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Alrighty I know its been AGES, but heres another chapter....

The sound of running footsteps passing in the corridor on the other side of the doors ripped me out of Fang's arms. I mentally cursed myself for letting my guard drop like that. I instinctively looked around for somewhere to hide; we were cornered like rabbits in here, but Fang grabbed my wrist tightly and pulled me to one side of the door, holding me against him like my life depended on it.

Turns out my life did depend on it. The doors swung open and Nudge and Gazzy walked in. I held my breath as they looked around the room. Gazzy's eyes passed over where we were standing and it was only then that I realized we were invisible.

"There's no one in here." Nudge said, turning to walk out of the room, but Gazzy stopped her. "Look." He said, pointing under the table. Peeking out from underneath the sheet covering it was Fang's jumpsuit. Both of them whirled scanning the room for us, but we were already gone, the doors swinging in our wake.

I heard them shouting behind us, as Fang pulled me through the white washed corridors. He was going to pull my arm out of my shoulder if he wasn't careful. The alarms were shrieking by now, red lights flickering on the walls. Guess I caused a bit of a situation. Perfect. My watch beeped. I froze.

"Oh crap."

Fang skidded to a halt when he realized I was no longer behind him. "What?" He asked, looking anxiously around.

"The bombs. They go off in two minutes. And I dumped them right next to one of the boilers." I winced. The place was about to go up in a great big fireball.

"We need to keep moving." Fang reminded me, pulling me once again.

"We need to find a stairwell." I said as we ran. If we could find one, we might just escape.

"Max, I don't think-" Fang started but I cut him off

"Unless you've suddenly become fireproof, I suggest we find a stairwell. We can go straight up. It's the quickest way out." I snapped.

"What about the flock?" He asked, looking back at me strangely. I knew what he was looking at, he spotted the difference in me, my eyes.

"We have to leave them." I said, slowing down and meeting his gaze as I did. I knew what he was thinking; the old Max would never have said that. The old Max would have died rather than leave the rest of the flock behind, brainwashed or not. Well tough. I gritted my teeth together. Three years alone in the world hardens you. "They'd kill us if they saw us." I reminded him. "We need to go. Now."

Fang studied me for a second longer before nodding. He ran past me, and I hastily followed. My watch beeped again. One minute.

Suddenly I heard shouts behind us once more. Turning I saw what must have been thirty or so kids in their white jumpsuits, all running towards us. I ran faster. I don't know how many turns we made, who put the stupid stairs so far away from anywhere?

A metal bar suddenly flew into my path and would have hit me if I hadn't ducked. "What the hell?" I looked behind me again. Nudge was leading the pack of children, a vicious look in her eyes. I looked away, she wasn't my Nudge anymore.

"Max, up ahead." Fang yelled. Sure enough, I could see a flight of stairs about 8 meters in front of us. Just as we reached it, my watch beeped again, and something exploded somewhere back in the direction we have come from.

"Go! GO!" I shouted at Fang, jumping straight up and whipping my wings out. I shot straight up the stairwell, almost going supersonic. I just hoped that Fang was right behind me. I could feel the heat from fire down below us as we raced it up the stairwell, hear the continuous explosions as my one triggered others throughout the building in the heating systems. The roof was coming closer faster and faster. It was solid, no skylight to be seen like I'd hoped. This was going to hurt. I tucked my head down and braced my shoulders as they smashed into the roof. Pain exploded through my body as I felt the roof break over me. I shot into the sky, but soon started to fall, not able to move my shoulders. I was going to fall right back into the swirling mass of chaos below me. A hand gripped mine, clasping me tightly, pulling me upwards.

"That." Fang said. "Was really stupid."

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