– Some place else –
"Stop sulking." Megan said walking into the room to find him lying on the bed as usual 'staring' up at the ceiling.
He didn't move or agnowledge her presence and she really felt like hitting him.
"Get up." She ordered and when she once again received no reply she threw one of the blunt knives in his direction hitting his side, sure to leave a nasty bruise.
"What the hell!" he hissed shooting up and glaring in her general direction.
"You really are quick to judge you know that? Just assuming that I'd had it easy because I wasn't taken like you were." Another knife, this time Iggy managed to dodge it but barely, "Hate to break it to you but it hasn't exactly been a picnic here either." Another knife which caught Iggy on the leg.
"Stop it!" he hissed falling off the bed. Of course once this happened he had no idea where he was, the bed was his compass of sort. He felt around trying to find the bed again but came up empty.
He felt a hand on his wrist and tug him forward slightly, his fingers brushing against material. He grabbed it and stood up, still fisting the material.
"What do you want? Did you just come here to torment the blind guy?" he hissed sitting down on the bed.
"Actually," Megan said sitting down beside him, putting the two knives she had left beside her, "I'm here to help you."
"And how is attacking me with blunt knives helping me?" he rubbed his shin where he had been hit.
"I know you want to get out of here but what exactly are you going to do if you actually manage it? You can barely feel your way around this room let alone a city."
"Get to the point."
'I'm here to help you train your other senses." She said simply, "If you can use your heightened senses then it'll be like you could still see. You might even be able to help Max."
He hesitated after the last sentence, "Why should I let you help me?" he finally said after a while.
"Because I'm the only one willing to put up with all your crap."
– Washington –
"Max! Get uuup! It's noon already!" Nudge's insistent whining woke me up the next morning. Fun way to wake up, hey?
"Nudge." I groaned burying my face deeper into the pillow.
"Fine, be difficult!" She grumbled, "I'm going to the store to pick up a few things, need anything?"
"Hair dye." I mumbled and heard her footsteps and the slam of the door.
About twenty minutes later the smell of bacon hit my nose. Instantly I was up and stumbling towards the kitchen, the delicious smell making my mouth water.
"Good morning." I heard Fang chuckle as I drifted towards the island.
I plopped down on a chair and Fang slid a plate piled high with food in front of me.
"Food." I sighed and he laughed. "You are my new favourite person." I hummed through a mouthful of bacon and eggs.
"So what are we going to do today?" Fang asked an hour later when we were packing up Pillow Mountain.
I shrugged, "What do you wanna do?" The second I'd said it I regretted it. I knew exactly what he wanted to do and after yesterday there was no way I was going to agree to it. "And before you say it, no we are not going flying." I said sternly.
"Come on, Max. It's been a week since you got wings and you haven't even tried flying yet. Just give it a chance." He pleaded, throwing the last of the pillows into the hall cupboard.
"No." I said in an end-of-conversation way.
"You're designed to fly." he persisted.
My patience was really wearing thin by this point. Why was he so insistent about it? I didn't want to fly, full stop.
"I don't care. I never wanted them and I don't plan on using them."
He groaned in frustration. "This is ridiculous."
"Yeah it is, so leave it alone." I grumbled.
"Why won't you just try?" he asked following me as I flitted around the apartment doing nothing productive.
"Ugh! I just don't want to Fang! Why won't you just drop it?" I snapped feeling them begin to come out. I took a deep breath trying to hold them in.
He didn't say anything but took a step closer, tucking my hair behind my ear. "Because I know you'll love it," he said then added, "And because I want to fly with you." He said softly cocking his head to the side setting his onyx eyes on me.
I deflated. Damn those eyes. "I don't like heights." I mumbled my lame excuse looking down at the floor.
Obviously he saw right through this, "You're got going to fall again."
I scoffed, "Yeah right."
"Hey, if I will remind you the first time had nothing to do with flying and the second…I will take full responsibility for the second one." He allowed, "And if you do remember the one time you actually let me to take you out you liked it."
I still didn't want to do it; my stomach sank just from thinking about falling again.
"Pretty please?" he begged and get this, he pouted. Cue hysterical laughter.
With a triumphant grin in place he gave me a peck. "Brilliant."
"I never actually said I'd do it." I reminded him.
OoOoOoO
And here I am twenty minutes later with my wings spread out and Fang in front of me. It had taken a while to get the wings out but I'd finally managed to do it. Fang said it would become easier the more I used them. Psh, like that was going to happen. The only reason I had actually agreed to this was to get him off my back.
"Alright, since you're so convinced you're going to fall and kill yourself I have found an easy solution that will guarantee your survival." He said pulling me through the trees and out onto a ledge. I swear I would have walked straight off of it if he hadn't stopped me.
"Gah!" I gasped taking a big step back. It was a long way down.
"There's a river that runs through here." He explained, "So this is the perfect place to teach you."
"Why?" I gulped.
"Because if you do fall – which you won't – you'll land in water. The most damage you'll get from that is the breath knocked out of you."
"You really are set on teaching me to fly huh?" I was not at all happy. I was hoping that he'd take me somewhere that I could complain about and worm my way out of it but he'd thought of everything. I was going to have to do this. Ah crap.
"Yeah I am. There's no point in having wings if you don't use them. Besides, you never know when they'll come in handy."
"Whatever." I whispered, the fear setting in as I looked over the edge at the water below us. "How far down is it?" I enquired.
"Far enough that if you just miss a beat you'll be able to recover but not too far that you'll hurt yourself if you hit the water."
Silence followed that as I took in my surroundings.
After a further ten minutes Fang decided I'd done enough thinking about how bad of an idea this was and started walking into the forest. "Where are you going?" I asked, really confused.
"Running start. It's easier to begin with." He called then seconds later came running out onto the ledge and flung himself over the edge. Even just watching him willingly dive over the edge made me cringe and I actually breathed out in relief when his wings snapped out and caught him seconds later. I watched him carefully as he flew in a small circle and came back to the ledge. He hovered by the edge and just waited.
"Don't think, just do it." he said when I made no move to do anything. "It's instinct." He added.
"I hate you." I told him storming into the trees and taking a very very deep breath. Don't think, just do. Don't think, just do…I chanted in my head trying to ignore the gnawing fear in my stomach. I almost had a panic attack when I broke out of the trees and the ledge started to run out. Don't think, just do. With great difficulty I cleared my mind of all thoughts about a millisecond before the ledge disappeared under my feet. I felt my wings spread out and a sharp pain and a snapping sound when they caught the air. Don't think, just do.
"You're doing great." Fang's soothing voice came from my right and I opened one of my eyes. Damn I didn't even know I'd closed them! I peeked at him to find him right beside me. He didn't even look the slightest bit worried, he knew I'd be able to do it from the beginning which frustrated me to no end. Damn him for being so sure.
"Now copy me." he instructed taking the lead slightly. He tilted to the left and I followed suite feeling queasy at the shift.
That's how it went for about half an hour, Fang did something and I copied.
Then I made the mistake of looking down. Until then I'd been very good and kept my eyes on Fang knowing that the second I looked down and noticed how high I was I would lose my cool.
"Oh God, that's high." I shakily said eye widening at the sliver of river below.
"Don't panic or you will fall." Fang said suddenly right beside me. I blinked a few times and looked up at him.
"Wow, that's really reassuring Fang." I gulped, sending him a half hearted glare.
And being Fang he just smirked and tucked in his wings sending him plummeting towards the ground. "Fang!" I shrieked having a mini heart attack right there. I knew he just did that to scare the crap out of me but I panicked and did the only thing I could think of. My wings snapped shut and I felt myself nose dive right after him. What can I say? May snap decisions aren't always brilliant. I had to resist the urge to shut my burning eyes as the ground came ever closer.
I'm going to kill him! I internally yelled gaining on him.
I was waiting for him to catch himself but as the seconds ticked by and he still didn't I really started to get scared. What is he doing? I wondered and only put two and two together three seconds before he hit the water, barely making a splash. Since I'd managed to catch up to him it only took another two seconds before I sucked in a hasty breath and hit the freezing water. As quickly as I could I swam back up, my lungs burning to find Fang surfacing a few feet away from me.
"I'm going to kill you!" I gasped making it come out much less threatening than I'd planned.
He actually had the nerve to laugh at me and I snapped. I launched myself at him and shoved him down with all my strength.
When he resurfaced I immediately started yelling at him, "I am never trusting you ever again, you-you-" to be honest I couldn't find a bad enough word so I opted for shoving him hard when he tried to wrap his arms around me.
"Leave me alone." I said grumpily swimming to the bank and trudging over to a rock and sitting down to wring out my hair.
Wow, that was….really bad. Alright so nothing much will be happening on Max and Fang's end, the interesting stuff will be with Iggy for the next few chappies.
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