A/N: Hey guys Jenn again! Thank you so much for the reviews I LOVE LOVE LOVE reading them. I know I said I would post more than one chapter a week but I will get to that after I settle in at uni again. So as always keep sinning and like, fave and follow- keep those reviews coming
Alex I'm not sure if I want any of them to have powers, I'll think about it. I think my children deserve a break from all that bull! (:
Chloe's hands went limp as she tried to push her herself back "What do you mean… what are you saying Max." she was confused, she didn't know where any of this talk was coming from, Chloe had just convinced the Caulfield's that she was helping Max, that Max was safe and sound living with her; that everything was fine.
"I don't want to talk about it Chloe. I said what I said and you really have no say on it." She scrunched up her nose before crossing her arms over her chest, pouting over at the taller girl. Max didn't expect anyone to understand, not understand that she didn't have her gift anymore as Mr. Jefferson had put it, her ability to capture a moment in time through her lense.. The movement in her arm, the straining in her hand it just made it impossible for her to be passionate about anything or she'd hope.
"No you don't get to do that. I've- You've worked so hard to come back to Arcadia Bay and after some bullshit accident you're throwing in the towel?!" Chloe was fumed she knew that Max remembered everything thing that had happened to both of them and this was just a reciprocal of saying to fuck it all. The very tired girl sighed heavily rubbing her hands all over her face, feeling the blood drain from her face. "Max we need to talk, not here. Somewhere quiet." Biting the corner of her lip she got up and walked over to Max "I don't- I don't know what exactly is going on but I know this is all for show and there is something that needs to be said. That I need to tell you."
Max fumbled with the strap on her shoulder from the book bag looking down to the ground, she had been dreading this conversation. Max had wished that Chloe had acted oblivious to it all. "Chloe I have no idea what you're talking about.. are you feeling alright ?" She acted incredibly nonchalant about it.
Chloe whipped around just as she was strutting down the hallway "I can bullshit on that one too Maxine." She knew that Max hated being called that, that no matter how many times she had teased her it always got under her skin. The way it was implied was so perplexed, chloe walked backwards as she saw the furry building inside Max, but it wasn't hatred as much as it was annoyance.
"You're the biggest asswipe in this whole planet." Max rolled her eyes and walked passed Chloe and raced down the stairs, two floors down to the lobby. Followed by a determined Chloe, locking her arm around Max's shoulder she guided them outside the hospital entrance and out to the parking lot to Chloe's babe magnet.
"Mad Max I may be the biggest asswipe but you're the still the biggest dork in Arcadia Bay so you need me so it evens us out." She teased as she opened the door to her chariot for Max to get inside.
Max lightly punched Chloe in the arm before getting inside the truck, which was received with a chuckle from the tall lean girl. Once they were driving to their destination Max pulled out her phone and texted Kate that they would come back another day with less parents next time. "So.. where exactly are we going ? Please don't tell me you're taking me to the dump." She looked over at Chloe cautiously, nervously biting her lip. Max as well didn't know how much remembered, everything was so vivid for Max. Counting the many times Chloe had died at the junkyard and then finding Rachel Amber. Max couldn't handle that, she didn't want to see the way Chloe was suffering back then and she definitely couldn't bare it now.
"Uhh no. I wasn't planning on it. Do you remember the old tree house we built at your old place? Well no one has bought the place so I thought It'd be a quiet place to talk." Chloe gave her a warm smile before patting her shoulder "I'm not a heartless monster Max, I know our limits." Max glanced over at Chloe quickly, she had no clue what Chloe meant, or if she was on the same page as her. "I would never call you a monster Chloe, you're my best friend.."
"Right partners in crime super Max."
This would have been easier of one of them didn't have a fucked up arm and if the other one wasn't a skinny twig trying to balance up the ladder made out of rope. "Now I see where all the brilliant ideas come from." Max huffed reaching the top with the help oh Chloe's little nudge over the edge. "All my ideas are brilliant Max, this just happens to be one of the more extraordinary ones." Chloe retorted back as she too finally reached the top of the treehouse. Of course the tree house needed a lot of work, chipped paint, expired snacks in one corner and sleeping bags in the next; there was even their old pirate get up hanging up on a hanger and just below that was a trunk filled with incredible goodies.
Max made her ways to the cushioned sleeping bags, grateful there hadn't been any animals sleeping in their little fortress. Chloe picked up the trunk and moved it closer to Max, she needed a place to sit too and Max and herself weren't seeing eye to eye at that exact moment. Chloe's body didn't feel limber but that's what happens when you sleep in a cot that was designed for children or a very short person.
"So tell me chloe is this an intervention with just you and your dead pirates." There was sarcasm in her tone but also a very hurt and lost girl,she didn't fret though.
Chloe sighed "This isn't about that. well it is but it's about we've been tip toeing about ." Chloe leaned forward her elbows resting on her legs while she cupped her own face in her hands. " Max I don't know how to say this. Max- Max I know you remember that day at the lighthouse, the storm. I know you remember by the way you look at me. You think i'm going to disappear, you think this is a dream and that one day I'm not going to be here. I get that this is the reason that you haven't gone back to seattle, you won't even spend time with your parents." Chloe raised her gaze back to Max who was nimbly playing with the brace holding her hand together . "What happened at the lighthouse wasn't your fault, what we shared we -I will never forget." Chloe choked down whatever was in her throat "You.. You helped me, you saved me from my own thoughts and my own actions Max, you saved from the trouble I was in. Saved me from Nathan and that's why you probably resent me, i-if it wasn't for me you would be fine. You wouldn't have been in that bathroom with Nathan; that prick. If you want to be mad and give up on something, give up on me. Give up on me and when your hand heals I'll leave, I'll leave this shithole town and you'll never have to see me again." Chloe now made her way down.
Max was trying to mask a brave face, the sleeve of her jacket wiping away her tears "Chloe I didn't save you to try and be the good guy." her messy hair shagging a bit, her eyelashes moist from her tears but the sun still shining on her face, her freckles standing out in all odds she still looked as beautiful as ever to Chloe. " I went back in time, I was going to go through it, I was going to let him do it. but I-I-I just couldn't lose you again. That was the last straw." Max held her legs together, she was so scared;never in her life had she been so raw with someone. "It was going or be you or me, I knew what I was giving up but you didn't. It wouldn't hurt you Chloe." Max started sobbing into her arm, cringing of the thought of losing chloe. "I can't do this anymore Chloe, I'm sorry. I love you Chloe." She tried in her sleeve
Chloe wrapped her arms around Max coddling her "I know, I love you too time warrior." if only you knew how much Maxine.