Hi everyone ! This is a little idea a friend and I had yesterday. The subject was : Max wake up in another universe and is kissed by Chloe out of nowhere, action followed by an abundant nosebleed. We were both so enticed by the idea that we both wrote our version of the story. So here's my friend's : s/11299195/1/Wait-what

And here's mine, hope you enjoy it !

It has to be a nightmare.

Max was sitting on Chloe's bed. In the garage. Or what used to be a garage. Chloe was in her wheelchair in front of her. Smiling.

"Alright, I've undone your respirator Chloe. You have ten minutes to catch up with max. I'll be upstairs, checking on your mother. Max if anything happen just scream an-"

"Yes dad, don't worry. You're wasting my time so get out !"

Max nearly jumped when she heard Chloe's voice. It was husky. No, a whisper. More like jerky breath. Not Chloe's voice. Not the one that once said "I'll be you're partner in crime" and "I'll be your faithful chauffeur and companion".

"So. I look pretty cool in that huh ? Like a robot !" Chloe used her head to move her chair back and forth "Oh and I cut my hair too. How do I look ?"

Max was both shocked and mesmerized. She stared at her friend for a while before resting her elbows on her knees, leaning her forehead on her hands.

Chloe approached her, concerned "Max ?"

"Chloe I'm so sorry !" Max moved to hug her friend but stopped before touching her. She raised her blue watering eyes to look at her friend.

"You can touch me, it's fine" Max fell on her knees and rested her head on Chloe's lap, holding her hands.

"Chloe I… I never meant to… What have I done to you ! I…" the young girl was crying, and sobbing on her friends dead legs.

"Hey. It's Ok. You were busy. Seattle and your studies, I understand"

At that Max raised her head to look at her friend's understanding eyes.

Oh Chloe… If you knew…

"But… I missed you. I'm happy to see you" Max stood to take Chloe's shoulders in her arms, leaning her wet cheeks on her friend's. Chloe turned her head slightly to kiss Max's cheeks.

Max sat on the bed again, wiping her tears with her sleeve. "How ?"

"Car accident. It was night, I dozed off a little and a deer appeared out of nowhere. After the accident, mom kinda end up in a sort of depression and doesn't want to go out of the house. End of the story" The cocky smile and distant tone of Chloe made Max smile.

Maybe that's still Chloe after all.

"Sorry max but… I need you to put on my respirator again. Can you do that ? It's easy" Max nodded. She stood and took the tube in her hand "I'm really happy to see you again Max. Will you come by again ? Mom would like that too" Max just nodded, not trusting her voice "Cool. Now you can put it back on" Chloe offered her friend the most comforting smile. But it didn't really help. Max was crying again. After turning the respirator back on, the brunette dashed into the living room, grabbed Price's photo album and flipped the pages until she found the one she needed. She put the album back on the shelf and returned to Chloe's room. Her friend was looking at her in both surprise and curiosity.

"Can I take this one ?" Chloe nodded "Good" Max, still in a hurry, bend to place a quick peck on Chloe's lips before storming out of the room again mumbling a "I'll fix this I promise", letting behind a really flushed and confused Chloe Price.

Max had ran to her dormitory and locked herself up into her room. She sat on her bed, holding the selfie of her and Chloe. The selfie of that horrible day. The selfie that meant death. Only two 13 years old young girls on the photo but still a death prophecy. She tried to calm down. To concentrate on the photograph in her hands. She stared at it until she could hear voices. Laughs from the past echoing like a ghost whisper. Suddenly she's here again. In her child body, standing next to her young Chloe, in front of William's camera. Then without thinking she grabbed the camera, took a photo of the Price's infernal duo. But this time she kept the photo. She found a pen on the table and wrote something on the back of the photo. "Never forget. Don't leave arcadia bay". If she wanted a wake up into a "new present" she needed to change something materially. Or so she thought and she hoped she was right.

After watching William disappear in the white light replacing the house's entry Max closed her eyes.

When she woke up, her whole body felt sore, her mouth dry and it was hard to open her eyes. But she did. It took her some time to recognize her surroundings. She was lying in Chloe's bed. She sat and looked around. Walls were covered in anime posters instead of half-naked women and depressing Tags. The one near the window remained though. Then a shiver ran down her spine. She lowered her gaze to look at her body.

Am I really… How did I end up in Chloe's bed NAKED !?

In the meantime, the girl next to her had woke up and got up in a sitting position. A hand on her bare lower back made Max jumped and rapidly turn her head to her best friend.

"Chloe !?"

"Who else ?" Chloe answered with a shrug and a frown before connecting her lips with her girlfriend's. Max, frozen at first, followed Chloe's movement and lost herself in somewhere between "What the fuck is happening" and "Oh fuck, let it be". The kiss was slow and long. Well, it was meant to be long. Chloe broke the kiss first, a weird expression on her face, mix between disgust and amusement. That's when Max noticed the taste o blood in her mouth.

"Wow Max. Didn't know such little things could turn you on so much… Oh but maybe you're a total morning sex person !" Chloe stood to grab a box of tissues, Max's gaze never leaving her friend's naked body and her brain still trying to process all these new information. "Let's try and find out one day "kay ?" asked Chloe with a mischievous smile while sitting on the bed next to Max, wiping the blood from her girlfriend's face "Well if we find a way to avoid nose bleeding on my sheets that is"

Max's blank expression changed into a flush.

"Wow ok maybe you're sick after all. Don't move, I'll go grab a towel and some medicine downstairs"

Chloe put on some panties and an old T-shirt way too large for her before exiting the room. Max was still frozen, a hand pinching her nose. Then something hit her. In front of her, the wall next to the door was covered in photos. The girl stood to have a better look. She grabbed one. And stared at it.

A blink of an eye later, she's in the garden of Price's house, looking at her 15 years old self sitting on the swing with a sad face, Chloe kissing her forehead. Everything was surreal. She was actually looking at one of her memories. But everything felt weird. She had never experienced the scene before her eyes but it still fell familiar and everything come back to her like if she just "had forgotten" somehow. She blinks again and she's back to Chloe's room in front of the wall covered in photos.

Damn… I "remember"… This day my… cat ? had just died.

This memory seemed so familiar, so natural, like it really happened at some point. She let the photo fall to the ground and grabbed another one, staring at it again and "reliving" the moment. And she get back to Chloe's room and picked another photo. She did that again, and again and again. There was approximatively two hundred photos on this wall and she had decided to live them all. Inside she was torn apart. A part of her was happy about whatever happened with Chloe in this universe but another part wanted to find out. How did it end up like that ? What happened ? She felt guilty. The guilt of having forgotten precious memories about Chloe. But she barely knew this Chloe and it felt odd. Or maybe the one she didn't know was herself. She felt like a huge part of her just disappeared without notice, stolen by her time travelling and this damn tornado.

So she was standing in the room, pulling down photo after photo after photo again and again, trying to fill her emptiness.

When Chloe get back to her room, ten minutes after she had left it, she found her girlfriend lying on the ground covered with photos that at some point, happened to be on her wall.

"Max ! MAX ! You hear me ? Mom ! Call an ambulance ! Hurry !"

Max bas bleeding a lot. The red liquid was flowing out of her nose but also her ears, mouth and eyes. Chloe was crying, not knowing what to do. She tried desperately to wipe the blood with her already drenched towel. Then Max moved her lips. Opened her eyes.

"What !? What Max !?"

"…Che ?"

"Yes ! Yes it's me ! I'm here you hear me ?"

Max was thinking about a lot of things. A lot of things she could say. She thought about telling Chloe how she loved her, how she was happy to have seen her healthy and happy again, and how she was sorry for not being able to stay with her, how sorry she felt for abandoning her once again and probably for good this time.

"Che…" Max was choking on her blood so Chloe lifted her in a sitting position, holding her in her arms

"I'm here love can you see me ?" Chloe had a hand on Max's lower back and another behind her neck. Her alarmed and sad and tortured face was inches away from her girlfriend's, ready to hear whatever Max had to offer to her.

Max used all the force she had left in her to lean her bloody lips on Chloe's. Then she left her neck rest in her loved one's hand. She smiled and whispered "Ever thought about dying your hair in blue ?"

She closed her eyes again. The last sound she heard was Chloe's desperate scream.

So this is it huh ? The punishment for playing with time and space ? At least she's safe… And I have some cool memories to take with me to paradise !

Everything turned blank and cold then black and nothing.