Chapter 2 is up! Unfortunately, I do not own Maximum Ride. cries in corner Oh, well. If anybody has any Ideas for pairings, let me know. I don't think I'm gonna have any, but maybe. I might reconsider if people REVIEW hint hint : )

"Wow, the train!" Angel had never been in a real train before. She'd seen them, but never been in them. It made me and Fang feel closed in. I hated it. I don't know why, but it didn't seem to bother anybody else. I looked at Bella suspiously. Something about her seemed Eraser-ish. Iwas probably just over-reaction, but she had the perfect-ness of one.

"Max, when we get to Chicago, where will we stay?" Iggy asked. He didn't particularly like the subway tunnels of New York or the swamps of Florida.

I thought a minute. "We could stay in a motel for a few days until we can figure out something more permanent… That is if we stay long."

That last part got some disappointed sighs. I knew they wanted to stay in one place. I wanted to too, but with the Erasers running around and the Whitecoats, I just wasn't sure.

Iggy was about to protest when we heard a voice over the intercom. All I heard was "blah blah, Chicago, blah blah."

"What?" I asked.

"This is our stop," Bella answered.

I nodded and we all got off the train. I noticed Angel looking at our new friends and it seemed like she was in a trance. She was reading their minds. All of a sudden, she looked scared.

"Max… I need to talk to you…" she said

"Yeah Angel, what is it?" I could tell she was worried.

"That girl, Bella, she-she's an Eraser."

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I looked at Talon. He completely trusted these people. I could tell they didn't like me. Maybe they knew what I was. I figured they had to know sooner or later. The little one went to talk to Matt… Bob… Whatever her name was, I knew it was a boy's name. Then she stared at me like I was scum and went to talk to the others. It's not like I could help being what I was. I had no choice!

FLASHBACK

"No! Mama! No! I don't want to do this! Please don't make me!" A tiny little girl screamed.

"I'm so sorry honey… really I am. I-I have no choice! This won't hurt. I promise" a woman replied.

"Hurry it up. We have to start the procedure." A man in a white coat said.

"I'll miss you… My Bella" the woman said before she was led out of the room.

The little girl screamed before she was given a shot that put her into a deep sleep.

END FLASHBACK

That little girl, you guessed it, was me. I wiped my eyes after the memory. That was only four years ago. I was three. Erasers grow much quicker than "normal people" so I looked 15, but really, I was 7. My mom needed money. We had almost none. The Whitecoats offered her a lot of money if she gave me to them. She was desperate. After she learned what they were going to do, they decided she knew too much and killed her. I never forgave them. That's why I rebelled with the others. The Whitecoats deserved to lose their precious experiments. They should all die after what they did to me and my mother. What they put the rest of the Pack through. I hated them all. I would stop at nothing to stop them.

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Iggy walked over to Talon. He sighed, "Max wants me to ask you why you have an Eraser with you."

There was silence from Talons end. Iggy couldn't see him, so he didn't know weather Talon was mad or just thinking. Iggy didn't mind that Bella was an Eraser. If these kids could trust her, hell, he could too.

"She helped us escape. She's not evil. So just leaver her alone!" Talon replied angrily.

"Hey dude, I'm cool with it. Max is just… paranoid. She just wants to protect us," Iggy said.

"Whatever," Talon huffed. Iggy heard retreating footsteps. He sighed. That didn't go well. Max wouldn't exactly be satisfied with the answer either. Great. He was always in the middle of every argument. This sucked.

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"WHAT?" Salem asked, "They dissed my girl? I swear, if we didn't need their help, I would grrr!" She motioned what she would do to them with her hands.

Tabitha rolled her eyes. She was upset by what Max made Iggy ask me, I could tell, but she wouldn't say anything. She tried to hide her emotions.

Bella shook her head, "Don't blame them guys. It's completely understandable why they don't trust me. Besides, Iggy doesn't seem to mind me. That's a start."

We all nodded half-heartedly. I just couldn't believe they actually decided to question her. Couldn't they tell we were friends and that I would trust my life with her? I punched a wall. This was a total waist of our time. We didn't need them. We had our disguises. All we needed to do was get them to give us a couple hundered bucks and we were set for a while. Hecate glanced at me. It was scary how she could almost read minds. She motioned at me to go over by her.

"What?" I asked.

"Fang and Iggy apologize for what Max made Iggy do. They say she can be difficult when it comes to Erasers and Whitecoats." Hecate said.

"I don't care what she's like. We are going to get rid of them as soon as possible,"
I said coldly.

I heard a gasp behind me. I turned to see Nudge looking horrified at me. She ran to Max and started gesturing wildly. At first I didn't get it.

"Nice going genius," Hecate said to me, "We have an Eraser on our side so they don't trust us, now, one of the little kids just heard you say we're going to 'get rid of them as soon as possible.'"

"Shit," I said.

Let me tell you, Shit, defiantly described this situation.