Disclaimer: I do not own Maximum Ride.

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" Fang!" Sophi shrieked, shock filling her, as she turned and saw Fang standing in the doorway. She looked down at Iggy, as he writhed and jerked in pain. He looked back up at her, misery in his eyes, before he threw his head back down, his hands coming up to holding his stomach, blood beginning to seep out. Sophi stared down at him with glassy eyes. A part of her was dancing with joy at his suffering, and another part was ready to pounce and help him out.

She gulped to her self and her hand began to reach out towards Iggy. But Fang's voice interrupted her.

" Soph! Come with us!" Sophi snapped her head to Fang in the doorway, seeing over ten doctors already trying their best to stitch Kelly up while two other men, friends of Keez that she recognized, rolling the examination table out of the room. She smiled and turned back to Fang, but a hand on her shoulder stopped her. She turned slowly and came face to face with a sinister smile and pink eyes.

Her eyes widened and she was quick to run to Fang who held an aluminum bat out to her. Fang turned to Iggy and was ready to shoot, but Sophi could see the hesitation in his eyes. This was his best friend after all. Almost a brother.

" Fang. Get out. I can handle this on my own." She said, with a sigh and a hand on his shoulder. Fang opened his mouth to argue, but Sophi pushed him out the door before he could say anything else. She snapped the deadbolt, and slowly turned on the balls of her feet to Iggy, who stood there against the wall, his arms crossed. Sophi's breathe caught when she realized this was it. She would never see that handsome face again. She would never hear his laugh again. She'd never feel his touch again.

She didn't give a shit.

A certain smile came onto her face and she walked over to Iggy, her hand coming up and passing it on his chest through his clothes. She twirled the bat in her other hand.

" So," she said sensually. Iggy smiled back down at her, his fangs now poking at his bottom lip.

" One more time for fuck's sake?" He finished for her. Sophi's smile grew wider and it touched her eyes, but there was nothing nice or warm about it.

" I don't think so." She said and she brought her bat to his face, slamming it against his cheek. Blood sprayed from his mouth and hit the wall. He blinked a couple of times, moving his jaw around as more blood slid down his chin. He smiled to himself and turned back to her.

" Now that was just luck." He said, but before Sophi had the time to respond, his eyes went back to their pearl white color and his fangs sank into his gums. He blinked some more and turned to her.

" Soph! Please don't swing!"

" Wanna bet?" Sophi swung the bat once more, but Iggy dodged it by crouching and he wrapped his arms around her waist and lifted her over his shoulder.

" Iggy! You better put me down, or I swear I'll bash your brains in!" Sophi beat the butt of her bat against Iggy's back, but he didn't respond verbally.

" Soph, please understand--"

" Ugh!" Sophi slipped off his shoulder and feel on her back, a painful sounding bop emitting from her spine and the floor. Her bat rolled out of her hand and hit the trash can a few feet from her.

She reached out and tried to get it without injuring her spine more that she already had. If she could just reach...

" What do you think you're doing?" Two slender hands pinned her own down onto the tiles. She turned to Iggy and gasped. A deep red color tinted his eyes, as the blood streamed down his chiseled features. He smiled wickedly at her and she gulped the ball of cotton left in her throat.

" Soph!" He exclaimed, false amazement in his voice. He let go of one of her hands and took the bat into his hand. He studied it for a second, before turning back to her.

" I never knew you were into sports." He smiled. He leaned down, his hot breathe beating down against her throat. He brought his lips to her ear, caressing the soft skin there.

" Will I get to see that sexy batter's outfit?" He whispered, before smelling the copper scent of the blood in her hair, mixed with the sweat of her work.

" Never." The low growl in her throat radiated heat from her skin and it struck Iggy with an immense power. The sound of her snarl vibrated throughout his body and he moaned silently into her hair.

" Have it your way." He straightened again, towering over Sophi, even if he was still straddling her hips. He took the bat into his hands and held it tight, before swinging it into Sophi's cheek, like the way she did to him. Blood clogged her throat and she had to cough to get it out. It sprayed into the floor and wall. Iggy didn't hesitate to swing again.

This time it hit her temples, and a crack could be heard.

Blood seeped from the cut on her hairline. Labored breathing crippled her. She lay there, her hands paralyzed at her sides and sweat began to coat her face.

Her eyes went bloodshot and they blinked slowly. She started seeing double, a crimson color seeping into her vision.

" How does it feel?! How does it feel to die slowly and painfully?! How does it feel to be hurt by the one you love?! Huh?!" Iggy yelled into Sophi's ear. Her brain rattled with his words and booming voice. She snapped her head to him, opening her eyes to reveal a pair of blood red ovals. Iggy gasped and it seemed to be enough to snap him out of his trance... permanently.

He turned to look at the bat and saw Sophi's blood on it. He gasped again and dropped it, turning back to Sophi, as he held her head in his hands.

" Sophi... What have I done?" He asked himself, before standing from his position on Sophi. He lifted her into his arms, and she made no movement to stop him. He turned to the counters when he realized there were no more examination tables. He laid Sophi on the dirty tiles, and stroked her hair, seeing the blood from her eyes beginning to slip down her cheeks.

Her breathing continued to stay labored, her chest heaving with each in and exhale.

Iggy began to sob, pressing his forehead to Sophi's, muttering soft words of peace into her ear.

The one thing he didn't know though was that Sophi had picked-pocketed the pistol from Fang before he left. She cocked it in her free hand and brought it to Iggy's heart, or so she thought. It actually pointed to the wall to the far left of Iggy.

Before Iggy knew it, a loud gunshot could be heard and he pulled away from Sophi, staring incredulously at her, seeing her eyes a mere pinkish shade.

He turned to glare at the pistol in her hand, but her grip loosened and the gun slipped out of her hand, hitting the floor with a loud Clank!

Sophi moaned in pain at the throbbing sensation in her skull. It felt like someone had hit her over the head with a metallic baseball bat. Oh wait. They did!

" Sophi... why?" Iggy asked sorrowfully. Sophi turned to look at him through the pink tint in her vision.

" You... almost... killed... my daughter... why... else?.." Sophi couldn't help but take a breathe between each word. Her lungs just couldn't support her very well at the moment.

Iggy remained silent for the next few seconds, and sudden explosions could be heard from above. Sophi glanced up and realized Gasman must of started the bombs.

From the corner of her eye, she could see Iggy smiling warmly. She figured he must have been thinking about the flock.

Then she began to think about Keez. Stinging tears pooled in the corners of her eyes at his smile in her head. Then she began to think of the priest who died for no reason. Then of Kylie. She didn't mean to do anything wrong. It was those terrible whitecoats and... Iggy.

Sophi turned to him, slowly swinging her wobbly legs over the edge of the counters. Iggy's head snapped up and his eyes filled with concern when he saw her standing with difficulty.

Sophi met his gaze, anger suddenly filling her.

" You... you... killed him..." she mumbled, her breathing continued to stay heavy, but at least she could stand. Iggy frowned at her words.

" I-"

" You killed them. You killed them all. You killed Keez, you killed the priest, you killed Kylie--" a sudden thought raced through her head and her vision went red with fury.

" You killed Kelly." She stated simply, before turning her head like a feline when sparks flew around the two. She quickly picked up the gun with a cough and turned to Iggy, who sat there on his knees, stunned to smithereens.

Sophi pointed the gun, her finger close to pulling the trigger. Sudden tears pooled her eyes and gulped, before muttering a firm, but hurt "goodbye" and fired. She shot again and didn't wait to hear the thud of his body hitting the floor.

She ran, and she ran, and she ran some more, until she made it through a shut window.

She sent the glass spiraling out from the frame, with her body scraping against the desert floor.

Fang and Max saw, and both rushed to her. Max could see the bloody cut at her forehead an turned to Fang. He brought her into his arms and rushed her to the ambulance already waiting by the trees.

Sophi's hand came up and clawed at Fang's shoulder.

" Where... where's-- Kelly?" She groaned. Fang handed her to the emergency team and they strapped her in. She began to mutter to herself.

" Where is she? Where's my baby?... Where is she? Someone tell me..."

" My little girl..."

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Sophi leaned against the wall of the hospital, sitting next to Kelly, who lied on the bed, slow deep breathes fogging up the mouth piece of the respirator machine.

Sophi left her warm hand on her daughter's hand, which was stuffed with needles due to the fact that she almost died a few hours before. She wasn't as lucky as Sophi.

Soph turned to check her injuries in the mirror on the other side of the room. Bandages wrapped around her temples to aid the massive cut left in her forehead. The crack in her skull wasn't even really a crack, that was just the sound of the bat hitting her face. Bruises lined her right cheekbone, like spots on a frog. She giggled miserably at the idea.

There was a large bandage patch on her other cheek, holding the stitches of the cut left from Iggy in place.

Iggy.

Iggy.

Iggy.

The name itself brought horrible tears to her eyes. Sophi wiped at them furiously with a paper towel, hissing quietly to herself at the pain erupting in her bruises.

She turned to Kelly, who had moved her head to the side a little, to get more comfortable. Sophi brought her hand to her daughter's head, stroking it gently. She placed a small kiss under the matted bangs, before lying next to er daughter on the bed, holding the free hand.

" Don't worry, Kelly." She muttered into her hair.

" It's over."

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Again, I want to have this chapter up now, so I'm risking my ENGLISH AND CHEM grade for you people. I still haven't finished my reports for them.

Review more often and I'll get encouraged. School's really taking a lot out of me right now.