Here we have it!!!!! New and improved chapter 14!!!!! Told you it would be up in a few minutes ^.-

I'll try to have chapter 15 up by late tomorrow, already have some of it written in my notebook.

It feels good to be back ^.^

Max was gone…

Max's POV

Before Ari or I could reach the door a sharp whistle caught my attention and instinctually I turned to see the Director staring with a calculative expression. In her right hand was a silver whistle that glinted in the noon sun.

While signaling with her hand for me to wait the Director turned momentarily to look into the small crowd of scientists behind her. "Jeb? Let us use the newly developed serum on Max. I do believe it will have a very positive physical and emotional effect upon her. It might even allow our control and destructive possibilities to quadruple, at the least."

As if I wasn't curious enough, the puzzle of the commonly called upon Jed entered my mind as he walked forward, awkwardly slithering between the other scientists. From the moment I had woken up this man had been a constant figure in everything I did, like an overly obsessive parent. Jeb's eyes met mine and I noticed they were filled with intense, baffling sorrow. Who was this nervous man who always watched me in everything I did here?

"It's too dangerous," he spoke up once he reached the Director's side. I noted that his voice held more authority then I gave him credit for, easily overriding his shaken appearance and hinting at a past self. "The harmful side effects it causes are as frequent, if not more, to the many deaths we have already experienced. Most likely, she will die and we cannot take that risk!"

Switching my weight from one leg to the other, I wondered why this man worried so much about my well being. Was it just because I was an important experiment or was it something more?

"When will it be ready?" The director's voice shook me out of my thoughts.

"It's too dangerous! The other trials-"

"When will it be ready?"

"They had brain aneurisms and unpredictable growths! If-"

"Mr. Batchelder, when will your concoction be ready to use?" Silence fell like a heavy winter coat onto all of us listening. Her voice had taken a freezing, toe curling quality that had the resisting scientist visibly trembling. It didn't take long for him to break.

"J-Just a few more months, please Emily, please?"

The cold brown eyes of the director bore into Jeb's in a small power struggle. As long moments passed without a single breathe being taken I found myself thinking about why it didn't bother me that they were arguing over something that would likely kill me. It was as if I didn't care for life anymore, didn't have a reason to live and was just floating along. Well that's interesting.

"Alright, you have one week to perfect it." Long, red painted fingernails swept through her perfectly in place hair in almost an upset gesture.

"Just a single week? We need at least six months." Everyone in the vicinity twitched, all feeling the tension grow. No one argued with the Director, no one.

"Two weeks. No more." With a rush of red she spun around on her 3-inch bloody red stilettos and started to walk through the terrified parting sea of scientists. Without pausing she gestured over her shoulder "Oh and Jeb? Don't ever attempt to argue or disobey me again. Always remember that I'm letting you continue to work here because you begged me." With that last scathing remark the director disappeared through the heavy door she had been walking towards.

Everything around me began to slightly spin as confusion clouded my thoughts. Kita, who are these people? What have I forgotten? I heard the Director mention me being an escapee, what does she mean?

You did escape, you and the flock I keep telling you about. Please remember Max, remember Nudge and Angel, Gazzy and Iggy, F-

Kita.. I sighed rolling my eyes as I reached over and placed a hand on her soft furred head. Even if these things did happen to me, I don't remember them at all! You'd think if they were important I would remember! But I don't, and you know how frustrating it is? Everything around me seems based upon the past, and for some reason I can't remember any of it. Then on top of that everyone is telling me different stories of what happened and I barely know what to believe.

You know you can believe me.

I do, but it's so hard to really believe. And I… I kind of feel like I don't want to know, like what ever happened was really bad. If I really was in love with a guy who died, do I really want to remember that? I turned my head up to the sky and felt the slight breeze running through my hair. Maybe I really didn't want to know, maybe I could get through all this not knowing. Making a snap decision I turned my attention back to my trusted companion. Please leave it be Kita, I'll tell you if I want to know more but right now I need to be more concerned about getting weird new experiment they want to perform on me. Just let it drop please?

I can't let you live a lie Max, you are doing things that you never would have done otherwise. In this absent state you might even go as far as the coats want you to. I can't let that happen.

Just let it drop for now ok? With a sudden flourish of anger I stomped the rest of the way through the dead grassy field and towards a huge door. Grasping the handle angrily I tossed open the door and marched on in. I was growling under my breath as I made my way past white walls and eventually to a locked door.

"Damn it Kita, I open up to you and you push me past my limit. And where were those scientists when you needed them? Do they expect me to sleep on the floor while they have my empty cage of a room locked?

As I stood there tapping my grumpy foot on the speckled linoleum floor debating whether to hurt my pride and go back to Kita on the training field or to continue standing here like a moron, Ari's dog breathe suddenly tickled the back of my neck.

"Hey Max," I could still feel his hot breathe extremely uncomfortable on the back on my neck.

"Err, Ari can you not do that?"

"Do what?" Ari's voice sounded genuinely confused and for a moment I was going to forgive him for being creepy but then strong furry arms wrapped around my waist discouraging such kindness. Instantly my body reacted doing a 180 with my elbows nearly breaking his arms as they collided. My knee shot up then and Ari collapsed to the floor shouting curses between his clenched teeth.

"Damn it Max what the hell was that for?"

His pained face barely registered in my mind as black tendrils crept into my vision and started to eat the white washed surroundings. My vision quickly was turned to blackness.

I'm trying to work on longer chapters, but the next one might be really really short because of how I want to break it up. Any who, hope you all enjoyed it!!!!