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A/N: I really like this next chapter and I hope you guys do too! For those of you who have been faithfully waiting for Max you may find salvation in this chapter.

She Smiled Sweetly

“We commend to the earth our sister Maria,” the priest spoke in a booming voice; it almost seemed as if he was trying to speak over the overwhelming silence that filled the air. Liz stood next to Amy Deluca who was desperately trying to keep breathing, Michael stood a few feet away next to Isabel who was struggling to comfort him as he bore his normal stony glare, Tom stood next to Liz staring at her trying to read her expression, Kyle stood near Tess and Jim who were crying openly, on the other side of the casket stood other friends and family not aware of the secret that had killed Maria, Sean stood among them occasionally glancing at Liz. The priest continued his speech but Liz couldn’t hear it because of the building silence, she read the tombstone that would soon be all that was left of her best friend.

Maria Deluca

Beloved Daughter

Loyal Friend

A tear slipped down her cheek but she didn’t notice it as it slithered across her skin, she heard the final words of the priest.

“Maria Deluca, may you find wings to the kingdom” he spoke as the casket was lowered into the earth, Liz could feel Amy reach for her hand and squeeze it tightly, Liz looked over to see her staring at the casket as it hit the ground with a thud. Several men began shoveling dirt on the casket and many of the people dispersed, Sean nodded at Liz before turning and walking away from the burial site, Amy followed him and soon the only people that were left at the grave were the grave diggers and Liz, Michael, Isabel, Kyle, Tess, Valenti, and Tom who stood and watched as the others remained in silence.

“Where do we go from here?” Isabel asked as she hugged herself tightly

“We just have to keep going, we have to keep acting normal” Michael spoke strongly but was unable to cover up the hollowness of his voice.

“That’s not really a plan,” Kyle said solemnly as he wiped a tear from his face

“Kyle,” Tess touched his shoulder hoping to calm him down.

“No, Tess if he has a better idea I’d like to hear it” Michael said raising his voice

“Stop it! There’s no use in doing this especially not here” Valenti scoldedas he looked over to Liz who stood staring at the increasing amount of dirt being piled on top of her friend, he walked over to Tom

“Maybe you should take her home,” Valenti said in a low voice as Tom nodded confused by the entire situation

“No,” Liz said calmly “I’m not going to leave her alone again, I’m never leaving anyone again” Liz said softly as she remembered the thousands of painful nightmares of Max, Alex, and now Maria.

“Liz,” Valenti stepped towards her and put his hand on her shoulder

“She looked fine,” Liz started as Valenti nodded sadly “I tried to help her,”

“I know you did,” he squeezed her shoulder reassuringly

“But I’m not Max, I couldn’t save her just like I couldn’t save Alex and Max” Tom furrowed his brow as he tried to piece together the information he was hearing

“It’s not your fault, Liz the only person who could have healed her died 3 years ago” Tess spoke up

“It is my fault, I left her here” Liz started “I knew what would happen without Max, but I just ran as fast as I could and never looked back”

“I’m not gonna play this game with you again Liz,” Michael spoke angrily “You put the weight of the world on your shoulders and you won’t let anyone help,” he stepped towards her “Why would she have lived if you had stayed? What’s so great about you?!” he yelled pointing his finger in her face, Tom stepped in between them

“Calm down you guys,” he said forcefully as the gravediggers finished packing dirt on top of Maria’s grave

“Why are you two even here?” Michael asked staring venomously at Liz and Tom

“Because of Khivar,” Isabel said clearly

“What?” Tom asked but his question was ignored by everyone except a sympathetic Valenti

“Maybe you should go home,” he spoke only to Tom this time but Tom just shook his head

“I want to know what’s going on,” He said loudly

“Tom,” Liz tried to reason with him

“No, Liz I’m sick of this you brought me here just tell me what’s going on” his voice a bit exasperated

“Khivar is the... man who killed Maria,” Isabel spoke before Liz could stop her, Liz looked toward Isabel her eyes pleading her to stop. But she didn’t. “And he’s not done,”

“What?” Tom said again blinking harshly as if he was trying to wake himself up

“He’s coming for us...” she paused for a moment before raising her hand to point at Liz “And her,”

“What is she talking about Liz,” Tom turned toward Liz seeing her stony glare directed at Isabel

“She knows, she has known for years” Isabel stopped before getting a second wind “What? She never told you?” Tom shook his head looking back to Isabel “She has a quite interesting past and an even more intriguing future Isabel spoke smirking wiggling her fingers implying Liz’s powers.

“STOP IT!” Liz yelled causing an odd and unnatural breeze to blow through the gathering, Isabel raised her eyebrows as Tom began to walk away, Liz ran after him

“Tom wait, don’t listen to her” tears welled up in Liz’s now glistening eyes

“So then I should what? Listen to you? Because you aren’t saying a hell of a lot Liz!” he frowned

“I’m sorry...” she paused questioning whether or not she should explain her secret to him “I...I just didn’t know what to say,”

“You could’ve started with saying anything Liz,” he shook his head trying to shake the anger that was building inside him

“My past isn’t important,” she started before he cut her off

“It seems pretty damn important now Liz!” he exclaimed. Liz could feel a sad angry energy forming in the pit of her stomach and she didn’t even have to look down at her now sparking green hands to know what was happening, she slid her hands behind her as she tried to calm herself

“I’m sorry Tom, I’m just... sorry” she said softly

“You know what Liz? I’m sorry too, I’m going back to Amherst” he began walking away again

“Tom,” Liz’s defeated voice drifted across the steadily building wind, but he just kept walking as tears began traveling down Liz’s face.

‘No’

Liz walked back towards Maria’s still fresh gravesite where Isabel, Michael, Tess, Kyle, and Valenti stood, Liz’s hands now crackled with electricity a bizarre wind seemed to be pushing her towards them.

“That’s it,” she paused her voice low “I have nothing now... what do you want from me?” Liz hissed at the group of people that stood before her

“Just a little help,” Isabel said in a booming voice

“What do you mean?” Liz’s anger forgotten for a moment

“Things aren’t as they seem Liz,” Isabel started “What’s damaged can be fixed,” a mysterious smirk crossed Isabel’s face

“The Granolith,” Liz sighed

“Exactly,” Isabel smiled fully now

“What are you talking about?” Kyle asked as he stepped towards the two women

“Everything that’s happened over the last three years, Alex, Max, and Maria’s deaths...” Isabel paused looking to Liz

“Can be undone” Liz finished for her

“How?” Valenti questioned furrowing his brow

“The Granolith...” Michael paused rolling his eyes at how ridiculous his words would sound “is a time machine,” He finished

“You altered it?” Liz questioned remembering Future Max’s words

“How’d you know?” Michael spoke sarcastically

“It’s almost ready to bring us back we just needed...” Michael waited “Your help,” he said strangely

“My help?” Liz raised an eyebrow and pointed to her chest

“Yeah Nancy Drew, you” he smirked

“Because of... you know,” Tess spoke softly hinting at their knowledge of Liz’s run in with Future Max

“Max,” Liz finished “How can I help though? He didn’t really tell me anything about how they did it,” she said roughly remembering the night he came

“Yeah but we were having some technical problems and we thought maybe you could... find some info for us,”

“You mean get a flash,”

“Bingo!” Michael spoke harshly

“Then take me there”

A/N: This chapter is sort of short but the next chapter is longer, also for your information the next chapter is the final chapter ... of part 2! Did I upset you? Part 3 is coming along nicely and I got over my writers block so everything is good! Read and enjoy...

Things Behind the Sun

They stepped towards the familiar rocks that Liz hadn’t seen in over a year, she felt the sand grind beneath her shoes as she walked steadily behind Michael while the others tailed close behind. Michael waved his hand over the stone causing the unforgettable handprint to appear he placed his hand on it and the rock began to shift, moving aside to allow them in. They all stepped into the pod chamber and then into the Granolith, Liz stepped in front of Michael not hesitating as she placed her hand on the center of the Granolith she closed her eyes focusing all her energy. Suddenly a string of flashes passed before her eyes.

She saw a strange man with what looked like a legion of skins, behind him they were splattered with blood from battle marching through the town which lay in ruins.

Liz was suddenly thrown out of the vision causing her to fly across the room before hitting the hard wall and sinking to the ground.

“Liz!” Kyle yelled as they all rushed to her

“What did you see?” Isabel demanded desperation cracking her already gravelly voice

“Khivar,” Liz breathed out

“What do you mean?” Tess asked nervously while she shifted her weight form one foot to the other.

“He’s coming,” she gasped as she replayed the events of her flash

“When?” Michael asked furrowing his brow, suddenly there was a loud crash coming from town.

“Now,” Liz’s eyes widened as the noise faded

“No, no!” Isabel exclaimed as her hardness disappeared for a moment replaced by one of childlike fear “We’re so close, if we could just figure it out!” she clenched her fists trying to rid herself of the aggravated energy that was filling her being.

“We just need to get everything and get back here,” Michael announced but doubt clouded their faces

“And do what Michael?” Valenti asked “Hide?”

“No, we’ll go back,” he said in a severe tone

“Go back Michael!? In time?” Kyle exclaimed “I knew this wouldn’t work from the start but you said ‘We can do it, no problem!’” Kyle yelled using a mockingly nasal voice to imitate Michael

“Shut up,” Michael said in a warning tone,

“Or what?” Kyle started but before he could say anymore another explosion in the distance cut him off

“We need to get back there!” Liz yelled before Michael and Kyle could resume their fight “If we don’t do something he’s going to destroy everything,” she said in a calmer quieter tone

“We can’t just go back to town,” Isabel spoke softly “They’ll kill us,”

“We have to lead them away from town,” Liz’s voice commanded “We can’t just let them rip Roswell apart,” Michael nodded before crawling back into the pod chamber and opening the rock so they could exit, the others followed close behind.

“What’s your plan?” Tess asked Michael when he didn’t answer she turned to Liz “Please tell me there’s a plan,” Tess frowned as they left the chamber, Liz stopped and towards the others Michael stopped too looking back at them

“Fine, here’s the plan!” Liz started, feigning enthusiasm “We’ll go into town and get them to chase us, we’ll lead them back here and hide in the granolith until we have a better plan” she stated quickly before turning back and walking again

“We can’t let them know where the granolith is,” Isabel spoke loudly so everyone could hear her as they walked down the rocky hill side towards the car

“Tess could you mind warp them?” Valenti asked almost losing his footing

“No,” she said quickly before explaining “I could never mind warp Khivar he’s too powerful and there’s too many of them any way,”

“Unless…” Liz stopped as she reached the car pausing to consider her idea “We could split them up,” she smiled as she finished her sentence

“What?” Michael asked

“Well, together they’re too powerful but if Tess could mind warp some of the skins to attack the others and we could separate Khivar then we might be able to take him”

“But we could never beat him without…” Isabel paused as painful memories resurfaced “without Max,” she finished quietly

“We’ve got our four-square” Michael said motioning at Liz who flinched at his words

“Hopefully that will be enough,” Tess said doubtfully, Liz looked back at her with not so reassuring words

“It’ll have to be,”

A/N: This is the final chapter of part 2 and I am sad to say that it will be a while before part 3 is posted because I am dealing with an overwhelming case of writers block, but on a good note this chapter is damn good (or at least I think it is) I was planning on posting it sooner but this week has proven to be one of the most confusing, long, and emotionally draining weeks of my entire life and it has left me with an even worse case of writers block then I had before. But like I said this chapter is good so hopefully you guys will give me some good feedback and pull me out of this funk that I'm in. Read and Enjoy!

Gimme Shelter

As the group approached town they noticed the smoke that was drifting in the air and Liz bit down hard on her lip as they drove by the Crashdown and saw it in smoldering ruins, a tear slipped down her cheek but she brushed it away.

‘If this works I can fix this, I can fix it all’ she reminded herself

Liz looked up to the street ahead of them only to see Khivar standing in the middle of the street a shiver went up her spine and she knew that this would not be an easy battle. The group sat in the car staring out at there enemy, hoping that he would give them time to formulate their plan.

“So what do we do now?” Michael asked stopping the car but leaving the engine running, Liz turned towards Tess who was sitting cramped next to her in the back of the Jeep with Kyle; Valenti had stayed at the pod chamber waiting for them.

“It’s your turn now Tess,” Liz spoke reassuringly

“I don’t know if I can do this…” Tess said her voice shaky

“It’s too late to bail now Tess, it’s do or die” Liz said softly

“Probably both,” Tess said under her breath

“We can’t give up without a fight,” Liz said harshly this time gripping Tess’ shoulder tightly almost as a threat; Tess nodded and closed her eyes concentrating on her task. Liz and the others stared out at the skins behind Khivar waiting for a change, there was an explosion and they watched as the skins began attacking each other, tearing each other apart. Khivar looked un-fazed and he smiled as he motioned at them to come to him.

“What should we do?” Isabel asked trying to keep the fear out of her voice

“What can we do? We have to confront him,” Kyle spoke; there was a power evident in his voice, a readiness. They watched as Tess’ control over the skins faded, there were still roughly a dozen left but they stood strong behind Khivar.

“Let’s go,” Liz spoke and they stepped out of the Jeep Tess lagging a little due to the exertion of the mind warp. They walked purposefully towards Khivar and stopped when they were about 20 feet away.

“Well, well, well not quite the group I was expecting,” a grin stretched across his face “What happened to your little girlfriend Rath?” his voice sharp and disturbing, Michael glared at him and without warning lunged at him his powers rippling through the air Khivar flew back and landed harshly on his back. “Ooo, touchy!” he mocked as he stood up and took his previous stance.

“Michael wait,” Liz urged him and he stepped back

“And who’s this? Max’s old toy? Since when do you call the shots little girl?”

“Since today,” Liz spat back at him energy sparked from her fingers and he smirked

“Wow! My very own sparkler… how exciting” he mocked “Did you people really think you were going to win, I mean come on! You don’t have a king, looks like your Queen’s running on empty and you pull out Sparky here as your secret weapon and I’m supposed to what? Shake in my boots?”

“Yes,” Isabel spoke calmly

“Well, Vilandra finally decided to speak up…” he started but before he could finish Michael rushed the skins and began attacking, Liz, Kyle, and Tess following close behind. Khivar looked confused for a moment before Isabel threw him off his feet with her powers and rushed him fighting him with everything she had. Sparks flew from Liz as she tried to fight off the skins, while Michael began blowing them back one by one Tess stumbled blindly in the chaos too drained from the prior use of her powers to fight and Kyle began beating one skin with a metal pipe he had found on the ground. Tess stumbled into the alley, she staggered towards a teetering brick wall and as she leaned against it fell down around her. No one in the battle heard the gentle crack of her skull as the bricks collided with her head, no one saw her as she bled out onto the ground, no one heard her whimper as the dark closed in on her. No one found her body contorted under a pile of bricks in the ally, the battle continued not interrupted by the death of the Queen of Antar.

Liz continued to fight, her powers, which had started as small and almost unusable sparks, were beginning to fade and she watched as her friends fought with all they had.

‘You’ll never win’ the voice in her head returned as she began beating a skin with her now sparkling fists.

“no,” she whispered she saw Kyle kicking one of the skins in the stomach as it tried to stand up again.

“Liz!” he yelled “Heads up!” he tossed her the pipe now covered in blood she caught it and felt an extreme sense of power overtake her as she thrust it through the skins stomach and he fell to the ground clutching the pipe now lodged within his stomach. She smile and looked over to thank Kyle in time to see him blown across the street.

“Kyle!” She screamed her voice going ragged

“Stop!” Khivar’s voice boomed and for some unknown reason Liz could feel herself freeze to the spot and she watched as everyone else did the same, “I’m ending this now!” fear and frustration now evident in his voice and suddenly Liz could move again she began to run towards him but Isabel beat her to him blasting him 50 feet in the air, Liz watched as he hit the ground with a thud and lay still.

“We have to go now!” Isabel screamed her voice holding a power it never had before and without another word Michael ran to the car and started it while Isabel helped Liz carry Kyle back to the car. They all climbed in and sped towards the rocks Liz kept looking back out the window while Isabel studied Kyle’s wounds, he was bleeding profusely but Isabel couldn’t stop it she ripped off her jacket and pressed it against the largest wound that had ripped open the skin on his stomach. As they neared the rocks Kyle began slipping away, he began coughing and as he did spurts of blood came from his mouth and painted the interior of the car red.

“Kyle hang on,” Isabel spoke softly and reassuringly as she held his hand and kept her jacket on the wound.

“It’s too… late” he sputtered “you have to go back, you have to change it!” he began to yell.

“Kyle you’ll be ok and then we’ll fix this as a group,” Isabel said

“Where’s Tess?” Michael spoke

“She’s gone,” Liz said gently

“I know…” he said remembering his thoughts before leaving her there

“Kyle you’ll be fine,” Isabel continued trying to comfort him but it was no good he continued to thrash and beg for them to forget about him

“Just focus on fixing it,” he said coughing harder then before

“Kyle…” Isabel began before Liz cut her off

“Don’t worry Kyle we’ll go back, it will be over quick and when you wake up it will be a new day” he voice strong despite the tears that were rolling down her cheeks

“A brand new day,” he smiled softly

“Yeah, brand new” her voice began to crack as his eyes glazed over

“No!” Isabel began to scream “We can’t lose anyone else, I can’t…” she trailed off her voice losing its resonance.

As they reached the rocks they noticed them already stained in blood and Liz quickly prayed that Valenti had not survived whatever they had done to him, she was sick of slow painful deaths. They stepped out to see Khivar standing there smiling wickedly.

“There’s no escaping,” his voice had regained its arrogant tone “I’m going to win”

Isabel blasted him and he smacked against the hard rocks falling down and slumping over, but he quickly stood up again and tears poured down her face as she continued to blast him each time less effective then the previous. Michael ran to aid her but a red shield went up around Isabel and Khivar, Michael and Liz couldn’t hear what words were spoken inside of the shield but it was certain that Isabel was screaming her head off for all of her losses. She took one final step towards him and placed her hands around his neck attempting to strangle him but her attempts were met in vain he placed his hand on her head and kissed her cheek before snapping her neck, she crumpled to the ground as if everything had just rushed out of her and Michael screamed, his scream was only equaled by a blast that broke through the shield and threw Liz back 10 feet. As she landed on her back she struggled to get back to her feet and help Michael and as she did she saw that Michael was about to meet the same fate as Isabel. She rushed forward and a sudden power swept over her as she saw Khivar’s hands wrap around Michael’s neck she felt an odd and thick pressure come around her and she felt as if she was floating, Khivar dropped Michael and looked over at Liz who was now 2 feet in front of him crackling with raw energy.

“What is it Sparky?” he growled but Liz ignored his words and instead let all her strength flow through her hands she looked down at them and saw that they were now glowing a bright blue, her vision turned red as her eyes began to fill up with blood. Khivar stared into her crimson eyes bewildered by the sudden change; she placed one hand on his chest and watched as he began to scream. Blood poured from her eyes and she could feel the painful pressure release as the thick blood ran down her cheeks and dripped to the ground.

“It’s your turn,” her voice rough and angry, she could feel his skin liquefying beneath her palm and as his skin continued to heat his steadily evaporating flesh and as her unsympathetic red eyes stared cruelly into his she felt strength for the first time in three years. He slowly dropped to the ground and she watched him gasped for breath as his body continued to dissolve.

“It’s your turn,” she repeated softly with harshness in her voice, she turned from his dissipating form towards the pod chamber she walked towards it and opened it with her bloody palm. The rocks shifted and she stepped inside and continued into the Granolith, pulling the Antarian necklace from her pocket she placed it around her neck and as she placed her hand on the glowing center of the Granolith a voice pulled her from her thoughts suddenly

“Liz!” Michael yelled “What are you doing?” his face stained by tears

“I’m mending what we ripped,” she said her voice low “I’m going to make this better, I’m going to save them all” she cried as a tear fell down her face cutting through the blood that was beginning to coagulate on her cheeks.

“Make it right, Liz” he smiled softly and watched as she stepped into the seemingly solid material.

Liz watched from the inside of the Granolith as Michael faded from her view she felt a dizzying weight on her shoulders and closed her eyes as she began to fall backwards.

“Goodbye,”

Authors Note:

I hate to do this to you guys because you've been so great to me, but I have to because it's the only thing that makes sense for me to do right now. I have stopped writing Things Fall Apart and I will probably not post anything relating to it again, this is not definite but based on how I feel about the whole situation right now and for the past couple of months I will probably never write a single thing for this story ever again.

While I know the majority of you probably don't really care to hear an explanation (or care at all for that matter) I'm giving one anyway, more for my sake then for anyone else. I've loved writing this story and I've loved every single piece of your feedback because it has given me more confidence then I've had in a very long time, I've loved getting lost in the story and inserting little pieces of me and my life into the characters in this story.

Despite all of this I have no will to continue this story, I had it planned out in my head but I just don't have the inspiration to write for it anymore. My life over the past couple of months has been a huge factor in me deciding to no longer write for this story. I know when I say that you're expected some tragic story or something but the truth is the last couple of months have been the happiest in my entire life, I've never felt better in my entire life. So I guess this is my long way of saying I need to live in the real world for a while, because the truth is writing this story has been an escape from reality for me and I don't need to escape anymore because my life is amazing right now.

If you have any questions, if you want to know how Things Fall Apart would've ended, or if you want to say anything to me you can either PM me or post them here, I want to hear what you have to say no matter what it is. I know this note was unnecessarily long but I felt like getting all that out, I'm, truly sorry if I'm letting anyone down but I hope you've enjoyed my story up until this point. Thanks so much for your support in my writing and in me.


-Rosie