Author's Note: This is very much an attempt to seriously continue Life Is Strange's story beyond episode five. The finished work will constitute eight full chapters, a prologue, and an epilogue. Starting from a week after the first chapters are posted, I will update this page with a new chapter until everything is out there. The final version will be around 22.500 words long, with each chapter being at least 2000 words in length.

As I have already finished writing this story, I can promise that this fanfic will receive a proper ending. I hope you do enjoy!

I can be contacted at KoenUffing1010 , or be found on reddit under the username 'Knuffol'. This story is also cross posted on AO3 under the same title and username.

The storm took their voices away too. She had been driving her truck, penetrating the sounds of travel with uncompromising silence. For seconds, minutes, hours? Not that it mattered, not with her.

The engine was killed, becoming another victim of whatever strange events she'd been entangled in. She looked at her passenger, whose eyes appeared troubled, but did not speak. They left the car, walked over to a nearby bench. Before them: a sweeping view of Oregon's forested mountainside. Or had they already crossed the state line and ventured into Washington? It was just another thing Chloe was not sure of.

They both stood, taking in the striking Northwestern landscape.

'Thank you for existing, Max', she said, before holding her hand.

A face was turned towards Chloe, smiled at her, a look that somehow held the middle ground between delight, disappointment and anxiety. A couple of seconds passed, an answer followed.

'I'm sorry for Rachel. I'm sorry for William. I'm so sorry for destroying Arcadia Bay, Chloe.'

'Max...'

'But Chloe, I'm not sorry for keeping you safe, no matter the cost. I love you.'

Max resolved to act before Chloe had time to respond, and she pressed her lips tightly on her best friend's, kissing her as passionately as she could possibly imagine.

'Max… I…'

'You're welcome Chloe. It was probably overdue anyw…'

Chloe was already all over her before she could finish her sentence. Max didn't attempt to hold anything back at their previous kiss, but Chloe went truly at it - Max almost fell backwards during. After they were done a second time, both girls felt relieved and excited: emotions they could easily recognize in each other's eyes.

'Hella right I love you, Max! Kinda feels strange to say it like this, you know?'

'I don't think it does.'

'Being in love with my best friend? I'm kinda picturing us as kids like this. Chances were you would have rejected me, or even worse, never wanted to talk to me again or something.'

'I don't even think there's an alternate timeline in which I would have done that.'

'So, what would've been your reaction?'

'Honestly, I don't know… I never thought about us being more than best friends before this week, but I suppose we've been intimate with each other since we were little kids, so I shouldn't have been surprised either. But there's no way I would have walked out of the door without talking to you ever again, Chloe.'

'I don't really want to open old wounds, but yet you did just that when William died.'

Max was clearly taken aback by that remark, which so succinctly captured her own negligence towards the girl who loved her so much.

'I'm sorry Max. But you've shown me so much love and affection over the course of this week, that you never should feel sorry about that anymore.'

'That doesn't undo any of the pain I've caused you…'

'I'll be honest with you Max. I mourned my father's death, but your departure broke my heart. It was not just that you abandoned me, it felt like a rejection too, since you basically treated me like I didn't exist anymore when I needed you most.'

As she was speaking, Chloe noticed that Max was no longer looking at her. Instead, she turned her face downwards, and she could discern that she was fighting against an upwelling of tears, while raising her hand in Chloe's direction.

She pulled Max close, and hugged her intimately.

'That stuff is in the past now. There's nothing you can do to change that. I'm not mad anymore - if I ever truly was. Not only did you come back, you ripped time and space apart just to protect me. I'd say that absolves any bad decision you've made in the past. You're the best damn thing that ever to happened to me, so don't give me any rubbish that you messed up. I won't let you.'

'Thanks Chloe.'

They ended their embrace, and Chloe turned her attention towards the immediate future.

'You should call your parents Max - they're probably freaking out over you right now.'

Max, without saying another word, took out her phone, which had apparently survived the ruthless onslaught of rain and wind the tornado had brought along with it. Chloe watched as Max spoke into the microphone, but did not listen to the conversation. The only bits and pieces she picked up were the parts where Max uttered Chloe's name, and she could only wonder if Ryan and Vanessa remembered her after all those years.

When Max had finished talking to her parents, she walked up to Chloe, drowning her in her arms.

'There's something else you should know', she said afterwards.

'Don't tell me you kissed Warren. If you did, I really don't wanna know.'

'No, it's about my power.'

'What about it?'

'It's gone Chloe. I know, because I just tried to rewind when you told me about me and William. I...I…

'There's nothing to explain. Your power came out of the blue anyway, so I guess it makes sense it disappeared the same way.'

'But it doesn't make any sense! None of this time travel and traveling through multiple realities does, and it's even stranger that it's gone before the week is through.'

'You're right, it doesn't make any sense, none of it did. But it happened. It simply did, and we have to deal with it. We will deal with it. Besides, you did tell me your powers may not last, so we should have seen it coming anyway.'

Max nodded to Chloe, and they both walked towards the car, stepping inside. Before Chloe turned on the engine, she turned to Max one more time, laying her hand on Max's shoulder.

'If you ever doubt yourself again, I want you to tell me, all right? I promise I'll make you feel better.'

'I really don't want to repeat myself, but thanks again Chloe. You're awesome.'

'I'd better be. I'm your girlfriend now, remember?'

Their faces gave way to a smile, and the best friends turned partners finally fixed their gaze on the road ahead.