Disclaimer: l do not own Maximum Ride! Though I do wish

Story taking place after the Final Warning, and written in all different kinds of views. I'm not including Total, because I don't actually like him in the story. If you would like him in this story, in a review or PM just tell me and I might add him in later.

FANG'S POV

Me, Max and the flock were flying over Virginia again. We hadn't come over this way since we left Anne's house, the traitor. We had to come back here because Max's Voice was telling her this was where we were going to save the world from.

I still didn't know whether we should trust the Voice or not. It was usually trustworthy these days, and helped us out a great deal, but I'm afraid that Max will get to reliant on the Voice, and stop relying on us.

I did a quick 360 to determine how the flock were doing. Angel was flying just behind me, with Nudge above us, nattering on and on, faster by the second. Most of us were ignoring her by now. Gazzy and Iggy were flying close together, well, as close as they could get without their wings crashing together. They were murmuring quietly together. I would bet all the money I have, which isn't actually that much, that they were discussing bombs.

Just in front of me, was Max. My Max. I know I probably should label her as that, but it just felt that way nowadays. Ever since we left Antarctica she was closer to me again, like the friends we used to be. I think she went off me for a while because I was slightly flirting with this woman called Brigid. She should have known I was only flirting to get her jealous. I can still remember today when she was jealous back when we were in Virginia, and I had kissed Lissa.

I couldn't have helped it that day. Lissa had been talking, will, flirting crazily with me, when she pounced on me and kissed me on the lips. At first I knew it was wrong, because at that moment I was already in love with Max, and was about to push her away, when the kiss suddenly came out of me. I kept on wishing and wishing max would kiss me like this, but still to this day, the only time she ever kissed me was when she thought I was going to die.

Sure, I've kissed her one or two times, but she's never exactly responded back to me, and has always flown away. I thought I finally had her back when we were at the dock. Everything was perfect, and when I kissed her she didn't fly off straight away. I thought this was great at the time, but I might have frightened her off. I was kissing her as deeply as I could, wrapping my arms around her, hoping to keep her there for good. But I could almost hear the click as her brain started to finally think things through, and she jumped up and flew away. Again.

I swear I love her; I love her with all my heart. But I'm not quite sure that she'll ever love me back. I thought about telling her when we were in the cave, but I couldn't seem to find the right words. Then at the dock, I got too carried away, and now the words seem to be lost to me. I used to sit in front of my mirror at home, back when we had the E-shaped house, and would say the words 'I love you' over and over, quietly so no one else would hear. But now, I know she won't love me back, so what would the point even be in telling her.

As I looked at Max now, I felt my insides jumble around, but kept my face stone cold, impassive. But I still couldn't drag my eyes away from her. She always looked so beautiful when she was flying. Her tawny brown wings swooped gracefully and powerfully in the sky. She kept complaining about how the fringe of her hair kept getting in her eyes, and that her hair just flapped around too much, but I loved it. I still love everything about her, even if she doesn't about me.

As if feeling my gaze, her watchful eyes turned on me. She gave a large smile and my heart seemed to pull. My lips seemed to move on there own and I gave a half smile back. She turned away suddenly and her hair flapped over her face, but I could have sworn I saw the slightest of pink in her cheeks. After a 

moment, she swept her hair back out of her face, and turned around pointing down at a little park beneath us.

"Let's stop down there for night," she said loudly over the blistering wind. We all nodded and headed down towards the cluster of trees. It was getting darker by now, so we weren't as worried about people seeing our landing.

Max landed first and I swooped down and landed next to her. Whilst the others landed I looked at Max, and could see her expression was thoughtful, as she frowned into the air. Her eyes were blank, completely misted over, so I had a feeling she was talking to the voice.

She seemed to shake her head violently before her eyes came back to life and she looked around at the flock all staring at her. She set off towards a clump of trees and we all flew up into the branches. She still seemed to be arguing internally, so the flock went around with their normal things, like chattering. I just sat silently, waiting for Max to finish arguing with the Voice. This was starting to get like a normal thing, so we knew we just had to wait till she had finished.

"I'll take first watch, you guys get some rest," Max startled us all by saying something. The younger ones just nodded.

"I'll take third," Iggy said before leaning back, crossing his arms behind his head and leaning back against his branch.

"Leave's me with second" I spoke quietly. Gazzy was already softly asleep; you could hear his soft snores from where I was sat. Nudge was muttering to herself under her breath, and Angel was clutching Celeste close to her chest, her small body curled around the tiny teddy bear that she had asked, or forced as me and Max like to say, an old lady to get her.

I knew I should be resting but Max looked kind of stressed so I moved nearer to her on my branch and looked at her intently.

"The Voice said that we should find somewhere to stay for a while… It said we should go to Anne's house, she doesn't live there anymore. It said we need to settle down a bit, start our life up, because the next part of saving the world can't take place yet…" she sounded so stressed as she rested her head in her hands. She suddenly looked up at me. "Go to sleep, I'll wake you when it gets to your watch." And with that, she turned away from me and began to lookout. I sighed and patted her shoulder for a second, leaving my hand there. She stiffened for a second, before relaxing, but only slightly.

"It'll be okay Max" I said softly, before moving away on the branch and lying back against the trunk, closing my eyes. I could feel Max's stare still on me, before she began to look around again. And after that I fell asleep.

So that's the first chapter! Hope you all like it. I've just been kind of away for a while, my friend came down for a visit, and now he's gone I have absolutely nothing to do! So I'm going to be updating this quite a bit. Please review and tell me what you think, and I might be able to post the next chapter a bit later on.