A.N- There's a fly in my room that's making me go insane. I can't see it, but I've been hearing it off and on for the past week… I'm about to kill something. Anyways, enjoy!

Thank you reviewers, loved your answers to the question haha.

Believe In Them

I wake up to bright white lights from above. All I could think was: What happened to Kate? And the Flock? Was I dead?

I could remember everything that had happened; getting man-handled into the white window-less van, being seated, Kate joining me willingly into the van, and Xavier's white eyes. I remember that when I looked into his eyes that I felt completely relaxed. I couldn't feel anything. Nothing physical (like if someone poked me), or emotional (like when I saw the door being closed and the flock still standing there, motionless).

It was almost like I didn't care about anything anymore and like I wasn't even there; almost like I was just observing everything, but with no opinion on anything. I could see and hear, but had no thoughts about it. I wouldn't have cared if they had killed me right then and there or if they tortured the flock with me watching, I would still have no feelings either way. I was just there…

Now, however, I could feel and I could think.

I tilted my head to the side so that I wouldn't have to stare at the intensely bright light above my head. I looked around and see that I'm in a completely white room that stank of antiseptic.

My eyes widen at memories that the smell brings back, and my stomach churns. I sit up as quick as I can which only managed to make my head hurt. So now I felt like throwing up and had my hand covering the right side of my face because of a headache. Add on the fact that I knew I was in an Itex building and you get: a great start to my day.

I looked around a little more and saw that I was hooked up to a machine beside my bed. I followed the wire that came from the machine to me with my eyes, and realized that it was attached to something I had on my head. I felt around my head with one hand and felt several circular objects hooked to smaller wires along my forehead that led to the one slightly bigger wire that I saw. They were all bunched together and pulled back over the top of my head and the back of it. I didn't feel anything that pierced my skin though, so that was good…

I saw a door on the wall I was facing, closest to the end of my bed. It was white, like the rest of the room, and had a long rectangular window on the right side of it.

I sat up straighter and quickly removed what turn out to be little plastic suckers, from my forehead. As soon as I swing my legs out of bed, preparing to make a run for the door, it opens and three people walk in.

One of the people was an elderly man that had a white doctor's coat on, another was a teenage guy who had black hair, and the third person was a woman who looked to be in her mid or late twenties.

The two guys were talking when they walked in, and the woman looked over and smiled at me. She was tall, had completely white hair and eyebrows, light blue eyes, and wore a white coat. The smile she gave me wasn't creepy or anything, it made me feel calm actually. Like one of Dylan's smiles. Before you ask-no, I don't like Dylan like that. I love Fang and that will never change, but Dylan had something about him that could calm me, and I'm not even sure if it was his power. So, anyway, her smile seemed sincere.

I give her a confused look and then switch my attention to the two males in the room. By now they had ceased their conversation and were facing me. I almost gasped when I saw the teenage guy's face. It was Xavier, no doubt about it, same unmistakable eyes, dark hair, and tall, thin figure. He seemed to remember me clearly as well and gave me that creepy smile of his.

I looked over to the older dude, as quick as I could, so I wouldn't have to see Xavier's face. He looked at least sixty and seemed like the average white coat that I used to be way too familiar with. His hair was mostly gray, somewhat white. He had glasses and a name tag with 'Dr.' in front of his name. Oooo Fancy. And he had a pedo-stache… How lovely…

"Nice to see you're awake, Maximum." Dr. Pedo Stache told me. "My name is Pedro." Hah, Pedro, Pedo, they sound the same.

"How long did it take you to grow that thing?" I asked, amused, tilting my head a little as if I wanted a better look at his moustache.

"Excuse me?" He asked, dumbfounded.

"That ferret on your lip!" I exclaimed, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. "-And does it scare the children? Because it's kinda scaring me right now." I told him.

"Ignore her, sir." Xavier said, barely suppressing a smile.

Dr. Pedo (A.N. Haha, just noticed that Pedo means fart in Spanish XD) looked at Xavier, then back at me. "Yes, well, Maximum, that over there-" He said, pointing to the woman. "-is Zaila. And I'm sure you've met Xavier." He directed his hand beside him, to Xavier. "We will need to ask you a few things before we start your tests." He told me calmly.

"Psshh!" I rolled my eyes, "You can ask away, but I won't answer." I said, crossing my arms and sitting back down on the bed, defiantly.

"I don't have time for this." Pedo whispered. He then turned to Xavier. "Xavier, could you please?" He said, motioning in my direction.

I stuck my tongue out at them, "Mm mmm!" I knew it was childish, but I wanted to make his job as difficult as possible. It was the least I could do.

"Sorry Max, but you leave us no choice." Xavier told me with the creepy smile, indicating that he wasn't sorry at all.

Then I felt that light, empty, feeling again and I couldn't think.

(Alright, so when this mind numbing thing happens, you can't think so I'm just going to skip this. I also don't feel like writing it since I don't want to come up with that many questions and specific answers. Let's just say that Dr. Pedro asked questions about the pregnancy and how they were all dealing with it, and Xavier controlled Max to tell the truth about it all.)

"Alright, Max. Do you have any questions?" Pedro asked.

I was looking into Xavier's white eyes, and I guess he'd undone whatever he'd done to my head now because I could think again. It took me a while to process what I'd just heard, and to think of words for an answer, but they all stayed to wait to hear one.

I looked around the room again and then thought of something that'd been bugging me since I woke up. "Where's Kate?" I asked, in a small voice.

"Don't worry about her. She's in a room like this one and will be treated the exact same as you." Pedro told me with a smile.

I get a chill, but straighten up and start yelling at him. "If you think you're really going to keep us here, then you really must be insane! I'll find a way out and get Kate. Even if I don't, there's always the flock, and you can bet they'll kick all your asses when they come!"

They were almost out the door and Pedro turned back one last time, "I'd like to see them try. You are in one of the highest security Itex buildings, which only uses the most powerful and loyal experiments to help them. Like these two-" He motioned to Xavier and Zaila, the woman. "And all that is supposing that they actually manage to find you to begin with." He finished, and then exited the room, closing and locking the door behind him.

I ran to the door and started to pound on it with all my might, making a few dents here and there. I leant my back on the door and slid down it, to the white tiled floor. When my butt makes contact to the floor, I bring my legs close to my chest (as close as they could come to my swollen stomach) and put my arms atop my knees. Then I start to cry my eyes out. Stupid hormones…

What if that idiot was right? I mean after all the flock hadn't even seen the way we'd gone. What if they weren't strong enough to get past these guys, and got hurt? It'd be my fault that they even had to come in the first place. It always was… Why were these people so obsessed with me anyway? With us, actually. Why couldn't they leave us alone? Why couldn't they try new things they thought up on themselves?

Ugh! I needed to stop this! I got up from my little ball and screamed at the top of my lungs, directing it to the ceiling for some reason.

Torturing myself won't get me anywhere. I needed to get a hold of myself and not have these thoughts. I believed in the flock and that's all that mattered. I knew they were strong enough for anything, including this.

Plus… I might come up with something to get us out, and they won't even need to come to the rescue.

No matter what, though, I still believed in my flock. And that would definitely never change in this lifetime. You can bet on it.

A.N- I know it wasn't one of my best chapters, but I'm trying to write shorter ones so I can update quicker.

Question of the update: Which Maximum Ride guy do you like best and why? I can't really choose, I mean I used to like Dylan best because he is like so into Max. But I also like Fang because of his darkish character and also how much he loves Max. AND Iggy cause he's so… Iggy!

LOVE

~L