A/N: Hey! This is the first one-shot about Max that I write. This is a friendship/family chapter.

General Summary: This are a couple of one-shots of Max and the Flock before they had to run for their life full-time. Some of them might have bits of little kid Fax, others might just be more family-related.

Summary for This One-Shot: Jeb left recently, leaving behind the kids. The kids doesn't know he's gone forever yet. Max is the leader. Angel starts crying and Max can't get her to sleep. Max is really tired and must go for help to our favorite silent, dark and mysterious kid. By the way this chapter is called: Fussy Little Angel.

Disclaimer: Hmmm. I'm a FAX lover so I wouldn't break them up like J.P. did. Obviously, I'm not him and own only the plot of this story.

Fussy Little Angel

I heard a loud cry.

This can't be happening. My Mickey Mouse clock said that it was 4:05 a.m. I'd put her to bed for like the fifth time only two hours ago. Can't a girl get some sleep?

When I realized one of the boys wasn't going to calm Angel down, I got up and headed to her and Nudge's room. When she saw me, her blue eyes started shining and she stretched out her little arms towards me.

"Angel, why do you have to wake me up so much? I'm so tired right now. Do you know that?"

She frowned and stretched her little arms higher. She started making noises with her mouth.

I picked her up and looked at Nudge in her bed, thank goodness she was still asleep. If she woke up at four in the morning, she would freak out and start complaining. I love Nudge but I personally think that she shouldn't babble so much all the time. It's a little annoying, especially since she speaks the most when nobody's in the mood to hear her talking all the time.

Angel pats my cheek and I walk to my room.

I laid down in my bed and sat Angel beside me.

A few minutes passed, Angel just seemed bouncier by the second ... and the next thing I know is that I feel a punch in my nose.

"Ow!"

I open my eyes and see Angel giggling, holding her little fist in front of my face.

"Angel," I say in my toughest voice. "It's not time to play, it's time to sleep and sleep only."

Her smile fades away, but then she starts giggling again. Why is she like this? Shouldn't she be sleepy? Oh, wait let me answer that, she slept all day long. How am I going to get her to sleep?

Hm ... ah! I picked Angel off the bed and sat her on the floor, if she wanted to follow me she had her own choice, so of course she did. I went into her room and got her favorite blanket and her toy elephant.

I picked her up and wrapped her up tightly in the blanket.

She started squirming around a bit so I walked faster to my room. I laid down and this time laid her in my chest. I pulled the covers over both of us.

"Angel, go to sleep. Look," I said and pointed at her elephant," the elephant's tired. Go to sleep."

I spent an entire hour trying to get Angel to sleep. I tried everything. I checked her diaper. I tried to see if she was hungry. I tried a lot of different ways to get her to sleep, so that I have one or two more hours of sleep.

If I had been tired before, now I was totally drained and exhausted.

I thought of my last option. Asking Fang or Iggy for help. I thought about it and shook my head. Who was I kidding, Iggy wasn't good with Angel.

I got out of bed, lids heavy and a two year old girl that was suddenly feeling like a hundred pounds in my arms.

Angel bounces up and down in my arms. I walk to Jeb's room like a zombie. I feel too tired. It feels almost as if I was going to pass out.

I open the door to Jeb's room and find a lump in the bed.

"Fang. Wake up," I whisper.

I touch his arm and he jumps from the bed, fists out in a fighting stance.

"Chill, Fang. Chill."

"Do you need something?"

I sighed.

"Angel's been especially fussy since like an hour. I've been trying to get her to sleep but she doesn't. She's really hyper I don't know why. Would you please take her and try to calm her down?"

Fang looked me over.

"You look like a mess."

I rolled my eyes. "Thank you for that wonderful compliment, now would you please take her. I might actually fall off my feet if I don't get any sleep soon."

He took Angel off my arms and it felt like all the baggage I was carrying in my shoulders was off now. That's ironic.

I was almost out the door of Jeb's room when he stopped me.

"What is it, Fang?"

"If I have to take her you're going to be with me."

"Okay."

Fang went to side of the bed that was were he was sleeping before, settled in and looked back up at me.

I gave him a puzzled look.

"If you're in one side of the bed and I'm on the other side, Angel being in the middle, she's going to get bored of the same thing and just go to sleep."

I nodded and got into the other side of the bed. Jeb wouldn't mind it if when he came home, three kids would be in his bed, would he?

I pushed the thoughts away.

"Max, youmight as well go to sleep, since I think that a bed time story will do the trick."

I closed my eyes.

I was half asleep, half awake. I was listening to Fang's tale of the bird kids, how we got out, how we were a family now, how I was his best friend ... but somehow I couldn't move my body. I was stuck in the in-between.

I heard Angel's soft yawn. Minutes passed. Fang was playing with Angel.

Then I heard it, what I'd been waiting to hear.

"Me sleepy."

Yes!

"Sleep, baby."

Angel whispered "Love you" in my ear. She started patting my face. "Maxi. Love you. Love you."

She grabbed my nose, again.

Fang took her off me.

"Angel, she loves you too."

I heard something but couldn't quite understand it.

"Yes, Angel. I love you too. Everyone does." Another garbled sound. "Angel I love you. I love Max." This made my heart flutter a little. I knew he loved me but it was really cool to hear him say it." I love Iggy. I love Nudge and Gazzy and Jeb. We're family, little one. We all love each other very much even though we fight all the time. Go. Go to sleep."

I was getting deeper into my sleeping state when I felt a light kiss on my cheek.

Maybe Jeb was home! Or maybe it had been Fang ... I'll find out in the morning anyways ...

A/N: What do you guys think? Did you like it or not? What should I do to make it better? Review or PM please! Flames are welcomed-and so are ideas! Sorry if this sucked but this is the first time that I write something that is not centered around romance.

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