I just finished reading the Angel Experiment and couldn't get this idea out of my head. So I'm writing it. Fang might seem a bit OC, but that is mainly because he isn't thinking straight. I hope you enjoy this.

Disclaimer: I do not own Maximum Ride. If I did, this definitely would have happened in the book.

Max's pov

I had only been asleep for a few hours. Angel had told us that she had overheard… er, well, overthought?...about our parents. Well, everybody's except mine. I tried not to care.

What's that sound? It sounded like crying. Probably Angel or Nudge. I was expecting them to wake up, after learning about their parents. Sighing, I got up to go comfort them.

I walked over to where they were lying. But they were both still asleep. Who was crying?

There was someone sitting by the remains of the fire. I couldn't tell who from over here, but that's who was crying.

I walked over. When I got closer, I saw the last person I ever expected to be crying.

"Fang?" I whispered. Fang looked up. His eyes were red and puffy, and tears streaked down his cheeks.

"Oh," he said, his voice surprisingly steady. "Hi Max. Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you up." He quickly wiped the tears off his cheek.

"No, it's fine. Are you ok?" I asked, sitting down next to him.

"Yeah. Fine."

"Are you sure?"

"I-yeah." He trembled slightly.

"No you aren't. What's wrong?" I put my arm around him comfortingly. To my surprise, he didn't pull away.

"It's just…how could they do this to us?" he said.

"Who?"

"The White coats. How could they just do something like this to kids? I mean, stealing babies out of hospitals? That has to be the sickest thing I've ever heard. I thought making test tube babies to mutate was bad. And it is. But this…this is a whole new level of wrong. I mean, we could have had normal lives! We had families! And they took us, telling our parents we were dead. Or all the other ways they took kids. Taking kids from parents? It's…it's too awful for words."

It was the longest speech I'd ever heard him make. He must be really upset.

"I know what you mean, Fang. It is wrong. And Angel and Gazzy's parents…that's wrong too." I said.

He was quiet for a moment. He was still crying a little bit. Then he said, "A teenager. I still can't believe it."

"Hey. She was prepared to have you. You have to believe she must have wanted the best for you. If you don't believe that, what do you have?"

He looked at me. "I have my family. I have Angel, Nudge, Iggy, the Gasman. And you."

I felt myself blush slightly. "And I have you." Realizing what I had said, I quickly added, "And the others."

He almost smiled. Almost. "I'm sorry Angel didn't hear anything about you."

"It's ok. Part of me doesn't want to know. And then part of me knows if she had heard something, I would have begged her to tell me."

"Yeah. I know what you mean." He was quiet. "Still…all those years I dreamed of what my parents would be like if I had them, a teenager was not what came to mind."

"You dreamed of that too? Having parents?" I asked, surprised. He didn't seem the type to dream about that.

"Yeah. I think we all did." He wiped the tears from his cheek again. "Do me a favor. Don't tell the others I broke down like this."

I smiled. "Don't worry. I won't. Do you want me to go back to bed now?"

He shook his head. He lay down and looked up at the few stars you could see. I lay down with him. We curled up together there, and fell asleep to the sound of his steady breathing next to me.

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The next morning, I opened my eyes and felt someone's arm around me. I looked over a smiled. Fang and I had fallen asleep together, curled up by the now dead fire. I carefully slipped away from him. As I stood up, I was glad I was the first one awake. If any of the others had seen me and Fang like that, they would never had let either of us live it down. I smiled down at where Fang lay asleep, and then went off the start the fire again.

How was that? I just couldn't get that idea out of my head. I hope you liked it. Please review.