Chapter 29: Let the Complications Begin!
At a glance Fang would have looked completely normal. If I hadn't known him all my life I wouldn't have caught the flaw. His eyes, his beautiful, chocolate-brown eyes, were now blue. An amazing ice blue. I stiffened, thinking of what happened last time they changed. It was catastrophic. I had to leave him, then, rescue him.
"Fang, how do you feel?" Jeb asked him.
Fang looked at him with the most gorgeous, yet intimidating, blue eyes, and just stared.
"Okay, I'll ask again. How do you feel, Fang?" He repeated.
Fang turned in his chair so his whole body was facing Jeb. Jeb looked back at me and smiled a comforting smile.
"Why Jeb, I feel fine." Fang replied.
But Fang didn't sound like Fang. This Fang had an accent. This Fang wasn't the Fang I grew up with.
"Well, since you feel so great, how about you let me get a blood sample." Jeb pushed.
I turned around to look at everyone, they were busy. Hopefully, busy enough to avoid hearing this.
In the instant I turned around I caught it again. His eyes were no longer blue, but crimson. An unmistakeable bright red. I had never seen them like this before. They weren't red the day we split up. I don't understand what's going on.
Jeb pushed on.
"Fang, I need a blood sample to know what's wrong with you." He obviously didn't notice the eye thing, or didn't know anything about it.
Fang stood up and slowly edged towards Jeb. Jeb stumbled backwards almost knocking me over. Fang's face was solid. All the lines in his face were defined. He was angry. I don't know what from, but he was angry.
Fang stopped dead in his tracks and his eyes went to brown again. He almost fell to the floor, but I caught him just in time.
I looked over at Jeb who was digging around in his briefcase. He grabbed the needle out and shoved it in Fang's arm before I even knew what he had in his hand. The warm red liquid was seeping into the vile.
Fang wiggled and squirmed. Jeb pulled the needle out as Fang protested.
"Max, I'll know what's wrong with him in a few hours, okay?" He said to me as I held the squirming Fang.
"All right. Thank you." I replied.
He just nodded his head and left. In the background I heard Iggy and Ella talking, Nudges wailing, Angel listening to music, and I think I heard Gazzy in the bathroom puking up all those cookies… ew. Even though all this was going on around me all I could focus on was Fang.
"Fang? Fang! Get up!" I said gently shaking him.
He looked up at me with his passionate eyes, and I almost melted.
Mom came rushing in to help, I'm guessing, and everyone followed her.
"What happened?" She exclaimed.
"He was sitting there staring out the window and Jeb asked him how he felt and then he turned around and his eyes changed colors and, and, and…" I started but was cut off.
"It felt like I was three different people. Three different versions of Fang." He said with his eyes closed head sitting on my thigh.
And that Max, is what I want to help you with. Remember a long time ago how I told you I wanted to give you something, show you something, and then help you with something?
Well look who it is. Anyways, yes, I remember.
Well that's what I wanted to help you with. I want to help you figure out what this is.
The Satisfaction Serum isn't what they told me it would be. The Satisfaction Serum, from what I am told, is where he can have multiple personalities to satisfy his moods. And the serum varies his moods depending on the situation he's in.
So you're saying that depending on what Fang's doing he can be a completely different person?
Yes, Max, that's exactly what I'm saying. But, It's not as simple as you may think. These different personalitlies can be violent beyond compare, or so manipulative they can have you running around the front yard acting like a gorilla and mooing like a cow because he'll say it'll get rid of your hiccups.
I just stared at Fang wondering if he knew all this or if he just thought it was random emotions. I didn't know, but Jeb would be home soon so hopefully he can tell Fang and me what's happening.
(A/N: sorry this was so boring. FAX is coming in the next few chapters so be prepared. =])
