Author: Rise of the Rebels
Couples: Mainly Tess/Alex
Rating: Teen/Mature (mostly teen, probably all teen but just to be safe…)
Disclaimer: If you know it from the t.v. show, it’s not mine and never will be. So sad.
Summary: Tess comes slamming back into the gangs lives… literally. She’s on an important mission to find her one and only, but the only problem is: she needs the gangs help to find him! Now if only she could just stay conscious…
Author’s Note: Ok, this is my first Roswell Fanfic here and I’m a little nervous about it so if you could just give me feedback on what I could do better, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you times a thousand. Oh, yeah and everything that happened in the three seasons… happened. Right now it’s starting with a lot of hate from Max towards Tess but everything will unravel soon. The story takes place five years after the Tess “supposedly” blew herself up. And i'd love to thank the awesomely amazing pijeechinadoll for the banner and she also did my avatar. thank you.
Prologue:
When Tess was a little girl, Nasedo promised a trip to the hottest amusement park around. This wasn’t just any other amusement park; this was one that included the wildest, wettest, and wackiest water rollercoaster in the whole east coast. It would take two hours to get to the amusement park but to Tess it was worth the wait, she would get to go on a mini-adventure. They packed their bags and headed on their way but an hour and a half into the trip Tess had to use the “little girl’s room”. After ten minutes of whining, Nasedo took the nearest exit, unknowingly, to a ghost/abandoned town. They rode around for five minutes looking for any sign of civilization when Tess spotted a glamorous hotel with bright pink and lime green Neon lights, not to mention the building sprouted up thirty stories high. It’s big bright neon yellow letters, which attracted Tess the most, were the words “Dreamer Hotel” and in smaller letters underneath were the words: We’re sure to make all your dreams and wishes come true. Tess had never seen anything so beautiful and promising, she was awestruck. How could something so amazing exist in something extremely pathetic? She hurried up and opened the car door while Nasedo came to an abrupt stop jamming on the brakes. Slowly walking to the building, trying to hold herself together, and opening the handle that was too big for miniature hands, she took a step inside the building and looked around.
It was abandoned. All her hopes of the hotel were crushed, the immagination of it being filled with lace, silk, spas, and beauitiful people were replaced with spider webs, dust, and rodents that decorated the lobby floor.
She didn’t have to go to the bathroom anymore. She didn’t need to go to the amusement park anymore.
Thinking back on this day, Tess knew her heart was much like the hotel: No vacancies just emptiness.
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“Where’s daddy? I want daddy!” The petite brunette five year old girl screamed at the top of her lungs while walking on the sidewalk holding her moms hand. “I need daddy!” Tess looked around at all the people staring at her intensely and with a slight hint of remorse. The older brunette picked up the screaming five year old.
“Sweetie, I told you that daddy had to go on a business trip.” The five year old shook her head furiously.
“Business trips don’t last a year, Mommy.” Her pigtails flying into Tess’s face and a stream of tears starting to come from the little girl’s bright blue eyes. “Why can’t we just go home? I want daddy! I want my brother. Where are they?” It pained Tess to see her daughter cry over her dad for the last year, the fact that Tess didn’t know where he was didn’t help either. The five year-olds bright blue eyes bore into Tess’s, they were desperately searching for a clear answer as to why he wasn’t with her.
“Where are we?” Tess said as she tried to tickle her daughter. “We’re home!” The little girl turned her head frantically searching and all of a sudden stomped her foot down on the pavement.
“Is daddy here?” Tess silently shook her head, “Then we aren’t home, you lied to me!” The little girl yelled at the top of her lungs causing more people to stop and stare.
“I’m not lying, Alex, we’re in Roswell,” Alex folded her arms.
“Roswell looks dinky.” This made the older brunette laugh.
“And how do you know what dinky is?” The little brunette girl rolled her bright blue eyes and sighed.
“Mom, everyone knows that dinky is the same as stinky because they rhyme, but you can smell stinky and see dinky,” Alex shrugged her shoulders and looked up to her mom.
“Well, does that playground look dinky?” The older brunette pointed to a playground and when the bright eyed girl twirled around to look, she was awestruck. The park was bright yellow with monkey bars, seesaws, swings, and multiple slides. It was every kid’s dream with the bright colors and the sand to go along with it. What caught Tess’s eye was the bench that was positioned a small distance away from the park. It was the same bench that Max and Tess had sat on while they gazed up at the stars and had meaningful conversations about what it would be like if they were Antar or how their past lives must’ve been.
Alex ran towards the playground without a thought in her head. All the lessons about looking both ways to cross the street, all the lessons about sticking close to Tess, all the lessons about not running in a dress just fled her mind as soon as she saw the playground. Alex ran like the wind, giving no chance to Tess to try and stop her. Tess’s mother instincts kicked up in due time and she ran out into the street.
The older brunette wasn’t so lucky.
A car came screeching to a stop but unfortunately it was far too late. Within the time span of thirty seconds, Tess was thrusted from her side causing her to roll up on the windshield and tumble off the side of the car. She came in contacted with the gravel… hard. Blood spilled from the gashes in her head and arms, staining the rocks underneath her with a deep red-brown color. Alex spun around and saw her mom laying there, lifeless and unconscious, and didn’t know what to do. The blood caught her eye and she couldn’t feel herself move or hear herself scream, she was in utter shock.
A man who was tall with dark black hair and a slender yet muscular body climbed out the car. He looked to be around twenty-two years old. Alex was awestruck, again. The man closed his cell phone and walked towards her mom with sense that he had the weight of the world on his shoulders. The strange man walked faster as he caught a sight of the blood on the brunette lying on the ground. When he was finally beside her, he knelt down and touched her stomach with his hand. Alex couldn’t take it anymore.
“What are you doing to my mommy?” Alex demanded as she walked towards the stranger who gazed upon her with a stupefied look, quickly taking his hands off the women. Alex cocked her head, “Did you make my mommy go bye-bye?” A lonely tear slipped down the cheek of the little girl with bright blue eyes and curly ponytails. “My daddy’s going to be really mad at you.” This seemed to intrigue the stranger.
"Where is your dad?" The little girl shrugged.
"On a buisness trip." This caused the man to raise his eyebrows.
“Who is your dad, we might be able to call him?” Alex furrowed her eyebrows and stomped her foot.
“I’m not supposed to tell strangers anything,” The man nodded his head; obviously she had the whole strangers 101 talk with her parents. That was just going to make everything harder.
“I can make your mom all better if you just turnaround and face the playground, is that ok with you uh,” Max grew a confused look, “what did you say your name was?” Alex folded her arms.
“I’m in kindergarten, you can’t fool me. I’m not supposed to give my name out to strangers.” The dark headed man groaned, silently losing his patience.
“Can you please just turnaround and face the playground, please?” The man couldn’t believe he was begging to a five year old. Alex stuck her finger in his face and waved it from left to right.
“No, No, No, I’m not supposed to take directions from a stranger, my mommy said so.” The twenty-three year old smiled; he couldn’t resist the cute vibe she was giving off. This made the little girl grow even angrier.
“Ok, then what can you do with strangers,” The tall man questioned. This seemed to stop the smart girl and put her in a deep thought, before she started to smile.
“I’m supposed to get someone to call 911,” she paused and looked around before looking back at him. “Can you call 911 and tell them that you’re a stranger?” She questioned the man; he just smiled and pulled out his cell phone. After dialing a couple of numbers and waiting for someone to pick up, someone on the other side said ‘hello’.
“Hey Sheriff Valenti, I was talking to Liz on my cell phone and I didn’t see this person coming and I accidently hit her and now I’m stuck here with her daughter and-”
“Slow down, Max. I’ll be on my way, just tell me where you’re at?” At that moment the little five year old snatched up the phone and turned to Max.
“You were just supposed to tell him that you were a stranger!” Alex exclaimed as she stomped her foot and put the phone too her face. “Mr. Sherri Balenty, that man made my mommy go bye-bye and then asked me for my name, you need take him to jail.” She heard a deep laugh on the other side.
“Ok, tell me your name and where you are,” The sheriff said in a stern voice.
“I’m by the bright yellow playground by a ufo center and me name is Alex, come quickly pleased. This guy is a stranger,” She shut the phone and turned to face Max. “Here’s your phone.”
Alex turned around and stared towards her eyes causing more tears to travel down her puffy cheeks. She strolled over towards the woman, sat and stared somemore. It finally dawned on her that staring wasn't going to work so she decided to change her tactics. She gently tugged on her mom’s sleeve, but nothing happened. “Don’t leave me, mommy. Don’t go bye-bye! Don’t be like Daddy!” The little girl started to scream at the woman lying on the pavement, not a clue in her mind of what had happened to her mom. The scene in front of Max simply tugged on his heart until he couldn’t take it anymore, this led him to take of his shirt and wrap it around the woman to at least stop the bleeding. He then walked over to the little girl, now realizing that he felt a strong connection to her, a strong pull to wrap his arm around her and cover her eyes so she wouldn’t have to see the eyesore in front of her. No five year old should have to deal with that amount of pain. The five year old kept screaming at the woman, not able to grasp the fact of what had happened.
“So, I know that if I tell you my name and you tell me your name, we won’t be strangers,” Max desperately exclaimed trying to attempt a conversation with the heartbroken little girl.
“I’m not a stranger. Strangers are bad, you’re a stranger,” The little girl’s bright blue eyes came in contact with Max’s and so did the feeling of hate.
“I’m not a bad guy if you give me a chance,” Alex just gave him an idiot look.
“You made my mommy go bye-bye… you’re a bad guy.” Alex wiped a tear that had fallen down her cheek. Max knew deep down inside he couldn’t argue with the little five year old. If she would just turn around and let him heal her mother, there could be a chance in salvaging their relationship, but that would never happen.
“My name is Max.”
“Me name is Alex.” Max nodded his head and just sat close to Alex. His eyes wondered all over and landed on the woman he hit with his car. He felt the need to study her and noticed that besides the brown hair and brown eyes, this woman could pass as someone he had tried to get out of his mind ever since Liz told him one morning that Tess had blown herself up.
Tess.
The name sparked so much hatred inside of him that it could’ve fueled a nuclear bomb. Ever since the day that she was pronounced “gone for good” the group went under drastic changes. The Valenti’s became distant except for holidays and a certain someone’s birthday when they became delirious and depressed. As for the other’s, it was a silent agreement never to talk about the woman that caused the whole group so much pain. Max had loved her and let her in just so she could betray him, Isabel had excepted her as a best friend, Michael accepted her as an acquaintance, she caused more pain on liz than on anyone else when she announce her pregnancy, and Maria hated her for killing her best friend… all in all, according to Max, more bad came out of her arrival than good.
Max was in such a deep thought that he didn’t hear the sheriff’s truck ride up along the gravel and stop. Alex, on the other hand, had watched it suspiciously before seeing the uniform the guy had on when he stepped on the gravel.
“An ambulance is coming for your mother,” he said as he knelt down to look the little girl in her eyes and motioned for Max to talk to him privately.
“No hopitals.” The sheriff’s eyebrows knitted together.
“No hospitals?” The girl’s pigtails bobbed up and down as she nodded. “Is there a reason why?”
“My mommy doesn’t believe them.” The sheriff smiled and engaged in a conversation with Max. In the end, they agreed to not use the ambulance and for the lady to go to Sheriff Valenti’s house while Max met Liz at the Crashdown for a party. It was also settled that the little girl would go with Max to the party so she wouldn’t have to see her mother in the sickening state. They settled the woman and child in the truck headed for the Crashdown, not realizing that they were also dragging the past back in their lives.