This is my first Fax chapter. Tell me if there is anything you want added to the next one or if you have any suggestions or whatever. Mostly all this chapter is is Max and Fang, though there is a dream at the begining. I've never wrote a chapter like this so sorry if it's bad.

Melanie

Disclamer: I do not own Maximum Ride or her Flock or Ari or Jeb or Total.

BUT. I do own my copys of the books. At least... I think I do.

Max POV

I was having a dream very similar to the dream I once told you about. The one where I'm running from Erasers, from the School, and I get to the cliff. Then I let myself fall and fly back up to where they can't hit me?

Yeah, that one. This dream was a lot like that one, only there was more to it. First, it shows the moments before I escaped, having a brutal test done. Then I escape, and it's same old same old. I get to the cliff and turn around to face the Erasers, but there's only one there.

Ari.

Which I may have been able to handle on its own, but he looked so murderous and in his grasp was Angel. She was crying and she needed me to save her from him. I couldn't, because the moment I took a step towards him there were hundreds of Erasers and my dream wouldn't allow me any closer. I fell backwards and opened my wings like I always do. Then, just before my feet are going to be run though by sharp, pointy rocks, I start rising upward. I don't land on the cliff and start an attempt to save her; I just sail right above, to where they can't see me because of the sunlight.

But I can see them, I can see Ari. He laughs and says something to Angel which causes her to sob. He smiles again and looks up at me to say, "You killed her, Max." then he puts his huge hands around her neck and I don't need to see what's going on to see what's coming next...

Something covered my mouth, pulling me out of the nightmare before Ari could break Angel's neck.

Do we really get no break? I couldn't have been asleep an hour yet; that would make it about three hours since the Eraser's had shown themselves. I was about to start kicking when a tiny voice (that was all mine, let me reassure you. I know with me it can be hard to tell,) told me to open my eyes and see who would be dumb enough to try and mute me.

To answer your question, it wasn't an Eraser, Jeb, Ari, or even a police officer. Nope, the dumbass that put their hand on my mouth, sending my adrenaline levels sky rocketing...

Was Fang. Which didn't leave me thinking everything was okay. I mean if it would've been Angel trying to find my shoulder to tell me she had a bad dream or that she couldn't sleep next to Gazzy anymore because he broke wind, yeah that would assure me nothing was wrong. Fang waking me up when I was support to have third watch, after Iggy, didn't calm me a lick.

Then, he started to laugh. Well, a Fang's version of a laugh, but still a laugh. "What?" I whispered. My voice sounded really loud in the silence of the night, even though I knew I had whispered.

"Your heart is going a mile a minute." he whispered, then moved so he was sitting next to me. Yes, for all you people who are like, but you're in a tree, it's not possible, we were, in fact, in a tree. But it was a big enough branch that we can both sit with our back against the tree trunk.

"Well, you could've shaken me. You didn't have to cover my mouth." I whispered back. He shook his head, "You were having a nightmare. I know you, you would've screamed."

I was going to ask how he knew that, but then I remembered. This is Fang we were talking about. He knows everything about me, like he can read my mind. Without actually, you know, reading my mind. It was kind of creepy sometimes, but I loved it all the same.

I sat up so I didn't seem so short. Sure, I was still shorter than him, even when we were sitting down, but when I'm laying down and he's sitting, it's a huge difference. "What did you need?" I asked him, wide awake now that I was up.

He seemed hurt and I wondered if I sounded crabbier than I felt. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to sound--"

He closed the already small distance between us.

Oh. So that's what he needed. That was the last coherent thought I got in before my mind went into that abnormal state of Fang, Fang, and Fang. I still wasn't used to this whole emotional sappy I love you, you love me thing, so I almost shut down. Almost.

But I didn't, and I wrapped my arms around his neck and my hands latched onto his hair.

I love his hair so, so, so much. It's not as long as it normally is, sure, but it's his. Just like his soft lips and his eyes and his... everything.

"Max," Fang whispered and my eyes opened and met his black eyes. In the darkness it was hard to see the gold flecks, but I knew they were there like I knew the Flock. His mouth was still only centimeters away from mine.

"Hmm?" I asked, incapable of speech. We kissed again before he told me what he wanted to say. He smiled. And it wasn't a Fang smile; it was a legitimate smile, bigger than any smile I had ever seen on him. "I love you."

He didn't give me time to answer. We kissed until someone broke through the silence, "Would you two stop with your lip-lock scene. I'm trying to sleep!" Iggy groaned, chucking a pinecone at my head and somehow hitting me, even though he was blind.

"I'm flipping you off, Iggy." Fang growled. I smiled and moved so that I wasn't practically on top of Fang. When had I moved?

Iggy laughed, "I could care less!" I heard some movement and knew that Iggy was sitting up. "Why don't you two lovebirds get some sleep and I'll take watch." he offered, sounding just as awake as I felt. I wonder how long he was listening to us before he decided to tell us to stop.

Only a tiny part of me was annoyed that we had someone listen in on our make-out fest, which had probably lasted a couple minutes (but who could tell??) The rest of me was still high on Fang. (A/N: Does that sound weird to anyone else?)

I didn't really know how to end this chapter and I didn't want to ruin the moment with the Erasers showing up, so I just stopped there.

Other news... a lot of you are big Niggy fans (yay!! so am I!!) but I'm going to keep the choice up for a little while longer. So I'm posting a poll on my profile. Even if you already told me who you want Iggy's girlfriend to be, go vote for me. PLEASE?

Oh, and please review :)