Nudge the Quileute7
Fang almost dying after a fight with Ari, now a flying Eraser, staying with Anne Walker, Iggy finding his parents, Iggy staying with them, and my reactions to what happened to Iggy, Iggy rejoining us, and leaving Anne's.
Nudge's POV
We headed towards Washington D.C. and then we were attack by some flying Erasers. Gazzy kicked one and knocked it off-balance and it fell to its death. Angel made another Eraser fall out of the sky just by telling it to. Fang and Ed took down three Erasers. Iggy blasted one Eraser's chest out and Max saved me from being killed by another Eraser. Ari attacked Max, but then Fang took the hit intended for her and as we flew along, Fang started spiraling toward the earth, at a sickeningly fast pace. Max told me to take Angel and Gazzy away, and that Ed would come with us, but I said no. "Max, you don't know this, but every minute I was away from Iggy while we were trying to rescue Angel was agony for me. I can't go through that again." We all went to the hospital and the next day, we went to live with a FBI agent named Anne Walker. Ed and I used our other identities — Embry Call and Monique Amanda Black — with the other agents. I don't agree with Max that Anne's house isn't just a good place for us to be. When we were registered for school, Anne signed us up to go the North Adams School in Virginia, but I have to admit the headhunter, principal guy, did creep me out a lot. I did meet some nice people there, and I soon had a couple of friends that I sat next to, during lunch, which was the only time I ever set eyes on Iggy during the whole school day. Of course, my friends, who thought that Jeff Walker, Iggy's fake name, was my brother, and as soon as Iggy and I were back at Anne's house, we weren't "siblings" anymore, we were soulmates. After the trip to Washington D.C. and Max and Angel met the President, we all talked Max into staying with Anne for Thanksgiving. Of course, three weeks earlier, Gazzy, Iggy, and Ed got us all grounded for setting off another bomb in the school. Before the meal, though, Anne made us all say what we were thankful for. We all helped Anne make dinner and then fifteen minutes later, we were all sitting around the dining-room table. Everything looked very schmancy. We had a white tablecloth and cloth napkins. Candles were lit. The food was on the table, looking like all the pictures on the packages. Gazzy was holding his fork and knife upright on the table, and Max frowned at him and shook her head, slightly. Then he put them down. "How about we go around and give thanks individually?" Anne said. "Ariel? Why don't you go first?" "Uh…" Angel glanced over at Max nervously, and after Max smiled at her and Angel read Max's thoughts, she started. She said a lot of nice things, and so did Gazzy. After Gazzy, Anne looked at me and said, "Monique?" I immediately started. "I'm thankful for food and Max, Nick, Zephyr, and Ariel and my half-cousin/possibly half-second cousin/or Sam's half-brother, Embry. And I'm thankful I have big brown eyes and long lashes. I'm thankful that we could stay here for a while. I'm thankful for MTV. And gummy worms. But most important, I'm thankful for my soulmate, Jeff Walker and that I found him." Iggy blushed and he was slightly embarrassed by that last part. Then after Anne asked him to start, he said, "Um, what Zephyr said. And more than anything else, I'm especially thankful for my soulmate, Monique, and that she found me." Then Fang, Max, and Embry all said the same thing that Gazzy said and then that night we learned that they had possibly found Iggy's parents. When I found out, I was really happy for Iggy, but I was afraid that it would mean that I wouldn't be with him anymore. "Oh, my gosh, Iggy. I can't believe it. I mean, we've been dreaming about our parents forever and, I'm really glad that's going to be you who's going to get your parents back first, and..." I clamped up suddenly, realizing that if I rambled too long, I would reveal that I didn't want Iggy to leave me. We went to the house where Max and Fang might have found Iggy's parents, but I was totally nervous and was really upset. Iggy knew right away that the slightest thing was definitely going to set me off, this time around. When Iggy's possible parents let us, Max sat next to Iggy on one side and when I sit next to him on his other side, his mother sat down. I started trembling with rage, and Iggy saw that I was about to phase, and then he asked, "Uh, Mrs. Griffiths, is it okay if my girlfriend, Monique sits there? We can't be separated." She slid over to the left enough for me to squeeze in, and then muttered, "James would be, or is, too young to have a girlfriend, and you, young lady, are too young to have a boyfriend." Embry jumped up and grabbed my waist, and dragged me away, and said, "She's like me. Half-Quileute." When I returned, I looked at Mr. and Mrs. Griffiths and said, "Don't make me angry." I also was going to make, a chart of information on my friends and family for Iggy, based on what I knew, but I didn't have enough time. I managed to find out most of this stuff from spying on a group of the whitecoats, when we were in the Institute and I could see on the computer that the receptionist person had. When Mrs. Griffiths said that Iggy would be staying with them, I almost started crying. Instead of sticking around and saying goodbye, I ran away. Later, I came back and when Iggy turned to me, I choked out, "Bye, Iggy. I'll miss more than anybody else in the flock." I returned to Anne's house and was instantly depressed. I couldn't breathe, but to prevent anyone from suspecting anything was wrong I acted dull, emotionless, and lifeless. Then, when we returned to school and after the headhunter had lectured us and everyone learned that Jeff was missing, some of my friends came over to talk to me and asked what had happened, and I said, "I don't know. I can't talk about what happened. I don't even know. Just leave me alone." I felt a giant hole ripping open again, and again, so I grabbed at my chest and fought back against the pain, but desperately wishing my friends would leave me alone. And then I ran off, in tears, towards my first class. I lowered my head to the top of my desk where I sat and focused on remaining human, on not phasing. Then I heard Max screaming, "Bandada! Bezheet! See-chass! Move! Move! Move!" at the top of her lungs, and I sprang out of my seat and raced to the door and exploded out. I was getting out of here. I was so relieved though. We returned to Anne's and learned that she was one of THEM. I was really upset, but after we ran away from the Erasers, I was happier, because Iggy had come back. He said it because he missed everyone in the flock too much, but I knew that he meant that he could stand to be away from me anymore. We went back to a bat cave, which we had found weeks earlier and then left for Florida.