We are in the field now. Ig at one goal, Nudge at the other. Bella apparently is unstable on ground, so we let her not play. This making it uneven, Edward is sitting with her, a frustrated look still on his face. Em, as I know call him, explained the rules, amazed that we had no idea how to play. He thinks that it will be easy now, because two of the girls don't know how to play, and the other is, well, a girl. The thing that he doesn't know is, we learn amazingly fast.
Fang and I are standing in the middle, a meter apart. Edward has the ball in his hand. He has to toss it and we but for it. I got to get it over Fang's head. Easy. Edward tosses the ball and in the same split second Fang and I both jump for it. A touch higher then normal. But let's hope they won't notice. But what Fang will notice, is I moved the ball with my power, closer to me. "Cheater!" He growls out as I head butt it.
"Sucker!" I reply as Fang tackles me to the ground. I jump up and run for the ball as Rose passes it. This is the hard part. Ig doesn't go by sight, but sound. Em blocks my way, but I easily dodge him. I kick it to Rose, who tries to head butt it into the goal. Ig gets it.
He throws it half way over the oval in an easy toss. Rushing after it, I have Em and Rose on my tail. When the ball is still a few meters in the air Fang kicks it at Nudge. Can we say miss! "Max!" She calls. I give her a nod and start back the other way. Em and Rose look confused while Fang stays where he is. In the middle. She gives it a toss and I jump for it at the same time as Fang. He starts flickering in and out of view. Effectively distracting me. He starts for our goal again, but I tackle him to the ground.
"Cheater!" I growl. I don't even care if the others saw. We both jump up off the ground, ball between us. I don't ever play fairly. I strike first, aiming a roundhouse kick for his chest. It hits and the air rushes out of him. I dodge a strike to the stomach, but not the second one.
Sorry Max. The voice suddenly feels like putting in. Fang jumps up with his foot. What was Jeb ta-
An earth-shattering scream rips through the air and my knees buckle. Fang's foot doesn't connect, but instead his arms catch me. Locking my jaw and bawling my fists I turn my head into Fang's chest. Pushing my teeth together, I try to block out another scream. Doesn't work.
"What's wrong with her?" I vaguely register Emmett asking. Pictures, photos and films start flashing through my head at a million miles an hour. I take in each one, remembering it and catching things I need. Erasers. Needles. Pale people.
"She will be fine in a second. Get the kids Krystal." Fang's voice says back, sounding like a whisper. "Hold on baby." He coos into my ear. The next thing that flashes through my mind confuses me. Erasers, but they don't look it. Nowhere near. The white coats make me shiver, the needles; whimper. Then I see something I haven't seen in so long. A picture I didn't need to ever see again.
"No!" I scream out, as a picture of Angel and Gaz, both strapped to metal tables, stays for longer then needed. We saved them just before it happened. A second before. But as great as this was, they still had cuts and bruises covering their whole body. Malnutrition from not eating for just half a week and broken bones. Blood covering their wings.
"Max!" Come's a scream and then a sob. My baby. The mind breaking throbbing starts to dim. Leaning back I feel Fangs chest, grass on my legs from where I am sitting across his lap. He wipes away some tears that have fallen, but not many have. Pain is so common these days that only the very worse hurt.
"Max, what was it?" Nudge says as my eyes open feeling like dead weight. Four other people stand around us not including the flock. The pain completely disappears and I notice two feather light touches in my brain. Two! Where the hell did the first come from!?
'Angel, out!' I scream in my mind. She hides the wince and gives me a sheepish grin. I throw my mind barriers up, but not before noticing Edward wince also. Oh shit. They can't be, right?
"Max?" Ig's concerned voice comes. "You ok?" Oh right, blind. Forgot for a second. Must be wondering what the silence was for.
"Yeah, just had an Angel invade me." I say sarcastically. He chuckles, but the rest of the group starts laughing. That is, until I tell. "Where moving." That shuts them up. I can see the disappointment on each of their faces, but also understanding.
"How long?" Comes Gaz's small voice. Suddenly something starts shoving at the mind barriers. Gritting my teeth I push back and glare at Edward. He seems stunned and it stops.
"Half a week." I say, not taking my eye of Edward. How do I know how long? As much as I hated it, the last thing I saw told me. It showed my two youngest when they had been captured for half a week. That is how I tell. The first one was saying whom. Erasers. The next what, needles. Experiments. Not extermination this time. "Sweetie." I say looking at Angel. She gives a brief nod and closes her eyes in concentration. I follow.
"Shit." Mumbles Fang as I open my mind and let what I saw flood. He pulls me closer on instinct as the needles show. Port Angeles as the sign says, flashes by. Where. A flood of buildings flows through before changing to people. Experiments. Numbers as we are called by. This time I see what we say in New York. We have to save them. The ones they got. Before it's to late. The last picture shows up and abruptly stops.
"Glad I'm blind." Ig mumbles. The four people's attention zooms onto Ig. Oh right, they wouldn't have known. It didn't really get around school.
"Your blind!" Booms Emmett with shock.
"Slow much." Nudge starts off, sarcastically. "Can we go! Those poor babies. We have to get to them before-" She gets cut off again my Ig's hand. She was about to say way, way too much.
"Time to go!" I announce enthusiastically, jumping of the ground with ease. Trust me, I know how we move. It looks like we are walking on air pretty much. Thank god I am not a klutz. How would I fight if I couldn't walk?
The rest of the flock jump up as I start off for the direction of home. "Wait!" Comes from Edward as he grabs my wrist. Acting on instinct, as I often do, I twirl around and using that added force too, lunge my fist at his jaw faster then a blur. He stumbles back, about to fall, but Emmett catches him. The pain also catches me.
"Dammit!" I scream, looking at my hand and my very much few broken knuckles and fingers. "What the hell are you made off!" I mouth off. Ig, having heard the crunch rushes over and gently grabs my hand. He starts setting the bones, his sightless eyes on the task ahead.
"You're like Omega!" Screams Gaz in fascination. True, only Omega has broken my hand with a punch to the face. I got him good though. Edward stands back up, eyes wide.
"Omega is the twenty forth letter in the Greek alphabet. That is not I." Edward says, rubbing his jaw. Great, I get a break and he gets lucky. Arse hole. Angel let's out a giggle.
'Out!' I scream at her in frustration.
'Sorry Max,' She replies. This doesn't seem to have missed Edwards's attention as he stares between us. He steps toward us as Ig pulls one of my fingers, earning a nice loud crack as he snapped a bone that regrew to fast. Certain bones grow incredibly fast for us, while others take a few days. Fingers take a few minutes at most.
"What are you?" Rosalie asks, staring at my hand that is still being reworked. Another crack echoes around. This might scare some people, but we have seen this done to many times. As our bones grew quicker we had to start snapping them, because they grew wrong. So if we broke a hand during a fight we couldn't fix it, or if while captured we broke an arm, we had to remodel it later on. There is no such thing as pain.
"More like, what are you?" Fang shoots back, giving a harsh glare at Edward. Edward just stares at us with an innocent look that I won't buy for a second. Neither will the flock. "You tried to read my mind you dimwit!" Snarl's Fang.
"Done Max." Ig says as he moves away and puts his arms around Nudge protectively. Fang comes to me as I shake out my hand. All healed.
"Max, what are vampires?"
