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The Angel Experiment

Previously in The Angel Experiment,

I blinked and swam towards consciousness. I made the mistake of looking up. A 14 year old boy was looking down at me. He wore a dark blue jacket and had light golden brown eyes with black hair. "Hello Emily," said Ari kindly. " I haven't seen you in a long time. I missed you Em."

Im hallucinating. I thought dazedly. Everything else in my vision faded away.I could only see Ari, smiling at me. Ari was the one that had looked after me when Max and the rest abandoned me after we broke out of the school had helped me learn how to fly- I hadn't had enough space to try 'd fed me, clothed me, and taught me survival skills, how to fight, and how to 'd told jokes and read stories and let me play video 'd made me dinner and tucked me in at I'd felt afraid, I'd remind myself that Ari was here and he would protect me, and then i'd always felt better.

Two years ago he disappeared.

For the last 2 years, I'd missed him so much, with a horrible,aching, wailing pain that just wouldn't stop. You know- like if your mom or dad died. It had been so awful in the beginning, when he hadn't come home...

Dead or alive, he'd been my hero. Every day. For the last 3 years.

"I know your surprised," he said with a smile. "Come on. I need to talk to you."

Slowly I stood up on wobbly legs. My muscles groaned when I stood up. Ari and I walked past a bank of computers, out of sight of everyone. A door led to a smaller, less lablike room furnished with couches, a table and chairs, a sink, a microwave.

" Sit down,please," he said, gesturing to a chair. " Emily I have to tell you something," He whispered into my ear, " Im gonna help get all of you out of here, and Im sorry about what happened 2 years whitcoats had grabbed me on my way home from work."

I looked at him steadily, he paused as if giving me time to respond, then sat down next to me. It was Ari-my brain finally accepted the inescapable truth. I recognized the fine pink scar on his jawline, the perfect straightness of his was not his evil twin, it was truly him, he wasnt dead.

"You must have so many questions," he said. "I don't even know where to start. I just- I'm so sorry about this. I wish I could explain what I'd give to see you smile again."

How about getting me out of here now!

I sat there, conscious that there was blood on my shirt, my face hurt, that I was hungry. I said nothing, and just one tear escaped and rolled down my cheek. He looked at me and I could see the pain in those golden brown eyes of his and he leaned closer, and closer until his perfect nose was barely brushing against mine. I kissed him, slowly then it escalated quickly and I felt his tounge in my mouth, I sliped my tounge into his mouth and we made out. I felt him break the kiss and opened my eyes, I guess at one point I closed them. " So..." I said. Just then the door opened and a white coat grabbed me away. He shoved me into my dog crate. I slowly looked around and saw Angel. " You okay?" she asked anxiously, pressing her little face to the side of her cage. I nodded, "I'm okay"

Hours went by.I couldn't tell angel anything about what happened with Ari.I saw Angel slump against the side of her crate, worn out. I got a headache and when I shut my eyes all these images danced on the back of my eyelids. Finally, much later, the door to the lab opened. A crowd came in, and I heard human like voices and Eraserlike croons and laughs. They wheeled a flatbed cart into our room.

" I only count 3" a man in a prissy, concerned voice. An eraser kicked my cage. Angel's cage was grabbed roughly and swung onto the cart like luggage. She winced as her cheek hit the side of her cage hard. In the next second my cage was swung up onto the cart as well, then Ari's was pushed us through wide doulbe doors. The hall outside was painfully bright and overlaid with the smells of floor cleaner and office machines. Clutching the bars of my crate, I peered out, trying to recognize a doorway, an office, anything telling me what section of the school we were in. The erasers poked their fingers through the bars of our cages, trying to scratch us, taunting us, literally rattling our cages. I wondered how much strength would it take to break an erasers finger. We took a sharp left turn and got pushed through more double doors, and then we were outside. I inhaled eagerly, but even outdoors at the school the air was tainted and foul. I looked around, we were in the back yard of the school. The yard i used to look out at, in the dead of night, from my lab window. The yard where I watched them be trained to tear prey limb from limb. Which was probably why they were laughing.

Ari leaned over to me and through the bars of our cages his finger just barely reached through to poke me. So I licked his finger and he smiled. The whitecoats started yelling at me and an eraser kicked my cage the next kick sent my cage flying. I landed next to Angel so i unlocked her cage and told her to go. I started smiling when I saw the hawks in the sky circling down aiming for hawk landed on my cage, it broke open the lock and attacked an oncoming eraser.I ran over to Ari's crate and unlatched. The whitecoats fell on me, but a regular grown-up versus an angry Emily dosen't stand a chance. I backhanded one against the jaw, feeling teeth knock loose. The other I kicked right under his double chin. His head jerked back and he dropped like a by, one of the female whitecoats was struggling to her feet. I darted toward her, then jumped into the air, my right leg swinging out in a huge roundhouse kick. I hit her in the chest, wham! She sank to her knees, unable to breathe, a stunned look on her face.

"Think of this as an occupational hazard you bitch!" I snarled, Then spun to check on everything else. Ari was smashing an erasers face, and angel was safely hovering above. " Ari let's go!" I yelled to him.

"Emily!"

That voice tugged my gaze forward.

Jeb stood down there. He must have gotten caught by a hawk because his white coat was torn, his shoulder red with blood. "Emily!" he yelled again. The expression on his face wasn't anger- it was something i didn't recognize. " Em, please this was all a test! don't you get it? You were safe here! This was only a test! You have to trust me- please, im the only one you can trust! come back!"

" I don't think so." I said tiredly. the I pushed down hard and let my wings carry me far away, up to where my family was waiting.

Two hours later a Lake came into view, along with a cliff top covered with the huge hawks who had rescued us. The 3 of us, together again, landed gratefully on a scraped out ledge.

Angel collapsed onto the cool, dust covered floor of a cave. I sat down next to her, stroking her hair.

" I thought I would never see you again," she said, and a single tear rolled down her face. "They did all kinds of stuff to me , . Terrible."

" I would never quit trying to get you back," I told her, feeling like my heart was going to overflow. "There's no way I would ever let them keep you or Ari. They would have to kill me first."

Ari was examining his sneakers with great interest. Angel threw her arms around me and said " I love you so much Emily."

" Yeah me too Em," Ari said." I don't care if we live on a cliff or a house,a carboard box, Home is when we are all together and happy." I hugged him and he nestled against me, looking happy. Later on,we all slept, and woke in the night to a heavy rain, a miracle in the desert. We scramble up tp the ledge and the rain pour down on us, washing on blood, dirt, memories, and pain. Even raindrops hitting my nose hurt, but I held my arms open to the sky and felt clean and cold and happy. I shivered and Ari rubbed my shoulders. I looked at him, his eyes a sweet golden brown. "Jeb knows our house," I said very softly. Ari nodded. " Can't ever go back, guess we need a new home."

"Yes," I said thinking. I closed my eyes and opened my mouth slightly, inhaling the chill, rain-washed air. I opened my eyes.

"East," I said, feeling the rightness of it.

" We'll go East."