"To Give Her Up"
"FBBL"
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<center>Consequences of Time Travel</center>
Rating: ADULT
Genre: Angsty; M/L; Alien
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Roswell characters.
Summary: Wow,"To Give Her Up" is about Liz going back in time after "Graduation" to Max, the night before Liz gets shot to get him to stop her past self from getting shot. "FBBL", deals with the pod squad returning after being a year in Antar, to find Roswell has been taken over by Skins and Liz has new friends. So that's all I can say without spilling the beans.

Authors' Notes: First of all thank you for reading. FBBL was my first sequel and that makes COTT my first Trilogy, so be gentle.

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Song: Anywhere by Beth Orton
<center>Prolouge</center>
What did it mean? Did it mean Tess was coming back? Or that what ever made the Skin kill himself was coming? Or both? Max is right...it can’t be good...because if whoever’s coming back is coming back with intentions to activate the Denathon...that means....they’re coming for...ME.
<center>Chapter 1</center>
Liz’s Balcony
Thursday, April 5th, 2001- 8 A.M.
Paint what you know, not what you see
Hope blinds reason, thankfully
Know how it is when something fits
There's just a question of being it
“Careful.” I warn Maria, who almost blew my cup away as she practice using her powers.
“Oops, sorry.” Maria apologizes from behind her hand that covered her mouth.
“Try to focus on where you want to send it before you actually do.” I advise as I watch her from the futon.
Today was our day off, while Ava and Isabel waited tables, I was here trying to coach Maria on her new developing powers. I came up with the theory that Maria and Kyle’s powers came sooner than mine did because Zan was ‘different’ from Max, which was brought to my attention a lot more now and days.
Max tried to restore what time in my life he’s missed, while working the full time, night shift, as a security guard at some research lab. A job that Michael got him after his boss was caught stealing samples from one of the labs. Milton had offered Max a job at the UFO Center, but minimum wage isn’t an option right now.
I'd do anything to see you smile again
And I'd go anywhere so as not to feel your pain
I wanna live and the fear is all gone
I wanna protect and I know what it's from
I wasn't made for secrets like these
Chinese whispers, memories
“Hey, Maria. I’m hungry. I’m gonna go downstairs and eat.” I suggest and climb in my window and head downstairs to the Crashdown.
The Crashdown
Nothing is done without effect
There's nothing done that won't reflect
Pull one brick from an endless wall
Would it drown us all?
‘Ding’
I hear the order bell ring and flash a smile to Kyle who’s working frantically to pull in three orders, I assume, seeing three order check clipped on the order wheel. I sit in the free booth closest to the kitchen door and watch Alex make his way to me.
“Eating?” He asked with a smile.
“Um, some Orbit Rings would be great.” I answer with a forced smile. Alex nods and pushes passes the aqua blue swinging door, to place my order personally with Kyle and makes his way back to sit across from me.
“What’s wrong?” Alex asked, reading my distantness like an open book.
'Cause I'd do anything to see you smile again
And I'd go anywhere so as not to feel your pain
'Cause I wanna live where the fear is all gone
I wanna protect, and I know what it's from
I wasn't made for secrets like these
Chinese whispers and memories
“Oh, um, it’s nothing. I think I’m getting a cold or something.” I lie and cup my face with my elbows on the table. Alex looks at me skeptically, but doesn’t push a interrogation. He slides from behind the table and plants a kiss on the top of my head before returning to play manager of the restaurant.
You just need love like you say you do
And there may never be a time when it won't get through
Yeah, you know how it is when something fits
Now there's just a question of being it
I hated lying to him, but what was I suppose to tell him? That Max had become distant, more quiet, and we only made love once since the last time? That wasn’t information I was too keen on sharing with my friends, especially to Alex, who seemed to be living the Brady Bunch life with Isabel. The two were nauseating..even for me. Uh, I think that’s jealousy talking.
And I'd do anything to see you smile again
But I'd go anywhere so as not to feel your pain
'Cause I wanna live and the fear is all gone
I wanna protect, and I know what it's from
Yeah I wasn't made for secrets like these
Chinese whispers, memories
I tried giving Max space...but space ended up being silence...and silence ended up being avoidance. I would make myself busy during the day while he slept and then pretend to be asleep while he got ready for work. I don’t know how we would’ve pulled off our routine if we were still in school. School. A place I’m missing terribly right now. I’d be able to hide underneath the burden of doing homework and Senior activities, as opposed to hanging out here even when I’m not working.
School...it was announced that the students of West Roswell High with be under "special circumstantial summmer vacation" and won't be able to return until the regular sechduled first day of school comes into affect.
What time is it? 8:10 A.M. Max and Michael should be coming in 20 minutes. I better go upstairs.
Nothing is done without effect
There's nothing done that won't reflect
If I pull one brick from an endless wall
Would it drown us all?
Michael’s Room
“Hey Maria. Had enough practice?” I asked, finding her sitting on the bed and painting her toenails neon blue, while she listened to the radio.
“Yeah, I thought I did good for today.” Maria said with a nod, but then did a double look at me and the closed up the fingernail polish. “What’s up?” She asked patting on the spot beside her. I didn’t even make it past the doorway before I broke out into tears. “Oh, Chica, what is it?” Maria asked heartbroken when she heard my painful cry. “Shh. Shh. It’s okay. It’s okay. You don’t have to tell me.” Maria whispered in a soft soothing voice as she brushed my hair back as I continued to cry on her Scooby Doo pillow.
I couldn't hold it in any more. I had to let out everything I’ve been feeling for the past month...but instead of letting it out verbally...my body only allowed it to be released in tears. It must have been from the crying or Maria’s comforting action...or both...that I ended up falling asleep.
25 minutes later....
“Hey, Space Boy.” Maria whispered when Michael came in, unclipping his black tie and tossing it on the side.
“Hey.” Michael answered, hooking his security hat on the door knob and then stopped when he noticed Liz balled up in their bed and point to her flashing Maria a ‘what’s she doing here’ look.
“I think her and Max have to have a long talk. The girl has been crying for twenty minutes straight and then she just crashed.” Maria whispered as she pulled Michael to the side so they would wake her up.
“Why?” Michael questioned bewildered and concerned.
“I don’t know why?” Maria shrugged.
“Then why do you think it has to do with Max?” Michael questioned not knowing where Maria’s theories were coming from.
“Uh, something in the sentence ‘Max doesn’t want me’, gave it away.” Maria answered sarcastically. “She’s been mumbling the same thing over and over.”
“So what the hell am I suppose to do? I can’t dream walk.” Michael whispered frustrated.
“Take her back to her room. Let Max talk to her.” Maria suggested. Michael bit back his comment and moved over to the side of the bed to scoop her up and take her to her room.
Liz’s Room
“Liz is that...” Max trailed off when he saw Michael carrying Liz in. “Is she okay?” Max asked worried as he stepped aside to let Michael lie her on the bed.
“She’s sleeping.” Michael informed him as he covered her and then looked to Max. “Maria said she was crying a lot and that she was talking in her sleep saying that you don’t want her.” Michael told him in an angry, over-protective tone.
"Of course I want her." Max debated as he sat on the bed and looked to Liz and then to Michael.
“You gotta tell her Maxwell...before you hurt her more.”
“I know...I will....tonight.”
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