Omg! I'm finally updating!

and another Omg. I don't understand myself. Band Camp makes me uber tired but I have the energy to race people to their spots, be energetic, not sit for five hours in the blaring sun while you're also having marching practice for five hours. Grr. So my body gave out today. I'm not energetic and I'm well past tired. But I've been meaning to post this for a while, it's just that band got in the way... again... I mean from about 4 30am to 1pm and 5pm to 10pm is all deticated to Band. So Yeah, it's about 1 20 I just got home. and yeah! It's a saturday too! I have no life T.T But there's one pro of this, no saturday rehearsal next saturday cuz our band gets to be in a movie!

Mrs Pierre Bouvier: I love you forever and a day! You win this challenge! The second I read your review I was like, This is it! Max can do that and Iggy this, also Fang can do this too! You get a really really really really large cookie!

XStepOnMeX: You get a cookie for the challenge for the last review and a cookie this update cuz you made me realize that all my chapters have the word 'see' in them! Well that's al about to change in the 5th chapter!

And thanks to all my other reviewers! (I would have wrote something to each of you but as it says above... Band Camp, I'm dead tired. XP

Iggy's POV

Chapter 4:

What I can't See
(I can only feel)

Max looks so cute when she's nine years old. Curly hair just past her ears, warm innocent eyes, a toothy grin at me. If only she would give me that kind of happy look now…

I heard Max shuffling around in the morning. I must've slept through my shift. Whoops. I'm amazed she wasn't tired. She always took the shifts that Fang or me couldn't take.

She's humming. Wow, I never knew she could sing. An old lullaby… The lids of my eyes began to droop with every soft word she sang…

"You are my Sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are gray. You never know dear, how much I love you, till you take my sunshine away…" she sang it repeatedly. I smiled to myself; she would make a great mother to anyone. "Hey Fang." Max whispered, so Fang was awake too. "What?" I could feel her smiling softly. "You don't like my singing?"

"Who's your sunshine?" Fang asked, a small tap on one of the tables, he was holding a coffee mug.

"Don't make me say something sappy." Max groaned. I heard Fang chuckle softly. "You really want to know?" Max sighed moments later. "You're my sunshine, happy?" Fang must've nodded before Max finished. "You know, we were never sung lullabies or told bedtime stories when we were little."

"Because we too busy being experimented on." Fang scowled. I winced to myself. The School is something I'd rather forget but all my memories with sight are all in there.

"I know that. But Jeb never sang lullabies to Angel when he was still on our side." Max shuffled once more. "I don't even remember how I know these songs." Max began humming softly again. Her voice was melodic. I smiled before I pressed my hand against the cool glass. I could feel raindrops pelting against it.

I wish I could stand outside, feeling the rain pelt my face. I began to sit up. My heart ached as I heard a quick kiss shared between the two of them.

"Iggy, you're finally awake." I could feel Max grinning at me. I moved my head in the direction of her voice. I nodded and sat against the cool window. It seemed like it was pouring outside. I heard Max shuffling before I felt her hand press against mine, I closed my eyes and smiled softly to myself.

Not only did she do that when something was bothering her but when she knew something was bothering me too. Touch was my comfort, especially if I felt a hand; it let me know that I was really there.

Being stuck in darkness, it kind of drives you mad. You never know if something is really there because you can't see it but when you touch, you can feel that something is real. It made you feel real. I pressed my hand back at Max and felt her smile at me.

"We're planning on going shopping for new clothes as soon as everyone wakes up. That's if it stops raining."

"It's Seattle," Fang began from a few feet to my left, "it never stops raining." I felt Max give my hand a squeeze before I felt her presence move away from me. Why did it feel like I was alone again?

You know, when you're shopping for clothes as a blind guy, it sucks. I accidentally grabbed a women's shirt while we were in pirates plunder. From Gazzy and Nudge's descriptions, I would like the store but as you can see, I can't. So as I stood dumbly as the flock picked out clothes, I listened. The light rain on the windows and echoing from the hallway through the open door, the cash register opening and closing, the sliding of items around the store, and… the several stolen kisses of Max and Fang…

This would be the only time I would wish I were deaf instead of blind. That way I wouldn't have known that they were kissing, I would have missed it while looking for clothes.

Max eventually found me a few shirts but we would have to go somewhere like a Target or Wal-Mart for new pants. I didn't mind, at least we were out of the store and the rain could drain out any sound of that kissing. Like Max and Fang would do something as sappy romantic as that, kissing in the rain.

"Max look! That place is a museum and a shop! They say they have some mummies in there!" Gazzy shouted beside me. Mummies huh? If I could see them, that would be cool.

"I guess it couldn't hurt." Max replied. I heard Gazzy hiss out a 'yes!'.

Famous last words, Max.

That place was cramped and messy. I couldn't take a single step without bumping into something, and most of those something's were metal or very hard solid objects. "Sorry Ig, I didn't know this place was so cramped." Max whispered in my ear as she took my hand. "Gazzy really wants to see that mummy."

"What does mummy look like?" I asked Max as she stopped. "Does it say anything about him?" I mean come on, I'm excited right now, Max is holding my hand and we're looking at a mummy! Ok, well Max is looking at a mummy but we're standing in front of one. Have you ever stood in front of a mummy? Didn't think so.

"It says that there's metal in his forehead and his skin grew over it. And the reason why his skin is in such a good oily state is because he was covered in arsenic. Either that or he drank it before he died." Max began reading something. "He's not like an Egyptian mummy though, all he has is a rag around his waist. But he has a moustache. This mummy has a moustache, not something you see everyday." I grinned at the thought of a dried up person wearing a moustache.

"Hey Max, can I have one of those?" Gazzy asked, he was on the other side of Max. He was talking about the moustache.

"No, you're not old enough." I felt Max frown. I imagined a four-year-old Gazzy with a moustache, now that was funny.

"Iggy, I have to show you all this stuff! I mean there's an Uncle Sam game, and then there's this thing that you hold onto and they tell you if you're hot or not. Oh! And all these different kinds of coins. There's a mini theater over here, it's Soo Old!" Nudge grabbed my hand and began leading me around the shop. "You should see the what the mini theater is playing, I forgot what it was called but it's still really cool looking."

"Nudge." I said firmly. Everything she wanted me to do I had to see.

"What?" I felt her give me a look. "Oh." Her voice held realization. She dropped my hand, I felt her gaze still on me. "Sorry Ig, everything was just so really cool. I forgot, if I could give you my sight just for you to see this I would. It's really amazing."

"I'll trust you to that." I gave her a smile. What was I supposed to say? I mean she felt bad and I don't want my sister to feel bad because I can't see. It's the whitecoats fault anyway, besides, if I could see I think I'd like this place, Nudge, as talkative as she may be, is really good at describing things. And so far, I think it is amazing.

"Angel, I know you're hungry, we'll get something to eat soon." I heard Max's voice from the other side of the room.

"We should probably get back to the flock now." Nudge told me. I nodded as she took my hand, leading me around, taking a few twists and turns along the way.

We got to the flock a few moments later; they were planning on going to go by Pike's Markets for some fruits.

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It's been a week or so since we've moved into the abandoned coffee shop. We have new clothes, food, and we can walk around freely in this busy city. Nudge says Erasers don't like places so close to Canada. I know she's bluffing but I'm surprised that there haven't been any attacks by Erasers yet. Everyone loves that little keyword, yet.

In that week I heard so many stolen kisses it's beginning to drive me insane. I should be the one kissing Max! I should but I can't, I shouldn't have even kissed her back in the cave. I don't know which is worse, hearing their kisses and not seeing or seeing and hearing. Either way this completely sucks.

I noticed that Max has been hanging around me more though; she probably didn't brush off what I said over a week ago. She's giving me extra attention, as in more than usual. Not that I mind. But it kind of makes me wonder, whenever she kisses Fang, does she think 'would Iggy's be better' or 'does Iggy love me like this'? Whatever, I don't want to know what's Max's mind, that's Angel's job.

I can feel the looks and glances Max gives me, each one of them makes me uncomfortable because I can't tell what expression she's wearing half the time and it bothers me! How would you like it if someone was looking at you and you couldn't see their expression, I would be pissed, wouldn't you? But knowing Max, she'll deny ever glancing. But the thing is, if I can't tell her expression, how can I give an expression back? I mean yeah, my eyes are automatically emotionless but the rest of me can give an expression, right?

I hear Angel laughing with Total. They must be playing something. If only I could see what. "We're packing up." Max said firmly, snapping me away from my thoughts. What's with the sudden plan? I felt for my things and packed them into my backpack. I'll ask later, she probably saw Ari walking down the street. As always, Ari ruins everything.

"Let's go." Max ordered moments later, I stood up and placed my hand lightly on Nudge's shoulder, I'm pretty sure it's her, she has this little indent that my thumb always runs into near her neck. Nudge led me towards the exit before she jumped free of my grasp and into the air. I followed the suit, unfurling my wings to catch the sudden updraft of the wind. I followed the flaps intently, often grazing someone's wing to make sure I was still with the flock.

There were heavier flapping sounds behind us. "Max." I called out her name as we flew over Seattle. I felt her become aware before flapping slightly faster.

"Separate, meet at decoy cave. GO!" Max shouted the last word before falling back. I flew west, my wings beating with Nudge's. Gasman would go in the other direction of me and Nudge while everyone else went separate ways.

Decoy cave, we named it without a purpose. We found it while we were staying in that coffee shop. It's a cave that has four tunnels, one leads underneath a city, another to another entrance, then the third one would be leading from where you just were, and the last one to a bottomless pit, seriously, it's bottomless, I couldn't hear the rock Gazzy dropped down it.

Why had Max fallen back though? Was she planning on playing decoy to the Erasers? It wouldn't be the first time. Nudge and I zoomed towards the cave, taking a long way around to lose anyone or thing following us.

Gazzy, Angel, and Total beat us to the cave. No surprise really, they don't usually try to go a long way around. Angel would just use her mind trick to make Erasers go away and Gazzy, he could just fart at them, that alone would make them stop.

I heard Fang's boots hit the cave flooring minutes later and heard the rustle of his wings as they folded onto his back. Fang sat down, along with the rest of the flock, all except me. I didn't feel like sitting just yet. Besides, where was Max?

Almost an hour passed, I could tell Fang was fidgeting slightly in worry of Max. That was a big deal if I heard him even move a centimeter. I was nervous too but then I heard Max's sneakers press against the rocky floor and felt the breeze her wings gave before relief swept over me. I heard the flock jump to their feet.

"Iggy," It felt like Max was grinning, "I have something for you." I heard her footsteps approach me and she had my hands cup hers.

Kinda Slow but makes you wonder what's in her hand. I set it up! I got this chapter to fit in with the last two! Oh yeah... only two more chapters... T.T Poor Iggy, none of those kisses went to him...

CHALLENGE TIME!

What do you think of when I say, Mirror Memories?

(out of the blue question, don't blame me, I have to get ready for practice in like three hours, after getting home about 45 min ago. And trust me, 3hrs aren't long enough.)

Preview of the Next Chapter: (Yes, I have one this time!)

Fang POV

Chapter 5:
Blinded By Doubt

Look at them. On the other side of the fire Max is showing something to Iggy, pressing it into his hands. What's she showing him? She seems so alive and spirited, like a mother would with her child showing something new. I saw something pop out slightly from beneath their hands. The corners of my mouth twitched upwards. A small bird. I glanced at Iggy, he was nodded and smiling as his fingers ran softly over the bird's body. He looked happy even though his eyes held a blank expression.

They looked like a couple, Max and Iggy. Somehow, I always pictured it would be me by her side instead of Ig. I mean we're still together and all but will we if this keeps up?

Sorry It's short but I had a hard time choosing the preview and this won...

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Adieu

Nightwing