Roll of the Dice

Chapter 1

Cameron Morgan sat in her clean office in Langley, bored right out of her mind. She was sitting on the comfortable chair in front of her wooden desk, a stack of papers waiting to be read in front of her. Her eyes scanned the first page over and over again, but no words seemed to enter her mind.

Sighing, she pick the papers and shove them into the top drawer. The mission report can wait. Right now, she had another thing in mind.

She checked her watch. 16:30. Good, she thought to herself. He'll be done by now.

Cammie quickly walked out of her office, down the hallways, and into the elevator. She pressed the button that lead her to Sublevel 4, and when there was a 'ding' and the doors opened, she walked out of the elevator. Down another hallways, descending a set of winding stairs, and finally she saw him walking at her direction.

His blue shirt was wrinkled. His eyes seemed tired and he slightly dragged his feet as he walked. But when he saw her, a smile lit up his expression.

"What are you doing here?" Zachary Goode asked his long-time girlfriend.

Cammie smiled as he took her hand and guided her back the way she'd just came.

"What do you think?" She replied in a flirty, teasing tone. But then she said sympathetically. "Tired?"

Zach smirked. "You need to ask? He's a really tough nut to crack. I've been interrogating him for 5 hours straight before he finally told us the info we need."

Cammie rubbed his back comfortingly. "At least it's done. You're free now?"

Zach laughed. Being with Cammie always succeeded in making him feel better. "Someone's impatient," he commented.

The couple got into the empty elevator and Zach pressed the button.

"Shouldn't you be checking your sub's report?"

Cammie pouted. "I'm sooo bored. I can't even understand a single word! And I'm hungry."

Zach smiled at his girlfriend. "Aren't you always?" he asked teasingly, but winced when Cammie hit his arm.

"Okay, okay. Where do you wanna eat?"

They went out of the elevator on the fifteenth floor and strolled to a double door.

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They were at the highest level of the CIA office, and the fifteenth floor is the offices of the CIA directors and his direct subordinates. Langley has fifteen floors plus five sublevels. Each floor has its own unique design, although each window is missile-proof, each room is soundproof, and there are countless cameras with no blind spots on each floor.

The fifteenth floor has black-and-white marble floor, clean white walls, and polished mahogany doors. The fourteenth floor has dark green and ivory marble floors and the walls are made from chocolate-red marble with ivory doors. It's the office for Security Department (which means all the cameras are being monitored here) and meeting rooms.

The thirteenth floor is the Department of Operative Development and Human Intelligence (where they run schools such as the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women – Cammie's school, and the Blackthorne Institute for Men – Zach's school - as well as organizing the CIA Summer Training Camp and stuff) and the Department of Sabotage and Seemingly Accidental Explosions (the name explains it).

The twelfth floor is for the Department of Protection. They specialize in protection missions, duh. The eleventh floor is for Department of Guerrilla Warfare and the Department of Identifying Characteristics Removal. The agents used to refer to that particular department as 'Department of Free-Plastic-Surgery'. Needless to say, the floor, door, and walls are all sterile white.

The tenth floor is the Department of International Affairs. It's basically the administration office of the CIA. All mission requests are being handled there, and they assign each mission on the agents.

The second to ninth floor are agent's offices. The CIA agents get their offices based on their clearance level. The second floor is for newbies. The third is for agents with clearance level 1 and 2, the fourth is for level 3 and 4, the fifth is for level 5 and 6, and the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth floor each is for level 7, 8, 9, and 10.

The first floor is the lobby, cafeteria, and training grounds. The floor is made from wood with brick walls, adding a nature-ish feeling to the building. Sublevel 1 is the Department of Cover and Disguise. The whole floor is like a big, very complete shopping mall. Sublevel 2 and 3 is the Department of Research and Development. They got labs, computer rooms, a 'warehouse' for failed prototypes, etc. Sublevel 4 and 5 only contains cells for prisoners and interrogation rooms.

You see, in the CIA, you'll do missions with different difficulties. They have a clear rule on the clearance level you get. For example, to get clearance level 1 you have to succeed in 26 mission, for clearance level 2 you have to complete 48 missions, and so on.

However, in special cases it is possible for an agent to get a higher clearance level before they complete enough missions. In some cases the agent's rewarded for their exceptional character, or complete success in a mission. In any case you have to be more exceptional than an agency full of exceptional people.

After you get level 11 clearance, though, you no longer will operate in field. You will be specialized in a department where you'll basically help running the CIA. However, sometimes there agents still went on missions. Missions they get are practically mission impossible, and it could take months, years, to complete. Or fail.

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Cammie and Zach are both level 5 agents. They are both the best agents of their generation, and so – even though they had been working in the CIA for only 3 years – they had been assigned in more than 100 missions.

A mechanic voice blared from the high-tech speakers around them. Identifying agents… please identify yourself.

Zach cleared hold the door knob for three seconds before he let go. Cammie immediately reached the knob and did the same.

After three seconds, the double doors opened automatically with the mechanic voice saying Welcome, Agent Zachary Goode. Welcome, Agent Cameron Morgan.

They strolled through the doors and went down another set of corridors. Left, right, forward, and another left. They arrived in front of a set of mahogany doors. It's Kennedy Samuels, the Head of Department of International Affairs. Zach had been interrogating a leader of a small terrorist organization from Ghana, and Kennedy had taken a personal interest on Zach's case and had asked him to report the result immediately to her.

"I'll be just a moment," Zach said, dropping Cammie's hand.

Cammie simply nodded. "Okay. I'll be right here. Hurry, though. I'm hungry."

Zach chuckled and went inside.

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Cammie tapped her foot on the black marble. Damn! What's taking him so long? She thought, then grumbled again. Her stomach rumbled, much to her dismay. Zach said that he'll be 'just a moment', but so far he's been inside for 45 minutes.

Cammie grumbled again and finally she heard the door being opened and her irritating boyfriend showed up.

"Finally! I thought you died in there or something!" she exclaimed.

Zach rolled his eyes.

"What's taking you so long? Do you have any idea how long I've been waiting? You know I'm starving! And you dare making me wait so long?" Cammie rambled on and on as they quickly went to the elevator.

Zach smiled wryly. He knew that Cammie hates it when she has to wait for a long time, but he couldn't help it. Kennedy had wanted a very detailed explanation, and he had to please his boss.

"Sorry, Cam. Dinner's on me, how's that?"

Cammie glared at him before turning on her heels and speed-walked down the halls.

"I want Burger King!" she called behind her back and Zach chuckled under his breath, knowing that she forgave him already.

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"Zach?"

"Mmhm?"

"I've been thinking…" Cammie trailed off, uncertain.

They were at their apartment, cuddling on a loveseat. Zach was playing with her hair while they were watching the news.

"What is it?"

"I want to take a break."

"WHAT?"

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[AN: This is my first story, so please go easy on me. Actually, I go the inspiration from a dream. Literally. I dreamt about what I'm planning as the whole plot of the story one night and I immediately thought that that's a pretty good plot.

Anyway, if you got any ideas how I should continue, please review! I highly appreciate all your critique and suggestions!

I don't come from an English-speaking country, so if I made any grammar errors, please tell me… And I obviously don't know how Langley look like, so I'm just using my imagination and Ally Carter's reference… hehe…

If you have any ideas on how Langley should look like, or if you have any more detailed ideas on the building, please tell me, 'cuz I want to make the story as realistic as possible.]