Okay, here's the improved prologue to Baby Bird, hope you guys like it as much as the first edition. Just so you know everything will be the same just better written, (In my opinion.)

Just to remind everyone I will be focusing solely on this story until I finish it, and once I finish it, I will move on to my next one, if you've read them.

Big thanks to Miss Mila for betaing this story! You rock Miss Mila! ;)

Max's POV

I grimaced as I stared blankly into the forest around, trying desperately to get the taste of bile off my tongue.

"You okay, Max?" Fang asked as he walked up behind me silently.

I nodded, not taking my eyes off the forest. This was the first time I had been sick like this in a long while, let alone having to throw up the contents of my last meal this often. I just couldn't put it together; it wasn't like I could easily get sick, and if I did, I would've gotten some warning, a fever or something.

You're pregnant with a girl, Max. I would have groaned at the intrusion of the Voice, had it not given me straight information.

"What?" Was my clever response.

"Max?" Fang asked confused, sitting down next to me.

I shook my head, pointing to my temple, indicating I was talking to the Voice.

I could almost sense the Voice sigh, though it didn't make a sound.

I felt Fang rest a reassuring hand on my shoulder. "What is the Voice saying?"

"It's saying I'm pregnant," I told him, looking him in the eye.

Fang blinked in shock. "We're going to be parents?"

I nodded, shocked myself. "It's a girl," I barely heard the words make their way past my lips. I hadn't really expected this, though I should have. This was just another thing on my plate that I had to deal with. It was bad enough we were still on the run from Mr. Chu and I had the threat of saving the world on my shoulders, but for the next nine months, I'd have to do all that while bearing a child.

My fingers threaded themselves through my hair and tugged. This was too much, too soon. What about after the child was born? How the hell could I raise a baby, while fighting off M-Geeks and whatever else was in the save-the-world package? I groaned.

Fang waited patiently, his hand on my shoulder.

Finally, I decided to voice my thoughts. "When the baby is born, I think we should put her up for adoption."

It was silent for a moment, before Fang's exclamation rang through the air. "No!"

I jumped at the uncharacteristic shout. Even the Flock, who was just out of ear-shot looked up in surprise.

I glared at the Flock, silently telling them to look away before turning back to Fang.

Thankfully, Fang's voice returned to normal when he spoke, "You can't give our child..."

"Daughter," I interrupted.

"Our daughter to random strangers. Did you think about the large possibility that she has wings? I doubt two parents with avian DNA will cancel each other out to make a normal baby. They might not accept her, or worse, hand her off to the White Coats first chance they get. Why don't we keep her at your mom's house? We could see her every time we dropped by then."

I untangled my fingers from my hair. "Fang, it's not like I'm going to go parading around asking everybody if they want a baby. And I can't do that to Mom either. We've already put her in danger with what happened with Mr. Chu. I don't want to increase that with the first offspring of the most successful project. Just imagine what would happen then? Or what if Mr. Chu goes after Mom again? Oh look, avian baby, let's take her, too!" I sighed. "I'll ask Mom if she knows anybody, okay? We'll meet with them first, that way we won't be diving in head first."

I saw Fang's hands grab handfuls of the grass beneath us, before he turned his head towards mine. I could see the pain in his eyes. He just found out he was going to have a daughter and lose her, all at the same time.

I grabbed his hand and squeezed. I tried to smile at him, though I knew my eyes were showing the same amount of pain.

Fang squeezed back, "I guess we should tell the Flock now."

I rolled my eyes, "That's going to be a walk in the park."