Disclaimer: I don't own Maximum Ride, (sigh, start sobbing), though any plots or new characters are mine!! Mwa ha ha ha ha…okay I'm done. I'm not that evil. ;)

Max POV

We were back at moms. We had been flying around for a couple weeks, trying to find something to tell us where we were going. The Voice was once again MIA, being as Jeb had left a couple days after we did apparently.

"Max? Can we go shopping?" Angel asked as she stuck her head into my room. I cringed.

"Dr. Martinez says she'll take anyone who wants to go. So far it's me, Nudge, Iggy, Gazy, and Ella."

I sighed with relief. "I don't have to go then?"

She smiled and ran out of the room. I cringed again. What was that girl up to?

You'll see Max. We're leaving now bye! I heard in my head. I forgot to block my mind from my little six-year-old mind reader. Wait. Who did she say was going? I mentally reviewed the list in my head. Everyone but Fang. I started walking out of the room when I decided to whack my head against a wall.

"That looked painful." Came a voice from behind me. Fang. He had seen me be stupid. Though not for the first or the last time.

"It wasn't," I replied, pulling away from the wall, swaying slightly. I felt his arm around my shoulders, steadying me. "I'm fine."

He just looked at me, his face blank.

"Okay fine don't believe me," I said angrily, turning my back on him and walking downstairs to the kitchen. Fang followed. I glared at him, then grabbed an apple and headed outside. Unfurling my wings and running once I hit the dirt to build up speed. I jumped, and flew up back over the house and towards the clouds.

Maybe I should have gone shopping, I thought.

I looked back, sensing Fang was somewhere close. Suddenly something dropped in front of me. I stopped, forgetting to flap, and dropped a few feet. A hairy foot flew at my head. I ducked. Something else dropped out of the sky. What the heck was Fang doing here? Stupid question.

We fought side by side, kicking at least 20 Erasers in their hairy butts. I saw Ari somwhere above, shouting orders the whole time. What, was he too good now that he came back from the dead to fight? I can change that.

I started to fly up to Ari, when Fang grabbed my arm, dragging my to the ground.

"Let me go! I wanna fight him!" I screamed.

"I know you do," he said calmly. "But you're in no condition to fight."

"I am too!"

"Look at your arm." I obeyed, to find a huge gash bleeding freely from my shoulder to my wrist.

"So that's why I felt lightheaded," I muttered.

We landed and I almost fell right over with dizzyness. Fang wordlessly caught me, and carried my into the house. He dropped me off in my room, and went to get some first aid stuff. He came back a few minutes later.

"So, how was your flight?" he asked, gently cleaning around the cut.

"Funny you should ask. Why'd you-" I paused, waiting for the room to stop spinning, "follow me?"

"I wanted to tell you something."

Why couldn't the room stop spinning and lights look like disco balls? "W-w-what was that?" I didn't see the walls anymore. I was looking at the ceiling and Fang's worried face. As my eyes drifted shut, I thought I heard someone say "This". I also thought I saw and felt Fang gently kiss me. Then it was nothing.

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