A.N- Hey, just wanted to let you know that I found a website I could use so now you can see my drawing. The link is on my profile so if anyone wants to see it, well then knock yourselves out (not literally, please don't do that). Also remember that I'm not a great drawer so please no flames.
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It's A... Baby!
"Max, Max, Max Max. Oh, Maaaaxiiiee!" Whoever it is pauses for a moment. "Max wake up!"
"I swear to God, if you say one more word, I will punch your face in…" I say angrily into the pillow, still not bothering to see who it was.
More silence.
I felt a little bad after a while once I realized who's voice it'd been, (Yeah, even big bad Max has a conscience- other than the voice) and decided to look up. When I turned my head and opened my eyes, I saw a very offended Nudge and I instantly felt worse.
"Oh my gosh, Nudge. I'm so sorry." I tell her quickly and sit up.
"It's fine." She says with a smile. "I know you didn't mean to and I never want to get up either."
"What time is it?" I ask with a yawn, as I stretch my arms and my toes.
"It's still early, it's like eight, but I wanted to see how you were doing. You know after the whole ordeal last night." She says, wiggling her eyebrows.
I roll my eyes. "It went fine, Nudge."
"Oh, I know. Iggy already told us everything. I just wanted to talk to you. He said you could feel him; this is so exciting Max! OMG, what if you can see him soon in a sonogram thingy? You should try today, just in case! Please, please, please; with whipped cream and a cherry on top?" She squeals.
"Yeah, I guess I'll try, but only if my mom's the one who does it." I say.
"Um." I hear from the other side of bed. I turn and see that Fang was there and had been there the whole time. "If you uh- get that done- could I, maybe, be there? You know to see him?" He asks slowly, while rubbing the back of his neck.
"Of course, Fang." I say happily. He smiles and I smile back.
Then Nudge starts up talking again and we both look at her as I get up. "Ah! I can't wait until the day he's born. I mean I'll be sorry for you since you'll have to go through all of that excruciating pain and all. You'll probably get stretch marks and feel like, horrible for like the whole day. It'll probably be even worse for you too since you're still so youn-"
My eyes go wide and Nudge stops when she realizes she was freaking me out and adds. "But it'll all be worth it when you see the little Fang jr. or Dylan jr. if it's his you know…" She mumbles, making Fang's face grow slightly angered.
We were in the hallway now, walking to the flock's room where the rest of the flock, Fang's gang, and my mom were waiting at.
"We can leave now, but if you want to see him we can stay longer for that, if you want." Fang says, getting his emotionless face back on once again.
I open the door and as Nudge walks in I say. "Yeah, I don't think I have a choice in that. Nudge would hate me if I didn't do this. Not that I don't want to, but you know what I mean."
We walked into the room after Nudge, and Ratchet immediately grabs Fang away from my side. He takes him to where Holden, Star, Kate, and Maya were at and started to whisper things to him as the rest of them stared at me.
Ugh. This reminds me of the first day we'd come together. Star and the others had kept looking at me, but now it was a different kind of stare.
Back then, it'd been more of a shocked (and a little angry) stare that I'd realized they gave me only when Dylan was with me.
Right now, however, Ratchet was more angered than anything. The rest of them had either blank or scared expressions on. I made a mental note to ask Fang what was up with them all.
"Hey Max. When are we leaving?" Gazzy asks impatiently.
"Hey Gazzers." I say with a smile. "We're leaving today, I'm pretty sure." I tell him, petting his hair.
"Not before seeing him!" Nudge exclaims.
"Not before seeing him…" I agree.
"See who?" Dylan asks.
"The baby, of course!" Nudge says, unbelieving that he was so oblivious.
When she says that, I see out of the corner of my eye that Star and Kate look over at us from their huddled group. Although I didn't get to see their faces, I assumed that they would have angered me.
"Oh. Max, could I see him with you?" Dylan asks cautiously.
"Yeah Dylan, I'll let both you and Fang come. Since, you know…" Either of you could be his father…I think to myself.
About two hours pass before my mom was able to get a room and everything set up in it, so when she came back in our room to get me, I had already gotten pretty nervous.
I'm not sure why I was so nervous though. I guess I just had hoped that I would have more time to get used to the idea, but I was now starting to realize that maybe that wouldn't be the case. That maybe this would happen a little faster than even I would have thought and I would soon me an actual mother that had to care for an actual baby, my baby.
"It's all set, Max." My mom tells me after opening the door.
Everyone looked at me and I started to feel self conscious, on top of anxious, until I felt a hand on my shoulder.
I looked behind me, expecting it to be Dylan since I had instantly calmed. However, instead of Dylan, I was faced with Fang's calm look.
I looked around and saw that Dylan was distracted with talking to Iggy, so I doubted he was controlling my emotions right now.
I looked back up to Fang and saw the corner of his mouth go up slightly, into one of his half smiles that I loved so much. I smiled back.
"Come on Dylan, let's go." I say, as I start to walk to the door behind my mom and Fang by my side.
A while later, I was laying down on a hospital bed thingy, as my mom moved a thing that was apparently called a 'wand' around my exposed lower stomach, after she had put some cold jelly thing on it.
I couldn't help to think of a fairy when my mom said it was a wand and had to suppress countless giggles already. I blame it on the nerves… So when Dylan asked if my mom could see wings, I almost lost it and had to put my hand on my mouth.
My mom was next to a little screen in front of me, looking at some weird image, as she moved the little wand around. Dylan was standing to my left, looking very intrigued at the monitor. Fang was to my right, holding my other shaking hand in his solid warm ones.
"Um…" My mom said as she moved the wand the slightest bit. "I actually don't- Well, hey, look here." She told us pointing to the left of the screen. "That's him, right there."
"Are we supposed to be seeing something? 'Cause I'm not seeing much, mom." I say, as I try to find something on the black and white screen.
"Well, it's too early to be seeing an actual baby, Max, but this is what one's supposed to look like at about four or five weeks old." She says.
Thank God, I still have time.
"It all looks perfectly healthy. I'm not sure what you felt yesterday though, I don't think you should be feeling anything this soon."
"Well I did feel something though, right… here." I say, pointing just beside the wand.
"I just looked there and there's nothing, so maybe it was something else." She says confusedly.
"OK, well, could we stop now? It's getting kind of cold down there." I ask her.
Fang quietly snorted beside me and my mom nodded.
We left shortly after and said goodbye to my mom, since we were going to Fang's hide out. She had agreed it would be the safest place to be right now and she told me she would contact me for my next check up.
"We should get you another phone soon." Fang said, as we walked out of the hospital.
"Yeah." I say simply.
"So, how are we doing this?" Maya asks.
"It's not too far; I think we can just carry anyone who can't fly." Star clears her throat, "…Or get there on their own, by some sort of method." Iggy says.
"Thank you." Star says.
"That's fine with me." Fang says and looks back to his group for confirmation. They all nod with blank expressions.
"Alright, so who's carrying who?" I ask.
"I can carry Kate." Maya says, from beside Kate.
"I've got Ratchet." Fang adds as Ratchet puts his headphones back on.
"Holden, I can take you." Dylan says and Holden comes from behind Fang, over to Dylan.
"Alright, Fang you should lead because I'm not sure I know where exactly it was." I say.
Fang nods to me as Ratchet goes over to him. He takes his wings out as he grabs a hold of him and takes off.
Maya does the same with Kate and Dylan with Holden, as the rest of us take out our wings and take to the skies.
As we fly, I look down and see that Star is a little ahead of us down below. Well, at least I didn't have to carry her and deal with any awkward stares from her.
Love yall, thanks for reading. Please review and tell me if you want to know what the conversation with Ratchet and Fang was… I promise it was interesting, and that there are some clues in it for another twist;)
~L