Coincide- Chapter 11

"It's time you start taking orders." The Director said crossing her arms in what looked like it was supposed to be an intimidating stance. "You'll cooperate with every instruction we give you, if you don't… you'll be terminated."

"Who cares?" I said bitterly. "My flock already thinks I'm dead."

She narrowed her eyes on me. "You're very lucky that you weren't the one who got the lethal injection. It would have been you if your father had never come to plead your case."

"What exactly did he say to convince you not to kill me?" I asked with sudden intrigue.

"He guaranteed you'd cooperate to keep your life." She stated confidently. "Therefore, surrendering to our demands means helping us purify the world."

"You mean kill a bunch of innocent people." I responded knowingly.

"I hardly think prisoners are innocent. They will be the first to go. All jailed people will be killed in our effort to make the by-half plan succeed. You'll be one of our weapons to destroy them, after going through training, of course."

"And who comes after them?" I questioned feeling a swell of anger inside my chest. "And what kind of training?"

"After the convicts, we eliminate anyone with a criminal record and after that… high school drop outs or anyone who never attended school at all." The Director continued. "As for your training… it will have many phases. Upon the completion of each phase… you earn trust from us. With our trust comes rewards… keeping your life, perhaps even seeing your flock again."

"Or I could just break out of here and go find them myself." I challenged.

She smiled and nodded. "You could try… but everyone in this building has the go ahead to shoot you on the spot if you exhibit any unusual activity."

"You haf no choice… you must cooperate." Dr. ter Borcht chimed in needlessly.

"I'd rather die than help you." I growled.

The Director sighed. "If you don't do what we say, we won't release your flock in the phony escape we have planned. Instead, we'll kill them." She tilted her head to the side. "So choose, Max. Cooperate and your flock goes free… permanently or you all die right here, right now."

"You make both choices sound so tempting." I muttered sarcastically. "What do you want me to do first?"

"Good choice." The evil duo said, clearly proud of themselves.

Flock P.O.V.

They had been placed in a white room after just watching their leader be killed by evil whitecoats with lethal injections. Fang's eyes scanned over the forms of his flock as he tried to fathom the terrible situation they were in. He couldn't believe Max was dead. He'd watched her die and couldn't do anything to stop it, neither could she. Everything was such a mess now. He was the leader, the oldest, and Max had entrusted him with the safety of the flock. They needed to get out of this place.

His eyes rested on Angel curled under her older brother's protective arm. She was sleeping and Gazzy had his eyes closed also, but Fang knew better than to assume he was awake. His figers were still moving in a circular pattern on his sister's shoulder, a classic sign he was unable to fall into actual sleep. Nudge was several feet away from Fang or anyone else for that matter. She had her face buried into her knees as tears streaked down her dark face. She was doing her best to muffle her sobs, but Fang's ears could hear them all. And he knew Iggy could too, because moments later the pale, blond boy strode over to her, sliding down next to her and embraced her. Her started whispering something to her, but Fang didn't bother straining his ears to hear.

Everything was too silent for his liking, a constant reminder of the tragedy they'd just experienced. His head was pounding, and his heart pattern was sped up into rapid beats of panic and hurt.

He closed his eyes, willing away reality. He just wanted to slip into his dreams where Max was alive and well, strong and healthy as ever before. The image of her face imprinted itself on the back of his eyelids. It hurt to see her face, preventing him from falling into unconsciousness.

He opened his eyes, releasing an almost inaudible sigh. Sleep definitely wasn't an option. Not after what he'd just been through.

Suddenly a voice boomed from the speakers, "System Failure."

"What?" Iggy piped up, furrowing his brow.

The door popped open, but no one was there.

"What's going on?" Angel asked, awake now.

"I don't know." Fang said trying to take in the situation. "But lets make a run for it."

They filed out the door quickly, beginning their attempt at escaping.

AN: Hope you liked it. Please keep reviewing, it makes me update so much quicker. Promise. I already have the next chap written and depending on the number of reviews I get... it might get posted tomorrow. It's up to you guys. And remember, reviews are love.