Max POV

"Maaaaaaaaaaax!"

I awoke with a loud "Gah!" and sprung out of bed, onto my heels cautiously. In front of me were a group of immature, childish bird-kids and one vampire. Alice, Angel, Nudge, and Gazzy were all giggling furiously at my reaction. I shot a glare that shut them all up like that.

"If you know what's good for you, you'll leave before I count to... one." They sped out of the room and I grinned proudly.

Last night came crawling back to me.

Max's Flashback-

After Fang came into the kitchen a few minutes after our, erm, talk, I figured it was getting too... akward, so I fleed with a lame "I'm going for a walk".

I'd gone pretty far, I'd even gone for a night time fly; the way the moon glistened in it's reflection on the water was classic- too beautiful to miss. I was glad I'd gone out.

I came back to Emily's house about two hours later, hair windblown, face flushed in happyness, and posture strong. But what I came back to wasnt a happy family.

Fang, Sam, and Jacob sat around the dinner table, looking glum. I walked in cautioudly and edged over to them. "What's going on?"

They all looked up and I saw something in their eyes. What was it? I paused, and the only breathing in the house I heard was mine, Fang's, Uley's, and Black's. Oh, no... Oh, no... No!

"No!" I shrieked, running like a bullet through the house. I thrust open all the doors, only to find messy sheets and muddy paw prints. No... No... Not them! I can't have that! "Fang!"

He was already trailing me, trying to calm me. I growled his name once more to get him to shut up. He did, and I gradually breathed. "Fang, I want to know where the rest of my flock is."

"They're fine." He sighed, clearly exasperated. "They're at the Cullens."

Jacob and Sam butted in and Sam took over for Fang, telling the tale of my flock's sudden vanishing. "While you were out, those Eraser things came and started a little... quarrel." I must've looked paniked because he added quickly, "But it didn't last long. They fought us for maybe five minutes before falling back."

"They looked like they hadn't found what they were looking for." Jacob said. "It was almost like they weren't looking for you guys but for someone else." He paused then his face paled. He turned to me and I instantly knew who he thought.

"Oh, God," I breathed. "Derek!"

Fang's eyes narrowed so little I did a double take to make sure they were narrowed and I wasn't just seeing things.

"We have to go look for him!" I gasped, rushing towards the front door. As I got a few feet away, someone grabbed my forarm. I knew who but didn't bother to look back. "Fang, we have to go look for him. We can't let a fellow experiment run into Erasers. Especially not Erasers who would pass up a fight with us infamous Bird-Kids. No Eraser would do that unless they had a good reason. I dare you to try and stop me, Fang, I really dare you-"

"Max," Fang said my name just as firmly as I said his. "We're going back to the Cullen house. We'll go look for him after we get there."

A feeling twitched in my gut.

"By we... You mean-"

"You'll stay at the house while Jacob, Sam, and I go out and look for him." Fang turned to said werewolves. "That alright with you?"

They blinked and nodded. Jacob said something that made me trust him immensely. "Of course we will! Derek is... he isn't normal. Not in the whole School experiment way, but he is... unique. I think, in the extreemly short time he's been around, he's grown on us all."

Jacob saw Fang's eye twitch slightly and backtracked.

"Well... maybe not all of us..."

Sam nodded. "We better hurry if we want to bring him back unharmed."

I flinched and nodded, running into the cold night air and jumping into it, spreading my wings and swerving through trees until I got above them. Fang was a few meters behind me, but we didn't speak. I kept my gaze forward, and he kept his mouth shut about Derek.

- End Max's Flashback.

As I remembered, I got dressed. Casual. Nothing much. A T-shirt and Jeans. Literally- nothing much. I was sleeping in Alice's room, so I felt a little bad about "kicking her out" when they woke me up.

I casually descended the staircase and was hit hard by the smell of a delicious breakfast. "Whoa. What is that?"

Angel flitted up to me. "Max, Look! Esme made breakfast, and its really, really good."

I nodded dumbly and smiled at her. Looking at the one place someone was missing. Derek. They hadn't found him last night. I kept thinking negative things like what if they got to him? or is he still... alive? Great job being a positive Patty, Max.

Angel smiled at me discreetly and thought to me, Max, you can go look for him while I keep everyone busy. Okay? After breakfask?

Thank you, Angel.

For once that morning, I was filled with a pool of positive hope.