Family Gathering [Max]

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Kristina had her phone in her pocket and wallet in her back pocket, she had texted Max saying that she was coming over but hadn't yet gotten a message back from them. She slowly made her way toward their house, knowing how late it was, but she had to talk to them, it was kind of important. She hadn't had much of a chance to talk to them since the Valentine party, but Max would have gotten text messages about her moving into her dorm that following Saturday and a few days later running into Fang. She had to tell Max about the foresight power, she had to tell Max about her worries even though Fang had made her promise not to tell anybody about seeing him and Oscuro talking. She had lifted her hand into the air about ready to knock when she heard something from behind her. She turned around and there was Max, staying behind her.

[Max Abner]

Max's parents were being a bit overprotective in their eyes. They had recovered days ago and although they were still a little weak that didn't mean that they had to sit cooped up in their room. So Max had taken to sneaking out the window. Of course they had to stay in their pyjamas because somehow their parents seemed to sense when they were getting dressed to go out. Before they had gotten injured they could leave without every being noticed, but now their parents were pretty much hyper aware of everything that happened.

so Max climbed out their window in their pyjamas and wrapped a cloak around their body for warmth and to hide the silly outfit. That was when they noticed a familiar figure. They walked over to the person slowly before the girl turned around to face Max. It was definitely Kris. Max fell into a hug with the older girl, glad to see their friend. "It's so good to see you." they sighed, and then looked at the door. "Actually we should probably move away from the door before my parents hear us, or see us. They don't know I'm outside." max stated. They smiled at Kristina before separating from the hug.

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Kristina noticed Max wearing a clock but she could still see some edges of the pajamas anyway. She felt like having a weird moment but then again, Dream or Fang had on accident seen her in the mix bath, at least Max was dressed when they had reached out to hug her. Though she felt like she might make a noise anyway and covered her mouth so that she remained quiet. When she felt much calmer, "It is good to see you too." She whispered, hearing Max say that they should get away from the door she moved with them, because she wanted them to lead her to a spot where their parents couldn't hear them talking. "Yeah, you said in your text messages that they weren't letting you out of their sight, I didn't expect you to be outside though." She confessed as she came to a stop.

"So much has happened Max, so much from that Valentine party." She had told Max about Fang kissing her, because lets be honest here. She wanted comfort because she wanted to slap Fang for doing it in the first place. That wasn't the point though, she had seen Fang since that day, she had moved out of Dream's house to become a Chaser, that much Max knew from the text messages. They also knew that she was feeling a close bond for Fritz. She had wrote Max about the immortal power that Fritz had claimed that she had, but she had yet to let them know about the foresight power. She also hadn't told them about running into Fang just yet. "You remember me saying that I moved into my dorm and how Fritz said that I was immortal.... well there is something else."

It was easier to talk when she was whispering as if she were keeping a secret, she didn't want Fang possibly hearing what she was telling Max. "I have the gift of foresight, I'm able to see glimpse of the past.... but I'm also able to see the future too." That power was scaring her, she had no control over it. Max would notice the gloves on her hands, which is why she hadn't seen their past or future just yet. "I can see the future at random, but with contact I can see the past or sometimes the future." It was clear she was on the verge of panicking. "My cat is dead.... I have a dog now...." Yup she had lost it, just wait till Max hears who took her to get the dog. "I got permission to get Fiora until Dream comes back."

The only reason she was telling Max was because she completely trusted them and as much as she wanted to tell Fang, she had lost the chance to say that Max was alive but she was also fearful that she was putting them at risk by telling Fang at this current time. It was for Max to decide if they would make themselves known to being alive or not. "I join the Chasers.... but that bounty..." She looked away, "They changed it Max, they changed it from capture to kill...." She couldn't follow that order, she couldn't kill Dream. "Some of the Chasers have taken it upon themselves to use me as bait to get to him...." The comment sounded as if she were angry.

But she wasn't angry at Max, she was angry at the head Chaser. She had once thought that Luz had given an order but it turned out it was the head Chaser, there wasn't anything she could do about it however. She took in a deep breath, looking at Max she spoke lowly. "I saw him Max, I saw Fang."

[Max Abner]

It was such a relief to see Kris again. She had been keeping them updated through text on their life, but it wasn't quite the same as seeing and talking to her in person. So Max led them away from the door and over to an alley across from their house. They glanced back hastily at the door to their own house. It seemed their parents hadn't noticed. Their parents meant well, they were just a bit overbearing. When Max was satisfied that they had left unnoticed they turned back to Kristina and listened intently. She was right when she said that so much had happened. Max remembered all of the texts they had received about different things. From Kris joining the academy, to Kris having the power of immortality. When she said there was more Max smiled.

A new power? That was exciting. Max always preferred learning about people's powers and now that Kris was gaining new ones it was all very interesting. This one also involved seeing into the future and the past. Max wondered for a second how it worked, but then they saw the gloves that Kristina was wearing and wondered if the power was activated through touch. Max had never seen Kris wearing gloves before so they assumed that a power activated through touch must be the case. This was confirmed by Kris a few seconds later, but Max caught onto a panic setting into Kristina's voice. They frowned, worried about what their friend had to go through while they had been laid up in bed. Their cat had died apparently. At they had a dog? Named Fiora?

Max was about to ask Her if she had seen Dream when she mentioned the bounty. Max froze. Of course they knew about the bounty, but what if the reward rose? What if somebody hurt Dream? Then Kris said something even worse. Max gasped. Kill? Why would they want to kill Dream? Max knew that Fang was in control at the moment, but that didn't give them the right to kill him. Max zoned out for a second until Kristina mentioned meeting Fang. Max focussed on Kristina again and tried to form their thoughts into words. Their life had been so easy before they made all these relationships.

"Is he okay?" they squeaked out. Max's voice hardly rose above the silence, but that was all they could manage. People were going to kill Dream. "Are you okay?" Max managed next. Their voice wobbled each time they spoke. They tried to suppress all of the negative emotions welling up in them. What if Dream died? They took a large shaky breath. Kristina needed comforting more than them right now and they should focus on that. Next on the list was getting Dream back, after that they could worry about their emotions. Max was quickly becoming good at putting off worrying about their own feelings.

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Kristina looked at Max when they asked if Dream was okay, "He is okay as far as being hunted down goes.... but the one using me as bait almost got killed by Fang.... he was lucky that Fang showed mercy and let him run off...." She found herself shaking, "Max, I'm not okay, these foresight.... I'm not used to such things and what makes it worse is that Fang found himself a friend.... and I think I tried attacking her but I can't remember...." She found herself touching her hand, "I just know that Fang had attacked me and when I went after them, the girl had used some type of emotions on me...." She looked at Max, "How could I attack somebody and not even remember it?" The Chasers in her group had patted her on the back saying it wasn't her fault the dagger had gone through the girl and all she could do was give a confused look. She didn't know what they were talking about because she couldn't remember that part.

She found herself shaking slightly, "The Chasers I was with, they were happy it happened, sad that it had gone through the girl. It makes me sick...." As if to prove a point to Max she pulled her gloves off. "You can take my power, maybe if I focus you will be able to see my past, of that day, see that blank moment in my moment and help me figure out what happened." She answered looking over at them. If she had attacked Alisa as those Chasers had claimed she had, she wanted to be locked up, she didn't want to be free to attack anybody ever again.

[Max Abner]

Max was so relieved that Dream was okay, aside from being hunted down, but Kris was most definitely not okay. She was shaking and freaking out about her new power and apparently a girl that she might have attacked. Max took off their cloak, revealing their pyjamas with alien heads printed on the kapries and baggy t-shirt. Max wrapped the cloak around Kris and brought the older girl into another hug. It seemed like she might need it. Just because Kris couldn't remember something didn't mean she had attacked this other girl, and even if she did that didn't make her a bad person. Max knew this and they were trying to think of a way to portray this to her.

When Kris pulled off her gloves Max took a step back from the hug and looked at their friend closely. "Kris if you want me to look into your past I will try, but I can't promise you it will work, or even be what you want to hear. I love you Kris, you are one of my closest friends, so I'm going to tell you this. Nothing will change no matter what happened. I know you're a good person even if you did attack some girl. Those chasers are stupid and you shouldn't listen to them. You are so great. Okay? So if you want me to try and look at your past I will, but please remember that." Max told Kris, trying to get her to calm down. They furrowed their brow as they looked at Kris and held out their hand, ready to take Kris's power if that was what she wanted.

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Kristina hadn't expected Max to take the cloak off and wrap her in it before hugging her again, once more she felt it was awkward that Max was only in pajamas, but the comfort was to much and she forced herself to ignore it. Max's words they gave her comfort but she felt a need to know, she needed to know if it was true or not. "Oh Max." She hugged them carefully, as to avoid physical contact, the last thing she wanted was to see Max's past because the goal was for Max to see her past, to take her power. She pulled away as Max finished speaking, if this wasn't sibling love she didn't know what it was.

"I need to know if it was true or if they lied.... I mean I still blanked out and I do think Fang attacked me, he wouldn't have done that without a good enough reason." She remembered Fang attacking her, sure it was the fate of her clothes, having to take a Chaser's jacket to cover up to follow after Fang, but he wouldn't have done it without a reason. She took in a deep breath, having a hand hovering over Max's. "At the very least you would see the blank spot in my mind too.... assuming that is apart of the past you see."

The truth, in the end she wasn't sure if she was ready for this, but Max was more than willing to try and the comfort of knowing what had really happened that night would make her so much happier. If I really did attack her, I should be locked up for it.... that isn't in my personality to attack.... She swallowed, "Ready?" She asked Max before slowly placing her hand onto theirs. Kristina found herself focusing on that night, so go figure it was the one Max got a chance to see.

Max would first see, Fang and Alisa, hear Fang calling out to Kristina. Then Fang fleeing, while carrying Alisa away down in the sewers. Then they would see Kristina as she followed after them, finding them a few minutes later, the memory might have hurt Max because Fang had been kissing Alisa and they would see it now too. Other Chasers would be right behind her but lucky for her, they followed her order of staying back. There were words exchanged between Kristina and Fang before it went blank.

Next part of the memory is Kristina standing there, before Fang attacks her. Fang than flees with Alisa, heading down the sewers after attacking the Chasers who in the end had motive to kill him. She had helped get the Chasers out after grabbing a long jacket to hide herself. After the Chasers were out of the sewer she took chase after Fang and Alisa, controlling the sewer water as if to keep them from fleeing. When she got there she saw their clothes, mixed with sewer water.

More words were exchanged, mostly a pissed off Kristina for losing her clothes to Fang. Though Alisa had come up to her and had touched her face, emotions would over fill her, a memory had crossed her mind one that she found herself focusing on. Alisa had accused her of throwing a dagger at her too. Why can't I remember it? Max would have seen that memory but would have noticed the dagger throwing part would have showed up blank.

As if the memory was rewinding itself, Kristina had the desire to know what exactly happened and so the memory forced it out. It wasn't her memory as much as the one who had controlled her, the real reason for her problems in the first place. It stopped near the beginning back to when Kristina had seen Fang kiss Alisa. There was an emotion of encouragement as one would see her draw the dagger out and threw it towards Alisa.

The dagger went threw Alisa, not harming her because of her phase. Then one would notice the shock, the emotions all over the place before Fang had attacked her to flee the scene. The memory came to a close but Kristina herself couldn't remember that part because it was still blank. She had remembered Alisa claiming that she had attacked her though and surprisingly enough that was good enough. "I should be locked up.... I remember the girl claiming I attacked her...."

[Max Abner]

Max was a little nervous about using a new power to do something so important to for one of their friends. They could tell that Kristina really wanted them to do this, but there was a possibility that it would go wrong too. They didn't experience mental based powers the same as the user did always. It could be very possible that they couldn't see anything or looked at it like they were looking through water. Nevertheless when Kristina offered her hand they took it.

"I'm ready." They answered. Max took the power that Kristina had specified and brought it into themself. There was a second of nothing before it felt like an elastic band snapped them to the memory that Kristina wanted them to see. Max felt like they were seeing it all through Kristina's eyes, but they still felt their own body. It was a strange disconnection that they hadn't really experienced before. They saw Dream first, although Max knew that it wasn't really him. It was Fang. The next thing they noticed was a girl they didn't know. Max gently let go of Kris's hands and moved their body to sit down while they watched the past play out before them. Their power didn't require constant touch to work so they would be fine.

"I can see Fang and some girl. They're running away from you and you're chasing them. There's a bit of nothing of you running in the sewers. I think, oh..." max paused in relaying what they were seeing to Kristina. It was a good thing they had already sat down. "Um, Fang is kissing the girl now." They continued. They had to remind themself that this was for Kristina and there personal emotions didn't matter right now. They continued to watch Kristina's past, trying to relay it the best they could.

"Um I think you're talking to the two of them now, but I can't really hear anything. I don't think I'm able to get the entire use of your senses. Lost in the transference of powers I think." Max cleared their throat. "Anyways, Fang just attacked you. Him and the girl are running away now. You're fighting with the Chasers and getting them out of the sewer. I think they were going to kill Fang, like you said. Well, they're gone now." Max's head was beginning to hurt. They had never had to use a mental power for this long and they realized they probably needed to practice that more.

Max gulped back the headache and focussed back onto the scene they were watching. They were determined to finish this. "Okay, you caught back up to Fang and the girl. You guys are talking again and the girl is touching you face." Max pauses as they felt an overwhelming amount of emotions. It felt like everything they had lost in hearing was made up in that second. They felt their real hands grip their head. "There's a gap in your memories, but you fucussing on them is really helping." Max explained through gritted teeth. There was almost a perspective change, but they could now see what they assumed was Kris's missing memory.

Max was fell silent as they watched. Kris did throw the dagger, but due to the emotions that Max had felt they figured that it wasn't there fault, the feeling that it wasn't entirely Kris anymore was also unsettling. The dagger that Kris threw didn't even hit the girl, it just flew right through her. There was a small squabble before Fang and the girl got away once again. The memory ended and Max slumped forward from their sitting position. They blinked back into their own vision and looked at Kris. She was already freaking out.

Max stood up on wobbly legs and grabbed Kris gently by the arm. "It wasn't you fault. There were so many things going on. You did throw a knife at the girl, but all those emotions had an effect on you. You don't need to be locked up. It was a mistake and everybody deserves to be able to make mistakes." Max tried to comfort Kris.

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Kristina had felt Max touch her arm, she had listened to them speak but finding out she had really thrown the dagger at the girl made her terribly upset and what made it worse is that Max made it sound like it wasn't her fault and yet she had thrown the dagger at the girl anyway, so it must have been her fault right? She slowly took in a deep breath, trying to focus on some other things. "I'm also upset that they changed the bounty on me, I mean, capture.... they keep trying to kill him Max." She paused, tears were forming in his eyes. "I know that he is dangerous, but killing is so wrong and not needed...." She finished, wishing the other Chasers understood. "To make matters worse they keep trying to use me as bait without permission, who does that?" She was ranting, but it was okay she believed Max understood and was in agreement with her.

"When I saw him though, he looked like he was doing okay.... Fang says that he is hiding in his own shell. I think that night really stuck on him." It wasn't a subject she talked to Max about often, nor did she say it to Fang either. Though she knew it was for Max safety to not go out of her way to say such things, but at the same time she didn't know it was eating away at them, believing that Max was dead. It made sense, she would tell Dream or Fang if she didn't feel like it would risk Max's life. "Something big is going to be happening though..." She had promised Fang she wouldn't tell anybody, but as far as he was concerned, Max wasn't alive. "I saw a flash of the past on Fang twice. I saw him born.... but I also saw something else." She was having a hard time trying to explain that one to them so instead she chose not to say anything on the subject.

"What ever Fang has planned, it isn't good.... but until I see a vision telling me exactly what he is likely to do I can't give much warning on the subject. I fear for the Chasers though.... so many did Dream wrong.... so many teachers too...." She had reason to fear for them, she saw Fang talking to Oscuro in a vision of the past. "He wanted me to stay away from the school, but I'm needed there. As soon as I see it, I'm going to give Luz the proper warning for us to brace what ever it is." She shivered, "I think Fang is planning revenge." There she said it, the comment was vague but it was enough to make anybody worried.