Okay, this is the second chapter of my double update. The last chapter was rather… interesting. There's just no other word for it. Now, like I said, this chapter goes back to Mel and Jewel. Read 'NeoFlock' and 'Deadline' by Talon666 and 'Dark Blue' and 'Maximum Ride: Wings vs. Wands' by Madeline Cullen. These two are awesome authors and reviewers. They always manage to make me smile with either there amazing stories or their supportive reviews. Thanks again guys. Okay, so you probably want me to get on with my new chapter. So, let's see what's up with Mel and Jewel. Here we go guys. I seriously hope you enjoy this.
I looked at the needle and saw that it was pretty close to 'E'. Scarily close. We were so freaking close to Skye. We could not run out of gas. Not then. No, not then. That would be awful.
"Come on." I muttered to myself. "We're almost there. I can feel it. I can feel him." The tugging at my heart kept getting stronger and stronger every second.
In case you were wondering, Jewel and I had stolen a truck. We found it just sitting in a parking lot so I broke in (The idiot hadn't turned on his alarm.) and then hotwired it. It was not as easy as Nudge had made it look when she was teaching me, but I had managed to do it. I figured that it would be less conspicuous for us to drive up to where they were keeping Skye than to fly up. So, as soon as I felt that we were extremely close to Skye, we stole the truck.
"Mel?" Jewel asked me. I turned to look at her. "Have you managed to come up with a plan yet?" she asked hopefully.
I sighed and looked straight ahead of me. We weren't on a road anymore and it looked as though we were in the desert. Suddenly, a huge, decrepit building came into view. I suddenly knew where we were. We were at the School in California. This was where they had kept Max and the rest of the Flock for so long. This was the place where they'd escaped from. I slammed on the breaks and stopped the truck.
"Yeah Jewel, I got a plan." I told her after I cut off the engine.
I wasn't lying. I did have a plan. Unfortunately, it didn't involve me getting out of the School. It didn't really involve Jewel or Skye getting out either, but I figured Jewel would eventually figure this out and bust herself out. She'd be smart enough to find the Flock and she could stay with them and tell them what happened to me. Skye and I would be stuck forever, but that was okay. I'd be close to him in my last moments. Yeah, I was fairly sure that they were going to kill me and they were probably going to get Skye to do it.
"What is it?" she asked warily.
"We're going to get captured on purpose." I told her.
Jewel looked at me thoughtfully. "Sounds good." she told me. "But, can I say something?"
I shrugged. "I suppose. It's a free country."
"Well, I was just thinking." she told me. "It'd be too obvious that we wanted to be captured if we just waltzed right in there."
That made sense, so I nodded. "Okay. So, what do you suggest we do?" I asked her, happy that she was learning how to come up with plans on her own.
"Well, the weakest point in the School is the roof." she told me. "The only time anyone goes up there is for maintenance. I figured we could crawl through the vents or something."
I nodded, but saw a slight flaw in her plan. "Are you sure we would fit?"
She grinned. "Oh yeah. If a fat, two hundred and sixty pound man can fit in there, than so can two, skinny, ninety pound bird girls."
That was true. "Okay." I told her. "Sounds good. We'll drop down as soon as we hear Skye or Tanner. We can make it look like we accidentally made it to the wrong place or something. Then we'll put up a little fight and get captured."
Jewel nodded. "Exactly. And we can leave the backpack and laptop in here and come get it when we escape with Skye." My heart lurched at that thought because I knew there was no escaping for Skye and me. We were both doomed. However, I nodded anyway.
She hopped out of the truck and looked towards the sky. "We can take off from here and then land on the roof. The guards in the guard towers don't go on duty until later tonight. It's dark enough for us not to be seen and light enough for them not to be out."
I hopped out of the truck and then slammed my door. "Let's go." I told her, letting out my sore, stiff wings.
We took off into the air and then flew as fast as we could to the roof. We landed, tucked our wings in again, and I pulled a tiny screwdriver out of my pocket. I began unscrewing the vent covers and then let Jewel crawl inside first. Then I followed in after her.
We crawled around for a while when I heard a door open. Jewel and I stopped moving and listened to what was going on down below.
"So, what exactly is your plan for Melody?" I knew that voice. It was Skye. I was so close to him that I couldn't believe it. He was right there, below me. My heart was about to jump out of my chest with excitement.
"I can't tell you that Skye." Tanner. "It's my business. Just between the Director and me. But I can tell you one thing. She's going to be joining us."
I put my hand to my mouth. This was not good. Not good at all. I was going to have to put up a better fight than I had thought. I would have to make Tanner explosively mad before he'd let Skye kill me.
We heard them walk away and, when I was sure they were far enough away, I crashed through the vent and Jewel and I tumbled to the ground.
As expected, Tanner and Skye came back around the corner to see what the commotion was. I could tell that they were surprised to see us. I looked up at them and muttered, "Oops. Wrong place. My bad."
"Oh well." Skye said evilly. "I guess we can try to forgive you." He made to attack us, but Tanner held him back.
"Don't." he told him. "They'll come quietly. Right Melody?" he asked me, grinning.
"Fat chance." I told him, charging. I hit him in the face and his head snapped around.
He grabbed my arm as I swung it back to hit him again. He twisted it behind my back and I winced in pain. I looked over to Skye, seeing that he was holding Jewel upside down by her ankles. Well, the plan had worked perfectly. We were captured just like we wanted.
Tanner shook his head as he pushed me down the hallway. "I really thought you had more sense than this Melody." he whispered in my ear. "You're getting very sloppy." he told me.
I said nothing and just let him march me to my prison. I turned my head slightly to the side to look at Skye. He wasn't in his Eraser form, so what he was doing to Jewel made my heart hurt even more. I knew this was the last time I would ever see him as the old Skye. The next, and last, time I would see him, he'd be an Eraser. And I'd be dying. Slowly and painfully.
So, this was pretty short, just like the last chapter. The next one will be longer, I promise. Like I said, no idea when I'm updating again, but you can be sure it'll be pretty soon. Well, read and review. I really hope you liked this chapter. It only gets more exciting from here. I promise.
