Into deception

Max

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"Hey could I use your shower?"

"Mia?"

I step through the door finally walking in to put his voice to a face. He stands up confused rather.

"One and only, so, can I?"

"Mia- I- Bane-"

"It's a shower Max, not a strip show"

He chuckles scratching the back on his head "yeah sure"

I walk past him until he says my name.

"What did you wanna talk about?"

"Oh- I" I really need that shower, but then again I might as-well do it now before tomorrow gets all hectic and there's no time at all "sit" I walk over jumping on top his bed, he joins me right after a little worried but intrigued.

"I have to tell you something- well no, I want to tell you something, something that is really important to me"

He shuffles "is everything okay?"

"Oh yeah everything's fine, this isn't something that happened recently. More like 3 years ago"

"3 years ago like when everything went down? Because if you wanna tell me about those scars on your wrist then Mia-"

"No-" okay this isn't going as smoothly as I want it to go "you saw that?"

I watch as his face softens "yes, yeah I did"

I take a moment to regroup myself, to let myself relax and not stress about it too much. This is Max, my Max, it's okay.

"When I killed Nicholas I didn't just leave"

It's as if his body went on pause with the way he's staring at me.

"I stayed. I stayed until the bomb exploded because I wanted to die with him Max. What I didn't know however-" I pause glancing up at him.

"Didn't know what Mia?"

Oh fuck, why is this so much more harder. Why is my heart beating so fast.

"What- for fucks sake. What I didn't know was that I was pregnant"

His mouth opens but shuts just as fast, his body shudders a wave of- sadness? Pain? I don't know but whatever it was, was enough for me to get the chills myself.

"Mia-" he finally says yet the shiver in his tone can't be missed "how- I don't understand I mean"

"I didn't know, I didn't know until I got to the hospital and that's when they told me"

"Is that when you-?"

I glance down at my wrist that have lost all ounce of the makeup I had put on. The lines are so so clear, it hurts more to look at them now more than ever.

"Yeah"

"Does Bane know? I mean I obviously won't say anything but I'm just wondering"

"Yeah he knows, I actually just told him"

"I'm sorry this is just- I'm so sorry Mia I truly really am"

"I'm only telling you because you're my best friend, I trust you"

The next thing I know is he comes closer wrapping his arms around me in the most embracing hug I have yet had. He kisses the side of my head before whispering "you know I love you right? I won't be able to fix what happened but I can sure as hell help you live through this" he pulls back holding my hands in his "talk to me Mia, whenever shit gets too hard talk to me- or just come sit with me, you don't have to talk or explain anything but just come to me okay?"