– Head Quarters– (Yep, I'm all over the place and It'll probably come back to bite me on the arse but eh)
"How is this possible!" The director roared, slamming his fist down on the table making the three people in the room jump.
"Uhm, w-well s-sir we have reason to believe-" one of them stammered only to be cut off by the murderous glare the Director was sending her way.
"Reason to believe? Reason to believe? Do you or do you not know how they have killed seven of my Hunters without so much as a scratch to show for it!" he bellowed.
The room sat in silence, none wanting to risk their jobs – or lives – at that moment.
A knock at the door interrupted the deafening silence and two teenagers both no older than sixteen walked in, hands clenched tightly around another two teens only these two looked as if they had been through hell. They had in a way. The girl's blonde curls lay matted on top of her head, her usually glittering blue eyes were now flat and lifeless and her fingers tapped nervously on her leg. The boy had faired no better with sickly yellow skin and wild eyes.
The Director calmed instantly as he cocked his head to the side analysing the children. "Perfect." He said, a smile tugging at the corners of his lips. he ran his finger down the blond girl's cheek and she winced, her eyes screwed shut. "Mmm, take the boy. I do believe there is someone who would love to see him." He murmured. "Make sure she understands the consequences of her actions." He ordered menacingly with a cruel laugh.
"Yes sir." One of the teenagers said robotically, one roughly shoving the boy towards the door.
"No!" The boy cried struggling against the hold the other boy had on his arm. "No! Angel!" he wasn't strong enough and soon he was out the door which was slammed loudly.
"As for you sweetheart…" He trailed off, "I think you can go have some more fun with my pets."
Angel let out a hopeless whimper before allowing herself to be directed out of the room.
"As you can see," The Director said turning back to the room, "I have taken care of this myself. But next time, I won't be so forgiving." He snarled and the people jumped up and bolted from the room in as much of an orderly fashion as they could.
– Washington –
So after the flying fiasco I hadn't been talking to Fang much of course this led to a lot of sucking up on his part. He made me cookies – not as good as Iggy's but then again I don't think it's possible to beat Iggy's cookies – and offered to make dinner, when I complained that it was too hot he opened the window and so on and so on. Nudge had assumed by this point that something had happened while she was out but very cleverly didn't comment or mention it. She just snickered behind her hand when she thought no one was looking. Subtle.
It was now almost midnight, I couldn't sleep so I was just lying on my bed eyeing my newly died brown hair. It wasn't exactly like my natural colour but it was close enough.
I wasn't really thinking about anything in particular, it was more of recalling all of the things that had happened the last few months and the hole I kept on digging. I just wondered how long the peace would last, it had already been longer than usual.
Knock knock knock. I sighed and sat up, it was probably Fang. "Come in." I called and sure enough Fang came in only he looked like he'd seen a ghost. "What's wrong?" I asked instantly jumping up to make sure he was ok.
"I…think you should come see this." He whispered and I let him pull me out my room quickly.
"Fang, what's wrong? You look like…" I trailed off when we reached the front door. I could feel the blood draining from my face and a sick feeling settling in my stomach.
Standing there with tears falling down his pale white cheeks was…
"Zephyr." I breathed dropping Fang's hand instantly and throwing my arms around one of the missing members of my 'family'. "Oh Gazzy." I choked out clutching him tight.
He continued to cry and I joined him, all confused and scared feelings thrown out the window for the moment.
"Gaz," I sniffled pulling back to get a better look at him, "Where's Ange?" I asked and when a tortured expression crossed his face and the tears came harder I let out a shaky breath.
"No." I mumbled shaking my head furiously, head swimming with images that hadn't surfaced in years.
He brought up a shaky hand and curled in his fist was a piece of crumpled paper. I pried it from his grasp and lead him inside Fang on his other side to keep him from falling.
"Nudge!" I yelled into the apartment and in seconds she was there hair dishevelled and head snapping from left to right to check for a threat before landing on Gazzy.
"Gazzy!" She reacted the exact same way that I did, hugging him as tight as possible while I tried to blink back the tears, fear and anger welling up inside of me as I unfolded the paper.
Then Fang was right behind me running his hand up and down my arm to sooth me.
Angel shall be returned when you die.
My knees gave out, no longer able to hold me up. Fang caught me and picked me up. Once he had placed me on the couch he spoke, "Don't even think about it."
I looked up at him through bleary eyes totally surprised. "What?" I choked out through my shock hazed mind.
"I know what you'll do and I'm not going to let you do it." he told me wrapping his arms around me and pressing his cheek to my hair.
I ignored that because I knew it would lead to an argument that could wait until we were alone.
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A few hours later Nudge and I had coaxed some food into Gazzy and we were about to start questioning him. It was obvious that Fang was just a little uncomfortable with the situation and opted for watching from the kitchen. He had this guarded look in his eyes that I didn't like and I would have asked him about it if I didn't have more pressing issues.
"Gazzy, what happened?" Nudge murmured from her position in front of him.
He blinked twice before realising that she was even there, "Erasers." He croaked out and both Nudge and I sucked in a breath.
"Is she alive Gaz?" I asked straight after. I needed the basics answered before I did something stupid.
He nodded slowly.
"Do you know why they did this?" Nudge asked though all of us knew why.
He hesitated before answering, "Director, he- he said 'make sure she understands the consequences of her actions'." His eyes drifted to me. "He's going to kill her." he whispered brokenly and I shot up, unable to stand it any longer. I threw open the windows and did something I didn't think I'd ever do voluntarily. The second I was out in the air my wings burst out and caught me easily and I was off, as fast as I could.
I didn't even hear Fang behind me until I had lost the anger that had kept me going for the hours I'd been flying. By that point I was out in some mountain range in who-knows-where. I stumbled into a cave opening pretty high up my wings disappearing and heard him land much more gracefully behind me. We just stood there for ages, not saying a word and not moving until I finally broke the silence.
"It's my fault." I whispered.
"No, it's not. You did nothing wrong." Fang said sternly suddenly beside me wrapping his arms around me.
I pushed away from him and put space between us so that I could pace the length of the cave. "I did everything wrong. I should have gotten them out of there months ago."
"As far as any of us knew they were perfectly safe, you did the right thing."
I shook my head, "No. Don't try and make me to feel better about this." I told him angrily, "Angel is probably being tortured right now and here I am doing nothing to stop it!"
I had to bite my cheek to hold in my wings, the metallic taste of blood filling my mouth.
Fang stayed silent while I calmed down but I could feel the despair and hopelessness bubbling dangerously close to the surface. Iggy was dead and soon I'd be adding Angel to the list of people who had died for me. Iggy was already one too many for my liking.
"You had every right to think they were safe-" he began and held up a hand when I opened my mouth to interrupt him, "They had nothing to do with this, it wasn't their fight and keeping them at a distance was the only way to protect them." he stood up and I heard his wings come out with a thwump but he kept them close. "You know that they would have been in more danger if you had gotten them out of there. You just need someone to blame and you've picked yourself."
"It is my fault!" I sighed exasperatedly throwing up my arms, "If I hadn't gone rogue then everything would be fine right now. Iggy would be alive, Gazzy would be sane and Angel wouldn't be being tortured by Erasers!"(Wow that last sentence doesn't sound right…idk)
It was obvious the second I'd said it that I'd hit a nerve and it only took me a split second to realise why.
"Fang-" I started about to apologise profusely but he didn't let me get anything else out.
He shook his head and gave me a sad smile, "It's fine, I get it Max and I don't blame you." He said softly tucking a lock of my newly dyed hair behind my ear. "It would have been easier if you'd just killed me." He agnowledged which made me feel even worse.
I felt shame wash over me and closed my eyes. "I'm sorry." I whispered, "I didn't-" he once again cut me off and I would have been a little irritated if he hadn't kissed me to shut me up. his lips against mine was the perfect thing to get my mind off of things even if it was only for a few second so I kissed him back as hard as I could.
"We'll get Angel back" he told me breathlessly, "but not by giving in. This is obviously one big game to them," He growled and then added in a deadly voice that I'd never heard before "so let's play." His onyx eyes twinkled mischievously and I smirked.
"Payback's a bitch." I whispered and Fang chuckled.
"That it is." He agreed.
Ok I just contradicted everything I said in my last authors note, lol. What can I say my plan's changed. I apologise profusely for the lack of updates (8 days, yikes!) I hope that was ok, I didn't like it but eh I don't like any of my writing. please review guys, I don't want to start putting a minimum review limit on my chappies but if that's what it takes then I'll do it. you don't seem to understand that reviews are the only reason I write on Fanfiction, they keep me going! And besides I love hearing from you! Even if your reviews have nothing to do with my chappie I luv reading them!
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