Hey everyone Nobel Six here, well I promised the completed chapter would be coming, and I wanted to get it done as quickly as possible, well here it is, I hope you all enjoy it. Also this is my first ever Life is Strange story, so feedback would be really appreciated, I'm always looking to improve, so if you can think of anything, please let me know.
"Max, it's time..." those words woke 26 year old Max Caulfield from her slumber, she'd had the same nightmare again, and every time those words where the last thing she heard before she awoke and re-entered reality.
'Why can't I escape it,' Max thought to herself as she found a single tear leave her blue eyes, 'I made that choice eight years ago, why can't it leave me alone,' Max shouted in her mind as she thought about the constantly reoccurring nightmare, 'Chloe, I'm so sorry, I can't say that enough." she thought to herself as she stood up from her bed and walked into the bathroom of her small apartment, and just stared into the bathroom mirror, it was true that eight years had passed in Arcadia Bay since she had to make the hardest choice of her life, it was also eight years since the death of her best friend, Chloe Price.
A lot had changed in Arcadia Bay in those eight years, and most would say it changed for the better, Sean Prescott had finally lost his grip over the town upon the arrest of his son Nathan, in fact nobody barely saw him anymore, he mostly avoided the towns people, some say it was humiliation over his sons arrest, some say it was actual guilt, but the most common rumor was that it was rage over his sons arrest. Everyone knew that Sean almost owned the police, but after Nathan's arrest, the police had seemingly revolted, and he had completely lost his control over them.
A lot had also changed for Max over eight years, she now worked as a detective for the Arcadia Bay police department, and she often wondered how the hell she had gone from a geeky girl obsessed with photography, to a police detective, even though she knew the answer to her question: she had remembered all the detective work she had done trying to solve the disappearance of Rachael Amber with Chloe, and decided to pursue a detective career, partially to assure what happened to Rachel never happened again.
Suddenly her phone began to ring from the other ring, snapping her out of her sad reminiscing about the past, as she quickly walked into the center room of her apartment and looked at the caller ID, it was captain Burns, and with a sigh she answered it.
"Captain." Max said with respect for her female police captain
"I'm sorry to bother you on your day off Caulfield, but I'm afraid this cannot wait." Captain Burns said and the surprised Max, for Acadia Bay was usually a quite town, and not much ever happened for the police since it was such a quite town.
"What's up?" Max asked her captain.
"A couple found a dead body inside their hotel room upon their return rom lunch.-" Captain Burns said before Max interrupted.
"You sure they didn't do it?" Max asked with suspicion in her voice.
"They've got a rock solid alibi, that being there are witnesses who saw them at the Blue Whale dinner," Burns said as Max began to rub her chin as she tried to think of theories, "anyway Max, I'd like you to come down and look at the crime scene, I'd like your opinion on this." Burns said as the phone line went dead, leaving Max to swiftly get dressed, and grab her badge and her gun, get into her car and head towards the motel.
"Morning Detective." officer Jacob said as Max walked up to the crime scene perimeter.
"Captain Burns called me on the phone, but please tell me what we know." Max asked as she lifted up the crime scene tape and walked towards the hotel room crime scene.
"We don't have an ID since their wallets are missing-." Jacob said as they walked up the stairs to the second floor of the hotel before Max interrupted.
"The people who found the victims?" Max asked as they arrived at the crime scene, that was full of police officers.
"Vacationers, just passing through Arcadia Bay on their way through Oregon, as you know they went to lunch, came back and realized they where missing their door card, called the front office and got a new key card, and upon entering their room found the victims, laying on their bed." Jacob said as they looked at the bed, where the two victims where found, and Max began looking at the blood that stained the white sheets.
"Thank you Jacob, I'll take it from here." Max said as Jacob walked back outside to help secure the perimeter, and Max walked up to Captain Burns who was talking with one of the other detectives, and upon seeing Max, Burns ceased her conversation and turned to face Max.
"Jacob fill you in?" Burns asked.
"As much as possible, what do you want me to do?" Max asked her captain as she wiped some of her brown hair out of her eyes.
"I want you to look around, possibly find something we might have missed, after all, you have a habit of finding things we miss." Burns said with appreciation in her voice, and that made Max nod her head.
'Alright Max, it's time to work.'
To be continued...
I want to thank everyone who read the complete first chapter, I promise the next chapter will be longer, and will get down to things, please tell me what you think of Max as a detective. Also this story is a two part series, it has such a big and complicated story that it needs to be broken into two parts. I hope you all enjoy this adventure just as much as I enjoy writing it.