Zan
Round 3 Winner
Title: Leftovers
Author: Lelea email IHATEDESTINY@aol.com
Category: Ummm I’ll say CC sort of. Mainly M/L
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Suing would be pointless
Rating: Up to ADULT is what I’ll say cause it always seems to come out that way whether I plan for it to or not.
Summery: Takes place after Wipeout! Emotions are running high as rumors about Liz and Kyle fly through the school. Maria gets Liz to agree to go to a party at the old soap factory to cheer her up. I’m changing a few things..you’ll see that as we go along.
Author’s note: Any songs or movies mentioned not only aren’t mine, but also please cut me a break on release dates. I don’t want to get too bogged down in research and technical details plus sometimes I just ignore silly things like release dates if it works for me! Also as to influences and inspiration that contribute to this story, I read a lot of fan fic, read a ton of books, see a bunch of movies. I would never knowingly steal ideas or parts of any of these things…however all these things influence my thinking. If I pull anything from a book, movie, or anything else not mine I will note that in the part it appears.
Chapter One
Liz sat bent over her homework as her radio played softly in the background but she was oblivious to both. The last couple of weeks had been nothing short of hell. She was now a second class citizen in everyone’s eyes, suspect by her friends and a borderline enemy to the Roswell aliens.
Liz had accepted all of this as her due for what she had done but it still hurt and some of their behavior had shocked her. Max was cold and outright accusing at times. Her face flushed as she remembered his thinly veiled pointed accusation that she had leaked information about the death of the Congresswoman. Tess was smug and taunted her often. Isabel was biting in her comments when she even bothered to speak to her. Michael was Michael. He didn’t say much at all, only speaking when spoken to.
She had never been this depressed or ashamed in her life and it just kept getting worse. The whole school was buzzing with outrageous rumors about her sexual exploits. Just getting through the school day was a nightmare. She hid in the library as much as she could to avoid the snickers and stares. Funny how fast her reputation for being on the uptight geeky side was shot to hell. Liz sighed and tried to refocus on her studies.
Maria was fuming. She didn’t care what anyone said she knew Liz and this was all crap. There was no way that she would accept any of these rumors as truth not even after Liz told her she had slept with Kyle. It just didn’t make sense. She went over the evidence in her head again.
Liz had looked ashamed and nervous when she discussed it that one brief time. When Maria had asked if Kyle had forced her Liz had looked horrified and vehemently denied any such thing. She had also denied that either of them had been drunk, drugged, forced at gunpoint, forced by threats from aliens, or any other logical explanation that Maria could think of. She had simply said that Kyle had been there for her and things had just happened. Bullshit. Things like that didn’t ‘just happen’ to someone like Liz.
Maria had watched Liz and Kyle closely over the last week. They were friendly and easy with other. No sign of intimacy or anything that would point to them having had sex. She had watched Kyle’s expression carefully and when Liz wasn’t aware of it he looked worried. Kyle was worried for Liz. He had also started to distance himself from Tess and defended Liz whenever anyone said anything negative about her in his presence, which at first glance would support the sex thing but at second look just didn’t play. Maria knew that Kyle was a loyal decent person despite first appearance, she had heard all about him from Liz while they had been dating. He had fessed up to his friend’s bad choices in attacking Max even when he knew it wouldn’t help his situation with Liz. He had also plainly made his opinion clear to said friends about that incident. After everything had died down he had made the effort to be friends with Liz and apologized to her for his behavior. He hadn’t turned the aliens in or spilled that information to anyone after he was in the know. So in the end after careful thought Maria could see him defending Liz no matter what had happened. They were friends.
None of this added up yet but Maria was going to get to the bottom of it. She wasn’t going to let Liz be treated like this. Alex had had to pull her off of Tess twice already after her snarky comments. Maria knew for a fact that it was Tess who started the rumors making the rounds. She had investigated that thoroughly and fucking bitch wasn’t getting away with this. Liz had told her to let it go but Maria had had enough. She hated everything about Tess with an intensity that she had never felt for anyone else and there was no way in hell that she would let that skank get away with hurting Liz no matter what Liz said.
Maria blew her hair out of her face with an angry breath. She was angry with all of the aliens and had suppressed numerous violent impulses over the course of the week. Her supply of herbal remedies was running low and there wasn’t enough cypress oil in the world to calm her down at this point. She had decided that she wanted nothing to do with anymore of their alien bullshit. Not when they turned on Liz like this and closed ranks like they were the only ones that mattered. Like the humans in their lives had never helped them at all and were the outsiders in the group. It was disgusting. She had thought that they had cleared up that problem last year but then enter TESS and DESTINY and suddenly humans were scum. Well they could try and go it without her help from now on if that was going to be their attitude. She had her real friends to worry about. She nodded her head and parked the Jetta gearing up for her current mission.
Liz looked up as Maria entered and felt a conflicting rush of emotions. She feared that Maria was going hound her about what was happening and she couldn’t tell her the truth but she was happy to see a friendly face. “Hey Ria. What’s up?”
“We’re going out. I heard about this party and it sounds like fun,” Maria said moving to Liz’s closet.
“Umm yeah…thanks for thinking of me but I think I’ll stay here,” Liz said as she watched Maria flipping through her cloths.
“Nope. I’m afraid that’s not an option. You can’t hide in here forever Liz. It just makes things worse. You have nothing to be ashamed of right? So let’s go out and have a great time. Alex already agreed and is getting ready as we speak,” Maria said firmly. Hmmm no not a sweater. Surely Liz had something that would work. Simple but sexy….not slutty.
“I’m really tired and I have a ton of homework to do and…,” Liz started when Maria just started talking right over her.
“Look at it this way. We need to celebrate our new alien free existence. No more experimental rejects for us. This is a brand new start and I for one welcome it with open arms. Live a little Liz. Let down your hair and embrace life,” Maria said waving her arms.
Liz sighed in vexation. “You’ve been talking to your mom again haven’t you?”
“No. I just see the possibilities that you are refusing to acknowledge. We are two smart sexy girls that have multitudes of choices available to us so why settle for an ‘Island of Doctor Moreau’ reject? We can do better. They are ungrateful scum that are old news anyway. It’s time to greet the future,” Maria said then started humming the old Aretha Franklin song ‘Respect’.
“Definitely your mother,” Liz sighed. “Max isn’t ungrateful. He’s hurt and angry which he has every right to be.”
“I didn’t hear that,” Maria said refusing to listen to the excuses for Max. “This is a good choice. What do you think?”
“Maria! Have you listened to anything I’ve said?” Liz asked frustrated. She didn’t like hearing Maria imply bad things about Max…even if she was starting to wonder about certain things in the back of her mind.
“Uh huh. I’ve heard all the lies you’ve told. You made a mistake. You lost your virginity to Kyle. It was great. I heard I just don’t believe any of it. Now! What about this outfit?” Maria said her tone breezy as she spun around to hold up the outfit for Liz’s inspection.
“Umm it’s fine,” Liz answered not really paying any attention. “They aren’t lies. What do I have to do to prove that to you?”
“Hmm I don’t know. Maybe if you had sex with Kyle in front of me I would believe it,” Maria said thoughtfully. “But first I’d check to see where Tess was. She would love to screw with my head the whore.”
Liz just sat there with her mouth opening and closing in shock.
“Now go put these on. We’re running late. Hustle Liz…Alex is waiting,” Maria said pushing Liz into the bathroom and tossing her the cloths she had picked out. Honestly! Who did Liz think she was talking to? Maria admitted to being born at night but not last night!
“Kyle are you go to the party?” Tess asked casually.
“Not with you,” Kyle muttered shortly.
“What is your problem?” Tess demanded getting pissed.
“You’re my problem. You and the other clones,” Kyle said leaning back on the couch and putting his hands behind his head.
“What are you talking about? I thought we were starting to get along,” Tess asked puzzled. She had tried hard to win this stupid jock over since Max had dumped her here.
“We were until I realized that you’re a fake backstabbing little tramp,” Kyle said and smiled.
“WHAT? What did you say?” Tess shrieked sending dogs barking all over the neighborhood.
“You heard me. I know what you did. I know that you smeared Liz at school and I’ve heard you trash her to the other three clones. You are pathetic and I want as little to do with you as possible,” Kyle said eyeing the blonde alien in front of him. He had given her a chance but she had shown her true colors over the last couple of weeks. She thought she was so sly but she didn’t fool him.
“It’s not MY fault Liz is a faithless whore,” Tess said her eyes shooting sparks.
“Whatever. Go plaster your ass on Max. I’m not interested and I’m certainly not interested in listening to you talk. Move along,” Kyle replied.
Tess flushed in anger her eyes bugging slightly. No one had EVER spoken to her this way. “Is she that good of a lay? I mean really Kyle.”
“You’re just upset that I dumped you when Liz showed up. Get used to it cause Max will do the same,” Kyle smirked. “It’s interesting that if given a choice everyone chooses Liz over you. Maybe that’s the answer to your question.”
“Fuck off Kyle!” Tess yelled and spun on her heels.
Kyle smiled when she slammed the door to his old room. Maybe he would go to this thing. He was suddenly in a great mood.
Alex looked around at the throngs of people as they entered. He had let Maria wrangle him into this to show solidarity. The humans need to stick together in this and he agreed with Maria. Something wasn’t right here. He glanced down when he felt Liz stiffen at his side. Following her line of sight he groaned when he saw the ‘Royal Four’. “Come on let’s boogie,” Alex said and dragged the two girls into the dancing masses.
Liz tried to loose herself in the crowd hoping to hide in the masses of dancing people in the hopes that the four aliens wouldn’t see her.
Maria shot a warning look at the group then focused on her dancing.
“I can’t believe she has the nerve to show her face,” Tess said spotting Liz.
Isabel followed her glare and saw Alex leading the two girls to the dance area. “This isn’t exactly an exclusive kind of party, Tess. Clearly anyone can just show up.”
Michael sighed as the two girls started with the catty comments. He wondered why Max didn’t put a stop to it. This was clearly escalating into war and it was pulling them apart. He didn’t know what to think about what was going on and what was the truth but did it really matter that much? Enough to threaten everything?
Max stayed silent just watching Liz.