Couples/Category: M/L, CC
Rating: Mature sometimes Adult
Summary: After Tess left in the Granolith, she never came back. This story takes place before Graduation. In a short time span a lot of things happen, a lot is revealed and everybody’s lives change dramatically. I know it’s not much to go on, but that’s all you get! Warning to all Michael lovers! For part of this story Michael gets a pretty good bashing; but, hey, it's not my fault if he behaves like an ass!
(remember, like when he had the seal!) Information: **Telepathic conversation**
Disclaimer: The characters of "Roswell" belong to Jason Katims, Melinda Metz, WB, and UPN. They are not mine and no infringement is intended.
Author’s Note: Hi everybody, this is the very first story I’m writing and I decided to go all the way and post it. I always had stories going around in my head, some longer some shorter, but I never wrote them down. So I figured since all of you authors out there are courageous enough to post your stories I could try it with mine too. I have to say though, that the fics are a lot livelier in my imagination than when I write them, but I hope to get better with time and practice. Also English is not my Mother tongue, so from time to time you will probably wonder about the turn of my phrases and mistakes. With all this said I appreciate constructive criticism, I mean positive and negative, but please be fair!!!
I want to say a biiiig thank you to my beta Moira, she's very patient with me
Thanks, Chula
01, A new beginning, Friday 06/16/2000, early morning
The light of the Granolith bathed the room in soft, warm colours. In a corner of the chamber the two lovers were sleeping in a sleeping bag. Even in sleep they were holding on to each other, afraid of letting the other go. After their night’s activities they were very exhausted.
Max was the first to wake up and was quite disoriented, but all he needed was to feel Liz in his arms and he was jolted into instant alertness. He remembered his and Liz’s reconciliation and now she was his again, just as he was hers. Max savoured the sensations of Liz in his arms, it just felt right; this was were she belonged.
He started to feel the kinks and stiffness in his bones from sleeping on the hard ground. As Liz shifted in her slumber a big grin spread across his face. Slowly it started to sink in, to become reality, that the two of them where back together again. He was happy, actually more than happy, he was ecstatic, gloriously, deliriously ecstatic. He felt like jumping and dancing, singing and shouting and laughing and crying all together, at one and the same time. Instead he had to lie motionless as not to waken his sweetheart who was sleeping soundly, draped all over him.
While waiting for Liz to open her eyes, he let his thoughts wander over the last few hours. Just now Max didn’t feel like reliving the painful discussions and revealments with which they had started last night’s meeting. Oh no, he much rather remembered the resulting reconciliation. Now that was something that dreams where made of, but not even his wildest dreams, and he had had quite a few of those, had prepared him for the onrush of feelings that assaulted him.
He remembered how Liz had never seemed more beautiful than last night when she smiled through her tears, her hair all dishevelled, her eyes red and swollen and her nose running from all the crying, but she was smiling and radiantly happy. He guessed that in that moment he probably looked the same, definitely not very manly, but he was too happy to care.
The fingers that started to stroke his naked chest distracted him in a pleasant way and it took Max a moment to realise that those where Liz’s fingers and that she was finally waking up.
As they lay in the sleeping bag she started to move her body along his and he noticed that not only his was chest naked, no, they both were without a stitch on their bodies. The moment she opened her eyes he lost his ability to think or speak and he just kept staring at her beautiful face and time ceased to exist.
It seemed that Liz was afflicted with the same malady because she stared right back at him. After a while she started to blush and shyly lowered her eyes.
Finally Max found his voice and just the perfect word for such a memorable occasion and uttered bashfully “Hi”
“Hi right back at you” she answered with a giggle only to add a moment later, “this is sooo awkward, I mean I don’t know what to say, I mean I don’t know what to do, I mean what comes now? I’ve never been in a situation, oh boy this is sooo, sooo, sooo awkward” and with that said Liz hid her face in his broad chest.
This was all that was needed to loosen the strange nervousness they both where experiencing and they started to laugh to relieve the tension of the moment. Amongst hysterical giggles and curiously eying each other, a new heavy make out session began.
After a while they came back to reality and Max became aware of not having used any protection and almost had a heart attack.
“Max, are you ok?” Liz wanted to know, because she got seriously worried, as his usually fresh complexion seemed to turn all different shades of green.
He didn’t know where to look but started nonetheless: “Do you…?” After swallowing the big lump in his throat he had to start again “do you realize that we didn’t use any protection? You know, condoms? In the heat of the moment I completely forgot about it. We could be pregnant right now!”
Smiling she reassured him “We should be ok Max. Because my menstruation used to be very irregular my gynaecologist gave me the pill. So you see, there’s nothing to worry about and anyway, it’s not the right time of the month for anything to happen.”
“Oh boy, what a scare! I most definitely want children you know, just not now, we’re a bit young for that!” Max started to feel better immediately and Liz wholeheartedly agreed.
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Closer and closer and…
The sleeping bag became too uncomfortable and cramped and Liz wanted to get up to look at the Granolith. This was when she noticed the next problem; she remembered her nakedness. That was a very awkward moment. After second thought she decided to play it cool and slowly untangled her limbs from Max’s. This involved a lot of slipping and sliding on his body and she could feel the heat start to rise from her toes to hear face. Embarrassed she started to giggle nervously and became really clumsy. As she tried to open the big zipper on the sleeping bag she had to move over her lover’s chest. As she felt her naked breast touch his, she became very distracted and her fingers lost all control of the zipper, getting that stupid thing stuck.
By this time, Max too had a rapidly growing problem: His lower anatomy started to come alive. When he became aware of his dilemma his ears turned a very embarrassing red. “Liz’s naked tits on my chest, wow!” Max never knew just how sensitive he was there! He tried to sneak a peak but couldn’t really see anything interesting because the two of them were squeezed too close together for that, but boy could he feel them!
His eyes turned smoky with desire, his breathing became erratic and he just couldn’t resist her any longer. So he dipped his head in just the right position and started kissing her senseless. Needless to say that Liz didn’t go to check out the Granolith since Max kept her otherwise occupied.
By midmorning their growling stomachs called attention to their ravenous appetites, this time for food. Since the mood was now thoroughly broken they addressed more ordinary topics. While Max brought over the leftover snacks from the evening before, Liz decided to check out the Granolith. She stood before it and was absolutely fascinated.
She studied this beautiful cone-shaped thing with its swirling colours for quite some time and was quite lost in thought, when all of a sudden realisation hit her and she exclaimed, “oh my god, Max, I just realised that if the Granolith is still here, Tess never left earth, at least not in this,” to stress her point she nodded her head in the direction of the big cone-thing and concluded “she mindwarped us all into believing that she did. That also means she could show up again and probably at the most impossible moment. Max, we will have to decide how to deal with the bitch! We have to be ready for her before she shows up!”
After Liz's outburst Max became very thoughtful. He remembered the pain Tess had put them all through, most of all Liz and him self. Thanks to the Granolith, last night had cleared many mysteries of his life and he knew with absolute certainty that, no matter what, Tess was going to pay for everything. She betrayed them all big time, and he suddenly knew that, on Antar, she had been a traitor too. She was working with the enemy then as she was now.
Right at that moment Max swore to do everything in his power to make sure that Tess was going down. No more chances for her, she’d already had her second one here on earth and she just proved that she was pure evil. She manipulated, lied, cheated, mindwarped and worst of all she killed Alex. He was glad that now he knew Tess’s baby wasn’t his, that he hadn’t betrayed Liz.
For the first time Max knew just how realistic those damn mindwarps were, you couldn’t tell the difference between a mindwarp and reality, unless you were lucky enough to break out of one.
With a deep, heartfelt sigh he said, “as much as I hate it, we have to call an emergency meeting. I can just imagine how well this will go down with Michael. Lately he has been so difficult. I don’t know what to do, because whatever I do, it’s always wrong.”
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They decided to call a meeting in the late afternoon at the quarry. Max first called Michael who wasn’t too happy to hear about another “useless” meeting but promised to come on his motorbike. With a “there better be a good reason for this or else…” he ended the call abruptly.
Max was in too good of a mood to be put off by Michael’s gruffness and called the sheriff. “Hi sheriff this is Max.” He waited for Valenti’s greeting before coming to the reason of his call, “we have some important news that concern us all and so I’m calling a meeting at the quarry. I would appreciate it very much, if you could take the time and join us?” Max added “it could be one of the longer ones because some things just came up that we have to prepare for and we really think you could help us find some solutions. So, due to the time we figured we could have a picnic with the meeting” Jim Valenti agreed to come and offered to bring Kyle with him.
Meanwhile Liz called her friend. “Hi Maria,” and before Liz could continue, Maria went into full babble mode, “Liz where are you, I was looking for you and nobody knew where you were. I was so worried about you, because you haven’t been quite yourself lately, actually for some time not just lately. So I really don’t like it if you just disappear on me like that. You know with all the weird things that can happen, you know, Czech things!!”
Liz realized that only a shock or a bribe could shut her up. So to keep the call as short as possible she threw out a bribe that was irresistible to her friend: “Maria, this is really important and I don’t have much time right now, so please sit down, listen and all will be explained later, ok? And if you’re a good girl and listen without interrupting me, I will tell you something that nobody else knows so far, does that sound acceptable?”
Maria’s curiosity won out quickly and she exclaimed excitedly “Absolutely, but it better be good!”
Taking a deep breath Liz went on “Oh yes it is. We’re calling a meeting at the quarry, come around 5 pm and please bring Isabelle along. Since the meeting is going to be a long one, could you go to my dad and ask him if he would organise a picnic for us all?”
“Is everybody coming? Do I have to call Michael, or the Valenti’s?” and Maria being Maria just couldn’t help herself and started to hyperventilate “Are those bad news you’re going to tell us? Oh my god, are new Czechs around? Oh my god, oh my god, what are we going to do, what will happen? Finally we have some peace and quiet and now it starts all over again! Liz what’s happening? I need some cedar oil. Oh god where do I have that blasted oil when I need it?”
Liz rolled her eyes in exasperation and informed her friend calmly but forcefully “Hey, Maria, you don’t need the oil right now, but bring it to the meeting, ok? Michael and the Valenti’s have been informed and are coming. So please, Maria, just call my dad about the picnic. One last thing, please call Isabelle and tell her she has to come, no excuses are accepted, ok? Be as forceful and convincing as you have to be, but bring her along. If she does her Ice Princess routine, you just go into full hurricane DeLuca mode” “But Liz…”
Liz knew just how intimidating Isabelle could be. She didn’t get her title “Ice Princess” for being a sweetheart. Knowing her oldest friend since they were in diapers gave Liz the advantage of knowing exactly which buttons to push to convince Maria to tackle the impossible! Ruthlessly she used her knowledge, “no but’s about it Maria, I know you can do it, we rely on you. Of course…” Stopping just long enough to peack Maria’s curiosity, Liz continued, “well, if you think you really can’t do it, I will call Isabelle myself and then she’ll be the one I’ll be telling my good news and she’ll be the first to know”
Maria didn’t like to hear THAT at all! She always bragged about how she could take on anybody she wanted to, and she would prove it too, “hey I didn’t say I couldn’t do it, did I?? No, I can tackle Ice Princess Isabelle any time I want to. She’s no match for me, everybody knows that! And, by the way, I can also be short to the point. So first I will call your dad about the picnic and then I’ll call Isabelle and won’t accept any excuses. And now you will tell me what you promised or else you can forget the whole deal, you hear LIzzy???”
“I heard you, I heard you, ok Max and I went to the chamber and had a long talk, and now we are back together again! That will be small part of the news tonight. But I really have to go now, see you Maria” as Liz had learned during her long friendship with Maria, she ended the conversation quickly, because she knew, her friend wouldn’t stop pestering her for more info. Already she could hear Maria yelling into the phone for more answers.
Liz truly hoped that Maria would bring enough cedar oil, because she wouldn’t be surprised if things got completely out of hand at the meeting. With a big sigh she put away her cell phone and looked for Max to see how he was faring. The moment their eyes met she started to calm down and turned to the love of her life for reassurance that everything was going to be all right.
TBC
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