Iggy POV

I sat down on the couch listening to the TV. It has been a night and Angel hasn't sensed Max anywhere near here. I sighed. Maybe no trace of Max means she is on the right track to find Fang. Maybe she found Fang… Keep on dreaming Iggy. My heart skipped a beat as someone sat down next to me. I was in such deep thought that I didn't even hear them coming.

"Iggy…" I heard Angels faint little voice from next to me. I turned my head in the directions of Angel and smiled.

"What's up, hun?" I sat up from my laying position and took a deep breath. Something is telling me that Angel is going into little, defenseless girl mode.

She put her hand on top of mine and sighed, "I want everything back to normal. Like we were right after Jeb left us. I want Max and Fang here. I want us all too only have each other. I want you to cook us dinner every night instead of Max's mom coming over and doing it. I want Max and Fang to be happy and at home. I hate all of the peoples thoughts running through my head." She leaned her head on my shoulder, "I just want to go home, Iggy." She sniffled and pulled me into a big hug. I wrapped my arms around her and kissed the top of her head.

What would Max do in this situation? I let go of the hug and squeezed Angel's small hand, "I don't know if this will fly with Max, but I will ask her if we can get away from all of this new stuff. I agree, we should go back to our old lives, but we need a little time to think about such a big change. Where would we go? Our house was burned down by Erasers." I tried to look as sincere as a father would be.

Angel's hand lifted out of mine and brushed the hair out of my face, "The hawk cave. Do you remember the cave that Fang and Nudge stayed in when they were looking for me? The one that was filled with hawks. Then you and Gazzy showed up there too? Well that place felt more like home than anything I have ever imagined. I want to go there, that is home." She sniffled again and stretched out her arms.

That was a magnificent idea. Everyone loved the hawk cave. It felt truly like home there; the house we were in now was like a vacation home. A vacation home in the middle of nowhere. But it wasn't… home.

I took a deep breath. We sat there in silence thinking about what it would be like to live in the cave. Finally I spoke up, "Angel, what time is it?"

She shrugged then looked in another direction, "About ten, why?"

I rolled my eyes, "Because your bedtime was thirty minutes ago, that's why." I smiled and leaned my head back on the head rest of the couch.

"Oh, come on, Iggy! Let a girl live a little. I shouldn't have a bedtime! Normal six year olds have bedtimes because they have to worry about preschool, which I am insanely jealous of, but not me. I am a six year old mutant bird-kid who has to worry about getting shot or kidnapped every morning. See, no need for a bedtime." She took a deep breath, happy with her excuse.

"Yeah, if you have to worry about being kidnapped every morning, you can't be tired. So come on," I patted her back, "off to bed you go." I gave a small smile as she sighed and got up.

"Good night, Iggy." Angel said. She wrapped her small arms around my neck and gave me a big hug.

"Night, Angel. " I said tiredly.

"Sweet dreams; don't let the bed bugs attack." I smiled as she went off to her room.

Little did I know, more than bed bugs were going to be trying to attack me tonight.

Max POV

If you know Fang well, you would know that he never cries. Ever. Fang has barely even shown emotion, let alone crying. But here he was, kissing me and crying at the same time. It really is extraordinary. It broke my heart to see Fang in this state, but the sight was… beautiful. Fang has a silent cry, not one of those loud, obnoxious ones. The tears just stream down his face; if you were blind, you wouldn't know he was crying at all.

I sighed and leaned my head on his shoulder. The rain was still pouring down, but I didn't care. I had Fang. For now.

I hated this whole situation. Fang had to stay away from me because it could risk the Flock's lives. Why am I not able to find out who is threatening Fang? Why can't I just ask Angel to read every mind we suspect? To tell you the truth, I don't know. Fang took this so seriously and I praised him for it, but that doesn't take away the hurt from not seeing him.

How was I going to carry on with this plan? Fang wanted to fly me back home, and then leave me again. Something was going to go wrong. I was going to go wrong. I had another one of my famous gut feelings that said I wasn't going to handle him flying away from me.

I shook my head and closed my eyes, "We can't just live a normal life, can we?" I asked him, pulling my head off of his shoulder. "We can't be happy. Someone always has to ruin things. Not once in my life has it been easy for us." I bit my lip to keep me from crying again. "I-I want to be… n-normal." Tears threatened to form in my eyes, but I fought them back with all of my will.

Fang was the only one who I could tell this to. I love the Flock, I really do. But Fang is the only person who I can trust with my emotions. I took a deep, shaky breath. He looked down at me and hugged me. He kissed my forehead and looked up at the grey skies that were pouring water on us.

Fang and I didn't come out of that hug for a couple of minutes. I was almost scared shitless when Fang started turning invisible before my eyes. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention. Fang has a superpower that lets him become invisible when he is immobile. Fang chuckled at my facial expression and moved. He appeared right before my eyes again and sighed, "We should really be getting back to the cave" Fang slowly grabbed my hand and opened up his wings. The rain drops made his wings look like black water; it was mesmerizing. I nodded and opened up my own wings. Together we started running and jumped; flapping quickly, we stared flying towards the mouth of the cave.

When we landed, the owl kids were sitting on the couch watching the TV that amazingly worked, even thought there couldn't possibly be cable up here. Hawk turned her head and smiled at us.

"God, I have to get you guys more clothes. You're soaked! This isn't a charity here, people." Her tone was light, so you could tell she was joking. The rest of the owl flock looked back at us and smiled.

"You guys looked like you had a little fun." Janie said, giggling.

"Shut up," Josh said. He hit her arm and they got into a mock-wrestling fight. I secretly cheered on Janie, who was straddling Josh, who was pinned on the floor. Xavier rolled his eyes and walked over to sit down on his bed.

Fang's hand tightened on mine. I looked up into his eyes and gave a small smile that he returned. Hawk looked down, then back at us. Fang looked at Hawk and got a serious expression on his face. He was about to ask her to come drop me off with him.

"Yes." Hawk said.

Fang raised his eyebrow, completely confused. Xavier just smiled from his bed, "She didn't tell you yet?" Fang shook his head and Xavier got a sly smile on his face. It was awesome that a ten year old could be this cool. "She is a mind reader. And I hate her for it." Xavier stuck his tongue out at his sister and laughed when she did the same.

She was like Angel… We needed to get Angel to meet Hawk; Angel had so many questions about mind reading that I couldn't answer.

Hawk smiled, "So, yes, we can go back with you. All of us can go. We haven't been on a good trip in weeks." Janie and Josh stopped wrestling at the word 'trip'. "But can we leave tomorrow? I'm not a big fan of flying in thunderstorms. Max and Josh's crash in the air should be an example for that." I looked at Josh, but he just smiled.

So it was official, Fang got to fly me back home. But would I follow him back to the cave after that?