Hard Reset

Miss Magillicuddy

AN: Just a couple of things. I know that it is a myth about a greasy breakfast and hair of the dog, but I think I probably would have thought that it was true when I was younger. Also, I'm going to be starting a new story called "The Foster", so I'll probably alternate updates once I actually start posting that. (maybe tomorrow or the next night) It would be difficult to post a chapter in each at the same time, as I usually work on a chapter in the few hours I have after work. If you wanted more info about the story, I will put a bit of the synopsis at the end of the chapter.

Max groaned as she rolled away from the light beaming into her face from the window, only to wind up in a yelp as she rolled off the bed and onto the floor. Max felt the world spinning around her as she sat up, groaning. She felt bile climbing up her throat has the room world seemed to spin rapidly around her. Oh god! Max stumbled to her feet and raced across the hall to the bathroom and spent the next few minutes on her knees retching into the toilet.

She heard another pair of feet come running into the bathroom and start retching into the sink next to her. She turned to look to her her right and and saw a pink head of hair lowered over the sink, as the girl under the hair started vomiting violently. Max groaned again before resting her head on her arms.

"I'm never drinking again," she mumbled, before dry heaving again. She heard a slight giggle from the door and glared up into Rachels glimmering eyes.

"You girls okay," the beautiful blond asked, "the first hangover can be pretty difficult. The best cure is a bit of the hair of the dog and a greasy breakfast!"

Kate dry heaved next to her and groaned out, "that doesn't sound like a good idea. I don't think I could keep anything down. Besides, it's, like, noon. I think you mean lunch"

Kate stood straight and turned on the sink, cupping her hands under the flow of water and bringing it to her mouth. She swished it around for a few seconds and spit it out. She left the room and returned a few seconds later with a baggie that had her toothpaste and brush in it, and spent the next few minutes brushing her teeth. Max had already stood and grabbed Chloe's toothbrush. She received a raised brow and a pointed look from Kate as she eyed Chloe's toothbrush.

"It was already here," Max explained with a slight blush, "besides, we've been friends forever. I couldn't count how many times we used each other's as kids."

"Mmmhmm," Kate responded with a slight smirk and a shake of her head, before wincing as her temple throbbed briefly from the movement. "I'm sure it had nothing to do with the kiss you two shared last night. You just couldn't wait to swap spit with her."

Max turned pink and jammed the toothbrush back into her mouth to avoid a response while Kate just giggled next to her and began brushing her teeth as well. Max found a bottle of tylenol and took two pills before handing the bottle off to Kate. Afterwards the two of them headed back to Chloe's room to grab their phones. Max noted that Chloe was still sleeping… a slight puddle of drool pooling onto her pillow and arms and legs flung all over. Aww, she's so cute. Max trailed her eyes over Chloe's form, a slight smile gathering at the corners of her lips. Her eyes paused briefly on Chloe's short's that had ridden up. She felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand up on end and turned her head to see Kate smirking from next to her.

"Oh, don't mind me," Kate said with a giggle, before flouncing towards the door. "I didn't mean to distract you from undressing her with your eyes."

Max sputtered before hurrying after her, elbowing her gently in the side as she caught up with her and grinning. "She does have a pretty nice ass"

Kate let out a loud laugh before wincing as the sound made her head pound again. The two girls made their way down the stairs and saw Rachel in front of the stove dancing to music playing on her phone as she fried up eggs and bacon. She looked up and beamed at them before going back to scrambling the eggs in one of the pans.

"I put out a shot of tequila for each of you. Lick your hand, put salt there. Then lick it the salt off, take the shot, and suck the lime.," she told them, pointing to the island where two shot glasses sat next to a plate with 2 wedges of a lime. "Also, would one of you start on making us all some toast?"

Max and Kate did as instructed, wincing as the bitter alcohol hit the back of their throats. Max was surprised how quickly that faded after sucking on the lime. Max coughed and cleared her throat before heading grabbing she bread from one of the cupboards and sliding 4 pieces in the toaster. She pulled down 4 plates while the bread cooked and grabbed the butter dish from next to the tv. By the time she finished buttering the last piece of toast, Kate was stood next to her plating up the bacon and eggs. She had taken over for Rachel so that she could go drag Chloe out of bed.

The two friends each grabbed 2 plates and set them at the 4 seats at the table. They went back into the kitchen. Kate grabbed 4 mugs by the handles, while Max grabbed the coffee pot and the creamer out of the fridge. After Kate set each of the mugs down, Max followed behind filling them with 3/4 of the way with coffee… making sure to leave plenty of room for creamer. Rachel arrived back in the room a minute later with Chloe slouching behind her wiping sleep from her eyes and mouth open in a yawn.

"Morning y'all," she said around her yawn, taking the seat across from Max, staring into her eyes. "Max, it's the funniest thing. I went to use my toothbrush, and it was already used. You don't know anything about that, do you? It's just, I remember how much you hated it when I would use yours."

"W-what? Uhh," Max cut off suddenly as heat pooled on her face. "Oh, was that your toothbrush? I must have gotten it mixed up with mine."

Kate and Rachel burst into guffaws of laughter with their shoulders shaking. Max felt her face turn redder. Chloe looked at her incredulously, before a grin cracked her face.

"Well, I guess that makes sense," Chloe said sarcastically, "It must be really hard to tell the difference between your bag and my toothbrush holder."

"Maybe she just couldn't wait for you to wake up to swap spit again," Rachel said with an airy giggle causing Kate to laugh out loud again.

"I said the same thing to her earlier," Kate squealed out between peals of laughter. "great minds think alike!"

Max glared at her in faked annoyance before locking eyes again with Chloe who sent her a sly wink. Max blushed and cleared her throat before lifting her fork to her mouth and stuffing in a forkful of eggs. She pointedly ignored the other girls' stares and continued to eat her breakfast. After realizing she wasn't going to comment on it the other 3 girls started to eat theirs. She felt a light tap against her foot from the seat across from hers and glanced up into Chloe's beautiful eyes. She had a slight frown on her face.

"Sorry if my teasing bothered you. I just kinda thought it was cute," the taller girl said. "and it's always fun to tease you. You were always easy to mess with."

"Its fine," Max said softly, "I wasn't upset with you guys for teasing me. Just being my usual awkward self."

"Well I, for one, like your usual awkward self," Chloe admitted, gaining a slight blush in her own cheeks and pressing their feet together under the table.

"Hear, hear! Though, I like you differently than she does" Rachel shouted, Kate nodding in agreement before spraying out the coffee she had just started drinking as Rachel continued speaking. "Now we just have to work on getting Kate and Justin together."

"O-o-oh," Kate stuttered, "We don't h-have to do that. I'm sure he wouldn't want to be with a girl like me!"

The rest of the girls looked at each other in confusion for a moment before looking back to Kate. Rachel reached her hand out and placed it on top of Kate's, squeezing gently.

"Kate…" She said sadly. "Just what do you think is not to like about yourself? I happen to think you're awesome, and anyone who dated you would have won the lottery"

"I'm damaged goods," the petite girl said sadly, not making eye contact with anyone else as tears gathered in the corners of her eyes. "Jefferson and Prescott ruined me."

"That's bullshit," Chloe argued across the table. "You are not ruined. They are scum, and they assaulted you, but that's on them."

"Kate, look at me please," Max said beside her, and waited for her to look at her. "Would you ever tell me that I was damaged goods and ruined because of what they did to me?"

"Of course not," Kate told her insistently. "Max, I would never say that to you. You're one of my best friends. Just because you're not a virgin doesn't mean you're not still a great per… oh."

"If you wouldn't say that to her," Chloe said gently but fiercely, "why would you say that about yourself? You're one of the nicest people I've ever met in my life."

"I guess that it is kind of a double standard," Kate said as tear drops slowly slid down her cheeks. "Just, the way mom made me feel yesterday really sucked."

"Yeah, your mom's pretty bitchy," Rachel agreed with a roughness in her voice that wasn't normally there, "no offense."

"None taken," Kate snorted out. "I've realized for years how she was. I just kind of buried it inside. Just like I did with the comments at school. Well, until yesterday that is. Thanks girls. You made me feel a lot better"

The other girls giggled, remembering the story that they had been told about Victoria the night previously. They finished their food quickly after that and took their plates into the kitchen to put in the sink. Chloe headed back into the garage to restart the dryer while the other three girls headed over to the living room to watch some TV. Chloe headed back in a minute later and squeezed in next to Max, who turned to look at her with a shy smile.

"Chloe," the girl with the purple faux hawk said in fake surprise. "Fancy meeting you here. You come here often?"

"Not as often as I'd like," Chloe responded with a flirty wink. Waiting for Max to blush as the double entendre registered in her mind. Rachel rolled her eyes and shared an amused look with Kate as Chloe opened her mouth to continue "Wanna help me with that sometime?"

"Chloe," Max shouted out, covering her blushing face with her hands. Rachel and Kate were roaring with laughter as she lowered her hands and glared at them momentarily. Max took a couple of deep breaths to calm her rushing heart at the images that rushed through her head at Chloe's comment. She looked over to Chloe. She winked back at her. "Maybe… if you play your cards right. How about we start with a date? Maybe we can go out tomorrow night?"

Chloe's jaw dropped open in shock, as her brain short circuited. She looked at Max, then at Rachel and Kate who were looking at them smirking. Her eyes flew back over to Max, vision going in to stare at her mouth as it moved. Chloe could hear her heartbeat in her ears, so it took a moment to realize that Max had just said something else.

"Wait, did you just ask me out on a date," the blue haired girl asked in astonishment, staring at her in awe.

"Well, yeah," Max said embarrassed, looking into her eyes before looking down with a blush.

"I'd love to," Chloe said, then reached forward and linked their fingers together. Max looked up at her, and the two shared a smile before looking back at the TV. The two of them kept gently squeezing each other's hands and the four friends watched an episode of Leverage that Max had found when flipping through the channels. Oooh, I loved this show when I watched it in the hospital.

Max heard the dryer go off a few minutes before the episode ended and looked at the other girls.

"I think I'm gonna take a shower after this episode," the freckled girl told the others, "Maybe try on a couple of my new outfits and see what I want to wear."

The other's nodded and finished the episode. As the credits rolled, Max looked at Chloe. She pressed a quick kiss to her cheek and headed into the garage to dig something to wear out of the dryer. She felt her insides melt when she walked back through the living room and saw Chloe had her hand pressed against the cheek where she had pressed the kiss. Dreamy sigh. She's so cuuuuute.

After her shower she headed back into Chloe's room with her towel wrapped around her and a shower cap she had found in one of the drawers over her hair. She walked into the room and saw Kate digging laying out one of her own new outfits.

"I thought a shower sounded like a great idea," The girl told her as she pulled a clean pair of underwear out of her bag. "Can I use that shower cap so my hair doesn't get wet?"

"Sure," Max said as she ripped it off her head and threw it to Kate, who quickly left the room to take her own shower. Max worked on drying herself off and slipped into her clean panties and pulled her bra back on. She put on a pair of black leggings and stepped into a short, black and purple plaid skirt. She tugged a black tank top over her head and tucked it into the skirt. Over that she pulled a cropped black leather jacket on and left the room. She bumped into Kate on her way back to the bathroom to check her hair. She combed her hair back into the right style and headed downstairs.

Chloe and Rachel were outside on the swings smoking when Max came back downstairs. She saw them as she entered the living room and weighed in her mind if she wanted to go back upstairs to get the pair of shitkickers she had picked up, or just go out barefoot. Her laziness won out, so she headed out to meet them. She was directly in front of them before they noticed her. Chloe's jaw dropped, and she stared at her dumbly. Rachel looked at her in awe.

"Max," Rachel shouted out, "You look so punk rock! Can I do your makeup?"

Max nodded, but continued to look at Chloe, waiting for her to say something. Max raised her eyebrow at her in askance.

"You look grot…some," Chloe suddenly burst out, words running together. She instantly mentally facepalmed, waiting for the other two catch on to what she said. Rachel started cracking up, bending over to lean on her knees while she laughed. Max looked at her in confusion.

"I look grotsome," Max questioned while Chloe got pink cheeked and looked mortified. "I don't think I know what that means."

"I uh," Chloe paused for a moment as she gathered her wits, "I was going to say you looked hot, but instead I started saying great, but it mixed together. I think I was also thinking you looked awesome, so I guess that's where the some came from."

"Well, that's just grotsome," Max teased. Rachel hid a snicker by taking a drag off of her cigarette. Max reached out and took Chloe's cigarette from her and took a drag. As she blew out her smoke she smiled. "Look, I did it without coughing!"

Chloe laughed at her in amusement and took it back from her. Max leaned against the bar on the swing set and looked down at Chloe. She's so beautiful. I can't believe I'm gonna go on date with her! My first date ever is with CHLOE! The three friends stayed outside smoking and laughing until Kate joined them a little bit later. Chloe, Rachel and Max looked at her in surprise. Wow. Who thought little Kate Marsh could look so hardcore! She had on a pair of skintight black leather pants, and a black tunic shirt with skulls all over it. She had a black bomber jacket over her arms to keep her warm, and was wearing a pair of shin high combat boots.

"Daaaaaaamnnnnn," Rachel let out slowly. "where did you learn to dress like that?"

"You literally picked this outfit out for me," Kate said, covering a giggle with her hand. "I guess you all think it looks good?"

"You look great," Max exclaimed before giving Chloe a smirk, "Grotsome, even."

"You. Are. EVIL," Chloe ground out, smiling at the end to show she was kidding. The two of them shared a flirty glance before turning to look back at Kate, who looked confused.

"What is grotsome," Kate asked slowly.

"Great. Hot. Awesome!" Rachel told her laughing and told her about Chloe's awkwardness. Kate started giggling and rolled her eyes. "so, Chloe and I were talking while you two were otherwise occupied-"

"uh, you just made it sound like we were making sex" Kate told her with a giggle. The others froze before chuckling. While Rachel muttered about making sex and Kate being adorable.

"Right. Anyway, while the two of you were busy NOT, "Rachel cleared her throat in amusement, "making sex, Chloe and I were talking about your idea about going to a casino. What do you think? Should we go?"

"Sure," Max said after a moment's pause to think it over. "it would be nice to have a win a good amount of money. We could go shopping again! Plus, I've been wanting to get another piercing and maybe a couple of tattoos."

"That sounds awesome," Chloe said excitedly. "What kind of tattoo do you want?"

"I want to get a blue butterfly on my right wrist," Max told her, slowly lifting her right hand in a wave. " I want to get a daith piercing and maybe my lip."

"I wanna get a piercing," Kate said, jumping up and down slightly. "That would be so fun. We can all go together!"

An hour and a half later the four girls walked out the front door. Pausing in shock as they saw that Chloe's truck was gone.

"What the hell," Chloe yelled out in shock.

"Dude! Where's your car," Rachel joked in a sarcastic voice. Chloe gave her a look that just screamed that this was serious. Already pulling out her phone to call her mom. Max was looking at Chloe in worry, sure that her friend was internally panicking. She listened to Chloe's side of the conversation.

"Mom, someone stole my car," Chloe yelled out, as her mom answered the phone at the Two Whales. "Was it here when you left this morning?"

"Wait, what?"

"What do you mean a note was left? I didn't see any note." Chloe walked back into the front door and saw the sticky note sticking to the door. She blushed as the other thee girls watched her go in. "oh. Uh sorry for bothering you!"

"So, I guess David took mom to work in my truck," Chloe told them, "He left his car keys so that if we went anywhere we would have enough seatbelts for all of us. I guess he was worried when he found out we all rode in my truck yesterday"

"Oh," Max said in surprise. "That was nice of him, I guess. Will his car make it the 60 mile drive to the casino?"

"Yeah. Honestly, it'll probably do better than the truck would have," Chloe told her, heading into the house to grab David's car keys. The four of them trouped into the garage moment's later. Kate and Rachel took the back seat so Max could sit up front with Chloe. They held hands as they waited for the garage door to finish rising and slowly backed out of the driveway, closing the garage door with the push of a button while they made their way down the street.

A 60 mile drive later and they were pulling into a parking spot at the casino, which was actually on a large boat. They were stopped at the door to show their ID's. They were cleared to enter and went up the bridge connecting the boat to the dock. They were distracted as they entered by all the flashing lights and slowly made their way around the casino. They each took seats at a slot machine and slid in $20 each. After a while the only one who still had anything left in the machine was Kate. Max had decided not to use her powers until they played roulette. Kate eventually cashed out, having been up $100. The girls meandered their way over to the roulette table and watched for a few minutes before Max decided she was ready to use her powers. She waited until the ball finished spinning. Watching to see where it landed before rewinding. She wanted to make sure that it would be the same each time and rewound a few different times. When she was sure it was going to land on the same number she approached the table. Max reached into her bag and pulled out $500 dollars from the remaining $650 she had in there. She handed it over to the dealer and traded it in for roulette chips. She slowly set down all the chips on 18.

They watched as moments later the ball landed on 18. The four of them jumped up and down, as the win registered with them. The dealer at the table was congratulating them as he counted out the correct number of chips and slid them over to her she grabbed the winnings and put half them on black, waiting for them to spin the wheel again. She watched as it landed on red and quickly rewound until the chips were back in front of her. She slid half of them in faked nervousness to Red, smiling a few moment's later as she doubled her money. She allowed herself a couple of losses so that things didn't look too suspicious but left 45 minutes later up almost $150000. They stopped on the way out of the casino to cash out and were given a check. They all discussed the fun things they could do as they made their way back to Chloe's house. They were making plans to go to a bank the next day for Max to deposit the check.

When they walked into the house later that evening, it was to Joyce standing in the kitchen cooking while her and David chatted. Max showed them the check from the casino, and Joyce was in complete shock. She spent ten minutes sputtering at the amount of money while stirring the homemade spaghetti she was cooking. Later as they were eating spaghetti with garlic bread they shared the story in more… fake… detail with the couple. As the dinner continued, Rachel turned to talk to Kate.

"Hey, do you want to come hang out with Frank, Pompidou and I tomorrow night while Chloe and Max are on their date?"

"What? Date," Joyce questioned looking at the two girls, a surprised smile growing on her face "Are you two going on a date?"

"Yup," Chloe said, after sharing a dopey smile with Max. Joyce squealed loudly, standing up to hug them both.

"Goodness gracious! I'm so excited," she exclaimed. "You two will make such a cute couple!"

"Mom," Chloe whined in embarrassment as Joyce stood from hugging Max. "It's our first date. We're not eloping tomorrow."

"What are you two do-" David started to ask before Joyce cut them off.

"Of course, you're not eloping," she said loudly. "The day my baby gets married I want to be there. Front and center… Well, okay. You two would be front and center, but you know what I mean."

"Mom," Chloe said before looking at Max in horror. They were both bright red. "You're embarrassing us."

"Honey, I've always thought you would end up together," Joyce told her smiling at her. "You were always watching each other, and you were always protecting her. I still remember the day you me-"

"Mom, stop," Chloe said interrupting her rambling. "Let us have our first date and see how it goes."

"Fine, fine," Joyce said waving her hands as if to brush of the conversation. The rest of dinner passed in less embarrassing conversation for everyone. After dinner they girls all went up to Chloe's room to hang out. That night, Max and Chloe fell asleep snuggling together, with Chloe as the big spoon. Max felt so safe with Chloe's arms around her that she fell into sleep easily.

Synopsis for "The Foster"

Chloe's life changed forever when her parent's unexpectedly die in a car accident when she was 11 years old. Thankfully at the time of the crash, she was still at her best friend, Rachel Amber's, house. As if that day wasn't bad enough, 3 days after her parent's double funeral, her best friend Rachel moved away. Chloe is thrust into a world she didn't ever really know anything about. She feels truly alone as she enters into foster care. This story will follow Chloe through a few different foster families. It also will have some dark themes. (child abuse, child molestation, rape, withholding food, murder attempt, anxiety, fear of males, alcoholism in secondary characters,) This story will be another Pricefield. (my fave ship) This also will have a supernatural element as life is strange always does, but I don't want to spoil what that will be yet.