A.N- I'm so sorry you guys! I know I don't update as often as I used to, but yeah I'm on summer break (thank you girlygamer77). I'll try to update at least once a week, maybe twice, but I can't promise anything… I'm really inconsistent about these thing, as you have already seen, so yeah… Thanks for all of the awesome reviews and I love all of your tastes in music. I like all music genres (except classical), but the ones I said are my favorites. Enjoy:)

White Eyes

Fang was still wide eyed, but turned to run out of the bathroom.

"Dude, what's going on?" Ratchet asks, now standing by the door. He looked a little scared, but not as much as Fang.

"Stay with Max." Fang almost screams and then finally runs out of the room to get a phone, almost knocking Ratchet over on his way out.

Ratchet gives me a confused look and comes to my side. "What happened, Max?" He asks, putting an arm around my waist to help me up from the bathroom floor I had fallen to.

I would usually no accept anyone's help, but I couldn't think straight at the moment. I was just scared above anything. "I don't know." I say with a straight face, as I'm helped to my feet. "I got this sharp feeling right here-" I say placing my free hand, that wasn't around his shoulder, on my abdomen. "And then it just went away after a bit."

Just then Fang rushes into the room with the phone, that he'd left on the kitchen counter, to his ear. "-Yeah she's right here." He nods his head. "Okay," He says into the phone, and then hands it to me. "-Here, it's Dr. Martinez."

I grab the phone and let go of Ratchet. Now standing straight, I try to calm myself; mostly for Fang and Ratchet's sakes since they were freaking out over here. "Hey, mom?" I say, as calmly as I can manage.

"Sweetie, don't worry, okay? Just stay calm, alright?" My mom says on the other line, with what I judge to be a pretty calm voice.

"I'm calm." I say.

"Alright, so how many of these pains have you had, have you counted?" She asks.

"Should I get the others?" Ratchet whispers to Fang.

"No!" I scream. "Sorry mom, hang on." I say softer, and then cover the bottom of Fang's cell phone. "Don't get the others. I don't want to worry them, okay? Just stay right here until we find out exactly what's going on." I tell them seriously, and then I whisper "I don't want anyone else to freak out like you two." I uncover the phone, "Okay, mom? Yeah, I've only felt one of those things, and it didn't even hurt that bad, I was just caught off guard is all."

"Alright, well there is such a thing as false labor. You could have just gotten that, but we can't just ignore this. Has your water broken?" She asks, still calm.

"Um…" I look down at the sweat pants that I always wear now. No wetness. "I don't think so." I tell her awkwardly.

"Okay that's good, maybe it was just false labor, but don't take my word for it. Your water could break soon. You said that The Voice isn't far from your building right?" She had made me call her every few week, by the way. That's how she knows. "I want you to go to them right now, okay? I don't care how late it is. Most, if not all, of them should be there and they are the ones you can trust." She tells me. She had informed me that Jeb told her about The Voice a while back, and she trusted them. I trusted my mom, so now I trusted The Voice as well.

"Alright mom, I'll call you later if anything happens."

"Call me even if you find out it was nothing, okay? Promise me, or else I won't be able to sleep." She says, and I can hear a smile in her voice.

I chuckle, "Alright mom."

"Love you Max, good luck."

"Thanks, love you too. Bye." I hang up the phone, and then look back up to the guys who were slightly calmer now. "Okay, we're going to The Voice." I say.

A while later…

I had tried to tell the flock it was probably nothing and that it'd be better for them to stay. That way we wouldn't make so much noise, but they would have all come even if I said no. So I figured it'd save time to just say yes now, and I told them all to be quiet.

So we were at the voice's building now. We, being everyone… And we managed to not make too much ruckus.

The voice was situated between a dental office place and an alley. It looked like it was part of the dental office. Their building was actually pretty narrow, but long and had multiple floors. It managed to fit all of their equipment, sleeping quarters, and stay hidden, so it was perfect for them.

We stood at the back door so no one would see us. It was only a moment until the door opened and Chris waved us in. They had been able to see us because of their cameras; if you were wondering why we didn't even need to knock. He waited for all of us to enter, before closing and locking the door, to ask, "So, why are you guys here so late? Not that I don't enjoy your company, or anything." He says, with a smile.

His blue hair still managed to distract me, even in this dim lighting, so it took me a while to answer, "Oh, my mom thought it would be a good idea to get me checked out. I might have had a contraction, but we're not sure." I say, as he begins to walk to where everyone (except for Fang and us) had run off to.

"Oh, yes, that would be a good idea. You're about three months along, right?" I nod. "I really doubt that he's ready to come out yet, but we'll check to make sure." He says with a smile.

"Thank you." I say, smiling back at him.

Another while later… I don't know what they do to see if it was actual labor; maybe a physical check (cringe), or just wait, but let's just pretend that I do.

Livy had concluded that it was not real labor, and maybe not even false labor. She and Jake had talked for a while about it and they guessed that it might just be part of the pregnancy process for our species. Maybe it was the uterus expanding for the quickly-growing baby, maybe it was just that the baby moved in a bad way; they didn't know. They told me to stay alert about this. Also, if I get more than one of these pains in one day, or if my water broke, then I had to come back here as quickly as possible.

The flock had all been quiet through it and listened to everything with me. I suddenly thought of something once he was done. "So what about Kate, hasn't she been pregnant longer than me?" I ask, looking over at Kate.

"Oh, yes. Kate conceived about a month before you, but you develop at different speeds. Although Kate was also experimented on by Itex-" We all cringe at that. Not just the flock, but The Voice too. "-and Kate develops faster than a regular human, you all (Aven-Americans) actually develop even faster than that. And plus, since Ratchet is actually all human, then who knows… the baby might even take longer to be ready." I almost started laughing at this. Not only did it sound like he was talking about something cooking, but Ratchet also looked embarrassed, which never happened might I add.

Oh and by the way, when The Voice had taken out our chips, they'd asked our permission to extract their information before they destroyed them. We all agreed to it, so now they knew a lot more about us and could help us more. It was actually pretty hard to say yes, and took a whole day of us (the flock) talking about it, but we eventually came to the realization that the pros outweighed the cons. It would be better for people that we mostly trusted to know more than Itex and Hans, who we didn't trust at all, after all.

So anyways, back to the present. Kate looked at Jake and asked, "So around when should my baby come?"

Jake thought a moment. "Well, I'm not one hundred percent sure on this, but Han's calculations seemed to be accurate for Max. I would say that either a few weeks before, or a few weeks after Max's baby comes. I'm really sorry for not having anything too specific, but I wasn't able to get that much from yours or Star's chips."

"Oh, that's okay. I didn't need a specific date. That's more than enough for me." Kate said, with a smile.

"Alright, so if either of you feel anything out of the ordinary don't hesitate to come here." Jake tells us. "We'll do whatever we can to help you- all of you; not just Max and Kate." He tells us, with nods from the rest of The Voice.

We all give our thanks and then leave. It was like two in the morning now and everyone was starting to show just how tired they were.

Nudge wasn't talking, only yawning every few minutes. Star was pretty much dragging herself along the sidewalk. She was the one of us who needed the most sleep because of all the energy her body used. Kate was almost asleep and kept closing her eyes as she walked. Ratchet was holding Kate's hand so she wouldn't run into anything, and didn't seem too tired himself. Gazzy had actually fallen asleep back at The Voice's, after they'd said it was nothing, and Iggy was carrying him with Holden walking beside him. Maya and Dylan were holding hands, but walking slowly behind everyone else, talking. Fang and I were up in the front of our walking group, holding hands. I was still pretty awake from the scare and I bet that he was too since he hadn't yawned once.

We were walking down a dark street, coming up to a street light, Fang was to my left. "Should I call my mom, or should I just wait till tomorrow?" I ask Fang quietly, looking straight ahead.

He looks down at me, which I see out of the corner of my eye, and simply says, "I wouldn't mind the time."

I nod once and look up at him, "Can I see your phone?" I ask him.

He nods and reaches in his pocket.

"Isn't it a little late to be walking the streets in this part of town?" We hear a deep voice ask from an alley we were about to pass at our left.

We both freeze, causing the rest of our group to go on alert and stop as well. "Who are you?" Fang asks loudly, as he pushes me a little back, with his right arm.

The guy slowly comes out of the shadows and looks us over. His eyes hovered on me just a bit longer than the rest of us, which creeped me out. It apparently didn't make Fang very happy either because he stepped almost completely in front of me, repeating his question, "What are you?" a little louder.

"My name is Xavier, I'm part of Itext." We all tense up. "And you're Fang right?" The teenage boy said, with a too-friendly smile on his face. He looked about our age, maybe a little older than Fang, Iggy and I. He had dark brown hair that looked almost like Fang's except lighter. He wore dark clothing which only made him look more like Fang, the only differences were his creepy vive and the color of his eyes. The color of his eyes was actually the creepiest thing about him. He had pure white eyes, like literally: pure white, no pupils, iris, nothing. It wasn't a mistake either, we were under a street light and I could see perfectly.

Fang didn't seem fazed about Xavier knowing what his name was, and if he was, he sure as hell didn't show it. "What do you want with us?" I asked, looking at Xavier from beside Fang's.

"Well actually darling, you are the one I want." He says to me, putting that creepy smile back on his face. "And Kate back there, too." He adds, looking a little beside me, to Kate. I wasn't even sure if he could see, but he acted like it.

"Well you're not getting them." Fang says, angrily.

"I'm sorry to tell ya this kid," Xavier says, now looking back at Fang with a smug look. "-but I wasn't asking." He says and then starts walking over to us.

Fang starts to run at him, but suddenly stops when Xavier's eyes lock on his.

"Fang!" I scream. Fang was now as still as a statue, looking straight forward. His arms were at his sides and his body looked all relaxed, not stiff. "What did you do to him?" I ask, angrily.

Xavier was still walking toward us, looking as calm as ever. "It's a little hard to explain, Max." He says, now looking around behind me.

I look back as I take a few steps back. I see that everyone behind me was completely still, just like Fang. All of their faces showed no emotion, their bodies were all relaxed almost as if they were watching some boring TV commercial, standing up. "What are you doing to them?" I yell at him, now backing up to the street.

"I guess you could say that I cleared their minds. They can still see and hear, but they can't really think or act at the moment." He tells me. "Don't worry, they'll be fine. It wears off… eventually." Then he looks to the side, behind me at something.

"Get away from them!" I scream. We were in a pretty unpopulated part of New York by the way.

He looks back at me and then back at the flock, walking into the group and grabbing Kate's hand. He looks into her eyes and then she starts to walk with him, to where I'm standing.

"Kate, snap out of it!" I scream, about to run to her when someone grabs my upper arm from behind. I look back and see a muscular man who had grabbed me. I look back at the flock as I struggle in his grip. "Guy, wake up! Help Kate, she's right there!" I scream at the top of my lungs.

No one even flinched…

I was dragged back as I screamed and I was now being seated into a white van (kidnapper-mobile). "I wouldn't waste my breath hun." Xavier tells me, now coming into the van as well, with Kate.

I was about to struggle against the guy's hold when I suddenly looked at Xavier's eyes, they were completely white after all. There weren't even lines for the irises. Just… white…

A.N- By the way, if any of you watch Naruto; Xavier's sight is supposed to be like the byakugan sight. Like that you don't see colors, just outlines, and you can see through stuff.

My question of the update is: What crazy things have you done with your friends?

My friends and I got kicked out of a store the other day, by the manager; for greeting people… What has this world come to!

Oh and guys! I'm closing the baby name poll today. I only got 5 people that voted, but that's okay because I have the baby names now, including Kate's baby's which I came up with on my own:)

LOVE

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