Forever or Never

What's Lost can Always be Found

Jan's POV~

"I swear i'll kick your butt to next Thursday!" I screamed as we were wheeled in crates against the wall.

They'd flown us back to the School, and I hated seeing the it again.

But at least the others were safe.

BANG!

I was dumped on the floor in my crate beside Liam, then Harry was against him and Lily against Harry's.

But the Whitecoat ignored me and walked out.

'It's over" I whispered, curling up in the corner furthest from the others. "We know they're going to retire us..."

"Do we?" Liam asked.

I squeezed my eyes shut. "We ran away. The punishment is death."

"Whoah, look" Harry pointed to a poster on a wall. "The 99% plan?"

"Gets rid of 99% of the world's population?!" Lily read off. "Yikes!"

Liam stared at me. "Jannice...you have to save the world"

"I quit" a tear fell from my eyes. "There's no way I can. Not from a cage. It was all hogwash. I lead us all on a stupid fool's errand"

"Everything we did" Lily said. "And everywhere we went was crucial. You followed your Voice, you just have to keep on keeping on."

"And while you're at it, predict for someone else to die!" I snapped.

"Maybe I should've kept quiet about it!" she yelled. "Maybe I just should've let it happen with no warning!"

Some of the experiments stirred.

"Just shut up" I commanded. "Leave me alone!"

"Stop fighting!" Harry pleaded.

"Both of you" Liam added calmly.

I crawled over to be against my cage beside him. "I just...I just don't want you to die"

His eyes looked sad and he held my hands through the bars. "Jan, if I have to die, I will"

"Don't say that!" I begged. "You're going to live!"

I don't exactly know how, but I found myself kissing Liam through the bars. Our faces were pressed against the side of the crate, desperately kissing the best we could.

His lips felt warm, but I definitely tasted blood. I wanted to cry, and I think I did, coz still kissing-Liam's hand gently swiped away my tears. Then he pulled away.

"We're going to survive"

"I hear Zayn" Lily whispered. "And Niall and Louis! I hear their thoughts! They're coming!"

"If they're here that quickly" Harry said. "They must've followed us"

The back door creaked a little and Zayn peered in.

"Psst"

"Zayn!" I cried in a whisper. "Go away! They'll get you, too!"

He scrambled over to us and stooped by mine, then he pressed his fingers on the code box and typed it in.

Louis and Niall tip-toed in and Zayn whispered the code to them.

So we were out, except...joys, my foot was caught between the bars.

Liam and Zayn were down and pulling at my snow boot, but it wasn't budging.

"Go on without me!" I instructed.

"We stick together" Liam said, pulling my boot off my foot.

Free, and one foor shoeless. Joys.

I was super surprised, but for once, I was that easy.Once we were sitting in trees in a forest, Lily stepped up.

"I say we split up" she said. "I don't agree with choices Jannice has been making, and I feel like I should be the leader."

"Lily, we stick together" Zayn said.

"And we need to go to Germany to the MSA headquarters" I reminded her.

"We need to go to Texas" she looked at me seriously. "There's a MSA office down there, too, and I feel like it'll give us clues"

"Then go to Texas" I frowned. "But the rest of us are going to Germany, right, Guys?"

Silence.

"Right?" I repeated.

"I'm going with Lily" Harry spoke up, quietly.

"Me, too" Zayn's voice trembled.

I looked at Niall, Louis, and Liam.

Liam flew down to my branch and slipped his hand in mine. "You know I'm with you"

"I'll go where you go" Niall told Louis.

"I think headquarters sounds good" Lou looked at me and smiled.

"What ever happened to 'we stick together'?" I asked, swallowing a lump in my throat.

Lily turned and stood up on her branch. She shook out her snowy white wings and took off, not looking back.

Hesitantly, Harry let his white with brown speckled wings tumble from his shirt, then he waved and followed. I looked at Zayn, and he flew over to my branch. "Goodbye, Jan"

"Bye, Zayn..."

He pecked my head and took off. A feather floated down from him and landed in my lap.

"This isn't right" I stammered.

"We'll be OK" Liam assured me.

But what really bit at me was Lily predicted Liam's death when the flock split...