Chapter 35
Flashback, three years ago
I woke up to two stranger's shadows. They had a net with them.
NO! I will not be put to sleep!
I screamed at the top of my lungs, struggling and thrashing. I was getting very tired.
"Jeez, she's strong, Frannie," the man said to the woman doctor, "NOW!"
She injected something into me, and the next scream never got past my throat.
Flashback, a few days after the last flashback
I woke up to something coming, through the woods. Hunters! This is not good. This is very bad, actually. I flew in the house, to Frannie and Kit's room. Pip started barking like the guard dog he is, even though he's a jack russell terrier. "Run! They're here to kill us! They're here to kill all of us!" I screamed.
"Get in the Jeep," Kit said, "Make sure you are not followed."
They trusted me, and that changed everything.
Flashback, a month later
We were riding in two different cars, Kit's Jeep and Frannie's Suburban. We were going back to the Lake House, where we belonged. I was in Frannie's, along with the flock that Icarus took, and Ozymandias. Fang and the others were in Kit's car.
"Max?" Frannie asked me.
"Yeah?"
"You are staying with me, no matter what," she laughed in an endearing way, "No way I will give any of you up! After all of that trouble, I should be able to stay with you."
I was enjoying this. "Frannie," I said, "You go girl."
Flashback, a year later
I woke up to gunshots in Kit and Frannie's room. Were they fighting?! That's very hard to believe.
"Max?" Fang was at my bedroom door.
"Yeah?"
"Did I just hear gunshots in Frannie and Kit's room?" Iggy asked me, coming into vision from behind Fang.
"Let's check it out."
We tip- toed to their room. I heard stuff through the door. Like, "Which bird brat first?"
We flew into everybody else's rooms. Waking them up, and in 5 minutes, we were out Nudge's bedroom window.