Dr. Martinez convinced Dr. Granner to treat Max, even knowing that she was a Avian-Human Hybrid, and that she was taken by Itex for the past six months.

Dr. Granner leaned over Max, taking her pulse and breathing patterns. "Hmm, she seams to be breathing normally. And I don't know if her heart rate is normal. Ms. Martinez?" Dr. Granner handed the instrument to Dr. Martinez, who put it on, and put on Max's chest.

"Her heart beat is a little slow, but that's probably because she's unconscious." Dr. Martinez said.

"Thanks." Dr. Granner nodded. She sighed, and looked Max up and down. "I don't have the equipment, but she looks like she may need to be on a feeding tube, because she'll probably be unconscious for a few days, maybe weeks. That means to get her to have right nutrient and vitamin intake, I have to put a tube in."

"Then bring one from the hospital, or clinic, where ever you work." Dr. Martinez said.

"I can't. It belongs to the clinic, I can't just control the equipment." Dr. Granner frowned. "But we can take her there, in her own private room, so that no one will disturb her."

"Yes, but Max will tear it all off of her, and attack anyone who comes near." Dr. Martinez said, smiling mentally as she said it.

"Hmm.... Then I'm not sure what to do." Dr. Granner said, frowning at the unconscious Max on the bed.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*At Itex*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Nudge started coming to, and she looked around, trying to remember where she was. When she saw the room that she was taken in, she remembered that she was kidnapped.

There where experiments everywhere, and there was a lingering smell of rotting flesh. Everything was dark, and cold. Nudge didn't notice til then that she was shivering.

She moved a little, and pain shot through her spine. Her first reaction: God, they put that thing in my back like they did with Max... But as she calmed down, she reached back behind her, on the top of her spine, close to the nape of her neck. There was nothing there.

Nudge let her hand creep farther down. She touched a very sensitive spot, and she screamed. She grit her teeth, and kept moving down. She touched a feather. Then another. And another.

She frowned, and used her other arm to reach behind her too,. She felt feathers on her back. No way. She had cut her wings off.

She closed her eyes, and used the muscles that she used before to expand her wings. When she opened her eyes, she had wings flowed out beside her. They were a dark brown color like Max's top feathers. They were pure brown, except for specks of white.

But.... Nudge didn't have feathers. She didn't have wings. She wasn't a bird kid anymore. She closed her eyes and shook her head. This was a dream. It had to be.

Nudge opened her eyes, but the wings were still there. She dared to lift them up, and let out a shriek. It hurt.

They re-graphed wings on you, Nudge. They fixed you. Nudge thought to herself. She smiled a little. Despite the problems of being trapped in Itex, she had her wings again. It was wonderful.

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