Life is Strange: In The Darkest Hours of a Woman

Chapter 7 of my Life is Strange story, enjoy.

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Chapter 7

When Nathan Prescott entered the interview room, David tensed and had to really fight to control himself. He understood the terms of Nathan being out of prison, that he wasn't actually a free man by any real stretch, but still, the fact he was out still felt wrong to David.

'After everything he did, to Chloe...to Rachel, but then, without him, we'd never have caught Jefferson.' David grumbled to himself; admitting the last part. 'Then there was the fact he was...genuinely sorry for what happened and, his mental issues...'

Shaking his head David took some solace in the fact that, Nathan was finally getting the help he needed. But still; there was still bad blood between him and Chloe and that, amongst other things, still made him a suspect in her rape. Seeing David, Nathan raised an eyebrow, but said nothing as he sat down.

Officer Berry began carefully. "Mr. Prescott, thank you for coming in..."

Nathan shook his head. "The officer said it was important and now I'm starting to wonder, just how bad. Can we, cut right to the chase?"

He was nervous, David noted, but then, why wouldn't he be. The last time Nathan had been in the police station had been dramatic and difficult, but even so, this had to be done.

Officer Berry nodded.

"Alright, three weeks ago, between seven and eight...We'd like to ask you, where you were?"

Nathan narrowed his eyes. "Am I being accused of something?"

Berry sighed. "Mr. Prescott, we..."

"I'll answer your questions, but I want to know, am I being accused of something?"

Berry and David glanced at each other and David nodded, might as well get it over with.

So Berry explained. "Alright then; you've brought in for questioning, regarding an incident that occurred within the time frame we mentioned to you...The assault and rape of Chloe Price."

"Wait, what?" Nathan spluttered; startled. "That girl was, she...You think I..."

David could barely restrain himself, especially when Nathan sighed and shook his head.

"I was in my dorm that night." He also quickly deflated and replied blandly. "And no, no one can verify...Look, you can compare my DNA right, why not do that?"

David sighed and grudgingly admitted. "He has a point and since you're compared two samples rather than searching for an unknown, it shouldn't take that long, right?"

Nodding Berry agreed and so, with Nathan having to wait, an officer stationed right outside the room, they left, David also waited while Berry went to request the necessary tests.


Later in the day, at Blackwell; Max had been trying to get some time to relax; to unwind from the stress of everything that had been going on. However it was not to be, for at that moment a shadow fell over her. Opening her eyes she was startled to see Victoria standing there, glaring at her with an almost murderous expression.

"You dare..." She hissed.

"Um, what?"

Victoria shook her head. "Don't act stupid, I know it was you, you're the one who accused Nathan of attacking your friend."

Realizing right away what this was about, Max spoke up. "Whoa, Victoria, hang on a minute, I didn't accuse anybody; all I said was Nathan is a potential suspect, along with others. It wasn't just Nathan I mentioned."

"You shouldn't have mentioned him at all!" Victoria snapped. "And he was a potential suspect, he called me, told all about it, luckily the DNA cleared him."

That caught Max off guard, so Nathan was innocent, so was Frank, in fact, all their suspects had been dead ends. But then, who could have attacked Chloe.

"Victoria, I wasn't trying to..."

She shook her head. "You don't know him, Nathan would never rape someone. He saved me from being raped in middle school, you really think after that, he'd even think about it?!"

She gave Max no time to answer however, as she then turned and stalked off.

What happened next, in Max's eyes, just made things even weirder.

"Max Caulfield."

She turned, startled as she saw Nathan approaching; glaring.

"What, look Victoria already told me, I..."

He nodded. "Yeah, I know. Look, I couldn't care less about helping out that girl, but I wanna set the record straight."

Max wasn't sure how to react to that. "What…?"

"I think I may know who is behind this...and that person, may also lead us to the actual attacker." Nathan explained. "But I'm gonna need you, to snoop around, while I talk to this person; I've already called Kristine and she's gonna set things up."

"What are you talking about?"

"I need you to snoop around and find anything that might have a connection to this." Nathan explained. "While I distract my dad."

Max froze, so many thoughts running through her head right now. She hadn't thought of Sean Prescott, but he could have been involved, as some sort of twisted revenge for what happened to Nathan.

But if that was the case and the rapist still on the loose; she was suddenly afraid, what if he was targeting more people, for the same reason. She could think of so many people on that list, herself amongst them, yet strangely, that only came to her in an afterthought.

She didn't like the idea of working with Nathan, but if it would get them answers she would do it. So she agreed, now she could only wait until Nathan contacted her, then it would be time to snoop around the Prescott mansion.


End of chapter, hope you enjoyed it, read and review please.