Life is Strange: The Cruel Hand of Fate

Chapter 6 of my Life is Strange story, enjoy.

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Chapter 6

Shaking her head, trying to suppress a groan, Max did her best to tidy up her room. She still couldn't believe this actually happened.

'God, of all the...This is terrible, what am I supposed to do?' She wondered. 'This is definitely the work of those men, the ones who attacked me...This is a message; I'm not safe, anywhere. But what do they want?'

She couldn't understand why she was being targeted, what the intent of those men actually was; only that they were in fact targeting her. Their words just before they started beating her up confirmed that. Just then, there was a knock at the door, before she could react the door opened.

'Crap.'

She turned and her heart sank as it was Kate who entered.

"Max, are you...Oh my God!" She began, gasping when she saw the mess. "Max?"

Biting her lip, Max struggled. "Kate I, I..."

Kate's response however was to immediately begin helping Max in trying to clean up. Letting out a relieved sigh Max resumed tidying up and together they were soon able to fix things, so Max's room was now back to normal.

Looking around Max was relieved, there didn't seem t be any sign of the previous damage, it was like it never happened. All the same, the message was still stuck in her mind and scared her greatly.

That wasn't her only fear however; she could see Kate's worried expression and felt guilty.

'Like Warren, I tried to keep Kate safe; now she's afraid, worried for me...' She noted to herself.

With a sigh she knew what she had to do. "Kate, I...I'm sorry, I have to tell you something."

Kate started at that. "Max, what are you...what is it?"

"I haven't been entirely honest with you." Max admitted at last. "I've been worried lately, I felt like someone was following me for the past few weeks. Then, last night, a group of masked men attacked me."

Kate gasped in horror. "Oh God, Max, are they, did they…?"

Max nodded. "I'm sure they did this; I-I got away from them, and, and I took shelter, in Warren's room."

She felt herself blushing as she admitted that. Kate didn't say anything however; but her expression made it clear she was horrified by what had just been revealed, the attack, especially as it was clear this was no random incident, but a targeted one.

"Oh Max, what are you going to do?"

Max shook her head. "I don't know Kate, I don't know...I just, feel too much has been going on lately, I can hardly keep it all straight."

Kate nodded slowly; it was clear they both were wishing the same thing, for things to just get back to normal again.


Leaving her room some time later; Max paused, worried as she heard it again, Victoria was crying.

Max sighed sadly; worried once again. 'Victoria has been an utter mess over all this; how is she...Urgh, I can't take this anymore. She needs help.'

So, preparing herself; notcaring about any other issues, not even the budding rumours about her and Warren, she approached her former nemesis' room. She knocked on the door, the sobs stopped, but there was no reply.

"Victoria?" She tried.

Victoria's response was immediate. "What do you want, Max?"

But her comment lacked its usual venom. Max replied honestly; quietly.

"I just...wanted to try and help."

"Help?" Victoria scoffed; but her voice was still choked by her tears.

Max was almost pleading. "Victoria please, I just...want to help."

There was silence for a moment, then she heard movement and the door unlocked. Tensing slightly, Max slowly opened the door. Victoria stood there, she looked terrible, pale, her face streaked with tears. Her hair looked like it hadn't been brushed in days, her clothes were rumpled and she wasn't even wearing any make-up.

"Well, Max...what's going on?"

Max gave a small smile. "I just wanted to help you; we...we can all hear you and...people are worried."

Victoria shook her head. "Yeah right..."

"We are...I am, Victoria. I know we've had our differences but...This is beyond all that."

Victoria shifted, also noticing Max had bruises and such and realized something must have happened.

So she relented and she and Max sat on the bed, Max doing what she could to comfort Victoria; much to her surprise.

'She, she's doing all this for me...after everything I did to her.' She thought in disbelief. 'God, I was so...cruel and evil to her, yet still she wants to help me.'

It was something that shook her to her core and made her realize, no matter what she thought, Max was clearly a bigger person than she would ever be. She felt nothing but regret for all the previous negative things she said and did to the brunette girl. It was clear to her now just how much of a good person Max Caulfield was. She was also helping, the more they talked, the better Victoria felt, the more hopeful she felt, that maybe, just maybe, she could face things again.


End of chapter, hope yo enjoyed it, read and review please.