Ooh Child {M/L} [1/1] Teen

[Gater101]

Ooh Child

Gater101

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Spoilers: Set in season 2, let’s just assume that Liz told Max about FM.



He watched her from his usual booth in the Crashdown. She was smiling at something Maria had said and he found himself smiling with her. He loved how her smile lit up her whole face and how her eyes filled with tears after she had been laughing for too long.

He put his fork back to his mouth and tasted the piece of pie slide down his throat. As he tuned out Isabel and Michael bickering over who knows what, he remembered a conversation he’d had with her a few months earlier about the life that they were leading. He remembered how they had said that they hoped that things would end soon, hoping that the alien abyss would spit them back out but secretly knowing that it was almost impossible that suddenly there would be no aliens, no FBI, no air force… but expressing that hope anyway. He had said that things would no doubt get easier; things would seem a lot brighter one day than the darkness of secrecy that they were living in.

But what he really meant by saying this was that he hoped that some day the time for him and Liz would come. That they would be together. It seemed an impossible thing that he would finally get what he had wanted for so many years, after he had almost had it just the previous year.

Damn himself for coming back from the future to screw up his life.

He saw that she had meant the exact same thing, was feeling the exact same sense of hope and despair because when he had ducked his head to look at the floor in her bedroom after thinking he had said too much, she raised his head with her hand and looked him straight in the eye and said:

“One day, Max, right now we’re needed to save the world.”

He smiled at the memory and looked at her again. She was looking back at him as she sauntered across the Crashdown, her aqua dress clinging to her body.

“What you grinning at?” She said as she made her way to his booth.

“Thinking about tomorrow,” he said cryptically when she and looked into her eyes for a moment before glancing away to his plate.

Michael frowned, Isabel tilted her head and Liz smiled knowingly.

He glanced up and watched her as she looked at him for a few minutes longer then walk away to another table to serve some customers.

She glanced back over her shoulder, her brown ponytail swinging across her shoulders and smiled.

One day.




Ooh child things are gonna get easier
Ooh child things’ll get brighter
Ooh child things are gonna get easier
Ooh child things’ll get brighter

Someday yeah, we’ll put it together and we’ll get it undone
Someday when we hit it much lighter
Someday yeah, we’ll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun
Someday when the world is much brighter

Ooh child things are gonna be easier
Ooh child things’ll be brighter
Ooh child things are gonna be easier
Ooh child things’ll be brighter

Someday yeah, we’ll put it together and we’ll get it undone
Someday, lighter
Someday yeah, we’ll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun
Someday, brighter

Someday yeah, we’ll put it together and we’ll get it undone
Someday, lighter
Someday yeah, we’ll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun
Someday, brighter

Ooh child things are gonna be easier
Ooh child things’ll be brighter
Ooh child things are gonna be easier
Ooh child things’ll be brighter

Right now
You just wait and see, things are gonna be

Beth Orton – Ooh Child