Iggy Griffith felt an odd presence circle over the top of his girlfriend's and friend's house. He felt his girlfriend, Ella, looking at him with a worried expression, felt mainly because he was blind.
"What's up, Ella?" Iggy asked her.
"You're muttering to yourself." She replied as there was a knock on the door. "Who is it?"
"Ella, it's Max, I know Iggy is in there." Max started. "Can I come in?"
"Sure." Iggy replied.
When Max walked into the room her eye instantly fixed on Iggy.
"Did you feel that?" Iggy asked her.
"Feel what?" Max asked and Ella both asked him.
"It felt like one of us, but it didn't at the same time." Iggy replied before standing up.
"We'll go check it out, Ella just stay her just in case." Max told her before she and Iggy left.
When they got outside, Max quickly explained the situation to, which was that Fang was facing off against someone new, but when Fang went to swing at the person the guy disappeared and then he reappeared a few feet away. Max quickly stepped in between them and placed a hand on Fang's chest, and she also noticed Nudge, Gazzy and Angel land right behind her. The guy grinned slightly and at first Max didn't know who it was directed towards until she saw Nudge blush slightly.
"Who are you?" Max asked him.
"My name is Alec Demerov." He replied. "I'm one of you, don't worry."
Soon his wings unfolded and Max guessed from tip to tip they were 20 feet long, they were a golden color that complimented his emerald green eyes, brown hair, and tan skin. Suddenly he launched himself upward with a strong enough stroke that made a small crater in the ground, and before she could say anything Nudge went up after him. Max saw Ella come of the house and she instantly started to explain to Iggy how the guy looked and what he and Nudge were doing, which was that they were quickly spiraling around each other, and Max could tell that Nudge was relaxed and laughing the whole time. Max saw Iggy and Ella were also smiling at the sight, and she tapped Angel's shoulder.
"Are you getting anything from this guy?" Max asked her
"What is there for me not to get, he's like an open book, and I sense pain, caring, a protective instinct, and awe." Angel replied "I can't influence him though, it's not like anyone else I've tried it on, it's like since he's so open that there is nothing to influence."
Max nodded as she went back to watching Alec and Nudge, when she saw a Flyboy rocketing towards them she was about to intercept it when she it start to plummet, and she saw that Alec was going as the Flyboy hit the water. Three more surrounded Nudge but Fang held her back as something shot out of the water too quick for her to see, but then three Alec's surrounded Nudge protect her from any attack. That thing that struck Max as odd was that whenever a Flyboy would swing the Alec duplicate wouldn't fight back, but when the three shot into the air the Flyboys followed them as they merged into one person. Everyone heard a loud bang as the three Flyboys broke the sound barrier and rocketed towards Alec, all three of them punched him square in his back, but he rolled over to let the Flyboys enter space and malfunction. As he started to fall to the earth Nudge shoot towards him but Max knew that he was way pass the altitude that they didn't dare pass, but she shot upwards until she caught him and fainted from the lack of oxygen even for them at 80000 feet. As the two plummeted to the Earth Max saw Alec eyes reopen at 60000 and dived towards the earth fast enough to where there was a high pitched whistling that was making Total go insane.
Alec hit the ground hard enough to make another crater, when the dust settled Max saw that he had Nudge sort of cradled in his arms and that his wings had protect her from any debris from the impact, and when she reawakened she hugged Alec tightly. What stunned Max more was when Nudge kissed Alec's cheek, and it seemed to stun him too. When Nudge's feet touched the ground Alec collapsed onto his side revealing a large patch of red spreading across his back, Nudge fell to her knees beside him and tried to stop the bleed which was working out very as Max's mom came running outside.
"What happened?" Dr. Martinez asked her.
"He protected me from a group of Flyboys, then we sort of saved each other from plummeting to the earth, and the he passed out which was when we saw his wound." Nudge told her.
Max had a feeling that Nudge was about to cry, and since they weren't really on the run anymore she thought it was good that she was acting more normally. Between Max, Ella, Fang, and Iggy they got Alec onto the dining room table that Angel and Gazzy had quickly cleared off. After Dr. Martinez gave Alec a shot of Anastasia, Nudge took his hand as Dr. Martinez worked on stitching him, but had to stop barely a fifth of the way through.
"He needs blood." She told the flock and Nudge quickly rolled up her sleeve without any questions.
Dr. Martinez had Ella draw two pints of blood from Nudge and she drew one extra from Max in case they needed it, Nudge felt Alec slip his hand into hers, and squeezed her hand reassuringly.
"I never got your name." Alec told her clearly.
"I'm Nudge, but my real name is Monique." She replied. "Is Anastasia working?"
"It only dulls the pain, but it doesn't fog up my mind which is why the white coats kidnapped me in the first place." Alec replied.
He saw everyone tense up at the mention of the name, and he regretted mentioning them.
"They're trying to scramble together again, but I usually drop by at night time to mess with their communications and supplies." Alec replied as Dr. Martinez helped him sit up.
Soon everyone had left the room except Nudge who sat down by Alec, at first she tried to not look at him fear of what she would see in his eyes, but when she finally did all she saw caring.
"You could've died twice protecting me back there, and you didn't know me and you still don't know me." Nudge told him.
"Well, I don't think you kiss every random stranger you see." Alec replied.
"Well, not ever random stranger almost gets himself killed twice to keep me safe." Nudge replied.
"True, also most strangers I meet don't have wings and want to kill me." Alec told her.
"Same here, there's no way of to beat on that situation." Nudge replied. "I wanted to get rid of my wings once."
That got Alec's attention and his mood seemed to darken. "Why? You're beautiful, your wings are a part of you, there for, making you who you are."
"Thanks, but there aren't really any modeling agencies looking for girls with wings." Nudge replied.
With a smile Alec replied calmly. "Then they don't know what they are missing out on, in my eyes your wings give you a sense of freedom and mystery no one I've met has."
Without having time to react Nudge kissed Alec's lips for a split second, and when she looked at Alec she looked a little taken back.
"Sorry, I don't know what came over me." Nudge told Alec.
"Don't be, to tell you the truth I don't why I didn't kiss you first." Alec told her while gently taking one of her hands in both of his.
When Max walked into the room and looked at the both of them and then at their hand, and Nudge quickly took her hand away.
"I'm sorry, but I want to keep an eye on you Nudge and Gazzy and Angel already took up the extra bed. There the couch left though and it's decent to sleep on." Max told them.
"Thanks Max." Nudge told her.
After Max left Alec got off the table and started to walk towards the door before Nudge stopped him.
"Where are you going?" Nudge asked him.
"I've stayed too long, anyone who helps for a prolonged time ends up hurt or dead, and I can't let that happen to any of you guys." Alec replied.
Before he could take another step Nudge was in front of him and she had her arms around his neck, and Alec slowly put his hands on her waist. Their lips met for a few seconds and when Alec looked at Nudge he smiled as he saw a sparkle in her eyes. They both sat the couch and soon Nudge was leaning against Alec fast asleep and he had his arms around her, and he noticed that Max was watching him.
"What's up?" Alec asked her
"Angel told me that you had a lot of pain in your past, but you also seem to care about Nudge." Max told him.
"The whitecoats told me that the only emotion I would true feel is anger, they said I would never be truly happy, or that I could never truly love someone."
"Well, from how you risked your life twice to protect Nudge, and from what I see now I'd you're at least trying to prove them wrong." Max told him. "You should get some sleep."
"I haven't been able to sleep for four years, I was created as their perfect weapon, so they saw as not a real big necessity."
"Just try."
Alec nodded and leaned his head against Nudge's before closing his eye and drifting into an eventful sleep.