I already know, I'm biting off more than I can chew but this idea needed to be written! Duh Duh Duuuuuh! Yay.

Siy Rowling?

(((Chapter One)))

Death Valley, California, The School: 2003; 2:30 AM

(Maximum P.O.V)

It was late, really, really late, the only reason I knew that was because they had turned off the light a long time ago. There weren't any windows in the room we were in, the other freaks and I, so we barley got to see what it was like outside. The cold metal of the cage bit into my back and half spread wings.

I really wasn't sure what they were called actually, but I knew they weren't normal and only me and a few other kids had them and all of the men and women in white coats had said they were wings, at first, when I had learned to talk, they had been surprised when I called them a word that the big wolf things called me. . . A dumbass? I wasn't really sure what it meant, but the big wolf thing that had been guarding the door had slapped me across the face and the white lab coat people had written something on their clip boards, now none of us even tried to talk to them anymore. It was weird, now they just ignored us and hurt us, it hurt really bad and sometimes we cried when we got back to our cages, but I never did, or if I did I smiled at the others and didn't let them know I was sad. They would get even more sad if I did that.

That night was no different from the others, except for the fact that one of us had been taken away and he hadn't come back. His made up name was Iggy, he was one of us, so I looked after him too, even though he was my age, well, I really didn't know, but we were the same height when we hunched down in the cages next to each other, the boy with dark hair, Fang, wasn't asleep, but he and I didn't sleep as much as the others in the first place so I wasn't surprised.

"He's not back." I whispered, knowing they were listening. Fang nodded without looking at me. Usually they didn't keep us past lights out. So I knew something was wrong. . . Very, very wrong. "Do you think he's ok? If they do anything bad to him I'm gonna-"

My rant was cut short, my little eight year old head snapped to face the door as it slid open, a wolf man threw a little light colored lump into the crate to the right of mine. It was Iggy. I breathed a sigh of relief.

"Ig!" I whispered happily, he groaned and blinked his eyes.

"Ma- Max? Max? Where are you? Max!" He sounded worried and frantic, I shoved my skinny arm through the bars of the cage and grabbed Iggy's hand. Fang was leaning hard against the bars of the cage to my left, watching intently.

"Iggy, I'm here, what's wrong?" I whispered, Iggy spun around and faced my general direction, I waited to see his brilliant green eyes flash in the low light that leaked from the hallway, but what I saw would be imbedded into my memory forever, 'till the day I died. His once mysterious green, jade-like eyes, were pale, a kind of swimming kind of blue that I had only see in the eyes of the blind experiments , and they had been terminated soon after their blindness.

"Max, they did something to my eyes and then I couldn't see, Max, they didn't make me fall asleep, they said they had to know how I would react. It hurt. And now I can't see. Max, tell me what's happening, I'm scared." Iggy help my bony hand for dear life, and I held back with the same intensity.

"Iggy, clam down, it's ok. Ig, don't be scared, I won't ever let them touch you ever again." Little did I know how true that promise was. Fang gasped as he put two and two together and got Iggy.

"Max. . ." Fang began, I turned from Iggy who had started to cry, "Are- Are they gonna do that to us too?"

I felt disgusted at first that he didn't care about Iggy, but then I understood as he looked down nervously and he started to cry silently. I reached a hand over to his cage too and grabbed his equally skinny hand and squeezed with all of my might. That was the day I grew up.

"It's ok Fang, I won't let them touch any of you. Ever again, you're all safe." I whispered to both of them. They nodded simultaneously. And that was how I spent that night, holding my two best friends hands and thinking hard how I was going to keep my promise. I didn't sleep that night.

When the lights came back on, our door was immediately thrust open and a lady that usually took Fang Iggy and I at the same time walked in. Just as she was about to order the wolf man to open our cages, I called the name people called her.

"Umm. . . Yulanda?" I croaked, she spun on her heel and crouched down to face me seriously, she was one of the only ones that talked to us.

"Yes number 1?" Yulanda's voice was weird and it didn't sound like the others and yet she said the same words, it was weird. She always had her blonde hair tied in a long French braid, the chocolate colored girl, Nudge had taught me that word.

"I want to meet with the boss, now." Instead of laughing like she probably should have, she gave me a curious look.

"Why? We would not want to bother Dr. Bachelor if it wasn't important." She told me very seriously like I was her co-worker or something.

"I have a. . . A deal for the. . . White Coat in charge." That was the moment, both the name white coat and my leader-ship of the flock became evident, her brow furrowed and she grabbed a walkie talkie from her hip and spoke into it, backing away from my cage, both Fang and Iggy leaned hard into the bars, even though Iggy couldn't see, he still had a surprised look in his eyes.

"What are you doing Max?" Iggy murmured so Yulanda wouldn't hear. I looked at my two best. . . What was the word? The White Coats had never learned it so I wasn't sure how I knew it. . . Friend? Yes, Friends.

"I'm making good on my promise, the will never ever touch you guys again." I said firmly, they both looked angry, sad, confused but most of all, worried. A second later Yulanda came back to my cage and opened it so I could walk out. Yulanda allowed us to walk as long as we didn't try to run away.

"Number one, Dr. Batchelor said he would meet with you but only for a moment. Are you sure you want to do this?" She asked in a hushed voice so the wolf man didn't hear.

"Yeah, and tell the wolf man to leave Iggy and Fang in their cages for today. If they leave I don't cooperate, meeting or not." I said stubbornly as the wolf man eyed the two boys.

"Ok, Reg, bad, away from the cages, go back home, shoo! I don't need you today." She talked to the wolf man like he was a dog, but he scampered away anyway.

Soon, we reached one of the only wooden door in the whole place. I stepped in and Yulanda left. Inside looked like a regular office, a big desk, a name tag that I didn't know how to read, a big leather chair with a man in a white coat in it and certificates that said how awesome the doctor was.

-"So, Maximum Ride, -as your fellow experiments call you- how may I help you?" The white coat I was talking to was one of the few who talked to us as well. He was the big boss? This would be easier than I had thought.

"I have a deal for you." I looked at him seriously but he took it a step at a time and urged me to continue.

"And that is?" He asked cautiously.

"You're not allowed to touch the other wing kids anymore and I will cooperate." I said firmly, he didn't laugh either. He was looking at me surprised, not like I was a talking dog, but like I had just made a reasonable enough offer.

"Well Maximum. What would this deal in tale?" After he said the same sentence a second time with words I understood, I told him the ins and out of my plans, he looked amazed and nodded every few seconds.

A few hours and a few painful tests latter, the wolf man, Reg literally threw me back into my cage. I sighed a heavy sigh. It was almost lights out again. I had been gone all day, looking around, I saw that the others were looking the same without any cuts, gouges or broken bones, so they hadn't been tested on today. Probably for the first time in a long time.

The little white one, Angel, was sharing a cage with Nudge so that she could be looked over, usually I took care of Angel, but I doubted I would have time anymore, I had to do all of the experiments that had been scheduled on everyone in my block. I was sore all over from Fang's obstacle cores and my arm was throbbing like it had a separate heart beat from my own after all of those needles at Gazzy's weekly drug intake. Then I had to fly in some kind of wind tunnel thing with wolf men standing next to me poking me with things that made my whole body hurt. But I was used to that kind of hurt, it was my usual test that they had to do regularly.

Nudge was whispering to Gazzy across the walkway from me with Angel in her arms. Angel was skinny enough to fit through the bars. "Nudge!" I whisper yelled hoarsely. The little girl knew immediately what I wanted and shoved Angel through the bars for me to take.

I cradled the little chicken-like baby in my arms as I waited for the questions. None came. They were all acting like it was a normal day. They didn't care. They didn't care about who? Each other? No. Me. I was suddenly angry. I had just given an arm and a leg -not literally- to keep them safe and what do I get? Nothing. Nothing! But I kept my face emotionless as I thought this. I just watched my Angel look around curiously and then giggle up at me. As if I were her sister or mother or something. And that was one of the reasons I liked Angel better then the rest of those freaks, she appreciated what I did. And when she touched my cheek a thought that wasn't mine slid into my mind.

Love Max!

(((End Chapter)))

Well, that turned out better then expected! For me anyway. I want two reviews to continue is all. And if you haven't guessed it yet, this is a love triangle kind of thing. :D Enjoy.

Siy Rowling?