Max closed her eyes for a second, to rest them, then opened them again looking at the laptop screen, at the lyrics she had written. It was Iggy's watch but she hadn't been able to sleep, so she had "borrowed" the laptop and started typing on Microsoft Word. The out come was a song. Max hummed a tune under her breath and started quietly singing the words, to the rhythm on the tune she was humming.

I spread these wings,

And fly through the night,

Deep down inside,

I know it'll be all right.

With my muscles working hard

And my wings pumping fast,

I think about what we are,

And hope that it'll last.

I melt into the air, disappear into the black,

I fly on in despair, never looking back,

I think about my life, and what I can never be,

I think about our family, think about you and me.

My mind is blank,

My body's numb,

I'm falling quickly,

And I hope that you will come,

Hope that you will save me,

Like every other time,

You're the only one that's running

Through these thoughts of mine.

I melt into the air, disappear into the black,

I fly on in despair, never looking back,

I think about my life, and what I can never be,

I think about our family, think about you and me.

I just needed to escape,

For once, to be free,

I'll try and explain it to you,

Try to make you see,

We are what we are,

That will never change,

We live our lives this way,

Weird, messed up and strange.

I melt into the air, disappear into the black,

I fly on in despair, never looking back,

I think about my life, and what I can never be,

I think about our family, think about you and me.

When I think I need you there,

For comfort, by my side,

When I told you I was happy,

I admit that I lied,

But you know that already,

Sometimes I can't cope

But as long as you're beside me

My heart is filled with hope

I melt into the air, disappear into the black,

I fly on in despair, never looking back,

I think about my life, and what I can never be,

I think about our family, think about you and me.

I melt into the air, disappear into the black,

I fly on in despair, never looking back,

I think about my life, and what I can never be,

I think about our family, think about you and me.

Think about you and me.

Iggy's head whipped around and his sightless eyes stared at Max.

"Was that you?" he asked, sounding amazed.

Max looked up at him, blushed and in a small voice said "Sorry. Yeah it was, I know I can't sing or anything, but I wanted to try it out. I…"

But she never got to finish her sentence because Iggy cut her off.

"Max!! You are a really excellent singer. WOW!! How can you think you can't sing?!"

Max was speechless; he really thought she was a good singer? Her mouth opened a couple of times, each time shutting because she was at loss for words. The result: she looked like a fish.

Finally she managed a few strangled words: "Thanks Ig."

Iggy shook his head and turned back to face the fire, in the middle of the cave. This didn't go unnoticed by Max.

"What?" she asked.

"What? What?" Iggy retorted.

"You shook your head Ig," Max sighed, exasperated.

"Yeah. You really can sing Max, you shouldn't think that you can't."

"Oh right, I'll keep that in mind. My watch" she said, complete change of subject but oh well. Iggy thought so too.

"Complete change of subject Max" he laughed. He stood up stretched, walked over to where Gazzy was asleep and lay down. Max took up his place by the fire. Within ten minutes he was asleep, peacefully dreaming about who-knows-what.

For about half an hour she sat, watching and listening intently until she felt a prickly feeling on the back of her neck. She swung her head around, sweeping the cave with her eyes. Nothing. She went back to watching the sky, the ground and the forest. She heard a noise and looked around. Fang was sitting up, looking through his bag for something.

"Was that you before?" she asked, frowning at him. He looked at her with his eyebrows slightly raised, as if asking "Huh?" but Max knew him better and could see slight worry in his eyes, that he'd been caught. Max almost laughed out loud.

"Fang! You know I hate you watching me like that." She scolded, but she had small smile on her face.

"Fine," he sighed. He got u and sat next to her, leaving his bag where it was, not getting out whatever he had been looking for. "It was me."

Max rolled her eyes.

"Are you okay?" Max asked him.

"Yeah, I'm fine, as fine as a mutant bird-kid on the run can be anyway." He smirked, "You?"

"Yep. I'm happy"

They sat next to each other in companionable silence.

"Did you write it yourself?"

Max looked at him surprised, unsure of what he was talking about. Fang noticed this.

"The song" he said.

"Oh" Max said. He had heard her sing!! CRAP!! Wait, why did she care so much? A voice at the back of her head (not THE voice, just like her subconscious) said "Maybe because he's your best friend, and you LOVE him." Max shook her head and let out a low growl. It was frustrating that she wasn't sure of her feelings for Fang. They were like brother a sister, they were bets friends, she couldn't be IN LOVE with him!! Could she? It confused her. Again she shook her head and growled, a little louder this time, the more she thought about it, the more it confused and annoyed her.

"What's up? The voice?" Fang as watching her, with wide caring eyes.

She looked at him and blushed; she had almost forgotten he was there.

"No. Just thinking about stuff."

"Care to tell me what stuff??"

"Nope" Max replied. She stood up stretched and walked to the edge of the cliff, that the cave was set in. "I'll be back in a bit." She said, offering no other explanation. Fang stood up and watched as she leant forward and let herself fall off the edge of the cliff. Max closed her eyes, loving the feel of the cool night air, whipping at her face as she fell, at over 200 m/h. The refreshing cold helped to clear her head a bit.

Fang felt a pang of panic as he watched Max free falling. She had almost hit the muddy floor of the beginning of the forest below them when…