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Nothing Like This- Chapter 5 (Talking With Fang)

MAX POV

It was a little before noon and the kids were outside playing 'air tag'. Fang turned to me, from our place by the front window, over looking the flock, to ask me, "So, what did you leave out? Cause you left out some stuff. I can tell." "Well," I remarked sarcastically. "You sure are glad to see me alive and well!" Fang just scoffed at me and retorted with, "You've been hiding your arms. Why? What did they do to you?"

I reluctantly shed my jacket. First, I spread my aching wings out for a moment before holding out my arms. I made sure my left wrist was facing down, so he wouldn't see the scar on it. I hear him slightly gasp as he traced the random scars lightly. It normally wouldn't have hurt, because it's just a scar, but my skin was burnt and flaky so I winced in pain. Fang noticed and grabbed my wrists. I squirmed as he held my left wrist…mistake #1. He then turned over my wrists…mistake #2.

He dropped my right arm and, as he held my left, he examined the scar there, which was still caked in dry blood, motioning to him that it was fairly recent. "You said you wouldn't Max!!!" he nearly whined. I, still in shock with his tone, plainly stated, "I didn't, Jeb and some whitecoats did it." "What?" Fang's eyes widened a fraction of an inch, which is confusion or surprise in Fang-emotions. "Why?"

"Jeb yelled at me, he had this whole, like, prepared speech about how I "failed the test" and how I truly am not the "perfect experiment" he thought I would be. He told me about how he is giving Max II the destiny and how he would use me for "experimental purposes". So, I went through the same experiments as last time, as well as some newer ones…" I faded out, my eyes tearing up. Fang could tell this was a hard subject for me so he brought me over to the couch and wrapped his arm around my shoulders. "What newer ones?" he slowly and quietly asked.

"Well," I slowly and reluctantly started. "There was Fire, Ice, and Water therapy. Basically to see how long I could stand a certain temperature range, and with what side effects. They ran 'speed tests'; to see how fast I could fly. And the mazes, the hot coils are all along the entire maze, and they were hotter and…" I continued on and on for the next 5 minutes, telling Fang about the more difficult mazes, and the different mental and physical tests they performed. As I continued, I gained more confidence, glad to be able to get it all out. But, I was so into the moment that I couldn't help but say, "So, once, Jeb came to talk to me, but Ari, in human form, was with him. He kept looking at me slyly and it freaked me out. Jeb told me about how they wanted to try breeding different experiments and that Ari I were the test subjects. So…" I immediately paused; I wasn't supposed to say that, uh-oh!

Fang pulled back, staring at me incredulously. "Those ignoramus imbeciles did what to you?!?!" I shook my head vigorously saying "Ari tried to come at me but while Jeb left the room, I slipped by and that's how I truly escaped, I promise! Besides, what makes you think I would let them do something like that to me, honestly, I'm 16! Relax Fang!!!" Fang closed his eyes and took a deep breath before pulling me to him once more, placing a soft kiss on my forehead.

He began to say something when Gazzy burst into the room, followed by the others. We sprang apart fast and hoped the kids didn't notice us, Gazzy just grabbed my hand and said " Come On!!! I wanna show you something!" I motioned to Fang that we would finish our talk later and then followed Gazzy. We were walking down a hidden path in the forest that surrounded our lovely home. We reached a small hut about 3 5 minutes later. Iggy unlocked it and the rest of the flock stood aside as I walked in curiously.

"It's our, Iggy and my, workshop." Gazzy started. "It's where we make our bombs." He swept his hand out towards the table, where I examined the tools and parts that were lying around carelessly. "And, it's where we store our bombs as well." Iggy piped in, opening the closet that was in the far right corner of the room. In it, shelves were filled with bombs galore. If you think you've seen a lot of something, thick again. There were bombs of every shape, color and size. They were all organized and labeled. There were a few shelves on the bottom that were empty, waiting for future bombs. "And over here…" I heard Gazzy announce as he pulled open a cabinet. It too was stuffed with organized and labeled bombs. "And over here…" I spun around and saw Iggy holding open another cabinet, which looked exactly like the other, only different bombs. "And, we have a storm shelter type room below this that is half full." Gazzy said. I walked out of the shack open-mouthed. "You always said we shouldn't keep them in our room so, we built this." Iggy told me. I never thought they would actually listen to be about that! I thought to myself. As we walked back to the house, Gazzy began excitedly telling me about some of the different bombs they've made, and what they do.

Iggy's delightful lasagna and spaghetti meal came and gone as did bedtime. I had just finished saying goodnight to Angel and Nudge when I walked into my room. Without even looking his way, I greeted, "Hi Fang." He just smirked at me as I sat down beside him on my bed. I know it was going to be a long night…

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-AMSRULE