Future Visitations (AU/CC/Adult) Casting Call

[KatnotKath]

~Liz~

“A proposal…?” He seems amused and I feel almost foolish. I should have kept my tone more playful…not let him see I was serious at all… I’m making a fool of myself here…

I look down, busying myself with pulling on my robe and tying the cord so that I’ll be able to see him to the window. I don’t want him to go…I know that he has to, but I want him to stay so much…and since I know he can’t, I’m going to draw this out to the very last moment possible…

“Not at all. It’s a promise…”

I look up, surprised by his words and find myself face to face with him once more, his fingers on my cheek, his lips drifting towards me. We shouldn’t do this, yet neither of us can pull away and I can’t help returning the kiss he takes, hanging onto every last moment we have together as something to get me through what comes next…the playing games, the lies and deceit of our closest friends…all so that we can be together in the end…

Max pulls back and looks at me. “Assuming that you’re in agreement of course…?”

I can’t help looking at him curiously. Does he realize how that sounds, is he playing or is he unaware…? I wonder about whether I should say anything, but the fact of what he’s asking…well…how can I not…? Chewing my lip a moment, I look up at him trying to figure out what he’s thinking. He seems serious enough about it though… “Y-you’re basically asking me to marry you…eventually?” I say softly still hardly believing that this is actually happening.

[isabelle]

*MAX*

Something in Liz's tone stops me cold. She sounds uncertain, nervous, anxious. I realize what she must be thinking. I am completely serious in what I'm saying, but I think she's putting a whole different level on it. I notice, also, that she hasn’t actually agreed. She hasn’t told me that she feels the same.

I pause and turn, looking at her straight on. I raise one hand to her shoulder, the other to stroke her cheek as light as a butterfly's wings as I bend my neck so my forehead nearly touches hers. She meets my eyes with an almost fearful gaze. When I talk, my voice is calm and deadly serious, but also tender, because I love her so much. I hope she’ll understand that I’m talking from my deepest heart.

“Liz. I’m telling you how I feel. I love you, and it’s not just words. I’ve loved you since the first day I saw you and I’ve dreamed of marrying you for almost as long. Last year when we started dating, I began to dare that that dream might one day actually have a chance of becoming real, instead of just a fantasy. Those were the happiest moments of my life, up until now. Today, I went from about the lowest I’ve been to the happiest. I still want to marry you. Tonight would never have happened if that weren’t true. But ‘want’ isn’t really strong enough a word, anymore. I need you, Liz. I need to be with you forever. And if the last hour together hasn’t made that clear, then maybe this will – ” I pause again, sending a pulse of pure love across the strange connection that still lingers between us. I see her eyes widen and her expression soften. I start to smile, knowing she’s felt it. My thumb moves along her cheek, my eyes never leaving hers.

“I love you, Liz. But I’m not going to ask you like this – not just a casual comment across the bed.” I shake my head, still smiling softly. “I want to do it right. A diamond. Bended knee. Maybe some champagne for you. You deserve that. I wouldn’t want it to be anything less than perfect.” I smile at her; my heart is filled with love for her and I’m sure it shows on my face. Tonight might not be the best time for a formal proposal and a secret engagement. Unless that's what she wants, because, in truth, I am ready to make that comittment. But it seems we already have enough secrets from the world and, now, more secrets to keep from even our closest friends. I don’t know that it’s fair to add to that right away. Especially as I’m not prepared to present the question the way I want. But I know I’m not going to be able to wait too very much longer.

“I will love you forever,” I tell her. "And that's a promise. I intend to spend the rest of my life with you. I only hope you feel the same way."

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[KatnotKath]

~Liz~

Max stops and turns to me and I get this sudden surge of emotion from him but there’s so many different ones there, all mixed in with my own, that I have no idea what he’s thinking…

One of his hand raises to rest of my shoulder, a finger on the other stroking my cheek. I can’t help but look up into his eyes, waiting to see what he will say next.

“Liz I’m telling you how I feel. I love you, and it’s not just words. I’ve loved you since the first day I saw you, and I’ve dreamed of marrying you for almost as long…”

Impressive huh, not many people can say that…

“Last year when we started dating, I began to dare that that dream might one day actually have a chance of becoming real instead of just a fantasy. Those were the happiest moments of my life, up until now. Today I went from about the lowest I’ve ever been to the happiest. I still want to marry you. Tonight would never have happened if that weren’t true. But ‘want’ isn’t really strong enough a word, anymore. I need you Liz. I need to be with you forever. And if the last hour together hasn’t made that clear, then maybe this will – “

He breaks off and pauses and suddenly a feel an overwelming sense of love amd belonging flow through the connection between us. Even if he hadn’t said that, as such warning me beforehand, I would have known it came from Max, because no one else could make me feel that way. My racing heart slows and I can feel it beating in time with his again as I feel a smile slipping onto my face again. I don’t know that it ever left on the inside…

Max smiles and I feel his thumb sliding along my cheek. I don’t see it though, I can’t bare to shift my gaze from his…

“I love you Liz. But I’m not going to ask you like this – not just a casual comment across the bed.” He shakes his head but the smile never leaves his face. “I want to do it right. A diamond…bended knee…maybe some champagne…you deserve that…I wouldn’t want it to be anything less than perfect…”

He touches my cheek again, dipping his head to kiss me once more. “I will love you forever…and that’s a promise. I intend to spend the rest of my life with you. I only hope you feel the same way…”

These few words mean so much…they hold so much promise, and yet they also speak of a slight fear…one that I have created and I know I have to reassure him. You see the reason I did not answer him immediately was not that I didn’t know what I wanted, or that I didn’t want him, but rather that I just needed to know if he was asking the question… I look back up at him, reaching out for his hand. “Of course I feel that way Max… I want exactly the same things, nothing more, nothing less, except that it doesn’t matter to me how it happens…diamond, champagne, it’s all very nice, but that’s not what is important…what is important, is the question, the fact that you’re the one asking it, and my answer…” I’m not trying to push him…I’m not saying he should ask now because if he doesn’t want to, well it’s not the right time, but I do think he needs to know how I feel…that I don’t have any doubts… “You see Max, those things will make it perfect…whenever, however it happens…because it will be you and me…”

[isabelle]

*Max*

Liz’s answer brings a smile to my heart. I’m not surprised, really, but I’m still so very glad to hear her say it aloud. I’ll never love anyone the way I love her. I don’t know how I can possibly even step away from her, although I know I really need to leave her now. If her dad found us here like this – Liz naked but for a robe – we’d both be in far more trouble than I want to imagine.

I lean in and kiss her again, long and slow, savoring her taste, her softness, the feel of her breath against my skin. Breaking the kiss at last, I sigh and smile at her, feeling goofy and happy. I need to touch her and I don’t even try to stop myself. I run my fingers down the side of her face and her neck, following the line of the edge of her robe, across the top of her chest. I feel her shiver as a vibration that travels up my fingers and down to my own toes. She’s so soft and warm and there. I still feel our connection, so real and present. It’s almost strange to see her as something outside of me, seeing as I can feel her so well on the inside.

“I have to tell you, Liz. I’ve never been anywhere near this happy in my whole life. You’re the best thing that ever happened to me. I can’t believe how lucky I am that we should have been stranded just here where I could meet you.” Even the shooting in the café, I think. It all worked toward bringing the two of us together. In any other circumstances, I might be tempted to call it fate or destiny. Those aren’t words either of us want to hear, but I know that I’m looking at my future, right now.


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[KatnotKath]

~liz~

Max leans in and kisses me again. Despite the fact that I know he should go, I can’t find it in myself to pull away though. This night has gone from being one of the worst in my life, because virtually every night since I staged that scene with Kyle, has been the worst night of my life…it’s gotten harder every day, knowing that it’s one more day that I have to cope without Max, that it’s one more day that my lie is driving him further away… But now, that night has gone from being one of the worst, to being one of the best. Max and I have taken a step I never thought I was ready for, and yet I don’t regret it for one second. Without Max asking the question formally, I have just basically told him that when he does ask me to marry him…my answer will be yes… Wow that’s intense…not ‘if’…’when’… It gives me a start as I realize how I’m referring to this, but in truth it doesn’t scare me… It shocks me maybe, but it seems just right…

His fingers run down the side of my face, trailing down my neck and following the neckline of the robe I’ve just pulled on. If my father walked in and found us like this, I have no doubt we would be in no better position than we would have been a few minutes ago, naked under the covers, because I doubt it would take much to extrapolate back…

Yet even though I know this, and I’m sure Max does too, that want for him is still there. I don’t want him to go… I can feel him inside me, and I think I know that’s not something that’s going to fade away. Something changed tonight… Before we’ve said it, but now I think it’s really true… Max is a part of me, and I him…he completes me like no one else ever will I am sure…

“I have to tell you Liz. I’ve never been anywhere near this happy in my whole life. You’re the best thing that ever happened to me. I can’t believe how lucky I am that we should have been stranded here where I could meet you…”

I smile and nod. “Well luck goes both ways then…because all those years working in the Crashdown, I wanted nothing more than to get out of this town…I never imagined there was anything that would make me want to stay…until I met you Max… Whether you are here, in LA, or some other city, or even on another planet, I want to be there with you…I want to be at your side always…” I reach up and kiss him before struggling to tear myself away. We know we have to go, and we have to face what comes tomorrow…together, and yet apart in the eyes of the others… “I don’t want you to go…” I say softly as Max pulls back, following my example, and we begin to move towards the window.

Even now, we can’t seem to keep our hands off each other though, and Max takes one brief, gentle kiss after another… I return them gladly and continue hanging onto every last minute, and even second, that we have together…

[StormWolfstone]

OOC: This is a repost of the post which most people can respond to.... Hope it helps....

Quixote



I laughed as I watched what everyone was doing, checking up on all the people I planned to bring together. This was certainly going to be fun.
I made myself flash outside of the room belonging to one of them and looked in the window at her. Seeing that she was awake, I made myself appear before her and said simply, "Isabel. Someone needs your help. He needs all of you."

Not thinking of anything else, I left there quickly and appeared to Michael and Maria doing the same thing and then Kyle and Alex as well. I would have done the same for Max and Liz.. but it wasn't quite the right time.. so instead, I drew the same symbol near the ladder outside and then returned to the bus. Standing beside the girl that Zeus spoke to I smiled, "Hello, Tess Harding. I'm Quixote."

How I knew their names, I still hadn't figured out, but it certain came in handy. Of course, this girl might find it strange since I looked like a ten year old at max.. most thought me eight ewww.

[isabelle]

*Max*

“I don’t want to leave, either, but I have to...,” I tell her, sadly, my hand still caressing her as we inch towards her window. I interrupt myself with a kiss and then start, “If your father…”

Liz stops me then, with another kiss. I don’t know how I can possibly take that last step and turn away from her. I know I’ll see her again in the morning, but it won’t be the same. When I leave now, it will be for more than that. I’ll have to keep my distance and pretend that this night never happened for weeks, or longer, until it’s safe to come back and hold her again. We’ve been apart for weeks already, I know, but that was different. Then, I was confused and hurt. I didn’t understand. And she, she was hurting too and forcing herself to lie about it. Now we know the truth. Now we’re in it together.

I squeeze her against my chest again for maybe the last time before our long separation. Each kiss, each touch, threatens to be the last until it’s followed by another. But there will be a last one. The sweetest of all to hold us through.

I’d hesitated giving Liz one more secret to hold, but now I think I have to. Rather than a burden, I hope it’ll be a support, a promise, a goal, a guideline to the light at the end of the tunnel. I need to do this. I need to make it official. And I think I know how to get at least one piece of the picture in place.

I turn slightly and pull open the window sash. Sensing my departure, Liz pulls me back again, kissing me one more time. I lean into it closing my eyes and savoring every moment, but as I pull back, I give her a smile of re-assurance. “It’s okay, Liz. Just step outside with me.”

I climb out the window and then turn, taking her hand as Liz follows me. My eyes never leave hers as she gets to her feet. I raise my hand, aiming it towards the charcoal grill only a few feet away. The lid shifts and moves; then a piece of charcoal frees itself from the pile and flies into my hand. Smiling, I turn to Liz and say, “I always wanted to try this.”

Closing my hand over the brickette, I concentrate, using my powers to find and move the molecules of carbon from their loose arrangement into an ordered crystal. On atom at a time falls into the lattice, and I gasp, my brow furrowing. There are so very many small steps as each bit falls into place. There’s no heat or pressure, just one small movement after another. A moment later, I breathe a sigh of relief and a smile crosses my face.

Turning, I beam at Liz. “I don’t have a tux or a fancy dinner or even a glass of champagne, but I promise to give you all those things when this is over and we can be free to be together again. Right now, all I have is my love for you and I can offer you this.” There under the stars, I drop to one knee in front of her, holding out my up-turned fist. I open it, revealing the small but perfect diamond. Holding it in my fingertips, I present it to her.

“Getting through the next several weeks or months is going to be incredible, I know, but in the end it should be only a short time compared to the rest of my life. That’s what I want to give you. I promise you that I’ll be there when we get through this and forever after. Elizabeth Claudia Parker, Will you marry me?”

[KatnotKath]

~Liz~

“I don’t want to leave, either, but I have to…”

Max’s hand is still rubbing mine softly and I desperately try to cling onto this feeling. I know that he’s right, but I wish he weren’t…

With each step towards the window comes another kiss. I know that the more time this takes, the more dangerous it is, but I just don’t want this night to end. I don’t want to have to let him go and then tomorrow, when I see him next, have to act as though none of this had happened.

Another kiss comes, this time from Max, but then he looks down at me. “If your father…”

He’s voicing a fact I already know, but I just can’t hear it right now… I don’t want to think about my father, or Tess, or any of the rest of the group. Right now, I just want to concentrate on Max…being with him…the two of us together… I raise my finger to his lips, cutting him off, before reaching up and replacing my finger with my lips once more.

If feel his arms tighten around me and I know that we’re saying ‘goodbye’ as such. Despite the fact that he’ll be there, it’s not going to be the same, and after tonight, I don’t know how I’m going to get through. Knowing that he’s leaving now, even that makes it feel as though my heart is being torn out… “I love you…” I whisper before kissing him once more.

Every kiss that comes seems as though it is to be the last one before he leaves, but somehow every time, one or other of us decides that we can’t face that and one more comes, starting the cycle again. Eventually though, there will have to be one final one, but I just don’t want that moment to come…

Max turns slightly and pulls open the window sash. I can’t bear to see him go, not yet… “No…” I pull him back reaching up and kissing him deeply one more time. As he pulls away, the sight of my journal, still lying on the bedside table where Max put it down, catches my eye and I’m about to remind him about it, but something in his eyes stops me. He smiled reassuringly at me and touches my hand.

“It’s ok Liz… Just step outside with me…”

He climbs out of the window and I can’t help wondering what he’s up to. As he turns, I push all questions to the back of my mind though and follow him, taking the hand he offers and climbing outside.

As I watch him, without moving his eyes from mine, I see him raise his hand. For a moment my gaze drifts in the direction it was pointed and I see the lid of my charcoal grill shift. Suddenly something is flying through the air towards Max and he catches it in his hand. I continue to watch, more puzzled than ever…

“I always wanted to try this…” Max tells me smiling.

At any other time I would ask what, but there’s something in his eyes which tells me not to…which tells me to wait. I see him close his hand over whatever it is and notice the intense look of concentration on his face. His brow furrows and I can see the effort that whatever he is doing is taking. “Max…are you ok…?”

He presses a finger from his other hand over my lips, silencing my questions and a moment later lets out a sigh as the smile returns to his face.

“I don’t have a tux, or a fancy dinner, or even a glass of champagne, but I promise to give you all those thing when this is over and we can be free to be together again…”

“Max…wh-“ I start to ask interrupting, but he holds up a hand, silently asking me to wait, before he continued.

“Right now, all I have is my love for you and I can offer you this…”

Right there, in front of me, he drops onto one knee and in an instant I know what this is about. My heart quickens as I watch him open the up-turned fist he’s holding out in front. There inside, is a diamond… It’s not large, but as far as I am concerned, it couldn’t be any more perfect…

Max picks it up in his fingertips and I almost forget to breath as he holds it in front of me.

“Getting through the next several weeks or months is going to be incredible, I know, but in the end it should be only a short time compared to the rest of my life. That’s what I want to give you. I promise you that I’ll be there when we get through this and forever after…”

Then come the words I have dreamt of since that day in the Crashdown… Words I have tried not to think about since FutureMax, since the day I knew they would never become reality, but words that I couldn’t…because even then, even when I believed it could never happen, I never stopped wanting it…

“Elizabeth Claudia Parker, Will you marry me…?”

I know what is coming, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t affect me… A little gasp comes from my lips, and a feel a single tear – of joy I hasten to point out – begin to slip from the corner of my eye. I swallow, trying to get rid of the lump in my throat, because right now I don’t feel able to say a thing. At the same time though, I nod, not wanting there to be any doubt in Max’s mind, any worry or fear. There’s no question in my mind as to my answer… I’m sixteen, I’m in high school, but none of that matters… All that does, is the fact that I know I love Max in a way I will never love any other…

“Yes…” I tell him softly, nodding again. “Yes Max, I will…” Dropping down beside him, my lips meet his again, kissing him deeply as the connection between us opens again fully and I try to send him an impression of the love and happiness I feel right now.

My mom and dad might say that it’s a teenage crush, that I don’t know what I’m saying… And if we manage to clear things up with Tess as quickly as we’re hoping – although right now months don’t sound like a short time to me – I know that they are likely to have a problem about this… But I also know that they’d be wrong, and that when things are sorted, I don’t want to wait any longer than is absolutely necessary to make this public. For Tess – yes, we’ll have to wait, but for my parents…well no, I’d rather face them when the time comes…

[isabelle]

*Max*

Liz doesn't answer right away. She merely gasps as I kneel there, holding the diamond before her. Still, I can't be afraid. Not yet. She only just told me that this is what she wanted. A tear slides down her cheek connecting briefly with the taunt smile on her face.

She nods and finally answers with a 'yes.' A smile breaks across my face but before I can respond, she's dropped to the asphalt roof beside me, meeting my lips for a kiss. I open my fingers, catching the diamond and closing my hand tight as I respond to that kiss, deepening it, falling into it, into Liz. Our connection blazes to life and I feel like I'm there in every part of her, knowing that we'll always be together.

After an endless moment, I pull back, smiling softly at her. I reach up, running my fingers over her face because I just have to touch her, now. It's like I don't have a choice. I need her so much.

"Thank you," I whisper, opening her hand to lay the new diamond on her palm. "You've made me happier than I've ever been in my life. And I promise that when we get through this, I'll devote my life to making you happy, too."

[KatnotKath]

OOC: hope this works for you isabelle, if you want me to change anyting, just say.

~Liz~

The connection between us is so intense, so complete… Again it’s as though we’re one person rather than two…as though neither or us is complete without the other, but now that we’re together, it’s just right…

If I know one thing, it is that however long we might have, I want to spend the rest of my life with Max… Whether it be ten days, ten months, ten years or hopefully a lot longer, I want nothing more than to be with him whatever happens. If he has to leave, there’s no question that I’m going with him…that I’ll be by his side, because strange thing is, home isn’t Roswell anymore…home is Max…

Finally Max pulls back and smiled at me. His fingers run over my face and I can’t describe how good it feels. To know that he’s here, with me… And to know it’s forever…

“Thank you…”

He takes my hand and opens it, pressing the diamond me made into my palm. I can’t stop the smile that’s stuck on my face. However non-ideal this time might seem, and however difficult the next few weeks, or months are going to be, I can’t help thinking that it’s still perfect…

“You’ve made me happier than I’ve ever been in my life. And I promise that when we get through this, I’ll devote my life to making you happy too.”

I close my hand over the diamond, holding it up against my heart before reaching with my other hand to trace the line of his jaw. “Nothing could make me happier than I am now…” I tell him softly. “I just wish I didn’t have to hide it from everyone…” I look up into his eyes, my hand touching his cheek before pressing my lips up against his once more. “I love you Max Evans…you’re my other half and being without you all this time had been as though I’ve been dying. I love you more than life itself… Whatever happens, I want nothing more than to be there with you…wherever you are, in Roswell, on Earth, on Antar, and to be your wife…”