The Disbanded: Divided We Stand-Chapter 8
By MyNameIsCAB
--Fang's POV--
Max showing up at the hospital had seemed like the best thing in years, but now her buddy Ted Messina was encouraging me to come with them. I didn't think this could get any better. Maybe I'm a little excited now. I thought Max would just leave me here because I was all broken up, but she's not.
"You want to leave?!" Dr. Guerra asked incredulously.
"Yes, I do. You don't understand. That agent is my long lost friend," I said slowly, trying not to get hyper.
"But…You should at least finish up this month's therapy," the doctor frowned.
"I'm sorry, Doc. You've been real nice and everything, but I need to go. You wouldn't understand. It has to do with what I am," I said, motioning to my wings. "It has to do with everything that's happened to me and if I don't go, I'm never going to get better."
The doctor looked skeptical now, but I was leaving, whether he liked it or not. A chance to fix my relationship with Max was the chance to fix my life. Dr. Guerra didn't understand because he didn't know my whole story. All he knew was that I'd been experimented on. But that's all he needed to know for now. I was leaving anyway, and he didn't need to know anymore.
"Call me if you have problems. You'll still use your cell phone, right? I'll have to contact you about your medication," the doctor started to write things down on a paper.
"Doc, I'll be fine," I promised. "You don't understand. But me leaving with Agent Max is the best thing you'll ever let me do."
I probably sounded really stupid, maybe over excited.
"Nick, be careful," he said. "You're always welcomed back."
"I know. Thank you Dr. Guerra," I said, calmer now.
He nodded. "Don't forget to take your meds. It's not good to stop taking them all of a sudden."
"I know, you told me all the side affects," I gave a half smile. "I know."
"You don't have anything to bring with you?" Ted asked.
"No, just whatever's in the back of my wheelchair," I sighed. "That's all I have. I go to the cleaners every couple of days and sit there."
Ted nodded and opened the back of the van. He opened up a ramp and gave me this huge smile. "If we ever have to sedate criminals, we can roll 'em up on a stretcher. But don't worry, you're no criminal."
I nodded. "Sure."
Amused, Ted laughed as I wheeled on and he rolled up the ramp behind me. I pulled myself out of my wheelchair and folded it up, securing it against the wall after I sat in one of the back seats which were comfier than my wheelchair.
"Max should be out in a few minutes. She's just got to make sure that Carter will be okay until we come pick him up some time in the next few weeks," Ted explained.
I nodded again, not really feel like saying anything to Ted right now.
--Max's POV--
I climbed in the back of our van to sit with Fang. He looked exhausted already, but he smiled as I sat next to him, so it made me feel better.
"Ready to go?" Messina asked.
"Yep," I said. "Did you radio Headquarters that we're leaving?"
"Just did," Messina answered, turning the van on.
The ride was going to be at least three hours, if we didn't hit traffic, but I knew we would. Messina would probably stop at a rest area to get food, like always when we were coming back from an assignment. At least it would be less food to pay for.
"Have any good food in a while?" Ted asked Fang.
"Not really. Hospital food is all and a steak last Christmas," Fang answered.
"How about we stop at that steakhouse on the corner before getting back to headquarters?" Messina asked.
"But the captain…"
"The captain can do without us. In fact, he told me the D-Man case is pretty much finished now. He told me to bring the van back to Headquarters and go home," Messina said.
"A steak actually sounds really good," Fang said quietly.
So I guess we were going to have steak then.
--Iggy's POV--
Like most nights, I laid awake listening to the maintenance crews finish up working. Sometimes you could hear the head them chatting over a couple of beers and cigarettes before bed.
I was thinking about the flock now. I guess I wished that we hadn't just all left like that. Somehow stupidity got the best of us and we only wanted to do what we thought was right, not the others.
You know, I thought about the same things every night and now I knew that I desperately wanted to find them now. I wondered if the others felt the same. I wondered if Fang and Max were still together. I wondered what happened to Gazzy and where Angel and Nudge ended up.
I guess I had a lot of unanswered questions.
And I guess I needed a lot of answers.\
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