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Disclaimer: I do not own the Maximum Ride story this is based on.

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Chapter 4

With the wind in our faces and horrible memories behind us, we set off for a new life. I honestly don't know why we headed north, but I somehow felt that it was going to safety. I might as well go through the list of skills that the lab gave us before we left.

Vis: Mind Controlled Invisibility (makes us forget he's there), 14-foot ebony wings

Me (Ocean): Mind reading/control, 13-foot grey wings

Carebear (or Bear): Levitation, 10-foot dark brown wings

D-man: Wishful detonating (if he thinks about it he can make things blow up), 11-foot tan wings

These "skills" were actually quite handy at times. Mind reading worked wonders when fighting Erasers. Invisibility when sneaking in or out of places, and scaring the h out of me. Levitation when we get really lazy, except it's pretty energy consuming, so we don't use it that often, and mind detonating, well, that's obvious. We did have a couple good laughs back at the lab though with that. Pencils and other small stuff would suddenly combust. Little pink erasers were awesome 'cause all the rubber in them would go everywhere. The Whitecoats back at the Lab used to call us the MC's: Mind Controllers. Good name huh?

"Anyone see anything that looks uninhabited? A cave, a park, anything?" Vis called out.

"I see a dark patch at 2 o'clock. Or there's a mountain at 8 o'clock. There might be some hidden out of the way point there." D-man pointed.

"The mountain's probably infested with mice and snakes and who knows what else. Can we not go there?" Bear pleaded. I looked over at her and smiled.

"It might be our only option, if the dark patch proves not to be a park or something." That particular patch did prove to be a park, with no one on guard, no lights, nothing. To us, nothing meant good news, and a good nights sleep. Well, as good as we could get. We found some wood and started a fire, pulling out some of the food we had stolen from the lab.

"You two should get some sleep." I said to the twins. They were already fading, so I knew they were going to fall asleep sooner or later. I wanted to make it sooner. I watched both lay down by the fire back to back, and were instantly asleep.

"I'll take first watch." Vis said as he started to stand to walk the perimeter of the firelight. "You sleep, I watch."

"Okay." I said. He turned around and sat down again.

"What's wrong? Normally you would have argued." He asked.

"Nothing."

"That's not true."

"No, I guess it's not. I haven't slept in about 3 days, I'm scared, hungry, cold, and mostly I want a nice warm place to sleep and to not be scared anymore by lab technicians or Erasers. I want a real home, with parents that take care of me, and don't mind the wings, and to go to school like normal kids. I want to be able to be normal, and fit in with the rest of the world." That was the most I had ever said at one time. I'm normally pretty quiet.

"But you fit in with us. And we take care of each other, and always will. You know that." He looked at me with such care and heart that I felt tears forming. I'm normally the one in our little family to cry, and the others don't shed a tear, but it's times like these that I'm at my weakest, like when I've had no sleep for a couple days and running on adrenaline and emotions can take over easily. I felt a tear drip down my chin. Then I felt Vis' arms around me and I started crying really hard. I guess all that lack of sleep caught up with me 'cause I don't remember if and or when I stopped crying, or falling asleep in his arms.

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Skye