Author's Note: Wow, two updates in one day? I must really love you guys. Anyway, I like this chapter, it's kinda cute.

Sorry it's a little short. It's finally getting to the main plot, but I had to do some leading in with Iggy.
I was also thinking of adding some Iggy POV writing? Lemme know what you think of that.

Lastly, I was thinking about adding some stuff onto FictionPress and maybe making another Maximum Ride fanfiction?
Depends on how busy I get these next two weeks. Lemme know what you think on that too.
Now.. Here.. We.. GOOOOO:

Max's POV

When my eyes finally fluttered open I was alone in bed. For a minute I worried that the previous night had only been a dream, but as I looked around I noticed I was in Fang's room. And if I had been dreaming, Iggy would have been okay.

I stretched and rolled over, to see Fang at his laptop typing away. I laid like that awhile, not letting him know I was awake, just watching him. It looked like he was answering emails, but I don't know too much about computers, so I could be wrong. He signed off after a little while and shut the laptop.

When he swirled around in the chair, he didn't seem surprised to see me awake. He walked over and knelt beside the bed, making his face lay level to mine. He had a smirk saying that he knew something that I didn't. I looked at his suspiciously.

"What is it?" I asked.

"Angel told me she wants to talk to you when you wake up. Apparently, you think about me a lot in your sleep." His smart ass smirk turned into a full blown chuckle; at my expense.

I groaned and threw the covers over my head. Angel, you're dead, I thought.

I heard her faintly laugh in the back of my head and then felt her presence leave. Fang then grabbed the covers and threw them off of me, causing me to curl up into a ball and a whine escaped my throat.

"Come on," he said, lifting me up and then pulling my off the bed by my hands. "We have to figure out breakfast," and with that he slid his arm around me and led me down the stairs.

I sighed, trying to bring back my big tough exterior, but it wasn't easy with Fang so close to me. The closer we got to the kitchen though, something dawned on me, it smelled, like pancakes. Fang and I looked at each other and detached. Peeking my head in the kitchen I saw something that made my already glowing heart fly through the roof.

Angel, Gazzy, Total and Nudge all sat around the table smiling and laughing as Nudge babbled on and on. Iggy was at the stove whipping up pancakes.

"Iggy!" I shouted, with a huge smile all over my face. He turned and smiled right at me, and I ran over to the stove. I pulled him in for a guy and screamed, "What happened? Why didn't you guys wake me up?"

"Um, I told them not to." Iggy spoke up.

"Why?" I asked kinda hurt and let go of him.

"No, Max, don't be hurt, I just wanted to give you and Fang some time. By the way congrats on that!" Iggy said, giving Fang a high five.

"Yea, I'm glad your feeling better.

I stared at Fang and he looked at me innocently."What? I didn't tell him," he said.

Not me either, Angel said in the back of my mind.

"Then how did you..?" I questioned.

"I have a new power." And I don't know how he managed to smile more right then, but he did.

"You can read minds too?" Oh great, that's just what I need. That's not nice, Angel said in my head. I sent her an apologetic look.

"No. I can feel things. And sometime I can even feel what people are seeing." He stated happily.

"What? Like what?"

"Well, right now, which I can only guess is thanks to you Max, Fang is looking particularly hunky this morning."

Oh. My. God. I put my hand over my mouth and turned bright red. Fang started to chuckle and I punched him. I didn't want Iggy thinking Fang was looking hot. That was for me only, not me and a blind empath living in the house.

"Max! Don't be jealous! It's gross, and it won't last after you leave the room." Iggy yelled at me. By now, Fang was full out laughing and I was ready to kill someone.

Iggy turned back to the food and flipped the pancakes on the skillet. I was holding my head in my hands, wishing I could disappear, while everyone continued to laugh. Fang came up to try and hug me but I pushed him away. "Don't touch me." I said jokingly, "Maybe you should date Iggy!"

Fang looked at me appalled, but I was pleased so I went to hug him and he accepted

"Aw," The whole Flock but Iggy said in unison.

Iggy just muttered, "Get a room," and then dodged the hit Fang tried to throw at him, I guess he could feel it coming.

A few minutes later everyone was eating happily, but it occurred to me between bites of pancakes and bacon, that my mom was no where to be found. "Where's my mom?"

"She's upstairs on the phone with Ella at boarding school, filling her in on everything."Angel said.

I nodded and thought about what I should tell my mom about Fang and I.

"What's there to tell her about it?" Angel asked, smiling. She was such a smart ass, and any other time, I would have been proud.

"Get out of my head, Angel." I growled.

Fang put his hand on my knee to calm me and Angel giggled. He gave her a look and that was it, we all just went back to listen to Nudge babbling on and on.

As I examined Iggy, he looked better, but still really tired. I can't say I wasn't oozing with worry, but he looked over at me and smiled. I smiled back and I think he knew that which was nice. I was glad this happened for him. Maybe it wouldn't make being blind such a challenge all the time.

Eventually we all had eaten enough pancakes to keep us full till lunch and the paper plates were thrown in the trash. Everyone filed out of the room except for Iggy and I. I took this as a chance to talk to him.

"Are you feeling better?" I asked, keeping all worry from my voice.

"Yes, Max. This is a good thing. Don't worry so much." Damn it.

"Iggy, you almost died. I didn't know what I would do with out you. The Flock would have starved!" It was then that I realized no one had gotten dinner last night. Oops, slight guilt there. But Iggy didn't seemed to be phased by the whole almost death thing. It didn't seem like I would be able to talk sense into him to get him to talk to me about what happened.

"Ig, did anything happen while you were passed out? Did you see anything?" Iggy swallowed. "Max, I didn't see anything, but I felt. I felt through all of our memories. Everything since Angel had gotten kidnapped. I felt everything. All at once. It was horrible. All of the emotions. I didn't know if I would live through it." He paused and choked back tears. I pulled him into a hug and he held me too. I was worrying about him a lot. But I tried not to focus on that. He didn't need to feel that.

"What if I can't block out the emotions? What if... what if it kills me?" He paused again.

"It won't." I said firmly. "You just need to practice." I took a step back from him. "Can you feel what I'm feeling?" He nodded. "Okay, now try and block it out. Focus really hard."

He concentrated for a minute. And then his face lit up. "I did it." He smiled. "But it was hard, and you aren't focusing on that many emotions."

"Okay. Now I'm going to think about something else for different emotions, see if you can keep it blocked out."

I thought about Fang. I thought about last night, and the water. I thought about the red lace under wear. Iggy's face didn't change.

"I 'm not-"I thought about the moment when we kissed, I couldn't help it. I though about when my arms and legs wrapped around Fang. Him in his boxer and me.. well yea. "Oh my god! Max! I could have lived my entire life without seeing that!" Iggy looked thoroughly grossed out.

I blushed, "Wait, you saw it?" Oops, again.

"Yes. And may I just say ew!" Iggy yelled.

"Sorry Ig, but you seemed to block in out for awhile, it's probably just cause I was focusing on bringing up emotions."

"Ugh, ew," he said. I felt disgusted. Ew, why would I kiss Fang?, I thought, Wait, what? "Iggy! Stop making me feel grossed out by Fang!"

"What? I can do that?," he smiled then added, "Cool."

I scowled at him. "No, not cool. Knock it off."He just laughed and gave me a look saying, I can totally mess with you whenever I want now.

"And don't look at me like that, jerk."

"I promise, Max, I'm not looking at you at all," he laughed harder.

I shoved him playfully and laughed too, "Last time I try to help you," I said, and I walked out of the kitchen and up the stairs.

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Upstairs in my room I was laying on my bed with my eyes closed, I was tired from not getting enough sleep last night. I heard a knock on my door so I lazily stood up and opened it.

Fang was standing there holding his laptop. "Come on in," I said. Gesturing my hand towards to bed. He followed and sat on the edge. "Did you have to bring that?" I asked, referring to his laptop.

"Max, we have a problem." he said.

"Well, what is it? Blog girls getting out of hand. Want me to give 'em a talking to," I asked, punching my right fist into my left hand and kicked the door close.

Fang grinned, but shook his head. "No, I can handle my blog girls just fine, thank you."

"Yea," I paused, "Did you tell them you like redheads?" I pointed down at the laptop he was typing away at, "I'm sure girls all over the world will run out and dye there hair." It stung for me to think about the Red Head Wonder from back in Virginia, but I wanted to test Fang.

"No." Fang said. "I told them to stop offering." He stated simply.

I smiled at that and laid on the bed, looking back at him. "Well what's the problem then?"

He turned and laid next to me, and kissed me lightly on the lips, making sure I knew he cared. Then he placed the laptop in front of me. It was opened to his email, it looked like he'd been sorting some of them into a folder called Erasers.

"What is it?" I asked. I knew nothing about computers, so I had no idea where to start.

"Erasers are attacking normal people."

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