First off thank you to all of y'll for being so patient its just that school has been terrible the past few days! Oh and I stayed up till two in the morning to finish this! Whoo I had such a sugar rush! And I love y'alls comments and suggestions (skye holloweenbabe) Sorry if Imisspelled your names their I am to lazy to look at my emails and see how to spell them. And lets hear a big cheer for my awesome editer SRSTAR8 load roar from an invisble crowd goes up Luv you Bubbles (srstar8) You so rock!! O:-.)

I was slowly coming back into conciesness There was a warm familiar furry body sitting right on top of me. Lucky. He was growling. Why was that? Tentatively without opening my eyes I let myself become aware of my surroundings . I was aware of voices. Ha! So they were trying to reason with Lucky where they? No way was he going to move so they could get to me. So stupid!

"Come on Lucky move boy we have to help Max. Please move." Lucky's growl became deeper and more threatening.

"This is stupid we're talking to a dog!" that was Iggy.

"We talked to Total!" Angels voice was defensive.

"Total could talk Angel." Fangs voice came a little closer then the rest that's probably why Lucky was growling so much.

Ugh okay enough of this. Opening my eyes I turned my head towards them. Fangs hand which had a blood soaked cloth over it courtesy of Lucky was near my head. As hard as I tried to repress it my old habit of worrying about the flock came back and I wondered ow hard he's been bit. "Mmm... Lucky how long have I been out?" Without turning his head Lucky responded, "2 hours is all." They all gasped well excluding Fang, but I wasn't really expecting anything out of him. You think they would have saw that coming I mean they had a flying talking dog. I nodded Lucky shifted off of me and I stood up shakily.

"Max maybe you shouldn't stand yet you just woke up." I ignored Iggy and stretched.

"Well that was a fun reunion and all that, but I must be going now see you at the next one in four years" I waved my hand jauntily in goodbye. I turned around looking for a spot that looked good to take off. Picking a ring of trees not to far away I started running. Then something hit me from the side for the third freakin time in two days!

I hit the ground with a grunt, "Ugh what is this see how many times you can tackled Max?!" Oh joy Fang was on top of me, and he was squishing Lucky who did not enjoy that. Lucky slided out from between us.

"No you are not leaving until we talk." his face was real close to mine and I struggled. Unfortunately the scientist didn't think to make me stronger than Fang so I had to put up with this. Fang had both of my hands pinned above my head and his body was pressed up against mine pinning it to the ground. My struggle was there for in vain. Wow some fancy language there!

"And why would I want to talk? There was so much of that last night I'm worn out from talking actually."

"If you don't come with us I'll just have to force you to come." He smirked down at me.

"You wouldn't dare." I knew where this was going.

Fang stood up picking me up in the same movement and threw me over his shoulder my waist bending at the shoulder.

"Put me down now." My voice sounded threatening.. He kept on walking as if he hadn't heard me. I snarled at him. He didn't even flinch. Seeing that threatening noises weren't going to help anything I quickly revised my escape plan. Suddenly my feet lit on my fire. Hey he couldn't see my hands! Fang yelped and let go of me quickly. Letting me fall on my face in the dirt. If thats not gallantry I don't know what is! Its a good thing I don't have shoes or they would probably be gone by now. I thought with a grim laugh. My feet lit the little bits of grass around me. Walking forward the sparks from my feet were jumping in every which way making them seem like tiny explosions or fireworks seeing as they were multicolored..

"Don't ever try that again. You have no claim to me I am my own person. If I don't want to talk to you I won't. If I don't want to be near you I won't." my face was a few inches from Fang's now I didn't take notice I was too filled with anger. Fangs hands shot out and wrapped themselves around my shoulders. The fire that was at my feet shot up towards my arms where his hands were.

The more I struggled the tighter he held me. I looked into his chocolate eyes and felt a rush of calmness go over me. It was a lot like the feeling I got when we used to keep watch together just sitting in silence occasionaly broken by a whispered word. Wait no! I was angry at him! I tried to move or even look away but his hands and eyes held me captive. The calmness was rushing over me like a tidal wave crushing me and suffocating till it cover me whole. And it wasn't me going calm someone was forcing me to be calm. That is so not cool man. (AN: Sorry had to put that in there I've been saying it all day)There was a rush of light I didn't see around his hand. My fire vanished and my eyelids drooped suddenly threatening to close. My knees buckled out from under me and I fell into Fangs arms. My mind was slowly going into unconsciousness. Distantly I felt Fang lift me up and carry me bridal style.

"Fang she is going to be way mad when she wakes up." Angels voice sounded far away I strained my ears to listen.

"Then we don't tell her I put her to sleep." hmpf I'm not that ignorant.

"So what do we do now?" Came Iggy's voice slightly to the left of angels.

"We find a cave somewhere and when Max wakes up convince her to stay with us."

"You make it sound simple." Iggy's sarcasm had no effect on Fang though.

"It is she wants to stay I can feel it.." hmm he put weird emphasis around feel.

They took off and my last coherent thought was ...I'm so stupid you have a shield that prevents anything from happening to you... Then darkness came and claimed me.

I swam into consiusness slowly ugh why does waking up and falling asleep have to be so slow? The first thing I noticed was that a fire was crackling. That made me feel safe fire was my protector it couldn't hurt me. Opening my eyes I saw that I was close to the fire looking around I saw that I was in a cave a and that I was no where near the entrance. Staring ahead I could see a patch of the sky it was dark and the stars were already starting to show up.

There was a noise behind me and I instantly threw up my shield. Hey im paranoid what can I say? Jumping to my feet I swiftly turned to see where the noise had come from. Fang. Wow Im pathetic every time I see Fang I sigh like a lovesick girl. Seeing that I wasn't in any danger I lowered my shield.

"What is it Fang? I'm finally free of the school can't I have a little peace in my life?" I was exasperated this was so not how I thought my life would be after I left the school.

"Max we need you back." hmm blunt.

"No." two can play at that game.

" Max we need you back. We can barely live without you. Why? Why wont you come back to us we need you so much. Don't say you don't want to come back because I know you do. The way you held Angel when she cried and sang her to sleep.. How you let everyone use you as a pillow. How about when you didn't hurt anyone with that fire you created?" He was looking at me with pleading eyes. Pleading chocolate eyes.

"That proves nothing! If I wanted to come back do you think I would come back because you simply told me that you needed me to? That you want me back to make your lives easier?" My emotions were fighting to grab control over me. I shoved them aside I was in control here.

"Max..." Fang lifted a hand out to me and started walking forward. I backed away like a frightened animal.

"Tell me the truth would you have even given me a second thought if you had not been thrown in that damned cell with me? Would you have even cared if you knew I was at the school? If you were taken by the school I would have found you and broken you out without a second thought about it, and yet you would not even give a thought about it you would just let me rot there!!" I was shouting now I was to pent up with anger to keep it in.

Fang kept moving forward. My back hit the wall I barely took notice of it. Fang kept walking until he was directly in front of me. Fang grabbed my wrists and pinned them above my head like he did early today his whole body was pressed up against mine.

"Max comeone we need you back! Were sorry about what happened."

"You need me?! Well I needed you four years ago! Where were you when I was beaten so badly that I couldn't even scream anymore? Where were you when I needed you the most?! I needed you to come and help me, and you didn't! Where were you when I needed someone to help me?! Don't talk to me about needing people Fang they never come to help."

Surpirsing me Fang brought his head down to mine and lightly pressed his lips to mine. My whole body erupted into flames (not literally)The heat overwhelmed me I felt my self kissing him back without me thinking about it. Fang started kissing harder and deeper. I love you fang.

Realizing what just went through my head I jerked away no he does not love you he told you himself don't let your heart be broken anymore! I felt like going into a corner and crying till the sky turned orange. Fang's lips moved to mine only lightly touching he breathed out, "Butterfly we need you please stay." I remembered when he gave me that name...

Flash back 4 years ago

Fang and I were sitting on a ledge our legs swinging in motion together his arms around my waist my head on his shoulder.

We watched the sunset come up but I wasn't watching it I was watching a brilliant blue butterfly fly gently on a current it came to a lazy stop on my leg that wasn't swinging.

I started thinking about how pretty it was and how free it was. I started laughing at my self I was envious of a little butterfly! You have to be crazy to start envying a butterfly.

Fang rubbed his cheek against my hair, "what so funny max?"

"Im actually jealous of a tiny butterfly its beautiful and free to go wherever the wind blows."

"Your beautiful to Max gorgeous even. Your so much prettier then a butterfly." He placed his hand near the butterfly on my leg and it crawled right on to his hand.

We were silent for a while until he chuckled, "Maybe I should start calling you butterfly now." he pretended to think over the thought even though he already made up his mind.

"I swear if you call me that and we are not in private you will regret it immediately." The butterfly took off from Fangs hand and started fluttering in the wind and it flew off to only it knows where.

Even though it is corny he would always call me butterfly in private and secretly I liked that he had a pet name for me.

Out of flashback

I turned my head to answer him he turned his head with mine not letting me break contact with him.

Realizing what he said I threw up my shield quickly sending him back into the opposite wall I sank to my knees and started crying. Hard. My eyes were closed trying to keep the tears in and I was sobbing and yelling and the same time a wordless yell that no one could hear. My arms were curled around my chest as if that would stop my heart from bursting more.

Fang got up and ran to my protective shell and started hitting it with his fist he was saying something but I had blocked all sound from entering my protective circle. They needed me back they didn't want me I wasn't important they just needed me to make their lives easier so they can dump me later. He's calling me my pet name! How could he be so cruel?

I must have let my shield waver a bit because I could hear Angel telling Fang something even though I couldn't make out the words. I opened my eyes a bit and through my tear filled vision I could see shock and realization cross over his normaly impassive face. Lucky was clawing at my shield he wanted to be near me and able to comfort me. I saw Iggy ushering the others out seeing that Fang and I weren't done yet. I let Lucky through my shield he rushed over to me and laid his head down on my lap I cuddled him to my chest I needed him right now.

"Max.. Please stop crying." how can I still hear his voice? My sobs started to slow until the became sniffles. I couldn't even look up at Fang he must be laughing at me seeing me come to tears out of the blue over nothing. I let the sound around me return to my ears. I heard the sound of the fires crackling it made me feel much calmer then I could manage on my own.

"Max..." I turned my body in the direction of Fangs voice but refused to look at him.

"Max... Butterfly we want you back. Yes we need you but we also want you too. Please comeback to us." I looked up at Fang trying to see any deception in his words

I was confused now. Do I stay and wait for them to hurt me? Do I let them back in after everything? Do I guard my heart and go live my life wherever doing whatever? Would I regret that? Do I want to stay? Do I let Fang's kiss mean something?

All those thoughts went threw my head as I tried to see some kind of truth or lie in his beautiful face...

To be continued...

Okay so the reason I chose Maxs nickname to be Butterfly because on the cover of the first book her wings look more like a butterflys then a hawks.