Taking It Back
Part Twenty-Three
"Implant? Are you saying that my grandfather went through all that stuff for all those years because of an implant?!" As he was talking they noticed the papers in the files start to blow around. Liz turns to look at him and sees the familiar green electricity running through his hands and face.
“Kyle, look at me. Kyle!” As she was talking to him, he turns to look at her, anger showing in his eyes. She begins to feel herself being lifted by his energy. “Kyle! What are you doing?”
Suddenly he stops, he’s surrounded by Max’s force field-he can’t move. Max walks over to Liz, “Are you okay?”
“I’m fine.” She reaches out to grab Max’s arm. “It’s not his fault, you know he wouldn’t hurt me. I know what he’s going through. Max, you don’t have any control of yourself when you’re like this, the changes control you!”
Max walks over to Kyle, he’s still held by the force field. “If you ever do anything like that again…I won’t be responsible for what I do to you. Is that clear?’
As Kyle nods his head, Max releases him from the force field. While this has been going on, Amanda was whispering to Skylar, he nods to her. Standing up, she looks at Max and Kyle. “Okay boys, we’re going to forget about the files for now. I think it’s time for your first lesson.”
Turning to Kyle, she gives him a look. “Okay now, you want to play rough, let’s go!” She starts to approach him.
“Wh…what are you talking about? I can’t fight you!”
“Why, because I’m a girl…well, don’t let that worry you.” Stepping up to him, she shoves him hard on the shoulder, then she starts to walk in circles around him, wiggling her fingers egging him on. “Well, come on!” She pushes him again. “Okay, we’ll do it the hard way!” Next thing Kyle knew he was on his back after she knocked his legs out from under him. “Well?” Was all she asked as she stood over top of him.
“Well what?” He had her down in two seconds. Jumping up, he stood over top of her. Next thing he knew he was back on the ground. “I don’t think so.” Grabbing her foot, he flips her over. But she lands on her feet. “Did they tell you I was state champion two years in a row?” They were walking in circles looking at each other.
“Oh really, I was intergalactic champion three years in a row…have you ever taken on a Zendor nerfherder and live to tell about it?”
Kyle stops, “A what? A nerfherder…?” Then he was back on the ground. She was once again looking down at him, her red ponytail draped over her shoulder. “Gottcha!”
As they stood there watching them chase each other in circles, they didn’t know what to do. Skylar was turning red, Jim looks at him. “Are you okay? You look a little flushed.”
Skylar couldn’t take it any longer, he burst out laughing, he laughed until he thought he would cry. “Oh that did my old heart good. I have never seen anyone get to her like that…she’s going easy on him, you know. The only way to get through what is changing him, is to get the anger out, if you keep it in, it can cause dire circumstances.” He watched as they played the up and down game. Liz walked over to him. “Did you notice, the energy flow is almost gone. I wish I had known this. What I went through was terrible, but I tried to keep it hid from Max, I didn’t want to hurt him.
“So you hurt yourself instead. You must learn to share the pain you have, even if it does cause pain to the people you love, because after all, they suffer worse when they know they caused you to suffer to protect them. People are stronger than you give them credit for…pain can only make you stronger.” He pats her hand and grins at her.
“I know that now, thank you.” Suddenly they hear someone getting the air knocked out of them. Looking, they see both of them on the floor. Kyle stands up and offers Amanda his hand, she takes it. “Truce?”
“Are you caving?”
“No way, I just thought we could…hey all the green is gone! I think I’m cured.”
“You aren’t sick, you’re just changing.” She gives him a soft look. “You’ll get the hang of it soon. Now, for a test.” She walks over to a wall on the other side of the room, holding her hand on a poster; she gently pulls it down revealing another hidden space.
“How many hidden places does this room have? Maybe we should go around touching everything in sight, then maybe we’ll know what’s hid around here.” Michael was getting curious about what Amanda was getting.
She turns around holding a strange weapon, it looked like an X, but the ends were curved, in the center where the lines met was a knob, more like a hand hold, making it easy to use in battle. Before anyone knew what she was going to do, she threw it into the air. It came within inches of Michael, who reached up and caught it, like it was second nature to him. His face lights up as he looks at it. “I know this!” He starts to twist his wrist around, testing himself. “How do I know this?”
“It’s good to see that you retain some memories. This was yours in your other life. This was Rath’s weapon of choice for hands on battle. He was quite an expert with it.”
Michael continues to look at it. “It looks like it could do some major damage.”
Amanda looks at him. “It can and it did.” She reaches into the hiding place again, pulling out a dark blue velvet bag, she looks around. “Anyone recognize this?” She notices Isabel frowning, trying to draw on some long lost memory. Amanda pulls out a long blade, but it is in a leather holster.
“Oh my god, it’s Vilandra’s…I recognize it. It wasn’t just a regular knife…” Reaching over she takes it from Amanda. Taking it out of the holster she starts to study it. The handle looked like pearl with flowers engraved in it. Running her hand down the blade, she starts to remember. “It wasn’t the blade that did the damage, oh it did damage, but it’s what’s in the handle, isn’t it?”
Isabel stares wide eyed at Amanda, surprised that she is remembering all this.
“Very good. Do not touch the end of the blade…the poison is still in there and it has increased in strength over the years. At the end of the handle is a button that will inject the poison into whoever was stabbed. It is a very slow acting poison. It gives you a long time to suffer while you wait for the end.”
“But I thought Vilandra was sheltered, she wasn’t allowed much contact outside the castle.”
“It was for protection, plus Vilandra liked to sneak out at night. She used to strap it to her leg to appear unprotected. I can only recall her using it once. It was a man that was drunk, he made improper advances toward her and she didn’t like it…because she was royalty, she was allowed to do whatever she needed to protect herself without fear of punishment. The man lingered for almost four days…it was a terrible ending.” Out of the corner of her eye she saw Kyle watching her. He made her feel uncomfortable, she didn’t know why, but he did.
Kyle had wandered back over to the files, he was picking up some of the mess he had made. If they put in the implant, could it be taken out, and if it was taken out, would the person go back to being the person they were before? He sat down on the floor, thinking about his grandfather, he couldn’t remember a time when he was normal. Did he really lose it or was it caused by the implant.
“What are you in such deep thought about, son?” Jim looked at Kyle. “Your grandfather?”
“Dad, do you think they could fix him? You know take out that implant…would grandpa be better?” He had such hope in his eyes.
“I don’t know Kyle, it might be too late.”
“It’s never been done before, sorry I wasn’t eavesdropping, I just happened to be passing by. I don’t know if it would help, it might kill him, no one knows.”
“Could we try?”
“Kyle, I don’t know anything about the implants, they stopped using them many years ago.” Skylar felt for him, he loved his father and his grandfather, he wanted what was left of his family together. “Let me think about this, I won’t make any promises.” Jim looked at him. It couldn’t be possible, could it?
Max noticed that Liz had started to look tired. Pulling her to him, he runs his hand down her cheek. “Are you okay? Do you want to go home?”
“We need to make a stop, we have to tell your parents before they hear it from someone else.” She knew he wanted to tell them, but now they would be totally surprised. “Then when we go home…I’ll tell you later.” She looked at him and winked.
Leaning his forehead on hers, “I like your thinking Mrs. Evans.” Turning to face the others, he decides to put an end to tonight’s meeting. “I don’t know about you, but I think it’s time we called it a night. We’ll meet back here tomorrow at the same time, then we can hit the files again.” He takes Liz’s hand to leave, then stops. He walks over to Kyle and offers him his hand. “Kyle, I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have come down so hard on you…I know you’d never hurt Liz.”
“That’s okay Max, I’d have done the same thing. I did get a little crazy.” He takes Max’s hand accepting his apology. “We should have remembered what Liz went through…I think that part is over with, at least for now.”
Max walks Liz to the car, they would go and tell his parents now. “Will Isabel and Jesse be there? It might make things a little easier.” Max opens the door for her, helping her settle into the seat.
“No, I think they were headed out for late dinner. Don’t worry, they won’t be mad for too long.” He leans over and gives her a kiss. As they drive away they don’t notice the stranger hiding in the shadows. Once he made sure they were gone, he steps out on the sidewalk watching the car disappear around the corner.
“It looks like I might get that royal heir after all…”
To Be Continued…
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Taking It Back (CC/M/L/ Teen) 5/14 ~ part 24
Taking It Back
Part Twenty-Four
Skylar and the Valentis stood looking through the senior Valenti's file. “As long as I have this file, I should have enough information to work on the chip; of course we’ll need Max’s help too. He may have to do some healing. I can’t promise anything, but maybe we can at least get him to come around to remembering his life.” He wished he could have given them more hope, but he didn’t want to build them up only to have things fail. Looking around, he saw everyone was ready to leave. “I guess that’s it for tonight. Maybe we can really dig into these tomorrow.” He lays the Valenti file on top of the others.
“I don’t think so.” He stood in the doorway, smiling at their shocked faces. “You mean you were having a party and you didn’t invite me? I’m quite hurt. Vilandra, you know how much I love a good party.” He walks over to Isabel, she walks in front of Jesse, she was not going to let him near her husband.
“How did you get in? The door was locked.”
“I got in the way you do. As for this door, it looks like the mighty king is getting forgetful, he left this open…big mistake.” He winks at Isabel.
Skylar and Amanda have walked the others over to the other side of the room, standing in front of them, acting as a barrier between them and their guest.
“What are you doing here, Kivar…you aren’t wanted!” Skylar wasn’t afraid to take him on, his fear was for the others. If Kivar was here, did that mean more of his henchmen weren’t far behind?
“Why Skylar, you hurt my feelings. I’ve come to see if the rumor was true, you know there is truth in every rumor. And from what I saw leaving here, it’s very true. So that means the new prophecy will be true too. Did you know that the Choosen One is carrying the next leader of our solar sysem? This baby will have more powers than the four of you combined…I don’t think any of you are equipped to handle one so strong. I think, once it’s born I will just have to take it back home and show it how it’s done!”
He starts looking around the room, not seeing anything to hold his interest; he goes back over to Isabel. “So, you go tell your brother to enjoy what time he has left with his beautiful bride, because he has a debut to pay. He let my sister die again, so he will have to give up what means the most to him. Sorry if this bursts your bubble, but it’s his lovely bride. Then tell him not to get used to playing daddy, because that honor will be mine. That baby’s power will let me take over the other four planets of our solar system; I only counted four since I already have control of Antar.” He smiled at them, turning, he heads for the door. First he stops in front of the files. Laying his hand on the files, they turn to ashes. “So much for that.”
“NOOOO!” Kyle jumps to run after Kivar, but Amanda holds him back. Whispering in his ear, she gives him a warning. “Don’t, he can kill you like you are a fly on the wall. That won’t do anyone any good.”
“She can be very smart, when she wants to be. You would be smart to listen to her. Did you say there would be another meeting tomorrow at the same time? May I ask what time that might be? I don’t want to be late for this one.”
“I don’t think you’re on the guest list. Too bad.” Michael wanted to jump him too, but he knew he wouldn’t have a chance now…but later would be a different story.
“You second in command types never do know your place.” With a wave of his hand he sends Michael flying into the wall. “Anyone else what to make a rude comment? If not, I think I’ll just go home and anticipate the upcoming get together.” He gives them a mock salute as he walks out of the door. Isabel flips her hand slamming it shut.
“Oh my god! It was the baby that saved Liz today!” Maria couldn’t believe her ears, the baby did know Liz was in trouble, and she protected her.
“Maria, what are you talking about? You aren’t making any sense.” Michael was picking himself up off of the floor. “How could the baby save Liz?”
“She was coming down the stairs, when she lost her balance and started to fall. Max had his back to her, talking to Liz’s mom and me. He turned around only when she called his name. By then it was almost too late. She said it felt like someone had held onto her shirt and kept her from falling down the steps. What kind of baby are they having?”
“Those herbs that Miranda gave Liz’s mother must have had some kind of powers in them to set this new prophecy in motion. That’s how she knew Liz would get pregnant that night, and why the baby is growing so fast. It could also mean the baby will continue to develop way ahead of anyone’s time frame. Maria, do you remember exactly what she said about them?”
“I never heard what she said exactly, but Mrs. Parker said that Miranda told her that they were the same, but different. I think she thought that she was telling her that these herbs wouldn’t be jump starting the pods like last time. But they would only be for morning sickness. Maybe they did more than that. We have to go tell them!”
“Jesse and I will head home and talk to them, they should still be there. Mom and dad won’t let them go too early. Where will they go to be safe from Kivar…he means business.”
Skylar looks around the room. “This would be the safest place. No one can unlock the door except for the ones that Max programmed. It doesn’t look too comfortable for someone that might wake up ready to give birth.”
“Let me take care of that, I can have this place livable in a few hours, it’s one of the quirks of having a lot of money.” Brody looks around taking mental notes about what would be needed. “Of course I don’t know about having delivery people come up here.”
“Except for the old computer, this looks like a typical loft apartment, minus things like a bathroom and kitchen. Anybody have powers for that?” Jim was looking around, he saw Kyle standing near the pile of ashes digging the toe of his shoe in them. Amanda saw him too; she made her way over to him. Jim smiled, maybe something good might come out of this.
“I saw a door, yea a real door around the corner. It was near the wall that hides the chair. It’s probably just a closet, but it wouldn’t hurt to look.” Jesse led the way, pausing by the door, he opens it. “Hey! We’re in luck, one problem solved! We have a bathroom.”
Kyle was still staring down at the ashes, what would they do now? No file, no way to remove the implant. Amanda reached up and put her hand on Kyle’s shoulder. “I am so sorry that he did that. Kyle, we’ll find a way to help your grandfather. We’ll do whatever it takes.” She comes around to see his face, his eyes looked a little damp. “You really love him, don’t you?”
He looks up at her, seeing the concern on her face. “He’s the only family that dad and I have left…well, I guess you can consider them,” he points at his ‘other family’. “my family too. You would never know all the things we’ve been through. It was weird at first, but now I don’t know what I’d do without them.”
Amanda reaches up and touches his face. “We’ll all find a way.” Then she gives him a kiss on the cheek. This last action wasn’t lost on Jim or Skylar. They look at each other not knowing what to make of it.
Brody hangs up his cell phone. “In the next two hours we’ll have an apartment fit for royalty…sorry I couldn’t resist. The only thing is there won’t be a way to get them a kitchen. I’m having a refrigerator and a microwave brought along, I guess that will have to do until they can go back home.”
“Thank you, Brody. You’ll never know what that means to us, and what it will mean to Max.” Isabel knew they would be safe here, they could have gone to the pod chamber, but it was too far away from town.
“Nonsense, I could never repay Max for what he gave me that Christmas, never in a million years. And if I can help save his child, then so be it.”
“Jesse, we need to get home, we have to catch them before they leave.” She hugs Michael and Maria.
“What was that for?”
“I don’t know, it just felt like something I needed to do.”
“Be careful, watch your back. You don’t know who could be watching you.” Jim was considering following them. “I could follow you, you know.”
“We’ll be okay. He got his jollies already. I don’t think he’ll try anything, he’ll want us to be paranoid. That’s when he’ll move in.”
Jesse looks at her. “How well did you know him? You seem to know how he thinks.”
“I knew him better than I care to admit. Maybe it’ll be a good thing, I might be able to keep one step ahead of him. Now we have to go! We have to warn them. Are we really meeting back here at 6:30 or should we change the time?”
“I hate to do anything with Max not being here. Check with him and we’ll see where we go from there.” Skylar never wanted to second guess his boss.
Jesse and Isabel walked into the Evans house finding Diane Evans fussing over Liz. “Are you sure you have everything you need? We could go shopping!” Her face lit up at the thought of shopping for her new granddaughter.
“I’m afraid they won’t be able to go out in public for awhile.” They all turn to look at Isabel. “Max, we have really big trouble…we had a visitor at the meeting.”
“Who? How did they get in?” Max looked from Isabel to Jesse.
“He got in our usual way…oh, by the way, you forgot to shut the door…you know the door.”
Max looked shocked, then he remembered. “I thought you guys were leaving right behind me! Who was there?”
“We were just finishing up. He wants to take revenge on you because of Tess, he said you let his sister die, again. Liz isn’t safe, he wants her for payment, then he’s planning on taking your baby back to Antar…Oh, by the way, there is a new prophecy. It’s your daughter.”
Max looks at Isabel “Kivar is here?”
“Yes and he’s out for blood…ours.”
To Be Continued…
Part Twenty-Four
Skylar and the Valentis stood looking through the senior Valenti's file. “As long as I have this file, I should have enough information to work on the chip; of course we’ll need Max’s help too. He may have to do some healing. I can’t promise anything, but maybe we can at least get him to come around to remembering his life.” He wished he could have given them more hope, but he didn’t want to build them up only to have things fail. Looking around, he saw everyone was ready to leave. “I guess that’s it for tonight. Maybe we can really dig into these tomorrow.” He lays the Valenti file on top of the others.
“I don’t think so.” He stood in the doorway, smiling at their shocked faces. “You mean you were having a party and you didn’t invite me? I’m quite hurt. Vilandra, you know how much I love a good party.” He walks over to Isabel, she walks in front of Jesse, she was not going to let him near her husband.
“How did you get in? The door was locked.”
“I got in the way you do. As for this door, it looks like the mighty king is getting forgetful, he left this open…big mistake.” He winks at Isabel.
Skylar and Amanda have walked the others over to the other side of the room, standing in front of them, acting as a barrier between them and their guest.
“What are you doing here, Kivar…you aren’t wanted!” Skylar wasn’t afraid to take him on, his fear was for the others. If Kivar was here, did that mean more of his henchmen weren’t far behind?
“Why Skylar, you hurt my feelings. I’ve come to see if the rumor was true, you know there is truth in every rumor. And from what I saw leaving here, it’s very true. So that means the new prophecy will be true too. Did you know that the Choosen One is carrying the next leader of our solar sysem? This baby will have more powers than the four of you combined…I don’t think any of you are equipped to handle one so strong. I think, once it’s born I will just have to take it back home and show it how it’s done!”
He starts looking around the room, not seeing anything to hold his interest; he goes back over to Isabel. “So, you go tell your brother to enjoy what time he has left with his beautiful bride, because he has a debut to pay. He let my sister die again, so he will have to give up what means the most to him. Sorry if this bursts your bubble, but it’s his lovely bride. Then tell him not to get used to playing daddy, because that honor will be mine. That baby’s power will let me take over the other four planets of our solar system; I only counted four since I already have control of Antar.” He smiled at them, turning, he heads for the door. First he stops in front of the files. Laying his hand on the files, they turn to ashes. “So much for that.”
“NOOOO!” Kyle jumps to run after Kivar, but Amanda holds him back. Whispering in his ear, she gives him a warning. “Don’t, he can kill you like you are a fly on the wall. That won’t do anyone any good.”
“She can be very smart, when she wants to be. You would be smart to listen to her. Did you say there would be another meeting tomorrow at the same time? May I ask what time that might be? I don’t want to be late for this one.”
“I don’t think you’re on the guest list. Too bad.” Michael wanted to jump him too, but he knew he wouldn’t have a chance now…but later would be a different story.
“You second in command types never do know your place.” With a wave of his hand he sends Michael flying into the wall. “Anyone else what to make a rude comment? If not, I think I’ll just go home and anticipate the upcoming get together.” He gives them a mock salute as he walks out of the door. Isabel flips her hand slamming it shut.
“Oh my god! It was the baby that saved Liz today!” Maria couldn’t believe her ears, the baby did know Liz was in trouble, and she protected her.
“Maria, what are you talking about? You aren’t making any sense.” Michael was picking himself up off of the floor. “How could the baby save Liz?”
“She was coming down the stairs, when she lost her balance and started to fall. Max had his back to her, talking to Liz’s mom and me. He turned around only when she called his name. By then it was almost too late. She said it felt like someone had held onto her shirt and kept her from falling down the steps. What kind of baby are they having?”
“Those herbs that Miranda gave Liz’s mother must have had some kind of powers in them to set this new prophecy in motion. That’s how she knew Liz would get pregnant that night, and why the baby is growing so fast. It could also mean the baby will continue to develop way ahead of anyone’s time frame. Maria, do you remember exactly what she said about them?”
“I never heard what she said exactly, but Mrs. Parker said that Miranda told her that they were the same, but different. I think she thought that she was telling her that these herbs wouldn’t be jump starting the pods like last time. But they would only be for morning sickness. Maybe they did more than that. We have to go tell them!”
“Jesse and I will head home and talk to them, they should still be there. Mom and dad won’t let them go too early. Where will they go to be safe from Kivar…he means business.”
Skylar looks around the room. “This would be the safest place. No one can unlock the door except for the ones that Max programmed. It doesn’t look too comfortable for someone that might wake up ready to give birth.”
“Let me take care of that, I can have this place livable in a few hours, it’s one of the quirks of having a lot of money.” Brody looks around taking mental notes about what would be needed. “Of course I don’t know about having delivery people come up here.”
“Except for the old computer, this looks like a typical loft apartment, minus things like a bathroom and kitchen. Anybody have powers for that?” Jim was looking around, he saw Kyle standing near the pile of ashes digging the toe of his shoe in them. Amanda saw him too; she made her way over to him. Jim smiled, maybe something good might come out of this.
“I saw a door, yea a real door around the corner. It was near the wall that hides the chair. It’s probably just a closet, but it wouldn’t hurt to look.” Jesse led the way, pausing by the door, he opens it. “Hey! We’re in luck, one problem solved! We have a bathroom.”
Kyle was still staring down at the ashes, what would they do now? No file, no way to remove the implant. Amanda reached up and put her hand on Kyle’s shoulder. “I am so sorry that he did that. Kyle, we’ll find a way to help your grandfather. We’ll do whatever it takes.” She comes around to see his face, his eyes looked a little damp. “You really love him, don’t you?”
He looks up at her, seeing the concern on her face. “He’s the only family that dad and I have left…well, I guess you can consider them,” he points at his ‘other family’. “my family too. You would never know all the things we’ve been through. It was weird at first, but now I don’t know what I’d do without them.”
Amanda reaches up and touches his face. “We’ll all find a way.” Then she gives him a kiss on the cheek. This last action wasn’t lost on Jim or Skylar. They look at each other not knowing what to make of it.
Brody hangs up his cell phone. “In the next two hours we’ll have an apartment fit for royalty…sorry I couldn’t resist. The only thing is there won’t be a way to get them a kitchen. I’m having a refrigerator and a microwave brought along, I guess that will have to do until they can go back home.”
“Thank you, Brody. You’ll never know what that means to us, and what it will mean to Max.” Isabel knew they would be safe here, they could have gone to the pod chamber, but it was too far away from town.
“Nonsense, I could never repay Max for what he gave me that Christmas, never in a million years. And if I can help save his child, then so be it.”
“Jesse, we need to get home, we have to catch them before they leave.” She hugs Michael and Maria.
“What was that for?”
“I don’t know, it just felt like something I needed to do.”
“Be careful, watch your back. You don’t know who could be watching you.” Jim was considering following them. “I could follow you, you know.”
“We’ll be okay. He got his jollies already. I don’t think he’ll try anything, he’ll want us to be paranoid. That’s when he’ll move in.”
Jesse looks at her. “How well did you know him? You seem to know how he thinks.”
“I knew him better than I care to admit. Maybe it’ll be a good thing, I might be able to keep one step ahead of him. Now we have to go! We have to warn them. Are we really meeting back here at 6:30 or should we change the time?”
“I hate to do anything with Max not being here. Check with him and we’ll see where we go from there.” Skylar never wanted to second guess his boss.
Jesse and Isabel walked into the Evans house finding Diane Evans fussing over Liz. “Are you sure you have everything you need? We could go shopping!” Her face lit up at the thought of shopping for her new granddaughter.
“I’m afraid they won’t be able to go out in public for awhile.” They all turn to look at Isabel. “Max, we have really big trouble…we had a visitor at the meeting.”
“Who? How did they get in?” Max looked from Isabel to Jesse.
“He got in our usual way…oh, by the way, you forgot to shut the door…you know the door.”
Max looked shocked, then he remembered. “I thought you guys were leaving right behind me! Who was there?”
“We were just finishing up. He wants to take revenge on you because of Tess, he said you let his sister die, again. Liz isn’t safe, he wants her for payment, then he’s planning on taking your baby back to Antar…Oh, by the way, there is a new prophecy. It’s your daughter.”
Max looks at Isabel “Kivar is here?”
“Yes and he’s out for blood…ours.”
To Be Continued…
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A/N Well, I thought that since there is only two parts left I may as well bring them both to you at once...Hope you like the ending. The new prophecy is part of the story, this one is not from a cut scene, only my imagination.
Taking It Back
Part Twenty-Five
Amanda and Skylar stood in the hall while she unlocked the door. Looking over her shoulder she saw him watching her again. “What? You’ve been looking like you wanted to ask me a question all the way home.” Opening the door, they walk in, looking around making sure that no one was there to surprise them.
“Okay, but don’t bite my head off. What’s with you and Kyle? I’ve never seen you act that way with anyone before? The kiss on the cheek almost gave me a heart attack! I thought you were taken over by some one.” He watches as she turned and headed to the refrigerator, something she never did.
“There is nothing going on, I just felt bad for him after Kivar burned up all of the files.” She tries to look busy, pushing bottles around. “He really loves his grandfather and it looks like their only way to help him just went up in smoke, so to speak.” She didn’t hear him walk towards her, and when he tapped her on the shoulder, she almost jumped out of her skin. “You scared me half to death! What?!”
“Look at me, you’re falling in love with him, aren’t you? I can’t believe this…after all these years of knowing you, all the planetary leaders that would have given away their planets just to have you; you fall for…what did you call him? Oh, that’s right, a Buddha loving alien-want-to-be. Well, what do you have to say for yourself?” He watched her blush…another first.
“Skylar, get off my back!” She slams the refrigerator door shut, causing half the stuff inside to fall over.
“My, are we touchy tonight! Oh, why were you so easy on him? You could have had him pinned every time, heck you could have mopped up the floor with him…a Zendor nerfherder? Where did that come from…no where that I know of is there such a thing.” He was trying to keep from laughing at her, her blush kept getting deeper.
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer, are you happy now?”
“Buffy the…huh?”
“The nerfherder thing, it’s the name of the band that does the theme song. I needed something that would sound impressive.” She was getting ready to hit him with something.
“Why were you worrying about impressing him? He’s just another…”
“I’m tired of your questions! We’ll probably have a busy day tomorrow…we need our rest!” Storming off, she walks into her room slamming the door behind her.
“Speak for yourself!” Then he breaks out in a fit of laughter.
“Do you mean there could be an actual battle? Max, this can’t be happening!” Diane looked at her son, not knowing what to make of this. “And Liz could be involved too? What about the baby, you can’t fight when you’re like this!”
“Mom, there’s something going on with the baby, she’s special.” Isabel was trying to soothe over her mother’s nerves, but she didn’t think that it was doing much good.
“Of course she’s special, all babies are special!”
Isabel sat down next to her mother, taking her hand; she would try to prepare her for what could be happening soon. “Yes, all babies are special…but this baby is more than the normal special. Remember what Miranda said about Liz, she was called the “Chosen One”. For some reason, long before she was born, maybe before her father was born, she was chosen to be Max’s wife. She possesses something, I don’t know, that was intended to make her different, like us. Maybe it was when Max saved her that things got triggered, we don’t know. All we know is they were meant to be together.” Looking over at Max and Liz, Isabel knew that it was true, they were the same, but they were different, they were each others balance. “This new prophecy said that the baby will possess all of our powers, she will be stronger than we could ever imagine. She is growing at this fast pace in order to be born in time to help stop whatever is coming.” Isabel looked at her mother, hoping this was making sense to her.
“So, now you’re saying that a newborn baby is going to be in a battle along side of you? Max this is sounding more ridiculous all the time.”
“Dad, this is confusing for us too. But I think Isabel is right, the baby is special. She saved Liz today. Liz almost fell down the stairs at the Crashdown, I wouldn’t have reached her in time, but something or someone held on to her, keeping her from falling. When we questioned each other about it, Liz got a hard kick, like she was sending us a message.” Max turns to Liz and places his hand on the baby. Suddenly he got a flash.
“I saw that too, Max. She knows when she’ll be born…it looks like tomorrow.” Liz looks at Max; she was starting to get scared, this was happening too fast.
Max looks at his parents. “Please, what ever you do, stay away from us tomorrow. I don’t want you in the way of what might come. This is the reason we kept our secret all those years, we were protecting you.” Standing up, he holds his hand out to Liz, to help her up. When she tried to get up, she could barely move…her clothes felt too small. “Are you okay?”
“I think so, give me your other hand, maybe that will help.” Once she got on her feet, everyone was looking down. “Ohhhh! I guess she’s right.” Running her hand over the baby, she sees that she looked ready to have it at any minute. “This has to be the shortest pregnancy in the history of, well, I guess the universe!”
“I think we better get you home.”
“Wait, Max. Brody is fixing up the room for you, that way you’ll be safe.”
“Max, I don’t like this…isn’t there anything we can do?” His father looked anxious, he was worried what would become of all of them.
Max looks at Isabel, then at Liz and then the baby. “Dad, this will sound crazy, but I have the best army I could ever ask for. Izz, as soon as I have an idea what we’re going to do, I’ll let you know. Just be ready to go as soon as the call comes.” Leaning down, he kisses his mother on the cheek, “Don’t worry, everything will be all right.”
Diane reaches up and lays her hand on Liz’s stomach. “Please, please be careful. This is too precious to risk.”
Liz smiles at her mother-in-law. “I have a sneaky feeling, she won’t let anything happen. She’s already taken care of me today. I think tomorrow will start a whole new world.”
Max opens the door to the hidden room, finding Brody in the middle of doing some finishing touches. They couldn’t believe what he had done.
“Oh Brody, this is wonderful. How can we ever thank you?” Liz was looking everywhere at once.
All of the ashes from the files were gone, and in their place, Brody had put in a love seat and a rocker, far to the back was a bed, hidden behind a screen. Beside the bed he had put an antique cradle. He saw her looking at it. “Just in case…” Looking at Liz, he grins. “I guess I’m not far off, am I? Over here is a little refrigerator, just something small to hold a few things. Oh, then there is the microwave, too.” Pointing to a small box behind the old computer he shows them some more supplies. “Do you think I should go get one of those emergency delivery kits? It might come in handy.”
“No, this is plenty, thank you. We need to discuss some kind of signals, because I think when things start to happen, they will hit fast…Brody, are you all right? Brody…!” Max looked at Brody’s face, then he saw it was Larek looking back.
“This must be quick; I could not prepare him again. Beware of the two men that Kivar is bringing with him tomorrow. They are not living things, so they can not be hurt. He will stop at nothing to get your child…please watch your back!” Larek was gone, Brody started to shake his head.
“He was here again, wasn’t he?” He started to rub his head, the headache would soon return.
“Yes, he had to warn me about Kivar’s men. Come here, I’ll take care of that for you.” Reaching over to Brody, he places his hand on his head, taking away the headache. “Better?”
“Yes, thank you. Is there anything I can do to help you get ready?”
“We need to have another meeting tonight to go over plans…Liz what’s the matter?”
“I just had a vision, it was from the baby…she knows what will happen tomorrow. She told me we must follow her directions or we will never defeat Kivar…”
To Be Continued…
Taking It Back
Part Twenty -Six
They sat around the little table that Brody had put in for Max and Liz to use; once more they were going over each step of the plan. "Max, I don’t know about this. It doesn’t make too much sense. Are you sure you want me to do this part?”
“Jim, we have to follow Liz’s vision, and this is what we need you to do. I trust you.”
“I’ve never done this before, wonder if I mess up!” Jim looked at Liz, she was putting her life and her daughter’s life in his hands and it scared the hell out of him.
Liz comes up behind him, reaching to pick up his empty cup, she accidentally bumps his back with her stomach. Suddenly the baby gives him a big kick. “See, even she says it will be alright. I’ve never done this before either, and I keep wondering if I’ll mess up too.” She gives him a quick kiss on the cheek. “Do you have any of your stuff in your car? I guess I should have let Brody get that kit, just in case.”
“I have something in the car. I’ll go get it.” As he heads out the door he looks back at the group that could possibly be defending the world…and they would be lead by a baby, a baby they wanted him to deliver.
Amanda got up and headed to where the weapons were stored. Michael and Isabel followed her. Once she opened it, she handed Michael his weapon. He took it and started to practice his moves, Amanda watched. “We’ll go over a few things in a minute. You’ll need to refresh your memories. You must be as accurate as you were in your past life…we all will be depending on you. Isabel, you know how this works. Just a few drops of the poison will be enough to take care of him.”
Isabel picked up the holster, taking out the knife, she rolled it over and over in her hand. “Pretty Poison”, that’s what he called it when he gave it to me. I just can’t remember why.”
“When who gave it to you Is?” Max was worried about her, she would have the toughest job of them all. Everything hinges on her not caving in to him.
“Kivar. He wanted me to use it to protect myself when we would sneak out and meet. There was something unusual about it…I only wish I could remember.” Looking at Amanda she saw in her face that she knew the secret of it. “You know don’t you? Liz, can she tell me?”
“I don’t know. Amanda, will it make a difference to her?” Liz rubbed her back, this backache has been going on for almost an hour.
“It must mean that she doesn’t remember for a reason…Isabel, take some time, if you’re meant to remember, you will. Ready Michael?” As she looks at him, she sees that he hadn’t forgotten a move. “Good memory.”
“It’s my turn to take it back. This time things will be different.” He flings the weapon high into the room, it almost touches the ceiling. When it comes down spinning he catches it with his eyes closed.
“Michael, I didn’t think you had that in you. I’m impressed.” Amanda looks around the room, her eyes stop on Liz. She is leaning against the wall, her fists are in a ball. “Guys, I think it’s showtime!”
Max runs over to her, “Liz, is it…you know.” He was starting to panic, not about what would soon happen with Kivar, but what soon happen with Liz.
She reaches over and grabs his hand. “That’s good, if it hurts, just squeeze.” Suddenly his face is twisted in pain. “Ah Liz…let go a little bit, please. Liz?”
She shakes her head ‘no’ “I want you to enjoy the wonders of natural childbirth right along with me! Seeeee that’s what it feels like.” She squeezes his hand again. His fingers start to turn white from the lack of circulation. Looking at the others for help, they just stare at him. “Thanks for the help guys.”
It was time to get moving. They open the loveseat to reveal a sofa bed, Jim opens his OB kit and takes out the sheet, laying it on the bed. “Liz, do you want to lie down?” Looking her way, she shakes her head ‘no’. “Okay then. Max, do you know if you have any alcohol? I have some in the kit, but I don’t know if I’ll have enough. Liz, where are you going?” She was heading to the bathroom.
“I want to change; I don’t want to ruin the new outfit…OWWW!” Looking at her watch, her eyes get wide. “That was quick, it’s only been three minutes!” Isabel goes over to her, Liz points to a suitcase under the bed. Isabel opens it up, seeing her nightgown, she grabs it, then she takes out some of the baby things. Helping Liz into the bathroom, she closes the door.
“Are you really okay?” Liz shakes her head no. “What do you think is wrong?”
“I changed my mind, I’m not ready for this. I want to go back on the road…” Gripping the edge of the sink, she gets a flash. “He’s here! Was everything done?” Isabel runs their check list over in her mind. “Yes, everyone got to their positions a little bit ago.” She looks at Liz, she could read the question in her mind. “I’ll be fine. I can do this…there is no way he will ever control me again.” She gives Liz a hug. “Are you ready?” Liz is biting her lip, then she nods her head at Isabel.
“Let’s do it!”
Walking into the room, she sees Kivar standing near the make-shift delivery room. “Just in time I see. Do we know what we’re having?”
Max reaches over and helps Liz onto the bed. Leaning in, he whispers into her ear. “Are you ready?” Liz nods ‘yes’ then she whispers back “Just as long as she is.”
“If you don’t mind, could you stand somewhere else? It’s bad enough she has to go through this here, but she doesn’t need you so close.” Max wanted to blast him across the room, but he knew he couldn’t, but he would get his when the time was right.
“Always the hero, ah Zan…sorry Max. How long do you think this will take, I want to get home as soon as possible.” He looked at his watch.
“You can leave anytime, it would be alright with us.”
“Didn’t they teach you any manners here? That was rather rude.”
“Rude is intruding in on someone’s life, then trying to take it over.” Liz squeezes his hand again, only this time it wasn’t from pain.
Kivar turns to look behind him at the sound of someone approaching. “Well, who do we have here? Did you change your mind about us?” He starts to rub her arm. Inside Isabel in flinching, the touch of his hand on her skin felt like someone was scrapping her with sandpaper.
“I’m here for Liz, now. Then maybe we can talk later…” She reaches up and runs her hand down the front of his shirt. Looking up at him, she sees that he is looking at her hair. “Did you like it better the other way?” She takes her hand and runs it over her hair, changing it back to the shorter brown version she had when she married Jesse.
Kivar looks at her “Better. What do you propose that we do with that husband of yours?”
“I don’t want to discuss Jesse right now…we’ll do that later.” She runs her hand down his face, giving him a look that sent chills down his spine. Turning, she looks at him in the eye. “Lover, I think you’re right…I do want that power…I want to go home with you. We’ll take that baby and we will raise her to rule it all!” With her left hand, she draws his face to her mouth, but with her right hand she reaches in her boot, pulling the knife out of it’s holster. Taking it she plunges it deep into Kivar, she pushes up into his lungs. When she was satisfied that it was deep enough, she pushes the button to release all of the poison into his body. He looks at her like he couldn’t believe she did that. “What did you do?” She just smiles as she sees the horror on his face. “I just kept my promise to you, Lover. I told you if you ever showed your face around here again I’d kill you myself. Oh, I forgot.” She grabs his chin and holds his face so that they are eye level and he can see her hatred for him. “This is for Alex.” She digs the knife in deeper, twisting it back and forth while she drained out any of the remaining poison. “You created the monster that killed him, so you should pay the price. If you would have lived a thousand lives for a thousand years in each life, you would have not been good enough to stand in his shadow.” She feels his body fall to the floor. Looking down, she doesn’t see any blood. Amanda comes out of the secret room, seeing Isabel studying the body she asks her “Do you remember now why it was called pretty poison?”
“Yes, no matter how many times a person was stabbed, the poison healed the cuts. It kept the poison inside to cause the suffering to go on for days…you did good, Lover
Suddenly they hear a baby’s cry.
Max is sitting next to Liz with the baby on her chest, they are rubbing her back. “She’s beautiful Liz, but I wouldn’t have expected anything else with you as her mother.” He hands Max a blanket to wrap her up in. “Make sure she stays warm.” Just then the door is kicked open by Kivar’s ‘men’. One is headed for the baby and one is headed for Liz. Max looks down at his daughter, and what he saw shocked him, he never expected this, even with Liz’s vision. On that beautiful baby face, he saw her mother’s eyes, not her regular eyes, but the eyes of the warrior. Just as the first man reached for Liz, a green force field comes from the baby surrounding the four of them. Kivar’s men were on the verge of breaking through just as Michael comes into the room, swinging his weapon. In the next second, he sends it flying towards the men catching them in the neck, sending their electronic heads to the ground. Once the baby felt safe, the force field was gone. Liz and Max look down at her, she now had her regular eyes back, and a smile on her face. “I don’t think that smile was from gas…do you?”
Michael sets off the signal, a flashing green light over the door. Brody now knows that it’s all clear. Skylar, Maria and Kyle come up the stairs looking into see if there was anything left.
“Let me see that sweet babbbby!” Maria was the first one in line. “Oh Liz, she’s gorgeous!” She looks up at Michael. “Don’t get any ideas Maria!”
“Not me, I’m just happy to be the aunt.”
Skylar looks at Kivar. “I see the pretty poison did its job again. Do you want me to take him back? I’m sure the people on Antar will be happy to get him. I can take him back in that little two-seater that’s stored up there.” He points to the other secret room. “Oh, but if I do that, Amanda won’t have a way back.”
Kyle comes up to stand beside her. “Well, if she wants to stay, I think I can make arrangements for her. “ He takes her hand and gives her a smile.
“You know Skylar, I think I’m ready to settle down for a while.” She turns to look at Kyle, she is reading a lot more than sadness in his eyes now. “I want to see what it’s like to have a family…if that’s okay with everyone else.”
September 23rd, I’m Liz Evans and five days ago I became a mother. How funny it is to write these words and how ironic, no, not ironic, how perfect, that it would happen when it did. Was it destiny that I happened to bring a life into the world on the same day Max gave me back mine? All I know is that I wake up each day in awe of my beautiful daughter. We named her Destiny Miranda…Destiny to show the world that we are living the destiny that was planned for us all those years ago and Miranda for the woman that made it possible. Our mothers are totally amazed that she never cries…what they don’t understand is she is in constant communication with us. She can do little mind tricks like letting us know when she’s hungry and when she needs changed. I hope she saves the big powers until we are all better equipped to handle them. She seems to have stopped growing at her fast rate…I think it was for our own good that she was in such a hurry to arrive. She is the love of our lives.
Amanda has moved in with the Valentis and when she can she tries to work out a way to remove the implant in Kyle’s grandfather. Before Skylar took Kivar back to Antar, he set up a signal with Max and Michael so that they would know if he had a message for them. Then they use the chair to travel to Antar to get any information that he might have found on removing the implant. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been too much, but it’s only been five days, so we’ll be patient and hope that some day we’ll find a way.
Jim, Max and Michael finally let Hanson in. In all the confusion of getting ready to fight Kivar, they never got around to it. They took Hanson to Jim’s house and told him…Max said that they had to use smelling salts when they told him…
Well, that’s the beginning of our return to Roswell. Will we have to tackle our enemies again? I don’t know. But I do know that we are probably still on the FBI’s list, so we never know when they’ll be coming for us. The person that said you can’t go home again, didn’t know what it’s like to return home to Roswell…
Taking It Back
Part Twenty-Five
Amanda and Skylar stood in the hall while she unlocked the door. Looking over her shoulder she saw him watching her again. “What? You’ve been looking like you wanted to ask me a question all the way home.” Opening the door, they walk in, looking around making sure that no one was there to surprise them.
“Okay, but don’t bite my head off. What’s with you and Kyle? I’ve never seen you act that way with anyone before? The kiss on the cheek almost gave me a heart attack! I thought you were taken over by some one.” He watches as she turned and headed to the refrigerator, something she never did.
“There is nothing going on, I just felt bad for him after Kivar burned up all of the files.” She tries to look busy, pushing bottles around. “He really loves his grandfather and it looks like their only way to help him just went up in smoke, so to speak.” She didn’t hear him walk towards her, and when he tapped her on the shoulder, she almost jumped out of her skin. “You scared me half to death! What?!”
“Look at me, you’re falling in love with him, aren’t you? I can’t believe this…after all these years of knowing you, all the planetary leaders that would have given away their planets just to have you; you fall for…what did you call him? Oh, that’s right, a Buddha loving alien-want-to-be. Well, what do you have to say for yourself?” He watched her blush…another first.
“Skylar, get off my back!” She slams the refrigerator door shut, causing half the stuff inside to fall over.
“My, are we touchy tonight! Oh, why were you so easy on him? You could have had him pinned every time, heck you could have mopped up the floor with him…a Zendor nerfherder? Where did that come from…no where that I know of is there such a thing.” He was trying to keep from laughing at her, her blush kept getting deeper.
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer, are you happy now?”
“Buffy the…huh?”
“The nerfherder thing, it’s the name of the band that does the theme song. I needed something that would sound impressive.” She was getting ready to hit him with something.
“Why were you worrying about impressing him? He’s just another…”
“I’m tired of your questions! We’ll probably have a busy day tomorrow…we need our rest!” Storming off, she walks into her room slamming the door behind her.
“Speak for yourself!” Then he breaks out in a fit of laughter.
“Do you mean there could be an actual battle? Max, this can’t be happening!” Diane looked at her son, not knowing what to make of this. “And Liz could be involved too? What about the baby, you can’t fight when you’re like this!”
“Mom, there’s something going on with the baby, she’s special.” Isabel was trying to soothe over her mother’s nerves, but she didn’t think that it was doing much good.
“Of course she’s special, all babies are special!”
Isabel sat down next to her mother, taking her hand; she would try to prepare her for what could be happening soon. “Yes, all babies are special…but this baby is more than the normal special. Remember what Miranda said about Liz, she was called the “Chosen One”. For some reason, long before she was born, maybe before her father was born, she was chosen to be Max’s wife. She possesses something, I don’t know, that was intended to make her different, like us. Maybe it was when Max saved her that things got triggered, we don’t know. All we know is they were meant to be together.” Looking over at Max and Liz, Isabel knew that it was true, they were the same, but they were different, they were each others balance. “This new prophecy said that the baby will possess all of our powers, she will be stronger than we could ever imagine. She is growing at this fast pace in order to be born in time to help stop whatever is coming.” Isabel looked at her mother, hoping this was making sense to her.
“So, now you’re saying that a newborn baby is going to be in a battle along side of you? Max this is sounding more ridiculous all the time.”
“Dad, this is confusing for us too. But I think Isabel is right, the baby is special. She saved Liz today. Liz almost fell down the stairs at the Crashdown, I wouldn’t have reached her in time, but something or someone held on to her, keeping her from falling. When we questioned each other about it, Liz got a hard kick, like she was sending us a message.” Max turns to Liz and places his hand on the baby. Suddenly he got a flash.
“I saw that too, Max. She knows when she’ll be born…it looks like tomorrow.” Liz looks at Max; she was starting to get scared, this was happening too fast.
Max looks at his parents. “Please, what ever you do, stay away from us tomorrow. I don’t want you in the way of what might come. This is the reason we kept our secret all those years, we were protecting you.” Standing up, he holds his hand out to Liz, to help her up. When she tried to get up, she could barely move…her clothes felt too small. “Are you okay?”
“I think so, give me your other hand, maybe that will help.” Once she got on her feet, everyone was looking down. “Ohhhh! I guess she’s right.” Running her hand over the baby, she sees that she looked ready to have it at any minute. “This has to be the shortest pregnancy in the history of, well, I guess the universe!”
“I think we better get you home.”
“Wait, Max. Brody is fixing up the room for you, that way you’ll be safe.”
“Max, I don’t like this…isn’t there anything we can do?” His father looked anxious, he was worried what would become of all of them.
Max looks at Isabel, then at Liz and then the baby. “Dad, this will sound crazy, but I have the best army I could ever ask for. Izz, as soon as I have an idea what we’re going to do, I’ll let you know. Just be ready to go as soon as the call comes.” Leaning down, he kisses his mother on the cheek, “Don’t worry, everything will be all right.”
Diane reaches up and lays her hand on Liz’s stomach. “Please, please be careful. This is too precious to risk.”
Liz smiles at her mother-in-law. “I have a sneaky feeling, she won’t let anything happen. She’s already taken care of me today. I think tomorrow will start a whole new world.”
Max opens the door to the hidden room, finding Brody in the middle of doing some finishing touches. They couldn’t believe what he had done.
“Oh Brody, this is wonderful. How can we ever thank you?” Liz was looking everywhere at once.
All of the ashes from the files were gone, and in their place, Brody had put in a love seat and a rocker, far to the back was a bed, hidden behind a screen. Beside the bed he had put an antique cradle. He saw her looking at it. “Just in case…” Looking at Liz, he grins. “I guess I’m not far off, am I? Over here is a little refrigerator, just something small to hold a few things. Oh, then there is the microwave, too.” Pointing to a small box behind the old computer he shows them some more supplies. “Do you think I should go get one of those emergency delivery kits? It might come in handy.”
“No, this is plenty, thank you. We need to discuss some kind of signals, because I think when things start to happen, they will hit fast…Brody, are you all right? Brody…!” Max looked at Brody’s face, then he saw it was Larek looking back.
“This must be quick; I could not prepare him again. Beware of the two men that Kivar is bringing with him tomorrow. They are not living things, so they can not be hurt. He will stop at nothing to get your child…please watch your back!” Larek was gone, Brody started to shake his head.
“He was here again, wasn’t he?” He started to rub his head, the headache would soon return.
“Yes, he had to warn me about Kivar’s men. Come here, I’ll take care of that for you.” Reaching over to Brody, he places his hand on his head, taking away the headache. “Better?”
“Yes, thank you. Is there anything I can do to help you get ready?”
“We need to have another meeting tonight to go over plans…Liz what’s the matter?”
“I just had a vision, it was from the baby…she knows what will happen tomorrow. She told me we must follow her directions or we will never defeat Kivar…”
To Be Continued…
Taking It Back
Part Twenty -Six
They sat around the little table that Brody had put in for Max and Liz to use; once more they were going over each step of the plan. "Max, I don’t know about this. It doesn’t make too much sense. Are you sure you want me to do this part?”
“Jim, we have to follow Liz’s vision, and this is what we need you to do. I trust you.”
“I’ve never done this before, wonder if I mess up!” Jim looked at Liz, she was putting her life and her daughter’s life in his hands and it scared the hell out of him.
Liz comes up behind him, reaching to pick up his empty cup, she accidentally bumps his back with her stomach. Suddenly the baby gives him a big kick. “See, even she says it will be alright. I’ve never done this before either, and I keep wondering if I’ll mess up too.” She gives him a quick kiss on the cheek. “Do you have any of your stuff in your car? I guess I should have let Brody get that kit, just in case.”
“I have something in the car. I’ll go get it.” As he heads out the door he looks back at the group that could possibly be defending the world…and they would be lead by a baby, a baby they wanted him to deliver.
Amanda got up and headed to where the weapons were stored. Michael and Isabel followed her. Once she opened it, she handed Michael his weapon. He took it and started to practice his moves, Amanda watched. “We’ll go over a few things in a minute. You’ll need to refresh your memories. You must be as accurate as you were in your past life…we all will be depending on you. Isabel, you know how this works. Just a few drops of the poison will be enough to take care of him.”
Isabel picked up the holster, taking out the knife, she rolled it over and over in her hand. “Pretty Poison”, that’s what he called it when he gave it to me. I just can’t remember why.”
“When who gave it to you Is?” Max was worried about her, she would have the toughest job of them all. Everything hinges on her not caving in to him.
“Kivar. He wanted me to use it to protect myself when we would sneak out and meet. There was something unusual about it…I only wish I could remember.” Looking at Amanda she saw in her face that she knew the secret of it. “You know don’t you? Liz, can she tell me?”
“I don’t know. Amanda, will it make a difference to her?” Liz rubbed her back, this backache has been going on for almost an hour.
“It must mean that she doesn’t remember for a reason…Isabel, take some time, if you’re meant to remember, you will. Ready Michael?” As she looks at him, she sees that he hadn’t forgotten a move. “Good memory.”
“It’s my turn to take it back. This time things will be different.” He flings the weapon high into the room, it almost touches the ceiling. When it comes down spinning he catches it with his eyes closed.
“Michael, I didn’t think you had that in you. I’m impressed.” Amanda looks around the room, her eyes stop on Liz. She is leaning against the wall, her fists are in a ball. “Guys, I think it’s showtime!”
Max runs over to her, “Liz, is it…you know.” He was starting to panic, not about what would soon happen with Kivar, but what soon happen with Liz.
She reaches over and grabs his hand. “That’s good, if it hurts, just squeeze.” Suddenly his face is twisted in pain. “Ah Liz…let go a little bit, please. Liz?”
She shakes her head ‘no’ “I want you to enjoy the wonders of natural childbirth right along with me! Seeeee that’s what it feels like.” She squeezes his hand again. His fingers start to turn white from the lack of circulation. Looking at the others for help, they just stare at him. “Thanks for the help guys.”
It was time to get moving. They open the loveseat to reveal a sofa bed, Jim opens his OB kit and takes out the sheet, laying it on the bed. “Liz, do you want to lie down?” Looking her way, she shakes her head ‘no’. “Okay then. Max, do you know if you have any alcohol? I have some in the kit, but I don’t know if I’ll have enough. Liz, where are you going?” She was heading to the bathroom.
“I want to change; I don’t want to ruin the new outfit…OWWW!” Looking at her watch, her eyes get wide. “That was quick, it’s only been three minutes!” Isabel goes over to her, Liz points to a suitcase under the bed. Isabel opens it up, seeing her nightgown, she grabs it, then she takes out some of the baby things. Helping Liz into the bathroom, she closes the door.
“Are you really okay?” Liz shakes her head no. “What do you think is wrong?”
“I changed my mind, I’m not ready for this. I want to go back on the road…” Gripping the edge of the sink, she gets a flash. “He’s here! Was everything done?” Isabel runs their check list over in her mind. “Yes, everyone got to their positions a little bit ago.” She looks at Liz, she could read the question in her mind. “I’ll be fine. I can do this…there is no way he will ever control me again.” She gives Liz a hug. “Are you ready?” Liz is biting her lip, then she nods her head at Isabel.
“Let’s do it!”
Walking into the room, she sees Kivar standing near the make-shift delivery room. “Just in time I see. Do we know what we’re having?”
Max reaches over and helps Liz onto the bed. Leaning in, he whispers into her ear. “Are you ready?” Liz nods ‘yes’ then she whispers back “Just as long as she is.”
“If you don’t mind, could you stand somewhere else? It’s bad enough she has to go through this here, but she doesn’t need you so close.” Max wanted to blast him across the room, but he knew he couldn’t, but he would get his when the time was right.
“Always the hero, ah Zan…sorry Max. How long do you think this will take, I want to get home as soon as possible.” He looked at his watch.
“You can leave anytime, it would be alright with us.”
“Didn’t they teach you any manners here? That was rather rude.”
“Rude is intruding in on someone’s life, then trying to take it over.” Liz squeezes his hand again, only this time it wasn’t from pain.
Kivar turns to look behind him at the sound of someone approaching. “Well, who do we have here? Did you change your mind about us?” He starts to rub her arm. Inside Isabel in flinching, the touch of his hand on her skin felt like someone was scrapping her with sandpaper.
“I’m here for Liz, now. Then maybe we can talk later…” She reaches up and runs her hand down the front of his shirt. Looking up at him, she sees that he is looking at her hair. “Did you like it better the other way?” She takes her hand and runs it over her hair, changing it back to the shorter brown version she had when she married Jesse.
Kivar looks at her “Better. What do you propose that we do with that husband of yours?”
“I don’t want to discuss Jesse right now…we’ll do that later.” She runs her hand down his face, giving him a look that sent chills down his spine. Turning, she looks at him in the eye. “Lover, I think you’re right…I do want that power…I want to go home with you. We’ll take that baby and we will raise her to rule it all!” With her left hand, she draws his face to her mouth, but with her right hand she reaches in her boot, pulling the knife out of it’s holster. Taking it she plunges it deep into Kivar, she pushes up into his lungs. When she was satisfied that it was deep enough, she pushes the button to release all of the poison into his body. He looks at her like he couldn’t believe she did that. “What did you do?” She just smiles as she sees the horror on his face. “I just kept my promise to you, Lover. I told you if you ever showed your face around here again I’d kill you myself. Oh, I forgot.” She grabs his chin and holds his face so that they are eye level and he can see her hatred for him. “This is for Alex.” She digs the knife in deeper, twisting it back and forth while she drained out any of the remaining poison. “You created the monster that killed him, so you should pay the price. If you would have lived a thousand lives for a thousand years in each life, you would have not been good enough to stand in his shadow.” She feels his body fall to the floor. Looking down, she doesn’t see any blood. Amanda comes out of the secret room, seeing Isabel studying the body she asks her “Do you remember now why it was called pretty poison?”
“Yes, no matter how many times a person was stabbed, the poison healed the cuts. It kept the poison inside to cause the suffering to go on for days…you did good, Lover
Suddenly they hear a baby’s cry.
Max is sitting next to Liz with the baby on her chest, they are rubbing her back. “She’s beautiful Liz, but I wouldn’t have expected anything else with you as her mother.” He hands Max a blanket to wrap her up in. “Make sure she stays warm.” Just then the door is kicked open by Kivar’s ‘men’. One is headed for the baby and one is headed for Liz. Max looks down at his daughter, and what he saw shocked him, he never expected this, even with Liz’s vision. On that beautiful baby face, he saw her mother’s eyes, not her regular eyes, but the eyes of the warrior. Just as the first man reached for Liz, a green force field comes from the baby surrounding the four of them. Kivar’s men were on the verge of breaking through just as Michael comes into the room, swinging his weapon. In the next second, he sends it flying towards the men catching them in the neck, sending their electronic heads to the ground. Once the baby felt safe, the force field was gone. Liz and Max look down at her, she now had her regular eyes back, and a smile on her face. “I don’t think that smile was from gas…do you?”
Michael sets off the signal, a flashing green light over the door. Brody now knows that it’s all clear. Skylar, Maria and Kyle come up the stairs looking into see if there was anything left.
“Let me see that sweet babbbby!” Maria was the first one in line. “Oh Liz, she’s gorgeous!” She looks up at Michael. “Don’t get any ideas Maria!”
“Not me, I’m just happy to be the aunt.”
Skylar looks at Kivar. “I see the pretty poison did its job again. Do you want me to take him back? I’m sure the people on Antar will be happy to get him. I can take him back in that little two-seater that’s stored up there.” He points to the other secret room. “Oh, but if I do that, Amanda won’t have a way back.”
Kyle comes up to stand beside her. “Well, if she wants to stay, I think I can make arrangements for her. “ He takes her hand and gives her a smile.
“You know Skylar, I think I’m ready to settle down for a while.” She turns to look at Kyle, she is reading a lot more than sadness in his eyes now. “I want to see what it’s like to have a family…if that’s okay with everyone else.”
September 23rd, I’m Liz Evans and five days ago I became a mother. How funny it is to write these words and how ironic, no, not ironic, how perfect, that it would happen when it did. Was it destiny that I happened to bring a life into the world on the same day Max gave me back mine? All I know is that I wake up each day in awe of my beautiful daughter. We named her Destiny Miranda…Destiny to show the world that we are living the destiny that was planned for us all those years ago and Miranda for the woman that made it possible. Our mothers are totally amazed that she never cries…what they don’t understand is she is in constant communication with us. She can do little mind tricks like letting us know when she’s hungry and when she needs changed. I hope she saves the big powers until we are all better equipped to handle them. She seems to have stopped growing at her fast rate…I think it was for our own good that she was in such a hurry to arrive. She is the love of our lives.
Amanda has moved in with the Valentis and when she can she tries to work out a way to remove the implant in Kyle’s grandfather. Before Skylar took Kivar back to Antar, he set up a signal with Max and Michael so that they would know if he had a message for them. Then they use the chair to travel to Antar to get any information that he might have found on removing the implant. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been too much, but it’s only been five days, so we’ll be patient and hope that some day we’ll find a way.
Jim, Max and Michael finally let Hanson in. In all the confusion of getting ready to fight Kivar, they never got around to it. They took Hanson to Jim’s house and told him…Max said that they had to use smelling salts when they told him…
Well, that’s the beginning of our return to Roswell. Will we have to tackle our enemies again? I don’t know. But I do know that we are probably still on the FBI’s list, so we never know when they’ll be coming for us. The person that said you can’t go home again, didn’t know what it’s like to return home to Roswell…
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roswellbrat
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Okay, it seems everyone wants the sequel. 
I have already completed it so I'll start posting it tomorrow. It's call What Destiny Brings. It is the story of Destiny's son and it's set in 2049. I've just started one that has Liz and Max switching bodies, don't know where that's going yet...it should be interesting.rb