LOOK I have no clue who told me it was a good idea to write a new chapter during finals week.. This may be crappy, but hey it should hold you over until I can actually write something decent.

Love you all and I may write a Christmas special apart from this so keep an eye out for that.

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Max was the first to wake, back in her dorm room with Chloe stirring right next to her. It had been like this for the last couple of days, isolated from the rest of the world. it had felt like some sort of relief and a form of release as well.

Max rubbed her eyes wiping the sleep from her face and getting to a sitting position, Max pushed off her bed and numbly walked over to her desk, sitting down getting to work once she opened her laptop. What surprised Max was that there was a document open; but that wasn't what had struck her, it was what was written down... typed out was a whole conversation with Rachel Amber and herself.

This had been her and Rachel, last night or even the time before that, or even after what had happened with Chloe, being with Chloe seemed to have its repercussions.

AmberInTheMirror: Hey Max! (:

CameraWithaTragedy: Rachel? ,,, Hi

AmberInTheMirror: Don't do that, you can't just disappear. You just shared an incredible moment with Chloe, you have to spill.

CameraWithaTragedy: I um,,, I didn't. I mean I'm not hiding. You're not even real, you can't be. I can't tell anyone about you because they'll stick me in an asylum. Probably in Washington in the middle of nowhere. No Chloe, no Rachel Amber, do you get that ?

AmberInTheMirror: Don't be silly, I won't ever leave you. (;

CameraWithaTragedy: (Insert groan here)

CameraWithaTragedy: You actually can leave. I can't keep talking to you, keeping Chloe away from it. She's getting,,, curious.

AmberInTheMirror: It's CHLOE she'll understand. It's me, I can reveal myself if that's what has you all upset. D;

AmberInTheMirror: Max... I won't hurt you.

Line disconnected

Max shut close her laptop, bringing her head to the cool surface. Sucking in breath she let the oxygen get to her head before processing her conversation with a ghost, she couldn't believe that it was still happening, she thought after Chloe she would forget something so stupid and so absurd. Rachel Amber was dead, what could they both possibly gain with this "Friendship".

Chloe stirred in bed before she slowly came up to a sitting position, rubbing the sleep from her eyes and bringing her knees under her chin.

Max looked over her shoulder and smiled "Hey sleepy head, you finally ready to get out of here." Max twirled her chair around and faced the taller girl.

Chloe groaned "No way.. " she replied with a smirk forming on her lips "But my mom is being a mom and wants me home. You too." Chloe smiled scooting to the edge of the bed.

"Chloe I can't face your mom, she'll see it all over my face. Yours too." Max whined , running her good hand over the one in a brace.

"Please maxaroni my mom isn't all into the technical shit, she just wants to see that you're doing alright. You're not even a student here anymore. You haven't been for weeks." Chloe rolled her shoulders back before she reached for her pants and started tugging them on. "Plus I need a change of clothes.. your stuff is way to small for me." Strutting towards the mirror Chloe tried combing through her hair with her fingers before putting her ragged old beanie on.

Max rolled her eyes "Look we have more pressing things to do than have dinner with the parents. Remember Mr. wells wheel chair ramp money ? Well we need it if we're going to go out there and find the rest of the bodies. We need David's keys and a way to get drunk principal wells to cough up his own set, it's going to difficult without my powers but I think we can do it."

Chloe spun around on her heels "Wait what do you mean,,, you want to leave now ?" Chloe put her hands on top of her head "We've been gone for a while, Joyce and David are going to know that something is up. Do you think that paranoid ass won't try to track us all along the coast?"

"We can always lie and tell them I want to see my parents, that I want to contact them and ask them to let me stay. I'll play nice with my parents for a while until we get there, eventually we'll have to see them." Max trying to convince Chloe got on her knees with her hands clasped around each other.

Chloe bit on her lip, holding back a bark of laughter "Fine. You win, we'll play at Quantico tonight and we'll go play CSI somewhere along the coast." Chloe ruffled Max's hair and smiled before grabbing her keys to her beaut of a truck. "I'll meet you here after curfew. I'll be here." She pointed at the bed with a playful smirk on her face.

Max rolled her eyes swatting her in the arm. "I'm gonna kick you out when the time comes Price."

Back at the Price house hold Chloe tries to wrap her head on how to tell Joyce about her plans, sure she's been away from home before but things are different now, she knows the real dangers out there and maybe Jefferson was really on his own, maybe he has others doing his dirty work, other motives and with much more to lose.

Chloe enters the front door, she hears Joyce rummaging through the kitchen and she hangs back by the archway at the door.

Joyce looks up at her daughter with an endearing smile "Hey, there you are stranger. Foods in the fridge if you need to fuel up." Joyce narrowed her eyes looking past Chloe's shoulders "Where's Max? Did you too get into a fight again?"

"No. Mom listen, Max wants to patch this up with her folks, she wants to try to convince them to let her graduate here.. the thing is that they refuse to come back down here and if it's the only way for her to stay then I want to go with her. I think I could compel the Caulfields that being back together is what would be best for Max." Chloe rubbed the back of her neck, averting her eyes from Joyce.

"Well looks like you got it all figured out huh? I know I can't stop you but I appreciate you telling me what you plan to do, I know you and I know Max pretty damn well. I know that both of you are capable of taking care of yourselves but I worry." Joyce placed her hand on Chloe's back giving her an encouraging pat on the back "Be careful out there Chloe, I want you to have your phone at hand and if I hear any excuses I will go up to Seattle and look for you myself ." Joyce gave her a sincere smile before she placed a kiss on her temple "Go on now, go pack I'll go give the Caulfields a ring when you two head out."

With that Chloe gave Joyce a hug before she went running up to her room, emptying her suitcase full of beer bottles and cigarettes into a large black trash bag. The tall girl packed her bag for up to a weeks worth of adventures, snagging David's keys before making her way back to her old truck.

Back at the dorm room sitting on her couch, Max starting the threads on the tips of her fingers, the energy flowed through her and it felt so good to at least be able to control one thing in her life. She missed it. She missed the reassurance of it all.

A bing pulled her out of her thoughts, she looked at her phone but that wasn't it, her laptop came to life again with the very same bing. It was Rachel Amber.

Max sighed pushing herself off the couch, dragging her feet to her desk and placing her bum on the soft chair. Gliding her fingers over the touch pad she wakes her laptop back to life.

AmberInTheMirror: Hey

AmberInTheMirror: Are we cool?

CameraWithaTragedy: I don't know.

CameraWithaTragedy: It's not like I can call the ghost police, ghost busters right?

AmberInTheMirror: Good thing im not a ghost babe (:

AmberInTheMirror: I dont like what you told chloe this morning, i think its a bad idea,, i fear what you might find.

AmberInTheMirror: I cant tell you alot of things but you need to stay away the others. this is so much bigger than jefferson.

CameraWithaTragedy: You're really starting to freak me out. What do you mean you fear.. what is it? I'll take care of Chloe, she's safe with me. I'll do what needs to be done.

Just then Chloe comes up behind Max and barely brushes her hand on Max's shoulders- causing Max to jump and turn around, trying to hide the display on her screen.

"Hey, geez you scared the crap out of me." Max glares at Chloe for a moment before getting up and slowly closing her laptop without Chloe noticing it.

"You are way too wound up, are you sure you want to do this tonight?" Chloe's gaze followed Max around the room, her light blue eyes wandering.

Max bites her lip turning on her heel to face Chloe "There's something you need to know."