A/N: This chapter was named after Nickelback's song "Far Away" which I'll use as a central theme to the chapter. Not sure if I spelled the guy's name right, so you'll have to let me know whether I did or not. Don't have FANG with me, when I read it, I borrowed it from my cousin, so…yeah.
Chapter 11- My Immortal
"I can't believe he's gone," I said to Fang as Dylan came inside, looking very grim.
"He's here, guys," Dylan announced. "I couldn't convince him, but he's here to fix it all…" Dr. Gunthen-Hagen walked into the room with a very long needle.
"Just hold still, Max, this won't hurt a bit," he said in a cheerful voice that I deeply mistrusted.
Angel POV
Hah, she actually believes that I'll 'fix' her expiration date? Yeah, right! Whatever…this will kill her within a few days, to quicken the process. All right, now that will do it! My eyes went wide at this new information from Dr. Gunthen-Hagen. I tuned into my Voice to see if it would be of any help.
Angel, you have to let Max die, the Voice said. It's all part of the test, and of Max saving the world. She will be fine, trust me. But you have to learn to wait for things to work out on their own. Now, I can't allow you to remember that last part, so…
There was a throbbing pain in my head, and then everything went very gray all around me. I fell to the floor and clutched my head, wanting the pain to go away. Make it stop, stop, stop! And then blissful oblivion.
Nudge POV
OMG, Fang is like, totally back and everything! I am soooo happy! I have to go tell Ella that we should celebrate with a huuuuge pizza dinner with soda and everything! It would be totally awesome. I ran into her room, but it was empty.
"Ella?" I shouted. "Where'd you go?" I heard faint crying from downstairs. I followed the source of the noise to Dr. M's room. I pushed the door open and found Dr. Martinez on her bed, crying. Ella was with her.
"Dr. Martinez…why are you crying?" I asked. She looked up and wiped her tears away.
"Jeb's dead," she whispered. Ella placed a comforting hand on Dr. M's arm.
"Oh, weren't you supposed to marry him or something?" She nodded. Her brown eyes were filled with pain. I was suddenly reminded of how Max looked when Fang left us. But now he was back, so everything would get better.
"Ella, honey, why don't you see if the others are hungry?" Max's mom asked.
Gazzy POV
"Dude, this is so wild," I said to Iggy. "You hear about this?" He looked at me in confusion.
"Dr. God is in the house, right?" Iggy asked, listening very hard to his surroundings.
"That's what I meant," I said to him. "Something wrong with your hearing?" Ella came out and headed into the kitchen.
"Who's hungry?" she called out.
"Stupid question!" I yelled back. "Hey, Nudge, dinner's going to be ready soon! Max, where are you?"
Fang POV
I watched in horror as the needle went into Max's arm…and she collapsed. There was an eerie silence. Then I heard Gazzy yelling for Nudge and Max. I bent down to pick up Max. Dylan silently watched me. I think he was trying to see if I made a better mate for her, but it was obvious what he thought about me.
"Hey, I'm ordering pizza!" Ella shouted. "What do you guys want?"
"The usual," I responded. "For everyone," I continued to stare at Max, hoping she'd wake up soon. The jerk who had done this to her had already left before I could punch his brains out. I set Max on the couch.
"Fang…" Max murmured, opening her eyes. "I feel really strange," I said nothing. How fitting. "I feel really hot," I felt her forehead. She felt normal…but I was going by bird kid standards here, and we aren't exactly normal.
"Just stay here, I'll go see if Ella's done making the orders,"
"No, I said two pepperonis and one sausage," Ella said as I walked into the kitchen. "Right, how much will that be? Do you take checks?" Angel ran into the kitchen and dragged me upstairs before I could say anything.
"What is it?" I asked.
"Fang!" Angel sobbed. "It's horrible! So horrible…Max is going to die! There's nothing we can do!" I just held her as she cried, feeling a few tears streak down my face. If Max was going to die, then the world would never get saved. I would surely die if Max did. Finally, Angel gulped and looked up at me.
"I'm glad you're back," she said, and I could feel a little warmth go back into my heart. I smiled at her in my trade mark way. Ella finished her phone call and came upstairs.
"What's going on?" she questioned.
"Go get the others and round them up in the living room. Angel has some bad news," She nodded and ran back downstairs. I went after her and sat on the floor by Max's head. Dr. Martinez came out, her eyes red from crying.
"You're not going to like this, Dr. Martinez," Angel said in a hollow voice from the bottom of the stairs. Gazzy and Iggy fought for a spot on the other couch. Nudge for once was quiet. "None of you will, actually. Max is going to die very soon. I made sure of it, my Voice is right," Max didn't react. It was almost as if she wasn't in the room. Everyone started crying. Only Max just sat there, very limp and distant. Come to think of it, she hasn't been quite right since she woke up.
"Why Max?" Gazzy croaked through his tears. "It's not fair!"
"I know!" Iggy shouted, jumping to his feet. "Isn't there something we can do? Someone we can fight?" Angel sadly shook her head, more tears spilling from her blue eyes. Nudge stared in shock at Max, at a loss for words. Ella cried into Dr. M's shirt. But it was Dr. M who looked the worst. She looked like she had her heart ripped right out of her chest. I knew she had loved Jeb, which didn't bring a reaction out of me, but Max was…Max. She was my everything, my right wing…I looked over at her.
"Fang," Max said, sitting up. "Since I'm going to die, I have to tell you something I should've told you a long time ago,"
"What?"
"I love you," She pressed her lips to mine. It didn't matter that her days were numbered, or that the pizza was about to get here. She loved me right now…that was all that mattered to me at the moment.
