(A/N) I loved your reactions! And all will be made clear during this chapter, I did things a bit differently just to let you guys be informed. This is Max's POV and a little bit more that will not be shown in Fang's POV.

Max POV

I thought while I walked briskly, looking for Fang.

Jeb was being a jerk. A real jerk, to put it nicely. He wouldn't talk to me, and when he did it was with this creepy studious stare. Yeah, coming from your dad, it's not weird at all when he looks at you like some psycho. But then again, that's what Jeb is.

And who else was being a jerk? Sam. He would have this air about him, this cocky and arrogant way about him that just made me want to hit him again. You would think he'd be able to take a hint.

There he was. "Fang? Will you walk home with me?" He turned to me, and nodded, hating and yet loving the way my heart thudded. "Nudge is catching a ride to Iggy's house, and yeah…" As I saw Sam wink at me, my heart thudded out of anger.

Fang followed my gaze and made a strange sound under his breath. Then he turned to Sam and said something that made him back away with a look of terror on his face. Serves him right. "Let's walk."

We headed off towards our neighborhood. "…And she just crashed the go cart right into the fen-" We walked by a dark spot, a place with several buildings lined up and no windows.

They stepped out of the shadows. Gorgeous beings, with honey blond hair and eyes the purest, clearest blue I'd ever seen. I was drawn to one of these humans as she said in a voice made of the softest velvet, "Come here, sweetie."

I felt a smile spread across my face, and I walked towards her. Someone so beautiful couldn't mean me any harm, could she? "Max? What are you doing?" Fang demanded, his voice sharp.

"Saying hi to the nice lady!" I told him in an almost reprimanding tone.

The sound of a vicious snap of jaws resonated in my ears. The woman smiled at me, and I watched shocked as her face changed into something distinctly wolfish.

"Get them!" Jeb. It's always Jeb. Fang flew into a action, trying to fight of these things that looked as if they belonged in a sci-fi movie. But they weren't, it was in my life.

Hairy hands grabbed me. "Get off! Let go of me! Stop it!" I kicked and shouted, but my demands were unmet. They shoved me into a car, when abruptly one of them let out a piteous howl, and Fang pulled me out of the car and yelled over the mayhem, "We need to run!"

Then they saved us. An eight year old, and a six year old saved us. Angel giggled, and suddenly, everyone stared at her. It was like I couldn't not turn to her, and meet her every demand. "Erasers? Jeb, you should know better! The last time you tried to take me and Gazzy back, bad things happened. Don't you remember?"

"Oh, no. You're staying." Jeb was still trying to run when Angel's voice took a creepy turn. "I said you're staying." Just like that, he froze in his tracks. "Now, who helped you?" Pause. "Oh. I see."

Something hit Fang from behind, and he crumpled to the floor. I wanted to cry out and help him, but Gazzy beat me to it.

"Everyone!" Angel's voice called to me again, and I had to look. "Oh, not you," She directed to Fang and me, and I dropped my gaze, released from her creepy power. "Everyone else. You're going to go to sleep now. And you're going to leave them alone now, okay?"

All the creatures dropped. Angel strolled up to me casually with Gazzy in tow and told me, "You two can come with us. We have some stuff to tell you."

*********Later that Day*********

We sat down on the grass, and I stared at Angel, waiting for what she was going to say. "Alright. Clearly you can see that me and Gazzy aren't normal. We're part bird. I can read and control minds. Like that time, when Sam was going to do bad things to you, I sent Fang." She paused and laughed darkly. "I know more than any six year old should. My childhood is gone. I don't even have a mom who loves me."

I interrupted. "No offense, but how does this relate to anything?"

Gazzy took up where Angel left off. "Jeb wanted you. He wanted to turn you into us. Those things back there are part wolf, toopine? Moopine? Lupine? Yeah. That's it!" He beamed proudly for a second.

"Remember when he left you, Max?" Angel asked me. I nodded, looking down. "That was to come and mutate us. Me and Gazzy. That's where he went. And Fang? Your mom wanted you out of her life, and Jeb decided to help you."

Angel stopped abruptly before saying, "Your Mom knew, Max. That's why she left for those few days. To take away custody from your father. He has no hold over you now." She yawned. "Boy, I'm tired." And just like that, she switched from cruel, hardened Angel to sweet lovable six year old Angel.

"Why don't we all go to my house?" I offered.

Angel smiled at me. "Thanks, Max!" She hugged me, and her brother did the same.

We all walked to my house, Fang and I still dazed. He looked at me and asked, "Max? What's going to happen to me?" If I didn't know him so well, I wouldn't have heard the way his voice quaked.

I threw my arms around him. "Oh, Fang. It'll be okay." We held each other like that until Gazzy interrupted.

"Come on, Max!"

(A/N) Alrighty! That should have explained a lot.