Who: Max & Open When: Sunday afternoon Where: Streets of Madison What: Exploring her new "home" Rating: TBD Status: Closed; Incomplete
Max was not happy. First, she'd been faced with a new enemy and then the transgenics were official on the market as being part of society. All their eyes had turned to her to be a leader of sorts for them, a guide to how to adjust and make it in a world where everyone was now aware of their existence. For Max, that was worse that having a new big bad to face off against because public was a much harder enemy to deal with. It was one you couldn't just beat the shit out of and walk away from. No, you had to show them that you could fit in or whatever. Even when no one was aware of Max's actual genetics, it didn't change the fact that she hadn't exactly been very good at fitting in then. When you were a "freak" of any kind, secret or open about it as hell, there was no changing what you were and people knowing often made that fact a hell of a lot worse. For those like Joshua? Yeah, that would be much more difficult because you didn't even look like a human outside of not being one on the inside too. How was she suppose to help him with that? How was she supposed to help any of them?
Not like that mattered now because Max wasn't there. She was stuck in some Midwest town called Madison Valley in Indiana, in the future (with no post-Pulse action), and no one knew how to send her back. Worse, Alec was not even back home to possible attempt to take over the ranks because Max wasn't there. No, he was stuck here too and that left everyone else with God knows what because they were the faces of this thing. They had started it and now they were just gone. Max had no idea where that left everyone else in Seattle or really the rest of the world. While she did hear that time was frozen back home for the others there, she didn't know how much stock to put into that. Being burned one too many times made it pretty difficult to trust anything you heard from anyone and that sounded pretty unbelievable to Max even after everything she'd witnessed so far. Still, it was something to hope for, wasn't it? Pft. Hope was for losers and yet, she was desperately clinging to this because it could stop all hell from breaking loose back home.
But she might as well get acquainted with this place and thus here she was, walking around Madison Valley, exploring with curious eyes what a world free of the Pulse might have looked like in her world. It was...interesting to say the least and well...nice. No one was begging for food, there was no destruction wherever you looked, and people? People were nice too. All of it felt unreal, like a dream, even if Max had never dreamed of anything like this.