I am so sorry. I know, I'm a pretty shocking updater, but… Well actually, I don't really have an excuse. I was too busy enjoying summer. Anyways, I AM SO SORRY. Thanks so much for still reading this, so here is Chapter 7 of The Life of an Assassin.

Cammie POV

The siren rung around my room, instantly jolting me out of my sleep. These things happen quite a lot when you're an assassin, so you get to use to it after a while. I sprung out of my bed and peered out from the small crack of my door, looking in to the corridor.

Just that one glance was enough to tell me that something was wrong. This was not a practice. It was real.

There were people in the corridors that obviously did not belong here. Living here 24/7, I've grown to know pretty much everyone that passes through, but none of these faces familiar. Even if you weren't here all the time like I was, the intruders' all-in-black outfits, weaponry and the fact that they were here in the early hours of the morning was just a slight giveaway that they weren't one of us.

Just as I was pushing panicked thoughts out of my head- what? Of course I was panicking; this had never happened before. Ever. The COC Headquarters were not broken into. It just didn't happen. Well it wasn't supposed to happen anyways. Back to reality- Jace burst into my room, panic apparent on his face. His poker face wasn't in place. That was like a slap in the face to me, and told me how serious this was. That mask never slipped off his face. Never. But it had.

"It isn't safe." He stated. "We need to go to the lower levels. Maybe even flee. Grab your bags you were taking to Gallagher- we might be leaving early." I nodded and picked my suitcase from the foot of my bed and pulled on my vans and threw on a jacket over my summer pyjamas.

I made for the door, but Jace stood in front of me like a tower, blocking my way.

"It's too dangerous. Cam, you know the secret passages around here better than anyone, even better than the director himself. So how can we get to safety from here?"

I racked my brain for passageways that would lead directly to the sublevels, but came up blank.

"Impossible." I told Jace, shaking my head. Wait… Maybe…

"I can get to the director's office from here." I blurted out.

Jace's expression was first shocked, then amused, and finally a little bit impressed. With a small smirk on his face, he said, "Lead the way."

"How do you even manage to smirk at a time like this?" I continued, leaving no time for him to reply. "It's through the vents for the first bit, so don't take that opportunity to stare at my ass. And don't even deny you were planning on doing it." At this, Jace's smirk only widened.

"Asshole." I muttered under my breath, making sure it was just loud enough for him to hear. This casual banter with my best friend—wait, boyfriend—was exactly what I needed at a time like this.

I hauled my suitcase up into the vent, and then used my shelves to boost myself up, and slid in after my suitcase. Jace followed with his suitcase, and I began wriggling through the vents, pushing my suitcase up ahead of me and navigating my way to the passageway.

When I reached our destination, I made sure the room was clear before gracefully leaping down from the vent and landing like a cat on the floor. Jace chucked down the suitcases and then followed himself.

As he got up from his crouch, I began trailing my fingers across the walls, looking for the engraving I had found so many years ago.

Ioseph Cavan it read with GG and BB underneath and tallies of numbers below them. I'd never found out what they meant, but now wasn't exactly the best time to look closer.

I pressed my finger onto the "C" in "Cavan", and then stood back, waiting for the passageway to do its thing.

The passageway opened up and I stepped into the dark corridor of stone walls and stone floors. It was probably one of the oldest tunnels in this place. As far as I knew, nobody knew about it; not even the Director. Well then there's Jace of course, but he doesn't really count.

We made our way to the end of the tunnel, which was now significantly underground, as the tunnel had been sloping downhill. A rope ladder hung at the end, and—just like in the movies—there was a trapdoor above it. There was a miniature "C" there as well, just like the one at the start of the tunnel. I pressed onto it, and the trapdoor swung open.

I climbed up the rough ladder, Jace close behind me, and made my way through the doorway. I peered around to make sure no one was in the office. When I neither saw nor heard anyone, I pressed my necklace, so it glowed green and spun around, doing a check of the room. I had no idea how useful this necklace would be when I was given it at the age of 4. The necklace vibrated slightly once, telling me there was no one else, dead or alive, in the room.

I gave a quick nod down to Jace and climbed into the room, making sure he followed after me, our suitcases with him. You may think it would be hard, dragging a suitcase through secret passageways with you, but obviously if you think that, you aren't a trained agent.

"I think our best bet is to wait here until the threat is gone, okay?" I asked Jace. If it's gone. I added in my head. What would we do if the COC was taken over? No, I stopped myself, that isn't going to happen.

"Sure." He murmured with a small nod. I could tell he wasn't really paying attention to me, because his eyes were focused on two manila files on the Director's desk. I spun around to see what had him so interested, and stopped dead at what I saw there.

These weren't your average folders that you saw people carrying to work everyday. No trust me, if you saw this kind of file, you would be very curious about what was inside. And tell me, if you saw a file with your name printed on the front, and Highly Classified stamped underneath it, and let's just say you were in a room all by yourself; there was no one to stop you from reading it, then what would you have done?

I sure know what I did. And it changed my life forever.

I opened it.

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