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- NAD - Chapter 3 - A Tribute to Saucy Love
- Daroma Software CEO Charles Crawford sat alone in the darkness.
- After being trapped in the supply closet for a few traumatic weeks, he had grown accustomed to it - maybe even fond of it.
- At this point, everyone knew his true identity: "mild-mannered" Max McBride, Fall Out Boy fan, and a Christmas.
- It didn't matter.
- He had made a miraculous recovery after sustaining himself on nothing but Windex and sponges.
- In and around the submarine, Charles was back to being a poised and polished businessman.
- He occasionally retuned to the supply closet, but it was only to use it as a comfort place when he felt overwhelmed.
- Unfortunately, predictably, Charles was always overwhelmed.
- Being in the closet began to symbolize the reality that he would always be haunted by memories of the past.
- To the crew, being in the closet meant that they should leave him alone until he regained his sanity.
- Charles pulled his knees closer, rested his head, and closed his eyes.
- Nothing could disturb him now.
- There was a careful knock on the door.
- Charles looked up as it slowly creaked open.
- Light shone in a widening beam onto Charles’ face.
- The light was blocked by a figure: a figure that bore a striking resemblance to him, but female.
- "I thought I'd find you here..."
- She smiled, ashamed for him.
- "Nantucket? ...Is that you?" he asked, mentally reaching out to the figure.
- Her light laugh echoed as music in oblivion.
- Charles almost smiled, but then he saw the look upon her face.
- It was pity, expressing how sorry she was to have found him there.
- She looked upon what was once a beautiful man, now reduced to a cowering child.
- "Charles Crawford, what has the world done to you?"
- No, Charles concluded.
- This couldn't be Nantucket.
- Among other reasons, her eyes were blood red.
- Nantucket's eyes glowed a deep blue.
- Nantucket wore a unitard of light, similar to something from Tron.
- This girl seemed to wear the darkness.
- "I'm not Nantucket," the girl confirmed.
- "Nantucket is Max's creation. I created Max."
- Charles winced at the sound of his other name.
- How could this girl have created him?
- "...So you're Max's mom?"
- Her laugh was kind, and seemed to flit about the air like butterflies.
- She offered her hand and he grabbed it.
- "There's no such thing as female redditors..."
- Noting the perfect symmetry of their palms, Charles rose to her height.
- "Then how did you create Max?"
- The light reflected brilliantly in her eyes as she whispered, "I made him as you know him now."
- The response only threw him further into confusion.
- "Why... why are you here?"
- The girl put her arms around Charles, and a bit of static electricity arced to his arm, giving him a ticklish, almost arousing feeling.
- She held him a bit tighter, but then sighed and let go.
- "I believe... we have some unfinished business..."
- Charles nodded, thinking he understood.
- He looked her in the eyes, and said sexily, "You look like a bird."
- As if reciting, she stuttered, "You look like a homeless."
- He offered his hand and she hesitated, but took it.
- Charles took a step, backing into the closet, and suddenly the girl looked frightened and pulled away.
- "I don't think you understand," she mumbled.
- She reached behind her ear...
- "Who are you?"
- Charles looked over her shoulder and the girl turned to face her idol.
- "Who are you?" Nantucket asked again.
- Without hesitation, the girl shot, "I am Khrinan. Infantsauce. I am you."
- Nantucket glared at her with utter disdain.
- "Fuck off..."
- Khrinan smiled with remorse.
- "Charles Crawford isn't a liar. I gained something from death..."
- Nantucket took a threatening step forward and Khrinan made a parallel move backwards.
- "By watching you, I learned how to survive..."
- At that point, she pulled off her mask to reveal that she was in fact, Max McBride.
- As Charles saw this, he also pulled off his mask, so revel that he was also, in fact, Max McBride.
- Nantucket removed her mask and, of course, she, too, was Max McBride.
- Two of the three Maxes looked at each other hungrily.
- Quickly, Charles/Max took Khrinan/Max by the wrist and pulled him into the room.
- He panicked, shook himself free, and walked right into Nantucket/Max, who was standing in the doorway.
- Khrinan/Max opened his mouth to talk, but Nantucket/Max put a finger to his lips.
- "Shh... you need to come out of the closet."
- "I'm already in the closet! That doesn't make any sense!"
- Finding strength that he didn’t know he had, Khrinan/Max pushed in opposite directions.
- Charles/Max stumbled backwards, deeper into the supply closet; Nantucket/Max now stood in the hall, and Khrinan/Max found himself in the doorway.
- "You don't understand," Khrinan/Max confessed.
- "We can't do this."
- Charles/Max and Nantucket/Max exchanged a look.
- "Yes we can."
- "We've done it before."
- They took a few steps closer.
- "No... Guys... I'm not like you..."
- Nantucket/Max gave a seducing smile and slipped his fingers down Khrinan/Max's shirt collar.
- "You're not fooling anyone..."
- A shiver went up Khrinan/Max's spine.
- "I'm different!" he insisted.
- "You two don't exist."
- Charles/Max and Nantucket/Max exchanged a look.
- "YOU don't exist..."
- Khrinan/Max sighed.
- "Actually, I do."
- He reached through Charles/Max, whose image pixelated, flashed, then stablized.
- "You two are made of electronical energy," khrinan/Max explained.
- "I was once my own person, but... The Creator... He made me to be him... but I was a mistake... so he killed me."
- Charles/Max shook his head.
- "None of this makes any sense... If I'm electronic, I shouldn't be able to touch you. I can. And you can touch me. But then you reach through me..."
- Nantucket/Max snorted.
- "If the Creator killed you, you shouldn't be here."
- "Maybe he's a ghost."
- "You wouldn't be able to touch a ghost, Max..."
- "If he can touch electricity, maybe we can touch ghosts."
- "I'm not a ghost."
- "You said he killed you!"
- "He did kill me!"
- Khrinan/Max took a deep breath.
- "Look... I don't understand it either, but I'm... never always dead."
- Nantucket/Max was obviously unimpressed.
- "Never always dead, huh?"
- As if communicating telepathically, Charles/Max lurched out of the closet, pinning Khrinan/Max's hands behind his back.
- He struggled violently, but it was no use...
- "There's this thing we used to do," Nantucket/Max smirked.
- "Maybe you should try it..."
- "What are you doing?" Khrinan/Max demanded.
- Nantucket/Max covered his mouth.
- "Mmmm mmm mmm mmmmm?"
- "Shh," Nantucket/Max soothed.
- "The exercise is very simple..."
- He and Charles/Max exchanged a look.
- "Hold your breath..."
- As so to assist him in this step, Nantucket/Max moved his hand so it was also covering Khrinan/Max's nose.
- "Die."
- Expressions beyond the words of the dictionary flashed over Khrinan/Max's face as he fought for his freedom.
- Charles/Max and Nantucket/Max easily maintained restraining and smothering him as he lost the energy to stand and fell to his knees.
- Soon, Khrinan/Max fell unconscious.
- Charles/Max stepped aside and watched as Khrinan/Max's body convulsed, begging for air, but received no mercy from Nantucket/Max.
- Then, he was still.
- Nantucket/Max kept his hand there an extra minute to make sure he was dead.
- When he finally took his hand back, there was no vaccuum effect.
- There was no great gasp or rushing of air back into the lungs.
- He wasn't breathing.
- Nantucket/Max stood as Charles/Max knelt to check for a pulse.
- They waited in the silence.
- Slowly, Charles/Max rose, letting Khrinan/Max's hand fall back to the floor.
- "You were going to cheat on me with Max," said Nantucket/Max, sexily.
- Charles/Max shrugged.
- "I like having hot sex with myself."
- Then, satisfied they had disproven "never always dead," the two living Maxes backed into the closet and had some nice Max on Max sex.
- And if you were there, you would want to tear your eyes out with a knife, because the only thing worse than Max is two Maxes doing it in a closet.
- Jesus, GOD, why am I writing this?
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