Glimpses of… things
I was right, that bathing suit was perfect for her, she looked so beautiful in it. 'Man I love this girl' I thought. Wait where did that come from?! Sure I knew that I liked her, but love? I wasn't sure if I really loved her or not, I had nothing to compare this to. The only thing I knew about love was that it was supposed to last a lifetime. I had never seen anyone in love, living with the Whitecoats alls I learned was hate and sick ideas of fun.
"Hey," was all I could manage.
"Hi," she replied, adding in a little wave.
Fangs pov
'Well that was embarrassing', I thought to myself. 'God. She probably thinks I'm an idiot. I just walk out and stare at her.'
'No, she thinks that you are very good looking, she was staring to, in case you didn't notice. It was very sweet.' Angel thought to me.
'Stay out of my mind, Angel. And thanks for telling me that" I chastised mentally.
She smiled at me. "Sorry" she said out loud. I nodded. That was not rude for me, it was normal, so she knew I wasn't mad.
That was another thing about Angel; she was very mature for an almost 7 year old. Most 6 years olds would have screamed 'cooties,' and took off. Angel was mature enough to realize that boys do not have cooties.
"Thanks Fang" she said, in response to my thoughts.
I was deciding whether or not to tell her off about reading my mind, but decided to just nod again.
Now I walked over to our bed, I mean Max's bed, the bed… whatever, it doesn't matter whose bed it is, I walked over to it. Max still needed to be carried, so I was the self appointed… Max carrier.
She stubbornly crossed her arms. "I can walk" she said.
"Tomorrow you can try walking. 'Till then," I opened my arms.
"And if I refuse" she said with a smirk on her face. That was switched, normally I was the one with the smirk, and she was the one annoyed with me for smirking.
"I'll have to drag you" I said getting frustrated.
"Stop flirting you two, we are ready to go" Iggy said with a smile in his voice.
"We are not flirting!" Max said angrily, and embarrassed. I don't think anyone but me noticed the embarrassment though.
"Just let him pick you up, so we can go" Gazzy said, eager to leave.
She uncrossed her arms slowly, hesitantly. I stepped another foot closer and reached my arms down to pick her up. I carried her bridal style down the conveniently deserted lobby and hallway to the pool. When we got there I walked straight over to the hot tub area.
I was just going to set her down on the edge of the tub and let her get in by herself, but then I decided against it. I was not going to tell her how I feel, so I am going to have to show her. I don't know what exactly I feel about her, but I know that after the 'Omega 2 incident'' as Nudge and Angel called it, I needed to tell her what I felt.
So I went to the steps and slowly walked in, in case she said it was to hot. She didn't and I could feel her relaxing more and more as more of her was in the water. Once I was at the end of the steps I walked over to where the seat things were. I don't really know what exactly you would call them, maybe benches, I don't know, seat things, works for me.
So when I got there, I set her down as gently as I could, and sat down next to her. And I mean right next to her.
Max's pov
I was on the verge of hyperventilation. 'What is wrong with me?' I asked myself, I was about to have a heart attack and the cause was, I was sitting next to Fang. That's it.
I had a feeling that Fang knew what he was doing to me, because he had a hint of a real smile on his face.
I was really glad that nudge had disabled the security cameras because if she hadn't, I would have to worry about Iggy using this as blackmail sometime later. I could see it now 'the almighty Max getting carried into a room, only to sit on the man that carried her in.'
I wasn't really sitting on him, but I was close to it, he was so close to me, I was holding my breath for as long as possible.
"Max, ya need to breath" Fang said quietly.
"I am" I said exhaling slowly. He raised his eyebrows at me.
"Are you good by yourself?" he asked, looking towards the pool. I nodded, "you can go swimming, I will be fine" I said, once again frustrated at my weakness.
He got up glancing at me as he left. As soon as he got in the water, he walked up to Iggy, soon after Iggy came to sit by me.
I hadn't realized how good the water felt until Fang left and I could breath properly again.
"You know Max, breathing is good" Iggy teased.
"Ya, I know, that is why I was" I said, wondering how much Fang had told him.
"And Max…," Iggy said, sounding uncomfortable.
"Spit it out Ig" I said, wanting to know who did what, and why they were about to get in trouble. How did I know someone did something wrong, well, Iggy doesn't normally have trouble telling me something, unless he is ratting someone out.
"Max, has Fang told you anything?" he said avoiding something. Not what I was expecting. Defiantly not what I was expecting.
"Anything…" I trailed off, hoping he would finish his sentence.
"Nothing. How is your leg doing?" he asked. "I think you should be able to get around a little bit on your own. If we go for a long walk, then you will have to have Fang carry you, but otherwise, you can walk a little tomorrow."
"Thank God" I said. As soon as I said it, I felt the familiar prickle on the back of my neck.
"What Fang?" I said, trying to hold my annoyance back. I hated when he snuck up on me, he was so quite and me and Iggy could have been having a heart-felt conversation. Not like I usually had those types of talks, but you never know, and Fang just sneaks up on us.
"Mad?" he asked, with his head down, but looking at me through his long beautiful eyelashes. God he looked so cute like this! Bad Max, stop it!
"Just wish you would stop doing that" I said knowing exactly what he was going to say next.
"What, breathing?" told you I knew what he was going to say. We have had this conversation a lot in the past years.
"Not going to go there. What do you want" I said, secretly hoping that he would come and sit by me again.
"Nothing" and he walked away.
Fang's pov
'Max wants you to sit by her again' a sweet and innocent voice in my head said. Angel, ya, sweet and innocent my butt.
'She did! I promise she did' Angel thought again, after I thought about how she was probably trying to hook me and Max up again.
'When?' I thought to her, thinking that Max had probably thought this a long time ago.
'When you walked over there' she thought, happy that I believed her.
So I went over there again, and sat on her other side. Iggy gave me a knowing glance when I sat down. How he knew it was me, I have no idea.
Then he got up and walked away. Again, I would have to thank his for everything later on.
I looked at Max, ok fine, I stared at Max, and when she caught me I changed my expression to one that said "are you feeling ok?" I know, I am the oh-so-concerned Fang.
"I'm fine, stop staring at me" she said back, but I knew she really wasn't annoyed; she was just acting like she was.
I just smirked in response. This I knew would irritate her, but I tried to make it funny, not mocking, like I usually do.
She didn't look frustrated with me, that was a good sign. For once I wasn't trying to make her frustrated at me, ok that sounds really mean. I only make her angry, because she looks so cute when she pokes her bottom lip out and furrows her eyebrows. Most girls spend so much time trying to look perfect, and Max goes all natural and she still looks beautiful.
"Max, when are we going to get some food?" Gazzy said to Max.
"Whenever you guys are done" she replied, looking like she was very comfortable, but still wanted to get out of there for some reason.
"Ok, let's go now, I'm hungry. And I'm thirsty, I think swimming does that to you, makes you thirsty I mean. Do you guys get thirsty when you swim, I do. This is weird because you are in water, so you shouldn't be thirsty. Unless you are water repellant. Max, are we water proof? That would be weird to, cause like, water would just part as you walked through it. That'd be cool to" she finally finished.
"Sure Nudge. Alright, Iggy, I say we get some good home cooked meals, by none other then the one and only Iggy himself. What do you say to that?" Max questioned, hoping, it sounded like, that Iggy would be up for cooking.
"Depends, what do you expect me to cook with my perfect skills?" Iggy said in a tone that told us that he would cook anything that would make us happy and joking at the same time.
"Lets get back to the rooms and discuss this, ok?" Max said looking around us, and all the windows.
"Don't worry, I am watching for minds just like you told me to" Angel said taking in Max's expression. Or reading her mind, don't know which.
"I know sweetie, but I just don't like it here" Max said looking around uncomfortably.
"Let's go" I said grabbing Max's towel and walking over to her. If Max thought something was wrong, then I wanted out of here to.
She looked up at me "can I help you?" she said smiling slightly.
"Do you want to go or not" I said assuming that she was going to wait for me to ask to carry her. As much as I enjoy it, I will never ask to carry her, ever.
She sighed. Then she lifted up her arms so that I could pick her up like they pick up toddlers. I bent over and picked her up, and let me tell you she is heavier then the average toddler. I had to actually use my muscle to lift her like that, and that is saying something. I don't think even Iggy would be able to do that. I bet Omega 2 could.
No he cant, I will never let him touch her again. I will kill him personally the next time I see him. That is a promise. I had decided even before Max had ordered us not to touch him, that I would kill him myself. I never disobey Max unless it is something that I feel very strongly about. Such as this, and Max may not realize just how close she was to dying, but I do, and no one hurts my Max without finding out what the consequences are.
'Wait, 'my Max', where did that come from, she is not yours, no matter how much you wish she is, she isn't, so get over it' I yelled to myself, in my head.
"Fang, are you ok?" Max asked looking at me like I was crazy "oh, do you have a voice in your head that you talk to now to?" she asked joking with me.
"Yeah, it told me to drop you" I responded with a straight face. Well, I always have a straight face, but right now it was hard. Especially when a look of fear/anger/ and go ahead and try, crossed her face.
"You wouldn't dare. I could kick your butt" Max said.
I smiled down at her. Yes, a real smile, the kind that I reserve for the flock and the flock only, specifically Max.
She stopped breathing, wow that is a nice effect. Ok, still not breathing. Crap, still not breathing.
"Max?" I said urgently, "are you ok?" I questioned, really worried now.
"Huh?" she said back, taking a deep breath. Her eyes refocused on my face, and she smiled, "sorry."
"What happened?" I questioned her not really if I wanted to hear the answer.
She blushed. Wait, no, Max does not blush, not Maximum Ride. Why would she blush? Wait, could she possibly….no
No, could my smile have had that much effect on her? Wow, I like that; I think that is good that she can't even breathe when she sees it, then again, that is bad too, cause I don't know if that is good or bad that she cant breath when I smile. It could be good, because she likes it so much that she can't breathe, or it could be bad because I smile so ugly that she doesn't want to breathe.
'She just loves your smile so much that it takes her breath away' Angel said in my head.
I looked at her and raised my eyebrows. That couldn't be true could it? No, it couldn't.
Yes it could, another more proud side of me was thinking.
Give it up; just get over her, my less cocky side thought.
'No! Fang, don't get over her, she likes you too. She is thinking about you right now' Angel 'said' to me.
'Angel stay out of my mind' I thought firmly but not meanly. She looked at me and smiled a small apologetic smile. 'Sorry' she mouthed.
We were just about to the hotel room and I asked Max for the key.
She handed it to me and our hands touched. I was about to reach out and grab her hand and not ever let go when I caught myself. 'I need to be more careful' I mentally scolded myself.
I grabbed below her arm, but above her… waistline and then reached that same hand through under the back of her legs so I had a free hand to unlock the door with.
"Are you practicing?" Iggy whispered into my ear.
I turned to glare at him. I knew what he was talking about even if he was vague. He had joked with me about this before, our wedding night. I had told him a million times that me and Max were not going to get married; we were 14 for Gods sakes! We are not getting married, now or ever, she deserves better then me. Max deserves a guy that is smart, funny, and can provide for her. A guy with money, and as we all know, I don't have enough money to even buy a hotdog from a stand in New York.
"Iggy, can I talk to you" I said with absolutely no question in my tone; it was more of a demand then a question. I set Max down on the bed and turned to Iggy.
Iggys pov
Oh shit. I thought when Fang said that.
I grabbed the back of his shirt after a brief pause when I considered how long it would take Fang to kill me, and if Max would have time to call him off or not. I was going to refuse, but I knew that it would be better now if I just got it over with.
He took that as a yes, which it was. He started walking out into the hallway and I followed him, knowing that whatever he was going to say, he didn't want to do it in front of Max.
"Thanks, for everything. And stop making suggestive comments about what me and Max are doing. We are not" he said quietly, and very calm voice. Calm on the surface that is, underneath he was ticked, and I knew it.
Well that is not what I was expecting. I thought. I was ready to get yelled at, and possibly attacked if I wasn't careful of what I said. Then again, this is Fang that we are talking about, so the yelling is very unlikely. With the attacking, I am not sure what could have come from that, he was about to go after Sam that one time, but Angel made him leave him alone. Other then that, I have nothing to compare this to, and I am defiantly not trying to steal Max from him. I don't like her that way and I never will. Fang knows that, thank god, but I still don't know what his reaction to all of my comments would be. This was not what I was expecting.
"What?" I said dumbfounded.
"Thanks, and if you say anything else to Max about what I told you, erasers wont be the only thing you have to watch out for" he said, starting off nicely, and turning menacing about two words in.
"Umm, if it really bothers you that much…" I said wondering why he hated it so much.
He turned and walked back inside, I heard his footsteps retreat.
Max's pov
"Fang" I said in a very steely and 'make most people pee there pants' type of voice.
He shook his head, not as affected by my 'do it now' voice as he used to be, I would have to fix that.
"Fang I am going to take a shower, tonight" I said with a normal voice, normal for talking to erasers that is.
"No" he said simply.
"There is no way I am staying in a hotel and not showering. I can sit" I added hoping that that would convince him.
He glanced at me making sure that I wasn't lying, we can usually tell with each other.
"Ask Iggy" he said looking at the TV again.
"No, I am the leader, I make the choices" I said coldly again. I think that that may have gotten him; unless he wants a fight on his hands… then he should keep going where he is going with this. He got up and walked away.
Walked away! From me! I sat there in a stunned silence. The only time he had ever walked away I ended up in Germany in a prison like thing, and he stayed in America. That was bad, so I hoped that was not about to happen again.
Then he came back with a towel and washcloth. Oh. Now I feel stupid, I got all worked up about him going to get a towel to shower. Then he handed it to me.
Ok that is twice I have been wrong today, and I don't like being wrong. Well in this case it isn't so bad, cause I get my way, but most of the time I want to be right.
He reached his arms out, and I assumed he was gonna carry me there.
"I'm walking, you can help if you feel you must, but I'm walking" I said wondering how far I could push my luck.
He narrowed his eyes at me. "Can you?" he asked. I knew he didn't want an automatic 'yes' that I wanted to give. He wanted to know if I did would I get hurt.
"Yes" I said after a minute. I slid my legs off of the side of Fangs bed and sat on the edge, waiting for him to come closer so that he could help me. I knew that there was no way I could do this without help so I wasn't even going to try.
He put the towel under his arm and bent over and put his other arm around my waist. 'This feels so right' I thought. 'No it is not right! Fang is your brother!' I yelled to myself mentally.
Then he lifted up slowly taking most of my weight with him. I put both of my feet on the ground and took a small step with my bad leg, hoping that I could do this.
I put my weight on my leg (the weight that Fang let me have, that is). It felt fine, other then the stabbing pain that I had been feeling since the fight.
He kept his eyes intently on my face, watching for signs of pain, I think. I nodded telling him that I was fine. Then I took another step.
Now I was in the bathroom and Fang turned to leave closing the door behind him, setting the towel down on the vanity.
I turned on the hot water and started so undress. When I stepped into the water, it felt so good. 'When was that last time I took a shower?' I silently wondered to myself 'not just a quick wash-up in a river.'
I took a fifteen minute shower then stepped out, knowing that I had been in here for too long as it is, and that Fang probably wants to shower to.
I started to dry off when I heard a knock on the door.
"Max, your clothes" fang said, quietly. I looked around and realized for the first time that I did not bring any clothes in with me. I wrapped the towel around me and said,
"Can you hand them to me?"
The door opened slowly about a foot open, and a tough but perfect hand reached in with my clothes.
"Thanks" I said trying to force down the embarrassment that was slowly creeping up on me. 'Fang has your bras and underwear before Max' I said to myself, and for all of you who are like what! I mean back at the school, when I had got beaten to crap, or experimented on to the point where my senses were almost gone, and the Whitecoats dragged me back into my cage, often my clothes were torn and ripped so you could see way to much. That was something that we had to get used to, and even as awkward as it was, we never ever mention it and just try to forget what we saw. Thankfully that hasn't happened since before Jeb helped us escape, or that would be even more awkward.
I set my clothes down where my towel was and started to get dressed, until I saw the underwear that he had brought. They were the ones from Victoria's Secret that Nudge had bought me, and said that they were so in style that I had to get them. I was going to refuse but I just got them to shut her up, and they were on clearance. They were black and were very… little with a lacy waistband.
'Oh my gosh. What did Fang think when he saw these?' I wondered to myself.
Fang's pov
After I got done with Iggy, I went back inside. Max wanted to take a shower, but I wasn't sure if she could. Well to be completely truthful, I knew she could, just would she hurt herself trying?
I gave up and let her and after about 10 minutes I realized that she didn't bring any clothes with her. I scanned my memory to check and I remember walking with her there, but she had nothing in her hands. That was a memory I will never forget, the feel or her arm around me, I mean. Back on track, she didn't have anything in her hands so… I would have to bring them to her.
I walked over to her bag and was debating on whether or not to just bring the whole bag. Something told me to (not Angel) and something else told me to get the clothes out for her. I decided to get them out for her, against my better judgment I am sure.
I grabbed the shorts she had first, and I made sure not to grab the shortest pair, knowing that they would look amazing on her, but that would tick her off. Then I grabbed the shirt. Now came the worst part, the… undergarments. I just picked up a random… bra… and some random underwear. As soon as I picked up the underwear I knew that they were not random.
They were a deep black, with some lace at the top and just very small in general. 'Wow. She wears these?' I thought to myself.
After a minute I realized that I was holding up Max's underwear and staring at them, and that if someone walked in right now they would think I was a perv. Then Iggy's comments would just get worse, so I wrapped the… things… up in her shirt and knocked on the door.
"Max, your clothes" I said, no knowing how the 'pass off' of the clothes was going to work.
"Can you hand them to me?" that was not what I wanted to hear. Ger. I really didn't want to open this door right now. I wont do it.
I turned the handle and gave her the clothes. The door opened more then I meant for it to, and it ended up opening about a foot. Behind the door was Max, leaning on the wall, holding up her weight with her good foot. Wrapped in only a towel. Dripping wet. I just stood there for a minutes and she took the clothes out of my hand.
That snapped me out of my trance. I backed out slowly, closing the door after I left.
"This is too much" I said quietly to myself.
"What is too much?" a voice from the corner of the room said. I whirled around and saw Iggy in the corner of the room.
"How'd you get in?" I asked, still quiet.
"I walked in. You were in the bathroom… with Max in the shower unless you left the water on and you didn't. Then you walked out, and didn't even notice me. What were you doing?" he asked waggling his eyebrows.
"Gave Max her clothes" I stated flatly, hoping he wasn't going to go back to making the comments that are way off base, unfortunately. If only Max liked me like that…
"That's it" I said, thinking he was going to drop it.
"Back to the question, what is to much?" Iggy asked.
"Nothing."
"Then why is that too much?" he said, now with curiosity rather then condemnation and suggestion.
I gave him the look that said 'tell anyone, and I will gladly beat you to death.' Then I said "she was in a towel."
He sucked in a breath. "Oh Fangy is gonna get lucky at this rate!"
"She forgot her clean clothes in here, so I brought them to her, and she was in a towel, that's it" I growled out, really having to try hard not to lunge at him.
"And that's it?" he said back to his regular tone again. I nodded. "No it isn't, that was an awful big smile" he said.
I was not smiling! I do not smile, unless it is for Max. But then again, this was because of Max, and that is sorta the same thing right?
"What else happened that your not telling me about?" he said with a sly smile on his face.
"When I was grabbing her clothes, I saw some… underwear" I said, knowing that if I didn't tell him, then he was just going to get a worse idea.
"What did they look like? Eww! Never mind, that is gross, don't describe her underwear to me." Iggy said looking disgusted at the thought of 'seeing' Max's underwear. I almost smiled, on the inside, at how disgusted he was, that was good, no one, and I mean on one, will ever see Max's underwear or I will personally hunt them down and tear them to shreds.
Just then Max walked out of the bathroom.
"Oh hey Iggy" she said with a smile.
"Dinners done" he said "cheesy potatoes and corn."
"K be there in a minute" she said.
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