Me: Whoa, I haven't updated this in soooooooo long, so I decided to do it now before I forget

Iggy: -sighs- Bell doesn't have a good excuse as to why she hasn't updated, apart from her laziness!!

Me: HEY!!!! I had two tests this week and hardly any sleep! I fell asleep in the maths one for god sakes!!!!!! But, now I'm back and feeling better. However, I have four projects that are all due next week, so I might not update for a while -sighs- Just a warning. I MIGHT if I can find the time, but this mght be it for a little bit.....

Iggy: And you left them with a cliffie!!!

Me: Yeah, I know. So sorry guys.

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Iggy: Uh, right, Bell. You really have lost it

Me: Razamataz says that I never had it

Iggy: And I see why

Me: Well, at least you can see something

Iggy: -pokes- Shut up!

Me: -sighs- Iggy's found a way to annoy me without hurting me. -whacks with herring-

Iggy: -pokes-

Me: -whacks with herring-

Iggy: -pokes-

Me: -whacks with herring-

Iggy: -pokes-

Me: -whacks with herring- Okay, this is gonna be a while, so read the chapter

Iggy: -pokes-

Me: -growls-


As soon as I walked in I was hit with that strong smell of antiseptic that I loathed. It still looked the same, except there were posters all over the walls, and built in windows were you could see Whitecoats working with chemicals to see the different reactions. And, once again, they were smiling brightly as if they didn't work in the depths of hell.

I took a deep breath and grabbed a white coat off a hook and looked at it in discust, but shoved it over my clothes anyway. I never thought that I'd actually ever wear one of these.

Everyone was talking excitedly as they watched the whitecoats mix some chemicals together making colors explode from the beaker in a sparkly mist. I shook my head and sighed. I knew that this was all for show. Make the people happy and they could get funding for whatever they wanted to do to the mutants.

I walked over to the wall and read one of the many posters.

The institute of T.G.G.
The Greater good of mankind

And there was a picture of about twenty whitecoats hugging the globe.

I clenched my fists at my sides. The good of mankind my feathers! All they ever caused was pain and suffering to whoever walked through these doors.

I looked back at the people who were still marvelling at the rainbow display that was being played out in front of them and realised that they probably weren't going anywhere any time soon.

"Stupid biased people," I muttered under my breath as I walked down a hall, knowing that no-one would notice I'd gone missing.

I didn't know how I was going to find Fang, but all the doors seemed to have some sort of name on them, so I decided to keep a look out for his name.


Eventually, I found something interesting. I stopped in front of a white door that looked like all the others, but this one didn't have a code. Every other door in the school had some sort of number and letter code on it, but this one had English on it that was easy to read.

My eyes widened as I read what it said and I slowly slid the unlocked door open. The room was huge and there was nothing in there except for a small black dog crate that was placed in the centre of the room. I took a few steps inside and hurried across the floor, hearing only the sound of my boots hitting the floor as I walked quickly. I dropped to my knees in front of the crate and peered inside to find a small sleeping form. His chest rose and fell so slowly that I was afraid that he'd stop breathing any minute.

"Total!?" I cried, praying that he's wake up.

He twitched in his sleep and rolled onto his other side. I saw then that his fur had gone grey and was lost in some places, making him lool like he had mange.

"Total!" I said louder, trying to wake him up.

His eyes slowly opened and he blinked a couple of times and then stared at me.

"It's me, Nudge! Come on, I'll get you out of here."

I reached into my pack and looked through it for something that Iggy had given me before I left. There was a few sandwiches, my clock thing that I found, lots of different food items, and a pair of wire cutters.

I grabbed the wire cutters and began cutting the thin bars of the crate, one by one. As I did this, Total slowly rose to his feet but quickly sat down again, keeping his eyes on me the whole time. He didn't say anything, just stared at me like I was some crazy, deluded white coat.

Eventually, I made a Total sized hole in the bars and I shuffled back a bit, waiting for Total to climb through. But Total just continued to stare at me.

I sighed, "Total? What's wrong with you? Talk!"

He blinked and then shook his head and lay down again as a tear slid down his furry cheek.

"Total?" I whispered. And he raised his head to look at me again.

"Can you speak?" I dared to ask

His eyes looked so sadly at me, before he shook his head no and dropped his head back down on the floor.

I rubbed my eyes, trying to stop the tears from coming and I took a deep breath. After a few moments, I reached my hand out sadly and scratched him behind the ear, the way that he liked it. I watched as his tail started to slowly wag back and forth, hitting the ground on every second stroke.

"Don't worry, Total. It doesn't matter, you're still part of the Flock and I need you. Come on, please....." I trailed off as I stared into his dark eyes.

He looked at me as if my idea was insane, but eventually stood and crawled through the bars, then proceeded to lick my face. I giggled then wrapped my arms around his skinny body, feeling his rough fur in my hands.

I let go and stood heading for the door that read: 'Total the talking dog,' and we walked out together.


"Total, do you know where Fang is?" I asked the black Scottie after a few minutes of walking through the seemingly endless white halls.

He nodded and trotted a bit faster down another hallway on the left.

We made a left, a right, two more lefts and a right before stopping at a door that Total scratched with one of his paws, signalling that Fang was in there.

I looked up at the writing on the door and confirmed that this was Fang's name.

I knew that without Total I would have never been able to find Fang with the millions of doors in this place.

I bent down and patted him on the head before opening the door and heading inside.

(A/N: I was going to leave it there, but because of my lack of updating, here's a continued version :D)

Total and I walked into the closet sized room and looked around. There was nothing in here that I could see and I felt confused.

"Total, there's nothing in here. Are you sure that you got the right room? But, his name was on the door. Maybe he moved rooms or something because this room is very small."

Total scratched the floor to get my attention and used his paw to point at the corner of the room.

I sighed, "Total, there's nothing there! Let's go," I said as I headed for the door, but he ran in front of me and frowned.

"Fine then, but just to prove to you that there's nothing there......." I muttered as I walked over to the corner, but walked straight into something warm.

I knelt down and blindly reached my hand out until I touched it. It was warm and I could feel it breathing.

It shook me off and then became visible.

There, in front of me, sat a boy in a black tattered shirt and blue grubby jeans that had tons of large rips in them. All of his clothes were bloodstained and he had big scars all over his face and legs. He had his legs drawn up to his chest and his arms wrapped tightly around them. His head rested on his knees and his tired, dark eyes were fixated on the wall in front of him. His hair had grown so long that it fell across his face like a curtain, hiding his scars from the outside world.

Fang.

"Fang," I whispered, and threw my arms around him and let tears fall. It takes a lot to make any of us cry, but seeing Fang the way he was, was enough.

Suddenly, he growled and I quickly let go of him as if I had been jolted with electricity.

"Fang, it's me, Nudge. I'm back....."

He responded by continuing to glare at the wall as if it had just committed murder.

"Fang! Look at me!" I said angrily and my voice echoed off the small walls of the room.

Fang slowly turned his head and locked eyes with mine for a few seconds before turning back to the wall, and slowly rocking backwards and forwards on his bottom, whispering to himself, "They're all gone..............not coming back.............Max.............Nudge............gone...............forever..............my fault........."

He said it so quietly that I could hardly hear him.

"FANG!!! I'm here! It's really me!"

But he completely ignored me and continued to mumble incoherently to himself.

I looked over at Total sadly before slowly rising to my feet, and leaving through the door.


Iggy: So, I'm a druggy and a drunk, Max is mute and catatonic, Total is mute, and Fang is crazy?

Me: Uh, kinda..........I guess

Iggy: Nice

Me: Hey! You should know not to split up!!! It's all your fault!!

Iggy: You're the one in charge of the storyline fix it!!!

Me: Or what?

Iggy: -pokes-

Me: Groans. Okay, I'll fix it. But first Nudge needs to find Gazzy and Angel. I have an idea of where she's going next, but where do you want her to go? -laughs- Everytime I think of where Gazzy and Iggy are, I laugh.

Iggy: My position isn't very funny, but I guess Gazzy's is alright

Me: Yeah, he didn't end up as bad as you did

Iggy: But it's still bad

Me: Whatever.

R&R!?!?!

Bell and Ig :D