I - The day time stopped

Rain was pouring, dripping from their hairs, the howling winds and cracking of lightning filled the dark sky. Two girls, a slender brunette and a taller blue-haired girl held each other, kissing as tears joined the drops of rains on their faces.

They broke their kiss sobbing.

"I'll always love you. Now, ... get out of here... please!" the blue-haired girl started to move away as she spoke to the crying brunette. "Do it before I freak!" The bluenette's voice began to crack with emotion as she turned away.

The brunette looked at the picture in her hand, tears running down her cheek as she tried not to crack and call for her beloved friend. She was about to leap into the picture as the voice called to her.

"And Max Caulfield? Don't you forget about me!"

"Never." she whispered as she jumped through time.

Max Caulfield woke up in the girl's bathroom as she took the fateful picture of the blue butterfly, back on Monday October 7th.

Looking at the picture, she let it fall on the floor as she started to cry. She sat on the floor her back against the nearby stall as she heard the bathroom door opening, followed by the beginning of Nathan's self-pep talk.

Oh Chloe, why... why? Why can't I save you?

"I hope you checked the perimeter as my step-ass would say. Now let's talk bidness."

Max bit her hand trying to hold a cry as she heard the familiar voice of Chloe, her snark. She wanted to jump out and throw herself at her friend, to kiss her.

I have to... I have to let her die!

"You don't know who the fuck I am or who you're messing around with!"

Nathan's shout of anger woke her up from her thoughts.

"Where'd you get that? What are you doing? Come on, put that thing down!"

Max felt her resolve starting to crack as she heard the distress in her friend's voice. She wanted to help her, to save her, to be with her. She started to rock on the floor hugging her knees as she fought the urge to interrupt fate.

I have to... but I can't... it's not fair! I can't let ... but I have to...

As Max continued her internal struggle, the fight continued in the bathroom.

"Don't EVER tell me what to do! I'm SICK of people trying to control me!"

With each explosion of Nathan's voice Max shuddered.

"You are going to get in hella more trouble for this than drugs-" "Nobody would ever miss your 'punk ass' would they?"

Max wanted to scream that he was wrong, to yell that she would miss her, that she loved her.

Chloe panicked, she wanted the boy and the gun pressed on her belly to be far away. She pushed him.

"Get that gun away from me psycho!"

Hearing those words, the sobbing Max couldn't take it anymore. She couldn't go with this, couldn't abandon her friend, her love. Without even thinking about it, she leapt out of her cover extending her hand.

"CHLOE! NO!"

The scene froze in front of her. Chloe, hands in front of her, pushing Nathan. Nathan stumbling back stopped in mid-fall, his finger pressed on the trigger. Yet, no shot occurred.

Max remained there, crying as she observed the scene, events stopped within the slight delay between the moment the trigger was released and the moment the firing pin would strike the cartridge. Slowly, she took one step after another, closing the distance as she cried.

"Chloe... I can't..." she started, her voice raw with pain and sadness. "I can't do this Chloe… I can't let you die." She walked trembling as she inserted herself between Nathan and the blue haired girl.

Her hand reached up, caressing the frozen girl's cheek softly. "I ... would not be able to live... not without you..." she cried as she pressed herself on her former best friend, wrapping her arms around her in a tight hug. "I can't let you go... I love you so much..." she confessed although she knew no one could hear. She remained there as long as she could, feeling a sharp pain throbbing in her head as she fought to keep time still. Her nose bled, drops of scarlet dripping on her chin and hoodie as she looked up at the bluenette's frozen face "I'll always be with you. Please forgive me!" She sobbed before pressing her lips to Chloe's and letting go of her hold on time.

Suddenly, a sharp burning pain surged through her back. Her eyes flared open and her legs gave up before she could even register the report of the gun. As her vision blurred, she noticed the surprise in the blue eyes of her friend. Then everything turned black.

David Madsen was posted by the main entrance of Blackwell Academy, watching as the kids walked past him to leave school. Now and then he cringed as he heard the squeals and laughter of the students as they ran, cheered and played pranks. He growled, thinking about what those cheerful faces must hide. He knew he had trouble accepting some of them were probably good kids, yet he couldn't help but thinking of them as just trouble makers of some sorts.

He remembered how his step-daughter came into drugs and alcohols while a student in this school. How she squandered her opportunity for something better to cover for her friend Rachel Amber. His eyes automatically moved to one of the numerous missing person posters as he thought of how she and Chloe had kept his house alive with tantrums and troubles. Not that he hated disorder per se, but he just needed the order and discipline of his former military life to feel at ease and forget about war, about his friend's death.

As he waited, watching the students slowly move around the hall, his mind wandered to his investigation, his personal search for his step-daughter's missing friend. He knew something in Blackwell was at the origin of all this, yet he couldn't find what dark secret was hidden from him. He hoped the surveillance camera network he requested would help uncover some crucial clue.

What had happened to Rachel? Had she really run away alone, abandoning Chloe? No surely not.

He wasn't sure but he believed her bound to his step-daughter was deeper than friendship.

Then what? Had she been kidnapped? And if yes, was a student or a teacher invo-

The loud report echoing through the hall jerked him out from his thoughts.

Gunshot!

What the...

The thought erupted in Chloe's head as time resumed its course. Going on overdrive, she tried to compute what had happened.

One moment, she was scared as shit, pushing that Prick-scott and his gun away. The next she was pressed against the wall, tightly held in a stranger's arms while their lips were pressed together and the taste of blood filled her mouth.

Her brain was just about to decide on a reaction when the deafening gunshot echoed in the bathroom. She saw the girl's eyes flare open at the same time a sharp sting hit her stomach.

The tightness of the hug decreased and she could swear she saw life leaving the eyes fixated on her with shock and pain before the weight of the girl brought them both down.

The morning was quiet at the Two whales diner, and Joyce was about to refill Officer Berry's mug when his radio suddenly came to life.

"All units, shots fired at Blackwell Academy! Repeat shots fired at Blackwell Academy! All units respond code 3!"

The cop and his partner jumped to their feet dropping forks and food on the floor with a "Shit!" as they exited the diner rushing for their cruiser. The car roared to life with screeching tires as it sped away, sirens wailing and lights flashing, under the eyes of every patron.

No one even noticed Joyce standing there frozen in the middle of the diner as several other RMPs and Ambulances rushed on the main street.

A/N :

So hello, this is my first attempt at a fanfiction so please bear with me for little mistakes.

I attempt this story on the hospital ending because for me it is the ending choice missing from the game, the choice I would have wanted to make had I been Max.

Needing to sooth my soul and find closure with their story I started pouring ideas on what would make a great ending.

As you will see I do not stay bound to one character's point of view. This come from the fact I kept wondering what those character would think, how they would react when living on the side of Max' and Chloe's story.

So far the main characters are only Chloe and Max, but I have plan for the others of the LiS series so you will see them coming as the story goes