Life is Strange: A Family's Secret
Chapter 1 of my Life is Strange story, enjoy.
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Chapter 1
The feeling of numbness continued to fill the eighteen year old young woman as she sat on the uncomfortable chair in the hospital waiting room. She had been here for hours and yet still there was no news. Said young woman was of medium height, no more than five foot five and skinny with chin length brown hair, blue eyes and pale skin, freckles decorated her face.
Her name was Max Caulfield and the last several hours had passed her by in a horrifying blur.
After accidentally discovering she had the power to reverse time and using to save her old friend, Chloe Price, from being shot in the girl's bathroom at her school, even though she hadn't realized it was Chloe at the time due to the five years since they last saw each other and Chloe's drastically different style, she had begun to make several horrific discoveries involving her powers.
In the end, to prevent the entire town of Arcadia Bay from being wiped out by a tornado, she had gone back to that time and this time, forced herself not to act, to let Chloe be shot. Yet what happened afterwards shocked her greatly and was why she was sitting in the hospital waiting room at this very moment.
She shuddered and looked around, still nothing.
'I...I just panicked; I didn't care Nathan still had the gun, that he'd see me, I just ran to Chloe...' Max thought to herself.
Nathan Prescott, heir to the prestigious Prescott family had been the one to shoot Chloe during a struggle and argument with Chloe trying to get money off of Nathan in return for keeping quiet about Nathan's illicit drug activities. His reaction immediately after the shooting had startled Max. He hadn't intended to shoot, just to scare Chloe, still it didn't excuse the actual event, nor did it change all the things Max had found out about Nathan in that week she had now erased from existence.
'Yet from what I heard...' Max recalled. 'After he was arrested...Nathan confessed everything, which means...'
The Dark Room Incident, as it was now being known, had been exposed, Max's photography teacher and one time hero, before she learned the truth, Mark Jefferson had also been arrested, the Dark Room and the illicit photos of several girls, including fellow student Kate Marsh and the long missing, now confirmed dead Rachel Amber, had been found.
Max remained edgy however. 'I tried to do what I could for Chloe, her eyes closed, but she saw me before that...What did she even think upon seeing me there...'
Chloe's step-father, David Madsen, who was also head of security at Blackwell Academy, had entered and been the one to arrest Nathan, after that he had done what he could to help Max, too in shock to ask what she was doing there.
Now Max found herself waiting at the hospital, Chloe's mother Joyce had arrived not too long ago and now she and David had gone through with the doctors, still waiting on news about Chloe's condition.
Max shuddered. 'If I'd just sat there, doing nothing...Chloe would've bled out, died...right there...But without using my powers I was somehow able to help; she has a chance, so long as the surgery works and she can...can fight hard enough to survive...'
All the same, Max still found herself afraid; she had seen what Chloe's life had become, she was worried that such a life had left Chloe too damaged to continue living. She was jolted from her thoughts by the sound of approaching footsteps. She looked up and relief filled her when she recognized the two new arrivals, both close to her in age, a boy and girl, the boy was taller than her, with short messy brown hair and brown eyes. The girl was the same height as Max with long blonde hair in a high bun and blue eyes. It was her closest friends in Blackwell, Kate Marsh and Warren Graham.
"Kate, Warren..." She gasped.
Warren spoke at once. "We came as soon as we could Max; are you…?"
Max shook her head. "There's been no word yet...God I still can't believe."
"It'll be okay, Max...we're here, and we're sure that everything will work out." Kate said softly, trying to encourage Max.
Max just nodded, resuming her seat as they sat on either side of her, offering her much needed support.
It turned out to be necessary as Max began to feel guilty.
"I should've, I should've done more." She bust out. "I just hid there until he shot her, I-I..."
Warren however was immediately there offering comfort. "Max, you did all you could; Nathan had a gun, you were scared, there's nothing you could have done."
'If you only knew...' Max thought sadly.
But she couldn't say anything, not yet. She could only wait there and hope, hope that the revelations that had been made, the successful capture of Jefferson, didn't come at the cost of another life.
End of chapter, hope you enjoyed it, read and review please.