Hey guys! So I´m here to happily announce that this Two-Shot is turning into a whole story! First I didn´t really know what to write about instead of only how the LIS characters cope with Chloe´s death and life in general, but now I came up with an interesting plot, so I hope you will enjoy this story ^^ Since I´m writing two FFs now, I plan to update this story every second week (when you get lucky every week) so I can focus on updating both of them regularly.

I hope you like this chapter! Have a nice day! :)

Chapter 2 – Feelings don´t change

Still in shock about Warren Graham kissing me and the fact that he is my boyfriend according to him, I went back to the girls´ dormitories. I was just really overwhelmed by everything that had happened this week, so I sure hoped that I wouldn´t meet anyone in the hallway since I obviously wasn´t really in the mood to talk right now. Unluckily Taylor happened to pass by when I just entered the dormitories. First the blonde girl hesitated and gave me a shy look, but then she walked towards me anyway and started a conversation.

"Hey Max.. So.. How was the funeral?", Taylor asked me while pausing a lot in her sentence, making me realize, that she didn´t really know what to say in such a situation.

I sighed:" As funerals go, I suppose. A lot of crying, emotional breakdowns, hugs and mushy talking.."

"I´m sorry. That was a dumb question.."

"No, it´s okay Taylor. Really. I know that you actually care and I would like to thank you for that.", I said, trying to lighten up the mood a little bit.

After that Victoria´s friend offered me a small smile:" That´s the least I can do after you have listened to me talking about my mother."

So I did talk with Taylor about her mother´s illness in this timeline as well.

"Anyway. Was Victoria present at the funeral as well? I know that she originally wanted to go..", Taylor asked with a little concern in her voice.

I nodded my head:" Yeah, I remember her being at the actual funeral but not attending the meeting at the Two Whales Diner. But shouldn´t you know this stuff?"

"You see, the whole week was pretty tough for Vic. I mean first the thing with Nathan and then Jefferson.. She hardly talked to me or Courtney after those events.. I´m kind of worried..", the blonde girl explained while looking down on the floor.

I slightly put my hand on her shoulder and rubbed it gently to give the girl a little comfort.

"This week has been tough on all of us. But I´m sure that everything will turn to be normal once some time has passed."

A small smile formed on the girl´s lips:" I sure hope so."

After that we both went in different directions, me walking straight into my room. Once the door clicked shut behind me, I let out a big, frustratet sigh. This was all so wrong. I went back in time and let Chloe die because I wanted everyone to be able to be happy again. But instead everyone and everything just seemed so sad and full of concern. After another sigh had escaped my mouth, I finally walked around my room to check if everything was still the same. The Max Caulfield memorial wall still seemed in tact. All the furniture and decoration hadn´t moved from it´s original spot either. But on my couch there was a huge box placed there, with my teddy bear and journal being placed right next to it. Carefully I moved some of the stuff aside and dropped myself on the couch, taking a look of the inside of the box. Once I had realized what I had kept in there, tears formed in my eyes. In the very box next to me were all the things I had kept from Chloe. Like the old phone we had decorated together, some comic strips we had drawn when we had been still kids, photos of us of course and much more objects.

I must have looked trough these things, when I had found out about Chloe´s death..

Sadness rushing once again through my heart, I grabbed the teddy bear next to me and hugged it tightly to my chest. Now heavy drops of tears found themselves on my face back again, streaming down my cheeks. The Max that had been here instead of me must have had dealt with these feelings before. But to me the fact that Chloe was indeed dead was pretty new to me, so of course I would feel shitty like this. Just the pain and the thought of never seeing my best friend ever again did hurt so much. It felt unbearable. And the fact that Chloe must have died with the emotions of anger, maybe betrayel, uncertainty of Rachel´s where abouts and probably sadness because me not showing my face to her ever again, just killed me in the inside. All the memories we made together this week. All this never mattered for Chloe because to her this had never happened.

So why?

Why did I get these powers?

Was it all for nothing?

Once again my attention was drawn to my journal, which was sitting next to me. Curious of what exactly had happened this week, I put my cuddle bear away and started to broadly read through the pages.

´I can´t believe it. Why didn´t I do something to save the girl? Instead I just sat there, unable to move. I guess I was too scared at that time, so I waited until David Madsen finally showed up to arrest Nathan. Only after that I finally could move my body again.`

`Now I regret it even more that I didn´t do anything! It wasn´t a random girl who had been killed by Nathan´s hands but it was Chloe Price, my best fucking friend!`

`Dear Diary, I still feel numb after the events which had happened. I also had gone straight to Joyce to show her at least a little bit of comfort. Together we looked at all the photos of me and Chloe. It shouldn´t have happened like this. I should have showed my face much earlier to the Price family. Especially Chloe Price.`

`I still don´t feel okay. But it is good to know that I have friends around me who always got my back. Especially Kate and Warren.`

`Warren has been so protective of me lately. He just shows up when I really need him.. I wish I could stay in his arms like forever.. Escaping the cruel world.. I miss you so much Chloe..`

After reading some more pages, I finally got to know how me and Warren ended up dating. So apperently he had spend much time with me by comforting me and eventually I had ended up kissing him. I had to giggle a little bit about this because I should have known that it has actually been me who made the first move. The boy was just to damn shy. But he happened to grow much more active around me, since he got more confident by time. But as much joy this brought to my heart, as much sadness I felt because I wasn´t actually able to experience this at first hand. Also I kind of felt like betraying Warren. I mean I somewhat wasn´t the Max he was been dating this whole time. And I shouldn´t really lie to him like that, should I? In my opinion he deserved to know.. But something else caught my attention as well. The whole week I hadn´t mentioned anything about my powers. It made actually sense because, well, I hadn´t rewound and saved Chloe. But did this mean that I had lost my powers? Curiosly I looked at my right hand. It was tempting to try it out, but I obviously decided against it, since I didn´t want to cause another storm..

After this, all of a sudden my phone started to buzz, remembering me of my little `date´with Warren. So I changed my clothes into a comfortable white T-shirt, grey jogging trousers and my usual grey jacket. I also formed my hair into a little bun. After my preparations were done, I grabbed my phone and shoved it into one of my pockets, also grabbed my camera and went straight downstairs to the boys´ dormitories. This time I didn´t meet anyone, much to my comfort honestly, because I wouldn´t want to explain myself about where the hell I was going. Finally reaching Warren´s room, a small grin formed onto my lips.

So also in this timeline I did write on his slate? Even the same message..

I lightly knocked on his door. It didn´t take long for him to open it, too.

"There you are. I already prepared everything! And this time I didn´t forget to put another blanket on the bed. I surely don´t want you to freeze again. Even though I wouldn´t mind to warm you up again..", He blushed at that, scratching his head.

My cheeks turned bright red at that. Warming me up? We didn´t do that already.. Or did we?

I just nodded my head and entered the room.

"Go on ahead and sit down. I just have to get my laptop.", he said, pointing to his bed on the left side.

I did as I was told and seated myself on the bed, covering me with the mentioned blanket. A couple seconds later, Warren joined me by placing himself next to me, his laptop placed on his lap. I got really nervous by this sudden closeness between us.

"So what do you wanna watch?", he asked me, while browsing through his files.

"Anything is fine, really", I stuttered.

"Come on girl, at least give me a genre.", the brown haired boy playfully shoved me.

There is no way we are watching a romantic movie!

"What about action?"

"Action it is then!"

The first half of the movie, nothing really happened. But then Warren started to fakely yawn and stretch his arms, ending with one arm being placed on my shoulder. I couldn´t help but giggle at that.

"Was it too obvious?", Warren laughed as well.

"No, not at all. It was really well thought!", I sarcastically joked.

Suddenly his laughing face turned into a much serious looking one. His eyes were so focused on me, which made me feel a little uncomfortable because I had never experienced this facial expression of him. The brown haired boy placed his right hand on my left cheek and started to lower his head.

Was he going to kiss me again?!

Panic and exitement rushed through my veins, when our lips finally met. My eyelids automatically fell shut, enjoying the warmth I was expierencing right now. His lips were soft, but rougher than mine at the same time. This kiss was very short but sweet. But as soon as our lips parted, he once again united them. This time the brown haired boy played with my lips, making this situation in a little make out session. We both acted pretty clumsy, me a little more than him, but all this didn´t really matter to us since we were at the exact place, where we wanted to be: together, enjoying each other´s company. At some point though, this situation somewhat escalated a little bit, since gravity made me fall onto Warren´s bed, making me lie on my back. But this didn´t stop my boyfriend from bending over me and leaving butterfly kisses all over my neck. A loud moan escaped my lips, surprised by how good this actually felt, encouraging Warren to go even further and slowly pulling my T-shirt a little up so his hands could make contact with my bare skin. As good as this all felt, it didn´t prevent panic from rising inside of me. Yeah, we had dated for some days now, but for me it was the very first make out session I had spend with Warren and I surely wasn´t ready for anything more to happen.

"Wa.. Warren stop.. Please..", I kind of sounded scared.

Immediately after saying this, my boyfriend stopped in his tracks and sat down on the bed, looking down at me.

"I.. I´m sorry Max. I kind of lost my mind for a second. I didn´t want to scare you.", he said in between breaths.

He looks so damn attractive, being flustered like this.

"Don´t worry. I´m not scared. I´m just not ready.."

"Of course I wouldn´t do anything you don´t want, Max. You know this, right?", he sounded so apologetic and desperate.

"It´s okay Warren, really. In fact, I have to tell you something.."

This kind of surprised him, but I knew I had to tell him. He deserved to know. Even though this would hurt his feelings. So I told him exactly everything I have went trhough this week. Starting with getting my powers and ending with my last decision I had to make. While I told Warren all of this, his facial expression turned darker and darker.

"I know this all sounds so crazy and weird. But you do believe me, right?"

It took a while until my friend began to speak:" Of course I do believe you. Man Max, but I´m really not sure what to say to this.. I´m just so sorry you had to go through all of this.. And I can only imagine how you´ve felt when you arrived in this timeline.."

"I could´ve kept everything to myself, but I thought you deserved to know.."

"Yeah, I know. Don´t worry Max. I won´t.. I won´t confuse you anymore. If you want to go right now, then do so..", Warren said obviously hurt.

This caught me off guard:" Huh? What are you saying?"

"You must´ve been really confused of the fact that.. You know, that we´re dating. And I understand if you want to unmake this. Even though I was finally so happy to be able to call myself your boyfriend.."

I cupped his face in my hands:" Warren.. I know I might not be the Max you were dating this whole time. Well, I am the same Max but I can´t remember anything of this. But.. But my feelings towards you didn´t change. I still love you. When I had met you in the other timeline at the Diner, we even had kissed.. So if you wouldn´t mind.. We could still start this relationship from the beginning.."

"I don´t."

And with that, once again our lips met. After we did discuss about my time traveling powers a little bit more, we fell asleep, me sleeping in Warren´s arms. Even though my boyfriend couldn´t really give me an answer to why I got this power in the first place, I was finally able to sleep so good like what felt like ages ago.