It's Where My Demons Hide

This is a one-shot between Maya and Louis as Maya helps Louis cope with his struggles with PTSD from both killing Doirain in episode 3 (if you saved Louis in episode 2 of the game) and a bit of his terror with Minerva on the bridge. I have no doubt Louis, out of all the characters in the final season, suffers the most from post-traumatic stress Disorder on all routes of his character. So I dove into telling that story as he bonds and starts trusting Violet's girlfriend to help him through his time of struggles. And yes, I have my original character bear the same scars as Louis does with having PTSD of her own. And I love the natural flow of dialogue these two share and form an unlikely bond of siblingship. Hopefully, in the coming months, I will write Maya's whole backstory from the time she was a young, spitfire, rebellious teen, up through her tragic past that I had her share with Louis to on what caused her to have PTSD, up until the events where she crossed paths with Louis, AJ, and Violet in my season 5 story. And yes, I did share a bit of Native American culture in this and took the idea of burning everything of the deceased from a Grey's Anatomy episode of a character explaining the cleaning ritual of clearing his hauntings from his ghost. So I thought I would bring it here, as Maya helps free Louis of his haunting from Minerva and gives Minerva a Native American funeral pyre. Not a lot of media tells native culture and customs the right way out of respect, so I did that here.