Villain Thoughts.

What did he say? Rescue him? He was her brother, she needed to save him. But who was going to save her from the monster he become?

Phoebe passed through the kitchen and though she wasn't aware she was hungry, those sandwiches looked appealing to her. She stopped and grabbed one, in a house like that, she was lucky to find them untouched. She had just finished the last bite when dizziness stroke her. Barely able to stand alone, she reached the table to support her and, just like that, everything faded to black.

She woke up in Max's lair, still heavy enough to have to work on getting up his bed when she spotted him working on something right in front of her. As her senses came back, she added 2+2 and found the strength to yell at him: "Max!"

He turned around, a little surprised, he thought it would take longer, but there she was, with fire on her eyes, ready to start a fight. She meant to get up, but he motioned to her, using his powers to strike her back to bed. Phoebe had always been smarter and figured his intentions before he managed to complete it, but her body didn`t respond to her and she was hit backwards anyway. Why didn't her powers work?

Then she felt it on her ankle: the device her mom made to take away Max's powers there, preventing her from fighting back to him.

"Argh, Max! Not fair, take this away from me" she screamed, reaching for it, but, once again, Max did not let her.

"I can't. You need to sit down and hear what I have to say" he cleared his throat "and if I have to, I'll tie you to this bed".

He got her worried. His dead serious face did not look fake and the fact Max got something serious to say, got her simply waiting for the worst.

"Then just tell me, Max" her voice broke, weak with anticipation "what's going on?"

"I was called to actually work for the bad guys and…" that was it, his breakdown "I need you to save me from this fate".

"Max..." Phoebe never bought Max being a villain. She never thought about it, but suddenly it all became too real. Max could go bad and all she wanted was for him not to "don't. What do you want me to say? Please, don't".

"I want you to tell me you love me" he laughed, but it couldn't be sadder, as if she would never say it, as if he was doomed for asking it. She didn't understand.

"But I do, Max, you know that. We may fight and want to rip each other's head most of the time, but I do love you" she stated as if she didn't have to. Max only laughed of his cruel joke once more.

"You own me that" he said "you own me this rescue since you're the one to put me there on the first place" his voice was anger-ish, his arms were unstable and his legs kept taking him right and left.

"Max, I don't understand. I put you to this? You said you became a villain to be better at something, what am I suppose to do?"

"That's not it" his voice communicated how nervous he was.

"Then what?" Phoebe yelled "tell me what you want me to do. How can I rescue you from this? I'm not holding a gun against your head, just don't go there. You have a choice here and I know you're not a bad guy".

"But I am, Phoebe, I feel like a monster every time I gotta wake up and face everyone and it's all on you" he fell on his chair, head up so he couldn't see her and realized he didn't gave much of an explanation, she should be more than confused now "Phoebe… I'm a villain ever since I came to knowledge I couldn't stop loving you, your goofy style, your smile, your loving nature…"

Phoebe tried to make sense of what was given her. He loved her. He became a villain because of it. Because he loved her too much. Perhaps in a way her brother shouldn't love her. Is that what he was trying to say?

"Max" she interrupted him "are you saying that you love me? Like kissing and hooking up and boyfriend/girlfriend style?"

"That's exactly what I'm trying to say".

"That's soo..." sick. She meant to say it, she wanted to. That's how she felt like. Her brother desired her, that's pretty fuck up, right? But she couldn't, his face was expecting it, yet, somehow, she knew it would wreck him down. What did he say? Rescue him? Saying it would lead him right to the dark side. He was her brother, what she needed was to save him. And since she was never good at improvising things, she just let the sentence die "…we'll work things out, Max" her voice broke again, she hated it. It made her sound fake.

"For a second I thought you'd feel the same way too" he got up, heart broken. He could see through her poker face: she was disgusted, she meant to say something really bad, but then she felt pity of him. Things like that made him mad "I don't want to 'work things out' " he made quotation marks on the air "I've been trying to work things out for a while now and it didn't work" she was about to reply, but he shushed her "I want you to love me back, so I'm not a freak, I'm not the bad guy".

"I do love you, but not the way you want me to, I can't help it" he had to understand that, she thought "things in life can't always be the way we want it to be".

"They can, if you're bad enough to break the rules" he motioned his arm and a handcuff flew all the way to Phoebe's right hand and attached it to his bed, making her being pushed by it, which resulted on her scream of surprise and pain.

"Oh my god, Max, you're not just gonna trap me here until I say I love you, right?" he had probably lost his mind.

"No, Phoebe, I'm taking what I want. If the bad side is the one where I can have you, then I've decided once for all. I'm in it, I'm a villain".

"You can't do it. Mom and dad will kill you".

"That' the beauty in it, there's nothing I can't do, Phoebe".

"They'll know soon enough that I'm gone" she argued.

"But how long will they take to suspect their own son?"

"Well… you can't hide forever, you live at the same house they do. When they come downstairs…"

"We're not at home, silly, I've already moved my lair out. I'll need it when I'm not living with them anymore, you know, I can't be a villain living with mommy and daddy".

She was speechless. He thought of everything, was he even trying when he asked her to save him? She never thought this day would come, but Max became dark, on his path to be a cruel villain and all she could expect was for her parents to figure it all out before it was too late.

Just written, may have grammar errors, so sorry about that.

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