Dylans main reason for existing was not to be with Max, but to destroy her and the only way he can do that is by taking Fang out of the picture before going in…for the kill. (Set after Fang)

Fang left about a month ago…

Max POV

Why does my life have to be so damn pathetic? Why do I have to be so pathetic? I mean, first off I have wings, yeah people, wings. I know that isn't all that bad, but when it classes you as a mutant freak it can be a slight problem.

Secondly, I ended up stuck in a frickin' cage for most of my younger years, eventually being "saved", by one the whitecoats, a.k.a Jeb Batchelder a.k.a MY FATHER! Then he left and a load of crappy things happened, being attacked by erasers and flyboys, me getting a voice (yay!) and then the flock splitting, which we all promised would never happen again, then look what happened! Then of course we ended up going on missions to Antarctica, Africa and nearly every other country on the whole planet, you name it and we've probably flown over it at some point in our lifetimes. Oh yeah the 'we' signifies the flock and yes we all have wings…

Then my Perfect Other Half showed up, Dylan, which led to Fang leaving (again) and my life going haywire. But then, "this" had to happen, one of my biggest fears come to life. He fucking raped me didn't he? He had to go do that after everything else? I won't tell you what happened; I don't think I could stay conscious whilst retelling it, and I don't think you'd particularly like to hear it either. Although I will tell you this; I have had, ribs broken serious bruising and been shot, but never have I felt this much pain. I've only managed to put my shirt back on so far, but I don't want to stay warm, I want to freeze here and die in this cave. People say that after you've been raped you feel so ashamed, like it's all your fault. And here's the thing people it's true, not only can I not go back to the flock, but I don't want to. I can't let Angel read my mind, she can't know, none of them can. Yes angel is a deviating little devil, but she's still like my baby and anyway, I know she'd tell the others, especially if they wanted to know, or more likely forced her to spit it out. She doesn't want to hurt them, only me

Dylan… God he's such a jerk! First of all he's acting like he loves me and that he'd never do anything to hurt me. Then, after…he… left, that pain in the butt started acting really strange and calling me things which I'd never heard him say before, like 'sexy' and 'hot'. Which of course instantly put me on my guard/ But that was only just the start of it, he then told me that I was his bitch and that I was his and only his and that he was going to prove it. Turned out tonight was the night he proved that. You might be thinking at the moment, "but your Maximum Ride, surely you wouldn't have gone down without a fight" and you'd be right I didn't, but turns out Dylan hasn't just learnt what we taught him, somehow he's become ultra powerful and using moves I've never seen before in my life, and that's saying something. I guess it didn't help that I was still grieving, it's almost as if he's died, Fang I mean. I just feel so lost without him, he was my wingman, my soul mate, I don't know if I can survive must longer without him. That was shown today and right now, I really don't want to survive…

Angel POV

Iggy and I are the only ones awake at the moment, Nudge is tangled up in her blanket and Gazzy's snoring his head off. I giggled quietly to myself so as not to disturb anybody. Of course, Iggy heard me with his super hearing and all. I mean we all have extra powerful hearing, but Iggys ears are like super super powerful, probably because he's blind.

Iggy turned to 'look' at me, "What's so funny?" He said, although he was smiling as well.

"Gazzys snoring", I whispered back.

We both started laughing and quickly quietened down.

"Where do you reckon Dylan and Max are?" Iggy asked.

"I don't know", I told him. Of course I knew, it was as if Dylan was screaming it out in his mind. Dylan wanted him and Max to, you know, do the deed. But I sensed that Max really didn't want to do anything like that. All she had in her head was, FANG.

At that precise moment Dylan and … wait, where's Max?

"Dylan where's Max?" Iggy asked harshly, I knew he never did like Dylan much but just didn't say anything to keep Max happy, well as happy as she can be.

"Oh don't worry she'll be back soon", Dylan replied politely, either not hearing or ignoring Iggys tone of voice, probably the latter.

Just because I'm nosey I decided to read Dylan's mind. What I saw shocked and horrified me, Dylan r-r-raped Max? Oh my God! Then he just left her there! I have to go find her. I searched with my mind, so as not to waste time looking for Max with my eyes. I felt someone else's mind about a mile away in a cave and knew instantly that it was Max. I quickly stood up and started walking towards the cave entrance. But Dylan was quicker and grabbed my arm.

"I said, she'll be back soon", Dylan growled, all the while glaring at me with really scary eyes.

"Let go of me", I screeched. This of course woke up Gazzy and Nudge.

"What's going on?!" They both yelled simultaneously, both Dylan and I ignored them. Whilst Iggy just stood there staring hard at Dylan.

"No I won't let go of you, if she wants to come back she will do", he was yelling now and I could feel tears starting to build up in my eyes.

"NO", I screamed and that's when he hit me, right across the face. He had a shocked expression on his face, but quickly changed it back to a glare. Unfortunately for him when he had a look of shock on his face, his grip on my arm slackened, I took the opportunity and ripped my arm out of his grasp, running as fast as my legs could carry me to the ledge of the cave and jumping, flapping my wings with all my might and flying towards the cave which, I hoped, contained Max.

Nudge POV

OMG, I don't believe it Dylan just hit Angel. That is so so so bad and now she's flying away, I wonder if she's going to find Max. Oh, I hope she does, Max will know what to do. I hope I don't ever have a boyfriend like Dylan 'cos I mean he's so like mean to Max and he keeps slapping her ass and pushing her up against the wall, and whispering something really harshly in her ear, which makes Max's face turn white and I mean I've never seen Max's face do that before it's almost like Dylan's controlling her or something, OMG that would be like soo bad. I have to tell Fang what's going on here; he'll help Max and us. "How?" you might wonder, well you know Angel can kinda control people; yeah well she got me this awesome blackberry when Max wasn't looking, and if I can just get some signal…. YAY I GOT IT! Ok so now all I have to do is find Fangs blog and then write something, hmmm what to write, what to write.

Gazzy POV

He did not just fucking hit my sister, oops glad I didn't say that out loud when Max was here, but Dylan did just hit my sister so I'm sure she'd let me off.

I walked up to him and whacked him right across the forehead. "You do not hit my sister!" I screeched at him. Then proceeded to kick him where the sun don't shine.

He just glared at me, then suddenly grabbed me in a choke hold, "you do not talk back to me you hear? Or I will hurt you precious Maximum so much, she'll be nothing but an empty shell." I struggled getting a breath in and started to see black fuzzy spots appear in front of my eyes, when he suddenly dropped me and stalked over to a blanket in the corner, lay down and fell asleep.

Iggy POV

Did that really just happen, all of it? I know I don't like Dylan, but did he really just do that? I know he's been acting out of character but that's just ultra weird almost like he's being controlled. I shuddered. Imagine if that were true, just think of all the things he could be telling a really freaky scientist.

Freaky Scientist POV

Yes, finally I have started to reclaim back what is mine the precious Maximum Ride. I turned off the microphones and electronic system and yelled at my most loyal worker.

"Batchelder, come here now!" I owe a lot to that man, after he did and still is pretending to act like their saviour; he has done some very good work so far.

"Yes sir?" Oh gosh why did he always have to be so eccentric and anyway, that is the wrong procedure, he should know better by now.

"Hmhmm!" I voiced.

"Oh, Sorry ma'am". Once again…

"HMHMMM! For the final time Batchelder, what have I asked you to call me?"

"Sorry… Doctor."

"That's better Batchelder, now to continue with our project, the termination of Maximum Ride…"

Fang POV

As I walked into my spacious 6 bed house, I removed my shoes so not to get any more dirt on the carpet than there already is. I'm in Canada at the moment, BC just on the outskirts of Kelowna. You're probably wondering why and how I have a house that has 6 bedrooms. Most of all though you're thinking why did I go and I will tell you the answer to that question in a minute but first of all back to the house.

I needed a base to work on finding information about Project 13; somewhere I could get decent internet connection and make calls to people who can help me without drawing attention to myself and most of all to hold business meetings. Yes I do have meetings even though I'm only 15, but if it helps Max then I'm willing to do anything.

How did I get the house? Well that's all thanks to Max's little card. Yes I took it, yes she'll probably miss it and need it, but as I said before I will do anything to keep her alive. Next I should most probably tell you about the rooms, I was hoping to find other mutants who could help me with this project and in return I would give them a room and food. So far I've been to see and talked to about 20 different people, three quarters of them weren't even mutants and the other quarter knew nothing about the project I needed information about. So I'm still stuck at base 1, with no leads. Go me!

Anyway, I should probably tell you why I left. As you all know I despise Dylan and if I could, I would kill him but I know Max wouldn't want me to do that.

Well, when Dylan and I were talking or rather arguing, which ever way you want to look at it. He let slip something about project 13, when I tried to quiz him on it he just changed the subject back to how he was "Max's perfect other half". What I did learn from the conversation was that project 13 was something really bad and it had a lot to do with Max. I needed to find out more about this project and fast and I knew that if I stayed there Max would just quiz me on what I was searching for on my laptop and if I told her she'd tell me not to worry and she'd fix the problem anyway and then most probably leave, saying something like, "I can't put you guys in danger so I'm leaving in order to protect you." Which I know is exactly what I did, but the flock wouldn't be able to survive without Max, she's the leader, the one holding everything together, I was just a member of the flock, it didn't do as much damage me leaving as it would have done if Maximum had left. So there you go, that's the reason I left and OW!

God, I knew I shouldn't have left that stupid stack of papers right in front of my office door, damn it, I swear I just broke my toe, oh well should fix soon.

I plopped down in my chair, opened up my laptop and checked my blog. I may have a sort of business now, but I still like to keep the blog updated.

There was nothing that interesting on there really, just me writing out my random thoughts and girls asking me out dates or giving me their telephone numbers, telling me to drop by. They just don't get it do they the only person I ever loved was Max and now she's with Dylan so-

My train of thought was cut short by the next message I read. It was from a Blackberry and the username said NudgeCan'tStopTalking. Wow that's weird because Nudge really can't stop talking, then I read the message…

Fang,

Yeah so we're in a cave somewhere near Seattle I think or maybe…oh nope we're definitely on the outskirts of Seattle, I can just make out a sign which says "Seattle".

Anyway, we really need your help, like now! Dylan's going mental, he just slapped Angel and had Gazzy in a choke hold, I honestly thought he was gonna kill him!

But the worst part is we've lost Max… Angel went out to find her, but before she went she obviously read Dylan's mind cause her face went all white and she started crying and shaking her head. He did something really bad to her Fang, I'm scared, we're all scared please help!

Max needs you, we need you.

Love

Nudge x

Without thinking, I ran out of my office nearly tripping over my desk and managing to stumble once again over the pile of papers, hitting my still sore toe. I wasn't thinking about that though, I was hoping that Max was ok and that Dylan hadn't harmed her in any way, because if he had he'd be dead meat, literally. I didn't bother to put my shoes on as I ran out the door, although I did remember to lock the door of the house before I left, that should deter most of the burglars.

I know I left to protect Max and going back after a month and a bit away probably isn't the best idea, but I left to protect Max and if the only way to keep her safe is to go back then I'll just have to do that.

Ok so that was a reallly looong chapter, not all of them will be quite that long, but I do have the next chapters 2 ready and will be uploading them soon!