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roswck wrote:I love this fic. I can't wait to read more. I'm so glad that alex is back but I'm torn because I have always liked Kyle with Isabel. Thought they missed something there. Post more soon.
Glad you're liking it. I like Kyle and Isabel too but I'm also a stargazer so I thought I would have both in this fic
Here is the last part to this fic, thanks everyone for the feedback. This was my first fic and I'm really glad you like it:).
Previously....
Liz stroked his hair, memories of the thousands of times she had done it before washed over her. She looked over at Michael, his eyes were closed, bu-Wait!
"It's working," she yelled as his hands glowed, the wounds started slowly covering up. Michael was healing Max!
Michael flung open his eys.
It's working-focus!, celebrate once he's up and walking.
"Why is it taking so long?" asked Isabel.
Max is going to live, he's going to be okay, she thought joyously.
"Because he almost died, he must have been hanging on," said Alex.
Isabel glanced up at him, suprised to find him standing there.
It's just soo weird.
"What?" he asked.
"Nothing," she replied, " it's just good to have you back."
Liz was focused on him, his pulse was getting stronger, but he still wasn't moving, his eyes were closed. She bent down and kissed softly on his lips.
"Come on Max, come back to me. I need you, we still have more kisses to make, more kids. So you have to wake up"
"Wake up Max" said a faraway voice.
"Liz?" he asked, "where are you?"
Where am I? he was somewhere bright and warm, he felt at peace.
"Come back to me Max"
"Where are you?" he asked.
He listened and followed her voice, "I love you"
"I love you to-" he was blinded by a bright light. It cleared to reveal brown eyes flooded with tears.
The next part....
Liz.
"He's up," she smiled as tears streamed down her cheeks.
The memories flooded in his mind. The wedding, Tess, Liz!
But there was no time for questions because, when she pulled him into her arms and kissed him, Max knew he was home and that everything was alright.
"I heard you," he said inbetween kisses, "I heard your voice call out to me and I followed.".
"Can't take all the credit," she said helping him up, "Michael did the healing"
Michael?
He looked towards his famil and before he could react, was assaualted by Isabel and Jena.
"Glad to have you back" said Jena.
"Glad to be back," he replied.
He faced Michael with a gratitude he felt words could not express, but he tried anyway. "Thanks for saving me," he said.
"Consider it my present to you " he replied and pulled him into a hug.
The next person infront of him was Alex, "Is it-"
"Yes, well kind of, but we'll get to me later. Right now Michael will you give him the seal back?"
"Wha-oh right". He had almost forgotten about the whole King thing.
My one and only action as King. Ah well.
"How do we..." he began
"Just shake hands" said Alex.
They shook hands and Max felt power flow through him again. He was back, he was whole, he was alive.
Around them the rest of the family was stirring.
"How do we explain this to the non-members?" asked Kyle.
"Got it covered," said Alex.
Max watched as he seemed to just be talking to Nina.
"What did you do?" he asked when he returned.
"Telecercion is my thing," he replied.
He moved to approach Pastor Smith when Maria and Liz held him back.
"What?" he asked.
"You can't do alien stuff on a man of God," protested Liz.
"Why not?" he asked.
"Because it's just wrong" said Maria.
"Well what do you suggest we do?" said Michael.
"I've know Pastor Smith for a couple of years and we can trust him, he's for real" replied Maria.
"So you'll just talk to him" said Michael incredulously.
"Yep," she replied.
Maria made her way to him.
How the heck am I going to even begin?
"Look Pastor Smith, I know you have questions but if i tell you that i can't answer them and that nothing bad illegal or sinful happened here, could you forget it?" she asked.
Pastor Smith looked at her for a moment. Maria held her breath.
"I can," he replied finally," i'm curious, but I won't ask."
Maria sighed with relief. Great but just to make sure...
"Can you really?" she asked, "as in it never happened. No questions, no follow ups-"
"I'm a man of my word Maria and all i came to do is marry two delightful couples in unions...Shall we resume?" he asked.
"We shall," said Maria.
****
Family and friends assembled once again to finally see the couples wed.
Pastor Smith - "We are gathered here today to join these two couples in holy matrimony"
Liz - "I Elizabeth Parker take you Maxwell Evans..."
Michael - "I Michael Guerin to you Maria Deluca to be my wife"
Maria - "To love and to cherish"
Max - "In sickness and in health"
Liz- "Till death do us part"
Pastor Smith - "What God has brought together, let no man put asunder, I know pronounce you husbands and wives. You may now kiss the brides."
There was not a dry tear in the church as the couples sealed their unions with a kiss.
****
The families sat in the room Pastor Smith had allowed them to use. Alex stood in the middle of the circles, making eye contact with everyone as he said, "I'm sure you all have questions"
"Understatment of the century," said Kyle.
"Yeah. So i'll start with the obvious, Am I Alex? Yes, sort of"
"What do you mean sort of?" asked Isabel.
"I'll start chronologically. Lets go back to high school and Tess. When she mindwarped me into cracking the book.."
This is soo strange, thought Maria. Alex, my Alex is alive, standing here and sort of alive. Talk about miracles. Anyway Maria, focus.
" she knew that it dangerous to my...well mortality" he contineud," but she did it anyway and just in case she used this real sweet high tech device to copy my memories. Everything, basically who I am and when she killed me-took a sample of my dna."
"Why?", asked Maria.
"For Plan B, just incase things didn't go her way, which of course they didn't" he replied.
"So, the real Alex died?" she asked.
This was getting soap-style very fast.
"Right," he replied.
"So..."
"Maria," said Liz, "that's what he's trying to explain".
"Thank you, Liz," he smiled.
Some things never changed.
"After the Antar thing went sideways...well she wanted revenge. She knew you guys were on earth and who you were coming for. So she mixed my dan with alien dna, cloned me, gave me my memories and hey presto Alex Whitman lives," he finished with a flourish.
"Whoa that's like not possible" said Liz, " I mean you look our age and it's been seven years or so since you died."
"Impossible with earth tech," he said.
"But even with Antarian technology," said Max, "You'd have to know some-"
"really high level corrupt people to get your hands on it?" he finished.
"Yeah," said Max.
"Tess knew a few."
Of course she would, thought Liz.
" When she gave me back my memories, the bulk were real but the rest she manipulated. The short version is that she manipulated me into basically to hate you guys and want you dead. We came to earth, after my high tech training on Antar and my telecoercion, it was easy to land me a job. I'm freelance now, dabble in computer games design, software and animation. Anyway , I spied on you, plotted, the usual psycho stuff but as I started seeing you guys, my real memories of Tess and what she did came back...I wasn't too willing after that to kill you so Tess and Cassy lured me to a cabin and she possessed me."
"Wow," breathed Maria.
"Yeah," he replied.
"But why you?" she asked.
"Because I could get to Isabel. She mindwarped everyone in not seeing me so Isabel thought I was a ghost lured her to the cabin and possessed her and tied me up. That's my tale, Iz can take it from here."
"Um, well, she possessed me that day you guys tried on the dresses and I said I had somewhere to be," she began instantly feeling like one of her patients in group therapy.
"But why you?" asked Kyle
"Because I was the wedding planner and I could also ruin the wedding" she smiled ironically.
"But you didn't" said Maria.
"She did. Your hen night, when I, she went to refill, she got you drunk, talked rubbish to Ray and had him come home early. Helped you up the stairs. She mindwarped you into thinking that Ray was Michael, you kissed but you could tell it wasn't him so you just slept. So when Michael came up, she mindwarped him into thinking that you and Ray slept together"
"So we didn't?" asked Maria.
"No, she just made you think they did" she replied.
"Oh thank God! " said Maria.
"Me too" quipped Michael with a relieved smile.
"Count me in" said Ray.
"Her plan didn't work because you got married anyway," Isabel continued," She lost it, got her body back and came here. Me and Alex got free and came here."
"Showdown, beatdown, the end," said Alex.
"Whoa" exhaled Amy, "she was some piece of work"
"Tell me about it," muttered Jim.
"So is it over?" asked Kyle, "as in finally over no trilogy?"
"I can safely say it's over," said Alex.
"So" said Maria. She stood infront of him scrutinzing him "you're our Alex, hybrid Alex"
"Yep," he replied squirming at the inspection.
Maria pulled him into a hug and for the first time in years Alex felt happy, "Great," she said as she released him from the hug," is it just me and Kyle left without powers? This sucks."
"Welcome back buddy" said Kyle.
He looked over at Isabel and smiled, "It's good to be back".
****
"Ladies and Gentlemen! may I present Mr and Mrs Guerin and Parker".
Liz smiled as led by her husband, they settled in the middle of the floor for their first dance as husband and wife.
"I know Michael healed me but you brought me back Liz. It was you," said Max.
"Just returning the favour," she replied as she rested her head on his chest and smiled.
"So how does it feel to be officially attached, taken, till death?" asked Maria playfully.
"It feels...like home," said Michael.
Ray watched as they danced. She was beautiful, smiling happy and in love. He had to respect that. He was also glad that Michael loved her with real powerful forgiving love and loved her with a passion, that love was very hard to find. He was glad that Maria had found it, she deserved it.
"Great thing to see isn't it?" said a voice next to him.
Nina.
"That kind of love," she continued.
"Yeah," he nodded wistfully.
"Listen, wanna dance?" she asked.
He looked at her surprised.
Why not? It's not like you've got anyone in mind. The girl you loved it taken.
"Yeah sure," he replied.
"Great".
"Excuse us," he said as she led him onto the floor.
"Sure, see you later," smiled Isabel.
On her right Alex and Jena were engrossed in conversation. She wanted to know what they were talking about but was held back by her left side. On her left sat Kyle holding her hand.
"So..." she began.
"Wanna dance?" he asked.
"Sure," she replied and took a huge breath.
"So in my dreams, that was you trying to reach me wasn't it?" asked Kyle.
"Yeah" she replied.
"And I completely blew if off" he said sadly.
"Like you could know, it doesn't matter, everything's fine now," said Isabel.
Well, that's a lie too, he thought.
"Is it? I mean with Alex back is it...are we okay?" asked Kyle.
Because it doesn't feel like we're okay, he added silently.
"No I guess we're not," replied Isabel.
Well, here i hoped that it was just my imagination.
"Oh" he managed.
"And it's not just Alex is it?" asked Isabel.
"What do you mean?" he asked as his pulse raced.
"I was possessed Kyle not blind, I saw you and Jena, there's something there isn't there?" she asked.
"I don't-I mean,"
Either way this is not going to be pretty, he thought.
" I care about you," he struggled.
"Me too," she replied.
"but with her it's different. I'm just confused". He sighed and searced her eyes, she wasn't angry, she understood.
"So what do we do?" asked Isabel
"Break up?" he asked.
She smiled, "Looks like. See what if there's anything.."
"...And no matter what stay friends," he finished.
"Yeah" she said.
Isabel held out her hand and Kyle shook it, "So we're officially broken up," she said.
"Do I need to sign anywhere?" he grinned.
"No," laughed Isabel, "Come on, lets go figure out our love lives."
****
"May I have this dance?" asked Kyle.
Jena looked up, "Um sure"
Her and Alex had talked mainly about their bad taste in people to fall for and came to the conclusion to just be happy for them and try to move on...but now seeing him, being in his arms threw everything out of the window.
If only, she thought wistfully.
****
Isabel turned to Alex, "Well wanna cut a rug?".
"Sure," he grinned.
Alex held her gently as they danced.
It's gonna be me, baby
It's gonna be you, baby
"Listen..." she began.
Time, I've been patient for so long
How can I pretend to be so strong?
"Before you say anything Iz, it's okay, I know you're with Kyle" he said.
Looking at you, baby
Feeling it too, baby
He knew the rules, his conversation with Jena had been helpful. He wasn't going to waste his time, wishing hoping-
"Kyle and I broke up" said Isabel.
It's gonna be love
It's gonna be great
He began hoping.
"Oh...is it a good or a bad thing?" he asked.
It's gonna be more than I can take
It's gonna be free
"That depends," she replied.
He looked into her deep brown eyes, "On what?" he breathed.
"On you," she replied.
It's gonna be real
It's gonna change everything I feel
As she leaned in to kiss him, Alex felt like he was going to have a heart attack and that feeling was the only thing that confirmed that this was real. Isabel Evans was going to kiss him... but he stopped her.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
It's gonna be sad
It's gonna be true
I can't believe I'm doing this, but...
"Iz, its been seven years, there's so much we need to talk about, re-learn. I-I"
I can't believe I'm going to say this but...
"I think we should take it slow," he finished.
He held his breath as he awaited her reaction.
"Slow" she said surprised.
Alex Whitman refusing a kiss from me? Wow things really have changed, but he is right. I have all these feelings and I need to figure them out.
"Yeah" he said.
Love needs time now or never
(It's gonna be love)
"Well. I have time. You?" she asked.
"I'll have to check my schedule" he replied.
"You have a schedule since when?" she asked incredulous.
A playful smile spread across his face, "I am a wanted man" he replied.
"Yeah?"
"Yeah, but I'm sure I can squeeze you in," he replied.
"Really?"
"Really".
Their banter was interrupted by Michael. "Excuse me ladies and gents, may I please have you attention".
Isabel looked up to find Maria and Michael standing on the stage.
"What is he doing?" she asked.
"I have no clue" replied Alex.
Max and Liz were wondering the same thing.
Maria took the mike, "Even though it is my wedding day, i just have to sing. This is my wedding present to my friends Max and Liz, you guys have been through hell, we all have but we made it. So if you could take the floor I have a surprise song for you".
"What?" mouthed Liz.
