Max and Chloe had just waited out the storm at the lighthouse and it was now daybreak as they slowly drove through the town keeping an eye out for any survivors. "Chloe I don't think anyone made it?" Max says as she slowly inches closer to her, "But ...my ...mom? And David? They can't be all gone" Chloe said as she stopped the car and shook her head in disblief. "I made the Choice Chloe and I couldn't lose you" Max says trying to comfort her reaching out for her shoulder but she shrugs it off.
Chloe continued driving towards her moms diner but as soon as they arrived they saw the amount of destruction of left by the storm. They stop the car and slowly walk towards it as they see one of the large fishing ships lodged into the diner "i have to check on mom" Chloe said as she rushed into the already unstable diner. "MOM MOM MOM WHERE ARE YOU? She walked over to the counter but there was no sign of her but what she did see shocked her, it was Frank Bowers with a look of utter fear edged on his face and his cold hands clutching his dog in his arms. Chloe backed away slowly into Max who immediately hugged her from behind and put her hand to Chloe's face closing her eyes. Slowly Max turned her around and Chloe kept her eyes shut as Max hugged her tightly we will be okay.
"Why did you chose me? Whats so special about me? Max please gimme an answer" but Max just held her tight as she cried into her shoulder.
After a while Chloe was finally calming down a little "Let's go to the dark room, David could still be alive" she suggested a sudden realisation hitting her. "What is it Chloe?" she smiled sightly and looked at Max "the dark room was a sort of bunker right? David could be Okay?" Max immedaitely dragged her to the truck and they hopped in speeding for the barn. They arrived but saw just wreckage around, "What could have done this?" Chloe asked looking confused "I think it was a flash flood" Max suggested as she stepped in a lot of mud and water patches.
"Oh no" Chloe says bolting into the barn as she rushed down she can already see some water on the entrance "NO NO NO NO ...why?" They opened the doors to the dark room and just saw all the equipment spread out everywhere having been knocked around by the water that got in, "Atleast it's draining out" Chloe said hopeful. They got into the next room and saw all the folders spread out everywhere in the shallow knee high waters. "UUHHHHh" Max hears a loud grunt and you immediately rush to find David still alive but pinned and pushed down by a gaint piece of the roof that had collapsed.
David looks to your direction clearly knowing his situation is bad "Hey ...you how is ...your mom?" he ask gasping between words in pain. Chloe keeps a blank face and just stares down at the ground trying to help him but not replying, "Oh ...so she didnt ...make it" he said coughing dark blood. David looks at it in his hand and he knows nothing can save him meanwhile in the back Max was walking to help Chloe but Mr. Jefferson's body suddenly surfaces from the water with a bullet wound in the back of the head. She kicks it away anger by seeing it but as she does this it creates a ripple and one of the folders shakes in the water releasing images that float towards Max.
They are turned over, so she picks them up and sees pictures of Rachel each of them dated "This still is just disturbing as when I found it." At the bottom of the image you notice a date and then it hits her "I know what I have to do." David has slowly fell to his wounds in the back and Chloe stops her struggle to get him out but sees Max just standing in the corner. She charges there and turns Max around "WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU HELP?" Max seemignly snaps out of it and looks Chloe dead in the eyes, crying.
Chloe stops and just looks at her "I'm sorry okay ….that you had so much on your shoulders ….so much of my problems on your shoulders" she says in a lowly voice with tears still running down her eyes. Max stared to smile and slowly brought the picture to Chloe's face, she looked at it just stared at it blidnly till it connected with her "are you saying? You can?" Her face slowly lit up as she realised Max was holding a photo taken a couple of days before Rachel disappeared that had been taken and stored in the dark room, from the looks of it by Nathan at school.
"But wait if you do that picture jump won't it Destroy everything left?" Chloe said with concern, "No it will be part of the same storm but maybe stronger or one could hit earlier and we would have two" Max answered looking skeptical. "Well I have nothing more to lose….except you, so please don't die on me" Chloe said acknowledging what Max was about to do "I will Chloe if I can save her ….then made just maybe ….we can have our happy ending."
Max stared at the Photo intensly before her vision started to blurred but before she went Chloe quickly kissed her "Come back to me and if you are put in danger ….dont hesitate to come back ….even if it means leaving her" are the words Max heard as she faded from view and she felt thrown into a void. She immediately woke up in her house in Seattle and checked the date looking around at everything "it still feels weird." She immediately ran to the living room and saw her parents seated watching tv "Hi mom Hi dad I just wanted to ask can I go visit Chloe immediately, I havent seen her in forever?" your parents just stare at you bewilded "what made you want to go so suddenly? You two havent talked in years" her mom ask.
"I miss her because I haven't seen her in so long" your parents look at each other and shrug "Sure honey we can go she her on the weekend" her dad said but before she was about to be thanful you saw the calender date and only saw it was tuesday and Rachel was going to disappear on Friday. "I need to go now" Max said in a more passive aggressive tone and her parents noticed "we won't be going anywhere with that attitude young lady" her mom said clearly upset and mad.
This all didn't matter to Max as she realised she was on a more important mission and remembered that she knew her parents credit cards codes. "Fine if they won't let me go then I'll just let myself go" Max said to herself now more determined to get it done being so close.
She waited till they went to sleep and snuck into their room stealing one card from each of her parents wallets and some cash. Max is hit with a heavy headache but shakes it off even after noticing the blood dripping from her nose "I know it sucks being here so no need for it to hurt more." She booked a flight for an immedaite plane straight to arcadia, after a short plane and bus ride she was now back at Arcadia "you see mom and dad that only took a few hours." Max steps off the plane and quickly makes her way to Blackwell Academy but on her way she runs into Mr. Jefferson on his way to catch a flight out of Arcadia.
"Sorry there young miss, I should really watch where i'm going" he says putting on a smile that just disturbs Max but she barely keeps face when she responds "uhhmm ….don't worry ….about it." Her fist were clenched hard as she tried her best to not come off aggressive, "Is there anyway I can make it up to you" Jefferson said as he inched closer. His hand reaching out for a hand shake but Max quickly slaps it away and it catches him off guard "oooohhh, i'm sorry i'm just not that into people touching me but thanks for the offer." He straches the back of his head trying to seem apologetic "oh sorry, i'm always quick to rush to know new people…. I like their aura's." Hearing through words sent a shiver down her spine as she backed away slowly "sorry I have to go" she said bolting for the exit with just her backpack.
Jefferson stood there stunned and waved her away obliviously "the youth of today, always in a rush, I wonder how they will ever get the essence of life ….if they never slow down." Max took one last look behind her as she saw Jefferson getting on his flight "with him out of the way it should be easier, I have to stop Nathan."
After grabbing the taxi and running for a while she arrives at Chloe's but with her headaches getting worse, "i have to hurry before i'm forced to jump again." Max gave a loud thunderous knock on the door and kept going till she heard a response "Hold your horse's i'm coming." Minutes later Chloe answered the door and was shocked to see Max standing in front of her "Max what are you doing here?" she asked looking puzzled. "I came to help I know it doesn't make an sense now but I need you to take me to Blackwell" she reached for Chloe only to be met with a shrug. "Really after all these years that's all you have to say?" Chloe asked with her look turning from one of shock to anger, "Listen Chloe I need to save Rachel."
"Save her from what?" Chloe asked a bit intrigued "Just listen to me, we need to go now before Nathan does something that will hurt her." Max just watched Chloe standing there thinking to herself before she heard a voice in her heard talking to her "Maxine Claufield, you've been a very naughty girl." She stepped back looking around confusedly and Chloe stared at her "what are you doing Max? Is something wrong can you hear me? Wait ….are you totally tripping right now" she said looking confused and concerned. But Max couldn't hear her as this voice was the only thing she could hear "I see that you have been jumping around the time line, tell me ….what is it you hope to accomplish?"
Max blinked for a second and saw herself sitting at a bench by the light house but she hadn't time jumped "I am here to save Rachel Amber." The voice suddenly became louder "WHAT DO YOU MEAN SAVE RACHEL AMBER? WHATS WRONG WITH HER?" the voice asked screaming and shouting in Max's head only amplifying her headaches. But Max with stood the pain with more blood running down her nose and looked up to the sky where the voice was coming from "i come from the future and Rachel is dead where I come from…. killed and assaulted by ….Nathan Prescott."
The voice goes quiet and behind Max women appears behind her "So i'm you are just like me?" she asked with a traumatic look on her face, "I saw into your mind, I saw the pictures of Rachel ….i saw when you dug up her body." Max does her best to hold back her tears but the woman just falls on her knees "i thought I did everything right I thought she was going to be and I was going to leave in a few days just like her father asked me" she says to herself crying.
"No there's still time and from the looks off it you might be able to help me" Max said as she walked to her and offered her hand "i honesty dont know if I can help or not, because I don't know what I am right now." "what do you mean you dont know what you are?" Max asked confused "well lefts just say I was put in a position where I had to use all my power or I would die ….alot of help that did because now I don't even know if i'm alive" she answered making Max get down to one knee and look at her straight in the eyes "After you help me save Rachel, I will come save you too." The woman looked at her still teary eyed "Save my daughter" she said as the world around Max crumble and brought her back to reality. "That was Rachel's mom" she thought to herself as she opened her eyes.
Max was being lifted by some Paramedics while tied down to a strecher "WHAT ARE YOU DOING? LET ME GO." She shouted squirmiing in the strecher trying to get out "so miss but you passed out where bleeding from your nose and mouth, you are lucky that your friend called us." She looked at Chloe who looked shocked staring at Max being wheeled into the ambulance "I'm sorry but I have no time for this" Max said as she clenched her teeth and streched out her hand trying to hold back screams.
Time began to rewind lagging sometimes due the strain she was putting on herself as she sees the paramedic drive away in reverse, Chloe rushing in to call them after holding her and shaking her around. Till it was back to when Chloe was about to be talked to by the voice but her body started to feel calmer as if adjusting to the chaotic time jumps. "Dont worry I know everything I checked your mind already, we had this talk before" the voice of the women says in her head. "Max are you okay?" Chloe ask her looking concerned "Yea i'm fine I need you to take me to Blackwell now….i will answer all your questions when I can."
The two hopped in the Car as the voice quickly briefed Max on what had happened in arcadia since she left and how more people like them were popping up around everywhere. "Rachel is able to control the weather but I don't think she knows how, I thought that would be enough to protect her but I guess I was wrong" the voice said lowly. "You friend there Chloe knows about me and has witnessed my power even Rachel's but I can see from some of your memories and thoughts that she never told you" Max looks over to Chloe as she drives "What is it Max? Why are you staring at me like that?"
Max looks at her more intensely "Tell me everything about Rachel and her mom" Chloe looks taken back for a second before regaining her composure "There's nothing to tell, just a family of normies and stuff" she answered with her voice clearly shakey. "I know everything about Rachel, her mom and their gifts" Chloe looked stunned as she pulled up to the front of Blackwell "i dont know what you mean?" Chloe said trying to keep her calm but Max could tell already that she was lying "her mother told me but it's fine keep your lies" Max said as she hopped out of the Car.
Chloe just sat in the car gripping the steering wheel and turned to see Max running straight into Blackwell "RACHEL, RACHEL RACHEL RACHEL RACHEL." Max got in screaming with just students staring at her whispering "what's wrong with that chick?" "i dont know but she seems crazy" "what does she want with Rachel?" people in the crowd whispered but she didn't care running faster.
Rachel was in the theatre practising with the other students until she started hearing her name being called out in the hallway. "who's calling me?" she asked looking at the other theatre kids who just shrugged as they had no clue. She got up and walked into the hallway looking around for who was calling her name "Rachel ….is that ….you?" Max asked as Rachel pointed at herself nodding yes. "Who are y-" before Rachel could finish asking her question she was pulled into a tight and massive hug, "thank god you're okay, I thought I almost didn't make it." Rachel didn't know how to react and slowly patted Max's back "i know I was in the hospital and all but i'm fine" she says trying to break free of the hug. But Max just buries her head into Rachel's shoulder not letting her go "Chloe told me so much about you ….everyone did, I just so glad to meet you myself." Max said as she looked in Rachel's eyes but not letting her out of her tight embrace.
"So who are you?" Rachel asked confused but no longer fighting to get out of the hug "i'm just someone who cares about you, who never got a chance to and protect you." "What do you mean protect me?" she asked looking at Max confused. She was about to answer but felt something off and looked at a window in the theatre room behind Rachel into the brushes "you sensed someone there? I did too but they are gone now, but is it the person that wants to hurt Rachel?" the women's voice asked in Max's head. She only held Rachel tighter making her blush "i'll keep you safe and never let anyone hurt you again" Max said reaching for Rachel's hand holding it softly.
"But you don't even know me and i'm pretty sure that i've never met you" Rachel said with a stunned look on her face but Max didn't care and grabbed her hand heading for the door. "Hey you can't just tell me to go with you without an answer, Max held her hand tighter as she feared Rachel would run with what she was about to tell her, "Look I want you to stick with me for a while or as long as it takes till i'm sure that you're safe ….you mother told me to save you too." Rachel was now planting her feet into the ground "My mom really that's such a basically excuse for a kidnapping" she said annoyed but when Max heard these words it sent flashbacks on Rachel's pictures and her body. "Your really mother sent me and I think deep down you know that" Max said as she turned around with tears running down her eyes. The two just looked at each others with a few tear drops running down Rachels cheeks "Okay but why?" A voice then came to Rachels head "because she is the only one that can save you, she knows what will happen." "Mom is that you?" Rachel asked confused and crying but Max just held her as they walked out of Blackwell.
Chloe wasn't there and had left with her car "guess we will have to take a taxi somewhere" Max said planning her next move but Rachel stopped her but gripping her hand tighter "Let's goto California."
"Let's leave that as a last resort because I know how much you want to leave arcadia" Max said doing her best to comfort Rachel as they arrived at her house. "Welcome to my personal hell" Rachel said point at her house with a glum cheerful demeanor but as they walked in Max's vision began to blur "Not again."