Hey, guys, I think one more chapter after this and it's done! O: Or maybe not. I dunno how much more I'll need to write. OC warning for this one. I decide I should wrap them all up in their own chapter rather than lacing then in with the originals. I think we do need to know what's happening with Maxie's family, though, don't you?

"Angel, will you stop it already?" sighed Griff as they stood in front of Maxie's house. "This is Maxie's decision and we're gunna stay until we can talk to Rachel so it's really not a problem, is it?"

"Yeah, Griff, it is, because Rachel's not exactly the best at protecting him," growled Angel, giving him a furious glare.

"Rachel does her best so shut the fuck up!" snapped Nico, having always been very fond of Maxie's sister.

"Well her best isn't good enough!" yelled Angel. "Even if Maxie wants to, it doesn't mean we should just let him be! He doesn't get this stuff! That's why we're the ones who always make the decisions! Maxie can't because he doesn't understand!"

"I understand just fine, thank you!"

Everyone blinked and looked at Maxie who was glaring at Angel, and to Griff and Nico's astonishment, showed no sign of any tears at all. He usually got very upset when he fought with any of them. He sharply tugged his hand away from Kenny's, startling the boy, and walked up the steps to his house with an air of stubborn confidence.

"Maxie?"

He ignored Angel's tentative call and pushed open the front door. The house was eerily dark and very silent. Maxie walking in and abandoned his shoes in the entry way, the others followed in suit and did the same. They remained quiet and still for a moment. Then Maxie called out.

"Mama? Daddy? Rachel? I'm home!"

Immediately there were several loud banging sounds followed by a shout of, "Mother, NO!" and Mrs. Green came stampeding down the stairs a moment later. She looked horrible. Her hair was in a horrible mess and old make up had stained her face as if she'd been crying and hadn't bothered to wash it off. There was silence for a moment, then Maxie opened his mouth to say something, but a pained scream cut him off.

More footsteps echoed above, a girl called, "Father, you mustn't!" and then Mr. Green appeared, looking quite as bad as his wife. Maxie started to say somethign again but a second later Rachel was stumbling down the stairs and into her father's back. She looked by far the worst, cuts and bruises visible all over her thin body, and a bright red mark on her cheek. Her father rounded on her, a terrifying expression on his face, and smacked her. She gave another cry of pain and fell the remaining few steps. Maxie gave a small squeak of horror and moved to help her, but Nico was already there, helping her up tenderly, shooting Mr. Green a vicious look, and quickly moving back near the door where he set her down against the wall and hugged her.

Another moment of silence, save more Rachel's soft sobs, and then it was broken by the click of Christophe's lighter as he lit a cigarette, inhaled, and blew the smoke pointedly at Maxie's parents. Mrs. Green gave a shriek of disapproval and moved to ground level.

"Maxwell, who on Earth are you hanging around with?" she snapped, her eyes wide with fire.

"Christophe is my friend, Mommy!" he said defensively, though he sounded a bit frightened.

"I will not have such a health hazard around my baby or in my house!"

"Oh, I see," said Christophe coolly, making no move to stop. "Zen I suppose you and your 'usband 'ad better leave. You are for sure ze biggest 'ealth 'azards 'ere, oui?"

She gave another shriek of outrage and moved forward. Christophe looked prefectly ready to fight, but Kenny grabbed his wrist and he stayed put.

"Mama-" started Maxie, but Mr. Green had pushed passed her and was pointing accusingly at Nico.

"You!" he roared. "You already stole my son from me, give me back my daughter, boy!"

"No!" shouted Nico immediately, snapping his head to glare at him. "I took Maxie because you were hurting him, and since you're hurting Rachel, I'll take her too!"

And while his father snapped back at him, Maxie realised that Nico had tears in his eyes and was forcing them not to fall. He blinked and looked back to his father, interrupting him mid-sentence.

"Mommy, Daddy, if this is how you're going to treat me and my friends and my sister then I won't come home after all!" he shouted.

Things became silent once again and Mrs. Green got a look of absolute terror on her face.

"No, baby, we're sorry!" she said hurriedly. "We won't be mean anymore, we only want what's best for you, you know that! It's just that these boys really aren't people you should be hanging out with! They took you from your home and your family and have that nasty habit and you should really realise that they're no good for you, and-"

"There's nothing wrong with them!" insisted Maxie.

His mother stopped and stared at him for a moment, then continued, " Alright, sweetheart, it's fine if you don't understand right now, just come home to me and we'll-"

"I understand just fine, thank you!" repeated Maxie, angrily. "And I'm not ready for you to decide how you feel yet. There's one more thing that I need to show you..."

Rachel gave a little gasp and said, "Maxwell, no!"

"Angel," said Maxie quickly, turning around to face the unusually silent boy. "Can you come here, please?"

Angel blinked and stepped up to him blankly. And in one swift motion, Maxie put his hands around the back of his neck and kissed him.

And then several things happened at once. Angel's eyes widened in shock and he stood unmoving as Mrs. Green let out a shriek of rage and rushed at them. Griff lunged forward to keep her at bay, but Mr. Green sprinted forward and landed a rather clumsy punch on, for some reason, Kenny's face. Nico and Rachel were letting out unhappy screams and Christophe grabbed hold of Mr. Green's wrist and promptly kneed him in the groin, causing him to crumple to the ground.

And then Maxie broke away from Angel, leaving him stunned, and looked at his mother who was staring at the two of them viciously over Griff's shoulder.

"I'm gay," he said forcefully and she made a rather unpleasant squeaking sound. "And since that's obviously a problem, I'll just go get the rest of my things."

And he ran past them and up the stairs. Silence followed, during which Kenny brought his sleeve to his nose to stop the bleeding, and then Christophe said:

"Well aren't you just a family of beetches. No wonder zey treat him like zey do. I zink I would 'ave taken 'im from ze 'ouse a bit sooner, zough, non?"

Suddenly Mrs. Green made a strangled yelp and elbowed Griff in the gut, stumbling after her soon franticly and yelling, "You're not taking my baby away from me!"

Griff 'oofed' and bent forward a bit, clutching at his stomach. He then pulled himself upright and sprinted after her. When he reached the top of the stairs he saw her hastily turning a key in Maxie's door knob and dashing to the bathroom when she caught sight of him. He ran after her and arrived just in time to see her flush the toilet. A horrible feeling dropped into the pit of his stomach and he grabbed at her arms, shaking her lightly.

"Mrs. Green, what did you just do?!" he shouted at her. She screamed briefly and hissed at him, but he had heard the frantic banging on a door and Maxie's tiny voice and he released her and ran back out into the hall and to Maxie's door.

"Maxie! Maxie, are you okay?"

"I can't open the door!" cried Maxie from behind the wood. "Griff, what happened?"

"You're mom locked you in, but don't worry, I can pick the lock. I'm gunna go get a hair pin from Nico, okay? I'll be right back."

They had been aware of the old lock on his door for awhile and had been vaugely worried about the where abouts of the key. The inside knob had nothing on it and the outside a keyhole. It was an odd thing for a bedroom door, but now Griff knew why. Maxie made a sound of agreement and after glancing at the bathroom door to see if Mrs. Green had emerged, he came back down the stairs. "Nico, I-"

Nico was now crying freely and holding both a sobbing Rachel and a seemingly unconscious Angel, who was forming a black eye. Kenny and Christophe were facing Mr. Green with angry expressions and Griff moved to help, but Kenny assured him they could handle it, so he approached Nico instead.

"Nico, give me one of your hair pins," he said, not waiting for him to oblige, but rather unclipping on from his hair on his own. Nico whimpered. "Nico, listen to me," he continued quietly. "I need you to call the police, alright? And then call Kyle. Can you do that for me?"

Nico hiccuped and nodded, struggling to pull his cell phone from his pocket. Griff handed him his. "It's gunna be okay, Nico."

"But Griff, he still hasn't frogiven me!" sobbed Nico, sounding choked. "What if-"

"He'll be fine, Nico!" insisted Griff. "You just need to call the police. I'll be right back, okay?"

Nico sniffed and Griff went back upstairs. Mrs. Green was leaning against Maxie's door, as if scared he would be able to knock it down.

"Mrs. Green," started Griff calmly taking a step towards her, "I'm going to need you to move."

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"Nico, calm down! What?"

"We took Maxie home and he kissed Angel so his parents started flipping out, and-"

"Whoa, wait, Maxie kissed Angel? Our Maxie?"

"Yes, but now Angel's unconscious and Maxie and Griff are doing something upstairs with Maxie's mom, and Kenny and Christophe are fighting his dad, and I called the police, but-"

"Nico, calm down, seriously! We'll be right there, okay?"

Nico whimpered. "Okay..."

"Okay."

Kyle pressed end on his cell phone and turned to a very confused looking Stan.

"Maxie's parents have flipped or something, we've gotta go help," he said apologetically. Stan nodded and they left the pizza place quickly, taking to running down the street, as neither of them had a car, towards Maxie's house.

Again, doesn't meet my length standard, and I was originally gunna write out the entire scene, but I think it's best to leave the rest up to your imagination cause I DON'T WANNA. :P And I'm sorry about the excessive OCness of this chapter, I wanted to get it all out of the way at once, at least until the sequel. Anyway, yes, this is most likely the second to last chapter. I plan to upload that on the anniversary of the story, so next month.

And GUESS WHAT GUYS? I'm being nice to you. I only received three, count 'em, THREE reviews for last chapter, and I've never accepted that feeble amount on this story before, no sir! At least four until the next chapter, I said! Well, since Newey also reviewed chapter 11, and I need you guys help with a new story, I've decided to let it slide.

Now, said new story. Lately, I've been obsessed with CHRISTOPHE, and I really love writing for CHRISTOPHE, so I've decided I wanna write a story about CHRISTOPHE.... CHRISTOPHE. Yeah... BUT I lack the ideas for a plot. I need you guys HALP, please. OAO ASSIST POCKET IN HER NEED FOR WRITING FRENCH ACCENTS! Any ideas? Any at all? I have a feeling it's goign to end up as a Tophlovski fic, but I'm open to all pairings.

AND ALSO I finally cut off from my douchey ex who attempted to take my virginity! KYLE, YOU HORNY BASTARD, I FUCKING HATE YOU! YOU DON'T DESERVE THAT NAME! - cough-

REVIEW PEOPLE. PLEASE. -twitch-