Im baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack ! After like a year ! okay so don't bite my head off. Fist I'd like to thank all those patient people who like my story. I really didn't want to continue with it but you guys made me keep going. Sooo this story is back on track. Let me know what you think, I know this chapter doesn't have fang but don't worry he's coming ;)
We were currently in a supply closet. Iggy told me the whole place was under surveillance in those cases where the experiments tried to escape, so it was pretty impossible to get out of the school unnoticed. I banged my head against the wall, like in those cheesy movies where people get random ideas that saves their day by doing this; but in my case it was obviously not working. Sigh.
Iggy grew up here in The School, just like Fang. As a little boy the scientist performed all type of experiments on him and doing so, he acquired Avian DNA, earning himself wings. Apparently being one of the few successful experiments, Iggy had been confined all his life, away from other experiments in case of contamination or infections that could ruin Iggy's wings.
"I don't know how long it will be before anyone notices we're gone Iggs, so we have to do something and fast." I told him.
Iggy looked at my general direction sadly. "Max I think they already know you're gone; nobody escapes from …The Creator." At that word Iggy seemed to shudder and clench his hands, obviously fighting back memories.
I put my hand on his comfortingly, trying to soothe him. "I know Iggy, I bet that's what they tell you and it's exactly why I don't believe them. They tell you all this things to scare you, so you don't try to get away and hell we aregoing to get away."
I wasn't going to leave him in this forsaken place. He already lost his sight, next thing you know they might take his life as well. If Fang was terrified of this place then it had to be horrible, the worst place on earth and I had already seen enough!
"I don't care if these people own the damn place, I am not sitting around here waiting for them to turn me into a turtle or something stupid like that!" I grabbed Iggy's shoulder and shook him hard. "Do you want to be turned into a turtle Iggy?"
"Being a bird's enough." he said grimly, shocked that I wasn't kidding when I said I was busting out.
"Good." I smiled smugly now that I'd convinced him. I mentally patted myself in the back now that Iggy was in on everything. Maybe just maybe everything would work out great. Yeah, and pigs fly!
"So what's the plan?" Iggy said, raising his eyebrow, questioning me.
And there goes my mental state of happiness.
"So umm, err I was just planning on finding a window, breaking through it and going home?" I made it sound like a question. Not good Max, worst plan ever! But I really had nothing so anything was better than telling him I couldn't come up with anything.
In times like this I missed Fang, where his silent presence was enough to make me believe everything was alright. Now I had no Fang, no plan and on top of that Iggy was looking at me as if I'd grown two heads.
"That is your plan! That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard! Are you planning on magically stumbling into an unsecured window? " Iggy was pretty much loosing it with me right now. He looked like he didn't know whether to laugh at this situation or cry. I tend to make people react that way.
"Well what do you suggest we do then smart ass?" I glared at him, even though he couldn't see it. He didn't have to make me feel stupid, my plan was better than anything he had ever come up with.
Iggy sighed and grabbed my hand. I didn't know how to react to that so I just ignored it and looked at him, my face a total question mark. He didn't speak and looked in the general direction of our entwined hands.
"Look Max this is hard for me to say but, they brought you here for something and they won't stop following you until they get what they want. It won't be easy and you'll probably get hurt trying to get away but I'm willing to save you." He smiled slightly a tiny tear escaping his eyes.
Oh God! I sucked at emotional things and this was too emotional for me right now. I've never dealt with anyone who cried and worse I'd never had to 'console' someone. I was totally a loss for words, especially when he said he was willing to save me. No one has ever cared about me so much before.
I squeezed his hand and got closer to him, wiping away his tear. My hand came up and brushed his strawberry blonde hair out of his unseeing eyes. He sighed and grabbed my waist, pulling me into his arms in a warm embrace. I kissed his cheek and rubbed soothing circles on his back.
It felt right and wrong at the same time. I didn't think Fang would like this very much but right now I felt Iggy needed me, a real friend for the first time. And I needed him, I wanted to get out of here and with him I had an advantage.
As I stroked his back, I briefly wondered how his wings looked, how they felt and suddenly I wanted to know. So I pulled back slightly and quietly asked, "Can I look at you wings?"
Iggy seemed surprised and then wary. I guess with people always experimenting on him and always looking at his wings like he was a freak made him distrustful of people who wanted to look at them. I squeezed his hand reassuringly.
He sighed and shook his head, sadness crossing his beautiful face. He pulled back and took off his shirt exposing his back and slowly extended his folded wings. While Fang's wings were as dark as the night, Iggy's were a bone-ish white. Beautiful, soft looking white feathers emerged from his back, like those from doves.
I caressed the top of his wing and slowly stroked and pulled my way down the bottom of it, gauging his reaction to my touch. He sighed and shivered, getting closer to me, looking at the floor with a slight frown. It was like a puppy needing his mom, he needed someone, he had never been close to anyone and it made me sad for him.
"They are beautiful." I said smiling sadly.
"I hate them." Iggy said quietly. "They make me a freak, Max."
I sighed and touched his upper feathers, making him shiver. I remember Fang having the same thought and something inside me ached, making me mad. Scientist ruined these boys' chances of having a regular life, with regular people and I hated them for making them miserable.
"I swear I'm getting us out and when I do, you will not feel like a freak. I promise." And I meant every single word I said.
Hours later I finally came up with something, given the awesome fact that Iggy had wings made us have a good advantage. I didn't know who this creator person was but hell was I going to make her look bad when I escaped this hell hole.
"Okay Iggy I will go first and then when I find the building plans we will come and head out, If I don't come back in 4 hours…" and then I was silent, I didn't want to think of what could happen if I didn't make it back.
Iggy stood up and hugged me, a tight, reassuring hug that made my eyes water for the first time in a long time. Ever since Fang showed up, my life got all emotional and crappy.
Here we go Max!
I grabbed a white coat from the supply closet, some gloves and those unattractive looking goggles, so I could camouflage and the hidden cameras wouldn't recognize me. I looked every other ugly looking scientist walking around here, so I pretty much blend in.
Here and there I saw horrible experiments gone wrong and 'doctors' performing deadly looking operations in different rooms. Every step I took made me dread this place more and more. I didn't think such cruel, vile people existed until today.
I was walking around with no clue to where to look, when I heard something that made me stop.
"What do you mean she Escaped?" An angry voice boomed, echoing in the hallways making white coats run and scramble like scared chicken.
I kept walking silently until I could hear the voices clearer. There was a room with a big window which could be seen from the outside but not from the inside, pretty convenient for someone like me to spy. A man in his thirties was shouting to someone who I couldn't distinguish but recognize from somewhere.
"I'm …I'm sorry Jeb, she wasn't there when I went." The voice said, trembling and breaking in between syllables.
So this was the Jeb that everybody was scared of and who wanted me, for some unknown reason which I preferred not knowing.
Jeb walked slowly pacing around the guy who looked totally frighten, from here I couldn't see the guy but Jeb's furious looking face was pretty clear. He stopped and grabbed the guy from the neck, a vein in his neck jumping.
"The creator is not going to be happy and you know what happens when the creator is not happy!" Jeb spat at the guy who was swallowing and gulping audible.
"No…No… I… I don't t" The poor guy stumbled and faltered around his words, his hands gripping Jeb's hands were around his neck.
Suddenly Jeb smiled a weird crazy smiled and squeezed the guy's throat. Audible chokes and gulps where heard from the guy and he started gripping and pulling Jeb's hands to no avail. Suddenly with a violent choke he went limp in Jeb's arms.
What kind of people where this? Oh boy, oh boy I was gonna hyperventilate. Breath Max, Breath!
Jeb let go of the corpse he was holding and went around it, as if not had happened and he'd just killed a bug or something. There was someone I hadn't noticed in the far back of the wall, someone who made the hairs of my neck prickle and my skin crawl.
"Ari, you will notfail me this time!"Jeb ordered, his voice impassive and controlled, with a commanding note to it.
Ari's booming throaty laugh echoed the halls, sending shivers down my back. His beautiful body was twisted into a half form of between wolf and men. His handsome face contorted into an unnatural wicked smile.
"When have I ever failed you, master?" Ari said, as he emerged and sniffed the air. "Ah, she is near."
He said smiling maliciously, and suddenly looked in my direction.
No Miggy, Max is just being sweet to him :D *dum**dum* review ! review! And tell me if you have suggestions and/or ideas . Love you guys .. angie xoxox