Dying is Easy. Coming Back? Not So Much

Chapter One

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"Guys," I shout, "I think we can stop now."

Michael stopped running and the other two followed my lead as I soared down.

I scanned the area. It was mostly trees. Nonstopping woods everywhere you looked at, but I already knew that since I'd been flying on top of it and had had a birds' eye view of the place. Arabella moved. I looked down at her in my arms and smiled tiredly. My daughter followed my example and smiles too. Michael walks over to us, panting a little. When Arabella sees him, she giglgles and my smile gets bigger. I love my daughter's laugh. Michael leaned down and kissed her forehead.

"Hey, baby," he said.

Brianna, Ryan and Allysun arrive a minute after Arabella and me (because of my super speed).

"So what are we going to do now?" Michael asks once we're all together.

"We'll camp out here," I said. "Is going to be dark out soon. I'm sure all of us are tired, sleepy and hungry, especially the babies. Right now we need to make a system. While two of the people sleep, the other two keep watch. We have enough food but we don't have enough blankets, at least not ones that'll do any good, so Brianna and I are going to use the blankets for Allysun and Arabella so they don't get sick. We'll need to sleep on the ground, okay? Are we good?"

They all nodded.

We ate and fed the girls. Soon, Michael and Brianna were sleeping on the ground besides me. We had agreed on Ryan and me getting first watch. So that's what I was doing now.

I looked down at the sleeping Arabella in my arms. She deserves to be raised like a normal child. Even though, she has wings and and probably will never really be 'normal'. But at least she doesn't have to be poked with needles daily now. I hope it stays that way ...

I let my mind wander somewhere else. Somewhere painful to think about. My past and my Flock.

A lot of things can happen over the course of two years. My last two years had been filled with physical and emotional pain. In my arms I now held a four month old that was the product of some of that physical pain. The last two years have been a nightmare-except for my baby, that is. She has been the only good thing about this experience. Her and my friends.

But what about the Flock? What have they done in the last two years? Had they searched for me when I was caught? I'd always had hope. I thought that they would have been the ones that rescued me. Had they gotten caught too? If I had been caught, why not them? How had they dealed with me getting caught? Now, it was a three member flock, unless Fang had come back to the Flock, which I highly doubted. I kept wondering and wondering.

I thought a lot of things that I had thought about in the past, but just kept bugging me. If Angel had been alive she probably would have been around nine years old. My baby girl ...

Something interrupted my thoughts.

Ryan pointed at his watch. It was alredy time for us to sleep. Wow, time went faster than I thought.

I laid down on the soft grass, putting Arabella in the spot beside mine. When Brianna and Michael took watch, I headed happily into dreamland.

A/N: I know this is kind of short, but the other chapters will probably be longer. This is kind of like an introduction or a prologue. Hope you liked it!

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