Within a couple minutes of Ari and Fang's fight, the rest of the flock was at his side. Max was the first to arrive. As soon as she got there she dropped down to Fang's side and started bandaging his multiple wounds.
"What the hell happened?" She exclaimed.
Fang managed to mutter, "Ari," before he lost consciousness.
Max cursed under her breath as she put pressure on the large gashes on his stomach. The rest of the flock arrived a minute or two later, and were shocked at the sight of a bloody Fang. Iggy dropped to his side and ran his sensitive fingers through the wounds. "Nothing too serious, just a broken rib. Don't worry, he'll live."
Max was relieved after hearing this; Fang had almost died on her twice. She couldn't take much more of this crap. "How do we fix his rib?"
Iggy replied, "We can't, all we can do is give him some pain pills until it heals. It takes a month or two for normal people. So, maybe two or three weeks for Fang."
Max had no idea how Iggy knew so much about medical stuff, and she didn't really care. In her happiness of learning Fang will be ok, she dropped and kissed his forehead. Thank goodness Fang was asleep. It was bad enough the Flock had seen the kiss. After she swore the flock to secrecy about the kiss, she and the Gasman carried Fang back inside the house.
Once they got inside, Nudge started to worry, and with good reason. "The school knows where we are! How do they keep finding us? We have to move again now! Why can't they just leave us alone?" By the end of her rant she was practically screaming.
"I don't know honey." Max said in a calm voice. She was on edge too, but she had to calm Nudge down. "We can't do anything about it right now. That's what we are trying to find out, how they keep finding us. The school wants us back; 'cause we're just too cool to be left alone."
The last part made Nudge chuckle. "What are we going to do about it though? Every time we find someplace nice the school has to show up and make us move. We have to stop sometime."
This was something Max had thought about too. She said, "I know it's hard honey, I know that it's not fun either. This is the life we were given, and we take whatever we get. It will all pass eventually. They can't chase us forever."
Nudge quietly got up and came to sit on Max's lap.