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MAX'S POV

It's been a few weeks since our last encounter with Mr. Chu and, delighted to say, Brigid. Speaking somewhere along the lines of that, me and fang are in a good position right now, we haven't argued or anything... I think he's starting to understand that he can't win. HA. I and the flock are with Mom and Ella on another little vacation that was surrounded by a forest, just for now. We were outside having a wonderful campfire... The voice keeps talking the usual, "you're not done yet Maximum." Blah blah blah. I'm starting to get the headaches again, but they're not as painful as usual. No one, not even Fang, realized that I started having them again. I'm sure you can guess why I didn't tell anybody.

"Max... MAX!" angel yelled, pulling me back from my own little world.

"Yeah uh sorry Angel what did u want?" I was really hoping that Angel wasn't in my mind in that second because then I would have some explaining to do… Mostly to Fang.

"What are we going to do next?" Thank goodness she didn't know. But previously talking amongst each other, the flock was now silent waiting for an answer. Too bad I didn't have one. One that was legit at least.

"Uh, nothing special, the voice hasn't said anything so I think it's ok to stay here for a day or two." The flock seemed pleased enough with my answer so they started talking again, except for him. You know who him is right? Yep, it's Fang! Wow you're good. He was staring at me, probably wondering what I was really thinking, which I'm not going to tell him because he'll start worrying too much and I don't need that. I sighed and then stood up "I'm going to go for a spin…alone." Fang had starting to get up too and I didn't want to listen to any of his questions.

It felt so good to be flying. I'd been flying for about 20 minutes when I started to realize that I had drifted from the flock. I turned to go back to them, and I was right over the lake which was maybe 100 ft away from them, when I had suddenly felt excruciating, agonizing pain in my right side. And I thought nothing else could go wrong, but nooo, I always had to be proven wrong. I had one of those brain-splattering headaches- but it was different than the recent one I've had; more painful, go figure. But just as it came it stopped. I could feel myself falling but I couldn't stop myself. I was at least 200 feet above the water and I was falling fast, the last thing I thought was 'this is really going to hurt' before I felt the ice cold water and immediately blacked out.

FANG'S POV

RECAP: (Max's POV) I sighed and then stood up "I'm going to go for a spin…alone." Fang had starting to get up too and I didn't want to listen to any of his questions.

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'Fine. But I'll find out later.' I thought to myself. Max's been a little edgy for the last few days but she won't tell me why and I had let it go then, but I'm going to find out tonight. I decided to think about something else for now and listened in on Iggy's and Gasman's conversation on the next bomb they were doing. After listening to them for forever I got bored and wondered how much time had passed since Max left. I opened my mouth to ask, "What-."

"Around 20 minutes Fang." Angel had said. 'Uh thanks Angel.' I thought. 'No problem Fang.' Angel thought with a big smile on her face. I then noticed Angel's face turn from happy, to startled, to confused, to determination, and finally to utter horror.

"What's wrong Angel?" Everyone turned to look at her. Her eyes got really big and she turned her head to where Max was.

All of a sudden we all heard a gun being fired and Angel screamed at the top of her lungs, "MAX!!" everyone turned to where Max was (Iggy faced in the right direction) and she was falling, fast!

I was so stunned by what happened that I couldn't get myself to run after Max for a moment, but I then regained enough composure to get up and run to the lake as fast as I could (I was still a little shocked so I didn't think to use my wings until I came to the lake.). By the time I reached the lake, Max hit the water. I didn't think I just dove in and when I did, I almost regretted it and jumped out- the water was freezing! But I didn't turn back and I just remember that I have gills. I hope I'm not turning into a fish or something. Ew.

Damn! It's hard to see anything in this water. I kept swimming and I faintly realized that I had been underwater for a long time and I should've seen Max by now. Minutes passed and you could say that I was beyond frightened at this point. Then I saw something- some off white in the shape of a…WING! Finally I found Max. I jumped for joy- if you can jump for joy underwater. I swam to her as fast as I could and when I reached her, there was blood in the water all around her. I picked her up and zoomed upwards hoping I wasn't too late. As soon as we hit the surface I pushed up with my wings floating in the air and then Max and I were being lifted by Gazzy, Iggy, and Nudge. Angel was on shore with a very frightening look on her face. After we landed Dr. M and Ella approached us, along with the medical kit. Dr. M checked for Max's pulse, "It's faint but it's there." She abruptly turned around and gave me a hug and said "thank you so much Fang."

To my surprise I hugged her back. "You're welcome." I let go first and then after a moment she did.

"We need to get her over to the house so I can work on her properly." I nodded and then picked Max up went to the cabin. When we got there I immediately set her down on the wide and flat couch and let Dr. M work. She didn't ask us to leave the room. Smart woman.

I leave out the gruesome details but Ms. Martinez finally got the bullet out. Unfortunately, we found out that Max broke her back, but she'll recover in time. I never left her side, or rather, never wanted to- but since Max was out, I was next in command and I couldn't put everything on Iggy to stay with Max. It's been 3 days and she's still unconscious, fact is though, we're not expecting her to wake up after her injuries for at least another 2 days. I was glad when proven wrong.

MAX'S POV

Why am I sleeping? What happened?

You need to wake up Max. Max you need to wake up, you need to finish the mission. Oh hello Voice maybe you can give me some answers as to why I am here.

You were injured Max, wake up and the flock can fill you in. Wake up Max. Now.

I could feel myself rising to the surface when I felt pain in my right side. I think I winced and I tried to go back to where I didn't feel any pain, but someone was calling me, someone familiar. Was it Fang? I then realized I wanted to come to the surface that I wanted to see his face. So I forced my eyes open. "Fang? What's wrong? What happened?" I said weakly. Wow I didn't even know that word was in my vocabulary, concerning myself that is.

"Max! Thank God you're awake." Fang said as he smiled-one of his adorable rare smile. Wow, what luck I have to wake up seeing him smile.

"Yeah. Where's everybody else." As soon as I said that, everyone started rushing in the room and I became bombarded with questions like: "Are you ok?", "How much pain are you in right now?", "You weren't dreaming of anything nasty were you?".. Now that had to be Iggy. I looked up at Iggy, "no you sexist pig." He smiled which made me smile.

I tried to stand up and I was actually surprised that Fang and Mom let me. Oh my back hurt so badly, but it was tolerable- I guess my back healed pretty fast since my fall. Gosh, that hurt. But as soon as I wobbled and almost fell over, Fang wrapped his arm around me and made me sit down. "You need to rest. Don't overdo it." I was in a lot of pain but I wasn't about to show it to anybody.

"I'm fine. Don't worry about me." I lied. That caused someone to yell at me, but it wasn't who I expected it to be. It was Angel.

"You're fine? You're fine!?! Max you fell out of the sky, over 200 feet in the air and fell in the lake and broke your back. Not to mention you got shot on your right side! It's luck that you didn't even injure your wings. I just read your mind and I can tell you're in a lot of pain so don't even bother lying to us because it won't do any good." I was shocked- she called me out! I couldn't even say anything back to her. She pretty much hit everything except for that brain-splattering headache. She doesn't even know that I've been having them for days now.

All of a sudden her eyes got big and then she narrowed her eyes and she stared at me, angrily. At first I was wondering why and then it became obvious and I felt stupid for not thinking that she was reading my mind right this second. Crap. I was half-expecting her to yell at me, to scold me, but she's Angel and I'm me, I won't take crap from her. She surprised me though. Instead of shouted, she spoke very quietly, "Max why didn't you tell us you've been having those headaches again. Why would you hide something like that from us?" The way she said it made me feel extremely guilty, like I didn't trust them to tell them.

"Max?" This time it was Fang while everybody just stared blankly at me. "Is that true? Have you been having headaches and not telling us?" I looked over at Fang, and while everyone probably thought he was emotionless and calm, I could see hurt and sadness in his eyes. He felt hurt and probably betrayed and I caused it.

I stuttered, "I-I didn't want anybody to be worried about me." I didn't- I was leader and it was my duty to be worried about them, not the other way around. After that there was a moment of silence until Angel broke it up.

"That goes both ways Max. You worry over us because you're the leader and you feel you have to. But because you're leader you get all the stress that we don't and because we love you that entitles us to be worried about you. Don't you get it?" I just stared at Angel, blankly, unable to comprehend anything at the moment. All of a sudden my vision blurred and guess what: I had another brain attack.

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