Nevertheless (фемслэш)

You can bury the past, but nothing stays buried forever.
Max Caulfield learns that the hard way when she witnesses a shooting at her school and recognizes the victim as her former best friend, Chloe Price.
Before that moment, Max was just an ordinary student, dealing with ordinary things. Afterward the whole world has been upended as she struggles with a trauma as destructive as any storm, a former friend in mortal peril, and her life falling apart as she tries in vain to deal with the ordinary when nothing is ordinary any longer.
In this world there are no magical solutions—the only way through is through. Nevertheless, that might contain its own sort of mercy.
(AU - Hospital Ending/Beginning, no powers)