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Chapter 5

A bird outside chirped noisily, waking Max up. It has been almost a week since Lucas and Isabella were born. The Flock loves the kids, and have been holding the newborns pretty much the whole time. Nudge has helped with changing the dipper multiple times, Gazzy has fed Lucas. Gazzy has also bonded with Lucas, calling him "the younger brother he never had". Ella has attached herself to Max's side; she is always making sure that Max is 100% comfortable. Iggy has been keeping Dylan busy, so he can't bother Max too much. Star has been helping with feeding and vomit duty. She helps clean up the kids when their meal goes north instead of south. Holden just stands by for damage control. Kate and Ratchet run to the store when they are low on supplies; such as diapers, formula, wipes. Fang and Maya are usually off somewhere alone.

Max hasn't flown since the kids have been born and she has been itching to get airborne. Dylan was so cautious when she was pregnant with the twins, now he just is over protective. He wouldn't let her even stretch out her wings at the office. Max planned to go flying after dinner, to feel the warm sun on her outstretched wings. That is, if Dylan would even let her.

"Oh great… Star! I need your help, Isa threw up again!" Nudge was holding Isabella (Isa for short) at arms length. A yellow liquid was running down the front of her shirt. Star ran in, and had Isabella out of Nudge's arms before she could finish the sentence. Star ran toward the bathroom, going through the same process that she goes through every time a kid throws up. She quickly stripped Isabella down to her diaper; put the freshly-puked-on clothes in the hamper; and then proceeded to washing Isabella down with a warm washcloth. Nudge went to her room and changed shirts, not bothering to close the door.

Gazzy was walking by, to put Lucas down for a nap when he saw Nudge walking around in just a bra.

"Um, Nudge." Nudge turned around. Still oblivious to the fact that she was standing only in a pair of shorts and a hot pink bra.

"Ya," she faced him.

"Where's your shirt?" Gazzy asked with a smirk on his face, pointing at Nudges hot pink bra.

"My shirt? It's right- Gazzy!" She quickly slammed the door in his face. The impact almost woke Lucas up. Gazzy walked off shushing Lucas back to sleep.

Isabella went to sleep shortly after her brother did, and Star set them next to each other in the crib. After the two littlest ones were asleep, Trixy and Calen were starting to doze off. They were playing with Ratchet and Holden, when Calen took a huge yawn. Ratchet then took him to a bed room and laid him down on the bed. Kate took Trixy and put her on her bed.

It was really boring without any kids to watch or play with, so the Flock (plus Fang's Flock) settled down to watch some TV. It was about 3 o'clock in the afternoon by now, so Max went out to go stretch her wings. Once she was outside she unfurled her wings and gave a few experimental flaps. She was glad to be alone for a few minutes. Now days she is watched and monitored closely. The afternoon sun filled the air filled pores in her wings making them feel like heaven. All of a sudden the need to fly was so unbearable that she took a few running step before launching into the air. Without any kids inside her, she felt as if she were flying like old times, except she wasn't running for her life.

She rocketed up into the clouds, and soared on top of them. Loving the way the wind felt around her. She couldn't believe how she was able to go all this time without flying. She flew in and out of clouds, getting wet in the process. She did swoops and dives as she flew in circles. Nearing the end of her flight she let out a big "WOOHOO!" as she folded her wings and started to free fall down the ground bellow. She felt her heart racing in her chest as the ground came closer into view.

Right before she could splat against the grass, she unfurled her wings and shot strait up again. A smile was permanently etched onto her face as she circled around in the sky. Her wings were starting to hurt, a result from a good exercises, so she decided to head back to the house. She slowly descended back to the ground.

Once her feet were firmly planted on the ground, Max took a deep breath. She felt the beads of sweat start to form on the edge of her hair line, and she started to feel the slow ache of muscles after a workout. She felt whole again, before she felt as if a part of her was missing, now that she flew, she felt whole again.

"Mommy, you flew!" Trixy squealed as she rushed forward and gave Max a hug. "You were amazing!" Max turned around to see everyone standing on the porch. They have been watching her fly for the past 15 minutes. Ella had a look of pure awe on her face, Star and Kate matched it. Holden eyes were as big as saucers, and Ratchet looked bored. Nudge and Gazzy had a look like she-can-still-fly-like-that! Dylan had the lovey-dovey look in his eyes that said yes-I-married-her. Fang was starring at her outstretched wings as if he has never seen them before. Maya looked furious and dumbfounded at the same time. Total was looking proudly at Max, and Akila didn't look at Max in any special way. The only person who didn't seem fazed by Max's amazing flying was the only blind one, Iggy.

"Can someone tell me what she did? Please," Iggy was begging to know what had just happed. When no one answered his plea, he let out an exasperated sigh and went back into the house. Ella was able to pull her gaze from Max long enough to run after her boyfriend.

"Max, I didn't know you could still fly like that. Hell, I can't do any tricks anymore." Gazzy was still looking at her with that sort of awe look.

"When was the last time you flew like that?" Asked Nudge.

"Oh I don't know, a few weeks or so before I became pregnant with Lucas and Isabella.

"Wow…" replied Nudge and Gazzy. They walked back into the house, in sort of a daze. Dylan walked over to Max and whispered in her ear how wonderful she is and took the kids hands and led them inside.

Kate, Star, Holden, and Ratchet all commented on her flying, and then went inside for dinner.

Maya and Fang were the only two still outside with Max.

Maya was the first to speak.

"Max I want to apologize for my behavior a few days ago. It was rude of me to attack your husband. Please forgive me." Maya is supposed to be Max's clone, and Max usually never apologizes. Max realizing that Maya apologized, she accepted the apology.

Maya left Max and Fang alone in the front yard.

Big mistake.

"You still fly okay." Fang said after a few minutes of silence.

"Okay? Let's see you be pregnant for 9 month not being able to fly. I did more than 'okay'."

"Fine, you did well, but you have lost some of your edge." Fang was critiquing Max on her flying! Max started to have smoke come out of her ears.

"Well if you're so great, let's see you fly like I did."

"Nah, I'm too tired. Plus I don't want to hurt your ego by out flying you." That did it. Max lunged at Fang and was able to pin him down without him even being able to blink.

"HA! Obviously you lost your fighting edge. I guess I'm better at two things; flying and fighting." She released Fang from her hold.

"You do realize you're still pretty hot when you get an ego boost." Max stopped short for a moment.

"What did you say?"

"Well not as sexy as Maya, damn that girl has some moves, but you still are pretty hot." Wait, was he critiquing her body? Max blushed.

"You did not just say my clone is sexy, and I'm not. We are exactly alike!"

"No, I don't think you are exactly alike. Maya at least let me have sex with her after we started to go out. You only had interests in kissing me. So obviously she is a better person all together."

"You did not just rank Maya above me because she slept with you!"

"I kinda did. She listens more than you. All you seemed to care about when we were dating was "save the world" and "protect the humans", you never seemed to care about me. You always did the talking; you never asked how I felt, or what I was thinking about. It was always about you."

"When we were dating the world was in danger! People could have died if we didn't take action. Many people did die. Remember Paris, remember how Angel died. Or how hundreds of people could have died."

"Maybe if you listened to me that day, Angel could still be alive. She could be your little girl and all." Max stopped breathing for a moment.

"D-d-did you just say I'm the reason why Angel is dead! She died to save all those people! Her death was tragic and horrible! If anyone, it's you to blame! You could have saved her! Instead you had to make sure the rest of us were out, we would have gotten out just fine! And now you dare tell me that Angel's death is on my hands! You Fucking Bustard!" Max couldn't take it anymore; instead of attacking she launched herself into the air, without even a running start. Fang followed closely behind.

Max sensed that Fang was close behind, so she angled her wings and shot off. She hasn't flown this face in a while. And she knew that he wouldn't be able to keep up. She flew for about five minutes before resting on a ledge in a canyon.

Fang landed right beside her.

"This conversation isn't done."

"Oh yes it is! I don't want to see your damn face ever again. Leave me alone, Fang! Just go away." Max tried to fly away but ended up, having her foot grabbed by Fang. Fang gave a slight tug, and pulled Max down.

"You know you don't mean that. You love me too much." He gave her a cocky grin.

"Fang, I have a husband, and four children waiting for me back at the house. I don't love you. Maya loves you, and you love Maya. Go back to her."

"Kiss me."

"What?!"

"Kiss me, just one kiss Max. That's all I ask." Then Fang started to lean toward Max. Max reared back and punched him in the jaw. "What the-"

Max then did a curved kick and sent him sprawled out on the floor.

"Don't you dare ever ask me to kiss you again! If you do, I will tell Dylan. And then you will have a very pissed off husband on your hands." With that she rocketed off into the setting sun.

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