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Zach POV
"Mr. Solomon? Is it okay if I skip Cove Ops today? You know, so I can visit Cammie?" I asked when I saw him in the halls. I was on my way to class when I finally decided to skip one to make sure Cammie was okay. I knew she was getting lonely.
"I'm afraid you can't, Zach. As much as I would love for you to get out of my sight, Cammie isn't accepting visitors today," he responded. Well, that was bad. I nodded and was about to leave when Macey and Liz came running up to us.
"Solomon, I'm not going to Cove Ops today," Liz said. I expected Mr. Solomon to have an outburst- he never was a fan of repeating things.
"Okay, Ms. Sutton. Ms. McHenry, would you care for a pass out of your class too?"
"Yes please."
"Okay. Tell Cammie I said hello."
They nodded and ran away. I turned to Mr. Solomon with a scowl on my face.
"Not accepting visitors, eh? I knew you hated me."
"Zachary, I'm a spy. We lie. Now then, just get out of my sight, I don't care if you visit Cam or not."
He was starting to give me a headache.
XXX
I walked down the halls and was about to enter Cammie's room when I heard strange voices.
"Yes, of course I did it. But that meddling kid keeps getting in the way," a female voice said.
"Then make sure he gets out of the way," another voice responded. I wasn't sure if this voice belonged to a girl or a boy; I could barely make out what they said.
"Yes master. Did you find the Chameleon yet?"
"No, he's really good. I'm starting to think that Matthew Morgan's the Chameleon!"
"This must really be getting to your head, considering that he's dead. You of all people should know this!"
"Whatever. Now go, I have to get back to the drawing board. Oh, but make sure Cameron Morgan gets out of the way too. But I want her alive, so no more of that funny business, kay?"
"Of course. Good luck on your Chameleon search," said the first voice.
Wait, they were looking for the Chameleon? Isn't that Cammie? I hid behind a cabinet and peered through a little hole. Out of that room came a lady pushing a cart. She was the first voice I heard. I craned my neck to see the second one, but nobody else came out. The cart lady was heading down the hall, and a piece of paper was attached on the side of it.
Room 214C.
Cammie's room number.
Suddenly, I recognized the lady. She was Dr. Johnson, the one that had given Cammie her shots on that first day. And by the looks of her equipment, she was back for more. I ran the other way, taking a short cut. I would only get there a second before her, literally. I had to cause a distraction.
Looking around, I found nothing. I was in full on panic mode now, and it didn't help that two CIA agents were walking towards me. When I looked up at them, all three of us froze at the exact same time.
The first one was blonde with brown eyes. The second was a brunette with green eyes, much like mine. I had never met anybody that looked like that, but then I looked beyond that. They were both slim. One was tall and one was short. The short one was especially skinny. And her blonde hair was a shade nearly impossible to find. And then I knew.
"Liz, Macey? What are you two doing here? And what are you wearing?"
"Now's not the time for questions. I understand that you are chasing cart lady," Liz spoke, taking a step closer to me. An idea popped up in my mind.
"Can you two distract her? Like talk to her just for a little bit? I only need forty five seconds."
"It will cost you, Goode," Macey said, stepping up to join Liz.
"Okay. You guys can have my secret stash of sweets. Now can you go and-"
"We don't want your candy," Liz interrupted.
"But we do want something else," Macey added.
"What? Just hurry up and tell me!"
"There's a boutique I've always wanted to go to. And it just so happens to be in Maine. But we couldn't go in before, because 'each party must have at least one female and one male.' And I'm pretty sure you count as a male," Macey said, a smirk plastered on her face.
"Fine, I'll take you two shopping."
They smiled and ran to the lady. I took the shortcut to Cammie's room and made it before Dr. Johnson. The room was empty, with the exception of Cammie who was sleeping on the bed. I ran up to her and she stirred.
"Cammie, it's me, Zach. You have to wake up."
"What's wrong?"
"You are in great danger. I'll explain later but come with me."
"Is someone coming?"
"Yeah. And we don't want to stay to make friends."
Her eyes widened and she jumped out of the bed. She turned a dial and I saw that it showed her location. This was set on 'bathroom.' Then she led me to the wall on the east end of the room and moved a brick, revealing a small tunnel. We climbed in and two small holes allowed us to see everything. Cammie peered through with her good eye.
Five seconds later, Dr. Johnson pushed through the doors.
"Darn girls, blabbering on and on," she muttered to herself. I grinned when I realized she was talking about Macey and Liz.
She looked at the dial next to Cammie's bed.
"And they made me miss her, too!"
She crossed her arms and tapped her foot. I saw a smile creep on her hideous face as she reached for Cammie's glass. She went to her cart and grabbed two liquid-like things. I squinted so I could read the labels. The first thing she poured in was simply orange juice. But the second one had a poison sign on it. as Dr. Johnson pushed the cart, she was humming to some song.
Cammie had a worried expression on her face. "Z-Zach? What just happened?"
I led her back to the bed. "Go to sleep, Cam. But here, take this first," I responded, giving her a small case.
"What is it?
"I guess you could say it's a little 'inspecting' tool. Just make sure you run this before taking any more medicine."
"Thanks. Where did you get it?"
I chose to ignore that; I had stolen it from Mr. Solomon, and if he was listening on our conversation, I would be dead.
"Promise me you'll use it, Cam."
"I promise."
On my way back to Blackthorne, I was lost in thought. But then I realized something about Doctor Johnson. All the pieces of the puzzle fit, so I knew I was right.
Somehow, she was the one who blinded Cammie.
XXX
"Mr. Solomon!" I yelled as I entered the Cove Ops classroom, a.k.a. his office. Tina Walters was talking to him.
I turned to her and snapped, "Leave."
She huffed but left.
"What do you want, boy?"
"Have you visited Cammie lately?"
"The last time I went, she was asleep. And she wore some sort of eye patch on her eye, but the doctors already informed us about her temporary vision loss. Why? Did something happen to her?"
"Yes. Well, no. Well, kind of. You see, one of the doctors caused that; it wasn't her incident in the woods," I said, getting straight to the point.
He paused to consider this for a moment. "I doubt that they would do that to her, Zach."
"I don't know why they would do it, either, but I know that she did."
"She? You're not blaming it on that one Cassidy doctor, are you?"
"Actually, I'm insisisting that it was that one lady doctor who was checking Cam when she first woke up. All the pieces of the puzzle fit."
He sighed. "Go on, Mr. Goode. Explain yourself."
"Thanks Mr. S. It's actually really simple, come to think of it. You see, Cammie's vision was perfect when she woke up. Then, Dr. Johnson came. After she sent us to the couch, I was still watching her and Cammie; the curtain was conveniently open. So, she had gotten her needle and poked it in some liquid. When I got up to question her about it, she shooed me away, insisting it was her medicine. I'm not completely sure what happened next, but I'm guessing that she put the shot on her eye."
He considered my words and smiled. "Very good, Goode. May I add to your completely believable theory?" I nodded.
"I'm positive she didn't shoot her eye. For one, Cammie would've been knocked out way longer than that. Two, there were needle points on her arm. But I'm guessing that somehow, the doctor managed to injure her."
I thought for a moment and knew that there was only one thing left to do.
"We should call someone, and I know just the person."
"Who?"
"Elizabeth Sutton."
Liz POV
"Macey, have you found anything?"
"No; her CIA file is practically clean!"
It was 2 pm and Macey and I were spending our Friday at the Central Intelligence Agency. We had one leading suspect of who this CU character could be, and her name was Missy Jones.
"Does it have anything in there?"
She nodded. "I found some traces of her appearance, but that's it."
I walked over and Macey showed me her notebook, in which she had written down the appearance. Missy Jones had long red hair, dark green eyes, and pale skin. I figured that she just wore a blonde wig.
Then, a note was slipped under the door. Macey and I exchanged confused looks, but I picked it up. Written in serial letters, it said:
Liz, you are a bad girl.
I knew that it was the CU. But I don't know what they were implying. Sure, I had secretly been trying to find all of the items on the list Missy- who I still believe is the leader- had given me. I knew she couldn't be telling that to me. So what?
I widened my eyes in terror as I realized the truth behind this- thank goodness that my back was to Macey.
~(…)~
Madeline Feldman and Aubrey Moore were on the case of discovering what really happened to Matthew Morgan. The mission would be dangerous, as they would have to combine their skills and risk everything to learn more about his death location and what really happened. Soon, they were MIA. A year after the start of their journey, they were announced KIA to the elite spy world. Nobody knows why. Except one girl, and possibly one pilot.
Elizabeth Sutton is one of the smartest spies in history. She appears innocent to everybody she meets. But not so long ago, in order to protect her friends, she developed two dirty little secrets. One is that she may be unknowingly helping the terrorist group after the Chameleon- although they have no idea that it is actually Cameron Morgan.
The other has to do with those two spies on the case of Matthew Morgan.
Elizabeth was a smart girl; she thinks out every plan thoroughly and runs through all the possible outcomes before she goes with it. She recently needed two identities for her and best friend, Macey McHenry. So she decided that Aubrey Moore and Madeline Feldman were perfect. But then she discovered where most of their work on this case happened- the incredibly enormous Blackthorne Woods.
One day, she followed them all the way to their less important base in Rhode Island. All she intended to do was trap them inside a cabin- she was even going to leave them with a supply of food and water. But when they turned around and saw her, everything changed. It didn't help the poor girl that a helicopter was hovering about.
Elizabeth panicked; she didn't know what to do. She tried to aim for her 'safe spot' relocate on the ground behind her, but the gun was faced the wrong way. It just so happened that the shot hit the helicopter. It fell down and hit the two ladies, immediately killing them. The confused girl immediately shot her relocate, the right way this time. When she showed up in a secret passageway in Blackthorne, she cried. She had killed three people on accident; all because of a silly mistake she made when trying to borrow identities. And a poor pilot- who she knew wasn't the CU leader- got caught up in the mess.
Elizabeth Sutton didn't know how her careful planning would backfire. But she was safe; nobody noticed. She would just have to live with the guilt.
But somebody is always watching. The CU leader just knew that this would be another thing to hold against the miserable Lizzie. Now she had something against her besides her friends and family.
But that was the least of her worries. If Liz hadn't fled the scene, she would have seen the pilot slowly shimmy his way out of the crash. He was alive, but Liz didn't know that. She didn't even know the guy. Missy Jones, the so called leader, did. And so did someone else.
Her boyfriend.
~(…)~
"Liz? Are you okay?" Macey asked, noticing I was staring at the paper and not breathing.
I turned around. "Yeah. The paper was blank." I gave a shrug and shoved it in my pocket.
"Okay," she said, stretching out the vowels.
My phone rang and I tensed up, fearing that they were calling.
"Will you people just leave me alone?!" I yelled. Macey looked at me like I was crazy.
"Liz, it's just Zach," she calmly said, tossing my phone over.
"Yes, Zach?" I asked impatiently.
"Come over here, and quick."
"What do you-"
"Just come!"
I shoved the phone in my other pocket and looked at Macey.
"Sorry, M, but I got to go. Try to find more stuff, kay? We'll talk at the passage."
After she nodded, I hastily said goodbye to the guard and drove to the Institute. Zach was waiting in front of the headmaster's office. He motioned me to follow him. We stopped in front of Joe's main room.
They explained to me theories on how Cammie may have gotten slightly visually impaired. I accepted Zach's theory on how Dr. Johnson did this; the way he said it made sense. I went into deep thought as I pondered what could have happened.
"Well," I finally said, "the only logical explanation is that she used some state of the art needle and strange liquid. I'm pretty sure that it had flowed down to Cam's heart, causing an aortic dissection. Then, the blood would have flowed into the wall of the aorta, causing this injury. And the liquid couldn't have flowed up; the only substance like that was a toxin that would automatically killed Cammie."
They registered my words for a moment. Zach turned to Joe with a small smirk.
"Let's face it; Liz is a genius."
"You called the right person, Zachary," he responded, nodding approvingly. I blushed.
"So do you guys need anything else?"
"Not right now, but thank you for your help Miss Sutton. We'll call you if we need anything," Joe answered.
Zach chirped as I left, "Bye Lizzie!"
I waved to Tina Walters as I went up to my room to look at the list Missy had given me.
CU Leader POV
"You failed miserably," I barked as Linda came into the room.
"I'm sorry, miss."
"No apologies, you've messed up terribly! Do you realize that you could've killed Cammie? Even after I specifically told you not to? Thank God she was in the wall with that boy spying on you; I don't know what I would've done if you killed her!"
Linda looked taken aback at my words. "She was in the room this whole time?"
I grinned and shot her a death glare. "Duh. Now then, what has Elizabeth been up to? I'm glad I finally learned her name."
"Um, I don't know master."
I glared at her with much more intensity this time. We needed to learn everything about Elizabeth; she possibly figured out what my secret with the Morgans is. And even if she didn't, it will be soon that she puts two and two together.
"If you weren't my mom, I would've fired you by now," I snapped.
"At least I lived up to the 'Johnson's' family name. I found out who the pilot is," she retorted, saying the last part in a sing-songy voice.
I widened my eyes and leaned against the table, waiting to listen more.
So… that's that. This chapter wasn't up for a while because I needed to be careful and make sure I didn't give too much away. (Therefore, Liz's flashback wasn't what I expected it to be, but it still worked.) I gave you an extra-long chapter to make up for it! Although I left you with more questions than answers…
Liz is in trouble now, isn't she? And where's Bex, anyway? Did you like the little twist?
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PS- GG6 will bring us shirtless Zach frying bacon! Go on my profile page to find the link for the second mini excerpt of GG6 as well.
PPS- Watch out for clues on the next couple of chapters. I gave some away here too. ;)
xxxLizxxx
