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(SECRET BRANCH OF ITEX)

**While the flock was getting discovered and fought**

"Oh no! No no no no!" Jake started to scream. Everyone looked at him as he got to the phone and dialed Silvia's number. "Mam we need you here now! We don't know what to do, the communicator's broken and we can't talk to-" he paused listening to the phone and nodding his head quickly "Yes her, she went ahead and fought!" Jake screamed. The others could hear the director scream something and then the phone went silent.

"Does anyone have any new information?" Jake screamed at his coworkers. Everyone shook their heads. Some were trying to fix the communicator, others trying to contact Chris (the technician),still others were either looking at surveillance footage (for Chris) or monitoring the flock.

"Jake, she just got shot in the stomach!" Livy screamed very upset from the computer she was at.

"Shit!" Jake screamed running to one of the communicator computers. He moved the person on it away the least violent way he could, with the little time he knew he had.

He was typing aggressively all of the override passwords he knew when Silvia came in "how is she!" she screamed.

"They're on their way to a hospital!" a guy (Gavin) on one computer said.

"She's lost too much blood already… I don't think the baby will make it…" Livy said from another computer. She was crying softly now. They weren't supposed to get attached to experiments, but everyone had somewhat of a tie to them. This group especially.

"It's ok! There might still be a chance!" Silvia screamed running a communicator computer. She was trained very well and could do just about everyone's jobs. She typed in a few commands and opened up a special command box. She then typed in several lines of what looked like random letters and numbers; but what was actually a crucial line of commands. If she got even a single character wrong it wouldn't work.

"I think it's too late mam" Livy says quietly coming up behind the director. "Experiment AH-G1-1 has lost consciousness. Even if we could tell her, she wouldn't hear. I'm sorry."

Jake went over to where they were after his attempts at fixing things failing. "No we can still wake her up so she can tell them what to do!" he says, now going to Livy's computer to check on experiment AH-G1-1's vitals. He frowns and sighs loudly after a moment. Rubbing his forehead where a headache was staring to form, he walks over to Silvia and Livy. Shaking his head now, he says "Livy was right: it's too late. She's in a deep sleep, almost like a coma. She'll be alright but the baby should already be dead."

Silvia doesn't show any signs of acknowledgement and types a few more things. After pressing enter, another boxe pops up showing that everything she had typed was flawless. The new box looked like it measured vocals, like voice recording software. She scooted the small mic closer and started screaming into it "Max! Wake up!" (Silence in the computer and all around the room) "Max please! Can you hear me?" Silvia still didn't want to give up but Jake put a hand on her shoulder and shook his head. Silvia looked back at him and couldn't believe it. Should she have been here only a few minutes before, she could have saved it. She looks to the computer again, "Max…?" she asked sadly.

(Iggy- yey Iggy)

'Wow did Dylan really think that we hadn't heard him leave?' Iggy thought. The only reason he'd made the rest of the flock stay here was because he knew the room was too small and Max would want to be somewhat alone when the doctor told her. He still couldn't believe she hadn't realized it sooner. What with all those mood swings, she'd been driving him mad, and he knew sooner or later he would want to slap her. Of course that would only make Dylan want to rip his head off, but he thought it would've been worth it.

As Iggy was smiling at the thought, Nudge interrupted by saying "Iggy why are you smiling? Don't you get that this is a serious situation? Max could be seriously hurt and in pain right now!"

"Na, she'll be fine, I know where it hit" then he frowned just now thinking of something. "What I'm worried about though is if she was really pregnant the baby could've been hurt."

"What?" Nudge asked confused and somewhat shocked as thinking of what Max would have had to do to get pregnant.

That's when Gazzy sat up from his bed "what?" They forgot he was there but weren't surprised he was eavesdropping.

"Yea. Come on people" Iggy said raising his hands dramatically. "Haven't you noticed her annoying mood swings, how she's been eating more than usual, and today she's been throwing up a lot too."

Nudge nodded, realizing it now. Gazzy still looked confused though and asked "so? What does that have to do with anything? I mean yea she's been a little moody and yea she's a pig. But she really could be sick you know?"

"Well yea but Dylan's also been around her more and I think he could sense it too. He probably knew all along and was trying to protect her subconsciously, but she's too oblivious. I could kinda tell too, I don't know how though" Iggy said scratching his head.

"Probably hormones" Nudge said plainly. Yea that might be it, Iggy thought. "But still, she might not be pregnant too" Nudge added.

Gazzy's stomach growled and the all laughed "I'm hungry" Gazzy said pointing out the obvious.

(Max)

About five minutes after the Doctor had left I snapped out of it "I'm pregnant?" I finally asked stupidly.

"Were Max, you were pregnant" Dylan said simply and angrily.

That's when I looked at him and he was staring at the floor looking pained "Dylan" I said trying to get his attention on me. It didn't work so I said "Dylan look at me" I little more assertive. He raised his head and slowly to look at me.

"Max I swear, next time I see Fang I will kill him. No actually, I'll go find him as soon as we get out o-!"

"Dylan shut up! You will not do those things! I couldn't be pregnant. I never did anything with him… I'm still a virgin" I say, now thinking of Fang.

I felt a wave of relief wash over me but I think it was Dylan's reaction, not mine. "Really? I thought when Fang and his gang came over the other week that you two… caught up…" he said awkwardly fast.

"Well yea we did" I said. "But not that kind of caught up, we talked about our missions", and some other stuff that might have led to 'catching up' if we'd had more time… I only thought that last part though.

"Oh, I'm sorry. So that must mean you really didn't know you were... you know. Oh and sorry for being kind or mean the other day, and for not telling you sooner. I thought that you knew and were just playing dumb and didn't want to tell me you were pregnant" he said regretfully. I could tell he meant it so I tried to just change the topic to something that was really bugging me.

"You know what I wanna know though?" he looked at me questionably. "How did I get pregnant?"

He looked dumbfounded just know thinking of it, then angry. "I want to know that too now that you mentioned it" He said.

I was starting to get really sleepy and yawned. Dylan looked at me and smiled "what?" I asked.

"Nothing" he said shaking his head.

A few minutes passed and then I finally asked "hey, do you know how long I have to stay here?"

"Um no, but I can go ask if you want" I nodded my head "Ok, I'll be right back" he said standing up and leaving the room.

My eyes started to feel really heavy and I just didn't feel like waiting to hear an answer. So I just fell asleep before Dylan came back.

(Dylan)

She looks so cute when she yawns. This will probably sound creeperish, but she's pretty when she sleeps too. Well actually she's always pretty; I think she is the most beautiful girl ever. I always feel weird thinking how I was 'programed' to love her. But I honestly know that even if I hadn't been made to like her, I would anyway. But enough about that, I have to find the doctor so Max can get an answer.

I walked around until I found the doctor that came to her room earlier. He was talking to a nurse in the hallway and when he saw me he pushed the nurse away and started walking to me. "Is everything ok?" he asked scared.

"Uh yea, I just wanted to know how long we have to stay here."

"Oh I talked to Jeb about that and we think you should be fine to leave by tomorrow. Anything else?" He asked relaxing a little.

"No, that's it. Well actually, are the others still in the room you gave us?"

"I think I heard a nurse say there were some kids in the cafeteria eating everything. Could that be them?" he says and waits for any more questions.

"Yea, probably. Thanks" I say and he walks away. Now I have to go tell Max and then I'll go find the flock and tell them to get ready.

When I got to Max's room and saw she was asleep I kissed her forehead, and went off to find the others.

I finally found them back in our room. They had all just eaten and were having a discussion about hospital food being better than airplane food. I opened the door and they all looked at me, Nudge stopping mid-sentence. I walked in and stood there for a few moments. Iggy was the one who broke the awkward silence by asking an equally awkward question "did you have sex with Max?"

Oh boy… "No Iggy I didn't" before I could add anything else Nudge chimed in.

"So who's the baby's daddy?" she asked excitedly.

"Um, guys I don't know if Max wants to tell you guys or if we should just talk about this when we get home. Well I guess I could just tell you know, but talk about it tomorrow" I could tell they were getting impatient with me since it sounded like I was avoiding the question.

"Yea just do that, now come on tell us!" Nudge says quickly.

"Ok… Um well, we don't know who the dad was; and I say was because… Guys, um she lost the baby" I say quickly trying to just rip the bandage off. I could feel my jaw tighten and felt sadness for Max. She didn't deserve this, she should have been able to choose and actually know if she had a child growing inside her. What if someone drugged her and rapped her? Maybe that's why she doesn't remember anything. When I find the sick bastard who did this I'm gonna rip their head off with my teeth!

They were all in a little bit of shock but Nudge got out of it when she saw me "Um, Dylan? Why are you making those faces? Are you ok?" She asked worriedly.

"Yea, I'm fine" I say and turn around to think about what to do now. We had to figure this whole Max thing out now, someone could be after us again. We would have to put the whole Angel rescue mission off for a while. I could sense everyone getting out of their shock and they started to get worried and antsy.

I've never tried this but I guess there's a first time for everything right? Also I had to start testing my power, so I tried to calm them all. They instantly relaxed, but I felt all twitchy now. "Whoa, what was that?" they all asked at once. "You felt that too?" they asked at each other and then laughed.

"Oh yea I forgot to tell you all, I have a new power" I said trying to make myself calm down too. "I can control emotions" I tried to explain sine they all got confused.

"That's so cool!" Gazzy exclaimed.

I smiled then remembered what I came here to do in the first place. I checked my phone for the time; it's about eleven, I should get them to bed soon. "Ok guys we should be ok to leave tomorrow but I'm guessing Max will need to rest up for a while. I think we might have to move to a new location too, since someone might be watching us again. So tomorrow we'll leave and we'll have to put off any missions for a while till Max heals completely ok?" I paused for a second to see if everyone had any objections but they were listening to my plans intently and nodding. "Ok so get ready now because we'll probably go as soon as Max wakes up tomorrow" They all nodded and started to go to bed since they didn't need to pack anything. I walked up to Iggy "watch out for them ok? You're in charge for now, and I'm going to stay with Max in case anything happens" he nodded and then I added "goodnight guys, see you tomorrow" a little louder so the others could hear.

(Max)

**the next morning**

I woke with the feeling of something on my wrist. When I woke up I got scared of what I saw and jumped a little. This caused the nurse who was taking out the things on my writs to jerk her hand up, and accidently rip the skin on my wrist a some. I cried out in pain as my wrist started bleeding. As the nurse started saying sorry about a billion times I heard Dylan- beside me- growl. Yea he growled, what the hell? Apparently he hadn't seen it was my fault because then he got up and started to go for the nurse but I screamed "Dylan, stop" as I held my wrist to stop the bleeding "that was my fault!"

"I'm so sorry!" the nurse said and went for the door "I'll go get something to try to stop the bleeding!" she said going quickly out the door.

"Does your super spit thing work on other people?" I asked Dylan wincing. This made him quit glaring at the door where the nurse had just disappeared through, and look back at me.

"No, sorry it doesn't. It just works on my body" he says ruefully.

"Can you try though? Just in case?" he looked at me doubtfully "please" I added.

"Fine Max, but I really don't think it'll work. When Dr. Hans had me he tested my saliva on other people's wounds to see if it would fix them but it never worked. Nothing ever happened" he said as he walked around the room getting a paper towel wet at the sink. He came and sat back in his chair by my bed and looked at me "Max I need to get the blood from your wrist so my saliva will go in" he said holding out his hand. I slowly gave him and winced again as he dabbed my blood away. "Wow Max, you're so stupid" he said looking at my wrist.

"Hey!" I said feeling insulted. My wrist wasn't bleeding as badly now so you could see how deep it was. I guess it was kinda sad that I did this to myself…

He looked at my wrist and shook his head. He then got some saliva on his thumb and put it to my wrist. I jumped a little because I didn't expect it to sting. He looked at me and said "does that sting?" I nodded "oh then it might be working" he added smiling.

"Oh yey" I said forgetting the small sting. "Why does it sting though?" I asked trying to pass the time, even though it only takes a few second it felt like a long time.

"I think it has something to do with the cells trying to repair themselves faster than normal" he says taking his thumb away. "Would you look at that!" he said happily "it worked" he added looking at me now with a smile.

Aww his smile's so cute, haha. I looked at my wrist and saw a faint little line where a gory cut had once been.

"I got it you guys!" the nurse said rushing back in with bandages, some bottles of antiseptic and other stuff. She went over to me and saw my wrist "is this one of those things the doctor told me not to ask about?" she asked shocked seeing how in just a couple of minutes my wrist was completely healed.

"Yea probably" I said.

"Oh, ok I won't ask then. So I'll go give your doctor some papers on your current condition and if he says you're ok then you can leave ok hun?" she said while going to check over the machines I was once hooked onto. She turned them off and walked to the doors "oh and again, I am soooo sorry. I'm a little new so I moved the I V too much and scared you" she said really sounding sorry.

"It's fine" I said since it was actually my fault, but no one had to know that.

After the nurse left I stretched my legs out on the bed and stretched. I took the covers off and sat up just now noticing that I was in a hospital gown. Well this isn't awkward at all… "Hey where are my clothes?" I ask looking around.

Dylan gets up and goes in the mini bathroom the room had. He walks out with a small pile of my clothes and hands them to me. I take my underwear and put them on under this backless thing. As I was awkwardly hooking my bra up the doctor walked in.

The doctor came in looking at some papers. He looked up at me and asked "how are you feeling?"

"I feel better" I say truthfully while putting my hand back down.

"Ok that's good, could you get up and walk around for me?" he asks.

"Um, sure" I say. I winced a little when I put pressure on my injured leg but walked around anyway.

"Does that hurt?" he asked.

"Just a little" I say.

"Ok, could you take your wings out now please?" he asks a little curious now.

I stretch my left wing out a little and I take my right one out a few inches. "Ow ow ow, ok not my right one" I say folding it back in.

"Ok well your right wing was hit in a muscle that I'm guessing you need to open it so you should be fine once you can open it. Now you're free to go, but I wouldn't suggest running or walking too much for maybe two more days so your leg muscles can heal themselves completely and no um… flying at all for a while. At least until you can open your wings up all the way. Try to do some stretches in the mornings too" he said. He looked at his papers again and added "oh also, does your stomach hurt at all when you move or anything?"

I bent sideways a little to see but no pain came "no, I feel fine there" I say surprised.

"Ok well that's good. It might be because of the medication we gave you but if it does hurt later it shouldn't be too bad, just like the leg. Well take care of yourselves you two, bye."

"Bye doc, thanks" I say.

"Thanks" Dylan adds.

When the doctor leaves I take my gown off and reach for my clothes. While putting them on I remember that Dylan was right there. Everyone in the flock always changed in front of everyone else all the time and swim in our underwear so I hadn't really thought about it. But Dylan was sort of a new addition so I wasn't extremely comfortable with what I realized I'd done just yet. I looked at Dylan, jumped up while pulling my zipper closed quickly and say "sorry". He was smiling… Wow way to make it even more awkward Dylan… "Ok, well um where's the flock?" I say blushing while walking to the door.

Dylan gets up and follows me "I'll take us there, come on" he says leading me somewhere.

…

"Ok how are we gonna do this?" Dylan says "you know since Max can't fly" we had walked a few places over to the back of some little restaurant that was almost completely empty and were now trying to figure out how to get home.

"You or Iggy should just carry her since Gazzy and I can't" Nudged suggested.

"It's a little far, if we do that we might have to take turns" Iggy says.

"Ok I guess we'll do that, now come on already" I say getting aggravated since my leg was starting to hurt.

"Ok miss impatient" Iggy says coming over to me and scooping me up bridal-style. I gave a little yelp not expecting him to do that. Everyone took out their wings (excluding myself) and Dylan took the lead, taking us to our temporary little house.

After fifteen minutes or so of flying I noticed Iggy's breathing was getting a little labored "you think we should switch now?" Dylan asked, noticing it too.

"Yea I guess" Iggy says. The whole flock stopped and hovered in the air while the switch off was done. Iggy and Dylan got close to each other and started to move their wing less and quicker so they wouldn't whack each other with their wide wingspans while trading me off. "You got her?" He asked when I felt Dylan's hands under me.

I scooted closer to Dylan's chest and took my arms from Iggy's neck. When I put them around Dylan's he said "Yea" I tensed while Iggy took his hands from under me and backed away slowly. They started to move their wings normally and I released my tension as the fear of falling slowly subsided. It had gotten a little windy now "ok guys let's keep going" Dylan said and I felt his chest vibrate a little from trying to make his voice go over all the wind.

As we were flying my hair (I had to cut it soon) started to hit Dylan's face a bunch so I put my head on his shoulder and see if it would help. It did, also it was actually comfortable and I started to get sleepy. I looked at the side of Dylan's face and he turned his head to look at me too. We both smiled at each other for a moment until I realized my neck was hurting and turned to looked back. The last thing I remember was seeing Nudge's smile and thinking 'since when is Dylan the leader?' before drifting off to sleep.

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