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(((Chapter Eleven)))

Longmont, Colorado, Longs Peak, The Building: 6:30 PM, 2003

(Maximum P.O.V)

Jeb was pacing, he had said we were in trouble, my first reaction to that had been the School, but apparently that wasn't it. He had called me and my freaks into the comfy room with all of the cushiony stuff that we sat on, Jeb called it a living room. But what else would it be. . . A dead room? Either way I liked my words better so I was sticking to them.

We had been back from the monster attack for an hour, that was what Iggy called it at least. We had all been discussing secretly, what had happened, it was what we did behind Jeb's back, and sometimes I felt bad for doing it, but he was still a White Coat.

I would catch Jeb looking as us like they did back at the School sometimes, like when we were eating the funny stuff he made, we ate a lot more than him naturally. And when he helps us wash up for the night, I saw him staring at my wings. But mostly, it was when I hung out with Iggy and Fang, just us. We would get the chance to just sit around or play some games that Jeb showed us. And out the windows, I see him watching us, like we're just experiments and it was all a test. I hated it, but figured it was hard to break habits and that I should give him the what was the term?

Benefit of the doubt. I prompted briefly in my head.

So, I did, I trusted Jeb, and he trusted us to an extent that I was happy with. That was my last thought before something flashed before my partly closed eyes, Jeb was still pacing.

I was cross legged on the carpet, Angel in my arms and Gasman next to me, ungassed thankfully. Iggy was sitting directly behind me on the couch thing next to Nudge who looked bored, and Fang was laying on his stomach sideways in front of me. I was twitchy and annoyed, I hated when Jeb paced, it just irritated me. Being surrounded by my freaks calmed me down a little bit, not much though.

The room was large-ish maybe, I really wasn't sure, but it was open and airy and that was all I asked. There was a thing that talked and a picture popped up when you clicked the right button, but it was way too annoying for me to deal with or learn how to use. Then, Jeb began another rant.

"Maximum, I believe that, "monster" that attacked you a couple of months back, was, in a. . . A chain. Let me explain it more simply, the animal you killed," I winced but no one noticed, "it was part of a much bigger picture, when it was killed, the mother, the animal from this afternoon, found your sent which had most likely been scattered through out the area of her cubs death."

"Yeah, sooooow?" Nudge huffed, crossing her little creamy brown arms in a 'so what' kind of way that only she could pull off. And she was only six! I reached over to pat Nudges arm and glare at her slightly, telling her to be more. . What was the word?

Respectful. Whispered a voice I wasn't sure if it was mine, or someone else's, I had heard it before, somewhere. I wasn't sure where though really, I was jus being stupid. Then I zoned back into the rant, nit that I had missed much anyway, just Jeb talking about stuff none of us even understood.

"-And so, basically, we might have to leave." That last line was what got me, leave? Wait. No. What?! But we couldn't just leave this was our place, our building! Heck, it was our lives, and I wasn't having my freaks getting uprooted again just to have to do it a million times over, I was just not, having it! This was our place. Ours. No one was going to scare me away because I am the Maximum Ride! No one scares me. Not even a stupid little monster. He wants some Max? Well, he was gonna have to bring his game face cause I wasn't going down without a fight!

And sometime during my mind rant, I had began to stand and stomp to the front of the room where Jeb stood, I glared at him and soon my mind rant was an out loud rant, and I wasn't planning on shutting up anytime soon.

"I'm not leaving." I stated firmly, my freaks looked at me, some hopeful, some surprised, one happy. "I don't care what you guys decide, this is our building, no stupid monster is ever going to chase us away. I mean, if we can stand up to a little monster, how are we going to hide from the wolf men good?" I tried to make my point by making hand gestures, Fang smirked at them and I glared at him, stomping back to my seat and plopping down next to Iggy since Fang was being such an idiot.

Iggy leaned over and whispered something in my ear, trying not to get anyone attention as Jeb took the floor again, "Well, I couldn't see the hand stuff that Fang was describing to me, but I think you did good, with the words and stuff." He grinned in my general direction. I didn't want to interrupt Nudge as she put her two pieces in the conversation in her turn interrupting Jeb mid sentence, so I grabbed Iggy's left hand and held it to my lips, showing him silently that I was smiling.

He grinned back even wider and then we both faced Nudge as she finished, "-And that's it, I have noting else do say, tank you. I'ma goin' back to my comf'eey seat now. Tank you'd!" And she was done. I rolled my eye, that girl was going to turn into a problem. But she was cute so most likely, she was going to get away with half of the trouble she caused.

"Anybody else want to input?" Jeb asked, then he repeated that in simpler words so that even Gasman understood him. It was hard for Jeb, I could tell, trying to talk at our level, trying to even think near our level, and it would always be hard, because he didn't go through what we had to. He was just the guy who set us free, he wasn't the one who was going to teach us how to live. And he never could, well, mentally at least. That was part pf the reason my freaks were warming up to Jeb, he was trying, and that was all any of us asked.

"No one?" Jeb asked, then Fang sat up and walked in front of everyone, suspiciously quiet. "Alright."

"No leaving for me." Was all he said, and in those four words, everyone was confident with our decision, everyone except for Jeb. He looked nervous again and awkward as we all beamed at each other happy that we had done something about the problem and then we were all ready to go to bed. But Jeb obviously wanted to talk more. The adrenaline was long gone so head just said that he would talk about it more with us at breakfast.

And when we all slumped to our rooms, knowing it was way early and that we could stay up way longer if we wanted to, but flying and or trying to fly was tiring and we were all dead on our feet as one by one, the rooms lights went off and the whole house was dark and quiet.

After a second, I heard a padding of bare feet hitting the wood floor and then my door opened and closed really fast, I jerked my head around and saw who it was.

"Hey, what's up Fang?" I whispered, hoping not to wake anybody up, he looked sad and. . . Scared? Hmm. Then he came over to my mattress on stilts and pulled himself up, so that he was sitting next to me on the bed.

"It's just, I was scared when the monster almost got you is all. And then you flew. I wish I could fly too." Fang murmured, more to himself than me, I found myself shocked. Fang, want to be like me?! That was new. Way new.

"You'll learn. And the monster, fusssh like that thing could kill me, I think you're forgetting something." I teased him as he looked down at his lap in a gloomy way. I put an arm around his shoulder and finished my sentence with a tired smile, "I am the great invincible Maximum Ride, nothing can keep me down. Because, well. . . Um.-"

"You have me." Fang finished for me, in a quiet happy voice, and that was true, I couldn't do half of the stuff I did if I didn't have my freaks. Especially one of my best friends. Fang was just special like that.

"Exactly, now, do you want to sleep in here tonight?" I asked sleepily rubbing my eyes and yawning right in the middle of my sentence.

Fang didn't even think before he replied. "Yeah." And then we were both trying to get under the covers and turning in opposite directions so our backs were touching and we were comfy.

"Night Fang." I muttered.

"G'night Max." He mumbled back.

And there was an obvious message passing between us, something unbreakable that neither of us would forget.

'I'll be there for you. Don't worry, no matter what, I'm here.'

(((Chapter End)))

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