All right you guys, this is my first Maximum Ride fanfic and I'm really psyched about it. If you're a major Twilight fan as well, check out my other story: From Death Do Us Part. This is just kind of an idea that popped into my head, inspired by Missing by Evanescence. Actually, I just thought of that song and I had a different plot in mind but I started writing it...and this is how it turned out. So...yeah...Also I just won craziest outfit at my volleyball camp (i'm wearing a green/pink tie dye shirt with a pale green tank top that has mice on it over it, and these knee-high socks that are vertically striped red/white with white fluff at the top) Random...sorry. Read and Review and maybe Iggy will give you a hug!

Iggy: Did you just offer my hugs to random strangers?
Me: Um...kind of
Iggy: You can't offer me because you don't own me you freaking stalker!
Me: Um...I'm not a stalker! Just um...please just give them hugs if they review?
Iggy: If they're cute
Me: How are you going to tell if they're cute or not? You're blind!
Iggy: Don't rub it in!
Me: (turns to face everyone) Well there you have, if you're ugly or cute he won't know so just review and you'll get a hug!!

Max's POV

Yo. What's up? Max here and I'm having just about the worst year ever. Yeah, it's great that the flock and I found an apartment to live in. It's no mansion, but it's got two bedrooms (one with a bunk-bed and a queen bed, one with two double beds and one twin-sized bed. Nudge and Angel shared the bunk bed, I slept on the queen bed, and Gazzy, Iggy, and Fang shared the other room), but something's been missing lately.

I sighed. It's been about three months since we've seen Brigid and the rest of those Antarctic freaks. It's been about three weeks since Fang and Angel left. Yes, you heard me (well…you saw what I wrote), they just got up one day and left…and I have no idea why.

Yesterday I received a phone call from my baby, Angel.

"Um…hi Max, it's Angel. I don't really know what to say except that…" Angel was crying exceptionally hard. "I miss you, Max. I miss you tucking me in at night. Fang said that when we left, you would have more time to focus on saving the world like Jeb said, but I think this whole thing is stupid! I want to come home Max! I don't care if the world ends! I miss you so much!" Angel was screaming near the end of her message and I could almost feel her sobs ripping out of her chest. "Come get me Max, I'm so scared! I don't want to stay away from you like Fang said!" Then I heard a deep voice in the background.

"Angel! I told you not to call her! Come on, you know we have to stay away. We can go to the zoo and see those herpy eagles like I promised! Just please, get off the phone." Then the phone message died. Fang. How dare he take my baby away from me? How dare he?

She missed me as much as I missed her. I wanted her back as much as she wanted to come back.

But she never said where she was; otherwise I would already be halfway there. Fang said something about a zoo and herpy eagles. Am I the only one who doesn't have enough education to know what a herpy eagle is (and by the way, herpy eagle? Where did Angel even hear that)?

I reached for Iggy's white and black laptop (of course it was très expensive because he needed a program that would read all of the words on the screen for him and take spoken commands) to search which zoos in America had herpy eagles. So I typed in 'herpy eagles in American zoos' and pressed the search button.

When the search was finished, a link on the top said Did you mean: harpy eagles; I clicked on it (maybe Fang just hadn't been paying enough attention to what Angel had said about them). The only link that had anything to do with a zoo in America was the first one, it's title read Oklahoma City Zoo, it looked promising so I clicked on it and it said that it was one of seven zoos in America with the rare and endangered harpy eagle (which I still knew nothing about).

Bingo.

Angel here I come! I wrote a quick note explaining I'd be back in about a day or so and that Iggy and Nudge were in charge. Then I took off out of my window; it was almost midnight so it was dark enough for me to be inconspicuously close to the city lights. Really, who gets up and randomly looks towards streetlights through their bedroom windows?

Fang

This is the best for everyone, Angel and I were taking up way too much of Max's time. She had no time to focus on her mission to save the world. I know what you're all saying; "But Fang, you need to be with her in her time of need!" Well, I've been taking up too much of her thoughts lately. I don't want her to spend so much time thinking about one kiss that she can't dig the world out of the crap hole we've fallen into. She doesn't care anyway. I'm just one more problem in her complicated life. I do feel bad about leaving her in charge of the others, but they aren't as much of a hassle as Angel and I.

I almost feel worse about the fact that I dragged Angel along with me. She really loves Max and it kills her that I took her away from Max. Every night she screams in her sleep, says she had a nightmare about me dragging her out of Max's arms and taking a knife to Max's heart. I guess Angel feels like I'm taking Max out of her life forever.

I have been trying everything to keep Angel preoccupied and to keep her mind on other, happier, topics. I've taken her to 8 zoos, 4 different Chuck-E-Cheese's, 5 Six Flags, and 6 Equestrian centers, and she still has the nightmares. Today I'm taking her to see this weird, rare eagle thing in the Oklahoma City Zoo.

If you're wondering where I'm getting this money, it's because Jeb sent me a credit card once he realized that I wasn't with the flock anymore. See, he thought I was being very "practical" and should be rewarded for helping Max in the way that he wanted me to. Free money? Cool. Helping out Jeb? Not cool, but necessary.

I know Max misses Angel, and I know Nudge and Gazzy miss her to. Isn't someone missing me? Not Max, Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy, my parents, Jeb, Itex-- no one misses me. I'm just a little speck on their radar, hardly important.

"Ange? You ready?"

"Yeah…"

"All right, let's go." I took off and hovered a few feet above the ground, waiting for her to follow. She hesitated for a moment, but then followed suit.

Like it? I did...but that's probably just because I'm going through a major "I love Maximum Ride" phase (which happens about once a month and lasts a week...right after my "I Love Twilight" phase). Catch'a later. Don't forget to review!!
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xoxo
Abi