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Disclaimer: James Paterson is not mine, this story is mine, Maximum Ride is not...

Angel POV:

Flying with Gazzy and Iggy was fun. I missed having other people around me when I flied. Plus, it was good not having to carry Total around. Iggy looked really thoughtful about something, but I didn't know what. Being blind, he couldn't hide his facial expressions very well. His face was all screwed up, and you could tell that he was really stressed. I leaned in to read his mind. Max told me that I wasn't supposed to eavesdrop on other people's thoughts like this, but she's not here now, is she?

Calm yourself, Iggy, nothing bad is going to happen. No flyboys or erasers are going to come…are they? What am I going to do? I good 20 of them could take us all out. I really don't want to go back to the school…

Wow! He sounded as paranoid as Max did! Maybe that's what being the oldest in the flock meant. I hoped that it wasn't my fault that he was like this. What we needed was a place where we could stay for a little bit while Iggy got used to being the closest to a leader. The only thing was, where? Speaking of 'wheres', where were we? I looked to the nearest sign. We were just crossing the border from California to New Mexico. I immediately thought of places that we had been to close to here. Let's see, I thought wait a second! We're a state away from Arizona! Max's mom lives there! Maybe we could hang out there for a while. I liked the idea of seeing Max's mom. She was really nice, and she reminded me of Max. I missed her. I wish that we had never split up. The idea sounded great, though, so I immediately put it in Iggy's mind, reading it as I did so…

I know! Iggy thought. We'll go to Max's mom's house!!! That way, the kids will have a good place to sleep, and someone will more…adult- like will be watching over them! That's the plan!

Happy to have helped, it wasn't a surprise she hear Iggy say,

"Okay guys, here's the plan. Right now, we're in New Mexico. We have to go through another state to get to Arizona. From there, we'll go to Max's mom's house, and hopefully stay there for a while. Do you think you both can make it that far?"

I thought it was around noon, so it wouldn't be that hard to make it there before dark (A/N: I'm not sure how fast they can fly, but for the sake of the story, I'm going to say that they can fly a state in 3-4 hours).

I was excited, and hoped that Max's mom would take us in.

Nudge's POV:

Landing on the Martinez's front yard, I felt almost sick with excitement. I would see Ella, and Dr. Martinez, and the best chocolate-chip cookies you've ever tasted. I wondered how I should approach them. Knock on the door, or ring the doorbell? Or should I just walk in? What if they weren't home? What if…

Back when I was in the flock, somebody would've already clapped their hand over my mouth. I sighed, thinking of how hard it was on my own. I was so hungry! I wish that I had the Max Card so I could get something to eat. Realizing that I was still standing on Ella's front porch, I decided not to just stand there like an idiot and knock. I didn't have to. Before my hand hit the door I heard a

"Nudge!" and the footsteps of someone running over and hugging me. I turned around to see Ella, with a backpack. I hugged her back.

"I can't believe you're here! It's so great to have another member of the flock here with us!"

Another member? I thought. Who else is here?

"Now you and Max are both here!"

Max?

Max POV:

I heard screaming from outside, and the word "Nudge", so I quickly ran out to see what was going on. Outside, I saw Ella hugging the living daylights out of Nudge! She was here! I wanted to go over and hug her as tightly as Ella did, but I didn't know if she would like that. Instead, I walked over and greeted her, my face unreadable.

"Hi," I said to Nudge. She pulled away from Ella to face me. Her face was as unreadable as I hoped mine was as she responded. That didn't stop her voice from giving away that she missed me.

"Hi Max! I can't believe you're here! I wanted to come here to see Ella, because I haven't seen her in, like, forever!!! I can't believe you're here! Did you come to see Ella, too? Maybe you came to see your mom… after all, she is your family, and…

"Okay!" Ella said, silencing her. "You haven't changed a bit, have you?"

Nudge, embarrassed, shut her mouth and simply nodded. I smiled. Oh, how good it was to have her back! When we were all nervous, her chatting was distracting enough to keep us all from hypervenalating. If Nudge came, how many other people would, too? This made me hopeful that maybe we could become a flock again. I didn't want to stick around for the first part of Nudge being here so I turned to Ella.

"I think I'm going to go to the park for a while, is that ok?"

"Sure," Ella said. "Just be back by dinnertime!" She went back to talking with Nudge, and I flew off.

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I didn't really know where I was walking, just around. It was getting dark, and it was almost time for me to get home. Looking at my watch, I realized that, if I didn't go soon, I would be late for dinner. Just as I turned to leave, I heard an all too familiar voice.

"Max?" He said.

I turned in shock to see my favorite dark bird-boy standing in front of me…

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