[A/N] Yeah, I haven't updated in a while… What can I say, getting grounded school, assignments and sport doesn't give you that much time to write…

Family or freedom?

Time seemed to stand still during that moment where both, my heart and mind was torn between the choices. Part of me just wanted to run away with him and disappear off the face of the earth, but the other part wanted to knock him dead for saying it.

Everything around me was working in slow motion. The rain felt as though it was taking minutes to make contact with my skin, erasers were ever so slowly tightening their grip on Iggy and Fang's dark wings sounded like they had a 5 minute interval between each flap. But sadly my heart seemed unaffected. It seemed to have the opposite effect as forgotten memories flashed by.

We, everyone, together went through it all: rescuing Angel, Anne, Antarctica…everything, and now it's my job to get everyone back together, back to being a whole flock.

Ba-thump… ba-thump… ba-thump… Gravity pulled everything back into chaos as I snapped out of my trance. Rain soaked my dirty blonde hair, thunder roared, lightning struck and despite his warnings and protests I pulled Fang into the circle of Erasers that guarded Iggy. I had made my decision and Fang new my reason, once a family, always a family.

Although the three of us knew that our day was going to end with Erasers punching our lights out, we sure as hell didn't want to make it easy for them. Another bad (but fun) choice made by the magnificent Maximum Ride. Why do I say that with such sarcasm? Because when I woke up, I felt like a bus had run over me.

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I woke up the next morning in a white room, on a white bed; under white covers will a deadly white face. My entire body was aching in pain and half of my brain seemed to be missing. Slowing sitting up, I grimaced as the pain got worse. "Where am I? Fang? Iggy?" I groaned. Blood rushed to my head as panic shook through my body. This is not good, I thought.

"Relax Maximum. Stressing isn't the best thing for you at the moment." The sound of the voice I knew way too familiarly made my head jerk up.

"What the hell do you want?" I snarled through my pearly whites.

"Calm down. I'll answer all of the questions you have."

"Where am I? Where are Fang and Iggy? What happened out there?" The words barely left my cracked lips.

"You are at the institute you attacked. You were beaten yesterday and as a result Fang and Iggy are gone."

"What do you mean they're gone? GONE WHERE?" Even though my body was growing considerably weaker, it didn't stop my blood from boiling. I needed to get out of here and fast, I thought. But failing to even get out of the bed, I froze in horror. What did they do to me?

"They are gone as in not here. Don't panic, we didn't do anything except drug you so that you can barely move your muscles. But that will wear off in a few hours time." Jeb continued without a care in the world. But he did care about something. And that something was what I was going to stay to find out; it wasn't like I had a choice anyway.

But still he was a bastard. A bastard that I will never forgive.

"I'll ask you again. What do you want?"

"I want you to save the world." He replied.

Oh no, he did not just say that.

I didn't know how to start. Eventually I said something along the lines of "I can't believe you still want me to do that crap. You say that millions of times and send me of, not knowing anything! And what, do you honestly think that taking away my family would possibly make me co-operate? You and everyone who works for Itex are just all idiots." But unfortunately, that was my limit.

I woke up with 3 hours later a gas mask attached to my face …

[A/N] I hope you liked that. To me, this chapter was pretty boring and a bit OOC. I've kind of got a writer's block at the moment. I know how she is going to escape but then what? You guys gotta help me! So far I've only thought of these options:

She travels from state to state blowing schools to shreds.

She gives up (don't really like this one).

She finds other experiments (don't really have any ideas for this one… and it's kind of clichéd).

Have you got any ideas? I need some help! Please review!