Author's Note: So I promised you guys yesterday that I would have this up by today. I'm barely making that deadline by an hour, but I did! :) The reason it took so long is cause I finished up the first chapter to my brand new story, Dead and Gone.

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"Rise and shine!" I screamed before slamming Angel and Gazzy's door closed again.

I repeated the act in Nudge's room. And then went to open Ig's door. He stood in jeans and a shirt, obviously trying to find a shirt since he was on the floor with his hands out stretched. There was a blue t-shirt sitting a few feet in front of him, and I guess that's what he was looking for. I stepped into the room and pushed the shirt closer to him with my foot; not letting him know I was helping him of course.

"When you get dressed, can you go downstairs and start on breakfast. Everyone needs to eat, then Flock meeting in the living room."

"Alright," He said picking up the t-shirt I'd placed in front of him. I turned to walk out of the room when Iggy said, "Max?"

"Yea, Ig?"

"Thanks," He smiled and slipped the shirt over his head. I smirked, I guess it wouldn't be so easy to help him without him knowing anymore now that he's got this new power.

"Anytime."

Then with only one room was left. Fang. I knocked and waited for a reply, but one didn't come. So I knocked again, harder. Still no answer. I sighed impatiently and opened the door to see Fang slipping a black shirt over his head and then pull it down over his abs (hot, damn) to meet his black jeans.

"Breakfast. Then we'll tell the Flock the game plan."

"Ease up, Max! Wait till I'm downstairs so it's easier to tune out your vibes of Fang!" Iggy yelled while walking down the stairs. I glared at him and turned bright red. Fang just smirked.

"Oh, shut up." I said and left him alone in his room be annoying all by himself.

Soon enough everyone was crowded into the still someone charcoaled kitchen around the table eating pancakes that Iggy was whipping up on the temporary skillet put in over the stove.

Two jugs of Shake and Pour batter later, the whole Flock was stuffed and reported into the living room. I jugged down the rest of my apple juice, about to follow them out, when Fang came up behind me and said, "So what exactly is the game plan?"
I hadn't gotten that far yet, but I wasn't going to let Fang know that, no matter how much our relationship changed. "We're going to go check out the area with the most Eraser activity."

"Which is?" Fang said, and I knew what he was getting at. I didn't know that, he did.

"You tell me." I said through a clenched jaw.

"Virginia." He stated simply, but that was not so simple to me. Three things came to mind when he brought up Virginia.

One was the Red Haired Wonder, Lissa, that Fang had been, oh, so fond of. The second was Sam, who was nice, but I wasn't eager to run into him. And the third was Itex. Itex's second largest headquarters in the U.S. was in northern Virginia. Just outside of D.C. And just a few minutes away from where we used to live with Anne.

I wasn't into the idea of sharing any of these thoughts with Fang, for obvious reasons. So I simply said, "If you had useful information, you could have just said it instead of manipulating me into asking for it."

"Yea, but you're just so cute when you squirm." He said, passing by me dangerously close. I'm going to kill him one of these days, I thought to myself.

Be nice, Angel said.

I just rolled my eyes and pushed her out of my head.

"Okay guys. So we're leaving. We're going to Virginia. It seems not all the Erasers are gone like we had hoped. And it seems that they are taking on more of the dirty jobs in Itex." I decided to just blurt it out at I walked into the living room to stand in front of the couches and chairs they all had plopped down on.

"What does that mean?" Iggy asked, I could tell he was curious and scared; especially with the vibes I was rolling off.

"They are taking people." Fang said. Nudge gasped and everyone turned their head to face him sitting in the chair off to the side, alone; go figure.

"What do you mean taking people? Like adults or kids? How can you be sure? How do you know it was the Erasers that took them and not just bad people. There are people who are just bad and not different like us." Nudge said in one breath.

"People who've been reading Fang's blog recognized them by description." I said; sad to crush their hopes that maybe it was all just one big mistake.

"When do we leave?" Angel asked, strangely she didn't seem sad or excited, just like she had no problem excepting it.

"Two hours. Go pack up. Take what you can't live without. You know the drill." I said and they all got up to go pack their bags while I called my mother to have conversation I was definitely not ready for. It wasn't like I wanted to leave, but I had to. We had a responsibility to help these people because no one else knew what they were dealing with. And I knew once I said that my mom would find a way to except it. Hopefully she would also break it to Ella that we wouldn't be here when she came home to visit from break.

I took a deep breath and dialed the number.

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After finally convincing my mom she didn't need to rush home to see us off, I hung up the phone. She also agreed to break it to Ella that we weren't for staying as long as we had all hoped. Then I went up the stairs to start throwing my stuff together. Only, when I reached my room, Fang was sitting on my bed with mine and his stuff already pack.

"Does us making out mean you do all my work for me?" I said with a smirk and leaned against the frame of the door.

Fang just shrugged. Shocker.

I sighed and pushed myself toward the bed. Plopping down as far away from Fang as I could be I said, "So you thinking of looking up any of your old friends from Virginia while we're there?"

"No," he said but paused with an unreadable expression on his face, "Are you?"

"Oh, sure. I figured I'd call Sam and see if he wanted to hang out with all of his buddies. I have his number somewhere.." I let my voice trail off, like I was thinking deeply about where I would have put it.

"Cool, maybe you and him can double date with me and Lissa. She's sent me a few emails, I could see if she wanted to hang out with all of us together." Fang was testing me. I could tell.

"Alright, very funny." I said giving up the charade.

"You started it." Fang simply replied, putting his hand behind his head and closing his eyes. I took this as an opportunity to jump on his stomach; hard.

Fang being Fang, didn't take this lightly and through me the side and proceed to then jump on top of me. We wrestled like this for a few minutes, becoming less and less playful. Thankfully, Angel came and thought we were actually fighting.

She proceeded to scream, "Fang is going to kill Max!" This of course was followed by everyone else in the Flock running into the room, thinking they needed to break up a fight. Shit.

Laughing hysterically and Fang chuckling underneath me, we stopped fighting each other. "Just when I was winning too," I said getting off the bed to stand up.

Fang glared at me to tell me he disagreed.

"Guys! Knock it off! Would it kill you two to keep your vibes to yourself?" Iggy said.

"Max, what does horny mean?" Angel asked.

"How bet I let you handle that one Iggy, I'm sure you started it." I said frustrated.

"At least I would be able to keep it to my self."

"Oh that's it Iggy." I said. Now, what I did next may be frowned upon by some. But Iggy totally deserved it. He was being a jerk instead of just trying to block it out. So I simply, let loose every lustful feeling I could think of about Fang.

I expected Iggy to just run from the room, but apparently my feelings are a little stronger than that.

Iggy put his hand on his hip and winked at Fang. Nudge, Angel, Gazzy and I all burst out laughing and Iggy turned bright red realizing what he'd just done.

Fang sat there, stunned but at least not angry. Iggy on the other hand, turned around and let out a sigh full of anger before returning back to him room and slamming his door.

Through laughter Nudge said, "I'm gonna go get him to calm down."

"You do that," I said still laughing, but gave Fang a meaning full look.

Everyone then filed out of the room, leaving Fang and I alone again. "Hey, Fang?"

"Yeah?" We were sitting dangerously close and I wanted more than anything to lay in bed and kiss him all day.

"We should probably get going soon. Will you make sure the Flock packed everything we needed?" I was kind of hoping for a smile, but didn't get one. He just nodded and left the room.

I laid back on my bed trying to figure out what we would do once we got to Virginia. Are we supposed to just fly around until we see someone being taken? Or march right into the Itex headquarters and demand answers? We didn't really have anything to go on. Maybe my friendly neighborhood voice would jump in now and tell me what to do.

Nothing. No surprise there.

I laid there lightly, in peace for awhile, until Fang quietly returned to tell me the Flock was ready to go.

We walked down the stairs together and locked up the front door to the house. Everyone was looking at the house; no one wanted to say goodbye. I felt tears stinging the corners of my eyes but blinked them away.

"Alright guys. Up and away." And we all flapped our wings until we were so high up, we couldn't see the house.

"I wonder how long it will be before we get to go home again." Nudge said.

No one answered her.

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