Author: Brittthedreamer
Couples: M/L, M/M, I/?, K/?, CC
Rating: Adult eventually
Disclaimer: I own nothing except the plot line. Any characters, places, etc. that you recognize belong to someone other than me!
Summary: 5 years ago (Departure), Max, Michael, Isabel and Tess left Earth, so that Tess and Max's child could be born. They left behind their true loves, best friends, and a secret that they didn't know about. Now they're back 5 years later, never thinking so much time had past. Liz, Maria and Kyle are in college, starting their senior year, and never realizing their life is going to change…again.
Author's Note: So I started this fic about 3 years ago and had the first five chapters posted here, and then I got ridiculously busy and it was deleted. However I have recently gotten back into the Roswell spirit so I figured I would try and rewrite this

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'My name is Liz Parker, and my senior year is finally starting. Maria and I are once again sharing a dorm room, though luckily we got one of the nicer ones this year because of seniority. Kyle was luckily able to get a single room this year after his last three room-mates. All worse than the previous one. Luckily for me Maria and I had been able to room together every year since we started New Mexico University, which was a blessing in itself because of my fluctuating powers and such. Yes, my arms tended to glow when I got upset or frustrated, and my visions were not exactly fun to deal with at first. However luckily I've learned how to control them so it's not as bad.'
Liz Parker sighed as she put her journal in her nightstand and then locked it. She had learned her lesson after her journal went missing all those years ago in Roswell and she always made sure it was hidden and or locked. As she stood up after locking her drawer her eyes fell on a collage of pictures that she and Maria had continued to move from dorm room to dorm room every year no matter where they lived. The pictures had never changed and they felt that it was the perfect way to honor their friends who were no longer with them. Every one of them, including Jim Valenti, Kyle's dad, was in at least one of the pictures.
The downside to the collage was that every time Liz looked at it, her heart broke a little more. The first picture in the collage was a picture of her and Max. Maria, Kyle and herself debated for weeks on what order to put the picture. Liz wanted to put the picture of Alex first, because she felt he deserved to come first. Kyle wanted to put the picture of Maria and Michael first because apparently they were the funniest couple ever. Maria wanted to put the picture of Max and Liz first because she wanted it as a reminder that true love never dies. Needless to say, Maria won that argument after one morning Liz woke up and the entire collage was done and hung up on the wall. She never had the heart to rearrange it.
The picture of herself and Max broke her heart for obvious reasons and a few not so obvious reasons. She missed him terribly, even now, 5 years later, she hadn't gotten over her first love. She compared everyone she met to him, even though she knew it wasn't fair. She had dated a few guys since she started college, but no one had ever stuck around because she couldn't open up to them. It was a running joke between her friends…she was the 23 year old virgin. Liz also wished that Max could have known who he really was with at the time. Kyle, Maria and herself hadn't found out that Tess had murdered Alex until after they had already left. They were too late and Liz never forgave herself for not seeing it sooner.
That brought her to her second heartbreak, Alex. Every time she looked at the picture of Alex and Isabel, she wanted to cry. He looked so happy at Prom with her and yet just a few short weeks later he was murdered. Murdered by someone they were supposed to trust…murdered by the woman who she gave up the love of her existence for. Every time she thought of Tess, her powers tended to fluctuate. She had been able to control her powers for the last 3 years, in every aspect of her life, except Tess. She knew that if she ever saw her again, though she knew that was nearly impossible, she would very willingly blast her to pieces. Unfortunately she knew realistically that it wasn't going to happen.
She tended to have nightmares about what was going on where their alien friends were. She never shared them with anyone, not even Maria, but she knew Maria knew she was having them because she would wake up calling out to Max in her sleep. Her best friend knew when not to pry, but she knew it worried her anyway.
Liz tended to dream about Tess and Max's son, whether or not he would look like Tess or Max. Who would he act like, would he be a good person or a cold hearted monster like his mother? She liked to think he would take after his father and be the kind hearted protector just like Max, but she had no way of knowing. She wondered sometimes whether or not they had gotten married again on Antar. She knew realistically they probably had, but she hoped that they hadn't. Max had told her before he left that he didn't love Tess like he loved her, but she still questioned what that meant. Once again, she had no way of knowing. She tended to question whether Tess and Max had any other children or just their son that was conceived here on Earth. She prayed every night that they didn't…but she couldn't berate them if they did. She was the one who had lied to Max about sleeping with Kyle…driving him to Tess. She knew that it was the right thing to do but it didn't hurt her any less to have done it.
The nightmare she tended to have all the time that caused her to cry out was that Max came back to Earth, with Tess on his arm, the blonde wearing a wedding ring and carrying two babies in her arms, while their 4 year old son stood next to Max. Liz tried to run to Max, to hug him, and he threw up a shield, telling her to stay away from his family. Liz would cry out that she loved him and missed him so much…and Max would laugh. Just laugh and say he hadn't thought about her once since the minute he drove away from the Crashdown after handing her a broken necklace.
The sound of Max's harsh laugh tended to be what woke her up, and more times than not when she had that dream, she wouldn't go back to sleep for fear of hearing that laugh again. Realistically she knew that Max wouldn't ever be that cruel to her. Even when he thought she had betrayed him, he wasn't cruel…he was too good of a person to be cruel. She thanked everything above that she knew the differences between her visions and regular dreams and nightmares, or else she would never leave her dorm room. It took her a while to see the difference, but she eventually had.
Liz shook her head and tried to clear her thoughts. She had to go grab dinner for her, Maria and Kyle before the two got back. Kyle said he needed a woman's opinion on a new couch or something, and since Maria had finished unpacking before Liz had, she was the lucky one who got to go pick out a couch for a guy's dorm room. As Liz walked out the door, she felt a weird tingling in her stomach, anticipation met with fear and she couldn't understand it. Her eyes widened slightly as she saw a vision of older looking Max, Isabel and Michael, stumbling out of ruble by themselves, looking very disheveled. She shook her head again, clearing her thoughts once again. She knew it wasn't a vision, and if it was, it was because of her desire to see them again. There was no way it could have been real.
Liz simply walked out of her dorm room, and shut the door…Never thinking that a few hours away in Roswell, New Mexico…3 aliens were looking for their lost friends…never knowing how much time had past.
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TBC! I have the first five chapters of this written out but after that I'm going to start rewriting it. I'd like to know that people will read it so give me some feedback to let me know that it's worth it!
