Fang was on all fours, with his hands and knees on either side of my body. His eyes looked so intense but so kind and reassuring at the same time, I could lose myself in his deep green eyes.

He kissed me again. This kiss filled with lust and desire pulled me deeper and deeper, heat was starting to pool just above the rim of my underwear. I needed Fang, I needed him inside me.

It was as if he was reading my thoughts. Fang pulled away and began to pull my underwear down, running his hands down my legs as he went.

He pulled the last of my underwear off then threw it somewhere behind him. I then arched my back so he could take my bra off; he did it in one quick, smooth motion. It was almost like he'd been practising or something haha.

I spread my legs slightly and he took his place between them.

My heart was beating a mile a minute in my chest but Fang looked calm, or maybe he was just hiding his emotions, like he usually does.

"Are you ready?" he said quietly.

I didn't say anything, I just nodded. Here goes.

He entered me, a little too fast. I screamed, whether in pleasure or pain I'll never know.

Fang stopped quickly, a flicker of panic swept over his face. "Oh my God Max, I'm so sorry!" he quickly bent down and sent kisses across my cheek and down my neck. He held still while I calmed myself.

"Ok Fang. Go, I'm ready." I said through choppy breaths.

He started to move, I could tell he was going slowly so as not to hurt me again. But the pain was gone and now all I felt was an intense pleasure that I had never felt before.

I wrapped my legs around his waist urging him to go faster, to push deeper. "Faster Fang."

He did, and he kept going, hitting a spot inside me, which I didn't know existed. I started to move my hips in time with his, matching his movements.

With each thrust he sent wave after wave of this amazing feeling coursing through my body. I felt it all the way through to my fingers and toes.

Fang's eyes glazed over and his eyes fell to half-mast. I loved the way he looked when his eyes did that. Fang came, quickly followed by myself.

He pushed into me one last time and my world went dark, there was nothing but Fang, me and this moment.

Fang collapsed on top of me, exhausted and breathing heavily. My breathing was just as laboured.

Fang pulled out of me and lay down on the bed next to me. I quickly moved over, I didn't want any space between us now that we had shared this amazing moment.

We just lay there in a warm afterglow bubble. I could feel myself slowly drifting off to sleep.

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When I woke up – with my eyes still blurred from sleep and adjusting to the light – I felt around the bed.

Fang was gone.

"Fang?" I called out.

Instead of a reply I heard the water in the shower begin to pour. I climbed out of the bed, still half asleep, and walked into the bathroom. Fang was standing with a towel around his waist just looking at himself in the mirror.

I walked up beside him and wrapped my arms around his waist.

He turned to me, "Good morning Max," he said with a smile then kissed my forehead. Fang can be so sweet when he's not all Mr. I-need-to-be-serious-for-the-sake-of-the-flock. It was moments like this that I would never forget.

"Hey can I join you?" I said gesturing towards the shower.

Fang shrugged slightly, "Yeah sure. If you want to."

Fang unwrapped the towel from around his waist and let it fall to the floor. We stepped into the stall. The water was the perfect temperature, cool but not cold – just the way I liked it.

Fang wasted no time. He grabbed my wrists and pinned them up against the wall. He held me against the wall using his body.

He looked deep into my eyes, as if he was trying to read my soul. "Mmm, you amaze me Maximum Ride."

Before I could ask what he meant by that, he attacked my mouth with hungry kisses. I returned the kisses but I was starting to get annoyed by the way he had my wrists held against the wall. How much do you want to bet that he knew that?

The feeling of cool tiles against my back and Fang's warm body pressed against mine was like ecstasy, I could stay like this forever.

Fang let go of my wrists to wrap his arms around my waist. He held me close as we kissed, the cool water flowing over our moulded bodies.

Well, better get back to reality. I broke the kiss, "We should get cleaned up and check on the flock." Fang nodded in agreement.

We took turns covering each other in soap and cleaning ourselves. Fang seemed to have better control over himself today.

We didn't spend too much time in the shower, just enough that was needed. We almost fell over each other getting out of the shower. Ok so having a shower with Fang was great and all but damn those confined shower stalls.

I grabbed another towel and wrapped it around myself while fang began brushing his teeth. I walked out into the hotel room to look for my clothes.

My shirt on the floor, my bra on the sofa, my jeans and underwear on the floor near the bed. I quickly pulled everything on and walked back into the bathroom where fang was just finishing brushing his teeth.

I just leaned against the doorframe watching him clean up.

"What?" Fang asked with an awkward smile.

"I think you're the only person I know who can look sexy with wet hair and nothing but a towel on." I said with a smile in my voice.

Fang gave me a look that said 'Are you insane? Have you even seen those Calvin Klein models?' But he just smiled and said, "Well I like that top you're wearing. But it looks even better… on the floor." He said in a voice that sounded dead sexy.

He walked over to me, it looked like he was about to kiss me but he swooped away and out the door. I guess he needed to go put his clothes on too.

I walked over to the sink and washed my face and brushed my teeth. I quickly ran a comb through my hair then joined Fang in the room.

"Soo…" I said dragging out the word.

"We better go check on everyone then, check for casualties and all that," he said with a grin.

I laughed awkwardly. God I hope no one was hurt, last night was the first time we spent that much time apart from each other in, well, never.

"Angel's going to hear our thoughts," I said quickly.

"Then we might as well tell them…" Fang said calmly. He didn't look nervous or scared or anything. Looks like we got Fang back to himself now.

I was shocked. "TELL THEM… WHAT HAPPENED?! But they're just kids!"

"They don't need to know the details. We'll just tell them that we're together now." Fang said with a smile tugging at the corners of his mouth, it actually looked more like he was trying to suppress a laugh.

I calmed down then sighed, "Why do you have to be so right?"

"Why do you have to be so sexy?" Fang replied smiling slyly.

"Hey! Back on the subject." I retorted.

"Sorry," he looked abashed, "I should control myself." His head dropped to look at the carpet.

I felt a little guilty, come on Max, you're the leader for a reason, don't be so hard on yourself. I pulled his chin up to look in his eyes. "Hey, come on now. Everything's fine. Let's just go wake everyone up and we'll see how things go from there." I smiled encouragingly.

Fang smiled back but didn't say anything. He gave me a quick peck on the lips, "Yeah, we're burning daylight." He grabbed my hand and we walked out the door.

Another sunrise, another day, another branch of paths to choose from.