Disappear

Max gone- it was like the world being hit by a giant meteor in Fang's life. He stood in the silence of the kitchen, remembering a moment just like this over one year ago. It was so unfair and stupid that they should be trapped in a world that they couldn't take. Wings- damn them, they ruined the lives they could've had.

Then again, without the wings.

Who would they be?

Would Max still be in his life?

Gazzy was silent, over the years of jellyfish attacks, beating up the enemies, and being raised in the School, he had gotten tougher. Observing the room from his ten year old point of view, there was nothing new in the solemn, broken down view of the flock without Max. He knew that she was the one who kept them together. When he had left the girls and gone off with Fang and Iggy, he only regretted it because as great as the guys were, Max was the one who did it all.

He wondered if there was more to life out there.

Without Max, would they survive?

Could he handle not having the only mother he had gone?

Nudge felt the silence of herself as her new power took form. She wished she could disappear like Fang or heal fast like Max. She rather not be able to see the future because now she was blinded by visions. All she could see was the worst image of her life- a crying Fang holding the body of Max. She would keep this a secret to herself.

She would make sure this didn't happen.

Max couldn't die and Fang couldn't cry.

If the scene before her didn't play out.

Angel remained quiet wishing she could hear the thoughts of the ones around her. Silence, it was so amazingly useless in situations like this. Before, she could've read Max's thoughts and could've gotten the flock out there to fight. Now she was useless. Angel's jaw tightened in frustration. She had to prove that she wasn't just some eight year old girl now.

Max needed her.

Angel knew that at least.

Eventually, Angel's point would be made.

Iggy sometimes regretted he had his sight back. At least when he was blind he couldn't see the way Fang was tensed up leaning against the counter, Gazzy holding his composure together badly about to cry, Nudge holding her head in her hands to deal with the future and the fact that Max was gone, Mrs. Martinez shaking, Ella holding on to him but avoiding his eyes, and Angel appearing more angry than upset. At least when he was blind he could lie to himself. But should he tell them not that occasionally, his eye sight blurred and the edges disappeared. Sometimes, he couldn't see at all. The pills weren't working anymore.

To see or not to see.

That is the question.

Iggy sighed, with beauty comes the ugly, and he'd much rather see.

Ella held on to Iggy and hated that she was so weak. Max was always the better, stronger one. With the wings, Max in her imperfect mistake, was the daughter that everyone wanted, the friend that remained strong, and the hero that saved the world. Ella knew now, as much as she envied and loved Max, that it didn't matter.

Cause Max never asked the question,

"Who will save us?"

Because Max did the saving too much.

Dr. Martinez sighed as she pulled Angel into her arms as a motherly instinct. A long time ago, she had donated an egg to science without really thinking about what would happen to her child. With every blinking second she regretted that Max had been raised in a lab, she had fought for her life, lived on the streets, raised five other kids with wings on her own. Max did too much as an adult that she never was a child.

Max was never a little girl.

She didn't cry until she finally saved the world.

Now, Max was paying for being the girl Jeb had raised her to be.

Total even moped into the room staring at them. He was thankful for the family that had taken him in, especially Angel and Max. Angel who first found him but Max who allowed him to stay. He knew that there was no flock without Max. There was no occasional smile from Fang, no sexist joke from Iggy, no expert bomb-building from Gazzy, no sewing of clothes from Nudge, and no innocent sweetness from Angel. No talking about how sophisticated from Total without Max. There was no point in doing what they did with Max's heart for Fang, Max's name calling for Iggy, no warnings for Gazzy, no one to wear the clothes for Nudge, and no one to hold and love like a mother loves her child for Angel.

Some don't understand who they are

Until another person is missing.

Max was a part of every single one of them.

Fang pulled himself together, made a plan.

Max would do the same.

It was so hard.

"We're going back,"

Fang informed them.

"Back to the school."

Song is "Disappear" by The Summer Obession

But if you haven't noticed, I'm trying to move away from the lyrics because they're starting to restrict me. So don't expect the lyrics too much.

And I just saw the button on the edit/preview documents that lets me use that line to separate the story from this.

I never knew that was there so I am quite amazed.

PLEASE REVIEW! (And does anyone know a good place where I can post original work?)