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Fang's POV.
I woke with a start the next day. I sat up, stretching, and yawned.
"Good morning."
I looked over to Iggy. "When did you wake up?" I asked.
"Not to long ago." He motioned towards Max. "She was moving like crazy in her sleep. Muttering and rolling around and kicking out and stuff. I tried to wake her up but I couldn't."
I went over to where Max was not in a foetal position on the ground. I touched her arm gently.
"Max…." I said, shaking her arm slightly. "Max?" I said louder. "Max!" I yelled. She still didn't wake up.
Pure horror shot through me like an electric shot.
Iggy was next to me. "Max!" He shouted as loud as he could.
I grabbed her arm roughly and rolled her over onto her back.
I gasped.
She was so pale…. And her cheekbones were more prominent than usual, her face seeming like it had stuck out, and the sight of it sort of reminded me of a skull.
I turned over her wrist and jammed two fingers onto it, feeling for her pulse. I couldn't find it.
"Oh my god Iggy I can't find her pulse!" My voice rose to a shout.
"Here here let me!" He said, shoving me out of the way.
I held my breath as he felt, his face a picture of utter concentration.
"Oh my god I found it." The words came out in a rush, like he'd been holding his breath.
"It's so weak, I can barely feel it, but it's there." He said.
"We've got to get her to Dr Martinez! She'll know what to do!" I said, picking up Max and emerging out of the cave, and diving off the cliff edge. She was so light, it worried me. She'd always been really thin, but never like this.
I hoped to God that she'd be ok.
Max POV.
I slowly came back to consciousness. My thoughts were muddled, and I couldn't move. I slowly became aware that I wasn't lying on anything, and that it sort of felt like I was flying.
I opened my eyes a crack, and the sunlight scorched my eyes, making me squeeze them shut. I opened them again, bearing the sunlight, and I could just make up Fang's form above me.
"Fang…." I said weakly. He looked down at me quickly, his face a picture of utter concern.
"Oh thank God Max. We're taking you to Dr Martinez's house. She'll make you better." He said.
I yawned massively.
"Why am I so tired?" I said. My voice….. I sounded so frail. I felt frail, like one particularly strong gust of wind would snap me in half.
"I don't know Max. Just hold on, we'll be there soon."
My eyes suddenly started to drift shut. My fevered thoughts started slowing down, and I felt the world spinning around me.
All of a sudden my eyes flew wide open.
One word had drifted through my brain, and I'd clung to it, trying to remember how it had got there.
Then I remembered.
Jason.
Fang's POV A/N: I will get some of Iggy's point of view, but I haven't really got round to it yet,
I could see she was drifting off and it worried me. I tried to fly faster, cursing the fact I didn't have super speed like Max.
Suddenly her eyes flew wide open, and she made a noise.
"Jason." She whispered.
"Who?" I said back, wondering if she was hallucinating or something.
"Jason. We left him." She sounded so distraught, and I wondered why. And then I remembered, and my heart sank.
We left him. He thought.
"Jason." Her voice rose. "We have to get him now Fang!" She started shouting.
I couldn't believe we'd left that little kid there, all on his own. It was my fault. Max had been out of it because of her pain, and Iggy was blind.
I should have seen him go.
There were no words to describe how awful I felt. I thought of that little boy, all on his own, facing the wrath of the whitecoats. I remembered what they'd done to me when I was that age, and pure fear went through me. But we couldn't save him now.
If I went and got him now, Max would die.
I couldn't let that happen.
"Jason!" she shouted, raising her arms and hitting me weakly. "We have to go get him!" Her voice got weaker with every word. She sounded so frail.
Iggy pulled up beside me.
"Who's Jason?"
"That little boy. He ran off and we forgot about him. He's still at the school."
"Oh my God." Iggy said. During the short silence, I'm sure he was remembering his childhood at the school like me.
The silence carried on, and I realised Max had passed out.
"We've got to save Max, Ig. Then we'll get him." I said. I didn't know why I cared so much about this little boy, but I just did.
He nodded just as I recognised Dr Martinez's house below us.
"Here it is!" I yelled, and soared down.
Jason POV.
Footsteps echoed down the corridor to the room he was in. Panic started to rise up in him, and he was terrified all over again.
"Come over here." She said. He numbly made his way over to the corner she was in.
She grabbed his shoulders. Her touch stung, and he hissed as she turned him around and wrapped her wings around him just as a bunch of white coats accompanied by Erasers burst into the room.
"They can't see us." She said calmly. "Or hear us."
"Why?" He whispered, not quite believing her.
"When I wrap my wings around you, you're hidden." She said. "I don't know how it works."
"What are you?" He asked her quietly when the white coats had gone. She let him go and he stumbled out of her grasp, turning to face her as he did.
"I'm just like you." She said, staring into his eyes as she said her next sentence, one which chilled him to the bone.
"Only I'm dead." She stated.
DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNNNN! So guys, how'd you like that chapter? REMEMBER: IF I GET 4 OR MORE REVIEWS, I'LL POST TWO LONG CHAPTERS IN ONE NIGHT.
Just a few questions:
1: Was this chapter better, worse or the same? (than the last one)
2: Was it to long, to short or just fine?
3: What's happening with Jason? See if you can guess. I'll shout out to you in the next chapter if you guess it right.
Fly on – Raven.