– Some place else –
"Megan!" Iggy huffed instantly regretting it though when his own voice broke the perfect silence that had allowed him to 'see' where she was.
He spun when he felt a prick on his leg and then a laugh a few meters away.
"Over here." She called but he didn't move an inch.
"If you don't move," She said closer this time.
still he didn't move.
"Then you won't find me." She finished just before his hand shot out and locked around her neck. She gasped in surprise eyes widening and mouth dropping open.
"You were saying?" He muttered barely containing the smug smile he wanted to let spread across his face.
Megan tugged his hand away from her throat and nodded in approval completely forgetting for a moment that he was blind. "Finally, some progress." She said flippantly and Iggy frowned.
"It's only been two hours!" he said defensively.
Megan ignored him and aimed a punch at his stomach.
Caught completely by surprise Iggy doubled over.
And so the training continued late into the night. Every time Iggy managed to catch Megan she would push him that much harder but she had to admit that he was a fast learner.
"Alright you two, calm down." A bored voice came from the door and both people froze id strike.
"Dad." Megan straightened up and Iggy did the same.
"What are you doing here?" Iggy snapped recognising the voice instantly.
Jeb sighed and waved his hand dismissively in Iggy's direction, "There is no time for your anger Iggy something rather unexpected has come up."
Megan frowned slightly, what could be so bad that he would come to tell us personally? A chill ran up her spine when something popped into her mind. Max is dead was the first thing she could think of but then dismissed it. No he wouldn't put himself in danger to tell Iggy that.
"Well re you going to tell me or just stand there?" Iggy growled clenching his fists.
"I'm afraid Zephyr is now with Max." He told them sadly.
This only confused Megan, "Why's that bad? I thought that was the whole point to get them back together."
Jeb sighed, "There have been a few…complications."
"Complications." Iggy repeated with a tense nod. "And do those complications involve any of my friends getting hurt?"
"Unfortunately yes." Jeb admitted and before anyone could even blink Iggy had crossed the room and slammed Jeb roughly against the wall, hand gripping his neck tightly.
"You gave me your word that you would keep them safe." Iggy yelled.
"Iggy!" Megan cried trying to pull him off her father.
"No, leave him." Jeb choked out.
Iggy's anger bubbled out a few seconds later and he let Jeb fall to the floor. "You bastard." Iggy hissed. "I trusted you."
"I am sorry Iggy but there was nothing I could have done to prevent it. I didn't even know it was happening until a few minutes ago." Jeb continued as if Iggy had not just tried to kill him.
"What happened?" Megan asked watching Iggy retrace his steps and drop down onto the bed to bury his face in his hands.
"Angel has been taken while Zephyr was sent to Max."
"Ok, that's not too bad though, at least they're alive."
Iggy gave an angry laugh, "Oh yes, that's not so bad. It's not like there are worse things than death." He spat.
"Iggy." Jeb warned but Iggy just flipped him off.
"Dad," Megan started her patience wearing thin. "I'm not a baby, just tell me."
Jeb nodded sadly, "Over the past two weeks Angel and Zephyr have been tortured for information on Max, Fang and Nudge."
"Why would they torture them? They haven't seen or heard from Max in over three months." Megan reasoned.
Jeb pinched the bridge of his nose. "Ah but that isn't true. Angel has had contact with Nudge over the months but she thought it had gone unnoticed unfortunately she was wrong."
Megan thought about this for a minute, "Well can't you get Angel out?"
Jeb shook his head, "No I cannot. This is something that Max must do on her own."
Iggy snorted, "She's done everything on her own why would she need your help now?"
The comment obviously affected Jeb and Megan frowned. Her father had never displayed any form of weakness before but then she internally sighed. But Max is his weakness. She felt sadness well up inside of her along with a stabbing jealousy directed at the sister she'd never met before.
"I may not have helped in the most obvious of ways Iggy but I have always been there to protect her."
Iggy rolled his eyes, "Yeah sure, whatever helps you sleep at night."
– Washington –
Gazzy was fast asleep when Fang and I returned in the early morning. Nudge was in the kitchen fixing a quick breakfast when we landed on the balcony. Admittedly it possibly wasn't the best idea to keep on flying around so carelessly in a heavily populated area.
"You need some sleep." Fang noted brushing the circles under my eyes,
"One to talk." I gave him a pointed look and a smile ghosted over his face.
"Fine, how about this: we go get just a few hours sleep while Nudge takes care of Gazzy so that we're fresh and awake when we start figuring out how we're actually gonna do this."
I hesitated, "They know where we are Fang. Do you really think it's a good idea to have only Nudge awake? I mean if it comes to a fight Gazzy isn't exactly gonna be much help."
"I thought you were supposed to be the assassin." He said under his breath and I glared at him, "Gazzy is a message." He said simply pulling me towards my bedroom. "They're not going to do anything until you do so we can relax a little." he assured but I still wasn't convinced.
He was right in the fact that Gazzy was a message but I really wouldn't put it passed them to barge in and just kill us if I took too long to do it myself. "I don't know…"
He groaned, "We've killed seven Hunters Max with only one…casualty." he hesitated, unsure if that was the right word.
I gestured for him to continue.
"Even you said it was impossible to survive the Hunters but we're still here. They can't keep sending more and more so they've done the only thing they can: use your weakness against you."
I truly hated it when he figured out stuff before me. "Yeah yeah yeah." I grumbled flopping down on the bed.
Fang chuckled.
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When I woke up later I was snuggled up to Fang's side with the curtains drawn and no light what-so-ever.
My still groggy mind took a few minutes to process this and I swore under my breath when I realised we'd slept the whole day. I would have woken Fang up but there really was no point since Nudge was bound to be asleep by now.
I brushed the hair out of Fang's face and kissed his cheek before worming out of his arms. Of course Fang woke up because of this and sat up in confusion.
"Max?" he slurred sleepily glancing around the room.
"Hey." I whispered when his eyes focused on me.
"What you doin up?" he asked stretching. Then he noticed the lack of light coming from behind the curtains "Well that was a nice nap." He sighed, lying back down. "Time for bed."
"We slept the whole day! How can you still be tired?" I laughed.
"Very easily." He mumbled hand shooting out to grab my hand and pull me back down onto the bed. "And you're going to join me." he said simply wrapping me in a vice like grip.
"Fang!" I tried to get him to let me go but he was having none of it, "Please let me go." I begged and stopped struggling.
"No."
"Pretty pretty please?" I whined managing to turn and face him to pout at him.
He pretended to consider this before shaking his head.
"Meany."
Fang shrugged not denying it.
Neither of us said anything after that, I just curled up closer to him and we lay in silence. Fang's hand slipped under my shirt and began rubbing circles between my shoulder blades.
"I forgot to tell you yesterday." Fang said breaking the silence.
I hadn't even realised I had been falling asleep until his voice woke me with a start. "Hmm?"
"I forgot to tell you." He repeated slowly pressing his lips to my forehead. "Well done."
He could sense my confusion and after a few more minutes and a couple of kisses peppered across my face he continued, "You flew by yourself without any help." He explained, "And you did amazingly."
I rolled my eyes, "You're just saying that to get me to fly again."
He shook his head and admitted "No, I'm actually not. It took me months to build up the stamina to fly for so long."
"Well I am good at everything."
– Washington – (Ok, this is in Washington but not with Max and Fang, bear with me I've already dug myself a big fat hole so I figured why not do it thoroughly?)
Shay crouched on the edge of the building watching the two people through the open window.
"You shouldn't be up here." A calm voice came from behind her and taking a deep breath she turned to face the tall blond.
"Neither should you." Shay said firmly, readjusting the gun at her waist.
"Father insists that we not interfere." Megan continued as Shay made her way towards the door.
"But you're here anyway. From the tone and posture I'm guessing you want me to help you." Shay raised an eyebrow at Megan who scowled.
"She's my sister."
Shay scoffed, "Don't try that with me. I know you don't give a crap if she's shot down now. You're only concerned about the blind boy."
Megan fumed at that, hands clenching into fists. "This has nothing to do with Iggy." She snapped. "They need help."
Shay sighed boredly, "You really need to work on lying." She commented, "Unfortunately for you I have no desire to help them at the moment. They are perfectly safe and until Itex knocks down their door that's how it's going to stay."
Megan shook her head as Shay opened the door, "Father told us about Angel and Zephyr today."
Shay froze in her spot, hand still on the handle.
"From what I've found they've been tortured for weeks."
Shay began to shake with anger and clamped her teeth tightly together.
"Angel is still there but you already knew that didn't you? You've known for a while now." Megan accused icily.
Ever so slowly Shay turned around. "It was best."
"How was it best?" Megan demanded.
"Iggy had just died!" Shay shouted, unable to control her anger any longer. "Do you think Max would have just let it pass? First Iggy and now Zephyre and Angel? She was at her breaking point and I wasn't about to send her to her death!"
"You had no right to keep that information!" Megan yelled back with just as much intensity.
"I had every right." Shay spat. "They were my family."
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