We Didn't Know
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Disclaimer – If I were James Patterson wouldn't this fic just be part of the book? Think about it
Fang POV
It's been 3 years since Max died. We buried her in the garden, every year we lay flowers on her grave, and light a candle, leaving it on all day so it burns down before it goes out. We hardly speak, just the general 'Please' 'Thank you' that Max always made us say. Sometimes I'll catch one of the kids crying, and I just sit with them until their done. I've never been a comforting person, that thing always came easy to Max.
Today there was a huge storm, thunder, lightning. The works. The wind was so strong that we couldn't lay the flowers on her grave, and the candle couldn't stay outside as it wouldn't stay lit. So instead we put the candle on the living room table, and the flowers in her room, none of us went in there unless it was an emergency, we preferred to leave the door open and glance in occasionally, hoping to see her smiling back from her desk.
We all sat around, it was late. The kids had wanted to stay up until the candle went out. I say kids, but to be fair, Nudge and Iggy are 16, Gazzy's 14 and Angels 11. I'm 17 so I'm the leader. We sat in silence, just watching the flicker of the flame on the blue candle. Blue was Max's favourite colour. So every year we Light a blue candle, it was Nudges idea and I liked it. A lightning bolt flashed followed closely with a crash of thunder. The storm must be practically on top of us.
A loud knocking made us all jump. Someone was at the door. The knocking got more frantic. I walked past Iggy to the door, tapping his hand so he knew to be on guard, I held my fist above my shoulder, it meant wait. I opened the door, the wind making it bang against the door, a gust of air blew out the candle.
I looked out the door, unable to see clearly in the dark. Another flash of lightning lit up the woman's face, on her hip she held a child, she was soaking wet, shivering, she was wearing only a top and make shift shorts, her coat was wrapped around the child. She was bruised and bleeding from a cut on her head.
"Max?"
"Hey Fang" Max replied before collapsing, somehow managing to avoid harming the child.
Max POV
I knew what we were going to do. I worked it out the next morning. There was a storm nearing us, I smiled to myself, this wasn't going to be pretty. See, since she was 3 Effy has been able to control the weather, she's slowly advanced, at first she could control small gusts of wind, then she could produce a rain from a passing cloud. Now she could, say, control lightening in a storm. Even now she's started controlling the elements, you know, water, earth, fire and all that. None of the whitecoat's know about her power, we had kept it secret, she would sit at her window on an evening and practice.
They came for me at around 7pm judging from the sun. Me and Effy had done our usual routine, and I had got back. I needed to be rested so I power slept. Soon enough the door opened, erasers surrounded me, all smirking. They love this, teasing me with thought of the outside world. I just ignored them, we stopped by Effy's room so she could come with me. I had talked to her earlier, she knew we were breaking free. I had explained the plan, she couldn't fight, not at her age, and especially not after controlling the lightning, it drained her energy.
We walked around corridors, up and down stairs. This place was like a maze, but I memorized the rout, just in case. Finally we got outside, about 50 flyboys were overhead, and around 20 on the ground. It was cold, and raining, and there were flashes of lightning, I looked at Effy, her short hair whipping around her face, just like mine. I took her hand and breathed deep.
"You smell that Effy?" I said loudly, so everyone could hear
"Yeah" She half shouted, trying to get her voice over the howling wind
"You know what that is?" I looked down at her and nodded slightly
"No I don't, what is it Max" She looked to the sky and concentrated, suddenly a lightning blot hit one of the flyboys, they were so close that the electricity jumped from one to the other, short circuiting them all.
"That's freedom honey" I grabbed her round the waist and threw her in the air, she snapped open her wings and flew high, avoiding the roasting flyboys. I tried to follow but the erasers on the ground stopped me, grabbing my shoulder an eraser span me around, I ducked as he swung a punch at me, I carried on spinning, using the force to take out another eraser, he landed on his back, winded. I stood up and hit an eraser between his shoulder and his neck, he dropped instantly. I felt a punch land on my jaw, again I used the force to spin around, landing a roundhouse kick perfectly on his chest. Another eraser came u behind me, he grabbed my neck and the top of my head, his claws left deep scratches in my forehead, I stamped on his foot, grabbing his arms I span around, taking his arms behind his back, I pulled up sharply, hearing a satisfying crack as his shoulders popped out of their sockets. I leapt up, snapping out my wings, an eraser ran at me, but I was to high p for him to reach me. I joined Effy and we flew away as fast as possible. We may have stalled them for now, but they could have flyboys after us in minuets.
It had been three hours. The storm was still raging, Effy had managed to keep the lightning from hitting us, but she wasn't strong enough to stop the wind or the rain. We had eaten before we left, but we were still hungry. We landed in a forest type area. If I was correct (Which I mostly am if I do say so myself) we had another 2 hours to go. We sat still for about 15 mins until a rabbit came by, I sprang at it, and well… you probably don't want to hear the rest, let's just say half an hour later we were ready to leave again, with semi-full stomachs. I noticed Effy shivering a bit so I took off my coat and wrapped it around her, leaving me in my white short sleeved top, but I didn't mind. We set off again, heading due north east. She was tired, emotionally and physically, she was slowing down, and I wasn't surprised. She had flown for 10 hours flat on the wind machine, but there she was warm, and dry, and she wasn't trying to control lightning.
"Come on Effy! It's not far to go, just another 45 minutes to go! Then you can get inside and warmed up. Ok?"
She nodded at me slowly.
"Wait, I have an idea." I spiralled down to the ground, Effy following me.
"You know how I have that hyper speed?"
"Yeah…"
"Well if we find some rope, I can drag you along. It should cut the travel time by four"
Effy smiled at me, but the smile dropped
"Where do we get some rope?"
I looked around, and saw only one option. Grabbing a sharp rock I set to work hacking my pants up, so I was just wearing shorts, and I tied all the pieces together so it made a long makeshift rope. I threw one end to Effy
"Here, tie that around your waist"
She did as she was told, and I tied my section around me
"Now hold my hand"
She took it, and we lifted off, I concentrated, trying to remember how I did it, then suddenly we were going 180 miles per hour. I heard Effy scream, I looked over and she was smiling again.
About 15 mins later we landed. Hyper speed had drained me of energy, but I could see the house, Effy stood wobbling beside me, she was still shaking from all the effort keeping us safe in the storm, I'm sure the hyper speed would have shook her too. I lifted her up onto my hip and set off up to the house.
"This is where I used to live, you know all those great people I told you about; Fang and Iggy and Nudge and Angel and Gazzy and Total?"
"Yeah"
"They live here. They are like brothers and sisters to me"
"So they're like my uncles and aunts"
"Yeah, except for one, Fang, he's sort of your daddy"
"Sort of?"
"Yeah, he's the original"
"Oh, cool"
We reached the door and I started knocking, I was feeling really faint. I could see a flickering light coming from the window, and I suddenly remembered this is the day I died.
The door opened and there stood Fang, I hadn't seen him in 3 years, he looked older. I guess he was. I could have cried. But not in front of my baby.
"Max" He whispered it so softly
"Hey Fang"
And then I collapsed.
Effy POV
I was exhausted. You try trying to divert random bolts of lighting for hours on end. We had finally made it to the door, I was on Max's hip. She was swaying slightly and I knew she wasn't going to last much longer. I quickly untied myself from her, knowing as soon as she knew we were safe, she could finally collapse, which she did as soon as she saw the boy at the door. I fell, but landed gracefully. The boy stood at the door, frozen with shock. Inside there was another 4 kids, and a dog. I bent down and checked Max was still breathing. And with a heave I dragged her into the house. The boy shut the door.
"What's going on here?" The boy whispered to me
"I'll try to explain it to you, but first is there anywhere we can put Max?" I had decided that I had to take charge, which, if it wasn't such a confusing time, would have had me laughing. Fancy the 5 year old in charge.
Normal POV
Fang lifted Max and carried her over to the couch, his eyes never leaving the unconscious girl's face. He sat down on the sofa next to her and looked at Effy.
"Who are you?"
"I'm Effy, Max's daughter"
The whole flock settled in the various chairs, looking towards the five year old who had settled on a chair, making sure she could see Max. She took a big breath in, unsure on how to explain
"Max has been held in the School for the last three years-"
"That's impossible, we saw Max die, I held her while she died!"
Effy lowered her eyes and took another deep breath
"Please don't interrupt me Fang, I can explain easier that way"
Fang opened his mouth to speak again, but Effy sent him a look that gave him chills. It was a look he used to see all the time from Max, he shut his mouth and motioned for her to continue
"As I was saying, The max you know has been held at the school. She's only alive because she can teach me better than anyone else. She taught me how to fight, how to control my mind, which is probably why you loo so confused Angel" Everyone glanced over to Angel, who's eyebrow was furrowed, her mouth frowning
"She's right, I can't get any- Wait, how did you know my name?"
"Max always talked about you, it's all I heard, she'd sit for hours and talk to me about you. She loves you so much. Anyway, The school tricked you into believig she was dead so you wouldn't come get her. See, each one of you had a clone. When you were in the School they took your DNA and made another you. For years they were held in the school, used in small experiments. But they were only there for one experiment really. Me. They wanted to know if two avian hybrids had a child, if it would be a avian hybrid to, so they made Max and Fang have a child, and the others were just used as threats. I met each of your clones, except for Angel. They killed the angel clone before I was born, you remember when clone max and your max fought. Because she lost, the clone Angel was killed."
"What about the others?" Iggy spoke softly, his head facing Effy
"They were killed, the day Max was taken. See, what they did is made a distraction, you were all facing a screen, and Max was at the back. She was taken out, and replaced with the Max clone, she was shot, and she died. She had to choose, she either did that, or the whole of her flock died, but they killed the rest of her flock anyway, I was two at the time. We broke today, on this day every year they let her and me out, to dangle freedom within our reaches, then pull it away. But this year we fought. And we got free. And we came here."
Fang opened his mouth again to speak, but finding no words he shut it again
"Oh, and there's one more thing. I'm your daughter. Since the cones had your exact DNA, I am your's and Max's child"
Fang sputtered, laughed a bit, then fainted, Effy looked over at Nudge
"I think he took that quiet well"
I just want to point out that the clone max would have had the baby at 12, (cooz they would be 17 now) and i know its icky, but the school doesnt care.
Thanks for reading please please PLEASE review coz it makes me feel special!
