A/N: Yay, Chapter 2! Thank you to all the awesome people who reveiwed!! You make my day. Sorry I didn't get this up right away, it's finals week at school. UGH. Thank you very much to NOTNOTNOT-2008 and muziz for some of the ideas in the story. You're really awesome. Anyways, the story!
Not Himself
MAX POV:
I ran up to my room as fast as I could. I had no idea how hard it would be to talk to Fang normally when I had that strange tingling all over my body. It definitely didn't help when he started talking back to me. All I wanted to do was make out with him right there. UGH. BAD MAX. You did NOT just think that. When I got to my room I locked the door and sat on the bed.
I had only been sitting there for a couple of seconds when I heard someone try to open the door. When they realized it was locked, they growled. It must be Fang.
"Open the door right now, Max." Fang said. Yup, I was right. He's kind of predictable now . . .
When I didn't answer he started pounding on the door. There was a soft sigh in my head from the voice.
"Let him in Max, before he breaks down the door. Believe me, he could right now."
I walked over to the door and quickly opened it. Fang stood there, half snarling at the door.
"Okay . . . so now he snarls at inanimate objects?" I thought.
"Right now he's in his 'dominance' mode. He snarls at just about anything in his way." The voice corrected me. It sounded like it was trying not to laugh, though.
Fang stalked into my room, closing the door behind him.
"Max, you need to choose between me and Iggy." He said. Wow. Blunt guy, isn't he?
"Um, Fang, I don't think you should be in here right now. Like I said, controlling actions is going to be kind of hard for the next couple of-"
He snarled quietly and shoved me against a wall. The last thing I thought before that annoying tingling sensation blocked out everything else was: "He's been doing a lot of snarling lately, hasn't he?" I could have sworn I heard the voice laughing.
FANG POV:
I shoved Max against the wall and started kissing her. She looked surprised at first, but didn't push me away. After the first couple of seconds she relaxed into my hold and started kissing me back. "Ha," I thought. "So much for her being the leader at everything!"
Then the door slammed open.
"Hey, Max, I was wondering if you wanted to stay in your room or come down for dinner- WHOA." Said Iggy as he came in.
"How dare he come in here!" I thought angrily.
I didn't even remember leaving Max's side, but suddenly my hands were around Iggy's neck. He tried to push my hands away, and I punched him across the room. He crumpled in a corner and didn't get up.
I turned back to Max, but she was running across the room to Iggy, a look of horror on her face. "What was she doing? I just told her that she can't have us both!"
My new, irrational personality thought "Obviously she chooses Iggy, not me, right now. For now I will retreat, but I WILL win her back!" I left Max's room and slammed the door to mine. I sat on my bed and began to plot my revenge.
MAX POV:
I was startled out of my stupor by Iggy barging into the room. I didn't understand what he said, but Fang suddenly was across the room, strangling him. When Iggy tried to fight back, Fang punched him across the room, knocking him out.
I ran over to Iggy and started checking his head while Fang stormed out of the room. Maybe he would calm down if he was alone for a while.
I sat with Iggy for a couple of minutes before he woke up. Thank you, genetically enhanced healing rates!
He looked up at me and the first thing he said was "Wow, that was weird." He must have gotten hit on the head pretty hard for that to be the FIRST thing he says.
"Um, Yeah, Fang attacking one of his best friends in the whole world is more than 'weird'. Are you okay?" I said.
"Yeah, I'm fine. And no, that's not what I'm talking about. You warned me about the whole 'Fang tries to kill me' thing. I'm sorry: I didn't know he was in here. What I was saying was that right before he attacked me, I felt really weird. I was all . . . angry. I guess it was because I heard you kissing." He turned red as he said that.
"Really? Then why aren't you being all crazy-protective now, like Fang always is? Not that I'm complaining or anything, it's just . . . I thought it was instinctual." I replied.
"Well, at first it was like how Fang was. Then I remembered how much I liked Ella," He looked at me apologetically. It's always kind of weird for me that they're going out. "And I completely stopped being angry. So maybe- Uh oh. I'd better leave. From the sound of the stomping coming this way, Fang's come back to see you." Then Iggy jumped out my window before I could stop him. Um, okay?
Fang shoved open the door and locked it behind him. He turned to face me.
"Max, really. You can't go kissing me and then run off to Iggy. You need to decide between us." He said.
"Iggy was hurt! How could I just leave him there?" I said defensively.
Fang growled and stalked forward. What was his problem?
"Right now, Fang can't tell the difference between boyfriend love and brother love. Don't even try to defend Iggy- He'll just get angrier." The voice said.
"Then what do I do?" I asked, frustrated.
"Well, you could show him the difference." I swear that stupid thing was laughing at me.
Fang had backed me against a wall again, his lips inches from mine. "I thought you liked me?" he said. Damn that boy.
I thought about what the voice said, and decided that it was right. "Of course I choose you! Iggy's a brother, not a boyfriend!"
Fang pushed me against the wall and kissed me passionately. I tried not to get lost in his kiss this time. I wanted to prevent anything like the incident before from happening again.
When I didn't respond as I had last time, Fang started kissing me harder. HE'S MAKING MY LIFE DIFFICULT!!!
"Is there any way we can stop this whole dominance thing he's going through before the usual amount of time's up?"I asked.
"Well, in nature the Alpha Male mates with the Alpha Female. This makes him the indisputable leader, so the testosterone thing usually wears off. So with Fang you could have-"
"I AM SO NOT LISTENING TO YOU RIGHT NOW!" I interrupted. EW.
"You are eighteen, Maximum. The younger kids are all in bed now, too. You could-"
"LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"
I turned my attention back to reality. BAD IDEA. I nearly passed out as the stupid tingly sensation came back. My body stopped responding to the commands my dead brain was feebly attempting to give it.
In five minutes both of our shirts were off and Fang was almost on top of me on the bed. I have only one thing to say to that:
OH CRAP.
A/N: HAHAHA! I am EVIL INCARNATE! I wish I could see your faces when you see that I stopped there, but if you think I would write lemon you've got something else coming. I mean, EW. My OLDER SISTER reads this. Now, I spent a lot of time to give you a nice, long chappie, so please take a couple of seconds to review. THANK YOU!
