Ahhh! I exploded with happiness when I saw I got three reviews:D Merry Christmas you guys! This chapter is my gift to you ^-^

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And NOMLYANNO you gave kind of a mixed signal in the review. You don't like both Mylan andFax? But I got what you meant haha, and why does everyone hate Dylan so much?

Early Christmas Gift

After what happened yesterday I wanted to crawl under a rock and just stay there forever. I'm such a whore!

"Max, you've been there all day, don't you think it's time to get up? I mean I'm all for staying in bed all day and all but you're Max. You're usually the one who's up before all of us and screaming at us to get up-" she bent down to look at my face now with concern in her eyes "Max are you ok? Are you sick again?"

That made everyone in the flock shut up, and look up from what they were doing. Dylan's eyes bugged out and Iggy opened his mouth to say something but then closed it "no! I'm fine, I just- I'm just hungry. Yea from flying so much yesterday" I cringe at the words that just left my mouth but I doubt anyone noticed so I get up quickly and sit by the fire they had made. I sat as far away from Dylan and Fang as I could and ate a few hotdogs.

I was in deep thought the whole time and absent mindedly nibbling on some hotdog bread I had left until I heard Fang say "so what do you think Max?"

I sit up and look around "huh?"

"What do you think- about taking the flock to my hide-out tomorrow, while we work out a plan against the doomsday group?" He says with a confused look.

"Uh yea, I think that's fine. Did you say tomorrow?" I ask putting the rest of the bun in my mouth.

"Yea tomorrow. You know so everyone can pack and everything today" he tells me.

Everyone was either staring at me or glancing at me from time to time, which made me uncomfortable so I got up. "Well I'm just going to pack now."

"I'll come with you" Nudge calls as she stuffs some goldfish in her mouth [A.N- Goldfish as in the baked cheese snacks, not the pet fish with scales… just FYI] and runs to me.

We sit by our stuff for a while as we take wrappers and random stuff we don't need out of our packs, and put some cereal bars, and anything we had out in when she whispers-

"Ok Max you and I both know, that I know, that something's up with you. So just tell me already, maybe I can help. Does it have to do with guy trouble? Cuz I'm somewhat of an expert on guys" she tells me while pealing an extra cereal bar's wrapper.

"I'd actually rather not talk about it Nudge. And anyways, how are you an 'expert' on guys?" I ask suspiciously, putting air quotes on the word expert.

"Oh you know, TV, Magazines, and having to live with them" she says with a shrug, after swallowing.

"Haha. Ok Nudge, whatever you say" I tell her as I zip up my bag.

"But really Max. If you ever need to talk about anything, I'll always be here ok?" she whispers.

I look around and see that no one is staring anymore. So I look back at Nudge and say "well actually yea, I want to tell you something. It's killing me, but I don't want anyone to eavesdrop" I say pointing back with my thumb.

"We're going to explore guys! Be back soon!" she says shooting up and pulling me up by my hand.

"Can I go too Max!" Gazzy asks.

"I need to talk to Max about some girl stuff too Gazzy" Nudge says before I can react.

Gazzy makes a disgusted face and says "never mind" as he sits back down.

Nudge and I decide to just fly down to the ground to talk, and right as we land she immediately asks "ok, so what is it? Why've you been acting so weird?"

I sit down and lean against the rocks and she joins me. I put my knees up, my elbows on my knees and my face in my hands "I'm such a whore Nudge."

Nudge's hand comes on my back and she says "Max, don't say that! You are so not! Don't ever say that again-"

"But I am Nudge! I don't want to tell you what I did. You'll be ashamed of me…"

"Max you already told me all of this so I know you want to tell me what you did, to at least get it off your chest" she tells me matter-of-factly. "Come on it was probably not even that bad. What'd you do? Sleep with someone? I mean that's ok… I bet in the future we're all gonna do it. It was just a matter of time, you just happened to do that sooner." Then she whispers "so who was it? Fang? Dylan?"

I turn my head to look at her. Poor little twelve year old Nudge… Why am I bugging her with this? I should tell this to someone like my mom not innocent little Nudge. I look back down and mumble "both".

"OMG MAX!" she shrieks.

I'll kick myself in the butt for telling her that now. Why am I so stupid! "See I am a whore!" I yell

"No Max!" she says quickly "they're both awesome guys and I know how much you care about them both… and… and…"

Unbelievable, Nudge was speech-less-

I jumped up and ran a few feet away from her to a bush.

I scared Nudge a little while I got up, since she was in deep thought on what to say.

After I lost my breakfast/lunch-thing I looked at Nudge. She stared back, then at the bush.

Her eyes went wide as we both mouthed 'shit'.

… (a while later. As they fly up slowly)…

"Maybe I'm really just sick…" I whisper.

"Maybe…" she says.

'Max'

"Voice!"

Nudge grabs my arm and flies us to a ledge far away from our cave. I give her a confused look and she says "the voice might have something worth knowing" she shrugs "and I don't think the others should hear just yet."

"Ok voice what do you want?"I ask.

'Last time you almost died because you didn't know this'

"Ok. Know what voice?"

'Think Max'

"Well that was a waste of time. The voice just said that last time I almost died because I didn't know this." I tell Nudge after I feel the voice leave me.

"That sure narrows it down to almost our whole lives…" she says.

'Max think back to the last time you almost died.'

"Last time I almost died? When was that Nudge?"

She thinks for a moment "like last week right?" she finally says.

'is that what you mean voice?'

'Yes Max. Now why did you almost die?' I feel that the voice leaves my head after it says that.

"Um… I don't understand" I say looking at Nudge.

"What did it say?"

"It asked why I almost died that time"

"Um maybe because you got shot three times!" she says like it was the most obvious thing in the world (because it was).

But it didn't make sense. "So what am I supposed to know? That I'll get shot at again?"

We stand there thinking for a few minutes until Nudge says "Ugh this is too confusing…" and rubs her temples.

"I guess we should go now" I say slowly. "Hey Nudge let's not tell anyone about this yet ok?"

"Tell the others what?" she asks me.

"That I'm sick. We could tell Iggy or someone what the voice said to see if they can help us figure out what it meant." She nods and we take off for the cave.

(Secret Branch of Itex- AKA Voice)

"Jake she conceived again, we have to tell her" Livy says from her computer.

Jake's eyes widen "again? Man will Hans ever give them a break?"

"This time it was actually a natural conception…" Livy whispers.

"Oh… I know we're not supposed to get involved but I thought we all agreed that we would warn her if she ever… got involved with… that sort of action…" he says slowly.

"It was sort of unexpected Jake. And it was actually one of our days off yesterday remember?" Gavin points out.

"Oh yea. Well we have to try to warn her this time ok? I don't want her to almost die again. We can't intervene that much though ok? So we can only lead her to it. We can tell her in two days if she doesn't get it by then."

"Alright this computer's ready for you Jake" says Chriss.

(Max)

When we get back to the cave Gazzy runs to us all excited. He goes up to me and asks "hey Max are we going to celebrate Christmas this year? Please, Fang says that his hide-out is super safe!"

"I don't know Gazzy. We really can't have a huge celebration while we're on the run. You know that right?" I say slowly. I really didn't want to crush his dreams but we had to be realistic.

"Yea I know" he says sadly. "But it can be just a small present exchange and day of relaxing" he says hopefully.

"Maybe Gazzy. We'll see if we have some time to spare ok? If we don't get hunted down again or anything."

He gives me a huge grin and hugs me "yey, thank you Max" and then runs to Iggy.

I turn to Nudge again "when's Christmas?" I whisper.

She shrugs "it's in six days" Fang says from a few feet away as he puts things in his bag.

"Oh, ok. Thanks" I say looking away from him quickly.

"Hey I think we need some more wood" Dylan says as he pokes it with a stick.

"I can get it" I say slowly. Dylan and Fang's eyes brighten up and they open their mouths up to say something, but I get an idea and quickly say "Iggy can you come help me?"

He looks up from talking to Gazzy with a confused expression "yea sure Max" and gets up.

…

As we pick up some sticks I look around and knowing that no one can hear us but wanting to be careful I whisper "Iggy some here."

"What Max?" he whispers ask coming closer quickly.

I sit on the ground and put the sticks beside me "ok earlier when Nudge and I were out I heard the voice" I say quickly.

"What did it say?" he asks eagerly.

"Well that's what I need you for. Nudge and I couldn't figure out what it meant" I frown. "Ok it said that 'last time I almost died because I didn't know this', we decided that the last time I died it was the hospital thing last week. But then it asked why I had almost died. It was because of the three shots right?" I say quickly.

"Yea. Well technically, you almost died because of the blood –loss" he tells me.

"Oh yea" I say.

'Why did you bleed so much Max?'

"The voice just asked me why I bled so much…" I tell him confused. "Because I got shot three fricken times right?" I say aggravated.

"Right. So I'm not getting what we're supposed to get from this" he says and scratches his head. "Ok let's think. One shot was in your wing and that didn't really bleed too much. Then the leg and you bled a bunch from that because it hit an artery-"

"And then in the stomach. Yea, yea, yea, I got all that, I know where I was hit. So why does it matter?" I say annoyed now.

"You bled the most from that though Max!" he happily.

"Oh my gosh! I bled so much from that because I was carrying a baby! That's what the voice meant!" I put my hands on my mouth quickly.

"It's ok Max, they can't hear you. I'm sure of it. But what did the voice mean?" he says looking at me with his semi-blind eyes.

I put my hands down. I know I can't just not tell him. I think he should know since he helped me figure it out, and plus- Iggy's pretty reliable and won't tell anyone if I tell him not to. "Iggy, you have to swear you won't tell anyone ok?" he nods. "Ok, I'm sure that by 'information that I didn't have that caused me to almost die' was that I was pregnant" I tell him.

"I bet it is. I mean you didn't know that, and it made you almost die… AND OH MY GOD YOU'RE PREGNANT!" he says with wide eyes and gets up. Causing all the sticks on his lap to fall to the ground.

"Iggy don't tell anyone" I shriek at him still sitting.

"Ok Max for right now. But pretty soon they'll start to find out. And who knows how fast it'll develop. I mean we look a few years older than we really are so..." he drifts of. "Wait who's the dad?" he says looking back at me again.

"I uhh… I don't know…" I say looking down.

"Did that creep implant you with one again? I swear I'm going to find this as-"

"No Iggy. I don't think he did. I kind of slept with-"

"Fang? Dylan? I should have known what you meant when you wanted to fly so much yesterday" he says really fast.

"Geez Iggs. When'd you turn into Nudge?" I ask slowly.

"Sorry I mean you just told me something pretty big. So who's the dad?"

"Oh my god Iggy, you're gonna hate me or think I'm a whore or somthing" I say looking down.

"No I'm not Max. You're like my sister, I could never really hate you. It's not that bad that you slept with someone-"

"I slept with both of them Iggy!"

His face looks unmoved "not that bad…" he shrugs. "At least you know those guys" he says coming to sit by be and putting an arm around me. "Not like they were just some random hobos or something…" I snort "there's nothing you can do now so might as well forgive and forget."

"Easy for you to say. I'm the one who has to live with the consequence" I say and look at my stomach.

"Max, you know you won't be alone. Nudge will probably be thrilled, I'll gladly help out with my little niece/nephew, and the dad… Well when you find out who that is- they might be excited too if they really loved you. If they weren't just looking for a quick hook-up or anyth- ouch" he says rubbing his shoulder where I just hit him. "What, too soon?" he asks with a grin.

I give him a death glare. "I'm giving you a death glare Iggy." I tell him.

"Yea I know, I can see you."

"You can?" I ask shocked.

"Well kind of. I knew it was either that or you were about to sneeze" I chuckle "I can see faces now, kind of" he says looking at me.

"Oh my gosh Iggy you'll be able to see Ella soon!" I say as I gather my sticks up and he does the same.

"Yea" he says smiling.

"Let's go back now, before they send out a search party" he laughs. "Oh and remember- don't tell anyone."

A.N- I broke 1,000 hits! But only 300 visitors... Oh well I still love all of you and I hope you have an awesome Christmas!

~L