AN: I know this chapter is short, but there wasn't much to put in it. Nothing of great importance happens in the chapter but the next chapter will have a little but more. The Fax is coming and so is the action, so just keep reading!! Also thanks to those who reviewed.
Fang saw the accident, he heard it, he smelled the fumes, but it just didn't register. Max was the cause of that accident. Max was in that accident. She was probably dieing in that accident, yet he couldn't wrap his mind around it. Max being hurt was always hard for Fang to comprehend. Max was alright, she just had to be alright.
Why hasn't she gotten out of the car yet? He wondered, hoping that he wouldn't be too late. He pulled himself up, swallowing the pain of his insignificant leg. His ribs were almost healed and he was fine, except for the damn leg. He stated walking as fast as he could over to the crash scene. The others were gathering there too, not knowing what to do considering the only person who ever told them what to do at times like this was still in that car.
She just had to be so stupid didn't she? Fang thought. She just had to play superhero again!!
He made it over to the car and pulled the handle trying to get in, but it wouldn't open. Stupid Max! He ran over to the other side, wincing when his foot hit the hard ground. Luckily the door open and he was able to pull himself into the car.
The fumes of the fire that had started were hard to breath but he sucked it up, Max was his top priority. She was lying against the headboard unconscious with the seatbelt still on.
"Damn," he swore to himself, and tried to reach over her. He was able to grab a hold of the buckle and get it undone. She was now free from the belt and he grabbed her around the waist trying to pull her out.
Iggy was behind him in a minute ready to help Fang get her out. He was silently praying that she would be okay. No one could… hell they wouldn't picture life without Max. She was the glue that held them together.
Fang passed Max over to Iggy who gently put her down, already scanning over her for injuries. He felt a large bump on her forehead where he assumed she hit the headboard. He also felt some burns which probably came from the fire. She had also broken one of her wrists but that would heal very fast. So all in all she was okay, aside from the whole unconscious thing.
Iggy could practically feel Fangs worry coming off of him and he smirked.
"Fang, she'll be fine, relax," Iggy teased which caused him to get a light punch in the arm. "She's got a broken wrist, some burns and what I'm assuming is a concussion but other than that she's not dieing or anything."
"Wake her up," Fang said looking around. They were in the middle of nowhere and all the cars around them were currently on fire. Just grand!!
"Fang," Nudge said while walking up to him. "How is she?"
"She's fine, nothing to worry over. Well her stupidity might be something to worry about, but her health is fine," I told her and they smirked at each other.
Nudge walked over to the other two and told them the good news, leaving out the part of her stupidity of course. They all walked up to her and looked down with waiting eyes daring her to wake up.
Max POV:
"Ugh," my head hurt like nothing else. I cracked my eyes open to see ten beady little eyes looking down at me. I looked to my left to see two cars on fire and a couple more in the same condition down the road.
It all came flooding back… boy was Fang going to pissed! At least I have something other than pain to look forward to now.
"How's it going sunshine?" Iggy smiled next to me and I smirked.
"Head hurts" I said trying to sit up. I normally use my hands to help me get up, so I did the same this time. Unfortunately my wrist felt like an elephant stepped on it when I did that, so due to the surprise of the pain, I fell back onto my back. It may have hurt a little.
"Oh right, Iggy said you broke you wrist," Gazzy pointed out with a smile.
"Oh well thanks for telling me about it," I said using my other wrist to help myself up. My head hurt like hell after I did that but I just ignored it. I stood up and looked over at Fang, bad idea. He was super pissed, just like I thought. He glared at me for a second before opening his wing.
"How's it feeling?" I asked him and he nodded. Which probably meant it was okay, I guess he decided he was going to give me the silent treatment. Pity!
"Angel, can you translate?" I asked with a smirk. She smiled at me and looked like she was concentrating for a second.
"He says it hurts a little but he should be fine. He also says that he's really p… mad at you right now," she replied.
"Alright you heard him let's fly," I stated and we leapt into the air, ready as ever to get in away from here. "We need to stop as soon as we come to a town so tell me when you see one."
"Why do we need to stop?" Iggy asked and I looked over at him.
"I need to get some money," I stated.
"Don't you have the card?" Gazzy asked, boy they are nosy little buggers aren't they.
"Yes but I would like to sleep in a hotel to night, unless you guys don't want to?" I smirked and they all shouted "Yes we do!" at about the same time. "Well if we pay with the card they could track us. So we get some money off the card now get as far away from here as possible and pay with cash. It's not as easy to track us," I hope, I added after.
"Oh," Nudge said, I guess approving of the plan.
After several minutes of flight we landed in a small town. There was one ATM at the bank so we headed over there. It took a minute to remember the password but eventually we walked away with two hundred dollars in my pocket. We went to the outskirts of town and soon took off.
After about three more hours of flight the kids looked like they would fall out of the sky at any minute. I guess that today had been a little rough.
"Fang, lets start looking for a hotel, the kids are beat," I told him and he nodded in response.
"There's one down there," he said pointing to what looked like a Holiday Inn, fine with me.
"Alright guys lets go down, were going to the Holiday Inn," I ordered and cheers went off all around me.
We landed and started walking to out destination, the big hotel! I was acting as Fangs crutch again, against his will, but whatever. The hotel looked nice, it wasn't as bad as some we've stayed in before but it wasn't the Hilton or anything.
There was an elderly woman sitting at the front desk reading something and when I approached she looked up at me with a smile. I sat Fang down on a small chair with the other kids while I went to go talk to the woman.
"Hello, how can I help you?" she asked politely. There was a sign in front of the desk saying 'no children under seventeen are to unsupervised in the hotel' which probably means that we were not allowed in without our parents.
"My parents are outside and they wanted us to come in and pay for a room," I stated with a smile and she looked as if she believed me.
"I'm sorry honey but we aren't allowed to permit any more than four guests in a room. You six plus your parents would be too many for one small room. So you're going to have to get two if not three rooms," she informed me. Oh great!
"Oh, well I guess we can take three," I said and I'm sure the rest of the flock was looking at me like I was crazy. "But if you could make them all adjoining that would be great."
"We only have two adjoining rooms available, but across the hall is another available room, would you like to do that?" she questioned looked at the computer.
"I guess, thank you," I said grabbing the money from my pocket.
"Okay the total is $160, for three rooms," she said, grabbing three room keys. I handed her the money and she gave me the keys.
We walked forward trying to find our hotel rooms. Eventually we found them and just stood in front of them, not knowing who was going where.
"Okay who wants to go with who??" I asked.
"I want to go with Nudge," Angel said looking over at Nudge.
"Yeah I want to go with Angel," Nudge smiled.
"Alright you two are in that room right there," I said handing them the key and they bounced off ready to have a little party.
"Gazzy and I can share a room, we've used all the bombs and need to make some more," Iggy announced snatching a key from my hand and walking off with it. Gazzy followed closely telling Iggy what room he got.
"I guess it's just you and me now," I said turning around; we were in the hotel room across from the others.
I opened the door with the last remaining key and walked in. It was small but nice. There were two full sized beds and a small bathroom. There was also a little refrigerator in the corner with a microwave on top of it. It would do.
"I'll take the bed by the window and you take the one by the door," Fang said already looking for ways to escape.
I put my backpack down on the bed and grabbed a pair of pajamas.
"I'm going to take a shower, you go talk to the kids about getting some food, they must be starved," I said walking into the bathroom. I heard the other door close and knew he had done what I asked. Now for a nice hot shower!!