Disclaimer : The characters of "Roswell" belong to Jason Katims, Melinda Metz, WB, and UPN. They are not mine and no infringement is intended
Couples : Rath/Maria Zan/Liz
Rating : Adult
Summary: Everything until Meet the Dupes happened.
PT. 1
“Hey Yo, up here!” Seven sets of eyes swiveled towards the rough voice, the same eyes widening as they took in the sight before them. Rath smirked as he moved down the stairs, Lonnie and Ava flanking him. They came to a stop before the others, enjoying their discomfort.
Rath spotted Liz, smirking at her while Max stared at him in bewilderment. Introductions were passed around, before Rath got down to business. He addressed Max directly. “Something’s cookin…something that’s gonna affect all of us. Could we talk in private?’ Max nodded, gesturing for Rath to follow him.
Maria discretely watched Rath walk by her, checking him out from behind. “Definitely freaky, but god he’s hot.” Her checking Rath out didn’t go unnoticed by Michael though he chose not to comment.
Once in the office, Rath laid it all out on the table. “Zan ain’t dead.” Max’s eyes widened in surprise. “How…” he said softly, Rath toying with his lip ring. “Lonnie wanted him dead, coz she wants to go home. I pushed him in front of da truck, while Zan warped her and Ava into believing he was road kill.”
Max swallowed again. “Why come here then?’ he asked softly. Rath shrugged. “Zan’s da man…he wants Lonnie to believe it, and we need da king to rep us at da summit. Coz Lonnie thinks he’s dead, we need ya to come back to New York with us.” Max swallowed. “What if she tries to kill me too?” he asked softly.
Rath smirked. “Ya ain’t my king,” he purred. Max swallowed again, seeing the main differences between Rath and Michael. Rath’s loyalties lay with Zan…not him. It was like looking at a distorted image of Michael. Rath smirked again. “She won’t try nothin…not when she thinks ya too cornball not to help at da summit. Stupid bitch is blinded by greed…family means nothin to her, not compared to Kivar.”
Max nodded, Rath leaning against the table. “It ain’t gonna be pretty when Lonnie realizes Zan’s still alive. Ya gonna have to play it cool…make her believe she’s winning. Then we can take her out from there.” Max blinked at how casual Rath sounded.
“So I just follow your lead.” Max said. Rath nodded, a smirk crossing his face again. “I’ll have to think about this.” Rath hadn’t expected Max to agree right away and it was probably better that he didn’t. It would give Zan more time to come up with a plan.
Maria and Liz were in one of the back rooms. Maria glanced over to where Alex was fast asleep deciding that now would be the best time to ask what she was talking about how Liz had already meet Rath. “So how did you meet Michael’s dupe?” Maria asked. Liz sighed. “He kissed me.”
“He kissed you, and you failed to mention this,” Maria stated bluntly. “I thought he was Michael” Liz said. “Oh so my boyfriend slips you the tongue . . . ” Liz cut Maria off. “But it wasn’t Michael. From the way you are acting it’s like you have a thing for him,” Liz said trying to defend herself. Maria blinked going to respond to Liz’s comment when Alex woke up interrupting their conversation.
Max and Rath walk out of the back room, Max heading over to talk with Isabel, Michael, and Tess while Rath went over to talk with Lonnie and Ava. “They want me to go to New York with them, for some summit meeting.” Max said softly. “We’re not invited?” asked Michael
Max was stopped from explaining when they heard someone opening the doors to the UFO museum. Max motioned for Rath, Lonnie and Ava to get out of sight. Rath doubled back when he hears “ What? Is there a party, funny I wasn’t invited. And who are you?”
Michael looked to see Rath standing beside him. “Huh Brody this is uh, my twin brother, Rath.” “Oh, I didn’t know you had a brother” Brody said in surprise. “I’m from New York.” Stated Rath said, his amusement obvious by the tone of his voice.
Maria walked out of the back room, and seeing the problem at hand, walked over to Brody, taking his attention away from the others. “Hi” Maria said, a smile crossing her face. Brody smiled, suddenly forgetting what was going on behind him, no longer caring why everyone was there. “Hi” Brody said, his whole face lighting up.
“You know how you asked me about lunch?” Maria asked. “Uh-huh” Brody murmered. “How about breakfast?” Maria asked. Maria hooked her arm into Brody’s arm leading him away from Rath and Michael. “Stay as long as you like.” Said Brody. Rath watched Maria and Brody walking up the stairs leading out of the museum. He didn’t like seeing her with him, it made him feel something he had never felt before and he didn’t like it. “Want me to kill him for ya?” he asked Michael, who watched Maria walking away with Brody before glancing at Rath responding, “I’ll get back to you.”
Later that evening Max, Tess, Rath, Lonnie and Ava were all at the Trans am ready to leave when Ava decided that she was not going. Rath couldn’t make her come along without making Lonnie think that something was up. He shook his head, opening the driver’s side door and climbing behind the wheel of the trans am. Lonnie opened the passenger side door and climbed into the passenger seat and Max and Tess climbed into the back. Rath looked into the rear view mirror smirking at the how Max looked uncomfortable. He put the car into reverse, backing the car up, then putting the car in drive, headed for New York City.
They arrived in New York City a couple days later. Max and Tess went site seeing while Lonnie and Rath went to meet up with Nicholas. “There he is” Lonnie said. Lonnie and Rath walked over to Nicholas, who was coming up out of the subway. “You get me the granolith or we have no deal,” Nicholas stated. Lonnie smiled. “Ya will get the Granolith, go their coming.” Nicholas walked back down the stairs to the subway, as Max and Tess crossed the street, coming over to Rath and Lonnie.
“Ready to see our crib?” Rath asked. Max nodded, almost afraid to see where they lived. They were just so different from Michael and Isabel, especially Lonnie. She threw off a weird vibe, causing chills to skate down Max’s spine every time he looked at her. Max still didn’t understand how he fit into all of this.
Max followed Rath and Lonnie down the street to a subway station on Lexington Avenue. Tess glanced at Max wondering where Rath and Lonnie were leading them too. She wondered if they would ever get there after taking several tunnels finally coming to Rath and Lonnie’s crib. Max looked around noticing the pods were imbedded into the wall above some shelves against the one wall. An old beat up blue couch was near the shelves where Lonnie was now sitting. Max sat down in an old beat up chair near the couch facing Lonnie and Rath. “When is this summit meeting?”
Tess sat down in the chair next to Max still feeling very uncomfortable and out of place. “I’ll take ya to the emissary, so they can make sure ya da king” Rath said easily.
Max nodded his head, hoping that when they went to meet with this emissary, Rath would fill him in on his plans for Lonnie.
A few hours later, Rath and Max left the sewers heading to an old warehouse to meet with the emissary. The emissary walked behind Max, placing his hand against the back of his skull. A blue lighted emitted from Max’s forehead, dispersing against the wall forming a V out of five bright lights. The emissary reached into his briefcase handing Max a piece of paper. He closed the briefcase getting up from the table. Max looked at the piece of paper as he got up out of the chair noticing that it was just a time clock. Rath noticed Max’s confusion and smirked before explaining.
“Ya see da emissary never left his crib.” Rath wrapped his arm around Max’s neck leading him out of the warehouse. They were almost back to Rath’s crib when Max decided he needed to know what was going down tomorrow. “So what happens tomorrow?” he asked. Rath smirked. “Ya just go to da meetin’ dats all ya gotta worry about” he said.
Max lay awake for the longest time, wondering how Rath could have anything to do with Lonnie, concidering she was so willing to betray them. The more he thought about the situation, the more he figured Rath didn’t have much of a choice. He shuddered at what might happen, if Lonnie found out Rath was actually betraying her before the meeting. His eyes closed when he could no longer keep them open.
Tess snuggled into Max’s warm toned body, loving the fact that they had to share a bed. Max woke up slowly the next morning, glancing down at the head of blonde curls spread over his T-shirt. He surmised that sometime during the night he must have wrapped his arms around her. Rath stuck his head into the room, knowing he wasn’t going to see something he didn’t want too. Max was just too much of a prude.
“Yo rise and shine” he called. Max nodded his head, before trying to unwrap Tess’s small body from around his. Rath laughed, quickly ducking back out of the room. Tess slowly opened her blue eyes looking up into Max’s brown eyes. “Sorry” Tess mumbled, while thinking Liz doesn’t want you, but I still can’t get your attention. What’s it going to take? Tess moved away from Max, pushing back the old blanket as she sat up. “That’s okay” Max said, hoping she didn’t notice that his body had responded to her.
Rath went over to the couch, and sat down next to Lonnie. Lonnie smirked, watching Max and Tess walk out of the back room. “Did ya do the beast with two backs?” she chuckled. Max ignored Lonnie’s comment, sitting down in one of the chairs. “So when is this summit meeting?” Lonnie moved her hands in front of her. “Chill we get ya to da church on time.” Max shook his head, having a hard time understanding them. He couldn’t grip the way they spoke. “Ya will get there,” Rath said.
Rath smirked as he sat there, comparing Zan and Max. “Can he gets anymore cornball, he’s a special kinda stupid.” Rath decided that he was hungry. “Why don’t we go get some grub?” Max nodded his head feeling kind of hungry.
Meanwhile back in Roswell, Liz found Ava behind the dumpster when she took trash out. “What are you doing here?” Ava lifted her head off the cardboard box. “Sleepin’. What does it look like?” Liz dumped the trash, and then turned towards Ava. “You can’t sleep out here. Come inside.” Ava quickly got up off the ground following Liz through the back door of the Crash Down.
“Why didn’t you go with Rath and Lonnie?” Ava looked up at Liz, her blue eyes betraying her feelings as she lied. “Was too tight.” Liz nodded her head, knowing Ava wasn’t telling her everything. Ava sat down on the couch, looking around. Liz sat down next to her, curious about the dupes. “So you and Zan.” Ava smiled sadly. “Zan and me were together, but not in da way that counted.”
Ava looked at Liz silently. “He was cool though. Always lookin out for me, tryin to do what was right for us.” Liz smiled softly. “You must have loved him a lot,” she said softly. Ava nodded sadly. “Yeah. But I don’t think he ever loved me back. He was always lookin’ for something else. You would have fit him perfect.” Liz blushed, wondering what it would be like with a darker, rougher version of Max.
Kyle suddenly walked in through the back doors. “What’s up? I couldn’t sleep.” He looked at Ava licking his lips, damn. Liz tried not to laugh noticing that Kyle obviously thought Ava was hot. Ava noticed Kyle’s reaction, quickly looking his hard body up and down. Kyle noticed that she looked like Tess but was a punk. “Um Liz . . . ” Liz interrupted Kyle. “This is Ava. She’s Tess’s dupe.”
Kyle shifted on his feet, forgetting why he stopped over. “I’m going to go out front to get some breakfast,” he said finally. He walked through the back doors, and going over to the booth where Alex was sitting, slid into the opposite seat. Alex smiled. “Morning.” Kyle nodded his head, waiting for the waitress to come over. Maria walked over to their booth with her pen and order pad ready to take their order. “What will it be?”
Alex looked up at Maria. “Space jacks, and coffee.” Maria wrote down Alex’s order waiting for Kyle’s. “I want green eggs and moon rock hash, with a coffee.” Maria wrote down Kyle’s order. “I’ll be right back with your drinks after I put your order in.” She walked away from the table going over to where Michael was working, giving him the order.
“Hey, what is you doing after work?” Michael asked. Maria smiled, wondering why Michael suddenly wanted to know what she had planned. Michael continued to flip pancakes on the grill waiting for Maria to answer him. “I have plans. I have to get Kyle and Alex’s drinks” Maria said, walking back behind the counter and getting the cups ready. Picking up the cups, she walked over to the booth Alex and Kyle were sitting in, setting their cups of coffee down in front of them.
“Your food should be ready soon,” Maria said. Alex nodded his head. “We still on for our girls night at Liz’s?” Maria nodded her head. “Ava’s here too” Kyle said. Maria smiled, thinking that it would be nice to get to know Ava. She seemed nice, different but still nice. “Kyle why don’t you join us for girls night,” Alex asked. Kyle shrugged his shoulders. “Sure.” “I’m going to go see if your orders are up” Maria said.
She walked back over to Michael, just as he yelled, “Maria, orders up.” “Right here, you don’t need to yell” Maria snarled. She picked up the two plates, walking away from Michael before he could even respond.
Rath, Lonnie, Tess, and Max walked down First Street, heading towards the old abandoned building. Max glanced nervously over at Rath and Lonnie, still not feeling very good about being near Lonnie. She creeped him out. Lonnie was kind of like having Pierce close to him again. The thought made his skin crawl.
They entered the warehouse, going inside one of the rooms. Max saw Brody standing there. “Brody?” Max asked. “Actually its Larek. Are you Zan?” Brody asked. “No, I’m Max Evans.” Max noticed that there were three other people besides Brody, who must each be a representative of their planet. Brody introduced each person. “Kathana, Sero, Hanar, and I will represent our planets. Max will represent his. Nicholas walked into the room. “Actually, Kivar represents his world, and I speak for Kivar” he said.
Nicholas sat down in the chair across from Max. He glanced over at Tess smirking at her. “Killed anyone today?” Nicholas asked. “Day’s not over” Tess spat. “Such a charmer” Nicolas chuckled dryly. Lonnie leant down to Max. “You know him?” she whispered. “He was in Roswell” Max said. “Can we get down to business?” Brody asked impatiently.
Nicholas nodded his head, wanting to get what he had planned, over and done with. Rath stepped closer to Lonnie, as Zan stepped out into the open. “I’ll save ya da trouble,” Zan growled. Larek got up from the table, walking over to Lonnie and placing cuffs around her wrists, which melted as they joined to her DNA. “You are being granted your wish in a sense. You will be teleported back to my home planet where you will be sentenced to death for the attempted murder of Zan” Larek purred.
Rath walked over to Zan, and standing next to him, regarded Lonnie with pure hated. “Rath?” Lonnie asked weakly. “Ya a special kinda stupid. Ya thought I would betray me bro,” Rath growled. Lonnie glared at Rath as realization set in, understanding the flash she had gotten from him last night. “She’s human” Lonnie said. Rath smirked raising his right eyebrow pondering what Lonnie was saying. Max watched Nicholas slip out the back door, slithering away like the snake he was.
“This was a waste of our time” Kathana yelled. “I would never have given Nicholas what he wanted. I don’t trust him. Besides he ran out the back soon as Larek cuffed Lonnie” Max stated calmly. Kathana, Sero, and Hanar glared at everyone, before getting up from the table. They walked out the back door leaving Larek alone with Zan, Rath, Lonnie, Max and Tess.
“I need to get her to where the transport will take place. This is taking a lot of our resources” Brody said. Brody lead Lonnie out the door to the designated transport. Tess hadn’t taken her eyes off Zan since he had entered the room. Zan smirked, thinking not in this lifetime. He turned his attention to Max. “ Thanks for agreeing to help, when ya didn’t have to.” Max nodded his head “I would hope you would help us if we ever needed it.”
Maria, Alex, and Kyle walked into Liz’s house for girl’s night. She wondered where Ava was since Kyle had said she was with Liz. “Where’s Ava?” Maria asked. “She left shortly after Kyle went into the Crash Down earlier something about getting back to her crib to get her stuff” Liz said. Kyle sat down on her couch trying to hide his disappointment, which didn’t go unnoticed by Liz.
“Ava said she would keep in touch,” she told him softly. Kyle rewarded her words with a brilliant smile. Maria sat down on the couch next to Kyle as Alex sat down on the other side of Maria. Liz sat down in her futon looking over at Alex. “What movies did you bring?” Liz asked. “Underworld. Thought it worked for action and hot guy” Alex answered. Alex got up from the couch and put the DVD on.
“We are going to catch a flight back to Roswell” Max said. Zan nodded his head, wanting to get back to their crib and relax. “Rath, where’s Ava?” Zan asked. “She refused to come back, coz she’s thinkin I killed ya” Rath said softly, his anger clear in his voice. Damn Lonnie. “What?” Tess gasped. “Long story. Max can tell ya on ya flight back to Roshell” Rath spat.
Rath really didn’t like Tess. She was just so different from his sister Ava. He wondered if Michael even knew that Tess was his sister. Zan’s fingers twirled the silver ball pierced through his chin trying to think of what to do about Ava not being there. He finally decided that she would have to come back to their crib to get her stuff. After she did, he would explain to her what went down.
“Well, Tess and I are going to get a cab to the airport” Max said. Zan and Rath both nodded their heads. “See ya.” Max and Tess walked out to the street hailing a cab. When a cab stopped Max opened the back door letting Tess climb into the cab then climbing in after her and closing the door. He looked at Zan and Rath one final time, once more seeing the distorted images.
Zan and Rath walked down the street, going down the stairs to the tunnels and back to their crib. He looked around realizing that they had to move: too many bad memories. “We stay here until Ava shows. Then I want to get an apartment,” Zan said, leaving no room for argument. Rath nodded his head in agreement. He never cared to see his bedroom again, and he so wanted a scalding hot shower, wanting Lonnie’s touch off his skin. “I’m gonna crash on da couch,” Rath said. He smirked, thinking about a certain blonde haired, green-eyed beauty.
Maria closed her bedroom door and walked over to her bed. Stripping off her clothes, she threw them onto the floor, and pulled a silk camisole over her head. Pulling back the covers, she climbed into her bed. She laid her head down on the pillows and pulled the sheets and blankets up over her body covering herself. Rath seemed like he was waiting on the dream plane forever. “Is ya ever gonna go ta sleep?” he thought. He felt the shift in the dream plane as Maria drifted off to sleep.
Maria gasped, not expecting to find Rath in her dreams. “Not only did I think he was hot now he’s in my dreams” she babbled to herself. Rath smirked, his heated gaze running up and down her body, silently wishing she would dream about being naked. “I wanted ta thank ya” Rath said. Maria stared at Rath, wondering why he would be thanking her. “Ya helped me,” he explained. Rath walked over to Maria, gently running his large calloused hand down her cheek. Maria trembled, feeling his gentle touch, her eyes sliding shut at his touch.
“When ya gets sick of Roshell, come to da city. I’ll explain then” he said softly, his voice full of hidden promises. Maria watched Rath fade from her dream, leaving her shaking silently with need, which had sprung up out of nowhere.
TBC
