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I waited until all of the kids were fast asleep before I went to talk to Fang. That took only about two minutes, so I took a deep breath and stood up. I staggered a little bit at first, but I kept on walking. Finally, I was just about one foot away from him, when I fell right on my butt. I groaned loudly and rubbed my shoulder.
I hear a small chuckle come from Fang, but then it quickly disappeared.
"What are you laughin' at?" I said.
"Does your butt hurt?" He said, smirking at the fire.
"Be quiet." I forced myself not to laugh.
We sat there in total silence for a while. Finally I broke it.
"Fang, I'm sorry I…"
"You don't have to be." He picked up a stick and threw it at the fire.
"Yes I do, because…"
"There's no reason to be."
I was getting a little annoyed with him not letting me finish. "Why?"
"You saved us." He said quietly.
I was a little surprised. That wasn't really the answer that I'd expected to get. Honestly, I wasn't even expecting him to answer at all.
"What?" I looked at him confused.
"You saved us."
"Iggy had the bomb. If he didn't have that, we would all be still at that Institute."
"Yeah, but you told him to throw it." Fang was almost whispering now.
I didn't say anything after that. I didn't really know what to say.
"You chose us over yourself." He whispered, leaning is head up against the wall.
"What?"
"You chose us over yourself."
"I know what you said. But what do you mean?"
"You didn't care about yourself; you just wanted to get us out of there."
"I didn't want you guys to get hurt again. They'd done enough to you already."
"Yeah, and they didn't hurt you?" He looked over at my robe.
"I know. I just couldn't forgive myself for making you guys go there in the first place."
Fang then narrowed his eyes on mine.
"Will you stop blaming yourself? You didn't do anything. You didn't plan on getting us kidnapped. You didn't make Ari hurt you like that. That was all their fault. Not yours. So stop."
I was gaping at Fang. I've never heard him say anything like that before, especially to me.
"Sorry. I just feel bad I guess."
"Well don't." He said as he turned his head to look at the fire again.
"You were more of a leader that night then you were before."
My eyes started to tear up now. That was the nicest, and weirdest, thing he had ever said to me.
"Thanks." I sniffed, "And thanks for coming back for me."
"Yeah well, I knew you wouldn't die that easily."
I hit him on the arm, but then gasped at the throbbing of my shoulder.
"Hurts?" He looked at me and asked.
"Yeah."
"How's your back?"
"It's fine."
Fang then gave me the 'yeah right you liar' look.
"Okay, it's not great."
Fang looked satisfied and scooted over closer to me.
"Your shoulder looks pretty bad." He whispered and leaned in to look at it.
Then he lightly touched it.
"Does that hurt?"
I gave him the 'duh' look and he smiled. A cold breeze swept over us, making me shiver. I was only wearing the hospital robe that I had gotten from the Institute. Fang put his arm around me and rubbed my good shoulder.
"How's your chest?" I asked, trying to break the silence.
He said as he pulled down his shirt and revealed his cut had been all bandaged up.
"I'm tuff anyways." He looked down at me and smiled.
"Yeah right."
"I'm tougher than you." He said playfully.
"In your dreams."
He and I laughed for a while, and then sat in silence once again.
"Fang?" I said looking up at him.
He looked at me, "Yeah?"
"Thanks."
"For what?"
"Everything." I smiled and leaned my head on his shoulder.
Fang kissed my forehead and leaned his head on top of mine. Fang was really surprising me tonight, but I didn't care. For once, I felt safe, which is weird to say after almost getting killed by a bomb. But being here with my flock was the most important thing in the world right now.
'There are still things happening Max. Be ready.'
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