A/N: Okay, I saw this ad that made me laugh and I feel like putting it in here as an author's note. It was for Homedics (a combo of home and medics, for those of you who made the same mistake I did) You see, I read that as HO medics, and was kinda confuzzled… and found it really funny when I realized that I had screwed up so completely… ^^
Anywho, thanks for the great reviews I got within a couple hours of posting! In fact, I luvvles you all SO much that I'm giving you ANOTHER CHAPPIE!!!!
(And btw, Of-Winged-Poets, my answer to your question is that, while it would be cool, I think certain parts of the plot go better with Max retaining her memory.)
Chapter 2:
Fang POV (It'll probably be mostly him until Max comes in)
My entire day's been really screwy.
I've kept on getting these random flashes of what feels like memories. Some are of the others, Iggy, Nudge, Angel, and Gazzy, but most are of this girl named Max that I think I knew a long time ago but have sadly forgotten. The more she comes into my mind, the more I learn about her, the more I feel as though she should be here.
The more I miss her.
At lunch, Iggy was the only one who noticed that something was up with me. I didn't talk at all, but that was no surprise considering that I hadn't spoken all that much beforehand. Lissa(1) and Ben are the only other people at our table today because they're the only two we can stand. When I first came here, Lissa and I were together for about two weeks, but I broke it off because it just didn't feel right. So we just stayed friends.
But now, it's time for our nightly group meeting. Well, we call ourselves the Flock, because it seems to fit, so it's really a Flock meeting. But again, we're missing a key component.
We're just not too sure as to what said component is.
Angel starts the meeting by coughing and saying, "Fang has something to say," putting emphasis on my name to let me know that she wouldn't say it for me. Bi—jerk.
I give her a quick glare and mutter begrudgingly, "I started getting these little flashes of memory earlier today."
"What?!" is the collective outcry from the assembled Flock members, aside from Angel, who knew already, of course.
"And the reason you told us none of this was…???" Iggy accuses.
I shrug."Waited until the meeting." Plus it was kinda creeping me out. Still does, actually.
"What kind of memories?" Nudge asks intensely.
"Nothing much, just snippets. But I'm slowly piecing together a picture of who Max is… or was," I say, keeping my face calm. This was another reason to keep it on the down low; I didn't have that much to offer. I didn't want to disappoint them, now that they'd gotten their hopes up.
But they weren't disappointed. In fact, they were thrilled. I guess it was sort of a "Finally! A little headway into the mystery of our past!" moment. You know, the kind of moment that you get when you feel your amnesia starting to recede… so commonplace, no?
"Wait, was?" Nudge says. "What do you mean?! Do you think she might be dead? NO WAY! That would so totally suck, because she's pretty much the only thing that we can all remember aside from our names, so we need to find her and figure out what happened to us, or I'll start screaming from the stress of trying to figure something out past the blankness of my memory!"
How she can say so much in one breath will remain a mystery to me until the end of time.
"I don't know," I say honestly. That's why I said OR.
Angel giggles.
"So… what's she like?" Iggy asks. "What do you know?"
"She's… tough, I think. And brave. She's a smart-as—aleck and self-confident. She's pretty, and… I dunno why, but I keep picturing her flying."
"Flying?" Gazzy asks. "Like a bird?"
"Yeah. Wings and all."
"Cool!" he says. "That'd be awesome! I'd love to have wings!"
"Oi, everyone! Bed! You have school in the morning, and it's ten o'clock! Way past the little ones' bedtimes!" Dr. M calls up, interrupting.
Indeed, Angel has already started to fall asleep. So it was, with hope for finding Max at last, that we, the Flock, bid each other good night and stumble off to sleep.
After another school day full of strange visions, I am sitting in Dr. M's kitchen with all the Flock, enjoying a fresh batch of chocolate-chip cookies. It's almost five, and Ella isn't back quite yet, so we're starting to worry. Usually, she would've been back about twenty minutes ago. But being twenty minutes late isn't something to call the police over, so we are simply waiting for her to show.
A moment later, Ella walks through the door, breathless and shaking. "Sorry I'm late, Mom, guys, but Ortiz and his gang held me up over helping Danny (2) the other day."
"Ortiz?" Dr. M looks petrified, and understandably so. Ortiz is known to have hurt people pretty severely, even to have killed them before.
"Yeah, but I'm fine," she says, shrugging off her mothers attempts to check her over. "Seriously, I wasn't touched. This girl came out of nowhere and saved my butt. I never got to thank her though. I… was too busy running away." Ella looks down, ashamed.
"There's nothing wrong with running away in a situation like that," Dr. M soothes. "Don't worry; I'm sure the girl will be fine. We'll have to see if we can find her again someday and thank her for what she did. It was a very brave thing."
Sounds like something Max would do.
By now, I have gotten semi-used to these flashes of information, and I know enough about the mysterious Max to understand that yes, this is exactly the type of thing she would do.
Ella still doesn't look convinced, so Dr. M says to her, "Why don't you take Magnolia out and calm down a little? She needs to go outside anyways, so it all works out."
Ella nods and grabs her coat from the rack, seeing as it's raining outside, before hooking Magnolia with her leash and tromping her outside.
We spend a few peaceful minutes in silence before we hear:
"Oh my God, is that blood?"
And then:
"Mom! Mom, this girl needs help!"
A/N: Ha! Second chappie! Short, but important, and I wanted to put it up. Max POV next chapter, okay? Anyone who can't guess who the "mysterious girl" is needs to go back and read the first book/gain a couple of brain cells because it should be ridiculously obvious whether or not you've read the books.
(no offense to any and all who cannot fathom whom this person is. I pity you ^^)
(1) I'm so tired of people making Lissa bitchy, so I gave her a minor role in this story purely for the sake of making her nice. Seriously, we know only two things about her (She's flirted with and kissed Fang), yet every single person, it seems, makes her a bitch.
(2) I don't actually remember the bully & Co.'s names, so I'm making some up. If you honestly care about their names being correct, go, do yourself a favor, and get a life.
