Sorry for the ridiculously long wait. I was busy, so, yeah. It's summer, so, may as well.

Disclaimer: I don't own Maximum Ride

Sophi's hands tightened around the wheel, as she kept planning out how and where she would corner Iggy when she would kill him. She already thought of the murder weapon. A gun. Fang had given her one before she began driving. Sophi was on a barren highway, so she decided to check on the others. She turned and saw Nudge and the Gasman leaning against eachother, their eyes shut, and their chests rising and falling in soft breathes. Angel had laid her head on Gazzy's lap, and his hand rested on her shoulder. Fang was leaning against the back of the car, with Max in his arms, a blanket around them both. Sophi could see her back shaking with gentle sobs. Her hand clutched Fang's arm, and also clutched a wrinkled photograph. It was of her and Fang, each holding one of the children.

Fang slowly and smoothly stroked her back, trying the best he could to comfort her. But Sophi saw through that. She swore she could see a few tear streaks on his cheeks. They were his children too.

Sophi had remained emotionless the entire ride. She only planned everything out for when they got there. Nudge would go off and cover the first few stories, Gazzy was going to go cover the few others above it, alone, but Gazzy wouldn't allow it. He was now going to go with Angel. Sophi complied. Max was going to cover almost half the entire building, with Fang. She was too vulnerable to do it on her own, even she admitted it. Sophi was going to scan all the floors, just to find the children, as everyone else was, and also to find Iggy. She kept the whole Iggy thing a secret from the others. She knew they would be totally against it.

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After another hour of driving, without even twitching of tirement, Sophi finally reached the lab. It almost seemed to blend perfectly into the landscape behind it. Sophi almost didn't recognize it, before she saw the sun glint off one of the windows. She parked over half a mile far from the building. As soon as she pulled the keys out of the ignition, she could hear moans and yawns from behind her. She turned and smiled calmly at the children.

" Hey, guys. Did you have a good rest?" She asked softly. Max turned from Fang's shirt and sniffled, a tear running down her cheek. Her eyes were so puffy, it looked more painful than it usually was. She'd been crying for over five hours. Fang looked up from Max's hair and sighed to himself, before kissing Max gently, and unwrapped the blanket from around her. His eyes were a little bloodshot as well.

" Looks like it was a good idea to have that nap." Gazzy muttered, after taking one look at the building. It almost seemed to be larger than three new World Trade Centers put together, the new building. Sophi almost seemed to roll her eyes when she studied it. Just perfect... she thought. Angel turned to her and tried to give her a sympathetic smile, but Sophi wasn't looking. She just kept staring at the building, thinking about Kelly, and Keez, and the priest, an everyone else that had nothing to do with this, but were punished anyway.

Even if Keez had done what he did to Sophi, she still loved him, in her now different way. She never wished him to die. She'd learned not to from her last experience.

A sudden memory of Rick smile for the last time came to mind. She bit her lip trying to hide the tears that threatened to escape.

" Soph, when do we break?" Gazzy suddenly intervened. Sophi broke from her concentration. She turned with a vicious expression.

" Now."

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Since Fang's power had improved from only disappearing in the darkness, to going completely invisible at anytime, he could then take everyone, if they held hands, through security and make it into the basement without anyone noticing at all. The terrible part of it though, was that the basement kept what was failed experiments, experiments too disgusting for others to see so they keep them in the basement, and, what seemed to be fetus in the making, with labels on their incubators of what they were supposedly going to be. Looking at those little eyes caused Max to break down in Fang's arms. Sophi came over and rubbed her back, before hugging and resting her head on her shoulder, as Fang held her arm, knowing that Max and him weren't the only ones suffering of their children being kidnapped.

The children came over and came into the group, as Max turned to hug Sophi back.

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" Let's see, if I were a fucking shit-crazy monster who wants to kill his ex's kid, where would I be?" Sophi asked herself, almost louder than one would like, but she was trying to provoke Iggy if he was on that floor, so he'd come out and fight with her, until she pulled out the gun and shot at his head several times until there was nothing but his brains sliding out. Yeah, she was pretty gruesome once you think about it.

Sophi turned to a door that had a sign which read, " Operational Room." Again, Sophi rolled her eyes the way she did the last time she had to go in a room with that sign on the door. She gripped the door knob and turned, but it was locked. She groaned to herself. She pointed the gun towards the knob's key hole, but thought better to listen to whatever was going on inside just to make sure if she had the right room. She pressed her ear against the door, and with Fang's super-sonic hearing aid, she heard all the clanks and mutterings from the room.

" It's a beauty, isn't it?" muttered one whitecoat.

" Amazing. We could use this DNA to make so many more young aquatic hybrids like him." Sophi rolled her eyes and backed away from the door and continued walking down the corridor towards the staircase to the next floor, the twelfth one. Sophi ran until she heard what sounded like Iggy's new voice muttering to an oily one up a few more flights. She could hear faint giggles from the oily one. That only enraged Sophi even more. First the children, now he wants to fuck some slut? Sophi was tempted to kill him then and there, but, she still didn't know where the children were, she had just started the search, and she'd rather know where they were, THEN kill him and his little freak, start a murder spree, take the kids, go home, and forget this all had ever happened. Easy enough for her.

She ran down towards the next flight of stairs, but she slipped and reached out towards the rail. The force from her trying to break her fall, and gravity, caused her to flip over the rail, and latch onto the last bar piece. She hung onto it for dear life. She didn't want Iggy to see her, or let that skank see her, so she decided that going over to the inner corner of the staircase would conceal her. So she did. But halfway there, her cellphone, which she forgot why she even thought of bringing it, slid out of her pocket, and clanked loudly against the polished tiled floor of the staircase. Sophi cursed softly and looked up, already hearing the sudden threatening mutterings from Iggy.

" Stay here, I'll see just exactly what that was." Iggy whispered softly into the other's ear. She giggled when Iggy stuck out his new tongue, pointy, and very unappealing. Sophi could hear the giggling and soft licking, and almost gagged. This was when Fang's super-sonic hearing aid was very inconvenient. Iggy then began to sprint down the stairs. Sophi took a chance and swung up the railing and landed on the next floor up. Luckily, the little slut went with Iggy down the stairs. Sophi ran up the stairs to the next floor and shut the door as quickly as possible. She leaned against it and sighed softly, and ran her hand through her hair. Something hard and cold hit her forehead when she brought her hand up. She looked down at her hand, and found the ring Iggy had given her many years ago.

She thought for a second whether she should keep it or pull it off and leave it in this hallway for the rest of her life. Eh, she'll leave it there. She pulled it off roughly, rough enough that she pulled a piece of her own skin off with it. Beads of blood dripped off her finger and onto the hallway tiles. She scoffed at the ring and threw it against the wall and it landed at her feet. She ran off, leaving the ring soak itself into her blood. Sophi sucked onto the area where the abrasion was, hissing to herself.

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Iggy leaned down and picked up the phone. His tongue hissed out instinctively and... tasted the phone's outer cover. His eyes flashed red, and he growled low to himself. She's here... he smiled wickedly, Perfect...

" Kylie, you can go ahead and see the aqua mutant's surgery. I'll join you in a minute. I just have to check something for a second in our room." Iggy rasped on to Kylie. He pressed his mouth against hers, and she smiled evilly when they were done.

" See you there, sweetie." She whispered, before passing her long purple finger along Iggy's jaw line and walking out the doors and into the hallway Sophi was just in.

Iggy looked up and stuffed the phone into his pocket, before running up the stairs and into the hallway. He smirked evilly and whispered in his frightening voice, " Oh, pet? Where, oh, where can she be?" Iggy turned to a supply closet and chuckled, his newly developed fangs almost cutting through his bottom lip.

" Can she be in here?" He rammed his elbow into the door and it came down with a loud crash. Nothing. He felt even more excited of that fact.

" Oh, Sophi? Oh, you don't like this voice? Here, is this bett--?" Something crunchy and slippery stopped him and his voice changing short. He looked down with his evil smile, but it soon faded when he saw what he stepped on. His eyes seem to go back to normal. A pinkish tint kept in them, though. His fangs grew back into his regular teeth. He leaned down and pick it up, noticing the blood that stained the white gold. The gem was cracked in a far corner because of his foot.

" Soph?" Iggy said, in his normal, true voice. He meant it. A tear streamed down his cheek, and he held the ring against his heart. His eyes flashed red suddenly, and his jaw tightened, his fangs growing back out again. His wicked voice returned. He looked down at the ring and held it tightly in his hand, before he flung it behind him, getting up and stomping towards the end of the hallway.

He brought his hand up and sniffed the blood on his fingers, as his tongue licked at it, catching her scent to track her down and kill her. Rape her, THEN kill her.

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Seems they both had plans to kill eachother.

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Sophi could hear Iggy's teasing voice from the hallway. She breathed deeply and heavily under the giant rack of clothing in Iggy and Kylie's closet. Seems Iggy's gotten all she "needed" in only a few days.

Sophi could sense the faint smell of sex in the air. She almost gagged when it began to smell like cabbages. She sensed that smell back at the staircase where the girl was. How could Iggy stand that smell? Maybe his oth--

" Oh, my pretty little thing? Are you in here?" Iggy chirped from the door of the room. Sophi clamped her hand against her mouth, and tears welled in her eyes. Her heavy eyeliner began to run. She saw the shadow of Iggy's footsteps at the crack underneath the closet door.

" Oh, love? What're you doing... in the closet?!" Iggy pulled the closet door off its rollers. Sophi gasped inwardly, as Iggy gripped her neck and pulled her out of her hiding place.

" That game was a lot of fun. How about we play another one?" Iggy's voice changed from the new one to the old one, his fangs only shortening a tad, and his nails growing an inch's length. He pushed her onto the ruffled bed. Her tank top dipped low on her cleavage, which only excited Iggy. He smiled evilly down at her.

" Missed me?" He asked, coming down on her. Sophi gasped when she heard his old voice. 'Course, this was all just a plan to get him to think she fell for HIS plan, when really he'll fall for hers.

" I--Iggy?" She brought her hand up and hesitantly ran her fingers through his hair. He smiled warmly at her. His hand came up and his long nails caressed her cheek bones. She flinched when he touched her. He leaned down and began to plant butterfly kisses on her neck. Sophi held him there, and smirked when one of her hands left his hair and reached down to get her gun.

" Iggy? What happened? I mean, I bet we can get over this, whatever this is. I just hope you can forgive me when I--" Iggy's hand snapped down to Sophi's pants' pocket. Sophi froze instantly, already breaking out in a cold sweat. Iggy lifted himself over her, their faces only a few inches apart. Sophi gasped at the sight. His eyes went back to glowing red, his fangs grew long again, and his nails shortened to a painful length.

" You didn't think I wouldn't expect that, did you?" Iggy asked, before taking her left hand and throwing her against the corner of the room next to the bed, and held her hands against the walls. His raspy voice returned.

" Oh, Sophi? What am I going to do with you?" He tsked. Sophi's lips quivered and more black tears began to stream down her cheeks as he kneed her ribs, her hands still pressed against the wall. Her gun was thrown somewhere across the room a while ago. Iggy saw her tears and frowned falsely.

" Oh, honey? Is this hurting you?" Iggy asked teasingly. His nail elongated before her eyes and wiped the tears from her cheek bones.

" Will this make it better?" Iggy leaned down and slid her tank top over her stomach and over her bra, to reveal the space between her ribs. He stuck out his reptile tongue and rubbed it against her soft skin, tasting her. Sophi's eyes fluttered slowly, and her hands hesitantly slid down the walls and rested on his shoulders, her fingers playing absentmindedly with the hair at the nape of his neck. He looked up and smiled wickedly, before looking back at her chest. He bit into her rib. A piercing shriek hit her mouth, her hands clawing helplessly at his shirt.

Iggy didn't just stop at the bite. He went all out and viciously gnawed on her meat. Sophi's eyes fluttered almost to unconsciousness at her loss of blood. Then she thought of Kelly, and her eyes flew open.

" Kelly!" She screamed, before kicking Iggy in his groin and shoving him off her. She looked frantically around for her gun. It was at the door. She picked it up and made a run for the hallway, but a hand gripped her ankle and she slipped, and her forehead smashed against the doorway. She instantly lost consciousness, as blood began to seep from the cut on her forehead. Iggy struggled to stand, before he did, and limped over to her. He kicked her hip and grunted in her direction.

He pressed his fingers against the speaker in his ear. He turned it on and spoke in it.

" Get some whitecoats. I got a fresh one."

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Sophi moaned softly to herself, she brought her hand to her-- What the fuck?! Why does my head hurt so bad... Aaah... What?.. Where am I? Sophi sat up, in what seemed to be a vet's examination room. She looked down at her hand and found all types of needles stuck in it. She tried pulling at them, but they wouldn't come out, even after she ripped off the tape. It also hurt to pull at them when she did that. She looked down at her clothes, well, where they should have been. Instead, scrubs were on her figure.

" You're awake. Nice." An all too familiar voice came from behind her. She jumped and almost fell on her side on the tiles. She caught herself, with a painful shriek, some off the needles coming off, along with her skin. She gritted her teeth as tears streamed down her face. She turned to Iggy who only leaned on his fist on her bed, well, the metal layer underneath.

" I always knew you were a klutz. Doesn't work for you, now, huh?" He chuckled. Sophi only glared at him, knowing she couldn't move, or else she could have more of her skin removed. Blood trickled down her hand and landed at her feet. Iggy took his eyes off Sophi's to look at the blood. So now he's blood-thirsty? Great... Sophi thought, her eyes still on Iggy's face. He licked his lips lightly, looking back up at Sophi, smiling with his old boy-ish charm. Sophi's breathe hitched in her throat when he came up behind her and ran his hands down her arms. She didn't move, until later when he inserted his hands up her scrub gown. She turned her head a half-millimeter, before Iggy reached up and clawed her jaw, turning her back to face the ceiling.

" I want this to be a surprise." Iggy said. Sophi gulped, shutting her eyes, because now she couldn't do a thing. She was completely trapped, her hands trapped, her feet under his, which was extremely painful, mind you. Before, in all her other rapes, she had the power to stop it. She could do something about it, but now, she was completely trapped. The thing that hurt more... was that Iggy was the only one she ever had a relationship with, who had never raped her. Now this monster was taking him over, and there was nothing she could do about it.

Is this what she could really be thinking? Kylie said Sophi would only want me more, but... she thinks I'm a monster! Iggy seemed to be arguing with himself. He kept her scrubs over her back side, his "manhood" positioned and happy behind her. Iggy almost seemed to snap out of his trance. He looked up at Sophi. He could see her throat rise and fall at a deep gulp. A tear ran down the side of her cheek, dripping off her chin and landing on Iggy's hand. He looked down at it, then looked back up when Sophi sniffled. He looked over to the glass pane at the other end of the room. He saw her looking up at the light, her lips pressed together as tears ran down her cheeks.

Iggy looked down and sighed inwardly, as if he were begging for this type of thing to happen, when another part of him only wanted to do it out of revenge, when yet another part didn't want to hurt her. He pulled the gown back down and zipped his own pants up. He looked towards the glass pane and saw her face staring at his. Shock ran across it, but he could see she was trying the best she could to hide it.

He smiled warmly at her, and wrapped his arms around her from behind, and rested his chin on her shoulder, which caused her to stiffen.

" You don't always have to be so brave." He said, smiling again at her.

" Oh, but I do." She replied, as Iggy began to pull out the needles in her hands, gently, one by one, causing no pain. He still had her turned towards the ceiling. She didn't look like she wanted to move either. Once Iggy was finished with the needles, he held her hand, and turned her to him, slowly and gently. She held a blank expression, but her lips seemed to quiver softly and her eyes gushed fear. He slanted his eyes in a frown. He pulled her towards him, but she began to struggle, and she pulled her hand away from his. He chewed the inside of his lip, nodding gently, looking down.

He closed his eyes. " Go." He whispered. Sophi frowned and came over a few inches. She reached out, but kept her hand as far as she could keep it from his face.

" What?" Iggy looked up with his glowing red eyes. Sophi gasped, and brought her hand back.

" Go!" Sophi stepped back and turned and ran out into the hallway. Iggy leaned against the counter, his hand coming up and holding his face. He gritted his teeth when the gadget in his stomach began to whir and move in there.

" Arghh!" Iggy slid down to the floor, clawing his stomach, and throwing his head back against the cabinets.

Sorry, again. I'll update in about a week or so.

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