There was no one on the highway so I kicked it into overdrive. I drove faster…and faster…and faster. To bystanders, I probably looked like a blur.

The Flock was flying above and I felt a presence poking at my brain. I opened up.

'MAX!' It was Angel. 'WE HAVE TO HURRY!'

I didn't answer, I just rode faster. (And why, you may ask, didn't I use my wings and just freaking fly? Because I'm stupid and didn't think of that.)

I pulled in at the parking lot and shut my motorcycle off, Iggy flying down next to me, grabbing it before it fell. I took my helmet off and looked in the direction where Fang and (shudder) Eddie would be standing.

Eddie was already yelling at Fang. There was only one thing that I could think of at that moment: run. I ran over to Fang and Eddie, jumping in front of Fang as the bullet whizzed out of the gun. It hit me right above my left hip bone.

It all seemed to happen in slow motion after that. I looked up into Fang's eyes as I let out a grunt of pain. His widened a bit as I started to fall to the ground.

"NO!" I heard everyone's scream. Fang screamed, Iggy screamed; Nudge, Angel, Gazzy- they all screamed.

Fang wrapped his arms around my waist and gently pulled me to the ground. "No, no, no, Max! No! Where'd it hit you; where'd it hit?" Fang looked at me with such a scared expression, I felt as if I was going to cry. He placed his hand on my cheek.

"It hit…my hip." I slurred out. The bullet was really in, too.

There was another gunshot and everyone froze. A body hit the floor, dead. My head sort of…flopped…to look in the direction of the noise. Eddie was on the ground, a bullet in his skull.

Policemen were surrounding us and the Flock all ran over to me.

"Max, Max!" Nudge yelled out at me.

"I'm shot not deaf, sweetie." I told her with a small laugh. A tear ran down my cheek and Fang bent down, kissing it away. He smoothed my hair back from my sweating forehead.

"Just…sit still, okay?" She looked nervous. She put her hand near my wound and I realized what she was going to do.

My eyes widened. "No, Nudge, do-!" She pulled the bullet out using her "gift." The "don't" was cut off by my scream of pain. My back arched upward and Fang held me still. When I finished off the scream, I looked over at Nudge with watery eyes. "New rule: NEVER do that again!!!"

"Damn it! Where's the ambulance?!" I heard one officer scream.

My whole Flock was here, trying to protect me from anything else.

"Max," Fang softly cooed. "Did you know that was going to happen?"

I nodded weakly, still trembling. I sniffed. "Yeah, that's why I came. I noticed I was too late so that was all I could do…" My voice was shaky.

Fang caressed my face with his fingers. "Don't talk. It'll make everything worse."

"You just want me to shut up." I accused playfully.

I heard more sirens and my family glanced up, except Fang. He kept his eyes on me.

"The ambulance is here," Iggy told us.

"Thank God! I don't want to be bleeding on Fang anymore," I looked at his once clean clothes. Now there was blood soaking some of it.

He shrugged, a small smile playing on his lips. "I've been in worse condition,"

"Yeah," I agreed, laughing a bit. "but I haven't."

"Make room!" A paramedic announced.

Everyone moved away from me and the paramedics placed me on a gurney. Fang holding my hand.

As they were raising me into the back of the ambulance, Fang started to let go of my hand. I held it tighter and glared at him.

"If I have to be claustrophobic in this little, itty-bitty truck, so do you!" I growled.

The paramedics chuckled at this. They got me in- me having to let go of Fang because of it- and one climbed in. The other…had some difficulty.

"Look, she wants ya in there so get in!" He yelled.

Fang was glaring at me and the guy at the same time. "I'll ride up front."

"Push him," I told them, winking at the other guy as he laughed. He knew not to mess with me, though, since he was looking at my engagement ring. (Sparkle, sparkle!) [LOL! Just…never mind! Lol. If the link doesn't work, you won't understand.]

I heard the guy that argued with Fang [Guy 1] grunting. "He won't budge!"

"Just get in here," I sighed, exasperated. "Now I get to have you two guys all to myself," I chuckled quietly. "I mean, no one will hear us back here."

I waited for Fang's cue. He groaned, getting into the ambulance. "You're killin' me here,"

I smiled at him as we drove off to the hospital. "Flyin'?"

"Yeah…yeah." Fang answered. He knew what I meant: The Flock is flying overhead.

~!!~

I sat up as much as I could. I groaned.

"Still hurts?" Fang asked, handing me a can of Monster.

"Yeah," I winced, grabbing the can and taking a sip- a very long sip. It has been three days since I went to the hospital. Since I just needed stitches, they let me go home. BUT…I'm not allowed to leave the bed.

Fang got the job at the high school that had the parking lot where I got shot. That was just so much fun! [Note sarcasm…] Since the people understand why he needs to stay home for the rest of the week, they're giving him a break. He's going to be an assistant teacher- in other words: teacher's aid. Now, Fang is my personal slave for the remainder of the week.

Fang sat next to me on the bed, careful about how much weight he out down at once. I took another long sip. "So how far did the bullet go?"

"Well…when it went IN, it grazed my hipbone and hit a lot of muscle and a couple nerves. When Nudge pulled it OUT…it broke part of my hip bone. But," I added. I saw his jaw tensing- I knew what he was gonna do. "Because she got it out that fast, it wasn't able to hurt my nerves. Those get damaged, they don't repair all the way. My hipbone? It'll heal soon. The stitches come out tomorrow and the damage stays for the week." I sighed.

"What?" Fang brushed my hair out of my eyes.

"I want to move around again!!" I complained. More like whined.

FANG POV:

Wow; Max just whined.

MAX POV AGAIN:

[Sorry, I just felt like I had to do that! Lol!] "Well, look on the bright side," Fang said.

I looked at him.

"You got me to wait on you all the time,"

I laughed. "Yeah…"

Fang was silent for a moment, then… "Don't ever scare me like that again."

We never really talked about the incident these past couple days; we just avoided it.

"I won't, don't worry." I laid back down slowly.

Fang took the Monster [rawr…] from my hand and placed it on the bedside table. He laid down next to me, holding my hand. "That bullet was meant for me,"

"No, it wasn't." I told him, speaking the truth.

"How can you know that?" His voice was stern but gentle all at the same time. He was also pouting.

"Because I wouldn't have seen it. If I meddle then, yeah, I'll see it. Even if it was for you."

"Then how-"

"but I didn't meddle." I interrupted. "When something comes to me, it means I'm supposed to stop it. It wasn't your time and Eddie- that ass- tried to mess with everything. If I hadn't seen that, I wouldn't have you anymore and you wouldn't be able to help me create our kids."

I was dozing off. The hospital gave me drugs to keep the pain away and they make you very drowsy.

"wait, what?" Fang was confused.

"What, 'wait, what'?" I had closed my eyes.

"Kids?"

I opened my eyes. I nodded in a sluggish manner. "Yeah, I told you this the night Nikki was born. 'Member? You 'member…" I slurred.

I was out…

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Ha! See, she didn't die!!!! I would never kill Max and have their darling children nonexistent. Or have Fang go crazy and depressed since she died…Hmmm…

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