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"Oh my god! Angel what happened to her?" Nudge asked when she saw Max's limp form lying in a pool of blood.

"I, I don't know. She d-didn't say anything." Angel stuttered. She didn't know what was going on. One minute Max was flying and the next she was unconscious.

"I think she's been shot." said Fang, trying his best to keep his voice steady.

"Well what do we do? Do we take her to a hospital?" asked Gazzy. He rushed over and knelt beside Max. He picked up one of her hands and held it firmly in both of his.

"We can't. She's a mutant remember? They'll probably want to stick her in a zoo." Iggy said.

"But we took Fang to a hospital before and they didn't put him in a zoo."

"But we got lucky. We must have found one of the only doctors in the world who didn't freak out about me having wings." Fang said calmly.

"Well let's go back to him then!" suggested Nudge.

"We can't. He's on an entire different continent right now" Iggy pointed out.

"Well we've got to do something! Quickly! She's losing too much blood!" Nudge said frantically while wildly gesturing towards Max. "How can you guys not by freaking out right now?"

No one bothered to answer her. Angel went over to Nudge and put a reassuring hand on her shoulder to calm her down. "We're going to have to risk it. She has to go to a hospital." Fang said making up his mind.

"But how are we going to get her there?" asked Gazzy.

"I'll carry her." Fang and Dylan responded at the exact same time. They both glared at eachother. "No, I'm carrying her!" They both said at the same time again. Dylan went to pick Max up when Fang interrupted him.

"No give her to me, I'll take her."

"Relax she'll be safe with me"

"Are you saying that she wouldn't be safe if I took her?"

"Well I was trying not to say it, but yeah that's what I was implying."

"Why you..."

"For god's sake guys! Now's not the time!" yelled Angel. Everyone looked at her. She sounding shockingly like Max when she said that. "Max is dying here! Now both of you shut up! Iggy will take her." Both Dylan and Fang were about to argue back but Angel gave them a glare of her own, one of the many things she learnt from Max.

She guided Iggy over to Max and he picked her up in his arms. "Now does anyone know whereabouts we are?"

"Somewhere in the Tanami desert I believe" The flock turned around to see Maya, Star, Holden, Kate and Ratchet had returned.

"That was quick." noted Fang.

"Couldn't find anything." Holden answered. He noticed Angel and his mouth opened slightly as if he were about to say something to her but then his eyes landed on Iggy who still held an unconscious and bloody Max in his arms. "What happened to her?" he asked nodding his head in her direction.

"Shot." Dylan replied without taking his eyes off of Max.

"The nearest hospital is not too far from here." Nudge said closing the laptop that she had brought with her. "We have to head east". Nudge, Iggy, Gazzy, Dylan, Fang, Angel and Maya all snapped open their wings and were about to take off when they were interupted.

"Hello? What about us?" said Ratchet. "We can't fly remember!"

Fang hesitated and said "Alright, I'll go with Iggy to the hospital and Nudge, you come too because you know where you're going."

"Hang on a minute!" said Dylan, holding an arm out in front of Fang to stop him from going anywhere. "I'm coming with you,"

Fang shoved Dylan's arm away, his anger bubbling to the surface again. "No. You have to stay here and look after everyone."

"Hey! We don't need a babysitter!" Star spat at Fang. The others nodded in agreement but Fang and Dylan paid them no attention.

"I'm not leaving Max." Dylan growled. Fang knew that no matter what he said now, he wouldn't be able to change Dylan's mind.

"Fine" he sighed.

"We're coming to!" piped up Gazzy.

"Yeah, we just got the flock back together, we're not splitting up now!" said Angel defiantly. Fang sighed in frustration. He felt someone place a hand on his shoulder and turned around to find Maya standing there.

"It's okay Fang. You guys go. I'll stay with the others." she gave him a reasurring smile and Fang just nodded his head in thanks.

"Yo, hate to break you guys up but we really should be leaving." said Iggy impatiently. Almost half of his shirt was already soaked in Max's blood.

Fang took off into the air and was quickly followed by the rest of the flock. It was so peaceful and quiet up in the air. How ironic considering that the oppostie was going on inside Fang's head.

All that had happened in the past few minutes was replaying in his mind. The fight with Dylan, finding out Angel was alive and seeing Max collapse. Before, the fact that Max had been shot didn't really process in his brain but now, panic was starting to set in.

This was serious. What if the bullet didn't go all the way through and it was still inside her? What if they arrived at the hospital and the doctors' freaked out about us being mutant bird kids? Or worse, what if she didn't even make it to the hospital?

'No, don't even think about that.' he told himself. 'Of course she's going to make it. She's Max. She's tough, she's indestructible. She is going to pull through this.'

Fang followed Nudge, beating his wings up and down in a steady rhythm while trying to keep the panic off his face. He carried on like this for a while and then realised he wasn't breathing. He focused on trying to time his breathing with each wing stroke.

His eyes wandered over to Iggy who held Max securely in his arms. Blood would occasionally drip down from Max's wound and Fang wondered what the people below were thinking when they felt a drop of blood fall onto them. Max's face was as pale as Fang had ever seen it.

He'd been an idiot. He'd wasted all that time arguing with Dylan. They could've been there by now if he hadn't been so obnoxious. He should have just let Dylan take her. He obviously cares a lot about her. He wants Max to be okay just as much as Fang does. He really meant it when he said he would never hurt her. 'Like I did' Fang thought.

He cast his eyes back to Max. Even when she was unconscious and splattered with blood she was still beautiful. 'I'm so sorry Max. Dylan was right. You deserve a whole lot better than me.'

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