Chapter 12

Hello everyone! To be honest, I just waiting for a mob of you people to appear out side my house. (Shudders)

Anyway, I took no offense to your reviews. Not that any of you particularly care right now. What I did to Fang was awful. Worse than awful. And to tell the truth, I was disgusted with myself for a while. However, I went where the story told me to go. And that was Fang's death. Now, I continue that golden road with this chapter.

I hope you enjoy it!

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(Max POV, Starting where it was left off)

I kissed him.

And his hair popped off. I mean, his hair LITERALLY SLIPPED OFF HIS HEAD!!!!

To say the least, I screamed. And jumped up. And ran about 10 feet away. It takes a lot for me to be surprised. But let me tell ya, if your dead boyfriends hair suddenly just slipped off his head, I'd say you would be a little freaked out too!

The rest of the flock was so surprised, their tears had stopped too. Gasman had gotten to his feet, staring dumbfounded at Fang. Angel and Nudge had grossed out looks on their faces. Iggy came over to Gasman.

"Why have you stopped crying? What's happened? Max?....WOULD SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED???" Iggy yelled exasperated.

"Er.....well...uh....Fang's....hair kinda just....uh.....fell off his head," Gazzy whispered to him uncertainly. Iggy's mouth dropped open.

I walked back over to Fang. Or, at least, who I believed to be Fang. The poor sap who had been posing as Fang had been wearing wig. Underneath the wig, his hair was red. Freakin' red.

The person who we had thought was Fang, was a clone. Or, at least, a half clone. That has, or had, a wig on. What the crap???? Apparently, the white coats were finally breaking down under the stress of work, you know, destroying half the people and all that junk. These shmucks went from superior robots and genetically enhanced brains on sticks, to clones with wigs on their heads?? I hope they aren't getting paid over time. Cause if they are, their boss is getting screwed.

"Is that what I think it is?" Angel asked, sounding aggravated. I nodded.

"Great, at least we know that the white coats haven't forgotten us! I would hate to think they would kick us out of the family!" Iggy said sarcastically. We all laughed.

"We're work-a-holics," said Gazzy, mimicking Gozen's voice. We laughed harder. And just like that, we had gotten rid of the stupid tears for a fake Fang.

Then, Angel's face froze. I looked behind me, my guard up. No one was there. I turned back around in time to see Angel whisper something to Nudge. They both burst out in giggles, making eww faces.

"What's so funny?" I asked suspiciously. They kept on giggling.

Nudge got herself under control for a moment.

"You just kissed a clone. A guy you don't even know. Even worse, a dead guy you don't know!" she shrieked, then burst out laughing again. Iggy and Gazzy roared with laughter.

I thought I was about hurl. I grabbed a handful of snow and shoved it into my mouth, gagging. I spat out the half melted snow, and shoved some more in. I repeated the process five times over, and still felt like barfing.

Wiping my mouth, I said, "Now that I've done that, let's process the situation, shall we?"

They all went serious. It was on, now.

"Fang is still missing. We are hopelessly lost, starving, hypothermia, all that junk. And I have a plan," I said confidently. Inside, I was in total mayhem.

We had no way of knowing if Fang was dead or alive, no clue where he was. We were still stuck out here, in the middle of a freakin' 3rd Ice Age. And I had no plan, what so ever.

But now the flock was looking at me expectantly, waiting for my plan.

A noise pricked my hearing. It sounded like a chain saw, or a motor of some sort. I whipped around, looking for the source of the noise. A light appeared over the rise of the hill ahead of us. A snow mobile came over the hill, followed by a couple more.

At first, I thought help had come. Then I glimpsed a white lab coat flapping in the wind.

"Fly!" I yelled at the flock, turning to run.

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Sorry this was such a short chapter, but I couldn't leave you hanging any longer. Thank you so much for all of your reviews!!!!

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