Disclaimer- I own only Kale and any other characters I add in that are not from Max Ride or Twilight or What if? And if you still have not read what if? Then go read it now. Endless Dawn deserves even more thanks for allowing me to use her wonderful characters so she gets a box of cookies and a tall glass of milk. On with the story.

Chapter 11

Max's POV

I paced in the entryway as I waited for Fang to arrive. I had a feeling that he would give me the, I-knew-you-were-going-to-do-something-stupid-but-I-am-still-disappointed-in-you-for-it look. I really hated that look.

The rest of the flock got back and they all ran up to me. "Oh Max, we were worried that that Kale guy had gotten you again and that wouldn't have been good because he is all, like, evil and stuff. I mean, the erasers are evil to and I guess that they could have also taken you but we thought that you probably could have defeated them easily unless there were a whole bunch and…" I tuned her out at that point. She kept talking though.

I glanced at Fang and he was giving me that look. I really hate that look. I mean, really hate it. All of a sudden I heard Angel's voice in my head.

Hey Max, why is Fang thinking that you shouldn't have just gone willingly? Did you go to see Kale by your own choice? Why would you do that Max? She was thinking to me, I think that is what you could call it. I am guessing she didn't say it out loud because I wouldn't be able to hear her over Nudge.

Well, he is thinking that because that's what he thinks I did. I would never put myself in danger like that. I thought back to her. Hoping she didn't catch the lie in that. She seemed to accept this answer and I started to listen to Nudge again.

"…and why is water called water? Because I mean, everything has a name but why does it have the name it has cause, I mean, I doubt people just walked around saying, You're water, you're hat, you're frog. I just don't think it would work like that." Whoa! How did we get to that subject? I don't know.

I looked at Fang again, and now he was giving me the, we-need-to-talk look. I hate that one too. I nodded my head and cut off Nudge. "I think we should get back to the topic at hand right now." Everyone had been staring at Nudge, probably wondering when the talking would have ended if she hadn't been stopped.

Edward spoke up then and told all the flock, "We saw Victoria on our search and now we have her as a captive in the other room." Every ones jaw dropped except for the people who had already known about this.

"Wait, if you caught Victoria, then doesn't that leave only one possible future for Max?" asked Iggy.

"Well…I didn't think of that. We may have just caused the future that we were trying to prevent," said Carlisle, looking like he was deep in thought. "That or we opened up new future possibilities. Alice, would you mind searching the future for new possibilities?"

"Uhh, that won't be necessary," said Nikias nervously. "Carlisle, may I speak with you privately? I need to tell you something."

"Certainly, but could it wait until later?" Nikias shook his head and Carlisle dismissed himself and Nikias. "We'll be back momentarily. We can finish this discussion later."

They went up to Carlisle's office and Angel looked at me questioningly. "Should I listen in on their thoughts?" she asked innocently.

"No, sweetie. Let them keep this a secret." I wanted to know what they were saying but I figured that we should trust them. I walked up the stairs as everyone went their separate ways and headed to my room.

Moments after I got their, Fang walked in. I turned to face him and he was giving me that look again. Curse his ability to make me feel guilty for things that I feel I was able to justify.

"Max, why did you meet with him?" He asked with no real emotion in his words. I could tell he was angry though.

"I had to. He threatened to harm the flock if I didn't come. He was going to have you guys shot by and killed by erasers. I would rather die then let the flock get hurt by anyone." I replied, slightly angry at him.

"Max, your leaving or your dying would hurt the flock more than anything else. Any one of us could die and it would still be better than losing you." I looked into his face and saw the truth in his words and it stung like being slapped in the face.

I didn't say anything. I just looked away from him and tried to keep from crying. "Max, please, stop putting yourself in these situations." He didn't say anything else but silently left the room, knowing I wanted to be alone.

I just sat there for a while, trying to pull myself back together. By the time I had gained my composure, I was starving. I walked downstairs and was practically pounced on by the flock, minus Fang, saying they were hungry.

Carlisle had finished his talk with Nikias and was with Esme when they started saying this. He must have heard because he walked over. "Why don't we take you out to eat then because we don't really have any food here?"

The flock turned to me and I received several Bambi eyes. Darn those Bambi eyes! I agreed to his offer and we all went out to eat though, none of the vampires had anything. Bella had also come so the flock wasn't the only one eating. We tried not to order too much food. Just two meals per flock member.

After we finished stuffing ourselves, Carlisle offered to pay but I refused and paid with the Max Ride card. That thing must have an endless supply of money in it. We all headed back with the vampires in cars and us flying. It was much less crowded that way.

We reached back at the house and Edward said, "Why don't we go check and see that Victoria is still alright. We should also thank Dawn and Nikias for staying and watching her."

We all thanked them and they said that it had been an interesting job. She continually struggled yelling, "Let me kill Kale! I want him dead!" or, so said those two. She was quiet now.

We headed off to our beds and were getting ready for bed. I had just begun getting out my clothes before Fang walked in. "Fang! Don't you ever knock?" I said to him, angrily. I mean, I could have been getting undressed when he walked in here.

Wouldn't you have liked that Maximum? And of course the annoying voice in my head starts talking. Oh joy, I thought sarcastically.

Shut up you…you…you thing! You are so annoying sometimes and NO! I would not enjoy that! You are as annoying as Fang is.

I could have sworn that the voice scoffed, offended. "Max?" I heard Fang say. I blinked a couple times and then looked up at him. Just a random thought here but, I really hate how much taller than me he is. I don't like having to look up to see his face.

"Voice?" he asked in his usual one or two word answer/questions. I nodded and he said, "Max, do you realize that you can't keep risking yourself like you have been?"

I nodded my agreement and he looked at me, probably about to say something like… Well, the flock and I have agreed that you can't be trusted just yet and have decided to have one person or more with you at all times. It was just a guess but, I would not be surprised if he said something like that.

"Well, the flock and I have agreed that we can't trust you yet and have decided to make sure that you always have at least one person with you." See, what did I tell you? I am so good. Wait, that is so not good.

"You don't think you can trust me?" I questioned. He nodded and I continued on. "How can you not trust me? I always do what's best for the flock. I always will. There is no reason you can't trust me." I was trying hard to keep myself from pushing him out the door.

"Yes, there is reason." He said simply. May I just say that his short answers are really annoying? Well, they are.

"Let me guess. Hmm… You are going to say it is because I don't realize that my safety is most important. Well, I can take care of myself and I don't need to be watched over to keep from doing something stupid!" I was yelling at him now but I really didn't care.

"Max, just relax. All I want is for the flock to be safe." I tried to calm myself down and it wasn't working very well.

"Hey Max?" I heard from the hall. "Can I talk to you?" Angel walked in the room, looking really distressed. The sight of her like this snapped me out of my anger.

"What is it sweetie? Are you okay?" I knelt down to her level and she threw her arms around me and started sobbing into my shoulder. While she cried on me, I nodded to Fang to get out. Surprisingly, he listened.

I let her cry a while longer and then said, "Angel, sweetie, what is wrong? Did something bad happen?"

"I am sorry Max. I really am. I know I should have listened to you but I didn't." She was still sobbing loudly and it was hard to understand her.

"What are you talking about sweetie? What did you do? I will still love you, no matter what, so tell me." I was trying to sound as comforting as possible.

"I listened in on Carlisle and Ni-Nikias and…and I h-heard them thinking about a, a new future. And I heard Nikias thinking about what it was and…and it was, was really bad," she said as she tried to calm herself.

It took a lot to make any of us, even Angel, cry so it must have been really bad. I coaxed and prodded, trying to get her to say more but she wouldn't say anymore.

All she said was, "They caught me and told me not to tell anyone what it was. I had to tell you something bad was coming though. They told me I could do that. I'm sorry Max and promise me you won't ever forget me."

My eyes widened. The only reason she'd say that was if she was leaving or dying. Was my Angel going to die?