A/N: hi there and thank you for doing the thing and deciding to read this. this AU is loosely based off of the book series, Maximum Ride and i hope this proves to be enjoyable! i would make a list of possible side ships for this but since i haven't finished designing most of the trolls int his AU yet, it's all pretty up in the air but if you want to see a pairing in this as a side pairing, let me know and i'll see what i can do! the main pairing in this is obviously SolKat, though.

The twelve of you had escaped the genetic engineering labs three years ago. Each of you had your own freakish mutations to come from being raised in cages and treated like animals. Of course, you suppose you were animals, since none of your DNA was one hundred percent human.

You all escaped and traveled far away, then found a small town to settle down in. You all split up, living together in small groups in various parts of town. Some of you had been luckier than others with your living arrangements.

Your living arrangements included sharing a cramped, one-bedroom apartment with a tall, lanky, brown-haired, bipolar hacker, known as Sollux Captor. You two had been best friends for a long time, ever since you could remember. Your cage in the lab was right next to his, as well as next to Gamzee's on your other side. Sollux's mutations weren't all too noticeable to the general population, due to the fact that manipulating electric currents in the air and telekinesis were pretty damn hideable. Except there was another mutation he had, and it caused him daily agony. He is able to shoot powerful blasts from his eyes but they cause a lot of damage and fuck no, you are NOT letting him do that anywhere near your new home and uprooting you, him, and the other ten of you. You wish you could, though. Maybe you should take him out into the woods with you some day and let him go wild. You know that the power has been building up for three years in his eyes and it's causing him to have the worst migraines and even WORSE mood swings as the days go by.

You land far enough into the woods to not be seen by anyone; not that anyone walks past the woods this late at night but you can never be too careful. You fold your grey wings back to their cramped position and pull on one of your many large grey hoodies and walk back to the cramped apartment you share with Captor. You walk about a half hour, the wind blowing through and even further fucking up your white hair.

As soon as you enter your apartment, you notice him facedown on the couch in the small living area. Great, another awful migraine. He didn't used to get them daily but you feel as it he gets them every fucking day now.

You walk over to him and pull off your hoodie so your wings could fold the correct and non-painful way. Nobody can see them in the privacy of your shared apartment, so it didn't matter if you exposed them here. "Sollux Captor, roll the fuck over and sit up a little so I can help you with that utter abomination of a headache you have," You order softly.

He obliges with a groan and you slide underneath him, settling your legs on either side of him and letting him lean back against you. You firmly but gently rub his temples and he lolls his head back, closing his tired eyes.

"Why don't you come into the woods with me tomorrow night? If you think I'm going to put up with giving you daily, hell even twice daily, temple massages for much longer, you are sadly mistaken," You offer. His heterochromatic eyes, one a deep blue and the other a reddish brown open and meet your freakish bright red ones when you speak.

"Are you sure that would be a good idea, KK? I could thtart a foretht fire or thome shit and I don't think that would do a very good job at keeping uth hidden," He states, sighing.

"We'll be fine, you assmunch. The forest is deep enough that even if there was a fire, nobody would really notice as long as we go deep enough. I also saw some kind of canyon on the other side and it's deserted out there, too," You respond, glancing over to the clock on the cablebox. "Fuck, it's three o'clock in the morning, let's head to bed."

He stands up stiffly, wincing in a bit of pain from his headache and you get up as well. He walks in front of you and you both enter your shared bedroom. You toss your hoodie into a hamper for dirty clothes and remove your black jeans, then slip into your side of your shared bed on your stomach. You let your right wing stretch and trail onto the floor, touching the wall due to your wingspan and the small size of the room. You let your other wing raise up a bit and wait for Sollux to get into the bed.

He soon joins you and you settle your left wing over him, letting it stretch out as well. You notice something you never did notice before, that being how nice it feels to have his body heat touching your wing and you wonder what it must feel like to have his body heat all over you. You feel really ashamed at the thought and turn your head away from his probably already asleep form, and soon you fall into a deep sleep of nightmares as well.