-1Okay guys, I was holding back, there may or may not be some Iaxness in the future. But who here feels for me when I say that Angel is the only one in the group that cannot have anyone to love like a husband/partner/lover? I mean poor girl, she's gonna be stuck with Iggy Fang and Gazzer as her brothers for the rest of her life… they arent going to be too hot on the idea of boyfriends with the baby of the flock…

My sister loves it too, so there's no way I'm gonna stop making fudge anytime soon.
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Iggy and Angel were still asleep as I stood watch, there was no way we were the last people in the world… I knew that out there somewhere were Fang, Nudge and the Gasman. I looked to Angel, she had been so brave over the last few months and I couldn't help but smile. Whenever she was around I smiled. I was glad that she was safe. OR at least that I knew she was safe.

Iggy started to stir as he got up, his foot hitting a piece of scrap metal. Our current solitude, the Washington memorial, Washington DC. He walked over to me as I looked out onto the Lincoln Memorial at the other side. "how you feeling?" he asked, his eyes as usual irregularly locking onto me.

"as usual, sty." responded. "you?"

"about as good as the blind man can…" he said. Iggy hadn't been affected in any way by the radiation, but Angel and I were two completely different stories.

Angel had lost her ability to read minds, that made our searching for Fang Nudge and Gazzer even harder. As for me, on the bright side of things, the voice stopped talking to me, the bad side, I sometimes would lose control of my motor functions.

This was the worst when it happened while flying, Angel had to upon two occasions swoop down and catch me before handing me off to Iggy. I felt so embarrassed, I was supposed to be the strong one and I was dropping out of the air like a lead balloon. The only explanation was the fallout. We had come upon several rather large craters in the past, and only one thing could have created the fifty mile holes in the ground.

The governments had started fighting over the War in Iraq. Nothing new. But then they also started talking about the ever escalating tension between North and South Korea as well as Iran. North Korea and Iran had successfully created and tested their first nuclear bombs.

They then turned those bombs upon, you guessed it. The good old red white and blue. But Iraq first leveled all of Israel before turning to the US. The old domino theory fell into affect. The US struck back for it's allies in Israel then Russia in retaliation launched missiles at the US. This continued for a couple weeks before everyone ran out of bombs and the world was now the hell hole it is right now.

Angel shifted around, she had been adapting to not being able to read minds. But not very well. She had always been able to read my mind whenever she wanted, after all there was nothing I could do about it.

"we need to get moving…" I said moving over to Angel and waking her.

She woke instantly, somehow she was staring to get the same reactions as… well me. "it's okay Ange. I said softly."

"I had a dream again…" she said. "it was about… Ari he was back… again."

It just popped back into my head, 'oh great another thing to worry about…' thought. If we were tough enough then so was Ari, after all he was an eraser, though god knows how old he would look now…

"well," Fang said stepping onto the ledge "no time but now…" he swung the sack onto his back as he stepped of, falling face first with his wings tucked in before opening them, slowly angling them so that he would glide across the city.

Nudge had been looking at Fang that on a weekly, sometimes, daily basis. She had a feeling that if she told him her feelings he would probably tell her he didn't feel the same way, but then again, after being separated from Max, Iggy, Angel and Gazzy for over a year, he might have changed , she certainly had.

Nudge followed suit, diving off the building. The air rushed past her as she fell downward. She followed Fang's lead, leveling out slowly and starting to glide. It was starting to get cold lately, well colder anyways. A sure sign that winter was coming. These winters weren't like your normal winters, the cold was unbearable, and unless you had either A) a shelter or B)a roaring fire you were screwed.

Nudge soon caught up to Fang, who had somewhat waited for her. Nudge was getting a headache as she passed over Ground Zero, all sorts of screams and feelings of terror, pain and finally anger passed over her. She started to fall, but Fang caught onto it and picked her up into his arms. He didn't know it but she liked the feeling, he was holding her almost like a child and she nestled into his shoulder, closing her eyes as she tired to get the pain out of her mind.

"it's okay Nudge, Im here." he said. Nudge wouldn't rather have him anywhere else…