I do not own Maximum Ride, but I do own Allyson! So I know I said I was done with this one, but I left the journal containing my other story at my Dad's house, and I just found these two chapters randomly unfinished on my computer, so I'm posting them. Enjoy!
Iggy POV:
Finally, the kids came back to us. They seemed surprised at us, all shirtless and practically without pants.
They handed out clothes and bandages so Fang could re-wrapped my leg.
After we ate, we all lay down, they did at least, I was already down. Allyson stayed up to tend the fire and take first watch, no one argued with that.
About an hour after the fire dimmed way down, we both were still up, but she didn't know it. Her back was to me, so I could only see her outline silhouetted by the flickering fire.
Gazzy stood up and shuffled over to the fire.
He sat down by Allyson and rested his head on his knees.
"hey Gazzy, what's up?" she asked.
"can't *yawn* sleep."
"hmm... do you want to just sit up for a while, you can help me with the fire if you want, just no explosions!"
"I guess."
A few minutes passed by.
"You know," started Gazzy, " I used to hate you."
"You did? Well, I can understand that. A new person in the flock would make everything unbalanced."
"Yeah... that and the fact Iggy likes you more than me now..."
"No he doesn't! You two have a special connection. I love to see you two hunched over a table, making new plans and all."
"But we don't do it as often as we used to."
"Sometimes, change is good, and you'll understand about this once you get a little older."
She ruffled his hair and he leaned up against her.
"You know... I used to be jealous of you Gazzy."
"really?"
"Yeah, you and Iggy would do everything together! I like fire to by the way... I wanted to help you guys."
"You always can, if ya really want to!"
"Thank you Gazzy!"
A few more minutes passed.
"Hey Allyson? Do you think...maybe... could you sing to me? Max does it sometimes if I can't sleep."
Really?
"Really?"
That's some info I'll put up for the future!
"I didn't really think of Max as a singer."
"She only does it every once in a while..."
"Wow... that's ... weird."
"So will you? Please?"
Don't look at him!
"Goodness Gazzy! Puppy dog eyes? Ok, I'll do it... but I've got to warn you, I can't sing very well!"
...
"Ok, I got one, my mom used to sing this to me when I couldn't sleep well.
Dodo, l'enfant do,
L'enfant dormira bien vite
Dodo, l'enfant do
L'enfant dormira bientôt.
Une poule blanche
Est là dans la grange.
Qui va faire un petit coco*
Pour l'enfant qui va fair' dodo.
Dodo, l'enfant do,
L'enfant dormira bien vite
Dodo, l'enfant do
L'enfant dormira bientôt.
Tout le monde est sage
Dans le voisinage
Il est l'heure d'aller dormir
Le sommeil va bientôt venir."
It was a short song, but after repeating it a few times, it did its job, Gazzy was out like a light. And I think it was in French, which is pretty cool.
Allyson really wasn't a really bad singer; she wasn't great, but not bad. A few notes were missed, but she had great tone.
She covered him with a blanket and got back to her fire and watch.
A few more minutes passed.
"I didn't know you could sing." I said, making her jump
"Didn't know you were up! You should be asleep."
"I'm what they call 'restless.'"
She crawled over towards me.
"Do you need anything? Nudge and the others brought back some aspirin."
"I'll be fine."
"you sure?" she sat propped up on one arm, looking very concerned. She's cute when she's worried. Her eyebrows get all scrunched up.
"since when did you speak French?"
"oh.. yeah, about that... there's a lot of things about me you don't know."
That kind of disturbed me.
How much of her do I not know?
Sensing my discomfort, she placed a hand on my chest and rubbed slow, calming circles. It wasn't suggestive, just friendly and extremely calming.
I felt my eyes slowly closing as I became even more drowsy.
It stopped all of a sudden and I cracked an eye open. She looked a little distressed.
"what's wrong?"
She looked at me with those beautiful blue eyes that melted my heart all over again.
"it's just... why did you take that bullet?" I could see this had been bugging her for a while.
"well, there's a few reasons for that..."I touched her face and she leaned into my hand, closing those heart melting eyes.
"For one, I am replaceable. You are not."
A small tear leaked from behind her eyes and she leaned down to rest her head on me and wrap her arm around my chest.
"You are not replaceable to me!"
"And second, you are my love. Whereas you may have other loves, you are the best I've got, and the best I'll ever have." She looked up to me, inches away from my face. "I will not ever stop loving or caring for you. I am yours, now, and forever. I will never leave you."
She looked at me for a second and then leaned in, only an inch away. I could feel her breath on mine.
"why did you do it? you're so stupid, why did you do it?"
Her lips pressed against mine in a very tear-salted kiss.
"I love you," she began and smiles, "but you're still an idiot."
She got up after another quick peck and went back to her fire.
I will never understand that girl...
Oh, I love the two of them3 Iggy will never learn comment please!