Thanks for all the reviews; I'm glad you liked what I did with Phoeno. Hugely sorry about the longer update time, it took me a long time to think of what to write and then I was busy reading Harry Potter, which I have now finished, which was bloody excellent!!!!! Anyone who wants to talk about it can PM me if they wish lol. Anyways, back to this, tell me what you think by reviewing!!!!

Disclaimer: Not a guy.

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Phoeno's POV:

My orders, or rather what Jeb and I had decided months back, were that the "flock" had to be taken care of, gotten rid of, however you want to say it. They were liabilities; failures and none of them had a purpose. They had to be "removed from the situation," as Jeb had put it "In any way you think is appropriate." he'd, said. Which had confused me at first, but now I understood. It meant that in order for me to be able to save the world I had to kill them. I couldn't afford to let them get in my way. Jeb had trained me, trained me to be the best, so I'd be capable of saving the world when the time was right. Single-handedly save humanity, and I couldn't want for the time to arise. My time to shine. And by not killing Fang, I'd have help, if I needed it that is.

I'd been taught how to win my way into the group, that taking an anti-authority attitude would make them warm to me. Which it did, all except Max, but I knew that would happen, we all did. But, she wasn't going to be a problem. I'd been taught about everyone's abilities. I knew what everyone could do. I was careful not to let Nudge touch me in case she picked up something on the plans; I'd been told how to block my mind from the little one, however difficult I found it. But I think it was working, they didn't suspect a thing. And in due time, they would be kicking themselves about it.

Everyone complaining about Max snapped me out of my thoughts.

"Maaxx!" grumbled the chatty one.

"Dude, seriously, sort it out." The blind one muttered.

Fair enough, she had just gone around and kicked them up, very caring.

Fang's POV:

"Ouch…" I grumbled after feeling a kick to my ribs, pulling me away from my dream. I prised apart my eyes and glared at her "Watch where you're kicking," I muttered darkly.

"It'll be lower next time if you don't get up." She smiled sweetly at me, god what I'd give to know what lay behind that perfect smile. Her thoughts and feelings, if I had a million dollars, that's where I'd be investing them. I stretched myself up and jack levered myself to my feet. Seeing Gazzy was having trouble facing the day I went over and pulled him to his feet as he continued to rub his eyes awake.

I sensed Phoeno looking at me, "Alright?" I asked shortly.

"Yeah, cheers." She smiled at me. I still found it hard to see why Max didn't like her. She's been through the same as us, right?

I felt Angel tug at my sleeve, knowing I wouldn't want her to hold my hand. I suddenly remembered her session with Phoeno last night and reminded myself to ask her about it. But, I let her speak first and reluctantly I took her hand, smiling to myself as her eyes lit up.

"Fang…I have something to tell you…" My eyebrows came together in a frown at her solemn tone and I walked her away from the group.

"Okay," I reassured her.

"Well I was listening to Phoeno's thoughts yesterday." She began tentatively, thinking I would lecture her about invading people's privacy, but I let her finish. "Well, I heard her say that Max was a, erm…" She faltered.

"A what?" I demanded softly, wanting to know.

"Well, don't tell me off but…." She hesitated once more "A bitch." She finished and my eyes widened a fraction, but I said nothing.

"And she called Iggy a freak and that he was perverted for checking Max over the fight. She also said Nudge was annoyingly chatty."

I smiled at the last part but my thoughts were troubled, Phoeno was fine with me…maybe Angel got confused.

"Well Ange, we all know Nudge is annoyingly chatty," I began, receiving a giggle from her, "But, maybe, you got confused about the rest of it. She's been nice to you, right?"

"Well yeah…. But," She began and I cut her off.

"Cool then. S'all sorted."

And I led her back to the flock.

Max's POV:

I frowned when I saw Fang walk away from the group with Angel by his side, wondering what the hell they were talking about, and what on Earth made Fang hold Angel's hand. He never holds anyone's hand. Too stoic for that, I mean come on, this is Fang we're talking about here. I watched them intently, seeing Fang bend down to Angel's height and talk reassuringly to her. My frown deepened when they returned, at Angel's troubled face. So I strolled up to Fang, standing beside him so we were both facing forward, looking out at the brilliant green forest that lay in front of us.

"What was that about? I quizzed, like I didn't care, effectively masking my burning desire to know, like, immediately.

"Not a lot." He replied.

My jaw clenched, as leader I had a right to know, but being the leader also, along with some electrical stimulation of my synapses from crazy scientists, made me intelligent enough to know that I wouldn't get anything out of Fang.

"Fine. Don't tell me." I said pissed off as his mouth quirked up.

Unexpectedly his hand came down around my waist and he pulled me to him. Our bodies crashed together sideways, lightly, for an instant; like he was reassuring me jokily and then he let go and walked away within seconds. I frowned lightly, while smiling at his closeness to people this morning; maybe his hard outer shell was cracking. Whatever was happening I liked it. Showed a different side to him. Phoeno's voice startled me out of my thoughts and I realised I had been standing still, oblivious to everyone around me.

"Wow Max! Is that a new power? You can imitate zombies now!" The Gasman called in mock excitement and continued to do an impression of me as a zombie. His mouth hanging open, staring into space or rather at Fang, mumbling, in my voice, "Max kill Eraser-" Before I took a swipe at his head. He laughed manically and I pulled him to me in a headlock before giving in and ruffling his hair. How can you stay mad at someone so cute? Well I sure can't.

I could still, however, remain embarrassed at his impression of me. I mean Gazzy's good at impressions, so I'm guessing I would have looked very similar to that. Worst of all, I was staring at Fang while doing it. Great. In the dictionary under shame you'll find a picture of me with Fang in the shot smirking humorously at me. Well maybe not, but in my version it certainly is.

I gathered my composure and walked smoothly over to Angel ignoring Fang's expression,

"Alright sweetie?" I smiled at her.

"Yeah, I'm okay, so's Celeste." She said pulling the bear closer to her body, if that was possible.

"Don't want to tell me anything, do you?" I watched her study Fang and found her eyes rest on Phoeno for a moment.

"Uh, no. It's all been sorted for the minute." She replied. I wasn't satisfied, something was going on and I was going to find out, eventually anyway.

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Right, what should my target be...I definitely want to hit 70 before I update again haha, 80 would be like AMAZING! but that's sort of pushing it haha, anyways excuse my ramble, please review (Y) x.