A/N Be warned…this is a 2 year jump from the last chapter. I did this because I wanted the plot to move along.

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Ellie

MAX POV

I am proud to say it's been 2 year since my capture. And guess what? Every last second of these past two years have been completely devoid of flyboys, attacks, eraser attacks, brain attacks, or, my personal favorite, the Voice.

It's been….amazing. The last time I heard from it, it said "Time for a break, Maximum. The world has been saved when you destroyed the Itex in Germany. Only a few weak schools remain, much like the one you were held in. Another finalizing mission will be required some day, but for now, enjoy yourself."

Trust the voice to throw in that last bit of information. But oh well.

29 has opened up a little. And, by a little, I mean she's as talkative as Fang is on a very bad day. But, surprisingly enough, that's a major improvement.

As for Fang and I, well….we're confused, is the best way to put it. I think we're together, I think he does too, but we're both to embarrassed or maybe to damn stubborn to make the first move.

But I do think 29 is opening up to Iggy the most. She seems to speak the most (and with the best grammar) when he's around.

Anyway, we're at Dr.M's (I'm not yet to the whole "Mom" thing. Maybe some day) with Ella. We've been here for the past year, and school started about 4 months ago. Everything seems to be going pretty well.

But, if you know anything about our lives, such happiness can never last.

I woke this morning with a bad feeling. A really bad one. Like the ones I had before the Germany incident.

And I had forgotten just how bad those feel.

29 POV

Another day of school. To me, the past two years have pretty much been a blur. One day, I'm strapped to a cool metal operating table like every other day before that. The next, a blond haired mutant like me helps me escape.

I meet her family, The Flock as she calls it, and slowly (really slowly) become part of their group.

Not that it was an easy transition, mind you. Angel is cute, but my black mind (courtesy of the whitecoats) scares her a little, so she generally steers clear of me.

Gazzy's nice enough. He really seems intrigued by my Raven DNA. I tell him as much as I can to keep him happy.

Nudge….she's a talker.

Max is crazy strong, but really doesn't seem intimidated by my silence. (Thanks to Fang)

Fang? Well, we have a ton in common. We're both black haired and black winged mutants. We have olive skin. Phsyical attributes aside, we both know what it's like to just want to retreat into our own mind. He can read me pretty perfectly. Plus, we both understand the need to listen rather than speak.

Then there is Iggy. First of all, I am completely barren of all feelings. Yet, I feel…something. I have no idea what it is. Truthfully, I'm a little scared of it. But my training is trying to suppress it. But, for the first time in my life, I'm working to reverse my training.

After touring the country for a year, we all felt the need to settle down. So we did. At Dr. Martinez's house.

And that brings us here. It's 8:00 AM, and I'm dressed for school. I was just looking in the mirror, trying to deciper my cryptic eyes, when suddenly my thoughs turned to Iggy.

I felt the weirdest urge. My lips twitched….upwards. A smile? Had I actually considered smiling?Of course, I didn't act on this impulse that my training regarded as ridiculous and weak.

But the fact that it happened? That's one hell of a step.

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School—The Real Kind

OBJECTIVE POV

The lunchroom buzzed, as normal. Since the Flock had arrived, a few things had happened.

The three younger kids miraculously stayed out of trouble. For the most part.

Iggy made a ton of friends, but they weren't pitying him. They accepted his blindness as an attribute, not a handicap.

Max sat with the popular girls mostly. Though she may have looked like them, she acted very different. But she began to turn them down a bit, as well as turning down the many boys who asked her out.

Fang hung out mostly with the emo music kids, and (of course) the girls flung themselves at him. He, as indifferent as ever, completely ignored them.

29 also hung out in that group. She was quiet as ever, but music really seemed to help her open up. She went by Kai at school, but the Flock still called her 29. It suited her more, and she didn't like disregarding what she had gone through. Her name was a constant reminder of the hellhole she had lived in, and escaped from.

Each Flock member sat down at their respective tables. Just as Max picked up her sandwich to begin eating, a shrill scream was hear, followed by an ever-increasing buzzing noise.

Without a moments hesitation, the guard that the Flock had learned to drop was suddenly back. Each member shot to their feet, into their instinctive fighting stance.

In one second, they had gone from a group of misfits with weird names in an otherwise normal school, to a kick ass Flock of mutant bird kids.

That chapter did not turn out as well as I wanted it to.
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