Chapter 13

Zach's pov:

The flames were everywhere. In my face, burning my arms as they pumped at my sides as I ran. I thought of Cammie as I ran, thinking about her could have been a mistake, but the only way I could force myself to keep going was to know that it was the right thing to do. Our baby wouldn't make it if I didn't.

Cammie's pov:

I stare into the flames at where he had just been but then my survival skills kicked in and I ran. The baby, I thought. I had to think of the baby. That's what he was doing. Doing this for our baby, but my heart broke, a crack that spread throughout my chest and my face contorted with pain and then I let it out. I screamed in pain. In pain of losing him, of watching the man I love run into the flames again and disappear. I sobbed and felt the tears break through my throat. I must have looked like a woman who was lost and in truth I was. I was lost. I was losing my husband. Losing the one thing that mattered to me more than anything else. A part of me I would never get back.

"Cammie!" I heard Macey cry.

She stared at me seeing how broken I must have been. "Where's Zach?"

I just stared back at her.

"Cammie?" Nick stared at me. He reached to touch me but then pulled back as if scared to touch me as if I might explode.

I stood up and looked at Macey, "He's..." gone. He's gone... no...

Then I got up and ran for the burning building. Because I would never heal if I didn't get him out alive.

"Cammie!" They shouted after me. "Cammie wait!"

Macey screamed and lunged for me, but I was already gone.

Macey's pov:

Nick grabbed me and held me there.

"Let me go!" I screamed. "She's my best friend. I have to..."

"No Macey."

"She'll die in there!" I screamed. "She's trying to find Zach! She'll die!" I felt the panic escape in my chest and then i heard footsteps coming after us.

"Macey! Nick!" Bex shouted.

She ran to us, "Are you okay?"

"Cammie!" I screamed. "She ran in there to get Zach! She'll die!" Bex immediately was lunging in the direction of the door but Grant too held her there.

"You two knew that he was going back in, didn't you?" I cried. "You!"

"He's the only one who can disable the bomb. We have to go, now," Nick snapped.

"What about Jonas and Liz?"

"We're right here," Liz croaked.

I spun around and saw that she was writhing in pain. "The baby's coming."

Liz's pov:

The pain was strong and I began to give involuntary gasps and screams. I could feel the baby in my belly and the lights in my eyes and see my friends trying to help me, but all I could think was, Cammie.

"Cammie... Where is she," I gasped.

All of them shared a look and told me nothing.

"Where is she!" I screamed.

"She's coming, Lizzie. They're already out. They're getting supplies," Macey told me, because she must have known that I needed a lie. I needed something to keep me from breaking apart from the stress and the baby.

Bex's pov:

I remembered the light I had seen and thought that Cammie had seen it once before and maybe she could again.

I know it sounds silly but inside I hoped that spies were like cats, they had nine lives and Cam was the sketchiest of us all and maybe she could make it through the fire with Zach and her baby because to me Cammie was the unbreakable. The unshaken and that gave me hope for my best friend.

"Lizzie, you're going to be okay," I promised. "You're going to be okay."

Then I heard the chopper in the sky and they came down. Helping Liz onto a stretcher, but that didn't stop Macey and I crying, "What about Cammie and Zach?"

Cammie's pov:

I ran through the flames until I found the boy who was working on a bomb. "Zach!" I cried.

He looked up, "What are you doing here?" He screamed.

I pressed my lips to his and got down on my knees, "What do we need to do?" I asked.

"You mean what I need to do. You need to run Cammie! Get out of here, Gallagher Girl!" He shouted. But i shook my head and looked at him seriously, "I'll never leave you."

It might have been selfish that I was willing to risk my baby for him, but that's what love is. Like in wedding vows they say it is selfless and generous, but love is also selfish. And i loved him to much to ever let him go.

He must have sensed that I wasn't going to leave him because he began to work on the small box and his fingers worked with the wires and he pulled and prodded them . Then he looked in my direction helplessly, "I can't do it, Gallagher Girl. You have to go!" But again I shook my head.

"No, Zach."

I looked at the box and yanked a cord out and fused it with another like a child playing with a toy and felt the fire burning around us. This couldn't be the end...

Zach pulled me into his chest as the flames began to come over us, covering us like a blanket and I watched as the bomb's timer went to the number 1 and ticked to 0 and I waited for the explosion.