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Lost Forever:
Time doesn't completely soothe the pain of every wound. Not when you have a constant reminder of a day that you are always aware truly did happen. Max hasn't woken up yet. Doctors say she won't. I know she will. What kill's the most is I can't even be with her. Jeb came and took her before we could even truly figure out what had happened. The truth is Max is now in a coma and the flock has fallen apart.
6 months earlier:
I woke to a light kick in the side and rolled over to see Max know shaking Nudge awake. Two nights ago the erasers had found us again. None of us know how they did, they just did. There were only about ten of them so we got out of it easily. The only injury was a slight knick on Iggy's right forearm. So of course, we are on the run… again.
As I jumped up and landed softly on my feet, I stretched my wings.
"Hey guys, I was thinking", Iggy muttered 'Oh no, not that' under his breath, as Max rolled her eyes, a completely wasted jester, but then went on and finished, "that we could head to Arizona and say hi to my mom."
" 'Kay Max", Nudge and Gazzy said at the same time. Iggy just looked impassive and Angel just sat there stroking Total.
If Max thought it was a good idea then I was all in.
We all jumped into the air and started pumping our wings to the familiar pattern, as our muscles stretched loosening us up. Iggy and Gazzy were dive bombing each other, Nudge and Angel talked about dressing up Max, and Total took a nap in Max's pack. Max herself was unusually quiet, she looked like she was pondering something that she didn't feel anyone should know.
I swooped down and came back up next to Max and said, "Hey."
"Hi Fang. What's up?''
"I was just going to ask you that. What's wrong."
She hesitated a couple seconds and then whispered, "Nothing", and dropped. She caught herself once she had dropped about fifty feet.
I had an impulse to follow, but I know she would just fly away again and I don't want her to go all super sonic on me. I'd never get the answer then. So I just stayed on course and stared at the ground, watching as the little squares of land rolled by and the hills went up and down. I didn't think it was really that cold, but on the ground there was a thin layer of snow.
I knew that soon Nudge would say that she was hungry and then everyone else would agree and that's when I would get Max to talk.
As if she could read my mind Nudge said, "When are we stopping? I'm hungry."
From down below I could hear Max's voice drift up to us as a "How 'bout now?"
Everyone nodded their agreement and headed towards the ground. When we landed we looked around and we were surrounded by an open field about a mile away from the closest town.
We picked up a steady lope through the forest surrounding the clearing, and in a few moments we had made it to the back of a strip mall. We walked around the building and saw only two restaurants, a fancy place called The Rising Moon, but it looked really cramped. So we opted for the fast food place on the other side of the street.
Max pulled out the infamous credit card that had fed us for so long and we marched through the door. Once we had ordered four meals a piece we took a seat that was the closest to the emergency exit. We did a quick scan of the place revealing that the only people here was a woman with her two kids, one of which was in a soccer uniform and another man across the room reading a newspaper I'd never heard of.
I usually enjoy the quiet and the calm, but this amount of extreme emptiness put me on edge. I'm not even sure why. I'd been in places where there were no people and I've been to places where you couldn't turn around without bumping into another person. But this was eerie.
That's when I noticed the van in the parking lot.
I got a glimpse of sunglasses in the rearview mirror and then the doors burst open revealing eight Erasers. We all jumped up simultaneously and Max whispered something to quietly for me to hear to Iggy. He nodded slightly, not enough to tip off any Erasers and Gazzy charged to escape exit with Angel, Nudge, Iggy, and Max right on his heels. Great. Am I the only one who didn't hear?
Being last out, I hadn't heard the fighting already going on outside and I hurdled through the door, the last thought in my head, as I was hit in the back of the head was, how the hell did they find us? As I drifted off into darkness.
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When I finally came to I was strapped to a gurney, go figure. Anyways when I looked to my left, there were Angel, Nudge, Iggy, who were all still unconscious. I glanced to my right and was surprised when I noticed that Gazzy, and Total were there, but no Max. That's when I looked to the front of the room where there was a TV. On the screen was an unconscious Max with a gash running down her right arm. She had a huge bruise on her left cheekbone and looked as if her left arm were broken. I cringed away from the pain just looking at her, but I know when she woke up, she would act as if it was only slightly sore.
I waited about four hours, and yet she hadn't woken. All the others except Total had gone back to sleep by then, having nothing else to do. We had tried to get out of the restraints for an hour at the least. The strange thing was that not a single white coat had come into our room. But I saw them routinely checking in on Max. Strangely enough, they looked worried.
I heard some of their talk and found out Max had also broken three ribs and they said something I didn't understand completely. When I couldn't stand the sleep deprivation anymore I allowed myself to close my eyes and I passed out almost immediately.
Well, I'm sorry it's so short I hate short fanfics. Anyways, I'll try and update soon and I'll also try to write more well... Please Review!!