Hey guys, I'm so sorry for the tremendous delay! If there's anyone out there still reading let me know and I'll continue and finish up the story.

Max's POV

My face burned. I'm not sure whether it was the fact that Fang had just slapped me or what had just transpired. What had happened? Fang was standing back staring at me, breathing heavily. His strong and sculpted chest moving up and down. His arms tensed, every muscle accentuated by STOP. I commanded myself to stop! What the heck is wrong with me? Yeah I love Fang, but surely not so much that all I can think to do is to jump him every time he looks at me. I surveyed the room. There was paper and shattered glass scattered across the room. Four thousand thoughts ran through my head. What do I say now? Should I laugh? Should I act like nothing happened? Do I apologise? Are things going to be weird between us now? How is the rest of the flock going to react? JEB TELL ME WHAT TO DO! I shook my head like a dog to try filter the noise I was creating in my own head. I also kind of hoped Jeb would suddenly appear and tell me what to do. Actually no, because if he appeared that meant he would have listened in to all of that…eeeewww…. Talk about an overprotective dad….

"Max?"

I looked up, Fang was standing there concern plastered on his face. I could tell he wanted to approach me, but I think he knew better.

"Fang. We have to get out of here. Where's the rest of the flock?" Action mode, fighting stance, I'm back.

"I left them in a cave not far from here," he responded quietly, "They should be safe."

"Ok, we need a plan. Everything is electrocuted, so we're not going to be able to use force."

"I have a plan."

Gosh Fang, can you be more melodramatic?

"You going to let me know anytime soon?" I asked sarcastically.

Fang paused, his eyes grazing down my body, "Um," he passed me my torn lingerie, "Here's some clothes"

Oh…

I quickly tried to cover myself as much as possible with what now was torn up bits of lace. NO time to be embarrassed Max. The flock needs you.

"Ok so they're experimenting on us, what else is new. But this time they need both of us for the experiment right? They're, they're, well they want to know, you know if I can, well if we can…" I don't think Fang had ever stuttered so much in his life.

"They want to see if I can get pregnant and they can create a flock army. Oh get over it Fang, you've seen me naked, talking about it can't be this awkward!" I said exasperated.

Fang didn't smile. Clearly it was still awkward. Who knew that touching your best friend in places could lead to this much tension?

"Right," Fang continued, "So we give them what we want."

"WHAT!?"

"No, no, I mean we pretend to. Calm down!" Fang snickered slightly when I started advancing towards him ready to kick his toned, tight butt, I mean his butt. "They injected us with something, something that I dunno, increased our passi- our whatever, But we managed to stop before anything serious happened."

I looked over at the broken chair, the shattered glass, the pile of destruction, "Yeah, we did didn't we?"

Fang stared and then his mouth twitched. He was finally smiling! We locked eyes for a moment longer and I felt like the plan clicked into both of our brains. Fang and Max are back. As in the indestructible bird kid team, not the lingerie wearing… anyway.

"You ready?" Fang whispered. I shivered. In one swift moment Fang lifted me up, I threw my legs around him and planted my lips firmly on his. I ran my hands through his incredible hair. I could feel blood rushing to places… the back of my neck, my shoulders felt hot and prickly… so it begun.

Hope you enjoyed the latest chapter. Again I am so incredibly sorry about the long delay! I know it's quite a short chapter, just getting back into the flow - let me know if you'd like me to continue, what you did and didn't like about the chapter, or where you'd like to see me take the story. Thank you for your loyal support if you're still here, it means a lot :)