AN) I hate putting one of these at the beginning of a chapter, but this chapter has more of the Bones characters and I've been watching the new season so my mind is getting a little jumbled. I've decided to make a few minor changes. In the first chapter I posted on when this story takes place. It was originally set after Booth has the brain tumor and during the beginning of School's Out Forever after they get in the fight with the Erasers with wings. Now it takes place after Hannah leaves only for continuity purposes. So, yeah Angela and Hodgins are married and she is pregnant. When I said the FBI knows nothing about Erasers and all that I meant as far as Booth and his immediate superiors know. I was stuck on this chapter for a while because of the timing issues and also because of finals and then just studying and homework.

Disclaimer: I don't own Maximum Ride or Bones.

The way things went the next day were not surprising with the luck we had the night before. We had all already healed from our injuries the week before. Iggy's arm was still sore but he could manage with it. Now though, we had fresh wounds., most noticeably was Angel though. She was still tired the next day so Fang carried her on his back on the way into the lab. She slept on a chair in Dr. B's office for most of the morning.

We were all tired and annoyed about last night. A little while after we got in Dr. B and Seeley had to leave to follow a lead. Angela agreed to keep an eye on us and Jack even showed up and offered to show Iggy and Gazzy an experiment he was working on. The two of them happily agreed and went with him for a while. I didn't hear about how it went until an hour after Iggy and Gazzy came back. After the two of them left Jack's office, they came back and said nothing about what had happened. I asked how it went but they just said it went fine.

When Dr. B came back with Seeley, she came and asked us why Dr. Hodgins was asking them if they knew Iggy was blind. Before anyone could ask Iggy, he stormed out. Angel had woken up by this point and told us to let him calm down, so Seeley asked Gazzy to explain what happened.

According to Gazzy, they were watching Jack do the experiment when something wicked cool happened with two of the chemicals that he mixed together. Iggy didn't know what was going on so he asked what happened. Dr. Hodgins repeated all of the chemical interactions going on and what he added. Iggy said he understood that, he wanted to know what it looked like. Before Gazzy could describe it to him, Jack pointed out that he was looking right at it when it happened. After that, their discussion went downhill. Iggy gave up on trying to trick everyone and stated very calmly that he couldn't see it. At this point Jack thought he was, he told him to stop joking around. Instead of getting annoyed, Iggy stood up and slowly walked out. Gazzy followed to make sure he didn't walk into anything but before he left he stated that Iggy was blind.

Now Jack was apparently confused and wanted to know why he didn't just tell him in the first place. Cam and Angela now knew as well and they were extremely surprised. I heard Iggy's voice coming from outside the door, "I can hear you there." I walked outside flashing a quick signal to the others to stay where they were. Dr. B and Seeley followed me and by the time I got out there and up the stairs Cam, Angela, and Hodgins were standing a few yards from where Iggy was sitting on the edge of the balcony, arms wrapped around the bars. Everyone was hesitant on who should approach him. I walked past the others and sat down next to him, positioning myself the same way he had. We spoke quietly knowing even our softer whispers wouldn't be audible to the adults. "If you hang the right way, the air from the vent feels kinda like a draft when we're flying."

I felt the air on my head and looked up at the vent, it was large and a good ten feet above our heads. It did feel similar, but not nearly close enough. "You want to see if we can go to the park later, fly around for a while?"

"Yeah," his answer was quiet but definitive.

"What else is wrong?"

"I just got kinda upset when my joke on the doctors kinda stopped me from being able to try and "see" what was going on. I probably should have told them before now."

"Well now they know," I smiled at him.

He smirked and nodded, "Yeah they definitely do." His head turned toward where the three adults were whispering, or at least trying to. I could even hear them whispering, Iggy called over to them, "They should also know I have an over-developed sense of hearing." We stood up and the others came a little closer.

I spoke to Dr. B, "Do you think we could go to the park later? Maybe get some energy out, I know the younger kids would enjoy it."

She nodded, "I can take you as soon as I finish with the identifications I'm working on."

"Hey Bones, you want me to just take them in a few minutes? We're not getting the results for a while right?"

"That would be much more productive," Iggy smiled a little at Dr. B's response. None of us had been able to go flying over the past week and we were all getting antsy. They agreed we should get out for a little while.

"So," I turned to the three others who were pretending not to listen. "It's obvious by now that Iggy can't see but I think he wants to talk to you about that."

They all looked at him expectantly and he turned and glared at me. "Fine, yeah I'm blind, that's it." He turned around and went to walk away punching my arm as he walked by. Jack opened his mouth to ask something but was stopped by the glare I directed his way.

"Just don't let it change how you treat him." I spoke as quietly as I could knowing Iggy could probably hear anyways.

"But how-" Jack tried again to ask a question, this time his voice lowered slightly.

Iggy's voice came from the bottom of the stairs, "I hope you know I can hear everything you're saying."

Jack's mouth shut instantly and his eyes grew wide. I smiled my eyes not breaking contact with his, I spoke in almost a whisper, "Well they know now."

In between his laughs Iggy's voice rang through, "Sure do, coming Max?"

I kept my eyes pinned on Jack's backing towards the stairs slowly, "Yep." Iggy and I held the majority of our laughter all the way till Dr. B's office, then we burst out laughing and telling the others about what happened.

The Jeffersonian team sans Booth and Brennan gathered in Angela's office. One of them in specific hopes of gathering and sharing intel on the kids just a short ways away.

"Okay so we know that they were found with those things that they took away and they were injured. All of them are extremely claustrophobic and they apparently dislike medical doctors. They have no parents that they know of and there are no records anywhere of them. Booth and Brennan know about them but refuse to tell us. It's possible Sweets knows about them as well. I asked him, but he refused to say anything."

A knowing look passed between the coroner and the artist as they listened to Jack Hodgins rant on trying to find out more about the children who had suddenly turned up in their lives. "Sweetie calm down, they're quirky, but their sweet kids."

"I have to agree with Angela, the kids are just cautious and probably with good reason, there's no point in starting your own personal investigation. If you really want to know something just ask Agent Booth."

"I did and he told me to stop asking questions about the kids and just wait for them to talk to us." The girls rolled there eyes at one another and found the suspicious doctor staring at them annoyed. "I'm serious I am going to go talk to Sweets and he is going to tell me what's going on."

"Considering the amount of trauma it appears they have gone through and their reluctance to trust us, us trying to go behind their backs is probably not the best idea in the current situation. I say we give them more time and good reason to trust us, it's possible that then they will talk to us."

"I really have to go with Cam on this one. Put yourself in their shoes, just when you felt safe would you want to be questioned nonstop. Just wait for a little while longer," Angela smiled and looked him in the eyes. "Please?"

His sigh sounded throughout the room, "You have a point. Okay I'll stop for a while, but anything else and I'm going to Booth again."

"Go back to your office so you're not tempted."

After a roll of his eyes he backed away, "Fine, see you in a little while."

He stormed out of the room leaving the two women smiling. "You have him wrapped around your finger."

"It's a gift and now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to let you follow him to make sure he goes straight to his office."

"Oh, believe me, I will."

The two went their separate ways leaving the artist to work on her now lengthening list of things to do. She thought over her husbands rant on the kids who were still a mystery. She knew there were a few things off about them. Like that the youngest Angel knew things that it didn't always seem she should know. Or that Iggy who was blind had commented on Gazzy's drawing he had done, mentioning how he liked all the orange when the color hadn't been mentioned.

When we got to the park it was mostly abandoned. There were a few infants and toddlers out for walks with their moms and a few elderly people scattered among them. We found an area with no one in it and checked one more time before shrugging off our windbreakers and launching ourselves into the air. We rose up into the air until we wouldn't be recognizable as bird kids any more. I looked down at Seeley's face and smiled, he hadn't seen us fly before and his jaw had actually dropped. Laughing I did a flip in the air enjoying the rush of air in my face. Moments later the others joined in and any tension from the last few hours disappeared.

I heard giggles coming from Nudge and Angel. A slight but of pressure hit my wing as I tried another flip. The wing had healed fairly well over the past week, but because there were no stitches it was still not healed fully. As much as I enjoyed flying I preferred my wing remaining not in pain. I called out to the others as soon as I found somewhere discreet to land. Fang said that he would join me and followed me to the small space where we landed surrounded by trees.

I watched Seeley's expression as Fang and I walked towards him. His eyes darted back and forth between us and the sky where he thought we were still flying around. The next thing I knew there was another familiar face standing near the bench we were quickly approaching. Before Seeley could say anything I called out to him with as much innocence as I could muster up, "Jack, what are you doing here?"

"Just thought I'd stop by and see if I could keep you company." As my eyebrows rose any thoughts he'd had that he had fooled me disappeared. "Okay, I wanted to say sorry to Iggy and see if I could show him another experiment. Well not exactly show, more have him listen to it, he'll really like it, promise."

"That'll be up to him."

"So, where is he?" he started looking around searching the area for the others.

"Uh, um, uh," I stammered as I tried to think of something.

"Hide and Seek." the words came from Fang's mouth before I even realized he had spoken.

I nodded, and looked back at the trees we had come from. "You don't talk much do you?" When I turned around he was looking at Fang, who in turn shrugged. "Is it just me, or do you not talk in general?"

When Fang didn't answer I punched his arm full force, without changing his expression he glared at me, a glare that only someone who truly knew him would notice, "In general."

"It's very rare that we hear a full sentence from him." The trees behind Jack rustled and I heard a giggle.

"Good to know, I'm glad I get the same amount of words as everyone else." Jack seemed a bit happier now.

A twig snapped in the tree and I saw Angel climb down, "Not everyone else, he talks to Max more than anyone." She managed to use only her good leg as she made her way down the tree. She limped over to the bench Seeley was still sitting on and hopped onto it beside him. She looked at Jack for a second and I was worried about what she was going to hear when she spoke to him. "I hurt my leg playing with Gazzy and I was in the tree because that's where I was hiding for hide-and-seek."

"How do you do that?" Jack's stare was directed at Angel, her confused act fooled him and he continued. "How do you know what people are going to ask you?"

"I don't I'm just really good at reading people's expressions. You were staring at my leg and watching me limp. And who wouldn't want to know why I was in a tree?"

"Point taken."

"Don't you have tests to run?"

"Don't you have a murder to solve?" Seeley and Jack argued back and forth, but I quickly realized that it was just how they acted towards each other.

"Can't do anything until you finish the tests."

"Why don't we go find the others see if they want to play something else." Fang and I walked over to the bench Angel was now standing on and she carefully climbed onto his back. We walked over to a more heavily sheltered area. Fang let Angel down and the trees around us were suddenly rustling. Three distinct sets of feet hit the ground around us and we sat under the trees simply enjoying the fresh air and the lack of traffic. For a good minute we sat in silence just happy about the fact that we were all safe and relatively unharmed.

"So, the Voice keeps telling me to trust the rest of the team, opinions?"

There was a short burst of silence before the opinions erupted, "They're really nice and they haven't done anything not to deserve our trust. I mean they are always really, rea-humf." A hand shot out and covered Nudge's mouth.

Iggy removed his hand and spoke, "I think it'll be easier if they know."

"Yeah, and then we won't have to lie so much," Gazzy was smiling excitedly.

"Jack's a conspiracy theorist," Fang's answer was completely noncommittal. "But he seems pretty cool."

"I think we should tell them," Angel's voice was firm, "they already suspect something, especially Jack. We haven't been as careful as we thought."

"So we all agree we should tell them?" A short round of nods later and it was settled. "So when and how?"

"A little at a time and just the basics to start," Iggy offered.

"So just about our wings and abilities and how we got them."

Gazzy frowned, "What about Erasers?"

"Well they're definitely a part of how we got wings, so I guess them too."

"Jeb and Ari?" Fang's question was directed specifically at me, he knew that it was a touchy subject for all of us, but me especially. What would we tell them? Maybe if we just didn't tell them, "Max?"

"Only if we need to," the others nodded and we stretched our wings out one more time before getting up and putting our windbreakers back on. "Let's go."

We stacked our fists and made our way out of the small gathering of trees we were sitting by. Seeley and Jack were now laughing with each other, the fake argument from earlier forgotten. The two looked up and saw us approaching them, they stopped laughing but the smiles remained on their faces.

I walked right up to Jack and looked him in the eyes, "We need to talk to you, all of you, somewhere we won't be overheard, you figure it out."

"About what?" he was extremely confused but he looked intrigued as well.

"About us and until we actually talk we're not gonna say any more."

"Okay, I guess we could talk back at the lab."

"Not gonna happen, there are security cameras all over the place."

"Then where are we supposed to meet?"

I started walking away smirking, "You figure it out." I turned around briefly, "Oh and it has to be pretty big. See you soon."

When I turned back around I was met with stifled giggles and an eye roll. I just kept walking not giving Jack the satisfaction of me looking back.

AN) Oh man, it's been HOW long since I updated? 8 months! Yikes, well all I can say is this is what happens when you live two minutes away from all of your friends and your computer completely breaks 4 times and you have to replace it once. Also because I was a part of three musicals over the last two semesters I was exhausted and sick as I was typing this. I had to rewrite this so many times because of the current season of Bones, and as much as I want to complain it was a great season with a great ending. I'm gonna try to update more often but I'm working possibly three different jobs this summer, two week long camps, and I'm also working on my own original novel more often now. Review are always welcome and feel free to flame, I would love some criticism.