OMG! I totally overlooked that! Thank you to whoever pointed out my mistake in the previous chapter! Oops... lol. Can someone tell me how to change that...? :)
I was awoken by rough hands shaking my shoulders.
"Iggy! Iggy!" Fang was shouting.
"I'm awake," I said, sitting up and rubbing the back of my head. I had a pretty bad headache. I reached up and felt my lip, which was swollen and bloody, and my black eye, which was throbbing horribly.
Suddenly a pair of skinny arms threw themselves around my neck.
"Iggy! You're okay!" Nudge said. "They threw me at a tree, and Gazzy's still out cold, so is Max, and --"
I realized immediately who had been left out of Nudge's status report.
"Where's – Fang, what about Angel?" I asked, scared to know the answer. There was a long silence. Nudge started to cry.
"The Erasers stuffed her in a sack... and ran away with her," Fang replied quietly. My heart sank.
"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's wake up Gazzy and Max and go!" I said.
Fang went and leaned over the Gasman. Nudge shook him awake.
"Gazzy! Wake up!" Nudge cried. Finally, he woke up. I felt him look around next to me.
"Where's Angel?" he asked immediately.
"The Erasers got her. We have to go after her," I said. He stood up immediately and ran over to Max. I could tell he was trying to be brave, but when he spoke, his voice was quiet and scared.
"Max?" he said.
Fang joined him quickly and shook Max's shoulders.
"Max?" Gazzy repeated.
Nudge stood behind them with me and clutched my arm.
Max moaned awfully.
"I'm okay," she said, sounding totally not okay. I heard try to sit up, and Nudge started to move forward, but I held her back.
I could practically hear the gears turning in Max's head. "Where's Angel?" she demanded suddenly. There was a pause, then Fang replied.
"She's gone. They took her."
Hearing it again somehow made it sink in even more. What if we couldn't get her back? What if the whitecoats got her? For good?
Then I heard Max standing up. "We've got to get her," she said. "We've got to get her before they --" Her voice trailed of shakily. I didn't really want to know how she would have finished that sentence. I didn't want to think about what They would do to Angel.
My thoughts were interrupted by Max talking again. "Check in guys – are you up for a chase?"
Nudge's voice was tear-choked. "Yes," she said bravely.
I didn't feel up for a chase – to be honest, I felt like crap, but I had to be brave. For Angel.
"I'm up," I said, my split lip making it hard to speak. I felt the Gasman nod next to me.
Then, in the distance, I heard it. I cocked my head, signalling the others to be quiet. I was able to pinpoint which direction the sound was coming from.
"There!" I said, pointing towards the sound. I led the way as we ran in the direction I had pointed. The echoes told me we had reached a cliff, and I stopped abruptly. I could hear a car bumping over the road below us. No doubt that was the Erasers. No one besides us ever came up here. So that meant...
Angel was inside.
"Let's get her!" Max shouted, and she backed up about ten feet. I moved out of her way so she could leap off the cliff.
And so we flew.
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