Chapter Nine
Max had been flung across the room and knocked unconscious. They had gone after Iggy and only Iggy. She felt kind of unwanted.
She sat slowly up and looked around. Everything was a mess. She crawled to Fang. He was bleeding from the lip and had a black eye. Other than that he seemed fine.
"You okay?" He asked Max. She nodded and stood stiffly.
She extended her arm to him. He accepted and let Max help him up. Now on to find the rest of the flock.
In the living room Nudge had put the Gasman on the couch and Angel on the loveseat.
"When did you get in?" Max asked stretching her neck.
"A few minutes ago. What happened?" She asked moving to clean what mess was in the kitchen.
Max followed, "Erasers."
One word. All it took was one word to send cold shivers down Nudge's spine.
Fang had looked Angel and the Gasman over. They weren't badly hurt but needed ice. He opened the freezer door and found a few ice trays. He filled two plastic sandwich bags and wrapped both up into two different kitchen towels.
Max started to help clean by sweeping all the glass from the floor. Garbage duty was calling her. Yippee.
Nudge stopped and turned to Max, "I didn't mean to explode at her like that."
Max looked up, "What are talking about?"
Tears had started to form in Nudge's eyes, "I didn't meant to say those mean things to Danni and now she's gone."
"Gone?" Fang asked also stopping what he was doing.
Nudge nodded, "I say them take her and Iggy. I saw them throw the two into the back of a truck and drive off. I would have stopped them or tried to if they hadn't had guns."
She looked down.
Angel and the Gasman were coming to.
"It's okay Nudge," Max walked over to her and pulled her into a hug, "We'll get them back. We got Angel back and now we know where the School is. It'll be easier."
Angel sat up. She stood and stretched out. Hunger over took all other thoughts. Moving to the refrigerator she noticed Max and Nudge hugging.
"What's going on?" she asked grabbing a package of turkey slices. She walked over to the dinning table and started to eat one slice at a time.
Max answered her while Nudge cried harder into her shoulder, "Iggy and Danni are gone. They were taken by Erasers."
"Erasers?" it was the Gasman's turn to question this. "Yeah that's right."
Most days Max questioned it all. Most days? Try all the time.
Ah, the voice reared its ugly voice again. After they had rescued Angel from being captured by the Erasers Max had developed a voice. It would either never talk or never shut up. It talked when Max didn't want it to and never peeped when Max wanted it too. So much for being in control over your thoughts, if they were indeed hers.
Spill, Max thought to the voice, what do you know?
The voice didn't say a thing. So predictable that it's irritating.