Fang POV
I came round faintly to soft hands cupping my face, and fingers, light as butterfly wings on my forehead. Whaaa?? Oh yeah. River, drowning. I opened my eyes and looked straight into Max's worried brown ones. They widened slightly before all I could see was her hair. She threw her arms around my neck and basically growled at me.
"Don't you ever do that to me again, Fang." Her eyes were wet and a single tear escaped. My Max… Max… I slowly started to put my arms around her. Oh, what the heck. I tightened my arms to her and held her to me like a lifeline. I could feel her along every line of my body. "I love you Max." I whispered to her. She froze completely and I ducked my head, resting it in her shoulder where she couldn't see me. I loved her, I know I did. But she didn't love me. She was too good for me, she was perfect and beautiful and kind, strong and everything else. She was too good for anyone, let alone me.
"I love you too Fang." she murmured into my ear. Say whaaa?? She did not…. did she?? Oh. I get it now. I had drowned. I'm in heaven, I'm dead. Well that explains a lot. Well, if I am dead, I might as well as enjoy it. I lifted her chin up with my fingers and gently brought my lips to hers. I entwined one hand in her beautiful hair and cupped her cheek with the other, tilting my head to deepen the kiss. She kissed back and I was soaring, not literally. Being dead wasn't half bad. Fang, you're not dead. Angel giggled in my head. Oh. Shit. Wait! She kissed me in real life??
I pulled away and rested my head against her forehead, catching my breath. I met her eyes, at some point her actions were going to catch up to her and she was going to take off. With another piece of my heart in tatters. "Is this the part where you take off?" I asked fearfully. The flock was listening intently, they didn't know the whole story. Except for Iggy.
"Nope, this is the part where I kiss you!" she whispered back. Like whispering helped with the flocks keen ears. She leaned into me and it was like an electric current passed between us. Her hands went behind my head in my hair and I left one of mine in her hair, taking the other down to her waist, pulling her in closer.
Giggling made her pull away and saw the universal 'Oh shite, I forgot about them' expression slip into place faster than Nudge can say 'I'm hungry'. I pulled her to me again, hugging her close. She leant into me and closed her eyes briefly before I saw her go into leader mode. She stood quickly and faced the now hysterical Flock with her hands on her hips. Her death glare was mainly fixed on Iggy. I could see that sick mind of his thinking up innuendos. She raised her eyebrows and the flocks breathless laughter subsided into the occasional hiccup. Under her stern expression they were unusually calm. She shook her head and then took off up into the sky, with one powerful sweep of her wings. She beckoned and we all one by one took running leaps, unfurling our wings. In the air she smiled and we all started to swoop and twirl around each other, in-air ballet even. We practiced this incase of attack. She angled herself to a town and we swooped after her.
As we landed in an ally she threw as our new clothes and ordered us into a toilet to get changed and cleaned up. We emerged a little cleaner than before and I almost gasped. She had jeans on and a tight top that accentuated her waist and hugged her figure. Her wings out and the setting sun behind her made her once again look like an angel. She quirked an eyebrow and pulled her wings in, throwing on her new hoodie, un zipped but covering her wings. We all had them now. We hiked into a nearby hotel and she sent us to our rooms while she went and found a grocery store, leaving me in charge. As her figure was swallowed by the increasing darkness, I began to feel un easy and I told Iggy to watch over the kids with Blaze. Taking to the sky, I scanned the ground below, trying to find her. I finally saw her, in another ally. There was a group of big guys, blocking her in. she couldn't risk using her wings and she was backing into a dead end. He didn't want to hurt them, yet. I landed not too far off and ran to where she was. The guys backs were to me and crept up to them, staying silent. As I stopped I felt my invisibility slip on. I stepped forward again and the sensation remained, I was moving while invisible. I snuck around them and stood in front of Max, letting the invisibility slide away. They looked shocked and then I saw well practiced glowers slip into place.
"Step aside little dude. I don't care if she is yours or not. She going to be ours for the night," he growled meanly at me. Max hissed slightly and could feel 'sexist pig' vibes coming off her. I narrowed my eyes and stared back at him. He shrank back and I wondered what I looked like.
"I'm sorry but I don't think she is interested in listening to you." I snarled at him. I sounded deadly and he raised his hand as if to hit her. I lost it completely and threw myself at him. Ending up with his face smashed into the ground and his arm twisted behind him.
"get out of here before I cause you a real injury. I will kill you if you touch her." I snarled again. Wrenching myself up, I turned back to her and leaned against the wall, listening to them scrambling away. She was looking over me in the way I had come to recognize as the searching-for-injuries-and-reasons-to-fuss way. I shook my hair out my eyes and smiled briefly, watching her grin in return. She was awesome.