AN: So I owe you guys another apology. I'm so sorry it's taken me this long to update but I had no idea how to continue. :S I hope you can forgive me.

F POV.

So together the flock and I, well mainly Max seeing as she had been here the longest and knew her way around near enough came up with a plan. It wasn't a very detailed or elaborate one. It involved a lot of skill and an enormous amount of luck. But I knew for the most part of the last two years luck seemed to have abandoned me, so I prayed to whoever or whatever was up there in the sky that me and my family would make it out of this alive. That wasn't too much to ask was it?

The plan was that now that there were six of us again we outnumbered the five erasers that kept the room guarded so as soon as they all came in for their morning check up we would ambush them. Hopefully rendering them all useless, then make a dash through the door that they would hopefully have left open having not had the chance to close it.

Max would then lead us through the network of tunnels past everybody else hopefully unnoticed. At which point if our luck hadn't run out we would escape through the front exit which we hoped there was one and that it would be open.

I know you're probably thinking Fang what are you thinking this is just stupid it's never going to work and I agree with you. And I promise you if there was any safer more accurate solution I would jump at the chance and maybe sacrifice the pinkie finger on my left hand for it.

I was broken from my train of thought by Max, entwining her fingers through mine. I must have been musing for longer than I thought. For half an hour actually. Angel's voice flooded my mind.

Jeez half an hour what a long time. I could feel Max squeeze my hand and suddenly I was struck by an overwhelming urge to have her closer. Two feet to me was just too far away.

So do something about it then, dumbass.

Angel's mind reading could get annoying at some point soon. But she was right there was not point me whining like a bitch about not having Max close enough when I could easily change that. So I reached over and gently pulled her into my lap. She was so light it wasn't hard at all. The thought made my insides churn in anger. She shouldn't be this light, they starve her. At the thought my stomach growled we hadn't been fed since this morning. I could feel my chest tighten and I really wanted to punch something. I buried my face into Max's hair and breathed in her scent, for some reason it calmed me immensely, I guess it had something to do with the fact she smelt like heaven.

I lifted my head slightly as Max turned her body to face me. "What is it Fang?"

It was amazing how she could sense something was wrong and I thought I'd manage to keep my reactions inside. I guess not.

"Your weight Max." I all but growled in her ear.

She grimaced at my statement. Her body seemed to tense against me and her face held a worn expression. She looked so much older than she should at seventeen. A pang of guilt shot through me. It was my fault she was like this.

I calmed as she placed a soft hand on my cheek caressing my face gently. "It's not your fault Fang. These people are truly evil, it's all them baby never you I promise."

My heart swelled at her words and again I wondered what I had done to deserve someone so perfect and forgiving. I couldn't get one thought out of my brain, she'd called me baby for some reason my body seemed to come alive when she said that and I loved it.

But the flame was quickly extinguished at her next words.

"When I would misbehave or act up before an experiment, they would either beat me or take away my food. Normally they would only skip one or two days, but once they skipped five and only fed me once I'd passed out six times from starvation." She sighed obviously remembering.

Rage filled my body. My vision tinted red as I wanted to destroy the monsters that had put my angel through such torture. Had she not been sat in my lap, I probably would have done something I would regret.

"Calm baby" she whispered to me sending shivers down my spine. "Tomorrow you can get your revenge. When we take. Them. Down."

Suddenly I couldn't wait for tomorrow morning, If we didn't escape at least one of those erasers would regret ever laying a finger on my Max. Mine.

She was shaking gently in my arms and I tightened my hold on her and ran my fingers through her beautiful golden hair, in a desperate attempt to soothe her.

"Promise me Fang, that you'll get out tomorrow, with the flock, even if I don't make it for some reason promise me that you'll get them out."

I gasped quietly in her ear. Didn't she realise that I couldn't promise her that, there was no way I was ever leaving her again even if it meant I had to stay with her here for the rest of my existence.

"I'm sorry beautiful, but I can't promise you that."

I placed my finger over her lips to stop her protest. "I promise that we'll get the flock out, but baby, I'm not leaving you again ever, so either you and me get out together, or you on your own, but not me without you. I can't be without you Max, even if it means we have to stay here together."

She shook her head at me, a tear slipped from the corner of her eye. "Fang" she breathed. "I love you so much baby and I promise that tomorrow the flock and you and me will make it out. Together. I can't be without you either. But I can't spend another day in this wretched place. Tomorrow we'll be free."

Every nerve ending in my body came alive when she told me she loved me. She said it like the most natural thing in the world and I guess it was. Natural and perfect. I looked across the room and saw that the rest of the flock had moved to the far corner of the room and were engrossed in a conversation giving us as much privacy as possible. Bless them.

I held her chin between my forefinger and thumb and tilted her head towards mine. "Maximum Ride I love you too." And with that I kissed her. Capturing her lips with my own. Telling her I loved her in the only way I could without words.

As my eyes closed and I became lost in the kiss I knew that somehow tomorrow we were going to make it out of here...

AN: So I hope it was worth the wait.

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Love,

Sarah

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