Disclaimer: i do not own Maximum ride
We'd been walking for only 5 minutes when I felt warm breath tickle my cheek. "When I tell you to run, run." Fang whispered in my ear. I was stunned. He hadn't been turned after all. I fought the urge to grin and remembering Angel I shot up mind blocks and started to focus on one thing and one thing only; my mom's cookies. I could feel Angel testing the barriers, but she would have a hard time breaking them. She wasn't going to get anything from me, and if I knew Fang, which fortunately I did, she wouldn't get anything from him either.
I felt Fang's hands moving around my wrists, the rope around the loosening as he untied it. I was careful to keep my arms in the same position, even though my shoulder muscles were screaming in protest. If any of the others saw my arms move they'd get suspicious.
The second the rope fell from my wrists, Fang shouted "Run." So I ran. But I was running blindly. Behind me I heard several crashes, Fang I assumed was giving me a head start. Nudge's voice suddenly echoed all around "All units to corridor 23." Things were about to get messy.
The corridor ended in a T and I turned left, but Fang appeared from no where and grabbed my hand, pulling me right and nearly wrenching my arm out of my shoulder. We ran hand in hand down the white washed corridors, Fang pulling me around corners, making left and right turns. Behind us the rest of the flock and the other experiments were following on our heels. More kids in white jumpsuits had joined them. I briefly wondered how many experiments there were in this place. Fang ran faster, pulling me along behind him, our feet thundering along the floor. It looked like Itex had built their own little army.
Suddenly Fang pulled my out of the corridor and into a room. He yanked me to the ground and I nearly landed on top of him. His hand went over my mouth to stop me making any noise as we sat flat against the wall. I heard what sounded like a heard of elephants pass us. Only when the footsteps and shouts had faded did Fang release me. I looked around the room. It looked like an operating theatre with a steel table in the middle and various tables with scary looking instruments on them. I shivered involuntarily as my gaze passed over the straps on the operating table, remembering the horrific done on us back at the School.
"Just like old times huh?" I tried to joke still staring around the room
"Yeah, 'cept back then I wouldn't have had to kick Iggy's butt." Fang's voice held no humour. I turned to find him pulling off his jump suit.
"Fang what are you doing?" I hissed. We were running for our lives and he wanted to change his clothes?
He gave me that look that always made me feel stupid and I felt the colour rise in my cheeks.
"The suit has a tracking device in it." He told me "And besides, you know I hate white, and I've been wearing that for 3 years." He grinned at me making my heart speed up no matter how irrational I knew it was. Sure enough under the white jump suit he was wearing a black T-shirt and black pants. Now we matched.
My emotions taking hold of me I launched myself at him and threw my arms around his neck hugging him. "I missed you so much." I said into his chest.
I felt his arms curl around my back, hugging me tight against him "I missed you too Max."