Disclaimer: JP owns Maximum ride , not me


After a wonderful dinner of pasta made by our resident chef and surprise, Fang, we all sat down in the front room.

This was one of the best rooms in the house. It was huge. There were three triple sofas, a giant plasma TV mounted on a wall, 2 computers and a laptop on 3 desks against one wall, a pool table for Gazzy and Iggy, (they had begged, literally down on their knees groveling at my feet) and an aquarium in the corner that Angel had asked for. She spent hours in front of that talking to those fish.

An awkward silence fell upon the room. No one was quite sure what to say. Normally after dinner everyone went and did their own stuff, but now that Fang was back, we all wanted to spend as much time with him as possible. Problem is, what do you say to your brother whose been missing for 4 years?

Turns out Fang decided to solve the no-talking problem himself. "I guess you all would like to know how I escaped?" Everyone looked up surprised, we'd been careful about asking questions, but it seemed that our curiosity hadn't gone unnoticed.

Fang leaned back into the sofa and began his story.

"About 2 months ago the white coats discovered that I did infact have a power. Turns out that that was the reason they wanted me back so bad. I hadn't developed my powers, I was an unknown factor and they preferred to keep anything unknown locked in a cage under their watchful eyes."

"What your power?" Gazzy asked, his eyes sparkling.

"I'm getting to it." Fang said, smirking. "Like I said, the white coats found out about my powers 2 months ago, but I had known for much longer. About 2 years. I kept it hidden knowing that if they found out, I had no chance. You see, one of my powers is dangerous, really dangerous." He took a breath and I threaded my fingers through his, squeezing his hand. He gave me a smile and continued "I can kill people with my mind." He looked at me, judging my reaction.

Well, I was shocked to say the least. I mean, we never killed people, erasers and flyboy's maybe, but we never really killed people. And now Fang can do it, with his mind. Dangerous was an understatement.

The rest of flock was silent. Iggy and Gazzy were staring at Fang, Nudge looked slightly horrified and Angel had her head tilted to one side, studying him. "You said powers." She said "What other ones?"

Fang looked at her in surprise, I was surprised too, I would have thought the one was bad enough to deal with. She seriously was a messed up kid.

"I can kill people with my mind, I leave no evidence, need no weapon, but I have to be able to see them. That's not a problem though when you can disappear into the shadows, blending into 

the furniture, that's my second power, I can camouflage myself. I'm the perfect assassin." Fang said, "But I wouldn't do what they wanted, I wouldn't kill." He looked at me and I understood he was talking about our late night chat last night. I squeezed his hand again letting him know I was there for him.

"I knew I had to get out of there, as much as I hate to admit it, they were slowly breaking me, I couldn't take much more, and I didn't want to be their weapon. I got lucky one night, a storm hit and knocked out the power. The lights were out and I managed to break one of the bars on the cage with the pocket knife I'd managed to hide. Every night I'd filed the bar a little bit, and that night I was able to finish the job. After that the same thing as always happened, I ran, they chased, I got into the security office and unlocked the other cages, I don't know how many others escaped, I got out of there after that, taking to the sky finally free. Then I tracked you guys down, and here I am."