Blackest Hearts

Maximilium

they made sure to leave Carlos resting on his bed before they rushed out. cole opened the car door and slipped into the passenger seat while Charlie got into the dirvers seat and jenna in the back. he looked at the steering wheel for a moment, trying to remember how the uber and taxi drivers turned their cars on. he humbled around until he found the key hole and inserted it. 

nothing happened as he waited for the car to magically start. 

"You don't know how to drive do you?" Cole asked. 

"There wasn't exactly a driver's ed for shadowhunters," Charlie grumbled as he wiggled the key. 

by accident, he turned the key and the engine roared to life. he slowly took them out of the parking spot as he had seen other drivers do before changing it again and hitting the gas. 

the car shot down the road and into the lake road, for a moment he didn't realize he was driving on the wrong side of the road till he saw the other cars coming towards them. he quickly moved and sent Jenna tumbling to one side. 

Cole opened the glove compartment and began to search for anything, thankfully he found an old GPS and turned it on, plug in the address. 

"Which way does it say?" Charlie asked, leaning in to try and see.

"EYES ON THE ROAD!" Jenna screamed. 

he looked up and served as a truck passed them honking. the rest of the ride to Atlanta was no different and resulted in Cole clawing to the roof and Jenna getting thrown all over the back seat. 

"JENNA I CAN'T CONCENTRATE WHILE YOU'RE YELLING AT ME!" Charlie shouted louder than Jenna as they sped down the freeway in a mad furry. 

their driving would have appeared to look like the real-life version of GTA but none in the car knew that.

the GPS took them down old streets until they finally began to look familiar till they stopped in front of an old home in a scetchy neighborhood.

"You've arrived at your destination," the robot lady said as they finished their rout.

they all quickly got out of the car, Jenna seemed to be thanking heaven that she was alive while Cole looked as if he were about to throw up. Charlie ran to theh door and knocked hard various times however there was no replpy. 

he pounded again but nothing. 

"She's not here."

they turned around to see a black kid around 9 years old, leaning on his dirt bike, chewing gum and watching them unimpressed. 

"Where is she?" Charlie asked. 

"Left to Brazil I think" the kid answered with a shrug. 

he looked them up and down before the kid shook his head, turned his bike and peddled off. 

"Now what?" Charlie asked angrily. 

"We could go to Max?" Jenna offered. 

"What so you can see your boyfriend again?" Charlie snapped at her. 

"He's not my boyfriend!" she growled back. 

"He'd just turn us in!" Charlie exclaimed. 

"We don't really have a choice, Carlos is dying, Max can save him." Cole interrupted. 

Charlie searched his parabati's face before surrendering and nodding. 

"We are not taking the car through," Cole ordered.

"LEave it here?" Charlie stated.

Cole nodded and they runted themselves for speed and invisibility before they rushed down the busy streets. Charlie felt slightly bad for shouting at Jenna but he shrugged it off as they found themselves once again in front of Max's door.

 he looked at the other two shadowhunters who nodded before he knocked. for a moment nothing happened until he rang the doorbell and knocked for a second time. he took a step back as the noise of barking echoed to them, followed by angry screams. everything went quiet and Max opened the door. 

he was wet and wearing a bathrobe, they must have caught him showering. his smile turned into a frown as he noticed who they were. he then closed the door in their faces. 

charlie groaned and knocked again, harder than the other times. the dogs began to bark again and Max shouted at them before opening the door again, scowling at them. 

"WE need your help." Charlie said. 

"I'm not your friend, and I am most certainly not your pet. you can't summon me to do your work, i'm not a Magnus Bane to you lot. besides you kids don't have anything to offer me so why should I help you?" he answered coldly. 

"Please an innocent man is dying," Charlie added. 

"Well I, an innocent man, was interrogated and accused of intentionally losing you lot." he growled. 

"please he's family." Charlie pleaded

"Please Max, help him,  he's dying. and you're wrong, if you help us we'll turn ourselves in and make sure that the Clave apologizes to you," Jenna offered stepping up. 

Cole nodded and Max looked between them all, his scowl slowly died and he stepped aside, motioning them to go inside. 

they followed him into his home and into his living room where his two dogs greeted them. 

"Let me change and we'll go." he said with a sigh before disappearing. 

Jenna laughed as she petted the two hyper dogs. Charlie looked around the room and noticed certain decorations missing and broken pieces of wood in the walls. even Regina was different, flashing off an indent in her head and her side. 

Max came back a few minutes later in clothes that Jenna would dub 'Hipster college student'; black square glasses, fitted light washed jeans, a green graphic t-shirt with the Triforce on it, black skateboard shoes, and a grey zip-up hoodie with Georgia Tech written on it. 

"What happened with Regina?" Jenna asked. 

"As I said, the Clave wasn't happy that I lost you all," he said pushing his short black hair out of his face. 

he whistled and the dogs left Jenna's side, running to their master. he snapped his fingers and a small portal appeared. he nodded for them to enter and Charlie led the way. 

as he walked through he happily found himself outside Carlos's house, the other soon appeared and in the sun Charlie could see how beat up Max really looked. Jenna led Max and the dogs inside to where Carlos was still lying on his bed, breathing heavily.

"Looks like we made it just in time," Max muttered, rolling up his sleeves and beginning his incantation.