The first class agents were gathered again at the meeting room. In fact, they've been waiting for the past 20 minutes in silence.
"So, third time this week uh?" Cherry Wallis tried to break the tension "We are surely visiting this room more often than we should"
More silence. It's unbelievably stupid how even around other youtubers, vloggers and video makers were very awkward.
Phil was the only one standing, looking at the door with impatience. Until it was opened and they entered the room. Luke and Clary came in first carrying a couple of papers and Lucy walked behind them with a laptop. She tripped and almost fell.
"Damn it, that entry was looking quite professional" Lucy said fixing her hair.
"Guys, finally, we thought you'd gone lost" Lester announced.
"Not really, it just took longer than we thought. We're going to need everyone's attention for a couple of minutes now if that's okay"
"Sure, yeah, go on" he replied and sat down.
"Alright, hello again everybody, we just came from Alex Day's house, Charlie's old housemate and…"
"And he confessed that he has been helping Charlie hide from us for the past months"
"But there's no way he could've done that without having some sort of…internal help himself"
"Are you girls implying that there's a double spy between us?" Emma Blackery spoke.
"You got it, Emma" Luke answered.
"Are you fucking serious?! None of us would betray the YSS, we all care way too much about this to just turn the other side to make things harder than they already are" Tom Milsom said, pretty mad.
"Funny that you said it like that because it's exactly what happened" Clary retorted "It's amazing how we didn't notice even if it was in front of us all the time"
"What are you talking about?" Dan asked.
Lucy took care to explain as she walked around the room, analyzing the agents faces "Well, there's someone between us today that has been giving Alex information, faking documents, transferring money from bank accounts to make it easy for Charlie to get away from us"
"Every move the agency made was well known by the Coollike, every step we took he was always in front of us, hiding in plain sight"
"Believe me when I tell you this is going to hurt us as much as you but we have no choice…" Lucy continued until she stopped in front of Carrie.
Carrie Hope Fletcher of course. She looked distracted but nervous; she was even a bit shaky.
"Carrie" Lucy said "you've been spying for Alex"
All the eyes in the room spotted Carrie as she looked at Lucy, stunned.
"Oh my god Carrie. Say something!" Jack Howard started crying and Dean put a hand on his shoulder.
Carrie looked broken inside, like she regretted something really bad but there was nothing to do about it.
"I…I'm sorry. It may sound fake but I'm serious. I wanted to help, I just did it for someone else than the YSS"
"Charlie?" Emma said.
"Alex". Her last word before bursting into tears.
"But you guys aren't together, are you? At least not that I know, all the people close to us get registered when we join the agency. Your files don't say you and Alex are dating or anything" that was Bethan. Everyone looked at her, surprised and curious "What? I work at the office and sometimes get bored GET OVER IT. You've all read them at some point"
No one argued about that. Only Tim looked over at Lex with anxiety. Clary was the only one that noticed, she thought she might ask later. But this was the moment to do some explaining.
"I have a theory. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think you were helping Alex since the beginning. You joined the organization specifically to help Alex and before you knew it you were lying to all your friends"
"Jesus Christ, what are you, fucking Sherlock?" Dan broke the tension (in his own way).
"I never felt proud while doing it. Or happy! I never expected this could go so far, I didn't want to cause trouble" Carrie sobbed and said.
"You didn't want to cause trouble? Carrie, you have stopped an entire worldwide organization from accomplish the only task all this people have been trying to accomplish for the past year and a half. All their dedication, their hard work, every time we were a step closer you pushed us backwards!" Phil looked pretty…angry? That was new.
"I'M SORRY. Phil, I'm sorry. I just…I…"
"You wanted Alex to love you back?" Luke finally spoke.
No one knew what to say. They didn't know Carrie felt like this, even at the time everything was normal they thought it was only crazy online shipping. They never thought either Carrie or Alex could have feelings for the other.
Carrie looked down and answered.
"I wanted him to know I was there for him whenever he wants me"
"Did it work?"
Shut up Bethan Lucy thought.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK? NO, I'M STILL INVISIBLE ONLY NOW HE NEEDS ME"
"CARRIE" Phil said.
"What?!"
"We forgive you"
"You what?!"
"We forgive you. But you're going to give us all the information you know. You're not going to break contact with Alex but this time, you're working for us. Double double agent"
"Is this an order or a proposal?"
"A proposal"
"Then…then…I'm in"
"Glad to hear it" Phil smirked and replied.
"Fantastic. Now first, can you please tell us where is Charlie?"
"Sure I can. Let me just warn you you've got a hell of a trip to do to get to him cause, in the first place, he's not even in this continent"