AUTHOR: Itzstacie
DISCLAIMER: I don’t own anything. I will be using some quotes from Harvest, (I didn’t write them, if I did things would have happened a lot differently)
E-MAIL: sschall1@tulane.edu
RATING: ADULT, Violence, (Not sure to what existent yet. I will let you know.) I am adding angst in here too, because there will be. but i do promise a happy ending
SUMMERY: Alter-Universe. Will have M/L, M/M A/I K/T S/P J/K Okay going to try and put one up the best I can and give a little background info. Liz lived in Florida with her family until they bought the Crash Down and moved to Roswell the summer before her freshman year. Liz and Pacey have been best friends since they were like 2 (No its not Pacey from DC, I just love that name so I took it) that summer Maria, Alex, and Liz became best friends. Everything that happened in Season 1 happened and up to when FM came. Except I’m switching the time frame of Whitaker and the fact that Max and Liz did sleep together right before FM came, Liz doesn’t know about the things Whitaker told Isabel and Isabel killing her. The things that are different are Max didn’t meet Liz in the third grade they didn’t meet until freshman year but everything that happened in Season 1 is still the same.
Which brings us up to the present, Liz runs away thinking it’s the only way to save everyone, but when she finds out the truth will it be enough to make her go back?
and a special thank you to QT4167013 who made my wonderful banner
Prologue
Seven friends stood there looking at each other. ‘Okay what are you all doing in my dream’ Michael asked. ‘No your in mine’ they all argued. They went back and forth arguing over whose dream it was until they heard ‘You are here because I called all of you here’. They all turned to see the little three-year-old boy that they all knew well. He spent weeks invading all of their dreams one by one.
“Hey there’ Maria said smiling walking up and giving him a hug, she didn’t even know his name, but somehow she found herself drawn to him, they all did but they couldn’t put their finger on it.
The spent time talking and playing with him in their dreams, always trying to find out who he was but he never budged never gave more information they he would.
‘The time has come’ he said. ‘Time for what’ they all asked. ‘’I’m sorry I cant stay to long this time, she needs me I have to go to her.’ Isabel walked up and knelt down beside him ‘who sweetie’ she asked.
‘You will find out soon enough’ was all the little boy said. He walked over to the center where the rest stood he turned and looked at Maria ‘Tomorrow you will get a visitor at work, you may not remember him but you will know him’. Looking at the group ‘Please listen to him and help him, Her life depends on it.’
‘Who’s life, Just tell us’ Michael said getting pissed. The little boy didn’t say answer instead he said ‘It’s time to complete the circle’ he walked to the wall and waved his hand creating an opening turning back to the group ‘I’m sorry she’s calling me I have to go’. ‘Who’ they all asked in one last attempt to get an answer.
He turned and smiled at them saying ‘My Mother’ and then started to close the opening. They all looked up and in the distance they could see a woman standing in a field with her back to them she had a white sundress on, her long brown hair blowing in the wind.
Maria gasped ‘Oh my god’ as the women turned around and knelt down to the little boy opening her arms ‘there you are’ they could hear her saying picking up the little boy and twirling him around in her arms.
They all stood there blinking unsure of what they were seeing was real, taking a step forward Max opened his mouth ‘Liz?’ As the opening closed shut.
Seven friends bolted up in their sleep, seven friends unsure of what they saw was true, seven friends unaware of what was to come.
Chapter 1
Year: 2001
She stood there looking out the employee window at the two friends laughing at the end of the bar. She brought her hands to the stomach she started to feel the tears begin to form in her eyes how can I be so selfish she thought.
Backing away she turned and ran upstairs, grabbing her backpack she took what money she had and what clothes she could. She stopped at her desk and took the pictures that she had hanging on her mirror stuffed them in her backpack and took one last look at her room.
She climbed out her window and down her balcony and ran, she ran with everything she had in her never once looking back.
4 months later
Nancy Parker stood there wiping dry a glass not really paying attention to the crowd around her. Four months earlier her only child ran away from home, leaving no words or reasons why, her daughter was out there somewhere all alone.
She looked up and glanced around the Crash Down taking in the people. She watched the group of friends that sat in their usual booth; they held the same sad expression she did.
Even thou everyone went on with life putting up strong and brave fronts inside she knew they were hurting just as she was.
Hearing the bell above the door she sighed and looked to see who just came in. Seeing her husband come in her eyes held hope, hope of good news, hope that he found her.
She looked into his eyes and saw the disappointment he wore, she knew even before he would speak the words that there was none.
Jeff Parker ran his tired hands thru his hair and started walking to his wife, she walked from behind the counter and stopped a few inches away from the group of friends sitting there.
She knew they would be eager to hear the news also. ‘Any luck?’ she asked her husband. He had thought he had a lead to where his daughter was and took off the minute he heard to follow up on it.
He wrapped his arms around his wife telling her no, pulling his wife closer to him when she began to cry ‘Where could she be?’ she wept. He sighed ‘We will find her’ he assured his wife. ‘Come on lets go upstairs’ he said leading her thru the restaurant doors.
“Four months, Four Months and still no word’ Maria cried out ‘How could she do this to us’ she said looking at everyone. Turning to Isabel ‘please try again Isabel, please’ she pleaded.
Isabel sighed ‘I told you she wont let me in, she obviously does not want to be found’ she said remembering the night she did manage to get in only to have Liz tell her to please leave and not look for her.
‘I can’ t believe she would do this to her parents’ Alex said. ‘Well maybe we don’t know her as well as we thought we did’ Max said bitterly. ‘Or maybe you did something to her’ Kyle shot back.
Max opened his mouth to respond before he could Isabel yelled ‘What the hell is going on between you two, for months now you both sit here and glare at each other’ looking at Max she went on ‘You come in here one day and just punch Kyle in the face and don’t give a reason’.
‘We don’t have time for childish behavior, one of our friends is missing, we have the skins breathing down our necks ready to attack at any time, Cant you two just stop acting like children and put what ever it is aside for one minute.’ She said.
Both mumbled ‘Fine’ but not without glaring at each other. ‘I have to get to work’ Max said standing up. ‘Be careful Max’ Tess said. ‘I will’ he hollered walking out of the door.
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Liz wondered the dark streets pulling her jacket around her as much as she could, she was alone and scared she had only a few more dollars to her name. Spending night after night in hotel rooms and taking bus rides in no time the money she had was gone. She rubbed her hand over her stomach ‘I promise we will get thru this’ she said.
Sitting down on a bench next to a pay phone she looked at it, then she turned her head to the dark sky and started remembering the weeks before she left home. She and Max were at a turning point they were starting to work things out when she came back after running away from him that day in the desert.
They even made love one night after he told her he was coming for her. Then everything blew up in her face, his future self had to come back and tell her those things.
Ask her to help him fall out of love with her to save the world, how could she turn him away after all it was Max, even thou he was older she could still see her Max behind those eyes, those eyes that held so much pain behind them.
He told her if she didn’t help, people would die Michael, Isabel and their son. She rubbed her stomach again, after that she did what she had to she couldn’t let them die, especially her son.
She put her head down and started to cry, she left her friends, her home, left without even telling Max that he was going to be a father.
How could she tell him, she had pretended to sleep with Kyle just to get him to turn away from her? She knew the rumors would start soon and then the word about her being pregnant would get out and she knew they would all think it would be Kyle’s, no one knew she and Max had taken that next step in their relationship.
She cried harder she felt a hand come down on her shoulder ‘Are you okay ’ she heard, she looked up to see a woman about her age with curly reddish-brown hair.
‘Not really’ Liz said wiping her face ‘I’ll be okay thou’ she said. “Do you need help’ the girl asked staring at her.
Liz felt her stomach contracting but she ignored it and walked over to the pay phone ‘No thank you’ she said before picking up the receiver.
She dialed a number and waited for the person to pick up. ‘Hello’ she heard ‘It’s me, I need your help’ she said.
Chapter 2
“Liz, Liz is that you?’ the person asked on the other end of the phone. ‘Yes Pacey it’s me’ Liz answered closing her eyes she felt the contractions starting again.
‘Oh my god, where have you been, where are you,’ ‘Pacey’ ‘do you know your parents are going out of their mind looking for you, ‘Pacey’ she tried again ‘Liz four months and no word from you, you didn’t even call me’. ‘PACEY!’ she screamed.
‘What’ he said shutting up. ‘I need your help, can you come please’ she asked him. ‘Just tell me where are you, and I’m on my way’ Pacey answered her. He had always been there for her; they were best friends since they were three years old.
Even after she moved to Roswell they stayed best friends, they would talk once a week on the phone, they would email each other every day.
They were each others rock, they always knew what the other was thinking, but not this time she fooled him he didn’t even see the signs of trouble.
After getting directions to where she was he immediately went and packed his things taking whatever he could, some how he knew he wouldn’t be coming home anytime soon.
Pacey, don’t tell anyone you heard from me please those words struck a nerve in him, she pleaded with him not to say anything. Whatever was going on it must be something big; the Liz he knew would never act like this.
That’s when he decided he was going to be there for her no matter what the cost were, she needed him and he knew without a doubt if the tables were reversed she would do the same for him.
Walking to the door he saw his mother standing there noticing his bags “ where are you going’ she asked. ‘ I have something I need to take care of’ was all he said.
‘Does this have something to do with the phone call you just got’ He walked up to his mother and kissed her on the cheek ‘I’m sorry I have to take care of this, I will call you as soon as I can’. He turned and ran out the door before she could say anything else.
Liz hung up the phone cursing herself for calling him, she didn’t want to involve the one person that kept her sane when she needed him to, he knew about Max and the rest but she never told him of his alien status and the real reason why she loved him.
He only knew Max was a boy that had captured her heart, that he had saved her life, never explaining how he had. That was good enough for Pacey he never questioned her motives or the way she did things, he just simply accepted them.
Now she was going to have to tell him, she was going to have to drag him into this because no matter how hard she tried to fight it she needed help, she couldn’t do this alone anymore.
Calling home was out of the question, her parents would freak and tell her what a disappointment she was for letting herself get pregnant.
She couldn’t call Kyle, because even thou she knew he would go along with pretending to be the father if she told him the truth of why she used him that night she couldn’t do that to his reputation, he was dragged into the whole thing when Max Evans saved his life
She knew Michael would want her to get rid of it telling her that she had no right to bring a child into this world with everything going on, taking the risk of exposing everyone.
She wasn’t really sure what Isabel would do; Isabel was always hard to read. Tess was just unacceptable there was no way in hell of telling her anything.
Telling Max was not even a factor in her mind, he could not know because if he did she knew she would have to tell him the truth about everything about Future Max, about the end of the world.
Then everything she worked so hard on would be gone, he would forget his destiny again and she could not let that happen.
Then there was Maria and Alex, the next two most important people in her life. When she first moved to Roswell she befriended Maria and Alex instantly. They just seemed to click, she knew they would be there if she called them but she couldn’t do that.
Alex and Isabel were just starting out; Maria had Michael she couldn’t ask her friends to give up their lives for her mistakes. She couldn’t divide them just when they found happiness.
So the only one she had left was Pacey, and inside she knew that when he find out the truth he would still be there, not judge her like the others would.
Breaking out of her thoughts and feeling the contractions getting stronger she knew that tonight her son was coming. She had to get somewhere safe, somewhere that she could have this baby.
Suddenly feeling more alone than she ever did she started praying that someone would answer her prayer and send her someone who would help her right now.
The redhead watched Liz, and knew that she was about to give birth. She knew about Antarians, she knew what was to come once this baby was born. This was the moment she had been waiting for; she was bound by a sacred oath to protect that heir.
She was not to going to fail, she would give up her own life to protect him, she would teach him what needed to be done when the time came. Now the only problem was on how to get the mother to believe her.
The redhead unsure of how she should approach the subject, she knew who Liz was and the risk involved, but instead of just blurting it out she decided to take it slow ‘Let me get you a hospital’ she said walking up and putting an arm around Liz. ‘NO’ Liz screamed ‘I can’t go to the hospital, anywhere but there’.
‘Okay we can go where I’m staying,’ she said as she helped Liz into her car. ‘It’s to soon, it’s to soon’ Liz kept repeating to herself holding her stomach. Glancing at the redhead driving she kept thinking how is she going to get thru this, god she was having an alien’s baby what if he wasn’t normal how was she going to explain this.
As the girl helped her into the room the pain just kept getting worse. ‘Something’s wrong, I can feel it’ Liz started screaming. ‘Ok Liz, everything is going to be okay I am going to help you get thru this’. ‘How do you know my name’ Liz asked. The girl ignored her question and went to retrieve some supplies.
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The group was standing at the rock quarry, they were talking about the latest events, it seemed the skins were becoming more of a threat and they needed to start taking some action. ‘We can’t just sit here’ Michael protested.
“Michael we don’t even know where to look’ Isabel stated. ‘I say we find that blonde Michael worshipper and force it out of her’ Maria said. She was still pissed at him over the Courtney thing. She went over to her house out of fear of Michael when she found a picture of him in her locker.
When she got there Michael was already there and so was Courtney wearing nothing but a towel she was devastated. Michael explained to her what he was doing and that he found out she was a skin, but that still didn’t get him off for making out with her.
After that they had found a shrine of Michael in her apartment and discovered pictures taken of him at his apartment. They had been staking the place out ever since trying to find her.
‘She’s probably left town already’ Kyle said. ‘Please she’s in love with Michael, she hasn’t gone anywhere’. Maria said. All of a sudden Max grabbed his stomach and doubled over in pain falling to his knees. “What the hell’ Michael said running over to him.
Helping Max up ‘What the hell was that about’ he asked. Max still grabbing his stomach ‘I don’t know I just felt like I got kicked in the gut.’ bent over and sat down on the rocks feeling the pain come again he screamed ‘What is happening’.
‘Max’ Isabel screamed seeing her brother in pain ran over to him ‘what happened, why are you in so much pain’? Max tried to shake it off ‘I don’t know, I just keep getting this sharp pain in my stomach’.
As the pain hit him one more time, the lightening started dancing in the night sky and in the distance you could see a small symbol appear in the sky. Maria gasped when she looked up and saw it ‘Um, Guys; she said pointing to it ‘What is that?’
What they didn’t know that was at the same time, a smaller symbol was glowing brightly somewhere else.
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As she walked back into the room she made Liz lay down ‘It looks like this baby is coming tonight, I can help you I am going to look and see how far along you are’. Liz feeling completely helpless just closed her eyes and grinded her teeth as another contraction hit her.
‘OWW’ Liz screamed ‘It hurts to much, I can’t do this’. The girl checked her out and frowned she saw the reason why she was in so much pain. Well no way I can hide it now she thought to herself. Watching as Liz’s eyes got big when her hand went to her stomach ‘Liz the baby is backwards, I have to turn him around before I let you start pushing.’
She placed her hand on Liz’s stomach and closed her eyes she started concentrating, a small glow appearing underneath her hand. Liz started to freak out when she saw the glow ‘you are one of them aren’t you, who are you, get away from me.’ She started screaming as she pushed her hand away.
The girl looked at Liz ‘yes I am, its to long of a story to go into right now, but I am not going to hurt you I am here to help you’. Trying to fight the pain and the now freighting feeling that she was getting’ You came for my baby didn’t you’ she said screaming at her.
‘Liz, Liz please I can explain everything, but we need to get this baby delivered’. Feeling trapped by the fast coming contractions Liz had no choice but to let her help. Liz watched as the girl placed her hand back over her stomach and the glowing start up again.
After a few minutes the girl checked again, ok Liz I want you to wait for the contractions to start then push for two minutes. After several minutes of pushing ‘Ok I can see the head’ the girl said. ‘It will all be over soon Liz’.
‘AGHH’ Liz screamed while she bit her lip pushing. The room filled with light as her shoulder started to glow a bright blue. Liz didn’t really pay attention to as she gave one final push, after a few minutes she could hear the beautiful screams of her son. The girl cut the imbecile cord and wrapped up the little boy, walking over and handing him to his mother ‘Do you have a name for him’? She asked.
Liz sat up and laid the baby down undoing the blanket she took in every feature of him, tracing his little fingers and his little toes, noticing that he had a head full of dark brown hair already. She smiled and said ‘hello Alexander Maxwell Parker’.
‘He’s beautiful isn’t he’ Liz asked the girl. She took her hand out and wrapped her finger around his little ones ‘Yes he is’ leaning in she whispered ‘Hello Alexander, its nice to meet you I am Serena your protector’.
She's going to be a friend of yours one day Those words popped into Liz’s mind immediately when she heard that name. Looking up at redhead she couldn’t help but wonder if those words would hold true.
Chapter 3
‘What are you talking about, Protector?’ Liz questioned her as she pulled the baby closer to her. Serena sighed she knew she had a lot to explain but she knew that Liz needed some rest also.
She met Liz’s eyes ‘There is a lot to tell you, I promise to tell you everything but you need to rest first’.
‘No, I want to know now what does he need protection from’. Liz argued with her. ‘Well he is the heir’ Liz’s eyes got huge ‘How do you know that?’ she asked.
“ I know a lot, and I am here t o make sure the chosen one stays safe until the time is right’ Serena told her.
‘Chosen one? What the hell is he chosen for’ Liz continued to argue. Serina sighed ‘Liz please rest right now you just had a baby, I promise I will explain everything you are safe with me’.
Liz closed her eyes for a brief moment. ‘I cant I have to meet someone’ she said trying to stand up.
Serina pushed her back onto the bed ‘Rest, I will go get whoever it is and bring them back here’. Giving into defeat because her body would just not move.
Liz sighed ‘Okay you have to meet him here’ giving her the directions ‘His name is Pacey, and please he doesn’t know what’s going on don’t say anything to him’.
‘I wont tell him anything’ Serina said picking up her keys she walked out of the door. Liz pulled Alexander closer to her and watched him as he slept, placing him into the crook of her arm she closed her eyes and gave into the sleep.
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The seven of them stared up into the sky ‘What is that?’ Maria asked again. ‘Looks like the symbol that was on the orb we found last year’ Max said.
‘What does that mean, is another alien trying to make contact’ Alex asked. ‘I don’t know’ Isabel said starting to get worried ‘did you notice the sky right before the symbol appeared’.
‘No’ Michael said ‘We were kind of occupied’ pointing to Max, he turned and looked at Max ‘How are you feeling now’ he asked. Max shook his head ‘I feel fine now, I don’t know what happened’.
Looking at Isabel ‘The lightening in the sky looked like it was dancing’ she said. ‘Do you think there is a connection between Max getting the pain and the sky?’ Tess asked.
‘I don’t know’ Max answered ‘but whatever just happened we need to keep our eyes and ears open, that means everyone’.
Looking at everyone ‘I think it will be safer if none of us go anywhere alone, always make sure you have someone with you’.
‘We have to be prepared for whatever is about to happen’ Max said. Michael picked up a rock and threw it out over the quarry ‘Great we don’t even know what it is that we have to be prepared for’.
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Nicholas held his communicator in his hand walking into the room ‘Change of plans Nicholas’ he heard. ‘Khivar what is your orders’ he answered. ‘A symbol appeared in the sky tonight, it could only mean that a child of that stupid king was born, I want you to go to Roswell and invesgate it’.
“What about the Harvest’ Nicholas asked. ‘Take a few with you; report back to me on anything you find out, I want that child Nicholas’. Nicholas let out a sigh ‘Yes sir’ he said shutting the communicator off.
Walking out to tell the group he screamed ‘I hate this god forsaking planet’. Nicholas walked up to Greer ‘Stay here and keep an eye out on the Harvest, I will be back in a couple of days’ he turned and starting mumbling again about stupid humans.
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Serina pulled up into the parking lot of the café that Liz told her to meet Pacey at. Seeing that she still had a while to wait she slid into the booth and ordered a cup of coffee and a bottle of Tabasco sauce. The waitress just looked at her funny then turned to get her order.
Taking out her cell phone she dialed and waited. ‘Hello’ she heard on the other end. ‘It’s me Serina, its done the heir was born tonight do you have any information’. The voice on the other end answered ‘something is going on, Nicholas just ordered a few people to go with him to Roswell’.
Serina placed her forefinger and thumb between her eyes pinching her nose ‘Not good’ she said ‘make sure you are on that team that goes and keep me informed on what is going on, we can’t let Nicholas find the heir’.
“Why is she not with the King’ he asked. ‘I don’t know I’m working on it I don’t think she is going to come right out and tell me, call me as soon as you have something’ she said and hung up.
‘Anything else’ the waitress asked as she put her coffee down. ‘No thank you’ Serina said.
Serina sat there drumming her fingers on the table three cups of coffee and an hour later. She was getting anxious that this person hadn’t shown up yet. She heard the bell go off above the door and she noticed a brown hair gentlemen walk in.
She saw him glance around looking for someone, he met her eyes and she found herself staring back into the clearest blue eyes she had ever seen. She felt her heartbeat pick up some and quickly lowered her eyes.
She watched as he sat down at the counter and starting rotating back and forth in the chair scanning the café. That must be himhe thought and got up to walk towards him. She slid into the chair next to him saying ‘Hi’.
The redhead surprised Pacey; he couldn’t help but stare into her green eyes. Swallowing the lump in his throat he managed to get ‘hi’ out. Serina asked him smiling ‘You wouldn’t happen to be Pacey would you?’
Still starting at her he didn’t her ask ‘Do I have something on my face?’ Snapping back into reality he studderd ‘Yes, no-,’ Serina laughed out loud ‘Well which is it?’ Pacey feeling embarrassed now ‘I’m sorry, No you don’t have anything on your face and yes my name is Pacey’.
Extending her hand she said ‘I’m Serena, I am a friend of Liz’s she asked me to come get you’. Pacey’s smile got bigger ‘Well then by all means, take me away’ he said. Serina looked at him funny at first then just laughed ‘come on, lets go’.
Pacey let out a whistle pulling up to the house “Wow, nice house you live here?’ Serina laughed ‘No it belongs to a friend of mine who’s out of town’. Walking in the door he set his bags down by the door and took in the surroundings around him
Serina smiled “Come on I’ll take you to Liz she may be resting thou’. Serina let Pacey to the back room was Liz was and opened the door. Pacey looked and ran over to Liz ‘Liz oh my god I am so glad to see you’.
Liz held up her finger motioning to Alex sleeping beside her. Pacey looked at the baby then back at Liz ‘Sorry’ he said looking back at the baby again and once more at Liz ‘You have a baby?’ he asked. Liz nodded her head ‘This is Alexander’ she said.
Serina stood in the doorway watching the two friends unite when Liz looked up at her she held her gaze for a minute ‘I am going to just go to the store and get some things’ she said backing away. Pacey watched Serina leave then turned to Liz ‘So is this the reason you ran away?’
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