"Maaaaaaax!" Nudge was whining.

"What?" I replied knowing that I was going to be regretting it.

"Max can we please sleep in a hotel? I mean if we are going to Antarctica, then we might as well rest up before we leave the border at least." Nudge continued to list the pros of sleeping in a hotel while I tried to list an equal amount of cons, unfortunately, long story short, there were more pros then cons.

We reluctantly landed (okay, so I was the only one being reluctant) and went into a small Comfort Inn. I got us two adjoining rooms. Each room had two beds, along with its own table and two chairs per room.

We've stayed in worse conditions.

I decided to try and get some laundry done. I told everybody to gather their dirty clothes and give them to me. Angel and Nudge had there's together within the first five minute, which left Nudge the chance to shower and Angel an opportunity to play with Total Iggy and Gazzy needed a little bit more time to determine whether their socks were dirty or just naturally that color. Fang was in the shower and by the time he got out I had A full load of laundry to take down.

"Fang, get dressed and bring your dirty clothes down." I yelled into the boy's room before going down the hall to put in my clothes. I had just put in the first load of laundry when I felt a prickly sensation at the back of my neck. I spun around, tensed up and ready to fight… then promptly relaxed when I saw it was just Fang.

"Hey, do you have your laundry? 'Cause I just put in the first load, which means… Fang, what's wrong with your eyes?" I had suddenly noticed that Fang's eyes had changed from their deep chocolate brown to a flat black that caused his pupils to disappear. He was moving closer to me, a slight smirk on his face.

"Fang, what are you doing?" He was almost touching me now. His hand moved up to catch my hip. I flinched instinctively at the touch. It was more intimate then anything I had experienced (that's saying a lot considering I grew up in a steel cage, note: sarcasm.) but as soon as I moved he brought his other hand up to place it around my neck, causing our foreheads to collide.

If this had been anyone else touching me like that I am sure I would have been able to get away fairly easily but this…this was Fang. I felt so right being here and I don't think anything short of the world splitting in two would make me move from that position. I felt an odd feeling course through my body all of a sudden. It felt hot, not a happy warm glow, a searing heat was going through my blood and I didn't know what I was doing or where I was. All I knew was that Fang was in front of me and I just wanted him. I needed him if I wanted stop feeling this heat; I needed all of him to be mine.

Realizing this, I flung my arms up to lock around his neck and I pulled him down to me. Our lips met with what, at the time, seemed like enough force to shatter the cosmos. He was so warm and hard, his lips were a different kind of softness then I had ever felt. He was moving fiercely, viciously, against me and it almost hurt but mostly made me want more. I moved my hands up to knot around his hair. His hair was so long that it covered most of my hand and allowed me to grip it tightly. I balled my fists up and tugged him closer to me. He broke our kiss for the shortest of nanoseconds to hiss in what I later realized must have been pain, but I didn't understand that. All I knew was that his hand was moving down my thigh to my knee forcing it up so that my right leg was wrapped around his waist.

Max, you are in heat and I must warn you that in roughly 3.42 minutes the flock will come looking for you.

I was having trouble focusing so it took me a bit of time to process what the voice was saying which is why it took the sound of a door closing to shake me out of whatever was happening.

It took all of my strength to push Fang away and to get my leg back on the floor. He was still pressing into me his mouth now attempting to mark my neck. I tried forcing him away from me again but didn't really do anything.

"Fang we have to stop, the flock is coming." I tried to stay calm and reasonable even though my brain was short-circuiting because my new favorite bird boy was sucking on the spot right under my ear on my neck.

"Fang, please!" This time I pushed him away and forced him to look me in the eyes. He was breathing hard and it took all of my will power not to pull him back to me. His cheeks were colored under his olive skin and his hair was a mess. His eyes were still dark, not their normal brown but not the odd black. I was starting to see his pupils when I heard a voice.

"Max? Fang? Are you guys there because Iggy was making all these weird comments about what you guys might be doing and…" Fang, thankfully, had moved back away from me when he heard Nudge's voice but that still couldn't fix the fact that my hair was a mess from where Fang's finger's had tangled it up and that my shirt was halfway up my stomach. Fang didn't look too much better. "It looks like Iggy was right." Nudge said with an impish grin. "I'll just leave you two alone." she said with a wave at our messy state, and left.

Normally I would have run after her but I had the feeling my attention was more needed here.

"Fang? Are you okay?" I was almost afraid of the answer but I'd asked the questions anyway.

"Max, I am so sorry." He said. He was looking at my face but not in my eyes. "I don't know what happened. I just came to tell you that I would do my own laundry later and that Iggy and Gazzy were planning on making a bomb out of the hotel alarm clock and suddenly…I couldn't focus it was…weird. It was really, really weird." After he said this he stopped even trying to look at my face and settled, instead, on his shoes. "I remember the cave incident and I am really sorry. I better go now." He didn't even wait for me before he turned and walked out of the little laundry room.

"Fang, wait…

"Fang wait…"

I saw his shoulders turn and his head move but that was the last I remembered.

Before I understood what was happening I found myself pressed against the wall, again, only this time both my legs were wrapped around Fang's waist. I managed to pull back just enough so that I could breath and talk, my lips still grazing his as they formed words and sentences.

"No, Fang, I'm so so sorry. I was confused and I didn't know what to do and all I knew was that if we kept kissing it would turn into something bad and I didn't want that to happen and I…" I didn't get a chance to finish my rant because Fang had smiled. It was enough to let every thought I had ever had fly out the window. He moved his mouth back on to mine, sweeter this time, and it just felt so right. Moving with him was as natural as flying for me. I didn't want to stop for anything so I tried not to but at some point I stated to feel a shooting pain in my lungs that told me if I didn't breathe soon I would die. (I hate those stupid living creature limitations.)

I pulled back to rest my forehead on his and I just let our breathing mingle. Our chests moved together and I couldn't feel anything other then him.

"Why don't we stay here for a few days? Antarctica is a ways away and we don't know if we will get a chance to rest like we can now." Fang broke the silence to reason with me. I could feel why he really wanted to stay behind his words, I felt it too.

"Lets go tell the Flock then, I think they were talking about going swimming in the pool down the hall." I suggested. I wanted to be seductive and I think it worked because Fang carried me to the room. We were at the door when he finally let me down so that he could kiss me. We stood that way for a minute just wanting to be with each other, but I had a feeling that if we kept it up Iggy would hear us and that would certainly not be a good thing.

"Come on, Iggy is gonna hear." I said, voicing my thoughts.

"One more." he replied, breathing the words into my ear. It sent a shudder up my back and forced me to reach back up to kiss him.

"Ok now we seriously have to go." I tried again after a bit more kissing.

He sighed, "Fine." He opened the door for me and let me pass, forcing me to brush against his chest.

"Hey, Flock?" I called in. "Listen, I know you want to go down to the pool but I have to take care of the laundry so you guys, just go down without me and Iggy, I swear if anything happens to anyone on your watch you are dead meat." I turned into the other room to see the flock already in their bathing suits and grabbing towels from the bathroom.

"I had a feeling you guys would want us out of the room, but don't worry, I didn't tell them anything, just that you guys said we could go down to the pool." Nudge said with a suggestive smirk. God, for an eleven year old she knows a lot!

"Have fun!" Iggy said in his smart ass way of his. I knew that even though Nudge hadn't told him, he knew why we wanted the room to ourselves, and Angel probably read Nudge's mind. How could I tell? She was beaming at us and when she left she gave me a bigger hug then ever. Gazzy was probably the only one who didn't know but it wouldn't be long before he figured it out or one of the others told him. He just looked up at me and Fang innocently and left with the others.

That left Fang and I alone.