A/N kay just to let you know updates are going to take a while as the charger for my laptop is broke and its going to take a while to sort it out. So in advance sorry, and any complaints you may have please send them to Snoopy and Winnie the Pooh, they are good for something. For now enjoy ;)

Chapter 29

I walked into Anthony's home and I think my jaw hit the floor. I was not only surprised he was alive but also the fact that he had gotten enough money for this place. He had a very modern kitchen, a simple living room with a plasma tv and kitted out with sofas and chairs, and the next room he took us to was a library. It had ceiling to floor bookcases, and an old looking desk and top quality computer on it. A fire place in the corner, surrounded by chairs and a sofa, and everything looked brand new, as though he'd just got it out of a catalouge.

We sat down by the fire, Anthony took the rocking chair (can we say old guy much?), Cat and Chase curled up on the couch and I slumped into a very comfy recliner. I was pretty exhausted, I had hardly slept in weeks. My dreams were becoming more vivid………….and more real. I'd sometimes wake up with cuts and bruises and open bullet wounds, all in the exact same place as I got them in my dreams. I haven't told Chase yet because I honestly think I'm going mad. It's not even logical. I haven't used my mental abilities for years. Not since I lost Sky and my world crumbled and faded. I'm not even sure if I have my abilities any more.

"Well, as glad as I am to see you alive and kicking. What the hell are you doing here?" Anthony had a huge smirk on his face, so I knew he was more than happy to see us.

His black shaggy hair was longer than I remembered, wavy to the nape of his neck. His old green eyes kept smiling at us.

"Well, I don't really know Ant. Max dragged us out here without any info. This is Cat, my gal by the way."

Anthony nodded at Cat and exchanged a few brief words then his eyes focused on me. He wanted an explanation. And I wanted one from him as well.

"Care to tell me why you took out three labs in a hundred mile radius last month, Anthony?" Even Chase looked at Anthony for an answer, Cat just looked befuddled.

"How did you know? And-"

"Because the Arena have had enough of you and tried to hire me to take you out. And just thought I'd pop in to tell you someone already knows where you live. And they might be coming to get you."

Anthony looked at me his eyes furrowed. "Are you an assassin?"

We all burst out laughing at his expression. And ignoring my aching muscles, I got up and hugged Anthony.

"Don't worry. It's only a cover we made to get on the inside. And those pigheaded scientists fell for it. So why did you take out the labs and how did you get the money for this place?"

"Easy I had a debt to settle with those labs so I took them out. And as for the money I got a few odd jobs, and a white coat is going to be missing his pension."

We all laughed at his last comment. And I'll put it straight for you. We killed. After you lived the way we had, you learn to take out your enemies as quick as you could. Fact was we killed and we were classed in your society as cold hearted murderers. Got a problem with that? Deal with it!

I sat back down in the recliner and after a couple of minutes of easy conversationa and Anthony and Cat playing the get to know you game, I fell asleep. Feeling the radiating heat flash across my face. My last thought was of my flock, I hoped they were safe back in Wales because things were going to hell fast around me.

Chase POV

Max fell asleep curled up. Her fists clenched and she appeared to flinch in her sleep. Her face looked worn out, and only when she entirely relaxed like this could you see she wasn't well. She had muscle and little else. She was running on mostly anger and determination.

"Why is sparky here acting like she's on the brink of death?"

Athony always seemed to have a soft spot for Max, he treated me and Sky like his brother and sister. He treated Max like his own daughter. Me and Sky had always felt we were a very weird family, but a family in a world of blood and death none the less.

I explained to Chase how I found Max and Jethro, the attacks after the hospital, Max's flock, her parents and half sister, what she told us she'd been up to, what happened to Sky, how she left her flock, my worries and concerns, and long story short everything else inbetween Wales and now.

"I'm sorry Sky's dead. I know you hoped for her to be alive." Anthony still looked at Max and sadness crossed his face. God Max looked so much like Sky.

I shrugged like losing my sister wasn't like losing a part of me. "At least I got Max back."

Cat was silent by my side and I could see she was trying to let us work things out. Like I said she had come from a different background. She was always beautiful and a whitecoat had taken her out of the labs so he could, ahem, use her. When she first told me when I was falling in love with her, my heart ceased and I felt rage like I hadn't felt since I was trying to protect my sisters.

Anthony's expression turned calculating. "You said she found her parents. Are they yours and Sky's parents as well?"
I was surprised Anthony was the only one who's assked. Everyone else had avoided the issue entirely.

"We share the same bird DNA and father. Me and Sky had the same mother but Max's was different. In all honesty I couldn't give a damn, family bonds don't need blood to be made."

If anyone said we were half-siblings I'd kick their ass, just because we didn't share all the same DNA meant we were any less brother or sister. We were family, brother and sister, half came nowhere into the equation.

"If what Max said is true. The Arena will be coming for you, I know what she wants. She thought we were all dead and she'd have to walk through life alone, no matter how close she was to the flock, she was always partially on her own. Your part of our family, no blood needed. We're going to nail the Arena into the ground. We've gathered information and we think we know where the mainframe is. We hit that the rest is going to go up in smoke."

I looked into Anthony's eyes and knew he would help us. He wanted the Arena gone just as much as we did. And for those of you thinking, so all they have to do is take out the mainframe, that's so easy and convineant. I suggest you shut up before I punch you in the gob. It was not easy, from what we gathered it was a huge ten storey building, located near a harbour, with networks running underground and out to sea. If we didn't hit hard and fast and take out the main computers that linked all the branches it wouldn't wok. And the hard part was going to be getting in and getting out. They were going to be both as impossible as eachother.

We sat there talking and me and Cat dozed off while Anthony started to read a book rocking back and forth in the rocking chair. Like the old man he is surely becoming.

Fang POV
Finally only a couple of feet separate me from Max, and that's not including the van door or house. She was in there somewhere. Cara said her ositiona had been stationary for a while now. Nearly an entire day. I couldn't help but think of what held her in one spot for so long.

"The owner of the house is a guy in his late thirties called Anthony Davince. He showed up around ten years ago and his records are bit scant in places, he might be a threat. So we'll go in prepared."
I barely registered what Cara was saying, even the flock seemed as distracted as me. We just stared out the windows looking at the house were Max was, even Iggy who couldn't see the place, looked at it with hope and longing. We would be together again. And I would nail it into Max's head that she could never leave again.

"Angel can you hear her?" I asked interupting whatever Cara was saying.
"No, well yes, sort of. It's all fuzzy, I think she's sleeping or something. I can hear Chase and Cat, they're talking to someone. He knows them and they're all happy." Angel smiled and listened more intently, to what I have no clue.

Before Cara could pick up her speech, I jumped out of the van and my featherly family followed me. Cara was rushing to get 'her people' into position and was swearing at our rather original approach. We walked up a wooden porch and Nudge rang the doorbell repeatedly.

Cara and her friedns were covering us and hiding, even I had trouble spotting them in their hiding places, and I have birdkid vision people.

The door opened and Nudge quit ringing the doorbell.

A tall man with scars crossing his skin, black hair down his neck, and piercing green eyes. I frowned at us. "Yes?"

"Where's Max?" Angel asked.

The guy who I'm guessing is Anthony reached for something just as a door behind him opened and Chase walked out. He saw us in the doorway and frowned. "Fang? Guys? What are you doing here?"

"Where's Max?!" Gazzy yelled. He had been missing Max a lot. And if I find out that this whole leaving the flock was Chase's idea I was going to kick his teeth in.

"Ah. I guess this means I don't get to use my gun." Anthony said and calmly revealed a gun dangling loosley inhis hand that had been behind the door. Which was not a good idea because that then caused Cara and the others to come out of hiding holding their guns up acting like we were in a Vin Diesel movie.

"Drop your gun and put you hands in the air!" Cara shouted targeting Anthony. Who just glared and kept his gun in his hand.

A/N woop woop I finished hope you enjoyed, I'm trying to get this to where I want it quick and we are one more chapter away till my master plan comes to fruition. Can anyone guess whats goin to happen? ;) Hehe is Anthony and Chase gonna get arrested O.o I dunno maybe ……. And max's dreams are weird. So R&R people and thanx so far for the great reviews, you made my day.

*Cry and sobs into a used kleenex. Then finds a gold coin* "ooh I didn't know I could do that!" *starts blowing nose hysterically till I pass out. "Uhhh……"