Hi! So sorry it took so long to update. I had it on my computer but just kept forgetting to put it up!
School has started again and they are just piling on the homework already. You'd think they'd wait for more than 4 days to give you an assignment! Especially one that is crucial to your end grades…
Anywho, please enjoy AND review. The less reviews the longer it takes for us to update ok?
Disclaimer: I have a question, is JP still in school? I didn't think so. Am I in school? Yes.
Iggy POV
Fang shifted almost a metre away from us. Max moved to his side unsteadily but carefully.
"Max, be careful. He's not stable," Jeb warned.
"Shut up."
From the silence that followed, I assumed she was giving him a death glare with a side order of homicide.
"Fang, are you OK?" I could tell she was trying her best not to sound worried for us, but she was failing miserably.
I heard him groan softly before he answered. "Yeah."
"Fang, remember last time you said you were OK and you, well…" She stopped, she didn't have to finish. We all knew what she was talking about.
"Fang, do you remember anything about what happened?" Jeb.
"Well, I was puking and then…" He stopped. I heard his breath hitch. I heard him scramble to his feet… and then fall down again.
"Get away from me" He whispered. Then he spoke more loudly. "Stay away!"
"Fang," Max said firmly, "we're not leaving you, especially now when you need us most."
"But I attacked you! How can you still trust me?! I drank your blood!" I heard him try to stand up again, and this time he succeeded.
At that last comment I flinched.
"We're a flock Fang," she kept her voice controlled, "A family. No one gets left behind."
Fang scoffed. "Spare me the fluff. I almost killed you Max, how are you supposed to trust me, or let me near the kids?" I heard his feet sliding, as if he was sinking to his feet and then I'm sure I heard him drop his head into his hands. I wasn't sure if I heard a sob or not, it might have been my imagination.
I couldn't hear Max doing anything other than breathing. She'd never seen Fang cry, none of us had. Then again, none of us had seen him hurt Max before either.
Max gasped just then. "Fang?" she said in a worried voice.
"Is he crying?"
"Yeah Ig. He is," she walked over to him, probably to hug him.
"I need to be alone," He got up, took a running start and flew off.
"I should go after him," Max told me.
"No, you are in no position to go flying."
"But Iggy, he was crying!"
I shook my head and stayed silent. Fang would come back, I know he would. Until then, I let the smell of the woods and the whistling of wind comfort me.
Fang POV
"I need to be alone." I stood up, took a running start, and flew off. I didn't know where I was going, but I had to be on my own, I needed to figure this out.
I found a sturdy looking tree and landed in it. So I sucked Max's blood, and drank it? What the hell was that even supposed to mean? Are the others going to end up like me too? And if not, why me?!
I punched the tree in anger. And a pine cone fell out of it and hit me on the head. "Ugh!" I grunted in frustration. I smashed the pine cone against a lone branch and went on to punch and kick the tree more, pretending it was me.
"How. Could. You. Do. That. To. Max?! Beautiful. Strong. Max!" The tree fell over. I gave up and went to sit down at the base of another tree.
What was wrong with me? Max?! Of all people? She's the one person I would never hurt.
Was this the School? New anger flared in me.
I turned around and punched the tree. This time, it wasn't me. It was Jeb, it was Anne, it was the Director. It was every single sicko the School had ever hired and used to do countless experiments on us. That tree, though it was bigger, was on the verge of breaking too.
There were a million words coming to mind, none of them actually coming or going in an order, they were just there. And if I thought the words were too much to handle, the emotions were a whirlwind.
I felt the blood drip on my knuckles, but I couldn't feel any pain. I kept punching the tree, trying to extinguish my anger.
I heard a gasp from behind me.
"Fang?" I immediately recognised the voice as Max' I turned around slowly, trying to give myself more time to regain composure, at least a little.
She gasped again when she saw the tree I had knocked down and then again when she saw my knuckles.
"Fang, did, did you do this?" She gestured to the tree and my hands.
"Umm, yeah" I looked down. I just couldn't take the look on her face anymore.
I heard walking, and then a rustling and I thought she had walked away, left me for good. No such luck. She grabbed my hands and started to wrap them up in a bandage. Once she was done she looked up at me.
"You will never do this, again, do you here me? I don't care what happens, you will never repeat this" She looked into my eyes with an intensity I had never seen before, even when we were taken by the school. I couldn't say a word.
"Do you hear me?" She asked again.
I only nodded
"Good" And with that word, it seemed as though Max lost all of the colour in her face. She looked tired, weak, and then I remembered what she had been through earlier that day.
"Max, you shouldn't be flying…"
"I'm fine…" was all she said before falling into my chest.
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