A/N: Unfortunately, this is another filler. It is just meant to show just how close the flock members are. And remember, criticism and reviews are always welcome!
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Gazzy was spaced out, his glazed over eyes staring past the dashboard. He was thinking about something very thoroughly, and for about the millionth time in their lives, Iggy and Nudge wished they could read minds.
Iggy rubbed Gazzy's back in a comforting gesture. Beneath Iggy's hand, Gazzy's body jolted with surprise.
"What was in that vision?" Nudge tried for the thousandth time. When she saw the 'nothing' beginning to form on Gazzy's lips again, she quickly continued, "The future isn't written in stone. Whatever it was, if you tell us, maybe we can help prevent it."
Gazzy pursed his lips as his eyes slowly began to become unfocused again.
I can't tell you. If I do, then you might not leave with Fang when Max orders us to split up. You could get hurt, too.
"It was nothing," he murmured again.
"It was obviously more than nothing," Iggy pointed out, trying to be patient. "Gazzy, you're not acting like yourself. Whatever you saw, it threw you out of orbit."
Letting out an exasperated sigh, Gazzy said, "Fine! Y'know how my first two visions were in a lab? Well, in this one, we got kidnapped. I'm freaked out because I don't want to go back to that place, and they were dragging us back kicking and screaming." He massaged his temples. "Okay?"
Iggy rubbed Gazzy's back again, but Nudge didn't see Iggy's sympathetic side coming out. Iggy's blind eyes rose in an attempt to meet Nudge's dark ones, and she immediately knew that they were thinking the same thing.
There was something wrong about Gazzy's explanation. Gazzy had had visions where he had actually been in the laboratory, where he had been in enough pain to make him scream, and just seeing them get kidnapped had made him like this?
Nudge didn't believe it.
Nudge braked the car. Gazzy's surprised eyes turned to her.
"Why are you lying to us, Gazzy?"
If Gazzy was caught off-guard by this question, he was dumbstruck by the one that followed: "Don't you trust us?"
A hurt look appeared in Gazzy's eyes, and Nudge immediately knew that he had taken that question the wrong way. She hadn't meant it as an accusation. It was supposed to remind Gazzy that he could trust them.
"Of course I do," Gazzy replied, and for the first time since they'd been separated from the others, his true age began to show through. Gazzy's voice was becoming thick with emotion. "You guys are my family. I believe that you guys will try and help me more than I believe that the sun will rise the morning! But…but that's the problem…!"
Iggy's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and his eyes rose to meet Nudge's once again.
Gazzy was scared. They both knew it.
Then, Gazzy shook it off, forcing himself to restrain his emotions. 'My little trooper,' Max always called him. 'Too much of a little trooper' was the opinion of both Iggy and Nudge.
"What's going to happen?" Nudge begged to know.
There was a long moment of silence. Then, there was a quiet, "Nothing."
