Author's Note: So I had a pretty crappy day, but at least I got this done for you guys.
So I don't like this chapter. I dunno why, but I just don't. This whole story is kinda too PG for me. Hopefully it will get better. Maybe I'm just self loathing right now.
Anyway. I changed my mind, which I'm known to do a lot and added some Nudge/Iggy stuff. I think I'm going to start an AU story for Maximum Ride. Eh. I'll see.

Review. It might make me feel better.

Max's POV

"That's impossible. They all expired or were terminated." I said.

"Apparently not. Apparently they found a way around that." Fang replied, but it seemed like he might be holding back.

"How do you know that they're attacking people?"

Fang continued to click around on his computer. "People who have read my blog recognized them and then emailed me," he said like it was obvious.

"Well, where?" I followed up, ignoring his apparent superiority.

"It seems like all over the country. Some from Virginia and New Mexico. But California, Colorado, New York, and South Carolina seem to be the most common."

"Damn. That means that they're everywhere. How have we not heard about this before?" I asked myself.

"We've never really had to go looking for trouble," Fang said, "It always found us."

"Well that's certainly true." I thought for a minute. Did we really want to go looking for trouble? Did we want to get involved in this?

But I knew the answer to that. We we're the only ones that could help. The cops wouldn't understand, and after all, we were supposed to save the world. And until we could do that, helping out wouldn't kill us; hopefully.

Still, it could wait one day. Iggy needed as much time as we could give him to adjust, and the rest of the Flock should have a happy day, since we've all been so worried. I sighed and spoke me thoughts aloud, "I guess we'll tell the Flock tomorrow. Let them have a day with Iggy." Fang just nodded.

I though that he would then get up to leave, but he didn't. "What are you going to do today?" I asked. I wondered if things would changed with us a lot, or would we just spend more time together. I definitely wouldn't be complaining about spending more time with Fang.

"I'll probably get a lot of emails to the people who reported attacks of erasers and find out where the Erasers are most active." He replied, not looking up from his laptop.

I frowned a little bit but I knew not to complain. We needed to know as much as we could. "Well, I'm going to go see what the Flock and Iggy want to do today. I take it you're staying here if we go out?"

Fang just nodded again. I sighed and left him to his laptop in my room. I wandered down the stairs to find my mom heading out the door and back to work. She waved and blew me a kiss and I returned the wave. Iggy was in the living room on the couch with Nudge, Angel, and Gazzy watching something on the TV. I walked in and sat down on the chair, not trying to squeeze into that little group.

"Anything fun you guys wanna do today?" I asked them. It was weird for us to have downtime and not have to worry about running for our lives or where we were going to sleep and find food to eat.

"Don't you want to stay around here?" Iggy asked.

"Not really.." I paused, "Why would I?"

"Well we figured you and Fang would want some time alone." He dragged out the world alone and wiggled his eyebrows.

I threw a pillow at him and his eyebrows then furrowed together. "It's not nice to throw thing at blind people, ya know?" Iggy retorted.

"What? You couldn't 'feel it coming'?" I mocked him.

"Well, I'd like to go to the park today if we can, Max. Or maybe a pool." Angel spoke up.

"There is a lake not too far from here.. Fang and I, uh.. found it. It's great for swimming. But if you want to look for a good park I could ask Fang to Google it." I wore a proud smirk for knowing what Google is.

"What do you guys want to do?" Angel asked everybody else. She could be such a sweet little girl. When she wanted to be.

"The water sounds like fun. Are you sure your allowed to swim there though, Max? I have a really cute bathing suit. It's a two piece and gold with little purple designs on it. How long do you think we will be there for? Is Fang coming? Are you guys gonna kiss and stuff? You guy are really-" Iggy slapped his hand over her mouth, and she just sank into the couch, Iggy not removing his hand.

"Now if only I could silence the endless mounds of excitement rolling off of her." Iggy said sighing.

I laughed quietly and ordered the Flock to all go get dressed into there bathing suits.

We all then quickly filed back to our rooms. Fang was still typing away at the computer on my bed. "Get out." I said. He stopped typing and looked at me with a questioning look on his face and waited. "I need to change into a bathing suit. I'm going to take the Flock down to that lake today."

"I'm alright here." He said turning back to his computer.

I scowled at his back, but felt silly since he wasn't looking at me and obviously didn't care. "Ha," I said, "Very funny. However I don't want you seeing my.. body and stuff." Oh, very smooth Max, I told myself.

"You didn't mind last night," Fang said, not even turning to me.

"Jackass." I said plainly. Fang then stood up and came over to me, reaching his hands to hips. "No," I said and smacked his hands down. "Not until you're nicer."

Fang smirked at that. "Well I guess I should tell you something then." I raised and eye brow and waited for him to continue. "When you woke up this morning, you took my breath away. And when you walked in just now, my heart skipped a beat. And when you told me you were getting into your bathing suit and taking the Flock to the lake, just to see you in a bathing suit, I'm going to come too." My jaw dropped, I wasn't sure what to say, and thankfully, Fang decided to continue, "And you know something else? You have absolutely no idea the effect you have on me."

"That's a good answer, I guess," I said, reaching out and wrapping my hands around Fang.

Fang just chuckled to himself and said, "You are so stubborn." Then he lightly kissed my lips, but it soon became a kiss of much more passion. Before I could lose thought and control I pushed Fang away and said, "Okay, now get out. I still need to change, and so do you."

He did a dramatic frowned but then laughed lightly as he picked up his laptop and went towards to the door. Right before he closed it however he poked his head back in and said, "If you need any help just let me know!"

The pillow I threw at him in response hit a closed door as I heard him make his way down the hall laughing. I then laughed to myself and said out loud, "Oh boy, I'm in trouble with that one."

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It didn't take long for the Flock to be ready to go and out the door. It wasn't often we got to do stuff like this and they were really excited. We flew until I spotted the old abandoned dock by the water. It was actually pretty lucky that Fang and I had found this place. It didn't seem like other people had been out here in awhile.

No one waited to jump in, although Nudge screeched when she hit the water that it was 'sooo cold'. Fang and I sat on the edge of the dock for awhile, just watching everyone have fun. Iggy and Gazzy set off some sort of underwater explosive in the center of the lake that splashed everyone. I yelled half heartedly at them about how dangerous that was, but in my head I was laughing just as hard as the rest of them.

Fang and I were sitting temptingly close and I wasn't going to complain. Gazzy and Angel were playing in the shallow parts now, but Angel kept staying under for too long and Gazzy was getting jealous. Meanwhile though, Iggy was tackling Nudge underneath the water and she laughed the whole time.

"Nudge is growing up," Fang said from my side.

"What?" I asked. Surprised at the tone of Fang's voice. He was implying something, but I wasn't picking up on whatever it was.

"Just watch." He replied, and I did. When the two finally surfaced Nudge was sitting on Iggy's shoulders and Iggy had a hand on each knee. Then Nudge leaned back dragging them both down again. Only this time when they came up, Iggy's arms were around her. Iggy said something to her, and she raised his hand to her face. Then I realized it. "Oh." I said, now unable to take my eyes off of them. Fang just chuckled.

"How long has this been going on?" I asked him, he seemed to know all about this.

"Not too long. Few weeks." He looked over at me, as my jaw fell slightly. I still didn't take my eyes off of them. "Relax." He added, but it wasn't like I was stressing.

"Have they.." I trailed off, I didn't know what I wanted to ask, and I didn't know if I wanted the answer.

"Relax," he said again. "Iggy has just talking to me about liking her, he's barely acted on it at all."

"Well aren't you just Miss Chatty Cathy with the gossip?" I snapped. I was the leader, I did I not know about this, but Fang did? Something is wrong with this.

"Don't be jealous. I'm sure Nudge would have come to you eventually." I just turned and glared at him, before going back to staring at Nudge and Iggy. Iggy had a huge smile on his face, and Nudge wasn't even talking a hundred miles per hour. She was silent. This was obviously big.

"Come on, Max." He was trying to change the subject and I was going to let him. "You wanna go for a swim or a walk?" I didn't much want Fang to see me in my bathing suit in front of everyone else, so I chose going for a walk. Don't ask me why, but I felt very nervous around him since he told me that stuff this afternoon. Like I had a lot for me to live up to. And if anything was going to get my mind off of Iggy and Nudge, it would be Fang.

We walked in silence for awhile; close but not touching. Eventually we were far enough away from the Flock that I could relax a little more. I figured I would talk business with Fang, playing it safe. "Did you get anything else online about the erasers?"

"There might have been a few things, but you won't like it." He wouldn't look at me.

"Do I ever?" I swallowed, he made it seem like it was really bad. I wasn't sure I wanted to press but I knew that I needed to know. "What is it?" I braced myself.

"It seems like the erasers might not only be attacking people." Fang still looked straight ahead, not at me.

"There not.. getting pervy are they?" I dared to ask.

He let out a short, dark chuckle. "No. It seems like they might be.." He looked at me now, his were dark, and had a certain dangerous fury in them. "It appears that they are taking people."