"Oh, it'll only take a few minutes." She waved her hand, "But it's a surprise so get out." She ordered disappearing into the en suite bathroom.

We obeyed, not really wanting to get our throats torn out.

"So…you've got me dressed like this," Fang gestured to himself with a disgusted expression, "and I still don't know why."

I shrugged and sat up on the counter in the kitchen. "Things are too tense right now. We won't be able to do anything without getting caught. Rogues on the loose who survived The Hunters? They'll quadruple any and all security on absolutely everything. We won't be able to come within a mile without them knowing even like this. We have to wait it out until things cool down." I explained kicking off the shoes Nudge had forced me into earlier.

"How long will that take?" he asked leaning against the counter.

It was so odd not looking into his endless onyx eyes, "About a month. That gives us time to prepare."

"Prepare for what exactly?" He questioned.

"To bring them down."

He nodded and there was silence for a while until Nudge finally came down the stairs with her usually frizzy hair completely straightened out and put up in a neat bun and her skin tone lightened about a shade and dark green contacts in her eyes.

-1 month later-

My eyes shot open hand instantly closing around the offensive object still on it's way to my throat. The uneasy feeling in my gut had once again proven correct as I stared into two pools of blue.

Fang cussed loudly, and dropped the knife, plopping down on the bed beside me.

I chuckled and sat up watching the knife glint in the moonlight let in from the open curtains. "Better. Much better." I praised placing the knife on the bedside table.

"But you still woke up." He grumbled thoroughly displeased that he had once again failed to catch me unawares.

"Yeah." I conceded with a shrug, "But you forget that I've been doing this for six years longer than you have." I sat up and crossed my legs, leaning against the wall and watching him for a few minutes.

He shook his head, still probably beating himself up about not succeeding. You see in the past month Fang had been learning a few things from Nudge and I. Fang had made it abundantly clear very early on that he was totally useless if he couldn't defend himself. I had flat out refused but then Nudge stepped in and said that he was right much to me chagrin, she said that if it came down to a fight then he was as good as dead because there was no way that we could defend him and keep ourselves alive at the same time. i finally gave in and Fang is surprisingly good at stealth though I highly doubt he would be able to take a life so we just kept to the simple stuff, teaching him how to at least incapacitate someone. We had him try and sneak up on us but he's only succeeded in doing that once to Nudge but I'm pretty sure she let him do it to boost his confidence.

"What did I do wrong this time?" he enquired rubbing his eyes.

"Nothing, you did everything perfectly." I assured nudging his side, "I'm just not that easy to sneak up on." I gave him a smile which he returned.

"How long before I could do it without you knowing?" he joked.

I scoffed, "Keep dreaming."

He opened his mouth to reply when the door opened and Nudge walked in with a laptop in hand. "Hate to break up this touching moment but there's something you need to see." She said voice strained.

Don't ask me why she's walking into my room at two in the morning. "Uhm, ok?" I took the laptop and my jaw almost hit the floor, "What. Is. This?" I ground out taking in the opened email.

"I've kept in touch with Angel and before you throw a fit and tell me that I've put them in danger I'm sorry ok but she called me the day Iggy sent me here. She wanted to know what the hell was going on. She'd just got called in. She was mean to come for Fang, Max." Nudge explained.

"Wait, wait, wait. Let's start this again. From the beginning please." I instructed.

Nudge gave me a sour expression before sitting on the floor in front of Fang and I.

"When you left Iggy's house the day this all started he called me straight away and told me to pack my stuff and get out. He told me very briefly what had happened and I did as he said. A couple of hours later I get a call from an unknown number, I have it taped if you want to listen to it. It was Angel and she was hysterical, it took me half an hour to get her to calm down enough for her to explain what was going on. She said that five agents had been called out and she was one of them and Gazzy was another. They were told to bring Fang in and if you got in their way shoot to kill. They separated from the other three and phoned me to warn you but by then things had already gone wrong. I phoned Iggy to pass on Angel's warning and he went straight to Fang's house. Iggy checked in the night before…" She blinked back tears and sniffled before continuing, "He didn't call the next day and I started to get worried. Angel contacted me two days after that on a secure line, she said that she and Gazzy had returned to the agency and would stay for as long as they could. She said things were crazy, all agents were ordered to abort all assignments and had to return to base saying something about two Hunters being found dead in a motel room in the middle of nowhere. She didn't know…still doesn't… that Iggy…"

I nodded and gave her a small smile, we both knew that if Angel and Gazzy found out about Iggy's death they would have done something stupid and gotten themselves killed so I didn't blame her for keeping it from them.

"Anyway, she's only called me twice since then, once a month ago and again two weeks ago. She was just checking in and as far as I could tell everything was fine but then I got this." She gestured to the still open email.

"They're coming. What does that mean exactly?" Fang spoke and I jumped slightly, forgetting that he was there.

"It was sent at eight last night." Nudge murmured.

"Which leaves us about five hours before they're on our tails." I finished.

Nudge nodded.

"explanations please." Fang interrupted.

"Basically we're out of time. They've found us."

"Oh."

Man I can go from one extreme to another, lol. This chappie was so short! Ok a lot of people were just a tad confused about what actually happened last chappie. Here's it put simply (It will be revealed in more detail later on):

Max and Fangs parents were best friends.

They were test tube babies and are two percent bird just like the book but they weren't born with wings. Their parents figured that they were a dud but raised them like normal kids.

Iggy said that he only understood when he found out Max was registered as a home birth; the reason behind this is because they were test tube babies and the experiment was a secret so obviously they couldn't be in a hospital.

The people that made Max an assassin were monitoring their parents because they found out about the experiment, they didn't know that the experiment went wrong.

When Fang was twelve there was an accident in a lab and the chemicals reacted with his bird DNA giving him wings.

Their parents kept them apart because they thought they would be in more danger together.

When Fang's wings showed up Fang's and Max's parents were murdered to try and get the information out of them. Obviously they couldn't tell them what they needed to know and Fang's been on the run since while Max was taken in as an assassin.

If Max is exposed to whatever chemicals that made Fang's wings show up then she will get wings too.

Hope that clears things up, if not then I really don't know how else I can put it.

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