Hey everyone! I'm really sorry if this chapter took long. I guess I should say that I have been really preoccupied with college work so I haven't had the time to work on this chapter. Anyway, I hope you enjoy!
After Logan escorted Max and Chloe back to the mansion, he asked Max to clean herself up first before having breakfast, since she still had dried blood covering almost half of her face. When she entered one the vacant bathrooms and checked herself in the mirror, she was surprised at how much blood there actually was.
"Whoa! For fucking real!? I look like The Phantom of the Opera on steroids! I guess I should believe Chloe now?" Max thought in her head.
Max proceeded to wash her face, making sure to remove all of the blood. When she was finished, she headed downstairs for breakfast with Chloe.
Moments later, the Professor called Max to his office. Alongside her were Logan and Ororo, while Chloe was asked to wait outside.
"Max. We've been worried about your whereabouts from earlier. Would you like to explain to me what had happened?" Charles asked the young girl.
"It's- it's complicated, Professor. I just can't seem to wrap my head on what just happened." Max answered.
"It's okay, Max. Just organize your thoughts first then tell me you're ready."
Max took the time to recall what had happened in that nightmare she had last night. The moment felt like at least a few minutes when Max finally got things sorted out in her head.
"Okay. I'm ready." Max told the Professor.
"Go ahead, then."
Max caught her breath. "It's just that..." The girl paused a bit as she struggled to say the next few words."
"...I had this nightmare- or I think a vision? I can't really tell!"
"What was in that nightmare, Max?" The professor asked.
"I had this dream that- that Bayville was in the middle of a freaking tornado! It just felt so real! Almost everything was destroyed! It felt like Arcadia Bay all over again!"
"I tried to go outside to find any survivors. You, Chloe, even Logan, and then- something struck me, then I blacked out!" Max tried not to freak out over her nightmare.
"Well that explains you "sleepwalking" your way out the mansion." Logan pointed out.
"Yeah, I guess. Maybe that also explains my nosebleed?" Max responded.
"Perhaps so, Max. I am guessing that you subconsciously used your powers while you were sleepwalking." Charles speculated.
"Looks like I haven't fully controlled my powers yet." Max frowned.
"That's fine, Max. Almost every student had felt the same when they moved in here." He assured Max.
"Oh, Charles. Can I add something? This is important." Ororo spoke up.
"What is it, Ororo?" Charles asked the white-haired woman.
Ororo put on a serious face.
"I had the same nightmare as Max, too. The same storm hitting Bayville?" She told the professor, and the young girl.
Max's eyes widened in surprise. She didn't realize that her vision affected the person who happened to cause storms as her mutant ability. Or probably just a coincidence.
"I... What?" The time-warping teen was speechless. "Really!?" She wanted to not believe this at first, but in the environment she is in, nothing was hard to believe.
"I was like you, Max. I panicked when I looked around my surroundings, because I thought I caused this in my sleep. I couldn't find anyone as well. Charles, Logan..."
" ...even you." The weather witch told Max.
"I- I'm so sorry, Ororo!" Max panicked as she apologized to Ororo.
"It's okay, Max! It's okay. You haven't done anything wrong." Charles reassured Max. "As a matter of fact, you have been really careful with your powers, so not much has been affected."
"Really, Professor?"
"I mean it."
"So I'm guessing no Butterfly Effects?" Max thought in her head.
"No Butterfly Effects." Charles telepathically responded to Max, to her surprise.
"Thanks, Professor." The instructors and Charles gave Max a warm smile.
"You can leave if you want, kid." Logan told the girl.
"Oh.. okay." She shyly exited the Professor's office after waving them goodbye. When she left, she made her way towards Chloe, who was waiting by the entrance.
"Hey! You've been there for quite a while, so how's my girl doing?" The blue-haired girl asked Max.
Max paused for a while, thinking of what to say.
"The Professor and I discussed a lot of shit. Especially about my nightmare. It just makes me freak just thinking about it! Then I found out that Storm also had that nightmare!"
"Guess that's why she's called Storm?" Chloe half-jokingly asked.
"Maybe. This is just like that Chaos Theory shit that we talked about back in Arcadia. I just hope I don't mess around with my powers again, or rather, you won't mess around with my powers." Max jokingly warned Chloe.
"Chill, Max! I've changed!" Chloe remarked.
The two girls laughed.
Just then, a butterfly flew around the entrance of the room. Not just any butterfly, it was the exact same butterfly that Max saw way back in Arcadia Bay, in Blackwell's girl's bathroom where her and Chloe's lives changed dramatically. That caught the girls' attentions.
"Butterfly Effect, perhaps?" Chloe asked.
"Butterfly Effect." Max answered.
I'll finish this here, because I haven't thought of anything that can happen right after this story, since I wanted to focus on Max talking with the Professor about that nightmare. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this story as a whole. Please Review and Rate!