As I flew in the sky, my only thought was of finding the Flock. What if they were hurt? Had Dee been working with someone who wanted us dead? I rose higher until the whole sky stretch out before me, big and dark and open.

Max!

Angel! Where are you? Is everything okay? Did you get hurt? Where's the Flock?

Max! You're okay!

Um, yes. Where are you?

Behind you, silly!

Turning around, I saw my Flock before me. My wonderful, amazing Flock. "Guys!!" I exclaimed, racing over to each of them, hugging them as tightly as I could. "I thought something bad had happened! That someone captured you! Oh, God, I'm so glad you're safe!" I let out a sigh in relief.

Max?

Yeah, sweetie?

Fang was worried. He still is.

Oh ok, thanks.

He wants you to talk to him, but alone.

Oh. Ok, then, um, I will.

"Fang?" I called, looking at him. "Can we talk? Alone?" He quickly nodded and turned away.

I flew behind him, carefully synchronizing my wings with his so that our wings barely touched. He stopped and turned to face me, his face pale. "Max." His voice broke as he said my name. "I thought you were- that you were- dead."

I flew over to him, taking his hand firmly in mine, and said, "Oh, Fang. You should know I'll never leave you. Remember? I die when you die." I smiled at him, and leaning closer, whispered, "I'll never leave you Fang. I love you."

God, how mushy could I get? He was sooo lucky I finally admitted it. We flew back to the Flock together, in the cool night air. Iggy and Gazzy were doing something… were they making a bomb? They spotted me looking at them and put on 'innocent' faces. Oh well. Those bombs had saved me tons of times before!

"Hey, everyone, I think we should find a place to stay for the night," I said.

Nudge came up to me, someone following her. "Max?"

"Yeah, Nudge? What is it?"

"Can um, can she stay with us?"

"Who?"

"Dee." DEE! The Dee that broke my wrist? Now that I thought about it, my wrist started throbbing again.

"NO!"

"Max, please? She doesn't have anywhere else to go! She's really sorry she hit you." Nudge was silent.

NO NO NO NO NO! I wanted to scream. That would hurt Nudge's feelings, though, so I suppressed my anger. "Nudge, no."

She was still silent. I slowly turned my head to look at her. "Please?" She whispered, doing what she did best. You guessed it – bambi eyes.