Choices

Save Max: 9

Save Nathan: 1

"Max, I'm gonna get you outta this! I won't let you die!" I was shocked. I couldn't believe I actually was able to get that out of my mouth. I was breaking up so much, I thought it would just become a whisper.

"Thank you! Oh God thank you!"

"No! Please NO!" I was about to grab the switch before Nathan started talking. "Chloe, I can see why you're saving her life instead of mine. But know this: I was never intending to hurt Rachel, or Kate, or you. I was just so influenced by that fuckstick Jefferson." What he just said pierced my heart like a dagger. Like an assassin stabbing me with a hidden blade.

"I'm so sorry…" I whispered before I flipped the switch towards the picture of Max. The saw went forward and the track flipped, making the saw head for Nathan. "Oh shit, oh shit, oh SHIT!"

"No God! OH GOD NO!"

"Stop this! YOU CAN'T DO THIS!"

"CHLOE! GET US OUT OF HERE!"

As the saw drew near, I looked up at the wall that separates me from them, and there was a small gap between the wall and ceiling, about a foot wide. I could probably fit through. I couldn't help myself. I started to climb up, jumping up towards the ledge and gripping it hard. I pulled myself and go tone of my feet situated in the gap to get myself through. The blade was slowing down. Did that psycho change his mind?

I took this opportunity to get myself through the space, and I fell on the floor onto my legs. Basically, I went leg first, and I didn't land like a cat. I shrieked in pain, I must've sprained my ankle. But that didn't matter. As I was getting up, I realized the saw didn't stop. Blood was being spilled. And I started to cry. I heard him screaming, and Max crying. I just fucking killed my friend. His severed abdomen fell onto the hardwood floor. Max's left side was covered in blood.

"Jesus, don't look Max. Don't look."

"WHY CAN'T I LOOK!? CHLOE PLEASE TELL ME HE'S OKAY, PLEASE!" I got up and I limped slightly. I've sprained my ankle before, and I've actually walked it off without going to a doctor. Just an occasional limp.

"It's okay, I'm gonna let you down now. Just calm down." That was something I couldn't do inside. A door that connected the two rooms opened, and I was escorting her out when she looked at Nathan's corpse.

"NOOO!"

"Max, we gotta go!" I walked off my ankle and we got out of the building. We were running down the trail, tears down our faces, when we ran into two friends we haven't seen for hours. Victoria and Hayden. They became panicked when they saw the blood on Max's clothes and my slight limp.

"Oh my God, what happened to you guys?!" Tori exclaimed, clearly clueless about the shit that has been happening. Hayden started to tend to Max who was crouching in the ground, holding her head. Hayden was always the kinder Vortex Club member towards Max.

"Tori, there was a maniac, and he kidnapped Nate and Max and he knocked me out! And he tied them up in that shed and there was a saw, and I had to save one of 'em, and I didn't know what to do!"

"Chloe, slow down. Where's Nathan?"

"HE'S FUCKING DEAD!"

"What?! My God! Chloe, what?!"

"That saw split him in fucking half, and I was the one who sent that fucking saw down his way! I fucking killed him! There was so much screaming! THERE WAS SO MUCH BLOOD!"

"Nathan's dead?" Hayden cut in, overhearing my rant.

"It's his blood on my clothes." Max whimpered, still crying. Hayden and Tori stared at each other, and Hayden stood.

"Hayden, maybe we should find some help."

"Where's the help gonna be? We're stuck here until morning. Then we can catch the next bus to Arcadia Bay."

"What about the cable car station? If the cable car works, we can get everybody there and we can get the fuck outta here."

"Okay, so where's Warren and Kate?"

"They're busy 'sixty-nine'ing each other."

"Where's Rachel?" I cut in, composing myself.

"I think she's in the lodge."

"Alright, you and Max get into the lodge with Rachel, and be safe. Tori and I'll go to the cable car station. Then we'll regroup, get Kate and Warren, and get the hell off this mountain."

"Sounds good!"

"I'm fine with it."

"Yeah, let's go."

Well then! That was Season 4! Season 5 will debut on November 26, Thanksgiving. So happy Thanksgiving, and I will see you all in Season 5! I couldn't express enough the amount of love I have for you guys and your support. Your support gives me a reason to keep on writing. Otherwise, this story would only remain an idea that's stuck in my head. So thank you all! You're the most amazing people anyone could ever have, and I feel like I haven't expressed that fact enough. Keep being the awesome people you are! Goodnight! (^_^)