AN- Sorry for the wait guys. My family is beyond crazy, and driving me up a wall, but I won't go into that now. Also, thank you to the wonderful kaylormonkey for reviewing. Thank you!!


Garnet Flight

Chapter Three:

Nia's POV:

Oh my gosh. I can't believe that I just showed a bunch of random vampires my wings! I mean, I know that Bella used to be my best friend; actually, I hope Bella is still one of my best friends, and I know that she trusts these guys, but I have never met them. Oh well, it's done now; I guess that I really am just as impulsive as Adrian says I am. At that I grinned, that is until I noticed all the people staring at me. And it wasn't until then that I remembered that one of the vampires was a mind reader. Shoot, now they know about Adrian, I had really wanted that to be a surprise.

Also, they probably wanted the rest of my long, sucky, story. Crap, where did I stop to stupidly show them my wings? "You were telling us all how you were genetically altered by some scientists to work for a person named Max, I believe." That Edward sounded interested, and my mind started to wander, I have no idea why, either. I wondered vaguely if Edward was going out with Bella judging from the way they were sitting together, I would say so. Then I brought myself back on topic, and it was also then that I realized he had answered my thoughts. I shook my head, I really had no control over my own mind; that was a rather depressing thought.

"Okay, I was supposed to help her out, so they gave me these," I shook my wings for emphasis. "Then they decided that it would be more effective if I could poison people. It was decided to insert some---umm…---some snake DNA as well. The whitecoats, the scientists, were thinking that snake would make me venomous. For once, they were even right.

"So, that was when I got these." I quickly released my fangs. Those were where the poison was, and they were rather obvious, so I usually kept then retracted, out of sight. No one reacted at all, not even all the vampires. In all truthfulness, with black and red hair and fangs, I look more like a creature of the night then these people. This would be the point in my thoughts when Edward burst out laughing. Luckily, this time I hadn't thought of anything that I didn't mind if the whole group knew. I just smiled when Bella asked what was so funny; of course Edward promptly shared what I had thought with everyone else. They laughed for a second, and then realized what that meant. "You know what we are?" that was the beautiful blonde girl. Like everyone else, she was partnered up with someone. Her guy was a well muscled dark headed guy; he looked about nineteen or twenty.

"Yeah, that comes next," that was next only if I skipped all the horrid experiments that they tried on me, but I wasn't planning on sharing that anyways.

"A couple of the freak kids like me end up with some sort of special gift. Or special gifts, depending. Mine is that I can sense other's gifts, so I know if someone has any inhuman qualities. Then I can work out what all the qualities come up to them being. So, if you are almost invincible, have super-strength, yada, yada, yada, I can tell that you're a vampire."

"Nice gift, but how could you tell that we were vampires and not—oh I don't know—werewolves?" I looked at him just long enough to tell that he was the blonde's partner before thinking, how stupid does he think I am? Honestly, werewolves looked completely different from vampires. I didn't even need my gift to know that much.

"I think you insulted her, Emmett. Her mind is filled with thoughts of how you have to think she is beyond dumb to ask something like that." I filed away the information that the boy's name was Emmett for later. I might need to give him a good rant.

"Well, how was I supposed to know that she could tell the difference between vampires and werewolves so easily?"

"She just told you what her gift was, think about it!" His partner said that, though she shot me a look that said very clearly that she was not defending me for my own good. That was okay, I was fine without her help.

"Oh alright, maybe it wasn't my best question. No need to get protective."

"I wasn't being protective of her." I decided now was a great time to enter the conversation, since it was about me anyways. Actually, I didn't think about the idea, I just jumped on in.

"Well then, thanks for the help, why ever you decided to grace me with your protection." I made sure to put every once of sarcasm I possessed into that sentence.

I then sped on with my story before the blonde girl, or any of them, could give me a witty comeback. "Anyways, I got tired of a bunch of crazies playing with my DNA. So, when they released me to go work with Max, I just forgot to report back in. I was supposed to three years ago, and I still haven't," I said the last bit with a wicked grin.

"What have you done for the last three years then?" Finally, Bella speaks. She hadn't said anything since I showed them my wings.

"Well, I really did hang with the Flock for a while. I liked them, and stayed for about a year before I decided to go on my own. Then I looked in on Ellie, I'll explain that part later." I hurried and added the last bit when I cold see the question forming of Bella's lips. I didn't feel like explaining about my parents yet.

"After that, I really didn't do much. I lived in New York until Erasers attacked. That's something else that will have to wait for another time. Then I moved to Atlanta, Georgia. I can't even remember where I went next. I just did that for another year and a half. Then back to the Flock for another half year, I'd missed them. Then I really started to miss my old friend, and decided to come for a visit."

"That's my story so far."

"You've left stuff out." She doesn't say, duh, I wasn't telling her that I have been a very interesting lab rat until managed to escape. That could be considered an unnecessary detail. I'd tell the rest later, but only if I couldn't get out of it. By now it was late, and Bella asked if I wanted to stay at her house for the night. Duh I said yes.

That night, I had on the worst dreams in my life. I had been captured by the school and worse, so had Adrian. They took me into a room I had only been to for one kind of experiment. I didn't know if that was all that they did here, or if they just hadn't happened to bring me here for any others. And I didn't want to find out.

Then they brought Adrian in there. I guess that you could say we were going out, but more importantly, we protected each other, always. He often ignored the fact that I wanted to do things on my own, and helped me anyways. And I did the same to him, for the sole reason that we loved each other more then anything in the world. The only experiments I had ever been subject to were the ones that tested whether or not it was possible to poison me. So why did they bring Adrian here? They knew that they could poison him. He had no snake DNA to protect him.

"We gave you orders, why on earth did you not follow them? We gave you everything you would need, including this experiment, to help you on your job..." The Eraser left the statement hanging. He wanted an answer, and I was all to willing to give it to him.

"Because I am not the daughter of the devil, and unlike you, I don't pretend to be."

"Well, if you aren't going to complete the mission then you won't need the tools we supplied you with." At this the Eraser grinning. Well, if what he implied was right then we were about to have a fight on our hands. I looked at Adrian; he did not look up to a fight. I hoped we could get out of this.

Just as I moved to prepare for a fight, two Erasers came up from behind me. Whatever they did to me it was effective, leaving me unable to move. I watched in horror as the Eraser who had been talking to me took out a harmless looking needle that was hooked up to one of those bag things. "Botulinum. Looks harmless, doesn't it. However, I'm sure that you remember that it kills humans in a remarkably painful way. Or so the scientists tell me. They say they've even tried it one you." I remembered that stuff. I was immune to poison, and that crap still put me through excruciating pain. I couldn't imagine what it would do to Adrian.

And worse, the Erasers held me there, making me watch as they injected the Botulinum into his blood. Then I had to watch as it killed him, because only after it had gone on for to long for me to be any help did they let me go. The Erasers left the room and locked the door, but I knew they would be watching. It was just that I didn't care. All I could do was hold him as he died.

I woke up in a panic, looking around me to make sure that I wasn't in a cage. That dream had been so real, but I was lying tangled in my blankets on Bella's couch. It was only after I noticed where is was that I realized someone was holding. Warm, wiry arms were holding me tightly. I looked up in another panic, my second about two seconds. It must have been a new freaking record. But after I looked I saw curly dark brown eyes, and startlingly dark blue eyes peering at me worriedly.

It was Adrian. I had no idea how he had found me, but I was overjoyed that he had.


AN: OK. Sorry that this took four million years to get out. However, it was my longest so far. That counts for something, doesn't it? Anyways, please forgive me and review. Pretty please with sugar on top? The button is right there….. Thanks for reading.