Title: Starting Over
Part 11-Revelations
Author: LizabethR2D2
Disclaimer: As much as I wish I owned these characters/this show I do not! They belong to Melinda Metz, Jason Katims, the WB and UPN networks and the amazing actors who portrayed them! I guess I do own Sera, but I’d be willing to trade her for Colin Hanks or Nick Wechsler.
Category: CC
Rating: Adult (It will vary chapter to chapter, but let’s just be safe and say Adult to cover all our bases!)
Notes: To Behrluv32, sorry for the tiny font. I’m taking your advice and going bigger, thanks for reading and reviewing, I hope your eyes are OK!. To Kittens, who was wondering what shoe was going to drop that would bring Sera into the Alien Abyss-I hope this shoe is the right size! To BehrObsession, Shiesty23, Natalie36, Buddha-boy and uw51-thanks for reading and enjoy!
Amy's Shop
"Maria I love it here. I want one of everything!" Sera said, her eyes scanning the shelves.
"You need to tell my mother that. She loves hearing that people like
her crazy inventions." Maria said, cashing out the register. "Hey do
me a favor, lock the front will ya?"
"Well I would, but I think you might want to take this last customer."
"Huh?"
Sera held the door open. "Hey Michael!"
"Hey."
"Hi!" Maria said stepping from behind the counter and into Michael's
arms.
"So what are you two up to?"
"Talking about you!" Maria said smiling at her boyfriend before
taking the moneybag to the back.
"Hey Michael. I have to present a report on Ulysses, think you could
help me with it?" Sera asked as she sniffed some of the
aromatherapy oil testers
"Uh yeah, sure. How did..."
"I mentioned it to Maria and she said it was your favorite book. She said
you could even quote pages! So I figured I'd ask the expert for help."
"Can you ask me this in front of Max? I want to see his face when
someone asks me for homework help!"
Sera giggled and put the cap back on the essential oil tester she was
holding.
"So where's Valenti?"
"He called my cell not too long after I got here and said that he'd be a
little late. He's with Isabel working on her Communications project."
"Is she still doing that? She cornered me for a Q and A earlier this week."
"I think she knew that was all she was getting out of you. She's got Kyle
doing on-camera stuff!"
"Better him than me!" Michael said checking his watch and turning
toward the bead covered door where Maria disappeared.
"Maria, are you coming out of there any time soon?" He bellowed
in the general direction of the back room.
"I'm coming Spaceboy, hold your horses."
"Spaceboy?" Sera asked with a raised eyebrow.
"She thinks I'm spacey." Michael said covering.
Sera nodded and smiled. "Pot! Kettle!"
"Tell me about it." He forced a laugh, pleased that Sera bought the lie.
Maria appeared wide-eyed through the beads.
"Sorry, Spaceboy is one of those bedroom things. I really should
remember what company I'm in before I go tossing the pet names
around."
Sera looked from Michael to Maria. "Can I pretend she didn't just tell
me that and go with your explanation for the name?"
"Be my guest!" Michael said glaring at his girlfriend.
Suddenly the glass front door shattered, sending shards of glass flying
into the store.
"GET DOWN!" Michael yelled to the girls.
Maria pushed Sera to the floor as a group of men attacked the teens.
Michael flung one assailant back into the parking lot, before being taken
down by another. Sera jumped to her feet and Buffy-kicked the figure
advancing on her and Maria.
The man pitched into the wall before quickly rebounding and barrel rolling
Sera. Her head struck the counter with a thud. Her attacker stood and
raised his hand toward her. Sera cringed behind her raised hands to ward
off the blow she expected to feel. Hearing the man grunt, she looked up
and was shocked to see him across the room flat on his back. Michael
who had his hands full with his own attackers turned when he noticed the
man flying across the room.
"What the hell?" Michael exclaimed looking from Sera to Maria.
Sera freaked by what just occurred pressed into the corner and
whimpered. Michael's attacker yelled, "There are two of them, take the
one with dark hair, kill the blonde."
As soon as the order left his mouth, Michael made him a pile of dust.
"Leave her alone." Sera shouted throwing herself on the man,
moving towards Maria. He raised his hand and Sera went careening into
the stockroom.
Guess he's recovering from Michael tossing him into the parking lot.
she thought as she quickly rolled over and leapt to her feet, hand raised.
Nothing happened. Sera looked at her hand confused. She heard Maria
yell as one of the guys roughly grabbed her arm.
Hearing her friend cry out, Sera raised her hand as she had done before
and the man suddenly exploded as both Michael and Sera hit him with a
blast.
Sera turned to face Michael, her blue eyes wide with shock and fear
before collapsing next to Maria.
"MICHAEL!!" Maria shouted.
"We have to get out of here." Michael said sending another blast to
Sera's original attacker, who was running out of the shop. His aim was off
in his rush to check on Maria, and the man escaped easily.
"You OK?" he asked crouching down and taking her face in his
hands. Maria nodded her head and looked at her friend. "Sera's out
cold." Michael stood and reached for Maria. "We have to go."
"Pick her up."
"What?"
"She can't exactly walk in that condition. You have to carry her!"
"No!"
"Michael, we can't just leave her here."
"The hell we can't! Maria, she's an alien. She's probably a skin."
"She saved my life Michael."
"So did Tess."
"She's not Tess. Now pick her up!"
Michael took one look at Maria's face and realized that resistance was
futile. He threw Sera over his shoulder and nudged Maria out the back
door and to the Jetta.
Sera was still out when they reached Michael's apartment. Maria burst
through the door. Max and Liz, who were cuddling on the couch, jumped
to their feet.
"Where have you been? I thought you said 8:00 its 8:35..." Max's
voice trailed off as Michael entered the room with Sera in his arms.
"Oh My God!" Liz cried.
"What happened?" Max demanded as he helped Michael put Sera
on the couch.
"We were attacked at the shop."
"What?" Max and Liz asked together.
"I was closing up, Sera was waiting for Kyle.Oh My God. Kyle he'll
freak if he sees the mess and we're not there."
"Maria, he's with Iz. She knows to come here if something like this
happens." Max tried to calm his friend.
"Max are you sure. I mean."
"Maria. Trust me. Now please, tell me what happened."
"So there we were and suddenly these people just burst in and started for
Michael."
"Skins?" Max asked, his jaw set.
Michael nodded his head. "I'm guessing. I disposed of two; one on my
own and Sera helped with the other one."
"Sera? She hit the disabling mechanism?" Liz asked.
"No." Michael said staring straight at his best friend.
Suddenly reality dawned on Max. "She's an alien."
"She can't be." Liz said, shaking her head in disbelief.
"She is pumpkin. She warded off the guys coming after us with a flick
of her wrist."
"Is she a skin?" Liz asked looking at Michael.
"One way to find out.” He disappeared into his bedroom and
returned with a hockey stick. “Turn her over!"
"What the hell are you doing?" Maria asked.
"Skins have a switch in their back, if I hit it hard enough, she turns to
dust."
"And if she doesn't!"
Then she can explain her side of the story and maybe I'll give her a
Tylenol for the pain."
"Michael we need answers, we need to know who she is and why she's
here." Max reasoned.
"I don't think she knows." Maria said quietly.
"What?" Michael questioned.
"You saw her face when that guy went sailing across the room. She
was panicked. She didn't know what she was doing."
"She was upset because she used her powers in front of us and that
probably wasn't part of the plan."
Sera stirred and Michael raised the hockey stick toward her.
She slowly opened her eyes, saw Maria next to her on the couch and
reached out to her friend.
"Maria, you're OK!"
Michael's hockey stick swung in front of her blocking her path to Maria.
Sera looked up at him, "Michael?"
"What are you?"
What are you talking about?"
"Don't play games with me Sera, if that's even your real name!"
"Michael..."
"Answer him." Max commanded moving into Sera's eye line.
"Max, I don't."
"Are you a skin?" Michael asked cutting her off.
"A what?"
"We want answers!" Michael shouted, dropping the hockey stick and
grabbing her arms.
"I can't tell you what I don't know."
Max flinched at her words. Remembering speaking that same phrase
while Pierce was interrogating and torturing him.
"Michael! STOP!" Maria shouted, alarmed by his vehemence.
"Are you working for Khivar?" Max asked in a low tone.
"I, is that a person?"
"The truth Sera!"
"I am telling you the truth Michael."
Suddenly the door flew open as Kyle and Isabel rushed in.
"You're OK!" Iz said looking at Michael and Maria. "We saw the
mess at the store, we were so worried."
"What's this?" Kyle asked taking in the terrified look on Sera's face
and the iron grip Michael had on her arms. "Michael, you wanna let go
of Sera?"
"Keep out of this, it doesn't concern you!"
"The hell it doesn't!" Kyle raised his voice as he crossed to the couch
and started to remove Michael's hands from Sera's arms. Michael jerked
Sera away from Kyle.
"I mean it Valenti, back off!" he warned.
"Get your hands off her!!" Michael roughly released Sera and she
collapsed against Kyle.
"What happened?" he asked, drawing her into his arms and glaring
at Michael.
"Tell him!" Michael challenged.
Sera remained silent.
"We were attacked in the shop." Maria disclosed, "Skins we
think, Michael and Sera took care of them."
"You told her?" Isabel asked looking at her friends.
Max shook his head. "She has powers."
"What?" Kyle asked, certain he misunderstood what Max just said.
"She has powers." Max repeated.
"That's impossible!" Kyle shook his head.
"Is she one of us?" Iz asked in a quiet voice.
"That hasn't been determined. We're not going to make the same
mistake twice." Max cautioned looking pointedly at Liz and Kyle.
Kyle averted his eyes and nudged Sera. "Is this true?"
"Kyle I don't know what's going on."
"Show him. Show him what you did at Amy's shop."
"I don't know what I did, I just have these abilities. I don't know where
they came from or why I have them but I do, and you do too Michael.
How can that be?"
"We're asking the questions now." Michael said glaring at her.
"I don't know much. After my father died was the first time I found
out. I somehow managed to blow up my lava lamp as I reached out for it.
Mom said it had to be faulty wiring or something. But later on that night I
took off for the playground. I could change the color of the equipment
with just a touch. I can't explain it anymore than that."
Kyle got off the couch and paced the room.
"I'll ask you again, are you working for Khivar?" Max demanded.
"Max I told you everything I know, I don't know that name."
Liz was sitting at the kitchen counter trying to wrap her brain around this
latest development. She looked down at Sera's cell phone that tumbled
out of her purse when Maria tossed on the counter. She turned it over in
her hands and looked at the LED display: SERA & KYLE. S-E-R-A was such
an unusual spelling of that name.
Suddenly something tracked; she walked to Sera and knelt down in front
of the girl.
"Serena?"
"My dad was the only one who ever called me that. How did you know
that name?"
"Someone very special told me about you."
"Who?" Sera asked with wide eyes.
Maria gasped suddenly. "Serena, Future Max's Serena?" she asked
looking at Liz.
Liz shook her head and wiped at her teary eyes.
"I've been wondering when you were going to show up." She
reached forward and pulled Sera into a hug.
"Liz. Don't!" Max said fearing for his girlfriend's safety.
"Max its OK. She's a friend. She's one of you."
"Yeah and we all know how well that turned out last time." Kyle
said bitterly from the corner.
"Kyle." Sera looked at her boyfriend.
He walked to her. "Just tell me one thing. Why? Why did you lie to me."
"Kyle, I didn't lie to you."
"YOU LIED! Failing to tell me that you are another life form is a lie!"
"Kyle, I..." Sera began reaching out to touch him.
He recoiled instantly, "Don't touch me! Don't ever touch me again!
His voice lowered as he looked at his friends. "I can't do this." he
said, focusing his gaze on Maria and Liz. "I can't. Not after Tess."
He looked back at Sera. "You're just as bad as she was, maybe worse."
"Kyle!" Sera gasped, startled by his vehemence
"It's done. We're over." he spat angrily before striding to the door.
"Kyle." Isabel called.
"Not now Iz." he slammed the door behind him as he left.
The Pod Squad, Maria and Liz looked at each other warily.
Liz smoothed Sera's hair, "You know he didn't mean that. He was just
venting. He'll be OK once he's had time to process everything."
Sera didn't respond, she just stared at the door and tried not to fall to
pieces.
"You really believe that this is the mystery woman Future Maxwell told
you?" Michael asked looking at Liz.
She nodded. "It makes sense, doesn't it. Future Max told me Serena
was going to be a friend of mine someday. This is her Michael, I'm sure.
"Liz, we can't afford to be wrong. I won't let what happened with Tess to
happen again." Max stated, his tone firm
I think Liz's right."
Everyone looked at Isabel. "I've been in her dreams. There's nothing
alien related, nothing dark and mysterious."
"You've been in my dreams? What does that mean?" Sera finally
snapped out of her trance. She turned from the door to regard Isabel.
"I have abilities like you. One of mine is that I can enter people's
dreams."
"How is that possible."
"The same way you can do what you do."
"Why do we have these abilities? What's causing it?"
"Nothing's causing it. It's the way we were created."
Sera's eyes widened. "Created?"
Liz took Sera's hands in hers. "Max, Michael and Isabel are different
from us. They aren't from around here."
"What are you talking about?"
"Liz!" Michael met her eyes. "We made a pact when Alex died; no
one else would ever find out. You agreed to that!"
"Michael she's one of you, she has the right to know. She can help us."
"Like Tess helped us?"
"She's not like Tess."
"How do you know? When Tess was revealed to be one of us no one
trusted her. We let her have a bit of trust and what did she do? She
betrayed us, killed one of our friends and blasted off this planet with
Max's son in tow. Now I don't know about you but those previous events
don't make me feel all warm and cuddly concerning the latest alien in the
mix."
"Michael." Iz warned.
"Dammit Isabel. We let Tess in and she murdered your boyfriend. Are
you experiencing Déjà vu yet or do you need another dead body to turn
up before it sinks in?"
"That's not fair Michael!"
"No, fair would be Alex here with us. Fair would have been to never have
seen the woman I love in that much pain and not a damn thing I could do
about it. Fair would be for the alien shit to finally be over and for us to be
able to lead some kind of normal life. Isn't that what you always wanted?"
"I'm sorry." Everyone's attention turned to Sera, who was sitting with
her knees pulled to her chest rocking back and forth slightly.
"I didn't mean for any of this to happen, I don't even know why its
happening; but I don't want to be the cause of problems between all of
you."
Liz patted Sera's arm once before moving to Max and speaking in a
hushed tone to him.
"I want to try something."
He looked down at his girlfriend. "What?"
"I want to tell Sera our story."
Max shook his head. "I don't understand."
"I want to show her what's happened since you've saved me."
"No."
"Max."
"No, Liz, we don't know who she is anymore, we don't know what she could do."
Maria bristled at this. "We know she's our friend. We know she saved
my life tonight."
"She could have staged the whole thing to gain our trust."
"Paranoid much Michael."
"Isabel, this isn't a joke. We have enemies out there. Probably even more
since we didn't return home this summer per Nasedo's plan."
"I'm with Liz." Maria said moving closer to her best friend.
Michael shook his head. "No way."
"I don't think it's a good idea." Max said.
Isabel looked torn for a moment before looking at Liz and Maria.
"I'm sorry you guys. But something bad always seems to happen to
everyone who knows about us."
Liz wasn't ready to give up.
"You all know what Future Max said. Serena helps us in the future."
"Yeah well. Future Max also said Alex was at your wedding." Michael
said, looking directly at Liz.
Her eyes filled with tears and she quickly looked away.
"That's enough!!" Max yelled silencing everyone.
He looked at Sera. "Can I, I need to see something."
Sera tried to read Max's face. She sensed anger and distrust, but mostly
a want to trust, all he needed was a reassurance.
"What ever you need Max. What ever you need."
Michael caught Max's arm as he walked toward Sera, "Maxwell, I don't
think this is such a good idea."
"You'll be here to save me if I get into trouble."
Max sat next to Sera. "Look at me." Sera raised her eyes to meet
Max's and she nodded her head.
Max grasped the sides of Sera's face; but before he could open a
connection, Liz took one of his hands.
"Liz, no."
"Max, I want her to see everything."
"Liz."
"Max do you trust me?"
"Of course I do, with my life."
"And I trust Sera. Please let me help."
There was an extremely pregnant pause before Max spoke again.
"OK"
Max grasped one of Liz's hands, and placed other along Sera's cheek. Liz
took Serena's hand and squeezed.
"Some of this won't be easy to see."
Sera's eyes flicked to Liz, she nodded. "I want to know."
Max opened a connection with both the girls. Sera gasped and tightened
her grip on Liz's hand when she saw Liz get shot. Soon the images
assaulted Sera in a rush: Liz, Kyle and Michael being shot. The
kidnappings, the mindwarps, the deaths and everything in between this
small group of seven had encountered since September 19, 1999.
Watching the events of her friend's lives over the past few years she understood why Michael lashed out at her so vehemently, why Max was incredibly worried about his girlfriend’s safety; and why Kyle couldn't bear to be in the same room with her.
When Max broke the connection Sera looked at the group around her.
Maria had her eyes squeezed shut, willing back tears as she thought
about what Sera was being shown. Isabel refused to look at the trio on
the couch; she instead was focus on a point on the wall. Michael was
staring intently at her, watching her expressions and body language.
"Why?" Every pair of eyes in the room snapped to Sera's face,
tears were streaming down her cheeks.
"Why did you trust me? After all that, why me?"
Everyone was silent as they pondered the question.
"You've been to Hell and back multiple times, experienced more
trauma than anyone should EVER have to endure in their lives let alone at
our age. I don't know how you can let anyone in."
"Alex."
Maria's answer was so quiet; it took a minute for Sera to realize that she
had spoken.
"What?"
"If Alex were here, you'd be his sister."
Sera broke down. Her sobs filled the room joined by Maria's sniffles.
Isabel stood in the corner, her eyes swimming but the tears had yet to
fall. "I have to get out of here." she said to no one in particular.
"Isabel." Max called.
"Just let me go Max."
He nodded at his sister.
"Isabel, Can I ask you something?" Sera requested.
Isabel paused, her hand on Michael's doorknob. She turned to face Serena.
"How could you let her go? Knowing what she did to Alex.to you."
"I didn't know what to think. Too many things were happening at once. In
retrospect. I'd have killed her the minute I saw her if I'd known what
she'd do to the people I love. I should have known. I thought she wanted
to spend time with me, that she liked me because I was Isabel Evans. Not
Max's sister or Michael's friend or even the popular girl at school, just
Isabel. What I failed to realize was that person already existed, and his
name was Alex. She took him away from me and I'll never forgive or
forget that." Isabel turned on her heel and exited the apartment.
Max looked at the four other people in the apartment.
"Look, this is a lot to take in for one night. Nothing will get resolved at
this moment. Lets all go home and regroup tomorrow."
"You want us to let her go Max?" Michael asked, incredulous. "She's going to bolt."
"I'm not going anywhere Michael!"
"And we're supposed to what, take you at your word. You've been lying to
us from the start."
"And you've been truthful?"
"We have a lot of reasons for keeping our secrets. You were just given a
slide show of some of them."
Sera took a deep breath. "I want to understand what all this means as
much as you do. I know I have no right to, but I'm asking you to trust me
when I say I'm not going anywhere."
"We'll trust you, for now. We should meet here at 10 AM."
"Uh, I can't."
"You just finished saying you wanted us to trust you." Michael snorted.
"This isn't the best way to go about that."
"Tomorrow's Saturday. I work every Saturday."
"I work tomorrow too." Liz said looking at Max.
"The three of us have the 8-3 shift." Maria replied.
"Make that four of us." Michael said glancing at the calendar Maria
tacked on his wall.
"OK. We'll meet after your shift. Here?" He asked looking to
Michael.
"Where else?"
"OK. Tomorrow."
Sera turned to leave.
"My car?"
"Its still at the shop. We put you in the Jetta." Maria explained
"OK." She started for the door.
"Sera wait." Liz called. "We'll drive you."
"No I think I want to walk."
"That's not a option." Max said shaking his head. "Whoever
attacked the store knows your abilities. They may even know where you
are."
"We weren't followed." Michael stated
Max held up his hand to assure Michael that wasn't the issue.
"I don't want you walking into a trap back at the store. Besides, I think
one of us had better take care of the mess before Amy gets in
tomorrow."
Michael sighed and shook his head.
"We'll take her to the store. Don't worry Maria, I'll fix it. You mother
will never know the difference."
"Thanks Max."
"Maxwell."
"We've got her word Michael, its all we can go on for tonight."
Max placed his hand on his best friend's shoulder before turning to his
girlfriend. "Ready."
Liz nodded.
"Night Maria."
"Night Chica."
"Michael."
"Liz."
Michael and Maria watched them leave. Maria stepped into Michael's
embrace.
"I hope Lizzie's right. I hope Sera/Serena is here to help. My heart
couldn't handle the alternative."
"Hey." Michael said taking her face in his hands. "No one is going
to hurt you. You hear me?"
Maria nodded.
"I mean it Maria. I've let you slip through my fingers way too much in
the past. I'm not about to lose you again."
Maria smiled up at Michael.
"I love you."
"I love you more."
END CHAPTER
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Starting Over (CC, All, Adult) Part 12-Kyle
Title: Starting Over
Author: LizabethR2D2
Disclaimer: As much as I wish I owned these characters/this show I do not! They belong to Melinda Metz, Jason Katims, the WB and UPN networks and the amazing actors who portrayed them! I guess I do own Sera, but I’d be willing to trade her for Colin Hanks.
Category: CC
Rating: Adult (It will vary chapter to chapter, but let’s just be safe and say Adult to cover all our bases!)
Summary: Alternate Season 3-Picking up a few weeks after the WB Season 2 Finale. This is the Season 3 that I would have liked to see televised, our CCs are together, no one is going to a Vermont boarding school, no one moves to NYC and no one marries Delko! Just good old fashioned Season 1 type entertainment. (At least I like to think so!)
KYLE
Kyle lumbered along a path, he knew his way by heart, he'd been here many times before. Reaching his destination, he sat down and took a deep breath before speaking.
"Hey. Guess you know why I'm here. The crazy never stops with us. Is it me? Is it something I've done? I don't necessarily think I'm that bad a guy, but all these things keep happening.. I mean when does it end? When do I stop getting hurt by people I care about. My mom left, Liz left me for Max, Hell even my dad. For awhile all he cared about was learning Max's secret. And then, well then there was Tess. She made me do something I'll never forgive. She made me watch…she…I'm so sorry Alex." Kyle broke off as soft sobs wracked his body.
"How could I have been so weak. I saw what she was doing and I couldn't stop her. Then she made me carry you. How could I not have known! I was blindsided, I wanted so desperately to have that connection she was offering, someone to care fore me, some one to talk to, that I couldn’t see through it. I couldn’t see her pining for Max, I couldn’t see her using you to decode that book. She betrayed me and all the people I care about and I just sat by and let it happen! I guess that’s why I turned to Sera so quickly. She was new and so far removed from the whole Aliens Are Among Us group that I just grabbed a hold like she was a lifeline. My chance to have a normal relationship! I should have known she was too good to be true. I mean in hindsight, the Déjà vu is frightening: She lived in your house, Tess lived in mine. Sera would have been your sister, Tess was kinda mine. Did I mention their eyes? Sera's eyes are blue...like Tess’, only darker. They had the same quality, one look and you were sunk. That should have been a big tip off."
Kyle dropped his head and willed his tears to stop, when he regained the ability to speak without his voice cracking, he posed a question to the tombstone in front of him.
"Why you? You were the best of us. Always looking out for everyone else, taking care of us when we were down or hurting. You gave us a kick in the ass when we needed it. I guess I just answered my own question. She knew all that. She knew that you were the key. The rational head that would have sensed something was wrong if she'd mindwarped someone else. The one that would have fought tooth and nail if she'd tried that shit on the rest of us. God we need you Alex, I'm not like you. I'm trying, I'm trying to be there for everyone make them laugh, to lend a hand. Its easier with some of them, I mean Liz has Max, Maria has Michael and Isabel…well you know Iz, she has herself. I'm there if she wants to let me in but I don't blame her extra caution, I certainly learned my lesson." *Snorts*
"Twice now. I'm lost here man. I don't know who to trust anymore."
"You can start with me." Isabel said moving to face Kyle.
"Isabel, how long…"
"Long enough. I come here a lot-more often than most of you know. He's the best listener. She paused and a sad smile crept over her face. "I see him you know. In my head. I know he's not really there, but in my dreams and when I'm here, I'm closer to him. I can tell him things I didn't get to say…or that I was too afraid to say while he was here. I sound crazy don’t I !"
"No! No you don't. Its good you come here. Its good you tell him everything. He would have wanted you to be able to do that." Iz nodded her head as tears fell. Kyle pulled her into his arms and the two sat in silence near their friend's grave.
Title: Starting Over
Author: LizabethR2D2
Disclaimer: As much as I wish I owned these characters/this show I do not! They belong to Melinda Metz, Jason Katims, the WB and UPN networks and the amazing actors who portrayed them! I guess I do own Sera, but I’d be willing to trade her for Colin Hanks.
Category: CC
Rating: Adult (It will vary chapter to chapter, but let’s just be safe and say Adult to cover all our bases!)
Summary: Alternate Season 3-Picking up a few weeks after the WB Season 2 Finale. This is the Season 3 that I would have liked to see televised, our CCs are together, no one is going to a Vermont boarding school, no one moves to NYC and no one marries Delko! Just good old fashioned Season 1 type entertainment. (At least I like to think so!)
KYLE
Kyle lumbered along a path, he knew his way by heart, he'd been here many times before. Reaching his destination, he sat down and took a deep breath before speaking.
"Hey. Guess you know why I'm here. The crazy never stops with us. Is it me? Is it something I've done? I don't necessarily think I'm that bad a guy, but all these things keep happening.. I mean when does it end? When do I stop getting hurt by people I care about. My mom left, Liz left me for Max, Hell even my dad. For awhile all he cared about was learning Max's secret. And then, well then there was Tess. She made me do something I'll never forgive. She made me watch…she…I'm so sorry Alex." Kyle broke off as soft sobs wracked his body.
"How could I have been so weak. I saw what she was doing and I couldn't stop her. Then she made me carry you. How could I not have known! I was blindsided, I wanted so desperately to have that connection she was offering, someone to care fore me, some one to talk to, that I couldn’t see through it. I couldn’t see her pining for Max, I couldn’t see her using you to decode that book. She betrayed me and all the people I care about and I just sat by and let it happen! I guess that’s why I turned to Sera so quickly. She was new and so far removed from the whole Aliens Are Among Us group that I just grabbed a hold like she was a lifeline. My chance to have a normal relationship! I should have known she was too good to be true. I mean in hindsight, the Déjà vu is frightening: She lived in your house, Tess lived in mine. Sera would have been your sister, Tess was kinda mine. Did I mention their eyes? Sera's eyes are blue...like Tess’, only darker. They had the same quality, one look and you were sunk. That should have been a big tip off."
Kyle dropped his head and willed his tears to stop, when he regained the ability to speak without his voice cracking, he posed a question to the tombstone in front of him.
"Why you? You were the best of us. Always looking out for everyone else, taking care of us when we were down or hurting. You gave us a kick in the ass when we needed it. I guess I just answered my own question. She knew all that. She knew that you were the key. The rational head that would have sensed something was wrong if she'd mindwarped someone else. The one that would have fought tooth and nail if she'd tried that shit on the rest of us. God we need you Alex, I'm not like you. I'm trying, I'm trying to be there for everyone make them laugh, to lend a hand. Its easier with some of them, I mean Liz has Max, Maria has Michael and Isabel…well you know Iz, she has herself. I'm there if she wants to let me in but I don't blame her extra caution, I certainly learned my lesson." *Snorts*
"Twice now. I'm lost here man. I don't know who to trust anymore."
"You can start with me." Isabel said moving to face Kyle.
"Isabel, how long…"
"Long enough. I come here a lot-more often than most of you know. He's the best listener. She paused and a sad smile crept over her face. "I see him you know. In my head. I know he's not really there, but in my dreams and when I'm here, I'm closer to him. I can tell him things I didn't get to say…or that I was too afraid to say while he was here. I sound crazy don’t I !"
"No! No you don't. Its good you come here. Its good you tell him everything. He would have wanted you to be able to do that." Iz nodded her head as tears fell. Kyle pulled her into his arms and the two sat in silence near their friend's grave.
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Starting Over (CC, All, Adult) Part 13-The Morning After
Title: Starting Over
Author: LizabethR2D2
Disclaimer: As much as I wish I owned these characters/this show I do not! They belong to Melinda Metz, Jason Katims, the WB and UPN networks and the amazing actors who portrayed them! I guess I do own Sera, but I’d be willing to trade her for Colin or Nick!!!
Category: CC
Rating: Adult (It will vary chapter to chapter, but let’s just be safe and say Adult to cover all our bases!)
Summary: Alternate Season 3-Picking up a few weeks after the WB Season 2 Finale. This is the Season 3 that I would have liked to see televised, our CCs are together, no one is going to a Vermont boarding school, no one moves to NYC and no one marries Delko! Just good old fashioned Season 1 type entertainment. (At least I like to think so!)
Author’s Note:
Yes, I shamelessly stole the title from Season One, but it fit and I like it a lot better than my original title of "Saturday"!!.
The Morning After
Sera followed everyone to Michael's apartment after their shift ended at
the Crashdown. They trundled inside and stared at each other for several
minutes.
"Are we waiting for Isabel?" Maria said the only thing she could
think of to start conversation.
"No, she's not coming." Max said quickly
Maria frowned "Did you..."
"She didn't want to come."
Sera sighed at Max's inference. Isabel wasn't coming because she
couldn't bear to be around Serena and her new found alien status.
"I've been thinking about this all night." Max said. "I think the
easiest way to find out what we need to know is to reverse the
connection, see what she knows."
"My objection stands." Michael said looking at his best friend.
"Michael this is the best way to know."
Max expected him to say more, but Michael just adopted the 'second in
command' face and stared straight through Max.
"I want to see." Maria's voice brought everyone's attention back to
the situation.
"What?" Max asked her
"What!?" Michael asked the same question but with a decidedly
harsher tone.
"I want to see for myself that she's on the level."
"NO!" Michael stated firmly.
"Michael…"
"No Maria!"
"Look Michael, This is something I'm going to do with or without your
permission, which I don't need by the way!"
Michael took in the defiant look on his girlfriend's face and realized he
was fighting a losing battle. He turned his attention toward Sera.
"If you do anything to her, I will kill you; and I promise it will be slow,
painful and involve more kinds of torture than you can possibly imagine.
You got that?"
Sera nodded, having no doubt that Michael was completely serious.
With that out of the way, Liz, Maria and Max clasped hands. Max laid his
palm against Sera's face as he had done last night.
"Show us what you remember about your life."
Soon the quartet was zipping through the images of Sera's life.
Her earliest memory involved a man turning Sera over to a couple, the
group recognized the woman as Nicole.
They saw her first day of grade school, making friends slowly, being
scared of being the new girl.
Images of junior high and high school were next. Dating boys, making the
cheerleading squad, then the day her father died and she discovered her
powers. When the images shifted to Sera's few months in Roswell,
everyone noticed a change in her aura the minute she met Kyle. It
radiates around her even in their vision. They could feel her attraction
towards him and her willingness to let him in, something she hadn't done
since her father died. The feeling grew when she became friends with the
others. Max, Liz and Maria felt nothing but genuine feelings, no alien
nonsense, no hidden agenda, as Isabel called it.
They watched the scene at Amy's shop unfold. Sera's surprise at her
ability, her shock when the man she and Michael blasted together
exploded. The fear she felt when everyone confronted her, her pain at
Kyle's words. After the slideshow was over, Max broke the connection and
regarded Sera for a moment.
"How do you know River Dog?"
"River Dog?!" Michael asked, confused.
"Who's River Dog?" Sera asked, equally confused.
"The old man, who gave you to your parents. We know him."
"I don't remember. My parents told me I was found on a reservation and
given to them by the elders."
"Your father was a Mesaliko Indian." It was a statement more than a
question.
"Yes."
"Maxwell, that means." Michael began.
"That means that Sera was found on the reservation here."
Michael looked at the group, "How about we pay River Dog a little
visit?"
******************
Mesaliko Reservation
Liz stepped out of the SUV and walked toward woman seated on the
porch of the trader's post.
"Hi, um I'm looking for River Dog."
"You again?" a voice called from her left.
Liz spun towards the voice.
"Eddie! Hey. Hi. Um."
"Looking for River Dog?"
"Yeah, I, uh I have some questions," She stopped as everyone exited
the Jeep and SUV, "Actually we all have some questions for him."
"I'll take you to him."
Everyone moved to follow and Eddie shook his head. "Again, just you."
"This involves all of us." Max said moving protectively towards Liz.
"No, you know Max, it will be OK. I'll go, I'll explain what's happened,
and he'll see all of us."
Max looked torn for a moment, looking from Liz to Eddie and finally to
Michael who nodded quickly.
"OK." He reached out and squeezed her hand.
Liz returned twenty minutes later with River Dog. He nodded to each
member of the group, his eyes lingering on Serena.
"You do not remember me."
She shook her head.
"Come, I will explain everything."
The gang followed River Dog to the caves, the silence as they trekked
through the woods was grating on Michael's patience, "You knew there
was another alien out there and you never told us?"
"It was not time for you to know."
"What the hell does that mean? You told us about everything else, what
made this different?"
"You have been mislead."
"Mislead?" Max asked, looking directly at Sera.
"You have been told that Nasedo was sent to protect you. That is false.
Nasedo was not your protector. He was to look after the one left behind."
"Tess." Liz choked out the name.
“Nasedo's loyalty was pledged to her, your well-being was not his
concern."
"There were two."
Everyone turned to face Michael.
"What?"
"There were two. Two older aliens. Nasedo and another. Hal, Hal
Carver told me that there were two in the crash."
“The other, was your protector." River Dog explained. "The one
they captured, he was to watch over you."
"I don't understand what that means. Why did we need protectors? And
why aren't they here with us?" Sera asked, looking from River Dog to
the Pod Squad.
"Our details are pretty sketchy. We know we were in the '47 crash and
we know that we were sent here with a man, Nasedo, who was supposed
to protect us, but as you saw last night, he betrayed us."
Sera turned to look at River Dog. "But you said that this Nasedo wasn't
our protector. That he wasn't sent here for us."
"No. There is something you should see, to help explain."
River Dog reached into an alcove inside the cave and produced an orb. It
was similar to the one summoned the vision of Max and Isabel's mother.
He held it out to Sera, who tentatively accepted it. The minute the cool
metal slipped into her hands it sparked to life. A white light surrounded
the figure that appeared. (I see Anthony Geary from General Hospital as
Max and Iz's Anterian father. It was either him or Parker Stevenson, and
not many people would understand why that's funny, So its Luke and
Laura as the 'rents.)
"Serena, daughter of my most trusted advisor. You have been sent to
earth to continue your sworn duty, to protect King Zan and Princess
Vilondra. My children. As you lived before, you were essential in our
planet's fight for survival. Join hands with my children and your past will
be revealed."
Max immediately reached for Sera's hand. She took her eyes off the
image long enough to accept his outstretched hand. They waited for
something, anything. Finally Liz's voice broke the silence.
"Max, I think you need both you and Isabel for it to work."
“Getting Isabel to trust Sera won't be easy."
"She doesn't have to trust me, she just needs to trust you. She'll know."
"Don't tell us how Isabel will feel. You lost that right around eight o'clock
last night." Michael cut her off.
"I'm sorry, that's not what I meant, I just think if you tell her its
important, she'll show."
"Well you don't know my sister when she sets her mind against
something." Max cautioned.
"OK look, none of this is helping, we can't know anything until we
contact Isabel." Maria reasoned, reaching into her purse for her cell
phone.
"God, I can’t get service in here. Come on.” Maria dragged Michael
out of the cave she held her phone above her head and danced around
until she got reception bars and dialed Isabel’s number. “Isabel, it's
Maria. Wait, Isabel. Please don't hang up. We need…"
Maria was cut off as Michael took the cell phone from her.
"Come to the reservation, no, now! We're with River Dog. No, Iz it's
important that you get here.” he sighed heavily and said a word Maria
wasn’t sure he was capable of uttering, “Please. Ok we’ll see you in a
few." Michael glanced at the phone for a moment, before scowling at
it and handing it back to Maria who punched the off button.
*************
Isabel arrived in short order, Eddie beckoned her to follow him. They
traversed through the woods silently. Reaching the clearing of the caves,
Eddie nodded toward the entrance before turning away. Iz sighed heavily
and stepped inside.
"Thanks for coming Iz." Max said, as his sister entered the cave.
"Well I knew Michael had to be desperate to say please."
Michael tossed a look in Iz's direction, but remained silent.
Max explained what had transpired before Isabel's arrival.
"God, How many other family members are going to pop out of these
things." Iz quipped, pointing at the orb in Sera's hands.
"Should we try again?" Sera asked tentatively.
Max nodded and placed one hand under Sera's as she held the orb. His
other hand reached for Isabel, who looked at him for a moment before
placing her hand in his.
The orb sprung to life again. Their father returned and Max heard Isabel's
gasp as she laid eyes on him. "My children, the following is your story.
Soon the cave was filled with images of a beautiful planet and majestic
castle before the scene shifted to reveal four children playing a game.
"Vilondra, I believe your brother is cheating."
"I am the future king, Serena. I never cheat."
"Indeed?"
"As you will be my second in command, Rath perhaps you should remain
in concurrence with your leader."
Rath looked at Serena and howled with laughter.
(Scene Shift)
Now teenagers, Vilondra and Serena are discussing a party.
"Larek said this girl was just standing on Dimaras Rock, watching Zan
swim. You fail to find that odd?"
"I think this girl was probably taken in by your brother, most women are.
In case you have neglected to noticed, half the kingdom is attracted to
Zan."
"And that includes you." Vilondra teased knowingly.
"Perhaps, but we both know, that Zan will forever think of me as his
annoying little sister.”
“Serena, while it’s true that my brother sees you as his little sister, he
does not find you annoying.”
Serena snorted in disbelief and Vilondra raised an eyebrow at her.
“Why are you spending time mooning after my oblivious brother when
you have the rest of the system chasing you about?”
“Lonnie, the reason I’m “chased about” as you so delicately put it, is that
most of those poor misguided fools believe that I’m the way to you.
Unlike me, they have never seen the way you look at Rath!” Serena
said with a mischievous grin.
“You had better not be saying such things to Rath during your training
sessions Serena!”
“I’m sorry Princess, those discussions are between me and Rath.”
"Just for that, perhaps we’ll arrange an extra dance tonight between
you and Count Nicolas.”
Vilondra ducked Serena as threw a dress in her direction.
(Scene Shift)
At the party Larek introduces Ava and Zan, the attraction is obvious.
Rath steps in front of Serena and offers his hand.
"Care to dance?"
"Did Vilondra send you over here to make sure I'm not moping?"
"No, I came of my own free will. And to spirit you away before Count
Nicholas has a chance to ask you to dance with him."
Serena looked over her shoulder and sighed. "He's been following me
all night."
"You could agree to one dance."
"One? Lonnie threatened me with a full dance card earlier.”
“Maybe she’s feeling festive.”
Rath glanced at her sideways when she muttered “Yeah, I’ll bet she
is!” under her breath.
“Besides, one dance might change your opinion of him.”
“Only if he puts a Molonte blaster to my head."
"You don't think that's a bit harsh, he doesn't seem so bad."
As they glance to Nicholas, he is fuming at a servant who has presented
him with too weak a drink.
Rath threw a look to Serena. "On second thought, you were right."
"As always."
Rath shook his head before leading her to the dance floor.
(Scene Shift)
Sometime after the party, Vilondra and Ava are in the gardens talking.
Rath, Zan and Serena enter the gardens, Serena brought a beverage to
Vilondra and sat beside the princess.
"Serena, when you've finished with your duties here. You'll need to
turn down my bed. I like my sleeping quarters to be fully prepared when
I am ready to retire."
Vilondra fought the urge to toss her drink in Ava's face, but Zan
interceded. "Ava, Serena is not a servant. She's our friend, one that
should be treated as a member of this family."
"But she is not of royal blood." Ava protested.
"No, but she is as close as a sister to all of us and therefore you will
NEVER again ask her to do your bidding." Vilondra warned with an icy
tone.
(Scene Shift)
Ava and Zan's engagement is announced. Vilondra makes no effort to
hide her displeasure to her bother. Zan, who is now preparing for not only
his wedding, but also his coronation, has no time to hear his sister's
complaints.
(Scene Shift)
Zan and Ava wed. Zan is crowned King and a new threat has presented
itself in Khivar. Count Nicholas, who has returned to Antar, has brought a
message: Khivar would like to arrange a meeting with the new king.
Zan is hesitant, there have been rumors in the outer systems that Khivar
is ruthless and will stop at nothing to gain as much power as possible.
As a mollifying gesture, Zan invites Khivar to Rath and Vilondra's wedding.
Khivar lays eyes on Princess Vilondra for the first time and is stunned by
her beauty. Vilondra, has no time for this man. She is happy with her
husband.
Count Nicholas makes another play for Serena. This time she is forced to
oblige at least a dance as Rath is busy and cannot rescue her.
(Scene Shift)
Queen Ava notices Nicholas' attraction to Serena and works to use that to
her advantage. "So you see Senator, I think Nicholas would be a
perfect candidate for Serena. He is quite sought after and would well
provide for your daughter."
"My dear Queen, I do not know if my daughter has expressed an interest
in Count Nicholas. Truthfully, she spends most of her hours with the
Princess and Lord Rath, that we rarely see her."
"Yes, she does seem to be in the company of Vilondra and Rath quite a
bit. In fact I cannot seem to recall the last time I saw Rath without Serena
by his side.”
“My Queen, if you wish me to speak to my daughter about spending less
time with the Princess and her new husband I will honor your wishes of
course, but please give her time. She does not know a world without the
King, Princess and Lord Rath. Since they were small children they have
been so close, and now with her military training under Lord Rath, well, I
fear an immediate separation will be difficult for her.”
“Of course, Senator. And as you know Serena is very important to the
Royal family and nothing would make us more pleased than to see
Serena experience the same joy that we have experienced. We wish for
her to marry and start a new life that we may share in as she has shared
in our happiness.”
"And you think that Count Nicholas is the answer to my daughter’s
happiness?"
"I do."
"Thank you my Queen, I shall keep it under advisement."
(Scene Shift)
"She planted that seed in his mind. She made my father believe that
Count Nicholas is the perfect mate for me."
"Serena we'll work this out. Zan will talk to your father." Vilondra
placated.
"I doubt it will matter. The Senator seems pretty set on this." Rath
noted.
"I'll refuse."
"Serena."
"I won't do it Vilondra. I cannot marry someone I don't love, please do
not ask me to do so. You've seen how Nicholas is with the servants. I can
not imagine that his treatment of a wife would be any different, and he's
close to Khivar, that is not someone I trust. "
"You can take asylum here."
Vilondra and Serena turned to face Rath.
"What?"
"It's the only way Lonnie. We can keep her away from him."
"My father would never agree to that."
"He will if the King commands it." Zan proclaimed from the doorway.
"Za…Your Highness!
Zan crosses to Serena and takes her hands in his.
"Serena, If this marriage is not what you desire, you will take asylum
in the palace"
"I cannot ask you to intercede, you have more pressing matters to
concern yourself with than my marital status."
"You are not asking, I am offering, and you are accepting."
(Scene Shift)
"Serena has accepted asylum at the palace." Zan explained to
Sera’s father, Khivar, and Nicholas.
"Asylum? From her betrothed? Why would she require asylum."
"The King need not explain himself to you." Rath spat at Nicholas.
"Your Highness, Count Nicholas is one of my most trusted advisors, I
assure you that he will make Serena an excellent husband."
"That is not the issue Khivar. The issue is Serena does not wish to marry
him."
"Then she is going against her father's wishes. On our planet, that is
grounds for death." Khivar noted.
"We're not on your planet." Zan warned with fire in his eyes.
(Scene Shift)
The negotiations between Khivar and Zan have reached an impasse and
Khivar threatens an attack. In the meantime, Serena discovers Khivar
and Ava's affair, (Yep, AVA, not Vilondra.) and confides in Rath, who in
turn reports to Zan. Zan dismisses Rath and Serena’s claims, refusing to
believe his wife would betray him. Khivar makes repeated plays for
Vilondra who rejects him every time. This is the last straw for Khivar, he
begins attacks on Antar. During the first attacks, Vilondra is killed and
Serena is captured by Nicholas' guards Rath learns where she is being
held and rescues his friend. However, before they can make their escape,
Nicholas discovers them and kills Rath. Serena’s rage at the murder of
her two closest friends is unleashed on Nicholas, she kills him and makes
her way to court to beg Zan and his parents for forgiveness. As they plan
for the next attack Serena proposes the idea of cloning the royals. "I
couldn't save Vilondra or Rath now, but you have my promise that in their
next life I will protect them with my own."
They agree but assist on Ava being cloned as well. With neither Rath nor
Vilondra to support her dislike of the Queen, Serena has no choice but to
assent to their request. More fall as Sera works on the project, the High
King, Sera’s father and finally Zan in the last attack. Upon his death,
Serena prepares to send the pods to Earth. Fearful that her work may
have been discovered she sends two sets: One to Roswell with Nasedo- a
representative from Ava's planet, a guard from the palace to watch over
Zan, Vilondra and Rath, and her own clone to fulfill her promise to the
High King and Queen. The decoys to New York, where she hopes that
should anyone go looking for them, they will find the dupes and not the
true Royals. When Khivar enters the chamber and discovers what she's
done, he takes great delight in murdering Serena.
Once the images ended, All the girls were teary while Max and Michael
looked stunned.
"So that's how it really happened," Iz was the first to speak.
"She said it was me."
"What?" Michael asked.
"Whittaker, when she kidnapped Tess. She said it was me. I was the
one who betrayed you with Khivar."
"Not according to this." Maria said looking at her friend.
"Why didn't we know this before." Max asked wheeling on River
Dog. "You said there was nothing more you could tell us. That there
was nothing left to learn. Don't you think you left out a big part of the
story?"
"I told you what I promised Nasedo I'd tell you." River Dog explained.
"Sera?" Liz took in the frightened and devastated look on her
friend's face.
"This is, how do you.."
"Sera, I know its a lot..."
"No, Liz you can't know. It's bad enough to find out that I'm an alien who
crash-landed in 1947, but now I'm told I've been alive before that I killed
people…its just too unreal. How do you handle this?"
"Day by day." Max replied.
"Its going to take a lot of days for me."
Sera turned to River Dog. "You gave me to my parents and for that I
will be forever grateful."
"Your father was special to me. He was my son."
Additional tears welled in Sera's eyes; she closed the gap between her
and the old Indian and threw her arms around him. River Dog returned
the embrace and pulled back to gaze at his grandchild.
"Max is right. You should have told us she was out there." Michael
admonished.
"By the time I knew I could trust you, my son was dead and his wife
and daughter knew nothing of the circumstances that brought them
together. I would not be the cause of more grief for them."
"My mother doesn't know?"
"She believes that you were found on the reservation and the elders
knew your proper home was with them. In many ways this is true."
"So she has no idea of the powers, the other life stuff. Any of it."
"No, only your father, I thought it important for him to be aware in case
Nasedo ever found you."
"You said Nasedo was your friend. Why would you hide Sera from him?
Did you know something?" Michael asked.
"Atherton had discovered something in the caves, He had noticed
Nasedo's strange behavior of late and came to me, rather than trust
Nasedo. I followed Atherton to the location, that was when I found Serena
in her encasement. I hid her on the reservation."
"You took her to keep her safe." Liz said.
River Dog nodded, "I believe Atherton was killed because Nasedo
suspected he was hiding Serena."
"Someone was murdered because of me?" Sera asked, glancing from
her friends to River Dog.
"I am not certain that is the reason, but that's what I suspect."
"I have to get out of here."
"Sera."
"Maria, this is just too much to take in, I need a break."
"Sera, we need..."
"Max please, can we talk about this tomorrow. I'm just having a real hard
time accepting all this."
"OK. We'll talk later this week, I don't think I need to tell you."
"I know. Don't say anything to anyone."
Sera hugged River Dog once more.
"Can I come back and see you."
"Only when it is safe. The others will guide you." Sera nodded and
exited the cave.
The Pod Squad and company nodded to River Dog and followed Sera
outside. "Sera if you need to talk."
"Thanks Liz."
As Sera drove away Michael turned to his best friend.
"I still don't trust her Maxwell."
"You saw what we saw Michael. We have to try."
"I just don't want a repeat of last year."
Max turned to the group and addressed them as a whole, "That's not
going to happen. I promise."
END CHAPTER
Title: Starting Over
Author: LizabethR2D2
Disclaimer: As much as I wish I owned these characters/this show I do not! They belong to Melinda Metz, Jason Katims, the WB and UPN networks and the amazing actors who portrayed them! I guess I do own Sera, but I’d be willing to trade her for Colin or Nick!!!
Category: CC
Rating: Adult (It will vary chapter to chapter, but let’s just be safe and say Adult to cover all our bases!)
Summary: Alternate Season 3-Picking up a few weeks after the WB Season 2 Finale. This is the Season 3 that I would have liked to see televised, our CCs are together, no one is going to a Vermont boarding school, no one moves to NYC and no one marries Delko! Just good old fashioned Season 1 type entertainment. (At least I like to think so!)
Author’s Note:
Yes, I shamelessly stole the title from Season One, but it fit and I like it a lot better than my original title of "Saturday"!!.
The Morning After
Sera followed everyone to Michael's apartment after their shift ended at
the Crashdown. They trundled inside and stared at each other for several
minutes.
"Are we waiting for Isabel?" Maria said the only thing she could
think of to start conversation.
"No, she's not coming." Max said quickly
Maria frowned "Did you..."
"She didn't want to come."
Sera sighed at Max's inference. Isabel wasn't coming because she
couldn't bear to be around Serena and her new found alien status.
"I've been thinking about this all night." Max said. "I think the
easiest way to find out what we need to know is to reverse the
connection, see what she knows."
"My objection stands." Michael said looking at his best friend.
"Michael this is the best way to know."
Max expected him to say more, but Michael just adopted the 'second in
command' face and stared straight through Max.
"I want to see." Maria's voice brought everyone's attention back to
the situation.
"What?" Max asked her
"What!?" Michael asked the same question but with a decidedly
harsher tone.
"I want to see for myself that she's on the level."
"NO!" Michael stated firmly.
"Michael…"
"No Maria!"
"Look Michael, This is something I'm going to do with or without your
permission, which I don't need by the way!"
Michael took in the defiant look on his girlfriend's face and realized he
was fighting a losing battle. He turned his attention toward Sera.
"If you do anything to her, I will kill you; and I promise it will be slow,
painful and involve more kinds of torture than you can possibly imagine.
You got that?"
Sera nodded, having no doubt that Michael was completely serious.
With that out of the way, Liz, Maria and Max clasped hands. Max laid his
palm against Sera's face as he had done last night.
"Show us what you remember about your life."
Soon the quartet was zipping through the images of Sera's life.
Her earliest memory involved a man turning Sera over to a couple, the
group recognized the woman as Nicole.
They saw her first day of grade school, making friends slowly, being
scared of being the new girl.
Images of junior high and high school were next. Dating boys, making the
cheerleading squad, then the day her father died and she discovered her
powers. When the images shifted to Sera's few months in Roswell,
everyone noticed a change in her aura the minute she met Kyle. It
radiates around her even in their vision. They could feel her attraction
towards him and her willingness to let him in, something she hadn't done
since her father died. The feeling grew when she became friends with the
others. Max, Liz and Maria felt nothing but genuine feelings, no alien
nonsense, no hidden agenda, as Isabel called it.
They watched the scene at Amy's shop unfold. Sera's surprise at her
ability, her shock when the man she and Michael blasted together
exploded. The fear she felt when everyone confronted her, her pain at
Kyle's words. After the slideshow was over, Max broke the connection and
regarded Sera for a moment.
"How do you know River Dog?"
"River Dog?!" Michael asked, confused.
"Who's River Dog?" Sera asked, equally confused.
"The old man, who gave you to your parents. We know him."
"I don't remember. My parents told me I was found on a reservation and
given to them by the elders."
"Your father was a Mesaliko Indian." It was a statement more than a
question.
"Yes."
"Maxwell, that means." Michael began.
"That means that Sera was found on the reservation here."
Michael looked at the group, "How about we pay River Dog a little
visit?"
******************
Mesaliko Reservation
Liz stepped out of the SUV and walked toward woman seated on the
porch of the trader's post.
"Hi, um I'm looking for River Dog."
"You again?" a voice called from her left.
Liz spun towards the voice.
"Eddie! Hey. Hi. Um."
"Looking for River Dog?"
"Yeah, I, uh I have some questions," She stopped as everyone exited
the Jeep and SUV, "Actually we all have some questions for him."
"I'll take you to him."
Everyone moved to follow and Eddie shook his head. "Again, just you."
"This involves all of us." Max said moving protectively towards Liz.
"No, you know Max, it will be OK. I'll go, I'll explain what's happened,
and he'll see all of us."
Max looked torn for a moment, looking from Liz to Eddie and finally to
Michael who nodded quickly.
"OK." He reached out and squeezed her hand.
Liz returned twenty minutes later with River Dog. He nodded to each
member of the group, his eyes lingering on Serena.
"You do not remember me."
She shook her head.
"Come, I will explain everything."
The gang followed River Dog to the caves, the silence as they trekked
through the woods was grating on Michael's patience, "You knew there
was another alien out there and you never told us?"
"It was not time for you to know."
"What the hell does that mean? You told us about everything else, what
made this different?"
"You have been mislead."
"Mislead?" Max asked, looking directly at Sera.
"You have been told that Nasedo was sent to protect you. That is false.
Nasedo was not your protector. He was to look after the one left behind."
"Tess." Liz choked out the name.
“Nasedo's loyalty was pledged to her, your well-being was not his
concern."
"There were two."
Everyone turned to face Michael.
"What?"
"There were two. Two older aliens. Nasedo and another. Hal, Hal
Carver told me that there were two in the crash."
“The other, was your protector." River Dog explained. "The one
they captured, he was to watch over you."
"I don't understand what that means. Why did we need protectors? And
why aren't they here with us?" Sera asked, looking from River Dog to
the Pod Squad.
"Our details are pretty sketchy. We know we were in the '47 crash and
we know that we were sent here with a man, Nasedo, who was supposed
to protect us, but as you saw last night, he betrayed us."
Sera turned to look at River Dog. "But you said that this Nasedo wasn't
our protector. That he wasn't sent here for us."
"No. There is something you should see, to help explain."
River Dog reached into an alcove inside the cave and produced an orb. It
was similar to the one summoned the vision of Max and Isabel's mother.
He held it out to Sera, who tentatively accepted it. The minute the cool
metal slipped into her hands it sparked to life. A white light surrounded
the figure that appeared. (I see Anthony Geary from General Hospital as
Max and Iz's Anterian father. It was either him or Parker Stevenson, and
not many people would understand why that's funny, So its Luke and
Laura as the 'rents.)
"Serena, daughter of my most trusted advisor. You have been sent to
earth to continue your sworn duty, to protect King Zan and Princess
Vilondra. My children. As you lived before, you were essential in our
planet's fight for survival. Join hands with my children and your past will
be revealed."
Max immediately reached for Sera's hand. She took her eyes off the
image long enough to accept his outstretched hand. They waited for
something, anything. Finally Liz's voice broke the silence.
"Max, I think you need both you and Isabel for it to work."
“Getting Isabel to trust Sera won't be easy."
"She doesn't have to trust me, she just needs to trust you. She'll know."
"Don't tell us how Isabel will feel. You lost that right around eight o'clock
last night." Michael cut her off.
"I'm sorry, that's not what I meant, I just think if you tell her its
important, she'll show."
"Well you don't know my sister when she sets her mind against
something." Max cautioned.
"OK look, none of this is helping, we can't know anything until we
contact Isabel." Maria reasoned, reaching into her purse for her cell
phone.
"God, I can’t get service in here. Come on.” Maria dragged Michael
out of the cave she held her phone above her head and danced around
until she got reception bars and dialed Isabel’s number. “Isabel, it's
Maria. Wait, Isabel. Please don't hang up. We need…"
Maria was cut off as Michael took the cell phone from her.
"Come to the reservation, no, now! We're with River Dog. No, Iz it's
important that you get here.” he sighed heavily and said a word Maria
wasn’t sure he was capable of uttering, “Please. Ok we’ll see you in a
few." Michael glanced at the phone for a moment, before scowling at
it and handing it back to Maria who punched the off button.
*************
Isabel arrived in short order, Eddie beckoned her to follow him. They
traversed through the woods silently. Reaching the clearing of the caves,
Eddie nodded toward the entrance before turning away. Iz sighed heavily
and stepped inside.
"Thanks for coming Iz." Max said, as his sister entered the cave.
"Well I knew Michael had to be desperate to say please."
Michael tossed a look in Iz's direction, but remained silent.
Max explained what had transpired before Isabel's arrival.
"God, How many other family members are going to pop out of these
things." Iz quipped, pointing at the orb in Sera's hands.
"Should we try again?" Sera asked tentatively.
Max nodded and placed one hand under Sera's as she held the orb. His
other hand reached for Isabel, who looked at him for a moment before
placing her hand in his.
The orb sprung to life again. Their father returned and Max heard Isabel's
gasp as she laid eyes on him. "My children, the following is your story.
Soon the cave was filled with images of a beautiful planet and majestic
castle before the scene shifted to reveal four children playing a game.
"Vilondra, I believe your brother is cheating."
"I am the future king, Serena. I never cheat."
"Indeed?"
"As you will be my second in command, Rath perhaps you should remain
in concurrence with your leader."
Rath looked at Serena and howled with laughter.
(Scene Shift)
Now teenagers, Vilondra and Serena are discussing a party.
"Larek said this girl was just standing on Dimaras Rock, watching Zan
swim. You fail to find that odd?"
"I think this girl was probably taken in by your brother, most women are.
In case you have neglected to noticed, half the kingdom is attracted to
Zan."
"And that includes you." Vilondra teased knowingly.
"Perhaps, but we both know, that Zan will forever think of me as his
annoying little sister.”
“Serena, while it’s true that my brother sees you as his little sister, he
does not find you annoying.”
Serena snorted in disbelief and Vilondra raised an eyebrow at her.
“Why are you spending time mooning after my oblivious brother when
you have the rest of the system chasing you about?”
“Lonnie, the reason I’m “chased about” as you so delicately put it, is that
most of those poor misguided fools believe that I’m the way to you.
Unlike me, they have never seen the way you look at Rath!” Serena
said with a mischievous grin.
“You had better not be saying such things to Rath during your training
sessions Serena!”
“I’m sorry Princess, those discussions are between me and Rath.”
"Just for that, perhaps we’ll arrange an extra dance tonight between
you and Count Nicolas.”
Vilondra ducked Serena as threw a dress in her direction.
(Scene Shift)
At the party Larek introduces Ava and Zan, the attraction is obvious.
Rath steps in front of Serena and offers his hand.
"Care to dance?"
"Did Vilondra send you over here to make sure I'm not moping?"
"No, I came of my own free will. And to spirit you away before Count
Nicholas has a chance to ask you to dance with him."
Serena looked over her shoulder and sighed. "He's been following me
all night."
"You could agree to one dance."
"One? Lonnie threatened me with a full dance card earlier.”
“Maybe she’s feeling festive.”
Rath glanced at her sideways when she muttered “Yeah, I’ll bet she
is!” under her breath.
“Besides, one dance might change your opinion of him.”
“Only if he puts a Molonte blaster to my head."
"You don't think that's a bit harsh, he doesn't seem so bad."
As they glance to Nicholas, he is fuming at a servant who has presented
him with too weak a drink.
Rath threw a look to Serena. "On second thought, you were right."
"As always."
Rath shook his head before leading her to the dance floor.
(Scene Shift)
Sometime after the party, Vilondra and Ava are in the gardens talking.
Rath, Zan and Serena enter the gardens, Serena brought a beverage to
Vilondra and sat beside the princess.
"Serena, when you've finished with your duties here. You'll need to
turn down my bed. I like my sleeping quarters to be fully prepared when
I am ready to retire."
Vilondra fought the urge to toss her drink in Ava's face, but Zan
interceded. "Ava, Serena is not a servant. She's our friend, one that
should be treated as a member of this family."
"But she is not of royal blood." Ava protested.
"No, but she is as close as a sister to all of us and therefore you will
NEVER again ask her to do your bidding." Vilondra warned with an icy
tone.
(Scene Shift)
Ava and Zan's engagement is announced. Vilondra makes no effort to
hide her displeasure to her bother. Zan, who is now preparing for not only
his wedding, but also his coronation, has no time to hear his sister's
complaints.
(Scene Shift)
Zan and Ava wed. Zan is crowned King and a new threat has presented
itself in Khivar. Count Nicholas, who has returned to Antar, has brought a
message: Khivar would like to arrange a meeting with the new king.
Zan is hesitant, there have been rumors in the outer systems that Khivar
is ruthless and will stop at nothing to gain as much power as possible.
As a mollifying gesture, Zan invites Khivar to Rath and Vilondra's wedding.
Khivar lays eyes on Princess Vilondra for the first time and is stunned by
her beauty. Vilondra, has no time for this man. She is happy with her
husband.
Count Nicholas makes another play for Serena. This time she is forced to
oblige at least a dance as Rath is busy and cannot rescue her.
(Scene Shift)
Queen Ava notices Nicholas' attraction to Serena and works to use that to
her advantage. "So you see Senator, I think Nicholas would be a
perfect candidate for Serena. He is quite sought after and would well
provide for your daughter."
"My dear Queen, I do not know if my daughter has expressed an interest
in Count Nicholas. Truthfully, she spends most of her hours with the
Princess and Lord Rath, that we rarely see her."
"Yes, she does seem to be in the company of Vilondra and Rath quite a
bit. In fact I cannot seem to recall the last time I saw Rath without Serena
by his side.”
“My Queen, if you wish me to speak to my daughter about spending less
time with the Princess and her new husband I will honor your wishes of
course, but please give her time. She does not know a world without the
King, Princess and Lord Rath. Since they were small children they have
been so close, and now with her military training under Lord Rath, well, I
fear an immediate separation will be difficult for her.”
“Of course, Senator. And as you know Serena is very important to the
Royal family and nothing would make us more pleased than to see
Serena experience the same joy that we have experienced. We wish for
her to marry and start a new life that we may share in as she has shared
in our happiness.”
"And you think that Count Nicholas is the answer to my daughter’s
happiness?"
"I do."
"Thank you my Queen, I shall keep it under advisement."
(Scene Shift)
"She planted that seed in his mind. She made my father believe that
Count Nicholas is the perfect mate for me."
"Serena we'll work this out. Zan will talk to your father." Vilondra
placated.
"I doubt it will matter. The Senator seems pretty set on this." Rath
noted.
"I'll refuse."
"Serena."
"I won't do it Vilondra. I cannot marry someone I don't love, please do
not ask me to do so. You've seen how Nicholas is with the servants. I can
not imagine that his treatment of a wife would be any different, and he's
close to Khivar, that is not someone I trust. "
"You can take asylum here."
Vilondra and Serena turned to face Rath.
"What?"
"It's the only way Lonnie. We can keep her away from him."
"My father would never agree to that."
"He will if the King commands it." Zan proclaimed from the doorway.
"Za…Your Highness!
Zan crosses to Serena and takes her hands in his.
"Serena, If this marriage is not what you desire, you will take asylum
in the palace"
"I cannot ask you to intercede, you have more pressing matters to
concern yourself with than my marital status."
"You are not asking, I am offering, and you are accepting."
(Scene Shift)
"Serena has accepted asylum at the palace." Zan explained to
Sera’s father, Khivar, and Nicholas.
"Asylum? From her betrothed? Why would she require asylum."
"The King need not explain himself to you." Rath spat at Nicholas.
"Your Highness, Count Nicholas is one of my most trusted advisors, I
assure you that he will make Serena an excellent husband."
"That is not the issue Khivar. The issue is Serena does not wish to marry
him."
"Then she is going against her father's wishes. On our planet, that is
grounds for death." Khivar noted.
"We're not on your planet." Zan warned with fire in his eyes.
(Scene Shift)
The negotiations between Khivar and Zan have reached an impasse and
Khivar threatens an attack. In the meantime, Serena discovers Khivar
and Ava's affair, (Yep, AVA, not Vilondra.) and confides in Rath, who in
turn reports to Zan. Zan dismisses Rath and Serena’s claims, refusing to
believe his wife would betray him. Khivar makes repeated plays for
Vilondra who rejects him every time. This is the last straw for Khivar, he
begins attacks on Antar. During the first attacks, Vilondra is killed and
Serena is captured by Nicholas' guards Rath learns where she is being
held and rescues his friend. However, before they can make their escape,
Nicholas discovers them and kills Rath. Serena’s rage at the murder of
her two closest friends is unleashed on Nicholas, she kills him and makes
her way to court to beg Zan and his parents for forgiveness. As they plan
for the next attack Serena proposes the idea of cloning the royals. "I
couldn't save Vilondra or Rath now, but you have my promise that in their
next life I will protect them with my own."
They agree but assist on Ava being cloned as well. With neither Rath nor
Vilondra to support her dislike of the Queen, Serena has no choice but to
assent to their request. More fall as Sera works on the project, the High
King, Sera’s father and finally Zan in the last attack. Upon his death,
Serena prepares to send the pods to Earth. Fearful that her work may
have been discovered she sends two sets: One to Roswell with Nasedo- a
representative from Ava's planet, a guard from the palace to watch over
Zan, Vilondra and Rath, and her own clone to fulfill her promise to the
High King and Queen. The decoys to New York, where she hopes that
should anyone go looking for them, they will find the dupes and not the
true Royals. When Khivar enters the chamber and discovers what she's
done, he takes great delight in murdering Serena.
Once the images ended, All the girls were teary while Max and Michael
looked stunned.
"So that's how it really happened," Iz was the first to speak.
"She said it was me."
"What?" Michael asked.
"Whittaker, when she kidnapped Tess. She said it was me. I was the
one who betrayed you with Khivar."
"Not according to this." Maria said looking at her friend.
"Why didn't we know this before." Max asked wheeling on River
Dog. "You said there was nothing more you could tell us. That there
was nothing left to learn. Don't you think you left out a big part of the
story?"
"I told you what I promised Nasedo I'd tell you." River Dog explained.
"Sera?" Liz took in the frightened and devastated look on her
friend's face.
"This is, how do you.."
"Sera, I know its a lot..."
"No, Liz you can't know. It's bad enough to find out that I'm an alien who
crash-landed in 1947, but now I'm told I've been alive before that I killed
people…its just too unreal. How do you handle this?"
"Day by day." Max replied.
"Its going to take a lot of days for me."
Sera turned to River Dog. "You gave me to my parents and for that I
will be forever grateful."
"Your father was special to me. He was my son."
Additional tears welled in Sera's eyes; she closed the gap between her
and the old Indian and threw her arms around him. River Dog returned
the embrace and pulled back to gaze at his grandchild.
"Max is right. You should have told us she was out there." Michael
admonished.
"By the time I knew I could trust you, my son was dead and his wife
and daughter knew nothing of the circumstances that brought them
together. I would not be the cause of more grief for them."
"My mother doesn't know?"
"She believes that you were found on the reservation and the elders
knew your proper home was with them. In many ways this is true."
"So she has no idea of the powers, the other life stuff. Any of it."
"No, only your father, I thought it important for him to be aware in case
Nasedo ever found you."
"You said Nasedo was your friend. Why would you hide Sera from him?
Did you know something?" Michael asked.
"Atherton had discovered something in the caves, He had noticed
Nasedo's strange behavior of late and came to me, rather than trust
Nasedo. I followed Atherton to the location, that was when I found Serena
in her encasement. I hid her on the reservation."
"You took her to keep her safe." Liz said.
River Dog nodded, "I believe Atherton was killed because Nasedo
suspected he was hiding Serena."
"Someone was murdered because of me?" Sera asked, glancing from
her friends to River Dog.
"I am not certain that is the reason, but that's what I suspect."
"I have to get out of here."
"Sera."
"Maria, this is just too much to take in, I need a break."
"Sera, we need..."
"Max please, can we talk about this tomorrow. I'm just having a real hard
time accepting all this."
"OK. We'll talk later this week, I don't think I need to tell you."
"I know. Don't say anything to anyone."
Sera hugged River Dog once more.
"Can I come back and see you."
"Only when it is safe. The others will guide you." Sera nodded and
exited the cave.
The Pod Squad and company nodded to River Dog and followed Sera
outside. "Sera if you need to talk."
"Thanks Liz."
As Sera drove away Michael turned to his best friend.
"I still don't trust her Maxwell."
"You saw what we saw Michael. We have to try."
"I just don't want a repeat of last year."
Max turned to the group and addressed them as a whole, "That's not
going to happen. I promise."
END CHAPTER
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Starting Over (CC, All, Adult) Part 14-Aftermath-Update 3/23
Title: Starting Over
Author: LizabethR2D2
Disclaimer: As much as I wish I owned these characters/this show I do not! They belong to Melinda Metz, Jason Katims, the WB and UPN networks and the amazing actors who portrayed them! I guess I do own Sera, but I’d be willing to trade her for Colin Hanks.
Category: CC
Rating: Adult (It will vary chapter to chapter, but let’s just be safe and say Adult to cover all our bases!)
Summary: Alternate Season 3-Picking up a few weeks after the WB Season 2 Finale. This is the Season 3 that I would have liked to see televised, our CCs are together, no one is going to a Vermont boarding school, no one moves to NYC and no one marries Delko! Just good old fashioned Season 1 type entertainment. (At least I like to think so!)
Thanks to everyone who reveiwed! Sorry I've been so lax in posting guys. I promise to get better about that! I always appreciate input.
I have so much of this story/season written (and a great deal of a fourth season) but I'm constantly editing so your input is so very helpful! Thanks again! Welcome chanks_girl, can I come watch tv with you Iz and Alex?
AFTERMATH
Sera pulled the Pathfinder into the parking lot at school. Grabbing her bag she started in when she noticed Kyle's Mustang pull in the lot. Her first instinct was to run to him, as she always did on the days they drove to school separately. She checked herself when the events of the weekend
came rocketing back to her. Their eyes met as he exited the car, He set his jaw and looked away from her. Sera dropped her head and turned toward the school.
"Ouch! That was harsh." Pam's voice sounded behind Sera.
"What do you want Pam?" Serena asked without turning around.
“Well, I was really just curious about your break-up… did the mystique of being the new girl finally wear off and he got bored? Or was it your lack of experience in the bedroom?” Sera clenched her fists, but Pam continued her verbal barrage undeterred. “Well, what ever you did that made Kyle finally dump you, you couldn't have picked a better time. Rachel's party is next weekend and now I have the perfect date."
Sera finally turned to face Pam. "You just can't wait to make an ill-fated pass at him can you?"
"Jealous?" Pam sneered.
"Of you? Are you kidding?"
"Just know this Sera, I've wanted Kyle for awhile now, and I'm going to make the most of this opportunity. So while you're sitting at home ALONE Saturday night, I'll have Kyle all to myself. Thank God the Forrester's are going out of town, their king- sized waterbed will be the perfect playground for me and your FORMER boyfriend."
Sera fought the urge to slap the sneer right off Pam's face.
Probably not a good idea, my luck, one wave of my hand and she'd be a dust pile. Explaining that to Principal Forrester would be fun.
Taking a deep breath, Sera was about to tell Pam where she could go when she heard Kayla's voice. "Hey girls. Listen Pam I heard they're having auditions for Jerry Springer in the auditorium. I think the topic is annoying teenage tramps, I couldn't help but think of you."
She twisted her pretty features into a cruel smile before putting an arm around Sera's shoulders "Come on Sera, let's get out of here."
Once inside, Sera leaned her head against Kayla's shoulder. "Thank you! I was feeling an incredible urge to hit her and I think that would have been pretty bad."
"Hey. No one messes with my friend. But I'm sorry I stopped you that would have been sweet!" Kayla pulled Sera closer to her. "So, why didn't you call me?"
"Oh Kayla, I was just...wait how did you know? How does anyone know?"
"Honey, the high school rumor mill works in mysterious ways. Everyone knows! Sorry. Look, I just want you to know that I'm here. If you ever need me for anything."
Sera wrapped her arms around her friend. "Thank you!"
"Hey what are roomies for?"Sera smiled her first genuine smile in three days.
****************************
Kyle entered Spanish class and headed to his seat.
Liz gave him a half smile. "Hey."
"Hey." He didn't look at her.
"You OK?"
"Why wouldn't I be?"
"Well, I left you messages, but..."
"Yeah I was a little busy, Its not everyday you find out your girlfriend is a freaking ET."
"Kyle."
"What! You want me to sugar coat it Liz, we're way beyond that."
"No, I'm, I'm just worried about you."
"Well don't I'm fine."
"Kyle."
“I'm fine Liz. I don't want to talk about it anymore."
Liz opened her mouth to say something but quickly closed it when Kyle finally looked at her. The circles under his eyes and the hurt expression on his face broke her heart. She grabbed his hand and gave it a squeeze, pleased that he didn't pull away.
*****************************
Maria sat next to Sera and glanced sideways at her. Neither girl spoke for a moment, each unsure what to say. Finally Sera mustered her courage. "Hey."
"Hey."
They both quickly looked away as they realized that they had nothing more to say.
*****************************
Sera left Drama in a separate direction from Maria. She took the long way around and came up the back staircase. Max and Liz were walking into English just as she arrived at the door. Sera dropped her head and waited for them to enter.
"What? Are you going to ignore us all day?"
Sera's head snapped up at the sound of Liz's voice.
"I...um no."
"Sera. I meant what I said Saturday. I'm here if you want to talk, and I'm still your friend."
Sera's eyes misted over as she looked at the petite brunette.
"Thank you."
"Come on. If we're lucky Mr. York will forget about the quiz on The Iliad."
"We can dream right?"
The girls smiled at each other as they entered the classroom.
*****************************
After English, Max walked Sera and Liz to Calculus. He kissed Liz and nodded at Sera before meeting Maria at the end of the hall. Pam and her cronies were already in the classroom and snickered when the girls entered.
"Think they could be a bit more childish?" Liz asked, turning to face Sera.
"She jumped on me first thing this morning and delighted in telling me she was going to snap Kyle up ASAP."
"Ugh! She's a real piece of work isn't she?"
"Do you really think...I mean would he, never mind."
As they reached their seats, Liz placed her hand on Sera's shoulder.
“He’ll come around Sera, you'd be amazed at how easily we can forgive people we care about."
*****************************
Physics class passed with little event. Tonya, on strict orders from Kayla, made sure that Sera had no time to dwell on Kyle. She made goofy faces as they worked on their experiments and kept telling bad jokes that elicited groans, not only from Sera, but Max and Liz as well. *****************************
Downstairs, Kyle sat in silence with Maria and Michael as Mr. Kulick ticked off the contents of the following week's quiz.
Maria had attempted to engage Kyle in conversation, to no avail. He'd offered the occasional grunt to her overtures.
"Please talk to me."
*Grunt*
"Kyle."
*Silence*
"Kyle James Valenti, I am your almost-sister and you will talk to me right now or I will use my Amy voice on you." Maria hissed loud enough for Kyle to hear, but quiet enough that the rest of the class could not.
"Maria, I just don't feel like chatting. Can't I just wallow?"
"No, you're aren't properly equipped to wallow. Lizzie isn't here, there is no sad music, and most importantly there's no ice cream. How can you wallow without ice cream?"
Kyle wasn't sure if it was her words or the completely serious expression on her face that caused him to laugh more.
*****************************
Sera chose to sit with Kayla, Tonya and Rachel during lunch. She spent a better part of the half-hour sneaking glances at Kyle, who was sandwiched between Liz and Maria.
"You know he doesn't look real happy about this breakup either." Kayla said as she picked up Sera's empty VitaminWater bottle and tossed it in the garbage.
"It was the right thing."
"How can you say that when both of you are so miserable."
"It's complicated. But for now, as much as it hurts, I think Kyle was right to pull away."
Kayla shook her head and tossed a look at Tonya as if to say 'They're both crazy!'
*****************************
Study Hall was a lesson in uncomfortable. Since there was a seating chart, Max, Kyle and Sera were together in the back of the room. None of them had spoken since they took their seats. Max gave each of them a curt nod, before busying himself in his Trig homework. Kyle stuck his nose
in his Spanish book and Sera grabbed the INSTYLE magazine from her bag and opened it to the feature on Kate Hudson.
Sera didn't react the first time Max called her name, and she jumped slightly when he repeated it and touched her shoulder to attract her attention.
"God! Sorry Max, I got distracted."
"Its OK, Sorry I scared you. Seating Chart?"
Sera looked down and noticed Max holding the seating chart out for her to sign.
"Thanks."
She took it and jotted her name in the appropriate spot, then hesitantly held it toward Kyle. He was too engrossed in his Spanish text. She looked at Max for a moment. He took the hint and plucked the paper from her grasp.
"Kyle." Max said, placing the chart on his desk.
Kyle grunted and quickly scribbled his name on the chart before passing it to the front of the room.
*****************************
Kyle left the classroom first. Sera took her time gathering her things so he could get up the stairs and into Government before she did. Max hesitated at the door, watching her slow progress.
"There's a seating chart in Government too, avoiding him in the hall is kind of pointless don't you think?"
Sera finished loading her bag and popped it on her shoulder. "The less contact we have the better it will be. For him at least. It's killing me." She smiled sadly and walked past Max into the hall.
"He just needs to take a step back from it all, not everyone can readily accept this new development like Liz."
"I know. And she, you, all of you have accepted more than I would have thought possible given your history."
Max nodded but remained silent.
"I can issue a thousand apologies to all of you and beg for forgiveness until I'm blue in the face, but the only thing that's going to make you trust me, or even be comfortable around me again is time. And as much as it pains me to be distanced from Kyle and Maria and all of you, I understand why its necessary."
They had reached their classroom, Max nodded Sera in ahead of him, as she passed he lightly squeezed her shoulder. Serena took a deep breath and offered a weak smile at his gesture.
*****************************
When the bell rang for seventh period Sera waved a quick goodbye to the group and bolted for the stairs. Kayla, Tonya and Rachel were waiting at the gym entrance for her. She threw the best smile she could muster on her face and walked into the gym with them. Pam entered not to far behind them and snickered loudly to Amber. Before she could open her mouth Kayla spun on her heel and issued her a threatening look. Pam rolled her eyes but pushed past the trio without a word. The girls dressed quickly and made their way to the football field to practice.
Cheering was a way for Serena to work out her frustrations. Her movements were performed with sharp precision. Ms. Cannon pulled her to the front of the line. "Watch Sera's kicks here. She's nailed it. Pam, legs up!"
"That's usually not a problem!" Kayla snarked.
Sera's concentration broke for a split second as she smirked at Kayla's comment.
"Kayla! Take a lap around the field." Ms. Cannon was not sporting a happy expression.
"The truth hurts!" Kayla said taking off winking at Sera as she began to run.
"Make it two." Ms. Cannon yelled at her retreating back.
After practice Sera changed into her uniform, waved goodbye to her friends and headed for the parking lot. She made it to the Crashdown in short order and entered through the kitchen.
"Hey." she called to Michael. He turned from the grill momentarily and nodded slightly to acknowledge her presence. It's a start! Sera thought grabbing an order pad and heading out to the front.
"How was practice?" Liz asked filling a glass with soda.
"Pretty good. We had a little excitement, Ms. Cannon made Kayla take two laps around the track for what she called "derogatory remarks."
"About Pam?" Maria asked joining the conversation.
Sera smiled, pleased at Maria presence. "Yeah, When Ms. Cannon said Pam should get her legs up, Kayla said 'That's not usually a problem.' and for that she got two laps. Well, for that she got one lap, when she said
'The truth hurts.' is when she got the second lap."
"You're kidding!" Liz said, filling a second glass and setting both on a serving tray.
"Totally not kidding! It was better than this morning when she told her that Jerry Springer was holding auditions on annoying teen tramps."
"Kayla feels the same way about Pam as we do." Maria said grabbing an order from Michael at the window.
"Probably stems from her making a move on Devon, Freshman year." Liz said before heading out to her tables.
"Pam tried to break up Kayla and Devon?" Serena asked, her eyes wide.
"Tried being the keyword. They were all at Matt Jenkins' party and when Devon went to the bathroom Pam actually followed him in."
"Geez, no wonder Kayla's out for blood." Sera walked to her first table and took their order. Returning to the counter, the order ticket slipped from her grasp; as she bent down to retrieve it she heard a low whistle, she looked up to see Tim Malamud smiling appreciatively at her. She sighed and straightened her skirt as she stood. "Hello Timothy." She said, her voice dripping with exasperation.
"Hey. How's my favorite Crashdown waitress."
"Are you ordering something or did you just come to annoy me?”
"Neither. I came to ask you something."
"Tim, I've got tables waiting, if you aren't going to order anything then…"
"OK, give me a Mercury Milkshake."
"Fine, I'll be right back."
Sera turned from the counter and went into the back, where Maria was waiting for her. "Is Tim bothering you?"
"No, he said he needed to ask me something."
"That can only end badly!"
Sera laughed as she scooped out the ice cream for Tim's milkshake. "I might as well get it over with, the sooner he asks his question, the sooner he's out of our hair."
"That's true."
Serena sighed and pushed open the door to the dining room. Tim was waiting patiently for her to return. He smiled as she approached the milkshake machine. "So Rachel's party is this weekend."
"Yeah."
"Well, if the gossip is true and all, I'm guessing you don't have a date."
Sera flinched at this, but concentrated on making the shake.
"Well, I just wanted to offer my services...as your date!"
She flipped the shake machine off and spun to face Tim nearly in one motion.
"My date?"
"You don't have to sound so offended about it!"
"Tim, Thank you, but I just..."
“I know what you're going to say. You and Valenti just split up and I totally understand, but I was proposing we go as friends, when I said date I just meant it like we should go together so neither one of us has to walk in alone."
"I don’t know."
"Just think about it OK? Get back to me before Saturday?"
Tim smiled, and Sera couldn't help but return his grin. "I'll think about it."
"Great! So is that for me?" he asked gesturing to the milkshake she was holding.
"Huh? Oh yeah! $2.39 please."
Tim pulled a five from his pocket and traded Sera the money for the shake. "Keep the change. My cell number's on that napkin, let me know what you decide." And with that he was gone.
Serena looked down at the counter, Tim had folded a napkin into a small triangle. She unwrapped it and laughed softly at the message.
Valenti's an idiot. Call me 997-1877
Sera pocketed the note as Liz came up behind her.
"Did Tim Malamud just ask you out?"
"Huh? No. I mean he asked me to go to Rach's party with him, but as friends. I told him. I still care about Kyle and nothing is going to change that. It would just be nice to not have to walk into Rachel's dateless."
"You don't think it will bother Kyle to see you with a date?" Maria asked from a stool at the end of the counter.
"Actually Maria, I don't think Kyle cares if I'm even on this planet at the moment."
The bell rung behind them sharply, as Michael gave it a hearty smack with the spatula.
"You know these platters don't walk themselves to the tables."
"Sorry. I'm on it." Sera grabbed the two platters for her table, Liz took her three and they set off. As they passed Maria's end of the counter Sera said in a voice only the girls could hear.
"They may not now, but he could probably make that happen, it would certainly ease our workload."
Maria giggled as she imagined Michael sending plates zooming all around the Crashdown.
END CHAPTER
Author: LizabethR2D2
Disclaimer: As much as I wish I owned these characters/this show I do not! They belong to Melinda Metz, Jason Katims, the WB and UPN networks and the amazing actors who portrayed them! I guess I do own Sera, but I’d be willing to trade her for Colin Hanks.
Category: CC
Rating: Adult (It will vary chapter to chapter, but let’s just be safe and say Adult to cover all our bases!)
Summary: Alternate Season 3-Picking up a few weeks after the WB Season 2 Finale. This is the Season 3 that I would have liked to see televised, our CCs are together, no one is going to a Vermont boarding school, no one moves to NYC and no one marries Delko! Just good old fashioned Season 1 type entertainment. (At least I like to think so!)
Thanks to everyone who reveiwed! Sorry I've been so lax in posting guys. I promise to get better about that! I always appreciate input.
I have so much of this story/season written (and a great deal of a fourth season) but I'm constantly editing so your input is so very helpful! Thanks again! Welcome chanks_girl, can I come watch tv with you Iz and Alex? AFTERMATH
Sera pulled the Pathfinder into the parking lot at school. Grabbing her bag she started in when she noticed Kyle's Mustang pull in the lot. Her first instinct was to run to him, as she always did on the days they drove to school separately. She checked herself when the events of the weekend
came rocketing back to her. Their eyes met as he exited the car, He set his jaw and looked away from her. Sera dropped her head and turned toward the school.
"Ouch! That was harsh." Pam's voice sounded behind Sera.
"What do you want Pam?" Serena asked without turning around.
“Well, I was really just curious about your break-up… did the mystique of being the new girl finally wear off and he got bored? Or was it your lack of experience in the bedroom?” Sera clenched her fists, but Pam continued her verbal barrage undeterred. “Well, what ever you did that made Kyle finally dump you, you couldn't have picked a better time. Rachel's party is next weekend and now I have the perfect date."
Sera finally turned to face Pam. "You just can't wait to make an ill-fated pass at him can you?"
"Jealous?" Pam sneered.
"Of you? Are you kidding?"
"Just know this Sera, I've wanted Kyle for awhile now, and I'm going to make the most of this opportunity. So while you're sitting at home ALONE Saturday night, I'll have Kyle all to myself. Thank God the Forrester's are going out of town, their king- sized waterbed will be the perfect playground for me and your FORMER boyfriend."
Sera fought the urge to slap the sneer right off Pam's face.
Probably not a good idea, my luck, one wave of my hand and she'd be a dust pile. Explaining that to Principal Forrester would be fun.
Taking a deep breath, Sera was about to tell Pam where she could go when she heard Kayla's voice. "Hey girls. Listen Pam I heard they're having auditions for Jerry Springer in the auditorium. I think the topic is annoying teenage tramps, I couldn't help but think of you."
She twisted her pretty features into a cruel smile before putting an arm around Sera's shoulders "Come on Sera, let's get out of here."
Once inside, Sera leaned her head against Kayla's shoulder. "Thank you! I was feeling an incredible urge to hit her and I think that would have been pretty bad."
"Hey. No one messes with my friend. But I'm sorry I stopped you that would have been sweet!" Kayla pulled Sera closer to her. "So, why didn't you call me?"
"Oh Kayla, I was just...wait how did you know? How does anyone know?"
"Honey, the high school rumor mill works in mysterious ways. Everyone knows! Sorry. Look, I just want you to know that I'm here. If you ever need me for anything."
Sera wrapped her arms around her friend. "Thank you!"
"Hey what are roomies for?"Sera smiled her first genuine smile in three days.
****************************
Kyle entered Spanish class and headed to his seat.
Liz gave him a half smile. "Hey."
"Hey." He didn't look at her.
"You OK?"
"Why wouldn't I be?"
"Well, I left you messages, but..."
"Yeah I was a little busy, Its not everyday you find out your girlfriend is a freaking ET."
"Kyle."
"What! You want me to sugar coat it Liz, we're way beyond that."
"No, I'm, I'm just worried about you."
"Well don't I'm fine."
"Kyle."
“I'm fine Liz. I don't want to talk about it anymore."
Liz opened her mouth to say something but quickly closed it when Kyle finally looked at her. The circles under his eyes and the hurt expression on his face broke her heart. She grabbed his hand and gave it a squeeze, pleased that he didn't pull away.
*****************************
Maria sat next to Sera and glanced sideways at her. Neither girl spoke for a moment, each unsure what to say. Finally Sera mustered her courage. "Hey."
"Hey."
They both quickly looked away as they realized that they had nothing more to say.
*****************************
Sera left Drama in a separate direction from Maria. She took the long way around and came up the back staircase. Max and Liz were walking into English just as she arrived at the door. Sera dropped her head and waited for them to enter.
"What? Are you going to ignore us all day?"
Sera's head snapped up at the sound of Liz's voice.
"I...um no."
"Sera. I meant what I said Saturday. I'm here if you want to talk, and I'm still your friend."
Sera's eyes misted over as she looked at the petite brunette.
"Thank you."
"Come on. If we're lucky Mr. York will forget about the quiz on The Iliad."
"We can dream right?"
The girls smiled at each other as they entered the classroom.
*****************************
After English, Max walked Sera and Liz to Calculus. He kissed Liz and nodded at Sera before meeting Maria at the end of the hall. Pam and her cronies were already in the classroom and snickered when the girls entered.
"Think they could be a bit more childish?" Liz asked, turning to face Sera.
"She jumped on me first thing this morning and delighted in telling me she was going to snap Kyle up ASAP."
"Ugh! She's a real piece of work isn't she?"
"Do you really think...I mean would he, never mind."
As they reached their seats, Liz placed her hand on Sera's shoulder.
“He’ll come around Sera, you'd be amazed at how easily we can forgive people we care about."
*****************************
Physics class passed with little event. Tonya, on strict orders from Kayla, made sure that Sera had no time to dwell on Kyle. She made goofy faces as they worked on their experiments and kept telling bad jokes that elicited groans, not only from Sera, but Max and Liz as well. *****************************
Downstairs, Kyle sat in silence with Maria and Michael as Mr. Kulick ticked off the contents of the following week's quiz.
Maria had attempted to engage Kyle in conversation, to no avail. He'd offered the occasional grunt to her overtures.
"Please talk to me."
*Grunt*
"Kyle."
*Silence*
"Kyle James Valenti, I am your almost-sister and you will talk to me right now or I will use my Amy voice on you." Maria hissed loud enough for Kyle to hear, but quiet enough that the rest of the class could not.
"Maria, I just don't feel like chatting. Can't I just wallow?"
"No, you're aren't properly equipped to wallow. Lizzie isn't here, there is no sad music, and most importantly there's no ice cream. How can you wallow without ice cream?"
Kyle wasn't sure if it was her words or the completely serious expression on her face that caused him to laugh more.
*****************************
Sera chose to sit with Kayla, Tonya and Rachel during lunch. She spent a better part of the half-hour sneaking glances at Kyle, who was sandwiched between Liz and Maria.
"You know he doesn't look real happy about this breakup either." Kayla said as she picked up Sera's empty VitaminWater bottle and tossed it in the garbage.
"It was the right thing."
"How can you say that when both of you are so miserable."
"It's complicated. But for now, as much as it hurts, I think Kyle was right to pull away."
Kayla shook her head and tossed a look at Tonya as if to say 'They're both crazy!'
*****************************
Study Hall was a lesson in uncomfortable. Since there was a seating chart, Max, Kyle and Sera were together in the back of the room. None of them had spoken since they took their seats. Max gave each of them a curt nod, before busying himself in his Trig homework. Kyle stuck his nose
in his Spanish book and Sera grabbed the INSTYLE magazine from her bag and opened it to the feature on Kate Hudson.
Sera didn't react the first time Max called her name, and she jumped slightly when he repeated it and touched her shoulder to attract her attention.
"God! Sorry Max, I got distracted."
"Its OK, Sorry I scared you. Seating Chart?"
Sera looked down and noticed Max holding the seating chart out for her to sign.
"Thanks."
She took it and jotted her name in the appropriate spot, then hesitantly held it toward Kyle. He was too engrossed in his Spanish text. She looked at Max for a moment. He took the hint and plucked the paper from her grasp.
"Kyle." Max said, placing the chart on his desk.
Kyle grunted and quickly scribbled his name on the chart before passing it to the front of the room.
*****************************
Kyle left the classroom first. Sera took her time gathering her things so he could get up the stairs and into Government before she did. Max hesitated at the door, watching her slow progress.
"There's a seating chart in Government too, avoiding him in the hall is kind of pointless don't you think?"
Sera finished loading her bag and popped it on her shoulder. "The less contact we have the better it will be. For him at least. It's killing me." She smiled sadly and walked past Max into the hall.
"He just needs to take a step back from it all, not everyone can readily accept this new development like Liz."
"I know. And she, you, all of you have accepted more than I would have thought possible given your history."
Max nodded but remained silent.
"I can issue a thousand apologies to all of you and beg for forgiveness until I'm blue in the face, but the only thing that's going to make you trust me, or even be comfortable around me again is time. And as much as it pains me to be distanced from Kyle and Maria and all of you, I understand why its necessary."
They had reached their classroom, Max nodded Sera in ahead of him, as she passed he lightly squeezed her shoulder. Serena took a deep breath and offered a weak smile at his gesture.
*****************************
When the bell rang for seventh period Sera waved a quick goodbye to the group and bolted for the stairs. Kayla, Tonya and Rachel were waiting at the gym entrance for her. She threw the best smile she could muster on her face and walked into the gym with them. Pam entered not to far behind them and snickered loudly to Amber. Before she could open her mouth Kayla spun on her heel and issued her a threatening look. Pam rolled her eyes but pushed past the trio without a word. The girls dressed quickly and made their way to the football field to practice.
Cheering was a way for Serena to work out her frustrations. Her movements were performed with sharp precision. Ms. Cannon pulled her to the front of the line. "Watch Sera's kicks here. She's nailed it. Pam, legs up!"
"That's usually not a problem!" Kayla snarked.
Sera's concentration broke for a split second as she smirked at Kayla's comment.
"Kayla! Take a lap around the field." Ms. Cannon was not sporting a happy expression.
"The truth hurts!" Kayla said taking off winking at Sera as she began to run.
"Make it two." Ms. Cannon yelled at her retreating back.
After practice Sera changed into her uniform, waved goodbye to her friends and headed for the parking lot. She made it to the Crashdown in short order and entered through the kitchen.
"Hey." she called to Michael. He turned from the grill momentarily and nodded slightly to acknowledge her presence. It's a start! Sera thought grabbing an order pad and heading out to the front.
"How was practice?" Liz asked filling a glass with soda.
"Pretty good. We had a little excitement, Ms. Cannon made Kayla take two laps around the track for what she called "derogatory remarks."
"About Pam?" Maria asked joining the conversation.
Sera smiled, pleased at Maria presence. "Yeah, When Ms. Cannon said Pam should get her legs up, Kayla said 'That's not usually a problem.' and for that she got two laps. Well, for that she got one lap, when she said
'The truth hurts.' is when she got the second lap."
"You're kidding!" Liz said, filling a second glass and setting both on a serving tray.
"Totally not kidding! It was better than this morning when she told her that Jerry Springer was holding auditions on annoying teen tramps."
"Kayla feels the same way about Pam as we do." Maria said grabbing an order from Michael at the window.
"Probably stems from her making a move on Devon, Freshman year." Liz said before heading out to her tables.
"Pam tried to break up Kayla and Devon?" Serena asked, her eyes wide.
"Tried being the keyword. They were all at Matt Jenkins' party and when Devon went to the bathroom Pam actually followed him in."
"Geez, no wonder Kayla's out for blood." Sera walked to her first table and took their order. Returning to the counter, the order ticket slipped from her grasp; as she bent down to retrieve it she heard a low whistle, she looked up to see Tim Malamud smiling appreciatively at her. She sighed and straightened her skirt as she stood. "Hello Timothy." She said, her voice dripping with exasperation.
"Hey. How's my favorite Crashdown waitress."
"Are you ordering something or did you just come to annoy me?”
"Neither. I came to ask you something."
"Tim, I've got tables waiting, if you aren't going to order anything then…"
"OK, give me a Mercury Milkshake."
"Fine, I'll be right back."
Sera turned from the counter and went into the back, where Maria was waiting for her. "Is Tim bothering you?"
"No, he said he needed to ask me something."
"That can only end badly!"
Sera laughed as she scooped out the ice cream for Tim's milkshake. "I might as well get it over with, the sooner he asks his question, the sooner he's out of our hair."
"That's true."
Serena sighed and pushed open the door to the dining room. Tim was waiting patiently for her to return. He smiled as she approached the milkshake machine. "So Rachel's party is this weekend."
"Yeah."
"Well, if the gossip is true and all, I'm guessing you don't have a date."
Sera flinched at this, but concentrated on making the shake.
"Well, I just wanted to offer my services...as your date!"
She flipped the shake machine off and spun to face Tim nearly in one motion.
"My date?"
"You don't have to sound so offended about it!"
"Tim, Thank you, but I just..."
“I know what you're going to say. You and Valenti just split up and I totally understand, but I was proposing we go as friends, when I said date I just meant it like we should go together so neither one of us has to walk in alone."
"I don’t know."
"Just think about it OK? Get back to me before Saturday?"
Tim smiled, and Sera couldn't help but return his grin. "I'll think about it."
"Great! So is that for me?" he asked gesturing to the milkshake she was holding.
"Huh? Oh yeah! $2.39 please."
Tim pulled a five from his pocket and traded Sera the money for the shake. "Keep the change. My cell number's on that napkin, let me know what you decide." And with that he was gone.
Serena looked down at the counter, Tim had folded a napkin into a small triangle. She unwrapped it and laughed softly at the message.
Valenti's an idiot. Call me 997-1877
Sera pocketed the note as Liz came up behind her.
"Did Tim Malamud just ask you out?"
"Huh? No. I mean he asked me to go to Rach's party with him, but as friends. I told him. I still care about Kyle and nothing is going to change that. It would just be nice to not have to walk into Rachel's dateless."
"You don't think it will bother Kyle to see you with a date?" Maria asked from a stool at the end of the counter.
"Actually Maria, I don't think Kyle cares if I'm even on this planet at the moment."
The bell rung behind them sharply, as Michael gave it a hearty smack with the spatula.
"You know these platters don't walk themselves to the tables."
"Sorry. I'm on it." Sera grabbed the two platters for her table, Liz took her three and they set off. As they passed Maria's end of the counter Sera said in a voice only the girls could hear.
"They may not now, but he could probably make that happen, it would certainly ease our workload."
Maria giggled as she imagined Michael sending plates zooming all around the Crashdown.
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Starting Over (CC, Adult) Part 15-Picnic in the Park-3/25
Starting Over (CC, All, Adult) Part 15-Picnic in the Park
Title: Starting Over
Author: LizabethR2D2
Disclaimer: As much as I wish I owned these characters/this show I do not! They belong to Melinda Metz, Jason Katims, the WB & UPN networks and the amazing actors who portrayed them! I guess I do partially own Sera, but I’d be willing to trade her for Colin Hanks or Nick Wechsler.
Category: CC
Rating: Adult (It will vary chapter to chapter, but let’s just be safe and say Adult to cover all our bases!)
Summary: Alternate Season 3-Picking up a few weeks after the WB Season 2 Finale. This is the Season 3 that I would have liked to see televised, our CCs are together, no one is going to a Vermont boarding school, no one moves to NYC and no one marries Delko! Just good old fashioned Season 1 type entertainment. (At least I like to think so!)
Thank you notes:
~Natalie36: Thank you! That really meant so much! Glad you like it!
~Buddha-boy: Thanks for your continued support. I’m glad you like the new versions. I like to think that I’ve improved and I’m glad you are sticking around for all the new drama!
~c_hanks girl: You are a crafty one aren’t you? Your proposal is intriguing to me! Glad you liked the Sera-cheerleader dynamic; I always thought that it was important to have a few non-parent characters that the kids had contact with that were unaware of the Czechoslovakians. They did it a little in the first season with Kyle dating Vicki Delany, the guys on the football team and those annoying fashionistas that Iz used to hang around. Then after awhile, it was pretty much just about the eight of them. (And Sean of course)
~Allie Xie: I hear ya. I get VERY impatient waiting for new updates on my fave fics. I promise updates as fast as I can write them!!!
~BehrObsession: Hope Iz’s reaction works for you. I love, love, love the friendship that these two developed late Season 2 after Alex died, and the continuation of that friendship was one aspect of Season 3 I really liked. As you can see I plan to keep that friendship going strong in my stories.
Thanks also to everyone I missed and to you lurkers out there. I do it too, but please don’t be shy about saying hi! We don’t bite unless you ask us to!
PICNIC IN THE PARK
Isabel and Kyle sat at Calhoun Park, the remnants of their picnic strewn about the blanket they
were sharing.
Iz grabbed an apple slice and brought it to her lips, "So."
"So what?"
"You want to talk about it?"
"Not really."Iz continued to stare at him as she munched.
"You're not giving me an option are you?" Kyle asked smirking.
"Not really." Iz admitted.
Kyle sighed, "Things are very weird. Strained you know, I mean I care
about her but I've got this nagging case of Déjà vu."
Iz snorted. "Yeah, that's been going around."
"I just, I can't think of Sera without immediately thinking of all the
destruction Tess caused." Isabel flinched at the name but her eyes
remained on Kyle. "I hate what Te..she did, to me, to you, all of us.
But some sick, sad part of me won't let me hate her. I wonder how she is,
what she's doing, if she ever thinks of me."
"So are you avoiding Sera because you think she’s going to betray us or
are you harboring feelings for Tess?"
"Man, one of these days I’m going to learn that being friends with you
means I’m often subjected to pointed questions.” Isabel managed to
look contrite and started to apologize for her directness, but Kyle held up
his hand to wave her off. “No, while definitely pointed your questions
are valid. The only problem is I think it’s a combination of the two. One,
I’m so confused about what my feelings were for Tess. I mean there was
a time when I REALLY wanted to trim her lamp.” Off Iz’s look, “Don’t ask,
its a long story! But then those feelings changed and I started to see her
as a sister. Did my feelings really change or was that the mind warp? I’ll
never know for sure. Two, I'm scared. If Sera and I were to get back
together I'd always wonder, when is she going to drop another bombshell
on me."
"If it helps I think she's pretty much come clean. Max said he's almost
positive we know all she knows and then some, thanks to the latest
hologramatic message from my parents. We know she was our friend,
that she promised to protect us, and she's the reason we were sent
here."
Kyle looked at his best friend, "But, do you trust her?"
Isabel swallowed hard and looked away. "I don't know. Learning that
there is another alien in our lives was a pretty bitter pill, but I
dreamwalked her and didn’t see anything sinister and as far as her
keeping her identity a secret, she didn’t know what was happening to her.
She didn't know we had a whole other life in the past, or that there were
four...three of us just like her. She just assumed she was a lone freak
who could alter molecules with a wave of her hand. I know that feeling."
"You're not a freak."
"She's a lot like me Kyle-the me before Alex, the one who was afraid to
trust anyone, to really let anyone in. She has the same fears that I had
before I got to know you guys. That fear of rejection. Look at how we
reacted when we found out about her secret."
"We weren't out of line Isabel."
"No, but we took our frustrations and our guilt over Tess out on Sera. The
more I think about her situation: being adopted, believing everything is
normal until one day; poof, your doing some freaky redecorating to your
room and no one is there to confide in. I had Max and Michael, Sera didn't
have anyone. She was a scared 13-year-old girl who had just lost her
father, and suddenly she had to deal with this new power. Max said that
Sera wanted to tell her mother, but was afraid. I get that you know. I
wanted to tell Mom so many times, but Max and Michael wouldn't hear of
it. I wanted to trust her, but I was afraid at the same time."
"Isabel your mother would understand."
"Eventually yes, but her initial reaction wouldn't be much different than
yours or Liz or Maria’s was. Max told me once that Mom-Diane, wasn't our
mother. It hurt, I knew it was true, biologically, but it hurt nonetheless.
Dealing with something SO big and I couldn't tell the most important
person in my life. I get Sera's fear, more than anyone."
Kyle closed his eyes. "Iz."
Isabel reached out and took Kyle's hand. "Look, I'm not saying I’m
ready to join the Sera fan club and I’m not trying to tell you what to do.”
He opened his eyes and quirked an eyebrow at the beauty in front of
him. “Yes, I know first time for everything right?” They shared a
grin.
“All I’m saying is, now that the shock value has worn off, I understand
why she didn’t tell us."
He nodded, not yet trusting his voice.
“I’m sorry; this was supposed to be our day to get away from the
craziness that is our lives, and what’s the first thing I do? I jump right
back in.”
Kyle cleared his throat, “Maria calls that being sucked into the alien
abyss.”
“Excuse me?”
“You know, when things get weird around us, which they seem to do all
the time, Maria says its all part of us being sucked into the alien
abyss.”
Isabel regarded him for a moment, before she spoke in a hushed tone.
“Sometimes I wonder if it wouldn’t have been better for all of you if
Max and Michael had never been in the Crashdown that day.”
Kyle jerked his head up and looked at her, “Don’t say that!”
“I didn’t mean I wish Liz had died, I just mean look at all the
destruction that has rained down on you guys these last two years. It’s
been a domino effect, ever since Max healed Liz. Your dad got in trouble
and ultimately fired, Liz was kidnapped by Nasedo, Max was taken by
Pierce, you were shot, the mess with Whitaker and the skins, Brody
kidnapping everyone, losing Alex…and now this thing with Sera. I just
hate it that knowing us, being involved with us has brought everyone so
much pain. ”
Kyle reached out and took Isabel’s face in his hands, forcing her to look
into his eyes. “Hey, I’m not denying that some of the past two years
have sucked beyond the telling, but it hasn’t all been bad.” This time the
eyebrow being quirked was Isabel’s “I’m serious Iz, the domino effect
would still apply, if Max hadn’t saved Liz, My girlfriend would have died of
a gunshot wound leaving Alex and Maria inconsolable, my dad and Amy
probably wouldn’t be together, Alex and I never would have become
friends and you and I would have still been like Molly Ringwald and Emilo
Estevez in The Breakfast Club, running in the same circles but never
taking the time to get to know one another. I mean freshman year
how many of the same parties did we attend and we never spoke to each
other? While its true that everything we’ve been through has been life
altering, there are some things I wouldn’t change-Specifically my
friendship with you."
Isabel smiled softly and pulled Kyle toward her, "I love you, you know
that right?”
“Yeah. I love you too.”
They sat quietly for a moment with their foreheads touching before Iz
pulled back to look at him, "The Breakfast Club?”
He grimaced, “I was wondering if you were going to call me on that!
But hey, I have an almost-sister and two ex-girlfriends who really love
that movie. I can not be held responsible for their taste rubbing off on
me.”
“Please, Kyle that DVD was in your collection a LONG time ago, do you
really think you're fooling anyone by saying its Maria's?"
Realizing his secret was out, Kyle sighed. “Fine, I admit I like the
movie, you know, I’ve always seen me as the Andrew Clark of our little
group.”
“You’ve gone so far as to cast us in a movie?”
“Yeah, I’m Andrew, Michael is clearly Bender.”
“Clearly!”
“Alex is Brian. Funny, a little geeky, and so in love with Claire, which of
course makes you Claire.”
“Yeah but Bender and Claire end up together.”
“Well, yeah but I like to think that was a passing thing. They dated for
awhile, then Brian grew up and he and Claire hooked up.”
Isabel laughed, “You've thought about this a lot haven't you?”
“I've been single for a very long time!!b]
She grinned, “So if you’re Andrew, who’s Alison?”
“I never could figure that out. She doesn’t seem very studious so Liz is
out, and she doesn’t talk for like the first 30 minutes so she obviously
can’t be Maria…and you don’t really know anything about her other than
Bender says he’s seen her, what ever that means. And she’s like hiding
under that parka for the first half of it so you don’t get that she’s hot until
she comes out of the bathroom at the end. She’s like a whole different
person.”
Iz smirked at the obvious conclusion to Alison’s alter ego and Kyle's
oblivious rambling, “You’ll figure it out someday!”
“Oh, maybe she’s Jodi Ann Paterson!” Kyle said, his eyes lighting up
like a Christmas tree.
“Enough with Jodi Ann! For the last time I’m not helping you bed a
Playmate!”
“Fine!” He mock pouted.
Iz rolled her eyes and punched him in the shoulder "You ready to hit
the court?" she asked pointing to the tennis courts in the distance.
"Come one 'Claire', You're about to see Pete Sampras ain't got nothin'
on me!”
"Dream on 'Andrew'! You’re going down!"
END CHAPTER
Title: Starting Over
Author: LizabethR2D2
Disclaimer: As much as I wish I owned these characters/this show I do not! They belong to Melinda Metz, Jason Katims, the WB & UPN networks and the amazing actors who portrayed them! I guess I do partially own Sera, but I’d be willing to trade her for Colin Hanks or Nick Wechsler.
Category: CC
Rating: Adult (It will vary chapter to chapter, but let’s just be safe and say Adult to cover all our bases!)
Summary: Alternate Season 3-Picking up a few weeks after the WB Season 2 Finale. This is the Season 3 that I would have liked to see televised, our CCs are together, no one is going to a Vermont boarding school, no one moves to NYC and no one marries Delko! Just good old fashioned Season 1 type entertainment. (At least I like to think so!)
Thank you notes:
~Natalie36: Thank you! That really meant so much! Glad you like it!
~Buddha-boy: Thanks for your continued support. I’m glad you like the new versions. I like to think that I’ve improved and I’m glad you are sticking around for all the new drama!
~c_hanks girl: You are a crafty one aren’t you? Your proposal is intriguing to me! Glad you liked the Sera-cheerleader dynamic; I always thought that it was important to have a few non-parent characters that the kids had contact with that were unaware of the Czechoslovakians. They did it a little in the first season with Kyle dating Vicki Delany, the guys on the football team and those annoying fashionistas that Iz used to hang around. Then after awhile, it was pretty much just about the eight of them. (And Sean of course)
~Allie Xie: I hear ya. I get VERY impatient waiting for new updates on my fave fics. I promise updates as fast as I can write them!!!
~BehrObsession: Hope Iz’s reaction works for you. I love, love, love the friendship that these two developed late Season 2 after Alex died, and the continuation of that friendship was one aspect of Season 3 I really liked. As you can see I plan to keep that friendship going strong in my stories.
Thanks also to everyone I missed and to you lurkers out there. I do it too, but please don’t be shy about saying hi! We don’t bite unless you ask us to!
PICNIC IN THE PARK
Isabel and Kyle sat at Calhoun Park, the remnants of their picnic strewn about the blanket they
were sharing.
Iz grabbed an apple slice and brought it to her lips, "So."
"So what?"
"You want to talk about it?"
"Not really."Iz continued to stare at him as she munched.
"You're not giving me an option are you?" Kyle asked smirking.
"Not really." Iz admitted.
Kyle sighed, "Things are very weird. Strained you know, I mean I care
about her but I've got this nagging case of Déjà vu."
Iz snorted. "Yeah, that's been going around."
"I just, I can't think of Sera without immediately thinking of all the
destruction Tess caused." Isabel flinched at the name but her eyes
remained on Kyle. "I hate what Te..she did, to me, to you, all of us.
But some sick, sad part of me won't let me hate her. I wonder how she is,
what she's doing, if she ever thinks of me."
"So are you avoiding Sera because you think she’s going to betray us or
are you harboring feelings for Tess?"
"Man, one of these days I’m going to learn that being friends with you
means I’m often subjected to pointed questions.” Isabel managed to
look contrite and started to apologize for her directness, but Kyle held up
his hand to wave her off. “No, while definitely pointed your questions
are valid. The only problem is I think it’s a combination of the two. One,
I’m so confused about what my feelings were for Tess. I mean there was
a time when I REALLY wanted to trim her lamp.” Off Iz’s look, “Don’t ask,
its a long story! But then those feelings changed and I started to see her
as a sister. Did my feelings really change or was that the mind warp? I’ll
never know for sure. Two, I'm scared. If Sera and I were to get back
together I'd always wonder, when is she going to drop another bombshell
on me."
"If it helps I think she's pretty much come clean. Max said he's almost
positive we know all she knows and then some, thanks to the latest
hologramatic message from my parents. We know she was our friend,
that she promised to protect us, and she's the reason we were sent
here."
Kyle looked at his best friend, "But, do you trust her?"
Isabel swallowed hard and looked away. "I don't know. Learning that
there is another alien in our lives was a pretty bitter pill, but I
dreamwalked her and didn’t see anything sinister and as far as her
keeping her identity a secret, she didn’t know what was happening to her.
She didn't know we had a whole other life in the past, or that there were
four...three of us just like her. She just assumed she was a lone freak
who could alter molecules with a wave of her hand. I know that feeling."
"You're not a freak."
"She's a lot like me Kyle-the me before Alex, the one who was afraid to
trust anyone, to really let anyone in. She has the same fears that I had
before I got to know you guys. That fear of rejection. Look at how we
reacted when we found out about her secret."
"We weren't out of line Isabel."
"No, but we took our frustrations and our guilt over Tess out on Sera. The
more I think about her situation: being adopted, believing everything is
normal until one day; poof, your doing some freaky redecorating to your
room and no one is there to confide in. I had Max and Michael, Sera didn't
have anyone. She was a scared 13-year-old girl who had just lost her
father, and suddenly she had to deal with this new power. Max said that
Sera wanted to tell her mother, but was afraid. I get that you know. I
wanted to tell Mom so many times, but Max and Michael wouldn't hear of
it. I wanted to trust her, but I was afraid at the same time."
"Isabel your mother would understand."
"Eventually yes, but her initial reaction wouldn't be much different than
yours or Liz or Maria’s was. Max told me once that Mom-Diane, wasn't our
mother. It hurt, I knew it was true, biologically, but it hurt nonetheless.
Dealing with something SO big and I couldn't tell the most important
person in my life. I get Sera's fear, more than anyone."
Kyle closed his eyes. "Iz."
Isabel reached out and took Kyle's hand. "Look, I'm not saying I’m
ready to join the Sera fan club and I’m not trying to tell you what to do.”
He opened his eyes and quirked an eyebrow at the beauty in front of
him. “Yes, I know first time for everything right?” They shared a
grin.
“All I’m saying is, now that the shock value has worn off, I understand
why she didn’t tell us."
He nodded, not yet trusting his voice.
“I’m sorry; this was supposed to be our day to get away from the
craziness that is our lives, and what’s the first thing I do? I jump right
back in.”
Kyle cleared his throat, “Maria calls that being sucked into the alien
abyss.”
“Excuse me?”
“You know, when things get weird around us, which they seem to do all
the time, Maria says its all part of us being sucked into the alien
abyss.”
Isabel regarded him for a moment, before she spoke in a hushed tone.
“Sometimes I wonder if it wouldn’t have been better for all of you if
Max and Michael had never been in the Crashdown that day.”
Kyle jerked his head up and looked at her, “Don’t say that!”
“I didn’t mean I wish Liz had died, I just mean look at all the
destruction that has rained down on you guys these last two years. It’s
been a domino effect, ever since Max healed Liz. Your dad got in trouble
and ultimately fired, Liz was kidnapped by Nasedo, Max was taken by
Pierce, you were shot, the mess with Whitaker and the skins, Brody
kidnapping everyone, losing Alex…and now this thing with Sera. I just
hate it that knowing us, being involved with us has brought everyone so
much pain. ”
Kyle reached out and took Isabel’s face in his hands, forcing her to look
into his eyes. “Hey, I’m not denying that some of the past two years
have sucked beyond the telling, but it hasn’t all been bad.” This time the
eyebrow being quirked was Isabel’s “I’m serious Iz, the domino effect
would still apply, if Max hadn’t saved Liz, My girlfriend would have died of
a gunshot wound leaving Alex and Maria inconsolable, my dad and Amy
probably wouldn’t be together, Alex and I never would have become
friends and you and I would have still been like Molly Ringwald and Emilo
Estevez in The Breakfast Club, running in the same circles but never
taking the time to get to know one another. I mean freshman year
how many of the same parties did we attend and we never spoke to each
other? While its true that everything we’ve been through has been life
altering, there are some things I wouldn’t change-Specifically my
friendship with you."
Isabel smiled softly and pulled Kyle toward her, "I love you, you know
that right?”
“Yeah. I love you too.”
They sat quietly for a moment with their foreheads touching before Iz
pulled back to look at him, "The Breakfast Club?”
He grimaced, “I was wondering if you were going to call me on that!
But hey, I have an almost-sister and two ex-girlfriends who really love
that movie. I can not be held responsible for their taste rubbing off on
me.”
“Please, Kyle that DVD was in your collection a LONG time ago, do you
really think you're fooling anyone by saying its Maria's?"
Realizing his secret was out, Kyle sighed. “Fine, I admit I like the
movie, you know, I’ve always seen me as the Andrew Clark of our little
group.”
“You’ve gone so far as to cast us in a movie?”
“Yeah, I’m Andrew, Michael is clearly Bender.”
“Clearly!”
“Alex is Brian. Funny, a little geeky, and so in love with Claire, which of
course makes you Claire.”
“Yeah but Bender and Claire end up together.”
“Well, yeah but I like to think that was a passing thing. They dated for
awhile, then Brian grew up and he and Claire hooked up.”
Isabel laughed, “You've thought about this a lot haven't you?”
“I've been single for a very long time!!b]
She grinned, “So if you’re Andrew, who’s Alison?”
“I never could figure that out. She doesn’t seem very studious so Liz is
out, and she doesn’t talk for like the first 30 minutes so she obviously
can’t be Maria…and you don’t really know anything about her other than
Bender says he’s seen her, what ever that means. And she’s like hiding
under that parka for the first half of it so you don’t get that she’s hot until
she comes out of the bathroom at the end. She’s like a whole different
person.”
Iz smirked at the obvious conclusion to Alison’s alter ego and Kyle's
oblivious rambling, “You’ll figure it out someday!”
“Oh, maybe she’s Jodi Ann Paterson!” Kyle said, his eyes lighting up
like a Christmas tree.
“Enough with Jodi Ann! For the last time I’m not helping you bed a
Playmate!”
“Fine!” He mock pouted.
Iz rolled her eyes and punched him in the shoulder "You ready to hit
the court?" she asked pointing to the tennis courts in the distance.
"Come one 'Claire', You're about to see Pete Sampras ain't got nothin'
on me!”
"Dream on 'Andrew'! You’re going down!"
END CHAPTER
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Starting Over (CC, Adult) Part 16-School Days Updated 3/27
Starting Over (CC, All, Adult) Part 16-School Days
Title: Starting Over
Author: LizabethR2D2
Disclaimer: As much as I wish I owned these characters/this show I do not! They belong to Melinda Metz, Jason Katims, the WB and UPN networks and the amazing actors who portrayed them! I guess I do own Sera, but I’d be willing to trade her for Colin Hanks or Nick Wechsler.
Category: CC
Rating: Adult (It will vary chapter to chapter, but let’s just be safe and say Adult to cover all our bases!)
Summary: Alternate Season 3-Picking up a few weeks after the WB Season 2 Finale. This is the Season 3 that I would have liked to see televised, our CCs are together, no one is going to a Vermont boarding school, no one moves to NYC and no one marries Delko! Just good old fashioned Season 1 type entertainment. (At least I like to think so!)
SCHOOL DAYS
Sera came down to breakfast Friday morning to find her mother and Charles already seated at the table, waiting.
"Hey.what's up."
"Well, we're kinda worried, about you. I know you and Kyle are having some problems, but it seems like more than that is bothering you. Your whole demeanor has changed. And we're, well, we just wouldn't be proper parents if we didn't worry about you."
"I'm fine Mom."
"Yes I know, you keep saying that, but we want you to know that you can come talk to us about anything."
Sera sighed, "I know Mom, and thank you Charles. I just don't really…I need to work this out on my own."
"Just know we're both here for you." Charles said standing and reaching out to his stepdaughter.
Sera smiled and took Charles' hand. "I know. Thank you. Hey would it make you feel better if I told you I was going to Rachel's party tomorrow?"
"You changed your mind about that?"
"Well, after you talked Rachel, Kayla and Tonya into ganging up on me and forcing me to go, did I really stand a chance?"
"I did not tell them to gang up on you." Nicole defended herself.
Sera cocked an eyebrow at her mother as she placed a waffle in the toaster.
"OK, maybe I suggested that they try and convince you to go, but only if you want to."
"I do. Tim said he'd pick me up so I wouldn't have to walk in alone."
"Tim Malamud?"
"Its not a date mother, we're just going as friends, two recently dumped friends, who are leaning on each other for a little support."
"Sure."
"Mother!"
"Honey, if you say its not a date, its not a date."
The waffle popped out of the toaster and Sera snatched it with one hand, pouring coffee with the other.
Charles saved Sera from her mother's prying. He walked to the counter and peered over her shoulder. "One of these days I'm going to have to try your fancy coffee."
"Oh no you don't! The Carmel Mocha Swirl is for me, you can have your unimaginative French Roast."
Nicole continued talking, as if her husband and daughter were not trying to change the subject."What time do you think you and Tim will be home from your date...I mean from the party."
"OK I'm leaving, you deal with her!" Sera laughed as she leaned to hug her stepfather and her mother.
*********
Mr. Hammond was directly in front of Sera as she closed the classroom door.
"Ms. Davidson, cutting things a bit close aren't we?"
"Yes sir. Sorry."
Sera quickly slipped into the classroom and sat next to Maria.
"Hey."
Sera looked at her and smiled. "Hey."
"Um listen, I know I've been kinda of bitch this week, barely speaking and all."
"No, that's OK. I completely understand. Its all a little, well, no, it's a LOT strange and freaksome."
"If it helps, its not just you. When Lizzie told me about everyone, I was less than rational. More to the point, I ran screaming from the Crashdown."
"Really?"
"Really."
"I know its going to take awhile for everyone to trust me, if they ever do. And I'm okay with that. After everything you've all been through, I'll take whatever you can give."
Maria offered her a small smile as the bell rang and Mr. Hammond stepped in front of the class.
**************
Sera, Kayla, Tonya, Chris and Devon were hunkered over a newspaper at lunch.
"I think we should see the 10:20." Tonya said looking at the group
Chris shook his head, "We should go later, the last game didn't end till 10:15."
"We could still make that!"
"I will not be within a 10 mile radius of you, until you've had a post game shower." Kayla informed Devon.
"I thought you liked me all sweaty." Devon grabbed his girlfriend and pulled her to him, dropping a sloppy kiss on her lips
"Oh god! You two aren't going to do that all night are you?" Tonya asked with a worried expression in Sera's direction.
"No need to give the 5th wheel that look. I'm fine with the smoochies. Just don't get way extracurricular with them and we're 5 by 5."
"Remember in cheerleading camp how I banned you from watching SNL?" Kayla asked.
"Yeah."
"Well the same goes for Buffy! You quoted three lines in one sentence!!!"
"Actually it was four, Buffy refers to herself as 5th Wheel Buffy in Fear, Itself."
"You're kidding me right?"
"Just illustrating my obsession!"
"Kayla, I think the moratorium should apply to you as well. You caught the quotes like 2 seconds after she said them.” Tonya teased.
"I'll remain a loyal fan as long as Xander is on the show."
"See I just don't get this whole Xander thing. Nicky's cute and all, but he's the reason you watch the show? Now James…" Sera was cut off when Kayla's hand clamped over her mouth.
"No, No more drooling over Captain Peroxide! That's all I ever hear about! James Marsters this, Spike that."
Sera removed Kayla's hand from her mouth, "You just want Angel to come back and be with Buffy."
"Well, they were so good..
"Hey I hate to interrupt the little Buffy lovefest the two of you have going, Chris interjected, but we still need to pick a time for the movie."
"What are you going to see?"
The group looked up to see Tim standing near their table.
"Don't you have class right now dude?" Devon asked as Tim reached onto Chris’ tray and snagged some of his fries.
"Yeah, Chemistry with Seligman, totally boring, I had to take a break. So what movie?" He plopped down next to Sera. She glanced at Kayla who quirked her eyebrow then shrugged her shoulders.
"If we can pick a time we're going to see From Hell."
"Excellent, I've wanted to see that for awhile. Have room for one more?" Tim asked staring straight at Serena.
"I, uh," She looked to her friends for an answer and was rewarded with amused faces, desperately attempting to stifle giggles. "Sure, why not, the more the merrier right?"
"Great, so after the game huh? See you then. I guess I'd better get back before class gets out." He leaned close to Sera, picked up her hand and kissed the back. "I'll see you tonight."
Kayla couldn’t take it anymore, as soon as Tim was out of earshot she burst into laughter. "What was that all about?"
"Don't ask me, Sera said shaking her head, but this switch from Goofus to Gallant is starting to freak me out."
"I'm beginning to think Malamud was abducted by aliens and that's the pod person they put in his place." Sera choked on her VitaminWater before forcing a smile at Devon's comment.
"You're not like considering dating him are you?" Tonya asked incredulously.
"NO! Are you kidding me? I'm just thankful that I have someone to go to Rachel’s party with tomorrow."
"We asked you to go with us you know." Kayla reminded her.
"I know..I just don't want you guys to feel like you have to drag me along to keep me from moping."
"CAN WE PLEASE DECIDE ON A TIME TO SEE THIS MOVIE???" Chris bellowed.
The girls quickly focused their attention on the newspaper to appease their friend.
**************
Throughout the course of the week Sera and Kyle had perfected the art of ignoring one another.
Despite the proximity of their seats it was easy to construct an invisible barrier that only Max could penetrate.
"You and Liz going to Rachel's party tomorrow?" Kyle asked when Max handed him the seating chart.
"Yeah, I think Liz wanted to stop by for a bit."
"Yeah, well I guess we’ll see you there then."
"We?" Max said, his eyes darting to Serena.
Sera flinched at the word but kept her eyes on her Trig homework, she may have an invisible barrier up, but she definitely heard that.
"Yeah, me and Isabel. She didn't tell you?"
"No, I uh"
"I told her I didn't want to go alone and she said she'd go with me, but that I owed her big."
Max laughed. "And you still wanted her to go with you? You're braver than I thought."
"Tell me about it. I'm slowly learning that to be in Iz's debt is a scary place."
Max smiled and nodded his head in the affirmative before turning his attention toward Sera.
She met his eye and smiled slightly.
Pulling out a pen and paper Max wrote Sera a note.
Liz says you’re going to the party with Tim Malamud?
Yeah, he came to the Crashdown last week and asked me. Maria was less than thrilled.
Maria worries.
I know, and it’s appreciated. I told Tim that this is a friend’s only thing-nothing more.
And he's OK with that?
He'd better be! That's all he's getting!
Max laughed, folded the paper and tucked it inside his book.
**************
After Study Hall, Sera regaled Max with her lunch time saga as they walked to Government.
"It really took the whole half hour to pick a movie time?"
"It was ridiculous. I wanted to bring Maria over to settle negotiations."
"Maria is always good at deciding things like that. Usually it involves her saying THIS is when we're going and that's that."
"I know! Its one of her greatest qualities."
"Talking about me again girlfriend?" Maria asked as she fell into step next to Max.
Sera glanced around the hallway “Did you just appear out of thin air? I didn’t see you behind us!”
“Sup!” Michael said as he suddenly appeared at Sera’s side.
Her eyes bugged “What, where, how?” She looked at Max for an explanation.
“I think you failed to notice what hallway we’re in.”
“Huh?”Max pointed to a door behind Sera, when she turned to look,
she felt like smacking herself in the forehead for being so dense.
“Of course, what was I thinking?”
“I’d say you are not thinking with your libido unlike some people here
who shall remain nameless.” Max said shooting a meaningful glance
at Michael who simply shrugged and entered the classroom.
Maria on the other hand took the bait, “Max Evans’ are you insinuating
that I’ve just come from the Eraser Room?”
“No, I’m not insinuating anything! I’m saying straight out, you’ve just
come from the Eraser Room.”
Maria gasped in mock outrage. “Well I never, oh who am I kidding! Of
course that’s where I’ve just come from!"
“Again?” Liz asked as she joined them.
“What? It’s not like we’re in there all the time!”This earned her
three identical yeah right looks and one snort of as if, courtesy of Sera.
“Hey, Hey! People in glass houses….none of you have any right to
make fun of me for logging Eraser Room time!”
“Yeah, well given my current situation, I think I’m safe in saying I won’t
be seeing the inside of that room for a very long time!” Sera said
rather wistfully.
“Oh Sera, don’t be too hasty, personally I don’t think your ‘situation’
with Kyle is permanent.”
"You don’t huh?” she asked looking at Maria as the group made their way to their seats.
"No, it’s temporary, it’s like Ross and Rachel, you're on a break!"
END CHAPTER
Title: Starting Over
Author: LizabethR2D2
Disclaimer: As much as I wish I owned these characters/this show I do not! They belong to Melinda Metz, Jason Katims, the WB and UPN networks and the amazing actors who portrayed them! I guess I do own Sera, but I’d be willing to trade her for Colin Hanks or Nick Wechsler.
Category: CC
Rating: Adult (It will vary chapter to chapter, but let’s just be safe and say Adult to cover all our bases!)
Summary: Alternate Season 3-Picking up a few weeks after the WB Season 2 Finale. This is the Season 3 that I would have liked to see televised, our CCs are together, no one is going to a Vermont boarding school, no one moves to NYC and no one marries Delko! Just good old fashioned Season 1 type entertainment. (At least I like to think so!)
SCHOOL DAYS
Sera came down to breakfast Friday morning to find her mother and Charles already seated at the table, waiting.
"Hey.what's up."
"Well, we're kinda worried, about you. I know you and Kyle are having some problems, but it seems like more than that is bothering you. Your whole demeanor has changed. And we're, well, we just wouldn't be proper parents if we didn't worry about you."
"I'm fine Mom."
"Yes I know, you keep saying that, but we want you to know that you can come talk to us about anything."
Sera sighed, "I know Mom, and thank you Charles. I just don't really…I need to work this out on my own."
"Just know we're both here for you." Charles said standing and reaching out to his stepdaughter.
Sera smiled and took Charles' hand. "I know. Thank you. Hey would it make you feel better if I told you I was going to Rachel's party tomorrow?"
"You changed your mind about that?"
"Well, after you talked Rachel, Kayla and Tonya into ganging up on me and forcing me to go, did I really stand a chance?"
"I did not tell them to gang up on you." Nicole defended herself.
Sera cocked an eyebrow at her mother as she placed a waffle in the toaster.
"OK, maybe I suggested that they try and convince you to go, but only if you want to."
"I do. Tim said he'd pick me up so I wouldn't have to walk in alone."
"Tim Malamud?"
"Its not a date mother, we're just going as friends, two recently dumped friends, who are leaning on each other for a little support."
"Sure."
"Mother!"
"Honey, if you say its not a date, its not a date."
The waffle popped out of the toaster and Sera snatched it with one hand, pouring coffee with the other.
Charles saved Sera from her mother's prying. He walked to the counter and peered over her shoulder. "One of these days I'm going to have to try your fancy coffee."
"Oh no you don't! The Carmel Mocha Swirl is for me, you can have your unimaginative French Roast."
Nicole continued talking, as if her husband and daughter were not trying to change the subject."What time do you think you and Tim will be home from your date...I mean from the party."
"OK I'm leaving, you deal with her!" Sera laughed as she leaned to hug her stepfather and her mother.
*********
Mr. Hammond was directly in front of Sera as she closed the classroom door.
"Ms. Davidson, cutting things a bit close aren't we?"
"Yes sir. Sorry."
Sera quickly slipped into the classroom and sat next to Maria.
"Hey."
Sera looked at her and smiled. "Hey."
"Um listen, I know I've been kinda of bitch this week, barely speaking and all."
"No, that's OK. I completely understand. Its all a little, well, no, it's a LOT strange and freaksome."
"If it helps, its not just you. When Lizzie told me about everyone, I was less than rational. More to the point, I ran screaming from the Crashdown."
"Really?"
"Really."
"I know its going to take awhile for everyone to trust me, if they ever do. And I'm okay with that. After everything you've all been through, I'll take whatever you can give."
Maria offered her a small smile as the bell rang and Mr. Hammond stepped in front of the class.
**************
Sera, Kayla, Tonya, Chris and Devon were hunkered over a newspaper at lunch.
"I think we should see the 10:20." Tonya said looking at the group
Chris shook his head, "We should go later, the last game didn't end till 10:15."
"We could still make that!"
"I will not be within a 10 mile radius of you, until you've had a post game shower." Kayla informed Devon.
"I thought you liked me all sweaty." Devon grabbed his girlfriend and pulled her to him, dropping a sloppy kiss on her lips
"Oh god! You two aren't going to do that all night are you?" Tonya asked with a worried expression in Sera's direction.
"No need to give the 5th wheel that look. I'm fine with the smoochies. Just don't get way extracurricular with them and we're 5 by 5."
"Remember in cheerleading camp how I banned you from watching SNL?" Kayla asked.
"Yeah."
"Well the same goes for Buffy! You quoted three lines in one sentence!!!"
"Actually it was four, Buffy refers to herself as 5th Wheel Buffy in Fear, Itself."
"You're kidding me right?"
"Just illustrating my obsession!"
"Kayla, I think the moratorium should apply to you as well. You caught the quotes like 2 seconds after she said them.” Tonya teased.
"I'll remain a loyal fan as long as Xander is on the show."
"See I just don't get this whole Xander thing. Nicky's cute and all, but he's the reason you watch the show? Now James…" Sera was cut off when Kayla's hand clamped over her mouth.
"No, No more drooling over Captain Peroxide! That's all I ever hear about! James Marsters this, Spike that."
Sera removed Kayla's hand from her mouth, "You just want Angel to come back and be with Buffy."
"Well, they were so good..
"Hey I hate to interrupt the little Buffy lovefest the two of you have going, Chris interjected, but we still need to pick a time for the movie."
"What are you going to see?"
The group looked up to see Tim standing near their table.
"Don't you have class right now dude?" Devon asked as Tim reached onto Chris’ tray and snagged some of his fries.
"Yeah, Chemistry with Seligman, totally boring, I had to take a break. So what movie?" He plopped down next to Sera. She glanced at Kayla who quirked her eyebrow then shrugged her shoulders.
"If we can pick a time we're going to see From Hell."
"Excellent, I've wanted to see that for awhile. Have room for one more?" Tim asked staring straight at Serena.
"I, uh," She looked to her friends for an answer and was rewarded with amused faces, desperately attempting to stifle giggles. "Sure, why not, the more the merrier right?"
"Great, so after the game huh? See you then. I guess I'd better get back before class gets out." He leaned close to Sera, picked up her hand and kissed the back. "I'll see you tonight."
Kayla couldn’t take it anymore, as soon as Tim was out of earshot she burst into laughter. "What was that all about?"
"Don't ask me, Sera said shaking her head, but this switch from Goofus to Gallant is starting to freak me out."
"I'm beginning to think Malamud was abducted by aliens and that's the pod person they put in his place." Sera choked on her VitaminWater before forcing a smile at Devon's comment.
"You're not like considering dating him are you?" Tonya asked incredulously.
"NO! Are you kidding me? I'm just thankful that I have someone to go to Rachel’s party with tomorrow."
"We asked you to go with us you know." Kayla reminded her.
"I know..I just don't want you guys to feel like you have to drag me along to keep me from moping."
"CAN WE PLEASE DECIDE ON A TIME TO SEE THIS MOVIE???" Chris bellowed.
The girls quickly focused their attention on the newspaper to appease their friend.
**************
Throughout the course of the week Sera and Kyle had perfected the art of ignoring one another.
Despite the proximity of their seats it was easy to construct an invisible barrier that only Max could penetrate.
"You and Liz going to Rachel's party tomorrow?" Kyle asked when Max handed him the seating chart.
"Yeah, I think Liz wanted to stop by for a bit."
"Yeah, well I guess we’ll see you there then."
"We?" Max said, his eyes darting to Serena.
Sera flinched at the word but kept her eyes on her Trig homework, she may have an invisible barrier up, but she definitely heard that.
"Yeah, me and Isabel. She didn't tell you?"
"No, I uh"
"I told her I didn't want to go alone and she said she'd go with me, but that I owed her big."
Max laughed. "And you still wanted her to go with you? You're braver than I thought."
"Tell me about it. I'm slowly learning that to be in Iz's debt is a scary place."
Max smiled and nodded his head in the affirmative before turning his attention toward Sera.
She met his eye and smiled slightly.
Pulling out a pen and paper Max wrote Sera a note.
Liz says you’re going to the party with Tim Malamud?
Yeah, he came to the Crashdown last week and asked me. Maria was less than thrilled.
Maria worries.
I know, and it’s appreciated. I told Tim that this is a friend’s only thing-nothing more.
And he's OK with that?
He'd better be! That's all he's getting!
Max laughed, folded the paper and tucked it inside his book.
**************
After Study Hall, Sera regaled Max with her lunch time saga as they walked to Government.
"It really took the whole half hour to pick a movie time?"
"It was ridiculous. I wanted to bring Maria over to settle negotiations."
"Maria is always good at deciding things like that. Usually it involves her saying THIS is when we're going and that's that."
"I know! Its one of her greatest qualities."
"Talking about me again girlfriend?" Maria asked as she fell into step next to Max.
Sera glanced around the hallway “Did you just appear out of thin air? I didn’t see you behind us!”
“Sup!” Michael said as he suddenly appeared at Sera’s side.
Her eyes bugged “What, where, how?” She looked at Max for an explanation.
“I think you failed to notice what hallway we’re in.”
“Huh?”Max pointed to a door behind Sera, when she turned to look,
she felt like smacking herself in the forehead for being so dense.
“Of course, what was I thinking?”
“I’d say you are not thinking with your libido unlike some people here
who shall remain nameless.” Max said shooting a meaningful glance
at Michael who simply shrugged and entered the classroom.
Maria on the other hand took the bait, “Max Evans’ are you insinuating
that I’ve just come from the Eraser Room?”
“No, I’m not insinuating anything! I’m saying straight out, you’ve just
come from the Eraser Room.”
Maria gasped in mock outrage. “Well I never, oh who am I kidding! Of
course that’s where I’ve just come from!"
“Again?” Liz asked as she joined them.
“What? It’s not like we’re in there all the time!”This earned her
three identical yeah right looks and one snort of as if, courtesy of Sera.
“Hey, Hey! People in glass houses….none of you have any right to
make fun of me for logging Eraser Room time!”
“Yeah, well given my current situation, I think I’m safe in saying I won’t
be seeing the inside of that room for a very long time!” Sera said
rather wistfully.
“Oh Sera, don’t be too hasty, personally I don’t think your ‘situation’
with Kyle is permanent.”
"You don’t huh?” she asked looking at Maria as the group made their way to their seats.
"No, it’s temporary, it’s like Ross and Rachel, you're on a break!"
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Starting Over (CC, All, Adult) Part 17-Rachel's Party
Title: Starting Over
Author: LizabethR2D2
Disclaimer: As much as I wish I owned these characters/this show I do not! They belong to Melinda Metz, Jason Katims, the WB and UPN networks and the amazing actors who portrayed them! I guess I do own Sera, but I’d be willing to trade her for Colin Hanks or Nick Wechsler.
Category: CC
Rating: Adult (It will vary chapter to chapter, but let’s just be safe and say Adult to cover all our bases!)
Summary: Alternate Season 3-Picking up a few weeks after the WB Season 2 Finale. This is the Season 3 that I would have liked to see televised, our CCs are together, no one is going to a Vermont boarding school, no one moves to NYC and no one marries Delko! Just good old fashioned Season 1 type entertainment. (At least I like to think so!)
Author's Notes
~To Buddha-boy, Thanks for the reviews. You are very perceptive about Malamud, more on him later!
~To Allie Xie, I’m a huge Pop Culture junkie so my fic will be scattered with them!
~To BehrObsession, The end of this is dedicated to your Dreamer heart.
Rachel's Party
Kyle sat on Isabel's bed watching her fling outfits out of her closet with alarming speed.
"You do know that the party is tonight right?"
She came out of the closet with a potential candidate and gave him a
stern look. As she stood at the mirror she held the outfit up to her and
twisted her head from side to side. Finally nodding her head she
disappeared back in the closet. When she reemerged she was wearing a
completely different outfit than the one she'd perused in the mirror.
"What? That's not..."
"Kyle, this is a process. I'm allowing you to be witness to my process
because you are my friend and I love you, but if you continue to interrupt
my process you will be dealt with." She patted his head and returned
to the mirror. A knock at the door cut off any retort Kyle could have mustered.
"Come in."
"Hey Iz...oh hey Kyle. I didn't know you were here already."
"Just waiting, patiently, for Isabel to finish preparing." His jovial tone
subsided when he glanced at Iz's reflection and noticed the glare he
thought she reserved only for Michael.
"Do you guys want to ride with us?"
Isabel looked at Kyle who shrugged his shoulders.
"Sure. Just let me do my makeup."
Kyle sighed deeply and fell back against Iz's bed muttering about the time
that 'process' would take. Isabel cleared her throat and he opened one
eye to peer at her. She swiped her hand across her face and Kyle's eyes
widened as Isabel's perfect party makeup was instantly in place.
He hopped off the bed. "Right. OK. Let's go."
Max watched as Kyle made his way down the stairs. "What's with him?"
"I think he just needs a release. This will be good for him."
"Maybe not so much when he sees who Sera's date is."
"What are you talking about?"
"Tim Malamud."
"WHAT?"
Max nodded.
"Oh this is going to be a long night."
********************
By the time Sera and Tim arrived, the party was already in full swing. Kayla wasted no time in greeting them. "There's my girl, oh hey Tim."
"Hey Kayla." Tim gave her his customary leer, which she ignored.
"Hey sweetie. How are you?" Sera asked giving Kayla a hug
"What's with you two? Devon asked as he joined his girlfriend at
Sera's side. "You get all giddy when you see each other…like spending
two hours apart is an eternity."
"Didn't we tell you? We're carrying on a passionate affair behind your
back." Kayla said grinning at him.
Devon nodded and handed Kayla a drink. "Sweet. Promise to invite me next time you hook up."
Sera rolled her eyes. "Charming. I'm going to run away now."
Tim tried to grab her arm to bring her back but she shooed him away. "I'm going to get something to drink…you want anything?"
"Yeah, I'll come with you."
They made their way to the kitchen past several already intoxicated
classmates. Reaching their destination, Sera looked around for a soda.
Max had warned her about what happened when he had tried alcohol, and
Serena wasn't about to tempt fate.
She located a Coke in the cooler and popped the top as Tim grabbed a beer from the fridge and offered it to her.
"No thanks."
"You're not drinking?"
"I don't like beer."
"Oh, well...here: Rum, Jack Daniels, vanilla vodka, those all go well in Coke. Of course now we just have to find the key to the liquor cabinet."
Sera shook her head. "I'm fine, Tim really."
"Well I wish I could convince you. I'm a lot more charming after you've had a few drinks."
She laughed and pushed at his chest, he put his arm around her waist and pulled her close to him, just as the back door opened and Kyle, Isabel, Max and Liz walked in. Serena straightened immediately as she watched Kyle's eyes move from her face to Tim's arm locked around her frame.
"Hi." She spoke to the group as a whole.
"Hey Sera, we were hoping to run into you." Liz said, moving past Kyle.
Sera smiled at her friend. "Yeah me too. Hello Isabel."
Iz looked at her for a moment before offering a flat "Hi." in return. "Kyle, let's go say hello Rachel. It is her party after all."
"Hmm? Oh yeah sure." As he followed her out of the room he
shoulder checked Tim just enough to send a message. Tim got it loud and
clear. "Seems like Valenti is regretting his decision" he told Sera as
he rubbed his shoulder.
"What?"
"That 'touch her and you're dead' shoulder check screams that he wants you back but can't articulate it."
"When did you become Sigmund Freud?"
"I've pissed off enough boyfriends to become an expert in non-verbals."
Serena shook her head and laughed.
***********
As the party progressed Sera noticed Max and Liz were running
interference when she'd let her gaze linger on Kyle. After the fourth time,
Sera reddened and grinned at her friends. "Okay. I get it. Moping isn't
allowed. So we dance?" Liz smiled back and looked at Max.
"We dance." Max concurred taking his girlfriend's hand.
Devon tossed a Chemical Brothers CD to the party DJ, Mark Adams, and grabbed Kayla to join Max, Sera and Liz on the impromptu dance floor of the Forrester's living room. It didn't take long for most in attendance to join in on the fun.
Liz smiled and waved as Maria made an entrance with Sean. (Michael categorically refused to come; he even went so far as to ask Mr. Parker to give him an extra shift so he'd be able to avoid the party without Maria freaking out too much.)
Sean made a beeline for Sera and scooped her in his arms.
"Sean! It's so good to see you." she said when he finally put her down.
"Hey gorgeous, good to see you too."
"What are you doing here?"
"M didn't want to come alone and she really didn't want to go with the starry-eyed duo over there, so she enlisted my help."
"And you came charging to the rescue, you're so gallant!"
"Well how else am I supposed to pick up high school girls?"
"That is wrong on so many levels."
Sean laughed. "Oh I think I took you from your date here." He turned as Tim cleared his throat and Sean extended his hand to the football player. "Sean DeLuca."
"Tim Malamud, nice to meet you."
"Malamud, Malamud. Your name sounds familiar."
"Well I did make All Conference last year." Tim bragged, proudly puffing out his chest.
Sean shook his head, "No, that's not it. Oh I know-I've heard Kyle
cursing your name around the house. Something about you ogling our girl
here and that he was going to kick your ass for it."
Serena elbowed Sean's side. "Would you please behave yourself."
"What? It's the truth."
Sera shot him an extremely stern look and he shrugged. "Well who the hell could blame ya? All of M's friends are sexy: Davidson, Evans, Isabel not Max; and of course Parker over there."
“What have I told you about checking out Liz?" The three of them turned to see Maria glaring at Sean.
"I was just making conversation."
"No you were leering at Liz-OFF LIMITS! How many times must you be told?"
"Hey I agreed to the no touching thing, albeit reluctantly, I never promised not to look."
Sera laughed at the cousins who were never happy in each other’s presence unless they were arguing.
After several songs played Sera took a breather. Sean followed her into the kitchen and watched as she rummaged around attempting to find a soda in the cooler jammed with beer.
"Ah Ha!"
"You really should switch to beer you know. Makes the party much better."
"Thanks for the tip Mr. DeLuca, but I think I'll stick to this."
"Wuss."
"Delinquent."
"So this date of yours, is this a serious thing?"
Sera sighed. "I'm just…you know Sean, it's complicated."
"What is it with all of you?"
She furrowed her brow. "What do you mean?"
"M, Parker, you-everything in your love life is complicated."
"Sean."
"I know, I know you're all freakishly bonded by something and I'm not
allowed to know what, but I just don't understand why you put up with
their shit. You three are all hot for those guys one minute and the next,
none of you can stand to be in the same room with them."
"It's a really long story."
"Yeah, yeah I know. (after a beat) "I'm always here; if you need a
shoulder to cry on...or nibble on if you're so inclined.
Sera smacked him on said shoulder.
"Please, don't play innocent with me Davidson. I know all about your trip to the eraser room."
Serena rolled her eyes.
"Why do I talk to you?"
"Because you can't resist my charms."
"God, does this actually work on women?"
"I don't know ask me in the morning."
"Sean DeLuca, there isn't enough alcohol in the tri-county area to get me to go home with you tonight!"
Sean laughed with her, "We'll see."
***********
Pam noticed Sera leave and cursed her luck that this was the exact
moment Kyle was unoccupied by Isabel. Pam may have been fearless
when it came to Sera, Maria and Liz; but Isabel Evans was NOT someone
she was comfortable approaching. That girl was TOO perfect. Despite her
disappointment in being denied the look on Sera's face, she knew it was
now or never to make her move for Kyle, she sidled up to him as he
reached for another drink.
"Hey."
"Oh, hey Pam."
"So I was wondering…"
Kyle stared at her expectantly. She grinned and leaned up to whisper in
his ear and he followed her out of the living room and up the stairs.
They reached the hallway and Kyle stopped short. "Ok, what is this
important thing you wanted to talk to me about?"
"Let’s go somewhere less noisy."
"This seems OK."
"I'd rather do it in private. Please?" She opened a door and pulled on
his hand.
Kyle swore silently when he realized it was Mr. and Mrs. Forrester's bedroom. “Look Pam, Sera and I just broke up..."
"I know. That's what I wanted to talk about."
"Pam..."
"Kyle, you and I have run in the same pack for a long time, but the past few years you've been pulling away. I just want you to know I'm here for you when you want to talk."
"I really appreciate that Pam, I do, it’s just that my problems with Sera are very complicated." Pam sat on the bed and faced Kyle.
"I know...but since your breakup you look lost and I just want you to know that I'm here to help. Any way I can."
***********
Sera stood in line for the bathroom talking with Brent Carter from her drama class.
"Hey Sera."
Serena turned at the sound of Rachel's voice.
"Hi! This is a great party."
"Thanks. Um Sera, can I ask you a question?"
"Of course."
"The guy that Maria came with, are they...I mean I thought she and
Michael Guerin were pretty exclusive."
"They're WAY exclusive! That's Maria's cousin Sean. Why, did he do
something?"
"No, nothings wrong...I was just curious."
"Oh my God, are you interested in Sean?"
"Well he is really cute."
Sera laughed. "Please don't tell him that, you'll swell his head even
further than it is now."
"What about you? You guys looked pretty chummy."
"Me and Sean? No! He's just a friend. I'll make the introductions if I ever
get out of this line."
"You could use the upstairs."
"Nah, I looked, the line is almost as long."
“Actually I was talking about the one in my parent's room."
"There's a third bathroom?"
"Yeah. Only a few people know about it and I told them it was pretty
much off limits unless it was an emergency."
"And this is an emergency?"
"Do you know how long it's been since I've been on a date? It's definitely
an emergency!"
Sera laughed as Rachel led her upstairs.
************
Opening the door to her parent's room, Rachel stopped short, causing
Sera to bump into her. "Rach, what…"
Sera’s comment caught in her throat as both girls took in the sight before them: A half-dressed Pam on top of Kyle on the Forrester's waterbed.
Serena's mouth dropped open, and Pam turned from her position to smile cruelly at her. Kyle watched a myriad of emotions cross Serena's face before her feet obeyed her brain and she fled the scene.
Sean was the first person Sera laid eyes on as she tore through the house in her escape attempt.
"Hey Davidson, Where's the fire?"
"Would you take me home please?"
"What about your date, won't he get a little pissed?"
"Sean will you take me home or not?"
"Okay. Its OK I'll take you home. Just let me get M."
"I'll be outside."
***********
"M, we gotta go."
"What are you talking about we just got here."
"Fine then I have to go; you get a ride home with Liz."
"What, did you find some poor pathetic girl who agreed to go home with you? You do know that my mother wields her newspaper without regard to a person's gender right?
Don't expect your little hussy to escape Amy's wrath when she discovers..."
"Would you shut up, it’s Sera." Sean interrupted her rambling admonishment.
"What's Sera?"
"She asked me for a ride home."
"Oh no you don't. Did you learn nothing from the Liz fiasco of last year?"
"It's not like that."
"Really?" Maria snorted derisively
"She's upset about something...look, she asked me to take her home and
that's what I'm going to do. If you want to come with us then let’s go."
"You're really worried about her."
"She's my friend Maria, if you haven't noticed I do have some."
Maria nodded at her cousin. "Take her home, and tell her to call me if she needs anything."
"You sure you don't want to come with us?"
"She came to you; you're the one she needs right now."
Sean nodded and turned to leave, passing Max on his way out. "Hey Max, I've got to jet, can you make sure Maria gets home?"
"Of course, is everything all right Sean?"
"I hope so."
Walking back to Liz, Max shook his head.
"That was weird."
"What was weird?"
"Sean just asked me to take Maria home and he ran out of here in a rush."
"Huh, that is weird."
"Hey girlfriends. Can I get a ride?” Maria asked, joining them. “Sean ditched me for an act of chivalry. Who knew he could be sweet? What?" she asked, noticing the look Liz was giving her.
"An act of chivalry?" Max inquired, choosing to ignore Liz's defense of Sean (even if it was non-verbal it still bugged the hell out of him)
"Sera was upset about something and asked him to take her home, so he did."
"Oh. I hope she's OK." Liz said
"Me too. I wonder what got her so upset, she wasn't gone that long…"
Maria trailed off as she watched her almost-brother beat a hasty retreat down the steps, tucking his shirt in as he walked. Rachel and Pam followed close behind; the smirk on Pam's face spoke volumes. b]"Fuck a duck!!"[/b]
***********
"Are you crazy?" Maria asked after dragging Kyle into the kitchen.
"What?"
"Don't what me. You come downstairs in a rumple with that slut behind you grinning like she just swallowed the Cheshire Cat and you ask me WHAT?"
"Maria it's not what it looks like."
"Really then explain it to me."
"Do you realize that your voice carries?"
"He's right you know." Isabel noted as she entered the kitchen.
"I'm not trying to be quiet. I'm trying to wrap my brain around you screwing Pam Troy!!"
"You slept with Pam?" Isabel asked, making no attempt to hide her disgust.
"No!"
"Well Sera must have seen you doing something with Pam, walking in on that is the only thing I can think of that would cause her flee like she did.
“Sera saw you and Pam?” Isabel said, her disgust growing.
Yeah, she ran out of here super-fast with Sean in tow." Maria fumed.
Kyle finally stopped smoothing his now tucked in shirt, "She left with Sean?"
"Don't change the subject."
"What is the subject?"
"Kyle!"
"OK OK! Pam and I were on the bed. But we didn't have sex."
"What did you do?" Iz asked not sure if she really wanted to hear the answer.
"We were talking one minute and the next she was all over me. I
admit I was into it for awhile. Right up until I heard someone in the
doorway and saw Sera's face, she looked crushed."
"Can you blame her?" Maria asked, raising her voice a full octave.
"She came here with Malamud."
"So that gives you the right to go at it with Pam Troy in Principal Forrester's bed?
Ewww! I'm going to be sick."
"Actually Maria, he and Sera aren't together anymore, so he's free to 'go at it' with anyone he chooses, Even if he made a wrong decision here."
"A wrong decision Isabel? No this was THE wrong decision. And the worst mistake he could make. I mean what was he thinking? WAS he thinking?"
"Have either of you noticed that I'm still in the room?"
Both girls looked at him disdainfully.
"Look, the bottom line is I didn't sleep with Pam, although I could
have. Maria and Iz snorted. (As if to say DUH! She's made that
COMPLETELY obvious!) It just didn't feel right,something was off. And I
never wanted Sera to see that. You have to believe me. I was just
feeling, I don’t know, lonely, and Pam was pretty aggressive. It was nice
to feel that someone wanted me you know? Someone outside out crazy
little group.”
Maria sighed. "I know. I know this has been a strained bunch of weeks for you two. I'm sorry, I just care about you and want to see you happy, so I meddle."
"Ditto." Iz said smiling at the almost-siblings.
"Thank you, both of you." Kyle said taking a hand from each of the
girls. "You were right about one thing...OK you were right about MANY
things, but especially when you said it’s been a weird few weeks. I don't
know where Sera and I are headed, if we're on the same path. What I do
know is that I, we have you guys looking out for us. And in many cases
telling us what to do."
Kyle ducked as both Maria and Isabel launched blows at his head.
***********
"You going to sit in silence the whole way home?"
No response.
"OK."
Sean cranked up the radio and filled the Jetta with the driving beat of a Good Charlotte song.
"You know, he shouted over the music, if you won't talk to me I'll have to sing to pass the time."
"Can we go somewhere?"
Stunned that she actually responded to his mock threat, Sean twisted the
volume down and looked at his passenger.
"What?"
"Can we go somewhere? I don't really want to go home yet,"
"OK, Where did you have in mind."
"I don't care. Anywhere."
Sean nodded and made a left hand turn at the light. They drove a short
distance before reaching a small parking lot. Sean pulled into a spot and
got out, motioning for Sera to follow him.
"Calhoun Park?
"You said anywhere."
She nodded.
"I would have taken you to the bowling alley, but you don't look like you're in a bowling mood."
"The bowling alley? Aren't they closed?"
Sean shrugged. "I have connections."
Sera offered a slight chuckle at the goofy grin on Sean's face.
"Come on. I know the perfect place to talk." He extended his hand.
She allowed him to lead her through the park. They found a bench overlooking Emden Pond and sat down.
"I always thought it was really pretty right here." he told her.
"I fear you!"
"Thanks."
"I'm sorry Sean; I'm just having a really crappy night."
"So I gathered by the way we rabbited out of there. You want to tell me about it?"
Sera said nothing, just looked out across the water.
"Its OK, we can just sit here, I could go get us some burgers and we could do some mustard writing!"
“Mustard writing?”
“Mustard writing.” Sean confirmed, “You take mustard and write on
your burger what ever your problem is and then you eat it, effectively
wiping out your problem. (off her incredulous stare. "It’s Aunt Amy idea.”
“Of course it is.”
Sean caught a small half smile before Sera’s face resumed the defeated
expression she’d been sporting since they left the party. “As much as I love that idea, mustard writing isn’t going to solve this one." After a stretch of silence Sera said, "I saw Kyle with Pam Troy."
"What do you mean you saw them?"
"I mean I walked in on him in bed with Pam!"
"Are you serious?"
"Completely."
"Damn. I'm sorry."
"I guess I shouldn't be so upset. I mean, it’s not like we're together
anymore. If I didn't know that before tonight I sure as hell do now."
"Sera, I..." Sean's words were cut off as Sera pulled him into a kiss.
He responded for a moment before disengaging himself. "Sera, I can't
believe I'm saying this to you, but we can't do this."
"Sure we can." She whispered, moving for him again.
"No, we can't." He took hold of her hands. "Look I’ll tell you the same thing I told Parker...I don't feed of another man's taco platter. This thing between you and Kyle it’s unresolved. I'm not getting in the middle of that, not again."
"You got in the middle of us before?"
"Liz and Max. They were going through a rough patch and I made a
move. It didn't work out too well for me...as you know Liz went back to
Max and I was left in the dust."
"Sean, it’s not like that, I just, God I'm so confused. I'm sorry Sean."
"Its okay."
"No its not, You offer me a shoulder to cry on and I try to molest you.
How can you ever look at me again?"
"Believe me Davidson, looking at you isn't a hard thing to do. Look, you've had a tough night, you're hurt and upset and a little part of you wants to get back at Kyle. I get that and I'll be here for you, just not like that. Not until you’re over him. He squeezed her hands causing her gaze to meet his, "When that day comes, look out girl! Remember that this shoulder is available for nibbling in addition to crying!"
Sera smiled and pulled Sean into a hug.
"You're a great guy Sean DeLuca."
"Hey don't go spreading that around, you'll ruin my reputation."
"Actually I know someone who expressed an interest in you."
"You mean besides you? Kidding!"
"Very funny! I'm talking about Rachel Forrester."
"The girl who had the party?"
Sera nodded.
"Hmmm."
"Is that a good hmmm?"
"Could be."
"Well at the next party we attend I promise to make the proper introductions. If I'm not running for the door."
"You were moving so fast; you didn’t even tell your date you were leaving!"
"Oh My God, Tim!!! What am I going to do?"
"My suggestion would be to call him, but I'm sure by now someone's told him you skipped out with another guy."
"Poor Tim, I can't believe I forgot about him." Sera said shaking her head.
"Yeah, well from what I could tell, you're not missing much."
"Sean!"
"Hey, I'm your friend; naturally I have to pick on any guy you date."
"Tim and I are not dating. We're just friends."
"Friends with privileges?" Sean asked with a leer.
"Just when I think you're being sweet, you go and say something like that."
"Come on. You didn't think I could be Mr. Nobility all night did you?"
"All good things must come to an end I guess. "
"Well I gave it my best shot. You'll have to love me lumps and all."
Sera smiled and touched his arm.
"I do. You're a great friend Sean. I really glad you came tonight. Thank you."
"All right, stop it you're making me blush." He stood and reached out, pulling Sera to her feet. "Come on, let's get you home. I don't want to get in trouble with your mother for keeping you out late. From what I hear she is not a woman to cross when it comes to her little girl."
"You heard about that huh?"
"I'm telling you Davidson, I know all your secrets."
Sera chuckled softly as they made their way to the car. "Care to wager on that?"
*************
Max and Liz waved goodbye to Maria as they dropped her off at Michael’s
apartment, Max pulled away only after ensuring that Michael had opened
the door and let Maria inside, A move that did not go unnoticed by his
girlfriend. “You are so sweet Max Evans’”
“Well, not that I mind the compliment, but what did I do?”
“Making sure that Michael answered the door for Maria before you left.
Even though you know she has a key!”
“Hey, I’ve achieved girlfriend status with Maria, and that’s not something I
take lightly! I’m not about to do anything to jeopardize that!”
Liz grinned and grabbed Max’s hand in hers. “So, where to now?”
“Well, I was thinking my room.”
“Sounds good.”
Max did a double take. “It does?”
“Of course, why are you looking at me like that?”
“Well you usually don’t give in so easily. There’s always the worry about
my parents, your parents, having to get up for school or work. Why the
change?”
“Well, I’ve decided that I need to stop worrying about all that and just
enjoy my life as any other teenage girl with a really, really hot boyfriend
would. And now that I know you can soundproof your room with your
powers, there is really no reason for us not to make love when ever we
feel like it!”
*************
Max and Liz tiptoed past his parent’s room and silently made their way
into his bedroom. As soon as Max had latched the door Liz was all over
him. She ran her hands up his chest and traced the shell of his ear with
her tongue. He started to grin and ask her if she was going to let him turn
around when he felt her hands on his zipper.
“Liz…”
“Max, you remember that time you came into the Crashdown and I spilled
the strawberries?”
“Uh, yea..yeah” Max sputtered, trying to regain some semblance of
control.
“When you followed me into the kitchen and we made out, and I
started to see the flashes of the orb. Max that night, they way you just
grabbed me and kissed me. I...I want you to do that again.”
“What?”
“That night you kissed me in a way that was…I don’t even know how to
describe it, other than amazing. You should have seen my face when I
went back out front. Maria was afraid that we’d done more than kissing!”
“We were only gone like 10 minutes.”Liz laughed, “I know, that’s
what she was so worried about!”
Max finally turned to face his girlfriend, “So what you’re saying is that
you want me to throw you down on the bed and ravish you?”
“Well, yeah!”
“God I love you!”
Liz started to respond, but Max moved too quickly for her. He picked her
up and tossed her on the bed, he joined her immediately laughing as he
rolled them over and she was on top.
“You know, you forgot to do the soundproofing thing.” She teased;
hold out her hands and wiggling her fingers.
“What? You think I can’t multi-task?”
“I’m fairly certain that I was the only thing on your mind!”
Max flipped them over again, “You are so right. Actually you are the
only thing on my mind most of the time.”
Liz blushed and Max drank in the sight of her for a moment before
extending his arm and laying his hand flat to the wall. The perimeter of
his room briefly glowed purple as the soundproofing took effect.
“Happy.”
“Not yet, but I’m going to be.”
“Hmmm sounds promising.” Max kissed her passionately as his hands
began roaming her body.
“You know you don’t wear skirts enough.” He said pushing said skirt up
her hips.
“Really?”
“Yes, I’ve always thought of it as your worst character flaw!”Liz
couldn’t help but laugh at the serious look Max was sporting, despite his
teasing tone.
"So what other, um character flaws have you noticed.”
“Oh that’s the only one. Except….
“Except…what?”
"Except well, you’re just wearing WAY too many clothes.”
“Well maybe that’s a character flaw you can help me with.”
“Oh I will!”Max continued to peel Liz’s clothes off until she was in just
her lingerie.
“Sliver? That’s new!”
‘Yeah well, you seemed to like some of the stuff I bought with Maria, that
I thought I’d venture out on my own.”
"Well, I whole heartedly approve!”
Liz smirked and looked at the obvious bulge in Max’s pants. “I can tell.”Max grinned and sat up to shed his clothing, once he was naked he pulled Liz to him for a searing kiss.
She responded by reaching for the front snap on her bra, but Max
stilled her hand. “I’m supposed to be ravishing you remember?”
She tried to suppress a grin, “You just want to work the front clasp
don’t you?”
“It’s like opening a present!”Liz’s grin finally broke through and she
allowed Max to divest her of the bra and panties.
He left no inch of her skin untouched by his lips, bringing her to climax
twice using only his hands and mouth, before entering her and cementing
their bond.
************
Basking in the afterglow, and once she regained the power of speech she
lifted her head from his chest, “Yeah, definitely going to start wearing
more skirts!”
END CHAPTER
Title: Starting Over
Author: LizabethR2D2
Disclaimer: As much as I wish I owned these characters/this show I do not! They belong to Melinda Metz, Jason Katims, the WB and UPN networks and the amazing actors who portrayed them! I guess I do own Sera, but I’d be willing to trade her for Colin Hanks or Nick Wechsler.
Category: CC
Rating: Adult (It will vary chapter to chapter, but let’s just be safe and say Adult to cover all our bases!)
Summary: Alternate Season 3-Picking up a few weeks after the WB Season 2 Finale. This is the Season 3 that I would have liked to see televised, our CCs are together, no one is going to a Vermont boarding school, no one moves to NYC and no one marries Delko! Just good old fashioned Season 1 type entertainment. (At least I like to think so!)
Author's Notes
~To Buddha-boy, Thanks for the reviews. You are very perceptive about Malamud, more on him later!
~To Allie Xie, I’m a huge Pop Culture junkie so my fic will be scattered with them!
~To BehrObsession, The end of this is dedicated to your Dreamer heart.
Rachel's Party
Kyle sat on Isabel's bed watching her fling outfits out of her closet with alarming speed.
"You do know that the party is tonight right?"
She came out of the closet with a potential candidate and gave him a
stern look. As she stood at the mirror she held the outfit up to her and
twisted her head from side to side. Finally nodding her head she
disappeared back in the closet. When she reemerged she was wearing a
completely different outfit than the one she'd perused in the mirror.
"What? That's not..."
"Kyle, this is a process. I'm allowing you to be witness to my process
because you are my friend and I love you, but if you continue to interrupt
my process you will be dealt with." She patted his head and returned
to the mirror. A knock at the door cut off any retort Kyle could have mustered.
"Come in."
"Hey Iz...oh hey Kyle. I didn't know you were here already."
"Just waiting, patiently, for Isabel to finish preparing." His jovial tone
subsided when he glanced at Iz's reflection and noticed the glare he
thought she reserved only for Michael.
"Do you guys want to ride with us?"
Isabel looked at Kyle who shrugged his shoulders.
"Sure. Just let me do my makeup."
Kyle sighed deeply and fell back against Iz's bed muttering about the time
that 'process' would take. Isabel cleared her throat and he opened one
eye to peer at her. She swiped her hand across her face and Kyle's eyes
widened as Isabel's perfect party makeup was instantly in place.
He hopped off the bed. "Right. OK. Let's go."
Max watched as Kyle made his way down the stairs. "What's with him?"
"I think he just needs a release. This will be good for him."
"Maybe not so much when he sees who Sera's date is."
"What are you talking about?"
"Tim Malamud."
"WHAT?"
Max nodded.
"Oh this is going to be a long night."
********************
By the time Sera and Tim arrived, the party was already in full swing. Kayla wasted no time in greeting them. "There's my girl, oh hey Tim."
"Hey Kayla." Tim gave her his customary leer, which she ignored.
"Hey sweetie. How are you?" Sera asked giving Kayla a hug
"What's with you two? Devon asked as he joined his girlfriend at
Sera's side. "You get all giddy when you see each other…like spending
two hours apart is an eternity."
"Didn't we tell you? We're carrying on a passionate affair behind your
back." Kayla said grinning at him.
Devon nodded and handed Kayla a drink. "Sweet. Promise to invite me next time you hook up."
Sera rolled her eyes. "Charming. I'm going to run away now."
Tim tried to grab her arm to bring her back but she shooed him away. "I'm going to get something to drink…you want anything?"
"Yeah, I'll come with you."
They made their way to the kitchen past several already intoxicated
classmates. Reaching their destination, Sera looked around for a soda.
Max had warned her about what happened when he had tried alcohol, and
Serena wasn't about to tempt fate.
She located a Coke in the cooler and popped the top as Tim grabbed a beer from the fridge and offered it to her.
"No thanks."
"You're not drinking?"
"I don't like beer."
"Oh, well...here: Rum, Jack Daniels, vanilla vodka, those all go well in Coke. Of course now we just have to find the key to the liquor cabinet."
Sera shook her head. "I'm fine, Tim really."
"Well I wish I could convince you. I'm a lot more charming after you've had a few drinks."
She laughed and pushed at his chest, he put his arm around her waist and pulled her close to him, just as the back door opened and Kyle, Isabel, Max and Liz walked in. Serena straightened immediately as she watched Kyle's eyes move from her face to Tim's arm locked around her frame.
"Hi." She spoke to the group as a whole.
"Hey Sera, we were hoping to run into you." Liz said, moving past Kyle.
Sera smiled at her friend. "Yeah me too. Hello Isabel."
Iz looked at her for a moment before offering a flat "Hi." in return. "Kyle, let's go say hello Rachel. It is her party after all."
"Hmm? Oh yeah sure." As he followed her out of the room he
shoulder checked Tim just enough to send a message. Tim got it loud and
clear. "Seems like Valenti is regretting his decision" he told Sera as
he rubbed his shoulder.
"What?"
"That 'touch her and you're dead' shoulder check screams that he wants you back but can't articulate it."
"When did you become Sigmund Freud?"
"I've pissed off enough boyfriends to become an expert in non-verbals."
Serena shook her head and laughed.
***********
As the party progressed Sera noticed Max and Liz were running
interference when she'd let her gaze linger on Kyle. After the fourth time,
Sera reddened and grinned at her friends. "Okay. I get it. Moping isn't
allowed. So we dance?" Liz smiled back and looked at Max.
"We dance." Max concurred taking his girlfriend's hand.
Devon tossed a Chemical Brothers CD to the party DJ, Mark Adams, and grabbed Kayla to join Max, Sera and Liz on the impromptu dance floor of the Forrester's living room. It didn't take long for most in attendance to join in on the fun.
Liz smiled and waved as Maria made an entrance with Sean. (Michael categorically refused to come; he even went so far as to ask Mr. Parker to give him an extra shift so he'd be able to avoid the party without Maria freaking out too much.)
Sean made a beeline for Sera and scooped her in his arms.
"Sean! It's so good to see you." she said when he finally put her down.
"Hey gorgeous, good to see you too."
"What are you doing here?"
"M didn't want to come alone and she really didn't want to go with the starry-eyed duo over there, so she enlisted my help."
"And you came charging to the rescue, you're so gallant!"
"Well how else am I supposed to pick up high school girls?"
"That is wrong on so many levels."
Sean laughed. "Oh I think I took you from your date here." He turned as Tim cleared his throat and Sean extended his hand to the football player. "Sean DeLuca."
"Tim Malamud, nice to meet you."
"Malamud, Malamud. Your name sounds familiar."
"Well I did make All Conference last year." Tim bragged, proudly puffing out his chest.
Sean shook his head, "No, that's not it. Oh I know-I've heard Kyle
cursing your name around the house. Something about you ogling our girl
here and that he was going to kick your ass for it."
Serena elbowed Sean's side. "Would you please behave yourself."
"What? It's the truth."
Sera shot him an extremely stern look and he shrugged. "Well who the hell could blame ya? All of M's friends are sexy: Davidson, Evans, Isabel not Max; and of course Parker over there."
“What have I told you about checking out Liz?" The three of them turned to see Maria glaring at Sean.
"I was just making conversation."
"No you were leering at Liz-OFF LIMITS! How many times must you be told?"
"Hey I agreed to the no touching thing, albeit reluctantly, I never promised not to look."
Sera laughed at the cousins who were never happy in each other’s presence unless they were arguing.
After several songs played Sera took a breather. Sean followed her into the kitchen and watched as she rummaged around attempting to find a soda in the cooler jammed with beer.
"Ah Ha!"
"You really should switch to beer you know. Makes the party much better."
"Thanks for the tip Mr. DeLuca, but I think I'll stick to this."
"Wuss."
"Delinquent."
"So this date of yours, is this a serious thing?"
Sera sighed. "I'm just…you know Sean, it's complicated."
"What is it with all of you?"
She furrowed her brow. "What do you mean?"
"M, Parker, you-everything in your love life is complicated."
"Sean."
"I know, I know you're all freakishly bonded by something and I'm not
allowed to know what, but I just don't understand why you put up with
their shit. You three are all hot for those guys one minute and the next,
none of you can stand to be in the same room with them."
"It's a really long story."
"Yeah, yeah I know. (after a beat) "I'm always here; if you need a
shoulder to cry on...or nibble on if you're so inclined.
Sera smacked him on said shoulder.
"Please, don't play innocent with me Davidson. I know all about your trip to the eraser room."
Serena rolled her eyes.
"Why do I talk to you?"
"Because you can't resist my charms."
"God, does this actually work on women?"
"I don't know ask me in the morning."
"Sean DeLuca, there isn't enough alcohol in the tri-county area to get me to go home with you tonight!"
Sean laughed with her, "We'll see."
***********
Pam noticed Sera leave and cursed her luck that this was the exact
moment Kyle was unoccupied by Isabel. Pam may have been fearless
when it came to Sera, Maria and Liz; but Isabel Evans was NOT someone
she was comfortable approaching. That girl was TOO perfect. Despite her
disappointment in being denied the look on Sera's face, she knew it was
now or never to make her move for Kyle, she sidled up to him as he
reached for another drink.
"Hey."
"Oh, hey Pam."
"So I was wondering…"
Kyle stared at her expectantly. She grinned and leaned up to whisper in
his ear and he followed her out of the living room and up the stairs.
They reached the hallway and Kyle stopped short. "Ok, what is this
important thing you wanted to talk to me about?"
"Let’s go somewhere less noisy."
"This seems OK."
"I'd rather do it in private. Please?" She opened a door and pulled on
his hand.
Kyle swore silently when he realized it was Mr. and Mrs. Forrester's bedroom. “Look Pam, Sera and I just broke up..."
"I know. That's what I wanted to talk about."
"Pam..."
"Kyle, you and I have run in the same pack for a long time, but the past few years you've been pulling away. I just want you to know I'm here for you when you want to talk."
"I really appreciate that Pam, I do, it’s just that my problems with Sera are very complicated." Pam sat on the bed and faced Kyle.
"I know...but since your breakup you look lost and I just want you to know that I'm here to help. Any way I can."
***********
Sera stood in line for the bathroom talking with Brent Carter from her drama class.
"Hey Sera."
Serena turned at the sound of Rachel's voice.
"Hi! This is a great party."
"Thanks. Um Sera, can I ask you a question?"
"Of course."
"The guy that Maria came with, are they...I mean I thought she and
Michael Guerin were pretty exclusive."
"They're WAY exclusive! That's Maria's cousin Sean. Why, did he do
something?"
"No, nothings wrong...I was just curious."
"Oh my God, are you interested in Sean?"
"Well he is really cute."
Sera laughed. "Please don't tell him that, you'll swell his head even
further than it is now."
"What about you? You guys looked pretty chummy."
"Me and Sean? No! He's just a friend. I'll make the introductions if I ever
get out of this line."
"You could use the upstairs."
"Nah, I looked, the line is almost as long."
“Actually I was talking about the one in my parent's room."
"There's a third bathroom?"
"Yeah. Only a few people know about it and I told them it was pretty
much off limits unless it was an emergency."
"And this is an emergency?"
"Do you know how long it's been since I've been on a date? It's definitely
an emergency!"
Sera laughed as Rachel led her upstairs.
************
Opening the door to her parent's room, Rachel stopped short, causing
Sera to bump into her. "Rach, what…"
Sera’s comment caught in her throat as both girls took in the sight before them: A half-dressed Pam on top of Kyle on the Forrester's waterbed.
Serena's mouth dropped open, and Pam turned from her position to smile cruelly at her. Kyle watched a myriad of emotions cross Serena's face before her feet obeyed her brain and she fled the scene.
Sean was the first person Sera laid eyes on as she tore through the house in her escape attempt.
"Hey Davidson, Where's the fire?"
"Would you take me home please?"
"What about your date, won't he get a little pissed?"
"Sean will you take me home or not?"
"Okay. Its OK I'll take you home. Just let me get M."
"I'll be outside."
***********
"M, we gotta go."
"What are you talking about we just got here."
"Fine then I have to go; you get a ride home with Liz."
"What, did you find some poor pathetic girl who agreed to go home with you? You do know that my mother wields her newspaper without regard to a person's gender right?
Don't expect your little hussy to escape Amy's wrath when she discovers..."
"Would you shut up, it’s Sera." Sean interrupted her rambling admonishment.
"What's Sera?"
"She asked me for a ride home."
"Oh no you don't. Did you learn nothing from the Liz fiasco of last year?"
"It's not like that."
"Really?" Maria snorted derisively
"She's upset about something...look, she asked me to take her home and
that's what I'm going to do. If you want to come with us then let’s go."
"You're really worried about her."
"She's my friend Maria, if you haven't noticed I do have some."
Maria nodded at her cousin. "Take her home, and tell her to call me if she needs anything."
"You sure you don't want to come with us?"
"She came to you; you're the one she needs right now."
Sean nodded and turned to leave, passing Max on his way out. "Hey Max, I've got to jet, can you make sure Maria gets home?"
"Of course, is everything all right Sean?"
"I hope so."
Walking back to Liz, Max shook his head.
"That was weird."
"What was weird?"
"Sean just asked me to take Maria home and he ran out of here in a rush."
"Huh, that is weird."
"Hey girlfriends. Can I get a ride?” Maria asked, joining them. “Sean ditched me for an act of chivalry. Who knew he could be sweet? What?" she asked, noticing the look Liz was giving her.
"An act of chivalry?" Max inquired, choosing to ignore Liz's defense of Sean (even if it was non-verbal it still bugged the hell out of him)
"Sera was upset about something and asked him to take her home, so he did."
"Oh. I hope she's OK." Liz said
"Me too. I wonder what got her so upset, she wasn't gone that long…"
Maria trailed off as she watched her almost-brother beat a hasty retreat down the steps, tucking his shirt in as he walked. Rachel and Pam followed close behind; the smirk on Pam's face spoke volumes. b]"Fuck a duck!!"[/b]
***********
"Are you crazy?" Maria asked after dragging Kyle into the kitchen.
"What?"
"Don't what me. You come downstairs in a rumple with that slut behind you grinning like she just swallowed the Cheshire Cat and you ask me WHAT?"
"Maria it's not what it looks like."
"Really then explain it to me."
"Do you realize that your voice carries?"
"He's right you know." Isabel noted as she entered the kitchen.
"I'm not trying to be quiet. I'm trying to wrap my brain around you screwing Pam Troy!!"
"You slept with Pam?" Isabel asked, making no attempt to hide her disgust.
"No!"
"Well Sera must have seen you doing something with Pam, walking in on that is the only thing I can think of that would cause her flee like she did.
“Sera saw you and Pam?” Isabel said, her disgust growing.
Yeah, she ran out of here super-fast with Sean in tow." Maria fumed.
Kyle finally stopped smoothing his now tucked in shirt, "She left with Sean?"
"Don't change the subject."
"What is the subject?"
"Kyle!"
"OK OK! Pam and I were on the bed. But we didn't have sex."
"What did you do?" Iz asked not sure if she really wanted to hear the answer.
"We were talking one minute and the next she was all over me. I
admit I was into it for awhile. Right up until I heard someone in the
doorway and saw Sera's face, she looked crushed."
"Can you blame her?" Maria asked, raising her voice a full octave.
"She came here with Malamud."
"So that gives you the right to go at it with Pam Troy in Principal Forrester's bed?
Ewww! I'm going to be sick."
"Actually Maria, he and Sera aren't together anymore, so he's free to 'go at it' with anyone he chooses, Even if he made a wrong decision here."
"A wrong decision Isabel? No this was THE wrong decision. And the worst mistake he could make. I mean what was he thinking? WAS he thinking?"
"Have either of you noticed that I'm still in the room?"
Both girls looked at him disdainfully.
"Look, the bottom line is I didn't sleep with Pam, although I could
have. Maria and Iz snorted. (As if to say DUH! She's made that
COMPLETELY obvious!) It just didn't feel right,something was off. And I
never wanted Sera to see that. You have to believe me. I was just
feeling, I don’t know, lonely, and Pam was pretty aggressive. It was nice
to feel that someone wanted me you know? Someone outside out crazy
little group.”
Maria sighed. "I know. I know this has been a strained bunch of weeks for you two. I'm sorry, I just care about you and want to see you happy, so I meddle."
"Ditto." Iz said smiling at the almost-siblings.
"Thank you, both of you." Kyle said taking a hand from each of the
girls. "You were right about one thing...OK you were right about MANY
things, but especially when you said it’s been a weird few weeks. I don't
know where Sera and I are headed, if we're on the same path. What I do
know is that I, we have you guys looking out for us. And in many cases
telling us what to do."
Kyle ducked as both Maria and Isabel launched blows at his head.
***********
"You going to sit in silence the whole way home?"
No response.
"OK."
Sean cranked up the radio and filled the Jetta with the driving beat of a Good Charlotte song.
"You know, he shouted over the music, if you won't talk to me I'll have to sing to pass the time."
"Can we go somewhere?"
Stunned that she actually responded to his mock threat, Sean twisted the
volume down and looked at his passenger.
"What?"
"Can we go somewhere? I don't really want to go home yet,"
"OK, Where did you have in mind."
"I don't care. Anywhere."
Sean nodded and made a left hand turn at the light. They drove a short
distance before reaching a small parking lot. Sean pulled into a spot and
got out, motioning for Sera to follow him.
"Calhoun Park?
"You said anywhere."
She nodded.
"I would have taken you to the bowling alley, but you don't look like you're in a bowling mood."
"The bowling alley? Aren't they closed?"
Sean shrugged. "I have connections."
Sera offered a slight chuckle at the goofy grin on Sean's face.
"Come on. I know the perfect place to talk." He extended his hand.
She allowed him to lead her through the park. They found a bench overlooking Emden Pond and sat down.
"I always thought it was really pretty right here." he told her.
"I fear you!"
"Thanks."
"I'm sorry Sean; I'm just having a really crappy night."
"So I gathered by the way we rabbited out of there. You want to tell me about it?"
Sera said nothing, just looked out across the water.
"Its OK, we can just sit here, I could go get us some burgers and we could do some mustard writing!"
“Mustard writing?”
“Mustard writing.” Sean confirmed, “You take mustard and write on
your burger what ever your problem is and then you eat it, effectively
wiping out your problem. (off her incredulous stare. "It’s Aunt Amy idea.”
“Of course it is.”
Sean caught a small half smile before Sera’s face resumed the defeated
expression she’d been sporting since they left the party. “As much as I love that idea, mustard writing isn’t going to solve this one." After a stretch of silence Sera said, "I saw Kyle with Pam Troy."
"What do you mean you saw them?"
"I mean I walked in on him in bed with Pam!"
"Are you serious?"
"Completely."
"Damn. I'm sorry."
"I guess I shouldn't be so upset. I mean, it’s not like we're together
anymore. If I didn't know that before tonight I sure as hell do now."
"Sera, I..." Sean's words were cut off as Sera pulled him into a kiss.
He responded for a moment before disengaging himself. "Sera, I can't
believe I'm saying this to you, but we can't do this."
"Sure we can." She whispered, moving for him again.
"No, we can't." He took hold of her hands. "Look I’ll tell you the same thing I told Parker...I don't feed of another man's taco platter. This thing between you and Kyle it’s unresolved. I'm not getting in the middle of that, not again."
"You got in the middle of us before?"
"Liz and Max. They were going through a rough patch and I made a
move. It didn't work out too well for me...as you know Liz went back to
Max and I was left in the dust."
"Sean, it’s not like that, I just, God I'm so confused. I'm sorry Sean."
"Its okay."
"No its not, You offer me a shoulder to cry on and I try to molest you.
How can you ever look at me again?"
"Believe me Davidson, looking at you isn't a hard thing to do. Look, you've had a tough night, you're hurt and upset and a little part of you wants to get back at Kyle. I get that and I'll be here for you, just not like that. Not until you’re over him. He squeezed her hands causing her gaze to meet his, "When that day comes, look out girl! Remember that this shoulder is available for nibbling in addition to crying!"
Sera smiled and pulled Sean into a hug.
"You're a great guy Sean DeLuca."
"Hey don't go spreading that around, you'll ruin my reputation."
"Actually I know someone who expressed an interest in you."
"You mean besides you? Kidding!"
"Very funny! I'm talking about Rachel Forrester."
"The girl who had the party?"
Sera nodded.
"Hmmm."
"Is that a good hmmm?"
"Could be."
"Well at the next party we attend I promise to make the proper introductions. If I'm not running for the door."
"You were moving so fast; you didn’t even tell your date you were leaving!"
"Oh My God, Tim!!! What am I going to do?"
"My suggestion would be to call him, but I'm sure by now someone's told him you skipped out with another guy."
"Poor Tim, I can't believe I forgot about him." Sera said shaking her head.
"Yeah, well from what I could tell, you're not missing much."
"Sean!"
"Hey, I'm your friend; naturally I have to pick on any guy you date."
"Tim and I are not dating. We're just friends."
"Friends with privileges?" Sean asked with a leer.
"Just when I think you're being sweet, you go and say something like that."
"Come on. You didn't think I could be Mr. Nobility all night did you?"
"All good things must come to an end I guess. "
"Well I gave it my best shot. You'll have to love me lumps and all."
Sera smiled and touched his arm.
"I do. You're a great friend Sean. I really glad you came tonight. Thank you."
"All right, stop it you're making me blush." He stood and reached out, pulling Sera to her feet. "Come on, let's get you home. I don't want to get in trouble with your mother for keeping you out late. From what I hear she is not a woman to cross when it comes to her little girl."
"You heard about that huh?"
"I'm telling you Davidson, I know all your secrets."
Sera chuckled softly as they made their way to the car. "Care to wager on that?"
*************
Max and Liz waved goodbye to Maria as they dropped her off at Michael’s
apartment, Max pulled away only after ensuring that Michael had opened
the door and let Maria inside, A move that did not go unnoticed by his
girlfriend. “You are so sweet Max Evans’”
“Well, not that I mind the compliment, but what did I do?”
“Making sure that Michael answered the door for Maria before you left.
Even though you know she has a key!”
“Hey, I’ve achieved girlfriend status with Maria, and that’s not something I
take lightly! I’m not about to do anything to jeopardize that!”
Liz grinned and grabbed Max’s hand in hers. “So, where to now?”
“Well, I was thinking my room.”
“Sounds good.”
Max did a double take. “It does?”
“Of course, why are you looking at me like that?”
“Well you usually don’t give in so easily. There’s always the worry about
my parents, your parents, having to get up for school or work. Why the
change?”
“Well, I’ve decided that I need to stop worrying about all that and just
enjoy my life as any other teenage girl with a really, really hot boyfriend
would. And now that I know you can soundproof your room with your
powers, there is really no reason for us not to make love when ever we
feel like it!”
*************
Max and Liz tiptoed past his parent’s room and silently made their way
into his bedroom. As soon as Max had latched the door Liz was all over
him. She ran her hands up his chest and traced the shell of his ear with
her tongue. He started to grin and ask her if she was going to let him turn
around when he felt her hands on his zipper.
“Liz…”
“Max, you remember that time you came into the Crashdown and I spilled
the strawberries?”
“Uh, yea..yeah” Max sputtered, trying to regain some semblance of
control.
“When you followed me into the kitchen and we made out, and I
started to see the flashes of the orb. Max that night, they way you just
grabbed me and kissed me. I...I want you to do that again.”
“What?”
“That night you kissed me in a way that was…I don’t even know how to
describe it, other than amazing. You should have seen my face when I
went back out front. Maria was afraid that we’d done more than kissing!”
“We were only gone like 10 minutes.”Liz laughed, “I know, that’s
what she was so worried about!”
Max finally turned to face his girlfriend, “So what you’re saying is that
you want me to throw you down on the bed and ravish you?”
“Well, yeah!”
“God I love you!”
Liz started to respond, but Max moved too quickly for her. He picked her
up and tossed her on the bed, he joined her immediately laughing as he
rolled them over and she was on top.
“You know, you forgot to do the soundproofing thing.” She teased;
hold out her hands and wiggling her fingers.
“What? You think I can’t multi-task?”
“I’m fairly certain that I was the only thing on your mind!”
Max flipped them over again, “You are so right. Actually you are the
only thing on my mind most of the time.”
Liz blushed and Max drank in the sight of her for a moment before
extending his arm and laying his hand flat to the wall. The perimeter of
his room briefly glowed purple as the soundproofing took effect.
“Happy.”
“Not yet, but I’m going to be.”
“Hmmm sounds promising.” Max kissed her passionately as his hands
began roaming her body.
“You know you don’t wear skirts enough.” He said pushing said skirt up
her hips.
“Really?”
“Yes, I’ve always thought of it as your worst character flaw!”Liz
couldn’t help but laugh at the serious look Max was sporting, despite his
teasing tone.
"So what other, um character flaws have you noticed.”
“Oh that’s the only one. Except….
“Except…what?”
"Except well, you’re just wearing WAY too many clothes.”
“Well maybe that’s a character flaw you can help me with.”
“Oh I will!”Max continued to peel Liz’s clothes off until she was in just
her lingerie.
“Sliver? That’s new!”
‘Yeah well, you seemed to like some of the stuff I bought with Maria, that
I thought I’d venture out on my own.”
"Well, I whole heartedly approve!”
Liz smirked and looked at the obvious bulge in Max’s pants. “I can tell.”Max grinned and sat up to shed his clothing, once he was naked he pulled Liz to him for a searing kiss.
She responded by reaching for the front snap on her bra, but Max
stilled her hand. “I’m supposed to be ravishing you remember?”
She tried to suppress a grin, “You just want to work the front clasp
don’t you?”
“It’s like opening a present!”Liz’s grin finally broke through and she
allowed Max to divest her of the bra and panties.
He left no inch of her skin untouched by his lips, bringing her to climax
twice using only his hands and mouth, before entering her and cementing
their bond.
************
Basking in the afterglow, and once she regained the power of speech she
lifted her head from his chest, “Yeah, definitely going to start wearing
more skirts!”
END CHAPTER
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Starting Over (CC, Adult) Part 18-Training Day Updated 4/2
Title: Starting Over
Author: LizabethR2D2
Disclaimer: As much as I wish I owned these characters/this show I do not! They belong to Melinda Metz, Jason Katims, the WB & UPN networks and the amazing actors who portrayed them! I guess I do partially own Sera, but I’d be willing to trade her for Colin Hanks or Nick Wechsler.
Category: CC
Rating: Adult (It will vary chapter to chapter, but let’s just be safe and say Adult to cover all our bases!)
Summary: Alternate Season 3-Picking up a few weeks after the WB Season 2 Finale. This is the Season 3 that I would have liked to see televised, our CCs are together, no one is going to a Vermont boarding school, no one moves to NYC and no one marries Delko! Just good old fashioned Season 1 type entertainment. (At least I like to think so!)
TRAINING DAY
Sera awoke with a start, gasping for breath. Fifteen minutes later she frantically knocked on a
battered door for a full minute before it was opened by a groggy Michael.
"I need to talk to you!"
Michael rubbed his eyes and surveyed Sera a moment before waving her in. "What the hell happened to you, you're shaking."
"I uh..."
"What's going on?" Maria asked as she emerged from Michael's bedroom.
Sera spun around in surprise "Hey!"
"Sera? Are you OK?"
"I'm sorry. I didn't think -I should just go."
She attempted to move past Michael, but his hand shot out and grabbed her arm.
"What's going on?"
“Is this about what happened at the party?” Maria asked moving
closer to Sera.
"What? Oh, no, I…I just had this weird dream and I needed to talk to
Michael about it, but it can wait."
Michael refused to let go of her arm, "What kind of dream? What
happened?"
"It was, I don't know. It was like I was remembering something."
"Tell me."
"We were in that place, from the thing River Dog showed us, that orb
thing, and Tess…Ava...whatever the hell her name is, she was there.
“At the palace you mean?”
“Yeah, anyway what’s her name was telling Max that she didn't think
Khivar was a threat; but the weird thing was, after she finished speaking,
she closed her eyes for a minute or two, it looked like she was
concentrating on something. After that, you and Max concurred that
Khivar was less a threat than you originally thought."
"She was mindwarping us."
"Yeah, cause that's not something she does a lot!" Maria snorted.
"Is that what she did to Kyle and Alex?" Sera asked her voice
barely above a whisper.
"That's her nifty little gift." Maria's beautiful face turned stony as
she thought about Tess.
"You saw her mind warp us, anything else?" Michael asked.
"You and I, I mean Serena and Rath, talked afterwards. We discussed Khivar, and I told you what happened in the throne room."
"So you're saying you could tell she was mindwarping us?"
Serena nodded then looked past Michael at Maria who was filing through her purse. Pulling out her cell phone Maria punched speed dial #2.
"Maria its 2:30. Who are you calling?" Michael asked
Across town a very sleepy Liz located her cell phone, answering it without
opening her eyes.
"Yes Maria?"
“Caller ID rocks hey chica?”
“I wouldn’t know, my eyes are still closed.”
"Then how did you know it was me?"
"Who else would call me in the middle of the night?"
"OK true, hey, is Max there?"
“Um-yeah-why?"
"I need the two of you to come to Michael's right now."
"Is everything okay Maria?"
"It's not an emergency, we just need clarification on something."
"OK. We'll be right there!"
Max and Liz arrived quickly, Michael was waiting at the door for them.
"What's going on?" Max asked looking at Michael, then he noticed Sera sitting at the counter. "Sera, why are you here?"
"She had a dream-a vision."
"What?"
"I remembered something. I don't really know if it means anything, It just
seemed so real."
"Tell me what you saw."
Sera repeated what she had told M & M earlier, then focused on Michael.
"There's more, when I was captured. I got you killed."
What?"
"No Sera we all saw what happened. Nicholas killed Mic-Rath. It wasn't your fault." Max placated.
"No it was! We had a connection."
Maria's face fell at Sera's choice of words.
"Not that kind of connection. We could communicate telepathically. I gave
you my location- if you hadn't come to rescue me, you wouldn't have
been killed."
"Sera don't think that."
"Its true Liz. He died because of me."
"I died fighting our enemy, I was a soldier, its what I was supposed to do."
"Michael, you…"
"Look Sera, none of that matters now, that was another life."
"Liz and I can communicate telepathically." Max said hoping to steer
the conversation away from unpleasant thoughts. “I assumed it was a
side affect of the connection we formed after she was shot. Maybe I was
wrong, maybe this is a dormant power we all have. That Liz has, because
she was changed, if we can believe Ava."
"Then that means that Kyle would have it to." Liz said looking at Max.
"Hypothetically."
They let that implication hang in the air for a moment before Maria asked the question that was on everyone's mind: "Can you do it now?"
"I don't know. I don't know what I can do." Sera said.
"None of us know the full extent of our powers." Max stated. "All
we know is what we've learned on our own over the years and what Tess
and Nasedo told us. And we don't know how much of that is fact or fiction."
"Everyone seems to know more about us than we do." Michael said
ruefully.
"What if you trained her?"
Everyone turned to face Liz.
"Train me? What do you mean?”
"Help you understand your powers, help you to control them, the ones you guys have honed."
"Wait a minute." Max began.
"No. I think it's a good idea." Michael interjected.
Max looked at his best friend.
"Maxwell, I speak from experience when I say its frustrating to have
powers, but you aren't very good at using them. You know as well as I do
that so much of our powers tied to our emotions and that could be
dangerous for her, for us, for everyone."
"So what are we talking about? Rock breaking?" Max asked with a
slight trace of humor in his voice.
Michael caught the reference and shot him a look.
"I don't know how to do what you can do." Sera protested.
"You did it in Amy's shop."
"I was scared Michael. Those guys were coming after us, I heard them
say they were going to kill Maria and take us... it just happened, I really
couldn't control it."
"That's my point. You need to learn to control it. Our powers can do some
really interesting things Sera, but they can also harm. We can kill."
She blanched at the memory of the skin exploding with the combined
energy she and Michael had released.
"Outside that night at Amy's, I've only ever done something like that the night my father died."
"We'll start slow. Let’s try the telepathy thing."
"What do I do? Just try talking to you in my head?"
"I think you need to think of only that person."
Everyone looked at Liz.
"What do you mean?" Max asked his girlfriend.
"When you and I communicate, we are usually alone and not
distracted by anything else. Its like our focus is entirely on each other."
"Sweetie, that's not just when you two communicate. You're like that all
the time." Maria noted.
"OK Let's do this." Michael said interrupting the best friends.
Sera, Can you hear me?
Sera stared at Michael blankly.
He furrowed his brow and tried again.
SERA!
Her expression didn't change.
Maria stepped to him and touched his arm. "Try again."
SERA!
Sera's eyes bugged as she heard Michael's voice clear as day and noticed
that his mouth hadn't moved.
"I can hear you."
Max's eyes widened as shock registered for a moment. He let it pass and
coached Sera. "Talk to him in your head, not aloud."
Sera closed her eyes and concentrated on Michael alone, mentally
blocking out everyone else.
Michael, I can hear you. Can you hear me?
I hear you.
Sera's eyes snapped open and she grinned at the gang.
"Its working."
Max looked to Michael. "You can hear each other?"
Michael nodded.
Max exhaled deeply. "OK, uh, lets try distance. You can hear each
other in the same room, let's separate you."
Michael walked into his bedroom and closed the door.
Sera looked at her friends quizzically.
"How do I know..." Sera stopped suddenly as Michael interrupted
her.
Does it work?
I hear you, Michael
So this is weird.
Sera laughed aloud and in the connection.
Michael opened the door and returned to the living room. "OK Maxwell,
your turn."
Max smiled and looked to Sera, "Shall we?"
Sera returned his smile and nodded.
Hi.
Hi Max.
Its weird to talk to someone like this, someone who isn't Liz.
That's what Michael said. Well, not the Liz part.
Max grinned and broke their connection. "Well, that's an interesting
new development."
"What about me?"Liz asked. "I want to know if it works for me
too."
Let's try." Sera suggested.
She and Liz faced each other and concentrated. Neither one moved for what seemed like an eternity, finally Liz dropped her eyes and turned to the group. "I can't hear her."
"You know I'm kinda glad, I'd have been really pissed if I was the only
one out of the inner monologue loop."
Liz grinned at her best friend. Leave it to Maria to add the right amount of
levity to the situation.
"So what happens now? Training wise?" Sera asked looking from Max to Michael.
"Well I don't know about you Pod Squad members, but I'm spent." Maria joked.
"Yeah, we should probably all call it a night, my dad booked a tee time at 8:00, so I've got to get up early wake-up call is going to be rough." Max said, pulling Liz into his arms.
“Yeah, I have to make it back in my room before my mother realizes I
was gone half the night." Maria looked to Michael. "Drive me home
Spaceboy?"
"You could stay here."
"Fine, but don't blame me when Amy drives over here brandishing a
newspaper!"
"Yeah let's get you home. Hey, after your shift, come here."
Sera looked at Michael. "What?"
"If you want to learn more, be here after your shift tomorrow."Sera
smiled softly. "Thanks Michael."
He offered her his famous smirk before shepherding everyone towards
the door.
***************
"You can talk to her telepathically?” Isabel asked as Max relayed
the past nights events through the bathroom door.
"Yeah, she can do it with me and Michael, but not Liz."
Iz opened the door. "That's not surprising is it?" Max stared at his
sister in a silent plea for explanation. "The connection between you
and Liz is just that, you and Liz. Its not surprising that she can't talk to the
rest of us."
"I suppose that's true."
Isabel sighed as she walked past Max and into her room, sitting on her
bed she began to zip up her boots. "Was there something else Max,
you have that look."
"What look?"
"That look where you want me to do something, but you aren't quite sure
how to ask."
Max nodded, "I think maybe you should try it."
"Max..."
"What's the harm Isabel."
"I just don't know how I feel about her right now. I need more time."
"OK. Uh, I should tell you, Michael and I are going to teach her how to
use her powers."
Isabel stopped fiddling with her boots and looked at her brother.
"What?"
"It was Liz's idea, to which Michael and I agreed."
"Are you sure that's the right thing to do?"
"Michael made an interesting point. (Iz raised an eyebrow.) About
our powers and how dangerous they can be if we can't control them
correctly."
Getting no response from Iz, Max continued. "We're going to start small,
today at Michael's after their shift at the Crashdown."
"I have plans."
"I know, I just wanted you to be aware."
"And now I am."
"For the record Isabel, I trust her."
"Yeah well, given your history..."
Max averted his sister's gaze.
"I'm sorry Max, that was a cheap shot, I shouldn't have said that."
"It’s okay."
"I'd better go, I'm going to be late."
"All right, say hello to Kyle for me."
"I will."
***********
After their shift at the CD, Michael and the girls met Max at Michael's
apartment.
"What's all this?" Sera asked, stepping around several rocks on
Michael's floor.
"This is part of your training."
"Rocks?"
"Rocks."
"It's a big rock,” she said pointing to one that lay on the kitchen
counter. "Can't wait to tell my friends."
Maria and Liz snickered at the Buffy reference while Michael glared at the
lot, impatience evident on his face.
"Sorry." Sera said shaking off her giggles and giving Michael her
full attention.
"Lets get started. Since you’re so enamored by the rocks we can start with those."
"Great, what do I do with them?"
"Break them."
"Break them?"
"Concentrate your power on one, visualize it shattering."
"Uh, okay"
Sera held out her hand toward the rock, it shook slightly on the table, but
remained intact.
"Keep your focus."
Serena glanced at Michael and began again. The rock was reduced to
dust in a matter of seconds.
"Oh my God!"
"You did it!" Liz said taking hold of Sera's shoulders.
"I can't believe it!"
"If we can save the congratulatory stuff for later, we have work to do."
Sera threw a look at Liz, who bit her bottom lip to keep from laughing.
She turned to Michael. "OK, what's next?"
***********
"How do you feel about all this" Kyle asked Iz as they finished their
lunch.
"I don't know. Probably the same as you."
"Confused?"
"Pretty much."
"So this training thing, what exactly are they doing?"
"I don't know. Max asked me if I wanted to join them at Michael's."
"I won't be mad...if you want to go."
"I don't know what I want to do where she's concerned."
"Now you sound like me."
"I shouldn't have brought it up. I know Sera's a strained point of
conversation at the moment. We could talk about Pam Troy."
"Wow look at the time I really have to go!"
"You thought I wasn't going to call you on that one?"
"It was a mistake, and one that I wish Sera never would have seen. I
hate it that she walked in on that, but I'm kinda glad she did too."
Iz raised her eyebrows at him.
"If she hadn't I don't know if I would have pushed Pam off before
things progressed…you know."
"Really?"
"Come on Iz, its been three years."
"Are you kidding?"
"Vicki Delany, night of the heat wave, old soap factory."
Iz smirked. "That is a long time…but Pam Troy?"
"I know I know!"
"OK, I'll stop. Sorry."
"Nah, its OK. I would have be kicking myself right now if I'd actually slept
with Pam."
"You're not over Sera." It wasn't a question.
"No, I'm not, but I'm not sure what the next step is, I think I'm going to
play it by ear."
"That's probably wise. You've got a good heart. It will lead you in the right direction."
"When did you get all sappy and romantic Ms. Evans?"
"I guess I'm like the reformed Grinch, you know when his heart breaks
the measuring device?"
"We have got to get you a new holiday program to watch!"
"Oh, I know! How about Rudolph's Shiny New Year?"
Kyle laughed and pulled his best friend into a bear hug.
***********
A few hours later, Maria surveyed the mess in Michael's apartment. Rock
dust covered everything in sight, from the furnishings to the occupants.
She shook her head a bit and laughed as a cascade of dust fell from her
hair. Turning toward the newest Pod Squad member, Maria adopted her
best announcer voice and asked Serena an important question.
"Sera Davidson, you've just mastered rock breaking, what are you
going to do now?"
Sera laughed, "I'm going to Disney World...right after I get a broom and clean up the mess I made."
"I don't have a broom." Michael confessed.
Sera stared at him for a moment before looking to Maria who shook her
head and rolled her eyes. "So how do you clean?"
"Clean? Michael?" Maria laughed.
Michael raised his hand towards epicenter of the mess. "Like this."
Serena watched as Michael restored the apartment to its pre-rock
status. "OK! I HAVE to know how to do that."
Liz smiled. "Like that one do you?"
"Liz, do you know how easy clean-up at the Crashdown would be if we could just do that?"
"Already looking for the easy way out? You two have created a monster." Liz admonished, pointing toward Max and Michael.
"I'm not saying we have to use it all the time. Just when we have plans for the evening, wouldn't it be nice to skip clean-up and have more time on a date with Max?"
"Oh no, you're not going to turn this around on me!"
Sera grinned at her friend, before turning toward the boys. "OK, how do I do that?"
*************
Rock breaking, clean-up, simple molecular structure changes
(transforming a bottle of water into juice, and back again.) and levitation
completed the first day of training.
Sera sent a bottle of Snapple from the counter to Maria's hands.
"So how do you feel?" Maria asked, twisting the cap off her
Snapple.
"Exhausted!"Sera replied, taking a bottle of water from Liz.
"I think you did a fantastic job." Liz said smiling at her.
Sera returned the smile and blushed.
"You catch on pretty quick." Max agreed.
Maria nudged Michael, when he didn't respond, she glanced pointedly at
him, then jerked her head toward Sera.
"Hmm? Oh yeah. You did fine."
Sera tried to hide a smirk, but Maria caught it and matched it with one of
her own.
"Wow, that's actually high praise coming from my Spaceboy."
"I'll take it as such. I really want to thank you, all of you. Ever since you
told me what I can do, what I am I've been really scared about this
power. The thought of using it, even in controlled circumstances, was
pretty scary. You've made it so much better than I ever imagined. God,
listen to me, I sound like a Dawson's Creek character giving one of their
sappy monologues."
"Don't even go there chica!"
"Sorry."
"Well, since we're all here, may I suggest that we work on something a
bit scarier than your powers?" Everyone turned to face Liz.
"Our Government quiz is tomorrow afternoon remember?" she asked holding her textbook aloft. "I thought since most of us were here we could use the down time to study."
Serena looked at the group "Is there any power we have that makes
homework disappear?"
Michael regarded her for a moment before commenting. "If you find it, let me know."
END CHAPTER
Author: LizabethR2D2
Disclaimer: As much as I wish I owned these characters/this show I do not! They belong to Melinda Metz, Jason Katims, the WB & UPN networks and the amazing actors who portrayed them! I guess I do partially own Sera, but I’d be willing to trade her for Colin Hanks or Nick Wechsler.
Category: CC
Rating: Adult (It will vary chapter to chapter, but let’s just be safe and say Adult to cover all our bases!)
Summary: Alternate Season 3-Picking up a few weeks after the WB Season 2 Finale. This is the Season 3 that I would have liked to see televised, our CCs are together, no one is going to a Vermont boarding school, no one moves to NYC and no one marries Delko! Just good old fashioned Season 1 type entertainment. (At least I like to think so!)
TRAINING DAY
Sera awoke with a start, gasping for breath. Fifteen minutes later she frantically knocked on a
battered door for a full minute before it was opened by a groggy Michael.
"I need to talk to you!"
Michael rubbed his eyes and surveyed Sera a moment before waving her in. "What the hell happened to you, you're shaking."
"I uh..."
"What's going on?" Maria asked as she emerged from Michael's bedroom.
Sera spun around in surprise "Hey!"
"Sera? Are you OK?"
"I'm sorry. I didn't think -I should just go."
She attempted to move past Michael, but his hand shot out and grabbed her arm.
"What's going on?"
“Is this about what happened at the party?” Maria asked moving
closer to Sera.
"What? Oh, no, I…I just had this weird dream and I needed to talk to
Michael about it, but it can wait."
Michael refused to let go of her arm, "What kind of dream? What
happened?"
"It was, I don't know. It was like I was remembering something."
"Tell me."
"We were in that place, from the thing River Dog showed us, that orb
thing, and Tess…Ava...whatever the hell her name is, she was there.
“At the palace you mean?”
“Yeah, anyway what’s her name was telling Max that she didn't think
Khivar was a threat; but the weird thing was, after she finished speaking,
she closed her eyes for a minute or two, it looked like she was
concentrating on something. After that, you and Max concurred that
Khivar was less a threat than you originally thought."
"She was mindwarping us."
"Yeah, cause that's not something she does a lot!" Maria snorted.
"Is that what she did to Kyle and Alex?" Sera asked her voice
barely above a whisper.
"That's her nifty little gift." Maria's beautiful face turned stony as
she thought about Tess.
"You saw her mind warp us, anything else?" Michael asked.
"You and I, I mean Serena and Rath, talked afterwards. We discussed Khivar, and I told you what happened in the throne room."
"So you're saying you could tell she was mindwarping us?"
Serena nodded then looked past Michael at Maria who was filing through her purse. Pulling out her cell phone Maria punched speed dial #2.
"Maria its 2:30. Who are you calling?" Michael asked
Across town a very sleepy Liz located her cell phone, answering it without
opening her eyes.
"Yes Maria?"
“Caller ID rocks hey chica?”
“I wouldn’t know, my eyes are still closed.”
"Then how did you know it was me?"
"Who else would call me in the middle of the night?"
"OK true, hey, is Max there?"
“Um-yeah-why?"
"I need the two of you to come to Michael's right now."
"Is everything okay Maria?"
"It's not an emergency, we just need clarification on something."
"OK. We'll be right there!"
Max and Liz arrived quickly, Michael was waiting at the door for them.
"What's going on?" Max asked looking at Michael, then he noticed Sera sitting at the counter. "Sera, why are you here?"
"She had a dream-a vision."
"What?"
"I remembered something. I don't really know if it means anything, It just
seemed so real."
"Tell me what you saw."
Sera repeated what she had told M & M earlier, then focused on Michael.
"There's more, when I was captured. I got you killed."
What?"
"No Sera we all saw what happened. Nicholas killed Mic-Rath. It wasn't your fault." Max placated.
"No it was! We had a connection."
Maria's face fell at Sera's choice of words.
"Not that kind of connection. We could communicate telepathically. I gave
you my location- if you hadn't come to rescue me, you wouldn't have
been killed."
"Sera don't think that."
"Its true Liz. He died because of me."
"I died fighting our enemy, I was a soldier, its what I was supposed to do."
"Michael, you…"
"Look Sera, none of that matters now, that was another life."
"Liz and I can communicate telepathically." Max said hoping to steer
the conversation away from unpleasant thoughts. “I assumed it was a
side affect of the connection we formed after she was shot. Maybe I was
wrong, maybe this is a dormant power we all have. That Liz has, because
she was changed, if we can believe Ava."
"Then that means that Kyle would have it to." Liz said looking at Max.
"Hypothetically."
They let that implication hang in the air for a moment before Maria asked the question that was on everyone's mind: "Can you do it now?"
"I don't know. I don't know what I can do." Sera said.
"None of us know the full extent of our powers." Max stated. "All
we know is what we've learned on our own over the years and what Tess
and Nasedo told us. And we don't know how much of that is fact or fiction."
"Everyone seems to know more about us than we do." Michael said
ruefully.
"What if you trained her?"
Everyone turned to face Liz.
"Train me? What do you mean?”
"Help you understand your powers, help you to control them, the ones you guys have honed."
"Wait a minute." Max began.
"No. I think it's a good idea." Michael interjected.
Max looked at his best friend.
"Maxwell, I speak from experience when I say its frustrating to have
powers, but you aren't very good at using them. You know as well as I do
that so much of our powers tied to our emotions and that could be
dangerous for her, for us, for everyone."
"So what are we talking about? Rock breaking?" Max asked with a
slight trace of humor in his voice.
Michael caught the reference and shot him a look.
"I don't know how to do what you can do." Sera protested.
"You did it in Amy's shop."
"I was scared Michael. Those guys were coming after us, I heard them
say they were going to kill Maria and take us... it just happened, I really
couldn't control it."
"That's my point. You need to learn to control it. Our powers can do some
really interesting things Sera, but they can also harm. We can kill."
She blanched at the memory of the skin exploding with the combined
energy she and Michael had released.
"Outside that night at Amy's, I've only ever done something like that the night my father died."
"We'll start slow. Let’s try the telepathy thing."
"What do I do? Just try talking to you in my head?"
"I think you need to think of only that person."
Everyone looked at Liz.
"What do you mean?" Max asked his girlfriend.
"When you and I communicate, we are usually alone and not
distracted by anything else. Its like our focus is entirely on each other."
"Sweetie, that's not just when you two communicate. You're like that all
the time." Maria noted.
"OK Let's do this." Michael said interrupting the best friends.
Sera, Can you hear me?
Sera stared at Michael blankly.
He furrowed his brow and tried again.
SERA!
Her expression didn't change.
Maria stepped to him and touched his arm. "Try again."
SERA!
Sera's eyes bugged as she heard Michael's voice clear as day and noticed
that his mouth hadn't moved.
"I can hear you."
Max's eyes widened as shock registered for a moment. He let it pass and
coached Sera. "Talk to him in your head, not aloud."
Sera closed her eyes and concentrated on Michael alone, mentally
blocking out everyone else.
Michael, I can hear you. Can you hear me?
I hear you.
Sera's eyes snapped open and she grinned at the gang.
"Its working."
Max looked to Michael. "You can hear each other?"
Michael nodded.
Max exhaled deeply. "OK, uh, lets try distance. You can hear each
other in the same room, let's separate you."
Michael walked into his bedroom and closed the door.
Sera looked at her friends quizzically.
"How do I know..." Sera stopped suddenly as Michael interrupted
her.
Does it work?
I hear you, Michael
So this is weird.
Sera laughed aloud and in the connection.
Michael opened the door and returned to the living room. "OK Maxwell,
your turn."
Max smiled and looked to Sera, "Shall we?"
Sera returned his smile and nodded.
Hi.
Hi Max.
Its weird to talk to someone like this, someone who isn't Liz.
That's what Michael said. Well, not the Liz part.
Max grinned and broke their connection. "Well, that's an interesting
new development."
"What about me?"Liz asked. "I want to know if it works for me
too."
Let's try." Sera suggested.
She and Liz faced each other and concentrated. Neither one moved for what seemed like an eternity, finally Liz dropped her eyes and turned to the group. "I can't hear her."
"You know I'm kinda glad, I'd have been really pissed if I was the only
one out of the inner monologue loop."
Liz grinned at her best friend. Leave it to Maria to add the right amount of
levity to the situation.
"So what happens now? Training wise?" Sera asked looking from Max to Michael.
"Well I don't know about you Pod Squad members, but I'm spent." Maria joked.
"Yeah, we should probably all call it a night, my dad booked a tee time at 8:00, so I've got to get up early wake-up call is going to be rough." Max said, pulling Liz into his arms.
“Yeah, I have to make it back in my room before my mother realizes I
was gone half the night." Maria looked to Michael. "Drive me home
Spaceboy?"
"You could stay here."
"Fine, but don't blame me when Amy drives over here brandishing a
newspaper!"
"Yeah let's get you home. Hey, after your shift, come here."
Sera looked at Michael. "What?"
"If you want to learn more, be here after your shift tomorrow."Sera
smiled softly. "Thanks Michael."
He offered her his famous smirk before shepherding everyone towards
the door.
***************
"You can talk to her telepathically?” Isabel asked as Max relayed
the past nights events through the bathroom door.
"Yeah, she can do it with me and Michael, but not Liz."
Iz opened the door. "That's not surprising is it?" Max stared at his
sister in a silent plea for explanation. "The connection between you
and Liz is just that, you and Liz. Its not surprising that she can't talk to the
rest of us."
"I suppose that's true."
Isabel sighed as she walked past Max and into her room, sitting on her
bed she began to zip up her boots. "Was there something else Max,
you have that look."
"What look?"
"That look where you want me to do something, but you aren't quite sure
how to ask."
Max nodded, "I think maybe you should try it."
"Max..."
"What's the harm Isabel."
"I just don't know how I feel about her right now. I need more time."
"OK. Uh, I should tell you, Michael and I are going to teach her how to
use her powers."
Isabel stopped fiddling with her boots and looked at her brother.
"What?"
"It was Liz's idea, to which Michael and I agreed."
"Are you sure that's the right thing to do?"
"Michael made an interesting point. (Iz raised an eyebrow.) About
our powers and how dangerous they can be if we can't control them
correctly."
Getting no response from Iz, Max continued. "We're going to start small,
today at Michael's after their shift at the Crashdown."
"I have plans."
"I know, I just wanted you to be aware."
"And now I am."
"For the record Isabel, I trust her."
"Yeah well, given your history..."
Max averted his sister's gaze.
"I'm sorry Max, that was a cheap shot, I shouldn't have said that."
"It’s okay."
"I'd better go, I'm going to be late."
"All right, say hello to Kyle for me."
"I will."
***********
After their shift at the CD, Michael and the girls met Max at Michael's
apartment.
"What's all this?" Sera asked, stepping around several rocks on
Michael's floor.
"This is part of your training."
"Rocks?"
"Rocks."
"It's a big rock,” she said pointing to one that lay on the kitchen
counter. "Can't wait to tell my friends."
Maria and Liz snickered at the Buffy reference while Michael glared at the
lot, impatience evident on his face.
"Sorry." Sera said shaking off her giggles and giving Michael her
full attention.
"Lets get started. Since you’re so enamored by the rocks we can start with those."
"Great, what do I do with them?"
"Break them."
"Break them?"
"Concentrate your power on one, visualize it shattering."
"Uh, okay"
Sera held out her hand toward the rock, it shook slightly on the table, but
remained intact.
"Keep your focus."
Serena glanced at Michael and began again. The rock was reduced to
dust in a matter of seconds.
"Oh my God!"
"You did it!" Liz said taking hold of Sera's shoulders.
"I can't believe it!"
"If we can save the congratulatory stuff for later, we have work to do."
Sera threw a look at Liz, who bit her bottom lip to keep from laughing.
She turned to Michael. "OK, what's next?"
***********
"How do you feel about all this" Kyle asked Iz as they finished their
lunch.
"I don't know. Probably the same as you."
"Confused?"
"Pretty much."
"So this training thing, what exactly are they doing?"
"I don't know. Max asked me if I wanted to join them at Michael's."
"I won't be mad...if you want to go."
"I don't know what I want to do where she's concerned."
"Now you sound like me."
"I shouldn't have brought it up. I know Sera's a strained point of
conversation at the moment. We could talk about Pam Troy."
"Wow look at the time I really have to go!"
"You thought I wasn't going to call you on that one?"
"It was a mistake, and one that I wish Sera never would have seen. I
hate it that she walked in on that, but I'm kinda glad she did too."
Iz raised her eyebrows at him.
"If she hadn't I don't know if I would have pushed Pam off before
things progressed…you know."
"Really?"
"Come on Iz, its been three years."
"Are you kidding?"
"Vicki Delany, night of the heat wave, old soap factory."
Iz smirked. "That is a long time…but Pam Troy?"
"I know I know!"
"OK, I'll stop. Sorry."
"Nah, its OK. I would have be kicking myself right now if I'd actually slept
with Pam."
"You're not over Sera." It wasn't a question.
"No, I'm not, but I'm not sure what the next step is, I think I'm going to
play it by ear."
"That's probably wise. You've got a good heart. It will lead you in the right direction."
"When did you get all sappy and romantic Ms. Evans?"
"I guess I'm like the reformed Grinch, you know when his heart breaks
the measuring device?"
"We have got to get you a new holiday program to watch!"
"Oh, I know! How about Rudolph's Shiny New Year?"
Kyle laughed and pulled his best friend into a bear hug.
***********
A few hours later, Maria surveyed the mess in Michael's apartment. Rock
dust covered everything in sight, from the furnishings to the occupants.
She shook her head a bit and laughed as a cascade of dust fell from her
hair. Turning toward the newest Pod Squad member, Maria adopted her
best announcer voice and asked Serena an important question.
"Sera Davidson, you've just mastered rock breaking, what are you
going to do now?"
Sera laughed, "I'm going to Disney World...right after I get a broom and clean up the mess I made."
"I don't have a broom." Michael confessed.
Sera stared at him for a moment before looking to Maria who shook her
head and rolled her eyes. "So how do you clean?"
"Clean? Michael?" Maria laughed.
Michael raised his hand towards epicenter of the mess. "Like this."
Serena watched as Michael restored the apartment to its pre-rock
status. "OK! I HAVE to know how to do that."
Liz smiled. "Like that one do you?"
"Liz, do you know how easy clean-up at the Crashdown would be if we could just do that?"
"Already looking for the easy way out? You two have created a monster." Liz admonished, pointing toward Max and Michael.
"I'm not saying we have to use it all the time. Just when we have plans for the evening, wouldn't it be nice to skip clean-up and have more time on a date with Max?"
"Oh no, you're not going to turn this around on me!"
Sera grinned at her friend, before turning toward the boys. "OK, how do I do that?"
*************
Rock breaking, clean-up, simple molecular structure changes
(transforming a bottle of water into juice, and back again.) and levitation
completed the first day of training.
Sera sent a bottle of Snapple from the counter to Maria's hands.
"So how do you feel?" Maria asked, twisting the cap off her
Snapple.
"Exhausted!"Sera replied, taking a bottle of water from Liz.
"I think you did a fantastic job." Liz said smiling at her.
Sera returned the smile and blushed.
"You catch on pretty quick." Max agreed.
Maria nudged Michael, when he didn't respond, she glanced pointedly at
him, then jerked her head toward Sera.
"Hmm? Oh yeah. You did fine."
Sera tried to hide a smirk, but Maria caught it and matched it with one of
her own.
"Wow, that's actually high praise coming from my Spaceboy."
"I'll take it as such. I really want to thank you, all of you. Ever since you
told me what I can do, what I am I've been really scared about this
power. The thought of using it, even in controlled circumstances, was
pretty scary. You've made it so much better than I ever imagined. God,
listen to me, I sound like a Dawson's Creek character giving one of their
sappy monologues."
"Don't even go there chica!"
"Sorry."
"Well, since we're all here, may I suggest that we work on something a
bit scarier than your powers?" Everyone turned to face Liz.
"Our Government quiz is tomorrow afternoon remember?" she asked holding her textbook aloft. "I thought since most of us were here we could use the down time to study."
Serena looked at the group "Is there any power we have that makes
homework disappear?"
Michael regarded her for a moment before commenting. "If you find it, let me know."
END CHAPTER
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