Max POV

Angel had told Edward our little plan- I would go search for Derek while the flock was asleep. Edward thought for a minute before saying it was okay.

"But if you don't find him," Edward had said sternly. "Come right back. We'll help you look if you don't find him. Don't try to over do you're part in this search. They might want you to look for Derek. That School place might be expecting you."

I'd laughed and said "I won't let my guard down." Then thanked him for keeping it concealed from the rest of the flock.

At night I headed out and started running through the forest. My raptor vision darted this way and that as I sped through the forest, trying depreatly to find Derek. Where had he gone? What if he was dead- or worse? What if they took him?

No! Max, get a hold of yourself! Pay attention to you're surroundings. Like Edward said, this might be a trap.

I sighed heavily and looked around me in a three sixty and sighed. Where is he....?

I passed a hiker, then dug my heels into the ground, thinking wait a minute...

"Oh hey, Max," Derek smiled when I spun.

"Wha-?" I exclaimed. "Where were you!?"

Derek blinked. "I was sleeping, but then I headed down to Emily's house and she told me you guys were at Carlisle and Esme's house. So I started walking. Why?" He froze. "Is something wrong?"

"No...." I mumbled. I guess not... I started walking next to Derek as we made our way (slowly) back to the Cullen's house. "Hey- you said you were from the School, right?"

Derek went rigid and I backtracked.

"I mean, you said the School tested on you...?"

He relaxed immediately and turned with a whole hearted smile that made my heart tap dance across my ribcage.

"Yeah," He sighed. "I was. Why do you ask?"

I shrugged. "I just want to know more about you...." What!? Don't say that! You idiot!!

Derek smiled. "Very well, then." He began. "What is it you want to know?"

"How about we start with DNA?"

"Ah," Derek looked uncomfertable. "Could we skip that one? How about my age? Or my parents? Just... something else."

"Um.... Okay, then." I said uncertainly. Why was he rejecting that DNA question? "Wait- you know you're parents?"

"I wouldn't use the word 'know'." Derek sighed. "It's... It's complicated, Max. Ah, but who am I to judge, really...? Alright, I'll tell you about them, then." Derek looked reluctant, but did anyway. "My parents... I was, too, taken from them when I was an infant. Even as a mere child I knew what was happening."

"You didn't try to stop it?"

Derek chuckled after a pause. "I was an infant, Max, I didn't even know how to walk, nontheless fight off a couple of Erasers and Scientists."

I flushed slightly, embarressed I'd been so fatuous.

Derek continued. "I was trained at the school- ehm, like you, I mean. That old Maze, you know. All that. Anyway, I was locked up in the confinement rooms, so it's not a surprise I didn't see you there at all. I did hear about you, however." Derek's fists clenched absently and his eyes gleamed with anger. I might've just seen it, though, because quicker than it came it was gone. He looked at me and smiled politely. "They said a lot of great stuff about you, too!" I saw his jaw tighten and his posture go rigid slightly. He pretended it was nothing, though. "Ah, I was locked up in that old room for so long... I think I even kept count. Probably. I just can't remember how many days anymore." Derek paused and looked up at the sky. "When I was five, I was given back to my parents –reason unknown- and they were real happy about it, too. They kept smiling and crying and laughing and hugging me and it felt... wrong. It felt weird. I... I didn't like it. I remember thinking what I wouldn't give to be able to be back in that old, rusty confinement room again. My parents... they were very successful people. When they found out I wasn't... eh, completely human, they booted me. I have to admit, I was pretty freaking happy about then. The scientists had been watching, waiting for that to happen, and when it did, they took me back in a snap!" He emphasized his point by snapping once, loud. "Some time later –five more years, perhaps?- I was fed up with the school and thought to myself 'hey, these guys are just a bunch of goons! I could get outta here when ever I want!' so... that's what I did. Just like that."

"Just like that?" I asked, surprised. He'd escaped from the school so easily?

He grinned. "Yep! I guess I just wandered into Forks and wound up with all of you guys..."

I inspected Derek when he said this. His clenched fists and tight posture was long gone and he seemed so... relaxed. But that was weird.

"Then, well, you know what happened. Sam told you, right?" Derek looked at me expectantly and I nodded.

"Well, yeah, and that's another question."

He looked at me curiously. "Go on."

"Who was that girl...? Renae, I think...?"

"Ah," Derek smiled. "Just another expirement that fell into the school's control. You know, experiment gone evil."

I was about to ask him what he meant. How he knew about it. But the Cullen household came into view and I could tell Derek was done talking.

We got into the house and right when we stepped in, everyone's eyes were already on us, knowing we were coming.

"Derek!" Nudge and Angel launched themselves at Derek, knocking him to the ground. With a laugh, Derek sat up and ruffled their hair. Nudge pouted and Angel giggled.

Alice skipped over to Derek and grinned brightly. "I knew you were coming~!"

"What a coincidence," Derek joked heartedly. "I knew you knew I was coming."

Alice laughed and Derek looked over at Rosalie, who had come up behind him.

She stubbornly looked out the window and muttered, "Hey, squirt..."

Derek smiled. "Hello, Rosalie." He turned to the rest of the family and greeted them again, and the flock. Fang wasn't too happy that I'd decided to sit next to Derek when he explained where he was. When he finished he sighed in a huff, he rubbed his eyes cutely.

"Sorry for making you all worry," Derek smiled warmly.

"Its okay, Derek, really," Next to him, I smiled. It was a lovely hallmark scene –minus the scowling Fang in the picture.

But with a loud crash that all ended, and a pair of glowing red eyes looked out at us from behind the broken window, then focused on someone who looked positively terrified.

Derek.

He let out a growl and took on a preditory stance as whatever it was moved into the light so we could see.

That girl Sam told us about- Renae- stood with her teeth bared and her fists clenched excitedly.

"You failed to meet the deadline, Derek," She growled. "And you remember the consiquence, don't you?"

Derek winced violently and shook his head. Not in a 'no', but as if he was trying to shake the idea of whatever punishment she was talking about.

"Prepare you're self, you useless twit!" She screeched, lunging at Derek. I tried to stand, but couldn't move. I was literally frozen. What shocked me more was that everyone but Derek and Renae was frozen, too.

This could not be good.

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Eh.... I don't really like this chapter.... I dunno why. I've been becoming uninterested with this story, so I think I'm going to finish it up and start a new MrxTwilight crossover. I actually started working on one, too. It does have OCs, but that's okay. Right? It'll be like my other story "Vanilla Twilight". I think I'm going to make a horror or something. That'd be fun... Well, tell me what you want me to do. Write another MrxTwilight story? (After I finish this one, of course)

If so, is it okay if I do an OC that shows up instead of the flock, or do you want the flock to be in it no matter what...?
Tell me what you want to see after this story, and I'll try my best.

I'm just getting bored with this story, y'know, wanting to start something new and unique. Hope you understand... R&R, anyway! And tell me what you want to read. It helps a lot to know what my readers prefer.

Thanks!