OK this is the last chapter.
Chapter 11- New Power
Max POV
After we left the barn and went back inside Fang and I had to act like nothing happened. We also had to make sure that we didn't think about it unless we wanted Angel to find out which would end with the whole flock knowing and I couldn't handle that right now.
So after we went inside and sat down to breakfast the whole flock minus Fang and I started to bombard me with questions about what happened and if I was all right. I told them what happened minus the conversation with dad and my breaking up with Sam. When I remembered to not tell them about me and Sam I thought of the kiss that Fang and I shared which ended up with Angel in a fit of giggles. 'Angel, don't you dare say or think one word young lady,' Everyone looked from her to me wondering what I was talking about. She nodded and the questions continued. When Iggy asked if I recognized who attacked me, I hesitated. Do I lie and say that I didn't or do I tell them the truth and say that it was Fang. Well his clone anyway.
Angel must have been reading my thoughts because her expression became dark and murderous. 'You hurt Max! Then you kissed her! And you expect her to forgive you?' Everyone looked to Angel who was staring daggers at Fang and pointing at him and yelling. Everyone, minus Fang, Angel and I, looked from me to Fang then to Angel. They were opening and closing their mouths and they looked like they were fish. I looked at Fang in shock horror. He was clutching his head and yelling at me to make Angel stop.
I turned to Angel who had a look on her face that would make a grown man crap his pants. I ran over to Fang who had just fallen from his chair and was lying in a ball on the floor. 'Angel! Angel, stop it! You're hurting him! You don't understand! It wasn't Fang! Fang didn't hurt me!' I had to yell at her to be heard over Fang's yells of pain but even then she didn't acknowledge what I said. 'Angel! Stop it! Stop it right now!' Suddenly Fang's yells stopped and he went silent. Angel stopped staring daggers at Fang and her eyes filled with fear.
'Iggy, help me get Fang to couch.' I said to Iggy and he got up from his chair and made his way towards Fang and I. Iggy positioned himself near Fang's feet and I near Fang's head. 'On three, one, two, three.' We lifted at the same time and I started to walk backwards out of the kitchen with Iggy following the in the direction of my feet. We got to the living room and Ig and I gently lowered Fang onto the couch. I pulled an armchair next to the end of the couch where Fang's head was and told Nudge to get a pillow from Fang's room. She came running down the stairs about 15seconds later and I lifted Fang's head and pushed the pillow gently underneath.
I pulled Angel into the armchair and kneeled down in front of her. 'Angel, why'd you do that?' She looked like she was about to burst into tears. I could already see some running down her cheeks and I gently wiped the away with my thumb. 'Max, Max I am so, so sorry. I didn't know. I thought that Fang hurt you 'cos you were wondering if you should tell the truth and say that Fang did it or lie and say that you didn't recognize him. I tho…'
She was interrupted by Nudge, Iggy, Gaz and Total all shout, 'WHAT! Fang stabbed Max?!' All at the same time, 'Guys! Hold it! Fang didn't do anything. Well not my….I mean our Fang. It was Itex's Fang. They cloned Fang. So really the Fang that is now currently unconscious and on the couch didn't do anything but stop me from getting kidnapped and or murdered.'
'Max, I am so, so, so, so sorry. I didn't mean to hurt Fang that badly. I swear I didn't. Ooops, I mean I promise I didn't,' She corrected her self and was about to launch into more apologies when Fang started to stir beside me. 'Angel, it's ok. I know you didn't mean to hurt me….I hope.' Fang said groggily from besides me and I couldn't help chuckling a little. Fang sat up slowly and patted his lap indicating for Angel to come and sit on it. Total misunderstanding this jumped up onto Fang's lap and started to lick Fang's face.
'Not you, dog. Angel,' He told the dog as I wiped his face of dog slobber. 'Thank you, Max. Now come on Angel,' He said as he patter his lap again. Angel jumped up from the arm chair and into Fang's lap. She wrapped her arms around his neck and hugged him tightly. He surprised us all by actually hugging her back. Nudge suddenly ran upstairs and I could hear her rummaging around in her desk draws. Angel climbed down from Fang's lap and I pulled her onto mine.
Nudge suddenly came running down the stairs and when she ran into the room camera at the ready she groaned, 'Aw, I wanted to get a picture of that. I mean Fang never hugs people. He doesn't even smile. I got this camera so that we could take pictures of amazing things and then when something amazing actually happens I go to get the camera and I miss it. This is so unfair. I mean sure it's not as amazing as when Max kissed Fang on the beach that one time when he was hurt but it was still pretty dang amazing,' When Iggy finally covered Nudge's mouth with his hand I was blushing like mad. 'Don't worry Nudge I'm sure that something amazing will happen again soon.' Iggy assured her and that made me start to wonder what he was talking about.
'Hey, guys can I talk to Max alone for a minute. Just about…you know, what ever the leader and second in command usually talk about.' I lifted Angel from my lap so that I could stand up and she turned around and gave us a look that clearly said, "Uh huh, suuuuure you are." The rest of the flock left the room closing the sliding doors behind them and leaving Fang and I in silence. 'So what do ya' want to talk about?' He gave me a look that said, "You-know-exactly-what-I-want-to-talk-about-or-rather-do". I sighed and he wrapped an arm around my waist an pulled me onto his lap.
"What is it with him having people sit in his lap," was my last thought before his lips smashed into mine. It took me about five seconds to react. I started to kiss him back and his tongue lick my bottom lip asking for entrance. I obliged and his tongue started to explore my mouth. Suddenly I heard the all to familiar sound of photo's being taken. I had been hearing that sound the whole time that we had been here. I started to pull away but Fang held me in place. I opened my eyes and saw Fang's right hand pick up a remote and throw it in the direction of the doors. We head Nudge squeal and slam the doors together quickly.
After Fang and I made out for about two more minutes (damn the need to breath) we broke apart and smiled at each other.
Suddenly Iggy burst through the doors, 'Sorry to interrupt love birds but it's time to check Max's wound.' I gasped suddenly remembering. I pulled the up my hoodie and tank top to reveal my bandaged midriff. Fang started to take the bandages off taking care to be fast but gentle. I began to wonder why I hadn't been wincing all morning. When he'd finished we all found out why. Fang and I stared in shock and Iggy unknowing to our reactions started to glide his hands over my stomach.
'Ok, can you guys show me where the wound is I can't seem to find it,' Fang started to open and close his mouth. He looked like he was about to start a sentence but no sound was coming out. I took a deep breath and started to explain to Iggy that there was no wound. 'Um, Ig, the… reason you can't find the wound i…is because it isn't there. It's gone. All that's left is this little scar,' He ran his hand over my stomach a few more times before Fang came back to his senses and smacked Iggy's hand away, 'Ok, ok. No need to get protective. It's just that I can't believe it. I mean I've never seen anything like it.'
'One; You'd be protective to if your friend had his hands all over your girlfriend. Two; There can't be any more evidence then there already is. And three; hate to brake it to ya' Ig' but you haven't seen anything for the past ten years.' My expression went from surprise that Fang had called me his girlfriend in front of Iggy to shock that he would say something like that to Iggy. (the not having seen anything for 10 yrs thing) . 'Thanks for reminding me that I was blind.'
Something in the way that he said "was" made me begin to wonder. He said it as if he used to be blind and now he wasn't. Maybe, just maybe I should…Fang shaking me brought me back to reality. 'Max? Max? Max, you there?' I slapped his hands away, 'Yes, I'm here. I was just thinking about something.' He raised an eyebrow at me wordlessly asking if it was the voice. I shook my head, no. 'Max, do you know how you just suddenly healed over night. Last night this wound was could have killed you if Fang hadn't stopped the blood flow.' I shook my head and thought about this morning a little more.
When I'd woken up the first time and I'd sat up, I had winced from the sudden movement and my mussels being stiff not from my wound hurting. And when I had jumped up from the bed after hitting Fang with my shoe. I should have doubled over with pain but I hadn't. I had just jumped up grabbed my hoodie and ran out of there. Then when I'd flown up to the hayloft. When I had bent down to put on the runners that I'd picked up from the back step. I should have been clutching my stomach in pain. But I hadn't. All morning I had been doing things that should have made me cry out but none of it had.
'The weird thing is that it hasn't hurt all morning. And I've been doing things that should have left me in a ball of pain on the ground. Hey Fang can you get me a knife from the kitchen, I need to talk to Iggy for a minute.' I needed to talk to Iggy and find out if he was blind or not. I saw Fang hesitate, 'Fang, I'm not going to do anything stupid. Besides I highly doubt that you'd let me.' I re-assured him and he left the room. As soon as he opened the sliding doors he was bombarded with questions from the younger flock members. That'll keep him busy for a little while longer.
I pulled Iggy up on to the couch seat beside me. I had to think of an experiment that I could do to prove that he wasn't blind. Suddenly I had and idea. I balled my hands into fists and started to throw punches at Iggy. He jumped up from the couch and so did I. I kept throwing punches and he kept dodging them. I threw in a quick roundhouse kick right after an uppercut punch and he grabbed my foot. 'Iggy? Can you see?' He gasped and dropped my foot like hot coals. 'How? How did you know?'
I shrugged my shoulder and suddenly Fang opened the sliding doors with knife in hand. I took the knife from him and stood at the opposite end of the room so that it would take them a few seconds to get to me. I turned my back to them and cute the palm of my left hand with the knife. Fang must have realised what I was intending to do with the knife because the second I brought the knife away from my hand he had grabbed my left wrist and had knocked the knife from my other hand.
'What the hell are you doing?' he shouted at me, I held my palm up so that both he and Iggy could see it. What they saw made the gasp. The cut on my hand was slowly healing till finally it was as if it was never even there. It was amazing. 'Conducting and experiment. I can't let the whitecoats have all the fun.' I heard a Whoop of excitement from outside the living room. Suddenly the younger members burst through the sliding doors yelling "congratulations, Max," and "Can you heal other people or just yourself?"
Honestly I didn't know and I wasn't to keen to find out just yet. Suddenly Angel yelled, 'Fang!' I spun around to look at him to find him holding that knife in one hand and he had a cut going diagonally down his palm looking like the one I had not two minutes ago. 'Fang, what are you doing? Scratch that last question. I don't even know if I can heal other people. Sure it would be use full but what if I can't. You'll have another scar to show for another failed experiment.' He gave me a look that said, "just-try." I sighed and pulled his hand gently towards me. I brushed my fingers lightly across the cut and nothing happened. 'I'm sorry,' I said as I dropped his hand and turned my back to him.
'Why? You just saved me another scar.' He said as he wrapped an arm around my waist and pulled me back towards him so that my back was against his front (déjà vu). He held his cut hand about 6inchs from my face. It was slowly healing. Then it was like there was no cut there to begin with. 'I think I've found my new power can do more then what I first thought,' Angel came and wrapped her arms around my waist, 'Hey, do you still have the scars you had before you got your new power?' I shrugged 'Dun' know Ange. Maybe.'
'Do you think you could heal Iggy's eyes. So that he's, like, not blind anymore?' Nudge suddenly asked me. I looked at Iggy and he looked back at me. I gave him a look that said, "tell-them." He gave me a slight nod and started to explain, 'Guys, Max can't fix my eyes,' He was about to continue when Gazzy suddenly piped up. 'But she could try right? Couldn't you Max?' Gazzy came and stood in front me and he looked like he was about to pull the Bambi eyes. 'Gaz, Max can't fix my eyes because…because they can't be anymore fixed then they already are. You see, I can see. And Gaz, I thought you'd be a little taller.' He joked then picked Angel up who had run from me to Iggy.
Fang came up behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist pulling me against him. I put my hands over his and he kissed the top of my head. 'Are you guys, like, together?' Nudge suddenly asked Fang and I. I tilted my head back to look at Fang and looked down at me then up at Nudge. 'Are you and Iggy, like, together?' He asked imitating the way she had asked us. I could swear that I saw amusement in his eyes as Nudge blushed. Iggy wrapped an arm around he waist and pulled her to him setting Angel down on the floor again. 'What about Amy? Aren't you going out with her?' I asked him. I know I know. Bad timing but I had to ask. 'Well actually she broke up with me. After that whole incident with Pruitt all of a sudden she can't go out with me 'cos he mum doesn't want her dating a "Juvenile Delinquent", and sure Amy was nice but she was just so…I don't know. But I do know that I like Nudge better.'
I smiled and that's when I knew that everything would be ok, for now.
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