Alienation (FF,ADULT, CC & UC)**Recasting**

[Athenea]

Ava

I don't recoginize the faces Drake puts up on the wall but that doesn't mean anything. If there shapeshifters they could be anyone. I wonder what Rath could have possible had to say to me. I wonder about his message.

Michael wants to be shown exactly what happened but I don't really see the point in that. I'm not even sure if I should get involved with this kid. I left that life a long time ago and never looked back. 'But he's Lonnie and Rath's kid and they were my family. I owe it to them to at least here Drake out.

[isabelle]

OOC -- wasn't planning on going after him, Athenea. No trouble.


*Max*

I notice Zan slipping out but I don't follow him. I have the others to worry about, too, and I'm not sure how much more we're going to get from Drake.

Zan knows who he is now -- or most of it, anyway. I know he'll be back. Or at least, I'm almost certain that he will. I wonder what he's thinking. Does he realize what Drake was saying and how it might affect him, too? I feel like I've put him in danger now but the truth is, he isn't completely human whether he knows it or not. He'd be on "Duke"s list if he was found. Would he have been able to hide better if he didn't know or would he be better off now, knowing what it's about? I hope it's the latter.

Right now, I keep my focus on Drake, waiting to see what he'll do.

[StormWolfstone]

~Drake~

"Well since your offering and I sure there's nothing better on television, I wouldn't mind seeing it." Michael replies to me and I can’t keep from smirking. First he was glaring at me, obviously wanting me gone, now he’s offering to be shown the hell of my parents. Interesting.

"Where did you see these guys last?" Max questions, as I’m getting ready to show Michael what I’d shown his son. And as I watch, the kid called Micah moves over to a girl I’m assuming is his sister, placing his arm around her shoulder. He seems to be a bit nerved up about me now, though I can’t blame him after what I showed him.

“I’d say three weeks ago they was in Syracuse… though they could be anywhere now… after all, they could be thinkin’ I’m dead.” I step up to Michael and simply place my hand on his arm, not needing to do it the same as I did with Micah. “You wants ta see, you gonna see.” Making the connection, I begin sending the images of the past, of when I was younger.

Looking at Lonnie as she is being beaten, defiance and anger in her expression even as she winces from the pain.

Rath moving to cover her, trying to take the beating for her just as he gets loose from those holding him.

The ‘helpers’ taunting both of them and pointing towards me.

Rath having a blade stabbed into his spine where he went limp above Lonnie, still trying to protect her.

Lonnie, angry and getting to her feet slowly, looking at me and showing the first bit of concern I’d ever seen from her as she tried to get to me.

A whole gaping through her chest as she fell, blank eyes looking at me.

Others entering the room and senselessly stabbing both of them repeatedly. The blood was flowing everywhere and they

Finishing, I stepped back and looked around at the others. “Look, I didn’t actually come to helps ya. I came cause I heard about Alienation being broken down here just as I was driving through. I was looking for Ava. Else I probs wouldn’t have said anything.”

[Loxyanissa14]

~Michael~

I watch the images flash through my mind. They are over quickly and I nod at Drake before reclaiming the place I had stood in before. It wasn't as bad as I had expected. Hell I had been through worse. Hell I I've done worse.

I look to Micah who is standing with his sister. I wonder what he would think of me if he knew the things I've done. The people I've killed. I wonder if he would understand. Understand the sacrifices you have to make for family.

Drake knew the sacrifices his mother and father had made to keep him alive. He knew torture. He knew everything I had tried to sheild from my kids from. He knows the evils of this world and our world.

~Dom~

I watch Zan exit. I am going to kick his ass. The selfish bastard. He couldn't even take me with him. He shall bruise for this one. It feels like I've been standing here forever. Why do I care that someone wants to hurt these people. I don't know them.

I stand silent any way, waiting for my mum to make the first move to leave.

[Athenea]

AVA

“Look, I didn’t actually come to helps ya. I came cause I heard about Alienation being broken down here just as I was driving through. I was looking for Ava. Else I probs wouldn’t have said anything.” Drake says after showing Michael what happened to Lonnie and Rath. I really don't want to see whatever he showed him though. I dont understand why someone would be trying to kill us now after all these years. Something must have happened something big.

"Alright so what about your message?" I finally ask. I have kept quiet till now but now I need to know. I have to know.

[KatnotKath]

OOC: okay, here goes with the apology which is usual at the moment. Things are still crazy with work, I'm shattered and struggling to write anything...but here goes, I know it's waaaay overdue, so I'm trying my best and hoping it's not too bad. Nothing major, mainly just getting her into the same room as the others, and hoping to have Anya up over the weekend...

*Liz*

"Mrs Evans..."

Any other time hearing anyone call me that would still cause me to smile... Even after all these years, it's the most wonderful thing I can imagine... Perhaps things didn't work out as we might have planned, but they've been good, really good, and the important thing is that Max and I are together, and we have two wonderful children...

Right at this moment though, it's just yet another delay. I stayed in the diner to try and calm things down, intending to follow Max through quickly, but that's hardly what's happened...

And that's made all the worse for the feelings I can sense coming from him. Puzzlement, concern, uncertainty, worry? I don't understand, but I also feel a need, and that, followed by him sending Nat to come and get me, only reinforces that he wants me there...

And how I want to be there too. Whatever've happening, if he needs me, I want to be there for him. There's a part of me that longs for that ability that I had when I was pregnant with the twins, to talk to him in his mind, to be able to tell him I'm there... We still have a limited connection of course, sensing one another's thoughts, but the strength which we had seems untouchable now, and all I want to do is be there for him...

But I can't... I had to deal with the diner, for two reasons - firstly, if I didn't it would continue to be chaos and trouble could be brewing, and second, and more importantly, if everyone's shouting and yelling, Mom and dad might hear, and I don't want to have them disturbed, especially not today...I went up to see mom earlier in my break, and she's not having a good day, she needs her rest...

Turning my attention to whatever crisis it seems is to be next, I wipe my hands on my apron again, fixing a smile on my face as I go to see what the trouble seems to be.

"I'm sure I gave this girl a twenty dollar note, and she gave me the change from only ten..." Says an unpleasant sounding man, who, according to Kelly, as she explains apologetically, is insisting on speaking to the manager...

Now, Kelly might get distracted, and try to take her breaks at the worst of times, but if there's one thing I would say about everyone who works here is that they're honest, and I trust them and while I'll of course be polite, I don't intend to let that pass.

Eventually, after what seems like an age - made doubly so by the knowledge that Max is waiting in the back, he admits that he must have got it wrong, as he finds a twenty still in his pocket and, obviously embaressed, he mutters something of an apology before pushing a five dollar not towards Kelly as a tip before leaving quickly.

Again she apologises for having to call me, and I assure her it's fine, telling her she did exactly the right thing, and then, saying I'll be in the back if needed, I finally moving to make my exit and head through to join the others in the back.

And what a scene I find I'm walking into, completely unaware of anything that's gone before other than the face that I've felt every bit of an emotional rollercoaster that Max has been going through, and I have to say I'm having one of my own...concern about my mom, which is a constant, guilt over not being there, concern for Max, worry, uncertainty...love...

So I push open the door, uncertain what I'm going to find, and come face to face with...well, someone who I don't know for starters...then Michael's here too, and... I blink, frozen on the spot for a moment at this next face until she speaks, and I realise who it is... "Ava...?" I look around, completely out of the loop obviously as I take in the serious voices all around.

[Athenea]

Ava

Before Drake can answer me Liz comes into the room. She looks around confused for a moment before her eyes finally land on me and light up in surprise. She looks almost the same as I remember her. I wonder if that has anything to do with Max healing her. Our protector who was with us when me Zan, Lonnie, and Rath were all kids warned Zan that if he ever brought someone back from death they would be changed. That was how I knew she was the only one that could contact Max when he was in NYC.

“Ava…?” she asks and she seems unsure as if she can’t believe it’s me. “Yeah its me. You haven’t changed a bit, Cornball. Married life is treating you well.” I say as I pull her in for a hug. As I step away she still seems speechless for a moment.

“This is my daughter Dominique and this is apparently my nephew, Drake.” I say introducing the new faces although I just met Drake I know he is my family. I wonder when I decided that? It must have been the moment he said he was Lonnie and Rath’s kid. Even though I owe them nothing I still feel I owe them this chance to know there son.

[isabelle]

*Max*

I watch Michael carefully as Drake shows him the same memories that had left Micah so shaken. I notice that they don't have the same effect on Michael. Maybe they weren't as bad as I'd thought -- or maybe Michael is just better at hiding his reaction. I'll certainly be talking to him about it later.

Then Liz comes in and I feel my mood lighten instantly -- especially as she recognises and greets Ava. Ava seems to feel the same as she moves over to hug my wife.

“This is my daughter Dominique and this is apparently my nephew, Drake.” Ava explains.

"He's Rath and Lonnie's son," I add, nodding grimly. "They're dead now and the people who killed them are apparently after all of us now."


*Nathaniel*

Mom arrives and I'm glad to see her, but I'm paying more attention to Drake and Uncle Michael. Still, as she and Ava start to hug, I try to catch Dominique's eye. Dad had said that Mom and Ava were friends but it was still a bit unexpected to see that. And she says she's Drake's aunt now?

Obviously Ava is like us. It's taken me a bit but I remember now about the fourth. The other dupe. That must be who she is. I have a lot of things I want to ask Dad but I let them wait for now.

[Loxyanissa14]

~Dom~

I'm bored. I'm standing here thinking of all the ways to kill Zan when some one named Liz walks through the door. Ava hug her and introduces me. I nod politely but say nothing. This woman must be from my mum's past. She's never said anything about Roswell. She's never said anything about her life before me or my dad.

I think that maybe I should faint. Then my mother would have to take me to a hotel. I look around the room. No one else seems to be as bored as me. I start humming a song Zan's been working on. Before I know it I'm bobbing my head with the beat of the tune that's playing over and over through my mind.

I notice what I'm doing and look around to make sure no one has seen me. I'm such a dork I think to my self as I watch the reunion of my mum and her friend. I look over at Nate. I wonder if any one would miss us if we just happened to disappear? I think of all the other things I would rather be doing at this moment with Nate.

[KatnotKath]

OOC: bit short perhaps, but here goes

~Anya~

Dad asks if I've seen mom, and I kinda feel like rolling my eyes. And just where does he think I might have done that? I've been at school all day haven't I? - cutting class is something of a difficulty with an uncle who works at my school... "Not since this morning when you did, I begin to speak, before trailing off as yet more new faces appear. Is this all really happening, have I seriously been stood in here with Alienation - well, not so much with them, but kinda near anyway... Of course I also had the pleasure of working while they were presumably chatting at first in here, but still, it's been quite an afternoon, and got to say, I can't wait to see what happens next...

And it certainly doesn't disappoint, as Uncle Max's story about Aunt Liz knowing the manager of the band seems to be confirmed as she comes in to join us and Ava gives her a hug. So I guess my Aunt's done some cool things in her life afterall, even if they do include wearing those really tacky uniforms I think the diner is famed for...

~Liz~

I grin as Ava turns to greet me, nodding as she says married life is treating me well. "It certainly could be worse..." I respond softly, glancing over to look at my husband and then over at my children. Yes, things have been pretty good...

"and you know you don't look bad yourself!" For a moment, I'm taken back to the day she left Roswell. We kept in touch pretty well, just as promised, at first, but as time went on it became more difficult, I guess we were both busy and occupied with other things, and it just...lapsed... Strange as it sounds, considering how short a time she was here for though, I think I've missed her... Her way of talking, her little comments, that smile... She might look something like Tess did, but it's only on the surface and only a second lets someone know she's different.

I'm drawn from my thoughts as she introduces me to some of the kids though, smiling at both, and I'm about to say something, but stop as Max adds to the introduction, his words making my blood run cold... No...