I'm sorry it took a while for me to write this chapter. I have only been back at school 2 days and the stupid teachers have given me loads of work. I hope you enjoy this chapter. It has alot of Fax in it, causle everyone loves Fax :p. Please read and review because I would really like to know what you think of it, and how to improve it. I don't really like this chhapter much and I will try to improve when I write tmore chapters. I will carry on updating as soon as possible.
Disclaimer: I do not own Maximum Ride or Any of the characters in this fan fiction. These characters all came from James Pattersons amazing imagination.
Chapter Three
"Go get cleaned up." I ordered the others, when we were back at the house, and then I took off.
They better do what I told them to, I thought but highly doubted they would.
You'd be surprised. They may listen to someone other than you.
"Where's she going?" Nudge asked Fang.
"She is OK isn't she?" Angel asked.
"Our bombs were better than that one!" Gazzy whispered to Iggy.
"I hope my Mom's OK," cried Ella.
"Gazzy, and Iggy, do not try blow anything up. We have had enough bombs for one day. Nudge, I don't know where she's going, but I will go after her. Angel, I don't know if she's OK but I will find out. Ella, if your Mom is anything like Max then she will be fine. Now everyone, do what Max says, and go and get cleaned up."
Everyone just gawped at Fang. That was the longest any of them had ever heard him talk for, and he never usually gave orders.
"Hey guys, what's been happening?" Total trotted out the house happily, and didn't seem to know about Dr. Martinez. "Why are you all black? You trying to look like me?"
"Inside, now!" Fang shouted.
As everyone went inside, Fang heard Total mutter, "Why's he so bossy today? Max is normally the control freak. Where is Max anyway?" Fang restrained himself, with difficulty, from grabbing Total by the tail, and throwing him against the wall.
I flew quickly through the dark forest, wanting to escape from everyone so they couldn't see me cry. I was Maximum Ride, I was meant to be strong, stoic. I landed on a thick branch, around 3 miles away from the house. I thought back to what the voice said back at the hospital. It was right. It was my fault my Mom was in a coma. I put her in danger by just seeing her.
Great I thought I'm a danger magnet as well as a mutant freak, and I have put my own Mom in hospital.
The only way to fix this Max is to save the world.
"I thought I had already done that!" I screamed, letting my tears come now, and punching the tree trunk, which did not help, just hurt. Note to self: don't take anger out on hard things. It just hurts. "Ow!"
The world will never be safe Max, no matter how many times you save it.
"Then what's the point?" I threw out my wings and leapt down from the branch. I felt a painful tear going down my right wing, but I ignored it I sat at the bottom of the tree trunk, and curled myself into a ball. There I lay sobbing, until I felt someone's arms around me.
"Max?" Fang sounded worried. "Come on; let's get you back to the house." I let him pick me up. "Max, your wing doesn't look very good; there is a lot of blood. We will have to walk." Fang led me back to the house, while I struggled to control myself. I didn't want the flock to see me like this. I tried never to cry in front of them. I was their leader.
It was quiet when we got back to the house, and I was surprised Iggy or Gazzy hadn't blown it up.
"What did you do?" I asked. It annoyed me that the flock had listened to Fang. They barely ever listened to me.
"I was bossy." He smiled one of his rare smiles at me and I couldn't help laughing.
He took me up to the bathroom and ran me a bath. Once it was full he put me in, fully clothed. After a minute I was surprised to see the colour of the water. It was a deep, red, and brown.
"So, are you going to talk to me?" Fang asked quietly while I relaxed in the hot water.
"It was my fault." My voice shook as I said this, and I began to cry again. I didn't know why, but, unlike normal, it felt easy to talk to Fang. "If I wasn't here this wouldn't have happened and… and…" I couldn't go on.
"It wasn't your fault, Max" Fang was looking at my wing carefully. I noticed it had a small gash in it, and remembered the tearing feeling I had felt in the woods.
"Is it OK?"
"I think so" said Fang, bandaging it up carefully. "But It would be better if we had a doctor to look-" He stopped talking when he saw I was crying again. We would have had a doctor to look at my wing if my Mom wasn't in a coma. While I controlled myself, Fang sat on the edge of the bath, stroking my hair. It was weird having Fang look after me. I mean, it was normally me who did all the looking after. But now it was the opposite. I could so get used to this. Weirdly enough, I liked being looked after, but I would never leave the Flock to be attended to by Fang. One hour of him being boss, fine. One day, no flock left.
"What are you thinking?" Fang asked me. Wow. Deja vu .He'd asked me that before, just before the first time we kissed. Oh God. He can't be going there again can he?
"I'm thinking," I said jumping up, splashing dirty bath water everywhere, completely covering Fang. "That I need to go get the flock in bed." I grabbed a towel, and wrapped it around myself, not bothering to take off my wet clothes.
"I know you love Fang back." Angel said whilst I was tucking her in, ten minutes later.
"What are you talking about sweetie?" I was trying to play dumb. Not the best idea when Angel could see every freaking thought inside my head. So my mind defenses hadn't been strong enough to keep her out. She too knew about the whole, somewhat disturbing and complicated, relationship between me and Fang.
"You and Fang love each other!" Angel giggled.
"Fang's basically my brother, sweetie, I love him like I love you and the rest of the flock." It was true Fang was just like a brother to me, so where did all these new feelings suddenly come from.
"You're lying to me." Angel turned her back on me and shut her eyes.
You're lying to yourself too, Max.
