*Spoilers for Life is Strange*
Max made her way to the front of the college, slipping in her eye plugs; blocking out any noise she could here. Her mind was elsewhere, she was thinking about that…dream. Could she really call it a dream, it felt and sounded so real, as though she was really there, but not at the same time. If that was even possible, from what can tell; that older man…Doctor - that's what the woman called him - was looking for her.
'Why is he looking for me? He called me Amser and the woman…Clara, I think. She called me Hero, why would they do that?' Max wondered furrowing her eyebrows in confusion.
'I wish there was a way to know, the only way I can think of is draining myself out of energy and hoping that I would appear in that place again. How strange that I felt so safe there, like it was a home to me.' Max realized looking up at the sky.
'I can't focus on that right now, there's a storm coming and I have to find a way to stop it before a whole lot of people die. Though, I can just go around shouting "there's a storm coming!" people might think I'm crazy. Hell, I might be,' Max thought having a frown upon her face.
She turned her head slightly and saw that David - the creep that was harassing Kate - was talking to Nathan. And not the good type of talking, the talking like both are yelling at each other and no point is getting across.
'That spells out bad with a capital B, I wonder if this something to do with Kate...or maybe Rachael. And speaking of which, I should probably ask Chloe about Rachael and why did she disappear,' Max thought trying not seem like she was paying attention to their conversation.
The brunette walked down the front stairs as the bright yellow school bus was just pulling up. 'Perfect timing,' Max thought with a ghost smile on her face. She walked on the bus, giving the bus driver a nod and took a seat in near the window. She stare out the window as the bus driver began to drive into town. Max stare at all the buildings and the people that were walking by, thinking in the back of her mind that all this would be gone when the storm comes. She looks up and spots the lighthouse that looked so small and lonely on the hill top near the beach.
'Nobody escapes the lighthouse here, how strange the very place I saw my vision of the storm coming. I wonder if there is some kind of connection.' Max questioned in her mind staring at the white tower in the distance.
The bus came to a stop in front of a place called The Whales Diner, Max remembered coming here to eat all the time. She furrowed her eyebrows, 'why does it feel like I haven't been to this place in such a long time?' she wondered. She took her headphones out of her ears and began walking closer to the diner. She stopped when her phone started vibrating, she pulled it out, noticing that it was from Chloe.
'NO EMOJI!'
'running late, grab a booth at the diner'
'mom will feed you, it's a been awhile'
'Somebody better, I'll be lucky if you get here by noon, you night owl'
Max giggled lightly at the text and put the phone back in her pocket. Abruptly, she began to hear that wheezing noise again. Almost the sound of an engine, but better homey, and…familiar?
"Where is that coming from?" Max questioned looking across the street and behind her. But there was no sign of the noise, she jogged pass the diner, as the noise started to get louder and she turned the corner to a nasty dirty alleyway.
"Hello?" She called stopping at a foot of the alleyway. The wheezing slowly came to a stop to the point where Max couldn't hear it anymore. She looked around again to see if she miss it somehow. There was no sign of the sound and Max frowned and signed slowly. 'I missed it again,' she realized about to turn around and head to the diner.
"Hero?" Someone questioned behind her. Max spun around almost tripping over her own feet. That voice sounded familiar to her, but again why is everyone calling her Hero? She walked deeper in the alleyway and saw a tall beautiful woman with wild curly hair with a cream jacket on. She had the look of complete shock and distinguish as though she knew Max her whole life. It made Max slightly uncomfortable being around this woman, but she held it in and stare back at the woman.
"Hero, what are you doing here? Where is the Doctor?" The curly hair woman asked walking closer to the brunette.
She took a step back from the woman with a wary expression. "Do I know you and why do you keep calling me Hero?" the brunette inquired.
"Because it's your name, your title and how can you not know me or your name at that matter, you saved me so many times. Saved the Doctor how can_" she stopped short as her eye widened in shock. "Where is the Doctor?" she asked again.
"Doctor Who and which one?" Max found herself asking without even realizing.
"Your Doctor Hero, the…10th one; the one you were with," she pressed almost frantically.
Max took in her surroundings, trying to find a way out of this situation. She didn't know the woman at all, but for some reason the woman was familiar to her and that scared her. She was talking about the Doctor like they were good friends and they may be. Max's been having dreams of a name Doctor; so they might be the same person. Maybe the woman has someone mixed up, maybe this Hero person looks just like her. That would seem unlikely, but it's better than nothing. She doesn't remember saving anyone, other than Chloe from the bathroom, but that's it.
'If push comes to shove, I'll just use my rewind powers to get out of here,' Max decided turning towards the curly hair woman. "Look I don't know who you are or this Doctor person, or even Hero. My name is Max Caulfield, dare I say Maxine, not Hero." She told the woman watching her face expression.
She tilted her head a bit in puzzlement. "You're…human?" she questioned.
Max furrowed her eyebrows and nodded her head slowly as though she was confirming something. "Yeah, I'm pretty sure I am," she said. 'Where the hell did that come from?' She wondered now really wanting to get out of this alleyway and away from this strange woman.
"But that's…that's impossible, you shouldn't be_"
"Okay, uh, this is getting a little weird even for me, the only reason why I came in this alley is because I heard a strange noise. I can tell it is not here, so I'm going to be on my merry way; good-bye." Max turned to leave when the woman grabbed her arm, stopping Max from moving.
"You have to listen to me Hero, something is not right, history is changing in the worse way. You don't belong here, I don't know what's going on, but you have to find the Doctor and fast before it's too late." She warmed.
"Let go of me, I don't know who this Doctor person is," Max told her tugging her arm away from the curly hair woman, but her grip is like a vice.
"What happened to you? Your memories, are they missing; how can you not know where or who the Doctor is? He's your_"
Max glared at the woman and unknown to her, her eyes began to glow a bright amber. The curly hair woman gasped and let go of Max's arm quickly. She took a step back from the brunette with a shock expression on her face. "Your eyes, do you_?"
Before she could even finish her question, Max was bolting out of the alleyway into the sidewalk where other people were walking. She heard the woman call 'Hero' again, but Max just ignored her and continuing running till she was inside of the diner. She walked swiftly to the booth and sat down, sinking herself lower to no one from outside could see her. The last thing she wanted was that crazy woman following her and telling her more crazy things about some dude name the Doctor.
'She did have an accent, maybe she was confused about something and was new in town.' Max thought peeking through the window. 'Oh, who the hell am I kidding, that woman was talking about me and Doctor like we've hangout all the time. But how can she know someone I've been dreaming and drawing about?' Max thought furrowing her eyebrows.
'She said something about me missing my memories, I have all my memories, but they're all mixed up and scattered as though haven't been here in awhile.'
"That can't be right," Max murmured to herself. 'She asked me why was I human like I'm not supposed to be human. What the hell is that supposed to mean?'
Max shook her head violently, not caring if her short hair got messy, she getting off track, getting distracted by things that are not all that important. 'There is a storm coming at the end of this week and I'm worried about some dude name the Doctor that I don't even know. And some crazy curly hair woman that was so bent on telling that I'm not human. Get your priories straight Max,' she told herself pushing her hair out of her face.
"And there she is-a lovely young woman and you cut your hair. How are you doing, Max?" A woman's voice asked breaking into her thoughts.
Max turned around and smiled brightly at Chloe's mother, Joyce. "Hi Joyce, it's good to see you again. And yeah, I cut my hair; I didn't think long hair looked good on me anyway." She smiled warmly. "You haven't changed a bit, you still look the same."
"Like I'm still a waitress at Two Whales after all these years?" She mockingly stated.
Max shook her head, still smiling sincerely. "No, like you still look beautiful," she corrected.
She gave Max a knowing smile. "Nice save, kid; you're still smart as a whip," she winked. "But I wish you had been here to help save Chloe. She got busted yesterday smoking out. Again." She explained with a frown.
Max frowned sadly. "Yeah, I was at her house the yesterday and Chloe stepfather was going to hit her, but I sort of_"
"I am sorry that was your introduction to David. I hope you get to know him on your terms, not Chloe's. He's a good man…He just_"
'Yeah, I bet; though he doesn't have much the history to back it up. Considering, he hit me, try to hit Chloe, has pictures of Kate and I in his garage, and has been threatening Kate and I for doing nothing. Yes, is a very nice and good man.' Max thought indignantly. "Yeah, I'm sure he is since you married him, but…don't be so harsh on Chloe," she said deciding to keep that thought to herself.
"It's good you're here. I was hoping you could be a good influence in her life now…" Joyce trailed off with a certain grief in her eyes.
The brunette smiled. "I will be, promise," she assured with a affectingly grin. "I know things were hard for you and Chloe. I feel bad for not standing in contact, though, for some reason; I don't remember leaving." She stated.
Joyce furrowed her eyebrows in bewilderment. "What do you mean you don't remember Max?" She asked sounding concern.
Max shook her head with a grimace. "I don't know, I remember being here with Chloe and all the days that we spent together. But after…after William, apparently, I left; but I don't remember leaving. I remember being here," she shrugged to put the words together.
"Max, you went to Seattle with your parents, don't you remember that; you moved away with them. Not like you had much of a choice, Chloe didn't want to hear that bit. And you're saying you don't remember doing that at all?"
"My parents?"
"Mama, mama, the naming ceremony tomorrow and I have the perfect name…"
"I'm so proud of you Amser, pick wisely, you know how your father is with the titles you children pick. He wasn't too happy about your older brother and sister titles…"
"Yes, because there were stupid…"
"Amser…"
"Okay sorry, not very good titles…"
"The Flower and The Knight, I guess your brother is not too bad, but your sister. Dear me, she's a little too much like your grandmother…"
A laugh could be heard. "That's probably why gran-gran was so happy and delighted with the title…"
A shaking of the head could be scene. "That woman, good thing I turned out to be more like my father than her. I think I would be in a world of trouble…"
A shared laugh could be also heard as well.
"…ax, M…ax…MAX, can you hear me?" Joyce questioned a little louder.
Max jointed out whatever spell she was under. She looked around and saw that Joyce was staring at her with mix between anxiety and relief. The brunette rubbed her face tiredly, for some reason feeling tired all of suddenly. "What happened?" she inquired.
"I don't know, I was explaining to you what happened with Chloe when you moved and you sort of just…stopped." Joyce answered furrowing her eyebrows.
"Stopped, what do you mean by stopped?" Max questioned again looking alarmed.
"I don't know, you had this faraway look on her face, your eyes lost the glow in them and you just sat there as though you were thinking something catastrophic." She answered. "Are you sure you're alright Max?"
Max rubbed her face. "Yeah, I'm fine; I think school is stressing me out and I haven't been getting much sleep lately. Taking advance Physics might do that to a person," she lied smiling slightly.
'What is going on with me? And what the hell was that memory, titles what does that mean and did I have siblings?' The brunette wondered narrowing her amber eyes as the table.
"Well…take it easy alright, I don't want to see that again, you hear me young lady?" Joyce scolded slightly.
"Yes ma'am," Max said nodding her head in understanding.
'Not that I have much control over…whatever this is.' She thought mentally frowning.
"Now, what do you want to eat, Bacon omelet or Belgian waffle?" Joyce asked with warm smile.
"Belgian waffles please," Max immediately answered as her stomach started to growl.
"Good choice, now finish your coffee," Joyce walked away with the coffee pot in her head and Max gave the cup a look.
'Strange, don't like coffee; probably should've ask for tea or something.' She thought moving the coffee to the side. 'Whoa, where did that come from, since when do I don't like coffee?' She questioned as her eye furrow a bit.
About five minutes later, coffee still untouched; Joyce comes back with a warm plate of food. Max smiles as she's ready to get something in her stomach. Joyce sits the plate down and Max immediately gets to work on the food.
She laughs at Max's ethics and for a minute, Max thought she heard that similar laugh before.
"Amser, calm down, the naming ceremony isn't going anywhere…"
Mother…?
"Calm down Max, or you'll choke on it," Joyce warned halfheartedly. She then sighed softly. "Still can't believe you're a woman. I remember when you were small, though those eyes haven't changed a bit. God, when I look at pictures of Chloe_"
Abruptly, they're conversation was interrupted by the diner door opening and girl with bright blue hair walking in. She had a black beanie with a white shirt and black jacket. Though, you can clearly see the tattoo that was on her left arm.
"Speak of the devil," Joyce murmured and only Max can hear. Max shook her head as Chloe "greeted" some other people was were sitting in their own booth.
She walked over looking down at Max that was continuing eating. "Mom and Max, together again!" She stated with a hint of something that Max wouldn't call happiness.
"And Chloe, looking for a free meal. You've put your whole damn college fund on your tab." Joyce bit back without the bite.
Max looked up from her meal. "I'm treating Chloe for breakfast," she stated with a small smile.
"Oh no you're not. This is my treat to you for coming back to rescue my daughter." Joyce stated smiling at Max.
"Nobody needs to rescue me." Chloe disagreed shooting a look at her mother.
Max frowned dejectedly and shifted her gaze to her food. 'Well, I don't remember Chloe being so…withdrawn before.' She thought narrowing her eyes a bit.
"Unless you set your room on fire smoking out…" Joyce countered turning her disappointed and piercing look at her daughter.
"Oh God, here it comes, didn't you and Sgt. Pepper already read me the riot act last night?" Chloe asked mockingly.
"Call him David if you don't want to be lectured." Joyce stated firmly in a "no bullshit" tone.
Max stayed quiet through the whole ordeal, knowing that she had no say in any of this. Most importantly, this was none of her business, she had a feeling that Chloe is still sort of mad at her for leaving her. To Max's defense, she doesn't remember leaving at all; though she still feels like something is missing in her life. Like she should be doing something else or being with someone else. 'I wonder if this has anything to do with the man I was dreaming about last night. Hell, I draw him plenty of times for me to not to know him.' She thought turning her amber gaze to the window; almost tuning out Chloe's and Joyce's quarrel.
"You only get one damn slice of bacon today," Joyce said tightly breaking into Max thoughts and walking away leaving Chloe to the brunette.
Max looked up, shaking her head slightly. "You guys are still the same…it's almost scary," she said delicately.
"Another reason to blow this town," Chloe muttered resentfully.
Max didn't answer, she just frowned forlornly at the attitude and aura that Chloe was displaying. 'Is this all my fault? I get it, her father died, but is this really how she is now?' She thought giving her friend a odd look.
Chloe shook her head in frustration. "What is this shit on the jukebox?" She questioned not even waiting for the brunette to answer.
Max couldn't even tell that music was on. She was so deep in thought and talking to Joyce that she didn't even notice. Now paying attention, that isn't the type of music she would listen to either, not even on a raining day. Chloe turned into something that was mix between hard rock, alternative, and heavy metal; she turned her attention towards Max. 'I remember Chloe listening to something that was easygoing and calm alternative. What happened to that Chloe and why do I feel like I'm in the twilight zone right now?' Max questioned still frowning desolately.
"Now that's out of the picture…" she jumped inside the booth with a wicked smile on her lips. "Let's talk about your superpower…"
Max shifted unnervingly, not ready to get into with her with that. "I don't have much of explanation unless you want me talk about Quantum Physics and Temporal Manipulation and how this is achievable. Which, can I say; shouldn't be probable. I saw a crazy tornado that was going to destroy this town by the end of this week. And haven't got the slightest idea on how I'm going to get everyone out of this town by the end of this week. " Max explained leaning back in her side of the booth.
"Wait, hold on; did you just say Temporal Manipulation, what the hell is that?" Chloe questioned looking bemused. "And did you say Temporal and Quantum in the same sentence?"
Max decided to look at her odd. "You don't know what Temporal Manipulation are? Have you been living underneath a rock for the past fifty years? It's another word for Temporal controlling or warping; the ability to manipulation all aspects of time and space. Since time exists and flows within space, it's possible for the two of them to interrelate and when I'm rewinding time, is basically distorting space proportionally. The effects are_"
"Okay, can you please stop talking nerd, you are seriously making my brain hurt. God, you're like a bigger geek than you were before." Chloe interrupted having wide eyes.
"Just because I understand the Quantum Physics, and the Space-Time Continuum doesn't mean I'm a geek." Max defended giving her friend a meaningful look.
"Yeah okay, because you wasn't about to go into this crazy history lesson about time and space how impossible it is to be able to do what you do." Chloe said with sarcasm dripping in her tone.
"You ask," Max muttered looking out the window.
"Look, that was just a daydream, I want proof you can rewind time," Chloe pressed.
"This is all happening so fast…I don't know if I_"
"Listen to me Max, we'll start off slow and then we'll work our way up. God, looks likes like that shyness isn't going away any sooner." Chloe observed.
Max rolled her eyes and looked around the diner and then back at Chloe. "I can tell you every single thing that you have in your pockets." She declared.
"You have X-ray vision too, dude? I don't even know what's in my pockets." Chloe exclaimed.
Max shook her head and rolled her eyes fondly. "I don't have X-ray vision numb nuts, take everything out of your pockets and I'll prove it." She said.
Chloe proceed to empty everything in her pockets and Max leaned in to see what it was. From what Max can see there was some pocket change, smokes, keys, and a yellow ticket it seems. 'She hasn't the weirdest things in her pockets,' Max thought shaking her head mentally.
"Doctor, how in the world did that fit in your pocket?"
"Bigger on in the inside, did you forget that love?"
"Probably; knowing me, but thanks for reminding, considering you just pulled out a giant UV light out your pocket…"
The man in the bowie tie laughed wholeheartedly.
"I guess I wouldn't be surprised if you decided it's cooking time and pull a stove out of that bigger on the inside pocket of yours…"
The bowie man laughed harder. "I think this regeneration is a comedian this time around…"
"Good, if I'm bad at anything else, at least I can tell a joke…"
"You're good at everything love…"
"Your biased it is your duty and job to tell me that…"
"Not really, I do it because I love you…"
"…"
"-ax, Max, seriously Max, wake up!" Chloe shouted shaking Max vigorously.
She snapped out of it and looked around the diner and looked back at Chloe who was giving her a hard look. "What?" She questioned sincerely disorientated about what just happened.
"Warn a girl before you start to stare into oblivion and having no plans to come back anytime soon." Chloe stated rather insensitively.
"What are you talking about?" Max questioned feeling tired all over again. 'It was like this when I was talking to Joyce, I was remembering something, something important. The man in the bowtie, who was that? I couldn't see his face clearly, but met something to him, just…what?' Max wondered rubbing her head a bit. 'He said…he said he loved me, but how can he love someone that hasn't met yet.' Max thought furrowing her eyebrows thinking at the memory or vision she just had.
"You stare at the items in my pocket and then I called your name and you didn't answer. I shook you, you didn't respond, you had a peculiar look in your eye. Like you wasn't even here anymore, like you were somewhere else." Chloe explained with a distant expression.
"I'm sorry, I don't really know what's going on with me. I think it's got something to do with my rewind powers." Max lied shaking her head faintly. She knows it's not that, it couldn't be that, it felt as though something else bigger was going on. She couldn't pinpoint it at all, but for right now all she could do is blame the rewind powers.
"Whatever, so are we doing this or what?" Chloe questioned breaking into her thoughts.
Max frowning forlornly and looked down at the items that's on the table. 'Okay Max, just ignore Chloe's attitude, study every item cautiously and don't forget anything!' She thought trying not to feel so put off of Chloe attitude.
'We have panda on the keys, rather cute. Seven cigarettes; terrible habit, a warning ticket, what did she do now? Okay, got everything, time to rewind.' Max thought looking down at her watch and began to rewind.
She thought it would be easier for her to carry a watch around, considering she has rewind powers now. She thought it would be to keep up with time, she had a feeling in the back of her mind that she had a watch before. Now the simple small silver one she's wearing now, but one that was more…familiar. She shook her head, trying not to think about it; she rewind all the way to the part where she told Chloe to take everything out of her pockets.
"Don't take everything out, this is me telling you what's inside your pockets." The brunette stated.
Chloe smiled brightly. "Okay Max, I'm ready," she said with bright eyes.
"I'm pretty sure you have cigarettes on you, horrible habit to get into by the way." Max guessed with a stern look on her face.
"Oh thanks mom, I'll be sure to go home and clean my room." She shot back, her tone oozing sarcasm. "I'm a smoker, but how many cigarettes do I have?" she asked.
"Seven," Max answered.
"A superpower that allows you to count cigarettes, cool! Amazing, something else in my pockets?" She asked smiling excitedly.
"Car keys, you want more, you also have a cute robot panda key-chain attach to them." Max explained rubbing the side of her head feeling a headache coming.
Chloe eyebrows rose in surprised. "No bad, Super Max!" she praised. "You do have that Irish luck, Caulfield, what else?" she asked.
Max rolled her eyes warmhearted at Chloe joke. "Parking ticket," she answered.
"You know me so well, but…what is the exact time I was busted?" Chloe questioned narrowing her eyes at the short brunette across from her.
"10:34 a.m.,"
"Boo yah, Max can indeed tell time," Chloe said.
"Well…I am wearing a watch," Max commented lifting her left hand from underneath the table.
"Why are you wearing a watch? You never wear a watch because don't care for time." Chloe asked tilting her head a bit in puzzlement.
"It helps me when I'm rewinding time, though I remember having a different watch before. Just can't remember who or when or where I got it from." Max explained staring down at her watch with a distant expression.
Chloe frowned slightly at that statement. "What else is in my pockets?" She asked breaking through Max's thoughts.
But Max didn't look up from her watch. "Some money," she answered.
"Clearly, I'm rich as fuck-"
Max giggled at that, making Chloe smiled slightly. "-how much do I have?" she asked the brunette.
"Eighty-six cents," she answered smiling slightly smugly.
"All yeah, living large in Arcadia Bay," Chloe then proceed to take everything out of her pockets and placed them on the table before them. She looked down at them at the items with a shock expression on her face. She then looked up at Max who looked rather calm and collective in this situation.
"Amazing, I literally just got chills all over my neck." She stated rubbing her neck. Max smirked giving Chloe I-told-you-so expression with a hint of smugness. She didn't mean to be smug, but she couldn't help it. If you got superpowers and you're trying to express someone with them. They looked surprised and downright shock because they thought you were kidding. You would be a little arrogant and the know-it-all as well.
"You have powers," the taller girl confirmed with wide eyes. Max didn't answer, but her smile got wider and she blushed slightly.
"Take that crap off the table Chloe," Abruptly Joyce ordered coming out of the kitchen with a plate in her hand. She gave her daughter a slight disapproving glare and Chloe proceed to remove her things from the table and place them back in her pockets. Joyce placed the plate on the table and turned her attention on Max that was still grinning.
"How's the food Max?" She asked the short brunette.
"Great, better than I remembered," she answered, she honestly didn't remember Joyce cooking up until she started to eat it. Her memories of Chloe's mom cooking resurfaced instantly and she remembered having some of her food when she was a child. It's strange her memories don't feel like her own memories; like they're not even real memories.
"Very good save," Joyce commented walking away from the table.
"Man, I am hungry like the wolf," Chloe stated digging into her plate.
"I can tell," Max stated softly observing Chloe as she eats.
"Dude, seriously, I am freaking out about what just happened, do you know how you got them in the first place? And are they spreadable?" Chloe asked leaning forwards almost getting into Max's face.
"Spreadable, Chloe rewinding time isn't a disease, it's a power, it's a responsibility, and dangerous if I'm not careful. Some random stranger can't just catch rewind powers. Technically, I'm not even suppose to have these powers." Max explained rolling her eyes at Chloe's spreadable comment.
"What do you mean? You must've got them for a reason, if not, what's the point?" Chloe wondered biting into her bacon.
"That's what I said, when I was doing some research, it said that I had to be expose to something call Time Vortex. Any other way, would be someone in the family having time manipulation powers. Or a experiment gone completely wrong and the person coming out having time powers. Either way, none of the things happened to me, it's probably got something to do with the vision and weird dreams I've been having." Max explained narrowing her eyes slightly at the table.
"What weird visions and dreams? Of the storm or something else?" Chloe asked looking up at Max.
The brunette just shook her head, not really in the mood to be getting into that part of the conversation. It wasn't like she didn't want to talk about it, she didn't know how. She didn't have enough information, and she couldn't just say: "Oh, I'm having weird dreams where I wake up in a strange room that feels like home. With a girl and a older man there waiting for me and asking me strange questions, like where am I?" No, she wasn't about to get into that, at least not right now she isn't.
"You know you can tell me, right Max?" Chloe asked watching as the different emotion flicker across the brunette face.
"I know, it's just I don't want to get into it right now. I don't have enough information to go by anything. If anything, it could be the visions from the last person that had these powers. Or my time powers swirling out of control to the point where I'm seeing things." Max guessed rubbing her head again.
Chloe was quiet for a moment and she began to look around the diner. She smiled slightly and decided to change the subject. "Can you show me more of your superpower, like something way cooler so I can believe you without any doubt." The blue haired girl asked.
Max furrowed her eyebrows in confused and slight hurt. "You don't believe me? Chloe, I just told you everything that was in your pockets without even knowing. And you said it yourself_"
"I know Max, but you have to understand, you're telling me that you can control time. That's pretty farfetched and crazy. I just need some kind of…I don't know how to explain it. It's not like I don't believe you, it's my mind telling me that all of this is just impossible." Chloe quickly explain seeing the hurt in her best friends bright amber eyes.
"Okay," The brunette said turning her attention to the diner. She has a neural face expression, pure concentration written on her face. If someone was noticing, they would have seen Max's eyes glowing slightly. She watch as Joyce came from behind the counter with a fresh pot of coffee walking towards one of the men at the counter space. It was stopped short when a man whipped around in his chair and his coffee cup collided to the ground; spilling hot coffee all over the floor.
Max watched as Joyce snapped at the man for breaking yet another coffee mug and walked around him. Saying something around the lines of "not getting another refill". Suddenly, the cop that was also sitting at the counter space said something about a call coming in. Max then heard a cop car siren blaring outside and driving away. Her glowing eyes then turned to the two guys that were sitting a ways in front of them arguing about something. Joyce walked over scolding them and telling them to take their fight outside. She then walked over to the cop to refill his coffee and a woman gets up and walks to the bathroom, Max can only assume. On cue, the jukebox switches to another song, but from the corner of Max's eyes she spotted a small bug crawling on the wall and landing on the jukebox.
Chloe turned her attention back to Max and furrowed her eyebrows. "Hey Max, your eyes; they're kind of glowing." She noticed.
Max blinked a couple of times and glanced down her watch. 'You always say that Chloe, you've been saying that since we were kids. You always said that my eyes are so creepy, it looks like they glow in the dark sometimes." The brunette said shaking her head fondly not looking up from her watch.
"No, I'm serious Max, your eyes were seriously glowing, it was kind of cool in a creepy way." Chloe insisted shaking her head frowning slightly.
"It was probably the sun making them look like they were glowing, it is a bit bright outside to be Arcadia Bay. Anyway, I'm about to rewind, so…"
"No go ahead, please," Chloe interrupted dropping the conversation almost immediately.
Max furrowed her eyebrows in puzzlement. 'Was my eyes really glowing? Nah, I seriously doubt it,' she thought concentrating on her watch and began to rewind time.
She turned her attention back to Chloe. "I'm going to tell you four events that's going happen in the next thirty seconds." She stated confidently.
"What if something changes?" Chloe asked.
"It won't, I've already seen what's going to happen in the future, nothing can change it unless I do something different." Max stated.
"Time can be rewritten, you taught me that Amser…"
"The reason why time can be rewritten is because I'm the one that's rewriting it…"
"Even you don't have that much power…"
"You'll be surprised…"
"…do you know that?" Chloe asked. Max blinked and frowned, tilting her head and giving Chloe a really? Expression.
"Okay, I get it, you're a geek. Now, tell me what happens." Chloe said catching the expression that the brunette was giving her.
"The trucker drops his mug and Joyce rips him a new one." Max stated.
"So, what happens next?" Chloe questioned.
"The cop gets an emergency alert on his radio and his partner in the car leaves without him."
"Okay, let's just see how this goes down,"
"Justin and Trevor are fighting, don't know about though, and Joyce breaks it up."
Chloe smiles brilliantly. "This is getting good, can't wait to see what happens!" she exclaims.
Max giggled slightly. "Jukebox goes crazy as a cockroach crawls on it."
The events then played out and to the last one with the cockroach landed on the jukebox. Chloe eyes blue eyes widened in shock. "You predicted a cockroach on the jukebox, are you kidding me right now!" she exclaimed excitedly.
Max giggled slightly at that.
"I pledge allegiance to Max and the power for which she stands," Chloe stated taking both of Max's hands.
Max frowned slightly. "Chloe, you have to understand, this isn't toy nor something I can be using left and right. It's dangerous playing with time and changing things that don't need to be changing. I have to be careful about how I_"
(A/N: Ironic, considering that is how you got in this situation in the first place Max.)
"Screw that! Of course, it's a toy, the best freaking toy ever! You can bang anyone with no strings, rewind time and boom it's like it never happened." Chloe pressed animatedly.
Max blushed deeply at that. "That's the thing Chloe, they won't remember because to them it never happened. But I'll remember because I'm the user with the rewind powers. And sometimes remembering is not a good thing." The brunette stated nervously pulling at her cardigan sleeve.
"Looks likes shy Max is taking the stage everyone, come on, that has never cross your mind?" Chloe asked leaning closer to Max.
Max shook her head. "Grow up," she muttered.
"Or maybe those wet dreams we've been having is keeping that at bay." Chloe commented smirking.
Max eyes widened in shock and as if it was possible her cheeks gotten reader. "They are not wet dreams, they're…memories or something. But not what you think they are." She stated looking almost horrified.
Chloe's smirk grew larger. "Or really, anyone in those 'memories' is cute?" she pressed.
Max gone quiet and turned even more red and broke eye contact with her friend who was sitting across the booth. Chloe light up. "Oh my god, who is he? What does he look like? Is he cute? What's his name?" Chloe exploded with questions.
"We are not talking about this," Max stated pointing at Chloe.
"But_"
"No, I don't question you about your 'love-life' so don't question mine, maybe later." Max stated firmly as the blush started to go away.
Chloe narrowed her eyes at Max. "Fine, we'll put that on hold, how about your rewind powers? You have to power to change and control time, we have to play!" she exclaim.
"I don't have time Chloe, there's a storm coming and_
"You did not just say that, you have all the time in the world, literally! Let's_"
Chloe was cut off by Max looking slightly weak. Abruptly, the brunette nose began to bleed, not as bad as before; just a little this time. Max looked terrified, but then looked back at the research she did last night. If she continue to use her rewind powers with no break, it does have side effects. Bleeding from the nose is the first sign that you're using your powers too much. When you start coughing up blood and bleeding from the eyes and ears, that's when you know you have to stop using powers.
"Whoa, check out your nose, too much blow?" Chloe asked looking mildly concerned.
"You can say that, it's just the first sign of me using too much of my powers. It's not as bad as before where I was bleeding from my nose like crazy. When I start coughing of blood and bleeding from my eyes and ears, remind to stop me." Max explained grabbing a napkin from the table and pressing it underneath her nose.
"So, how many times do you think you can rewind before you start having a crazy bleeding party?" Chloe asked furrowing her eyebrows with a mix of puzzlement, awe, and concern.
"I don't know and I kind of don't want to find out." Max voiced making sure all the blood was gone from her nose.
"Let's find out then," Chloe suggested.
"Chloe_"
"Call this training, you testing your limits as they say. Let's go to one of my secrets lairs and fully test that power of yours." Chloe pressed with a pleading look. "You are of serious need of a sidekick of guide you."
Max sighed softly, knowing she's not getting out of this one any time soon. "Fine, but your lair better not be an actual cave or I'm going to rewind and make sure this conversation never happened." Max weakly threatened, standing up from the booth.
Chloe laughed as a memory resurfaced in her mind. "That only happened once, how could I have known there was a bear in the cave?" She asked grinning like a fool.
"Oh, I don't know; maybe if you would have listen to the girl that was standing next you. Telling you about cave bears and how they live in caves. We wouldn't have been running like idiots because we - no, I mean you - disturbed the freaking bear." Max stated with sarcasm practically oozing from her tone.
"Sarcasm does not become you," Chloe commented her grin not leaving her face. "But I love when your feisty,"
Max rolled her eyes fondly walking towards the exit of the diner. She stopped short when her phone started to vibrate in her shoulder bag. She furrowed her eyebrows looking down to see who was calling her. Not many people had her phone number, she only counted five people.
(A/N: Who do you think the fifth person is? *gives readers a devious smile*)
"Don't even answer, we have places to go and people to do," Chloe said pointing at the door.
Max didn't look up from her phone. "It's people to see Chloe," she corrected subconsciously.
"Come on, before Mom starts more shit, let's bail!" Chloe exclaimed.
Max frowned sadly at the phone. "No Chloe, I have to take this call," she said.
"Why Mad Max?"
"It's Kate, I have to see if she's doing_"
"Big whoop, you don't call me once in five years and now you have to take some call from some bitch. The same bitch you see every day at school? I see how it is, so go ahead_" Chloe sneered all excitement gone from her tone and face.
Max glared angrily at Chloe, unknown to the brunette her amber eyes were glowing furiously at the blue haired girl. "You are trending on thin ice Chloe," she scorned heatedly.
Chloe took a step back from the smaller girl, feeling the anger that was radiating off of Max like waves. Chloe has never seen Max so angry in her life, not even including the golden blazing eyes that seems to be burning holes inside her skull.
"You have no idea what's going on with Kate, so don't assume things you don't understand. Yes, she is from my school and Kate is a very dear friend of mine. Don't act like I can't have other friends Chloe. I don't be down your throat when you talk for hours about Rachael Amber and describe to me how great she is. So don't bend over backwards because I have another friend that I care dearly for. Do not insult my friends and have some respect," Max hissed controlling her volume seeing that she was still standing in the middle of diner.
Chloe had wide blue eyes looking at Max like she was complete strange. "Max I'm sorry, I didn't_"
"You didn't ask. Now, I'm going to take this call, I'll be out in a minute, wait outside." The brunette interrupted walking away from the blue haired girl and finally answering her phone.
"Hey Kate, are you alright?" Max asked calming down her anger.
"I'm…uh, fine Max, I actually didn't call for me or well, I did, but mostly for you." Kate said softly over the phone.
"For me, why did something happen?"
"No, a strange man showed up on campus a little while ago, he was looking for you."
Max furrowed her eyebrows in puzzlement. "Are you sure he was looking for me?" she questioned.
"Yeah, though he didn't use your name, he kept saying Hero,"
Max heart leapt out of her chest and out of her mouth. "How…how do you know he was looking for me?"
"He started describing you and he had a picture of you and everyone immediately said Max. He looked a little put off when we said that. He asked where you were and of course, nobody knew. But I did him where your dorm was, if that is okay." Kate explained in a hush tone.
Max reached into her shoulder bag and pulled out a drawing book. She flipped through the pages until she got to a blank one. "That's okay Kate, can you describe to me what this man looked like? Like his hair, his outfit, stuff like that?"
"Yeah, uh, he was tall, like really tall and he had brown wild hair and brown eyes. He seemed to be wearing a tailor suit with a long brown trench coat. He was also wearing_
"Converses," Max finished looking down at drawing she did just last night. It was a drawing of a man that Kate just describe, tailor suit, wild brown hair, and converses. The same man she sometimes she's in her dreams.
"Yeah, do you know him? He seem to know you?"
"I don't know," Max breathe out wanting to sink down to her knees. She didn't understand what was happening. Is the Doctor here and why is he looking for her? Did it have anything to do with the woman in the alleyway.
"Kate, he that man still here?"
"No, he looked around the campus for awhile, asking students questions. He went to your dorm room and stay in there till two woman came and they left."
Max eyes light up as though she was putting two and two together. "Did the woman have blond hair, or dark hair, or even red hair?" she questioned flipping through her drawing book.
"The one woman had crazy curly hair and the other had red hair, they were all talking with weird accents. Everyone thought they were foreign or something, Max what's going on? Do you know them or something?"
Max ignored the questions." Are they still there Kate?" she asked stopping at a drawing of the Doctor and the red haired woman who she remembered being named Donna Noble.
"Donna, you are the most important woman in the world…"
"Well, she is, but you are the most important woman to me…"
"Doctor, you are not helping and your suave is showing, quite a lot actually…"
"Oh, you like it, plus, I have to let it show or I won't be able to see those beautiful red cheeks of yours…"
"Again Doctor, not helping…"
"You two are so adorable, look at'cha…"
"No, they left roughly about an hour ago; the man looked so miserable, so terribly sad." Kate answered breaking into the brunette thoughts.
"Max, let's go; daylights is wasting!" Chloe shouted.
"In a minute Chloe," Max whipped her head around to shout back, her patience running thin for the blue haired girl. "Listen to me Kate, those people I don't know; so if they come around again tell them I don't go there anymore. Okay, tell them the person they're looking doesn't go that school and that's she gone. Do you understand?" She asked turning her attention back to Kate.
"But Max, you didn't see how the way the man looked. He looked so hollow and_"
"Kate, can you do this for me please?" Max pleaded interrupting the girl on the other end.
After a minute of silence, Kate finally spoke up. "Yes Max, I understand, if they come back; I'll tell them." She agreed.
Max breathe out of relief. "Thank you, now what's going on with you? Victoria isn't bothering you again is she?" She asked changing the subject of the conversation.
"Uh…um, no, no more than usual. Listen Max, I actually have to go, I'm late for class. So, I'll see you when you get back okay?"
Max furrowed her eyebrows in perplexity. "Are you sure Kate? I can just_"
Just then, the line went dead on the end and Max looked down at her phone with sadness. She didn't understand what she said to Kate that made her hang up the phone on her. She looked over to the drawing the Doctor, she then shook her head and closed the book.
'I can't deal with this right now, I really can't. There's a missing girl, a raging storm, and guy that might be drugging girls at my school, and I got a fucked up memory. The last thing I need is some strange dude coming here and making me confused about how I am.' Max declared stuffing the book back in her bag. ' I'll deal with it later,' she decided placing the phone in the shoulder bag as well.
A/N: So, while I was typing this, I looked down and saw that I was closing in on 10,000 words. Yeah...so I decided to shortened it...again. Over 8,000 words, I am so sorry :O
So, a lot going on in this Chapter (understatement of the century) if you're confused now, it's okay, a lot of it is going to be cleared up later on in the episodes.
BTW, who else was pissed off when Chloe called Kate a bitch, don't be mean and selfish to Kate. Kate was going through a lot in this game, like seriously what is wrong with you? I get it that Max left Chloe, but she didn't need to say those mean things to Kate. I wanted Max so badly to tell her off or at least give her a long. But it didn't happen, but whatever, I still like Chloe. It was just that part of the game really irritated me to no end.
Thank you for the reviews, follows, and favorites and being so patience with me. Finding the time to type this story and my other story, college and working is hard. But I'm getting there, thank you for tell me my impression on the 12th Doctor isn't shit (because I thought it was shit lolz)
What else am I missing, oh yeah, Max seems a little paranoid of her powers and I wanted to show that because playing with time is very dangerous and changing and knowing things that is about to happen is very dangerous. I wanted to show that and plus, Max is a Time Lady or at least Hero is. She knows in the back of her mind that playing with time is a bad thing and can lead to consequences.
I promise that the next part is the last part of this episode, I'm taking too much time writing this episode out and for that I am sorry D:
Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who or Life is Strange, just Hero (my OC Character)
BTW, I've been doing some research on how Hero should regenerate to next (it's going to happen people, I'm sorry, but it is) I got some people in mind, but I don't want to use other people that other writers might've use for their Doctor Who OC Character (the may reason I picked Tuppence is because nobody else seem to have had her in their story and the fact she's perfect :D)
Okay, done (longest chapter with the longest Author Note) NO FLAMES PLEASE, they are not welcome here
Alice
