Disclaimer: Disney owns WOWP, I do not

Author's Note:

Sorry for taking a long time to finish this chapter, but it was hard after a tough semester at college not to scream when I saw a blank page. Anyways, here it is!

Summary: Alex is always getting into trouble with magic, but one day a fatal car collision sends her into a coma. While in the coma, she experiences life without her. Outside of her coma, everybody remembers the past, everybody imagines life without her and everybody sees a new relationship being born. Jarper

A World without Alex Russo

Chapter Twelve: Max Saves the Day?

Harper opens up her eyes and finds herself in a very dark room. She tries to figure out where she is, but it was too dark to see anything. She tries to move, but finds her hands and legs tied down by rope.

"Justin! Help me!" she screams into the darkness. There is no answer back. She continues to struggle at the ropes. "Justin!" she screams out again. She tries to reach her phone in her left pocket, but to no avail. "Just-"

"Justin isn't here… Harper," someone in the dark interrupts her.

Her eyes goes big as she desperately tries to get out of the ropes while screaming, "AHHH!!! Somebody help me!"

The person in the dark chuckles evilly, "The more you struggle, the more the rope will get tighter Harper," he tells her.

"Who are you and how do you know my name?" she shouts at him trying to sound tough and angry, but really she is frightened by the guy. There is no answer back. Harper sighs thinking the guy left her alone.

Suddenly, the lights turn on as the guy screams in her face, "BOO!" Harper screams really loud as the birds outside the abandoned warehouse flies away.

Back at the hospital, Justin was trying desperately to wake up his little sister. His parents and Max had to pull him back so he doesn't start shaking her.

"Alex! Wake up!!! Your best friend, Harper is in trouble!" he yells angrily at her trying to break free of his parents grip.

"Justin! It's no use! Your sister is in a coma! She can't hear you no matter what you do!" his dad shouts at him while pulling his body back.

"No! She has to wake up so she can tell me where she hid the microchip! So I can rescue Harper!" he screams out.

"Justin, stop it! You know as well as I do, that Alex isn't waking up!" his dad tells him in a serious tone. Justin stops struggling and sits down on the chair. He puts his head down and hands on his head. Max watches his older brother sadly and then turns to look at Alex. His expression on his face shows that he is trying to remember something. Theresa goes over to her older son and puts her hand on his back gently.

"Honey, there must be another way to figure out where Alex hid the microchip," she tells him and tries to comfort him.

He looks up at his mom with a sad look and said, "Mom… Alex is the only one who knows where it is. Without her telling us, we will never figure out where she is hiding it since she usually covers her tracks really well." He sighs and said slowly, "It is hopeless…" Theresa looks up at her husband with a sad look.

Jerry just shakes his head slowly and said to her, "He is right… We won't be able to figure out where the microchip is hidden without Alex's help."

At the abandon warehouse, the guy was staring weirdly at Harper because after he scared her, she started screaming and fainting over and over again.

"AHHH!!!" Harper screams out.

The guy holds her down and shouts angrily at her, "Quit that!!!"

She looks at him confused and asks him, "Quit what?"

"Quit doing that screaming, fainting and getting up thing!" he responds back angrily.

"Ohh… that!! I'm sorry mister creepy guy, but when I get scared I faint, but then I am also scared of fainting, so I wake up again," she explains to the guy.

"Well, whatever you're doing, stop it! It will be all over soon anyways," he tells her and turns to walk away.

"Wait what do you mean by that?" she asks him not understanding what is going on.

"Your boyfriend only has about 40 minutes left until we meet and if he has the microchip then you will be safety return to him," he explains to her. "But… if he doesn't have the microchip…" he trails off.

She looks at him with a frightened look and said, "But???"

He gets close to her face and slowly tells her, "Then… you better… hope… the last goodbye you said… to your family… was good enough…" He leaves the room with a terrified Harper.

At the hospital, everybody was thinking. Suddenly, a light bulb turns on in Justin's head.

"Wait a minute…" he said slowly.

"What is it, Justin?" his dad asks him noticing Justin's I got something look.

He turns to his dad and asks him, "Dad, did you see Alex act strange this whole past week?" Max starts making his thinking face in the background.

His dad shakes his head and said, "No, Alex actually had not been acting strange at all. Then he pauses and said, "Which actually is strange in itself!"

Justin turns to his mom, "Mom did you see anything?" Max is really thinking hard about something in the background.

"No, honey, Alex actually had been acting normal lately," she responds back. "Which is weird since she usually is up to something."

Justin sighs and walks back to Alex's bed, "It's hopeless…"

Suddenly, Max speaks up enthusiastically, "I think I know where Alex hid the microchip!"

His parents turn to him as Justin runs up to him and asks him, "Really Max?"

"Yeah, one time I was in Alex's room-"Max starts to say when his mom interrupts him, "What were you doing in Alex's room, Max?"

He looks at his mom and responds back, "Relax Mom, I didn't do anything; I was just looking for something I could use to blackmail Alex with."

"Oh okay, good just blackmail," his mom breathes a sigh of relief and said.

Justin wanted to say something about his mom's comment, but there wasn't time so he turns to Max and said, "So you were in Alex's room and?"

"Oh! I was in her room and found all sorts of stuff! Max tells him excitedly. "Oh yeah I also found a box full of your stuffs and it was labeled 'Justin's favorite things from his room'!"

"I KNEW IT! I knew that's where all my stuffs went!" he screams out in anger and clenched his fists in frustration.

"Uhh… okay…" Jerry said slowly while looking at his oldest son oddly and turns to Max, "What else did you find, Max?"

"Well, I didn't find anything I can use so I was about to give up when I spotted Alex's journal. I thought it was weird for it to be under the bed since Alex usually leaves it out in the open. So I opened and started reading it," he tells them.

"You read Alex's journal?!" Theresa yells at him with her hands on her hips.

"Mom, you can scream at him all you want later, but right now we really need to find this microchip," Justin tells her.

"Yeah, but…" she turns to Max," Max! That is an invasion of Alex's privacy!" she tells him.

"Mom, relax! I just took a small peek in it!" he tells her.

Justin gives his mom a look and she looks at him and said, "Okay, I'm done. You can continue Max."

"So I was looking through the pages and I saw two storage houses right next to each other. I think the microchip has to be in the right one!" he tells them with an excited look.

Justin looks at his parents and then back at Max, "Uhh… Max, why do you think it is the right one?"

"Cause… there is a sign on top of the right storage room that says 'DO NOT ENTER' and on the bottom there is another smaller sign, 'That means you, Max'," he tells them with a beaming smile. All three of them stare shocked that Max actually might have found out where Alex had hid the microchip.

They walk up to him and their dad said, "Wow, I-I don't know what to say Max…" then their dad smiles and puts his hand on Max's shoulders and tells him, "But I know I can say this… Good job Max."

Max smiles back and said, "Thanks dad, I appreciate that."

Justin pats his back and tells him, "Way to go Max! Never thought I see the day you actually figure something out!"

Max smirks and said, "Well, hey I am due one right?"

Justin laughs and said, "Yeah."

Their mom hugs Max from the back and said happily, "I can't believe Max actually saved the day and maybe Harper's life!" "So now that we know where the microchip is, what do we do next Max?" she asks him. He looks at everyone waiting for his plan.

"Uhhh… Hey!! I figure out where the microchip is already!" he shouts out and puts his hands out. "I think that's good enough for one day don't you think?"

Justin chuckles and messes with his little brother's hair, "Haha, yeah you are right Max. I will take over for you!" He thinks for a while then he puts his finger up. "I got it!"

"What's the plan, son?" Jerry asks him.

"Dad and I will go get the microchip," he tells them. He turns to Mom and Max, "Mom and Max, you stay here with Alex, in case that guy comes back."

Justin looks up at the clock on the wall, "Let's go dad we only got half an hour left!" Justin shouts as he runs out the door.

"Jerry!" Theresa shouts after him.

"What is it, Theresa?" he asks her.

"Be careful," she tells him with a concerned look.

"Don't worry, we will," he tells her.

He gives his wife a kiss as he runs out of the room. The clock's bezel goes slowly in a clockwise motion as it goes tick tock…