
Title: You can’t get back yesterday
Author: Emz80m
Disclaimer: I don’t own anything it’s all borrowed.
Category: M/L FF AU ADULT
Summery: 3 years into the future Max, Michael, Isabel and Tess return from Antar.. They left when they found out Tess was pregnant. Alex isnt dead though. Will things ever be the same again?
Prologue
Max Evans came running down the stairs when he heard the knock at the door. He was surprised when he opened the door and saw the person standing on the other side biting her lower lip in nervousness. He hadn’t seen her in two weeks and it had been the longest two weeks of his life, and here she was un-expectantly standing outside his door.
‘Hi’ he said.
‘Hi’ she replied ‘I know I should be here but I need to talk to you’ she told him.
‘Come in’
She followed him into the living room looking around quickly at the place. There was very little colour anywhere, just a big cushiony lounge in the middle of the room in front of a coffee table and TV. She also noted that there weren’t any pictures either.
‘So I realise I shouldn’t have come but I have to tell you something’ she started.
He smiled, he wanted to take her in his arms and tell her how much he had missed her these past two weeks, the taste of her skin the feel of her body against his but he knew that wasn’t what she wanted to hear.
He nodded in response.
‘I’m pregnant’ she blurted out and then waited for his reaction.
‘Are you sure?’ he asked her.
She didn’t answer him though she simply pulled up her blouse and showed him her abdomen, which remained flat the only telling sign were the two tiny handprints that were glowing from within.
‘Oh my god’ he gasped and then fell to his knees in front of her placing his hand near the hand prints.
‘I didn’t think it was possible’ he said and she could tell that he was trying hard to hold back the tears, she however couldn’t and they were sliding down her face and over her smile.
Max felt the tear hit his face as it fell from her eye and he looked up at her beautiful smiling face and matched her smile with one of his own.
Without a second thought he pulled her down to him and wiped her tears away with the pads of his fingers ‘How do you feel about this?’ he asked her then.
She smiled at his concern ‘I don’t know really I only discovered it myself a couple of hours ago and I came straight here,’ she told him and it had been completely true. She had been having strange dreams for past months that included herself with Max and a family but she concluded that he was just reminiscing about what could have been.
‘But I’m happy’ she finished ‘What about you?’ she asked then concerned that he wouldn’t want to have her children.
‘This is the happiest day of my life’ he told her ‘I didn’t think I would ever be able to have children and the fact that they’re your children is just amazing’
She smiled at his words her heart jumping a because just like her, he wanted their babies
Part 1
‘Max’ Tess walked straight into Max and Isabel’s apartment without knocking. She knew that he was here somewhere and had decided that they were going to talk today no matter what. She wanted her fiancé back she missed him.
‘Max’ she called out again when no one answered and made her way into the living room, she stopped abruptly at the site of her fiancé and his ex-girlfriend sitting on the floor together.
‘What’s going on?’ she asked startling them both out of their silent conversation.
‘Tess, what are you doing here? I didn’t hear you knock?’ Max asked her as he helped Liz up off the floor.
‘Oh’ Tess said embarrassed at being called out for not knocking ‘I didn’t think I needed to knock’ she mumbled. ‘I came to see Isabel actually’ she finally answered and gestured to the bag she had flung over her shoulder. The bag had nothing to do with Isabel but she didn’t want them to know that.
‘Oh well she’s actually at Alex’s but you can probably get hold of her on the mobile’ Max answered her. He knew that he shouldn’t feel so awkward around her, she was his fiancée up until two weeks ago after all but right now she had walked in on one of the biggest moments of his life with his soul mate and he didn’t want her to ruin it.
‘So what are you doing in Boston Liz?’ she asked her.
‘Oh Maria and I had to come and pack up the rest of out stuff from the apartment so we flew in this morning’ she answered. Liz wanted to tell her it was none of her business what she was doing in Boston.
‘Oh so you’re going back to Roswell tomorrow?’ she continued she needed as much information on Liz’s whereabouts as possible at the moment she had a bad feeling about her sudden appearance in Max’s apartment.
‘Actually our flight is booked for tonight’ Liz smiled.
‘Oh great well I’m just going to drop this stuff of in Isabel’s room’ she said and then made her way out of the room and down the hall.
‘I’m sorry Liz I don’t know what she’s doing here’ Max told her.
‘Don’t be sorry Max, I mean you are going to be married soon anyway’ Liz tried to shrug off that thought; she didn’t want Tess Harding anywhere near her children.
Flash back
Three years and 3 months earlier
Max watched her from the balcony knowing that what he was about to do would be the hardest thing he had ever done in his life. He could tell from the way she looked on the bed that she was sleeping peacefully and he was miserable that he would be the one to shatter that.
‘Liz’ he whispered as he made his way towards her.
‘Max?’ she questioned slowly waking up.
‘Yeah sorry to wake you but I needed to see you’ he replied and took a seat beside her.
‘What’s going on Max?’ she sat up and looked at him.
‘We’re leaving’ he whispered.
‘What?’ she cried.
‘Tess is pregnant and we think it would be better to have the baby on Antar’ he told her, never once looking her in the eye.
‘Pregnant?’ Liz stuttered and looked at him begging him with her eyes to tell her that the baby wasn’t his.
‘I came to say goodbye. I couldn’t leave without seeing you’ he said then ignoring the questions he saw in her eyes because he knew admitting that he had given up on them to her would be worse that not saying a word.
‘Well you should have’ she snapped.
‘Liz…’
‘Save it Max. I cant believe you slept with her, how could you do that to us’ she cried.
‘How could I have done that to us?’ he yelled back. ‘Liz you slept with Kyle there was no us after you did that’
Liz allowed the tears to fall then and silently shook her head. Max took one look at her and knew then that he had made the biggest mistake of his life. He moved towards her and lifted her chin so that she was looking at him in the eyes ‘Oh god you never slept with him did you?’ he asked her.
Liz shook her head ‘I would never do that to you, to us’ she whispered. Max pulled her to him forcefully ‘oh baby I’m sorry, so sorry’ he whispered against her hair. He looked at the clock and realised that he left it too late to come to her, they were leaving in 10 minutes and he needed to leave now.
Pulling away from her briefly he whispered so quietly that only she would have heard ‘I love you with every breath in my body’ and his lips descended on hers in a sweet kiss. When Liz opened her eyes he was standing by the window looking at her longingly. ‘A year Liz, I promise I’ll be back’ and with that solemn promise Liz Parker watched the love of her life walk away. Little did she know at the time when she made the decision to wait for him, to be there when he returned that she wouldn’t see him for 3 years.
End of Flashback
‘Tess and I broke up about 3 weeks ago’ he told her.
‘Oh’ Liz replied. Inside her heart was racing a mile a minute. She had sworn to her self when Max had come back into her life again 3 months ago that she wouldn’t let him back into her heart but she knew now that was pointless because he had never left it. Yes she was bitter, yes she hated him for deserting her but did she regret one moment of the last 3 months, the answer was absolutely no.
‘I think we should call Serena and ask her to come over, I have some questions about some things that have been happening and I’m sure you do to’ he said then. He hadn’t ignored the fact that the moment he saw Liz at his front door this morning his body had instantly responded, it was the first time in almost 2 weeks and it was taking all his control to not attack her.
Liz looked at him and saw the desire in his eyes and knew without a doubt her eyes matched his, she was craving him and she had been for two weeks now. In the end she had insisted on coming with Maria even though she had nothing left in the apartment just so she could see him, it had been on the plane that morning when she had gone to the toilet that she had discovered their surprise.
‘Max’ Liz called ‘before you do that do you think you could take care of a little problem I’m having?’ she asked him quietly as she made her way towards him. She was more than aware that his ex-fiancée, ex-wife from hell was somewhere in the apartment.
‘I have an itch that really needs to be scratched’ she told him.
‘And I would love to scratch it but we’re not alone’ he groaned.
‘I don’t care. I’m at the end of my rope here Max I’ve been literally craving you for 2 weeks now. Get rid of her please’ she begged.
‘OK but you need to hide so I can pretend that you’ve left’ he said and led her to his room. ‘Hide in the bathroom’ he told her.
As soon as Max safely hid Liz in his room he went out of the front and firmly shut the front door, knowing that Tess would be out within seconds of hearing the sound.
‘Oh is Liz gone?’ she asked innocently.
‘Yep and you need to get going too because I have to get out of here’ he told her.
‘Where are you going?’ she asked annoyed.
‘I have an appointment at the Uni and then I’m meeting up with Michael’ he lied hoping that his mate would back him up.
‘But I wanted to talk to you’ she whined.
‘Well it will have to wait for later’ he told her and started to move her towards the door.
‘Okay so I should come back tonight?’ she asked him.
‘Yep sure’ he replied without thinking. ‘See you then’ he said and then shut the door in her face, locked it and then sealed it with his powers.