You'll have to forgive me for not being able to write in awhile. I am dealing with a lot right now and will try my best to write new chapters ASAP!

Pinches from needles poke Angel all over her body. She winces as each needle enters her. A cold liquid flows from the needles and into Angel.

"Stop moving." Someone hisses from next to Angel. It wasn't the girl from before.

"You can't blame her for moving. What if that was you, strapped down and being poked with hundreds of needles?" Another person says harshly.

"W-w-what are you doing to me?" Angel whispers, moving her head from side to side.

"We're enhancing you." The second voice says.

"Enhancing? H-h-how?" Angel couldn't see the people's faces in the dark. She thought her blindfold was off- but maybe not.

"We're making you superior to anything and everything on this planet." Second voice says proudly.

"Blah blah, superior. It should have been us to become superior." The first voice mumbles.

"Shut up, will you?" Second voice argues. They were giving Angel a headache.

"Now, now, do all of you have to fight? Don't make me hurt you both." The girl from earlier's voice says. A blinding light suddenly forces Angel's eyes to close.

"OW! Damn it." The first voice hisses. Angel blinks, adjusting to the light. She sees three people in front of her. Two girls and a girly-looking guy.

The first girl wore a- wait, no freaking duh- white coat and had long black hair. Angel knew this woman. How could she not? She had been living at her house for awhile now.

"Dr. Martinez?" Angel croaks. Dr. M gives a small smile and nods. Angel wasn't surprised by this. She looked over to the two other people. The first one was the other girl. She wore, also, a white coat and had long black hair tucked in a braid on her back.

"Her aura is not surprised by this." The girl says, turning to Dr. M. "She seems to have seen it coming."

Angel shakes her head at the girl, who was the second voice. Was she enhanced too? She could see people's auras?

The last person in the room was also recognizable. Angel had seen him in Japan with the Sohmas. What was his name? Hatsuharu?

"I don't even know why the hell I'm here." Haru complains. "I got kidnapped in my sleep, and now I'm here."

"It's because, you're very interesting." Dr. M says. "You can turn into a cow, when a regular girl hugs you!"

"I told you already. It's a curse." Haru points out, folding his arms.

"Why are they working for you?" Angel asks, her words barely audible.

"Oh, Angel. Shh, shh. Be quiet now. It's better for you not to talk." Dr. M stands by Angel's bed and watches her with a small smile on her face.

"But I thought the Sohmas were good guys!" Angel shakes her head again.

"They are, I assure you. We've just… convinced Haru and Saki to help us." Dr. M's smile widens.

"Have they convinced you, too? Or are you really evil?" Angel tries and sits up.

"Jeb is a very kind man." Dr. M nods and heads for the door.

"Jeb!" Angel exclaims, now flailing about.

"Make sure she doesn't leave." Dr. M frowns and then goes out the door.

Max! Watch out! Jeb is evil (again) and Haru Sohma and Dr. M have been brainwashed into being whitecoats! I'm in trouble! Please help!

…...

My head starts to burn and I come to my knees, hitting the pavement hard. It was like someone was trying to get inside my head, and I only knew of one little girl who could do that. But it was easy for her to get it. She just simply did. So this was not my little Angel. This was something else.

"Max? Are you okay?" Dylan asks, kneeling next to me. Fang glares at him.

"If I'm hunched over, trying not to explode, than yes. I'm definitely okay." I hiss, leaning up. "I have a headache."

"Is it the voice?" Fang asks.

"No. It's like… Someone else is trying to get inside my head."

"ANGEL!" Nudge almost tackles me. "It's Angel, isn't it?"

"She can easily get inside my head. It can't be her." My headache had seized by this time. I stand up, leaving Dylan on the ground.

"Let's continue looking, than." Iggy says. I hadn't even realized him and Gazzy were listening.

…...

"Great. You got us lost." Yuki says, sitting down on the muddy ground.

"I did not!" Kyo complains. "You're the one who couldn't figure out Max's handwriting!"

"Her handwriting doesn't explain how we ended up in California." Yuki says, calmly. He had given the map to Kyo since Kyo insisted that he knew how to get to Arizona better.

"Well it's not my fault that I've never been to America, never-the-less Arizona!" Kyo throws down the map and mud splatters all over it.

"Ah!" Tohru leans down and starts to wipe off the map.

"Oh leave it, Tohru. There's no point. Yuki got us lost." Kyo hisses in Yuki's direction.

"I did not get us lost. You insisted that you knew the way." Yuki stands up and picks up the map from the mud. "Let's just go back and find Max."

"Do we know the way back?" Tohru asks, standing also.

"We can figure it out, I'm sure." Yuki smiles and then squints his eyes to see something that appeared far off. "What's that?"

"Hello, Yuki, Tohru, Kyo-Kun." Says a too recognizable voice.

"Shigure!" Tohru screams.

"Oh god." Yuki and Kyo say together.

Hope you've enjoyed the new chapter! Please R & R for the next one! I hope to have it soon!