Chap. 26

The Plan

Max POV

Nudge's sound test. Right. Not Fang's beautiful, deep – uh, dark, eyes.

"Max!" Nudge said.

"Yeah?" I replied vacantly. Focus on Nudge. On NUDGE! Not the eyes.

"MAAXX!" Nudge yelled.

"WHAT?" I shouted back.

Nudge gave a light, carefree laugh. "You've been staring into his eyes since ever. Anyways, I just told Fang how the test went. In case you weren't listening, it worked. The glasses that Fang stole – uh, borrowed, from that antique shop in town all broke, and all the animals nearby started rolling around on the ground and acting like there was a fire. Y'know, stop, drop, 'n' roll? Fang left him backpack there too, so I just took out all his stuff and tried my sound thingy on his laptop. It's broken, now, so, uh… Sorry, Fang. You can get a new one! Max's card -"

"WHAT?" he thundered. "YOU DIDN'T TELL ME BEF -"

I sniggered. "Just kiddinggg," giggled Nudge.

"So, that means the plan is good to go," I said. "We run, or walk to the School, and fight and kill anything that gets in our way." I paused this next part was the most dangerous, the part I hated the most. "We sneak in and try our best to get through security. When we find where Ig, Angel and Gazzy are, we bust them outta there, Nudge can start screaming, and we fly away."

Fang looked skeptical. "What if they ambush us before we get inside?"

"I have a back-up plan," I told him. Nudge can scream when we're trying to get in and we're trying to get in. As in, if the cat-snakes attack, she screams and we take them down, then try to get inside the building."

"I'll bet there's a lot of security," he said.

"Yeah," Nudge interrupted, "but we have Angel. We can get her to control the whitecoats and cat-snakes minds."
"What if we dot get to them in time?" Fang asked.

"I'll send Angel a message in my head," I supplied.

Fang grit his teeth. "I don't like this. It's a big risk."
"None of us like it."

"We'll have to attack tomorrow," I said. "Get some Z's. It's 8. We'll get up early and surprise them."

"8???" Nudge whined. "That's too early to go to bed."
"Never too early to sleep!" I said fake-brightly.

Some more grumbling from Nudge, and I decided that we should sleep in trees, because it was hardest for the cat-snakes to reach us there. And also because it was easier to take off from a tree in a moment's notice.

At the end of first watch (which Fang and I had taken together), Nudge started snoring softly in the cute way of hers. I was left with Fang.

"I'll take 2nd watch," we both said at the same time.

"Me," Fang said through gritted teeth.

"ME." I argued.

2nd watch was actually the hardest watch to get through. Imagine: You go to sleep for three hours, get waken up, watch for THREE hours, and then go back to sleep for a little while and then get woken up in the morning.

Fang won that battle. He literally forced me into my sleeping bag and sat on me.

"Faang," I groaned. "You're heavy, get off me."

He smirked in that annoying yet totally hot way of his, and plopped himself down on the ground next to my sleeping bag.

"Geez. Quiet, much?" I muttered under my breath.

"If you must know, Max, I don't like to talk."

"Really? I totally didn't know that! Or, maybe I did. Was it possibly because you almost NEVER talk? Or maybe because you always answer in NOT complete sentence -"

His lips silenced my unexplainable (and really crazy) rant. Before I knew it, my lips were working against his and my arms were wrapped around his (very warm) neck. Fang's hands rested on my waist, and it made me ticklish. Which was okay during kissing.

I came up for air, gasping and panting. Fang didn't. He continued to kiss down to my neck.

"Fang, do you not need to breathe?" I panted.

I felt him smirk against the skin above my collarbone.

"No, I don't," he said, wrapping his arms around me. "Not when it concerns you and your kissing."

I sighed happily and eased myself deeper into our embrace.

"Sleep, Max," Fang said, "God knows you need your rest."
I leaned onto his shoulder (he was now laying down next to me on one of the thicker branches of the tree) yawned once, and slept.

A/N: I AM SO, SO, SO, SO, SORRY! (For holding out on yuu guys. T_T) I was… let's just say I was somewhere many, many, miles away from my rough drafts notebook.

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