Chapter 4: Healing

I arrived at my Mom's house and knocked on the door. No answer. I rang the bell. Still no answer. Just then my Mom's car pulled into the driveway.

Ella then popped out of the car. "Mom! Mom! Its Max! And Fa… Max, what happened? Are you OK?"

"Yeah. The flock will be here in like, 15 minutes. I don't really know what's going on though, you have to ask them." I only knew part of what was happening, and it was the part that I didn't want to explain.

"Max what's the matter?" my Mom came over and opened the door. Just then the Flock came into view, and hit the ground with a thud. Nudge and Total started explaining everything to Dr. Martinez. "Max, get Fang in the car, we're going to my office."

"He's gonna be alright?" my voice cracked. I felt a lone tear drip down my cheek. Then another followed its path, defining where the other had been.

"I'm not sure sweetie. I'm not sure…" to me, it had seemed that it took a lot for my Mom to say that.

"Max, we might need to see Jeb about this… he might need to take Fang to the School. Which means that you'll have to break Fang out of the School." She was right. My Mom could do something about the steroids, but Bat DNA… that was something that Jeb had resources to. I hated it. Hated the fact that Fang would be alone in the School with Jeb.

"OK, I understand." I took a step towards my Mom, and hugged her. And then sobbed. I buried my face into her jacket, not wanting the rest of the flock to see me so weak.

We all climbed into my Mom's car when I noticed something: Fang was shaking almost uncontrollably. He was having a seizure. "Mom, I think he's having an allergic reaction to the drugs or something!" Mom handed me a thin paper back book.

"Shove this in his mouth. It will keep him from biting his tongue off."

I did as I was told and noticed a rash had developed along Fang's arm. I was scared. I might have been angry with him, and my feelings for him weren't exactly the same, but he was still my best friend no matter what. As we arrived at my Mom's office, I began to start picking Fang up. I noticed that a few small, tiny feathers had begun to grown on some spots of his now leathery wings. I smiled. He just might be alright after all. We got out of the car and when no one was looking I kissed him quickly on the forehead.

About an hour later my Mom came out. "Well, he has some broken bones here and there from the fall. Nudge is just fine. Fang seems to be fighting off the bat virus. That's right. It was a virus infused with some of the cells found in a bat's bone marrow. He'll come out of this just fine. In fact, his muscular strength and endurance in his wing's will be better from it. He'll need some-

Fang walked in. He looked horrible. A lot more feathers were there than there were previously. "Guys… I'm… I'm so *cough* I'm really sorry. He started shaking a bit. I thought he was going to have another seizure again. Then I noticed he was crying. Mr. Tall Dark and Handsome was crying. Without realizing it, I got up and hugged him, hard. I moved away for a second. "It's okay," I said, but then I slapped him across the face, "But you deserved that." He could only smile. I went to hug him again until he said something.

"Would you mind getting off my foot though? It's kinda broken…" I hadn't noticed that, but his leg and arm were broken and he had a bandage wrapped around his lower chest and stomach.

"I love you, Fang, please don't ever scare me again. Ever." I whispered so quietly, I was surprised he could hear me.

"I wont Max… I promise."

Iggy began to smile and made a comment that sound like "Oh get a roo-

He was interrupted by Nudge's lips as they collided with his. Max was sure that Nudge had been waiting to do that a long time to do that.

A/N I know you wanted more fudge but I could find a way to work it into to the plot I had in mind.