
Title: Divine Intervention
Author: SpiderGirl
Disclaimer: I own nothing on this planet. Roswell belongs to Metz and Katims.
Summary: The shooting happens but Liz doesn't get shot. Max dreams about this strange symbol and a dome and goes in search of it. He finds the necklace and RiverDog who shows him the cave. He decodes the map and realises just how important Liz Parker really is...
Rating: Mature
Coupling: This will focus on Max and Liz but it isn't really about whose paired off with whom.
Notes: Thanks to Mommo's site for inspiring me to come up with this. This is going to be really important to me and I'm focusing all my attention on this until it's done. The first part is of the shooting, so bear with me.
Prologue
Liz put the two plates down on the table as the two tourists started a conversation with her
"So.. does your family come from Roswell?" asked the young man
"Just four generations" Liz replied trying to hide her smile, maybe she could flash her burnt doll photo and get an extra tip?
"Uh, well, does anyone in your family have stories about the UFO crash?" he asked and Liz was cheering inside. She reached into the pocket on her apron and pulled out a photo
"Well I guess it would be okay to show you this" she says. Maria walks past and spots Liz with her alien photo again and smiles, if only she had thought up that little money making scheme to con the tourists out of their money.
"My grandmother took this picture at the crash sight right before the government cleaned it up" said Liz, she tried to look honest as possible while she told them, the girl spoke up for the first time
"Do people know about this photograph?" she asked, Liz couldn't believe they bought the alien photo!
"Well, I know about it, and now you know about it" she replied and they both gasped with disbelief "I'm going to be right back, don't show that to anyone!" Liz walks over to the staff area to get some more Tabasco for Max and Michael as Maria is coming to get some cups of tea
"You are so bad girl. Oh, and Max Evans is staring at you again" she said and Liz's mouth dropped open
"No way" she replied then looked over at Max "Maria that is so in your imagination. Max Evans, this? No, un uh..it's not..." Maria cupped Liz's face
"And with those cheeks preciosita tan linda" she said with a chuckle
"Maria!" Liz cried shaking her off "And, and even if it weren't I'm going out with Kyle. I mean, he's steady and loyal, and he appreciates me" Maria wrinkled up her nose as she picked up the two cups and saucers
"Sounds like you're describing a poodle" she said before walking off just as a fight broke out with two large beer bellied men arguing over money
"LIZ!" screamed Maria as one of the men pulled out a gun. All the patrons in the cafe ducked and Liz just stood frozen. The bullet went off flying through the air and hit the wall behind where Liz had been standing.
Maria rolled over and looked to where Liz had been standing only to see empty space "Liz?" she whispered looking round. Max looked up and saw the same thing. The men had long since run for it and now Maria was trying to find her friend. She went into the back but Liz wasn't there, she turned round and froze. There was a pile of clothes lying on the floor, a green uniform dress with Liz's cosmic pin on it, her socks and shoes and her apron but no Liz...
***
The Granilith hummed to life from where it was hidden behind the Pod Chamber that had long been forgotten. A figure appeared floating inside it sleepy from travelling the distance in such a short time
"Where am I?" groaned Liz as her head flopped back and forth. She felt like she was floating in a large pool of warm jello
"You are in the Granilith" came a familiar voice that she couldn't quite place "You are safe" the voice told her and she relaxed. She knew that she should have been worried but she couldn't seem to care. She sighed deeply as the voice continued talking to her
"Time exists in many strands. Each strand is created from a choice that should lead to a different outcome but from the choice whether you live or die it is the same outcome. Whether you live or die the world will end" the voice explained and Liz's fear began to rise. The Granilith began to show her the same moment from different strands of time, it was of her getting shot. Some times Max got up and healed her and others he was pulled out of the cafe by Michael. No matter what happened the Granilith showed her the outcome of each strand and it was always the same; the Earth would end and all life would be destroyed.
"You are an anomaly. Your ancestors were made by the same creator who made me. While I was complete your ancestors weren't... they haven't been until you came into existence. You are now complete and we are connected. You are marked by a symbol of distant stars and are meant for great things Liz Parker"
"Like what?" she asked
"You must become a protector. I can influence things to an nth degree but where I am weak you are strong. You must learn to do all you were meant to do and the only place you can learn that is on a distant planet called Antar. Do you understand what I've been telling you?"
"Yes I think I do"
"Are you ready for the power that will be yours to control"
"I don't know. I'm just a small town girl..." she gasped when her body began to hum and five of her freckles over her chest and neck began to glow. She could feel energy threading through her and she felt like a part of her that had been missing had finally been found.
Billions of light years away in the temple for the Granilith on the Northern most part of Antar a few miles away from the Royal Palace several monks dressed in green and dark blue robes awaited for the Granilith to glow. By their calculations from all the scrolls and reports made by monks passed it should be any second now. Light filled the temple and they bowed, all they knew was that they would be receiving a being of immense power that would save worls. Being a male dominant world they expected a man with strength, agility and smarts; they never in their wildest dreams expected a girl to appear standing in the middle of the temple naked and waiting.
"It's a girl" whispered Kyti, the head monk. They were confused beyond belief but Adarra presented the being with her robes...
"Divine" whispered Doby "Divine Being" Liz pulled the robes on over her as she stood before the bowing monks. She kept expecting this all to be a dream due to how strange it had been but as the minutes passed with the monks bowing before her like she was a deity she knew that this was real and she was no longer on Earth.
TBC...