Disclaimer- Don't own Maximum Ride :( just the OC I created, Jamie, Ben, Brittany, Rose, and Nate

Author Note- I am so so so sorry about not updating in like a century! I feel so bad :( I go t caught up in being sent to the emergency room and being sick, and basketball championships, and failing algebra, and stuff. None of my excuses matter, because I am on spring break now and I will try to update allot!

Author Note 2 (kinda important!)- If you haven't read "Forgotten" you are gonna be a little lost from now on. You might wanna go back and read that, then come back cause there is re-occurring drama, or at least drama that happens because of stuff that happens in that one. Mkay?

Author Note 3- This chapter more focuses on the set up for the huge drama that is gonna explode in the adorable town of Malpath, so it focuses some on the OC's feelings on Max's leaving, and Brittany, Rose, and Nate having been turned into Erasers in "Forgotten". Max comes in at the end, setting up for the drama, like I said. Just go with the flow?

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Thanks! :) I'm gonna try and make this one just as good.

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Chapter 2

Jamie sighed. It had been a long day between the 3 tests and the gown fittings. Slipping into the bathroom she slid her fingers under the faucet and rubbed the cool water on her temples. A fierce headache was ripping through her head and she just wanted to go home… after drama and student council of course. Jamie looked at her perfect reflection. Her blonde hair was curled and hanging in waves around her perfect Florida tanned face. Her dark green eyes were bright and alert and the eye liner and shadow around them made her look more attentive than she actually was. She was dressed in an old faded pair of blue jeans, a black and pink football jersey, red converse, and had a black choker around her neck. None of her cool, calm, unruffled exterior showed the war that was raging around her emotions. It was graduation soon, and Max wasn't here. She hadn't seen or heard from Max since she had killed that Eraser two Octobers ago. She had looked so different then. It had only been six months and the girl looked like she had been tortured. Jamie was almost hesitant about wondering about what she would look like after two years. Not that it mattered. Max was practically her sister and she would love her no matter what happened. Sighing, Jamie scooped up her folders off the floor. As she glanced in the mirror one last time, she felt a strange sense that she should go find Ben and make sure he was okay. With one last concerned look at her reflection, she scurried out of the bathroom. A high laugh drifted out of the stall behind where Jamie had been standing moments ago. The door swung open and a girl strolled out. She might have been pretty if her features hadn't been half morphed into a horrid wolf type monster.

"Oh Jamie." Eraser-Brittany chuckled, tossing her black hair. "We are gonna have fun with you and your little lover-boy."

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Nate lay sprawled out in the grass, without a care in the world. He had just aced 3 tests, had gown fittings, and now was eating gummy worms. Not a bad day in his opinion. He vaguely heard someone shouting, but it didn't register on his radar until he recognized the voice. Leaping up, Ben abandoned his gummy worms and sprinted across the street and into the alleyway behind the ice cream shop. A tall figure stood there, backed by several other figures. An unconscious girl lay in the muck on the alley ground. "Rose!" Nate shouted and ran to her side, immediately checking her pulse by laying his fingers and her chocolate colored skin. When he found she had one, he brushed her midnight black hair out of her face.

"Well, well, well." Said the main figure "This is cute. I had an awesome plan to catch you too but, I guess you just were stupid enough to come to me!" Nate looked up, fury clouding his normally rational brain. That had happened allot actually. Ever since he had been turned into a god knows what. Jamie had called it an Eraser, a half wolf monster. Ben said it was nothing to worry about and that everything had been taken care of.

"Who the hell are you and what do you want?" He snapped angrily

The figure laughed and strolled into the light. "The name's Ari and I got bored of waiting." He looked at his companions and jerked his head in Nate and Rose's direction. "Taken em and change em boys." The last thing Nate remembered was a needle being shoved into his arm…

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Jamie was lying on the park bench writing her essay when she saw them. When she stiffened, Ben looked up and saw them too. They were standing there, silent as the grave, just watching. Both looked ragged and worn, as if the weight of the world were on their shoulders. The girl's hair was hanging in a long brown braid down her back and she was dressed in black jeans, a navy blue sweatshirt, and combat boots. The boy's hair was shaggy and black, and he was dressed in all black, down to the shoes on his feet.

Max and Fang were back.