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Fang introduced us to his flock and Matt quickly told the story of the breakout.

"Matt, don't be modest! You orchestrated the whole thing!" Jake said.

"Well, not-"

"Yes he did! And he thought to use the Corvette!" Jake cut him off.

"Well," Fang said. "Whether Matt wants to take credit or not, I think it was great."

We were interrupted by footsteps in the trees. Fang and I shot up and both did three-sixties. Two erasers jumped into the clearing. "Dylan!" Fang shouted. "Take Max's flock and GO!"

A blonde kid who I hadn't noticed before took my flock and left. We all got into fighting stances. "Nobody move!" one eraser shouted and they both pulled out pistols. One eraser trained his gun on Caroline and the other on me. Everyone froze. In a split second, Fang moved in front of me and everyone jumped on the erasers. I was pushed back into a tree and everything became a big blur. I heard two gunshots and everything cleared. My heart stopped at what I saw.

The two erasers were dead, but the bullets hadn't hit them. "Fang!" I shouted and ran towards where he lay. He had gotten one of the bullets in his side and was bleeding terribly.

He took my hand. "Max, are you okay?" he asked.

"Fang, you got shot! Oh, God."

"Are you okay?" he repeated.

"I'm fine! Oh, God. We need to get you to a hospital."

Jake's POV

When the erasers were dead Jake looked around and almost fell there on the spot. He'd heard the bullets, but didn't expect this. "Hayley!" he shouted and ran to where Hayley lay in a poll of blood coming from here shoulder where she'd been shot. He grabbed the hand of her good arm tightly.

"Don't worry. I'll be." Hayley didn't get to finish. Her eyes closed and her grip on Jake's hand loosened. He could just feel her heart beat faintly.

"Hayley," Jake said as tears formed in his eyes. "We need to get to a hospital!"

Matt's POV

Matt looked around. Fang was on the ground bleeding with Max over him, looking distraught. The same thing was for Hayley and Jake. Matt was afraid to look at Caroline. Afraid to see what he would find. But he wasn't a coward. He looked up and was relieved to see that at least she wasn't shot. Blood was all over her jaw and she was bleeding out of her mouth. She had a hand on her heart and her other arm around her stomach. Matt went over to her. "What's wrong?" he said trying not to panic.

"I'm fi-" she said just before she passed out. Matt caught her before she fell.

"Caroline!" he said. "We need to go to a hospital! Come on!" Matt carried Caroline to the car, followed by the others carrying their loved ones. Matt put Caroline in the passenger seat and hopped behind the wheel. Everyone else got in the back and Matt floored towards the nearest town.

In about ten minutes going at 150 mph, the reached a hospital and ran in. All the nurses turned to see six bloody and beat up teenagers, half of them critically injured.

"Someone help!" Matt shouted and a few techs came with gurneys. They took Hayley, Fang, and Caroline off to an operating room. It took Matt everything he had not to run after them.

Unfortunately, Jake had gotten worse. He snapped and tried to run after Hayley, almost morphing in the process. Matt tackled him and had to pin him down on the middle of the emergency room just to stop him. "Get off me!" he growled

"You can't follow her," Matt replied. He got off Jake and helped him up. When Jake got up, he tried to run again. Matt slammed Jake's chest and hit him into a wall. "You need to stay here!"

Eventually, Matt got Jake to sit down. A nurse came out and asked if they could come with her to the operating room. Matt nodded speechlessly.