(CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO DO THE NEXT 2 YEARS SO WE'RE HAVING A LITTLE TIME SKIP OF TWO YEARS!)
MAX – POV
I could feel my eye lids fluttering but I didn't want to get up.
"Hey Max."
"Hey Fang." I opened my eyes to see Fang looking at me, his arms wrapped around my waits, pulling me close to his chest.
I laid my head on his chest and sighed. Everything was perfect in our lives now. The flock was safe, we weren't on the run anymore, the world was saved, me and Fang were married, Iggy and Ella still going strong, Nudge and Gazzy had finally gotten together after many years of being each other's crushes, and Angel was starting to get comfy with a boy called Luke even though she's only 12.
Our lives were perfect, until this happened. Fang kissed my hair so I looked up at him. I smiled and leaned in. Our lips were about to meet when a funny feeling hit my stomach.
"Bathroom!" I covered my mouth and ran out of the room into our bathroom.
I heard Fang calling my name but I was too busy throwing up. I had locked the door, not wanting Fang to see me like this but he was banging on the door shouting at me to let him in. I ignored him; I didn't want him to see this. When I finally stopped throwing up last night's dinner, I felt fine. I sighed and got up from the bathroom floor. I brushed my hair and cleaned my teeth before going back into our bedroom for a fresh set of clothes. Fang had been leaning on the door the whole time I was throwing up. A worried expression was plastered on his face.
"Max? Are you okay?"
"I'm fine. Just a one off thing I hope."
"Hopefully. But if you're sick later on today or tomorrow then I'm taking you to Dr. M."
I groaned. "I don't want to worry her though. She think that we have got our expiry date."
Last year Jeb had been able to fish though his old files and he found something that got rid of our expiry dates. Even though we all hate needles, we all had the jab thingy that he gave us. it had worked so far. And we all hoped that it would keep working.
"If she finds out that you've been throwing up without you telling her, then you'd be dead meat."
"Too true."
"I've gotta head out for work okay? You want me to take the day off so I can stay with you?"
"No. You go to work. I'll be fine. And before you say anything; I'll call you if I need something or I don't feel so good. Okay?"
Fang laughed. "You know me too well Max."
"Maybe it's the fact that we're married."
"True."
Fang kissed my forehead and pulled me down to see him out. Fang got a job not long after we were married. He hates being away from me but it was a good job and it paid well so the bills and stuff were taken care off. I was a TA. Teacher's assistant. I worked with a teacher called Miss Wood. We worked with year 2s. They're god damn adorable. She was around my age, 21, she had blond hair with brown highlights, bright, vibrant blue eyes that always had that look a three year old would have, and Nudge loved her whenever she came around for dinner, since she was quite fashionable.
I pulled my brown hair into a pony tail, pulled on my shoes, grabbed my bag and made my way to my school, St. Christopher's .Since I was crap at driving, I walked the short distance to the school. It was a warm summer's day and when I walk through the gates, some parents even come up to ask me if I had the wrong school! I just said no and told them that I worked there and walked off. I smiled and pulled my IPod out of my bag. I put the headphones and my ears and turned on Airplanes by B.o.B ft Hayley Williams. (ONE OF MY FAV SONGS EVER YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO IT!) By the time a few songs had passed, I was inside the school. I paused and pulled my headphones out of my ears.
"Boo!"
I near enough jumped out of my skin. "Amy! Don't do that!"
Any was Miss Wood's first name. She was still giggling her arse off when two girls from our class came running over to see what was happening.
"What's wrong with Miss Woody Auntie Max?" the kids were allowed to call me Max but they thought of me as an auntie so they called me Auntie Max and because of school rules they had to call Amy Miss Wood. But they all called her Miss Woody anyway.
"Nothing. She just likes scaring me, that's all she is laughing about Peter." Peter and Hugo were the two boys that came running up. They were inseparable, whenever we did partner work they would be at each other's side in an instant. But they worked well together; even I had to admit that.
"Okay." The two boys ran off to find their other friends. They are so damn adorable sometimes.
"Come on. I need you to help me set up something before the kids come in." Amy took my hand and pulled me towards the school entrance.
I sighed and followed her though the door to our classroom. She shoved some blankets and a basket in my hands.
"Go lay them out on the big field, at the top so the kids don't see."
"Sure, sure." I pulled the door open and went out to the field.
The kids were starting to say goodbye to their parents and start go line up, ready to be collected by their teacher. Pretty soon my class was the only one left. I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket. I pulled it out and answered the call.
"Hello?"
"Hey Maxy."
"Hey Amy, you want me to get the kids to the blanket?"
"You know me too well girl."
"Not really, you're just predictable."
"Hump..."
"Okay, I'll get them, see you in a few."
"Thanks! Cya."
I hung up and started my way down to the playground where the kids were still waiting. I got all the kids and took them up to the blanket. They were all murmuring excitingly, wondering why we were outside today. Two girls were boosting that it was their doing that we were outside; they said that they had told me and Amy that our lessons were boring and that we should do more stuff. That was not true. Our lessons were great to the other kids, we have story time everyday for the last hour of the day, and we watch a film once a week and onetime, and we even took them swimming for a month. Now tell me that you wouldn't like to do all that. Everyone plopped down on the blanket when we got to the edge of the field.
Amy soon joined us after some random singing, and sat her bum down next to me.
"Morning everyone!"
"Good morning Miss Woody." The class coursed.
I smiled. The first hours went very quickly, just talking about what everyone did at the weekend.
"What did you do Auntie Max?" Izzy, the sweetest little girl anyone has ever seen, raised her hand.
"I didn't do much actually. Well, if you count my mommy teaching me how to cook then that's what I did."
"Why did your mommy teach you to cook? I can cook. I was already taught."
"Alright Brittney, that's enough. All of you know that Auntie Max and her family are different, they have wings, and they saved the world! So please, I've witnessed her cooking, and let me tell you, it's pretty damn good stuff to me if she had to go days without food when she was busy saving the world."
"Sorry Miss Woody..." Brittney's head dropped and she looked at her toes.
A few classes were outside for their break now, so me and Amy cleared up the blanket and let the class skip off for their break.
The second class went by quickly too, just an easy maths lesson; FYI I'm still crap at maths.
I was just taking Izzy to the bathroom when I smelt the canteen. And good god the toilets were near. Even though I had skipped breakfast, I still hulled the contents of my stomach out.
"Auntie Max! What's wrong?" Izzy put her tiny hand on my shoulder. She reminded me of Angel when she was that small.
"Nothing sweetie. Do you think that you'll be okay by yourself? I need to call someone."
"I'll be fine."
"Okay."
I got up from the floor but my legs kept threatening to buck underneath me.
"Are you sure you're okay? Should I go get Miss Woody? She's in the lunch hall."
"Please."
Izzy let go of my hand and ran into the dinner hall. A few moments later, Amy was there, with Izzy and some of her little friends.
"Max! What happened? Do you want me to call Fang for you? I'm not letting you fly home like this. Or walk."
I smiled. She knew how stubborn I could get.
"Would you?" I dug my phone out of my pocket and handed her it. "His speed dial is 4."
"Okay. You girls go play, I'm sure Auntie Max is fine." She shooed the girls to the door and pressed send on my phone. "God, I want your phone... oh, hi Fang!"
A mumble came from the other side of the phone.
"Yes, Max is fine, but she's just been sick, do you want me to take her home?... okay... will do. Bye."
"Fang is on his way here, in the car obviously, he said that he's going to take you to the doctors and that he loves you."
I smiled. Yer, Fang was pretty overprotective but still, it just makes him seem even more sweet and loving; for him.
In around ten minutes Fang was here. He took my bag, stuffed it in the boot and opened my side's door. I was about o get in when near enough all of my year two's came running up and grabbed me in a hug. I laughed and hugged them all back. Izzy and all her friends said that I should get better soon otherwise they'd be over mine and Fang's house with presents and medication and all of that stuff. Fang smirked and got into the car. Once the kids had finally let me go, I climbed in the car.
"They really love you don't they?" Fang chuckled and looked at the road.
"You should see them on the last day of terms. I'm dreading what they'll be like with Amy on the last day of the summer term, but they'll be happy that I'm going to follow them all the way till year 6, they'll be sick of me by then I bet."
Fang smiled and pulled into the doctors. I sighed. They would probably want a blood sample.
We checked in and sat down. Pretty soon my name was called. Fang pulled me up, and dragged me off to the room that had been said.
And true to my word, they did take a blood sample. We warned them about the wings and bird blood so they wouldn't worry. A nurse came and took it off for testing. We were told that in around ten to fifteen minutes the results will be back.
Me and Fang just talked for a while before I was called back but to a different ward. We opened the door to see a doctor in a white coat sitting behind a desk.
We sat down on the two chairs in front of him and introduced ourselves.
"Now then, we did find something, but it's nothing that won't go away in nine months. Kids, you're going to have a baby."
FANG – POV
Max was pregnant, why does that just make her sound even scarier? We had talked about a family once before, but we never thought that we could have any children. Not with all the punches and experimenting and all that junk. I guess my little guys are more determined then we had thought...
The doctor left us to mull things over.
"What are we gonna do? Keep it or get rid of it?"
"I dunno. But just think. We've got a little baby in there." Max placed my hand on her stomach and I smiled. A little tiny life... my son or daughter. "And Fang, this could be our only chance of having a family of our own. And you know I hate killing the innocent."
"Yeah, shall we keep it?"
Max nodded her head, tears were brimming her eyes. I smiled and kissed her. I hugged her close and kept my hand on her stomach. A cough came from the door way.
"So what are you two going to do, by the looks on your faces it looks as if you've fallen in love with a little tiny baby?"
"Yeah, we want it." I looked at Max and hugged her closer.
"Okay, so, you're free to go tell your family. And congratulations." The doctor winked and opened the door to let us out.
"Thank you." Max looked at the doctor and smiled.
"You're very welcome." He closed the door after us after shaking our hands.
"We have to go tell everyone Fang! Please can we go now?"
I had never seen Max so excited about something so life changing, maybe with the exception of our wedding day.
"Of course we can."
"Thank you. But one condition, since I usually do all the talking for you, now you have to tell them all that we're having a baby. "
"Fine, but if the younger kids start asking where babies come from then you've got them to answer to."
"They've all had the reproductive stuff in school remember? So hah. They already know where babies come from. Oh, god, Iggy is sooooo gonna make fun."
I chuckled and opened the car door. "Well, he'll have us to answer to when he gets Ella pregnant."
"What?" max's voice was calm, but it her sound even more lethal.
"Max, before you think up anything major, they are not sleeping together, they know that if Ella got pregnant then Iggy would have his head ripped off his spine."
"Too true..."
I chuckled slightly and pulled in to Dr. M's drive way. Angel and Nudge were at the door as soon as they saw us pull up. They hugged us and pulled us inside the house. Some of Nudge's and Angel's friends from school were there too. Iggy and Ella were curled up on the loveseat, Dr. M was writing something up on her laptop, and when Nudge sat down next to Gazzy, he put his arm around her shoulders. All of the girl's friends awed at them. Nudge grinned and rested her head on Gazzy's shoulder before resuming to her friends chatter. This was the moment that Dr. M noticed us.
"Max, Fang, what are you too doing here? I thought that you'd still be at work Fang."
"Max was sick in the morning and at work so I took her to the doctors..." everyone quietened down when they heard me speak.
"Well, what did they say?" Ella looked up from then T.V and turned it off.
I wrapped my arms around Max's waist from behind tighter and thought of a way to tell them.
"Max is... No, Max and I, we're going to have a baby."
Gazzy pulled an EW face and the girls, even some of their friends, got up and hugged us both. I tried to not be too tense but you know what I'm like...
Dr. M hugged us and congratulated us before the timer went off in the kitchen. She was obviously preparing dinner since a yummy smell came wafting through the door. It wasn't such a yummy smell to Max though... she ran upstairs, probably to be sick again. But before I could go see if she was alright Dr. M grabbed my arm and pulled me into the kitchen.
"Now look Fang, over the next nine months Max is really going to need you. She's going to be very sensitive to smells so it's a good thing that we built a downstairs bathroom in your house, she's going to get massive cravings, and before you ask, yes the cravings are much worse than when Max gets her periods. When she gets heavily pregnant, and you can count on this happening, her back will kill, it hurts like hell. And a lot more. So Max will really need you, so look after her. I trust you with my baby girl Fang."
"I will Dr. M, thanks."
Max was just making her way downstairs when I was going up.
"Can we go home? I feel like crap and I just wanna go sleep." She buried her head in the crook of my neck and wrapped her arms around my waist.
"Of course we can, but don't you want something to eat first?" I kissed her hair and hugged her tiny body against mine.
Max shrugged and snuggled closer, if that were possible.
"AW! You two stay like that; I'm going to get a camera!" Nudge ran into the kitchen and looked around for her camera that she got last Christmas.
A flash came and Nudge squealed. Sometimes it's hard to believe that she's 19. I don't know how Gaz can handle it...
I sighed. "Come on; let's go home so you can get some sleep."
Max nodded and yawned. We said bye to everyone and climbed back into the car. Max nearly fell asleep on the ride back home. I smiled and parked the car. I opened Max's door and carried her out. I locked the car and opened the front door and made my way to our bedroom. I pulled back the covers and set her down, after pulling the covers up to keep Max warm, I made my way downstairs to make some dinner. I made enough for the both of us in case Max woke up and wanted anything to eat.
By ten o'clock Max still wasn't awake. I made my way up to our bedroom to find her half covered by the sheets and curled up in a little ball. I felt a smile creep over my face at the sight of her. I changed and climbed into bed next to Max. She had tossed and turned a few times so by now she was facing me. Chuckling slightly, I wrapped my black wings around her and snaked my arms around her tiny waist. She relaxed at my touch. I yawned, closed my and a few moments later I slipped into a dreamless sleep.
(IM GONNA HAVE A TIME SKIP SO MAX IS 7 MONTHS ALONG 'KAY!
ON WITH THE STORY!)
MAX – POV
I'm a freaking balloon! Pregnancy is one tuff thing... I wish that you could just get pregnant one day, then have the baby the next day. But no! You have to go through nine freaking months of it!
I was now on maternity leave from work and Fang got to come home early to look after me. :D Last week we found out that the baby was a boy.
We had decided on the name Brandon John Ride. He was due on the 10th of December.
My back is killing me; I have sooooo many cravings – much worse than my periods – and a lotmore.
I feel really sorry for Fang. He hardly gets any sleep anymore :/. A few times he's come home early because he was too tired to carry on. He works as a P.E teacher so he was quite active everyday so that made him even more tired. It doesn't help that he is the cross-country trainer so he has to run with them as well.
Amy sometimes comes round during her lunch. Nudge, Angel, Ella and Gazzy come round every day after school. Iggy stays with me during the day so I don't burn down the house. I'm still a crap cook. But I'm working on it, with the help of mom.
The next two months went by really fast. Fang was finally allowed to stay off work so he could stay with me if I went into labour or something else happens. The baby was over due by ten days so far. Angel can pick up random little thoughts from him too. I think that's really sweet.
Ella seems to think that he'll be born on Christmas. How weird would that be? Merry Christmas everyone! And Happy Birthday Brandon! I smiled at the thought. Fang was making some finishing touches to the tree we had put up in the living room. I looked around for the Silver Star that we put on top of the tree every year.
"Looking for this?" Fang placed the star in my lap.
"Yeah, thanks." I got up and stood on my tippy toes so I could reach the top of the tree.
I balanced it on top of the tree and stood back. It looked great. The star was special to us. The kids had made it for us on our first Christmas being married. I smiled and looked at Fang. He smiled back and wrapped his arms around me. The fire behind us crackled merrily reminding us that Christmas was nearly here. We had cards up, one from Amy and her new boyfriend, Damien, my old class, JJ, mom, Jeb, the flock, Ella, some of the teachers from my school and from Fang's.
It was five days before Christmas and since I was late I had to go to the hospital everyday for check-ups. Nothing was wrong, the doctor just wanted to check how he was developing.
Me and Fang were going round to mom's house for Christmas, so we're going to open our presents to each other here, then go over to mom's place so the others could give us there presents and we could give them theirs.
I looked at the clock on the wall. It was ten at night. I yawned and gave Fang a kiss then made my way to bed. I was already in my so I didn't need to get changed. I kicked out of my slippers and climbed into bed. Fang soon joined me. He wrapped he wings around me and rubbed between my wings, helping me slip into unconsciousness.
I woke up the next day to find Fang still asleep, snoring softly. I smiled and managed to slip out of his grasp. I would let him sleep. He needed it. I walked over to the bathroom and brushed my teeth, I pulled my messy brown hair into a ponytail after brushing it out. I made my way down to the kitchen to find Iggy already there, making breakfast.
"Hey Iggy."
"Hey Max, you okay? Fang still asleep?"
"Yeah he is; he needs it. And I'm fine."
"'Kay. Go sit down, I've nearly finished making breakfast."
"Thanks Ig."
Around two hours later Fang finally emerged. "Mornin'"
"Hey Fang."Iggy started flipping some more pancakes for Fang.
"Hey. Feeling better after around twelve hours of sleep?" I got up with a little difficulty and kissed his cheek.
"Twelve hours? Only felt like two minutes."
I laughed and sat down again. Fang sat down next to me. His hair was still a mess and had grown really long.
"You seriously need your hair cut again." I said, fingering a stray bit of hair.
"I know. It's getting a handful." Fang rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and lay his head back.
I got up and grabbed the phone. "Hey Ig, will the girls be up yet?"
"Should be. Dr. M wakes everyone up at nine."
"'Kay, thanks." I dialled the house number and Nudge soon answered.
"Hello?"
"Hey Nudge."
"Oh hey Max? What's up? OMG you haven't gone into labour have you?"
"Nudge, relax. I haven't gone into labour just yet. You and the girls got anything planned for today?"
"No ,why?"
"Just wondered if you guys wanted to come over to cut Fang's hair for him? It's getting seriously long."
"Sure we will! See you in ten!"
She didn't even give me time to say bye, she just hung up. Doesn't anyone say bye anymore?
True to her word, Nudge, Angel, Ella, Gazzy, mom and Jeb – who had gotten together not long ago – were soon over. Jeb and mom kept me company while the girls cut Fang's hair – Fang was still quite tired so he didn't know what was happening until it was too late – and Gazzy was talking to Iggy.
Around two hours later, the girls were done. They had cut it the same style he had it in New York when we got our make-over. It looked a lot better.
The flock, mom, Jeb and Ella stayed until dinner then went home after having a yummy dinner made by Iggy.
Pretty soon it was Christmas Eve. Just before we went to bed, Fang and I put our presents to each other under the tree. I looked out the window to find a few snowflakes falling from the sky. Looks like it'll be a white Christmas!
I woke up quite early the next day.
"Merry Christmas Max."
I looked up and met Fang's warm, black eyes. They were sparkling with emotion that he only really showed on holidays and with me.
"Merry Christmas Fang."
He smiled and leaned down. Our lips met and moved in sync. When we broke off I laid my forehead against his. "I love you."
"Love you too Max." Fang pecked my lips once more then got untangled from me and got dressed.
He did his morning routine, and then came to help me with getting on clean clothes. Another down side to being pregnant; you have to get help getting dressed. I did my morning routine then went downstairs with Fang.
Our presents were underneath the tree, just how they were last night. We sat down on the floor and opened our presents. I had gotten Fang the book series that I had written of our adventures that I wouldn't let anyone read, and a picture frame that I had decorated myself with a picture of us on our wedding day in it. I had made up the sixth book. And unless you've read it you won't know what happens in it. The other five books were complete truth.
Fang had gotten me a bracelet with my name inscribed in it with fancy script, a camera and a photo album that had the same pictures as my locket in it with blank pages so we could add more.
Soon it was time to go over to mom's house. We had breakfast then went to the door. When I opened it, I was blinded for a second. Everything was white. There was a thick layer of snow. I closed the door again and pulled of my shoes and replaced them with my wellies. Fang did the same.
We were rushed inside when we got to mom's house. As soon as we had taken off our coats and wellies the kids pulled us inside the living room. They all sat next to a pile of presents that I assumed were theirs. Two more piles were sat on the sofa. Mom said that they were ours and let us sit down. She sat next to Ella on the floor and Iggy sat down next to Gazzy.
We all opened our presents at the same time. Angel and nudge had gotten me clothes and even some adorable little baby clothes too. Gazzy and Iggy had gotten me a kid's cookbook. Mom had gotten me a book called Hush, Hush. Jeb – who I was trying to call dad – had gotten me a picture frame of me and the flock, back when we lived at the E shaped house. Ella had made me candle in school that she had very carefully carved.
I had gotten Angel a 3 ft teddy bear, I got Nudge Avatar on DVD, Gazzy, a big bag of sweets – and I mean big – Iggy, a cookbook with lots of recipes in it, Ella, a 100 hundred dallors gift card for her favourite shops, mom, a new laptop since hers got a virus on it, J-dad, a picture frame of him and Ari that he left at the E-shaped house. And to top all of their gifts off, I gave them all the books I had written to stop them complaining that they wanted to read them.
We stayed for Christmas dinner and planned on staying over in our old room since it had started snowing again. Everyone loved that we were staying over. Except when this happened. My water broke.
MAX – POV
Shit, shit, shit. Crap, crap, crap! Why does the baby have to come now? On Christmas!
"Max? What's wrong?"
My head snapped up to look at Iggy, his eyes were wary, scared almost. Everyone was putting their presents in their rooms and Fang was outside, putting our stuff in the car and taking our night stuff up to our old room.
"Get Fang, now."
Iggy's eyes widened and he ran out of the room. A few seconds later he reappeared with Fang at his side.
"Max! What wrong? Oh shit. Is the baby coming?"
I nodded and whimpered.
"Crap. Iggy round everyone up and get to the hospital."
"Hospital; what's happened?" Angel came trotting in; wearing the new jumper dad had gotten her.
"The baby's coming sweetie; can you go get Max's bag it's on our bed?"
Angel said nothing. Just ran out of the room and up the stairs shouting "The baby's coming! Get your lazy butts outside and into the car! NOW PEOPLE!"
I forced a smile to cross my face. Iggy had gotten my coat and a pair of spare shoes I had kept here. Fang pulled on his wellies and his coat then helped me get on my coat and shoes.
He carried me outside to the car, jumped in the driver's side and started the engine. We set off for the hospital. It took around ten minutes to get there because of the snow on the roads. The others parked next to us. I gathered all of my strength to walk since I didn't like being carried. Angel ran inside the hospital. Probably to tell someone that I had gone into labour.
ANGEL – POV
I ran inside the hospital, inwardly cringing at the smell, and pushed in front of the person that was talking to the nurse person.
"Can you help me? My big sister's baby wants out." I looked at the nurse with my Bambi eyes.
Another nurse heard me so she got a wheelchair for Max, just in time since the others came through the door. Fang checked Max in and told the doctor who had been doing the scan things. A plump, nice looking lady soon emerged through the door to Max's room. Her name tag said that she was called Mandy Voutire.
She did these weird check things. "Okay Max. Let's get you to the Maternity Ward."
She took the brakes off Max's bed and got some nurses to help her push the bed. Fang took my hand, rubbing soothing circles in the back of my hand. "She'll be okay sweetie."
"I know."
He smiled and carried on following the doctor. We were taken to a bigger room, the walls were painted a baby pink – appropriate – and had a big bathroom attached to it. I let go of Fang's hand and made my way to the bathroom. I looked at my face and I looked horrible. I sighed. Pulling my bobble off my wrist I tied up my messy curls. I washed my face and tried to get some light back into my eyes. I was scared for Max. In reproduction class my teacher had said that giving birth really hurt. I didn't want Max to be in pain.
When I came back out of the bathroom –which turned out to be soundproof – Max and Fang were gone. Jeb was there, waiting for me, his eyes troubled and scared.
"Where Max and Fang gone?"
"Uh, you've had reproduction class haven't you?"
I nodded.
"Well, you know the cord that connects the baby to the mother?"
I nodded again.
"Sometimes it can get wrapped around the baby's neck. And that's what's happened to little Brandon. The doctors have taken Max for a C-section. Ella and Fang were allowed in the operating room but the rest of us weren't."
My eyes widened and they began to fill with tears. "What's going to happen to Brandon?" my voice was small and scared.
"We don't know hunny." He took my hand and pulled me to the waiting room where the others were.
ELLA – POV
"Okay, so the baby's out, but the umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck really tight so he's in intensive care. He should make it but no-one can be sure."
Everyone listened to me as I told them the news. I sat down next to Iggy and he draped his arm over my shoulders. I sighed. I really hope that Brandon would be okay.
FANG – POV
I was walking, my face blank. The picture of Max under the knife, still conscious, burned my memory forever.
Finally the waiting room door came into view. I pushed it opened with one hand, the other holding Brandon securely in place, his bright black eyes looking up at me in wonder. I looked down at him and smiled. I heard gasps but ignored them.
"Everyone, I'd like you to met Brandon John Ride. I'm a daddy!"
I looked up and everyone crowded in around me. Iggy whopped and punched the air, shouting "I'm an uncle! YEE-HAW!"
I laughed and passed Brandon onto Dr. M.
"Fang, does Brandon have wings?" Angel tugged on my sleeve that was still damp from wiping the sweat off Max's forehead.
"Yeah he does. They're white at the top, then fade into brown then turns into black."
"Aw. Can I teach him how to fly with you and Max?"
"Everyone can help us sweetie."
"Thanks. Can we go see Max now?"
"'Course we can. Hey guys, come on, I bet Max wants to see you guys again. She was really freaked. And before ask she's fine now."
Fang led us over to Max's room and sat down on the soft chair next to her bed. Max took Brandon back from Nudge when he started to try and eat her hair. I smiled. I got to hold him too. He is sooooo cute! Big black eyes, skin the same colour as Max's and I think that he'll have Fang's hair too.
Max told me to let Iggy hold him and I passed Brandon over to Iggy. I heard Iggy think that he was sooooo glad that he had somehow gotten his back and that he hoped that he and Ella could have a family one day too. I smiled as he handed Brandon back to Max. But as soon as Iggy slipped Brandon back into Max's arms he started crying. Max tried to sooth him but he just held out his tiny arms as if he was trying to get back to Iggy.
And guess what happened as soon as he was back in Iggy's arms? He stopped crying and fell asleep. My jaw literally hit the floor.
"What can I say? He loves me." Iggy shrugged and chuckled.
MAX – POV
Brandon and I were allowed to go home the next day after the doctors had checked him over one more time. Fang was always acting like I was pregnant all over again! It was quite sweet of him though. And since Brandon had wings he kept unravelling them and hitting us in the face; then he would giggle, of course. But he was a lot of hard work. He had both of us up and god knows what time in the morning crying for food, new diaper ect...
1 year later
MAX – POV
Banging from outside woke me up. I yawned and threw the covers off my hot body. Brandon was sitting on my legs, looking at me with a big smile on his baby face. I looked over at Fang – to find an empty space.
"Mommy!"
"Hey baby, can you get off Mommy's legs for me?"
He shook his head but he moved anyway. I shook my head and rolled my eyes. I picked Brandon up off the bed and walked over to the window – to find Fang, Iggy, dad and Gazzy in the big oak tree in our garden. The sun was boiling so all four of them had their tops off. Shaking my head again, I grabbed my dressing gown and climbed down the stairs with Brandon on my hip, happily sucking his thumb.
I opened the back door and walked outside. Nudge, Angel, mom and Ella were lying on their stomachs, all crowded around a bit of paper, each of them adding something after telling each other.
"What are you lot up to?" I sat down on the grass next to Ella and mom.
"Hasn't Fang told you? We're building a big tree house for Brandon and any other kids you have for when they're older!" Ella took Brandon off my hip and started playing with him; once again he giggled his little head off.
Brandon's big black eyes stared up at Fang who was busy up in the tree. "Dada."
"He wants Fang." Angel never looked up; just carried on designing what looked like the inside of the tree house.
I stood up and replaced Brandon on my hip and walked over to the oak tree.
"Hey Max!" Iggy looked down at me and Brandon; resulting him falling out of the tree.
And once again, Brandon giggled his little head off; his black floppy hair falling into his eyes. I rolled my eyes. Ever since Iggy had gotten his sight back after we saved the world he has been getting even more immature every day.
"You finally up Max? Or was it Brandon's doing?" Fang had jumped down from the tree after laughing at Iggy for around five minutes.
"You're doing actually. The banging woke me up. And how come you never told me about this?"
Fang took Brandon off my hip and placed him on his shoulders so Brandon could mess about with his hair; one of Brandon's annoying but cute habits. "Wanted it to be a surprise. You don't mind do you?"
"No! It'll keep him out of our hair when he's older and having mood swings."
Fang smiled and shook his head to stop even more hair falling into his eyes and mouth. "Little monkey."
"You guys need any help? And before you say anything, I mean passing you stuff from the ground so you don't have to keep getting down all the time."
"Yeah, sure but I think Brandon's gonna keep you busy enough as it is and you'll need something to eat soon."
"True. I'm gonna go have something to eat, has Brandon had anything yet?"
"Yeah, your mom feed him when they got here."
"Kay. Back soon. Love you." I took Brandon from Fang's shoulders and pecked Fang's lips.
"You too."
By the end of the day we managed to get the tree house built and tomorrow we're going shopping for the paint and the furnishings to put on the inside. Just great.
