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I had been flying for a few hours, completely wrapped up in my thoughts. I looked down to find out where I was. I was heading for another branch of Itex in some mountain range. The Rockies, I think. The forests I was flying above gave me no indication and there were no towns nearby, but I could see some mountains in the distance. The facility was hidden somewhere in the mountains. It wouldn't take me long to find it. It would probably take me even less to destroy it.
It was starting to get dark, so I looked around for somewhere to sleep, or at least attempt to, for the night. I hadn't slept in about two days, and while I was tired, I just didn't feel the need to sleep. I hadn't felt that in a while. But I also knew that I needed sleep or I wouldn't be able to do much of anything.
There was a clearing to my right. It looked like as good a place as any, so that was where I landed. I looked around. It was a small clearing, but that didn't matter. It was better, actually. I didn't make a fire. I just leaned against a tree and pulled out a couple of power bars and a bottle of water.
After I ate, I picked a branch and tried to keep my mind from thinking about nights like this. I closed my eyes to try to get some sleep.
I sat up straight. Having no watch for three years had taught me to wake up at the slightest sound. I glanced around warily as I tried to figure out what had woken me up. I didn't hear anything, no snapping branches, no rustling leaves, or see anything standing in the clearing. Like the calm before the storm. I looked up and realized why. Heavy clouds had rolled in while I dozed. Deep grey and purple covered the sky. This was going to be a knockout of a storm.
A twig snapped nearby. My head whipped around so fast I was surprised I didn't have whiplash as I prepared for an attack. When I saw what, or should I say who it was, I couldn't move. I couldn't breathe. How could he be here?
Silently, the figure stepped into the clearing. My mind decided to let me move and I jumped out of my tree in front of him and just stared. His dark skin. The black hair that fell into his eyes. His black clothes. His nearly black eyes that said everything and nothing all at once. Fang stared back at me, then smirked.
"What are you doing here?" I asked, surprised I could make a sound.
"Came to find you." As usual. No full sentences.
I didn't remember moving, but the next thing I knew, I crashed into him as I threw my arms around him. He stiffened under me, but after the shock wore off, he slowly relaxed and moved his arms around to my back and held me to him. I held him tighter as I felt tears prick the back of my eyes.
He rubbed my back, trying to calm me as I began sobbing. He was here. He was alive. He wasn't dead.
I pulled away reluctantly and looked up at him. Where was everyone else?
"Where's the rest of the flock?"
He jerked his head toward the mountains. I nodded.
"Max. . ." I looked in his eyes and got lost in their onyx depths. With that look, he told me everyone was fine, they had been worried about me, they would be happy to see me again, he had missed me, and… something else I couldn't identify.
A crash of thunder boomed around me and I jerked up. A storm was raging around me. Lightning flashed periodically as thunder rolled across the sky. It wasn't raining where I sat yet, but I could hear the rain pouring down not that far away.
Another nightmare. They were never the same, and yet, they were. Sometimes it was the whole Flock, sometimes just Angel, sometimes just Fang. As the dream came back more clearly I felt a tear slide down my face. This time I let them come. Let them take me back to what I once had. To what I would never have again. Soon my tears were mixed with the rain that began pouring down.
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