Prisoner- Chapter 5
"You really felt guilty?" He asked me. His eyes seemed to be pleading with me.
"Yes." I whispered. I was even starting to believe myself. I have become a great liar, just ask all the people I've fooled on this long journey.
"So you want to stay?" Ari asked tilting his head to one side. "If I left the door unlocked for you to roam around freely, you wouldn't try to run?"
"No." I said looking him straight in the eyes. They say you can tell if a person is lying by looking them in the eyes. Not me though, I'm solid as a rock. I learned it from Fang. Fang… I missed him so much, the rest of the flock too. I wanted to cry, maybe later.
"What about your mutant friends?" He asked catching me off guard. "Are you really trying to convince me that you are willing to leave them after just a day of being locked up here? I'm not dumb." And with that he walked out of the room, door locked.
This was going to be harder than I thought and time consuming. But I have another plan, one that would convince just about anyone. In two days, I'd put my plan into action.
Fang opened the last door revealing the Institute for Higher Living. They saw the familiar site, with multiple computers and the glass wall revealing many empty cages.
"Nudge, I need you to start touching things to see if you can find out if Max was here." Fang instructed. She nodded. Iggy and Gazzy followed her around the room.
Fang walked into the room with the empty cages, checking each one for Max.
"You don't think she's here?" Angel asked reading his mind. He turned to look at her and for the first time Angel could see Fang's emotions laid across his face. He was worried and he was sad, she was too. They all were.
"No." He said checking the final cage. He saw tears run down her pale cheeks and walked over to her, kneeling down in front of her.
"What if we don't find her?" Angel whispered hastily wiping the tears from her cheeks.
"We will." He said stroking her blond curls. Angel threw her arms around his neck and cried. Fang put his arms around her and stroked her hair.
"Shh…" He said soothingly. This part was usually Max's job and thinking about that killed him inside. "We'll find her."
"Promise?" Angel asked pulling back and looking him in the eyes.
"Yes." He said surprising himself and Angel. He blocked Angel out so she couldn't figure out he was unsure. Then he surprised himself again when he picked her up and carried her out to where the others were.
"Anything?" Fang asked looking at Nudge.
"I saw Max, but I think it was of the last time we were here, it was very vague." She explained.
"In other words, nothing." Iggy added.
The Gasman's head had been down while everyone talked, but he suddenly raised it and looked intently at Fang.
"What is it?" Fang asked putting Angel down and stroking her hair one last time.
"I saw something." Gazzy said blinking as if he were confused about something.
"What?" Iggy asked quickly.
"Max, she was trying to escape from a house." He explained.
"Did she make it out?" Nudge asked, her eyes studying Gazzy.
"I don't know." Gazzy said noticing the flocks heads fall in disappointment. "But I saw Ari chasing after her a couple steps behind."
"Any idea where this house is?" Fang pressed.
"There were a lot of trees, that's all." Gazzy said putting his head down.
"What do we do now?" Nudge asked.
"We go back to talk to Jeb?" Iggy asked looking at Fang.
"Yeah, let's get going." He said leading them out of the Institute.
AN: Hope you liked it! I only got one review for chapter four, so please review if you are reading this, even if you don't like it. I have a lot of chappyies just waiting to be posted. So far this story has 72 chapters. So review and I'll post all of them!