A/N: I'm back :) Still kind of busy but I wanted to take a break from writing essays so I decided to do this... and I was going to upload it after the 6th like I said but I felt like I've kept you guys waiting for a while now so here's the next chapter. It involves a bit of a time skip cause I'm not going to keep writing Max's day to day life about her with a newborn cause it would get too boring.

Phoenix is definitely a special child and there's going to be more to come!

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Enjoy! NEXT UPDATE ON SATURDAY... and it's from a different P.O.V. Guess who's! ;)

~Harmony

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Chapter 18:

I was still standing there. I stared into Fang's wet eyes. It looked like he was trying not to cry but when he saw Phoenix, his eyes started to well up.

"Don't worry guys. I'll figure this out." I tried to assure them.

"Max! There's no way out of this… I'm telling you!" Angel shook her head and was sobbing hysterically.

I hugged Angel, squishing Phoenix between us.

"Wait guys. There has to be a switch somewhere else. Otherwise, when Jeb switched the detectors on, and walked away, he would have blown into pieces."

"You're right Max! Lets start looking!" Angel furrowed her eyebrow and started looking around.

I noticed the lights on the detectors were blinking in sort of pattern.

"Angel look. The lights on the bomb…. Its in some sort of pattern." I closed my eyes and listened. Da-da Da-da Da-da-da-da-da… the carousel music was annoyingly loud. I opened my eyes. That's it!

"The lights go to the carousel music!" I ran over to the carousel. Each time it made one round, the music would play once. I looked at the control systems. There was a light next to the lever. There has to be some way to deactivate the bomb.

"Iggy, how many times has that music played since the bomb has been on." Iggy is the only one who obsessively counts things like that. "Blink."

Iggy looked at me… he blinked 14 times. I ran back to the carousel.

"Um, hi, how many times has this song been played?"

"Maam, if you want a ride, you're gonna have to wait your turn—"

I glowered my eyes at him. "How many times."

"Maam, please step back or I'm going to have to call security."

"It's 14, Max!" Angel glared at the worker.

The worker gave Angel a weird look and ran back to the controls.

"Every one buckle onto the seats! Ready…"

"NO!" I yelled I sprinted to the controls and pushed the man. I slammed my hand down on the red button to shut down the whole ride. I noticed that the lights on the bombs turned off.

The flock jumped up off the table and ran for me. I was engulfed in a crowd of hugs.

"Max! I was so scared that we we're going to die! I mean if Iggy and Gazzy couldn't deactivate it, that I was sure that you couldn't either-"

"THIS IS SECURITY. Hands up!"

"Oh shoot." I murmured under my breath. We couldn't fly cause by now, there was a whole crowd and I'm sure they'd take pictures and it would be all over. "We gotta run."

I put my hands up and slowly turned around. I saw the flock doing the same. We faced the security guard. He was a fat guy with a beer belly and a gun in his waist belt.

"Now I don't mean to cause any trouble but I hear you harassed a worker? I'm gonna need to take you in for questioning." He started to walk towards us.

"Three." I whispered. We all took off towards the exit.

"HEY! Catch them!"

These humans were surprisingly slow. I laughed in my head. "Woods!"

We all ran into the woods and ran until we saw a clearing. "Up!" We all took off into the air. I looked at my flock and smiled. We were finally safe…. (ish).

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~4 YEARS LATER~

It's been four years since I gave birth to Phoenix. Today was her birthday. Since that crazy incident with Jeb, we'd been in hiding. We were living in Colorado. We found a large cave that was extremely well concealed. It was very tall, big enough for us to fly a couple feet too. It was the perfect weather for us and we loved living here with Phoenix. Everyone loved her. Angel and Nudge did girl things with her, Fang and I teach her to fight, and Gazzy and Iggy (as much as I don't like it) teach her how to make bombs and they occasionally fight her for practice.

"Mommy! Look what I did!" Phoenix pointed to Gazzy.

"Yeah she gave me a freaking black eye!" Gazzy crossed his arms and huffed. "I can't believe I let a 4 year old punch me."

"Ha! You got beat up by a 4 year old and a girl too." Iggy was shaking with laughter. "Good job Nix!" He high-fived her.

"Phoenix! You are NOT supposed to hit Gazzy…." I looked at Gazzy's eye. "But its kind of true, Gaz. How did you let Nix beat you?!"

"She distracted me! She pretended that she was actually hurt and then hit me!"

"Nix, no manipulation.,. Remember? If someone actually decided to attack you, and you pretend to be hurt, they won't stop and ask if you're okay. They'll kill you."

"Yeah well if the erasers or whatever attacks me, I'll kill them first." She stated with scary intensity.

"Okay Nix." I laughed nervously as she sat across from me. She looks exactly the same as she did when she was a baby.

She still had perfect long black hair that went all the way to the middle of her back. She had a round face with a pointed chin, rosy cheeks, and red lips. The most striking feature was still her eyes. Somehow, it seemed like they had gotten even lighter blue but now there were barely noticeable red flecks in them.

"So what are we doing today?" She looked up at me.

"I think you should get a haircut." Fang walked into the cave. Him and Iggy had made a door that covered the entire entrance of the cave so it wouldn't get too cold.

"Daddy!" Phoenix ran over and hugged Fang's legs. He picked her up and kissed her. "You want to cut your hair?"

"Nooooo! Her hair is so pretty Fang! Its perfect and long and pretty." Nudge pretended to pout.

"I agree with Fang, Nudge. It's pretty but its kind of a hassle. Especially when she learns to fly better, it'll be hard to manage."

"I want to cut my hair. I want it to be short!" Nix kicked her legs.

"Whatever you want, it's your birthday!" I smiled.

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About an hour later, everyone was ready to head out. We all put on our coats and left.

"Can I fly?" Phoenix asked me.

She was pretty good at flying but she sprained her wing a week ago with a wrongly executed turn.

"Alright but if it hurts, I'm carrying you."

She nodded at me. She leaped up into the air with her hair flying past her.

"Try and catch me! Bet you can't!" Phoenix was an amazing flyer… and she had my super speed. Well, it wasn't that fast yet but I believed the speed came with age.

I watched everyone chase after her. I looked at Fang next to me. I leaned my head against his shoulder.

"How did our life get so amazing?"

"By whitecoats injecting you with my sperm."

"Okay… Ignore that question." I smiled and shoved him. He grabbed my hand and kissed me. I cupped my hands around his face and kissed him back.

"Ewwww!" I heard Nix scream.

Iggy yelled. "Fang, get a room! There's a child amongst us."

"Iggy I'm gonna kill you!" Fang shouted, charging towards him.

I chuckled to myself and took off into the air. "Lets go guys! Phoenix, you want that haircut?"

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The door jingled as we walked through. We were in a mediocre sized town that was close to the mountains. There was a good barber shop

"Hello! Who might be getting their hair cut today?" A cheery old lady asked.

"Hi Gracie!" Phoenix greeted the old lady.

Gracie was the lady we all went to for haircuts. Now, I've never had many human friends in my life besides Ella and Dr. Martinez but I consider Gracie a friend. She was super nice and friendly and gave surprisingly good advice.

"Hey! Its actually for Phoenix." I smiled.

"Oh you're very first hair cut… and on your birthday too!" She smiled and took Nix's hand. "Well we've got your favorite spot open."

There was a section for adults and a section for kids. There were cute little chairs for them... one was shaped as daisy duck and Minnie mouse but her favorite was the giant hawk.

Gracie lifted Phoenix up into the chair and started wetting her hair. "What do we want today?"

"Just something short. Maybe a bob cut? We just want something easy to manage."

Gracie nodded. "Got it honey." She wet her hair and started combing it all the way down. Then she started snipping away. She went all the way up to her shoulders and swiveled Nix to the side. Then, she started cutting her hair a little bit angled on the sides. She washed her hair in the sink and started blow-drying her hair.

"Ready to see it Nix?"

She nodded. Gracie removed to towel from her head. It was a straight sleek bob cut with long side bangs. Her hair in front naturally framed her round face and she looked so adorable.

"It feels good!" She shook her head so her hair swayed in front of her face. "Thank you!" She smiled at Gracie.

"No problem honey. And consider this your birthday present… no charge!"

"Oh you don't have to do that… let me pay-"

"Don't even think about it. I know you have a lot of mouths to feed. Enjoy the rest of the day!"

"Thank you Gracie!"

We walked out of there as Phoenix was licking a lollipop. "Ready to go?"

"No! I want to stay in the city and play!" Phoenix stomped her foot.

"Nix, it's too dangerous here... we can play at home!"

"No. I want to play here." Her tone dropped to a low dangerous hum.

Here we go again. Phoenix had a bit of a temper problem. Her powers were hard to control so until she learned to control them, it was dangerous for her to be with other kids.

"Phoenix, calm down and listen to me."

"No." She started to close her eyes.

"Fine we can play here but not too long." I sighed and glanced at Fang. I let everyone else take her to the park across the street.

"Fang what are we going to do? She clearly can't control her powers. She was going to use them on me… ME!"

"I think we should put her in school."

"What?!" I was surprised. "School? Where there are other people her age… where she is an open target for anyone to attack her… she's never even interacted with anyone else besides us and Gracie."

"Exactly. She needs to learn to act normal. She needs to learn to protect herself and how to act when we're not there."

"What if she shows her wings or something?"

"We can't protect her all the time Max." He looked at me. "She needs to learn to hide them when necessary instead of us reminding her all the time. This is what?... the fourth time she's even been in the city? She needs to be with people her age."

I can't say I disagree. I loved that she was more mature than any kid her age but she did need social interactions.

"Fine. I agree. We'll enroll her in school next semester."

We walked over to the park and watched her as she played. Angel and Nudge went to a clothing store nearby and Iggy and Gazzy went to a hardware store when we arrived at the park.

"Mommy, I want to play with that." Phoenix pointed to the sandbox where some kids were playing with water guns.

"Go ask if you can share it with them…" I told her. "Nicely!" I added.

"Phoenix walked over to them. "Can I share that with you?"

The boy laughed at her. "No! A girl playing with a gun?"

"I said I want to share that with you."

"And I said no!" The boy shoved her and started squirting at his friend. "Move over! This is mine!"

Phoenix curled up her fist and glowered her eyes. "Never tell me no."

"OW! The water is burning!" The other boy held his face and ran to his parents.

Phoenix smiled and picked up the water gun and started playing with it.

"Okay scratch what I said before… Phoenix needs to start school asap." I told Fang as we both watched what Phoenix did.

"Yeah. Lord knows she could end up killing someone for fun." Fang said.

I looked at him worriedly. "Yeah…"

"It was a joke!" Fang put his arm around me and squeezed my shoulders.

I smiled. I sure hope it was a joke. I thought to myself.

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A/N: Hope you liked it. Review! :)