Chapter Fourteen
I decided we needed to stay here one more night before we leave. All of us were banged up a bit, and Fang's broken arm needed to have a chance to heal before he was going to fight again. He hadn't spoken a word since the fight, but that's not really unusual for him; still I kept a close eye on him. He showed no emotion which worried me. The past few days he smiled more, now it was gone. Those Displacers were going to pay...
I had Iggy send all the littler kids to bed. Fang went to his room and hadn't come out for a while. Iggy was now helping me pack all of our packs. "Man, am I glad that we kept these. I thought we would never have to use them again. I dreaded the day that we would," I said. "I can't believe that Fang was accutally crying. That stunned me."
"I'm sorry Ig. We'll get Raven back, I promise. I know how you feel, and she is part of the flock. It's my duty," I said putting several bags of chips in one of the bags. I zipped it up and set it with the rest. "I'm gonna go check on Fang. He's been sititng in his room for hours. I'll check up on the other kids while I'm at it." As I started to walk up the stairs, Nudge walked through the front door with several bags in hand. "Where have you been?!" Nudge was startled and dropped a bag. A military combat boot fell out of it. "I-I was shopping. I figured we would need the right atire for this mission." Well, that was Nudge's sence of fashion kicking in. Where she got the money I have no idea. She walked over and handed me a bag. "Here. This is yours and Fang's. Put it on," she ordered and headed to her room. Well, I changed into the outfit before going to check on Fang. If you dissobay Nudge when she's in fashion mode, you would wish you haden't.
I had to say, it looked cool. But go figure that Nudge would me in a black spaggeti strapped shirt that came above my belly-button. The military camo. pants were cool. I put on the boots over the legs of the pants and laced them up. There was one more thing. I picked up the arm band on the counter and put it on, then threw my hair up in a pony tail. What was really smart for Nudge to do was buy a shirt with a built in bra.
I walked out of the bathroom and the first thing I heard was, "Oh my god... I thought I was never going to say this, but you look hot. Are you really my sister?"
"Shut it Iggy," I said heading up the stairs. "Are you sure that's a good thing to," Iggy called after me. I could hear the rustling of a bag down stairs. Seems that he was going through his bag of clothes.
I reached the top of the stairs and knocked on Fangs door. "Come in..." he said in a solom voice. I took a deep breath and walked into his room. Fang was sitting on his window sil, foot hanging out the window. His broken arm was in a sling from a torn bed sheet. He didn't look up when I walked in. "Um... hey. These are for you," I said, crossing the room with the bag in hand. When Fang looked up at me, I thought his eyes were going to pop out of his head. "Cool it lover boy. This was all Nudge's doing. How she did it though, I have no clue."
"Still.... um.... you look... uh..." Fang was lost at words, for once. "Here. These are yours." I gave him the bag with his clothes in them and sat down on his bed. "So, are you going to be okay?" I asked. Fang turned his gaze from me and back to the starey sky. "I just wish we could go get her now. I don't want her to go through those horrable experiments ever again. "
"Fang, we'll get her back... I promise." Fang only stared out the window. "Well, its getting late. I'm going outside to take first watch." I got up to walk out of his room, but he grabbed my hand, making me stop. "Please... don't leave me tonight." I turned to look at him, only to be met with dark, pleeding eyes. I smiled and said, "Okay," and sat on the floor next to him.