A/N Hey! Sorry this chapter is out later than the others have been, I've had some internet troubles. Thanks again for the reviews!! They make me smile! Er I don't like this chapter much, hopefully the next will be better.
Disclaimer - All characters belong to James Patterson -sighs-
Chapter Four!
Max's POV
My fever had passed by the next morning and I felt a lot better, I'd decided to continue going west like Jeb had said and we'd been flying for a couple of hours, despite Fang's protests.
"You need to rest Max! This brain attack was much worse than the others, Jeb's told you there will be more and you want to get back into the air before you're fully recovered from it!?" He had hissed angrily, staring at me in disbelief.
"Pretty much, besides, I feel fine now." I'd answered back calmly. Of course that had angered him further, but I was the leader, no matter how much I was sharing that role these days. He had to go along with what I said.
So now he was flying directly below me case I fell out of the sky in an angry silence.
I wasn't sure what compelled me to follow what Jeb told me to do. Especially after what had happened yesterday. Hey, Maybe he'd learned how to control my mind like Angel.
After everything even that wouldn't surprise me now.
"Maaaax?" I looked over where Gazzy was looking at me with tired eyes.
"When are we going to land?" He whined, now that I looked at all the little one's I saw that they all looked really worn out, in the distance I could see the lights of a small city.
"We'll stop in a motel over there, I think we could all use some rest and a shower." There were cries of joy from the rest of the flock, all but Fang of course who stayed silent, still angry with me.
Soon we landed in an alleyway behind a motel. We walked around to the reception and got three adjoining rooms for the night.
Our room was on the second floor, when we were standing outside our rooms I turned to the rest of the flock.
"Right, we have three rooms so…" Before I could finish two of the three keys had been snatched out of my hand.
"Angel's with me!" Nudge shouted gleefully dragging her to the door on the right.
"Iggy's with me!" Gazzy shouted then and ran to the door on the left with Iggy following behind.
"Don't blow anything up!" Was all I was able to shout before both door's were slammed in my face, I had a feeling that Gazzy and Iggy's room wouldn't be fully intact by the time we left. I sighed.
I turned and opened the door between the two the other kids had rushed into. I walked in and turned to look at Fang.
"Still angry with me?" He looked at me eavenly.
"I haven't the slightest idea what you mean Max." he said calmly. I frowned.
"Fine, I'm going for a shower." I said shortly walking over to the small bathroom locking the door behind me.
I leaned against the door and shook my head in exasperation. I avoided looking in the mirror too much, remembering the times I'd looked in the mirror and seen myself morph into an eraser.
Practaclly jumping in the shower I let the warm water relax all of my mucsles.
Eventually I turned the shower off and put my clothes quickly on before going back into the room, leaving my damp hair down letting it dry naturally.
Fang was lounging on one of the beds flicking through the channels without intrest, there didn't seem to be anything good on.
I went to sit down in the small chair next to his bed crossing my legs. Watching the screen without much intrest until he finally acknowledged my presence.
"You seem stressed" He commented lightly but there was a hint of surprise in his voice for some reason. He didn't take his eyes away from the screen though I knew he most likely wasn't really paying attention to it.
"Its just…" I exhaled heavily before continuing, "I don't really know what we're doing, I'm only following what Jeb said about going west." I glared at the screen angrily.
"I mean," I took a breath feeling Fang's eyes on my face now but didn't turn turn to face him. "I stopped following what Jeb told me to the moment he left us. I have no other ideas though so I haven't got a choice but to follow what he says!" My voice was raised by the end of the sentance.
"Max" I ignored him staring definetly at the screen.
He forced me to look at him, turning my face with his hand.
"You really need to stop letting all this stuff get to you. You don't have to go by what Jeb says, there's always another option, you've been running on adrenaline for months. You need to take a break." His eyes pierced mine and we looked at each other for a long time.
I looked away first, he sighed and stroked my hair softly before getting up.
"I'm going for a shower then." He announced and walked into the bathroom without another word.
Fang's POV
I scowled locking the door behind me. I really wished that I could somehow force Max too slow down and take a break if only for a little while.
Unfortunately Max was much too stubborn to even think about taking it easy with a complete inhability to relax.
Even before Jeb left she always acted like a mom to the Angel, Gazzy and Nudge. She even acted like that with Iggy and me sometimes, even though we're only a couple of months younger than her.
There was something else playing on my mind as well, I'd been able to feel the stress rolling off Max, litreally, able to feel everything she was feeling. Even now, I could feel her stress, confusion and anger seeping through my own body from hers. I must be gaining a new power.
Max would proberbly laugh if I told her. Even I had to admit it was ironic. I'd tell her later on when she'd calmed down.
I showered quickly throwing on a clean t-shirt and jeans before walking back into the room.
Max wasn'there but I could feel her emotions and hear her scolding Nudge for something in the other room. It was late, she was probably putting them to bed.
I sat on my bed picking up the T.V remote and flicking randomly through the channels again, not paying attention to what was on the screen.
A couple of minuets later Max came back in and flung herself on the other bed throwing an arm over her face and letting out a yawn. I could feel the tiredness building under the stress.
"Max," She turned her head to look at me slowly "it's been a long day. I'll take the first watch, go too sleep" I said sternly. She nodded meekly not bothering to argue, despite what she thought, I knew that she wasn't fully recovered from her last brain attack.
Max fell asleep within seconds, flying must have really took it out of her I thought irritably. I'd told her that she should have taken it easy for at least a day before getting back in the air again but she had completely ignored me.
All she cares about is keeping everyone else safe, she spends all her time worrying about others and not enough worrying about herself. Though I know Max probably thinks the same about me, I smiled.
I'd been on watch for a couple of hours when I felt the emotions of someone in the girl's room change drastically, the whole feeling others emotions thing was new to me so it took me a couple of seconds to register the emotion, fear.
I jumped up from my bed and ran over to the girl's room. Shaking Max's sholder to wake her up as I passed.
I walked into the room but there where no Flyboys or Erasers in sight. Nudge and Angel were sitting up though, Angel crying silently while Nudge with her arm around her in an attempt to comfort her. Though it was obvious that Nudge was just as scared as Angel was.
"What's wrong?" Max demanded appearing by my side looking worried. Angel looked up at her with sad eyes.
"Max…I h-had a dream…" She hicckuped, attempting to stop the flow of tears momenterily but failing tears running down her cheeks heavily.
"Angel saw your mom and sister Max…" Nudge said, her face pale, eyes wide.
"Itex have kidnapped them" Angel choked out. Max froze by my side her horror and anger hitting me so fast I almost stumbled.
I looked at her face but her eyes looking past Nudge and unfocused, the look she got when she was speaking to Jeb inside her head.
Intense fury rose in Max's body and she turned to me.
"They have them Fang" she whispered still not meating my eyes.
"I'm going to kill Jeb" she murmured.
A/N Sorry for leaving it there, I didn't want it to get too long! I wanted Fang to have a power, the idea of him being able to feel others emotions has been playing on my mind for a while, I thought it might be intresting to put it in here. tell me what you think. Reviews are awsome!