I don't own Maximum Ride but I am investing in a security system after all the death threats. LOL. I promise I have something good coming up for you guys!
*Fang's POV*
My head was throbbing. Every muscle in me ached like I'd been run over by a semi and then beaten with a baseball bat. Despite all the pain I noticed that I was free. I wasn't behind a cage's bars and there were no manacles or restraints. This definitely wasn't The School. I guess Brigid was more humane than that. "You're awake." I heard a gruff voice from the corner. Jeb. I second guessed my statement about Brigid's humane tactics. Any woman who would trap a guy in a confined space with his future father in law could be considered torturous. I rubbed the back of my head in a particularly sore spot and pulled myself up. Jeb looked like shit. He had lost a lot of weight, looking gaunt and malnourished. His face was bearded and disheveled, and he seriously needed a haircut, even by my standards. I examined our surroundings. It looked like a stone cell on 3 walls. The walls seemed thick and sturdy, either rock or concrete. The fourth wall was glass. I wondered why Jeb hadn't broken through yet in an attempt to escape.
Jeb noticed my eyes darting around, surveying my surroundings. "It's a two way mirror. We can see out but they can't see in." Jeb explained. "They?" I asked. "The snakes. She keeps them in cages. She's made more of them. Lots more of them. And they're vicious. They're similar to the ones Dylan and Max faced years ago, not like the joke of a hybrid that tried to pass as a ninja. " Jeb explained. I considered that for a moment and calculated the odds that Jeb and I could take them. "How did you get here?" Jeb asked. "I did what I had to. I had to protect Max, and the kids. She said that as long as I came with her she would leave Max alone." I said simply. As crappy of a father as Jeb had been, surely even he could understand that. To my surprise he blew up. "You believed her?!" He screamed. I wondered if Jeb knew Max's chance of surviving, but blocked that out of my mind quickly. Max would survive. I could see Jeb trying to calm himself, taking deep breaths. "You don't understand Fang. It's about her…and about them. That's all she wants. It was never about you. And by giving yourself up you just gave away Max's first line of defense.