A/N: I have another authors note at the bottom, but, at the risk of looking dumb, I have a question. When I look at the 'documents' section of my account, one of the sections on the table is "life" and it says for some of my documents (I have one document for each chapter) and that there is only like 48 days or whatever. Will those chapters disappear after 48 days?? Please respond… otherwise this story might disappear!! Ahhh!!

ANGEL POV

"Angel…" Gazzy tried for the zillionth time to cheer me up. But I would not be consoled. I heard the thoughts of the workers bumbling about outside of our cell.

The girl… the leader… the oldest female… the one who has given herself the title Maximum… attacked… gone… the Director will be pleased… maybe the dark one, too… the oldest male… missing… possibly dead… no bodies found... It was all the scientists could think about as they made their way about their business. No project had ever been so important or successful at The School as us, the flying bird kids.

And, apparently, no project had ever gone so very wrong.

"Let's play rock, paper, scissors!" Gazzy suggested, holding his closed fist out with a hesitant smile. I sighed and picked his move out of his head.

"You're going to play rock. I won," I muttered, turning to face the stained cement wall.

Stained with long red streaks, just the right space apart to have come from fingers.

Fingers attached to "experiments" gone insane, attempting to claw their way through three-feet-thick solid concrete. From behind me, I heard Nudge sigh. I turned away from the wall, willing myself to smile.

"Let's play," I suggested to Gazzy. "I promise I won't listen." He eyed me skeptically, but was obviously too pleased I had decided to do something that he didn't seem to mind if I cheated.

I won three times in a row and Gazzy gave up, turning to talk to Iggy. Iggy was doing the worst out of all of us, even me. He hadn't said one word since we had arrived. He'd just stared at the cement door of our room in silence, twisting his fingers up in his fits and tugging at his strawberry blond hair.

The opposite of Iggy was Ella. She might have even beaten the Nudge record for most questions asked since we'd arrived. "What is this place?" "Why do they want us here?" "These are the people my mom used to work for, right?" "Why do they want me?" "What are they going to do with us now?" The questions flowed around us, giving us something to do, even though we didn't really have answers. Nudge and Gazzy muttered vague responses to her, trying in vain to comfort her without having any real information. All we could tell her was that we'd arrived at the last place on Earth she ever wanted to be.

"Angel?" Ella called from across our cell. It wasn't even a barred cell. All four walls were cement. We couldn't see out at all.

"Yeah," I whispered, turning to face her and pulling my arms around my knees, huddling in a ball. The tall girl walked over to me and sat down beside me.

"Why aren't they here yet?" I shrugged. I didn't have to ask who she meant, and not just because I could read her mind. It was on all of our minds, although none of us had voiced the question yet. Where were Max and Fang? Surely they were coming to get us out. But normally they worked so quickly together, so efficiently, perhaps the best of all of us.

So where were they?

A/N: Thanks so much for everyone who has reviewed!! Here are some responses:

silentwings3495: Thanks! And as for your question… keep reading and you might find out! (Sorry, I know that's a crappy response, but I can't give everything away! I'd just stay optimistic if I were you.)

Julie AV: Thanks… and yeah, you're right! And about your review about Fang and his sleeping habits… maybe, maybe not. Now that you said that, maybe it won't happen at all.

bLackAngel72: Thanks so much! It really makes me happy that I'm writing these for someone other than myself… I hope you like the rest of the chapters as much as the first.

TheEverLoyalPoptart: THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!!

So now, everyone, just keep reading! I'm trying to keep writing/posting as much as possible, but I do have two sports, a job, and school… so I'm trying my best. I hope you like what I do, and if you have any suggestions, I'm totally open to them!