A/N: Thanks LarkaTheWhiteWolf and EliseInWonderland for reviewing, tried to update it as fast as I could, so thanks for reading. FOURTH OF JULY! Whoo-hoo! I saw a parade, the horsey's were in it.8D Oh, and right before I posted this, Lilypad22 gave me a review, so thanks to you to. I hope you stayed on so you could read the next chapter right away. Thanks!

~2XA

Chapter 6: The Girl in the Mirror

EM POV

I was looking at her again. The wavy brown hair that fell to her shoulders, the dark brown eyes with the scarcest hint of amber in them, she was what Iggy had been in love with before. I touched my hand to the cold glass where her hair reflected back at me. She looked like she had before now, and soon, they would come to the same conclusion I had.

I had to be Ella Martinez.

Something inside of me still wished that it wasn't true. That in fact, I was just bloating up my ego and wishing I was a real girl, like that Pinnochio guy I heard about from Angel. Angel. I knew that Angel knew, or at least, she thought about it. Whether or not she acknowledged it was another factor. I believe she would soon. I pulled back my-Ella's, hair. I took the red hair band and wrapped it up in Ella's hair quickly. It was messy, simple, and probably unflattering. At the moment I didn't care. I looked at the rest of me…or Ella…or whatever. With a sigh, I walked out of the bathroom into the room that all of us, Max, Angel, Nudge, and I, were sharing in Dr. M's house. We had arrived at Dr. M's house the day before, and everything since then had been a little chaotic. When I first met Dr. M, she fainted.

"Mom?" Max had jumped to her mother's side, slapping her face gently. "Somebody get me some water, I need something to pour on her face." Nudge instantly disappeared around a corner that I assumed was leading to the kitchen.

"What a rude awakening," Iggy muttered, leaning against the wall beside the front door. I stood right in front of the fallen mother, hand still outstretched, eyes wide, and fully shocked. I don't know for sure, but I believe that when you meet someone new, they don't just faint.

"Here Max," Nudge came back with a cup of water. She handed it to Max, and Max took it. It only took a moment to have Max's mother sputtering and freaking out as she woke up to water in her face.

"Oh my gosh, Ella!" Dr. M woke up screaming. It was then that the facts were thrown into my face.

I had to be Ella Martinez.

The fact would never get out of my head. I shook myself and quietly exited the empty room. I could tell where Angel was. She was outside in the backyard, laughing with Nudge and Gazzy at Total trying to do a few tricks. I walked through the hallway, and instantly I heard the voice of Max, Iggy, and Dr. M as they spoke about her earlier fall.

"Mom you don't really believe that Em is…Ella, do you?"

"Yes she has to be! She can't not be my Ella. Haven't you seen the resemblance? Can't you tell? Max, tell me you see it? Iggy? Please?" Her voice was desperate as she pleaded. I waited for Iggy's response.

"I see it…Your Mom's right, she could be Ella." Iggy's voice was cold and emotionless. I decided intruding on his thoughts just this once wouldn't hurt too much. I got through without much effort.

She's got to be Ella….I should've known. It was so freaking obvious. I feel so stupid. Why wouldn't she be Ella? There was nothing saying that she wasn't….Gosh why didn't I figure this out sooner…does she even know?

I know Iggy, I know…I thought silently. I kept moving towards the yard. When I reached the door, I found Angel, Nudge, Gazzy, and Total doing cartwheels (Well Total was trying). Angel suddenly popped up, her curls flying upwards with her.

"Em!" She cheered, half-running, half-flying at me. Her white wings were out, so she looked extremely angelic now. I tried not to point out that I could be Ella.

"Hey, I need to talk to you." I said to her, under my breath as she hugged me. Her grip tightened.

"Let's talk about those sorts of things later," Angel muttered, forcing a grin on her face as she pulled away. "No need to bring that up just yet." She grabbed my hand and dragged me towards the center of the grass.

"Try a cartwheel! Like this," Nudge said, cartwheeling swiftly in a circle around Gazzy. Gazzy laughed, but suddenly, his face twisted into a grimace. Nudge sprawled across the ground in an effort to get away from him. She rolled towards Angel and Me, coughing and spitting like a venomous spider. "Ah Gazzy! Gross."

"I'm…sorry…" Gazzy said, having to cover up his own nose. The smell hit Angel and I at the same time. Our hands flew to our faces, although I was the first to run inside and close the clear door behind me. It snapped shut with a resounding click. Angel and Nudge beat on the glass, but they couldn't escape the gas and I wouldn't let the gas in. I heard a cough behind me, and I looked, locking eyes with Iggy. He had a small, sad smirk on his face and amusement in his eyes. I nodded him, leaning against the glass behind me.

"Sup," I nodded at him with an awkward smile. He leaned forward, his hand next to my head as he got closer.

"Hey," His voice was soft. I could hear my breathing speed up, and hear my heart beat. "We really need to talk." You too? See Angel, everyone wants to talk about it now that it's out there. I thought even in the awkward situation.

"LET US IN!" I heard Nudge yell behind me.

"Yes, after I let them in, sure, why not?" I said, forcing myself to sound cheerful. I opened the door up to let Nudge, Angel, Gazzy, and Total escape the smell and they rushed in. Quickly, I shut the door after them. Nudge, Gazzy, and Total raced off towards the kitchen, calling out for lunch. Angel stood by me, not even acknowledging the position Iggy and I were in.

"Come with me, Max wants you to talk with her Mom too. She said something about a 'mother's intuition'? Some girly stuff like that." Iggy motioned towards the living room, backing away from me as I let out a sigh I hadn't realized I'd been holding. I followed him cautiously.

"I'm coming too!" Angel announced, prancing behind me like an excited puppy. I'm sure she was excited…I couldn't imagine why not. She'd get to mouth off at Max about how she was right that I wasn't a spy. If she was right…

"Whatever," Iggy said, rolling his unseeing eyes with a smile. "Just hurry this way." He led us towards the entrance to the living room, and my eyes fell on Max and Dr. M drinking some tea. Dr. M's cup was shaking and shivering, and she looked around anxiously. When she saw me, she almost shattered the cup as she placed it down on the counter. She stood up, eyes wide as she pointed towards me.

"Ella!" She said quietly. "You…you have to be Ella…" I looked from Iggy, to Angel, to Max, and back again, avoiding Dr. M's pleading glare.

"Um…I…don't…Um…" I looked to Angel for help, but she shrugged lazily with no expression in her eyes. Dang it Angel! I looked back to Dr. M, who was still staring at me with hope in her eyes. "Maybe?"

"Yes! I told you she is!" Dr. M said, bouncing up and down like a child, or a Nudge.

"Mom…no offense, but how did that prove she was Ella?" Max asked confusedly. Dr. M stopped her jumping to glare at her daughter. She suddenly looked deflated, as if someone had sat on her and all the hope and possibility flew right out of her. Max looked just as upset. Did Max want me to be Ella? I wasn't Ella! Ella Martinez didn't have wings. I have wings, big wings that flap and make me fly! Ella had normal brown eyes, I don't. I have red, piercing ones. I have scary vampire teeth and everything! Gosh dang it who actually wanted me to be me? Even my hair was darker then the brown hair that Ella had in all her pictures. We resembled each other in facial structure, but not much else. I know for a fact I was paler.

"I…I'm so sorry…I just want my Ella back and…Max," Dr. M turned around and clung to her other daughter, who stood there awkwardly, not really sure how to return the hug. Finally she wrapped her arms weakly around her mom and patted her back with a simple and confused shhh. I just stared, because I knew that I might be Max's sister. Max's little sister that Max was apparently close to. I felt a hand on my back that made me jump. I spun around to come face to face with Iggy.

"Later tonight…come to my room…Okay?" He asked, tilting his head as he whispered. "I want to see something…"

"Um…I-"

"SHE'S ELLA? OH MY GOSH!" Nudge said, her voice erupting from the Hallway. I heard Gazzy try to shush her and failing badly. "What? What Gazzy? Stop shushing me!"

"Nudge…Gazzy?" Max had separated herself from her mother and was now standing next to Angel who was watching Gazzy and Nudge with barely any interest, studying her nails closer than she was watching them.

"Sorry…" Nudge said, giving everyone a guilty smile and spreading her hands out in a "what?" shrug. Max did a face palm while Gazzy struggled not too laugh

"She is Ella Nudge, don't you think so? You and Ella were so close, you'd know." Dr. M offered, looking at Nudge with what seemed like all the hope she had left.

"….Uh…she could be….she's got…Ella-like qualities?" Nudge barely got the words out before I was tackled by Dr. M, hugging me and kissing me as if her life depended on it.

"Oh my baby! I'm so glad you're back! We don't have to talk about what happened there okay? It's okay! We won't even mention it! You never even left!" She squeezed me tighter and I knew that she wasn't going to even dream of letting me go. I just stood there and let her hug and shake and kiss me because I couldn't do really much else. I heard Iggy laughing and I assumed that it was because he had figured out what had happened. Max had started trying to separate us, but Dr. M had pulled her into the hug too.

"Ouch…" Max said as the both of us bumped heads. I shook mine to try and get rid of the buzzing. It didn't really do much but aggravate it more. Great. After a while, both of us escaped and Dr. M went off to make lemon cookies because apparently, those were 'my' favorites. I don't remember lemon cookies at all…that means I'm not Ella, right? I sighed with the effort of lying to myself. It's some really hard stuff. I don't know how people do this all their life!

"Come on drama queen," Angel said, giggling as she grabbed my hand and dragged me off towards our room. "Nudge and I have to get you ready for later, for your date with Iggy."

"Date with Iggy? I didn't know about a date with Iggy." She started down the hall and I looked at her in confusion as she spoke. What date? You mean I have to worry about being with Iggy and being Ella?

"I know, neither does Iggy, he really means business about tonight, but we're going to change that plan."

IGGY POV

I was waiting for Ella- er I mean Em- in Gazzy's and my room. I had been going between names all day, trying to decide what to call her. The thing I'd decided is Em, because that was safe. I had realized a few hours ago that the E and M at the end and beginning of her numbers stood for Ella Martinez. No wonder. Everything pointed to her being Ella, although Max would rather believe she was just another copy. I didn't know where I stood. I mean, she could be the girl I was already so desperately in love with and believed was my ultimate soul-mate, or she could be the other girl so completely similar that she also seemed to be my love too. I hate confusion. I wondered if Em- got it right that time…ha!- would actually be coming to my room like I asked. I wanted to show her something, and ask her a question, and ask her to let me see her…you know…mind bending powers yay. I'd always wanted to see Ella before, but I never got to see her completely. Just barely, the face image I imagined. I had an Em image to, but I had never gotten the gist of it enough to compare Ella and Em. Oh yeah, that thing when we were flying here where Em was speaking to those monster things that were going to take us and probably kill us. She saved us because of where she was from. It had to be that. Everything screamed that. I kept my face forward, even when I heard the door creak open very softly. I could smell the scarcest scent of blood and roses. It had become less of a disgusting smell, and more roses versus blood. It was almost nice…minus the blood smell. Em made her way silently over too me, her steps light and nearly inaudible. I loved the way she stepped, so quietly yet so determined.

"Hey Iggy," She said, her hand trailing onto my arm as if it proved she was there. "What's up?"

"He Em, I just wanted to talk to you is that cool?"

"Sure," She said, and then muttered something like, "Angel and Nudge blow everything out of proportion". I imagined that they had. I gave her a smile.

"Everything's getting so weird huh?"

"You mean because I could, just potentially, be Ella?" Em said, her voice sounding muffled, I assumed she was probably looking away.

"Yeah, because of that," I responded.

"Oh, yep, it's really weird. Max's mom is driving me crazy with the Lemon Cookies, they're kind of good I guess." Em said, and I heard her sit beside me on my bed. She bounced with its motion, and I heard her sigh.

"It's…bothering you a lot huh?"

"Yeah. I feel like no one wants me. They want Ella. And maybe I am Ella, and I just don't know it, but I don't feel like Ella. I feel like me. Maybe I'm both. Maybe Ella went there, something happened, and then she was me…so we're both." Em rattled off, probably just speaking her thoughts out loud.

"I want you." I said suddenly. Oops…that wasn't even supposed to be a thought. I think I blushed because I felt the heat rush to my cheeks. Great…what was she thinking now?

"I'm thinking that I'm glad," Em's voice was soft and I felt her press closer against me, leaning her head on my shoulder. "That someone I want, wants me too…" She said, and I felt her grin slightly against my shoulder. I smiled back. Then I heard something else. A knock on the door.

"Iggy, Em, we have a problem." Angel said through the door. Can't the problem wait till later? I have to show her something! "And it can't wait till later." Stupid mind reader.

"What?" Em asked, popping up and off of my shoulder, her warmth gone from next to mine. I sighed, but stood up, turning to where I thought Angel's voice was coming from.

"…What?"

"We have a sort of…visitor…" Angel said, and she must've motioned for us to come, because Em grabbed my hand, lacing her fingers with mine, and pulled me out of the room.

"Who?" I asked, hearing the extra voice. It was low, deep, and calm. I would know that voice anywhere.

Jeb. Why the heck was Jeb Batchelder in this house?

EM POV

When we walked into the room, I noticed the man standing around the kitchen table with Max, Nudge, Gazzy, and Dr. M. The man had this familiar evil glint to him, and it made me freeze for a second, only to continue because Angel had my hand. She squeezed, and when I looked at her, I saw that her eyes were narrowed into slits. Angel didn't like this man. I looked back at him, studying him. It suddenly hit me where he'd come from…where I remembered him from. My eyes widened, and when he saw me, his eyes lit up with a sort of disturbed pride that made me stumble. Iggy put his hands on my shoulders to steady me, but I had already regained my balance. I didn't like the way this man was looking at me. I didn't like the horrifying memories that he gave me either.

"What are you going to do to me?"

The fearful question that Ella must've- I must've- said rang in my ears.

"What are you doing here?" I asked, noticing the venom in my voice and not wavering at the shock that shined in the rest of the flocks eyes.

"I'm Max's father, I came to visit her and her friends. I never expected you to be here. You finding your way here…that was unexpected." Jeb took a step closer and I clenched my fists, readying myself for an attack I had no idea how to do.

"Well, just because you program me doesn't mean I can't break it," I snapped back, unexpectedly, because although the words seemed familiar, I don't remember saying them. The anger that shined back at me from Jeb's eyes made more memories come back.

"I will always find them you know. I'll get back to Max and tell her exactly what you're doing." Ella's voice was quiet, and it was obvious she was in pain. Yet I could still hear the determination in it.

"Not if we program you not to," Jeb's voice answered back smartly, but Ella only laughed hoarsely.

"Look how well programing worked out for Max." Then I heard her scream… I jumped, glad that the memories were only audio and not video. I glared at Jeb. He must've tried to torture her until she listened to him. Did she fail? She couldn't of failed! Gosh I hope she didn't fail!

"Well," Jeb said, grimacing. "You are her. I guess I'll just have to try again."

"What do you mean?" I asked, trying to keep the anger out of my voice. It must not of worked because Angel was giving me thumbs up.

"Well…I guess I'll just have to re-program you all over again," Jeb shook his head. "Trouble, we thought when you'd fainted, it had worked the first time."

"What do you mean?" I repeated. "You tried to program me?"

"Yes. We tried. It didn't work however because you were so stubborn." Annoyance dripped from every word. He looked at me again and all of it faded away. "But don't worry, without your memory you shouldn't have any reason to stay here. I'll just start over."

I could hear my heartbeat echo in the silence as Jeb laughed and spoke one last line before havoc erupted.

"We can just go back to the School."

A/N: Well…there you go. 8D Hoped you liked it. I made Em finally transition into as human and teenager as she can get. She thinks like one, and speaks like a normal Flock kid now. Yeah, I think I still have a couple surprises left….maybe. Well, thanks for reading, and review for next chapter!

~2XA