Lost In The Time Of Memories

Chapter 09

"Zachary, Emily and Flint will go in and take down the agents and clear the way for Charlie and Sage who will collect the information by plugging this drive into the computer terminal" May instructed as we all stood in the control room and listened to her plan.

"I'm sorry, what about Thea?" Charlie speaks up shyly this time, noting that I didn't receive any instructions.

"She's knows what she's doing" May states stoically with confidence in my ability's. They all nodded before going back to preparing for the mission in a little while. I had moved down to my lab where I had called Sage down to meet with me.

"So what's this top secret mission that May has for you?" Zachary leaned in the table in the lab as he questioned me. I was busy explaining to Sage how the drive worked so that she could complete her part of the mission. "Hello?" He waved his hand in my face.

"What do you want?" I sighed, dropping my hands and finally giving him my attention.

"What's your mission?" He repeated himself with interest.

"Wait for you guys to get back and crack the information code" I tell him with a shrug before turning back to his friend.

"That's it? You aren't coming in with us?"

"No, I'm not a field agent I'm just a scientist"

"Sure" he seems to not believe me.

"Time to gear up, are you all ready?" Flint directs the last part to me.

"They should be all good to go" I hand Sage the drive before they all filed out of the lab, leaving me alone to wait for them to return.

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"What the hell happened?" I shout, running out of the lab into the cargo hold as May rushed onto the top catwalk of the cargo hold at the same time.

"Get us in the air!" Emily orders to May who rushed off as fast as she came.

"On it" May called down. The team rushed onto the cargo hold in a hurry, taking cover around the empty space. Bullets sprayed around the insides as men shot from outside. I froze in spot, taking notice of the new people who had joined the team on our plane.

"Get down!" Zachary tackled me to the ground in the lab. He covered my head with his arm protectively. "Are you okay?" He sat up a bit and helped me to sit up as well. I was still frozen until the plane was lifted off the ground again.

"What the hell?" I shouted out with a panic, jumping to stand as Zachary rushed to follow my lead. "What happened out there? Who are these people? And why were you getting shot at?" I listed off my question as I stormed into the cargo hold where the others stood around.

"Thea calm down for a minute" Emily reached out to settle me but I was too jumpy after the chaos. I flinched back and bumped into Zachary as she reached out for me.

"The mission went south, they were on high alert because these agents were breaking in before we arrived and we all got caught" Zachary explained calmly, trying to calm me down as well.

"So who are they?" I looked towards the team of 7 people who stood on the opposite of the cargo hold.

"Some military agents I think. They are good" Sage tells us.

"Are any of you hurt?" I asked after I calmed down a bit.

"Zachary took a pretty bad hit" Flint tells you.

"No, don't worry about me" he waved it off.

"Did you guys get the information?"

"Here you go"

"Thank you sage" I smiled warmly, accepting the drive. "Emily will you show the others upstairs?"

"Yeah, hey guys you can follow me upstairs, I think you'll be more comfortable up there" Emily directed them up to the living area.

"You sure your alright?" Zachary turned to me as the others followed Emily.

"Zachary, your bleeding" I pointed out. "Come on" I started off into the lab where I pulled out a first aid kit with medical supplies off the shelf's.

"You don't need to-" he starts as I get set up.

"Please" I scoffed. "I need to wait for this to upload anyway, might as well keep myself busy" I plugged the drive in and turned back to face the injured boy.

"It's really not that bad" he tried as he went to push himself onto the table. The brunette winced in pain at the pressure on his arm.

"Sit" I ordered as I pulled over my wheeling chair. He followed as told and took a seat in the chair, rolling up his sleeve to show me his cut on his arm. "So how'd you manage this?" I started to make small talk while I cleaned the cut.

"Guy threw a knife at me and it just barely missed" he explained, closing his eyes shut at the pain of the hydrogen peroxide on his wound. It wasn't too deep so I didn't need to give him any stitches so after cleaning it I simply wrapped it with gauze and turned around to do my work.

"You are all good to join the others"

"What if I don't want to join the others?"

"Then don't, but you can leave my lab now"

"Kicking me out again?"

"Yes" I stated bluntly, as I turned around to face the computer terminal. The brown haired boy stood from my seat and rolled down his army green sleeve once more.

"Rude" he comments.

"What's rude?" Charlie questioned as he entered through the back with the rest of our team.

"Nothing" Zachary sighs.

"How's the drive coming?" Flint questioned the status.

"Just started hacking into it" I reported.

"How long will that take?" Sage asked with curiosity.

"About twenty minutes, give or take"

"We will leave you to it then" Flint started to leave again.

"We'll be upstairs if you need anything" Emily pat my shoulder gently.

"I'll let you know when I'm finished"

"What's your deal?" Zachary asked suddenly as the others left.

"What?" I absentmindedly questioned the future boy as I had my back turned to him.

"What's up with you, why don't you like me?" He crossed his arms across his chest and leaned back against the table as he spoke.

"Well I'm sorry that not every girl swoons over some idiot from the future" I snapped back, turning my head to face him again. "Now if you don't mind I have work to do" I was about to face the computer once again but Zachary stopped me quickly. He had jumped forward from his position and grabbed onto my shoulders.

"What happened to you?"

"Nothing" I pushed away the question, fighting back to return to work.

"What was in that file?"

"Nothing"

"God damit Thea! What are you hiding?" He shouted with anger.

"I don't want to talk about it!" I whipped around and began shouting at him with even more anger.

"Fine!" He threw his hands in the air before storming out.

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Question of the day: why do you think Zachary was upset with Thea at the end?