CHAPTER 2
Omg! I'm so FRICKIN sorry! I didn't mean for it to be clumped like that!! I thought I had fixed it, but it didn't work SO SORRY! Please forgive me! Also: I want to give a HUGE thanks to my beta reader - ForeverIndebted. The most awesome beta reader I know.
I woke up with a feeling of dread. "Fang!" I whispered it, but Iggy heard me. His face turned sour.
"Fang's a bloody traitor! He was going to kill you, maybe all of us, even! I can't believe we ever trusted him..." Iggy looked away, but I saw the tears in his eyes. I had never seen Iggy act so emotional, so it was hard to comfort him.
"Iggy..." I began, mechanically scooting a bit closer to him so that I could whisper without the younger kids waking up. "He trusted us. He didn't want us to die. He didn't give information about us to Jeb, and he didn't ever try to kill us. He..." I stopped short, fighting back tears before I said, "Ig, I think he loved us." I wasn't sure if the newly-emotional Iggy noticed, but I hoped that he didn't.
"Bizarre love, then." Iggy was still bitter, obviously not hearing my change of voice. "I told him all of my secrets, Max! You have no idea how much I relied on him!"
It sounded like he was going to cry, so I scooted toward him, cautiously wrapping my arm around his shoulder for a brief second before he cringed away. "And you think that I didn't? Fang was my right-hand man! I didn't do anything drastic without consulting him! I loved him, Iggy, and now I find out that he wasn't even part of the Flock! It's..." I couldn't go on.
My body shook with sobs. Iggy came over again, hearing my quiet sobbing, and put his arms around my shoulders and held me, like Fang used to. Fang... Just thinking his name made me cry more.
I warned you, Max. Fang was never to be trusted. I warned you before, butyou never listened. Don't you wish you had? The Voice answered to my mourning. Great. A Voice to comfort me. What a wonderful, glorious day.
Shut up! Fang meant the world to me, and now he's probably going to kill me! I shrieked to my voice, tears streaming down my face as I unconsciously let them fall, letting myself feel what I may.
There's something you need to know, Max, The Voice continued, sounding like a robot as it gruesomely said, Fang isn't going to make it.
What do you mean? I yelled, again, freezing on the outside to wait for the devastating news that I was about to hear, preparing myself for yet another blackout.
The Director is going to try to change Fang into Alpha, but she won't succeed. Fang loves you too much and he won't part with his memories.
So what will happen to Fang? Will he come back to me? I breathed, holding my breath and hoping for a miracle.
No. The Director will classify him as useless, and, as we speak, Omega will kill him. Sorry, Maximum.I processed the information with fear. There had to be a way to stop this madness. "Iggy, how far away are we from the School?"
"A couple miles. Why?" Iggy felt my body shift uncomfortably, and realizing the method to my literal madness. "Oh, no, Max! We aren't going to save the traitor!"
"Yes we are." Angel came over to us. "When Fang held me, he was thinking about how he wasn't going to betray us. No matter what, he loved us, and he wouldn't give us up. We have to save him!"
That's my Angel. Always trying tohe right thing. God, I love that kid.
Finally, Iggy sighed angrily. "I'll wake Nudge and Gazzy."
FANG'S POV
I won't give it up. I won't give up my memories. I won't. I can't, for Max's sake. I...
Oh, this was stupid. The whitecoats could change me. They could make me forget, unless...
It was crazy, but it just might work.
I was on a bed, waiting to be injected by the whitecoat standing over me. If I can manage retreating into myself, or dying, then I could still remember. I have no clue how to kill myself in the next ten seconds, so I'll go with door number one. Retreating into myself, just enough to be presumed dead and/or useless. Whatever.
I closed my eyes, and thought about all of the dark things in life. Death, pain, blood, murder, fire, suicide... And the thing is: it worked. I honestly don't know how I did it. I was there, yet I wasn't there. All I know is that the whitecoat started freaking out, and tons of voices could be heard.
"What happened?"
"I don't know, he just…"
"He's dead!"
"Fix him!"
I felt cold metal on my chest, and a electric shock went through me. I tried to ignore the pain, hoping that I could keep faking long enough for them to stop torturing me so that I could escape and get out of here.
"It didn't work!"
"Try again!"
The metal pressed down on me again, but I was ready. I withdrew myself more, and blocked out all pain and voices. Nothing happened. I felt myself drift off. I woke up in a dream state.
It was a wonderful place, with fields of flowers and beautiful streams and lakes. I saw darkness on the horizon, though. I couldn't help myself. I ran towards it, determined to find out what was ruining the perfect fantasy.
I could hear a voice, "Fang, wake up!" It sounded vaguely like Max, but I knew she loathed me, and would never come save me.
The obscurity loomed upon me now. I peered into it, and saw a horrible image. There was girl Angel's age, getting devoured by a wolf. She was screaming, and I went to fight for her.
"Shoo!" I shouted at the wolf, who growled then ran away. I kneeled by the girl. "I'll get help. It'll be okay, just listen to my voice."
Her mouth turned from a cry of horror to a grin of triumph. "Got you."
Tears of blood poured out of my eyes. I opened my mouth to scream, but all that came out was the girl's laughter. I fell back onto the ground, feeling lightheaded. I saw spots of white dance before my eyes, and all I could hear was the laughter, ringing in my ears as I finally gave up and slipped into unconsciousness...
MAX'S POV
We made it to the evil, malicious School in one point three minutes. A grumpy Iggy and a grinning Gazzy wasted no time blowing down the door, and we were in.
I stormed into the room where Fang was, with a little help from the Voice. It was stupid how, sometimes I hated it, and sometimes, I wished that it would never go away. I would rather live without it's annoying trivia, though.
Turn right. Five doors down of the left. The activation code is 991mu6. Go straight down the hall and make a sharp left. Open the door on your right, it commanded, lifting my confidence a bit more.
I saw Fang lying on a bed. Not moving. I froze, too scared to move. Him dead was all that ran through my exausted mind.
The whitecoats ripped opened his shirt and brought down the paddles. Fang's body went up, and came back down. Nothing happened. The whitecoats did it again, and my senses finally kicked in.
"Iggy grab Fang! The rest of you kill as many as you can!Go!"
Simple instructions. That's my style.
We went into action. I was seriously mad. I know I took out at least nine freak whitecoats before Iggy shouted, "I got him! Let's go!"
We flew back to the cave we had harbored in, and Iggy laid Fang down with a blank expression, but behind his eyes was fear.
"Is he breathing? If not, then I know CPR. But that would be really weird to use on Fang, since he's like a brother to me. But If I have to, I will. So, is he alive?" Nudge rambled with concern.
"Yeah," Iggy said calmly. I let out a breath I didn't know I had been holding and crouched by him worriedly, lightly putting my hands on his shoulders, hoping that he was okay.
"Fang, wake up!" I tried to revise him by shaking him, slapping him, and even dumping water on him (which he'll be very mad at me for doing) but nothing worked.
Fang didn't show any signs of life until he mumbled, "Shoo," then, "I'll get help. It'll be okay, just listen to myvoice." We all just stared in expressions ranging from confusion to horror.
"What's happening? Angel?" The Gasman looked scared.
"I don't know! I'm scared, Max. There's a girl in Fang's mind, and she's hurting him. Make it stop, Max! Please!" Angel was crying in my arms, clutching at my shirt and wetting it. She hardly ever breaks down like this.
Fang's eyes shot open and blood began seeping out of them. His mouth opened in a silent scream, and I was terrified. There came the faint hum of a little girl's laughter in the cave.
"What's happening?" Nudge screamed. Fang's eyes snapped shut. The giggles became louder.
"Max! I'm scared!" Gasser and Angel were both in my arms now, Angel still in her defenseless state, and Gazzy looking up at me with worried, innocent eyes that made me even more afraid.
I couldn't completely lie to them, so I replied as calmly as possible, "So am I!" I couldn't help admitting it.
A strong wind picked up and blew around the cave and the laughter turned to words.
"I win!
You lose!Fang is dead!
And you're next!"
The last line was said in a low, forbidding voice. Nudge and Angel screamed as the wind began to create a person. A little girl, with no eyes, and she had wings.
Just like us.
Again, I'm so sorry. I did not mean to do that.
