A/N Who thought that MAX just killed Final Warning 50 times over?? Was anyone else happy/excited at the end?? (I don't wanna say what happened in case someone didn't read it yet?)

Chapter 2

(Max POV)

Could this get any worse? Let's recap shall we? Jeb influenced the flock to move BACK to Virginia after Flyboys, that he probably sent, attacked my half-sister Ella. Then, instead of flying there he made us go on an actual airplane!!! What is wrong with this guy? Doesn't he know that we are the most paranoid, claustrophobic people in the world? Yes, he does. So what does he do? He makes us sit on a small, cramped, crowded, freaking AIRPLANE!!!!!!

Somehow, he was smart enough to get seats across the plane for the six of us. Since the plane only fit 7 across, Jeb sat right behind Fang and Ella sat next to Jeb. I was stuck in the isle seat. On my right sat Ella, and to her right in the window seat was Nudge. Across the isle from me was Fang. To his left was Iggy, and in the window seat was Gazzy.

Fang must have sensed that I was about to explode in that way he has, because throughout the whole flight, he kept giving me reassuring smiles. Ok, maybe they were half smiles- but still! They helped a little, but I was still tense. It didn't help either that through the whole flight Nudge kept blabbering about the last time we were in Virginia and if this time will be any different.

God, I hope it is, I thought, I couldn't take a repeat of last time.

After that I just zoned her out. I love that girl, but I couldn't listen about what a great time she had at Anne's house. I must have fallen asleep, because the next thing I knew, Fang was shaking me awake. After he saw that he had succeeded, he got that smug look and walked off the plane with the rest.

When we finally got off the plane, got our bags and drove- Jeb drove but we flew- to the new house, it was almost seven-thirty. That did not stop all of us from charging into the house (I refuse to call it 'our house' if you haven't noticed) and immediately claiming our rooms. In this process, there was a lot of screaming, tackling, pushing, and running, trampling.

It ended up that I got the room all the way down the corridor on the right. Nudge's room to the right and Angel's was to hers. Gazzy picked the room next to his sister's. On the right side of the hall, the room across from mine Iggy claimed, and Fang next to his. Ella got across from Ange, and to the left of Fang.

Now since there was an extra room next to Ella's, and Jeb got his own mini-floor in the attic, Angel 'sweetly convinced me' to let Total have it. Total's room was slightly bigger than the rest of ours, because after we had unpacked, we realized he had gotten the master bathroom, while the rest of us had to deal with the same regular-sized bathroom.

After our little frenzy, I decided to check out the rest of the house. The downstairs was at least 50x the size of my mom's whole house!!! Not kidding!! There was a huge stainless steel kitchen that Iggy was glued to the whole day, that connected to a really fancy dining room.

Across the hall from the kitchen was a huge living room that had white walls, leather couches, wooden tables, and a freaking PLASMA SCREEN TV!!! This connected into a game room equipped with a ping-pong table, air hockey, foosball, basketball hoop, and an X-box hooked up to yet another plasma, with every possible game there was!!!

Then down another corridor was a library! Pssh! Like we EVER use a library! The only things useful in there were maybe the few computers and a really good hiding place. I gotta hand it to Jeb; he has good taste when it comes to houses.

After I walked my own little tour of the house, I was ambushed by Nudge, Angel, and Gazzy all saying something I couldn't comprehend.

"Okay, wait! One at a time," I said, trying to subdue my oncoming headache.

Naturally, Nudge started, "Well, we were just exploring our new house and we found a pool!! Can you believe it? An actual pool!! Although, we would have to get bathing suits because we don't have any. Oh! That means we have to go to the mall! I love the mall! It's just so… oh, I don't know- mallish I guess. Wait! Is that even a real word? It doesn't sound like a word. Then again, a lot of words don't sound like words- Ow!" Angel nudged Nudge (Ha-ha! Get it?) to get back to the point. "Oh, right! Can we go in the pool?"

"Um, Nudge," I started, but was cut off by non other then, Jeb.

"Before anyone does anything, we are having a family meeting," then he walked into the dining room, expecting us to follow.

"Family meeting?" Gazzy asked.

"Well, at least he's not calling it a 'mutant-to-scientist' meeting," Angel told him.

"Whatever it is, let's go. It's not like there is anything else to do if we don't have bathing suits," And with that Nudge walked off to follow Jeb. Eventually, we all followed.

"Okay, now that everyone is here, let's get to the matter at hand," Jeb started. "This house was legally purchased by me using my own money. The good news is that it means as long as we want to. The bad news is that if we want to stay in this house," he took a deep breath, "all of you have to go to school. Real school, just like all the other kids."

Angel and Nudge seemed excited; Ella was used to school so she said nothing; Gazzy was contemplating his options. As for me, Fang, and Iggy though, we just exploded on Jeb.

"What! What kind of deal is this?" Fang yelled. "I thought we would be safe here!"

"Last time we went to school, teachers came at us with freaking tazers! We are not going back!" Iggy was freaking out.

"Jeb! Do you seriously think we are going along with this? Do you even have any idea of what we went through? Do you?" I was screaming at him

By now we had stood and were towering over him, screaming in his face. Anyone could tell we were close to blows, but what had made it even worse was that he was totally fine with it! He still had a calm look on his face, studying all of our reactions one-by-one. It was infuriating! I didn't know about the boys, but this pushed me past my breaking point.

"How do we even know that this isn't another trap by Itex? Say something! Don't just sit there!" I shook his shoulders, but still he said nothing.

"We already came to this stupid house in this stupid state! What else do you want from us? How about we just ditch this whole place and go hunt down whoever did this!" Fang was way past furious and it was a little scary.

"We're not your freaking scientists! We don't do as we're freaking told! For the past year that's all we've been doing and I'm sick of it! I swear, Jeb-"

"STOP!!" All of a sudden, Angel had stood up, knocking her chair off its legs. As I looked around, I noticed Iggy had pulled his arm back and was just about to punh Jeb square in the face.

When Angel started again, she was trying to hold back tears, "Just stop, okay? I can't stand it anymore! I've had enough!" She looked at each of us and continued. "I can feel everything you can. Right now, I feel all three of you; your pain, anger, betrayal. It's killing me!"

With that she burst through the door. We all could hear her footsteps go up the stairs, into her room and slam the door shut.

A pang of guilt spread through me as I realized a sad fact: everything that I felt, that I thought, no matter how sorry I had felt for the burdens I carried, this girl- this six-year-old little girl had to go through everything that I had. Only she had it worse. She had to feel everyone in the flock's feelings, possibly everyone she meets. I didn't know what to do.

After Angel's little scene, the whole room fell silent. No one dared move, still trying to comprehend and piece together what had just occurred. No one could go to her because it would only cause her more pain.

Jeb was the first to break the awkward silence, "I think I may be able to help her," he stood up from he table and left to follow Angel's path.

3rd Person POV

Jeb stood up from the table and walked up the stairs, down the hall until he arrived outside the little girl's room. When he arrived, he could hear a soft sob emanating from somewhere inside. He rapped on the door three times and entered.

Angel was lying face down on her pink flower pillow. She didn't even look up because her power allowed her to sense that Jeb was there.

Jeb silently walked towards her bed. As soon as he sat on the bed, he held the girl on a tight embrace. It reminded him of when the flock was young. He missed that feeling.

Normally, Angel would have pushed Jeb away and told him to get lost. Right now, though she needed someone that could hide all their emotions, feelings. Someone who knew what had happened, someone who could relate to what she was going through. Someone like – Jeb.

"Honey, I may be able to make your pain go away," Jeb told her, while gently stroking her curl blond hair "though it comes at a cost."

Angel looked up. Her big blue eyes pained on her tear-stained face, "What is it, Jeb? Please, I just want the pain to stop."

He hesitated. He knew the risks, flaws, the possible catastrophic disaster, but also he knew the slim chance of success. That slim chance could give the little girl in his hands the chance she had always dreamed of. He figured that was enough, "Well…"

A/N Ha-Ha! What's going to happen??????? Review!!!!! Ideas?????

I'm trying to update every week-end or so…………..