Title: Nothing to declare
Category: AU. No aliens. Max and Liz.
Rating: ADULT
Disclaimer: Same old, same old… nothing is mine, I'm just borrowing the characters and promise to send them back to those they belong to, as soon as I'm done with them and the fun is over.
Summary: This is basically smut so I don't think you really need one, but if you still insist… uh, Max is a security officer… he sees something he wants, and for once he goes for it.

AN: Nothing much really, just some little Max and Liz loving… well, kind of



Bixie, sorry girl, I saw your post on my author's thread, I wanted to post sooner like I said, but well, some family's matters kept me kind of occupied for a while and I couldn't… hope it was worth the wait nonetheless

Tiph, thanks for your always helpful commentaries… sometimes it so much easier and most of all useful to have an external opinion and you do that just so perfectly

And last but not least, thanks Angie for the awesome banner… you already know how much I like it, my Pms said as much I guess





Well, I guess I have said enough already so on with the story. Let me know what you think of course

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Trained eyes switched from one screen to another, having long learned to detect any suspect individual, any unusual move.
A bulky guy carrying a heavy bag caught his attention and he followed him briefly until he saw what he was about, and only then did he relax again.
Man, here went nothing, he groaned. Working at Roswell Airport could be quite an experience and there were days when he just about went crazy with all he had to do or supervise, but then there were other days, like today, when he was simply bored out of his mind and the only thing he wanted was to get out of there as fast as he could and go home.
One corner of his mouth lifted in a soft smile nonetheless when he spotted a buxom blonde exiting one of the interrogation rooms and then Kyle Valenti stepping just behind her, his uniform a mess after whatever had happened behind those four closed walls.
Max Evans wasn't naïve though and he knew perfectly well what that had been, like most of the unit, but he was so used to it by now that it didn't faze him anymore.
Being a security officer in a small airport as this one could be pretty uneventful as well sometimes, and so they had to entertain themselves as they could, and that was the best way some had found. When things became too boring and they saw an opportunity, they just took it.
Kyle was the worst of all of them though, and Max could perfectly picture what had happened with the blonde now. He had probably approached her, asked her to follow him, found some pretext to scare her and make her believe she was in trouble, and then proposed that they worked a way out of this, together.
Some other times he didn't even need that. A smile, a wink and some were all for going for it. The weirder thing however was that as far as Max knew, it had always worked for him, and Kyle had always ended getting what he wanted. If a good fuck was all he needed, which Max knew was indeed and all too often the case, he was never disappointed.
Since he had never tried to take advantage of his position himself, Max didn't really know how he did it, but more than once he had wondered if he would have the nerve as well, or if it was really as easy as it seemed.
More often than not, Kyle only spent what? maybe half an hour with the girls he brought in, and when he got out, he always sported one of those shitty grins on his face that left little doubt about how it had gone and how much he had enjoyed himself. Things went pretty quickly as far as he could tell, so Max guessed that either he knew exactly which girls to pick to be sure that he wouldn't have any problem convincing them to go along with his proposition and keeping it to themselves afterwards, or he was simply as irresistible to the womankind as he always claimed to be.
Truth be told, Max doubted that his looks would be a problem for him if he were to even try, quite the contrary, but the point was that even when he had been single, he had never really felt the urge to do as his colleagues.
Even when he found a woman to his liking, he had never gone through with it. Maybe because he needed more than a simple physical attraction to go that far, he didn't know, but until now he had always been satisfied with his choice.
Most of the guys who worked with him were always ribbing him about that however, but he just ignored them, knowing that the more he would protest and defend himself, the less they would want to let go.
Some times they insinuated that he was gay, some other times they just said that he didn't know what was good for him, but he didn't care. They would probably not understand his reasons if he tried to explain them to them.
Maybe he had just not found the right girl who would make him lose complete control. Or maybe it was just that he wasn't comfortable enough to have sex with a perfect stranger in his place of work and with about a dozen people around that could perfectly hear them. Whatever it was, he knew he wouldn't hear the end of it for as long as he would work here anyway, so there was no use fighting them, right?
It didn't bother him anymore now anyway, and it was actually kind of funny to see them bet that one day he would join them at last, and that even despite his protests.
He highly doubted that they would see the day. Well, if he was honest he had doubted it until a few months ago when he had run into the most beautiful woman he had ever seen while patrolling with one of his coworkers through the terminal, because if anyone ever could, that girl would surely be the one to make him lose all his inhibitions.
He didn't remember what had compelled him to look that way, but when he had seen her there, waiting in line to obviously buy her ticket, he had nearly lost his footing and made a complete ass out of himself.
He couldn't explain either what force had pulled him to her then, but before he could stop himself his feet had been bringing him to where she was, or at least very near. Only he hadn't had any opportunity to talk to her and test his charms then -even if still now he didn't have the slightest idea of what he would have told her- because before he could, a lanky guy had joined her, and he had been stopped in his tracks.
The way he had touched her, a hand on the small of her back as he urged her forward into the moving line, had spoken of their close relationship and it had left him wondering what exactly they could be to each other.
Were they just friends? More than that? He hadn't been able to tell at that moment, but then recognition had struck him and he had realized that he knew them. Knew her.
He had seen her before, he had suddenly remembered, maybe a month earlier, and with that memory had come the knowledge of who she was. Parker, her name was Elizabeth Parker.
She hadn't been dressed so casually that day, her hair hadn't been let loose like it had been then, but there was no denying that he had been just as much attracted to her at that instant as he had been the very first time he had seen her.
He remembered clearly when it had been. Isabel had been in town for a couple of months then, having come back to Roswell after her more than stressful divorce, and since she couldn't wait to be settled in her new apartment now that she had found what she had been looking for, Max had been forced to go with her to another one of those decoration shops she insisted on dragging him to.
He just hated shopping, moreover when it wasn't even for him, but due to the circumstances and how happy she had seemed to be herself, he had decided to humor her and swallowed back his protests.
Still, he had not been a happy camper, even if he had done his best to smile at his sister when she eagerly asked for his opinion. Until the owner of the shop had approached them and offered to help them decide, and he had suddenly found shopping for furniture to be really interesting.
He hadn't understood the first thing of what she and Isabel had been talking about most of the time, but he had probably never listened so carefully to a conversation, even if the sweet woman who had left him speechless the second his eyes had met hers had not paid much attention to him then.
Once she had understood that Isabel was apparently the buyer, she had been all business with her and he had been left more or less behind, following them and only speaking and smiling when they asked him what he thought.
He hadn't really felt like complaining though, because it had given him the opportunity to observe her while she worked and he had only appreciated the sight even more.
All too soon however, Isabel had been satisfied with her expert opinion and what she had found there and they had been on their way out, and the only thing he had been able to do while leaving was to smile and wink at her, unusually pleased when he had seen her blush in reaction.
After that he had more than once been tempted to go back to her shop with a false excuse, or just ask his sister for the business card she had given her, so he could call her or something, but he had never found the right opportunity, even though from that point on, Elizabeth Parker had never really left his mind.
And then he had seen her again. And again. At first he had believed that he was hallucinating and suddenly seeing her everywhere, even when he was working, his mind conjuring her up before his eyes when it became too much to just think of her and he needed to see her, but a quick check on the passengers' lists had proved that he wasn't going crazy. Elizabeth Parker was on a plane to Hermosillo, Mexico every two or three weeks, sometimes alone, sometimes with Alex Whitman, the lanky guy, and he quickly discovered why.
One of the perks of his job was that he had many connections and it hadn't taken him long to learn all there was to know about Elizabeth -'Liz'- Claudia Parker: her full name, her age, her address, what she did for a living, even if he already knew about that, and who she visited in Mexico. Only so far he hadn't done much with that information. He had just not found the way to use it without looking like some kind of stalker or anything alike.
A slight shove on his shoulder brought him out of his musing, and as he looked up to the smiling face of Tessa Harding, one of his colleagues, he nearly groaned out loud. The girl was sweet and all, but she definitely didn't know how to take a hint, no matter how many times he tried to make her understand that he was absolutely not interested.
Like she had so many times before without him even asking, he saw her handing him a hot cup of coffee, and though he thanked her and tried his best to smile back at her, he wondered if she could notice just how forced it was despite his efforts.
The next second he turned back to the multiple screens in front of him and resumed his task, hoping that she would realize that he was in no mood to deal with her now. Which she obviously did, because soon after he heard the door of their small office closing a little too loudly and a soft chuckle resonating in the room.
"Oh, she got it bad for you, Evans!" Jason, one of his other coworkers joked good-naturally, but even when he smiled at him, Max didn't find any humor in the situation.
He didn't like being so cold with her, or with anyone else for that matter, but he knew that it was the only way he could be if he wanted her to give up and stop pursuing him at last.
"Yeah, well… she'll get over it!" Max answered, hoping he was indeed speaking the truth. As far as he was concerned, the sooner she got the message, the better.
"You sure you're not gay?" Jason teased, even if he didn't believe for a second that this could be the reason for Max's constant rejections of Tessa.
"She's not my type, that's all!" Max replied shrugging, wondering if it was really that hard to understand that he wasn't interested. And never would be.
"She could be anyone's type… as long as you know what you're looking for!" Max heard the other man say slyly, but was again concentrating on the many people going and coming through the terminal.
He barely heard what he had to add in fact, until Jason let out a loud whistle, catching back his attention again.
"Now that… would definitely be my type… and I wouldn't mind interrogating her for a few hours!" he told Max while pointing a finger at one of the monitors and wiggling his eyebrows suggestively.
Max followed his line of vision and the next second he coughed a mouthful of coffee over his desk at seeing who exactly Jason was referring to.
It couldn't be.
"Oh, so you like girls after all, huh?" he ribbed when he saw Max's reaction, even if he had no way to know how shocked Max was in reality.
It wasn't so much because he was surprised that among all the women who were wandering around the airport he could have precisely chosen Liz when Max himself had been wondering not so long ago when he would see her again, but more because he had not been able to spot her first and earlier himself.
"So? What do you think?" unaware of what was going through Max's head, Jason continued already picturing what he could do to such breathtaking creature if he was given a few minutes, alone, with her.
"I think you should start patrolling, you're already late as it is!" Max answered, cleaning his mess and doing his best to hide how affected he presently was.
"Riiight!" the other officer drawled out before getting up and following his 'order', but it didn't stop him from muttering a soft 'fun spoiler' on his way out.
He should have known that Max wasn't exactly the guy he should have joked with about that.
If he only knew why. At that moment Max couldn't take his eyes off her, so close and yet so far, and a million thoughts were running through his mind.
What was he supposed to do now? Should he just stay there and let another opportunity pass him by? Should he restrain himself once more and act like he wasn't dying with the need to be near her, to touch her, to have her?
Should he keep contenting himself with just watching her from afar every time she came and went through the airport, and continue daydreaming about what wasn't yet but could be if he just dared take that step?
He could, but hadn't this lasted long enough already? He had desired women before, but he didn't think he had ever lusted so much over any of them, or had had so many sexual fantasies concerning them as he did with her. That had to mean something? And maybe then, if he just discovered what it felt to be with her at last, that would be it and he would carry on with his life without having her on his mind almost 24/7.
Beside, considering Jason's reaction to her, if he came back before she was out of the airport, chances were that he would try his luck himself, and Max couldn't take that risk, could he? No, he had to do something!
Coming to a split decision, he reached for the command panel in front of him, and with trembling fingers pushed one of the buttons.
"Jim?" he spoke softly, his eyes on one of the monitors, seeing as the aforementioned man brought his hand to his ear.
"Yeah?" his answer resonated through the room and Max was glad he was alone for now considering what he was about to do.
"The brunette in the line… dark skirt… white shirt…" he said, waiting for the guy to spot her before continuing. " I want you to bring her in… room 3." he ordered after having checked which room was available, and though his voice cracked slightly as he spoke the words and his conscience asked him if he really wanted to do this, he chose to ignore it.
This was it, there was no turning back, he thought as he heard the other man reply with a short but surprised 'sure', and on quite unsteady legs he moved to meet his fate and finally follow in the steps of his coworkers. At least that was what he hoped.
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"Yeah… yeah, Maria… we just landed… everything went well… just need to go through security and I'm out." Liz rolled her eyes as the line moved, not even surprised to have already received a phone call from her best friend when she had left her barely a few hours ago.
It always went like this, despite all the cedar oil and other products she could sniff, Maria was a basket case whenever one of her friends traveled around. She did the same with Alex, too, only he knew how to talk to her and make her understand that she didn't need to call him every other minute to make sure he was alright.
Now more than ever she wished she had his skills as well because as much as she loved Maria, the only thing she wanted right now was to get out of there as quickly as it was possible, go home, and soak in a bubble bath for long interminable minutes, and not be nearly interrogated by her best friend.
Unfortunately she knew that this would still take a while anyway considering how slow the security guards were being today apparently. A quick look at the people before her only confirmed her suspicions because if she wasn't mistaken, only two more had passed security since she had started waiting in line and Maria had called her.
"No… no 'Ria, uneventful as usual!" she pursued as her friend asked her if anything interesting had happened during her flight. Just because she had met her husband-to-be on a plane didn't mean that everyone had that luck. "No, I didn't join the… Maria!" she started before realizing that answering that aloud would probably draw the attention of every person around and that was certainly not something she wanted or needed.
Leave it to Maria to ask such questions anyway. Joining the mile high club wasn't exactly part of her plans right now and probably never would, but Maria had made hers the mission of humiliating her and reminding her of how boring her life could be every chances she got, so it shouldn't surprise her. Well, boring and logically uninteresting of course, since there was no man to wait for her at home.
'Not having been in a relationship for a while now and not having had sex for nearly a year wasn't normal' … said the girl who was about to get married and who, she, got it daily.
As far as Liz was concerned there was nothing wrong with that, but trying to explain that to her dear friend who more often than not had her mind in the gutter was something Liz had renounced to. Moreover when she took it upon herself to bring that up almost constantly.
Liz was perfectly happy with her life and considering how bad her last relationship had ended she was honestly in no hurry to reiterate the experience. The last guy she had been with had been a friend of Alex, and let's just say that as much as she truly loved her friend, his judgment had obviously been clouded when he introduced them, because Kevin Olsen could be many things, but marriage material he had surely not been. Not that she had been thinking that far back then, but still. No, the less commitment she got, she better she was. Now if only Maria could get that, too, she would be the happiest girl in the world.
"Maria! I absolutely don't need to get la-…" Liz hissed into the phone the next second when once more Maria made a comment about her sex life, or more like lack of it, and then she blushed to the roots of her hair when the man just before her turned around as he heard her, having obviously understood what she hadn't said aloud, and looked her up without any shame.
Disgusted she glared at him, resisting the urge to just hit that pig, even if she didn't know how she managed, and then looked the other way and pursued her conversation. Or at least she intended to, but Maria's reaction to her obvious embarrassment made her realize that it was no use even trying. She was evidently on a roll and there would be not stopping her now.
"Okay, look… I love you, but I'm hanging up now… I'll call you later, once I'm back home!" she told her friend, knowing that she would have to put an end to their phone call anyway, since it would soon be her turn to pass through security check.
After having exchanged a few more words with Maria so, Liz hung up and was moving along with everyone else when she saw one of the officers there looking at her strangely, before obviously communicating with someone else. However she didn't pay him much attention since after that he resumed his task and checked the suitcase that was presented to him.
It was only when it was her turn that she realized that she'd better have, because at least then she would have been prepared for what was coming next.
At first there was nothing unusual with the situation, she gave him her passport and answered with a normal no when he asked her if she had anything to declare, then he deposited her carryon on the conveyor belt for the X-Ray check, and she was convinced that that would be the end of it.
Only it wasn't and for reasons she wasn't getting he asked her to step aside, directing her to another desk where he proceeded to open her small suitcase, leaving her wondering what could be wrong with what he had seen so far.
"What's going on?" she demanded, clearly at a loss here, since she didn't understand what could justify a more thorough inspection.
"We'll know in a minute!" he answered all too vaguely, making her frown worriedly. This was actually a first and she really didn't know how to react.
In no time he had gone through all her things, even the more intimate, but if she thought that he would let her be after that, she had obviously been deluding herself once more.
"What will we know?" she asked bewildered, thinking that this was getting crazier by the second, and of course his indifferent attitude was certainly not helping her keeping her cool. "What exactly are you looking for?" she then inquired when he closed her carryon and moved it down from the desk.
"If you would just follow me miss, please!" he demanded instead of answering her, and then moved almost right away, obviously expecting her to do just that.
"What? Why? What's going on?" she reiterated, and as much as she wanted to ignore his command, it wasn't as she could when he was already leaving with her things and another guy stepped beside her, like he was going to escort her wherever it was they were going, willing or not.
None of them was really that talkative and as much as she tried to get more information, their responses were always too elusive to give her any clue.
Under the curious stares of other passengers, they walked through a few corridors before reaching various rooms, quite isolated from the rest of the airport, and Liz's eyes nearly bugged out of her head when she realized what type of rooms they were exactly and why she was here so. This was insane, but they obviously planned to 'interrogate' her there, and she wasn't sure she liked this new turn of events. No, actually she knew she didn't like it one bit.
As soon as they entered the room, they asked her to sit down and then proceeded to search her things once more despite her numerous protests, going so far as to take notes of everything they found this time. This was just unbelievable, but what was worse was that despite how many times she tried to make them explain what this was all about, they kept doing like she wasn't even in the room or couldn't care less actually.
Then when they were done, one of them took off with her carryon, leaving her calling after him, while the other just stood there next to the door, like he was suddenly mounting guard and didn't mean to move unless he was forced to, and Liz really considered being the one to do just that. Until she understood that if they were leaving her there without giving her any more explanation, it was probably because they were waiting for someone else. Someone who most likely would have her answers. And someone who she was so going to give a piece of her mind to, and that as soon as they would arrive.
If they ever came, Liz thought when after nearly ten minutes someone had yet to pass that door. At this point Liz was ready to just up and leave, even if she had to scream bloody murder to create a diversion first, or just more simply, kick some precious parts of that damned guard.
However when she was ready to do just that, she heard voices coming from behind the door and instead prepared herself to fight whoever that would be if she had to.
Yes, she would have shown them what she was made of right away… if her breath hadn't gotten stuck in her throat the instant the door opened and she saw who the new officer was.
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Contrary to what he had thought, it took Max a little longer to reach the interrogation room than what he had predicted. When he had asked Jim to bring Liz in, he hadn't really been thinking about anything else and it was only when he had been ready to leave the office that he had realized that he couldn't very well close it just like that and let the airport without anyone monitoring.
It had taken him a few minutes so to find someone who could cover for him, mostly because he had needed someone who wouldn't ask numerous questions about where he was going, what he was going to do, etc… questions that he wouldn't have known how to answer to.
How could he have justified what he was about to do without lying blatantly to their faces? And telling them the truth was out of question of course, even if no one would have been shocked if they had heard that he was finally about to do as anyone else here.
It wasn't so much that he was ashamed to admit at last that he wasn't so different from all his male colleagues and that when he saw something he really wanted he was all ready to go after it as well like they had themselves so many times before, but more because he wasn't ready to hear them tell him 'I told you so!' or whatever else they would have to say if they knew. Beside, he didn't think that he would be able to go through with it if anyone knew. He wasn't even sure he would as it was, so with an audience, there was no chance in hell.
His palms were sweating as he finally reached the doorknob and his heart was beating erratically against his ribcage, knowing that the object of many of his fantasies was just behind that door, but conscious that he couldn't postpone the moment any longer, he breathed heavily before eventually stepping in.
The first person he noticed then was Alan, standing there impassible, and when he turned finally to look at the woman he had desired for so long, he nearly wished he had waited some more to face her. He was so not prepared for that.
She was even more beautiful than he remembered her, but it was her eyes that really drew him in. In them, he thought he saw recognition but he couldn't be sure. The next second however it didn't matter, because he was feeling all their power and had to shake his head to avoid getting lost in their depths.
Exchanging a few words with Alan first, he did his best to appear cool and collected, but he wondered if she could see just how nervous he truly was. Then when he realized that he couldn't procrastinate any longer, he decided to address her at last.
If he was honest, he could say that he had no idea how to go about this. He didn't even know how the others did it. Was he supposed to seduce her? To just come out and tell her what he wanted, why she was really here? Or just jump her there, or what?
Kyle had more than once bragged about how easy it was with some sometimes, and he had to wonder if he was never even anxious. He surely was himself but maybe that was only because this was his first time. Well, not his first time per say but… okay, uh… whatever. He wouldn't get anywhere if he didn't start talking first.
"Hi… I'm Max Evans!" he said eventually, extending his hand to her in greetings and expecting her to take it of course.
Only she didn't and for a second he wondered what he was really doing here. She looked stunned, but he couldn't say why exactly she was and what that meant for him.
However stunned was still a mild way to put it as far as Liz was concerned, because of all the men she had been expecting to see come and interrogate her or whatever, this one was certainly the last one she would have thought about. At that moment she was just glad that she had been sitting when he had come in, or else she would have most likely toppled over from the shock.
During a few seconds she thought she was dreaming, but as she saw him talking with the other officer and she observed him, she knew that she wasn't. His hair was longer now, but there was no doubt that it was the same man who had haunted her dreams more times in the last months than she was willing to admit. And that was not a good thing. Not a good thing at all.
She remembered all too well how she had reacted the first time she had seen him that day he had entered her shop. It had been like being struck by lightning and she had almost immediately been drawn by his beauty, even if she had been amazed herself at her reaction. But then she had seen the beautiful blonde that was obviously with him and she had quench her wandering thoughts right away, knowing that even if she had planned to ever talk to such a man, she would never be able to compete with the kind of women he could without a doubt attract.