A/N: Oh wow, I have no idea where to begin except for the fact that I dropped by my e-mail the other day and I had an amazing reader comment on here that they were patiently waiting for me to continue. Senior year stinks….just so all of you underclassmen have a fair warning and all you graduates can relate with me on something haha. A'ight, without much further ado than what I've already put you all through and I apologize from the depths of my heart:

Disclaimer: I'm NOT J.P. …if I was Angel wouldn't have sucked like it did. TFW was almost better…at least we had some Fax to work off of. Sorry for a maybe-interpreted-like-ish-spoiler.

Chapter Eight: Surprise!

Fang POV

Sitting on a park bench by yourself is actually quite a soothing method for relieving stress…

Then again, so was beating the wires out of evil robots, but seeing as how I haven't seen any upon arriving in San Diego I was stuck acting all Zen and crap.

I sighed and crunched my can of coke in my hand and stared up at the clouds, remembering when I was young and Max and I spent so much time watching clouds morph and the sound of her giggling when I played along.

Oh my God I have got to stop this.

Am I really this weak?

Good grief.

If I could just see her one more time.

Just see her chocolate eyes.

Just see her tangled, beautiful mess of hair.

Just one more kiss…

It's best that I skimped out on the Flock without direct confrontation, if I had seen Max's face when she read that note that I left her I probably would've died. One of the few times in my life that I didn't want to be a fly on the wall in Max's life; who would've thought it would've been our break-up?

Dylan POV

I don't understand a lot in this life, especially seeing as how I'm kind of new to the whole wings, mutants, experiments, Max thing.

I can't keep my mind off of her. Every little thing about her makes my heart jolt, only thing is that I can't explain any of it! I was programmed to fall in love with her and be with her forever…but in the few months that I actually have been around Max I never seen her this…gone.

"Uh, going for a spin." I heard Max reasoning with Angel and Nudge in the other room. She would be leaving soon, I could see it. The more time that passed the closer she would get to him. the one who hurt her like no other has in her entire life.

I couldn't let her make a mistake like this…not if I had anything to say about it.

Max POV

Okay, internet café in San Diego…shouldn't be that hard, right?

Wrong. Way, waaaay wrong. San Diego is like the internet café capital of the world.

But I have it now narrowed down to one city out of millions, I'm not going to give up even if I have to go into every single one of these thousand internet cafés and show them pictures of Fang from the newspaper until I got an answer.

This is like trying to find a needle in a frigging haystack. It's ridiculous. It's tiring. It's everything that Fang wanted when he left. He didn't want me finding him and that was the only thing that I was succeeding at in this current time.

After meandering up each and every café for the past twenty blocks, I veered into a small wooded plaza that made Central Park in New York seem like the size of Asia compared to Italy: huge.

Scuffing my boots along the pea-gravel I was seconds from breaking down and bawling my eyeballs out. It was almost to the point for me that I just ultimately didn't care anymore.

I sat gingerly on a bench and pressed the rough palms of my hands into my eye sockets in a desperate attempt to halt any looming tears that may try to stray down the side of my cheek.

Fang POV

After a couple hours of just sitting there doing nothing I had accomplished just that:

Nothing.

I got off the path and began treading through the somewhat overgrown grass, picking bark off of a stick as I went.

Staggered breathing caught my attention and I looked around, expecting a lost child or a worn-out cyclist.

No.

You've got to be kidding me.

"Fang."

"Dylan."

"Don't you touch her. You have no idea how badly you broke Max. I'm taking care of her now, you've lost your chances."

Excuse me? WTH!

"Okay, tough guy, who told you where I was?"

"That doesn't matter, what does matter is that Max is in San Diego right now looking for your sorry ass because that poor girl actually believes still that you hold a shred of dignity and love for her."

Okay, that's how you want to play?

Something inside of me snapped right then. And the recoil from that snapping nerve sent me flying at Dylan's throat like a madman.

I caught the scumbag off guard and continued nailing him in the face, right hook, left hook, repeat.

Unfortunately though, he'd been taught to fight by watching Max.

That alone was bad news.

After a couple blows he'd caught on that you duck when a fist is coming towards you, and used this newfound knowledge to his advantage. At one point he was able to shoot behind me and grab me by my neck, right on the pressure points.

Thankfully for me though, I'd learned to focus less on the pressure points being triggered and more on what I was still capable of doing and I drug my heavy right boot up and back swiftly into his gut.

Ah, now that's what I call pure satisfaction.

Only problem now was that I didn't know what to do with him. I'd left him bloodied, battered, and bruised on the ground. All of which he truly and honestly deserved…but I still didn't quite know what to do with the piece o' crap.

I could tie him up and throw him over the gates to the School…

Tempting.

Max POV

Chipmunks are very obnoxious creatures. They fight, they chirp while they're fighting, and they make a heck of a lot of noise with the natural land around them when they are fighting.

I've decided I hate chipmunks.

So much for gathering my thoughts.

I'll finish this job later, I needed to get home to the Flock. If Fang made one update from San Diego he'll be here tomorrow as well.

I flew home at hyperspeed and slid open the back screen door nearest to the kitchen/dining room area and nearly leapt out of my skin when I saw what was waiting for me in the kitchen.

"Whaaat?"

A/N: End of Chapter Eight! Thanks for tuning in after so much time of me being away! Sorry for the cliffy, but I really have to go to bed XD Stay tuned, keep reading!

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