I almost stayed with Alex all those years ago, I knew I couldn't though. So I flew away, the truth is that I didn't get very far. I flew a few blocks further and landed, well I guess the word 'crashed' is more accurate, on a skyscraper. I formed a little roof with my wings and passed out, I don't exactly know how long I've been there but I think it was a few days later that I had enough strength to stand up, let alone fly away again. I made a plan, it sounded so easy in my head 'I'm gonna go find someone that can change my wings back to feathers'. Little did I know that it would take me near 8 damn years to do just that. And even after 8 years, I didn't fully get my feathers back, the best for me to do was to learn how to live with my wings without hurting myself and others by accident.

A year after I started searching I met Red, Red had been looking for me for a while now. She offered me a job and a family, Red told me she could help me get my wings back to normal but that it would take a lot of time and discipline. I said yes, hoping that Red wasn't a scam like the man I trusted all those years ago. I met my new family and could see that every single one of them was a mutant just like me. Luckily I was accepted in the group and most of the people helped me, Nicky was one of them. Nicky can teleport, and with her personality it makes a lot of hilarious moments. She likes to appear behind me, and scare the shit out of me. Nicky became my best friend over time, she helped in her own way.

I didn't like the work I had to do, I was part of the suicide squat –as Nicky likes to call it-. We do things the government can't do in name of the government. My job the squat this was to fly around and warn everyone if someone was coming, and most of the time I had to take them out. I've taken so many lives that even thinking about it makes me sick.

Apart from all the missions I trained to control my wings.

And now here I am, I asked Red to look up Alex' address. So now I'm standing in front of Alex' apartment, she is still living in the same place after 8 years. I raise my hand to knock on the door, but I stop and I realise I'm afraid. 'afraid of what' I think. I knock anyway and wait to see if she is home. She isn't…. of course she isn't. I spread my wings, grab a few feathers and put them down in front of the door. When Alex comes home now she'll now that I am here, I fly up the roof, sit and wait.

After I have waited for an hour Nicky appears behind me, she scares the shit out of me "fuck Nicky, stop doing that!" I put my hand on my heart and pretend to mad. Nicky laughs and asks "she's not home yet?", I shake my head and look down at the street. My eyes go big, "speaking about the devil" I mutter. Nicky looks over my shoulder, "holy shit, she's hot". "I know"

We watch Alex walk up to her door, Alex sees the feathers, picks them up and look closely at them. She looks around, obviously looking for something, probably me. Nicky gives me a little push towards the edge of the rooftop "go" she says, I nod and jump of the roof. I spread my wings and land smoothly on the street, it's only now that I see that Alex isn't alone. Another woman is standing behind Alex, I can feel my heart slowly breaking. Alex smiles when she sees me but the other woman screams, pulls out a gun and fires it at me. I'm to shocked to react in time and the bullet hits my chest. I fall to the ground, everything is happening in slow motion. I can hear Alex scream and I see her runnig to me, I remember that Alex doesn't know I can't die. I can see Nicky appear next to me, I nod to Nicky. Nicky gets what I mean and pulls Alex away from me, I change my wings to metal and shield of my body. Now I'm letting my body heal itself, it is a fast process and it means I can't die. I start counting seconds in my head, 5….. 6….. 7….. 8….. 9….. nine seconds, that's all it takes. I'm angry, I have never felt this angry before in my live and I don't know why. I need to hit something, someone. I open my wings and look for the woman that shot me, my eyes find her. She's still holding the gun, I stand up and walk towards her. She fires the gun but now I know the bullets are coming and I can deflect them with my -still metal- wings, she doesn't have any bullets left, "my turn" I say in a low voice. I don't intend to kill her, just hurt her. First I throw a few knives all around her, missing on purpose. I throw more knives at her feet, causing her to stumble back. I throw a knife at her hand, the one that is still holding the gun. The woman screams in pain and drops the gun as the knife hits its target, I come to the realisation that this woman is not worth my trouble and my anger flows away as fast as it came. My wings change back to feathers and I say to no one in particular "I'm gonna faint" I feel my body hit the ground and everything goes black.