Max's POV:
I walked home in the rain pouring down at me. Stupid rain and thunder. Because of them I couldn't fly home and be dry. I was only a block away and was glad that I was. It was freezing out here, and it annoyed me so much more.
I stuck my hands in my pockets trying to keep them warm to no avail. I sighed and saw my breath out in front of me. Wow. It's THAT cold? That's a little extre-
In a flash and crack of thunder a burning sensation went through me and it was so painful I screamed as loud as I could hoping that someone would hear me, especially Ella. The pain was so intense. It felt like getting electrocuted a hundred times. I fell to the ground in agony, and looked around for anyone that could have done this but I only saw a message written in red across the sidewalk. The rain was washing it away so it looked a bit creepy how it just dissolved.
WE SEE YOU it said.
I looked down at the burning sensation I felt. It was actually a bullet wound, not the ordinary bullet wound. It was a K-double X bullet. The kind where the school only use on me. It basically makes you bleed badly. The kind where it shoots electric pulses up your body.
The kind that's made to kill.
Blood came out of it freely and it made me lightheaded a bit. I tried to crawl forward so my house was in sight, hoping that someone would burst out the doors any second and come help me. Come and put me out of my misery. I only got my upper half of my body in sight, the pain was to much.
I looked one last time at the house. The door didn't suddenly opened and Ella coming out and running over to me. The door was shut, probably locked, and stayed still like all the others.
I laid my head on the sidewalk. I suddenly felt tired as the pain slowly went to a dull throb. I felt numbly as my body went limp and could feel the blood slowly running down my side and onto the ground. I closed my eyes and welcome the darkness that overcame me.
But not before I saw the window break and a very pissed off Ella come out.
Ella's POV:
I stood motionless for a second as the thought of Max screaming went into my mind. What happened? What's wrong? Why the heck am I just standing here and not running out the door to help her?
Finally I got my thoughts together and ran to the door as fast as I could. But for the stupidest reason ever Fang ran in front of me and blocked my way in a second. Dang, he's fast.
"Where do you think you're going? That was just a SCREAM. There could be a murder out there. You need to stay inside and with us." Fang said in a monotone. I gave him my best glare ever.
"I know that was a scream. I have ears too you know. And do you even know who that was?" I asked, my voice filled with venom. He shook his head and stayed silent. "That was Max. I know because I heard it before, so get out of the way before I KILL you!" I said angry. How dare he. He just wasted a valuable amount of time. She could be DEAD by now and it's because of him. I didn't wait for his answer because right then I went to the window and broke it and jumped out.
The rain and the wind stung at my face, but I ignored it. I looked around me and to the left I saw a body on the ground motionless.
"Max!" I yelled in pain, relief and fear. I ran over to her as fast as I could go and dropped to my knees by her side. She looked horrible. Her face was very pale and there was blood all around her. I put my hands on the wound and pressed down on it. The blood was all over my hands now, but it slowed ever so slightly. She didn't move at all to anything I did. I took the chance to check for a pulse.
It was there…
Then it wasn't…
Then it was…
It was so slow I feared that anytime it would just stop and never come back. I cried freely, but still worked. I could feel gazes on Max and I, but I couldn't care less about them.
"Come on Max. Wake up." I choked out putting more pressure on the wound. The blood slowed again. I heard a tiny sob come from behind me but I didn't lose my focus. "You are NOT leaving me here all alone." I went on putting more pressure on the wound. Again the blood slowed and was now only seeping through my fingers a tiny bit. "Please Max. Just wake up." I whispered. "Don't leave me." Someone came from behind me and laid a hand on my shoulder. I looked up at who ever it was. It was Ms. Martinez. She came to the other side of Max and she got out a gauze from the first-aid kit she had brought with her. Slowly she put it around Max's wound and soon no blood was coming out.
Once she was done she sobbed and put her head in her hands.
"I know that she was your daughter." I whispered looking at the white-faced Max. "I told her my theory and she denied it…she thinks you're too nice to give birth to her…Too nice to date Jeb…" I continued when she continued to sob harder. "I'm sorry."
"We need to get her into a hospital." Ms. Martinez whispered slowly. No matter how much I hated the idea of doctors looking at Max and them knowing that she has wings made my blood run cold, but I knew that if she didn't get help soon she would die and leave me here to fend for just myself. I nodded and picked Max up as delicately as a human could. I turned around and in the window I saw the others looking at us. Max hung limply in my arms and her head went back. I looked at Fang with cold hatred.
"You made me late. You made me late to save my friends life." I mouthed at him with cold ice and venom. He looked away from me and clenched his fists. I knew he felt guilty, but now he looked mad. I looked down at Max with sorrow. She didn't deserve this.
She didn't deserve ANY of this.
I waited impatiently in the Hospitals waiting room. Whenever I would see a doctor come walking by I would straiten up and look at them with pleading eyes telling them to tell me the good news…
But they never did.
I only just got here and any second they would come and ask the questions that no one but me could answer. I grew more anxious for them to just come out and ask knowing that they never experience one of these before.
My plead for the doctors to come out and ask questions came true a few minutes after they took in Max. They looked horrified, puzzled, and bewildered.
"Ms. Martinez…may I speak with you." A doctor asked. She nodded painfully, fearing the worse.
"Wait." I said standing up. They looked at me weirdly. I turned to the doctors. "She can't answer your questions. She DOESN'T know." I gave them a look that said, 'tell them and your dead meat'. Ms. Martinez and the rest of the family and neighbors saw that look, but I ignored them. The doctor nodded.
"So do you know?" He asked looking at his clipboard that he held in his hands. I nodded and walked to him. Once we were out of their earshot he started to ask.
"Do you know how to fix Max's wound? It's obvious that she doesn't get human blood." He said uncertain and uncomfortable with knowing that a human with wings isn't completely human. I nodded.
"She needs bird blood. Any kind really, but she works and heals best with hawk blood. Once you give her the blood you just need to stitch up the wound and she would heal on her own." I gave him a sad smile. He nodded and wrote down the notes I gave him. He then went away to call the nearest Zoo to get some Hawk blood.
I walked silently to the waiting room with the others. They looked at me giving me a clear look that said, 'what was he talking about?', I shook my head and sat down on the chair next to Ms. Martinez.
"It's not my secret to tell." I said simply in a whisper that only Ms. Martinez could hear. She looked at me confused, but didn't say anything. And for that I am grateful, for now I need to think. Think of all the times Max and I were happy and smiling.
"Ella, look." Max said pointing at the birds flying up ahead. We were flying together and were laughing and having fun. The birds looked so graceful and beautiful.
"Wow. That's so cool." I replied in awe.
"Yeah. It's times like this that I'm glad I have wings." She mused happily. I laughed at her and nodded looking down at the earth. The planet of the humans, the planet that we live on. I smiled up at Max who was holding me so I wont fall. I was glad I met her back at the orphanage.
"Hey! What are you doing in my bed?" I shouted at the girl with dirty blonde hair. She looked at me and raised an eyebrow.
"I'm sleeping if you haven't noticed." The girl said groggily. She rolled over so her back was to me and tried to fall asleep again. I wasn't going to have that. I grabbed the sheets that were wrapped around her and pulled her out of my bed. She fell to the ground with a thud and I crawled into my bed. I put the sheets back on me and tried to go to sleep. The girl got up and looked at me annoyed.
"What are you doing?" She asked meanly, but was amused for some reason. I looked at her.
"I'm trying to sleep." I said in a 'duh' tone. I rolled over and tried to go to sleep. She laughed and moved the sheets and I felt her get on the bed. She faced away from me.
"You're all right." The girl murmured as she fell back to sleep. I chuckled to myself but I'm sure she heard it.
Max and I ran through a flower meadow underneath the full moon. We howled at the moon for amusement. We laughed and smiled at each other. Max then cart wheeled and did a back handspring off of it and did a complete tumble roll. I rolled my eyes at her but smiled.
"Come on slowpoke." I teased at her and ran ahead of her. In a second she was ahead of me.
"What were you saying?" She asked smugly at me. She laughed along with me and we stopped running and just fell on the soft flowers that smelled so sickly sweet.
"Max?" I asked her after a few minutes of silence. She looked at me raising an eyebrow.
"Yeah?" She asked.
"What's it like to have wings?" I said after a moment's hesitation. She sighed and looked at the star-lit sky.
"It's liked nothing you've experience. It could be good, but it could also be bad. The flying about it is awesome. The consequences that come with it I could live without." She said slowly. I wanted to ask a question I held in ever since she showed me her wings.
"Can you take me up there too? Can I fly with you?" I asked. She looked at me and put on a thoughtful look. She then looked back at me after a moment and nodded smiling. I smiled back at her and I got onto her back. She snapped out her wings. The wings went through the open spots under my stomach. It tickled at first when I felt the wings moving up and down, but I got over it once she started to run and jump into the air. Once we were in the air everything around me, except Max, started to get smaller. The lights of the city streets and cars flashed through my eyes and it seemed so wonderful with the wind blowing through your hair and cooling you off. Max should be happy she has this ability. I would give anything to be with her flying like this.
"Ella?" A voice said that sounded far away. I snapped out of my train of thoughts and looked at Ms. Martinez confused.
"Yes?" I asked her. She smiled obviously happy. "Is Max okay?" I asked eagerly. She nodded with the happiest smile I ever seen. I jumped up immediately and bolted to her room. I heard the cries of someone I knew as I came closer to Max's room. That made me go faster. I ripped open the door and it hit the wall with a bang. There was two doctors hovering over Max with needles. They were starring at me shocked. Max looked at me relived. I ran to the doctors and took the needles out of their hands while they were still in the state of shock and threw them against the wall. The broke with a little crack. I turned to the doctors and hit them square in the face and grabbed their heads and smashed them together making them lose consciousness.
"Bastards." I muttered at them in disgust. I looked at Max who looked amused and proud. Proud because I just beat up two adults and how that makes me capable to take care of myself. Amused because…I don't know that one actually.
"Why did you do that?" Max asked bewildered with amusement.
"Because they were going to hurt you." I said in a 'duh' tone. She looked at me making sure that I wasn't joking. When she figured out that I wasn't she laughed at me. I smiled at her even though I didn't know what was so funny.
"They weren't going to hurt me. They were taking my blood for testing and I refused and we were just arguing. Do you must always jump to conclusions?" She asked happily. I nodded with an innocent smile on my face and went to sit next to her.
Then Ms. Martinez burst through the door with a determined look on her face. She looked at Max and me then at the broken needles on the floor, then at the two unconscious doctors on the floor. She shook her head murmuring that she didn't want to know and walked out. I smirked at her along with Max. I then turned serious and looked at Max. She wasn't as pale anymore but she was just the slightest bit white. Her wound was under the covers of the hospital blanket, but was more awesome then all was that Max was ALIVE.
"You scarred me, Max." I whispered looking down. Max sighed and looked away from me.
"I know. I shouldn't have done that." She said sadly. I held her hand trying to comfort her.
"Just don't do it again, okay?" She looked at me with a sad smile. She nodded. "And please…PLEASE…don't ever leave me." I said looking her in the eye. She nodded with that determined look I've seen all my life.
"I promise, Ella. I'll never leave you." She said solemnly. I smiled at her gratefully. "Ella?"
"Yes, Max?"
"Can you please get me the F out of here before I go crazy?" She said sweetly even though her expression showed otherwise. I scoffed at her but smiled.
"Sure, Max. I'll get you out." She smiled at me and I got up and walked to the door. "In a week." I said continuing my sentence. I could fell her glare on my back.
"What? In a wah? Ella? Ella!" She yelled at me and I walked out and down the hall. "EELLLAAA! DON'T LEAVE ME HERE!" I heard her cries and smirked. I was obviously joking.
I'm not THAT cruel…
At least not yet, anyway…
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