What Destiny Brings (CC ~ Teen) Seq ~ 5/28 Part 20 (WIP)

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What Destiny Brings

Written by: roswellbrat

Category: CC

Rating: Teen

Disclaimer: I own nothing of the show Roswell or it's characters. They belong to Melinda Metz, Jason Katims and the WB. No infringment is intended.

Summary: This is the story of Evan Guerin, he is the grandson of two legendary Roswell heroes. He tells only one person his secret, to protect not only his family, but himself from prying people. He has begun following in the footsteps of Great-Great-Grandmother Claudia Parker, the study of archeology, until life sends him down the path of discovering his destiny and the love of his life...

A/N: This is the sequel to my first story, Taking It Back, it can be found
here, in case you would like to read the story of his mother's birth and his grandparents return to Roswell.






What Destiny Brings
Part 1


The hover craft cruised down the familiar streets, at least they were familiar to him. Well they looked different than they did when he was a little boy, the years had not been kind to this place that he loved. He sighed as he looked at the place where he used to come and visit his grandparents and their parents, it was a wonderland of aliens. Now he lived in the real world, but he loved to study the past, a gift from his great-great-grandmother.

“Hey Evan, you look lost in your thoughts, what’s up?”

“I was just remembering coming here when I was a kid. It was great! But after the war, the town was never the same.”

“How would you know, you weren’t even alive in ’14.” Soro knew that this trip would be hard on his best friend. It’s the first time he’d been back in ten years.

“You can’t have my family and not know everything about this town…all the way back to the crash of ’47. I would have loved to live in that time.”

“No you wouldn’t, life would have been too boring for you.” Soro punched him in the arm.

“What crash in ’47? I don’t remember anything about that.” Miri tried, but sometime she wasn’t too smart…how she got involved in archeology was beyond the rest of the group.

“The crash of 1947…you know big Roswell thing.” Milo looked at her rolling his eyes.

Capra sighed, “That’s when it all started, I love their story.” She looked off to the sky, her eyes had a far away look. “Evan, your family probably told you stuff about them. Did they know them?”

Evan looked at her, sometimes he thought he felt his destiny calling when he looked into her eyes. “Yes, they knew them.” That’s all he would say on the subject.

“Is she gonna go and get all mushy on us? Professor Draakes, do we have to listen to this story again?”

Draakes was just parking the hover craft. As he was getting out he looked at this mixed up group, it should be an interesting week. “Milo, their story is a big part of the history of this town…maybe someday we will work our way through the rumors and find out all the facts. Evan, would you be able to show us some of the places you know about?”

He looked at what was left of the Crashdown Café, the walls were chipping away. What was left of the UFO storefront was barely hanging there. Oh the fun they used to have here. His grandfather would chase him around the tables once they had closed for the night. Looking across the street, he sees that the UFO Center was still there…it didn’t look like it had suffered the same neglect that some of the other places had.

“If you want to know their story, this place” He points at the restaurant “was barely the beginning…it goes far beyond anything you could ever imagine. If you want to see the real heart of their life…I’ll take you there tomorrow, if that’s okay with you Professor?”

“Are you kidding, I’m as much in love with that story as the rest of you. Maybe you know some of the true stories as opposed to the rumors.”

Milo looked as Miri and Capra looked at Evan…how does he do that? He could hold them all in the palm of his hand. Sure he was a great looking cuss and the girls fell all over him, but what was he hiding. He could count on one hand the times that Evan put himself out and talked about his family.

Evan laughed, “Rumors…yea there were plenty of them. But the truth of their lives will be far more exciting than any of the rumors.” He looked at Soro, he knew of Evan’s life…what he always held back, and he couldn’t blame him because even now they were hunted.

“Too bad the café’s in such bad shape, I’d have loved to set up camp inside. Do you think there is a place we could set up?” Draakes was looking around. Most of the buildings were shells now, what a place this must have been…

“I know a way in that should be safe, come on around back.” Evan led the group to the alley behind the restaurant, and then when no one was looking, he laid his hand on the lock, opening it. “Come on, we’ll look around and see if everything looks stable, if it does, I’m sure the owners won’t mind if we stay a few nights.”

“How do you know they won’t mind?” Miri was looking around, making sure there weren’t any spiders that would jump out at her.

Evan got a sad, far off look on his face. “They’re dead.” He turned and went back outside, he needed a minute to get through this. He knew Soro was behind him, he also knew that Soro wouldn’t say a word; he would just be there in case he needed to talk. Once he got himself together, he went back inside. “If you want to cook some food, we could probably find something to make a small fire in the alley…there aren’t many people around to complain.” Reaching over, he picks up the old grill top. “We could probably use this…”

Professor Draakes looked around too, but he didn’t see anything to use. “I guess we’ll have to make do with our cold provisions. I don’t really see much we can use. Could I get a couple of volunteers to get the things from the hover craft?” Evan knew better than to expect Milo to offer and Miri would be afraid of breaking a nail. Soro and Capra stood up and headed to the door.
”Wait I’ll help too!” He followed behind them. After they got all the food ready to eat, they gathered in a circle to talk.

“I can’t wait to hear their story…to think it all started when he saved her life after she was shot!” Miri had a love sick look on her face.

“Well, that’s the first part that was wrong; it didn’t start that day…” Evan took a drink, and then made a face. He got up and went to his backpack, reaching inside he pulled out a bottle of Tabasco sauce.

“Hey Evan, for as long as I’ve known you, you’ve always put that stuff on just about everything. Why?”

He had sat back down and started to pour the sauce in his food and in his drink. “Just a family dietary quirk…we’ve done it for generations. Wanna try some?” He holds out a sandwich smothered in the red sauce. Milo shakes his head ‘no’, there was no way he’d even think about it.

Draakes looked around, he tried to imagine their life here. “Okay Evan, you were going to tell us what you know about how they met.”

“It wasn’t the day she was shot…it all started the day a little boy got off his school bus for the first time, he was six years old. When he looked at her, he knew that she would be in his life. But to tell you the truth…their story started the day two women met in the desert.” He looked at them waiting for him to continue. “I can’t tell that part, I was never told the complete story behind it. I just know that both women would be integral in their lives, without them there would be no story.”

“There was so much lost after the war, it was like all of the things about them vanished. I saw their pictures in the library one time. He must have liked to work out…” Miri blushed a deep red.

Capra had seen pictures too. They were perfect together, the one she saw was at a party. They must have been in their early twenties and they had a beautiful baby. She could see from the way they looked that there was nothing they wouldn’t do for each other, die if they had to. She sighed, “It was like they could look into each others souls…I wish all of their things weren’t lost, their story was so wonderful.”

Evan watched her…he saw how she understood. It was nice to see that someone got what they felt…it was a love that could never be repeated. “There was a time when things weren’t so good for them…a person came between them. She almost destroyed everything. Then there was the death of their friend that caused them all so much pain.” He just stared into space and kept talking. “Liz, she stuck by him, even when she thought her heart would break from the pain his betrayal had caused”

“What betrayal! I thought they were never apart?” Miri was shocked hear that things weren’t as perfect as a love story should be.

“Even though they were apart, they never stopped loving each other. Her grandmother told her once, ‘If it isn’t complicated, he probably isn’t a soul mate.’ And boy did things get complicated at times!” He had to laugh when he thought of some of his grandfather’s stories.

Professor Draakes looked at his watch, “If we want to get an early start in the morning, I think we should turn in. How far is it, this place where we’re going?”

“Not far, it’s just outside of town. Oh, make sure you wear some comfortable shoes, we’ll have to climb a little.” He reached behind him and laid out his sleeping bag. Smiling to himself he couldn’t wait to see their faces.

The sun came up early, waking them. They were all standing around talking, some were eating a light breakfast. “Make sure you take plenty of water, the desert can dry you out in no time!” The professor would be held responsible for their safety, and he didn’t want anyone passing out from heat stroke. Evan picked up his back pack and walked over to the old sink. He got out his toothbrush and toothpaste. Milo stood there chewing gum, watching him getting ready to brush his teeth. “Whatcha doin’ Evan?”

“As my grandmother would say ‘Chewing gum is not proper dental hygiene.’”

“Huh? I don’t get it.” He turns and joins the group, leaving Evan shaking his head.

“Evan, you can drive since you know the way.” He tosses him the ignition card. As they all climb in, the talk was non-stop.

Evan took in all of the sights, time hadn’t changed it…that was good. He needed to have one thing he could count on. Looking to his left he finally saw it. The rock formation felt more like home than his home did. “Okay, this is the end of the line. Grab your water and come on.”

“This is just a bunch of rocks…what do they have to do with this story?”

Evan turns his head to look behind him at Milo “Everything.”

As they walked they saw a man appear near a group of rocks at the center of the formation. Capra shielded her eyes from the sun. “That looks like…no it can’t be. He doesn’t look like he’s old enough!” This man looked like he was in his thirties with long hair…and it looked like he still worked out…

They had almost reached the center when another man appeared, he had a slight limp. As they got within range, they could hear the one man say as he pointed. “I’ll be damned, look who’s here!”

When the long haired man turned, it was then that Capra saw the likeness between Evan and the man that she knew he had to be, and it took her breath away.

“Hi Grandpa, I guess I should say Grandpas, how have you been?”


To Be Continued…

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What Destiny Brings
Part 2


"Guerin. Evan your last name is Guerin..." Professor Draakes looked at Evan like he had never seen him before.

“Yes sir, I’ve known that for twenty years.”

“But I never associated it with that Guerin.”

“Well, I guess I better tell you who else I’m connected to…” He looks over at Max and Michael, they just stood there grinning. “My father is Alex Guerin, you know the astronomer…”

“That would make your mother Destiny Guerin, the archeologist?” Evan nods his head ‘yes’. The professor grabs his chest. “I think I may faint. Why didn’t you ever say anything?”

“Well, sir, I kind of want to stand on my own. My family life is well…private.” He looked at Max. Max had always understood why he did it, but sometimes Michael would give him a hard time; he would tell him to take advantage of the family name. “Ah…while your already having a heart attack,” he grins at the rest of them. “My great-great-grandmother, well she’s um…Claudia Parker.”

The professor raised his eyes towards the sky, “I think I’ve died and gone to heaven.” Then he turned to Max and Michael. “You don’t know what an honor it is to meet you both…” He was breathing hard; Max was beginning to worry about him.

“Professor, are you okay?” As the professor nods his head yes the girls kept watching Max. He was over sixty now, but you would never know it, he looked the same as he did in the last pictures taken of him during the war. Both men looked like those pictures that were on their history discs, like they had never aged. Capra watched Evan and his grandfathers interact, he seemed closer to Max, they were so much alike. She grinned as they teased the professor. As she turned her head to look the other way, she saw Evan watching her, he had beautiful, soulful eyes, she never got tired looking at him. He gave her the slightest hint of a smile, then he gave her a small wave.

“You realize if your grandmothers find out that you’re here and haven’t said anything to them, they’ll take it out on us. Take your friends inside where it’s cool and say hi.”

The group tried to contain their excitement, but it was hard. Milo was looking for a way in. “Hey Evan, there’s no door, how are we going to get in?”

Evan turns around and signals for him to move back, then he just smiles. “Watch and learn.”
He places his hand on the usual spot causing the rock door to slide open. They just stared in disbelief. “Come on in, my grandmothers will love you guys!”

They weren’t prepared for what they saw inside. They expected a dark cave like place, but it was far from that, the room was flooded by light. Looking up to what should have been the inside of the rock formation was the sky, the sun shining bright. “Cool huh? Grandpa Max did it. The world’s biggest skylight! You should see it at night, you can lay in your bed and count every star. The best thing is the comet showers; they look like they’re just going to land right on you!”
Capra had never seen him so excited before, it was nice to see him so happy. It always seemed like he had the weight of the world on his shoulders. They heard a noise coming from the other room, then she was there…Liz Evans, she was even more beautiful than the pictures in the library. She too looked like she had never aged. Was it the alien thing? Or was it their love that kept them so young. Capra had a feeling that even if she would look old and grey his love for her would never change, she would always be the love of his life and in his eyes she would always be beautiful.

“Well, hi. When did all this company…Evan? Is that you?” She runs over and grabs him in a big hug. Looking up at him, she is surprised to see how much he has changed. “I think you’ve grown some since the last time I saw you.” She just shakes her head.

“Well, it was five years ago, remember, you came to mom’s dig on Antar?”

“I remember, I just can’t get over how tall you’ve gotten. I’m sorry, I’m being rude. I’m Liz, Evan’s grandmother…” She starts to reach her hand out to the professor.

“Grandma, they know who you are, that’s why we’re here. They want to know about you and grandpa.”

Miri couldn’t resist. “We just love your story, you’ve had such a great life!” She stood there wide-eyed watching Liz’s every move.

“Well, I don’t know how great some of it was.” She starts to laugh. “But it was definitely interesting.” Turning to Evan. “Have you heard from you parents lately?”

“Last I heard they went on that dig and dad was going to do some studies on that meteor thing that’s supposed be happening soon. When they get so busy they lose track of time.”

“Oh! I have to tell Maria…” She goes around the corner to hunt for her best friend. Evan watched as the others approached the three pods that still hung where they were placed over a hundred years ago. “I thought there were four…” Soro knew his story, well most of it. He never told him how his grandfather destroyed the fourth pod.

“The fourth was a lie…it never belonged…it almost destroyed everyone.” He had that look that worried Capra; she saw it on his face often when he didn’t think anyone saw him. He hid so much of what he felt and at times she longed just to hold him, to take away some of the pain he kept to himself. Reaching in her pocket, she pulled out a clip, her long brown hair kept getting in her face. While the others were studying the pods, he walked over to her. A stray piece of hair still hung in her face, as he reaches over to move it, she simply said. “Oh, it’s a hair thing.”

Liz was in hearing range, and Capra’s last comment caused her to inhale…it was the same thing she had said to Max the night of the Crash festival all those years ago. She stood to the side watching them…they reminded her of another couple so long ago. Then there was Maria!
“Evan! Come give your grandma some sugaaaar!” She heads right to him, not noticing that he was blushing.

“Ah, grandma, not now…Wait! I want you to meet my friends!” She stopped, but she didn’t try to hide her disappointment in not giving her grandson a proper welcome. “This is Professor Draakes, Milo and Miri. Of course you’ve heard me talk about Soro, he’s the one that tries to keep me out of trouble…unless of course he starts it, then I have to watch him.” He starts to remember some of the things that they had gotten into the past two years, he didn’t know who needed to be watched the most. Then turning to Capra, he puts his hand on her back and brings her up to Liz. “This is Capra, she’s usually my lab partner when we’re working on projects.” He looked at her in a way that reminded Liz of Max. Liz noticed that Maria caught it too.

Liz reaches out to take her hand. “Its nice to meet you, I’m glad to meet you all. Can we offer you anything?”

They all shook they’re head ‘no’. All they wanted to do is ask questions, to see everything, to relive their story through their eyes. When the door slide open, Max and Michael came in; Liz went to get them some water. When she came back into the room she handed Michael his, then she went to stand by Max. As he took the bottle he bent down and kissed her. “Where are you guys staying?” He asked as he opened the bottle.

“Well, we sort of spent the night in the Crashdown…hope that was okay.” Evan didn’t figure they would mind, it wasn’t open for business anymore.

“No, no it wasn’t. Not that we mind you staying there, it just isn’t safe…we’ve been trying to get down to tear it down, but…” Max looked at Liz, the thought of tearing it down killed her inside, of course she tried to hide it from him, but it didn’t work. “Maybe it’s time we took care of it.” He looked from Liz to Evan, this would be hard on him too. “Let’s go down and get your things, you can stay here if you don’t mind sleeping on the floor…we aren’t equipped with a lot of guest rooms.”

Professor Draakes couldn’t believe his ears, not only did they get to meet these people but they would be staying in their home. “It would be an honor to stay here. The floor is fine. Besides, Evan was telling us of the great show at night. You know the stars.”

The university hovercraft followed the one driven by Max. Maria and Michael were in the back seat. Liz sat in front, but she didn’t want to be here, if they had to do this she just as soon stayed home. “Max, I don’t want to go…please, can’t this wait?” She felt the tears coming. She had stood by his side during the worst battle of the war, but this would be harder than any battle. They would be taking away one of the most important things in her life.

Max reaches over to take her hand. “We can’t wait. Wonder if a new group of people come in, people that don’t know the place like Evan does, and they decide to stay there…you know what could happen, the place just isn’t safe anymore.”

“Max, she could stay home, we can handle this. Maria too.” Michael didn’t want to admit it, but this was going to be hard on him too.

“No, we need to be together for this.” He turns to face Liz. “If there is anything inside that you want, we should be able to get it out. But I don’t think there is much left to get.” She wouldn’t look at him, but he saw the tears run down her face, and it broke his heart out to cause her this pain. Silently they pulled up in front of the Crashdown, they were shocked to see how bad it had become.

“Oh, my.” Was all she could say as she got out, wiping the tears away. Maria walked up beside her; they just couldn’t believe that this was what had become of it. Max came up and put his arm around her shoulder, then he pulled her close to him. “You can do this, right?” She just shook her head.

Liz turned to Evan, “We’re going to go in and check to make sure that we have everything out, do you want to come in and check too?”

He just nodded “There is something I’d like to get. If I can find it.”

“What was it?” Liz was curious about what he wanted so bad.

“I think I remember seeing great-grandpa’s guitar. It was in that one case…if you don’t mind that is.”

Liz reached up to touch his face. “I don’t mind, I’m sure he would be happy to know how much you loved it. I hope it was downstairs, because I don’t think it will be safe enough to go upstairs.”

“I think I saw it in the dining room last night, but it was dark and I couldn’t see too clearly.” He would find it, it was one of the things he remembered most about Geoff Parker and he wanted to keep a piece of that memory.

As they walked passed the side of the building, so many memories flashed through the four’s minds. Halfway to the back, Liz stopped. “You said you’d like some stories…right here was where Max and I stopped a mugger from killing a woman, it was the first time I knew I could see the future. That was the thing that saved our lives at graduation.” As they came around the back she pointed out another spot. “Up there is the balcony outside of my bedroom…” Looking at Max she starts to blush thinking of some of the things that happened there. “Let’s just say some interesting things happened up there too.”

Evan had already gone inside to look for his great grandfathers guitar…why it was laying in the dining room was anyone’s guess. He was just glad it was there, he might have forgotten about it.
Looking around for anything else that they might have wanted, he heard a loud crack. Looking up he saw part of the beams start to give away, it happened too fast for him to react…

Outside they were laughing as Maria told them about Michael and Courtney. When they heard the loud crash, Max and Liz exchanged looks…”Evan!”


To Be Continued…

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What Destiny Brings
Part 3


Max, Liz, Michael and Maria ran into the kitchen, they had told the others to wait outside where they would be safe. “Evan! Are you alright?” Max yelled towards the dining room.

“I’m okay, it just missed me. I’m close to the front door, so I’ll let myself out.” He lays his hand on the lock listening for the familiar click. Just as he was turning the knob to get out of the building, another piece of the ceiling broke loose, landing within a foot of where he was standing. “Okay, this is just getting too close for comfort.” By the time he got outside, they had all come around to get him. “See, I’m perfect.”

“I don’t think so, Evan. Looks like you got hit by something. It put a hole in your favorite shirt.” Soro just shook his head; Evan was the luckiest guy he knew. If it would have been him, he would have been lying at the bottom of the pile.

It was then that he felt the gash on his shoulder. He turned his head, trying to see what damage was done, but he couldn’t. Max came up behind him, pulling at the shirt, he saw that the gash was a little deeper than they thought. “Take off your shirt, I’ll take care of it.” As Evan pulled off his shirt, Miri inhaled deeply, ‘He must work out too.’ She thought. Capra was looking also, but she was only worried about the injury…it could easily get infected if it wasn’t cleaned soon. She did notice that he wore a pendant, but the bottom tip was missing. It looked very old…maybe it had something to do his families past. She stood to the side, not wanting to be in the way while they were taking care of him. Evan looked over at Capra, he saw the fear on her face…she was worried about him; he couldn’t remember anyone being so concerned for him, except for family, and maybe Soro. But then again they had gotten into quite a few scrapes. He smiled at her, trying to let her know everything would be alright. Capra watched, not knowing what she was seeing, then she remembered his grandfather was the healer. She came closer to watch, she may never see anything like this again. Max looked at Evan’s shoulder, then he placed his hand on the gash. Within seconds all signs of the cut had disappeared. Picking up Evan’s shirt, he hands it back to him “I’m sorry I can’t do anything for your shirt, though.” As he turned around he saw they had all been watching every move he made. “All done, good as new.” He just smiled and walked back over to the others.

“It’s like he does that everyday…amazing.” The Professor just stared, not knowing what to say.


“I think your right, Max. It’s time to take it down before someone does get hurt.” She sighs, it still was going to be a hard thing to do…this had been the family home for so many generations.

Evan still hadn’t put on his shirt, Miri walks over to stand next to Capra, she wanted to get a closer look at Evan. “Are you really okay?” She started to bat her eyelashes at him. Soro just shook his head “Oh brother.” He mumbles under his breath. Evan wasn’t fooled by her, he just politely smiled “Yea, I’m just fine, grandpa is the best doctor there is.” Then he kept walking passed her towards Capra. “Don’t look so worried, I’m fine now.” He couldn’t resist touching her, he wanted to ease the worry lines on her beautiful face. “I do need to find my backpack and get another shirt though.” He was still holding on to the ripped one. Looking towards the hovercraft, he sees his backpack on the back seat. “Come with me?” Capra just nodded, and then she let him take her hand.

Max and Michael stood near the building, trying to decide the best way to bring it down. Maria and Liz watched what was happening with their grandson. “I think we may have another one falling into the alien abyss…but from what I’ve seen, I like her. She kind of reminds me of someone.” Maria just looked at Liz and smiled.

”You aren’t talking about me are you? You can’t be, I was never that cute.” She liked that girl, she seemed to really care about Evan, unlike the other one…I guess things never change.

“Well, if we concentrate most of the energy over there, hopefully it will fall straight down.” Max looked skeptical. “Trust me Maxwell, don’t you remember who figured out how to bring down the headquarters of the Keepers?”

“Yea, I remember. But in order for it to be brought down, you blew it in about a million pieces first.” Max laughed as he remembered Michael during the war. “Okay we’ll try it, but I don’t think it will take the three of us…besides, I don’t want Liz to have to be part of this.”

“I don’t think we’ll need her, this thing doesn’t look like it will take too much.” Then he turns to look at Max. “What do you mean I blew it into a million pieces? Don’t you remember, I was wounded, my powers were off.”

“I offered to take care of it, but you wanted a souvenir from the war.” He looked at Michael’s leg, the limp seemed to get a little worse every year. “I can still take care of it, you know.”

“He is just too bull headed, don’t you know that by now.” She reaches up and squeezes his face with her hand. “But that’s okay Spaceboy, I still love you!” She leans over and kisses him.


Capra and Evan watched as his grandparents stood together, Capra smiled as she watched Maria tease Michael. Evan looked at her, “What’s so funny?”

“Your grandparents, I just figured out how they stay looking so young.”

“How they…oh, yea I don’t think they’ve changed since I was little. Funny, I never noticed that before. Okay, what’s their secret?”

“It’s all the love they have in them. From what I’ve read, they seem to be more in love than they were at the beginning. Can that be possible?” She looked at him with large brown eyes. He didn’t know the answer to that question, but he was more than willing to find out.

Evan looked over at his grandparents, now would be the time. They were all together and the others would be involved watching them take the building down. “I’ll be right back, stay here.”
She watched him cross the street and whisper something to them. It made her nervous when the four of them turned to look at her. Whatever he went over to ask about must have been important because it looked like they were asking him some questions. It was when Max looked first at Evan, then at Liz and then he turned and looked directly at her, that she really got nervous. While she was waiting, she turned and found her backpack mixed in with everyone else’s, reaching in, she pulls out her brush. Taking the clip out of her hair, she starts brushing it. She keeps telling herself that she should really get it cut if she was going to be in the desert on these projects.
As she starts to run the brush through her hair, she feels someone gently take the brush. She felt his hands touching hers as he slides the brush down her waist length hair. He couldn’t believe that something this simple could make him feel this way. She turns to face him. “Oh, I see you’re back. Did everything go okay with them?”

“It went just the way I hoped it would. Do you mind missing the big show…you know, when they take down the building? I have something to show you.”

“I never was one for watching a building getting torn down. So, what’s the big secret?” She smiles at the way he was being so mysterious, like she would be seeing something she would never forget.

“We’re going to the UFO Center. It holds the answers to what you want to know. I don’t know, I just can’t bring myself to include the others, this is always been something we keep to ourselves…it’s all very personal.” When she looked at him, she felt like her whole world would be changing, like she was being included in something that very few people would ever see. As he takes her hand, she felt a strange energy flow between them; it was like they were being bonded for all time.

Milo sees them heading to the UFO Center. “Hey Evan! You’re going to miss the show! Where are you guys going? Hey!” He started to run after them, Miri saw what was going on and she started to follow him.

“Milo! Stay here, you’ll love this!” Soro was trying to get them to stay behind. But as he was calling after them, he sees Evan raise is arm, turning his free hand in the direction of the approaching couple. Soro knew what was coming and he couldn’t wait. When they hit the invisible wall, they ended up on the road. “Next time guys, take the hint when someone wants to be alone.” Then he started laughing.


They stood outside the door of the UFO Center. Capra looked around, surprised that this building looked like it was just built. “Evan, why are all the other buildings in such bad shape while this one looks new?”

“Brody takes care of it, well his daughter Sydney still takes care of it. It will always be here…Brody saw to it.” Again she noticed that look on his face, like he had lost something precious. Turning to him, she does what she had wanted to do for a long time. She simply brushes her hand over his cheek, letting him know that she would listen to anything he had to say, that she would always be there for him. She was surprised when the look on his face softened, he actually seemed to relax. “Thank you.”

“You’re welcome.” There were no questions to be asked, they already knew the answers. Evan put his hand over the lock, then he opened the door. “That little thing you do comes in handy.”

“It has its advantages. Oh, you wanted to know about this building…” they were inside, some of the old displays were still there, even though the place had been closed for years. “Brody bought the Center in 2000; little did he know what that would mean to everyone. We’ll probably get into that with everyone, so I’ll just skip it for now. Sydney was Brody’s daughter, many years ago she was in the hospital in Phoenix dying of cancer, grandpa Max healed her. Brody never knew for years, not until my grandparents came back…that’s a whole other story of its own, but you probably already know some of it. Brody had promised my grandparents that this building would always be safe, and it has been.”

“What happened to him?”

“He died about a year ago…grandma said that it was too late when they found him. She had a flash that something was wrong, but he was already gone. He was a great guy, he saved this family a lot of times. He had set it up so that there would be enough money set aside to keep the building in tact, no matter what. That it could never be torn down.” While they were talking, they had made their way to the back room. Looking up the stairs, he knew that this would be their new beginning, what she was about to see would change her life forever…


To Be Continued…

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What Destiny Brings
Part 4




"Why are we here?" Capra wasn't sure why they were standing in front of a brick wall.

"You said that you would love to see the things that were lost. Well, I'm going to make your wish come true. Give me your hand.” He takes her hand and places it on the wall, then he lays his hand on top of hers, causing it to glow.

“What was that for?” She didn’t really want him to take his hand from hers, it felt like that was where it belonged.

“I just made you a key.” He looks at her and smiles.

“A key?”

“Try it.” He stands back to see her reaction as she activates the hidden door. As the door slides open, he sees her go from shock to curiosity to a big smile.

“I did that?” She looked at him with awe. “This is so cool, where does the door go to?” She tried to see what was in the room, but it was too dark. She watches as he reaches his hand around the corner, then the lights come on. “Oh…” was all she could say as she looked into the room. As they walk in she sees boxes of books, photo albums and the things they have kept through out the years. “So, it wasn’t all lost…” She walks over and runs her hand over one of Liz’s journals, wishing she could read it. “This was hers, she wrote journals about their lives…oh the stories they must tell.” He had to smile at her wonderment of the journals; she treated them like they were a precious gift to treasure. When she saw the photo albums, she looked at Evan, when he smiled and nodded, she began to giggle like a kid at Christmas. “Thank you Evan, this is the best gift anyone has ever given me.”

He walks over to stand beside her; he sees her hand start to shake as she picks up the first album. When she opens it, she sees them dressed for what looks to be a fancy party. “That was prom…that was the night that almost ended things for them. Tess had her mind set to get my grandfather…she wanted to have his baby and return to Antar. Once there he would have been executed by Kivar and then he would have taken the baby.” He had a pained look on his face and this was killing Capra to see that pain. She walked over and faced him, she didn’t know what to do to help ease it, so she simply stood there, waiting for him to make the first move. She was allowing him to seek that comfort in whatever form he needed. Slowly he reached over to her and pulled her to him, wrapping his arms around her waist; taking her cue she did the same to him, just holding him until the feelings passed. He placed his chin on the top of her head, just taking in her scent. “What kind of perfume do you use? You always smell like…sunshine.”
He looked down at her, she grinned back at him.

“Sunshine? What does sunshine smell like?” She couldn’t resist touching his face.

“You know, like the fresh smell of flowers that grow in a field that have had the sun on them all day…don’t look at me like that!” He starts to smile, his dark mood lifting. Grinning at him, she pulls away, walking backwards around the books, teasing him.

“I don’t use any perfume, it’s just the way I smell.” He started to follow her, but for every step forward that he takes, she takes two backwards. He reaches out to grab her, but she scoots just out of his reach. Catching her off guard as she glances back down at the photo album, he sneaks up behind her and grabs her. “No fair! You took advantage of me!”

“Not yet I haven’t!” They stand there looking at each other, their faces inches apart. They take one step closer, their breathing seemed to speed up. He reaches up to touch her face, their lips are just a breath away from each other. “You know once we do this, we can’t go back.” The breath from his whisper tickled her lips.

“I don’t want to.” She whispers back. He pulls back to look at her confused, his breathing getting harder. Realizing what she said, she takes his face in her hands. “I don’t want to go back…I want to move forward…” That was all it took, he places his hands on her head, feeling the softness of her hair, and then kisses her with everything he felt for her. Suddenly, there came a burst of flashes, he saw everything from that day, her laughter at his grandparents, the worry for his safety, the amazement of unlocking the wall and the pain she felt for him when he saw the picture. She felt the flashes at the same time…only she saw a little boy being chased by his grandfather in the dining room of the Crashdown, his beautiful mother teaching him how to use his powers, the first day he saw her at the university…then they felt the earth move.

“Did the earth move for you too? Did we do that?” She looked up at him while he still held her.

“I felt it too. Let’s try that again, and see what happens.” He starts to lean in, then they felt it again. Suddenly he leans his head back and starts to laugh. “Grandpa Michael has a lot to learn about timing!”

“You don’t think that was them taking down the building, do you?” She had to smile; she had never seen him laugh like that before.

“It had to be him. I hate to cut this short, but we really should go down there and see what’s happening.” Taking her hand, he heads to the door. Suddenly he stops, pulling her to him. “One more!” Then he kisses her deeply. As he starts to pull away, she pulls him back. “My turn.” Then she returns the kiss.

“I could do this all day, but we have to go.” After they get to the bottom of the stairs, she looks at him.
“Do you think it was like that for them?”

He looks back at her, his eyes showing everything he is feeling. “I think it still is.”

When they were headed to the door he remembers something. “Wait.” He reaches up and removes the pendant from around his neck. “This is from their beginning.” He places the leather cord around her neck. “Now it’s from our beginning.”


As they walked out of the UFO Center, she takes his hand and has him stop, looking at the pendant she tells him. “I changed my mind…this is the best gift.” He just simply drapes his arm around her shoulder and starts to walk, slowly, she reaches her arm around his waist feeling like her life had just begun.

Max and Liz watch Capra and Evan approach them. They seem to be all smiles, and the fact that she is wearing the pendant didn’t escape them. “Did you find what you were looking for?” Max’s question could be taken many ways, but he knew which way the answer would lean and it had nothing to do with what was in that room.

Evan read his look, and he answered with his own. “And then some. Now about grandpa Michael’s timing…”

Milo and Miri saw them return, “Hey Evan, you missed the coolest explosion!” When Miri notices that Capra is wearing Evan’s pendant, she silently starts to pout.

“Oh, that’s okay, I had a few of my own.” He turns and leads Capra over to Michael and Maria.
“Grandpa, did you have to make such a mess?”

“Well, you know, I still have a problem with the powers every now and then.” Looking at Capra, he smiles. “Nice necklace.”

“Thank you, someone very special gave it to me.”

Maria smiles at them, “It’s only given to very special people.” Then she turns to look back at the rest of the group. “I think the show is probably over…there isn’t much left, it’ll all blow off into the wind. Oh! Evan, Michael has something for you.”

Michael reaches inside of Max’s hovercraft and hands Evan the guitar case. “I found this by the door. I think Grandpa Geoff was saving it for you.”

Evan walks over and hugs Michael, then takes the guitar. “Thank you so much grandpa. But your timing still stinks.”


They were all sitting in what was the living room. The couch sat in front of the three pods, Max, Liz, Evan and Capra sat on it, many of the others choose to sit on the floor. Maria and Michael were fixing drinks for their guests. As Maria starts looking around to make sure she had drinks for everyone, she looks at the four on the couch. “Oh my…Michael look over there, what do you see?”

“What?” He’s pouring out some chips to pass out. When he looks, he sees it too. “Whoa, it looks like a time warp!” Just then Soro comes over to see if he can help.

“What’s so interesting?” He didn’t quite get what Michael and Maria were looking at. “Yea, it’s great about Evan and Capra, I’ve been telling him for six months he belonged with her.”

Michael reaches into a box on a shelf and finds the picture he was looking for, then he passes it to Soro. “Wow, this is totally strange!” The picture is of Max and Liz about forty years ago, looking at Evan and Capra he could have sworn that time had been turned back.

Max looked at his grandson’s friends, their faces anxiously waiting, they want to hear the story they have waited all day for. “I hear that you have some questions for us, about things in the past. We’ll try to answer what we can, but, there may be some things we prefer to keep private, all we ask is that you respect that.”

Professor Draakes answers for them all “That will be no problem, just the chance to be here is more than we could have asked for. If it’s all right, I’d like to ask a question.” Max nods his head, then he waits. “Is it true that your daughter actually fought in the war of ’14?”

“You wanted to know the truths behind the rumors? Our daughter had and still has strong powers, she has the combined abilities of the royal four. Because she has these powers, she was constantly hid from our enemies, we would have never risked her life in battle. She was moved three for four times a week from one safe place to another. The only battle she used her powers in when she was a child was the day she was born…” Taking Liz’s hand he looks at her. “Seconds after her birth she protected us from Kivar’s men by covering us with a force field. We tried to keep a check on her powers as she grew up, they could have become very strong and possibly out of control.” Capra senses Evan’s uneasiness listening to them talk about his mother. That was something he considered private. She takes his hand and holds it in her lap.

Soro, knowing how Evan is about this subject brings up another question. “We had heard that some humans had been given implants to make it seem like they had lost it...Sheriff Valenti’s father was one of these people. Was his grandson ever able to figure out a way to remove it?”

“It took about six months of research, but Kyle and Amanda finally did help him. Unfortunately, it had been so long, they were never able to return his memory to him completely…but he was well enough to go home to the Valentis. Maria, how long did he live there?”

“Let’s see, Mom married Jim in 2006, so I think he was around for a few years after that. He was so happy to be home, even though he hardly recognized any one. Remember the time we all snuck off to Las Vegas!” Everyone listened as they started trading stories of their high school days. Evan had heard these stories many times, and he felt the need to get some air. Capra was the only one to notice that he had left the room. Quietly she follows him; she sees that he is standing in a small room, that maybe it might have been his bedroom when he was a child.

“Are you okay? If I’m disturbing you I can go back…”

“No, stay. I knew you’d come. I want to show you something.” The giant sky light was still there, and the night sky was filling with stars. She came over to stand by him, he immediately takes her hand, he just always felt a need to touch her. “See that star right there? That’s Barnard’s star…you can see it from Antar too.” As he stood there pointing out the different constellations the familiar V formation slowly slid over head signaling the beginning of another destiny…


To Be Continued…





What Destiny Brings
Part 5


Miri started to lay out her sleeping bag near the back of the living room, looking around, she still didn't see Capra. When she looked to her left, she saw Soro starting to put his down beside her. "Can you believe this? Not only did we meet Max Evans, we are staying in his house! No wait, it isn't even a house it's the actual pod chamber!" He stretched out on his back and looked up at the stars shinning in through the roof. "Man, can you imagine sleeping this way every night?"

Miri didn’t seem too impressed. “Have you seen Capra? I haven’t seen her for hours.”

“I saw her leave with Evan, they must be off talking somewhere.”

“Yea right, talking…” She flops down and turns her back to him.

“Gee Miri, don’t go getting all freaked, I’m glad they finally got their stuff together. I think they’ll be good for each other.”

“Ummp…” She pounds her pillow and covers her head with it.


Max was looking around, “Have you seen the kids?”

“Don’t worry Max, they’re around here somewhere…maybe they just wanted to be alone.” She looks at him, raising her eyebrows and winking. “Give you any ideas?”

“What am I going to do with you, you never get enough.” He loved to tease her, her response always made him come alive.

“You made me that way.” She winks at him again. Sighing, he walks over to her, takes her hand and they head for their bedroom. “Wait, let me see something.” She gently pushes open the door to Evan’s old bed room. “Mystery solved.” She whispered, and pointed in the room. Max peeks in to see that Evan and Capra had fallen asleep on his old bed, the one he used when he was ten. Evan lay on his side with his feet hanging off the edge of the bed, Capra lies sleeping next to him with his arm protectively wrapped around her.

“Not much room for them, looks like really close quarters…maybe we should get one that size!”
Max looks down at Liz, she just shakes her head.

“Let’s just keep the one we have and we can pretend it’s that small, or we can take advantage of all that room…” She quietly giggles. Reaching over, she pulls the door shut. Then she grabs Max by the shirt and heads to the old Granolith chamber.

As the sun slowly drifted into the bedroom Capra opened her eyes. Looking around, she wasn’t quite sure where she was, then she felt his arm holding her securely by his side. “Oh, how did that happen?” As she tried to focus, she remembered that they had come in here to be alone and to talk. After they sat down on the bed she started to get tired and he had told her to lie down, then he had curled up beside her so they could look up and get a better view of the stars. Then they must have fallen asleep. She carefully moved his arm, she didn’t want to wake him. She stood there for a few seconds watching him sleep; then she softly opened the door. Tiptoeing, she made her way around all the sleeping people, then she went into the kitchen. To her surprise Max, Liz, Michael and Maria were already up.

“Well, good morning. Did you sleep well?” Liz grinned at her.

Capra started to blush. “All we did was talk and we must have fallen asleep.”

“Hey, didn’t your parents hear the same thing that time you two snuck off into the desert for the night?” Maria looked at Liz and Max. Neither one said a word, they only smiled remembering that night.

“Yea, and we were grounded for a week! Capra, I’m going into town to get some things from the UFO Center, Max and I have some pictures stored there that we thought everyone would like to see. Do you want to come with me to get them? Or, you can stay here, Max is going to take the others on a tour and show them some of the sights and answer some more of their questions.”

“If you don’t mind, I’d really like to go with you, that room was amazing.”

“I’d like to leave in about fifteen minutes, can you be ready?”

“I think so, but I’d like to take a real quick shower if possible. I promise I’ll be ready!” Jumping up she quietly runs to the living room, finding her backpack, she heads to the bathroom.

Liz gets two cups of coffee ready, looking at her watch, she was surprised to see Capra back in the kitchen in ten minutes. Her hair was wet, hanging loose down her back. “Gee you’re good! You have five minutes to go! Here have some coffee and grab a donut and we’ll be on our way.” Walking over to Max she gives him a long coffee flavored kiss. “Don’t get them lost now. I love you.”

“You just get out of here so you can get back soon. Be careful!” Leaning down, he returns the kiss, only longer. “I love you back.”

Michael looks at Capra, “You’ll have to excuse them, they may be apart for a few hours and they tend to go through withdrawal.”

Capra just smiles. “I may have some myself…” Turning so no one could see her blush, she picks up a donut and her coffee and follows Liz out the door.

“You guys make sure you tell Evan where she is, okay?” Michael looks at Max and grins, Max knows he has something up his sleeve.


Evan reaches over and feels the empty space, maybe it was just a dream. Then he could smell the sunshine on the pillow next to him. “She had been there…where was she now?” Stretching, trying to get his muscles back to life after sleeping in the cramped space, he looks around thinking of home. This was it, it was where he always wanted to be…

With the sun pouring into the living room, they all started to wake up. Miri looked to her right and saw that Capra was nowhere to be seen, even her sleeping bag was still rolled up in the corner. Her back pack looked like she had been in it, though. Maybe she was in the kitchen, she wanted to hear what happened with Evan and why he gave her that necklace. Standing up, she grabs her things and heads to the bathroom.

Evan wanders into the living room barefoot, wearing only his jeans. “Morning everyone. Did you sleep well?” Milo stretches, looking at Evan he wanted to throw something at him, and tell him to put something on, but he was too tired.

Professor Draakes reached for his glasses, after putting them on, he finally got his eyes to focus. “It was a wonderful way to fall asleep, the stars are magnificent!”

“Has anyone seen Capra?” Evan still couldn’t figure out where she went. “She was with me when I fell asleep, but she was gone this morning.” Miri comes out of the bathroom just in time to hear him say that. Reaching for her backpack, she starts to throw things inside. She noticed he didn’t pay attention to her, he only wandered into the kitchen.

“Morning” He reaches for his favorite cup. “Has anyone seen Capra?”

Michael got an evil grin on his face. “She left.” Was all he said as he flipped over some pancakes. Max leans in and whispers to him, “Nice, Michael, real nice.” It was then that Michael saw what Max already had. Evan looked totally devastated.
“I..I mean she left with Liz, they went to town to get something from the…you know.” He tried to cover himself. Evan turned and glared at him. “Thanks grandpa.” Picking up his coffee, he reaches for a donut, then walks out of the room.

“Spaceboy, one of these days…Do realize how hard it is for him to be around people, much less develop so many feelings for them?” She picked up a towel and starts to hit him with it. “What were you thinking?”

Liz and Capra were going down the road in the hovercraft, Liz could see she was curious. “I hope that I don’t make you nervous…sometimes it’s hard to talk to people, especially family of someone…oh, I’m making a mess of this!” She looks at Capra, her long hair was blowing it the wind. “You’re good for him, I haven’t seen him so happy since…well ever. I must tell you though, he is so much like Max, he will fight you every step of the way when it comes to his feelings.”

“We don’t have any problem there…” She smiles back at Liz. “I just wait, when he wants to say something I listen. Last night after he saw that one picture, we didn’t say anything, we just held onto each other.” Liz looked at her, she didn’t know what to say. “Sometimes that’s all a person needs.” Capra added.


Everyone piled into the university hovercraft, Evan was still standing to the side. “Come on Evan, it’ll be fun.” Soro was trying to get his mind off Capra for a while anyway.

“He’s coming. Besides Liz won’t be back for a while. Let’s go.” Max started the craft, waiting for Evan to get in. When he reluctantly crawled in Max took off
. Professor Draakes looked around as they were headed away from the pod chamber, “Max, what do you think caused Roswell to virtually disappear? I mean it looks like almost everyone has gone.”

“I think it started near the end of ’13. More people were reporting UFOs and of course the government denied it, but as you know near the beginning of ’14 they couldn’t deny it anymore. When the Keepers invaded in this area that brought out the truth.”

“Why do you call them the Keepers. Weren’t they really leftovers of Kivar’s followers coming for revenge?” Soro knew his history, or maybe Evan had told him some stories.

Max just laughed, “They kept coming back and being a pain in the rear…It was a long two years, but we finally defeated them. We had many loses including a very dear friend. Serena fought beside us and helped develop the weapon the ended the war…she was a great friend to Liz and I and we miss her dearly. Then there were other loses…” He trails off, these were some of the things he would keep private.


Liz and Capra went into the UFO Center; Liz opens the back door that would lead them to the stairs. Once they get to the top she points her hand at Capra, telling her to go ahead and open it. She couldn’t help the grin, she couldn’t get over they would trust her this way. Once inside, Liz looks for the things that they would take with them. She sees the photo album opened to the old prom pictures. “Why does he hate those things in the past the way he does…they seem like new wounds whenever he thinks about what happened so long ago.” Capra looks at Liz like she was feeling his pain even now.
“No one has ever found out. He has kept that to himself most of his life. You’ve seen how he can be. Even Max was never as closed as that. He had a rough life, his mother and father always traveled for their work and he would have to go place to place. That’s why he loves the pod chamber so much, he would spend the summers with us. I think that’s why he is so quiet…I think he felt he would be forever alone. Or at least he used to feel that way.” She turns and sees Capra looking at the journals, wanting to touch them. Liz picks up the top three and hands them to her. “Take them; you earned the right to be a part of this. No one has ever read them, not Max and not Maria…they have always been mine alone…but now I’m ready to let someone in to understand who these two men are.” When Liz looked at her, she saw what Evan saw…some one that would stand beside him, saving him from himself.


While the others in the group were busy gathering samples, Evan pulled Max to the side. Max could tell that this would be a serious conversation, one that could possibly decide his future. “Okay, what is it?”

“I don’t want to go back to school. I want, no, I need to stay here. This is the only place I feel alive.” Evan’s look practically begged him to say yes.

“What about Capra, will she go back?” Max knew this problem, he had lived it with Liz.

“That’s why I can’t decide what to do. I’m dying in that place, but she’ll be there. If I stay here where I feel alive, do I have the right to ask her to stay?” Max could read the pain in his face.

“When this happened to me, I weighed everything, then I decided I would go with Liz when she went away to school, I was lost too. When we knew what would happen to us…she could have left, she could have run on her own with a better chance of survival. She chose to go with me, giving up all of her dreams. Taking a chance of never seeing another day…” Max remembers that night at graduation, “If you feel for Capra what I think you do, give her the same chance. Let her choose…you both will follow your hearts.”


Evan had hunted for almost a half and hour for Capra, finally he saw her shadow. She had found a quiet spot behind the rocks. It happened to be one of his favorite hiding places when he was a boy. “Hi, I missed you this morning…” What he saw broke his heart. She sat there reading one of Liz’s journals, the tears were flowing down her face, he could tell that she had been crying for a long time. “What…?” Then he did for her what she had done for him. He waited, then when he saw what she needed in her eyes, he sat beside her and held her in his arms and let her cry.
When she was done, he lifted her chin “Can you tell me now?”

“Did you know about the baby she lost…how she was never able to have another one?” Evan just stared at her, he had never heard this before. “Max and Michael were off in a battle, she was with Serena and your mother. They were attacked by their enemies…she was shot twice saving your mother from being captured. Serena died saving her. Your mother was only about ten, her powers weren’t completely developed, she could save Liz, but she couldn’t save the baby or completely heal her. Her life would be saved, but even Max couldn’t do anything for her after that…” Her tears started again, and they were joined by his. He lifted her face, then he kissed her, tasting the saltiness of them. He knew then that he would take the chance, when the moment was right, and offer her his life and his home…

To Be Continued…

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I'm glad you like them, they were kidding me at the sci-fi boards about writing the next Roswell series with this one ~ Roswell the Next Generation...that would work






What Destiny Brings
Part 6

Evan looked at Capra "I'll be back, I could use something to drink, and I think you probably could too." As he leaves he touches her hand and smiles. While she waited for him to return, she draws her knees up and rests her chin on them. She hears a noise nearby. “That was quick!”
When she looked up, she sees that it’s Miri.

“Capra! There you are! I’ve been looking everywhere for you!” Looking down she sees Liz’s journals. “Oh my God! You’ve got Liz’s journals! I can’t wait to read them!” She starts to reach for the top one.

“NO!” Capra looks at her with the fierceness of a mother lion protecting her cub. Then she reaches over to grab Miri’s hand.

“She won’t mind, I know she won’t!” She reaches again, this time she is stopped by a hand with the strength of a vice.

“I said, No!” Capra picks up the journals and moves them closer to her. Neither one notices Evan’s return; he stays in the shadows, listening.

Miri suddenly changes her attitude. “You’re not so special you know…You should have seen Evan today. He took advantage of you being gone.”

Capra wasn’t impressed. “Oh really, what did he do?”

“While the others were busy, he took me off so we could be alone. Then he kissed me.”

Evan almost chocked; he waited to hear what Capra had to say.

“Really, what did you see when he kissed you?” She was dying to hear the answer.

“See? What could I see, Silly, my eyes were closed. She was starting to feel very sure of herself.

“That’s funny. When I kiss Capra I see the whole universe and she’s the center of it!” Evan stood there with his arms crossed staring at Miri. Capra grinned.

Miri didn’t know what to do. She stood up and walked away, not looking back.

“Do you really see that?” She asked as he handed her a bottle of water.

“I can’t even describe what I see.” Reaching down, he takes her face in his hands. “Tell me what you see.” Then he kisses her. “Well?”

“I see home. When you kiss me, I see my home.” Then he takes her in his arms. She leans back to look at him. “Evan, I need to ask you a question.”

“Ask me any thing.” He was wondering where this would lead.

“Why did you get so upset when you looked at the prom pictures? You always seem to become, I don’t know, sad maybe. Those things happened a long time ago…”

Finally, he thought to himself, someone was going to actually ask him about this instead of ducking it, trying not to bother him. “First off, I love my Grandfather Michael, but for some reason Grandpa Max and I have been the closest. I don’t know if it’s because we look so much alike, or that we think alike…it just is.” He looks at her for a reaction, she just sits there listening, waiting. “When I was little they would talk about what happened sometimes, you know, about how Kivar wanted him dead. I guess because I was small they didn’t think I understood, but I did. Or what I understood was that there was a man that hated my grandfather so much, that he wanted him dead. That made me so mad, to me my grandfather was king, not just on that place somewhere, but here. It made me sad too, I didn’t want to think that someone else might come and try to take him from us. I guess part of that little boy is still in me and when I see those pictures it opens that wound all over again. It doesn’t make sense I know, but its how I feel.” He didn’t know if it made sense to her, if she could really understand, but it was how he felt. She still didn’t say anything, she just sat there thinking. When she was done, she stood up and faced him.

“Evan, that was a long time ago, another lifetime really. I think your grandfather is over it, well as over it as anyone can get. He has moved on.” She walks over, taking his face in her hands, she looks at him in the eyes. “You have to let it go, Kivar is dead, Tess is dead. They can’t hurt him anymore. He is a strong man and I think it would upset him if he knew you are holding on to his past. You have to let it go or this thing will eat you up.” Then she decided to take the biggest risk of her life. “I love you Evan…all I want is to see you happy, please let it pass.” She bends down to kiss him; then she picks up the journals and walks away.


Capra walked into the kitchen, Maria and Liz were getting things ready for a cookout. She looks at Liz, then passes her the journals. “Thank you, they were very helpful.” Then a look of understanding passes between them. “Could I be of any help?” Maria just smiled like she just hit the lottery. “Is it too late to take back that offer?”

“Sorry, all offers of help are non-refundable. Here you can slice these. Oh, you might need this too.” She hands her a clothespin. Reaching behind her, she hands Capra a large bowl of onions, “Slice them real thin, please.”

“Sure no problem. Liz, remember that question we talked about? I know the answer.” She smiled at Evan’s grandmother.

“How did you do that? He would never talk about that with anyone.”

Capra tries to keep a straight face, so she just keeps peeling the onions. “I asked him. Then I thought about an answer to what he told me. I told him what I thought, then I told gave him a kiss, told him I loved him and walked away so he could think about it all.” Maria breaks out laughing on the other side of the room.
“Hey Liz, I think you’ve finally met your match when it comes to the Evans men.”


Michael was cooking the burgers on the grill, they had moved the party to the base of the pod chamber. Max sees Professor Draakes standing by himself. “Professor, I think we were talking about the problems Roswell had and why it seems to have disappeared. I’m sorry that I got off of the subject yesterday, but sometimes I get distracted at the mention of certain things…”

“No apologies necessary. I was never in a war as you had been, but I’m sure things will do that to you. Now I’m still interested in your theories. Was it the war that caused this?”

“I think it was the beginning, but when the government finally admitted that there was UFOs and visitors, as we like to call them, people realized that they had what they were looking for right in their own back yard. Roswell wasn’t quite as unique as before. Plus a lot of people were worried that things would start back up again. Many stayed, like the Parkers and Brody Davis, but to them, and to us Roswell was home. We just take what we have left and cherish it. I was wondering, since tomorrow is going to be your last day here, would you like to take a trip to the Mesaliko Reservation? We have discussed this, and we feel that we can trust your student’s discretion, we would like to show you something very important to our history.”

“I don’t know what to say, we would be honored! Thank you so very much.” He wandered over to where some of the students were gathered to tell them the news.

“Are you going to show them the cave map?” Evan had come up behind Max. Max jumped, it was rare that anyone could do that. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you that way; I guess you taught me well.” He laughed at Max’s reaction.

“I guess I did. So how are things going with you and Capra?” He tried to read his grandson’s face, but like his own, that was almost impossible at times.

“Good I think, she asked me a question, one that no one has ever asked me before, and what she told me made me think. I have a question for you, if you don’t want to answer I’ll understand.”

“You want to know about the baby, don’t you? Liz told me she gave Capra a few of her journals to read…I’ve never read them myself, but I know she writes down everything in them. And if Capra follows course, she probably told you, right?” He looked at Evan, something seemed different about him, he seemed more content.

“She didn’t come right out and tell me…I found her crying, her heart seemed like it was breaking, so I asked her what was wrong. That’s when she told me…Why wasn’t I ever told that before?”
He felt hurt to have been left out of something that important.

Max puts his hand on Evan’s shoulder and they walk off out of ear shot of the rest of the group. “I know that you have things that you keep private, we all do. This was something we fought hard to get behind us.” He looks towards Liz, love shining in his eyes. “She hated herself for the longest time, she thought she had let me down. Nothing had ever been further from the truth…she fought to save your mother and it nearly cost her her own life. We got through it because we love each other more than life itself, I think you are learning how that feels.” Evan looks at him, understanding in his eyes. “So if we don’t discuss it with you, it’s not because we want to leave you out, it’s because it’s something we want to leave in…in our heart we still cherish that baby, but it wasn’t meant to be. I love you Evan, you are my daughter’s son, and you have made me proud of you, more than you will ever know.” Evan smiles at him, he feels like he has finally come to an understanding with his family and his heart was free. As he starts to walk away, Max calls him back. “Evan, you can stay if you want, both of you.”

“Thank you.” That said it all.

Maria finally finds Evan as he was walking away from Max, “There you are…I heard from your father today, and it was about time, too. Anyway, he wanted me to remind you about tonight, he said you would know what he was talking about.”

Evan stopped to think, then it hit him…tonight would be the night of the big meteor shower, something he had been looking forward to for six months. “Thanks grandma, this will be the best night ever!”


He finally found her; she was sitting near the spot he found her in this afternoon. “Hey, I’ve been looking for you.”

“Hey yourself, I wasn’t sure if you would ever want to see me again after this afternoon. I hope I wasn’t too hard on you.” She looked up at him with questioning eyes.

“Baby, if that’s as hard as you get on me, then you don’t ever have to worry! Come here.” He pulls her to her feet, then answers her question with his kiss. When they were both breathless, he looks into her eyes. “I love you too.” Once again he saw tears in her eyes, but this was tears of happiness. “There is going to be a meteor shower tonight, I’m not saying anything to anyone because it won’t be until late, but I have a special place to watch them, want to come?”

Not knowing what to expect, but because she trusts him with her life, she nods her head yes.

It was nearly one in the morning when they met by the door. “Are you ready?” She nods her head, “Then let’s go!” When they came out of the door, she started to head to the right, figuring they would drive further out into the desert to see them. “Where are you going? We’re going up there.” He points to the top of the rock formation. He didn’t see her turn pale, and swallow hard.
“Okay, let’s go.” Was all he heard. He was half way up, when he turned around to see where she was. “Hey, what are you doing back here?”

Her voice was high pitched and barely audible. “Oh, I’m right here…” He noticed she was standing there with her eyes closed.

“Are you scared of heights?” He just realized that he had never asked her that.

“Yea, silly me.” She sounded like she was going to hyperventilate.

“Why didn’t you tell me?” He was standing in front of her, trying to make her feel more secure.

“Because this means so much to you…” She opened one eye, just so she could see him.
Waving his hand, he put up an invisible wall, something she could depend on and still see the show. “Look” he takes her hand to show her that it’s there, even if she couldn’t see it. “It’s all around us, all the way to the top, you’ll be okay now.” Opening her eyes she sees the first meteor fly through the sky.
“Oh, it’s beautiful! Thank you for showing me this.” She wraps her arms around his neck and kisses him.

He takes her almost to the point and they sit down to watch the night sky. She turns to him, he feels her eyes on him, when he looks at her he sees all the love she has inside. He couldn’t stand not touching her, gently he lays her on the rocks, and gives her a kiss as the meteors put on their show.

In their bedroom, the room that used to house the Granolith, Max and Liz laid in bed watching the meteors fly across the sky. “I never get tired of watching these.” Max was lying with Liz curled up next to him. But what he saw next, made him blush. “Oh, I guess that Evan forgot about the sky light…”

“What are you talking about?” Then she saw what Max saw. Evan and Capra were lying just above their head near the tip of the rock formation. They seem oblivious to everything, even the meteors flying all around them. “It’s a good thing that no one else can see this area…” As Liz looks back to the couple she sees Capra sit up and remove Evans shirt. Max points his hand at the ceiling changing it back to the rocks that are really there. “I think we can do with out the stars for one night.” He smiles at Liz, then leans down to continue their own story.


To Be Continued…

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What Destiny Brings
Part 7


Capra rolled out of bed, looking around, she tried to find something to put on. Seeing Evan's shirt she slips it over her head and goes quietly out the door. The stone floor was cold on her bare feet as she carefully walked around her sleeping friends. ‘Hopefully everyone else is still asleep.’ She thought as she went into the kitchen. Looking around she sees Evan’s grandparents are already up. “Don’t you guys ever sleep?”

“Don’t you know, aliens don’t need sleep. How about you, how are you feeling this morning?” Max looks at her, she still looks like she was half asleep.

“Is floaty a word? Because if it is, then that’s how I feel.” She sits down on a chair at the counter, Liz hands her a glass of juice.

“Floaty, yea that’s definitely a way to describe it.” Maria said as she started to grin.

“Definitely.” Liz grins too. Pretty soon all three of them look at each other with a far off look in their eyes, they were still grinning.

“How do you like that Maxwell, we helped to create a new word.”

“Anytime Liz wants to create a new word, I’ll be happy to be of assistance. “Max volunteers as he picks up his coffee.

Miri was sitting at the table, not sure what they were talking about. “Thanks for the coffee, I guess I better go now.” She couldn’t look at Capra, she was too embarrassed.

Capra spun around on the stool. “Don’t run off, if your worried about yesterday, don’t be. That’s over with. Everyday is a do-over, this is a brand new day.”

“But, what about what I said…”

“I wasn’t worried…” She grins at Miri.

Evan was standing in the door, listening. He was glad that Capra had said what she did. “Morning. Oh, I wondered where my shirt walked off to.” He walks over to stand behind Capra; she bends her head back so she can look up at him. He puts his hands on her shoulders and starts to massage them.

“So, did you enjoy the meteor show last night?” Max was just getting ready to take a drink of his coffee, he looks over the rim at them. “I know Liz and I did…we had a perfect view of everything that was going on.” He starts to smile when he see Evan’s hands freeze and the looks on their faces were priceless.

“Everything?” Evan tries to swallow the lump in his throat.

“Well with all of the meteors out there shooting around, it was kind of hard to sleep so I had to close the sky light about ten minutes after it all started.” In an instant they both took a breath. Then they all burst out laughing, all but Miri, she still hadn’t figured out what was going on.

Capra stands up, pulling down the shirt. “I guess I better get dressed before someone else gets up and sees me like this. When are we leaving for the reservation?”

“As soon as we can get everyone up and ready. I already called Eddie, he knows we’ll be on our way.” Max leans down and whispers something in Liz’s ear, she turns around and punches him.


Capra heads back to Evan’s room, looking around she tries to find her things, then she tries to remember how she got here. There was a knock on the door, Evan sticks his head in the room.
“How did I get back down here…the last thing I remember is being up there.” Evan comes into the room, “Well, just call it a little alien magic. You know, we could just stay here, they won’t miss us.” He walks over to her, tugging at his shirt.
“You make that sound very tempting…I mean very tempting, but you know, we’ve missed most of the things that have gone on. I think we should at least show up for one.” She leans in and gives him a quick kiss. “I need to hit the shower. I can’t believe this is our last day here.” She sees her backpack and picks it up as she goes out the door. Evan stands with his back leaning on it. What was he going to do?

When Evan walked back into the kitchen, he sees Michael in there alone. “Hi grandpa G. Is that leg bothering you again? I could heal it for you, you know. Grandma is worried that it will keep getting worse. Haven’t you had enough of that souvenir?” He looked a Michael, trying to figure out why he held onto the bad leg.

“If I tell you a story, you aren’t allowed to tell anyone about it. Okay?” Evan nods his head yes. “I kept the bad leg as a reminder of what I caused. Just listen and then you’ll understand. Max and I had gone out of town, we knew that there was going to be an invasion starting, so we wanted to try to stop it before it got going. When we got to where we were going we realized that it was all a set up, they wanted us gone so they could get your mother. Max had doubted the story and didn’t want to go, but I insisted, all for the greater good of the war. By the time we got back, Serena was dead, Liz was almost dead and the baby they had wanted for all those years was gone with no chance of another one for them, ever.”

“Grandpa, do you think they want you to remember? It’s not their way, you know that!” Evan couldn’t believe what he heard.

“I couldn’t let Max heal me, not when he couldn’t help Liz…I just wouldn’t let him.” He just shook his head, all of that was so long ago, yet he remembered it like it was yesterday.

“Grandpa, next week is grandma’s birthday, let me do this for her, you’ve suffered enough. It won’t bring them back and if Grandpa Max knew about this, he would be so mad at you.”

“He’s always mad at me for something…” Michael sits there and thinks about what Evan said. “I guess you’re right, maybe my guilt should stop here and now, it won’t bring them back…Okay, do it…please.” He looked at Evan, it still amazed him that he had all of those powers in him. Evan puts his hands around Michael’s bad leg, then the light starts to glow, in seconds he was done.
“There good as new. Let’s see how it works.” Michael stands up and starts moving his leg.
“Hey, it hasn’t felt that good for thirty years! Thank you. Now, what are you going to do about school and Capra?”

“I’m staying here, I can’t take school anymore…I want Capra to stay with me, but I don’t feel right about taking her from school…she just too smart.” Michael had lived this before with Max.
“Evan, ask her to stay, make it her choice. If she’s as smart as you say she is, she’ll follow her heart.”


As they approached the reservation, they couldn’t believe is it was like stepping back in time. The reservation still looked like it did forty years ago. Max pulled up in front of the trading post, he starts looking around as he gets out. Then he saw Eddie. “Hey Brother, it’s been a long time! Weren’t we supposed to go fishing about three years ago?” Eddie comes up to Max and gives him a hug and a pat on the back.

“Yea, well you know how far good intentions get some time. You look great man!” He starts to lightly tug on Eddie’s grey shoulder length hair. “What did you do, finally go native?” Eddie reaches up and pulls on Max’s too. “Me? Just ‘cause you got some of my blood doesn’t mean you have to go native too.”

Max turns to the rest of the group. “This is Eddie, we didn’t have too good of a start, but things sure do change. We fought many a battle together.” Max starts to introduce the rest of Evan’s friends. “And of course this guy you know…it’s been a while but he’s still the same guy, only a little bigger.”

“Guess I can’t call you little brother any more, huh?” Eddie hugs Evan too. “Maybe you and your grandfathers can come around and do some fishing, ya?”

“We’ll see, it’s been a while since I held a rod.” Evan was starting to feel guilty, he just couldn’t say anything, not before he told Capra.

“You guys know the way to the cave, I’m just getting too old to make that trip very often. I put some flashlights and torches up there for you. Take your time, there’s a lot to see. If you get enough of the alien stuff, there is a burial ground over the ridge from the cave…just please respect it as you would your own.” The group started up the hill, walking towards the cave, everyone but Evan. Capra looked back at him, not knowing what was going on. Evan saw her looking at him, he couldn’t go with them…he had something more important to do.

“Eddie, could I borrow two horses, there is something I need to do when they come back. I might need them over night and if it would be okay, could we stay at the teepee, if it’s still there.”

Eddie could feel the heaviness of his heart. Evan was never easy to read, he was so much like Max that it was scary. “I’ll get them ready for you. Now Little Brother, tell Uncle Eddie what the problem is…is it the cute one? Is she your woman?”

“I hope so, but after I tell her what I’m going to do, she might never want to see me again.”

”You’re not going back to school…don’t look so surprised, I can read it all over you. I’m surprised she can’t. She knows you better than you know yourself, she has since the day she met you.” Eddie looks at him, “Don’t break her heart, let her choose. She saved you, you know, she saved you from yourself.” He puts his arm around Evan’s shoulder and walks him into the trading post. ”Come and meet my new granddaughter, she’s beautiful, she looks just like me!” He slaps Evan on the back and then he breaks out laughing.

The group was fascinated with the map, all but Capra, she seemed to have pulled away from everyone.

“So when Eddie said you had his blood, did he get you some for a transfusion during the war?” Milo was wondering about alien blood, but he didn’t want anyone to know.

“No, we became blood brothers…see.” He holds up his left arm and shows them the scar from where they were cut. “Eddie has one just like it on his arm.” He noticed Capra walk towards the outside of the cave, he was afraid she would wander off and get lost. “Hey Michael, tell them about the time you went to the sweat.” He goes outside to see what she was doing. “Hey, are you okay?”

She quickly wipes her eyes, hoping he wouldn’t see. “I’m losing him, I can feel it. How can I get through to him? Why is he so stubborn?”

“It just runs in the family… you’re not going to lose him. He’s very confused right now, he doesn’t know what to do. Go to him, ask him. Or just wait for him to tell you. Sometimes that works the best. Do you know the way back to the trading post?” Capra shakes her head yes then she disappears over the hill.

Eddie and Evan sat on the porch of the trading post remembering some of the things they did when Evan spent the summers with his grandparents. When they hear a noise, they both look. Eddie gets up and heads to the barn to get the horses.

“Hi, you didn’t stay long. Didn’t you like it?”

“It was great, I just got a bit claustrophobic. What’s Eddie doing with the horses?” She quickly wipes away more tears while he watched Eddie.

“I thought we could go for a ride, you can ride can’t you?”

“I’ve ridden a few horses in my time, as a matter of fact, on a reservation like this one.” There she thought, something he didn’t know about me, let’s see where that leads.

“A reservation? Which one?”

“My grandmother lived in the Dakotas, I used to spend my summers there, like you. That’s how I got interested in archeology. I want to preserve the people’s history without destroying their traditions.” Before he knew what hit him, she was on the horse and gone before he even got on his.

“Okay Capra, where did you go?” He was calling after her, but she didn’t answer. Finally he sees her horse tied to a tree. “There you are.” She didn’t say anything to him. “Capra, talk to me.” He stayed by his horse even though he was tied next to hers. “Capra?”

“I’m waiting, when you want to talk to me, tell me.” She sat down on the ground, crossing her legs in front of her.

“But I was talking to you…” Then he remembered what Eddie had said ‘She knows you better than you know yourself.’ “Okay, I think you know. I’m not going back to school…”

She didn’t turn around, she just looked straight ahead and spoke. “I knew you weren’t going back the second we pulled into town. I saw it in your eyes…you were like a little lost boy until we hit the borders of Roswell. They came to life when we parked in front of the Crashdown. It didn’t matter that the town was falling apart…it is home.” She turns around so he could see her. “We met almost two years ago. Do you know how long I have loved you? Almost two years. I knew that I loved you the second you walked into that classroom. I don’t have your beautiful alien powers, but I looked into your soul that day…I did that before I even really knew anything about Max and Liz. They were just people that fought a battle and won. It wasn’t until later that I finally saw who they are. I saw you Evan, I felt all your loneliness. I didn’t dare talk to you that much because I was afraid you’d see me and what you mean to me. When we had this chance to make this trip, I jumped on it because of you.” She points her finger at him. “Do you want to know why I haven’t been in bed when you wake up? Because I knew this was coming and I couldn’t bear to wake up next to you for a few days when you would be staying here. All I want to do is wake up next to you for the rest of my life.” She turned away from him again and started walking.

“Capra wait!” She ignored him and kept on walking. “Please wait!” Still she walked. Suddenly she felt herself being pulled back by his force field, when she was in front of him, he turned it off. “I know that wasn’t fair, but I want you to listen to me. You need that school! You are so smart I don’t want you to waste your life on me. Half the time I don’t know if I’m coming or going, I couldn’t ask you to be part of that.”

She turns to faced him; making her hands into fists and starts to hit his chest. “Damn it Evan, why can’t you love me enough…”

“I do love you enough to let you go to the life you need.”

“Let me finish! Why can’t you love me enough to let me choose! You never even asked me, you just told me…after last night I deserve more than that!” She turns and walks away from him, her tears flowing now, she didn’t care if he saw. Evan stood there watching her walk away…what would he do? Then the words of his grandfathers and Eddie came over him ‘Let her choose, she will follow her heart.’

“Capra, stay here with me? I’m sorry I didn’t ask you…please stay with me.” She didn’t stop, she just kept on walking. “Capra!”

“Go to hell Evan Guerin!” Suddenly she jumps on her horse and rides off at a full gallop.

“Nooooo! Not that way!” Then he hears her scream…


To Be Continued…









What Destiny Brings
Part 8


She laid there, the pain in her head was so bad she couldn't even open her eyes. What happened? Oh, that’s right, she was yelling at Evan for not loving her enough…now what? Did he hear her scream or was he so mad at her that he left. She tried to move her legs, but one didn’t want to cooperate. Now you did it, you went and broke your leg, you probably have a concussion and you’ll probably die and Evan will never know how much you love him because you just told him to go to hell. Then she sensed him, he was here. She tried to call out to him, but nothing worked. Why didn’t he say something? Why was he so quiet? Then she knew, she could hear it…the unmistakable sound of the rattle…no, it wasn’t just one there were two…


Fifteen Minutes Earlier at the Pod Chamber…

Liz and Maria were sitting at the table enjoying the last of the coffee. “It’s nice having the company, but the quiet is nice too. But I think I’ll miss all the excitement around here.” Liz stood up to gather up the dishes.

“It’s been kind of fun seeing our lives through eyes, but it makes me feel old too.” Maria was never going to admit they weren’t in their twenties anymore.

“What should we fix for their last meal….Owww!” Liz grabs her head, dropping the dishes onto the floor. The pain in the flash was unbearable. She had the flash again, only this time the pain wasn’t there, just a clear picture of where something was going to happen. Suddenly a picture of Evan and Capra flashed in her head.

“Liz! What’s wrong?” Maria was standing next to her. Liz looked at Maria, her face draining of color. “Maria, the kids are in big trouble…and I think they are at Dead Man Mesa! I have to call Max!” She picks up her cell phone and pushes Max’s line…then they hear his phone ringing in the bedroom. “He left it here…now what?”

“Try Michael’s, surely one of them took theirs with them.” Liz pushes Michael’s line…again they hear the phone ringing in the living room. Maria looks at her “Now what?”

“I’ll call the trading post, someone should be there that can get a message to him.” Liz pushes the button for the trading post. It rang three times then Eddie picked it up.

“Trading Post. Hello, is anybody there?”

“Eddie? It’s Liz…there’s going to be trouble, if it hasn’t happened already. Evan and Capra are in trouble…big trouble. They’re at Dead Man Mesa. It’s really bad Eddie. Max and Michael left their phones here and we can’t get in touch with them.”

“Are you sure it’s Dead Man Mesa? I’ll get the horses ready; we’ll find them, Liz. I promise.” The phone goes dead. Eddie turned to his three nephews, the look on his face told them that this was serious. “I need three horses, now!” The boys ran out of the store and headed to the barn to get them ready. Eddie looks around trying to figure out what they’ll need. Then he saw the two bows and the two quivers of arrows hanging on the wall. “These worked in more than one battle, let’s see if they’ll work in this one.” Reaching up, he takes them down, then he looks to see what supplies they’ll need. He grabs a backpack and fills it with bottles of water and first aid supplies. “My brother, you are a mighty healer, but I’m coming prepared.” He looks out the window and sees the boys with the horses. “I’m going to Dead Man Mesa; if we’re not back by sundown, send help!” Jumping on his favorite horse, he grabs the reins of the other two and heads up the mountain.

Max, Michael and the professor were discussing some the meanings of the cave map while some of the others had gone exploring. Michael heard it first, then Max…the sound of horses. Was it a stampede? Then they see Eddie and the extra two horses.

“Hey Eddie, I thought you said you were too old for this stuff…What’s wrong?” Max saw the look on Eddie’s face.

“Liz had a flash, the kids are in trouble!” Max and Michael ran for the horses, “Max…” He turns to look at Eddie, his one foot in the stirrup “They’re in Dead Man Mesa.” Max and Michael both freeze in mid mount. Dead Man Mesa had to be the worst of places, the rattlers loved it there.

They made record time getting to the mesa, they dismounted and tied their horses near Evan’s. Eddie reached for the backpack and handed it to Michael. Michael was good with some weapons, but he never could get the hang of the bow and arrow, he would stand watch, warning of any problems. He tossed the quiver and bow to Max…they had used them in many of their battles, they didn’t even need to say anything…they just knew what the other thought and that had saved their lives more than once. Quietly, they walked to the mesa, they didn’t dare say a word. They saw Evan standing there. Capra lay on the rocks, they could see her leg was broken, but she didn’t seem to be moving. Eddie saw it first, one tear escaping her eye. She was alive…for now. Max signaled to Eddie, within two feet of her head was the granddaddy of all diamondbacks. Then on the other side was another one, it was three feet away. Max knew that Evan couldn’t throw an energy field out to protect her, if he did, the movement could set them off. Plus, the two snakes would have fallen right in the field with her, making it useless. Michael signaled just then, two more had started to come out of the shadows. Max looked at Eddie, they counted to five under their breath while they prepared the arrows. They shot with exact precision, hitting the two snakes closest to her head, within ten seconds they shot again killing the other two. “You always knew when to take ‘em out, Brother. Looks like rattlesnake for dinner tonight!” Eddie walks over taking the hatchet out of his belt loop, stooping down he removes the heads, being careful not to come in contact with them. Once they were off, he takes the toe of his boot and kicks them into the brush. “Even the ants won’t mess with those heads until after sundown.” Max and Evan had already gone to Capra, checking to see what her condition was. Evan started to work on her leg, he would let Max work on the serious stuff. As he put his hands around her leg, the glow appeared, “Well girl, you got what you wanted, you told me to go to hell, and I sure did. Don’t you dare die on me, do you hear me!” Max looked at Evan, “She told you to go to hell? You told her to go back to school, didn’t you? No wonder she was so mad at you.” He just shakes his head. Then he places his hands on either side of her head, he needed to know where the damage was. “I don’t think it’s too serious, but she may have a heck of a headache.” He looked back at Evan, he could see his eyes were wet. “She’ll survive to tell you to go to hell a few more times in your life.” He couldn’t help but give him a small laugh.
“It’s a good thing she is so hard headed…” You could barely hear her, but she came right back at him. “I heard that. Only a hard headed person could put up with you.” Max was just finishing up healing her head, he saw that her lips were drying out. Signaling to Michael, he threw Evan a bottle of water. “Don’t give her anything to drink yet, just take something and let her wet her lips, she’ll start to dehydrate in this heat.”

Evan took his shirt and ripped a piece of it off, then he wet it with the water. He sat on the ground and gently picked up her head, wetting her lips. She could finally open her eyes without her head hurting. “Thank you. I didn’t mean it you know?” He could tell she still had a headache, but her color was coming back.
“I know…” He leaned down and gently kissed her. “I can be so stupid sometimes.”

She looked up at him and smiled “True…most men can.” She started to laugh, but it hurt too much. “Oww!”

“Serves you right,” He gives her another kiss, just to reassure himself that she was in one piece.

Eddie looks at Max, “Well, you’re the doctor, will she live?”

”It wasn’t a concussion, but it was pretty close. I don’t think she’ll have any trouble, but maybe she should stay in bed for a few days.” Evan looked at him and grinned.

“That can be arranged. What about the place I asked you about this morning, is it still around?”

Eddie nodded his head “Right where it used to be, stay as long as you want. I’ll have the boys run some supplies out there for you. You want some rattlesnake for dinner? It’s nice and fresh!” he holds up the four bodies.

Capra makes a face, “I don’t think so. I never liked it when my grandfather fixed it, and I still don’t. You guys can have my share.” She tries to stand up, not sure what would happen with her leg. “You do good work Evan. Maybe you should go to medical school…can you see their faces…” She tries to laugh again, but it didn’t work.

“Hey Max, while I think about it, how’s that good looking sister of yours?”

“We just heard from her last week, she’s going to be a grandmother, again. I think that makes number four.”

Michael goes over by the men, “Five, but who’s counting.” He was walking around, looking for any other snakes.

“Michael, what happened to your leg? You aren’t limping any more?”

“Oh, that. That’s a birthday present for Maria” They give him a questioning look. “It’s a long story, lets just say I got over the need for a souvenir, and let it go at that.” He looks at Evan and smiles.

“When you guys talk to Isabel again, please make sure you tell her to tell Jesse we said thanks again for all the help he gave us…he saved our burial grounds. It’s a debut we’ll never be able to repay.” He was glad that he and Max had mended their problems from all those years ago. His whole family was great friends to them. “Don’t worry Evan, we’ll get you set for a few days. Have you figured out how you are going to get there? Do you think you can ride?”

“I think she should be okay if we double up…I won’t let her fall.” He reached down to help her up. As slow as we’ll have to go, you should have plenty of time. Thanks Eddie, for everything.”

“It was nothing, just remember, the first boy is named after me!” He jumps on the back of the horse and starts to ride off.

“If you think you’ll be alright, then we’ll take off. I’m sure all of the others are wondering what’s going on.” Turning to Evan he gives him one last piece of advise. “Remember, always ask, never tell.” Then he rides off behind Michael.

Evan got his horse, he helped Capra onto the saddle. “I think I’ll just walk him, it’ll take a little longer, but that’s okay.”

Capra looks down at her clothes, “We’re a fine pair, it looks like we’re street people. Do you think Eddie will remember a change of shirts at least. Mine is as torn up as yours. Hey, the headache is gone! Max does good work, too.”

After about an hour of walking, Evan turns into a group of trees. This was one of his favorite places when he spent his summers here. He became good friends with Eddie’s grandsons and they used to camp here for days on end. Capra looked at the teepee, it reminded her of her summers too. “My grandmother had one too. But it was made of real buffalo hide. Her family used to raise them to sell. One year they decided to teach my grandmother and her cousins some of the old ways. She worked for days scraping the hides…she used a big bone, just like they used to. We used to go to pow-wows in the summers and we would take it with us. The last time I stayed in one was when I was twelve,” She sighs. “Two weeks later she died. That was my last time on the rez, it just wasn’t any fun without her.” She felt her lose all over again. Evan helped her down, and they looked inside, Eddie did bring them new shirts, plus enough food to last them a week. “I know where the stream is, come on we can get cleaned up!” She touched the back of her head, where she had hit it. “Yuck! Hope he sent some shampoo too. I think I must have cut it open pretty bad.” Evan looked at the back of her head and saw it was full of dried blood. It was then he realized how bad she had been. Max had hid it from them, but if he hadn’t gotten there when he did, she might not have made it. He took her to the stream and helped her wash her hair, then they fixed themselves some of the food Eddie had sent. The day quickly turned to night. They went inside, and set up the things they would sleep on. “Look, it’s a buffalo robe, you mean you’ve actually slept on these before?” Capra looked at it, it was just like the ones she’d slept on before. “Yes, they’re the best. When the night air chills off, you can snuggle right into it.” She spread it on the floor, reaching into the box she found two pillows and a blanket. “It looks like we’re all set.”

Evan laid down on the hide, “Hey, your right, this thing is really comfortable.” Capra curled up beside him, it felt like she remembered, to her this all felt like home.
“I’m sorry for what I said…”
Evan covers her lips with his, then he looked at her. “Its over with, and besides I deserved it.”
She smiled at him too. “True.” He leaned down to kiss her again. Then as he watched her fall asleep he smiled too, tomorrow would be another day and they would worry about the rest of the world then…


To Be Continued….

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What Destiny Brings
Part 9


Evan opened his eyes, not knowing what he’d find, but to his surprise Capra was still there, watching him. “Good morning. You’re still here?”

“Why wouldn’t I be?” She runs her hands through her hair, trying to get it out of her face.

“Well, the last two times you were gone before I woke up. I take it that this is a good sign?” He reached over and fixed the piece of her hair that kept falling in her face.

“I don’t know, it depends…” She gives him a ‘this is up to you’ look. She starts to stand up, but he reaches out and grabs her hand.

“Capra, I’m not going back to school. Will you stay here with me, will you give it all up?” He held his breath waiting for her answer.

She turns around and smiles at him. “Better. Was that so hard?” She still wouldn’t give him answer. He looked like he was going to explode. She sits down next to him, taking his hand. “I would love to stay here with you…that’s all I’ve ever wanted.” She leans down and answers him again with her kiss. “What about your family? Will they mind if I stay?”

“They’d mind if you didn’t. Heck, they’d probably send me back if you didn’t stay.” Seeing that the sun was up, he sits up thinking about what they would do. “Since your better, let’s go see Eddie and get you another horse, we can go riding for a while.”

“Great, maybe we can go back to the cave, I’d love to see it. I just wasn’t into it yesterday, I want to know everything about it now.” She smiled at him looking around she just had to ask. “Why do they have a teepee here? Don’t they go more for the hogans? Teepees are my grandmother’s peoples housing.”

Evan stood up, pulling her with him. “Some guy came through here years ago, he didn’t have any money, so Eddie bought it off of him. It was plain canvass, so he let us decorate it. I think we had more paint on us than on the walls outside.” Capra steps out to stand on the grass, looking back at it she notices something that was defiantly not any type of native design that she had ever seen before. “Oh, that’s where the UFO came from. I like it.” She walks over and rubs her hand on the horse’s neck. “Eddie has some nice horses, does he let people take them out a lot?”

“Just certain people. Let’s take this one back and see if we can get a couple of more, I’m in the mood to explore.” He gets on the horse, then offers her his hand. She gets on in front of him, then leans back against him. “I could definitely get used to this.” He laughs as he turns the horse toward the trading post.

As they approach they see Max’s hovercraft sitting in front of the store. “What’s he doing here so early?” Opening the door, Evan looks in expecting to see his grandfather, but all he saw was the elderly woman that sold jewelry. “Hi, is Eddie here?” She didn’t say anything, she just stared at Capra, it was almost like she knew her. The woman pointed towards the back door telling Evan, in her way, that Eddie was in the back and he should go look for him. Capra looked at all of the things on the wall, some were familiar to her, others not so familiar. Since she didn’t know how soon Evan would be back, she wandered over to look in the case near the woman. “You have lovely things...do you know the artist that made these?” She was looking at one ring in particular.

“He is my nephew, yes he is very good. Do you like that ring? Maybe I should suggest it to your young man…” She had a mischievous smile on her face.

“Oh, no, it just looked a little familiar to me. I think my grandmother had one similar, it was a gift from a friend. They used to meet up at the pow-wows, she gave it to her not long before she died. The engraving was different though.” She looked at the rings in the case, they were probably made by the same people, the jewelry makers usually had their own unique style.

“Capra? That is you! How have you been? I miss seeing your grandmother every summer, and you too of course.” The elderly woman came out from behind the case to give her a hug. “I think I’ll definitely suggest it to your young man!” Again she gave her that smile.

When Eddie and Evan came in from the back, they had another man with them. “Sophie! Are you playing matchmaker again? She won’t be happy until she gets everyone married off!” Eddie had to laugh at her.

“Hush Eddie, I was working on a surprise attack. Capra is an old friend of mine, she has a good eye, she recognized Charlie’s work in the case. Speaking of Charlie, that’s him right there.” She went over and stood by the new man, “She’s the granddaughter of my friend, the one you made the ring for all those years ago.” Charlie reaches is hand out to Capra.

“Nice to meet you, I’ve heard a lot about you and your grandmother.” He turns to Evan, “You better watch out for that one, she’ll have you married off and you won’t even know what hit you. My aunt, the matchmaker.” He just laughed, he knew her too well.

“I was just trying to get you some business, sales have been slow. She liked the rings.”

Evan and Capra exchange looks, he still didn’t know what was going on, Capra was catching on. She turned to Eddie, he shrugged, trying to act innocent. “I just said I recognized the work, don’t be getting me involved with your little scheme, Sophie. Now I remember why all the men ran away from you.” Capra looks at Evan, “We better get out of here or she’ll have us married before we pick up the horses.”

Evan looked at all of the faces, it finally hit him. Then he just smiled as he turned to face her. “That wouldn’t be so bad, would it?”

Capra couldn’t believe her ears. “Are you asking or telling?” She tried to keep a straight face.

“A very wise man said ‘Always ask, never tell.’ Well, would you do me the honor of marrying me?” After he asked the question, he was afraid of the answer.

“Charlie is a Shaman and a notary…” Sophie grinned again. Charlie rolled his eyes, his aunt would drive him crazy. Evan wasn’t quite sure the meaning of that, he turned to Eddie for an answer, but Charlie beat him to it. “Being that I’m a Shaman, I can marry people, but the government won’t recognize it, so I became a notary to keep the government happy. Now Sophie leave them alone.”


A half hour later, Evan and Capra left the trading post, a piece of paper in his pocket and a pair of Charlie’s handmade silver wedding rings on their left hands. As they hit the bottom of the stairs, Evan looked back at Eddie, “Don’t you tell them! We’ll surprise them tomorrow when we go back.”

“You know your grandma Liz, she might get one of her famous flashes, then what will I do if they call?”

“Lie! Oh, do you have any flashlights we can use? The misses wants to go to the cave today. She wants to make up for yesterday.” He looks at Capra, she was smiling about him calling her the ‘misses’.

Eddie hands them two flashlights and some extra batteries. “Your secret’s safe with me, but I sure would like to be there when you tell them.” He hugs Capra and starts to shake Evan’s hand, but changes his mind and hugs him too. “Who knew what at couple of rattlesnakes would start. Oh, by the way, they were great! We have leftovers, sure I can’t offer you some.”

Evan takes the flashlights. “I don’t think so, thanks anyway. Well Mrs. Guerin, are you ready to go exploring?”


They were on the hill going to the cave. “Why was your grandfather’s hover still here, how did they get back?”

“With the two of us still here, they had plenty of room in the one from the school so he left it for us. Oh! They were supposed to leave today! I wonder what happened. Guess we’ll find out tomorrow.” He moves his horse closer to the cave entrance. After getting off, he ties the palomino to a tree. He watches as Capra gets off of the paint, she reaches up and rubs the horses nose, then slips him a piece of sugar. “Where’d that come from?”

“I got it at the post, here give some to yours.” She gently placed the cube in his hand. He looked at her and couldn’t believe how lucky he was. Taking her face in his hands he sighed as she just smiled at him. She read his mind and started to kiss him first, but he pulled back. She was surprised that he stopped her. She tried to read his thoughts again, but he wouldn’t let her. “What?” she asked smiling at him.

“I don’t know how I was so stupid…” She was afraid he had changed his mind about being married to her. She couldn’t hide her fear in her eyes. When he realized what she thought he quickly pulled her into his arms. “I don’t know how I was so stupid about us, that I almost lost you. I couldn’t stand to be without you.” He kissed her so that she knew she would never have to worry, he would always be here for her. She was his destiny.

“Everyday is a new start, every day is a do-over…and I would gladly do this day over everyday of my life.”


When they walked into the cave, Evan turned on his flashlight. Shining it around the dark hole he felt something wasn’t right. It felt like someone had been there or maybe they still were there. Reaching over, he takes Capra’s hand. He signals for her to turn on her light too. The darkness threw off odd shadows, and the feeling kept getting stronger. No one came here, no one knew about this place except for a handful of close friends…they would never tell any one about it. Capra was looking around too. She didn’t understand it, but she was feeling something was out of place, why did she feel this? Shining her flashlight towards Evan, she wanted to see if he had picked up anything too. As they turned around to face the wall with the map on it they noticed something glowing…
“This wasn’t like this yesterday. Why are those lights shaped like a V? What does it mean?”

“The healing stones used to fit in those holes. When Grandma Liz got sick when she started to change, Grandpa Max tried to use the stones to heal her…the powers were so strong that they blew up the stones. We always thought that’s how the map was activated…I don’t know what this means.”

As they watched the wall began to glow brighter, but it was when the symbols began to change, they were unable to move…


To Be Continued…









What Destiny Brings
Part 10


The glow from the wall was holding them like a force field, Capra looked at Evan, he was trying to fight it off with one of his own. She tried to signal to him to save his strength, but he couldn’t hear her. Suddenly the glow was gone, sending them to the ground, it had left them weak from trying to resist it. Evan looked at Capra, he was worried about what it might had done to her. His strength was slowly starting to come back, but she seemed to be having a harder time of it, “Are you okay?” He could finally stand, but walking wasn’t coming easy for him.

“I don’t know, it feels like I can hardly breathe. What was that?” Evan reached down to help her up, then he ran his hands over her to see if she had any damage. “It’s starting to get better. Are you okay?” She reaches over to touch him, reassuring herself that he was all right.

“I’ve never felt anything like that before.” They look at the wall, all of the old symbols were gone, replaced by new ones. Evan crouched down to see what the new symbols looked like. When he started to run his hand over them, they seemed to be protected by another force field so strong that it sent him flying across the cave.

“Evan!” Capra ran over to him, he was barely conscience. “Evan, look at me. Evan!” She gently shakes him. “Evan, do you hear me?” Sitting down on the floor next to him, she started running her hands over his face. “Don’t you dare make me widow on my wedding day, Evan.” She leans over to kiss him, slowly his eyes start to open then he quickly closes them again because of the pain in his head.

“What happened? Last thing I remember was looking at the new symbols, how did I get over here?” Keeping his eyes closed he had started to sit up, but his head was spinning in three directions at once.

“The wall threw you, I think it’s protected for some reason. I wish I could heal you like you healed me…what can I do for you?” As she looked at her husband, she could tell he was in pain and there was nothing that she could do for him.

He tried to sit up again, he felt like he could actually do it this time. “You can come here, I want to see you.”

“Evan, I’m sitting right next to you, can’t you see me?” She started to panic, did the blast from the wall make him go blind?

He reaches his hand out and bumps into her shoulder. “Sorry.” When he could finally open his eyes, all he could see was darkness. “Capra, I can’t see you, I can’t see anything. What did that thing do to me?” He reached his hand out to touch her, to find a life line that would reassure him that things would go back to normal.

Capra takes his face into her hands, looking into his eyes. They were glazed over and lifeless. She tried not to let him feel her panic, she had to be strong for him. “You’ll be fine. I’ll get you home to your grandfather, he’ll heal you.” Her tears rolled down her face, she couldn’t let him know. She stood up and helped him to his feet. Reaching around she found the flashlight, she would get him back down to the trading post and then home to the pod chamber.

He leaned on her, not knowing where he was stepping. He could tell when they had reached the entrance of the cave. Feeling the warmth on his face, he turned in the direction of the sun drawing on it’s strength. “Stand right here. I’ll get the horses. If I lead yours, do you think you can ride or should we double up?” She looked at him, trying to read his thoughts.

“I think I can ride, we’ll have to go slow, I’m afraid my balance is off a little.” He held onto her hand, not wanting to let go. “Capra, I’m scared, wonder if grandpa can’t fix this…what will we do?”

She came back over to him and took him into her arms, offering him all of her love and strength. As she held him, she whispered in his ear. “I’m scared too, but no matter what, we will get through this. We’ll be strong for each other. No matter what Evan Guerin, I will always love you.”
She gently pulled herself away from him. “We have to get going, we need to have this taken care of as soon as possible.” She went over and got his horse. “I think it would be easier if you rode with me. You can lean on me so you don’t have to worry about your balance.” Taking his hand she places it on the stirrup, giving him an idea of where to put his foot. Carefully he mounted the horse, sitting still, he waited for her to get on too. As they passed her horse that was still tied to the tree, she leaned over and untied it, handing the reins to Evan to hold. “If you feel him give you any resistance at all, you let go, okay? He’ll find his way back home if he has too. Hang on, here we go.” She felt his arm tighten around her waist as he leaned his head on her shoulder.

The trip down the mountain seemed to take forever, then she saw the clearing that lead to the trading post. As they came in sight of it, she saw Eddie’s two nephews outside throwing a ball back and forth. When they saw them approach, they ran up to take the reins of the extra horse. “What happened?” One of the boys asked.

“We don’t know, is Eddie here?” She looked around hoping to see him.

“He’s in the back, I’ll get him!” He ran like he had been shot out of a cannon. The other boy started to lead the other horse back to the barn. Capra hears the crunching of the gravel on the road, turning her head she sees Eddie running over to them.

“What happened? Evan look at me!” Evan turns his head in the direction of Eddie’s voice, then he opens his eyes. Eddie looks at Capra, she sees the panic in his eyes. She tries to hide her own, but she knows it didn’t work.

“I have to get him home…Max has to heal him.” Capra slides off the horse as Eddie reaches up to help guide Evan down.

“Let me come with you…you may need me on the trip.” Once he was sure Evan could stand on his own, he turns to Capra. He sees the tears running down her face, reaching over to her, he pulls her into a fatherly hug, then he wipes them away. “It will be alright, Max will help him. Let’s go.” They put Evan in the back seat of the hover craft, Eddie sits next to him. Half way back to the pod chamber he realizes that they should have called to warn them that they were on their way. “I should call them, but I don’t have my phone with me.” He looked over at Evan, Max would surely be able to heal something this simple.

“We aren’t far now, another five minutes. Evan, how are you doing?”

“Well, I’m still in the dark, but hey, what else is new.” He reaches his hand out in front of him to touch her shoulder…he just needed to feel her, to keep him grounded. She places her hand on top of his and gives him a gentle squeeze. Then she picks it up and gently kisses it. Finally she sees the dirt road that will take them to the pod chamber. She didn’t want him to walk up to where the door is, but she had no other way in, he was the only one that could open it.

They carefully help him out, and started the slow walk up the rock formation, Eddie stayed on Evan’s side to block him from the edge, Capra walks ahead to lead Evan to the door. Once there she places Evan’s hand on the rock, the door immediately opens. They walk inside, Evan can feel the heat from the sun coming in through the over head skylight. “Where is everyone?! Is there anyone here?” Capra starts calling to them. Eddie starts looking too. Then he sees the note lying on the table. “They went to town, something about the UFO Center…they’re not sure when they’ll be back. Now what?”

“First, we get Evan settled on the couch, then let me think.” She took Evan’s hand and lead him to the couch, she gently lifts his legs up and settles him in. Going into the bedroom, she gets his pillow and a blanket. Bringing it back into the living room, she puts the pillow behind his head and covers him with the blanket. Evan reaches out to take her hand, pulling her to the couch beside him. He take her face and runs his hand over it, he could feel that it was wet. “Capra, what would I do without you?” He kisses her, clinging to every inch of her love and strength.
“You’ll never have to find out. I promise.”
Suddenly the door opens, Max, Liz, Michael and Maria walk in, shocked to see the scene in front of them.

“What happened?” Max was standing next to Evan. Then he looks up at Max, revealing his eyes. Max quickly exchanges looks with the others. “How did this happen!”

“The cave map, it changed, it sucked us into a force field. Then when I went to check it out, I touched the wall and it threw me across the room. This is how I ended up. Can you fix it, please?”

Max looked at Capra, he saw her panic, he knew that something big was going on but he didn’t know what. Looking at Evan he places his hands on either side of his head, the glow starts to appear. As Max held his head, he didn’t feel anything happen…but it must be working. The others could see the sweat running down Max’s face…something was wrong. When Max couldn’t take it anymore, he took his hands away. “Okay open your eyes…tell me what you see…”

As Evan slowly opened his eyes, they all stood there waiting for the good news. Capra saw it first, the silent tear running down his face. “I can’t see anything; it’s all still black…”


To Be Continued…

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What Destiny Brings
Part 11


Max looked at his hands, he couldn't figure what had gone wrong. Liz didn't know who she felt more for, Max or Evan. She could read the anger on his face, anger at himself for not being able to help Evan. Just before she stood up to go to him, he threw an energy burst at her favorite vase, blowing it up in a thousand pieces. “Well, I guess that power still works.”

“I’m sorry Liz, I just don’t understand this…why couldn’t I heal him?” He walks over to Evan, he could see that he was starting to panic. “Let me try again, Evan. Maybe it’ll work this time.” He leaned over and placed his hands on Evan’s head again. He waited, but nothing happened. “If only I could try healing someone, then I could tell if it was something with Evan or something with me.” Liz came over to stand by both of them. She slipped her hand into Max’s and looked at him, that was all he needed, her look told him they would figure it out, she had faith in him. No one had seen Capra slip from the room, but they saw her when she came back in.

“Capra what are you doing! Are you crazy!” Maria couldn’t believe she stood there with one of the biggest knives in the kitchen. Capra looked at her, trying to signal her not to let on to Evan what she was going to do.

“What’s going on!” Evan tried to jump up, but Eddie held him back.

“I love you Evan, so this time I’m telling and not asking.” Before anyone could stop her, she took the knife and made a deep cut across the palm of her left hand. The blood began to flow immediately, the pain was evident on her face. Max ran over to her, taking her hand he placed his on top of hers. The blood stopped almost as fast as it started. She looked up at him with tears in her eyes. Max saw it then. “What’s this?” He turned her hand over to look at the ring.

“What’s going on, is Capra okay?” Evan started to panic. Eddie had to hold him down again. “She’s fine…but I think your secret is out.”

“Secret, what secret?” Liz walked over by Max and Capra to see what was going on. When she saw the ring she could only grin. “You didn’t, did you?” Capra only grinned and nodded. Eddie had helped Evan up, and they had gone over by the others.

“I didn’t have a choice, Sophie wouldn’t let us leave the trading post until we bought the rings because her nephew makes them, so what were we going to do with two wedding rings…” He had to laugh, he could only imagine what their faces looked like.

“What a way to start your marriage.” Michael came over to stand behind Evan. Evan turned around and hugged Michael.

“It’s okay grandpa G, if this is the worst we have to deal with, we’ll be fine.” Capra was reading his face, he couldn’t hide anything from her. She walked over to him, taking his hand, she lead him back to the couch. Once they sat down, he picked up her left hand and rubbed his fingers over her ring. She saw that he was having a hard time, but he was doing a good job of hiding it from his grandparents. She reached up and touched his face. He didn’t have to see her, he felt everything she was saying, without her saying a word.

Max was standing looking at Evan, he couldn’t figure out what had happened. “Evan, I know this isn’t the time, but we have to figure out what’s going on. Tell me exactly what happened.”

Capra looked like she just had a brainstorm. “Wait! Evan, try to use your powers, see if they work.” They all looked at her like she was crazy. “I’ll explain after he tries.”

Eddie scratched his head for a second. “His powers work, he opened the door.”

Max shook his head. “We don’t use powers to open the door, the door reads us…it’s hard to explain, but the door can read whatever is built into us, so it knows who to let in. Capra may be right. Evan, try your powers then tell us what happened at the cave.”

“Everyone look out because I won’t know where I’m aiming.” He pointed his hand straight out, Liz cringed because he was aiming at her second favorite vase, but she could deal with it. He tried to throw his own energy blast, but nothing happened. “Let me try something else.” He tried to move the table in front of him, nothing. “It’s me…my powers are gone. So why can’t I be healed? If my powers don’t work, that shouldn’t stop someone else’s from working on me.”

“The cave map did it, I saw it…I didn’t think about it at the time because I was too worried about us getting out of it, but I remember now.” She looked at Max and Michael. “When we went into the cave we saw a strange glow coming from the map…so we went over to check it out. It happened almost as soon as we were close to it, an energy field just wrapped itself around us and we couldn’t move. Evan tried to push it off with one of his own.” She paused for a second, thinking about what happened. “He kept throwing it out and the one from the wall kept pushing it back at him. Could he have been covered by his own energy field, you know could it have bounced back and covered him, so that nothing can get out and nothing can get in? I know it sounds crazy…”

Liz sat there thinking about what she heard. Could it be possible? “What about the energy that threw him across the cave? If nothing could get in, then he shouldn’t have been affected by it.”

“That’s the thing that keeps throwing me off…would it be possible?” Liz was impressed, Capra had a good head for this. “Evan, when you felt the energy that sent you across the cave, did it feel…I don’t know, different I guess?”

“Wait, let me think, I don’t really remember much of about it. Yea, I guess it was different, it was almost like… like someone not something had thrown me. I still can’t figure out how the paintings changed, does all of this have something to do with that?”

“When you say change, did you actually see them like move and change or did the old ones disappear and new ones reappear?” Michael was trying to figure out where this was all going, either way, how was it done?

“They kind of faded, like they were erased, then the new ones showed up…it was like the glow was doing it. How?”

They all sat there looking at each other, where was this leading. Who could they contact…Brody was gone so that meant no more contact from Larek. Was there a new alien enemy they didn’t know about? If so, where were they from and how would they fight them?

“Damn! I thought we were done with this thirty years ago when the war was over.” Max stood up and started to pace, Liz didn’t like to see him like this, that’s when he would usually try to go off without a plan and get himself in trouble. “The FBI got over us once everyone knew we existed. How many other enemies did Zan have? We need to know and there is no one to ask.

Liz tried to think, who else was there. They couldn’t go to Langley, he would rather see them dead than help them. “We don’t dare go back in the cave, it could do the same thing to us, then we would all be powerless.”

Capra looked at her, “I can go in, I don’t have any powers, I’m not alien in any way. Maybe I could get pictures of the new paintings and we could figure things out.”

“NO! And this time I’m telling and not asking…you can’t go back in there, no one can it’s not safe.” He reached out for her hand, she just had to know that he wouldn’t let her go back in there just to help him.

Liz suddenly had an idea, “I know who could help us, we need Skylar!

“Well, this is the last thing I wanted to do. I don’t want to drag her back here, but we have no choice.” Max looked exhausted; he didn’t want to get into another war that should be over and done with.

“Who Max, who do we need?”

“We have to get Isabel to come home. We need the Royal Four if we are ever going to figure this out.”


To Be Continued…






What Destiny Brings
Part 12


Liz was worried, Max didn't want to bring Isabel back home and she knew it. She had a happy life with Jesse and they had been free of the alien chaos for years now.

“Max, it’ll be okay. Maybe it isn’t what you think. I’ve got a good feeling, no bad flashes…” She came up behind him and put her arms around his waist and lays her head on his back.

“I don’t know Liz, I don’t like it that my powers didn’t work on Evan…What if it happened to you or Michael? I couldn’t stand it if I wasn’t able help any of you.” He turns around and wraps his arms around her. She looks up at him seeing all the pain in his heart.

“We’ll figure something out I promise. But first I think we better figure something out about Evan’s room…they can’t sleep in that little bed.” That brought a smile to his face.
“I don’t know, they looked pretty cozy the other night.” Taking her hand he leads her towards Evan’s room.

Michael and Eddie were sitting around the table going over what should be done about the cave.
“We can’t seal it off, there’s still too much to figure out.”

“Well, if anyone would happen to wander in, I think they would be safe as long as they stayed away from the wall, right? And the only people that would go in there would be people that don’t belong on the rez since we all know that it’s off limits.” He looked at the clock and realized he’d been there for hours. Looking up through the sky light, he saw the stars had started coming out. “Man, I didn’t realize how late it is, can I steal a ride home?”

“Why don’t you just stay tonight and we can try to figure out what’s going on.” Michael wanted more ideas to throw around, another head was always good especially since the cave was on reservation land. “Here, call home and I’ll get you set up.” He hands Eddie his phone.

Evan and Capra sat in the kitchen, he just didn’t feel like being around anyone right now. He knew what they were thinking and he didn’t want them to feel sorry for him, besides, right now he wanted to be alone with his wife. “This won’t last forever…I can feel it. We’ll find a way to straighten this out. I want to know about the new drawings and what they mean and where did the old ones go.”

“You can’t go back there Evan, if you do, you don’t know what will happen.” She reaches out for his hand.

“What else could happen to me?” He couldn’t see her panic stricken face when she thinks about the possibilities. “As long as you’re beside me I know I can beat anything. I don’t know about you, but I’m getting tired…are you ready to go to bed?” It had been a long day and he had been through so much. He could hear the chair move back and her standing up; she takes his hand. He starts of follow her out of the room, then he stops and reaches out to touch her face, he needed to see her, even if it was only with his fingers. Then he pulled her into his arms and gave her a deep kiss. “Thank you.” He could feel her smile and that was all the answer he needed.

They passed through the living room, Capra saw them all sitting around the table working on a plan, though no one really knew what kind of plan they needed. “Can we help in any way? I wish I could remember more of what I saw, but it all happened so fast.” She was tired too, but she didn’t really want to think about crowding in that little bed, not now at least, Evan needed to be able to relax. The others saw how the effects of the day were wearing on them, they didn’t know how they had held up so well.

“That’s okay, I think we can toss this around among ourselves, you both look like you could use some sleep.” Max was worried about Evan, he would try to be strong for Capra and the rest of them, but he knew how he would be if that was him. He gave them both a lot of credit…it was a hell of a way to start off their marriage.

“Oh, by the way,” Michael didn’t want to let them think they weren’t behind the marriage. “Congratulations! We’ll have to have a party and do this up right!” He walked over to hug them both. Then the others came over to join him. Liz saw Capra’s eyes, they held so much in them. But it was the fear that Liz noticed the most, she just wanted to hold her to let her know that everything would be alright. What an amazing person her grandson had found. “Capra, can I steal you away for a minute?” Capra just nodded, she didn’t know what was going on. Liz led her to Evan’s room, then she opened the door. “We thought that this might be more appropriate for the two of you.” Capra was speechless; they had completely redone the room. Liz looked over at her and saw the tears roll down her cheek. “It’ll be okay, we’re all here for you.”

“I know, it’s just I hurt so bad for him. He doesn’t deserve this. I just wish I knew what to do for him.”
“You’re doing it, and that’s all he needs for now.” She leans over and give her a kiss on the cheek. “Go wash your face, he’ll know that you were crying. And if I know my grandson, he’ll not want any of that.” Liz turns to go back to the others, but she looks at Capra one last time. “Have a good night.”

Evan hears Liz come back in the room but he could sense she was alone. “She’s waiting for you, can you make it okay?” He knew this place like the back of his hand, he should be able to make it that far.

“Piece of cake.” They start to cringe when they see him head for a wall, then at the last second he turns around, “Gottcha! Good night.” Reaching his hand out, he follows the wall to his room. He knocked on the door, then he opened it, it was then that Capra realized that he was expecting the furniture to be different.
“Wait!” She called before he tripped over a chair they had added. “Things are a little different now. The furniture is changed some. I guess you could call it a wedding present from your grandparents.” Taking his hand, she walked him around the room. “Check this out!” She sits him on the edge of the bed. “It’s a little different too, not so cramped.”

Evan gives her a pouty look, “I liked cramped. Will you be there in the morning this time?”

“Try to keep me away.” She pushes the door shut.



Why was there so much light in the room? Capra tried to open her eyes, turning her head, she looked to see what time it was. It was 7:30. Then she figured out what was going on. Looking up she saw the sky light was open. Wasn’t it closed when they went to bed? She rolled over to look at Evan, he was smiling at her. “You look beautiful in the morning.”

She sits up, running her hand through her hair. “No I don’t, I must look a mess…what did you say?” She turned to look at him, to her surprise she saw his eyes were back to normal.

“I said you look beautiful in the morning.” With a wave of his hand a candle is lit. “Yea, they work too. That whole thing must have been temporary.” He pulls her closer and looks at her face. “I missed this. Seeing is much better than feeling.”

“Oh, I wouldn’t say that.” She leans over and kisses him good morning. “Do you think they’d miss us if we stayed in here a little longer?”

Evan smiled back at her. “I’ll just keep my eyes closed and tell them I got lost and you had to find me.” Laughing, he pulls the sheet over their heads.


“They sure are sleeping a long time.” Everyone turns to look at Michael. “Oh, never mind.”

“Do you think everything is okay, maybe Evan had more problems last night.”

“I think the only problem I’m having is that I’m starving.” Evan and Capra walk into the kitchen, he reaches over and picks up a piece of toast, then he hands Capra a glass of juice. “Now what are our plans, I want to get this show on the road.”

It took them a second to figure out what was going on. When Max looks at him, Evan points his hand at the same vase he couldn’t break the night before. It went into a hundred pieces, they all saw Liz inhale and hold her breath. “Sorry grandma.”

“Th..that’s okay, it was for a good cause, I guess.” Then she starts to look around to see if she should hide anything else.

“When did this happen?” Max was glad that it was temporary, this time.
“I was like this when I woke up. I opened my eyes and everything was back!”
They sat around the table laughing at all of the things that had caused them pain the night before. “Now, we can get down to business. I want to go back to the cave…”
“Will someone please knock some sense into him? I keep telling him that the next time he might not be so lucky…”

“She’s right you know, the next time it could be permanent or worse…”

They all spin around to see who was in the room, it was Destiny, Evan’s mother…


To Be Continued…

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What Destiny Brings
Part 13



"Mom? What are you doing here?" Capra could feel him tensing up. She put her hand on his back and lightly rubbed it.

“I had a feeling something was wrong…that you were in terrible trouble.”

“I was and it’s over now. You should have just called…”

“Evan!” Liz looked at him. She knew that there had been some kind of a problem for a while, but she didn’t think it was that bad.

“That’s okay Mom.” Destiny looked over at Liz and Max, they just couldn’t figure out what was going on. “We had a few issues in the past, I thought we had them taken care of, but I guess not.”

“Good guess.” Looking at Capra, he starts to stand up. “I need to go for a walk. I want to see what I missed.”

Capra didn’t know what to do. She looked at Destiny, then Max and Liz. “But Evan, it was only a day.

“Then stay here…” He heads to the door. Liz nods at her, “Go on, he doesn’t need to be alone.”

Capra gives Liz a worried look. “I know.” As she went out the door she looked down to the right, not seeing him, she looked left, just in time to see him head up the side. ‘Damn, why does he always go up?’
“Evan!”

He kept walking up towards the top not paying attention to anything. Then he thought he heard someone calling his name. Turning around, he saw Capra coming after him, clinging to the side. Then he saw her foot slip and she started to slide down the rocks…

“Evan!!” She was falling and she didn’t know if she could stop herself. “Evan!” Suddenly she was going over the edge. Just as she started to fall, she felt herself being encased in a green glow. She started to float towards the ground. By the time it stopped, Evan was there to meet her.

“I’m so sorry!” He takes her in his arms and holds her. Then holding her face he kisses her allowing her to see flashes from his childhood. All of the times his parents would put their work ahead of him. When he was in school, all the times they didn’t show up for school programs and the last argument with his mother. She felt everything he felt. When he was done she looked at him with tears in her eyes. Reaching up she touched his face “Oh Evan.” Wrapping her arms around his waist, she leaned her head on his chest. “Please…the next time you run off, could you go down the hill…?” He just grinned and held her tighter.


“Well, do you want to talk about it now or later?” Max looked at his daughter wondering what had gone so wrong between her and Evan.

Destiny sighs. “He has such potential and he wants to waste his life. I just don’t know what to do with him.”

“What does Alex have to say? By the way, where is he?” Maria was curious about her son.

“He just stays out of it. He’s in the middle of a major project and couldn’t get away.”

“Well you know, that’s a lot of Evan’s problem. You both were always in the middle of a project.”
Maria didn’t want to sound judgmental, but she knew how much it had hurt Evan growing up.

Destiny decided she better change the subject. “We need to discuss my visions. I think there may be potential danger with someone close to Evan. Someone he trusts with his life.” She looks at the others wondering if they knew someone like that. “That girl, she wasn’t responsible for him not going back to school, was she?”

They exchanged looks then started to laugh. “Just the opposite, he’s the reason she’s not going back to school.” Liz told her.

“How well do you know her…can she be trusted. Could she be a potential danger to him?” She was trying to get more information from them, but they weren’t talking.

“Dessie, Capra is the best thing that happened to him in a long time. He loves her and I think she keeps him grounded. He would trust her with his life…” Max looks at his daughter’s face as he says that. “No! Don’t even think that.”

“But Dad, what do you really know about her…”

“They know that I love her. That I’d do anything for her.” Evan was standing in the doorway, he had his arm protectively around her shoulder, she had hers around his waist. “By the way Capra, this is your mother-in-law, Destiny Guerin.”

“You’re married? When?”

“Let’s see, about two days. Half of which I was blind, thanks to the map cave. Mom, Capra wouldn’t hurt me…she took care of me. If it hadn’t been for her, I might still be laying up there.”

“I let her read the journals…” Liz looked at Destiny, waiting for her reaction. She got one, Liz had never seen that look on her daughter before. “I know she isn’t the person you’re looking for, the same way you know there is someone out there wanting to do him or us harm. She is his destiny.” Then she smiled at Capra and Evan. “Even if he didn’t know it at first.”

Michael started to wonder. “Okay, just what should we watch for? Is it animal, vegetable or mineral? And why now? Things have been settled for a long time.”

“I don’t know, I just know that someone that’s trusted will turn out to be our enemy.” They all turn around and look at Eddie.

“Hey, don’t look at me! I’ve had plenty of opportunity to take every one of you out or send you off to some crazy enemy. So don’t even go there…” Then he looks and they are smiling at him. “Gees guys, don’t scare me like that!”

“Did you see anything in you visions about the cave map changing? That’s what started everything.”

Destiny looked at her son, what did he mean? “What exactly did you see? You said the map was changing, how?”

“I don’t really remember too much, we were kind of sucked into some kind of force field. It held on to us for a few minutes, and then it stopped. When I went over to get a better look it threw me clear across the cave.” He stopped to get a breath, Capra slipped her hand into his, these memories were still raw for him. She watched him, feeling his fear of being blind all over again. Destiny watched her; she could feel Capra’s love. It was strong, it was almost as if she was reliving her parents love…who is this girl and how does she connect with Evan like she does, in a way even she never did. Maybe her mother was right, she is Evan’s destiny but how? “Mom? Did you hear me?” Destiny shook her head, then looked at the couple and smiled.

“I’m sorry.”

“That’s okay, I’ll just tell you again.”

“No, I’m sorry about what I thought about Capra. I was wrong. I know now that she will never hurt you, that she saved you from yourself.” They all turned to look at Destiny…that’s what they had told him. How did they all know this. Standing up Destiny approaches Capra, she gives her a hug and whispers in her ear. “Thank you for loving my son and thank you for showing him the thing I found so hard to show him…” She didn’t have to say it, she knew that Capra would understand. Capra whispered back to her new mother-in-law. “You don’t have to thank me, it’s my pleasure.”

Evan looked at his mother and his wife…maybe life wasn’t going to be so bad after all.

“Okay, let’s go over the cave map again, did the pictures change on their own or did they just disappear.”

“I think they were more or less erased, then they came back only different. But we were in the force field so we didn’t really get that good of a look, and I don’t really want to relive any of the other stuff. Maybe we should take another trip up there. Ow!! Why did you do that?” Capra had punched him in the arm.

“Just multiply that by a hundred and remember what you went through already. I just want you to stay clear of that place.” He turned to look at her and saw her stick her tongue out at him, all he could do was laugh. She smiled at him and said “I love you happy.”

Maria and Michael exchanged looks, they remembered when she said the same thing to him…how do these two do this, it’s like watching parts of their lives all over again. Michael smiles at Maria and leans over to give her a kiss. “I think he’s right…tomorrow we go back and check it out!


To Be Continued…








What Destiny Brings
Part 14


"Tomorrow, why not go today, right now?" Evan wanted to find out what had happened, he wanted to see the new map.

Michael shook his head no, “I want to go to the UFO Center, we need to check the book. Or maybe go through anything else we have to see if there is any information that could help us. I’d prefer not to drag Isabel here, not until we know what’s going on. Maybe it isn’t a royal four problem.”

“I don’t know, maybe she should be here. We don’t know what could happen…didn’t you always say that you were stronger together?” Destiny didn’t like it that they wanted to leave Isabel out.

“We’ll wait, Michael’s right, we need to do our research. I don’t want us to be there and have the same thing happen to us that happened to Evan. I think a trip to town is our next move. So, when everyone is ready we’ll take off.” Max wanted to check the room anyway, it had been a while since he was there.

“I don’t suppose you could drop me off on the way. I have a store to run.” Eddie was glad to see that the family was finally coming together. “Then when you head to the cave make sure you stop in and let me know. We’ll set up a time for you to check in, then if I don’t hear from you, I’ll be up to check…better be safe than sorry.”



They stood in front of the UFO Center, Max was remembering all of the things that had gone on there in his life…it all seemed so long ago. Liz walks over and slips her hand into his, he looks down at her knowing that she knew what he was thinking. “It sure holds a lot of our life, doesn’t it?” She smiles up at him. “That it does.” He pulls her closer and gives her a kiss. Destiny watches them, shaking her head.
“I see nothing has changed, they still can’t keep their hands off of each other.”

“There’s nothing wrong with that Mom.” Evan always loved to watch his grandparents together, and now that he had Capra in his life he knew exactly how they felt. “You and dad always worked too hard, you need to relax a little.” Taking Capra’s hand, they walk over by Max and Liz. “Well, are we ready?”

“I’ve never seen you so interested it studying before, too bad this isn’t a class at the university.”
Destiny realized she said the wrong thing as soon as she opened her mouth. “Sorry, I won’t mention it again.” She starts to walk away, not wanting to argue with him again.

“It’s okay Mom, I think it’s time to start over…if this thing turns out to be big trouble, we’ll all need to have our focus on it and not some petty disagreements from the past.” Destiny looked at him not believing what she heard; maybe this new life he was starting was for the best after all.

As they walked through the back room of the UFO Center, she remembered playing here as a child. Then she remembered the war years, and being hid here for days on end. She only hoped they could figure out what was coming, then they could try to stop it before it got as big as last time. Looking up the stairs, she remembered sitting on them watching everyone during the war, what her mother lost protecting her. Why couldn’t she have her strength? Some times she wondered what it all meant. Watching her parents with Evan and Capra, how they accepted what a person chose without question. They did that with her too, they always trusted her judgment, even when she was small they would always let her make her own decisions…why couldn’t she be like that, why did she have to judge everyone?

“Dessie, are you okay? You seem a million miles away.” Liz had come up behind her and she didn’t even hear her.

“I’m fine, just trying to sort through some things. It’s been a long time since I was in that room, I don’t know if I want to go in.”

“That’s your choice, we’ll be up there if you want to join us.” Liz smiled as she looked back at her.
Destiny watched as they all stood at the top by the brick wall, she was surprised when she saw Capra unlock it. Did they have that much faith in her to trust her with that knowledge? Taking a deep breath, she followed them up the stairs. She would have to start somewhere.


Looking around as she walked in, it didn’t seem so bad…things had changed some, but she had been gone for a long time. Why did Capra and Evan seem so intense as they looked at her parents old photo albums…it was like he was testing himself while he looked.

“Well? How do you feel?” Capra waited to see Evan’s reaction to the prom picture, the one that caused him pain before.
“I’m okay, the picture is just a picture now, just one of my grandparents memories.” He smiles at her, then taking her in his arms he gives her a kiss that said thank you and everything else he was feeling. As he slowly pulled away from her, he smiled “It’s good to be free of all those old feelings.”

“Okay you two, break it up, it’s time to go to work.” Max laughed at their expressions. “Come with me, I want to show you something.” They follow him to the other end of the room, only to find another wall. “Evan, I don’t think you’ve ever seen this before. We won’t be able to show you everything, Isabel isn’t here to do her part, but we’ll show you part of what’s hidden in this room.”
Liz removes the amulet from around her neck and inserts into the hidden panel, they watch as a door slides open, revealing another door, one with a place for the hands of four people. “Behind that wall is our means to go to Antar, not physically, but a virtual trip…we can see what our enemies are doing. We haven’t used it since the war. That’s when Isabel left town with Jesse, she earned her right to be free of this life…” He had a far away look in his eyes, Liz knew how much he missed her. When she looked at the door again she noticed something had changed. “Max, look. Do the hand marks look different? Wasn’t Isabel’s a little bit bigger? This looks like the same but smaller.” Liz reaches over and places her hand in the spot Isabel always used, but it was almost the same size as hers now. “Maybe the door makes adjustments for people that are away, but it still needs someone of royal blood. Dessie, come here and put your hand on the door and we’ll see what happens.”

“I think you’re grasping at straws, it’s still Isabel’s spot, you just haven’t seen it for awhile and forgot what it looked like.” Michael came closer to look, he didn’t want to admit it but he thought she was right. Destiny came over and looked at the door, placing her hand on it, the others joined her to see if the door would open, but nothing happened. “See it takes Isabel.”
Evan looked over at Capra, she was scratching her hand, a slight glow was coming from it.
“What’s going on? Let me see your hand.” He turns it palm up and looks at it. “Okay, what is this? Did you get into something?”

Capra shakes her head, “You’ve been where I’ve been. I’ve never seen anything like that before. Evan, what’s this mark?” He picks up her hand to see it better, he finally saw it, a mark that was so light, it almost hurt his eyes trying to look at it. “Grandma, may I see the amulet?” Liz takes it off again and hands it to Evan. All he could do was inhale. “What the…it’s the mark that’s on the amulet, just like yours grandma. What’s going on?”

Maria stood there thinking then it came to her, “That force field thing…you said you both were in it when the map changed…you don’t think that it did something, you know, alien did it?”

Max looked at Capra’s hand then at Liz. “Capra, please, would you try?” She didn’t know what to do, looking at Evan and seeing him nod, she places her hand in the new handprint. When Michael, Max and Liz added theirs the door slid open…


To Be Continued…

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What Destiny Brings
Part 15


As the door slid open, the familiar hum of the room could be heard.
“Wow, what is that?” Evan stared at the chair.

“It’s the world’s greatest video game.” Michael grinned. “You get to play the invisible man and walk around Antar…”

“And we can see and hear everything thing you experience. We kept in touch with Skylar that way.” Max was always in awe of the times he had used it. He turned and looked at Capra, she was still looking at her hand. “Are you okay?”

She glanced up at him. “Oh, yea, I just can’t figure it out. What will happen to me now? I mean will I change or was I just lucky enough to be at the right place when the force field attacked. Would this have happened to anyone that was there or was I meant to have this happen?”

Evan read the confusion on her face, he felt some of her…what was it? It wasn’t fear, it was more like…hope? She was hoping to become like them; she wanted to fit in more. He smiled, she still couldn’t believe she was a part of the new order of alien chaos…but he had a feeling she soon would.

“Maybe you’re just the new key for the door…” Maria had no idea where all this would lead, but she knew that they would see it through together, as they always had.

“Another key? I’m a key for this door and that door.” She points to the secret brick door of the room. “But I don’t have a key to into my own home! This is so whacked!” She just shook her head and laughed. “Life sure is going to get interesting. To think I almost went back to school.”

Evan reached over to the door, he wanted to see the chair up close…maybe even take that trip to Antar. As he started to open it, he felt a hand on his. “No, you aren’t ready yet. You have a lot to learn about that world before you attempt to go there.” Max saw Michael coming out in Evan, they both tended to go off without considering the consequences of where their actions might lead. “Besides, it hasn’t been used in a long time, we don’t know what will happen.” He looked at Michael, he could read the same thoughts in his eyes, he wanted to go one more time.


He got out of his little hover craft, looking around; he didn’t think they were home. Good. All the better to check things out. He had to make it quick because they couldn’t know he had been there. He started to make the walk to where the door would be…at least he could do this part. Reaching in his pocket he pulls out a small button sized monitor. Feeling around the edge of the rock, he found just the right position; he attached it in a place they would never see. Now he would know their comings and goings…



“Max, what’s in the room? It looks like a book…that isn’t our book is it?” Liz couldn’t believe that someone had gotten in there. It was locked from this side, could that mean that someone got in from Antar? That could mean trouble if the wrong people figured it out, of course they wouldn’t be able to get out without them opening the door.

Max looked at the chair, and on the seat was a book. “That can’t be ours, ours is locked up in the weapons case.” He walks over and places his hand on the poster, causing it to slide to the side exposing their weapons. There was the Destiny book, right where they left it. So what was this new one? “Wonder if this has anything to do with the cave map?” He returns to the other door, then he opens it causing the room to fill with static energy, the blue lights began to swirl around the room. Walking over to the chair, he quickly grabbed the book and shut the door once he was out of the room. “Well, it looks familiar, and we still can’t read it.” In his hand was a metallic book, the exact twin to theirs, but when he opened it, things were quite different. “Look, Evan and Capra are in here. They all gather around to see what was in this version.

“Oh.” Was all Capra could say when she saw the picture, would what she saw come true…? Evan looked too, and then he smiled. “Well, you wanted to be part of this. Be careful what you wish for my love, you might get it.” Then he leaned down to kiss her. “What else is there, any clue about this enemy that is coming our way?”

“I never did learn to read Antarian, we’ll have to do some research with the old book, the translation and this new one…maybe we can break it down and figure it out. But the pictures look interesting.” Max winks at Evan.

Max was just getting ready to close the room with the chair, when it began to glow red…What was going on? No one should have been able to get in there. As he watched he saw someone familiar starting to form on the floor. Could people transport here now? It didn’t seem possible. When the figure didn’t stand up, he knew they were in trouble. “Michael, we may have a problem here, come with me.” Reaching for the door, he started to open it, only to hear the screams of the person on the floor.
“Don’t come near me! I think they infected me, and if they did, you will never be able to use the chair again because you won’t be able to come in here.” The person was in much agony. “I don’t have much time…once I’m gone and the glow disappears, you must seal this room. No one can ever come in here again, the infection will be active for a hundred of your years. Destroy all of the means in. If the infection gets out, it would spread like the plague and all of the planet would be lost to it…Please, never open this door again, the amulet must be destroyed so that there is no more access.”

Liz reached to feel the amulet that had hung around her neck since the day Max had put it there.
She would never part with it, never. “Isn’t there any other way, I can’t part with this. If we don’t open, I mean the four of us, don’t open this door, no one can get in. Won’t we be safe?” As she looks up, she sees the face of the man that had guided them all these years…only he was no longer recognizable…he fell forward and his face pressed against the glass, barely breathing.

“Once the amulet is destroyed, the other door will disappear, you won’t need the four of you to open that door because it will be gone. Liz, you are still beautiful…” Every breath was labored, he couldn’t last much longer. “If it isn’t destroyed, this will be your fate…and the fate of everyone you love. You are like a daughter to me…” He had slid to the floor, curling up in a ball fighting the pain and fighting for breath…then they saw that he no longer fought, he was gone.

Liz laid her hand on the glass and cried. “Oh, Skylar…no”




To Be Continued…







What Destiny Brings
Part 16


Max crouched down and gently stood Liz up, turning her face towards his chest, he let her cry. While he watched the room, Skylar’s body turned to a pile of dust and the red glow disappeared. Michael looked at Max, waiting for him to get the amulet. Max returned the look with a ‘give me a minute’ one. He eased Liz away from his chest and tilted her head back so she could face him. “It’s time…” She didn’t want to hear it. “Liz, please…” He gently reaches down to take the amulet from her neck. As it slips over her head, she reaches up to grab it, clinging desperately to it. Looking into Max’s eyes she knows she has no choice, then lets it go. Max tosses it to Michael, he doesn’t want to let Liz go but there is something important that had to be done. Instinctively, Evan knew what he had to do, he walks over by Max and takes Liz. “It’s okay grandma come over here.” He leads her over to Capra and Destiny. Max immediately starts to close the doors, taking one last look with their only connection to Antar. Once the doors were closed he takes his hand and seals them shut. Michael has found an old metal box, placing the amulet in it, he holds his hand over it and melts the amulet making it part of the box. Once it is gone, there is another strange kind of hum then a clunk, they knew then that the room was safely sealed, never to be opened again.

Destiny and Capra look at each other, somehow they both know what’s coming next. When Evan looks at them, he sees what they’re planning and eases Liz onto the couch. Maria wasn’t quite sure what the three knew, she just felt that it was something that would end another part of their world. She walks over to sit by Liz as the room began to swarm with activity. Max and Michael watch as the three begin emptying boxes on the floor; with one look from Destiny, Max reads what they must do. He opens the hidden weapons storage and tosses Michael Rath’s weapon, then he grabs Vilandra’s dagger. Reaching down, he picks up another box and starts to place the things from the wall into it.
“What’s going on? It looks like we’re moving.” Maria looked as Michael started to go through the papers, selecting only the most important ones.

“We have to close this room too. We can’t leave it vulnerable to any one, especially with their enemies out there.” Capra said as she was sorting another pile of papers. How did she know to do this? The others all turn to look at her, she amazed them every time they turned around. Destiny watched her new daughter-in-law as she sorted through the pile of folders, a new respect forming for this woman that her son married. She would have the strength they would need should things become bad.
Suddenly it hit Capra why she was given the ability to unlock the hidden room. “I know why I was the forth hand…Isabel couldn’t have been here in time, some how someone knew that Skylar would be sent to infect you and they gave me the ability to act in her place. But who could have known?”

What she said hit everyone like a punch, of course that was the reason. If they had waited for Isabel, and then came to the room, Skylar and the red glow would have already been gone. The next time the room was opened the plague would have been released, unknown to everyone. Someone had put an end to their new enemies’ plans, or at least one of their plans. But who?

Liz shook herself, knowing that it was time for her to focus, she wanted to make Skylar’s death mean something. She starts looking through another box of papers, when she came across her grandmother’s book, the one that had the picture of Miranda in it. The pull to open it, to look for something was unbreakable. She slowly opens it remembering what Miranda had meant to them, finding the picture she looks at it, then drops the book to the floor like it was on fire. Max turns around to see what she had done. “Liz, what happened?” As he walked over, she bends over to pick up the book looking at the picture again, it was still the same. “This, it isn’t supposed to be like that…” Max looks at the picture and sees Liz’s grandmother, Miranda and ‘it couldn’t be’ thinks Max, it was his Antarian mother. “Liz what’s going on here, what does this mean?” “I think we found out who sent Capra to be the forth hand.” As Liz says this, she sees the picture go back to normal. “Max, this is getting really weird…”-



He looked the place over again, still he couldn’t find a place to hide. “I guess it will have to be the hard way.” Now I’ve done it he thought, I’m talking out loud to myself. Oh well, at least his cover was still in tact. They would never suspect him. Time to head back to town, he would find a place to stay until it was time to make his move. He ran one more check on the monitor. Clear as a bell, he would know their every move…

Looking back into the room, they made a last check to make sure they had everything. “Once this is done, we won’t be back here. Do we have everything? Weapons, both books, the translation, anything personal?” Max looks at everyone, they all nod yes. He takes a deep breath, so much passed through his mind…the day he and Brody opened the room, Destiny’s birth, Isabel killing Kivar, hiding his daughter here, Liz…the trips to Antar in the chair. All of it would be gone forever. When would this end, the battles on Antar ended years ago. They’ve had peace for many years now, why would someone start things again? “Okay, this is it.” Closing the door one last time, he runs his hand around the edges to seal it. “Let’s go.” Liz saw it but he hid it from everyone else. It broke her heart to see the pain in Max’s face, he tried so hard to be what everyone expected but she knew that he felt like he never did enough. When they got to the bottom of the stairs, she handed her stuff to Maria, then she took the box that Max was carrying and handed it to Evan. “Please take these, we’ll be out it in a minute.” Maria gave her a strange look, but Evan knew, he had seen it too. She would ease his mind, she would always be his balance…

“Did we forget something Liz? Because if we did, it’s too late…” His mind seemed to wander off.

“Yes, we forgot something.” She looked up at him, taking his face in her hands.” We forgot how lucky we have been…we have lived so much since the day you saved me. We have lost people we love, whether it was by alien hands or just life, we have been given so many happy times, too. Max never forget the good you’ve done, the people that you have saved.” She sees that he wants to say something to her, but she puts her finger to his lips. “You are the love of my life, I feel your pain, I feel it when your heart is happy…I know today was one of the hardest days of your life and I didn’t make it easy on you, I am so sorry for that.” She reaches up and wipes the tear from his cheek. “You have earned the right to hurt, life hasn’t been kind to you at times. You have been robbed of a son and we lost our chance to have more children. But our life has been wonderful, we have had the love of the best friends we could have ever asked for…we have been blessed, I have been blessed to have been loved by you.” She reaches up and kisses him, sending him flashes of all of the happy times in their life. It was to his amazement, that they had more good times than bad, that now the bad memories weren’t as important as the good ones. He pulls her into his arms, resting his chin on the top of her head he simply tells her. “Thank you.”
Then she looks up at him and smiles, “Thank you.”



As the hover craft approached the pod chamber Destiny could sense it, someone had been here.
When they got out and started to get the boxes, she could almost feel them standing there. “Wait, someone has been here…I can feel them. I don’t think it was long ago.” Looking around she didn’t see anything…but the feeling was strong.

“Here, look!” Capra had found foot prints in the dirt leading to the pod chamber. They were only partial prints, but still it was evidence that proved Destiny’s feelings.

Michael looked at them. “Oh, it’s probably just some of ours. What would anyone want here?” Then he remembered what just happened at the UFO Center. “Oh.”

They carefully walked to the door of the pod chamber. Destiny’s feelings were becoming stronger the closer they came to the top. “There is something here…but where.” Evan was going to set his box on the ground but he was afraid someone would trip on it, so he placed it on a small ledge just near the door. Once Michael opened the door, he reached back up to get the box, as he slid it down, something hit him in the head. Bending over to pick it up, he sees that it is a small camera, one that would show a wide view of the area.

“Well hello, where did you come from?”


To Be Continued…