A.N- Guys I love how you put any doubts and things on the reviews (like some below) because I really want to clear any confusion and answer any questions you have. So please keep it up, and the compliments also make me happy:) Also the poll is still up, so please vote!

LOVE HATE DUH- Haha sorry I didn't even notice it was cliffy so this update will be for you to make up for it (and I'll actually start on where I left off.)

Dopeycookiemonster- Fang didn't over react though and Dylan acted like that because of his ability (I'll remind you, he's still not in total control and he senses how Max is feeling; how she is over reacting to everything, so he thinks that's how he feels and acts on that). With me you have to sometimes look at the tiny details because I love to work with that. And Fang has a pretty chill character and since I make him be in love with Max he doesn't get too mad at her for it, just feels betrayed.

Mary Kenson- Thank you, and I was actually thinking of just scrapping this and redoing it because I thought it sounded all awkward but now I think it was ok. That personality change is explained above ^, and yea I'm actually making him according to his original character. I think it was in Angel that it said how he was learning to talk back some and be more assertive, (from Max) and I'm just extending from that. Thank you:) I'll try.

Birdwatched- Yes, yes it is:)

Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

I looked back and forth between them a few times. I knew they wanted an answer. I knew they deserved an answer.

Then I look at the ground "I- I don't know why I did it!" I say starting to cry as I look at their faces again. Fang was starting to look angrier than he had but still not that much, still a little sad. Dylan looked really sad but then changed to angry. "I want to answer you, I really do. But I- it's like how you all told me how you didn't really have control over wanting to fight each other. How you just felt you had to do it, I felt like that… that came out wrong… I didn't feel like some animal in heat or something… I just- I- I don't know" I say as I get up and take off for the woods.

After running for a while, I take my wings out and jump up to a pine tree with a few hard flaps. I climb for a while until I feel like I'm high enough that no one can see me through all of the branches and then go to the thicker branches in the middle. I lean against the trunk in a sitting position with my knees up against my chest and arms on my knees.

With a sigh I put my forehead on my arms and close my eyes to think everything through.

(Iggy's POV)

No one had moved, they hadn't even said a word since Max left a while ago.

After she left I'd looked around and saw that Nudge was just speechless, her mouth open, looking at where Max had disappeared to.

Gazzy had wanted to go after her but Dylan had grabbed him and sat him down by him, telling him about how Max wanted to be alone right now and that she would come back. Gazzy didn't say anything, just got up, walked to me, and hugged my waist and cried softy on my stomach. I hugged him back.

Fang had taken a few steps to follow her but thought about it and then just stayed put looking to where she'd gone, like Nudge.

Fang's people didn't know what to do and looked around at the whole situation.

Gazzy was sniffing now, onto my shirt, and started to mumble something. "What's that Gazzy?"

He took his head apart from my wet t-shirt and looked up at me with red puffy eyes "what if she doesn't come back?"

I wiped his wet cheeks with my thumb and answered "you know Max, she would never leave us."

"But she's- never done that before, never- ran from us like- that. Did you see the look she had- on her face?" he said between hiccups.

I stayed quiet, thinking about it. Sure a situation like this had never happened and she's never looked like that, but she'd never actually leave us. Would she? "Gazzy, she would never do that" I say hugging him close again. I looked at Nudge who seemed to sense it and looked back. I motioned with my head over to the woods.

She understood that I wanted her to go after Max and she took off.

I looked at Fang and knew he could feel it but he didn't look at me. I don't even know why but I was mad.

I was mad at both Fang and Dylan. I felt like this was partly their faults. I mean she wouldn't do something like that. Maybe something had happened that we missed.

She had said she felt like she had to do it. Like how they'd felt they had to fight.

I don't know what was happening but I knew that Max would never act like that; she'd wanted to fight tooth and nail against Dr. G when he wanted her to do this, and then just done it willingly a few days later? No way, that wasn't her…

Before that Dylan had started a fight with Fang. Well that was a little like him, not too surprising. But it was a little too much, even for him, to actually hurt Fang like that.

It was however, surprising to see Fang be that quick to actually fight back and want to hurt him though. That really wasn't like him.

I could hear someone flying to us now, probably Nudge, but only one person, which worried me a little.

"Hey Fang I think we should just go in now, don't you think?" I say.

He turns back just as Nudge lands to his left "Yea" he says with a blank face.

"I couldn't find her" Nudge says sadly. Fang looks at her and quickens his pace to the boulder.

He walks us to the right side of it and lifts a few long vines from a plant on it away to reveal a secret door. The sides of the oval rock door were all hidden with either moss or plants, so if you looked at it, it would look like it was just another r part of the giant boulder.

He puts both hands on the edge of the door and quickly opens it. It didn't look too heavy, it was pretty thin too. He then walks into the darkness of the hollowed out boulder and waits for everyone to come in. It was a little crowded, but everyone was able to fit inside.

"Is this it? You're 'super safe' hide out is inside some dark, empty boulder that barely fits us all?" Dylan says, crossing his arms as Holden closes the door behind us.

Fang doesn't answer. I was actually thinking the same thing though, if this was really it… Well it was disappointing…

I could see someone, not sure who, maybe Kate or Star, reaching for a ledge on the wall and pull some small objects from it.

"Gazzy don't walk around, you're a half-step away from tripping on a rock" Dylan warns.

I look down at Gazzy's feet and see part of the ground jutting up, and grab his shoulder so he wouldn't move. "You can see in the dark?" I ask as Kate lights a candle with a lighter and put it back on the ledge.

"Yea, like you" he says, as Fang lifts a few tiles up from their place on the ground. The tiles didn't look like they were naturally there if you looked too closely, but if you just caught a quick glimpse, it'd just look like some cracks in the rock floor.

Fang looks up to us and says "OK, now it's not too big of a fall but if you want, you can hold on to the walls as you go down."

As he said that, his gang had been jumping in, one by one, until it was just us up here.

Dylan was the first to go and try it out. He went to the edge and looked down. I guess he could see the bottom because he ended up just jumping in like the others.

Seeing that Dylan wasn't scared of it, Gazzy quickly jumped in next. Nudge eventually followed him, but sat on the edge for a few seconds looking down. Until she mustered up the courage, and finally jumped in. I looked at Fang, he nodded to the hole, encouraging me to go in and he walked to the candle and blew it out.

I could see him then walk to the hole slowly and feel around with his feet a little when he got close. I jumped in when he stepped on the tile he had taken out and reached for it with his hand.

(Fang's POV)

When I heard Iggy slide down, I sat on the edge of the shoot. I grabbed one tile and put it in its place, and then I went in the hole and held myself in place with my knees and one hand as I placed the remaining tiles in place above me with the other hand.

I let go of the walls and fell down about ten feet, landing on my feet. Looking around, I saw that someone had already turned on the light switch we had in this dirt cave.

I looked up and saw that the light bulb's light was dimming and twitching. I should fix that soon.

I saw that Star and Kate were talking to Maya as Ratchet talked to Dylan. That was a little weird, but I didn't really care right now.

I wanted to do all this quick and get everyone safely into our hide out so I could go look for Max.

I walked to the seemingly empty wall in front of me and reached my right hand to the far right. I saw a blue light that read my hand print and then the dirt wall opened up with the metal door behind it. I looked back and saw the flock's mouths drop and all of my guys just rushed in as I moved out of their way.

I motioned with my hand for the flock to go in. Gazzy ran in, followed by Nudge quickly walking in and seeming to not be able to look at everything inside fast enough. Iggy didn't look too surprised and blinked a few times trying to see better, and Dylan's eyes went wide as he slowly walked forward after Iggy.

After they all were inside the gigantic underground house, I finally said what I wanted to "I'm going to look for Max while you all look around and everything."

Iggy looked back at me quickly, but didn't say anything. Nudge, Gazzy, and all my guys simply nodded their heads at me and Dylan said "I'm going too."

I didn't bother arguing, since I knew it was no use so I just said "Maya, can you show the flock around and let them pick out their rooms?"

"Sure Fang. Star, I told you to quit eating that!" She said going over to Star who was eating some of Kate's vegetarian food.

I shook my head, but decided to not even get involved and walked out the door we'd just come in from. The last thing I heard before the door closed after Dylan was Kate saying "Please stop yelling M."

"Okay, there's another door over here that's supposed to be an emergency exit, but we can use it now; it opens up in the forest, closer to where Max ran off to" I tell Dylan as I open up another door on the other wall.

"Hey, I'm sorry that I keep being such an ass to you dude" I give him a nod to let him know I heard him, but don't answer. "The new power I have to read emotions, kind of confuses me sometimes. I think I was acting on someone else's emotions, not mine."

"It's whatever" I say as we walk through a tunnel that opened up to us. Some lights turn on as we walk through and the door closes behind us.

We're quiet as we walk through and after a minute or two we finally get to a wall. I look up to the hole with a bunch of metal bars going up it to make a ladder. I grab on and start to climb to the top with Dylan following me a moment later.

When I get to the top, I open the top to the tunnel that opens to the forest and climb out. As Dylan climbs out too, I push the top closed again with my foot. The top was camouflaged like the rest of the secret doors around here, to look like what was around it. In this case: pine needles and grass.

"How did you all make all this?" Dylan finally asks.

"We stole part of it from Hans and made it look like we destroyed everything, so he's not coming back. Then we just built it up with things we could scavenge and some money we got from some friends" I say as we walk around looking for Max.

"Cool" He said nonchalantly, "I think we should split up to find her quicker. You want ground or sky?" he asks me.

"I guess I'll take sky" I say looking up and noticing it was getting dark. Because I didn't have as good of sight as him, I thought it would be better if I had the most light I could get. Instead of the forest trees taking some of the little light there was, I could get the light of the sunset.

I took my wings out and set off, leaving Dylan who immediately started looking around.

I couldn't stop thinking about Max. I don't know why she'd done what she'd done. I don't even know why I had done it.

The fact of the matter was that it'd happened and there was no going back. We should all just move forward from this.

But I couldn't, I felt betrayed. Like I didn't know whether she'd done it out of love like I think I had, or just because she felt like it.

And the fact that she did it with Dylan angered me so much too. We've known each other since we were born. She's only known Dylan for less than a year.

How could she just do that like it meant nothing to her? No, that wasn't her. It wasn't me either. It probably was Dylan though, but that's beside the point.

What had she said earlier? That it was like when Dylan and I fought. How we didn't have control over it?

I was in such deep thought that I almost missed something in a tree below me, it almost looked like a person…

(Max's POV)

I was done thinking. I knew what I had to do. It would be best for the flock. I can't drag them down like this.

I know they'll be crushed and hate me for this, but it was for the best. I had gone over every aspect of what I was going to do. All the pros and cons.

This seemed like my best option- to just leave them. I knew it was a horrible thing to do and that I wouldn't be any different from Jeb and what he had done to us all those years ago. But this had to be done.

If I left, they would have less to deal with- with all the trouble I brought them. They wouldn't have to deal with helping me with a new child.

Dylan could just lead them, or they could just join Fang's gang. It was their choice.

I felt horrible, like I was leaving half of myself behind, but I knew it had to be done, it would be for the best (or so I keep telling myself.)

I was ready now.

Ready to start anew.

I stood up on the steady branch near the top of the tree and took my wings out. I looked up and saw that it was almost dark now, the sun had almost completely set and the stars were all out.

As I flew up quickly, trying to dodge some branches, I saw a dark figure off to the side. I looked over, expecting to see some eraser or something, even though they're 'retired', but was surprised to see that it was Fang.

I started to fly quicker, so I wouldn't have to explain or to say goodbye, but I felt too tired. I felt completely drained and realized I hadn't eaten much today and what I had eaten, I'd thrown back up. My luck is for shit…

"Max! Stop!" Fang said, flying faster to where I had awkwardly accelerated, then slowed down. I didn't answer though, I just kept flying. I couldn't accelerate but I just kept flying. My speed was still faster than him though, and I bet I could lose him eventually, if I just kept going.

Suddenly, a very familiar robot came up from the woods below and grabbed me. I struggled, but it was no use to struggle against the metallic hold, it was just getting me bruised.

"Max!" Fang screamed. I heard an echo to his voice but then realized that it wasn't him. There was someone else down below.

I looked down, still squirming in the robot's grip and Fang still flying to us, and saw Dylan down below shooting up through the trees.

He came up and hit the robot's jaw, which took its head off and sent sparks everywhere. It went limp and fell down to the trees, still gripping me very tightly. I thought that was the end, my miserable and pathetic life finally coming to an end along with a life that never got a chance to see the world.

No. No way am I letting this life inside of my die. No way in hell!

I struggle quickly and get a surge of adrenaline. I thought that impossible, considering I already had a whole bunch running through my system, but I got the strength to move my arms so strongly that it popped the arms off of the robots body. I then kicked its body back out behind me and tried to take my wings out.

Oh shit…

I hadn't noticed with all the adrenaline, that with the impact the robot had given me, it had squished my wings and probably broke the… again…

It then came to my attention that Fang and Dylan had both been rocketing to me ever since I'd started to fall. I looked down and saw that I was about to hit the trees with what I think would be a fatal impact. I try to take my wings out again, but scream in pain as some bones break even further.

"Help!" I scream, as a final attempt to save the unborn being inside me, as I plummet further to my doom.

A.N- Sorry that I ended with a cliffhanger… again. This chapter was just getting too long and I figured this was a good place to end it. Next chapter will be pretty eventful. Oh and hey I have an awesome beta now- xXAustenGirlXx who is super nice and I hope that she will stay with me for a while. This is my first chapter to have been beta-fied, (like my new word?) and I hope it has no errors that we missed.

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Love yall,

~L