Chapter: 4

The next morning was the usual.

Two erasers came in the room carrying plates of food; they put a plate in front of each of them. They were about to leave when for the first time in a week, Max spoke.

"I'm not eating those."

She didn't look at the erasers when she spoke, didn't look at the others when they stared at her amusedly, but yet, her voice was strong like usual. Fang looked at her plate and noticed that it was full with foods while the other plates didn't even cover a one-third.

The erasers glared at her for a few moments, but eventually they had to speak because the glare wasn't really of use.

"Sure you are bitch." One of them growled from its throat.

This time Max looked up. "No, I'm not."

And it was decided.

Max wasn't gone. She was just lost. And she only needs help to find her way back.

She made them give others the same amount of food as hers. But as they were left alone again, she didn't talk. She just had her breakfast, stared at the white walls, and thought Fuck.

Nudge kept staring at her; she didn't know how it was possible that she still hadn't waked up from this nightmare. Everything was so weird and freaky. They got caught and found out that the School wasn't totally destroyed and there were still erasers with developed powers and Omega and Marian Janssen were still there doing their evil work and Max was being raped and she was pregnant and Omega was the father and Max wouldn't talk and wouldn't look at them and Angel couldn't read her mind and everything, it was all so freaky. Nudge really didn't like it. And none of them did. Even Iggy didn't make any more jokes. He would just sit there all day listening others trying to make Max talk. And for the first time, he was really grateful that he didn't have to see Max like this. Gazzy was also as quiet as Iggy and Angel was always trying to get into Max's head. Though last night Fang had told her not to, assuming that Max would want her space and obviously he didn't want Angel to see what that bastard had done to Max. And obviously Angel wasn't listening to him.

So yeah. Though Nudge didn't know the last few things, it still sucked and she still wondered why she hadn't waked up from this nightmare.

Later that day, the Director again came in with a few erasers and again she stood in front of the half circle with her oh-I-am-so-powerful-glory and glared at them. Max stared at her and wondered what was up. Because to be truthful, she hadn't come like this with so many erasers since the first day. Even yesterday, there were only two erasers.

"Get him!" Her fingers snapped just like her voice. And before Max could understand anything else, they unlocked Iggy's crate and pulled him out by neck.

"What?" Max tried to grab him through the bars but he was too far. "Where are you taking him?"

"To run an experiment." The Director answered bluntly.

"But you said you wouldn't do anything to them if I listened to you."

"Did I?" She smirked.

"No! Don't you dare to touch him."

"Duh. I am touching him. Well not me….but you get it right?" She came closer and stood in front of Max's crate. "Don't worry Maximum. We're running a test on enhanced vision, it is a dangerous one and we are running it for the first time so it's a bit risky too. The reason we chose him is because if it is successful than he can get his vision back. And if it fails, oh well, he has nothing to lose." She took a few steps back and smiled. "You will see him by dawn hopefully."

They gave him back by dawn. His eyes were bandaged and he was unconscious. The white coats with him were discussing how the operation was fabulous and how he had a good chance of getting his visions back.

But unfortunately, Max never found out if he did.

After a few days they took her to run tests again. Everything was the same. They still hadn't opened the bandages of Iggy's eyes because it was a difficult surgery and his eyes weren't fully healed yet.

Everything was the same except the slight bulge of Max's stomach which she had noticed that day.

They put her in a hospital bed and strapped her hands and legs after running a few tests. Then they massaged a jelly like transparent thing which seemed like some kind of cream on her stomach and put some machine in there which she didn't feel like observing. And an image of the inside of her stomach started on a monitor. It was showing something weird in it which was beating and making a heart like noise.

A beating heart. She thought. What the heck?

"Heart- beat is fast." The female doctor stated as the male on wrote something in a clip-board. "Faster than an avian-hybrid. It's strong and it's growing fast."

Max was determined about not interrupting but she didn't know when the words left her mouth.

"Why is it growing fast?"

The female doctor stared at her awkwardly while the male one was preparing to snap at her. But she raised her hand and silenced him.

"It is a combination of two different species." She said. "That is why you conceived too fast and though it has been only two weeks, you're almost half and a months pregnant." She turned her head towards the monitor again and went through the test reports. "It isn't settled yet about the fetus." She started to describe it again. "After born, it can be a normal infant or it can be inhumanely weak or strong…"

"What…what do you mean by that?"

At first Max thought that she would get angry and would snap at her, but instead she looked at the male doctor and gestured him to go outside. When the male doctor was gone she looked at the monitor and ignored Max's gaze.

"The Director is running this test to see what kind of baby you produce." She said in a calm voice. "If it is normal, or weak, or strong. Which is hard to tell now. We can only tell it after the baby is born. All we know is that the baby won't be normal. It would either be really weak and harmless, or it would be inhumanely strong and harmful. Which, by the way, the Director wants. If it is strong, it's going to be dangerous to everyone and to world and may be it's also going to be uncontrollable."

Max breathed heavily and asked the next question. "What if it's weak?"

This time she faced Max and looked right into her eyes. "It would be of no use and they are going to kill it."