The Scientist

Come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry.

You don't know how lovely you are.

Fang observed Max, the curves of her sides accented by the black shirt and the arrangement of tawny feathers down her back. With a beating heart that he thought gave him away, he secretly held in what she couldn't know; how much he loved her and how much he hated himself for hurting her. Brown, daring eyes that stole his thoughts stared away from him and curls of brown that cascaded down her back caught the light April breeze.

I had to find you.

Tell you I need you.

Tell you I've set you apart.

We've lived her for six months, trying to get past all the hurt. Trying to live a normal life and start school in September as if the flock hadn't lived the lives we had. My breath broke into uneven gaps. Why was I the only one who seemed to be bothered, who seemed weak and hurt? The race of my fluttering heart told me Fang was here, right behind me. Curse my pathetic self for feeling the way I do about him.

Tell me your secrets.

And nurse me your questions.

Oh, let's go back to the start.

Fang noticed the way her body tensed in realization that he was there. He didn't bother turning invisible to hide himself. On the roof of their home, free from saving the world, Fang knew his time to fight was just around the corner. Only after that could Fang take Max in his arms and be with her. Max, being strong and stubborn as usual, turned to face him even though he knew seeing him would hurt her. Max's beauty was so stunning Fang forgot the light of the sunset just behind her.

Running in circles.

Coming up tails

Heads on the science apart.

"What do you want Fang?" Sometimes I wish I had his ability to be a stone. Then he couldn't see how hurt I was.

Nobody said it was easy.

It's such a shame for us to part.

Nobody said it was easy.

No one ever said it would be this hard.

Fang grimaced for a quick second, still holding everything back, like he had learned to do back at the School. Max had a light glaze of tears, she had trouble being strong when she was broken. He was silent because words would fail him.

Oh, take me back to the start.

I bit my lip in frustration. Of all the times Fang and I had been together and in all the ways we had been together, he couldn't give me one straight answer. I turned my eyes on the dark forest just to avoid staring at him. My voice was all I had because silence would fail me.

I was just guessing.

Numbers and figures.

Pulling the puzzle apart.

Fang wanted to kiss her and take it all back but he couldn't because her life was the one at stake.

Questions of science.

Science and progress.

Do not speak as loud as my heart.

I wanted to kiss him and hit him at the same time but neither tactics would get Fang and I back together because life was too difficult.

Oh tell me you love me.

Come back and haunt me.

Oh and I rush to the start.

Fang hated that they were given these lives with wings. He despised the School, Erasers, Flyboys, Eraser, Mr. Chu and all of the horrible rest. But one thing Fang couldn't do was wish they had never happened because without all of those bad things he may have never had Max.

Nobody said it was easy.

Oh, it's such a shame for us to part.

Nobody said it was easy.

No one ever said it would be this hard.

I had to focus on the good. The flock was together and alive. The world was saved. All the reporters and media people had stopped asking me about what happened six months ago. I now understood that I should be careful with my heart around people I loved. Closing my eyes, I jumped from the roof and unfurled my wings to fly away from the only person I ever loved and the only person who had ever completely torn my heart apart.

I'm going back to the start.

Song is "The Scientist" by Cold Play

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