After the Fall

Movie Day (Fluff and Smut)

Max gets done washing her hands, the four platters of pasta cooking in the oven and the cheese melting on them, her going to wipe around the counters to clean them off, everyone else being in the living room listening to the recording Steve made on the meeting, Lucas being in the shower.

"Damn!" Vicki exclaims. "Okay never mess with a Sinclair that is my message to the world."

"Exactly!" Robin agrees. "Man this is like killer! How did you guys know about the sleep paralysis?"

"We didn't." Steve responds. "At first we were going to go with self defense but then I started doing some deep research and I found her records, that fitted in perfectly with that we needed."

"Now Lucas can take her to court sue her ass and she can get thrown in prison." Nancy smiles.

"It is what she deserves." Eleven says while she holds Amberlee.

"Exactly." Mike agrees. "Like why would you do that why go so far towards a married man? Like do you not have a life?!"

"Well apparently she doesn't so." Dustin shrugs.

"I'm just glad that slut got exposed." Jonathan mentions simply. "That wasn't right to do at all especially in front of Amberlee."

"Okay so like...." Dustin starts while leaning closer to Suzie Eleven and Nancy. "Can we get some juicy details on what happened in the classroom?"

"Man..." Suzie smiles. "Okay are you guys ready?!"

"Yes!" They all immediately responds.

Nancy looks up at Max, seeing her getting done cleaning around the kitchen and throwing something away. She goes to get up, going to pick up the bottle of wine she bought before setting it down in front of Max, Max looking up at her. "Got our favorite one." Nancy tells her.

Max smiles, her going to take two glasses out, Nancy going to open the bottle and beginning to pour them a glass. Max takes a slow sip of her glass, smiling softly when she sees how Amir gives some of his toys to Amberlee, how she slowly takes them in her hands while sucking on her pacifier.

"So remind me to never make you angry." Nancy jokes.

Max laughs a little bit, taking a long sip of her wine. "You could never make me that angry Nance."

"How are you doing?" She questions.

Max shakes her head. "I'm fine honestly, it is just Lucas I'm worried for."

"Is he bothered from what happened? Of course as any normal person would be?" Nancy questions while she takes a sip of her wine.

"That's a little bit of it." Max responds. "But it is really about Amberlee, he didn't want her seeing that. And of course I don't either she's not going to remember it but it is more surrounding it with Lucas then with me." She says. "Lucas watched me die, then he watched me in a hospital bed for almost a year, then he watched me suffer with the pain of slowly healing when it came to my bones, my eyes, my mental health, all of it."

"He has seen me suffer so much, he has seen himself, his friends his family suffer so much Nancy, he doesn't want the same for Amberlee." She explains. "So he feels guilty he thinks it is something that he was doing that gave Katrina some message which isn't true, he is trying to run through his head all that he did that way he won't do it again. He is looking at the person he used to be and he doesn't want to make any mistakes because he wants Amberlee to live her best life, without any trauma, without any hurt and without seeing things that is going to stick with her for the rest of her life. So with Amberlee essentially seeing that it put a trigger on him."