"Fang!" Max's scream woke the rest of the Flock. Clores surrounded them, a small group held Max. the morning glow brightened the frightened faces of the kids.
"Let her go." Fang ordered as if they'd listen to him.
"They only take orders from me." Luke walked out of the forest followed by Jax and Claw. "Get her." ten clores grabbed Talon. A scream left her lips as they thrust her towards a tree which she hit with a thud, knocking her unconscious.
"What the hell!" Iggy yelled as he went to run to Talon, but the cores stopped him.
"That's for putting that damn collar on me." Jax said. A purple bruise rounded his neck. Iggy and Fang glared daggers at the unruly man standing next to Luke.
"What do you want?" Fang said through clenched teeth. Luke walked up to Max, he placed his hand on her round stomach. "Don't touch her!"
"All we want is Max and Talon. You guys will see Max again, we'll let her go." Luke replied. Iggy stepped out so he stood next to Fang, like they were a shield to the younger kids.
"No." Iggy said. An angry scowl on his face. "You cant take Max or Talon."
"I was talking to Fang, Blind One." Iggy's glare grew stronger and the thin line Luke walked on grew thinner.
"Doesn't matter who you were talking to the answer's still no." Fang said at the same time that Angel did.
"Fang, just let them take Max. you'll see her again, they'll let her go. I promise." Claw spoke. Iggy switched his glare to Claw.
"I don't think you mentioned Tally." Iggy said.
"She's a killer and belongs with us." Jax butted in. "No isn't an option Fang, either we take just Max and Talon or all of you." He paused to glance at Claw. "Do as Daddy says."
"He's not my dad." a sad look crossed Claw's face. "My dad wouldn't tell some freak to rape his daughter. Tally's right, you are one of them."
"Fang, I-."
"Enough! Tranq them!" tranquilizer darts flew from the guns in the clores arms, somehow the Flock had missed them. They fell to the ground unconscious. "Next time Claw, don't speak. You sound better when you don't."
"Talon!" Fang yelled for the thousandths time. Talon didn't move. She hadn't moved since Fang woke up before the sun could reach the window in the far right corner of the room. The IV's in her arms looked as though they ached. The heart monitor just outside of her cage seemed to beat a different pace every few seconds. "Tally, please wake up?" Fang's arm was outstretched through the bars of the cage, as though he could reach her. The metal scraped into his arm causing blood to drop to the ground.
The doors swung open and Claw walked in. He stood next to Talon's cage, his hand brushing her hair back. "I'm sorry. Fang, I'd like to talk. They have cameras so they can see but not hear." He paused. "I've unlocke Tally so grab her."
"What?"
"What you said a few days ago about me not being your dad, it really made me think. I though I'd never see you and Talon's supposed to expire-."
"Don't say that." Iggy spoke from his cage just under the window.
"They're trying to fix it now with the IV's." Claw replied
"What happens when we take them out?" Fang asked.
"Go back to Jeb, tell him her heart is slowing. On your way check for a pulse every half hour." Claw moved to Fang's cage and pretended to take his hand. "When your mother died, Talon was so mad at me. As if I could have done to stop them. It killed me to watch them murder her, and Talon went mute. Completely stopped talking. I didn't mean to tell Luke to….reproduce Tally, that's not even what I said.
Claw paused as he glanced over at Talon. "I took a picture of the room while you guys were sleeping, I'll put it over the camera so that's what they see. Wait for my go before you unlock everyone's cages."
Fang nodded as his father left the room only to return a few moments later. "Dad, why are you doing this?" Fang asked as he went to unlock the sleeping Max's cage while Claw unlocked Iggys.
"Because you're my son and you're about to have a kid of your own, so is Talon. I've always wanted the best for you two." Claw replied.
"So it's true? Tally really is….pregnant?" Iggy asked as he pulled her from the cage, cradling her in his arms.
"Luke ran a test that said Jax might be sterile-."
"Then what the hell was the point in trying! And you let them rape her!" Iggy yelled. "So that means she's not pregnant. You need to get your story straight old man."
"Just cause Jax is sterile doesn't mean she won't get pregnant." a sly smile played on Claw's features. "An old friend of mine says…the future is bright. I'll let you figure that out."