"This is all my fault."
Those five words haunt Angel's mind day after day, night after night. She knows that Fang leaving is her fault. She knows that the flock falling apart is her fault.
She knows that Max's depression and tears is her fault.
All her life, Angel had looked up to Max and Fang. They were more than just her friends and family. They were her parents. She had always relied on them, always followed what they said.
Until the School captured her.
There, people put thoughts in her head. Everyone talked about how special she was; how she was "Subject Eleven."
If she was so special, shouldn't she be in charge? Shouldn't she defeat Max?
As Angel was rescued, she forgot most of the whispers. She was so scared of the School that she gladly went back under Max's protection.
Then she started to gain more powers. She could control minds, change her appearance, breathe underwater, talk to fish-and Max could only fly quickly. Wasn't Angel more qualified to be the leader?
She believed, with every fiber of her being, that she should be in charge of the flock.
When her Voice told her that Fang was going to be the first to die, she was scared. Angel had problems with Max, but Fang was still her friend. Something in her still believed that she needed Fang, that he will still the one who raised her.
Soon, she would forget the feeling.
Angel met Dr. Hans Gunther-Hagen purely by chance. However, from the very moment she saw him, the pieces clicked, and she started forming a plan.
She talked to the Gunther-Hagen, and soon the trap was set.
Angel started by putting thoughts into Fang's head of the danger he was in, and how it was hurting Max. She asked Dylan to talk to Fang, to get him paranoid, and he did so. Then, Angel controlled the Flock into voting Max and Fang out. The entire time, they couldn't tell that they were being controlled.
She continued on with her plan until Fang left.
At first, Angel didn't care. She knew that she was now one step closer to being flock leader.
What she didn't know was that she would suffer.
Angel found that she did love the flock, with every fiber in her body. She couldn't bear to see them like this, to see Max so angry, to see Fang on a false mission, to see the rest of them stabbed in the heart.
Angel knows that she can't let Fang return before the twenty years are up. Somehow, the flock would figure out what she did, and she would be cast out.
She also knows that some-some-of Fang's danger is real. He has already died, so he is safe in that regard, but Jeb is right: the flock has a greater chance of survival in two groups.
What she did is her only chance of survival. What she did is the flock's only chance of survival.
Angel only wonders why she hurts so much.
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-NicoPercyAnnabeth
