Hey guys! I can see from the reviews that u guys are reeeeeaaaaaaalllllyyyyyyy confused about the whole 'Max has come back to life,' thing. So, I went to the trouble of writing this chapter to help you understand what is going on! I am very happy to see that I now have 35 reviews! YAY! Thankyou so much guys! This means a lot to me! Now to thankyou all: Razamataz: I am not that evil! Max is here because......read on to find out! And thanx 4 being so patient! Love Ian: yer u have mentioned the whole point about not readin MAX so I decided to throw that in for ya. I am glad that u liked the Fang POV cause I find it quite hard to write him, so I am happy dat someone enjoyed it! Midge 1012: Sorry if this ruins ur artistic vision for my story or whateva, but I have had this idea for a long time now and i didnt want to change it. I hope u enjoy it anyway. Shayne Rider: I know that it is confusing but this chapter explains everything. I am glad that u like it and it is about to get a whole lot happier! bellafan123: I am glad that i made u happy!! :D Miss-chaos24: YAY! I made someone cofused!!!!!! actually I made a whole ton of peeps confused, so i am special! I hav explained it all here! Whew! That was a lot of thankyou's! Anyway on with the chapter! Here we goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo:

Gazzy POV

I stared at 'Max.' I had watched Max die, right in front of my eyes! This couldn't be her! It just couldn't!

"You can't be Max," I said slowly and quietly. I didn't move from my spot on the floor and stared at the imposter.

I watched the girl get up and walk slowly towards me.

"GET BACK!" I shouted as I dragged myself backwards until my back was pressed against the cold, metal door. I felt a tear slide down my cheek and I closed my eyes for a moment, trying to calm myself down. I was sick of the white coats playing cruel jokes, like this one, on me!

I opened my eyes again to see that the girl had stopped walking and was standing over me. She looked down at me with her familiar brown eyes, she looked...........hurt.

"Gazzy, it's me, Max." She said, still staring at me. I didn't look away from her gaze as she continued.

"The Max that you watched die was a clone, created by the school. Its only purpose was to die in front of you to make it seem like I died. It was programmed to say those things to you, so it seemed realistic."

I didn't move or look away. I wasn't sure whether I should believe her or not and I was really confused!

"Can you remember the day before it happened? We slept in a cave and that's when I was taken away and brought here. C'mon, Gaz, it's me!" She held out her left fist and knelt down to my level. I took in a deep breath but didn't stack my fist on top of hers.

"How old was I when I made my first bomb?" I asked her, just loud enough for her to hear.

With her fist still out, she leaned toward me.

"Five. I can still remember how angry Jeb was when we had to re-build the whole right wall of the house." She answered.

I felt a smile spread across my tearstained face as I placed my fist on top of hers. We then tapped the backs of our hands and I leaned in and hugged her tight.

"Max," I whispered as fresh tears rolled down my cheeks. I still couldn't believe that she was here.

"It's ok, Gazzy," she murmured ruffling my hair the way she used to. "It's all ok."

Max POV (FINALLY!!!!!!!)

I had spent a week and a half in this hell-hole all by myself. I was starting to go insane from staring at the same things every day here. The white coats didn't bother experimenting on me, I guess that I just wasn't important enough to waste their time on, they didn't even open the freaking door! They would open a slot in the bottom of the door and slide a tray in with some food and water on it. For the whole time that I was here there were only two positive things running through my mind.

1) I wasn't in a freaking dog crate! They had actually given me a whole room to myself, which was very small and cramped by the way. Although I think that giving me a room was a huge step up for them though!

2) My family was safe.

And that was all of the happy thinking that I had been doing lately!

I was extremely happy when they opened the door because it was something new from their daily routine. And when Gazzy was thrown in I wasn't sure whether to be happy or sad. On the up side, I had someone to talk to in this mad house! And on the down side, I never wanted to see any of my family in this place again.

Gazzy told me about what had happened in the past week with me gone. About how my mom and sister were distressed about me 'dying,' about how quiet Nudge had been lately, this sent me into shock, about Angel having nightmares all the time, almost the same as the ones that he had been having, about Iggy not paying attention to where he was going and walking into things, then him swearing under his breath (I was going to talk to him about that later, if I ever saw them again), and about Fang disappearing for hours on end and being so quiet that not even Iggy could hear him. I couldn't believe that things had gotten this bad. The flock had obviously been a nervous wreck without me there. It made me feel.......... needed.

After he had finished explaining, there was silence, which was followed by one of Gazzy's signature noises. I covered my mouth with one hand and waved the air with the other.

"Ugh, Gazzy!" I exclaimed. The only one disadvanteage to being in a room with that kid! He just smiled that ever so cheeky grin of his that made me reach out and ruffle his hair.

I watched as Gaz shuffled uncomfortably against the door, the way he did when he was hiding something. My eyes narrowed suspiciously.

"Is there something that you're not telling my Gaz?" I asked sceptically.

"Umm.........." He sounded like he wasn't sure if he should tell me or not, but I wasn't in the mood.

"Come on Gazzy! This is me you're talking to, spill."

"Ok," he said with a sigh. "After I had been taken, they put me in the corner of the truck with a bag over my head so that I couldn't see. We had driven for about ten minutes when I heard the sound of the door being thrown open and the sound of wings flapping." He looked away from me and stared at the ground as if he was concentrating hard. Had the flock tried to rescue him?

"And............................?" I coaxed.

"I heard a gunshot, and then Nudge screaming, and then another gunshot and then.............maybe Iggy? I'm not sure if it was him. It sounded like him and he sounded like he was in pain. What if......." I cut him off.

"No, Gazzy. I am sure that they are fine," I said as I put my arm around his shoulders.

I knew that they were.

Nudge POV:

When Fang and Angel had gotten ready, the four of us opened up the window to Fangs room and jumped out. Iggy and I had already packed our backpacks with some food and stuff that we would need for the journey. We had also left a note for Dr. Martinez because we hadn't told her that we were leaving to today. She wanted Iggy and Fang to rest a bit longer but we didn't want to leave Gazzy for too long either. So, in the end, we had chosen today to leave.

I looked over at Fang who was behind all of us, flying a bit awkwardly. I could tell that his wing hurt quite a lot by the way that he was flying. I slowed down and flew beside him, the tips of our wings almost touching.

"Are you ok?" I asked him, feeling concerned. We still had quite a bit of flying ahead of us and I wasn't sure if he could make it.

He just nodded and flew a bit ahead. He took the lead, followed by Iggy, then Angel, then Total and then me.

I just enjoyed the moment; all of us flying together again, even if it wasn't really all of us.... I was hoping that Gazzy was ok; I knew that the same thing was probably going through everyone else's minds too. We knew that the school had wanted us to be 'retired,' for a while now, so there was a possibility that they might want us dead. I needed to voice this question before my head exploded! I flew ahead until I was flying next to the group.

"Guys, do you think that Gazzy's alright? I mean, the school has wanted us dead for a long time now and I was just wondering if you were curious about what was happening, like I was. 'Cause I didn't want to be the only one with this question on my mind, you know? I would feel weird if I was because even though I am weird and stuff I-" I was cut off by Iggy placing a hand over my mouth.

"We all feel that way Nudge," he said with a sigh. "And we don't know what has happened to Gazzy, we'll just have to wait and see." He took his hand from my mouth and we flew in silence once more, until Fang cried out in pain.

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