AN: hey guys- thanks for reading. the scene that happens in this chapter was pretty much what first inspired the whole story, i hope you like it. =]

btw... i'm not a very self motivated person, the reveiws encourage me a lot =] thanks!

Third Person Omniscient POV

Iggy and Fang were left with everyone passing out around them. Angel was gone in Fang's arms, and Ella had fallen limp in Iggy's. Nudge and the Gasman held on for a second before collapsing. Max held out the longest, but it still didn't take her long to fall into unconsciousness.

Fang and Iggy weren't feeling their strongest, but they were even close to in the shape of the rest of their flock. "What's going on?" Iggy asked in a panicked tone.

"I don't know, they're all still alive, just not conscious. It was probably the gas back at the school."

They both sat there slightly dumb-founded. Their family was gone, but some how they were still here fine. "Come on, lets move them all into the cave, we can't keep them here where the people from the school can see us." Iggy finally said. They say them up against the semi-rounded area at the back of the cave and Fang built a fire in the middle.

"I think I have an idea of what happened, I mean why we're not in the same state they are." Fang said once they had been sitting there with their thoughts for a moment. "Remember when we were younger, at the school, and how they would just do some tests on you and me, because we were supposed to be the oldest, strongest males? Well I think I remember them putting us through that gas a couple of times to see what we would do." He paused. "I think that we are the only two with an immunity to it, the rest responded to it just like we did the first time we inhaled it, we passed out."

Iggy slowly nodded, remembering all of this. "That makes sense. I wonder how long it will take them to come out of it." Suddenly Iggy looked at Ella, taking in everything that was happening. He couldn't help it, he started crying.

It wasn't loud sobs or anything, but it was a choked voice with tears coming down his face. "She means everything to me, Fang. They kidnapped her, tortured her, and all of this stuff just to see how she would react to having my baby. Now she's carrying our son who barely has a chance at surviving between his strange combination of genes, and the awful treatment from the school." He swallowed a sob and kept talking, "Now look at her, they've poisoned her, she barely has a chance now from being a normal, tortured human also trying to support a growing mutant; I don't know how she's going to make it out of this."

He just sat there trying to not fall apart, even thought it felt like his world was. After a while, he now realized he had pretty much confessed to Fang that he was in love with Ella, and decided he might as well tell him everything. "I've pretty much known she was the one since the day I met her. She was perfect, accepted me for the mutant I was, and never expected me to be anything more. At first I thought there might be hope for us. Then she started going out with all of her loser boyfriends who didn't treat her even close to what she is worth, don't they understand? Understand that knowing her is one of the best things that have happened in my life, and that they just take her for granted? I don't think they do." He looked at Ella's sleeping form beside him, and just put his head in his hands.

Fang took this moment to finally put his word in, "If it means anything to you, Ella broke up with her last boyfriend, and all of us can't help but think it might have had something to do with you."

Iggy looked up at him and a slightly hopeful light was somewhere behind the sadness in his eyes. But then he slightly shook his head, "It'd never work, she just considers me as her brother, nothing more. Besides, she probably hates me now that it's my baby that she is pregnant with. What is she going to do? Pregnant with a mutant at 15? She can't take care of it; I can't take care of it. I don't know what we are going to do." He stopped and took a breath in, "When I first heard the news I thought that this might finally unite Ella and I together. But I don't know, if I ever knew that she really didn't care about me like that, I don't think I could handle the rejection from somebody who means that much to me."

Fang looked at him, remembering rejections from the person that meant the most to him. "I don't know Iggy, from experience, I've found that some times rejection on their half is the most painful thing in the world. You know me better than anyone, you must know by now that my world is Max. We've had our moments, where it seems like anything is possible. That the world united under our love is perfect. Then she gets up and leaves; flies off, as if the most amazing thing in the world didn't just happen. It's awful. But at the same time you look back on those moments as the best times in the world, because they were. Maybe some day she'll come around, maybe she won't. But as far as you and Ella, you will never know until you try to find out."

Iggy looked at Fang, realizing how extremely different their situations were, but were alike. "You know why I think just might be true, which would give hope to both of us hopeless lovers? I think that if two people are destined to be together, they'll end up that way. Some how it'll all happen one way or another, maybe not in our time, but I think it will." He thought about it a second, then added, "And if it means anything to you, everyone knows that you and Max have something special."

Then, as if something was confirming Iggy's statement about happy endings, Ella and Max, who were on either side of Iggy and Fang both happened to slide down the cave wall and lean against each of their destined lovers shoulders.