Destiny Or True Love CC&UC Tn/Mt/Ad Ch36 16/04/07 COMPLE

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Chapter 17

“So, how did you managed to find the girl?” four voices demanded to the kids. Max, Alex, Kyle and Isabel found themselves in separated rooms, each facing their interrogators to answer for the night before.


Max, Isabel, Alex and Kyle thought back to the night before when they all were in the Crashdown.

“The Police and FBI wants to talk to us about us finding Laurie,” Max told them.

“What the hell are you going to tell them?” Michael demanded, causing Tess to elbow him in the stomach.

“If you can’t say anything helpful, keep it zipped,” she told him before looking at the gang. “Do you have an idea what your cover story is going to be?” she asked.

“No,” Isabel stated and Liz sat up.

“Why don’t you stick to the truth?” Liz asked, causing everyone to look at her. “Not the alien part, just make it seem like that Isabel is a psychic, she had dreams of the girl and felt the terror of it. She had a feeling that Laurie had been kidnapped but didn’t want to alert the police in case it was just a nightmare on her part,” Liz suggested and Isabel nodded as she thought about.

“It could make sense, I could just say that I had dreams liked it before and some of it came true and others didn’t,” Isabel agreed.

“And because Isabel is my sister, I was worried about her and decided to help her out just to be on the safe, Alex and Kyle got involved because they had been helping us search for the missing girl and they had been with us when Isabel got her final dream,” Max stated and Liz nodded.

“But be careful, these guys might check your phone calls and see that you made a phone call to Alex’s house before you went out to Frazier’s wood,” Liz stated and Max nodded.

“Fine, we’ll just say that Isabel was positive about where the girl was and I phoned Alex and Kyle for back-up in case we might have to fight off the kidnapper, if there was one and due to the fact we weren’t sure where Laurie was, if she was locked in a building or buried underground,” Max amended and Kyle nodded.

“That makes sense, and we can’t get into trouble for helping a friend out,” Kyle stated.

“What about the link?” Alex asked. “There needs to be link for Isabel to get the dreams about Laurie,” Alex told them.

“How about this?” Liz asked and everyone looked at her once more. “She used to date Grant and in the dream, she saw someone who looked like Grant and got mixed up. It’s possible, you get an image of someone who looks like someone you know,” Liz told them and Maria nodded.

“Isabel could use that to explain why she thought it was Grant who took Laurie,” Maria agreed and Alex nodded.

“Looks like we have our cover story,” Alex stated and everyone sighed in relief.

“What about Isabel thinking she knows Laurie?” Michael asked.

“I want you and Maria to dig into her background, find out who she was born to, where she was born and all that. We need to gain all of the information we can on her so we can get a better understanding on why she was kidnapped and why Isabel feels she knows Laurie,” Max told them and they all nodded.


“So, you are saying that you’re psychic?” Hanson asked and Isabel smiled slightly.

“I guess you could say it like that, I get these dreams. Half of the time it comes true so my friends says I must be a psychic,” Isabel explained.

“And you dreamed about the girl?” he asked and Isabel nodded

“Why didn’t you just come to us?” Jim asked as he leaned forward in his chair.

“Because I wasn’t sure it was real, some times I get nightmares that seems like it’s actually a vision to me only to find out that wasn’t real. I didn’t want to worry you guys and waste your energies in case it wasn’t real,” Isabel explained and Hanson nodded.

“I can see why you felt that,” Hanson told her. “So, your brother, Max Evans, and your friends Alex Whitman and Kyle Valenti were helping you?” he asked and Isabel nodded.

“Yes, they know of my dreams and they saw how it freaked me out and how determined I was to find out if it was real or not, I didn’t want to brush it off as a dream then to find out that was it real and we could have saved the girl,” Isabel explained. “Alex and Kyle checked out the missing people reports to see if they could match anyone with the description I told them.”

“Very resourceful,” Hanson stated and Isabel smiled.

“You don’t hang out with the Sheriff’s son and not pick up hints on what to do when you’re face with something like this,” Isabel stated and Hanson nodded.

“Okay, we need to sort out some more details, about the shots fired and that,” Hanson told her and she nodded.


“You’re telling me that your sister is a psychic?” Dan asked and Max nodded.

“Yeah, she gets these dreams, when she got the dreams of Laurie, she freaked out and was determined to see if it was real or not, that Isabel, she needs to make sure its real instead of brushing it off as a dream just in case it was real and we could save the girl,” Max explained and Dan nodded.

“Why did you help her?” Dan asked.

“She’s my sister, why wouldn’t I help her? I saw how much the dreams freaked her out and I wanted to help her gain a peace of mind,” Max explained and Dan nodded, getting frustrated.

“What about the bullets?” Dan asked and Max looked at him, curiously.

“What about the bullets?” Max asked and Dan threw the plastic package containing the bullets on to the table, causing Max to pick them up only for his eyes to widen when he saw the bullets in perfect shape.

“They look like bullets,” he stated and Dan nodded.

“Those are the bullets from the shooter, funny how it never changed,” Dan stated and Max shrugged as he placed the plastic package on the table.

“I don’t know what to tell you,” Max stated and Dan sighed.

“Fine, you’re free to leave,” he muttered, Max nodded as he got up and left the room before meeting up with Kyle, Alex and Isabel.

“Figures I get grilled by the Agent,” he muttered.

“Max, Isabel!” a female voice called out and they turned to see Diane and Phillip running toward them, Isabel hurried into mother’s arms and cried.

“I was so scared!” Isabel exclaimed as Diane hugged her closer. Phillip patted her on the back.

“What happened?” Phillip demanded.

“Isabel had dreams of the girl that had been kidnapped, she managed to get the location of where the girl was and we found her only to get shot at by the kidnapper,” Max told him, only for Diane’s eyes to widen in shock. “We’re okay mom, Kyle managed to run the kidnapper off by throwing rocks at him. The police just wanted to question us about last night and it turns out that Izzy is a psychic,” Max explained and Diane nodded.

“Oh honey, why didn’t you come to us?” Phillip asked his daughter and she looked up.

“I wasn’t sure if it was just a link or just a horrible nightmare, I didn’t want to worry you about it if it just turned out to be a nightmare,” she explained and Diane sighed. She needed to have a talk to her daughter about holding things in.

“Is the questioning over?” Phillip asked and Max nodded.

“Yeah,” he stated and Phillip nodded.

“Good, because you guys are coming home,” Phillip stated as he started to lead the kids out when Dan showed up.

“Erm, excuse me,” Dan called out, everyone turned to face him.

“Yes?” Phillip asked.

“I’m not done questioning Max Evans yet, I still don’t have an answer to why the bullets are still in perfect shape,” Dan stated and Phillip stepped over to Dan.

“Maybe you should get your forensic to have a look at the bullets and maybe they could give you an answer,” Phillip stated.

“Who do you think you are?” Dan snipped.

“Mr Evans, sorry to drag you in this,” Jim stated as he walked over to Phillip, Phillip turned to Jim and they shook hands.

“It’s no problem, I know it routine for the kids to be questioned, but if you don’t mind, we would like to take our kids home and Alex and Kyle could come by our house for breakfast if they wish,” Phillip told him and Jim nodded.

“Sure,” Jim told him. “You kids be good,” he warned, they smiled and waved as they walked out with Diane. “Oh, sorry, Dan, this is Phillip Evans, he’s Max and Isabel’s father and a lawyer. Phillip, this is Dan, he’s an old friend of mine,” Jim introduced.

“Nice to meet you,” Phillip greeted, his tone was anything but pleasant and Dan nodded.

“Can I please question Max Evans once more?” Dan asked and Phillip shook his head.

“No, you’ve questioned him enough, you had his mother in state when she got the phone call to say that her son was at the station, she started freaking out. My wife deserves time to calm down and my children deserves to have a break from all this questioning and I told you, go to forensic,” Phillip snapped before looking at Jim. “Have a good day Sheriff,” Phillip told him and Jim nodded.

“You too,” Jim told him as Phillip left and he turned to Dan. “Will you leave those kids alone? They have given you a good reason to why they were out there but you can’t expect them to have answers to everything you have a question to, god, they’re just kids,” Jim told him before shaking his head and leaving.


“I can’t believe you found her,” Phillip stated once the kids had finished their story, all six of them were in the Evan’s house, Diane was getting the breakfast ready while Alex, Kyle, Isabel and Max sat round the table with Phillip.

“I’m just glad we did,” Alex told him. “Being buried underground like that,” Alex stated with a shudder and Phillip nodded.

“I know what you meant, so they haven’t found the kidnapper yet?” Phillip asked as Diane came over to the table and handed everyone their plates.

“Thanks Mrs Evans!” Kyle and Alex greeted together before digging into their breakfast, causing Phillip to look at them amused.

“No, they haven’t, Kyle scared him off by throwing rocks at him,” Max explained as he turned away from his friends with a shake of his head.

“I hope they catch him soon, I hate for Laurie to be kidnapped again,” Isabel stated and Diane nodded as she sat down at the table.

“I’m sure she’ll be safe, with all the FBI and the police being around,” Diane assured her daughter, the kids just shot each other looks before tucking into their food when a ringing started up from Max’s pocket.

“Sorry, that’s probably Liz,” Max told them as he fished out his phone and opened it. “Hey Liz, we’re all fine,” Max told her and nodded. “Yeah, we’re still heading to school today, I’ll meet you at your locker?” and nodded once more. “Sure thing, love you too,” Max stated before hanging up and placing his phone in his pocket.

“Oh I love you so much Liz,” Kyle mocked, batting his eyelashes at Max, causing Max to shove at him.

“Hey, that’s my girlfriend buddy, go and mock someone,” Max teased back, causing Kyle to laugh, Alex to choke on his food and Isabel to roll her eyes.

“I’m glad you kids are okay, just take it easy at school today, no more rushing off trying to save more people without letting an adult know,” Phillip warned and the kids nodded.

“Sure thing,” Alex stated when they finished their breakfast; they all made their way into the kitchen and placed the dirty dishes in the dishwasher before leaving the house with waves.

Diane shook her head as she turned to face her husband.

“Our children had to pick crazy friends didn’t they?” she asked, fondly and Phillip snorted.

“At least they get the kids to laugh and open up, have you noticed that Max is more outgoing and laughing more than he used to?” Phillip asked and Diane nodded.

“Yes I have, Liz and their friends are good for Max, it’s nice to see him being a teenaged kid for once,” Diane told him before picking up their plates and headed into the kitchen, Phillip just smiled as he turned to his newspapers.


Max made his way into the school; he looked around and smiled when he saw Liz at her locker, grabbing her books that she needed for her next class. He walked over to her and wrapped his arms from behind her, smiling when she relaxed into his arms.

“I missed you,” Liz told him and he kissed her neck.

“I missed you too,” he told her and rested the back of her head on his shoulder.

“How the questionings?” she asked and he shook his head.

“Some problems, the guy who was questioning me found the bullets the shooter shot at us, they were in perfect shape,” Max explained and Liz nodded.

“It would make sense, your shield is not exactly made out of metal or anything like that, it wouldn’t have made a difference to the bullets, just merely stopped them,” Liz told him and he nodded.

“Hey,” a male voice spoke up and everyone turned to see Kyle standing there.

“Hey, what’s up Kyle?” Liz asked and Kyle moved in closer.

“My dad found something near Laurie’s grave, he started freaking out because it doesn’t look like anything he seen before,” Kyle explained as he pulled out a small package and slipped it to Max, Max lifted up, still hiding it from out of sight and saw it a blue lump of jelly but the strange thing, it seemed to be glowing.

“Hm, that’s different,” Liz, stated when she looked at it.

“I have a two free period after the class I’m heading, I’ll take it home and use the old microscope I have there to look at it,” Max told them and they nodded. The bell rang and Kyle groaned.

“Trig,” he moaned before leaving them. Max shook his head before he kissed Liz’s forehead.

“Catch you in Biology,” he told her with a kiss to her lips before walking off to his class, Liz just walked over to her class, smiling when she met up with Alex as they headed into their film class.


Max found himself in his room, he looked through the microscope at the sample he cut off from the jelly like substance, he pulled away and rubbed at his eyes before flipping through his biology book, he couldn’t find anything to say what it was. “This is getting ridiculous,” he muttered before resting his head on the table while looking at the jelly before closing his eyes as he gave into his sleep.

Max woke up slightly, he sat up and was about to pull his hands to him when he felt restriction to one of his hand, startled, he looked down at his arm only to see the jelly substance was now over his hand, trapping it to the table. He started pulling at his hand only for it to be trapped even harder, he looked around for something to hit it with when all of a sudden it moved away from his hand and formed back to it’s normal stated.

Max pulled his hand to his chest and looked at the jelly before grabbing the plastic tub that was on the other side and slammed it on top of the jelly before looking around. Guess he got his answer.


Liz was making her way over to her biology lab when a voice spoke up.
“Hey,” a female voice stated and Liz spun around to see Sarah standing there.

“Hey!” Liz greeted with a smile before hugging Sarah. “You look good! How was Sweden?” Liz asked when she pulled away and Sarah laughed.

“It was great god, you all should visit it, put it down on your list as one of the thing to do before you die,” Sarah told her and Liz laughed.

“Definitely, god, Alex is going to be so happy that you’re back!” Liz told her as she led the way down the corridor.

“He’s not the only one, mom is happy to have me back and I’m glad to be back in Roswell,” Sarah told her and Liz nodded.

“You know, we should hook up later, have a girl talk, Maria and I would love to hear everything about Sweden,” Liz told her and Sarah nodded.

“That would be great, how about Isabel? Will she be joining us?” Sarah asked and Liz looked at her.

“Do you want her to join us?” Liz asked and Sarah sighed.

“I don’t know, I know she yours and Maria’s friend and I don’t want to hurt her feelings by excluding her if she wants to join,” Sarah explained and Liz nodded.

“Relax, Isabel and I are tentative friends, due to the fact that I’m dating her brother,” Liz explained and Sarah looked at her.

“And you want to be friends with her,” Sarah noticed, causing Liz to look at her stunned.

“And you’re a mind reader,” Liz teased, causing Sarah to laugh.

“I wish,” Sarah, told her before shaking her head. “No, I could sense it in you,” Sarah admitted and Liz sighed.

“Isabel and I were close on working toward friends last November, we had a heat wave and we were talking while painting our toenails, but it kinda just faded just as it started,” Liz explained and Sarah nodded.

“Maybe you should invite her, maybe you’ll get your friendship back on track, maybe we all can become friends,” Sarah told her and Liz nodded.

“Sure, but only if you are sure, I know she caused some trouble between you and Alex,” Liz told her and she nodded.

“I know but Alex is a great guy, I can understand why she wasn’t happy that he moved on,” Sarah told her and Liz nodded as they made their way to their classes.


Liz made her way into her biology class and smiled when she saw Max sitting at their table.

“Hey,” she greeted, he kissed the side of her head.

“What took you so long?” Max asked. “You’re usually the first one here,” he teased and she laughed.

“Sarah is back from Sweden, we were talking,” she told him and he nodded.

“I bet Alex is going to be happy,” Max told her and she smiled as she nodded in agreement.

“Yeah, I agree too. She is coming over later tonight to show Maria and I the slide pictures, she wants Isabel there,” Liz admitted and Max looked at her.

“Isabel?” he asked and she nodded.

“Yeah, she wants to try and build some bridges, Isabel is a friend of ours so she wants to try and see if she can be friends with Isabel,” Liz explained and Max nodded.

“She’s a brave one, I give her that,” Max stated and Liz giggled.

“Hey, did you find out what it was that Mr. Valenti found out?” Liz asked and Max nodded.

“I’ll explain it later, I gave it to Kyle and asked him if he and Alex could set it up for us in the UFO Centre, Brody is visiting his daughter at the moment so we’ll be safe, I want you to take a look at it if you can,” he told her and she nodded before turning back to the front when the teacher came in.

“Good morning class, please open your book to 256 please,” she called. Everyone opened their books and looked at the topic, Max’s eyebrow raised slightly when he saw that they were working on genes. “Today we’re working on Genotypes and Phenotypes, Genotypes is a heredity characteristics, meaning on what you inherited, such as hair texture. Phenotypes is the physical characteristics, meaning on the ability of what you have inherited, such as tongue rolling, if you can roll your tongue, you inherited from your parent who can roll their tongue and so on,” she explained. “Then there’s the dominant and recessive, recessive is the weaker allele while dominate the allele that appears most, such as blood type. AO, A is the dominate while O is the recessive. And there is Co-Dominate such, as the blood types AB – both of them are the dominant type so they both are co-dominate.”

Max looked up at the board and turned to the teacher.

“What about Eye colour?” a student asked.

“Brown is actually the dominant colour. If one parent had blue eyes and the other has brown eyes, it’s three to one, meaning that the three children would be brown eyes and one would be blue eyes,” the teacher explained.

“What about parents who both have blue eyes?” another student asked.

“If one of the grandparents have brown eyes and the other has blue eyes, it’s is possible for their grandchildren to get brown eyes, but only if one of their grandparents had brown eyes,” he explained and the bell went. “Okay Class, please read the chapter on Phenotypes and Genotypes,” she told them as everyone packed up and left the class.

Max turned to his girlfriend and looked at her, he knew that both of her parents have blue eyes and her grandma Claudia had blue eyes too. He frowned, a thought coming to his mind and he wasn’t sure if he liked it.

Max grabbed Liz’s arm and led her out of the school and over to his jeep.

“Max?” she asked.

“We need to talk,” he told her as he helped her into the jeep before rounding it; he threw their bags into the back of the jeep before climbing in himself and drove off.

They arrived at the Evans’ house, Max led Liz into the house and looked around. “Mom? Dad? Isabel?” he called out and nodded when he got no answers. He turned back to Liz, who was now looking a bit scared and curious.

“What’s going on?” Liz asked. Max looked at her.

“What colours were you grandparents eyes?” Max asked and Liz looked at him, puzzled, before thinking.

“They all had blue eyes, why?” Liz asked and Max sighed.

“Liz, you have brown eyes, not blue, one of your parent’s is not your parent,” Max told her.

“I could have gotten it from one of my great grandparents,” she protested and Max arched an eyebrow.

“More than two generations?” he asked. “Liz, you know that Brown is the dominant colour, at least one of your parents and grandparents should have had brown eyes," Max told her.

“Why would they lie to me?” Liz asked and Max shook his head.

“I don’t know,” Max told her.

“I do,” a male voice stated and they turned to see him standing in the doorway.

“Milton?” Max asked.

“Hey Evans,” Milton grinned.

TBC

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*************Excerpted From Chapter 17*****************

“Why would they lie to me?” Liz asked and Max shook his head.

“I don’t know,” Max told her.

“I do,” a male voice stated and they turned to see him standing in the doorway.

“Milton?” Max asked.

“Hey Evans,” Milton grinned.************Excerpted From Chapter 17*******************

Chapter 18


“What are you doing here Milton? I thought you left,” Max explained.

“Had some business to take care of,” Milton told him.

“What do you mean, you know?” Liz asked.

“I know why your parents lied and I know which one of your parents isn’t your parent,” Milton told her as he came further into the house and sat down on the opposite couch.

“How?” Liz asked and Milton grinned.

“Max isn’t the only little green alien running about,” Milton teased, causing them to look at him like he had another head. “I’m your protector, Max or Zan, depending on what you liked to be called,” Milton informed him and Max’s jaw dropped open.

“You’re a shape-shifter?” Max asked and Milton grinned as he shaped shifted in a familiar form.

“You’re trespassing on private property, you better leave,” he informed before shape – shifting himself back into Milton, as he did this, he pulled out a tub of tic-tac and popped one into his mouth.

“That was you?” Max asked. “How come you never told me?”

“Max, you were safe, I was watching from a distance to make sure that the F.B.I never got close, but of course that all changed when Naesco took Liz and basically handed you over to them on a silver platter,” he muttered.

“That’s why we never saw you after Max and I found one of the orbs, you left because Naseco was here,” Liz told them and Milton nodded.

“Yes, because I believed you were safe, more fool me,” he told her.

“Are there more of you?” Max asked.

“Three, Naesco, as you know; me and Kal Langley, who is currently in L.A at the moment, there was another one but she died,” Milton explained.

“Naseco is dead, he was killed by the skins,” Max explained and Milton nodded.

“She?” Liz asked, picking up on the last shape-shifter.

“Okay, Liz you are her daughter, your mother is the one who is not your real parents,” Milton explained. “I’m sure you know Shelia Hubble?” he asked and Max paled as Liz shook her head.

“I knew her,” Max told them and they both looked at him. “She was killed by Naseco, her husband thought I was the shape shifter who killed her,” Max explained.

“She was a shape shifter, when I heard she was killed, I used the healing stones and healed her but it was too late for her daughter, she had died due to lack of oxygen. Something happened and Shelia ended up being a teenager again, she had no memories of being married or such. She went back to school only to end up dating a Jeff Parker, your father. She got pregnant, had you then she was killed in a car crash, your father was high. Your father lived while your mother didn’t,” Milton explained.

“That’s why Shelia reminded me of Liz?” Max asked and Milton nodded.

“She looks so much of Shelia, it’s not funny,” Milton told her and Max sighed.

“Good thing Hubble hadn’t seen Liz,” he muttered. “He tried to kill me because he thought I was the shape shifter, I hate to see what he could have done to Liz because she looked like and is Shelia’s daughter.”

Liz looked at him. “What do you mean; tried to kill you?” Liz asked and Max looked at her.

“One thing, Shelia had a hell of a temper,” Milton informed him with a small smirk.

“Well?” Liz asked.

“It was the week of the Convention, Hubble asked me for a ride under the pretence he needed papers, he took me to the place where Shelia was killed and pulled a gun on me, he was going to shoot me but Valenti got there and shot him first,” Max explained and Liz stood up.

“Are you telling me that this just slipped your mind?” she asked.

“No, I just didn’t want to worry you,” Max explained.

“Oh, so you thought keeping this from would have made me worry less?” she asked. “What else have you been keeping from me?”

“Nothing, Liz…” Max started.

“Do you remember what you did on Valentine’s night?” she asked and Max blanched as he scratched the back of his neck.

“Erm…” Max started and Liz threw up her hands.

“Are you telling me that you remember that night and didn’t have the decency to tell me!” she demanded.

“It kept slipping from my mind!” Max protested and shut his mouth when he got a cold glare in his direction.

“It was the night you told me you loved me and it kept ‘slipping’ from your mind?” Liz asked, deadly, before shaking her head and looked at Milton, who was looking amused. “Will I get powers?” Liz asked and Milton nodded.

“Yes, but no shape shifting powers, you need to be fully alien for that,” Milton told her. “Plus, with Max healing you, you’ll get more,” Milton explained before looking at Max. “Glad to see that your taste in strong willed women still runs strong,” he told him and Max looked at him causing Milton to sigh. “What do you know about your past?”

“Erm, we’re from a planet name Antar, Tess and I were married, Michael and Isabel were married, and we’re expected to follow our destiny of begin together so we can free our people,” Max told him and Milton was puzzled.

“Get together with each other?” Milton asked and Max nodded.

“Yes, Tess and I, Michael and Isabel,” Max explained.

“Erm, no,” Milton told them, causing them to look at him. “The queen was very specific that you were free to choose who you wished to be with,” Milton explained and shook his head. “I don’t understand how you came to believe you were meant to be together,” Milton told them.

“The orbs,” Max told him and Milton looked at him. “The orbs produced a image of our mother in human form, she told us.”

“Hm, Curious,” Milton stated before shaking his head. “As long you’re all happy, then it’s fine,” he told them.

“What do you mean Max’s taste is still strong?” Liz asked and Milton smiled fondly.

“Zan had a love on his planet, you remind me so much of her, she was beautiful and Zan loved her, she was very passionate and was very strong willed, she would argue with Zan if she didn’t like something. She would have made Queen if she hasn’t died,” Milton explained.

“How did she die?” Max asked.

“She was killed, who by is anyone guess,” Milton explained.

“How do I remind you of her?” Liz asked.

“Because you have the same aura, If I wasn’t so sure, I would say that you got her soul but its impossible,” Milton told her. “You do whatever it takes to protect the people you love,” Milton told her and grinned. “Plus, you have a backbone,” he informed, causing her to laugh and Max to roll his eyes.

“Just my luck,” Max told him and got a thump in the arm for his trouble.

“Hey, you said you liked it when I get when I get protective,” Liz told him and Max grinned, causing Liz to roll her eyes.

“What do you mean that it’s impossible that Zan’s love soul couldn’t be in Liz?” Max asked. “Souls can transfer from plane to plane, it is possible that it could be Zan’s love soul in Liz, it would make sense why I was attracted to her when I first laid eyes on her,” Max explained and Milton looked at her.

“Maybe it is,” Milton murmured. “It would make sense why I always felt her soul about,” Milton stated.

“How did she and Zan meet?” Liz asked, curious and Milton grinned.

“Oh, she came to a ball that Zan’s parents had arranged, Zan took one look at her and was besotted with her straight away. He asked her to dance and ever since then, they were inseparable,” Milton told her.

“Sounds like a fairy tale,” Liz whispered and Milton nodded.

“Zan was devastated when she died, she was murdered in their room as she slept, Zan had been held at a meeting and couldn’t get there in time,” Milton explained and Max stood up.

“Jesus,” he hissed out, running a hand through his hair before shaking his head before looking at Milton once more.

“How the hell did he get married to Ava?” he asked and Milton shook his head.

“Zan’s father pushed him to get married, it was two years after Lilly had been killed, Zan’s father was dying and Zan needed to take over but in order to take over, he had to be married. Zan’s father arranged the marriage, Zan went through with the marriage but refused to share a room with Ava let alone a bed, he stayed in the same room, slept in the same bed that Lilly shared and was killed in. He told me that it was the only time he felt close to her,” Milton explained and Max slumped down on the couch, Liz reached out and grasped his hand.

“Did they ever suspect anyone?” Liz asked and Milton shook his head.

“No one could find anyone, everyone loved Lilly but there were rumours that Khivar had ordered a hit on Lilly, it was rumoured that he was in love with Lilly and decided to steal her away from Zan,” Milton suggested.

“But I thought Khivar was in love with Vilandra? Isabel was told she betrayed Zan by handing us over to our enemies,” Max explained.

“That was after Lilly was killed,” Milton explained and Max nodded.

“That explains why the holograph referred Tess as your bride, you never got to consummated your marriage thus, she never got to be queen,” Liz stated and Max looked at her before looking at Milton.

“We have some questions to ask you,” Max told him and Milton nodded.

“That’s what we’re here for,” Milton told him.

“Is it possible that I made Liz my queen?” Max asked and Milton sat back.

“It is, as Zan never actually accepted Ava nor consummated their marriage, she never got the seal. Have you two slept together?” he asked and they nodded, blushing together. “What happened after that?” he asked and Max thought about it.

“We can feel what the other is feeling, some times hear each other thoughts. Liz can help me with my powers, I can heal myself through her, like I had a scrape on my face, Liz place her hand over it and I placed mine over on top of hers and the scrape was healed. She strengthen my shield from the skins and she managed to astral project herself to me when I was in New York,” Max explained and Milton nodded before it hit him.

“What on earth were you in New York for?” he demanded and he rolled his eyes.

“The dupes came to Roswell,” Max told him and Milton stared at him, wide eyes.

“Damn, I thought they had died in the crash, I guess someone must have moved them,” Milton told them.

“Zan is dead,” Liz told him. “Rath and Lonnie conspired together and killed him. It turned out that Zan didn’t want to go back to Antar, there was a summit being held and Zan refused to go, they killed him. They wanted to take Max but Max refused to go to the summit too so they went to Michael, Michael wanted to go home so he and Tess went without telling us and Max had to go and stop them,” Liz explained and Milton rubbed his forehead.

“Why were they holding a summit?” he asked.

“Because Khivar sent Nicholas down, he said that Khivar would bring peace if I gave up the Granolith,” Max told him and Milton looked at him. “Liz warned me not to give it up, that there’s something about the Granolith which told her that it would have been dangerous if it was in the wrong hand,” Max explained and Milton looked at Liz with a proud look on his face.

“Yes, that is true. I’m glad to see that you have retained some parts of Zan inside of you. The Granolith is a weapon; it can be used as anything, time travel, space travel, and a way to go home and such. In fact it can expand life expectance,” Milton told them and they stared at him, shocked.

“No wonder the skins wanted it,” Max muttered and Milton looked at him.

“You met up with the skins?” he demanded and Max muttered. “Jesus Christ! How the hell did you manage to escape them?” Milton asked.

“First time we met them was when we went up to copper summit, it turned out that Congress Whitaker was a skin,” Max told him and he looked at him in disbelief. “Liz helped me to strength my shield and there was an explosion which allowed us to get away. The second time, they wiped out the humans. Liz stayed behind only to disappear then come back after we were captured. She drew on our powers and created a firestorm,” Max explained and Milton looked at Liz once more.

“Jesus, it’s like having Lilly all over again, that was her one of her main power, add in a few, like astral projection,” Milton stated.

“What other powers do you think I will have?” Liz asked and Milton shrugged.

“I don’t know, Lilly never got the chance to receive all of her powers as she died, in fact, none of them did. You will get more powers, as you get older. They’ll come when you’ll need them the most,” Milton told them and Max nodded.

“I got my shield a couple of days before we went to copper summit and I had to use my powers to stop Michael and Isabel from killing Brody,” Max told him and Milton raised an eyebrow. “It turns out that Brody has an alien artefact that I recognise and he gets possessed by an alien called Larek,” Max explained and Milton nodded.

“I thought it was a little weird that he suddenly wanted to buy the UFO Centre,” Milton murmured to himself.

“Yeah, it was the only way he could get in contact with me,” Max explained and Milton nodded.

“Yeah, I understand that,” Milton told him. Max looked back at his girlfriend and saw that was staring off into thin air and turned back to Milton.

“Can you give us time?” Max asked and Milton looked at Liz before nodding.

“Sure, here, I’m staying here,” Milton, told him as he handed Max a piece of paper, Max took it and nodded. “Catch you later,” he told them before leaving.

Max turned to his girlfriend before shifting so he was sitting right next to her and wrapped an arm around her shoulders before leaning them both back on the couch.

“Why would they lie to me?” she whispered and Max shook his head.

“Maybe they were scared of how you would react,” Max suggested.

“I would have been happy to have a reason to why my mom couldn’t connect with me,” Liz muttered out bitterly and Max sighed as he kissed her forehead.

“What do you want to do?” Max asked and Liz looked at him.

“I want to see my dad, I need to hear it from his mouth,” she told him and he looked down at her.

“Are you sure?” he asked and she nodded.

“Yeah, I need to be sure,” Liz, told him and he nodded.

“Okay, now?” he asked and she nodded. He led the way out of the house and they got into the jeep.


Max pulled to a stop outside the Crashdown, he switched the engine off and they both just sat there, Liz looked at her dad, who was working. Max reached over and took her hand, causing her to look at him. “Whatever happens, you know I’ll be right here,” he told, she smiled as she nodded

“I know,” she whispered as she turned to look at the Crashdown once more. Max climbed out of the jeep and rounded it; he helped her out of it and they both made their way into the Crashdown.

Max made his way over to the counter while Liz walked over to her dad.

“Hey Liz,” Jeff greeted and Liz nodded.

“Can we talk?” she asked and he nodded. “In private,” she explained and he nodded as he led the way into the backroom. Liz looked around first before looking at her dad. “I found out some things today and I just wanted to make it sure it’s true before I do anything else about it,” she told him and he nodded.

“Okay, what is it?” he asked. She took a deep breath before looking straight into her father’s eyes.

“Dad, is it true that mom is not my mom?” Liz asked and Jeff looked at her before sighing.

“Yes, it is,” Jeff, told her. “How did you know?”

“Max, believe it or not, he actually paid attention in Biology, he realised that my eyes were brown and asked me what colour were my grandparents and we found out that you were involved in a woman before mom and she died in a car crash after having a baby girl and came to the conclusion it was me,” Liz admitted and Jeff closed his eyes.

“God, I never meant for you to find out this way, I tried to tell you but I couldn’t find the words,” Jeff admitted.

“Is it because I look like her, mom finds it hard to be close to me?” Liz asked and Jeff nodded.

“Yes Liz, you look so much like your mother it’s amazing,” Jeff told her. “Nancy tried to be close to you but she just couldn’t bond with you properly.”

“It’s okay dad,” Liz told him and he looked at her.

“You’re not mad?” Jeff asked and Liz smiled sadly.

“No dad, I’m not, I’m just hurt that you didn’t tell me though,” she told him. “I just need a time to process it but I promise, I’m not mad,” Liz told him and he nodded. “I gotta go, Max is waiting for me,” she told him and left her father alone.

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Chapter 19


Max was sitting at the counter when Liz stepped through, he looked at her and she smiled, weakly, at him.

“You told him,” Max stated and Liz nodded. He enveloped her into a hug and stroked back her hair. “Are you okay?”

“Yeah, I just need some time to process it,” she told him and he nodded.

“Still want to go?” Max asked and Liz nodded.

“Yeah, we have a world to save,” she told him, he kissed her forehead and Liz wrapped an arm around his waist as he led her out.

They headed over to the U.F.O Centre and made their way down to the main area where they saw Tess, Alex, Kyle and Isabel sitting about with the parasite on the large screen. “What do you guys have so far?” Liz asked.

“Nothing, we can’t figure it out,” Kyle told her and Liz looked at the screen before looking in the microscope to get a better look.

“It looks like alien versions of negleria filarae. Waterborne parasites found in the blood cells of certain species of fish,” Liz stated then looked up only to see Max looking at her with a raised eyebrow and she blushed. “I’m kinda reading ahead in biology,” she explained.

“That indicates they need something to feed on, like an arm or something like that and it’s only found near water,” Alex stated and Liz nodded.

“But you guys found it in the soil,” Kyle told them and Liz moved over to another computer and brought up Frazer Woods water tablets.

“So that’s why Grant was studying the woods,” she muttered before turning to the others. “There is a rise in the water tablets in Frazer woods, and with Laurie being buried in the soil, it was pretty easy for her to be affected,” Liz told them and Alex moved next to her.

“Bring up the map of Roswell and place the water tablet on top of it,” Alex told her and Liz did the bidding, Alex traced the water line from Frazer Wood till it stopped right on top of…

“Pohlman Ranch,” Alex and Liz stated at the same time, causing Max, Isabel and Tess to hurry over and look at the map.

“What the big deal about Pohlman Ranch?” Kyle asked and Liz turned to face him.

“That’s where they crashed the ship,” Liz told her and Kyle looked at her with wide eyes.

“Are you telling me those thing came from their ship? That they are aliens?” he demanded as he pointed to the screen.

“Looks like it,” Liz told him and Kyle sighed.

“Why do you do this to me Buddha?” Kyle asked, his eyes raised heavenward, annoyance clear in his tone, causing Liz roll her eyes as she turned to Max, who was looking at Kyle with amusement shining in his eyes before he turned to face his girlfriend.

“Can someone tell me why I went out with him?” Liz asked and jumped when the Twilight Zone tune started ringing.

“Whose phone is that?” Alex asked.

“Not mine,” everyone stated and looked at each other, confused, before Liz moved over to her bag and picked out her phone and rolled her eyes when she saw the caller id, she flipped open her phone.

“Maria, did you change my tune?” she asked in annoyance while Alex snorted back a laugh, causing everyone to look at him.

“You dated him because you thought Max wasn’t interested in you,” Maria replied.

“How did you know I was talking about that?” Liz asked.

“What the hell are you talking about?” Michael demanded as he looked at Maria.

“Liz?” Max asked and Liz looked at him.

“Maria knew what I was talking about!” she exclaimed and Max looked at her shocked.

“Hello, girlfriends?” Maria asked and Liz rolled her eyes.

“Whatever,” Liz told her and Maria grinned. “You need to call your mom soon, she’s been phoning Mr Valenti, hysterically,” Liz warned and Maria groaned.

“Great, why did you all tell her?” she asked and Liz smirked.

“That you skipped off with Michael to have a multi orgasm through group sex with a couple of his friends and that you were planning on marrying him,” Liz stated and got a shriek down the phone for her troubles. Liz pulled the phone away from her ear and smiled at her friends, as they looked at her in a stunned shock. “Payback,” she mouthed and Alex laughed as he shook his head while Max shook his head in amusement, still shocked over what his innocent girlfriend had just pulled then a memory of her fantasies came to her mind and he rethought the innocent part, she could be a bad girl when she wanted to.

“Please tell you didn’t!” Maria exclaimed and Liz laughed.

“Relax, I didn’t. How are you and Michael going?” Liz asked.

“We’re heading over to her aunt and uncle’s place right now, we’re gonna find out what’s going on,” Maria explained and Liz nodded.

“That’s good, things here are alright, Jim has encountered something alien, we’re gonna find out what it is and see what it can do,” Liz told her.

“Okay, give me call to let me know later,” Maria told her and Liz nodded.

“Later,” Liz replied and closed her phone before turning back to the others. “She and Michael are fine, they’re heading over to Laurie’s aunt and uncle’s place to see what’s going on,” she told them and got nods in reply.

“We better find out what this is and what it can do,” Alex stated as he point over to the board and Liz nodded in agreement when she heard a noise. Liz moved over to the door and saw a familiar person walking down the steps.
“Hey little coz,” James called out and Liz smiled as she walked over to James.

“Hey James,” Liz greeted.

“Do you know where Maria is?” James asked.

“Yeah, remember Laurie?” Liz asked and James nodded. “She took her back to her house, apparently Laurie’s Aunt and Uncle stuck into the mental intuition just so they could get the money,” She told him.

“They did?” he asked and Liz nodded.

“Yep, it’s amazing what people would do just to get money,” she told him and he nodded.

“Okay, I just wanted to let you know that Mrs. Evans has called for Max,” he told her and she nodded.

“Thanks James,” she told him as she reached up and kissed his cheek, he left the U.F.O Centre then made her way back over to the gang.

“What did James want?” Alex asked.

“Wondering where Maria was, Max, your mom phoned my house looking for you,” she told him as she held out her phone. He smiled as he took the phone, kissed the side of her head and moved over to a distance so he could call his mother.

“So, what are we going to do about them?” Kyle asked and Liz shrugged.

“I don’t know,” Liz admitted.

“You know, we could really use some help,” Isabel stated and Liz looked at Max as understanding dawned on them and Max winced.

“It can kill him,” Max told her and Liz sighed.

“Maybe you could just shock him to bring Larek here, tell him that you need his help then heal Brody?” Liz suggested and Max sighed.

“Okay,” Max told her.

“What are you guys talking about?” Tess asked.

“We’ll explain later,” Max, told them as he led Liz through the backroom. “Back in a couple of minutes.”

“Wonder what that was about,” Kyle stated as he turned back to the board, leaving everyone else wonder too.


Max and Liz made their way into the backroom and they saw Brody sitting at his desk.

“Hey Brody,” Max greeted and Brody looked up.

“Hey Max, what’s up?” he asked and Max sighed.

“I need to ask you something,” he told him and Brody nodded as Max reached out and touched his shoulder. Max sent a small burst of power through, causing Brody to go flying and hit the wall.

Max and Liz ran over and helped him up.

“Brody?” Liz asked.

“It’s me, Larek, tell me what you want,” Larek told them.

“We need you to prepare this body and come here soon, we have a situation we need your help on,” Max ordered and Larek nodded before closing Brody’s eyes and his chest went still. Max cursed as he and Liz pulled Brody to the floor so Max could start doing CPR while Liz looked on, hoping that he was okay.


“So, Larek is coming by?” Tess asked; all of them were now in the Crashdown.

“Yeah, we need his help on this” Liz told them when the door opened. They all looked up and saw Brody stepping through.

“Hey Brody, you okay?” Max asked.

“It’s Larek, actually,” Brody corrected as he sat down. “What you did was extremely risky.”

“We know but we really need your help,” Max told him and he nodded.

“I’m listening,” he told them.

“We have encountered something alien, it’s blue and it has a habit of affecting a girl, it doesn’t seem affect the rest of us,” Max explained and Larek arched an eyebrow.

“Am I hearing this properly, are you telling me the Gandarium are on the loose?” he demanded and they looked at each other before looking at him.

“Huh?” they asked.

“The Gandarium are a genetically engineered life form, designed to bridge the DNA and RNA sequencing during third-stage amino synthesis. The fact that they are on earth, loose means basically the end of the world!” he exclaimed.
Everyone just looked at Liz, who just held up her hands and shook her head.

“Hey, just because I love biology, it doesn’t mean I understand what he just said,” she told them then looked at Larek. “Could you please explain it in more simpler terms?” she asked.

“Okay,” Larek told them. “The basic is, Human DNA and Alien DNA are not compatible through hybrid, so the scientists created the Gandarium in order to bridge the gap between them, so Max and the rest can actually live on Earth without any problems,” Larek explained and Liz nodded.

“I always wondered about that, I mean, I found it a little confusion how Max and the rest just had human and alien DNA, now it makes sense. What about children?” Liz asked and Larek nodded.

“Children will be fine, we made sure that Max and the rest are able to procreate in case the war was over and they couldn’t get back home or someone in the royal four died and couldn’t complete the four square,” Larek explained.

“Not that the four square is completed and it won’t be,” Max informed, causing Larek to look at him. “I’m not interested in being with Tess and I’m not going to get together with her, Liz and I are bonded and it’s staying that way,” Max explained. Larek looked at Liz, who reached out and took Max’s hand.

“But that’s impossible, you were meant to be attracted to Ava,” Larek stated and Max shook his head.

“Nope, it’s been concluded that Liz has the soul of my past lover,” Max stated and everyone looked at her.

“What?” Tess demanded.

“She has the soul of Lilly?” Larek asked and Max nodded.

“Yes, our protector has determined it, he recognised Lilly’s soul and it’s been determined that Liz is Lilly, my fiancée,” Max explained and Isabel looked at her.

“Naesco is dead,” Isabel told him and Max shook his head.

“We have four protectors, two are dead, and two are still alive. Milton is one of our protector, he came to see Liz and I today and explained a lot of things to us,” Max explained and Larek nodded.

“Okay,” he stated before shaking his head. “I’m sorry, it’s just weird to know that Lilly still survives,” he explained and Liz smiled slightly.

“Hey, can’t be any weirder than having your king as a hybrid,” Liz told him and Larek nodded.

“Yes,” he stated before shaking his head. “I have to go and return this body, I hope you will find someway to save this world,” he told them before tipping his head and leaving the Crashdown while Isabel and Tess turned to face Max and Liz.

“Explained what?” Isabel asked and Max shook his head.

“Nothing for you to worry about, it just concerned Liz and I,” Max told them before looking at Liz. “Looks like we have some digging to do,” he told her and she nodded.

“Alex and Kyle are going to love that,” she deadpanned.

“Hell no!” Kyle stated once Max explained what they had to, Alex just looked at Kyle, amused.

“What’s the matter Kyle? I thought you jocks like digging in the mud,” Alex teased and Kyle threw him a glare.

“I’m not doing it,” Kyle stated firmly.


Kyle and Alex were digging away in Frazier's Woods. “You know, I’m pretty sure I said I wasn’t doing this,” Kyle stated and Alex ignored him.

“So is this the sixth or seventh hole we’ve dug today?” Alex asked, panting.

“Hey, hey. I was kinda wondering what the hell you people were doing sophomore year,” Kyle stated and Alex shrugged.

“Ah, well, a lot of secret meetings, a lot of lying to authorities. Sometimes narrowly escaping gunfire...” Alex stated and noticed that Kyle looked worried. “Although generally that was pretty rare.”

“So what do we lowly human folk get out of all this?” Kyle asked and Alex shrugged.

“I’m not sure,” Alex stated.

“See, I guess what I have a problem with is that suddenly I’m a member of this club I never wanted to join,” Kyle muttered.

“Yeah,” Alex stated.

“And it turns out this club bears a striking resemblance to a chain gang,” Kyle exclaimed as they continue digging when Alex suddenly hits something hard.

“What the... Look at this!” Alex exclaimed as Kyle looked at the hole in the ground.

“What the hell man? It’s some sort of cave,” Kyle observed. Alex raises his arms in triumph and started dancing slightly.

“JACKPOT, BABY! Whooh! Yeah! Alex Whitman, ladies and gentlemen! Uh-huh! Yeah! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!” Alex cheered in to the dark night before coming back down to earth as Kyle stares at him, a weird look on his face. “Okay, well, time to put the shovel away, and uh, go find the others and tell Max.”

Kyle looked at the hole speculatively, and then turns to Alex.

“You coming?” Kyle asked, Alex thinks for just a moment before caving in.

“Sure. You first,” Alex stated and Kyle nodded.

“Okay.” Kyle agreed as he jumped into the cave, waiting for Alex to come in.

Kyle drops his bag down before coming down himself. Alex follows after. The walls of the cave are covered in clusters of the Gandarium. “Oh my God! Kyle stated as he shined his torchlight over the blue-coloured cave as Alex enters and coughs slightly “What do you suppose alien crystals are going for on eBay?” Alex laughed as he looked around.

“Alright, Columbus. You claimed the land for the Queen of Spain. What do you say we go tell the others?” Alex asked, as soon as he said ‘others’ the crystals suddenly cover over the opening that they entered by, cutting out all light. “Oh, oh no! Oh, oh...” Alex panted out, fear creeping into his blood.

“I don’t know why I’m looking around,” Kyle muttered to himself then turned to Alex. “I suppose stuff like this happens all the time. Right?”

“Yeah, sure,” Alex lied, Kyle nodded and they both sat down, hoping that someone was coming to save them.


Max, Tess, Isabel and Liz made their way over to where Alex and Kyle were digging.

“Nothing on our grid,” Tess told Liz and she nodded as she
looked at her clipboard before looking around.

“That’s weird, Alex and Kyle are working this spot but I don’t see them,” Liz told them as Max looked around when Isabel noticed something and grabbed Max’s jacket.

“Look!” she exclaimed and they looked down to see blue crystals.

“Oh my god,” Tess whispered when all of a sudden, a shrill ringing sound filled the air, causing them to jump.

“My phone,” Liz told them as she pulled out her phone and held it to her ear. “Hello?” she asked.

“Liz!” Alex exclaimed and Liz sighed.

“Where are you guys?” Liz demanded. “We’re standing on the
spot you were digging but you’re not here.”

“We underground, under the crystals,” Alex explained and Liz looked at the crystals, opened mouthed.

“What?” she demanded, causing everyone to look at her. “Alex and Kyle are under there,” she explained, the three of them looked at her before looking at the crystals and Max sighed.

“I doubt our powers are going to work on this so we better find some other way to get them out,” Max explained and Liz nodded.

“Sorry Alex, looks like you and Kyle will be stuck down there for a little longer,” Liz explained and Alex pinched the bridge of his nose.

“Great, how do you propose I tell that to Kyle?” Alex asked before hanging up the phone, leaving Liz stifling a smile as she turned back to the other.

“So, what do we do now?” she asked, getting no answer in reply when all of a sudden the phone rang once more, startling them again. “Why is it always my phone?” Liz demanded as she answered it once more only to be met by Maria’s panicked voice. “Maria?”

“There’s a floating jelly fish in the bunker!” Maria exclaimed.

“What?” Liz demanded.

“It looks like those blue crystals things that Mr Valenti found only it’s shaped like a Jelly fish and let me tell you one thing, she looks pissed.”

“What happened?” Liz asked and Maria rolled her eyes.

“Isabel was right about Grant being the kidnapper, he came here and tried to kill us but Laurie and I got away in time, we got him into the bunker and locked him in it when all of a sudden he started fitting and fell on to the bed where this jelly fish burst right of his chest,” Maria explained and Liz paled.

“The queen, that’s what Larek was talking about,” Liz explained before looking at the others. “Grant was the kidnapper, it looks like he had the queen inside of him the whole time,” she explained.

“Jesus,” Isabel whispered.

“They’ve got it locked in the bunker but she’s trying to break through the glass if they don’t do something soon,” Liz explained when another shrill ring rang through the air, startling everyone.

“Mine,” Max called out as he took out his phone and held it to his ear. “Yeah?” he asked.

“They need oxygen!” Alex exclaimed.

“What are you talking about?” Max asked.

“I put a piece of this crystal into the a small tube I had with me, Kyle threw a match in and it burned out the oxygen. Max, it died straight away,” Alex explained and Max looked up at Liz.

“Ask if there’s any vents in the bunker,” Max told her and Liz repeated the questions, Maria looked around.

“Yeah, there’s a fan that I can see,” Maria told her and Liz nodded to Max.

“Tell Michael to reverse the fan, draw the oxygen out of the bunker,” he ordered and Liz nodded as she repeated it to Maria, who in turned to repeated it to Michael. Michael lifted his hand and did the bidding and they watched as the queen floated around the room before it exploded, covering the window in blue goo and Maria winced.

“Guess I should be glad that it was in a room,” Maria stated to Liz, who laughed.


Kyle and Alex were lying down on the ground, looking at the crystals.

“So this is how it ends...” Alex stated.

“Somehow this is NOT how I pictured it,” Kyle said to Alex and Alex smirked.

“It was hell of a ride though,” Alex stated and Kyle shrugged.

“I guess,” Kyle replied, not sure.

“I mean, think about it. We not only MET aliens, but they killed us,” Alex stated and Kyle looked at him “How many people can say that?”

“You’re getting delirious, is that it?” Kyle asked, worried for Alex’s sanity

“Nah, take...take a step away from your life, Kyle. You know, I mean, you’re part of this...this amazing thing. This...amazing knowledge that you HAVE that 6 BILLION people on this planet don’t. You really want to step out of this cave if it meant that you were gonna be another dumb jock?” Alex asked and Kyle sat there in silence.

“You know what, I wouldn’t.” Kyle stated told him with a smirk when all of sudden they felt some dripping. They looked up to see the crystals melting, freaking Kyle out.

“Are they attacking us?” Kyle demanded and Alex laughed as it dawned on him.

“No, they’re dying!” Alex exclaimed as he stood up and pushed his way through the crystals where he saw Liz, Max, Isabel and Tess standing there. “Hey!” Alex greeted and Liz squealed as she moved over and helped him through before hugging him as Max helped Kyle through.

“We made it!” Kyle crowed and everyone laughed as they all shared a hug.


Max and Liz found themselves in Liz’s bedroom, Max was sitting on the bed with Liz resting in between his legs as they relaxed from the week they just been through.

“It’s over,” Max stated and Liz sighed as she rested her head on his shoulder. “It’s finally over.”

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Chapter 20


“So, what’s up?” Max asked as he arrived at his locker and saw Michael leaning against the lockers next to it.

“I had a nightmare,” he informed and Max nodded as he opened his locker.

“And?” Max prodded.

“And I think we need a vacation,” he informed and Max looked at him.

“Where and how do you think you are going to pay for it?” Max asked.

“I will use the money I got from the Dupree's,” he told Max and Max looked at him.

“Michael, you could use that money to pay for rent and your future,” Max pointed out but Michael shook his head.

“No way Maxwell, it’s blood money,” Michael told him. “I want rid of it as fast as we can,” he told him and Max arched an eyebrow.

“Where do you propose we go?” Max asked.

“You're gonna love it. It's a place without rules, without responsibilities, a place where we can forget about our troubles, it's a city of dreams,” Michael tempted and Max threw him ‘what the hell’ look.

“And that is where?” Max asked.

“Vegas Max, Las Vegas,” Michael stated.


“Las Vegas?” Liz asked and Maria nodded and Liz sighed. “Fine, count me in but if we get busted, I’m saying you guys dragged me there,” she warned them and found herself enveloped in hugs, causing her to laugh. “And just how did you guys hear about Las Vegas?” Liz asked.

“Oh, Max told Isabel, who went to Michael and demanded to be let in then she went and told Kyle, who let it slip to Tess. Tess went to Michael and asked him about it and got her cut in, Max went up to Michael once more and asked if you could come so you got your cut only for Max to say that you wouldn’t come unless I came so I got my cut then he told Michael that none of us would come unless Alex came so he got his cut. Michael went to Spanish class where Kyle asked Michael to put a bet on for him and got into trouble with the Spanish teacher and got detention, after that he asked if he could come and got his cut. I’m inviting James and Alex is going invite Sarah,” Maria explained and Liz shook her head.

“Gotcha,” Liz stated and Maria squealed as she hugged Liz once more before running out of class, leaving Liz alone with Alex and Liz rolled her eyes. “Go and find Sarah, I’m pretty sure she’s waiting for you,” Liz teased and Alex hugged her before running out and Liz shook her head.


Michael rounded the corner only to see Tess, Maria, Alex, Sarah, Kyle and Isabel standing behind a limo driver, who was carrying the sign ‘Guerin’s Party’.

“This is low-profile?” Michael asked in disbelief.

“Going somewhere, Mr. Gurien?” a deep voice stated, causing Michael to jump and turn around only to see Max standing there with a smirk on his face. “Pretty good Principal Forrester, huh?” Max asked.

“Yeah, you're a riot. What's the plan?” Michael asked and Max nodded.

“At this very moment, the debate team is leaving for a two-day meet in Santa Fe. According to this piece of paper, we're going with them. If anybody asks, our original oral topic was "Space Travel: Wave of the Future or Misbegotten Dream?” Max told them and Alex nodded.

“Catchy,” Alex stated.

“Okay, let’s get out of here,” Michael stated as Liz and James walked up, causing Michael to scowl.

“What’s is he doing here?” Michael asked.

“He’s coming with us,” Maria told him as she grabbed James’ hand and set off, Max looked at Liz, who just smiled.

“I’m going with you,” she told him and he laughed as he wrapped an arm around her waist and they all left.


They made their way over to the airport when Michael stopped them and held out his hand.

“I want everyone to give me their licences, I will exchange them for fake ones and you will get your real ones when we hit Roswell,” he told them and everyone handed their licence over to him.

“How are you going to get them exchanged in a short time?” Sarah asked.

“I have a friend who is meeting me up here, he has everything ready, just needs your pictures,” Michael lied as he placed the licences in his pocket.

Everyone headed over to the small shop to gather some stuff while Michael made his way over to the male toilet.

He entered a stall and locked it before grabbing the licences and used his powers to change the date of their birth and their names. He exited the toilets and headed over to where the rest of the gang were waiting for plane, he nodded to them just as their plane number was called out and they moved over to their line.


“Here we are ... the presidential suites. You've got 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, state-of-the-art entertainment system, 6 people Jacuzzi heated to a toasty 102. Is there anything else I could get you folks,” the bellboy stated and Maria gave him his tip. “Thanks. I'll go get you some ice,” he informed them before leaving the room. Maria let out a squeal as she looked around while Tess ran off to the bathroom.

“I bet they have towel warmer,” she told them; Kyle just slapped his hands together and rubbed them.

“Let's see about some in-house porno,” Kyle stated as he moved toward the TV only to be stopped as Michael clapped his hands.

“Hold up everyone,” Michael called out and they all lined up in front of him as Michael pulled out the licences and threw each person their own licence before grabbing his bag and pulling out the money and threw a bundle of money to each person. “Since I'm sponsoring this operation, you will follow my rules. Your bank is three grand. This cash is to be spent here. There is no hoarding it,” he warned them and nodded. “Sound off.”

“Okay, Harvey Wallbanger,” Kyle stated.

“Piña Colada,” Tess called out, looking at the name.

“Tom Collins,” Alex stated.

“Jessica Ashworth,” Sarah called.

“Brandy Alexander,” Isabel told them.

“Margarita Salt,” Maria stated with a roll of her eyes.

“Brandon Evans,” James stated.

“Shirley Temple,” Liz called out and smirked as she looked
over Max’s shoulder and saw what his name was, Max held his licence up to his face in amusement.

“Rob Roy,” Max called out and Michael nodded.

“And I'm your host, Dr. Love,” he informed them and looked at them when giggles started up. “Rule number 2 - and this is the biggie. Rob Roy and Dr. Love run alone. You see us at a table; you find another one. If there are no other questions ... then go out and clobber the house,” he informed them with a nod. “Okay, Rob Roy and I are rolling together,” Michael stated.

“Er, sorry, Liz and I have plans that don’t involve you lot,” Max piped up.

“Us girls have shopping to do,” Maria jumped in.

“I’m hanging with Kyle to make sure he doesn’t blow all of his money,” Alex explained.

“I’ll hang with you,” James suggested.

“Oh, good idea honey,” Maria, stated as she turned to Michael with a ‘behave or die’ glare, which caused Michael to roll his eyes.

“Okay, let’s go and I don’t want to see a cent left over from those money!” Michael ordered and everyone left the apartment except Michael, James, Max and Liz. Michael raised an eyebrow at them.

“Like I said, we have plans that don’t involve you,” Max told them as he pushed the boys out and locked the door behind them then turned to his amused girlfriend. “Hot tub?” he asked and she smirked.

“Race you there,” she told him and ran toward the hot tub, Max just grinned as he grabbed the bowl of strawberries, bowl of cream, the ice bucket that had chilled fizzy drink in it and two glasses before following his girlfriend.

He reached the hot tub only to arch an eyebrow when he saw that Liz’s clothes were on the floor and she was sitting in the tub, naked. Liz smiled. “Come on in Max, the water is hot and wet,” she teased him, he growled as he placed the bucket, glasses and the bowls on the side of the hot tub before stripping off in front of Liz.

Liz just licked her lips as she watched Max strip before he was fully naked and he climbed into the hot tub with her.

“You’re right, it is hot and wet,” he teased as he reached over and captured her mouth in his, causing her to moan as she arched her head backward, arching her body into his. She wrapped her arms around his neck, holding on when Max dipped his fingers into the cream before lifting it. He pulled away from Liz and smeared it across her neck, causing Liz to giggle as the coolness met the hot skin.

Liz moaned as Max licked the cream from her neck, she turned to face him and kissed him fully on the mouth, licking his bottom lip before sliding her tongue along his as he opened his mouth.

Max groaned as he gripped Liz’s waist and pulled her to straddle his lap. Liz reached down and cupped him gently before lifting her so he could slide into her, causing Liz to throw her head back in pleasure as she sunk down on him.

“I love you,” Liz whispered against his lips as she kissed him. Max tightened his hold on her hips and helped her move up and down on him.

“I love you too,” Max, whispered back as they both lost themselves in their loving, ignoring the world around them.


Alex and Kyle were sitting at the blackjacks table when Maria all of a sudden showed up.

“You will never believe what I've found in the spa locker room!” Maria exclaimed only to see Alex lose his money all in the one go.

“Oh God. My heart hurts,” Alex, exclaimed.

“A booking agent is holding auditions. Alex, Alex I need the hugest favour from you. I need an accompanist,” Maria told him and Alex shot her a look.

“I play the bass guitar,” Alex reminded.

“No, no. You could fake it in the piano. It's just some simple chorus change. It first starts off with an E and then in the bridge it goes..." Maria was interrupted.

“-- I just lost $3000, all right!” Alex shouted at her as he grabbed her arms and she grabbed his arms.

“Alex, I'll, I'll give you $3000, if you help me get this gig. Please,” Maria pleaded and Alex wrapped an arm around her shoulder.

“The key was E, right?” he asked.

“Right,” Maria agreed and Alex led her away.

“All right. What's the tune?” he asked.


They found themselves in the audition room; Alex was sitting behind the piano while Maria was standing next to him.

“Ok, blondie. You're up,” The man started and Maria took a deep breath and started singing ‘you’ve got world on a string’ while Alex played the piano. “Honey. You've got some set of pipes,” the man told her when she was finished and Maria grinned.

“Well, I...” Maria started and the man shook his head.

“No, I was... I was truly moved,” the man told her and she smiled, showing her pleasure in being praised.

“Thank you,” she told him and he shook his head.

“No, no. Thank you,” he told her before his face grew serious. “Now take off your clothes,” he ordered, causing Maria to look at him shocked and Alex to be outraged.

“Hey!” Alex shouted as he got off the piano and moved over to where Maria was standing. “Who do you think you are? You treat her like a lady!” Alex ordered and the man looked at her.

“I'll treat her like a stripping lady, 'cause that what she's auditioning for,” he informed Alex and Alex looked at Maria before grabbing the flyer.

“Give me this flyer. New talent, big money... Oh! Oh!” Alex looked at it before looking at Maria and pointed it out. “B.Y.O G-string,” Alex pointed out and Maria rolled her eyes as she threw up her hands and left the room, Alex turned to the guy. “You need to make it more clearer buddy,” he informed him before leaving, chasing after Maria.


Michael paced the cell that he and James were sharing; he was wringing his hands as he thought up ways to get out of the cell he was in and to get away from James.

“Figures I would get stuck in here with you,” Michael stated and James rolled his eyes.

“If you had just packed up and left like the manager had suggested, we wouldn’t even be in this situation!” James shot at him and Michael glared at him.

“Don’t go blaming me for this,” Michael snapped and James lost it.

“What the fuck is your problem?” James demanded as he stood up and glared at Michael, Michael stood up and faced James.

“My problem is you and Sarah coming in here and wreaking everything we worked for,” Michael snapped at him and James scoffed.

“And what about Max and Liz?” he demanded, causing a stunned look from Michael. “Ever since they came back, all you and Isabel have done is get onto their cases, you continually put them down because they dared to love each other. The way you go on, you make it sound like it’s against some sort of law or something like that!”

“They are not meant to be together,” Michael snapped and James let out a bitter laugh.

“Oh, that’s just funny because a blind and deaf man would know that they would belong together,” he stated before shaking his head. “Do you really hate Max that much? Or Liz?” he demanded. “I have never ever seen Liz be so happy as she is with Max. He lights her up, he makes her laugh and smile. God! He put a sparkle in her eyes that I have never seen before and I will be damned if I let anyone get in the way of that!” he snapped. “Even Mrs Evans tells me that Max is completely different around Liz, that he had never been more happier and outgoing when he is with Liz. That he actually opens up to someone, that he came out of his shell. Are you that selfish that you would rather have Max a lonely person with no one to love and no one to love him just so you can be happy?” he demanded and shook his head. “You are pathetic, anyone who tries to break up two happy people, who are so obviously in love with each other just because they are not happy with their relationship outta be shot in the head,” James stated before turning away and sitting down on the bench.


Maria entered the suite and smiled when she saw Liz and Max cuddling up together on the couch, watching a film.

“Hey Maria, spend all your money already?” Liz asked and Maria rolled her eyes.

“I gave Alex it,” she informed them and got curious gaze in return. “Alex spent his 3 grand all in the one go and lost the game, I found a flyer for a singing competition and I gave Alex 3 grand if he would play the piano,” she informed them.

“Did you get the gig?” Max asked and Maria scoffed.

“I would have if I had stripped my clothes,” she informed them. “It was a gig for a singing stripper,” she explained and got amused looks in return, causing her to glare at them as the phone rang. “Hello, president suite,” Maria stated.

“Hey babe,” James greeted and Maria perked up.

“Do you have any idea what happened to me?” she asked. “I ended up auditioning to be a stripper! Little innocent me!” she exclaimed.

“What?” James demanded. “I thought you said it was a singing competition,” James told her and she scoffed.

“Didn’t specify that it was suppose to be a singing stripper!” she exclaimed and he sighed as he pinched the bridge of his note.

“If you help me, I will come up and comfort you,” he told her and her eyebrows furrowed.

“What happened?” she asked and he sighed.

“Michael and I are in jail,” he told her.

“What?” she demanded, causing Max and Liz to look up from where they were cuddling together on the couch. “Why?”

“Michael was getting lucky on one of the games, the manager was getting suspicious so they told him to close down and move somewhere else, he didn’t listen and got into a fight with the security guard, I got hit and we got arrested,” he explained and Maria pinched the bridge of her nose.

“I’ll be right down once I get money for bail,” she promised him.

“Thanks babe, I owe you one,” he told her and he hung up while Maria turned to Max and Liz.

“I’m going to kill your best friend!” Maria told him and Max stood up.

“What’s wrong? What bail money?” he asked.

“It looks like Michael has been using his powers to win the games, the manager got suspicious and told Michael to move somewhere else. Of course, knowing Michael, he kicked up a fuss and got himself and James arrested for assault,” she explained.

“What?” Liz demanded as she stood up. “What do you mean, arrested?” she demanded.

“They are in jail waiting for us to bail them out,” Maria stated and Liz scoffed.

“If Michael thinks I’m bailing him out, he can think again,” she told them before grabbing her bag and Max turned to him.

“Liz…” Max started and Liz turned to him and shook her head.

“No Max, he has done nothing but aggravated us because we stayed together and you didn’t follow your destiny. He had made it pretty clear that he resented Sarah and James coming to Roswell. I’m not helping him out because he couldn’t be bothered to keep his powers in check,” she informed him before leaving the motel and Maria turned Max.

“You have to admit, she is right Max,” she told him and Max sighed as he nodded and Maria smiled, gently. “Don’t worry about her, she’s just frustrated. You two stayed in the room to have time to yourselves without us and without any problems disturbing you. Michael getting him and James arrested is not the kind of problem she wants and add in the fact that Michael hasn’t exactly been welcoming about James and your relationship. She’s just venting,” Maria told him and he nodded.

“I know, I hate Michael for doing this too but he’s my best friend,” Max told her and Maria nodded.

“I know but Michael has only really tolerated Liz, I don’t think he ever really accepted Liz and when you guys found out about your destiny and you ran off with Liz then came back proclaiming there was no way you were going to follow your destiny, it just ticked him off even more. She gets that and it makes her frustrated that he’s dragging James down with him,” Maria explained and Max nodded.

“Come on, we better go and bail them out,” he told her and she looked at him, causing him to look at her, puzzled. “What?” he asked.

“How long are you going to keep paying for Michael’s mistakes?” she asked before leaving the motel room, leaving Max alone with his thoughts.


Liz made her way down to the jail section; she knew she shouldn’t have blown up at Max but god-damnit! It was hers and Max’s time together. They finally had time away from Roswell where they could pretend to be normal teenagers in love and do what couples do, make love to show their love together. Have fun. Date and see the scenes. But everyone was so determined to disrupt their times by being selfish about their own needs and damn everyone else’s.

“Yes?” the receptionist asked when Liz arrived at the desk.

“I’m here to bail out a James Parker and a Michael Gurien,” she told her and she nodded.

“Sure, here’s the clipboard, I want your to sign your name on it and I’ll go and get them,” she told Liz and Liz nodded as she took the clipboard and signed her name as Max and Maria turned up.

“Liz?” Max asked.

“Don’t worry about it, I just set bail for him too,” she informed him and Max nodded.

“Liz, can we talk?” he asked, Maria smiled as she moved away and Liz stepped closer to Max.

“I’m sorry,” Liz told him as she looked up at him. “It just, it’s was suppose to be our time Max, Michael knew that we wanted time alone together and he still goes ahead and pulls this stunt!” she exclaimed. Max pulled her into a hug.

“I know, I’m angry at Michael too, I don’t want you to doubt that but he’s like a brother to me,” Max told her and she nodded.

“I know but James is like a brother to me,” she told him and Max sighed.

“I think we’re just gonna have to disagree to agree,” he told her and she laughed as Max kissed her forehead as James and Michael stepped through the corridor.

James smiled when he saw Maria and she threw herself into his arms.

“I’m so glad you’re okay!” she told him and James nodded.

“I’m fine,” he promised her before looking at Liz and Max. “I’m sorry for ruining your time,” he told them and they nodded.

“It’s okay,” Liz told him as she hugged him and pulled away. Her smile faded when she saw Michael. “Michael,” she greeted and he nodded before she turned back to James. “Come on, let’s get back to the room, I’m pretty sure you’re hungry,” Liz told James and he laughed as he wrapped his arms around Liz and Maria and they both left the area.

Michael turned to Max. “Thanks for helping me,” Michael told him and Max shook his head.

“It wasn’t me, it was all Liz,” Max told him and shook his head. “What the hell were you thinking?” Max demanded. “You used your powers to win the games and in the process could have exposed us all!” he exclaimed,

“Max…” Michael started and Max shook his head.

“No Michael!” Max snapped. “You knew that Liz and I wanted a day off from babysitting you guys and just have time alone together and you still pulled off that stupid move!” he snapped and ran a hand through his hair as he let out a frustrated breath. “Just stay away from us, I need to make sure that Liz is calmed enough for tonight because we are going to have one normal night where we are all normal teenagers just having fun. And I swear to god Michael, if you stuff it up, there will no place on earth for you to hide,” he promised before leaving Michael alone with his thoughts.


The gang, sans Liz, were standing outside in the main area of their motel room, Max took at them all and nodded in approval, he still found it hard that they all could scrub up when the occasion call for it considering their lives.

“Liz wants Max to see her alone as the dress is a surprise for him, so we’ll head on downstairs and meet you in the dance hall,” Maria told them and Max nodded.

“Okay,” he told them and they left and Max headed over to his and Liz’s bedroom that they shared.

Max waited outside of the room, when he heard the door open; he turned around to see Liz standing there in the doorway wearing her red dress. Her hair was pinned up in a messy way with strands falling around her face and she wore her red heels.

“Oh…wow,” Max, stated and Liz grinned.

“Do you like it?” she asked and Max shook his head.

“I love it,” Max told her and she stepped forward as Max held out his hand, she linked her hand with his and they both made their way out of the motel and down to the dinning room where they planned to meet up with their friends and have fun.

“This is just great,” Maria stated from where she sat across from Liz, wearing her gold dress.

“This is amazing Maria, you did good work,” Liz told her best friend and Maria grinned.

“I aim to please,” she stated and James laughed as he wrapped an arm around Maria’s shoulders and hugged her.

“You did great baby,” he told her and she smiled up at him before kissing him, gently, on the lips. Liz looked up at Max, who smiled down at her before looking at the rest of their friends. Tess was sitting on the other side of Max, wearing her ice blue dress while Michael sat on her other side, wearing his suit. Alex sat at the head of the table, wearing his suit and holding a camera while Sarah sat next to him, wearing a white dress, her read hair was curled and pinned up. Kyle sat on the other side of Michael wearing his suit and Isabel sat next to Kyle, on the other side of James, wearing her black strapless dress.

“Okay beautiful people,” Alex called out and everyone turned to face him. “Picture time,” he informed them and everyone moved in closer while Liz and Maria leaned across the table next to each other and they all grinned. “Say Las Vegas.”

“Las Vegas!” everyone cheered and he took the picture.

“Now, that’s one for the album,” Alex stated, causing laughers.

“I’m just going to go and grab a drink from the bar,” James told them, causing everyone to look at him.

“Okay,” Maria told him and he grinned as he kissed her cheek before getting up and heading over to the bar before moving out of sight. Maria sighed as she turned back to Liz and Liz smiled.

“You’re in love,” Liz teased and Maria laughed as she threw a napkin at Liz as both girls laughed together.

There was a noise then silence, causing everyone to look toward the stage and Maria felt her jaw drop when she saw James standing on the stage, smiling nervously at everyone.

“Hi, Erm, I just wanted to introduced you to everyone. She is a fabulous girl and she loves to talk. And she is a great singer and I know you are all going to love her tonight,” James informed them before winking at Maria, causing her heart to melt.

“Please welcome to the stage... Miss Margarita Salt!” James announced and Maria smiled as she made her way over to the stage, James helped her up and leaned in. “You know this song?” James asked and Maria smiled at the tune.

“Yes,” she told him before kissing his cheek and moved over to the microphone.

#If I were the moon, I could, catch your eye--I’m jealous of the moon
If I were the wind, I would, make you fly--I’m jealous of that too#

Max held out his hand and Liz smiled as she took it and they made their way on to the dance floor with the other dancers. Michael and Tess joined in as Sarah laughed as something Kyle said before nodding and accepting his hand, they moved out onto the dancing floor while Alex smiled as he watched them as he taped everything. #I wish I were the sun shining, on your face--caressing like a lover
I would wrap you in a warm embrace--, we’d be holdin’ one another
(I’m jealous of the sun, /I’m jealous of the sun
(Jealous of the sun) oh, I’m jealous of the sun
Oh, I don’t wanna share you with, nothing else--I gotta have you to myself
Oh--I can’t help it--I’m so in love--, I just can’t get you close enough, no
When the sun’s on your skin--
I can’t hold it in, and I know it’s a sin--
But I’m jealous of the sun
I wish I were the rain runnin’ down your, Neck--and drippin’ from your fingers
Then I could be the drops rollin’ off your, Back--I’d love to let it linger
(Jealous of the rain) oh, I’m jealous of the rain
Oh, I don’t wanna share you with nothing, else--I gotta have you to myself
Oh--I can’t help it--I’m so in love-, /I just can’t get you close enough, no
When it rains on your face--, I almost can taste
Your beauty, your grace-, I’m jealous of the rain
When the wind’s in your hair--, the way it blows through the air
Oh, it’s seems so unfair, yeah, When the moon’s in your eyes--
You seem to light up the skies, yeah, and I realize--
I’m even jealous of the moon# Maria finished and everyone clapped as they smiled at Maria, James smirked as he helped Maria down before moving over to the microphone.

“Ladies and Gentlemen, I now introduce Shirley Temple,” James announced and Liz glared, playfully, at her cousin before kissing Max gently on the lips before making her way over to the stage, James helped her up and winked at her. “Don’t need to know if you know this song,” James teased and Liz laughed as she tune came on, she nodded and moved over to the microphone.

#Oh, thank you baby for, lovin’ me like you do
I didn’t like datin’--, and trying to find someone
I gave up waitin’--, for love to come along
There had to be someway--, I knew I’d find it someday
Yeah, thank you baby! , For makin’ someday come so soon
Yeah, thank you baby! , For lovin’ me the way you do
So many numbers--so many guys to call, Is it any wonder--I got nowhere at all
Oh, well it had to be someway (it had to be, Someway) I knew I’d find it someday
Yeah, thank you baby! , For makin’ someday come so soon
Yeah, thank you baby! , For lovin’ me the way you do
Thank you baby (check it out)
Oh, Uh, uh, uh, yeah
There had to be someway--, I knew I’d find it someday
Yeah, thank you baby! , For makin’ someday come so soon
Yeah, thank you baby! , For lovin’ me the way you do
(Thank you baby) thank you baby! , (Thank you baby) for lovin’
Me the way, me the way you do, Baby someway, someday, somewhere
Yeah, yeah, oh, thank you baby! For lovin’
Me like you do, Oh, thank you baby# Liz finished and everyone clapped and cheered as Max walked up to the stage and handed Liz a rose, causing her to blush as she kissed him.


They all laughed as they stepped into the motel room only to stop sight of Jim sitting there. He lifted the sign that said ‘Guerin’s Party’, turned his head and dropped the sign as he looked at the kids in front of him.

Everyone looked at each other before looking back at him.

“Where’s Sarah and James?” he asked, noticing that two of the party was missing.

“Sarah wanted to get some coffee and James went with her to help her,” Maria explained.

“I got phone calls from everyone’s parents, demanding to know where all their kids where, I had no idea and started to panic as I thought the world was coming to an end, or that you were out hurt or being chased by one of your enemies as I knew that you lot wouldn’t go somewhere without telling me!” he shouted.

“We’re sorry,” Liz whispered and Jim shook his head.

“Sorry doesn’t cut it Liz, you all just went off without telling me what you were doing!” Jim shouted. “You are supposed to be responsible people who should know better than to run off and leave your parents worried!”

“What about us?” Liz asked and Jim looked at her. “When do we get to be normal kids?” she asked before shaking her head and headed into the bedroom that she and Max shared, slamming the door.

Jim just looked at the door before looking at the remaining kids.

“Be home,” he told them then moved past them. “Kyle, car!” Jim told him.

“But dad!” Kyle whined.

“CAR NOW!” Jim shouted and he left the motel room on his dad’s heel.

“Am I glad I’m an orphan?” Michael asked and Tess nodded.

“Same here,” Tess told them.

“TESS!” Jim shouted and Tess winced as she looked toward the gang before shrugging and leaving the room.

Michael turned to Max.

“Wanna get some breakfast?” he asked and Max nodded as they left the room and headed outside to the vendor. “I’m sorry,” Michael stated and Max looked at him.

“For what?” Max asked.

“For being an Ass,” he admitted and Max looked at him. “James let me see some things, I guess you can say, knocked some sense into me.” Max looked at him.

“How do you mean?” Max asked.

“When we were in jail, he told me things, made me see things in his way,” Michael admitted and Max nodded. “I just wanted to let you know that I support you and Liz, James explained it to me,” Michael told him.

“Thank you,” Max told him. “I accept you and Tess, just a little confused how it came to be, Tess told Liz you were working on controlling your powers, got talking and it went from there,” Max told him.

“Yeah, I don’t know what it is, but something about her attracts me to her,” Michael told and Max nodded.

“As long you’re happy, funny though, I didn’t think Tess was your type,” Max admitted and Michael looked at him.

“Thank you, beside you used to be attracted to her,” Michael reminded and Max shook his head.

“Actually I wasn’t, Tess was using her mind warps on me, the day dreams? That was all her,” Max explained it. “It explains why I never had night dreams about her, it was only Liz I dreamt of,” Max finished as they picked up their food and coffees.

They headed back up to their motel room and saw that James and Sarah had arrived.

“Hey, where are Tess and Kyle?” James asked and Max winced.

“Mr. Valenti found us,” Max told him and James winced.

“We’re in trouble?” he asked and Michael nodded.

“I bet we’ll catch hell 101 for this when we go back,” Michael told them as a bedroom door opened and revealed Liz wearing her sweats and one of Max’s shirts, her hair was tied up in a messy bun as she walked over to them.

“That was quick change,” Maria stated and Liz grinned.

“A girl can be motivated considering some people don’t have a knack for knocking,” she told them, glaring at James in the process and he rolled his eyes.

“One time and they hold against you forever,” he muttered as he handed her a cup of hot chocolate.

“When’s our flight back?” Sarah asked and Max looked at his wrist.

“About three hours,” he told them and she nodded.

“Three hours to gear ourselves up,” she told them with a smile and Alex laughed.

“Some of us will be lucky and get off easy,” he reminded. “Your mother is pretty much laid back, she understand the stress you’ve been under, James’ parents is in Florida, so he’s lucky. Maria will face Amy’s wrath, Michael will be lucky too as he has no parents to lecture him, Max and Isabel, well Mrs. Evans can be scary when she wants to be and when it comes to Liz’s mother, well, Liz you better run,” Alex told Liz and she smiled.

“Yeah, I should,” Liz, teased back while thinking, ‘especially when my mother is not my mother’.

Max just wrapped an arm around her shoulder, understanding what she was thinking, she just looked up at him and smiled at him before resting her head on his shoulder, wondering what they would face when they arrived home.


They let out a big sigh when they felt the plane hit the ground of Roswell, Michael had taken everyone’s licenses back and changed them before they entered the plane and gave it back to them when they were on the plane, remarkably, James and Sarah never questioned it.

They walked out of the plane and made their way into the airport when they saw the parents standing there in the line, Liz sighed as she tightened her grip on Max’s hand and he nodded as they moved closer to the parents.

Nancy opened her mouth to speak when Liz held up her hand, halting the adults.

“We will have a talk but we will not have it here, meet us at the Crashdown so you can hear our reasons for going off like that and then you can lecture us,” Liz informed them before the teenagers followed each other out of the airport to their cars and made their way over to the Crashdown.

The adults entered it and saw that Max was sitting at the counter with Liz standing between his legs, her back pressed against his chest. Maria was sitting in one of the booth, leaning against James while Alex and Sarah mimicked the pose on the other side of the booth. Michael was sitting on the counter while Tess sat on the counter seat near him, while Kyle and Isabel occupied a table near the booth. Mr. Valenti stood near the till.

“Okay, give us the ‘reasons’ why you left,” Nancy snapped out, bitterly and Max, sighed.

“We were all under stress, our up coming exams, not to mention our prelims were putting pressure on us. Add in the fact that you all have been even more protective than usual and asking us questions we don’t want to answer,” Max told them.

“I was having a hard time after the whole incident at Laurie Dupree’s house, I was having nightmares so I took the money they gave me and I asked the gang if they wanted to come to Las Vegas, I felt we all needed a break,” he told them.

“Still no excuse for running off without telling us!” Nancy exclaimed. “You are all children, we only want to protect you from any mistakes that you are not capable of handling!” Nancy exclaimed and Liz snapped. She pulled herself away from Max’s legs and stood in the middle of the Crashdown, facing the adults.

“Stop it!” Liz shouted before running a hand through her hair as everyone looked at her. “God! You are such hypocrites!” Liz told them. “First you say that we should act like adults and start making our own decisions but when we do that, you turn around and tell us that we’re too young! You can’t do that, you have to pick one or the other; you can’t have both! It doesn’t work like that!”

“Liz…” Nancy started and Liz shook her head.

“NO!” Liz snapped. “Ever since Max and I were caught by the Principal, you made it clear that you didn’t approve of Max! You made it clear that you hated him because you thought he was trying to take him away from me,” Liz told her.

“You are too young to be in a serious relationship!” Nancy exploded.

“Tough!” Liz snapped. “I love Max,” Liz told her and Nancy scoffed.

“Liz, you are too young,” Nancy protested and Liz sighed.

“Do you remember when you asked me to let you in? To let you see the real me?” Liz asked and Nancy nodded. “If you love me, you wouldn’t ask.” Nancy looked at her, confused but Maria picked up on it.

“Because Max loved you enough to see you himself,” Maria stated and Liz nodded.

“God, Max took the time to see me, he didn’t ask me to show myself to him. If Max can do that, what does that say about you?” Liz asked.

For the first time, Nancy was stumped, she had no answer for that and for the first time, she saw Liz as a grown up. “Max was never taking me away, you were pushing me away that I went to Max, willingly.”

“How long have you been sleeping with him for?” Nancy asked, causing Jeff to look at his daughter before looking at Max.

“Since summer,” Liz told her and Jeff looked at Max with a furious glare. “And you can’t blame Max,” Liz cut in, causing Jeff to look at her. “I wanted to be with him.”

“Liz…” Jeff started but Liz shook her head.

“No dad, Max never pressured me into doing anything, I wanted to share myself with him, he told me that he was more than willing to wait for me as long as it took,” Liz finished.

“Still too young,” Nancy told her and Liz shook her head.

“Age has nothing to do with this,” Liz told her. “I love Max and I wanted to be with him,” Liz told her and shook her head. “And you can’t stop me.”

“Watch me,” Nancy told her.

“Stop me, you’ll lose me,” Liz told her, causing all the adults to look at her. “I will never forgive you and the moment graduation comes, I’ll leave with Max and you’ll never hear or see from me again,” Liz promised.

“Don’t be stupid,” Jeff raged and Maria shook her head as she stood next to Liz.

“Liz is right, Max and Liz have been through a lot together to get where they are now, I’m not going to stand by and let people rip my best friends’ hearts apart,” Maria told them. “I’ll go with her.” Then she turned to Liz. “You know I have your back Chica,” Maria told her and Liz smiled.

“Yeah, I know Ria,” Liz told her. “And you know I have yours.”

“I’m with them,” James stated as he moved forward.

“James!” Nancy gasped out and he shook his head.

“No, you called me down here because you wanted me to keep an eye on Max and Liz, that you wanted me to break up their relationship. Max and Liz are perfect for each other,” James explained.

“Hey, I admit that I haven’t been totally happy with Max and Liz’s relationship,” Isabel spoke up. “But Liz really makes Max happy and I don’t want to see him like he used to be before he and Liz got together,” Isabel stated before looking at her brother. “You know I have your back,” she told him and Max nodded.

“Same here, James made me see that Liz wasn’t taking Max from us, she was just helping Max show that he can love everyone,” Michael jump in.

“I’m with Lizzie all the way, she’s my best friend and Max makes her really happy,” Alex stated and Sarah shrugged.

“I have never seen a happy couple like Max and Liz and I don’t think it would fair on them or on anyone if they break up because the parents wants them to break up,” Sarah informed.

“I’m behind Max and Liz,” Tess admitted and Kyle sighed.

“Hey, if anyone should have any reason to hate Max, that’s me but I have never seen Liz happy as she is with Max, he brings her out of her shell and she does the same thing to him, the Max Evans I knew would have never willingly help me play pranks,” Kyle informed them.


The adults were stumped, a part of them were proud to see that they had such a strong bond but at the same time they were scared when Liz finally spoke up the one thing that she feared off but needed answer to.

“Do you want to control me because I’m not your daughter?” she asked and everyone looked at her. Max just wrapped an arm around her waist and showed his support.

“What are you talking about?” Nancy snapped and Liz faced her.

“I know I’m not your biological daughter, that I was the daughter of Sheila, Dad’s girlfriend who died in the car accident,” Liz told her and Nancy took a step back in shock while everyone looked at Nancy then looked at Jeff, who hung his head.

“Is this true?” Amy asked.

“Yes,” Jeff told them and Amy’s hand went up to her mouth as she gasped, she looked at Liz, who was like a daughter to her and felt her heart breaking for the young woman in front of her.

“Are you telling me you lied to Liz all these years?” James demanded as he stepped forward. Maria tightened her arm around his waist as she looked up at him. “You made her believe that Nancy was her mother when she wasn’t and stood by when Nancy left her out in the cold, without giving Liz a reason why? Is this the reason why Nancy’s family seems to hate Liz?”

“Yes,” Jeff stated with a nod. James scoffed.

“Everyone in our family knew about the secret didn’t they?” he asked and Jeff nodded.

“No, there was one person who didn’t,” Jeff told them and they looked at him. “My mother, Claudia,” he told them and Liz felt her jaw drop open.

“You lied to Grandma Claudia?” she asked and Jeff shook his head.

“No, she never asked, I never said anything. Nancy and I got together pretty much straight after your mother died. We were friends before Shelia died. Mom never knew I was dating Sheila at the time. I think she guess that Nancy wasn’t your mother but she never asked or hinted anything,” Jeff explained and Liz nodded.

“Jesus,” Kyle whispered, shocked at what had been revealed and Maria turned to Liz.

“How long have you know about this?” Maria asked and Liz looked at her.

“A few weeks, I found out after you took Laurie back to her aunt and uncle. I was still in a shock,” Liz admitted and Maria nodded and Isabel turned to Max.

“You don’t seem too shocked about this news,” Isabel remarked and Max looked at her.

“I was the reason this whole thing started. I paid attention in biology when they started talking about inheritance, it turned out that brown is the dominate colour and as Liz’s parents both had blue eyes and grandparents also had blue eyes, I came to the conclusion that someone in her family wasn’t her family and we found out the truth,” Max explained and Diane nodded.

“Okay, I think we need to all go back home and try and digest this,” she informed them and they all nodded. “Kids, don’t think you’re going to get out of trouble for going to Las Vegas but at least we have some understanding why you went,” she stated.

“Can I stay at someone else’s house tonight, I don’t really want to spend time here at the moment,” Liz asked and looked at her parents. “I still need time away,” she explained. Nancy was about to protest when Jeff piped up.

“No problem,” he told her and she nodded.

“Sure sweetie, you can come and stay with us,” Diane told her. “If that’s okay with you?” she asked as she looked at Amy, Karen, and Gloria.

“It’s fine, we need to have a chat with our child without any distractions,” Amy stated as she looked at her daughter and Maria nodded.

“That’s will be great Mrs. Evans,” Liz told her and Diane looked at her with a raised eyebrow and Liz smiled slightly. “Sorry, I’ll work on it,” Liz promised and Diane nodded as everyone left the Crashdown and headed over to their places to get their lecture.


Liz found herself sitting at the table, staring into her cup hot chocolate when she heard a noise, she looked up and saw Diane making her way over to Liz, tightening the belt of her robe.

“What are you doing up?” Diane asked and Liz looked back down.

“I couldn’t sleep,” she admitted and Diane watched the young woman in front of her. She was wearing a pair of Max’s joggers and her strapped top, her dark hair was twisted up with a clasp, she had never saw Liz look so lost and lonely before. Diane moved over and poured herself a hot cup of tea before turning back to Liz once more.

When they came back from the Crashdown, Liz had went into Max’s bedroom while Max and Isabel got their lecture, both, Diane and Phillip found it hard to give them a stern lecture, not after what they heard about Liz, they could see that Max was worried about Liz and was barely paying attention to the lecture, that they let them off with two weeks worth of housework.

“How are you feeling honey?” Diane asked as she sat next to Liz. Liz just sighed as she cupped her cup.

“Confused, hurt, isolated,” she admitted and Diane looked at her, puzzled.

“Okay, let’s start with Confused,” Diane told her and Liz looked at the ceiling as she ran a hand through her hair.

“I just feel confused about everything around me. I mean, finding out that one of your parent is not your parent is a little disconcerting,” she admitted. “Max is trying to help me through this but, you know, he knew he was adopted this whole time and you guys and your family love him to pieces. I have a mother who seems to hate me and family who would love nothing more than to see me out of the way,” she admitted and Diane reached over and stroke back a strand of Liz’s hair.

“I’m sure that’s not true honey,” she stated and Liz nodded.

“It is, my grandmother, my mom’s mom, she was always cold with me, she never gave me any indication that she loves me and every time when I visit her, which is rarely, she keeps asking if I have gotten myself pregnant because I seem to be getting bigger,” she muttered and Diane rocked back in shock at Liz’s statement.

Max just clenched his hands into fists as he listened to this.

He had woken up when he couldn’t feel Liz and was hiding behind the wall where he could see Liz and his mother but where they couldn’t see him. He knew that Liz’s mother’s side of the family wasn’t as nice but she had downplayed it the whole time.

“Oh sweetie, I’m sorry,” she whispered and Liz shook her head.

“At the time, I thought it was because mom had gotten pregnant but now I realise it’s because my dad got his girlfriend pregnant and mom got saddled with me,” Liz told her and Diane nodded, she would come back to that later.

“Okay, what about hurt?” she asked.

“It hurts that no one ever bothered to tell me the truth, that I didn’t get to know my real mom. I hear from people how much I look like her and have her spirit. I guess I just feel annoyed that everyone got to know her and I didn’t,” she explained and Diane nodded.

“Isolated?” Diane asked and Liz looked at her.

“Like I’m not part of this world,” she whispered. “I look around and see that everyone basically knows who they are. It just feels like no one knows what I’m going through. Don’t get me wrong, Max has been great with everything, helping me find out whatever I can about my mother but everywhere I look, it just seems strange to me,” Liz explained and Diane sighed as she stroke back Liz’s hair.

“That’s bound to happen, considering what you are going through,” Diane told her. “It is never easy for a child to hear that their parent is not their parent,” Diane told her and Liz nodded.

“It just doesn’t help that Mom keeps trying to control me!” she burst out. “She just can’t understand that I’m with Max because I want to be. That he is not forcing me or leading me astray or anything like that,” she told Diane. “I love Max and I just want to be with him but it seems like everyone is just against us.” Liz sighed. “I guess Grandma Claudia was right when she told me that if it wasn’t complicated, then Max wouldn’t be my soul mate,” Liz whispered and Diane smiled as she took Liz’s hand into her own.

Ever since she saw Liz that day in the hospital, the look that they shared. It made her heart soar that Max just might be coming out of his shell. Even when she was called in that day to the school because her child had been caught in the Eraser Room with Liz, she was excited; her son has been caught with a girl. Phillip had been worried that Max might have been gay considering he hadn’t been seen around girls.

“I just wanted to tell you,” Diane started and Liz looked at her. “I’m glad that you and Max got together,” she told her. “You were always what I imagined for Max and ever since that day in the hospital, I had hoped you two got together,” she finished.

“Even when we got caught in the Eraser Room?” Liz asked and Max blushed as the memory came back to him and Diane laughed.

“Oh honey, you have no idea how relieved I was when I was called in!” Diane told her, causing Max to snap his head up in a stun shock and Liz to look at her, stunned. “Phillip had been a bit worried about Max considering Max does tend to hang out with Michael a lot and he has been sneaking in Max’s room,” Diane trailed off and Max’s mouth drop open when realisation hit him and his cheeks flamed while Liz let shocked laughers.

“Don’t worry, you weren’t the only one,” Liz told Diane. “Maria had though the same thing, you see I tried flirting with Max and he didn’t seem to pick up on it so Maria stated that Max could be gay but got rid of that notion when she caught Max staring at me in the Crashdown,” Liz explained and Diane laughed.

“You know, a mother shouldn’t be so happy that his son is dating you know?” she asked and Liz nodded.

“Aunt Julia, James’ mother is the same, she is very protective of her son,” Liz told her and shook her head. “Makes me wonder if my mother would have been like that,” she whispered and Diane smiled, fondly as she reached out once more and stroked back Liz’s hair before looking at her in the eyes.

“I have no doubts about it, you are every women dreams of a daughter, strong, independent yet you know when you need help and your big heart,” Diane told her, causing Liz to blush slightly and Diane smiled. “I think you better get back to bed before Max wakes up and starts panicking that you’re not there,” Diane warned her and Liz nodded.

“Thanks Diane,” she whispered and Diane winked as Liz got up and made her way back to Max’s bedroom, leaving Diane alone at the table, wondering how she could help the young woman who had caught her son’s heart.

Liz made her way into the bedroom and smiled when she saw Max sleeping, she climb into bed and cuddled up to him as he wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her in close. “I love you,” Liz whispered as she kissed his Adam apple before burying her face into his neck and Max opened his eyes slightly, he looked down at her, kissed the top of her head and they both fell into a deep sleep.

TBC

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Here's the next chapter.

Chapter 21


“This is going to be a nightmare,” Maria stated as she turned to face Liz. Both of them were standing outside Liz’s locker as Liz went through her locker. She turned to face Maria.

“It will be fine,” Liz soothed and Maria shot her a disbelieving look.

“Liz, it’s the prom!” Maria exclaimed and Liz nodded.

“I know, it wasn’t that long ago you were all excited now you’re freaking out like mad!” Liz exclaimed. “What’s going on with you?” Liz asked as she closed her locker door and leaned on it, facing her best friend.

“It’s the prom,” Maria stated and Liz looked at her before nodding.

“You mean the prom night?” Liz asked and Maria looked at her and Liz smiled. “You think James is going to ask you to sleep with him, aren’t you?” Liz asked and Maria sighed.

“I’m being irrational, aren’t I?” Maria asked and Liz reached out and linked her arm through Maria and both of them walked off toward the quad.

“No, I think it’s perfectly normal. I mean, if it was Max and I, I would be nervous too,” Liz told her and Maria looked at her.

“You and Max have already made love,” Maria pointed out and Liz nodded.

“Because it was the right time for us two, we just knew in our heart that we were ready to be together.”

“What if I don’t feel like that tonight?” Maria asked and Liz opened the door that led to the quad.

“Tell him how you are feeling, if you are not ready then let him know. James would never push you into something you’re not ready for. Hey, he could be feeling the same way you know,” Liz, suggested and Maria nodded.

“I know, it’s just, it’s weird you know. I mean, I always thought I would go to the prom with Michael and maybe sleep with him then but now I’m dating James and going to the prom with him, Liz, I haven’t even said ‘I love you’!” Maria exclaimed and Liz laughed.

“Maria, breathe deep and slow before you pass out,” Liz advised. Maria took in a deep breath. “Everything will be fine, all you and James needs to do is talk to the other and find out how the other is feeling,” Liz advised and Maria nodded as they came to a stop outside her class.

“Thanks Liz,” Maria told her before she stepped into her classroom, leaving Liz shaking her head as she walked away from the class and out into the Quad where she took a seat at a table and pulled her out books so she could work on them.

“Hey,” Max greeted as he straddled Liz from behind. Liz smiled as she rested her back against his chest.

“Hey,” Liz greeted back.

“Wanna go to the prom with me?” Max asked and Liz laughed as she rested her head on his shoulder so she was looking up at him.

“And here’s me thinking you were never going to ask,” she teased. Max grinned as he bent his head down and kissed her.

“Hey, I’ve been waiting for this moment for ages, like I’m gonna miss out on asking you to the prom,” he teased back and she grinned as he leaned back down and kissed her once more.

“Do you have to?” a male voice whined and they broke away to see James standing there on the other side with a wince.

“If I can put up with you and Maria, you can put up with Max and I,” Liz informed him and James rolled his eyes as he sat down on the table on the other side of them and pulled out his lunch. “Worried about the prom?” Liz asked and James looked at her.

“Is it that obvious?” he asked and Liz shrugged.

“Kinda,” she admitted and James sighed.

“More like the night,” he admitted and Liz nodded. “It’s just, I really like Maria,” James started. “And I don’t want to pressure her or anything.”

“James, have you had sex?” Liz pressed, looking at her cousin with a wary eye and James nodded, causing her eyes to widen. “When?” she demanded.

“With Victoria,” He explained and Liz nodded in understanding.

“Victoria?” Max asked.

“James ex-girlfriend back in Florida, she’s a spoilt brat,” Liz muttered, causing James and Max to look at her in a stunned shock. “Oh come on!” she exclaimed. “She broke up with you because she was convinced that I was trying to come in between the pair of you!”

“What?” Max asked and Liz nodded as she looked up at her boyfriend.

“Yep, she was convinced that I wanted James for myself,” Liz informed him and Max shook his head.

“Sounds like she’s a bit paranoid,” he admitted and Liz laughed.

“Totally,” Liz agreed and James rolled his eyes.

“Come on,” James groaned and Liz looked at him.

“Well, all I can say is be honest with Maria, tell her that you have done it before and you are not going to pressure her into anything she doesn’t want to do,” Liz advised and he nodded as he picked up his books once more.

“I better head off, catch you later,” he told them and they nodded as they watched him leave before Liz rested the back of her head on Max’s chest.

“Why do I get the feeling that we’re going to be looking at a long time?” Liz asked, Max just kissed her forehead.

“How are things going with your dad?” Max asked and Liz shrugged.

“Okay I guess,” she admitted before she looked up at him. “I still find it hard to speak to him.”

“It’s a natural thing, at least your dad isn’t pressuring you into talking to him,” Max told her and she nodded.

“Yeah, I really want to know much as I can about my biological mother but it’s too hard to speak to him about her, knowing that he lied to me about her all those years.”

“It’ll be okay,” he whispered as stroked back her hair as she rested her head on his chest and they both just relaxed, enjoying their time together.


“Hey Maria,” James greeted when he caught up with his girlfriend at her locker. Maria turned to face him and she gave him a smile.

“Hey,” she greeted and James smiled back.

“Listen, we need to talk,” he told her and she nodded as she closed her locker door.

“Follow me, I know somewhere,” she told him and he nodded as he followed her toward the band room. They both stepped in and moved over to the small table that was in front of the blackboard. “So, what did you want to talk about?” she asked once they placed their bags down and grabbed some seats.

“About the prom night,” he told her and she looked up at him. “I’m not going to pressure you anything you don’t want to do,” he told her and she nodded. “But I feel I need to be honest,” he admitted. “This won’t be my first time.” Maria looked at him, shocked.

“You’ve had sex before?” she asked and James nodded.

“Yeah, with my ex-girlfriend back in Florida when we were dating,” he told her and she nodded. “I know a girl’s first time is a pretty big thing and I’m just letting you know that there is no pressure on you whatsoever and I’m just telling you about my past because I really care about you a lot and I don’t want to hide this from you,” he explained and she smiled softly.

“Thank you,” she told him and he looked at her. “You doing this just shows me how much you care for me,” she explained and James nodded.

“Now that’s out of the way, Maria Deluca, will you do me the honour of coming with me to your prom?” he asked and Maria laughed.

“Yes,” she told him and he grinned.


Alex made his way into his History class and sat at his normal seat when Isabel made her way through and sat down next to him.

“Hey,” Isabel greeted and Alex nodded.

“Hey, you going to the prom?” Alex asked and Isabel nodded.

“Yeah, I was wondering if we could go together, as friends,” Isabel suggested and Alex shook his head.

“Can’t, I’m going with Sarah,” Alex told her and she nodded as she turned back in her seat, wondering how the hell was she suppose to get Alex back if he was busy with another girl.

Kyle walked in and took his spot in front of Isabel. Isabel leaned over and tapped his shoulder, causing him to turn around.

“Do you want to go to the prom with me?” she asked and Kyle looked at her, taken back.

“Erm, sure,” he told her and she flashed him a smile, he shot her a small smile back before turning back round to the front while Alex shook his head at the scene and felt sorry for Kyle as he had no idea what he was getting himself into.


Michael made his way into his art class and took up his seat next to Tess, who shot him a smile.

“Morning,” she greeted and Michael grunted back. “Not really a morning person are you?” she teased and Michael smiled slightly.

“Sorry, late night,” Michael told her and she nodded.

“Have you heard about the prom?” Tess asked and Michael nodded before he looked at Tess’ expectant face and winced inwardly.

“Would you like to go?” he asked and Tess grinned.

“Yes,” she told him and he nodded.

“Okay, I’ll meet you at the Crashdown, that’s where everyone else is meeting up so we can all go together,” he told her and she nodded.

“Sure,” she told him and they turned back to the front to face the teacher as he stepped in.


“Do you get the feeling that something major is going to happen and nothing is going to be the same again?” Liz asked as she looked up at Max and he looked down at her.

“Is your gut telling you something?” he asked and Liz looked back off into the distance.

“Just that tonight is going to be the most amazing nights of our lives, that our hearts will take us in directions we thought we would never go but it’s going to be the last time we’re all together and having fun,” Liz admitted in a soft tone and Max’s tighten his arms around her waist.

“I’m sure that everything will be fine,” Max assured her, not once feeling reassured at all and they couldn’t help but wonder what was going to happen that would change their world.


Maria and Liz found themselves in the backroom, fixing their hair and make up, dressed in their prom dresses, as they got ready for the prom.

Soon, Liz took a deep breath and took a step back before looking at her best friend and they both smile, excitement shining in their eyes.

“Are you ready?” Liz asked and Maria nodded as they both stepped out in the Crashdown, everyone turned to look at them.

James felt his breath get caught in his throat when he took in Maria’s form. She wore a white gypsy dress and her hair was curled with flowers in them.

“You look great,” James told her as he stepped forward and handed her a small baby-breath corsage and slipped it onto her wrist. Maria smiled when she saw it and reached up and kissed him, gently on the lips before she linked hands with him and moved over to the others.

She could see that Tess was dressed in her light grey dress while Michael stood off to her side dressed in a tux, looking uncomfortable. Isabel was dressed in her red dress while Kyle was dressed in his tux. Alex was dressed in his tux while Sarah was dressed in a deep green dress.

Max walked over to Liz, he was dressed in his tux and his hair was dressed in its usual style. He carried a small white rose corsage.

Liz stood there in her black dress, her hair was curled with some pinned back with pins as she looked up at Max.

“You look gorgeous,” Max told her and Liz smiled as she lifted her wrist and Max slipped the corsage on before leaning down and kissed her on the lips before they turned back to the others.

“Come on in kids,” Amy called out as she held the camera and shooed everyone toward the counter so she could take their picture. Max and Liz stood to one side; Max had his arms wrapped around her waist as Liz rested her back against his chest. Maria was next to her and James had an arm around her shoulder. Tess stood in front of James with Michael standing slightly off to the side, behind her. Isabel stood next to Michael with Kyle in front of her. Alex and Sarah were standing off to Isabel’s side, wrapped up in an embrace as they all faced the camera.

“Say cheese!” Amy called out and they all grinned.

“Cheese!” they call repeated together, laughing as they thought forward to their future.


When they arrived at the school, the prom was in full swing with people dancing.

“Alright!” Alex cheered when one of his favourite songs came on and he dragged a laughing Sarah onto the dance floor.

“We’re dancing,” Maria told Liz as she took Liz’s arm and dragged her out on to the floor, leaving Max alone with James and everyone else.

“Looks like we’re in for a great night,” Max told James, who laughed.

“Food?” James asked and Max nodded.

“Lead the way,” Max stated as they both moved over to the food table. “So, how did yours and Maria’s talk go?” Max asked as he picked up a plate and James nodded as they started picking out food for them to eat.

“It went fine, I told her about Victoria and how she isn’t any under pressure,” James told him and Max nodded.

“Good thing for a girl to know. When Liz and I went out together, our hormones were kinda wild,” Max admitted with a sheepish grin. “But we held out and in time, our first time was amazing,” Max told him and James grinned as he looked at Max.

“I wanted to let you know that I’m glad that you and Liz got together,” James told him. “I’ve never seen Liz happy like this before and I know you make her happy.” Max smiled as he looked over at his girlfriend, who was laughing and dancing with Maria.

“She makes me happy,” Max told him and James nodded as they turned back to their food.

“Hey,” Liz greeted when she showed up her boyfriend’s side, a bit breathless from dancing. Max grinned as he wrapped an arm around her waist and kissed her on the forehead.

“Have a good time?” he asked and Liz smiled.

“Yeah,” she told him as a slow music started up and Max took Liz’s hand and led her out onto the dance floor. Liz placed a hand on his shoulder before resting her head on his chest as they both swayed to the music, both enjoying their time together.


Sarah, Alex, James and Maria had the same idea and started swaying with their partners.

“They seem really happy,” Sarah observed from where she was dancing with Alex, who smiled and nodded.

“Yeah, they are,” Alex, confirmed. “It’s been a rocky road for both of them and I’m just glad to see Liz with the man she loves.” Sarah looked up at him and smiled before she kissed him, both of them losing themselves in the other.

“Do you want to slip away early?” Maria asked from where she was encased in James’ arms as they danced, James looked down at her before smiling.

“Nah, let’s just stay here and dance the night away,” he told her and she giggled as James leaned down and kissed her, both of them enjoying their time together.

Liz sighed as she pulled away from Max after three slow dances and looked up at him.

“Let’s get out of here,” Liz told Max and he nodded as they both left the school with Tess glaring at their back, she was getting frustrated that Max had shown no interest in her whatsoever before she turned back to Michael, who was standing stiffly next to the table, his eyes on Maria and James, who were dancing and laughing.

“Are you ready to go?” Tess asked and Michael looked down at her.

“Yeah, let’s get out of here,” he told her and she nodded as they both left together while James leaned in and kissed Maria, both of them enjoying their night together.

“Let’s go,” Sarah told Alex as she looked up at him. Alex looked down.

“Are you sure?” he asked and she smiled.

“Yeah,” she told him and they both left the school with Isabel staring after Alex with a look of sadness adoring her face.


“What are we doing here?” Max asked as he and Liz entered the bowling alley. Liz grinned as she switched the lights on to a dim and took off her shoes before grabbing her socks.

“Something James and I learnt when I went to Florida to visit him once, that people put tons of wax on the alley to make it easier for the balls when bowling but what they don’t know is, that if you just slide on it with your socks, you actually feel like you are flying through air,” she explained as she pulled on her last sock and stood up.

Max pulled off his shoes so that he was clad in his socks.

“So, I’m guessing you want to try flying?” he asked with a amused smile and Liz smiled as she walked over to Max, took his hands and walked backward, pulling Max with her.

“Oh yeah,” she told him before they reached the edge of the alley and she slid herself across the lane. Max laughed as he slid across the lane before he caught up with her and they both started dancing on the lane, loving their time together.


Alex and Sarah made their way into Sarah’s bedroom, sliding Sarah’s dress off her body while removing Alex’s tux before they finally divested each other from their clothing and climbed into Sarah’s bed, where they kissed again, getting used to the feel of each other naked bodies pressed together.

Alex tore his mouth away from her and asked the one question that’s was burning in his mind.

“Are you sure?” Alex whispered and Sarah nodded. They both kissed as they crossed the last barrier toward lovers as the night began to fade into daylight.

TBC

[Bubblegal]

I'm SO Sorry everyone that i took so long, i just hated this chapter and i couldn't make myself sit down and write the damn thing. You'll see why.

Thanks for all the reviews:

Zanity: I always thought Liz's powers came in the beginning of the series when she gets gut instincts about people and that. Thanks for the bump.

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Timelord31: Glad you liked that chapter.

Cocogurl: She'll stick with Michael but it depends on how far she wants to go with him.

Luna_Seer: Here you go.

The dreaded chapter. WARNING: May need tissues near by. Sorry I took so long to get this up, I was dreading this chapter that it took me a while to actually go anywhere near it to sit down and type it up.

Chapter 22

“Well, well, well, someone looks like they’re the cat that ate the cream,” Maria teased as she walked past the door.

Alex just smiled as he looked at his best friend.

“Maybe that because I had the greatest time of my life last night,” Alex stated as he walked past his friend over to the counter, causing Maria to squeal, startling everyone.

“Oh, my baby boy is no longer a virgin!” Maria squealed as she hugged Alex, causing Liz to choke on her ice cream that she was currently eating while sitting next to Max.

“Jesus Maria,” Liz moaned once she swallowed her ice cream after making sure she wasn’t choking.

Everyone, minus James and Sarah, were in the Crashdown enjoying their time after the prom. “Did you have to say that?” Liz asked, Maria just grinned as she went to lift the tub of dirty dishes when Alex leaned forward and took it.

“Let me,” Alex told her before heading into the backroom with Maria and Liz watching in amusement.

“The boy has it bad,” Maria told them and Liz grinned as she tucked back into her ice cream before leaning against Max, who wrapped an arm around her shoulder and pressed a kiss to the side of her head.

“NO!” Everyone stopped what they were doing and turned to look at the backdoor as an anguish wail came. Liz hopped off her stool and made her way into the backroom with the gang following her.

Liz stopped when she saw Alex kneeling on the ground, enveloped in Jim’s arms; pain was obvious on his face as tears ran down his face.

“Mr Valenti?” Liz asked and Jim looked up.

I’m sorry, Sarah’s dead,” he whispered, Liz’s hand shot up to her mouth as she stifled a gasp before she and Maria moved forward and took Jim’s place in comforting Alex, who just wrapped his arms around their waist, holding them close.

“What happened?” Max asked once everyone followed Jim out of the backroom, leaving the girls alone with their distraught best friend.

“Car crash, she crashed head on into a truck,” Jim explained and Max sighed as he rested his back on the counter before looking away out of the window.

“How?” Isabel asked and Jim shook his head.

“No one knows, the driver said that she just drove head on into him but he can’t be too clear because of the bright head lights. It’s possible he may have swerved off the road and into her,” Jim explained.

The backdoor opened and everyone, except Max, turned to see Alex being held up by his best friends. Max turned back to face Jim.

“Take me to her,” Max told him, Jim locked eyes with him and both of them stared into each other eyes for a long moment before Jim nodded.

“Okay,” he whispered and Max nodded as he turned to face his girlfriend and felt his heart clench at the tear marks down her cheeks.


Alex, Isabel, Jim, Tess, Michael, Maria, Jim and Liz found themselves standing outside the van where Sarah’s body was being held while Max was inside the van. Max closed his eyes before he reached out and unzipped the bag; he took one look and sighed.

“Max is just gonna go in there, heal Sarah and they’re just gonna come out, happy. Sarah, of course will be confused but she might take the news of Max and co being alien a little better than the rest of us,” Alex joked weakly. Maria and Liz just tightened their hold on his arms, praying that he was right.

Max came out of the van; he shut the door before turning to face Alex and shook his head. Alex felt the last of his hopes just crumble away; he jerked himself away from his friends and ran off.

“Alex!” Maria shouted before she turned to Liz, who just shrugged helplessly.

“Go after him Maria, he needs someone to talk to,” Liz told her. “I’ll catch up with you two later, he won’t be able to handle us both together,” Liz explained and Maria nodded as she ran off in the same direction that Alex ran off.

“How come you couldn’t heal her?” Isabel asked, Max just paled before looking away.

“She was too far gone,” Max, explained vaguely. Liz stepped forward and Max enveloped her in his arms, holding her closed before dropping a kiss onto her forehead.

“I need to go and see Lois and see if she needs any help,” Jim told them, as Max pulled away from Liz and nodded to him. Jim and Kyle walked off.
They heard a clanging noise and they turned to see the men wheeling the body bag out, Liz let out a small cry causing Max to gather her into his arms and turn away from the sight.

“Oh god,” Isabel whispered as she covered her mouth.

“Let’s go,” Michael stated as he led Tess away from the scene. Max shook his head as he led Liz and Isabel toward the jeep.

“Let’s go home,” he told them and they nodded as they climbed into the jeep. Liz sat in front with Max while Isabel sat in the back. Max drove the way to the Evans’ and pulled up in the driveway. He helped Liz out of the car and led the way up the pathway till they stepped into the house.

Diane and Phillip looked up from where they were sitting in the living room and smiled when they saw their kids and Liz step into the house.

They stood up and made their way into the hallway.

“Hi honey,” Diane greeted as when she saw Max but stopped when she saw the solemn look on his face and the tear tracks on Liz’s face and the sadness in Isabel’s eyes.

“What’s wrong?” Phillip asked.

“Sarah was killed tonight in a car accident,” Max explained. Diane’s eyes widen as they filled with tears and covered her mouth as a shocked gasp came out. Phillip just rocked back in shock.

“What?” Phillip demanded in a raspy voice.

“No one knows what happened yet, Jim came into the Crashdown and told Alex that Sarah was in a car accident. It seems that Sarah ran her car head into the truck that was passing or the truck ran into her, they’re not sure yet,” Max explained.

“Oh god, poor Lois,” Diane whispered.

“Liz is going to stay here tonight, I don’t want her to be alone,” Max explained and Diane nodded.

“Sure thing honey, do you want anything to drink? Or to eat?” she asked.

“I wouldn’t mind some hot chocolate, I need sugar,” Liz spoke up and Diane smiled sadly as she nodded and reached out for the petite girl.
“Come on sweetie,” Diane whispered as she took Liz into her arms and made their way into the kitchen with Max, Isabel and Phillip following them.

Diane made up the hot chocolate as she watched as Max sat on his chair next to Liz and let her lean her body into his as he held her close. She handed them the hot chocolate, making sure it had extra sugar in it for the shock and watched them as they all tried to come to term to what had just happened to them.

“You go to bed and get some sleep, you’ll need it,” Diane told them and they nodded as they walked off toward the bedrooms to try and get some sleep.


Max and Liz were in Max’s bed; Liz was curled up on her side with Max spooning her from behind.

Liz bolted up from the bed and rushed into the bathroom. Max was startled out of his sleep when he heard retching. He climbed out of bed and stumbled toward the bathroom. He saw Liz kneeling in front of the toilet. He grabbed the washcloth and wet it before kneeling down beside her and holding back her hair as she emptied her stomach.

Once she stopped, Max sat down on the floor and brought Liz between his legs. She sighed as she rested the back of her head against his bare chest as he brought the wet cloth and wiped her face with her.

“I’m here,” Max, whispered as he kissed the top of her head, still cooling her down before throwing the cloth into the sink and flushed the toilet before lifting her up into his arms.

“I gotta brush my teeth,” Liz mumbled sleepily and Max smothered a small grin before sitting down on the toilet seat and settle her on his lap. He grabbed her toothbrush and toothpaste; he put the toothpaste on her toothbrush and handed it to her before filling out the small cup with water as she brushed her teeth then rinsed her mouth out.

Once she was finished, Max wiped her mouth before lifting her up into his arms once more and headed into the bedroom. He settled her in the bed and pulled the light sheets over her body before heading back into the bathroom where he cleaned the cloth and threw it into the hamper before switching the lights off and made his way into the hallway where he walked down into the kitchen.

He turned when he heard a noise and saw Diane standing there.

“How’s Liz? I thought I heard her throwing up,” Diane explained and Max nodded.

“Yeah, don’t worry too much about it. She did the same when her grandma died, she keeps it all bottled up inside that it gets too much for her body to handle,” Max explained as he reached for a glass and filled it up with water.

“Are you sure?” Diane asked and Max nodded.

“Yeah, the same thing happened when she is extremely stressed out. She’s not pregnant mom,” Max told her, knowing what his mother was thinking and she gave an embarrassed laugh.

“Sorry,” she told him and he shook his head.

“Trust me, if I didn’t know Liz’s habits so well, I would be thinking that she was pregnant, but she isn’t. We’ve both been very careful mom,” Max told her and she nodded.

“Okay, go back to her. God knows the pair of you are going to need all the sleep you can,” Diane told her, Max nodded as he kissed his mother’s cheek before leaving her alone in the kitchen.

Diane just sighed to herself as she wrapped her arms around her middle tighter as she looked out of the window. She couldn’t believe that Sarah was dead, a young girl who was the same age as her son, younger than her daughter. She had her whole life ahead of her and it was ripped away from her like that.

She jumped slightly when she felt arms slip around her waist and leaned back into Phillip’s embrace.

“Liz was being sick?” he asked and Diane nodded.

“Max assured me it was a normal, that she had a habit of bottling things up till it forces its way out one way or another,” Diane explained and Phillip chuckled slightly.

“She’s a perfect match for Max, that one,” Phillip stated and Daine smiled in agreement as they both stood there, in front of the window, staring out into the darkness as the next morning events lingered in the back of their mind.


Liz found herself standing in front of Max’s mirror, straightening her necklace before running a brush over her hair once more. Max walked up behind her, dressed in his suit and tie, placing his hands on her shoulders.

“You okay?” he whispered and Liz gave him a watery smile.

“In time,” she whispered and he nodded as he dropped his arms and wrapped them around her waist as she turned around in his arms and held him close, just breathing in the scent that was Max Evans.

“Are you ready?” a female voice asked and they turned to see Isabel standing there in her black jumper and trousers and boots.

“Yeah,” Max whispered as he separated one arm from Liz’s body and they both walked out of his room and into the hallway where Diane and Phillip were waiting.

They all made their way out of the house, Isabel went into the car with her parents while Max and Liz went in the jeep.

They arrived at the graveyard and joined up with their friends as Alex and three other males that Liz didn’t recognised carried the coffin on their shoulder toward the grave that was buried for Sarah and only for Sarah.

They placed the coffin onto the strips, they stepped back and the priest
stepped up. Max walked over to Liz and wrapped his arms around her as she leaned into him. James just kissed the top of Maria’s head while Tess wrapped her arm around Michael’s. Isabel placed her hand on Alex’s shoulder, he looked at her and she squeezed it before stepping back next to her parents, unwilling to tread on his grieving of his lover.

Maria started to sing ‘grace’, everyone stood around her as she sung the song for Sarah. When Maria was finished, the priest took up and told every one of how Sarah was a young woman whose life has been taken early and how she was safe in the hands of god when he stood to the side and Alex took his place.

“Sarah and I met in the summer. She took me by surprise and I was interested in her after our first meeting. We took our relationship slow because both of us had been burned by past relationships. We had plans to go on holiday this summer, just the two of us to get away from Roswell and concentrate on each other but that’s not going to happen because she was taken from me. I love her. She was my first true love and I will never forget her,” Alex whispered the last part before stepping down. Liz reached out and took Alex’s hand.

Alex looked at her and smiled sadly at her before turning back to face the coffin once more as it started to be lowered into the ground.

“Ashes to Ashes, dust to dust, may you find peace,” the priest stated. Alex took a step forward and picked up the shovel of dirt and dropped it on top of the coffin before kissing a red rose and dropped it into the hole before stepping backward.

Liz stepped forward and picked up some dust.

“Live in peace Sarah, we’ll look after Alex, I promise,” Liz whispered before dropping the dirt and walked back into Max’s arms with everyone else taking their turn stepping forward and saying short words before dropping the dirt in.


Everyone found himself or herself at Lois’s house. She was sitting on the couch, just staring into space with Diane next to her, holding her hand and patting it every now and then with Phillip standing and talking to Jim.

Liz looked around and saw that Alex was missing.

“Alex must be in Sarah’s room, he said that he wanted to talk to us all,” Liz told Max, who nodded. He looked around and gestured to everyone to go upstairs, they all nodded and made their way upstairs with Max and Liz taking up the rear.

They entered Sarah room and saw Alex sitting on the bed, holding Sarah’s teddy bear.

“So, what’s up?” Kyle asked and Alex stood up and handed Kyle the folder that Jim had given him just after the funeral. Kyle took it and read through it before his eyes widen at the conclusion.

“They’re saying its suicide,” Kyle commented.

“What?” Maria demanded. “That’s ridiculous, Sarah would never do that.”

“So far, it’s the only thing that makes sense,” Kyle told them as he read through the notes. “The driver is 100 percent certain that Sarah droved on his side of the road.”

“You brought us up here to tell us about this?” Michael demanded. “What’s so important, it’s was suicide, now written there in black and white.”
“It could have been an alien,” Alex stated, causing everyone to look at him.

“What the hell is that supposed to mean?” Michael snapped.

“Exactly what it meant,” Alex stated. “There is no way that Sarah would commit suicide, no way so that means someone forced her. And what are we all involved in?” Alex asked.

“This has nothing to do with us!” Tess snapped.

“She’s right, I mean, it’s not as if our enemies know about Sarah,” Isabel stated but Alex shook his head.

“I say that I’m right, that an alien drove Sarah to her death and I’m not going to give up till I find out who it was,” Alex stated, determinedly.

Michael growled before stepping past them with a hard shoulder shove to Alex while leading Tess out, Isabel followed a suit. Max looked at Liz before looking at Alex and shook his head.

“I’m sorry I couldn’t heal her,” Max whispered before leaving the room. Liz rested her head on Maria’s shoulder.

“I guess that means it’s us against them,” Kyle stated as he watched the scene.

“This isn’t fair Alex,” Liz stated as she stood up, causing Alex to look at her. “Max would never put any of us in danger.”

“He’s still part of the cause,” Alex snapped and Liz took a step back as she looked at Alex with a hurt look.

“And I guess that means I’m part of it too as I’m the one who got shot and basically got us all pulled in,” Liz told him, causing Alex wishing he could take back his words. “Don’t make me choose, please Alex? I love you and Maria but I love Max too,” Liz pleaded him before leaving the room, leaving Kyle, Alex and Maria alone together.

“Yep, definitely us against them,” Kyle stated once more before they all lapsed into silence.

TBC

[Bubblegal]

Believe it or not but I wrote this whole chapter TODAY! It’s getting harder to write because I’m focused on another fan fiction story – Harry Potter so my concentration has been a bit divided, add in the fact that I’m now working at a part time job so – cross fingers and I hope I will get this finished soon – not a lot of chapters left (Hopefully).

If you are a bit squeamish about Michael/Tess and Maria/James – try and skip those parts.

Thanks to everyone who reviewed,

roswell3053: Sorry about killing Sarah off, i didn't have a choice in the matter. You will see how the invesigation going. The heart-wrenching moment, well, i know at least one more so i will give you a warning when it comes.

Zanity: Max and Liz loves their respective others but they will go on their own views and right now they are torn between wanting to comfort their family and each other. you will see how they try and keep their relationship out of the crossfire while helping their families.

Timelord31: Have to do the unexpected at some point.

LoveIsForever: I always thought of Max's string weren't being pulled by Tess, he would have been more receptive to Liz's thoughts on Alex being killed, so as Max is with Liz and is thinking clearly, he accepts the possibilities but has some questions to why it could have happened.

Cocogurl: Max is more recptive to to what is going on and he will help Liz, he'll will have problems later with the results but he would never try and stop Liz from doing what she thought was right, he's not with Tess in this story, he's with Liz.

Here's the next chapter.


Chapter 23

Liz made her way over to Max’s house. She knocked on the door and Isabel opened it a few seconds later.

“What do you want?” Isabel snipped. “Here to throw more harsh accusations at us?” Liz shot her a glare.

“Grow up Isabel, Alex just lost the person he loves. He has a right to be looking for answers,” Liz replied. “I’m here to see Max.”

“Max doesn’t want to see you,” Isabel shot back and Liz arched an eyebrow as she looked over Isabel’s shoulder.

“Is that right?” she asked, not looking at Isabel. Isabel turned to see Max standing there, his eyes dark.

“Move,” Max, whispered and Isabel stepped out of the way, not wanting to set Max’s anger off. “Come on in,” Max told Liz, who stepped into the house and shut the door behind her before making her way over to Max.

Max took her hand they both walked down the hallway toward Max’s room, leaving Isabel alone in the hallway.

“Are you okay?” Liz asked. She and Max were sitting on his bed, facing each other. Max sighed.

“I can understand why Alex is blaming us,” he admitted and she cupped his face.

“No, Max. Alex is just torn, I mean, he finds out that Sarah is dead then gets told that it was suicide, he’s just looking for something to hold onto and dismissing that Sarah committed suicide is one way,” Liz explained and Max pinned Liz with a look.

“And you don’t believe that it was suicide,” he told her and Liz sighed as she closed her eyes before shrugging.

“I don’t know what to believe Max,” she admitted. “My gut instincts are just fucked up at the moment and I feel like my head is everywhere. It doesn’t help that I’ve not spoken to my parents since my outburst after Vegas, being torn between the humans and the aliens are not making things any easier,” she explained and Max nodded as he shifted closer, enveloping her in his arms.

“I know baby, I know,” Max whispered before he kissed her forehead. “To tell you the truth, I want to believe Alex but we have no evidence saying that it was alien related and I have no idea where to start if it was alien related. I mean, why go for Alex’s girlfriend? She doesn’t even know about us so what would they gain from killing her?” Max asked and Liz looked up at her.

“I guess we should track her footsteps, you know, just see if there’s anything suspicious about her behaviour or anything that she did without us realising it,” Liz told him and Max nodded.

“But not right now,” Max told her. “I just want to hold you for a while.” Liz nodded as they shifted on the bed, Max laid down on his side and Liz curled up on her side, her head resting on his chest as he played with her hair, both of them comforting the other.


Maria knocked on a door and stood on the doorstep. A minute later, the door opened, revealing James standing there.

“Maria?” he asked. “I thought you were going to stay with Alex.”

“Yeah, changes of plans. Alex wanted to be alone,” she admitted and James nodded as he stood to the side and let Maria through into the house before shutting the door behind her and led her into the living room. Nancy and Jeff had gone up to Florida for a break, mostly at James’ begging saying that Liz needed space and they needed a break.

“So, how are you doing?” James asked as he and Maria sat down on the couch and Maria shook her head.

“It’s like I’m stuck in a nightmare and there’s no way to get out,” Maria admitted and James nodded.

“That would happen, death is never easy on anyone,” James told her and Maria looked at him.

“When I heard about Sarah, you know what my first thought was?” she asked and James shook his head. “What if it had been you,” she admitted. “God, I started freaking out, I mean, Sarah was only 17, the same age as me and she was killed in an automatic accident. It made me realise how short life is and how we shouldn’t waste our time on things that could have happened,” she explained and James nodded. “I love you,” she whispered and James looked at her, shocked.

“What?” he asked and she gave him a watery smile.

“I love you, amazingly as it sounds,” she told him and James gave her a slow smile.

“I love you too,” he whispered before he leaned over and kissed her gently on the lips. Maria moaned as she slipped her hands into his hair, holding him as James slipped his arms around her waist, pulling her closer.

Maria’s hands slipped down and ran under his shirt, resting her hands on his hot back. James groaned as he copied the action under her shirt before Maria pulled away and slipped his t-shirt off his body before he pulled his hands out under her shirt and unbuttoned the shirt as he went.

He peeled it off her body and stared at her as she looked up at him. She was dressed in a pale yellow bra.

“Can we go to your room?” Maria asked and James nodded as they both stood up and James kissed her once more as he walked her backward toward his room. He pressed her against the door as they both kicked their shoes off before James grabbed the knob and twisted it, letting them both through and he kicked the door shut with his foot before they moved over to the bed.

James slipped his hands down her back till he reached the zipper of her skirt and unzipped it. Maria took a step back and let the skirt fall down to her feet, pooling while she reached out and unzipped James’ jeans, she pushed at it, helping it fall to the ground.

James stepped out of his jeans and kicked them away as he hauled Maria back up against his body, loving the feeling of her body against his.

He laid her down on the bed and followed her. They pulled the covers off and pushed it down toward the bottom of the bed before settling back on it and removed their underwear as they went.

Soon, James was between Maria’s legs, protected with his cock pressing at the entrance.

“Are you sure?” James asked and Maria nodded.

“Yes,” she whispered and James, slowly, slid himself in before thrusting himself fully, breaking her barrier as he went before stilling, letting her get used to him being inside of her.

After a few seconds, Maria shifted her hips and James got the hint. He pulled himself out and then thrusted himself back into her, causing her to lift her hips in order to accommodate his movements. She wrapped her legs around his waist as James rested his body on hers as he kissed her, rubbing her clit as he went.

Soon Maria felt the pain evolving into pleasure, causing her to moan and arch her body into his. James groaned when he felt her walls slicken and starting to clamp down around him. He reached down between them and rubbed this thumb around her clit, pushing her over the edge.

He grunted as he came too, spilling into his condom before pulling away from her and landed on his back. He reached down and pulled the condom off before tying it and threw it into the bin before he turned on his back and Maria curled herself up next to him, resting her head on his shoulder as she pulled the covers over their bodies as they laid there.

“Are you okay?” James asked and Maria smiled as she looked up at him.

“Never better,” she told him and he smiled as he leaned down and kissed her gently on the lips before they both relaxed back into their normal place, just enjoying the aftermath of their love making.


Meanwhile, Liz was sneaking through the darken halls of Roswell High School with Max and Alex following her as they made their way over to the files locker room. She and Max had met up with Alex and told him that they would help him to find any evidence that Sarah had been murdered rather than had committed Suicide. Alex had shown them all the photographs that Sarah had taken when she went to Sweden.

They had agreed it was a good place to start. Liz had found a photo of Sarah and a blonde haired girl, called Leanne. There was a building in the background that Liz didn’t recognised and she had faxed it to the Swedish Embassy and asked them to contact her regarding information’s on the building while Alex contacted the family that Sarah had been staying with.

Max reached past Liz and used his powers to unlock the door, allowing Liz to step in with the boys following her as Max shut the door behind him.

“We’re gonna get arrested,” Liz muttered under her breath as they moved over to the locker and Liz pulled open a filing cabinet and pulled out a file. “Here’s Sarah’s file.” She turned to see their shocked expression. “What? I volunteered once!” she explained, defensively and they nodded as it came to back them and Alex took the file and flipped through it before frowning.

“I thought Sarah was a honour student,” Alex told them and Liz nodded.

“She is, all I heard from the teachers was how high her grades were,” Liz confirmed and Alex tipped the files and showed it to Liz.

“Then why are her grades slipping?” he asked and Liz took it and looked through it.

“This is not right, Sarah is the same grade as me in maths and science,” Liz told them. “She’s higher than Maria in history and English because she was helping Maria in those topics.”

“I think that Sarah might have thought her grades were still the same but the teachers noticed it was slipping, the question is, why were they slipping?” Max asked and they looked up when they heard a noise.

Liz closed the files and placed it back into the cabinet and shut the drawer before they all moved over to the wall, near the door and Alex switched off his flashlight.

“You locked the door after we came in, right?” Alex whispered to Max and Max nodded in reply as they saw a blurry image of light walking past the door.

They stayed in the same place for a short moment before they moved over to the door. Liz stuck her head out and looked around before stepping out with Alex and Max. Max locked the door with his powers before they hurried over to the entrance of the school and let themselves out.

They hurried over to the jeep and jumped in. Max set it into gear and they drove away from the school, breathing heavily as they did and Liz rested her the back of her head on the headrest.

“Great, I’m gonna be jazzed up on adrenaline all night,” Liz told them.

“At least we got some answers,” Alex pointed out.

“But more questions,” Max added and Alex nodded in agreement as Liz turned to face him.

“Have the family that Sarah was staying with been in contact with you yet?” Liz asked and Alex shook his head.

“No, not yet,” Alex told them and Max turned to face her.

“What about the Swedish Embassy, have they contacted you?” Max asked Liz and she shook her head.

“No, not yet,” she told him. “It does take a while to sort out their messages and find out what building I was talking about,” Liz told him and they nodded as Max pulled up outside Alex’s house.

“There’s nothing more we can do tonight, till someone gets back in contact with us, we’re stuck,” Max told Alex and he nodded.

“I know,” Alex whispered and Liz reached out and touched Alex’s shoulder.

“We could be onto something here,” Liz told him and Alex nodded before he climbed out of the jeep and walked up to his house.

Max and Liz just sat there in the jeep, at lost what to say to make him feel better but at the same time they knew that it wouldn’t be long till he actually grieved for Sarah.


“What is this place?” Michael asked as he looked around and Tess smiled.

“This is the Observatory, its where people studies the stars,” Tess explained. “You told me how you wish you could be closer to our home, look through the telescope,” she told him.

Michael leaned down and looked through the eyepiece of the telescope and saw the v constellations.

“Our home planet,” Michael breathed as he pulled away and looked at Tess, who smiled.

“Yeah,” she told him as they both looked toward the stars once more.
Michael turned to Tess as she turned to face him before he leaned down and kissed her. Tess moaned slightly she wrapped her arms around his neck, holding on. Michael wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her in closer as she started pulling at his jacket. He let go of her waist and let her peel his jacket off before he reached up and took off her jacket.

They got rid of the other’s shirts, jeans, shoes and socks as they went before lying down on the ground. Tess found herself straddling Michael as Michael peeled her bra off before rolling them over and slipped off her pants as she slipped off his boxers before he lifted himself and slid himself into her.

Tess moaned out in delight as she arched her body into his before he started thrusting himself in and out of her, losing himself in the process as the sensation ran over through their bodies.

They rolled about on the floor, lost in their lust as their orgasms took over their bodies.


Meanwhile, in Max’s bedroom a ring shrilled through the room. Two figures were in bed started moving about due to the noise.

“Liz, it’s your cell,” Max mumbled and Liz muttered under her breath as she felt around for her phone before she located it, flipped it open and brought it to her ear.

“Yeah?” she asked.

/Hello, is this Liz Parker? / A male voice asked and Liz got up on her
elbow and rubbed her eyes.

“Yeah,” she replied, groggily.

/It’s the Swedish Embassy, / the male replied and Liz snapped herself awake.

“Oh, thanks for getting back to me. So, do you know what the building in the photo is?” she asked.

/Yes, we do but we are confused, when was this picture taken? / The male asked.

“February and onward,” Liz replied.

/You see, that’s impossible, / he told her.

“Why?” she asked.

/Because that building has been torn down, it’s been destroyed for years now, / he told her and Liz stared at Max in a mixture of shock and fear.

TBC

You might see that the Sex scenes seem a little rush (Okay, a lot rushed) mostly because I’m not in the sexy mood and it’s going all crazy here. Sorry.

[Bubblegal]

Thanks to everyone who reviewed,

Zanity: Alex was sorry that he had said what he had said and he wasn't about to let help get away, espeically if it is an alien thing, then Max would get proof and would be able to help Alex even more.

roswell3053: You'll see in this chapter.

LoveIsForever: Yeah, I decided that Maria should have a break and concentrate on her relationship with James and Isabel isn't too happy with Alex and Michael is too busy with Tess. You'll see in this chapter.

Timelord31: Glad you liked it.

Here's the next chapter.


Chapter 24


Michael woke up, confused about his surrounded till he looked around and saw that he was still at the observation building. He looked down and saw Tess curled up next to him and they both were naked with their clothes scattered over the place.
He lifted his watch and saw that it was getting close to morning before he looked down at Tess, who began to stir.

She looked up at him and smiled.

“Hey,” she greeted and Michael smiled back.

“Hey, we better get back,” he told her and she nodded as she reached up and kissed him before she started pulling her clothes over to her and pulled them on. Michael did the same before they stood up and made their way out of the observation centre.


Maria moaned as she opened her eyes and found herself staring into familiar brown eyes and she smiled.

“Hey,” she whispered and James smiled back.

“Hey, how are you feeling?” he asked and she shifted slightly.

“Great,” she told him and he arched an eyebrow before flicking his eyes down over their cover clad bodies.

“I meant lower,” he admitted and she smiled as she cupped his cheek.

“A little sore,” she admitted. “But it’s suppose to happen. Liz told me that it won’t last that long.” James winced.

“You just had to mention her and that in the same sentence didn’t you?” he asked and she laughed.

“Come on James, she’s been with Max for over a year now, it obvious they’ve…” his index finger covered her lips.

“I don’t need the image of my cousin, someone I see as a sister, and her boyfriend together thank you very much,” James told her and she nodded with a amused smile playing on her lips before she turned onto her side and curled herself into his body, enjoying their closeness.


Michael walked Tess up to the door when it opened, revealing Jim and Kyle standing there.

“Tess, get in,” he ordered her, she looked up at him before looking at Michael then stepped into the house. “We are going to have a talk,” Jim warned her and she nodded as she walked into her bedroom while Jim turned back to look at Michael before shaking his head and shutting the door in Michael’s face.

Tess made her way into the bathroom and she pulled her top off and saw a blue glow start up when her hand touched her stomach, puzzled, she turned back to the mirror and placed her hand on her stomach and saw the blue glow and a soft excited smile lit up her face as understanding dawned on her.


“What are you talking about?” Max asked. He and Liz were sitting on his bed, facing each other.

“The building that Sarah and Leanne are in front of have been destroyed years ago, it means this picture is a fake,” Liz explained and Max rubbed his forehead.

“So, that means Sarah was never in Sweden?” Max asked and Liz shrugged.

“It looks like it,” Liz admitted and Max sighed.

“Great, with every answer we get, we get more questions,” he muttered and Liz nodded in agreement as she moved closer to him.

“So, it looks like alien doesn’t it?” she asked and Max nodded.

“Yeah, that’s what I’m afraid off because as easy as it is to manipulate a photo, Sarah wouldn’t lie about being in Sweden, she obviously cared about Alex too much to lie to him,” Max told her and Liz nodded before resting her head on his chest.

“How are we suppose to tell Alex?” she asked but didn’t get any answer from Max and she knew that because Max didn’t have an answer to that question and she closed her eyes, wishing that the world would disappear for once and leave them alone to be normal couples in love.


“So, what are you saying?” Alex asked and Liz sighed.

“We gonna have to head to Las Crusade, I posted a picture of Sarah on the Internet, letting people know she died and I got a hit, apparently, Sarah was at Las Crusade, half of the pupils are positive they saw her there and even interacted with her but her name wasn’t Sarah, it was Ella,” Liz explained and Alex sighed.

“Why would she go to Las Crusade?” Alex asked and Liz shrugged.

“That’s why we’re heading up there, I’m hoping we will get answers,” Liz told him and Max nodded in agreement.

“We have to leave this morning, Liz and I have already told our parents that we were heading up to Las Crusade to check out university because there is an opening day up there, are you going to tell you parents anything?” Max asked and Alex shook his head.

“Nah, they’re letting me do my own thing at the moment because of Sarah,” he told them and they nodded.

“Great, all we need to do is pack up some stuff because it needs to be an over night thing,” Max told him and Alex nodded.

“What about Leanne?” Alex asked and Liz sighed.

“I got her phone-number and I called her. I told her about Sarah/Ella and she agreed to meet up with us because she was concerned about Sarah too and she wants to know what photographs I’m talking about because they did get their photographs taken but she was under the impression that they never got to them because she was suppose to get a copy but never did,” Liz explained.

“So we think that they cut her out of the loop because it looks like they mind warped Sarah, but we can’t be too sure,” Max explained.

“Nicholas?” Alex asked and Max shrugged.

“So far yes, he’s the only one to gain from us but the question is, why Sarah and why send her to Las Crusade? What is so important there that he needed Sarah?” Max asked.

“I’ll guess we’ll find out when we arrive there,” Alex told them and they nodded. “Right, I better get to the house and pack, meet back out here, say in an hour?” he asked and Max nodded.

“That’ll give me time to sort things out with Isabel, Michael and Tess, I haven’t told them anything we’ve found out,” Max admitted and Liz winced too.

“I haven’t told Kyle, Jim and Maria anything too, everything came to a head yesterday,” Liz admitted and Alex nodded in understanding.

“Could we try and keep it between us?” Alex asked and they looked at him. “I don’t want them to know, especially if it turns out to be nothing. If it’s definitely alien, then we can let them know,” Alex explained and Max sighed.

“Sure,” Max told him and Liz nodded in agreement.

“No problem.” They all stood up. Max and Liz made their way out of the backroom of the Crashdown, up Liz’s apartment while Alex made his way out of the Crashdown to his house.

“Have you spoken to your parents yet?” Max asked as they made their way into Liz’s bedroom and she shook her head as she shut the door behind them.

“I can’t, not right now. Not with everything taking up my time at the moment,” Liz explained and Max caught her arm and pulled her over to the bed and sat them both down so they were facing each other.

“Liz, you can’t keep this bottled up. You’ve been sick every night,” he reminded and she nodded.

“I know,” she whispered before looking into his eyes. “But how can I talk to the people who lied to me all my life?” she asked and Max shook his head as he pulled her into a hug and rested his chin on top of her head.

“Baby, they were doing it to protect you, they tried to tell you but the time wasn’t right for them,” he explained and Liz shook her head against his chest.

“Still no excuse,” she whispered and Max nodded in agreement before he kissed her head and held her closer.


They finally met back up with Alex an hour later and found themselves in front of Las Crusade a few hours later, standing in front of the dormitories that the students were to stay in when Liz looked at her paper that she had written the address on before leading the way into the building and up the stairs till she reached the level she was to reach.

They followed Liz as she made her way over to a room, she knocked on a door and stepped back till she was standing next to Max, who took her hand.

The door opened and a blonde stood there.

“Hi, are you Leanne?” Liz asked and she nodded. “I’m Liz, we spoke on the phone,” Liz reminded and Leanne nodded before smiling.

“Oh yes, come in,” Leanne told them as she stepped back and let them through before closing the door and led them through into the living room.

“Here’s the photos that Sarah had,” Liz told Leanne once they all sat down and Liz took out a package from her bags and handed them over to Leanne, who took them and flicked through them.

“I recognise the postures, we posed for the photos but not in those background,” Leanne told her and Liz nodded.

“Yeah, it’s been determined that they are fake, could you tell me anything about Sarah/Ella about what she was like? When she came back to Roswell, she was acting a little weird and her grades were slipping,” Liz explained and Leanne nodded.

“Sure, she was weird too. Her moods were totally unpredictable, one moment she would extremely cheerful, the next she would be in a completely bad mood,” Leanne told her. “And she kept writing in weird way, she used numbers instead of letters.” Liz looked at her.

“I noticed that she did that in class, when I pointed it out to her, she was confused. It was like she snapped out of whatever daze she was in and realised that she had been doing it,” Liz told her and Leanne nodded.

“Same here and she was always ordering spicing food then putting Tabasco in it, which was weird,” Leanne told them. “The funny thing, it had to be the same food all the time, if they got an order wrong or added something in that wasn’t in the last time, she would blow her temper.”

“Did she do anything that seemed out of the ordinary?” Alex asked and Leanne nodded.

“Oh yeah, she was always in the computer room, she rarely ever came out of it,” Leanne told him and they nodded.

“What did she seem like?” Liz asked and Leanne looked at her. “I mean, she did seem depressed or something like that?” Leanne shook her head.

“No, not really. I mean, she had a lot of headaches and mood swings but nothing to indicate her unhappiness or anything like that,” Leanne told her and Liz nodded as she stood up with Leanne, Alex and Max.

“Thanks for talking with us,” Liz told Leanne and both girls shook hands.

“No problem, I hope you’ll find out what really happened to Sarah,” Leanne told her and Liz nodded as Leanne opened the door and they all stepped out and walked away.

“So, what now?” Max asked.

“We look for where Sarah spent her time, the computer lab. There has to be something on the computers that she used that can tell us what the hell she was doing,” Liz told them and they nodded as they headed out of the building.

They headed over to the computer lab and walked in. Liz noticed a guy standing near the printer and walked over to him. “Hi, I’m Liz Parker, I’m here about Sarah/Ella?” she told him and the guy nodded.

“I’m Jack, I saw Ella here in the lab all the time,” Jack told her and she nodded.

“I’m looking for information on what Sarah/Ella was working on while she was here, did she use a particular computer or was it all different ones?” Liz asked and Jack pointed to the last one at the far end of the room.

“She was always on that one, no matter what. She even had it reserved so no-one else could go on it,” Jack told her and Liz nodded.

“Thanks,” she told him and he smiled back.

“No problem, always doing my best to help beautiful women like you,” he told her and she grinned before lifting her left hand.

“Sorry, taken,” she told him, showing him her promise ring that Max had given her for Christmas before moving over to the men and led them over to the computer that Sarah had been working on.

“This the computer she was working on?” Max asked and Liz nodded as she looked at Alex.

“Can you try and find anything she was working on?” Liz asked and Alex nodded as he sat down in front of the computer and switched it on before searching through the database till he found the dates that Sarah had been in ‘Sweden’ and brought the files up. He tried accessing them but found that they were locked in another file that was inaccessible from here.

“They’re locked,” Alex told them. “And not here.”

“How do you mean?” Max asked as he looked at the computer.

“Sarah transferred these files to a difference computer in a different location than we’re in…and it look like she sent them to a printer in another area too,” Alex noticed.

“Can you find out where?” Liz asked as she leaned down and Alex frowned as he thought about it before nodding and started tapping in some codes as Max looked around the room only to see it was nearly empty except from the guy what Liz had gotten information from and saw that he was busy on his computer.

“I can use my powers,” Max whispered and Alex looked up at him before nodding. Max leaned in and placed his hand on top of the monitor and the files started popping up and being accessed to till a faint beeping sound started and Max pulled his hand away for Alex to see the location of the printer.

“Got it,” Alex told them as Liz pulled out a pad and wrote down the address.

“Let’s head out there and see what we can find,” Liz told them and they nodded as Alex closed down the files and shut down the computers before they left the computer lab together.


Michael made his way over to the park, near the basketball court and saw Tess sitting at the bench, staring up into the night sky.

“Hey,” Michael greeted as he rounded the table and sat down next to her, she looked up at him and smiled.

“Hey,” she whispered.

“How did it go with Valenti?” he asked and Tess grinned.

“Just a short warning how I’m not allowed to be out past curfew,” she told him and he nodded.

“You called me saying you had something to tell me,” Michael told her and she nodded before looking down and Michael looked at her, curious to know what was going on with girlfriend. “Tess?” Michael asked and Tess looked up at him.

“I’m pregnant Michael, with your baby,” Tess told him and Michael’s smile faded as he looked at Tess in a shock.


Max pulled the jeep to a stop outside the dome that the address had been and the three of them stepped out of the jeep.

“This is where the printer is?” Alex asked and Liz looked at the address on the pad before looking at the map and nodded.

“Yeah, I’m guessing whatever Sarah was working on, it wasn’t something she could just stash in her room,” Liz told him and they nodded as they moved over to the dome. Max placed his hand over the lock and opened the door before pulling the door opened and let Liz step in before walking in behind her with Alex following them.

They looked around to see the computer was on and working like mad while the printer was filled with a stack of paper and was still printing out more paper.

“She must have transferred everything over here,” Alex told them.

Liz made her way over the computer before she spied something familiar.

“Max?” she called out and Max looked over to her as she picked something up and turned it to face Max, who looked at the object in a stunned shock.

“How the hell did she get this?” Max asked as he moved closer to her and took the book into his hands as she picked up sheets of papers and flicked through them.

“Max…she’s been decoding the book,” Liz told him in a stunned shock as she looked up at him.

Max looked at her before looking at the book in his hands then looking at the papers in her hands and understanding dawned on him.

“Someone wanted her to decode the book so they mind warped her into doing so,” Max whispered before looking at Alex. “She was killed for the book.”

Alex just stared at Max before looking at the computer that sat there as he tried to comprehend everything that had been revealed to him.

“What are we gonna do now?” Liz asked and Max shook his head.

“We need to get back home,” Max told them and Liz nodded as she grabbed all the papers and placed them into a folder before grabbing the book from Max’s hand and wrapped it up in a jumper before placing it into her bag.

Alex moved around the room, collecting the disks and cds that were left lying around that Sarah had copied things onto before placing them into his bag while Max looked around for anymore alien artefacts that Sarah might have had accessed to.

“I don’t get it though,” Liz stated and Max looked at her. “You guys put the book in the cave so no one but you guys would be able to access it and Nicholas doesn’t know where it is,” Liz told them.

“He did try to access my mind, maybe he saw the cliff and headed out here, he probably didn’t access my memories of the Granolith being there,” Max guessed and Liz nodded but she wasn’t sure about it, there was something off about the whole thing but her instincts were all over the place so she couldn’t pin point anything.

“That’s everything,” Alex told them and they nodded as they followed him out of the building.

They made their way over to the Jeep, Alex looked back at the building once more before closing his eyes, turned away and got into the jeep before Max put it into gear and drove off, leaving the building in the dust.

TBC

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Sorry I took so long! And this is a bit short (Sorry but I couldn’t remember everything that goes in here)

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Chapter 25


“What are we going to do?” Liz asked as she followed Max through the UFO Centre as he sorted out the display and Max shook his head.

“I have no idea, I mean, she decoded the book Liz…” he trailed off and Liz nodded as she stood in front of Max, stopping him in his tracks.

“I know it’s scary Max, but this is what you’ve been waiting for, all the answers to your past,” Liz told him and Max cupped her face with his right hand.

“Our past,” he whispered and she stared at him before nodding.

“Sorry, still not used to the fact that I had been in your past life,” she admitted and Max laughed as he rested his forehead on hers.

“Do you think I am?” Max asked. Liz smiled, sheepish before the UFO Centre was plunged into darkness, causing them to look around.

“What happened?” Liz asked as Max took her hand and led her over to the fuse box.

“A fuse might have gone,” Max told her as he looked through the fuse box before eyeing it with interest. “Funny, they all look like they’ve been overloaded,” Max told her.

“What could cause the fuse to overload?” Liz asked and Max shrugged before he moved over to the next box and pushed up the lever and the lights came back on.

“Who knows,” Max told her as the generator started humming.

They turned to see Brody making his way over to them, his blue eyes wild and he was holding a gun.


Michael made his way over to the UFO Centre with Tess holding onto his hand.

“Are you sure you are okay about everything?” Tess
asked and Michael smiled.

“I’m fine, I’m happy about us and the baby, though I am a little worried about you passing out like that,” Michael told her and Tess nodded.

“Maybe it’s a alien thing,” Tess suggested but Michael shook his head.

“I don’t think so, I think it’s more than that,” Michael told her.

“What do you think it might be?” Tess asked and Michael shrugged.

“I don’t know, that why I want to go and see him, maybe he could have a look and see if there is something wrong with the baby,” Michael explained and Tess tilted her head.

“Are you ready to let him know?” Tess asked and Michael nodded.

“Yes, if there is a risk toward the baby, we need to know what it is so we can have some idea what to do,”
Michael told her and she nodded as they stepped into the UFO Centre and made their way down the stairs only to stop short at the sight of Brody holding a gun and his head.

“Brody?” Max asked as Brody clutched his head.

“Yes and no,” Brody told him and Max shook his head, confused.

“What’s wrong?” Max asked, still keeping his hands up while Liz stood partially behind him.

“I have all these memories that are not mine yet they are mine,” Brody told and Michael narrowed his eyes.

“Larek?” Michael asked, causing Max and Liz to look at him startled before Max, Liz and Tess to look at him, shocked while Larek looked at him before lifting his gun, pointing it at him.

“You called me that name!” Brody shouted at him. “How do you know that name?”

“He’s just kidding,” Max started but his mouth
snapped shut when Brody turned to face him with a gun.

“No, I know that name! It’s the name of the alien who keeps taking me!” Brody racked his brain. “I was in New
York, I don’t even remember how I got there you were there,” he pointed to Max before looking at Tess and Michael. “So were you two!”

“Brody, I think you might have hit your head harder than you thought, I’ve never been to New York,” Max told him and Brody shook his head.

“Don’t lie! You were there!” Brody shouted. Max just took a step back, taking Liz with him while he kept an eye on the gun. He had almost lost Liz to a gun once, he’ll be damned if he did this time. “Get over there!” Brody shouted as he pointed the gun over to the display. Max took Liz’s arm and led her over to the display and they both sat down.

Tess dragged Michael over to the display and they both sat down while Brody went into the office and came back out with the black hexagon that Max had seen just after the summer and Brody twisted it, causing a bright white light to shoot.

“Now, we’re safe,” Brody, told them before handing Liz the duct tape. “Tape him and the haired boy up then tape up that blonde,” Brody ordered her and she took the duct tape and tied Max’s hands up behind his back and did the same to Michael and Tess before she turned back to Brody, who took the duct tape from her and tied her hands together behind her back before shoving her back next to Max.

“This makes no sense,” Brody muttered as he paced in front of them and Max looked at him.

“How do you mean?” Max asked and Brody looked at him.

“Well, you and Tess are meant to be together yet you are with Liz?” Brody asked and Max shook his head.

“I refused to follow our so called destiny,” Max muttered and Tess was stung at the comment yet kept it hidden, she had hoped that Max would become receptive to the idea but she shook her head, annoyed with him.

“But you and Tess were in love, weren’t you?”
“Tess and I never were in love in our past,” Max told him. “It was Lilly and Zan,” Max told him before looking at Liz. “Liz,” he whispered and Brody shook his head.

“No, you were in love with Ava,” Brody told him and Max shook his head.

“Our protector made it clear that Ava and Zan were only an arrangement made by his father after Lilly had died,” Max told him and Brody nodded, still confused about everything before he turned back to the doors and saw Maria stepping down the stairs with the bags in her hands with Amy following her.

“Hey guys, brought the meal,” Maria told them only to for her and Amy to raise their hands when Brody pointed the gun at them.

“Get over there!” he snapped. Both the women moved over next to the others and sat down.

“What’s going on here?” Amy hissed and Maria shrugged as she looked at Max.

“He using the computers to try and regain his memories from all the time he blacked out and he thinks we’re trying to kill him,” Max explained,

“Black outs?” Amy asked and Liz nodded.

“He’s convinced he’s been abducted,” Liz told them and Amy nodded as she turned back to the front and watched as Brody paced the area in front of them before he turned to face Michael and Tess.

“You’re not suppose to be together,” Brody hissed at them. “You’re supposed to be with Vilandra.”

“No, I’m with Tess,” Michael told him and Brody shook his head.

“Everything is mixed up, nothing is what its suppose to be,” Brody whimpered as he clutched his head and Max looked at him.

“Brody, can I talk to you in private?” Max asked and Brody looked at him. “I think I might have answers to what happened you,” Max explained and Brody nodded as he moved over to Max and hauled him up before yanking him out of sight with Liz straining her neck, wondering what was going on before she turned back to Maria.

“Did you call Jim?” Liz asked and Maria shook her head.

“Isabel is doing that for us,” she told Liz and Liz nodded as she rested her head on the display, hoping to god whatever Max had planned worked.


Jim was waiting outside the UFO Centre with Isabel, Alex and Kyle standing next to him.

“Do you think they are okay?” Alex asked.

“Haven’t heard any gunshots so they should be okay. Maria said that Max had a plan when he called her just after Brody first talked to them and was acting weird so we just need to make sure it works first before we go barging in and getting someone shot,” Isabel told them and Alex nodded as he started pacing, unable to stand still.

Max and Brody reached the back of the display and Max turned to face Brody.

“You’re not crazy,” Max told him and Brody looked at him. “Those memories are of an alien Larek, who uses you to contact us whenever he needs to pass information on to us. Ava and Zan were never in love though, you are right when you say that they were together but as far as we know, they never got married. Yes, Rath and Vilandra were together but they are not together in this lifetime so Michael is with Tess and I’m with the real queen, Liz. If you give me my powers back, I can help you get your memories back to normal and make sure those ones will never hurt you again,” Max told him.

Brody looked at him for a while before he reached up and twisted the hexagon and gave Max’s his powers. Max used his powers to undo the duct tape before reaching over and used his healing powers to help Brody.

Once he was finished, he brought his hands down and Brody opened his eyes and looked at Max, confused.

“Max?” he asked before lifting up his hand that had a gun in it and his eyes widen. “What the hell is going on here Evans?” he demanded and Max shook his head as he took Brody’s arm and led him out of behind the display and over to where everyone else was.

Maria nodded as she hurried out of the UFO Centre while Max looked at Tess while undoing Liz’s binding.
“Mind warps her!” Max hissed and Tess closed her eyes and mind warped Amy before she opened her eyes and looked at Michael.

“Come on, we’re out of here,” Michael told her before taking her hand and walking her out of the UFO Centre, with the paper hidden under his shirt.

Max just wrapped Liz up in his arms, holding her close as he kissed her forehead, sighing with relief.

“Come on, we’re going home,” Max told her and Liz nodded as they both walked past Amy and Maria, stopping.

“Are you okay?” Liz asked, reaching out to touch Maria’s arm and Maria nodded.

“What happened?” Amy asked.

“A power cut happened. You walked into the display and hit your head. So did Brody. The doors were locked automatically and the phone lines were cut off too. We couldn’t contact anyone till Maria came over to check up on us and found the doors locked and called the police,” Liz explained and Amy nodded as she wrapped an arm around her daughter’s shoulder while Maria wrapped an arm around Amy’s
waist.

“Come on mom, let’s get you home,” she told Amy and Amy nodded as Maria led her out of the building while Jim walked over to Brody.

“Come on, we need to take you to the hospital to make sure you didn’t cause any damage when you banged your head,” Jim told him and Brody nodded as he let Jim led him out of the UFO Centre while Max brought up with the rear with Liz. He locked the door and the two of them made their way over to the Crashdown for a well-needed rest.


Michael and Tess made their way over to the Pod Chamber, they climbed in it and closed the door behind them before Michael pulled out the papers and flicked through it before walking over to a wall.

“It says here that the key should be behind this wall,” Michael told her as he lifted his hand and waved his hand over it, causing a shimmering symbol to show up and he passed his hand through the wall and gripped something long and cool before bringing it out, to reveal a crystal and he flipped through the pages once more.

“Is there anything in there that can tell us how to find out what’s wrong with the baby?” Tess asked and Michael nodded.

“Yeah, there is,” Michael, told her. “I need to make a connection with the baby,” he told her and she nodded as she moved over near the pods and sat down. She lifted her top till it rested under her breasts and Michael knelt down beside her and placed his hand over the stomach.

A bright blue light started up and Michael felt himself sucked through and seeing through the baby’s eyes.

He let out a gasp when he came back to reality before looking at Tess. “It’s a boy!” he told her and she smiled at him before she regarded his serious expression. “And he’s dying.”

“What?” she demanded.

“He can’t survive on earth, we need to go back home,” Michael told her and she looked at him.

“How are we suppose to go back home?” she demanded and Michael flicked through the pages till
something caught his eyes.

“By using the crystals but Max and Isabel needs to come with us,” Michael told her and she nodded while Michael looked around, a thoughtful look on his face.

“Why would Naesco hide this here?” Michael asked and Tess shrugged.

“Maybe he wanted to make sure our enemies couldn’t get to it?” Tess suggested and Michael shook his head.

“Whatever it is hidden for, it says in the book that we need it to go home,” Michael told her before placing his hand on her swollen belly. “So we can save our son.” Tess looked up at him before leaning in and resting her head on his chest.

As soon her face was out of Michael’s sight, a smile appeared on her face.


Max was lying on his side, leaning on his hand and elbow as he watched Liz sleep. They were in Liz’s bedroom. The Parkers were out of town due to a meeting. Max reached out and stroked back a lock of Liz’s hair, pushing it behind her ear before he let his fingers trail over her cheek, feeling her soft skin under his rough fingertips.

Liz moaned as she shifted her face into his hand, still staying deep in her sleep. Max laid his head down on the pillow and watched her. He could see how her lashes rested on her cheeks. Her cheeks were flushed red. He smiled slightly. She reminded him of an angel whenever she slept when a vibration started up on the bedside table, causing him to grab for it before it woke up Liz.

He flipped it open and saw who it was and sighed before bringing it to his ear.

“What?” Max whispered.

“Where are you?” Michael asked and Max rolled his eyes.

“With Liz, why?” he asked.

“Get over to the pod chamber, I have something I need to tell you,” Michael told him.

“Can’t this wait?” Max asked. “Liz and I haven’t had a lot of them together.”

“No, trust me, you’re gonna love this,” Michael told him and Max arched an eyebrow before rolling his eyes.

“Whatever, I’ll be there soon,” Max told him before hanging up his phone and he looked at Liz once more with a disgruntled look. He leaned down and kissed her cheek before moving round and kissed her lips.

“Mm, Max?” Liz mumbled.

“I’ll be back right soon, Michael wants to see me,” Max whispered before he kissed her lips once more and slipped out of the bed. He dressed himself before leaning back down and kissed Liz once more before pulling the covers over her and walked out of the room, leaving her sleeping.

Max found himself at the pod chamber. He made his way into the Granolith chamber and stopped when he saw Michael, Tess and Isabel standing around the Granolith.

“Okay, what was so important that I needed to come down here?” Max asked.

“Michael, what is it?” Isabel asked. Michael looked at Tess,
who took Michael’s hand and nodded her approval before he turned to face Max and Isabel and handed Max the crystal.

Max took it before looking at Michael, puzzled.

“We need to go home,” Michael told them, stunning the both of them.

TBC

I know, I’m horrible.

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Chapter 24:

roswell3053: That will happen in the next chapter.

Zanity: Not completely. I always thought that it would have been easier just to talk to Leanne and get an idea off her instead of trying to kill her instead.

LoveIsForever: He's excited.

Cocogurl: Yeah, it was hard for me to write it.

Timelord31: Forgive me, i haven't watched Roswell in ages so half of the stuff is mixed up.

Chapter 25

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Luna_Seer: Here you go.

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Cocogurl

Here's the next chapter.


Chapter 26

“Tess is pregnant,” Michael explained. “The baby can’t live on Earth.”

“Oh god,” Isabel whispered as she ran a hand through her long blonde locks.

“This is the only way we can go home,” Michael told them as he held out the crystal, Max sighed as he took it and looked at it. ‘So this is what my nightmare looks likes’ Max thought to himself, the one thing he never wanted and now he has to do it. He placed the tip of it near the whirlpool symbol and slid it in.

The granolith whirled and a light shot out, the whirlpool symbol was on the wall with flashing dots and they, instinctively, knew that it was the count down of how long they had on Earth.

“We have twenty four hours, say your goodbyes,” Max told them as he stood up and turned toward the door.

“Max…” Michael started but stopped at Max’s gaze.

“Don’t,” Max, begged before leaving the cave with Isabel by his side. Michael just stood back next to Tess and hung his head.


Max made his way up the ladder to Liz’s balcony. He climbed over the top and watched as Liz moved about in her bedroom.
She was brushing her hair as she sat at the mirror, dressed in her robes. He felt his heart clench when the earlier actions came back to him and he sighed.

He made his way over to the window and climbed through, causing Liz to turn around and smile when she saw him. She stood up and made her way over to him and kissed him.

“You were gone when I woke up,” Liz told him as she pulled away and Max nodded. He looked down at her and felt his heart clench even harder. She looked so innocent and loving just dressed in her robes with her dark hair framing her face that he couldn’t help himself.

He leaned in and kissed her, causing her to gasp slightly before she slipped a hand into his dark locks, holding on as Max spun them around so her back was facing the bed. He kissed her, almost urgently and desperately that Liz could only hold on for the ride as Max slipped her robes off, leaving her bare to him.

Liz reached up and helped him take off his shirt, it was the same green one that he wore then he healed her, when they both shared their first kiss, when they both first made love. Her hands moved down and unbuttoned his jeans as he kicked off his shoes and socks before sweeping her up into his arms and laid them both on the bed.


Maria was sitting outside of the Crashdown with Kyle and Alex. She was laughing over something that Kyle had told her before her eyes snapped down to his tapping fingers.

“God Kyle, what is with the tapping?” she asked and Kyle, startled, looked down at his own hand before stopping the tapping.

“Sorry, I haven’t realised that I was doing it,” Kyle apologised, causing Alex and Maria to share a look with each other, puzzled before they looked at him, once more.

“Wait, are you telling us that you didn’t know that you have been doing that the whole time?” Alex asked and Kyle shook his head before he looked up and saw Michael and Isabel making their way over to them.

“What do you want?” Kyle asked, causing Alex and Maria to turn around in their chair to look behind them.

“Oh great, have you come here to shout at us some more?” Maria muttered and Isabel shot her a glare.

“Actually, I’m here to talk to Alex, Michael is here to talk to you and Kyle, Tess wants to see you at home,” Isabel informed them, looking at Alex, who just looked at her for a few minutes before nodding.

“Fine,” Alex told them and Maria nodded too.

“Fine,” she agreed and they both stood up and went separated ways with the other while Kyle stood up and made his way over to his house to see Tess, curious to what Tess could have to tell him.


“Right, so you have me in private, what do you have to tell me?” Maria asked and Michael sighed as he started pacing the small room. They were in the Deluca’s living room.

“It’s Tess,” he told her and she just looked at him. “She’s pregnant.” Maria nodded.

“Good for you, that’s so important?” she asked, not once betraying her emotions and Michael looked at her.

“I thought you would be upset, I betrayed you,” Michael explained and Maria arched an eyebrow.

“Michael, I’ve moved on. I’m with James and I’ve slept with him. I made love to James and I love him. There is nothing you can do or say to get us back together. We’ve both moved on with our lives,” Maria informed him and Michael shook his head.

“The reason why I wanted to speak to you in private was that, we’re leaving Roswell, earth to be exact,” Michael told her and she looked at him, shocked.

“What?” she demanded and Michael nodded.

“The baby can’t survive on earth, Max found a way home for us via the decoded book that Sarah had done,” Michael explained and Maria shook her head.

“So, you and Tess are leaving?” she asked and Michael looked at her, once more.

“No, all four of us are,” Michael told her and found his head being snapped sideways under the force of her slap.


“You what?” Alex demanded as he stood up from where he was sitting. He and Isabel were in the Evans’ house. The Evans had gone on an errand.

“We’re leaving earth,” Isabel told him.

“Is Max going?” he asked and Isabel arched an eyebrow.

“Of course he is,” she told him and Alex let out a sarcastic laugh.

“Did he have a choice?” Alex asked and Isabel looked at him.

“Of course he did!” Isabel shouted and Alex raised an eyebrow.

“Really or did you just tell him that you had to leave?” Alex asked and Isabel looked away, causing Alex to nod. “And you wonder why I never went near you again?” Alex asked, causing Isabel to look at him. “All you do is destroy everything. You’re never happy unless you happen to be the star of attention. Max is happy and you want to take that away from him by giving him the one thing he never wanted. A way back to hell.” With that he walked off, leaving Isabel alone in her house.


“Get out!” Maria shouted.

“What the hell is your problem?” Michael demanded.

“My problem is that you are a complete and utter selfish bastard who gives no regards for others!” she shouted at him. “You are forcing Max to go back to a place he never wanted to go in the first place!”

“It’s our home!” Michael shouted.

“Liz is his home!” Maria shouted, causing Michael to take a step back in shock in what had been revealed to her.


Max and Liz were lying on her bed, both under the covers just staring up at the ceiling before Liz turned to face Max. It felt like that he had been saying goodbye to her when he made love to her and it disturbed her, deeply.

“Max?” Liz asked and Max sighed.

“Tess is pregnant, the baby can’t survive on Earth so we have to leave,” he told her and she looked at him.

“When?” she asked.

“Early tomorrow morning,” Max told her and Liz felt her eyes well up with tears as she moved in closer to Max.

“I guess we just have to make up for the time,” she told him and he hugged her tighter.

“I love you,” Max told her. “I love you so much.”

“I love you too,” Liz whispered as they lay there.


“You stupid idiot!” Kyle shouted as he pulled himself away from Tess. She had revealed to him that she was pregnant and they were heading home. “Did you ever stop think about the results of this? You are forcing Max to give up his only home, the woman he loves because you and Michael couldn’t spare one minute, one minute, to use a damn condom!”

“Kyle…” Tess started but Kyle held up his hands.

“I hope you and Michael will have a happy life and I hope your baby survives but I can only hope that you can live with the guilt that you tore Max away from the only life he knew and his happiness.” With that, Kyle walked out of the house, leaving Tess alone.


Max looked at the clock on the nightstand. He and Liz had made love most of the day and night, trying to make up for their lost time but they knew that no matter what, it would never make up. He saw that it was time to go.

Max got off the bed and pulled on his clothes and shoes before he turned around where he saw Liz sitting on the edge of the bed with the sheets wrapped around her body and blinked back the tears at the feeling of tearing in his heart.

“I have to go,” Max whispered and Liz nodded.

Max cupped her face and they locked eyes. “I promise you Liz, I will find a way to come back, I promise,” Max swore and Liz nodded as she kissed him as hard as she could.

“I love you,” she whispered, trying to hold back the tears.

“I love you too,” Max, whispered, brokenly, as he pulled out the necklace that Isabel had found last year. “I always thought I would give you my class ring,” Max admitted as he held it out to her, Liz took it and slipped it over her head, the pendant resting perfectly between her breasts.

Max kissed her once more before leaving the room, he climbed over the ledge; he looked at her once more before climbing down the ladder.

When Max’s feet hit the ground, he made his way over to the jeep, wiping his eyes as he climbed into the driver’s side, Isabel lifted a hand and placed it on Max’s shoulder, squeezing it then let go. Max put the jeep into gear and they drove away.


Liz found herself at Maria’s house, she knocked on the door and Maria answered it. Maria saw Liz and her face turned into understanding.

“Oh Chica,” Maria whispered as she wrapped her arms around Liz, Liz wrapped her arms around Maria’s waist and cried.

“I miss him!” Liz cried.

“I know Liz, I know,” Maria whispered as she rocked Liz side to side, her hand stroking back Liz’s dark hair.

“How could Michael do this?” Liz asked and Maria sighed.

“I don’t know,” Maria told her as she led Liz into her room, they both sat down on it. “You know and I know that Max will do whatever it takes to get back here, he’ll find someway.”

“I know, he promised me but it still scares me, he’s been a part of me for so long, I can’t imagine life without him, it’s the same with you and Alex, you three are too much of a part of me,” Liz explained and Maria nodded as she hugged Liz.

They heard a noise; they looked at each other before moving into the kitchen, where Amy was confused.

“Mom?” Maria asked and Amy snapped out of her confusement.

“Maria?” Amy asked and smiled slightly. “Liz! What are you two girls doing here?” Amy asked as she moved over to the cooker and set the kettle on it.

“Are you okay?” Maria asked.

“I’m fine honey,” Amy told her as she started tapping her fingers on the counter in a pattern; Liz watched the tapping and a memory came to her mind.

Sarah laughed as she tapped her fingers.

She gasped as another one came to her mind.

Kyle talking as he tapped his fingers.

“Oh my god,” Liz breathed out as she turned to Maria. “It was Tess,” Liz whispered.

“What?” Maria asked as she looked at Liz.

“Tess mind warped Sarah!” Liz gasped out then grabbed Maria’s hand and they both hurried out of the house, toward the car and drove over to Kyle’s house as Liz phoned Alex to meet her there.


They arrived at Kyle’s house and made their way into Kyle’s bedroom, where he was drinking a glass of water only to jump when he saw them.

“What the hell?” Kyle asked and Liz explained everything that came to her, causing Kyle to arch an eyebrow at her. “Are you crazy?” Kyle asked.

“No,” Liz told him. “It all fits, why would Sarah decode the destiny book? She doesn’t know anything about the pod-squad and Leanne was positive that Sarah was in Las Cruces, not Sweden,” Liz told him.

“Kyle looked around the room, he made his way over to the chest of drawers.

“Where do I look?” Kyle asked as his fingers started tapping, causing the trio to look at him.

“Just keep looking Kyle, you could be really close,” Liz encouraged him as Kyle picked up a glass and looked into the mirror. The glass dropped from his, now, numb hand.

A vision appeared in the mirror and Kyle watched, horrified, of him walking into Tess’ bedroom with Sarah clutching her head with Tess was closed before Sarah let out a painful scream before she fell to the floor, lifeless.

“Tess killed Sarah!” Kyle exclaimed as he spun around to face the gang. “She mind warped me into carrying her body out into the car, I thought it was a bag that I was carrying,” Kyle admitted.

“Oh god, the pod squad!” Maria gasped out and they all ran out to the car, desperate to get to their friends before it was too late.

Max, Michael, Tess and Isabel made their way into the pod chamber before making their way into the Granolith. They stood there as they watched the clock count down to when they had to leave.

“This is it,” Michael told Max, excitement shining brightly in his voice and eyes. “We’re going home to where we belong.” Max just stared at the clock, not once betraying any of his emotions, which caused Tess, Isabel and Michael to reflect back to their conversation with the humans of how they were destroying Max’s life.

Liz, Alex, Kyle and Maria stopped the car and jumped out, they ran up the slope of the mountain till they reached the entrance to the pod chamber and started hitting on it, shouting the gang’s names.

Max looked up and turned to Michael.

“I can’t,” Max told them, causing everyone to look at him. “I can’t, I love Liz too much to let her go,” he admitted and Michael sighed.

“Are you sure?” Michael asked and Max nodded.

“More than anything,” Max told him and Michael nodded as he walked over and hugged Max.

Isabel was torn, on one hand, she wanted to stay with Max but on the other hand, she wanted to see her real family. “It’s alright Iz, you can go, I’ll explain everything to mom and dad,” he told her and she nodded as she stepped forward and hugged Max.

Max stepped out of the embraced and moved toward the exit, desperate to get back to Liz, he opened the cave, stunned to see the guys standing there.

“Tess killed Sarah!” Alex told him and Max looked at him.

“What?” Max demanded, he turned and they all ran toward the Granolith. “Michael, Stop!” Max shouted, causing the gang to be startled. “Tess killed Sarah!”

“What?” Michael demanded.

“It’s true,” Liz spoke up. “Tess killed Sarah, she made Sarah decode the book and killed her,” Liz told them.

“She mind warped me into thinking Sarah’s body was a bag that I was carrying,” Kyle explained.

Michael turned to Tess.

“Tess?” he asked and she looked at him, truth clear in her blue eyes.

“Everyone, leave,” Max told them.

“Max…” Liz started.

“Leave, all of you!” Max ordered and they all left except from Michael. “Why?” Max asked.

“It was an accident!” Tess exclaimed. “Her brain was weak!” Tess told him and Max shook his head.

“Why?” he asked.

“So that we could go home,” she told him.

“To What? Khivar?” Max asked and Tess looked away as understanding dawned on Max. “You were planning to hand us over, weren’t you?” He asked. “You made a deal!”

“Naesco made the deal,” she shot at him.

“What was it?” Michael demanded.

“I was to return home with you three and hand you over with Max’s heir in tow,” she admitted and Max laughed, bitterly.

“Must have put a cramp in your plans when I refused to give up Liz,” Max told her.

“And you used me!” Michael told her.

“All you ever had to do was love me!” Tess shouted at Max. “But you kept running back to that Bitch!” Max grabbed her by the throat.

“Don’t you ever call that again!” Max hissed out and Tess pulled herself out of his grip, smirking.

“See how fast you run to her defence, I was your wife Max!” Tess snapped before she sneered. “You had the whole universe at your fingertips now look at you, you’re nothing but a boy.”

“And that’s all I ever wanted to be!” Max shouted. “To be a boy who was in love!” he raised his hand but paused when he remembered and Tess smirked.

“Kill me and you kill Michael’s son,” Tess taunted and Max looked at Michael, who was torn, he finally gave in and shook his head.

“Leave Tess, and don’t come back,” Max told her.

Tess swallowed as she placed her hand on the Granolith and was sucked inside of it; the caves started shaking.

“We gotta go now Maxwell!” Michael shouted and they both ran out of the room, bumped into Alex. They pushed him toward the exit and jumped out themselves.

Max grabbed Liz’s hand and everyone made a dash down the slopes of the mountain, they reached the bottom when there was a huge bang, causing Max to cover Liz, Alex to cover Isabel and Kyle to cover Maria.

They pulled away from each other when all of a sudden the ship shot out of the mountain, making it way toward space.

Max pulled away from Liz, causing her to look up at him.

“You were going to stay behind,” Liz whispered and Max smiled softly.

“I couldn’t leave you,” Max admitted as he kissed her forehead, she closed her eyes in relief as she gripped the back of his shirt, wanting to ensure herself that he was right there and holding her.

“What are we going to do now, Max?” Isabel asked as she looked at Max.

“I’ve got to save my son,” Michael told them and they all nodded.

“Let’s go home,” Max told them as he took Liz’s hand and they all made their way toward the cars, intending to go back home, where they belong.

TBC

I’m taking a short break from posting. My work is taking up too much of my time and I can hardly relax to type up a chapter then post it up. I WILL come back to finish this, I promise. I’m going to finish off the rest of the chapters for season 3 then I will post the rest. This WILL NOT be abandon, no matter what. I promise you right here and right now that I will finish it. It shouldn’t take me long. Hopefully, I will have everything finished in a couple of weeks. Sorry.