnel and was particully mean to her from that point on. Leaving Kristina with a lot to dwell over.
[End Flashback]
Cameron forced herself to stop thinking about it and walked into the dinning hall ten minutes after everyone else, filled a plate with things she knew she wouldn't eat and that she was only putting there to prevent sitting down with the Gallagher Girls just a little while longer.
"So Cammie." Tina Walters said leaning over before Cam's plate had even touched the table.
"Cameron." She corrected irritably but the overly curious teenager carried on as if she'd never said anything.
"Is it true you tried to kill your parents at the age of three so you were put up for adoption only to be taken in by Headmistress Morgans evil sister?" She asked like the question was perfectly normal.
"As much as I would like that to be true it's not..and don't be such an idiot Tina." Cam remarked keeping Tina silent for once as she sat back in her seat and struggled for words. Nobody had ever called her stupid.
"Why do you have to be so mean?" Anna Fetterman asked trying to look mad and impressive but the end of her question wobbled of with a quiver as she saw her latest 'sister's' jaw tighten in warning.
"Just leave it okay Anna." Macey's voice was soft as she spoke and she let her tray down too early as she sat, sending a splash of porridge over her blouse. She barely paid attention as she dabbed her shirt in the wrong place and looked Cam in the eye with a strange expression. Students around them stared in horror at the fashion emergency Macey McHenry herself was all but ignoring and that was more proof that she hadn't slept the night before than the bags under her eyes.
"Why are you sticking up for me?!" Cameron demanded pretending she hadn't noticed anything. "Scared I'll do the same to you as I did Baxter."
"No. I'm just following orders." She explained without any further information as Sutton and Baxter slammed there trays down on either side of her.
There was a lot of silence at that part of the table after that. Bex didn't touch her food as she spent every available moment staring daggers at Cammie since she had been beaten in P&E. Liz gave a few bad attempts at shooting dirty looks at her whilst Macey avoided eye contact with her altogether as Cam ignored them all and pushed her food around her plate. That in itself was odd, McHenry was always annoyingly kind with her conversation starters that Cameron never ever replied to.
It had only been last night that Cam had noticed the lack of room mates in their room. She hadn't been paying any attention to them since she got here but something told her this hadn't been the first all-nighter they had pulled; And she knew exactly what they were researching too. This wasn't for any test or private fighting sessions this was purely for her.
Cam knew they would never find anything of importance about her no matter how long they had been doing this for. Cam underestimated Liz's hacking powers.
"So what's Covert Operations like?" Cam asked pouring a glass of orange juice she doubted she would drink. Note to self, Cam thought, Being held captive in a place that is very likely to poison you at any possible moment is a great way to lose weight. She couldn't stop herself from asking. Although, she did try her best to sound as mean as possible and like she didn't care as she said it.
The truth was it was a topic she was interested in. How could it not be coming from where she did? She knew here at the 'Gallagher Academy' where everyone was perfect and pathetic the lessons would hardly be anything special...Even so.
"Mr. Solomon is the best teacher we have." Anna said succeeding in sounding a little indignant that she should even want to ask.
"Should of guessed." Cam said under her breath. She hadn't known that's what he teached but she had had a very big hunch. What else would the infamous but disappointing Joseph Solomon be hired to teach?
"He's the best in this business." Mick said defensively and Cameron just tried not to cackle at the thought. But failed. Everyone had stopped eating and was staring at her either glaring at her or lost in shock.
"Oh God not another 'Hell no that bitch didn't just insult Saint Ab man' thing...Do you really care about teachers that much? Care about anyone? It's disgusting." She said sounding like a typical high school bitch. "So tell me, What does Mr. Morgan do?! Or do you all see him as the useless thing he is?" Courtney slammed her fist on the table sending all the plates on the table into the air.
"Your dad you mean?!" Tina asked sounding like she couldn't believe what she was hearing. Which was slightly ironic coming from her.
"He's not my father!" Cammie exclaimed through clenched teeth, making a fist on the table. Tina made a light 'Oh' thinking back to her very first ridiculous rumour and getting lost in her own gossip filled brain as Anna back tracked,
"Woah! Woah! Woah! Woah! Back up a bit, did you just insult not only the best teachers we have? But the best god damn spies there have ever been too?"
Cameron stood up getting tired of the whole thing but leaned down to the delicate teenager and spat out a, "You betcha!" before storming up to the doors.
She heard footsteps following her just as she reached the doors and spun round without even considering they weren't going after her.
"What?!" She yelled with her temper at one of it's highest, Macey stood a foot away from her looking no different from what she did at the table. Only either to hide whatever was bothering her or she was able to show opposite emotions at once she gave a small laugh and said,
"You didn't touch your breakfast." Cammie's mouth fell open in absolute disbelieve. She liked to think she was expecting anything that could happen at any given moment but that certainly hadn't been one of them.
"You're like me when I first started here." She explained. "I never ate anything, everybody hated me, they ganged up on me and I didn't give two shits. You'll cave eventually, trust me, even if it does take a little longer."
"And what makes you think that?" Cam mumbled still a little numb from the turn in events.
"Because we all say we're sisters...and we are. But we need something to bring us all together sometimes, and it doesn't matter that that thing is hate or that hate is you because what happens when there isn't that is worse. Your little mentor used to be one of us, and look what happened when everything at school was normal. Catherine Goode is a Gallagher Girl, Cameron, you can't quit us anymore than you can the Circle...remember that." Macey's voice was quiet and calm, the complete opposite of Cameron's when she felt the anger coming back to her.
"So what?! You think that is going to make me start eating?!" She shouted and Macey stared at her for a long time and Cam vaguely wondered if she had been crying. Macey looked like there was something different she wanted to say as she finally said,
"You'll start eating again because the Chef's Beef and carrot pie is the best thing I've ever fucking tasted." And with that she ran back to her seat; Leaving Cammie to walk of the anger before lessons started.
cCc
A crowd was already surrounding the mirror that hid the Sublevels when Cam got there and was welcomed with a bombardment of bickering.
"Oi!" Baxter yelled and everyone fell immediately silent, apparently the fight hadn't harmed the impression she gave. "Someone just read the damn note!" She ordered leaning against the wall and sounding exasperated.
"Pop Quiz." Liz said stepping forward and reading the note tapped to the mirror. The bickering began again only to be broken...again, by a deep voice coming from a distance.
"Ladies..." The entire CoveOps class scrambled to see Joe Solomon leading against the main door. Everybody swiftly shut up and hurried after him, except Cammie, of course, who took her sweet time.
"Today, Ladies we learn the art of a dead letter drop. Simple? yes, but like anything in our world, could mean the difference between life and death." Cam rolled her eyes and leaned against the mansion wall as the rest of the class hung on his every word. Dead letter drops where ridiculously simple, Cam could teach a monkey to do it, in fact she had once, for part of her first roles in an actual Circle mission, but that was top secret.
She dearly hoped he hadn't chosen this topic for her benefit. But he had been part of the Circle himself once and not even Joe Solomon could be that stupid. The class began to climb into a stolen van and hook themselves up with comms units, for a second Cam wondered where Zach was; She had assumed they would be in the same CoveOps class, but then she sighed and decided she didn't care and began to turn back to the mansion doors.
"Ms. Morgan!" Solomon called and the fact that he called her like any other student was perhaps the only thing that made her turn around. "Where do you think you're going?" Cam just laughed and seriously believed he was a real idiot in that moment.
"I know full well you don't trust me enough to let me out of this mansion, let alone in that town where I could easily escape. So let's cut this crap and let me go inside." She said folding her arms for both the extra warmth and to show here attitude.
"That type of language isn't permitted in school Ms. Morgan and whether you're happy about it or not you're a member of the Gallagher Academy now, where all students take all lessons." He said sounding like the strict teacher everybody made him out to be and Cam couldn't deny she was a little impressed at his talent for teacing. Only a little.
He threw her a comms unit and golden cross that she caught in one hand.
"Get in the van." Mr. Solomon ordered and she looked down at the bundle of spyware in her hand that on closer inspection she saw a camera on her cross. She gave a small smile, remembering a similar tool on a circle mission only last year. Had she worked with Joe Solomon then and not known?
Either way it didn't matter, Cam begrudgingly got in a confined space with sixteen Gallagher Girls but did it so with a bright mind and relished in the realisation that she was getting out of that damned mansion to a place that wasn't a CIA teachers were fools, and making a huge mistake. Because there was no way Cam would leave her would-be-home without it being permanent.
Yay! Yay! Yay! Another Chapter! We're getting into some serious shit now guys I'm warning you ;P
So...
What the hell was up with Macey?!
Where the hell is Zach?!
Why the hell would Mr. Solomon think it's okay to let Cammie out of the Gallagher Academy?!
How the hell will Cammie escape?! Or will she?!
They're going into Roseville what are the chances she's going to run into Jimmy...I mean Josh.
What more is there to know about possible love interest Martin Abrams?
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