Me: Well, I'm finally updating this! I know that I took forever but that was because of that Hiatus and stuff happened, but I'm back now :)

Iggy: ZZZZZzzzzzZZZZZzzzzzzZZZZZZ

Me: -facepalm- And I really need to go to bed, so our little commentary thing will have to wait until the next chapter.

I hope you like it - while writing this I was practically in tears, I thought that it was really sad...

Anyway, read on..uh, readers? Read on readers! Wow, I really am tired.

We all walked down the hall in a giant chain; Fang was holding my hand as if he was afraid I'd leave again and Iggy was holding my other arm, letting us drag him along.

After walking for a few minutes, I was amazed by how well Fang knew his way around. I guess after six years he really knew where he was going.

We were going down hall after hall and seeming to turn down endless passageways until we came to a door marked 'Director.' I instantly felt my heart speed up and my jaw clench tightly as I looked at my seemingly insane boyfriend (yes, I did just refer to him as my boyfriend, deal with it!).

"Fang, do you want to get out of here alive!?" I whispered angrily.

He didn't say anything but gave me a look that said 'trust me.' I gave the slightest nod and didn't break our gaze. It had felt like forever since I'd looked into his dark eyes and now I wished that I could do it forever. But, of course, Iggy would never let a moment like that last.

"Where are we?" Ig asked as he casually leaned against a wall.

"The Directors office," Fang said simply.

I watched as Iggy's face became pale and a look of fear flashed in his eyes before he turned and began to walk down the hall. "Thanks for the amazing tour, Fang, but I think I've overstayed my welcome. I also think that I'd like to keep my freedom and sanity intact-"

I rolled my eyes as I roughly grabbed his arm and pulled him back.

"Fang, what are we doing?" He asked in panic, but Fang had already knocked on the door.

"Come in," a voice rang cheerfully from the other side of the door.

Fang gently grabbed my arm and, before I could protest, pulled the two of us into the room, shutting the door behind him.

The first thing that I noticed was a bookcase off to the side of the room with lots of books in it. However, I didn't have any time to look at them, because I was interrupted by that bubbly voice that I'd heard earlier.

"Can I help you?" the girl asked, sounding too happy for my liking.

I looked over at her, unblinking, and she stared back with a friendly smile plastered across her face.

"Can I help you?" she asked again, sounding more impatient now.

My breath caught in my throat as I felt a sudden recognition. I took slow steps across the room and stopped at her desk, not taking my eyes off the girl the whole time. Nobody said a word as the two of us kept staring at each other, not breaking eye contact once.

"Angel?" I whispered, placing my hands gently on the desk.

"H-how do you know my name?" She asked, her smile instantly gone from her face.

"It's me, Ma-"

"She doesn't remember."

I turned around to look at Fang, breaking my eye contact with Angel.

"They captured Angel shortly after I came here. The Whitecoats studied her mind controlling capabilities and turned them against her. She's been programmed to be the director and that's all she knows how to do," he explained and I turned back around to face the now 12 year old girl that I had considered my baby all those years ago.

"What are you talking about? Get out of here now before I call security!" She said frantically, going from friendly to afraid in an instant.

I walked cautiously around her, kneeling down on her right side so I was slightly shorter than her.

"Sweetie, I am so sorry," I began quietly, patting her knee. "We never should have split up the Flock. It was a stupid mistake and I wish more than anything that we could undo it.

"I don't know if you can hear me, Ange, but if you can you need to fight this. I know you can do it because you were always so strong for your age and you never gave up, even when things seemed impossible." I paused for a minute when I saw tears beginning to form in her eyes but I continued. "And even though you disobeyed me sometimes and we didn't always see eye to eye, you were always my baby Angel. And after you left, I missed you so much that it would ache until I just didn't care about anything anymore."

I watched as she doubled over in her chair, clutching her head in her hands. I put my arm around her shoulder comfortingly and the boys came over to; Iggy stroking her hair and Fang patting her arm.

"We can't let them push us around, Ange," I continued as she moaned and struggled against the mind control. "I need you to keep fighting because I love you- we love you and we need you more than anything. I once remember saying that three of us or five of us isn't 'us.' 'Us' means all six. And that's still true. I want to be whole again. Please don't give up," by the end it was almost a whisper, but I knew that she heard me.

Her head suddenly shot up out of her hands and her eyes darted around the room quickly before they stopped on me.

"Max!" She cried happily as she threw her arms around my neck and hugged me tight. "Thank you."

"No problem, Ange," I replied as I stroked her ponytail, feeling the knotted hair between my fingers. "Good to have you back."

We stayed like this for a few minutes before she let go and wiped tears from her eyes as she took in my features. She then turned around and studied Fang and Iggy carefully before running straight into Fang's arms and I swear that he smiled as he hugged her.

After she had let go, she turned to Iggy but didn't hug him like I thought she would.

"Yes," she said quietly and he nodded solemnly.

"Am I missing something here?" I asked confused, looking between the two of them.

Angel gave Iggy a quick cuddle before turning to face me again.

"He wanted to know if Nudge had come here," Angel said grimly. "I told him said that she had, but she couldn't break me out of my trance, so she left with Total."

Iggy turned his head to face me and nodded.

"What is it?" Fang asked.

"Total didn't make it," I explained making Angel's face fall. "Ig and I found his grave outside a cave we stopped at last night."

"While I was being controlled by the School I did some horrible things," She said as more tears rolled silently down her cheeks. "They made me cut out Total's voice box! And now, I can't even say that I'm sorry."

She then sunk down onto her knees and began to sob in despair. I sat down next to her and pulled her into my lap; just like I used to do when she was upset.

"I know that Total already knows that you didn't mean to do that. He knows how much he means to you and how much you love him, it's okay, Ange."

"Uh, guys?"

Angel and I turned our heads to look up at Iggy who had his head tilted to one side.

"Someone's coming," he whispered.

"Everyone over here," said Angel, springing up from my lap and dashing over to a door on the left side of the room, her boots clicking on the floor as she did so. She opened up the door and pushed the three of us inside.

We were in her closet filled with clothes, shoes and other accessories – and it definitely wasn't built to fit three oversized Avian Americans.

I pushed passed the two boys, almost making Iggy topple over into Fang as I did so, and pressed my ear up against the door.

"Ryan, what do you want??" Angel asked, her voice impatient and cold.

"I-I'm sorry to bother you, Miss Ride," he stuttered nervously.

"Just tell me what you need, Ryan. I'm very busy and I don't have time for any of your nonsense." She said quickly.

"But this is very important, Miss Ride. I think that I lost two of my tour group," he said anxiously.

There was silence on Angel's end.

I looked over my shoulder at Iggy, who was holding his breath and waiting for what she was going to say next. She wouldn't rat us out would she?

"Also," Ryan continued after clearing his throat. "It seems that experiment F74283gld has gone missing from his room, which is quite strange. I thought we had broken him years ago."

I looked over at Fang, but his expression was blank. However, I'd known him long enough to know that he was nervous.

"Well, what are you doing telling me about it!? Go and find them! Start looking in the west wing of the building and then make your way back here, got it!?" She said loudly with strong authority apparent in her voice.

"Yes Miss Ride," Ryan said obediently and I heard him hurry across the room and shut the door behind him.

I slowly eased the door open and popped my heard around it to find Angel rushing around the room and putting things into a bag.

"Come on," she said, as she took out her ponytail and shook her head, causing her very long, blonde curls to fall down her back and stop a few centimetres above her bottom. "We need to get out of here quickly before Ryan has the whole building looking for you guys."

I nodded and ushered the boys out of the closet just as Angel ditched her white coat and swung her bag over her shoulder. She then clumsily ran over to the closet and took off her high heeled boots (probably knowing they were useless for where she was going) and put on a comfortable pair of flats.

Fang opened the door and everyone dashed outside, making a break for it down the hall. Angel took up the lead so she could show us the way out, followed by Fang, then me and then Iggy.

Eventually, we came to the entrance and raced out the door – Iggy and I slipping off our coats as we went – and as soon as we were outside we leapt into the air.

Right in front of a whole tour group of people.

Sorry about any mistakes that you may have found. After this, there is one more chapter involving Max, Fang, Iggy and Angel and then it's back to Gazzy and Nudge. -sighs- However, I think that there may be only five chapters left of this story, so there isn't much more time.

Please R&R. I would love to know what you think ;)

-Bell