Author: Vegas312
Rating: Teen
Disclaimer: I do not own Roswell so please don’t sue me.
Summary: Post Graduation…Its three years later and Isabel wishes upon a star for one magical night.
AN: I was walking home one night last week after having my heart broken and I just looked up at the stars and got to wondering that age old question, “is there anyone up there.” Well what you read below is the fanciful thoughts of my one night of staring at the stars and wondering about the miracle that is life. Okay enough with the ramble and onto the story right?
This is dedicated to my DAS family for always keeping me grounded even when RL drives me to a bag of Oreos. Love you guys and miss you a lot. Also to my fellow gazers for keeping the stargazing alive. Rock on! Oh yeah this will be no longer than two parts, so I’ll post the conclusion on Friday.
Star light, star bright
I wish I may, I wish I might
Find my prince charming tonight.
2005, Virgin Islands
The wind blew across the sand gently like a lover’s gentle caress. Strains of sand danced in the wind as it followed its lover. The waves crashed upon the sand slowing dragging some of it back with it into the water, but always bringing it back. Stars sparkled in the night sky showing off their majestic glow in hopes that someone would see. No one was at the beach to see except one lone figure that was wrapped in a blanket staring blankly out at the ocean. The wind having given up teasing the sand moved to tease the woman who sat by herself.
Strands of honey blonde hair flew to meet the wind and the papers sitting next to her threaten to fly away with the wind. She lifted a hand and pushed her hair away from her face and with reluctance picked up the packet of papers. Brown eyes stared unhappily at the packet that was marked “Proceedings of Divorce.” Closing her eyes she let the wind dance across her face and play with her hair as she tried not to think about the man she had married years ago. Drawing her knees to her chest she rested her head on her knees and with a weary sigh she opened her eyes to meet reality.
Picking up the pen next to her she searched through the papers until she came to the spot where her name was. She hesitated for a moment as she realized that she was losing yet another important person in her life. ‘I can’t be selfish. I always knew that Jessie wasn’t for me and I wasn’t for him. I married him for all the wrong reasons and he shouldn’t have to be tied to me because of some illusion that I had that everything would be normal and fine. At least this way he’ll be able to get some happiness...at least one of will be.’ Content with her decision she signed her name and felt as if a burden had been lifted from her shoulders. Still she wasn’t truly happy as she faced the fact that she would once again be alone. ‘Oh well I guess I’m meant to be alone. I mean Max is with Liz, Michael is with Maria, and Kyle married a stripper who turned out to be a med student.’ She gave a little laugh as she thought about the quick Vegas wedding that her friend had gotten and how the wedding party had consisted of strippers, bouncers, med students, and of course a few alien hybrids. ‘
God, Alex would have gotten a kick out of that,’ she thought to herself, but lost her smile as her thoughts turned to her beloved.
Beloved. That’s what he was as he was the one person she had loved unconditionally and who loved her just as much in return. No one else had ever known her that well and no one ever would. She gave a quick sniff as she felt tears and quickly returned to the task that she had been doing before her thoughts had wandered. Picking up the envelope that the divorce papers had come in she stuffed them back in and whispered, “Goodbye.” Sitting the envelope back down, she threw her head back and looked up at the night sky. The stars always gave her comfort as they didn’t put any demands on her and had seen her cry countless times and they never left her. Suddenly a star burst across the sky and she gasped in wonder and quickly closed her eyes and made a wish. ‘I wish for one night of happiness.’
A moment later she opened her eyes and saw the star disappeared. A smile tugged at her lips at the childishness of doing such a thing, but for some reason she couldn’t stop herself from wishing. With a quick glance at her watch she stood up and wrapped her blanket tightly around her and picked up the envelope. She started the walk across the sand that would lead her to her little house not too far away. As she walked lost in her thoughts a light shined behind her briefly and the wind got her attention by whispering her name in her ear. “Isabel.”
She froze at the call of her name for a second, but shook her head at the foolishness of the wind whispering her name. She started walking again when again she heard her name. Briefly wondering if she was losing her mind she turned around and stared in shock at the person standing in front of her.
Dark blue eyes stared back at her as he took in her appearance. He stood a few feet away with black hair that was a little longer then she had last seen it and he seemed to have aged some which was really impossible as he was dead and had been dead for years.
“Alex,” she whispered hesitantly and suddenly felt dizzy. “It can’t be.”
He stood and watched her silently, the same way he had been watching over her for years now, but this was the first time that he had been allowed to show his presence to her. He wasn’t sure what to say or what to do although his heart fairly screamed that he go to her, his body was frozen with fear that she would reject him. It had been five years since the last time they had been together…well alive at least. Noticing that she was looking pale, he moved towards her and stopped when he saw her shaking her head.
“Alex,” she whispered again shakily.
“Isabel, I know you’re a little bit shock to see me,” he started to say.
“No, it’s not possible,” she started to reach out to him, but pulled her hand back.
“It is possible,” he walked towards her and kept going until his face was an inch away from hers.
She continued to stare at him in disbelief, and raised her hand again and brushed her fingers across his cheek tentatively. “You’re real. I don’t understand. Is it just my imagination again like before?”
“No you’re not imagining me. You wish upon a star and someone up there heard you, and figured that maybe seeing me again would fulfill that wish.”
“So you’re what, an angel or something? That can’t be possible.”
“It’s about as impossible as meeting a real life alien, or in your case an alien hybrid,” he grinned at her.
“Why?”
“Why what? Why is the sky blue? Why is it a lovely night? Why are we standing here staring at each other making idle conversation? You know I don’t know,” he pretended to ponder and tapped his finger across his chin.
She snorted and as if it was something they had done time and time again, she hit him on the shoulder and with one last thoughtful look at him she reached down and clasped his hand. “You know for a guy whose supposed to be dead you’ve remarkably have grown.”
Squeezing her hand he started walking as the wind sprinkled water drops on them and told her, “Well it gets kind of boring looking the same for a few years.”
“I bet,” she nodded her head and the two just walked along the beach moving towards the little white house that had a light twinkling in it’s window. Finally reaching it she pulled out her keys from her pocket and turned to open the door but stopped when Alex stepped in front of her.
She looked up at him questioningly, “what are you doing?”
“You know I have this sneaky suspicion that you don’t believe I’m here which is why you’re taking this so calmly,” he crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow at her.
“Well the way I see it there’s two possible reasons why you’re standing here,” she tilted her head and smirked at him.
“Are you planning to enlighten me or keep it to yourself?”
“My, we’re pretty impatient aren’t we? If you must know I’ve decided that I’m actually passed out on my sofa having fallen into a Ben & Jerry coma, or two that maybe my wish was granted and you are here for this one night and maybe you are some kind of angel or something. Now you want to move so we can get in?”
“Isabel,” he started but shook his head instead. “Sometimes you got to have a leap of faith, but I can’t push you off a cliff to make you believe.” Having said that he moved out of her way and watched as she opened the door and he gestured that she go in first.
Nodding her thanks she walked into what was a kitchen and sat her keys on the table and dropped her blanket into a chair along with the packet of papers. Turning to Alex she found him staring at her intently and suddenly feeling self conscious she pretended to brush lint off her shirt. Still feeling him staring, she looked up and stared back, “What.”
“Nothing. Just looking,” he winked at her.
Trying not to blush, she walked to the window and looked out. “So what do you want to do?”
“It’s your night, so you decide.”
TBC
