Hey everyone! Sorry this took a little longer but here it is :D Once again hope you all like it and the nest one may take a little longer as I have some very important work due in that I have yet to start. I'll shut up...and enjoy :)

Chapter THREE: Those proven promises...!

The journey into the very soul of Arcadia Bay felt to Max as if her and Chloe were entering an ancient long lost city that nature had reclaimed. Within seconds of starting up the truck, Chloe and Max saw real devastation before their very eyes and goddamn did it hurt them both!

Trees had been torn from their roots and flung across a huge distance into whatever part of civilization they could find. Whole buildings, big or small, had been ripped from the very ground and their shattered corpses paraded what was once known as the street. Max spotted a fire hydrant that spewed water from its broken body as if it were a volcano. Chloe glanced over from carefully driving through the wreckage and saw several overturned cars just lying there, some had been hurled upside down whilst others were just plain broken and in bits. None of the horrifying devastation scared both Chloe and Max more than the silence.

That loud silence.

Gone was the familiar symphony of cars driving through the Bay, gone was the sound of birds flying and tweeting through the skies and gone was the sound of the people walking and talking and enjoying life. This is what scared Max the most and she joined the silence as she quietly wept to herself. As soon as Chloe heard her best friend crying like that, she halted the truck and turned and spoke softly to Max.

"Jesus Max…this is heavy. I mean like…this is fucking real! The whole town is in fucking pieces. It's okay though, we don't yet what happened to everyone. For all we know, mom and David and everyone else we know could be all safe and sound. If they are then I promise, we will…"

Suddenly Chloe's speech was interrupted by the loud and ferocious sound of Max smashing her fist down on the already beaten dashboard and spoke with such anger and regret that it even scared Chloe a little.

"I know what I did Chloe! Look at everything, do you see any fucking people? No because there aren't any. No one's locked up safe and sound in their own personal bomb shelters Chloe! The only thing even similar to that is the fucking dark room! No one in Arcadia Bay saw the tornado coming except me so they would have been at work, at home or with their families and I took that away. I took everything away from the town that had given me so much. Kate, Warren, Daniel, Dana even fucking Victoria are all dead because of me! I don't deserve this power, all I have ever done is make shit worse and worse since I got it and now look. The town is dead and so is everyone else. I did this. Fucking me! Back in the dark room I called Jefferson a murderer and now what am I? Look around you Chloe, I am worse than…" Max was halted in her rant by Chloe practically leaping across the seat and grabbing max by her shoulders and demanding she look at her. When Max finally gazed into her best friend's eyes, she saw something within her, a pain that she had never felt. See, Max's family were all alive and cosy up in Seattle so were some of Max's old friends. Chloe on the other hand didn't know where her family was or any of her friends. Well she knew where one was, Rachel and she was lying dead in a junkyard not to far from here. For all Chloe knew, her whole family could be dead right now and after losing both her real father and her crush, Chloe couldn't take any more loss and Max saw all this just from the girl's eyes.

"Don't you even fucking DARE say you are worse than him Max EVER! Jefferson KILLED Rachel maybe not directly but he caused it. He straight up fucked my life up again for the third fucking time and almost broke the shit out of me trying to find her. Not only that but he kidnapped Kate Marsh and who only knows else for his sick games. You are nothing like him Max. You…saved me! Not only from the gun in the bathroom or back there but you bought me back from something I thought I was stuck in! You gave me hella hope when I thought it had packed it's bags and fucked of to some other punk ass. Yeah, the town is in ruins but you don't know if everyone is dead and you better not give up on me now Caulfield because I promise you on Rachel's grave that I'll slap the shit-piss out of your freckled face if you do. You were given these powers not by choice and you proved to me that you were able to use it like a hero. You proved it to me now prove it to those people out there who are still alive. Remember…you are super-Max"

Those words. Those incredible utterances proved three things to Max as she sat there in awe, staring up with tears in her eyes to her best friend. It proved that Chloe had fire in her that would give that tornado a run for its money and that she was determined to find her family! It proved that Max also wanted to find her friends like Kate Marsh and help Chloe so that in some way she could atone for all the shit she caused with her cursed powers and it also proved something that Max had known for some time now but only now had realised that it was there, it was sentient and she would be dammed if she was never going to say it out loud through the tears and sniffles….

"I…love you Chloe!"