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As soon as I saw him I sat down next to him. Sometimes, I didn't have to say what I was feeling. He'd get what I was feeling and understand.

"I'm sorry." He whispered, his head in his hands.

"What are you apologising for?"

"I believed them. I believed that you were dead."

I stared out into the open sky. It was a beautiful night, and we were sitting on the edge of a cliff. The sun was sitting, and the sky was a brilliant mirage of red, purple, orange and faded blue.

"When did they come?"

"Second day you were gone."

I closed my eyes briefly. When I opened them, I stood up, only to be stopped by Fang's hand on my arm. It wasn't forceful; it was hesitant, like he couldn't make up his mind.

"I almost went looking for you. But then I had the flock to look after, and Jeb had proposed a plan to Iggy to get his eye sight back."

I bowed my head, pulling my arm gently from his. "I needed you, Fang. I was being selfish, but I needed you. You were my saviour, my fallen angel. But you didn't come for me."

"I love you, Max."

"And I loved you, Fang."

"That's... that's past tense..."

I closed my eyes again, and then walked back to the group. He knew what I was talking about – you don't promise something to someone and do nothing about it. You live up to that promise, and you make sure that you've done everything, absolutely everything, to fulfil it.

"Nice tattoo, by the way," Fang called.

I locked my jaw to keep myself from smirking. I had a detour on the way here. I had three done, all on the same day. The one on the right side of my ribcage said, 'And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music', the one on the left side of my ribcage read, 'there once was a little girl who never new love until a boy broke her HEART' and one on the back of my neck that read 'strength' in Mandarin, a Chinese dialect.

"Max!" Angel cried again, fluttering towards my body and gluing herself to my side.

"Hey, Nudge. This is where you can put your motormouth to the test. Tell me what happened while I was gone."

She giggled and Iggy sighed, pulling me down so that I was sitting next to him. He wrapped an arm around my shoulder and I leaned into him. Angel settled on my lap and Gazzy was sitting next to me so close that his leg was touching mine. Nudge sat down opposite from me, smiling as she got the details together.

"So Fang came back to us and told us what had happened. We wanted to find you straight away, but Jeb had proposed some plan for Iggy to get his eyesight back. Iggy didn't want to do it. But then he did so he could have sharp senses all round. So we had to stay with Iggy while he got his eyes back, and right after that while Ig was still un-seeing, some dudes came and told us you were dead. Fang almost killed them, but Angel, Gazzy and I started crying so he had to comfort us instead, even though we knew he was broken.

"Soon after Ig's got his sight back we were up and moving again, and we went back to the bird cave when you went missing for the first time. We stayed there for a while and then we had to get some real food. This was really just a stop over, we were supposed to go today, but surprise, surprise."

I smiled at Nudge, and patted Gazzy and Angel's hands. "Tell me, Iggy. How does being able to see again feel?"

"Bloody damn good!" He laughed. "Everything... just makes that much more sense, you know? It's like using your wings for the first time in 3 months."

IGGY POV

"Bloody damn good! I laughed, thinking about the first time I saw everyone. "Everything... just makes that much more sense, you know? It's like using your wings for the first time in 3 months."

Max looked up at me, an unreadable pain in her eyes. "Oh, how I know what that feels like. Say, who wants to fly?"

We all smiled and jumped up. Angel took off, then Gazzy, then Nudge. Max watched them spread their wings and smiled a genuine smile. One I hadn't seen for a very long time. "Iggy? You're not going to fly?"

"Waiting for you," I replied, watching as she ran off and jumped into the air. Her beautiful wings snapped out, and literally took my breath away. She had beautiful wings, like the rest of her. But she was creepy in that beautiful yet eerie sense. Her eyes were a gorgeous chocolate brown but they were haunted with what she had been through. Her face was beautiful, but yet again haunted. And her body was so perfect. Perfect proportion for her height, her legs dominant of her torso. But on her body were so many scars and bruises and the evidence was too much to say she hadn't been through a ton in the past 3 months.

I ran into the air just as I heard something whistling through the air. By the direction of the movement, it was heading straight towards Max. I sped through the air to practically tackle Max out of the way, and the missile like weapon moved straight past us, not hurting anyone.

"Everyone down!" Max called as there was a deafening clash of metal. "Iggy, get Fang and check that out."

As Max herded the kids back down to the ground, I dove towards Fang. "Dude, U & A, we need to check something out."

"That big bang?"

"Yeah."

He got up and dove off the cliff and we started flying towards the sound. "You OK?"

"Not... really."

"What does that mean?"

"I think she doesn't want me anymore. Think I broke her heart."

"There's only one way to find out."

"Wha'?"

"I can ask for you."

He didn't reply as we landed, and before I could process what was in front of me, Fang said something that made the breath vanish from my body.

"That's Jeb."

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