Disclaimer: i don't own Max Ride... i'm still a little sad about that... only a genius like JP could come up with it...

AN: This story is not as good as my other one... but it's decent...

Fang POV

Eva. The little girl that lit up my world. The only pictures left of her are burnt at the edges and crinkled. A picture of her in her mother's heels was in my wallet. A picture that she drew in first grade, that showed her standing next to me, was hanging on the fridge. The last picture was of her dancing through my doorframe on Christmas morning, ready to open presents.

She was beautiful. I loved her and her mother in every possible way. If only she was still here. Her mother, Max, and I still can't believe she's gone. I can still see her jet black, curly hair bouncing around her shoulders. And her auburn, speckled wings spread to a wingspan of six feet. Yes, I did just say wings.

If you aren't up to speed on things, I'll catch you up. I'm Fang and my wife is Max. We're both 27 years old. When we were babies, some sick scientists took us from our parents. There are at least seven of us plus Max, Eva, and me. (For all of you math smarties, that makes ten) The scientists (whitecoats) grafted avian DNA onto our human DNA. We're all 2 bird and 98 human. Basically… we have wings… and avian bones, hearts, and air sacks. There's you bird-kid anatomy for the day.

Max and I had our own… "family," a while ago. We called it our flock. It consisted of Max, Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy, Angel, and me. Max and I got married when we were 20. The flock was still together so we were just a much closer family.

Iggy met Cami, another winged human. She has red hair and blood red wings. I can't say she wasn't beautiful… she reminded me of Lissa… well minus the wings.

Cami was originally taken to the School in the New York sewer. She ran into us in Texas on our quest to hit every U.S. state (except Alaska and Hawaii.) She stayed with the flock for a while and love blossomed between her and Iggy. When Iggy and Cami got married when they were 22.

After that, things kinda fell apart. Nudge and Gazzy got serious, and once they married… well everything fell to pieces. With our flock shambles, we , meaning Max and I, decided to move to a rural town in South Dakota. Max and I lived in peace for a while so we decided to have Eva.

Eva was an amazing little girl. You could never guess what was coming next with her. She was a little random. We had Eva for three years, tragedy struck on her birthday. Eva was kidnapped. You'll never guess who did it either. Ari.

Ari POV

Ugh! That child is scary! She never speaks! Jeb can't keep his eyes off her either. He's all like 'she looks just like Max' and 'she's amazing!' I'm pretty sure he's forgotten all about me.

This place is in the middle of nowhere so it can get pretty boring. The only sounds are from the School. It gets a little creepy hearing the screams all the time. Eva's gotten stoic. She only screams when it's really bad.

Eva sits in the corner of her cage, staring into space, with her dark coffee coloured eyes. No emotion is shown through them. Eva's eyes are lifeless. Her eyes look nothing like her mother's. That child is all Fang. Her slender lips don't form a frown, nor a smile. Her face is completely dead.

When we first brought her in, she had life. She cried after every torturous experiment. Her eyes lit up when someone mentioned Max or Fang. If only she was my daughter.

No. Bad Ari. I can't love Max! She betrayed me! I mentally reprimanded myself. I finally gave up on Max the second time she killed me and when I found out that she was my sister. Dad had to bring me back to life again. I won't give the gruesome details. I can't figure that child out though…

So?? how was it?? review review review... only constructive criticism... no random yelling... (my other story is better...) (read the Untitled story on my fav. list... it's really good)