Fang. His name is on the tip of my tongue when I wake up. Why does his name make my heart pound? Why does it wake me up at night ever since I started working here? NCIS. They have become my new family even though they cannot replace the flock. I go over to the bathroom sink and splash cold water on my face. I look at the clock on the sky coloured wall. Its half past six. "Crap, I'm late," I muttered to myself.

I rush over to my wardrobe on the other side of my bed, picking up laundry on the floor from the past week. I shove it in the basket next to a plug and open my closet. I pull out my badge from the top drawer, a pair of faded jeans and a plain black shirt. I wore this outfit the first time I went to NCIS.

Flashback

The office smelled like whitecoats. Air so clean. It was toxic. Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy, Angel and... Fang waited in the hall for me. I went to NCIS, looking for a room called MTAC. I was supposed to find all the information of our birth parents. Correction: their birth parents. Iggy took out his walking stick and hobbled up to the front desk.

"Hi. My name is Steven. Wonder. I'm here for my dentist appointment," Iggy said to the desk lady.

She stared at him funnily. "I'm sorry," she replied, "I think you've got the wrong place. Our sign says NCIS." Without realizing it before, she saw that Iggy was blind. "Oh, I'm sorry. This is NCIS."

"Are you just making fun of me cause I can't see you?!" Iggy angrily shouted.

Now's my time. Quickly turning near a pair of stairs, I took a look at a blueprint that Nudge had found using her super human computer skills. I slowly climbed up the stairs and peered over seeing that a mechanical device stood near MTAC. A man with the skin colour of Nudge's put his face in front of the machine as a blue light flashed over their eyes. The little thing beeped and the door opened. He slid in and disappeared.

Suddenly two voices were approaching and by the looks of it, they were going to go down the stairs. It was two men. One older with grey hair and a stern expression. The other one had brown hair and referred to the other one as Boss.

"Yes, Boss. But I don't understand. What are we looking for?" the younger man asked.

"The evidence, Mcgee," the older man shouted at the younger one.

I grabbed onto the rail and hung over the stairs, my feet dangling about ten feet from the ground. I pulled myself up a little so I could watch the both of them.
They kept on talking even as they passed me but the one by the name of McGee turned around. I quickly bent down, hoping he had not seen me.

"Uh... Boss," McGee whispered to the Boss.

"What now?" The Boss looked cross.

"Nothing," McGee turned his head forward and kept going down the stairs. I hopped over the stairs and looked around. No one was in sight. You'd think a special agent office would be filled with security everywhere. Idiots. I smiled.

Then the door to MTAC opened up. I was behind it and the door was a fraction of centimeter away from touching my nose. The man I had seen previously entering was muttering.

Before the door closed, I slipped in and found the room pitch dark except for a bright, white screen standing before me. It seemed to be projected from something above me. Surrounding the room were a bunch of computer monitors with the screens all black. I jumped towards a computer and grabbed the cell phone from my pocket. I quickly dialed Nudge's number.

"Max?" the person on the other side said. But her voice wasn't loud and bubbly. Something was wrong. She sounded afraid.

"Nudge. What's wrong," I asked, the panic showing through my voice.

"Something went wrong. We need help," she whispered. Her voice started cracking on the other side.

"Nudge. Listen to me. Who. Is. With. You?" "Gazzy... Angel... Fang... Fang is not... not... us... He.. he.." her voice started to fade away.

"Nudge! Listen to me. You can get out. Just stay calm," I shouted. No answer. "Hello? Hello? Nudge!"

Someone burst through the room. I took out the gun in my back pocket and held it firmly in my hand. "Drop the gun," it was a woman. She had a thick foreign accent.

I couldn't help it. I dropped the gun and burst into tears. The woman came to my side and helped me up. I had been caught. I'm sorry Angel. I'm sorry Nudge. I'm sorry Gazzy. I failed you all. And I failed you, Fang.