A/N: This chappie is a little longer than some of the others I wrote. It's pretty interesting if I do say so myself and I hope you like it!
Maxs POV: Chapter 54
The next morning we left really early, wanting to get beds and showers again. Heading east we finally reached mom's town and soon, we reached her house.
Touching down I ran up to the door and knocked hard and fast wanting to see mom again. Ella opened the door and tears came to her eyes as she shouted, "Max!" and threw her arms around me making me stagger back. I hugged her back, tears coming to my eyes also. Fang landed with the rest of the Flock soon after I did, standing back a respectful distance from our teary reunion. I pulled away, wiping my eyes and feeling ashamed that the Flock has seen me cry again.
Mom came out with Jeb, holding a plate of hot chocolate chip cookies. The Flock rushed up behind me attacking the plate. I joined them, wolfing down 5 cookies in under 5 seconds. "Now who's this?" Mom asked smiling over at Tigress.
"This is Tigress mom, she was supposed to be a new bread of erasers but she's good. She's part of the Flock and is the reason we came," I said. She coked an eyebrow at me, silently telling me to go on. "She has a tracer implanted above her hip. Half of it is out and if you touch it, it hurts her so we were wondering if you could take it out for us," I explained. She nodded her head and motioned for us to come in, heading for her room.
When she came back out she had some surgical tools and an anesthetic. "We can't go to the office today, it's closed," she explained looking at Tigress who was fidgeting uncomfortably, "So we'll do the surgery right here if it's ok with you Max." She looked over at me and I nodded my head, putting my hand on Tigress' head.
"Tigress it's ok. She's going to help. She's my mom you know," I said stroking her hair. She looked up at me surprised. She hadn't been expecting that. While Tigress was looking at me mom stuck her with the anesthetic, almost knocking her out instantly. "Nothing can really go wrong with this surgery, it's not in there deep. I probably won't even have to cut her," she said lifting up Tigress' shirt and looking at the little black square.
I nodded and looked over at fang and the rest of the Flock. Everyone except Fang looked wiped and Jeb seemed to notice. "You all can go to sleep if you want. Nudge can share Ella's room, Iggy and Gazzy can have the guestroom, and Angel can share Ella's room to," said Jeb. He looked over at me and Fang and I blushed, looking down at my shoes. "Fang, you and Max can share the other guest room," he said turning to Fang. He nodded and started to walk down the hall with me trailing after him. I looked back and saw mom eyeing us suspiciously and then turning back to Tigress.
When we got into the room I buried my face in a pillow. Fang came over and put his hand on my back chuckling. "God, I'm going to die of embarrassment in this house!" I said over reacting just a bit, but not by much. Fang chuckled again and pulled me onto his lap kissing my hair.
Mom had put a TV in our room and we turned it on, watching The Princess Bride on the movie channel. I decided I liked that movie, how a younger girl was in love with a guy but was on the run from her murderous fiancée who just so happens to be a prince trying to force her to marry him. Fang thought it was ok but I had to disagree with him on this one.
Once it was over we went back into the living room. Mom said that she had put Tigress to bed and that she wouldn't be awake until tomorrow but that everything went perfectly. She then said, "Max, can I talk to you in the kitchen?"
I nodded, following her into the kitchen and hopping up on the counter sitting down on it. "What's up?" I asked wondering what she wanted to talk about.
"Max, are you and Fang, together?" She asked acting like she was trying to find the right words. I blushed and nodded my head. I heard a quick snicker come from the door and yelled, "Fang stop eavesdropping!" Mom went to open the door and poked her head out, looking around. "He's gone," she said looking back over to me and closing the door again. "Max how long have you all been going out?"
"I wouldn't say going out exactly. We've only been on one date and it was ruined by Ari 2," I said blushing again and trying to avoid her question. "Max," she said sternly, "How long?"
"A month or 2," I said looking back down at my shoes. "Do you all use protection?" She asked, practically whispering. "What? Mom no! We're only 14 we don't do that!" I said raising my voice a little and blushing like crazy. I purely appalled, how could she even think that we did that?
"I'm sorry Max it's just Jeb put you all in the same room that only has one bed and-" I cut her off saying, "Sure mom we share a bed but we don't do that! We just really love each other and…" I trailed off whispering towards the end. "Plus," I said picking back up where I left off, "Do you really think that Jeb would put us in a room together if we did that? Remember he knows what I'm thinking."
"Actually," she said looking down guiltily, "He's wanted you and Fang to get together for some time." Oh. My. God. No, he couldn't. I ran out the door with mom yelling after me. Fang shot out our bedroom door and made to grab for my arm but I burst through the front door and was in the sky before he could, pouring on the speed and heading for a small cave that only Fang and I knew about.
I knew he would get there soon, but I had made it there in under 2 minutes so it would probably take him 10 to reach it. Max I'm sorry, said Jeb. Sorry? You've been waiting for me and Fang to get together! For how long? The whole 4 years we were with you? Is that why you always partnered us up? Why you put our rooms side by side? I thought, anger bubbling up in me. I couldn't take it any more. I knew that I loved Fang but I hated that Jeb was meddling in our business. He just needed to get out of my head and leave me alone! Is that too much to ask?
Yes Max it is too much to ask. Remember your dream, you can live that life if you just save the world. I pulled my knees up to my chest, resting my hands on the and putting my head in my hands. I started to cry, shaking with anger and the force of my tears. I jumped when I felt a someone pull me into a hug, wrapping their arms around me. Fang.
"Shhh," he whispered stroking my hair. I buried my face in his shirt, breathing in his sweet smell. After awhile I couldn't cry anymore, my eye swollen a bit and my hair silky smooth from Fang running his fingers through it over and over again. I opened my mouth to say sorry but he cut me off saying, "Don't say sorry Max."
I nodded while he asked, "So what was that all about?" I told him everything, not being able to hold it in any longer. When I was done he nodded, pulling me back into a hug. He started tracing circles in my back and I fell asleep wrapped in his arms inside a cave. Just like old times, I thought before drifting off to sleep.
Fangs POV:
When Max finally fell asleep I picked her up and flew home. I walked through the front door and saw Dr. Martinez and Jeb sitting on the couch waiting for us. When Jeb saw Max asleep he nodded and walked into his and Dr. Martinez's room, leaving the door open a crack. "Fang I'm so sorry," Dr. Martinez apologized frantically, "I didn't mean to upset her."
I nodded and walked back to our room, setting Max down on the bed. I leaned over her and put my hand against her forehead. She seemed to be getting fevers when ever she cried lately, and sure enough she had a slight fever. I walked back out of the room and tapped on Dr. Martinez's door. She opened it and looked surprised until I said, "Max has a fever. She's been getting them whenever she cries, and sometimes when she doesn't."
She nodded and rushed into our room beside Max, feeling her head and sighing with relief. "She just has a cold," she said looking up at me, "When she wakes up in the morning I'll give her some medicine. She won't like it but it'll make it go away." I nodded and laid down beside Max, wrapping my arms around her and then quickly removing them when I saw Dr. Martinez watching me. "It's ok fang. Max explained everything to me," she said looking a little guilty. I nodded and wrapped my arms around her again and pulling her closer to me. Dr. Martinez closed the door and I listened as she walked back to her room.
"You can get up now," I whispered in Max's ear and her eyes popped open, looking up at me. "How did you know I wasn't asleep?" She asked bewildered. "I know everything," I said smiling at her, "How many times do I have to tell you that?"
"At least once more," she said. Suddenly she shot up in bed, clutching her head and crying out in pain. I shot up beside her and put my arm around her, feeling her tremble under me. A tremor went through her body and I pulled away, not wanting to hurt her. She was clenching her teeth and trying to keep herself from having another one. She couldn't prevent it but she defiantly slowed it down so it didn't happen until about 20 seconds after the first one.
She started having a convulsion and I ran out into the hall and shouted for Dr. Martinez and Jeb. They came rushing out of their room and followed me into ours. When they saw Max having a seizure their eyes went wide. "Jeb go get me some anesthetics, fang come here and make sure she doesn't hurt herself," Dr. Martinez instructed. I rushed over beside Max, ready to catch her or pull something away from her at any second. Dr. Martinez rushed over to the other side of the bed with her hands positioned over Max's body like she was about to grab her.
After about 2 minutes of this Max finally stopped and Dr. Martinez put her on her side, holding down her arms and legs. Once she was sure Max was ok she let her go and put the back of her hand to her forehead, checking for a fever. "She has a fever," she mumbled. Jeb handed her the anesthetic and she gave it to Max, sticking the needle in her arm. Just from seeing that I wanted to grab the needle away and stick it in her own arm. I hate needles, the whole flock hates them. Too many whitecoats have experimented on us with them, whether it was to see how well we could handle pain, to get us to tell the truth, or to inject medicine or DNA in us. They had gone too far with needles and now we hated them.
Jeb put a restraining hand on my shoulder and I rolled it off, glaring at him. He backed off but kept a wary eye on me until Dr. Martinez put the needle away, slipping it into her pocket after throwing away the actual needle part. Max stirred a bit and Dr. Martinez gasped, "She's not supposed to wake up!" She exclaimed, "The anesthetic isn't working she's waking up!" She exclaimed again.
Max's eye fluttered open looking a little hazy. "What's going on?" She muttered when she saw all of us in the room. When she remembered what had happened she shot up and clutched her head again, wincing. When the pain sub sided she looked up again and said, "Light headed," after seeing the worried faces of Jeb and Dr. Martinez. They nodded and gave us some privacy, knowing Max had brain attacks before.
"Are you ok?" I asked looking over at her. She nodded and laid down, resting her head on a propped up pillow. I sat down beside her and just when I was about to pull her over she got up and plopped herself right into my lap smirking. I smiled and wrapped my arms around her, listening as her breathing slowed and she fell back asleep even though I wasn't tracing circles on her back.
