I love Life is Strange, absolutely love it. And when I played Episode 3 this idea just popped into my head.

Warnings: Some language, references to gay sex. Also it's NathanWarren.

Disclaimer: I don't own Life is Strange nor any of it's characters.

Enjoy!

This was just weird; Max had no other word to describe it. Now Warren flirting with Brooke she could almost handle, almost. Brooke had been crushing on the science geek for what seemed like forever, so it wasn't totally out of the realm of possibility that they'd end up together. But being friends with Victoria, that was just a whole other realm of weird. Like some twilight zone shit.

'Maybe that's it' she thought. 'This is the twilight zone, it almost makes sense'. Almost but not quite.

"Max? You sure you're okay?" Victoria was looking at her with concern. It just, it was too much for her to handle.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Just spaced out, you know. I was just thinking about the contest". Wait there was still a contest wasn't there? That hadn't changed as well, had it?

"Oh I know, I still haven't made up my mind about which one I'm gonna enter. Hey you want to drop by my room later; you're great at this kind of stuff. Maybe you could give me some pointers about what the judges might like".

Okay forget the twilight zone, it was like aliens had taken over and were invading Victoria's body. Now she was beginning to sound like Warren. Wait, Warren! Were they still friends? He had to be, he just had to. Things were already weird enough; Warren was the only one to actually get her.

"Sure Victoria. I just remembered I have to go ask Warren something, I'll be right back". That didn't sound too suspicious did it? Did it sound like something the new Max might say?

"Sure. Tell Warren I said hi. You might want to get there before Nathan does though. You know what those two are like. I don't know what he's thinking letting Brooke drool all over him like that. Everyone knows he's taken, including her".

Ignoring the fact that Victoria had smiled at her, without any sarcasm whatsoever, because that was just freaky, Max was left to process what she'd just heard.

"No way". Warren was dating someone? Someone that wasn't her or Brooke? And what did Victoria mean about Nathan? What did he have to do with-oh.

"Max!"

No that couldn't be right. There's no way. Not even in this universe where everything had turned upside down and-oh god she was Alice from Alice in Wonderland. Or maybe she was Dorothy Gale. Huh, she hadn't noticed before just how similar the two stories were and-okay yeah that was so not the thing she needed to focus on. But Nathan and Warren? Seriously? No, just no. She couldn't believe it; she just refused to believe it.

"Hi Warren".

Okay Brooke looked kinda mad. But why? Wait had she done something to her in this life? If she was a member of the Vortex Club did that mean she'd hurt people like Brooke. Oh god, what about Kate? Had she hurt her too? Wait was Kate even still alive?

"Hey, you okay? You look kind of down".

Good old Warren, at least he hadn't changed.

"It's just been a crazy sort of morning". God could she have picked a lamer excuse? There's no way Warren would buy that.

"Oh yeah? Well I'm free now; you can tell me all about it. By the way I still have that book you lent me, why don't we head over to the dorms and I'll get it for you".

That sounded like Warren. But was it her imagination or did he look kind of scared? No not scared exactly, but he was acting kinda weird. Oh god he wasn't high was he? Who knows what the Vortex Club had been doing to him. And why did he keep looking back and forth between Brooke and her and-oh. Wow she could be oblivious sometimes.

"Yeah sure". Max had never seen Warren look so relieved.

"Great, come on let's go! Oh uh I'll see you around Brooke". Warren smiled, grabbing her arm and practically pulling her along.

"Hey, what's the problem? You okay?"

"Urgh". Now that wasn't the Warren she knew. As a matter of fact, Max couldn't recall ever seeing him look anything other than happy. "Just Brooke you know. I mean I like her but just as a friend. But no matter what I do she just doesn't seem to get it. I'm running out of ways to be nice about it Maybe Nathan's right, maybe I should start listening to him more".

Nathan? Well that sent alarm bells off.

"Nathan? What do you mean?" There, hopefully she didn't sound too suspicious.

"Oh you know; he keeps going on about how I'm way too nice and how I keep letting people walk all over me".

She didn't say it, but Max had to agree. Shit, was she actually agreeing with something Nathan had said?

"Like he doesn't do it too. I mean he's always the one dragging me around, making me join the Vortex Club, forcing me to spend time with his friends. Which, yeah okay I still have you and Victoria's pretty cool, I mean she was the one who set us up. But just because we're dating doesn't mean he has the right to just decide my life for me. You know?"

No she didn't know. She really didn't know.

For a split second Max forgot how to breathe, she just stood there struggling to comprehend what she'd just heard.

"Max, you okay? You're looking kinda pale". Warren looked worried, that was so like him. The old him that is. The one who was her friend, the one who not-so-secretly had a crush on her, the one she could always count on. But this new Warren, the Vortex Club member, the one dating Nathan Prescott, could this really still be her Warren?

"I'm fine, just felt kind of sick for a minute there".

Warren didn't look convinced and a few seconds later a brilliant flush spread across his face. "Wait you weren't thinking about that time you walked in on us, were you? Because I-".

Okay no, just no. She was so not ready to deal with this. Surely there was something else she had to do right now. Anything else. Wasn't there?

Chloe.

Oh god how could she forget? How could she be so stupid? She had to leave, she had to find Chloe, she had to make things right. She had to-

"-you and Victoria did set us up and you said it was okay and-"

Wait what? She and Victoria had set Nathan up with Warren?

Max couldn't believe she was thinking this, but maybe Chloe would have to wait. This was just insane. Forget that she was a time traveller, forget that she'd changed the past, royally fucked it up in fact. Just forget all of that. She'd worked with Victoria to get their best friends together?

Somewhere in the back of her mind, Max could hear the Twilight Zone theme song running through her mind.

"Max? Why are you humming the Twilight Zone?"

Oops. So much for it being in her mind.

"No reason".

As Max Caulfield would soon come to realize, there is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension where things are not as they seem, where friend becomes foe and foe becomes friend. It is an area where even the most unlikely of pairings come together as one. An area which we call, the Twilight Zone.

I probably shouldn't be saying this, but I am really tempted to continue this if anyone's interested.

Anyway please review and let me know what you think. This is my first Life is Strange fic so I'm kind of nervous about getting the characters right.

Thanks for reading.

KB