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Chapter 10: Treason
Max's POV
"What did we do?" I asked attempting to stand up. Shadow helped balance me. Jeb narrowed his eyes at me. He was usually a nice guy...
"You betrayed the Angels," he said.
"And how is that? We don't even know what we did! How can we do something that we didn't even know what we did?!" Shadow asked. He glared at her.
"I think you know what you did," he said. Shadow glared back.
"I think I don't. And I know because I'm me," she spat out. He rolled his eyes and addressed the table.
"On Saturday night at approximately nine thirty seven, I caught Shadow," He pointed to her. "Being intimate with the enemy." I was shocked. This had to be some kind of joke...
"EXCUSE ME?!" Shadow exploded. I looked at her. It looked like all the blood had drained from her face.
"Here's the evidence," Jeb said smugly, passing a paper around the table. I snatched it before it got to Angel and looked at it. And there it was.
Hunter had Shadow against the wall and they were kissing-how did Jeb say it? Oh yeah-intimately.
I crumpled it up in my hand and looked at Shadow. She was glaring at Jeb her arms crossed.
I couldn't believe it. Shadow was my right hand woman. She wouldn't...couldn't-
"You said you caught me as if you saw me doing that up close and-MMPH!" Suddenly a claw like, arm things conveniently popped out the wall and grabbed Shadow's arms, legs, and mouth, and pinned her against the wall.
"HEY!" I screamed. I ran over and tried to get those things off of her.
"Get off of the things before you get another punishment Maximum," Jeb said. Wait...what punishment? I tried to remember and there was...
I shuddered. All that pain...
Shadow's eyes flashed with anger, then looked pleadingly at me. To back up, to let her take her punishment.
That's when I knew that something was wrong.
It didn't add up. Jeb gave me that brain attack, yes, but he was letting me off way too easily.
"Max, your judgment was already served and executed. Cass, can you remove Angel, and Nudge from the premises, please?" he said. "Max, sit where Cass was sitting." I went over and sat down. Cass grabbed Nudge's and Angel's hand. Then...
"NO! DON'T LET HIM MAX! DON'T!" Angel screamed. I looked over and saw my baby being dragged out by Cass and Nudge looking over, worried. Just what was going to happen?
Shadow's POV
The metal around my fists was getting uncomfortable. They just dragged Angel out and I was getting nervous. Just what was my punishment?
"Your sentence is electric shock," Jeb said. My jaw would've dropped if it could. What the hell was he smoking? "Do you have anything to say for yourself?" The metal around my mouth went away.
"Yeah, what are you on? It was a freaking mistake! Humans do that sometimes!" I shouted, the nervousness making me loose my calm demeanor.
"But you're not human," Jeb said and pulled out a remote.
"Exactly, not fully human. Giving me more excuse to make mistakes," I said.
"So you're excuse for being intimate with the enemy is that you're not fully human? Please Shadow," I shuddered, hating the way he said my name. "Don't make pathetic excuses."
"Jeb, you're blowing this way out of proportion-" Max started, but Jeb held his hand up.
"Nothing you say can stop what I'm going to do," he said simply. He put on his voice scrambler.
"This is for betraying the Angels," He pressed and held a button. At first it was a minor, a small tingling.
Then, he started to turn the dial.
I bit my lip to prevent myself from screaming. Show no weakness...
My lip started to bleed. The pain was becoming intense, traveling up my spine. Then I couldn't take it anymore. I whimpered. I thought I saw Jeb smirk. Bastard...
And he turned the dial up more.
I'll admit, I screamed. Max shouted something, ran over and he immediately let go of the button. She tugged at the shackles. I growled at her. The last thing we needed was the Leader to get hurt again.
"Chris, Ella, please escort Maximum out of the room," I saw Max start to struggle.
"Go," I whispered. She looked at me confused. "Just go they need you more than they need me. Go." She bit her lip and left. I looked back at Jeb, glaring at him.
"You asked for it," he said through the voice scrambler. Wait, why was he using that? Before I could answer the pain started, screaming...
Pain.
So much pain...
I was barely conscious when it finally stopped. My throat, stomach, well, all of my organs felt like they were in different places then they were before.
"So what are you now that you've betrayed us?" Jeb hissed. "A Fallen Angel?" I laughed, a throaty, hoarse sound. For some reason, that was utterly hilarious.
"Just maybe I am Jeb. Maybe I am," I said. His face turned into a mask of fury. Then...
Darkness.
Peace.
Max's POV
I covered Angel's ears as tears leaked down her face. Nudge was silent by the window. The others, Cass, Chris, and Ella were sitting at the sofa, as if nothing was happening. I gritted my teeth. I'll talk to them about this later...
Another round of screaming went in the air. Angel buried her head in my shirt. I recognized it to be the one from last night. From that stupid party.
Then it stopped. I could hear the electricity stop flowing to the area. Then Jeb came up, looking tired. I glared at him.
"Was that necessary? Was that really fucking necessary?" I screeched.
"Watch your language. Angel is right in front of you," Jeb said. That set me off especially since he went straight to computer, like nothing happened.
"Oh, she heard her older sister figure screaming to the heavens in freaking pain downstairs, but that shouldn't scar her for life. The fact that I slipped and cursed should have her on the floor bawling!" I hissed.
"Please Maximum, it's the life of a spy. She either gets used to it now or never," I wasn't sure who he was talking about. I breathed out a massaged the bridge of my nose.
"Where's Shadow?"
"Downstairs. She won't be going anywhere for a while," he said. That made my eyes snap open.
"What. Did. You. Do?" I growled. Jeb looked at me.
"What I had to," I whirled around and went out the door and down to the basement.
It smelled like burned flesh down there. I wrinkled my nose. I went forward and saw her. She was hanging limply from the wall. Oh fuck...
"JEB!" I screamed and ran up the stairs. But his car was already gone. That son of a fucking bitch.
I went back downstairs and looked at the remote. I unlocked the straps and caught Shadow before she hit the ground. Where the shackles had been, there were angry looking scars. I shuddered and brought her upstairs, my mind jumbled.
Fang's POV
I watched Hunter's gold eyes flutter open. He sat up slowly and rubbed his head.
"Where-" He started to ask.
"We're home," I said. He straightened up.
"What? Why? Didn't we-weren't we on a mission?" he asked. I rolled my eyes at his disorientation. He could be so slow sometimes.
"Yes Hunter," I said slowly. "We were until you...did whatever you did," I said. He looked at me, something dawning on him, I could tell because his eyes lit up.
"Wonder boy finally gets a clue," I said. He glared at me and ran a hand through his hair.
"So...what happened with Shadow?" he said. I blinked. Who the heck was Shadow?
"I mean Sky," he clarified.
"She should be fine. Why? And why'd you just call her Shadow?" I asked.
"No-um...if I told you, you would kill me," he said looking away.
"Really?" He nodded.
"So you guys are secretly going out and she told you her secret name, and you told her everything about us?" I said. What? I really couldn't resist the look on his face.
"NO! I mean, something happened but..." he trailed off, irritating me.
"Then tell me already. I'm not a freaking mind reader!"
"Well-" he was cut off by someone's hollering.
"JEB'S HERE!" someone called. I looked at Hunter, who was standing up, unbalanced. We walked out the room and I helped him down the stairs. I couldn't risk him tripping and falling down the stairs. I wasn't in the mood for blood.
Jeb was on the computer in the living room, looking tired. I didn't like him or trust him. He was just too sneaky sometimes.
"I have footage from the Angel's headquarters," he said. I tuned into what he was saying.
"I advise you get Ari and the Gasman out of here," Jeb said. I looked at Lies, their caretaker, and he took them out, saying something about Halo 3.
"Come here," he said. He pressed the play button on the video player, and it showed an image of Sky-or Shadow...whatever, hanging on a wall. Without getting into the oh so riveting details, lets just say she looked like crap. Hunter tensed next to me.
"This is for betraying the Angels," a voice said. It was obviously put through a voice scrambler.
"That was the leader of the Angels," Jeb said.
"Maxine?" Ghost asked. I immediately knew the answer. No.
"No, the higher honcho than Maxine," Iggy said. Something was happening with Sky. She was shaking a bit, then more violently.
"Wh-" Ghost asked. Blood started falling from her lip. Most of her face was concealed with her hair. I heard a soft sound. She looked straight at the camera, glaring, and I could swear she mouthed the word basterd.
Then her eyes widened. And she started screaming in pain.
"WHAT THE HELL'S HAPPENING TO HER?!" Hunter yelled standing up. I looked at him. He had a wild look on his face, as if he was going to punch something.
"Shock treatment," Jeb said simply. I blinked. I thought that was out dated.
"SHADOW!" I heard a familiar voice scream. I locked onto the screen. Maxine had ran over, tugging at the shackles. Shadow, I guess, growled at her and two of the Angels went up to Max and pulled her away. I felt a wave of relief wash over me. Max was alive.
"What did they say?" Ghost asked.
"Sky-er Shadow-insisted that Maxine leave, that they, she doesn't specify who, need Maxine more than they need her," Iggy said. I blinked. Sky obviously wasn't talking about Chris and that other girl, they were old enough to take care of themselves.
"You asked for it," their head honcho said. The screaming began again.
"Shit," Ghost muttered from next to me. I looked at Hunter. He was clutching a pillow from the couch so tightly, his knuckles were white. I raised my eyebrow and looked at him. He refused to meet my gaze.
"What's the point of us hearing this?" Iggy asked. I looked at Jeb.
"This is why we are against the Angels. They think that they are good, but look at how they punish their employees," he answered.
"But what did she do?" Ghost asked. Jeb stared pointedly at Hunter. Uh-oh...
"Shadow and Hunter were caught by the Head of the Angels kissing very...intimately," Jeb said. I looked at Hunter, who was concentrating on the ground. "Since it was her who made the first move, she was punished." Hunter looked up, his eyes wide.
"But I was the one who had her against the wall in the first place. And I kissed her back. They should've punished me no-" Abruptly, the screaming stopped.
"So what are you now that you've betrayed us?" the Head said. "A Fallen Angel?" For some odd reason that stood in my head. Fallen Angel. Fallen Angel. A hoarse, throaty sound emerged and I realized she had been laughing.
"Just maybe I am-" the sound cut off. "Maybe I am." Then the video cut off with her last, agonized scream.
Silence.
"Did the Head kill her?" Hunter whispered.
"Better for us," Ghost snorted. Hunter glared at him and I shot him a look. That really wasn't necessary.
"Aw. Why the looks? You don't want your girlfriends to be dead?" Ghost mocked. I growled, and Hunter lunged at him. The landed on the ground with a thud and Hunter drew a fist back to punch him. I dragged Hunter off of Ghost. Ghost was just a human, after all. No matter how much I want him beaten to a pulp for his little comment.
"SHE'S JUST LIKE US! JUST LIKE ME!" Hunter roared. I dragged him out the room and into the kitchen and pushed him into a chair.
"Calm down," I hissed. He breathed out and massaged the bridge of his nose. "Now, what the hell were you shouting about?"
"When I was-you know- my hands were in her shirt-" I grimaced.
"I didn't want to know that piece of information," I said. He glared at me, and I went silent. This must've been really serious.
"Hear me out, okay!" he exclaimed. "She's just like us! I felt the wings on her back!" I felt my eyes widen.
"Are you sure?" he glared at me.
"Now why the heck would I lie about that?"
"More bird kids?" I asked. Hunter nodded. I swallowed.
"Maxine could be one." That suggestion had joy and dread run through me at the same time.
Hunter met my eyes and we nodded at the same time. "Plan it is."
Max's POV
"Shadow?" I whispered. It had been a few hours since Jeb's great escape. Shadow's eyes fluttered open and she looked around.
"Where am I?" she croaked, her voice hoarse. I handed her a drink of water. She eyed it suspiciously.
"You're home. With me and Nudge, and Angel an-" she cut me off.
"Where's he? Where's the angel with gold wings?" she asked looking at me seriously.
"The only angel here is...Angel. And none of us have gold wings," I said slowly. Her eyes were confused.
"Wha...But he's real! I think..." Shadow sounded like Angel for a second. She started to sip her water.
"Shadow, the only people here with wings is me, you, Nudge, and Angel. Everyone else here is human with the exception of Total. Jeb may also be part mon-" I stopped when Shadow spewed her drink across the room. Her facial expression turned deadly. Well, there's the Shadow we all know and love.
"Where is he?" she growled.
"Calm down, he's not here," I said. She settled down. I noticed her hand was shaking violently, spilling water all over the place. I tried not to stare. That wasn't her fault and she would be like that for a few days.
"Shadow," I started. She tensed and the water spillage stopped. "What were you thinking?"
She glared at me. "That really wasn't my fault."
"So who's fault was it? If I saw the picture right, you two were both going at it," I said, standing up, the tensions of the day, boiling over.
"Oh, so I DESERVED THAT?!" She said, shooting up also. "I DESERVED to be ELECTROCUTED?! I DESERVED to be-" she winced and rubbed her temples.
"Shadow?" I said immediatly feeling guilty. Ireached for her. She smacked my hand away, stood up, and went to our room and slammed the door so hard, it felt like the whole house trembled.
Great. My stressful day was complete.
TFA
"Ma-ax," Nudge sung. I looked at her.
"I'm hun-gry," she continued. I blinked.
"And you're telling Max this because you have a death wish?" Chris teased.
"And? So what I can't cook? I can still kick your butt from here to next week," I said glaring at her. She laughed and flipped the channel.
"Max, there's nothing in the fridge," Cass said. I sighed and stood up.
"Everyone in the car. We're going to the supermarket," I said. Angel and Nudge ran outside with Cass trailing close behind. Chris and Cass were talking about something and walked out. I went up to my room and rapped softly on the door.
Shadow was still angry at me. It had been a few days since our arguement and she hasn't spoken one word to me. Because she's a stubborn butt.
"Shadow," I called. "We're going to the supermarket." The door opened and out came Shadow. She handed me the keys for the car and walked out.
"What about me?" Total said at my feet. I kneeled down and patted his head.
"You can guard the house," I said. He grumbled something about not being a St. Bernard and trotted off. I rolled my eyes and left the house, locking the door behind me.
The van was big. And silver. And it held all of us comfortably. So it was good enough for me.
"I wanna drive," Nudge whined.
"No, I want to," Ella argued.
"I'm driving," I said. The blood drained from both of their faces and they went into the car.
"C'mon guys, I'm not that bad of a driver," I said.
"That's why Shadow's taking the motorcycle. She thinks you're such a wonderful driver but she needs a break," Chris said. I glared at her as Shadow walked out, bringing my baby-er our baby...I mean motorcycle-out in the open. It was black and sky blue, and was Nudge's gift to us for Christmas.
"It's okay that I ride it, right?" Shadow asked. I nodded, staring at the bike.
"Don't worry, she won't crash it anywhere," Angel called.
"She's as possessive over it as you are," Chris muttered. I glared at her as I got in the car.
"You got jokes today, don't you?" I said, putting the keys in the ignition. She shrugged.
"Let's go already!" Ella whined. I rolled my eyes and hit the gas, heading off to the supermarket.
Me: He he...I'm making Jeb such a basterd. Supermarket...how interesting...Review please!:)