[There had been no such internal conflict on Chloe’s end when faced with the opportunity. To her, everything she’s come to understand about this place and these circumstances they all find themselves in might as well be set in a binary. If you’re here, you’re alive. If you’re not, you’re dead like all the rest of the universes out there.
So even if she can only have a hunk of crystal to hold instead of the hand it truly belonged to… that was fine. It meant Max was safe from all of that reality-imploding bullshit. It meant that one day, maybe she’d be back on her own two feet instead of slumbering away in a stone. It’s better than the alternative. She can feel that it’s her, and it means that Chloe is going to fight like hell to make sure they can finally get some damn peace.
She finally opts to awkwardly drape the borrowed cape across her shoulders when that question comes, and she grimaces a little.]
No family. A friend. [More than that? Fuck.] She’s… I loved her, I guess.
[They’d stupidly tip-toed around it for the better part of a year, because things were complicated enough just trying to figure out what to do in the aftermath of everything they’d gone through back in the Bay. But they both knew it—you don’t sacrifice an entire town of people for someone you’re just friends with. And then… time or fate or whatever decided it was time to give them another punch in the dick.]
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So even if she can only have a hunk of crystal to hold instead of the hand it truly belonged to… that was fine. It meant Max was safe from all of that reality-imploding bullshit. It meant that one day, maybe she’d be back on her own two feet instead of slumbering away in a stone. It’s better than the alternative. She can feel that it’s her, and it means that Chloe is going to fight like hell to make sure they can finally get some damn peace.
She finally opts to awkwardly drape the borrowed cape across her shoulders when that question comes, and she grimaces a little.]
No family. A friend. [More than that? Fuck.] She’s… I loved her, I guess.
[They’d stupidly tip-toed around it for the better part of a year, because things were complicated enough just trying to figure out what to do in the aftermath of everything they’d gone through back in the Bay. But they both knew it—you don’t sacrifice an entire town of people for someone you’re just friends with. And then… time or fate or whatever decided it was time to give them another punch in the dick.]
She saved my ass, and now I’m going to save hers.