Authors Note: Sorry it took so long for me to update my story I've been at Basic training for the last couple of months and as such obviously didn't have computer access,but as of November 12, 2010 I've graduated basic training and as of November 13, 2010 I have a laptop so I can update my stories as my next stage of training allows. As usual I don't own Maximum Ride or Twilight :'( but I do own Shayne, and any other characters that don't appear in the Max Ride or Twilight series.
Story of a Bird Kid
Chapter
SHAYNE POV
"Well speak of the Devil and he will call." I say glancing at the caller ID and mentally sighing
"What the Hell do you want now?" I snarl as I answered the phone
"That is no way to speak to your uncle Shayne." Jeb says
"You are not my uncle." I tell him starting to get annoyed. "An uncle wouldn't allow his five year old niece to get kidnapped and experimented on by the company he works for. An uncle wouldn't leave his niece in that school when he helps her friends to escape. You may be my uncle by blood but you are not my uncle by name. Now why did you call this time?"
"Your dad called and let me know that you called him. He sounded happy to have heard from you finally after 12 years."
"Jeb shut the hell up. It's not my fault that I couldn't talk to him until today. It's yours seeing as you were the evil uncle that let the daughter of the little sister you loved so much be experimented on in a place that had no contact with the outside world whatsoever. Now why the hell did you really call and no bullcrap this time or I swear to whatever God is listening that I will hang up the phone without a second thought."
"Okay no more bull."Jeb said, "I was just calling to check up on you. How are you doing now that you know you have a little sister and have talked to her and your father?"
"I'm doing fine." I tell him, "now I want you to get off this damn phone and leave me alone for the rest of my life if you don't mind."
"I can't do that Shayne." Jeb says, "I want to be able to keep an eye on you to make sure you're doing ok in the real world."
"Jeb leave me alone, I mean it." with that I hang up my phone and turn it off. As the screen on my phone goes dark I hear Jeb's voice like he's standing nearby.
"Happy 17th birthday Shayne." Jeb's voice says and I look around for him until I remember that he told me that he would try to get into my head like he was in Max's.
"That was quick." I groan silently dreading this change.
"Yes it was." Jeb agrees, "I believe it has something to do with the fact that you are a Quileute werewolf and as such your mind is getting used to having more than one conscious in it at one time. At least that is my understanding if my assumptions about the pack are right. According to statements the Volturi have given us in the past, werewolves of any kind when in wolf form make no visual communication between each other which leads us to assume that werewolves have some kind of telepathic communication. Since I'm already in your mind in less than a week when it took almost a full month for me to do the same with Max you have just proved my theory which I'll keep to myself and not pass on to the Director. Now, I'm going to leave you alone for the rest of the day unless I need to tell you something important. Now get back to your friends."
"Trust me I will. And I won't give you another thought." With that I look at Mathew and see that he's staring at me like I've gone crazy. "What?" I ask
"You were just talking to yourself in the middle of a crowded mall." He says, "I'm wondering if you've gone crazy S"
"Nope I'm as sane as can be expected given the upbringing I was forced to endure." I tell him, "It's kind of hard to explain but I'll try my best. When Jeb helped me to escape he told me that he was going to try and get into my head so that he could give me advice if I needed it. He explained that he had done the same with Max and that she was so used to following the advice of her voice that she listened to it without question even after she found out that he was the source. That whole thing that you just witnessed was me holding a conversation with Jeb via our minds. His voice was so clear in my head that I must have started talking aloud to him without even knowing it."
"Yeah you were acting crazy S." Mathew says with a grin, "Now let's get back to looking around this mall."
"If we have too." I say with a groan, "I say we find somewhere in this mall where I won't have to look for stupid clothes. I'm not too crazy about this whole shopping thing."
"If that's the case," Mathew says with another grin, "let's hit the street and find someplace to go."
"Sounds good to me." I say grabbing my leather jacket and putting it on. "I just hope it's stopped raining because I don't want to get soaked again." Suddenly remembering Elizabeth and Abby, I turn toward them. "Elizabeth, you and Abby are more than welcome to come with us." I tell them.
"No thanks." Elizabeth says, "I think we'll stay here for a while and then move on. It's not safe for us to stay in one place for too long." With that she grabs Abby's hand and started walking away calling over her shoulder, "Maybe we'll run into each other again some day."
"Maybe," I say under my breath and my focus shifts to Mathew, "Shall we?" I ask grabbing his hand and pulling him toward the way we'd come in. "Maybe we can get out of here before Alice figures out we're trying to ditch the rest of the group."
" I hope so." Mathew says, " I want to do something with you for your birthday. If you believe that Alice is throwing you a big party later chances are that this is the only time we would have a chance to do anything." With that he takes the lead and we practically ran to the doors leading outside. Just as I go to grab the handle I hear Angel's voice, which causes me to freeze.
"Have fun Shayne," she says, "Alice says that you can leave as long as you're back by 1:00 like we planned"
"Thanks Angel." I tell her glancing at Mathew, who's looking at me with a question in his eyes.
"That was Angel telling me that Alice gives us permission to leave as long as we're back at 1:00" I say
"Cool," he says before lowering his voice "Not that I need the blood-suckers permission to take my imprint out for her birthday."
"Mathew," I say resisting the urge to slap him for the blood-sucker comment, "I would much rather have her permission than to go sneaking around like a teenager breaking her parents rules."
"Technically that's what you are S." Mathew says with a wink, "A teenager breaking the rules. You are running off with a guy you bearly know, despite the fact that said guy is your soul mate. Most parents and guardians tell their children to not run off with strangers."
"Oh be quite Mathew and let's get out of here." I say punching him playfully in the shoulder, "I think I see that Damien guy eyeing me again." When I see Mathew looking around with a glare for the offending male I cuff him on the side of the head lightly before saying, "I was just messing with you."
"Don't do that," Mathew replies grinning, "I'm very possessive about my imprint." With that he grabs my hand and pulls me the rest of the way out the door and into the parking lot. As we get outside I glance up and see that while the rain had stopped it was still very cloudy. " So, it's your birthday where do you want to go?"
"I don't know." I say than lower my voice, "Keep in mind that I just escaped from the scientific facility that kept me hostage for the past 12 years and I haven't lived in Washington since I was a baby. How am I expected to know what there is to do here if I'm new to the area."
"Good point."Mathew says and after a few minutes of silence suddenly speaks up. "Well are you hungry?"
"Aren't I always?" I ask him remembering his shock from last night and the fact that I'd eaten a ton of food the night before at dinner, and then a few hours later had eaten an entire pack of cookies. Seeing him grin I know that he's remembering it as well.
"Well than I'll take you out to eat." He says with a grin "There are quite a few food places here though none of them may satisfy your hunger entirely."
"I doubt that as well," I say, "But to hell with it I'm hungry and I want to hang out with you and only you for a time."
"If that's the case than let's go." Mathew says and with that we quickly head across the parking lot glancing back to make sure we're not being followed. As I face forward I see a woman smiling softly not far from us as Mathew pulls me to his side putting his arm around my waist as we leave the parking lot and start walking. The farther we get down the sidewalk the more people I glance either smiling like the woman had done or shaking their heads in disapproval
"I think we're making a spectical of ourselves." I mutter to Mathew as he chuckles softly.
" I have to agree with that assumption S." he mutters back while pulling me even closer to his side. "It's quite entertaining watching these people when they don't know that we're doing so."
"You may think so but it's making me uncomfortable having all these strangers staring at us." I say, still talking quietly, "It kind of makes me feel that I'm being studied again." With that Mathew lets me go and grabs the door to the building that we'd just walked up to.
"Well you don't need to worry about that for a bit now." he says and walks through the door, me following close behind.
"Hey Mathew," A girl who's nametag reads "SAMANTHA" says as we walk through the door and I once again hide behind Mathew trying to stay out of sight.
"Hey Sam," Mathew says, "How's your sister doing?"
"Much better since she had that surgury but she's still in pain nonetheless" Samantha tells him with a sigh. "Do you want your normal table?"
"Yes please," Mathew tells her and grabs my hand pulling me behind him and following Samantha to a secluded table in the back of the restaurant.
"Who's this?" Samantha asks when she sees me.
"This is Shayne," Mathew tells her before turning to me. "Shayne this is my friend Samantha Kitridge. I used to work with her in Port Angeles before her family moved to the Seattle area."
"Nice to meet you Shayne." Samantha says holding out her hand. After glancing toward Mathew who nods gently, I take her hand and shake it quickly
"Nice to meet you too Samantha." I say quietly before taking off my jacket and sitting down.
"Kind of shy isn't she Mathew?" Samantha says
"Not really," Mathew tells her, "She's just kind of uncomfortable with her surroundings. She's not used to this kind of stuff."
" I see," Samantha says, "Jeffery used to be the same way." She tells him nodding to a guy a few tables away. "Once he realized we weren't going to bother him he relaxed majorly."
Glancing over at the Jeffery person Samantha's talking about I simply freeze in shock. Jeffery had been an experiment at the School about three or four years older than me that had dissappeared about 5 years before. I wasn't sure what kind of experiment that he was but I had a feeling that he recognized me as well when he happened to glance in my direction. His eyes had widended before his expression had gone blank again.
"Shayne, are you ok?" I hear Mathew ask quietly and shaking my head slightly I turn to look as him.
"What?" I ask
"I asked if you're ok." Mathew says, while his eyes ask me quietly what's going on.
"Yeah I'm fine I just zoned out." I say and try to relay the message with my eyes that I'd let him know what was wrong once Samantha had gone away. With a bearly perceptable nod he turns his attention back to Samantha who's asking what he wants to order.
"I'll just take my usual Sam." He tells her before motioning that I should look at the menu that Sam had placed in front of my seat once I'd sat down.
"I'll take a Diet Coke and a burger meal please." I say after glancing at the menu really quick."
"Ok." Samantha says. "It was nice meeting you and by the way just call me Sam, everyone else does."
"If your sure." I say, " Then I'll call you Sam as well."
"Good." Samantha (for I still can't think of her as a Sam) says, "Your guys food will be out shortly."
"Thanks." I say and watch her head to the kitchen area to turn on our order. As soon as she goes through the doors Jeffery walks up to our table cautiously.
"Well if it isn't the little wildcat." He says sounding kind of suprised, "Your the last person I'd expect to see here in Seattle. Last time I saw you Shayne, you were a very sick 12 year old and you were stuck in that damn school."
"Hey Jeffery." I say quietly, "The last time I saw you, you were being the big brother that I'd never had and were trying to get the doctors to run tests on you instead of me. All I remember is that I woke up one day and there was some strange kid in your place. Max told me later on once I'd regained some of my strength that you'd been gone for about a month and that I'd been sick since about a month before that." With that I stand up and give him a quick hug.
"S, do you mind explaining what is going on?" Mathew asks suddenly.
"Oh, sorry Mathew." I say pulling away, "Jeffery is like my big brother. He was always trying to protect me when the whitecoats would try to run more tests on me. I idolized him and once he disappeared on me I tried to be the same thing to Max and the others even though I was only twelve. Why did you protect me like that anyway Jeff? And if you cared about me so much then why did you leave?"
"I protected you because you reminded me of my little sister and as such I was unexplicitely drawn towards protecting you." Jeffery says, " I guess you could say I protected you because of guilt. My little sister was killed in a car wreck before I was kidnapped and I always felt like I should have been able to save her since I was in the car sitting next to her when it happened. Now what is this Mathew to you?" He asks with a look on his face that I knew meant he was teasing me but I answered anyway.
"He's kind of my boyfriend." I say grinning when I see the shocked look on Jeffery's face.
"Are you being serious?" he asks me grabbing me by the arm causing Mathew to stand up abruptly.
"Yes I am." I tell him, "I'm 17 years old now since today is my birthday. I think I'm old enough to date someone." With that I walk over to Mathew and whisper in his ear. "Mathew he's an old friend that's concerned about my welfare you don't need to be all possessive about it. All I feel for him is brotherly love and you are my soul mate. Remember that please before you start something we all may regret later."
"Ok S, for you I'll calm down, but if that guy grabs you like that again I don't know if I'll be able to control myself." Mathew says before kissing me on the cheek and sitting back down. At that point Samantha walks up to the table with our drinks and looking at the scene before her speaks up.
"I see you two know each other." She says looking from me to Jeffery
"Oh yes, I knew him when I was younger, he was like an older brother to me" I tell her. " But he moved away and we lost touch."
"Yeah but now that she's grown up and I've found her again I hope we can keep in touch." Jeffery says,than glancing toward Mathew who was scowling at him redeems himself. "I just want to be able to keep an eye on you like you were my little sister of course."
"Of course,I'd like to keep in touch as well." I say pulling out my phone and turning it back on. "This is still a relativly new phone to me but I'm sure you can figure out how to get your number into it and get mine for yourself as well."
"Yeah of course." Jeffery says , "Anything for the little wildcat." with that he took my phone and within a matter of minutes was handing mine back to me and pulling his out as well to enter my number. "Well Sam if your not too busy I think I'll pay for my food now and be on my way. I've been here taking up space for enough time today."
"Ok then," Samantha says, "Mathew your guys order should be ready in a few."
"Thanks Sam" Mathew calls out as she goes to grab Jeffery's bill. "The Little Wildcat?" He asks me with a raised brow. "He makes it sound as if you were a very naughty little 12 year old."
"He didn't mean it that way." I say, " When I was younger I was a real fighter when it came to the whitecoats performing tests on me. I think I mentioned that I enjoyed taking bites out of scientists after they had run tests on me to see how long I could go without food before the lack of it started to wear me down. But the truth is that I did that all the time when I was 12. It was the only way I could think of to maintain a sembilence of control in my life. That's why he calls me the little wildcat, when I get angry I tend to turn into a wild animal. I think that attitude when I was younger was a side affect of my shapeshifting ability even though I didn't actually start shapeshifting until a few days ago. I think that was just my ability's way of trying to make itself known though no one realized it at the time.