Yay-long chappie –smiles-

That almost came out as long crappie in spell check. LOL

Anywaiiz.

Not much to say here but please peoples, i need a name for the human-wannabes.

And thanks to my reviewers.

Disclaimer: Refer to previous chappies.

Chapter 7:

Max POV:

I've said this before and I'll say it again. Thank God for annoying little brothers. I did not want to go through that again with Fang and Gazzy saved me. Even if we had to go shopping. Besides, I needed a new bag.

'Okay guys, we're going shopping. We need new clothes, I need a new bag and we can restock on some food.'

Getting up, I walked away from Fang. Without looking back. Probably leaving him pissed again.

We arrived at the shopping mall, which of course, had half of France's population in it. Yeah, we were in France now. The whole, blink and you missed Belgium thing. Iggy was looking nervous; his shoulder was touching Gazzy's as he memorized his way. I was walking next to Fang with Angel holding my left hand and Nudge holding Fang's right.

Fang thinks he feels like your husband.Oh God. Angel. I immediately tensed up and inched away from Fang. He looked up and gave me a lopsided grin and my breath caught in my throat. Looking down, my face heated.

This was going to be a long shopping trip.

Iggy and Gazzy POV

'Dude' Iggy said. He was feeling tense because the shopping mall was crowded but he was still enjoying not running for his life.

'Yeah?' Gazzy replied. Gazzy was enjoying it too. Then again it was his idea.

'Can you feel the tension?'

'What tension?'

'Sexual tension you idiot. Fang and Max, it's taking all they've got not to jump on each other.' God. Fang and Max. The two stubbornnest, most paranoid, pessimistic freaks in the world. Neither would admit they were crazy about the other so they were going to spend the rest of their lives avoiding the subject and each other.

'Yeah. Look at them. They're fully tense. And look at Max. Wow, she blushed. I've never seen her blush before.' If Fang had that effect on her, Gazzy didn't think it would be too long before something happened. Something big.

Two human-wannabes strolled into the shopping mall.

That was not what he meant.

Max POV

Crap. Major Crap. Two human-wannabes. Hooray for us. We managed to avoid them for all of two hours. This is what I meant by as soon as we'd touch the ground they'd be onto us.

'U &A guys, we haven't got much of a chance against them one on one and I don't want our pyros to blow up the mall. If the sliding doors don't open in time fly through them.'

One by one, we snapped out our wings and took to the air, not even needing a running start. Sure enough, the sliding doors didn't open. We flew through them. Guess they were only designed to withstand regular humans.

Now we were hunkered down in a cave eating roasted stuff. I won't bore you with the details.

Maximum. Oh hooray. I don't think I mentioned that I was relaxing. Well, I was relaxing.

Maximum, You have to explain the situation to Fang. Tell him that you have to go to Itex in Italy and release the experiments then blow up the building.

Why should I listen to you? Of course, resident Voice didn't answer. He liked to do things the hard way.

'Max?' Fang's exasperated voice snapped me out of my Voice-induced reverie.

'What?' I asked him testily.

'I was talking to you.'

'Well my voice was talking to me.' How strange does that sound? I was immediately defensive.

'I've put the kids to bed. But you looked like you wanted to talk to me earlier.' See what I mean by he knows me better than I know myself.

'Um, yeah. We have to go back.' I confronted. Little Miss Tactful, that's me. Silence from Mr. Unemotional over there. I went on. 'The voice said there's a new director and she's gonna wipe the world and just leave whitecoats'. And it's as simple as that.

'Max, we can't leave, the kids deserve a break.' Whoa, two sentences, the world must be ending. Oh wait. It was. Not the point.

'What? So we just leave and let them kill everyone.'

He snorted. 'No, I'm just saying wait a bit. His endless patience finally drove me over the fine line that I have between mild pissed off-ness and fury.

'Oh, so we just kick back and relax, send the whitecoats an email telling them to put off ruling the world for a couple of weeks.' I snapped. 'Not that they'll agree, so we'll be chilling on a tropical island somewhere, drinking coconut milk while the rest of the world is dying because you wanted to take a break.'

Before, our voices had been low, to not give away our position. Now we were shouting at each other. Too mad to care. My words dripped with sarcasm. Jerk! How could he just undermine me like that? He used to back me up, no matter what. My absolute total best friend, even if everyone else disagreed I could count on him. Lately we'd been drifting further apart, especially since the flock had gotten back together.

Fang was shouting now. I don't think he cared that we'd woken the flock up. Angel was sobbing into Nudge's side, Iggy was looking sad and my Gasman was trying to look brave but had tears rolling down his cheeks. Suddenly, I hated Fang for making them feel like this.

'How can you keep doing this? Yeah, your voice wants you to save the world, but have you thought about us, about how we feel. Not that we have feelings of course. To you, we're just robots. Like you'd care.'

Nudge gasped at that.

I just gaped. My mouth dropped open, as my heart was ripped apart. I flew at him and hit him hard across the cheek. I barely registered the shock in his eyes, and I was pushing him against the cave wall, snarling. I didn't now what I was doing. Wait, yes I did.

I was kissing him, hard.

Fang POV:

She was kissing him. But it wasn't tender. Or even passionate. It was angry. He could feel her fury. Oh Jeez. Her lips were pressing against his with bruising pressure and his knees nearly buckled. It was all he could do to stop himself shaking with desire. Something changed right them. The kiss turned tender and her lips began moving against his hesitantly.

Max POV:

He was kissing me back. After that I lost all course of thought. Thoroughly distracted. This was Fang. My best friend. He swept his tongue against my bottom lip gently, rubbing softly, asking for entrance. I was practically vibrating with pleasure and I could feel Fang shaking against me. His hands were flat on my back, thumbs rubbing gentle circles while my hands tangled in his hair. My tongue rose to meet his and I actually sighed. Finally we broke apart, breathing raggedly. I stared into his eyes and saw an emotion I'd never seen there before. But I didn't want to think about it yet. 'Cause I knew that when I did, I would leave. So, when he leaned down and captured my lips again, I didn't stop him.

Fang POV:

He kissed her again. This kiss was more tender and soft. A thousand feelings behind it. He poured out his emotions into her, years of holding back waiting for this moment. Passion, longing, desire for forgiveness and love. But when he pulled back he saw pain in her eyes. A tear rolled down her cheek and she whirled, jumped out of the cave, her beautiful dappled wings lifting her up, before she even hit the ground.

She took his heart with her.