Re: Special Unit mature CC pg 7 ch 10 Mar 29 '09
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Chapter 11
The “Businessman’s Café,” where she had lunched with Isabel, was a good place for her to meet Max. Maria said that she should have her afternoon free and Liz was prepared to spend the rest of the day, if it was necessary, talking to him.
Liz gave her name to the host at the door, “I am looking for Max Evans or maybe, Maria DeLuca.”
She was guided to a corner where only one man was seated. Of Maria, there was no sign. Max stood up, “Miss Parker, It is so good of you to see me.”
“Isn’t Maria joining us?” Liz asked.
His amber eyes held her attention as he said, “No, we decided that the two of us needed to work out several things. Maria felt that she would be a distraction.”
The waitress came up and took their order. Liz had a chicken salad and iced tea. She saw that Max had a simple chicken sandwich and he only had lemon water.
Max paid for the meal when it was delivered. “This way we can stay here as long as we want and they won’t bother us, again,” he said.
Liz started, “Max, you and Isabel were the children found in the desert, weren’t you?”
Max nodded. Liz was trying read his eyes, but there was something in them that she couldn’t decipher.
“Max, do you have any memory about what happened before that time?” Liz queried.
“No, there was nothing before we met mom and dad Evans for us to remember,” he answered.
“You mean your mind is blank as to what happened before you met them don’t you?” Liz asked again.
“No, I mean there was nothing to remember before that time. Our lives had started just before they found us,” Max explained.
This line of questioning wasn’t going as smoothly as Liz had hoped. She tried one more time. “Max, is there any chance that your family had met aliens out on the desert and the trauma of this makes you not remember what happened? Is there any chance that somewhere out on the desert, there is a community of aliens still living?” Liz asked.
Max was almost weary as he answered, “Liz Parker, there are no aliens out on the desert. They left many years ago, even before Isabel and I emerged.” Then, it was Max’s turn. “Liz, do you remember the third grade?”
Liz nodded her head. She couldn’t, yet, see what he was getting at.
Max continued, “You were the first person I really saw when I got down from the school bus that morning. Isabel was busy making new friends and you were surrounded by old friends, I wanted so much to come up to you and say, ‘My name is Max. We will be friends for a long time.’ Of course, I didn’t and you never saw me.”
Liz caught a sadness in his voice. It must be a holdover from what he felt since she had never noticed him. “Max, children at that age live in convenient little boxes. Unless there is some reason to open those boxes, they do not see what is around them. I am sure, if you had come up to me, I would have seen you as a friend,” Liz explained.
“Maybe, true, but I had only started to talk to anyone outside of my family. That would have been too big a step for me to make. I did try to look out for you,” Max stated.
“Look out for me! How? Liz exclaimed then she remembered the bike accident. “Oh, you mean the accident when I fell off my bike.”
“Among other things. Your arm was broken. You were so scared of me when I came up, that I almost ran away. I just couldn’t see you in pain. Isabel was angry at me for doing that. Later so was Tess. She has not stopped telling me how dangerous it was for you to see what I could do,” Max told Liz.
“Do! Max, what did you do?” Liz exclaimed.
“You see, Liz, I have the ability to heal living beings. It is something that I have always been able to do. Isabel always told me that I must never let anyone know. When I saw you crying with a broken arm, I just couldn’t stand it. I straightened the arm and healed it. Then, I had no idea of how I did these things. They just happened,” Max was so matter of fact as he explained to Liz.
Liz frowned, “For what other things did you look out for me?”
“Well, there was a time when you fell when we were playing soccer in Physical Education class. We were on mixed teams. That big kid hit you as you were going for the ball. You fell and hurt your knees. I helped you up and you didn’t notice, I had my hand on your knee. The grass stains covered the silver cadmium X and you never knew. Then, there was that night you were mad at Kyle. You were so intense that it caused me to wake up. I didn’t know what had happened to you. I only knew that you were very upset. You had an hour walk across a rough part of town. I followed you to make sure you were safe,” Max told her.
“Then, there was that shooting at the Crashdown,” Liz said.
“Yes, the shooting; that is where Maria discovered us,” Max stated.
“Discovered you! What was there to discover?” Liz exclaimed.
Max looked a little saddened. “I am sorry, Liz. I thought you had figured it out by now. We are the Roswell aliens; the ones, who with your help, Kyle and his boss are going to destroy.”
Liz leaned back. This conversation had taken a turn she hadn’t expected. She had begun to have doubts as to what Kyle’s intentions were with her research. Now, it was plainly stated. Liz was affecting Maria and Alex along with the aliens. Liz was endangering all of them. She had some serious thinking to do, but first, she had a question. “How did Maria discover you?”
“When we need to, we can move very fast. This is not like walking or running. We just move. When the shot was fired, you were in line with the bullets path. I knocked you down. I was sorry the minute, I did it because I believed I caused you pain. Then, I was thinking that if I hadn’t knocked you over, you might have been killed. From where Maria was standing, she saw me wink out, her words not mine. Then I appeared on the other side of the room. Then, she saw me wink out again, and return. She demanded an explanation after that.” Max was watching Liz as he related to her the events that had occurred many years ago.
“Why didn’t you tell me?” Liz asked.
“The rest were having a lot of trouble accepting Maria. It wasn’t until she hooked up with Michael, that they relented. Michael and Maria found that they had many things in common including volatile tempers. Michael, with Maria was a lot easier to get along with. Sometime after that, Isabel introduced Alex into the group. Michael and Tess were furious. We all decided not to introduce any more humans. Tess and I were having some problems and it just didn’t look like a good idea to distract you from your studies to enter what was, for a time, a true alien abyss.” Max wished he could have said these things years ago.
“Max, I wasn’t even noticing you. Why didn’t you, in some way get together with someone else? Like, this Tess. I assume she was or is an alien, also,” Liz asked.
“Liz it wasn’t Tess I saw that morning getting off the bus. It wasn’t Tess that I cared for those many years. If I couldn’t have you, I didn’t want anyone,” Max stated.
Liz had come to this lunch date to learn things for her research. She had imagined that Maria would be there to help her. The whole conversation had become, not just about aliens, but about Liz’s own life when she was in high school. Now, she had another worry. Max had said, ‘We are the Roswell aliens, the ones, who with your help, Kyle and his boss are going to destroy.” Liz couldn’t imagine doing anything deliberately to hurt Maria and Alex. Here she was turning their lovers in, to the FBI. Liz had her doubts, not about Kyle, he was only interested in new skirts to chase, but in whoever his boss was. Max had just stated that this mysterious boss was out to destroy the aliens. Liz, knowing how some scientific research would be conducted, could well imagine how they would be destroyed, dissected and studied.
Max stood, and extended his hand. “Liz, let’s take a ride. It can get depressing to talk of some things inside a room.”
Kyle walked up to the bar. He ordered a beer and a corned beef sandwich. He had intended to spend a quiet lunch with Parker and then, turn on the charm. When he was in high school, she was just too inexperienced. He had gone too fast and her father had taken things too seriously. Those “Tico’s Tacos” had surely gotten boring those years Kyle was forbidden from entering the Crashdown. She had probably been a virgin at that time. Now that they were both in their late twenties, Kyle was sure she had been made several time. No big deal. They would just have a little diversion together. Oh well, there was still more time later. Now Kyle was thinking about Evelyn tomorrow night. If he played things right he would be with Evelyn the whole weekend.
As Kyle was sitting, eating his corned beef and sipping his beer, he felt a presence. “Hi there,” she said
Sitting on the bar stool was a small blonde, blue eyed lady. She wasn’t much bigger than Parker. “Hi yourself,” Kyle responded.
“By the way you are eating that sandwich, somebody just got away,” she remarked.
“What do you mean?” Kyle asked.
“Well, buy me a wine cooler and I will tell you,” she responded.
Kyle laughed. He motioned to the bartender, “Give the lady a wine cooler, please.” Then, Kyle turned to the lady, “My name is Kyle. Now teach me to read men.”
“My name is Tess and I would have thought you would have said, ‘Teach me to read women.’”
Kyle laughed again, “Naw, I want something I can do. No one can read women, not even other women.”
Tess smiled, “You would be surprised what I can do. Look how you are eating that sandwich. Most men just eat with no plan or forethought. You are carefully taking each bite. Now, you don’t look like an engineer or a banker; someone who is very precise in what they do. I take you for a woman’s man. You think about women most of the time. You are concerned about something now, so, someone must have gotten away.”
Kyle chuckled, “You may be full of bullshit, but in this case you are right. I was going to take my assistant out to lunch. I hoped it would turn into dinner and then, we could have a blissful evening. No boss, no assistant, just lovers savoring the evening.”
“There is tomorrow night,” Tess said.
Kyle shook his head. “No, tomorrow is reserved for a lady who I am really getting to know.”
“Oh, a bad boy, Kyle, cheating on the lady you want to get to know better, with your assistant,” Tess remarked.
“What can I say? My assistant was an old girl friend in high school and I scared her off. I just want to make up my score. The lady I want to know better, may have something for a long time,” Kyle explained.
“Tess looked at Kyle, “And, what do you have to offer that would make two women want you so badly?”
Kyle straightened his shoulders, “Experience,” he answered.
“Ah, experience. Experience is good if you learn from experience, but if you just keep repeating the same mistakes over and over, then experience is less than worthless. In fact, if you do not learn, you get the false confidence that experience has made you a better man. Seems to me, that you scared her off in high school and she has given you the slip, again. That doesn’t seem like learning anything.” Tess was very matter of fact and what she said was worrying Kyle. Tess stood up. She finished her wine cooler and with her manicured fingers she ran them through his hair. If you weren’t so occupied this weekend, I would try to test your experience and see if you were capable of learning.” With that, Tess was gone.
Kyle went through three more beers that afternoon. He was thinking that Parker had given him the slip, again. Pierce was scaring Kyle a lot. Evelyn was going to be a handful this weekend, but she would make the time worth it.
destinyc
begonia9508
squishypunk
mary mary
keepsmiling7
Chapter 11
The “Businessman’s Café,” where she had lunched with Isabel, was a good place for her to meet Max. Maria said that she should have her afternoon free and Liz was prepared to spend the rest of the day, if it was necessary, talking to him.
Liz gave her name to the host at the door, “I am looking for Max Evans or maybe, Maria DeLuca.”
She was guided to a corner where only one man was seated. Of Maria, there was no sign. Max stood up, “Miss Parker, It is so good of you to see me.”
“Isn’t Maria joining us?” Liz asked.
His amber eyes held her attention as he said, “No, we decided that the two of us needed to work out several things. Maria felt that she would be a distraction.”
The waitress came up and took their order. Liz had a chicken salad and iced tea. She saw that Max had a simple chicken sandwich and he only had lemon water.
Max paid for the meal when it was delivered. “This way we can stay here as long as we want and they won’t bother us, again,” he said.
Liz started, “Max, you and Isabel were the children found in the desert, weren’t you?”
Max nodded. Liz was trying read his eyes, but there was something in them that she couldn’t decipher.
“Max, do you have any memory about what happened before that time?” Liz queried.
“No, there was nothing before we met mom and dad Evans for us to remember,” he answered.
“You mean your mind is blank as to what happened before you met them don’t you?” Liz asked again.
“No, I mean there was nothing to remember before that time. Our lives had started just before they found us,” Max explained.
This line of questioning wasn’t going as smoothly as Liz had hoped. She tried one more time. “Max, is there any chance that your family had met aliens out on the desert and the trauma of this makes you not remember what happened? Is there any chance that somewhere out on the desert, there is a community of aliens still living?” Liz asked.
Max was almost weary as he answered, “Liz Parker, there are no aliens out on the desert. They left many years ago, even before Isabel and I emerged.” Then, it was Max’s turn. “Liz, do you remember the third grade?”
Liz nodded her head. She couldn’t, yet, see what he was getting at.
Max continued, “You were the first person I really saw when I got down from the school bus that morning. Isabel was busy making new friends and you were surrounded by old friends, I wanted so much to come up to you and say, ‘My name is Max. We will be friends for a long time.’ Of course, I didn’t and you never saw me.”
Liz caught a sadness in his voice. It must be a holdover from what he felt since she had never noticed him. “Max, children at that age live in convenient little boxes. Unless there is some reason to open those boxes, they do not see what is around them. I am sure, if you had come up to me, I would have seen you as a friend,” Liz explained.
“Maybe, true, but I had only started to talk to anyone outside of my family. That would have been too big a step for me to make. I did try to look out for you,” Max stated.
“Look out for me! How? Liz exclaimed then she remembered the bike accident. “Oh, you mean the accident when I fell off my bike.”
“Among other things. Your arm was broken. You were so scared of me when I came up, that I almost ran away. I just couldn’t see you in pain. Isabel was angry at me for doing that. Later so was Tess. She has not stopped telling me how dangerous it was for you to see what I could do,” Max told Liz.
“Do! Max, what did you do?” Liz exclaimed.
“You see, Liz, I have the ability to heal living beings. It is something that I have always been able to do. Isabel always told me that I must never let anyone know. When I saw you crying with a broken arm, I just couldn’t stand it. I straightened the arm and healed it. Then, I had no idea of how I did these things. They just happened,” Max was so matter of fact as he explained to Liz.
Liz frowned, “For what other things did you look out for me?”
“Well, there was a time when you fell when we were playing soccer in Physical Education class. We were on mixed teams. That big kid hit you as you were going for the ball. You fell and hurt your knees. I helped you up and you didn’t notice, I had my hand on your knee. The grass stains covered the silver cadmium X and you never knew. Then, there was that night you were mad at Kyle. You were so intense that it caused me to wake up. I didn’t know what had happened to you. I only knew that you were very upset. You had an hour walk across a rough part of town. I followed you to make sure you were safe,” Max told her.
“Then, there was that shooting at the Crashdown,” Liz said.
“Yes, the shooting; that is where Maria discovered us,” Max stated.
“Discovered you! What was there to discover?” Liz exclaimed.
Max looked a little saddened. “I am sorry, Liz. I thought you had figured it out by now. We are the Roswell aliens; the ones, who with your help, Kyle and his boss are going to destroy.”
Liz leaned back. This conversation had taken a turn she hadn’t expected. She had begun to have doubts as to what Kyle’s intentions were with her research. Now, it was plainly stated. Liz was affecting Maria and Alex along with the aliens. Liz was endangering all of them. She had some serious thinking to do, but first, she had a question. “How did Maria discover you?”
“When we need to, we can move very fast. This is not like walking or running. We just move. When the shot was fired, you were in line with the bullets path. I knocked you down. I was sorry the minute, I did it because I believed I caused you pain. Then, I was thinking that if I hadn’t knocked you over, you might have been killed. From where Maria was standing, she saw me wink out, her words not mine. Then I appeared on the other side of the room. Then, she saw me wink out again, and return. She demanded an explanation after that.” Max was watching Liz as he related to her the events that had occurred many years ago.
“Why didn’t you tell me?” Liz asked.
“The rest were having a lot of trouble accepting Maria. It wasn’t until she hooked up with Michael, that they relented. Michael and Maria found that they had many things in common including volatile tempers. Michael, with Maria was a lot easier to get along with. Sometime after that, Isabel introduced Alex into the group. Michael and Tess were furious. We all decided not to introduce any more humans. Tess and I were having some problems and it just didn’t look like a good idea to distract you from your studies to enter what was, for a time, a true alien abyss.” Max wished he could have said these things years ago.
“Max, I wasn’t even noticing you. Why didn’t you, in some way get together with someone else? Like, this Tess. I assume she was or is an alien, also,” Liz asked.
“Liz it wasn’t Tess I saw that morning getting off the bus. It wasn’t Tess that I cared for those many years. If I couldn’t have you, I didn’t want anyone,” Max stated.
Liz had come to this lunch date to learn things for her research. She had imagined that Maria would be there to help her. The whole conversation had become, not just about aliens, but about Liz’s own life when she was in high school. Now, she had another worry. Max had said, ‘We are the Roswell aliens, the ones, who with your help, Kyle and his boss are going to destroy.” Liz couldn’t imagine doing anything deliberately to hurt Maria and Alex. Here she was turning their lovers in, to the FBI. Liz had her doubts, not about Kyle, he was only interested in new skirts to chase, but in whoever his boss was. Max had just stated that this mysterious boss was out to destroy the aliens. Liz, knowing how some scientific research would be conducted, could well imagine how they would be destroyed, dissected and studied.
Max stood, and extended his hand. “Liz, let’s take a ride. It can get depressing to talk of some things inside a room.”
Kyle walked up to the bar. He ordered a beer and a corned beef sandwich. He had intended to spend a quiet lunch with Parker and then, turn on the charm. When he was in high school, she was just too inexperienced. He had gone too fast and her father had taken things too seriously. Those “Tico’s Tacos” had surely gotten boring those years Kyle was forbidden from entering the Crashdown. She had probably been a virgin at that time. Now that they were both in their late twenties, Kyle was sure she had been made several time. No big deal. They would just have a little diversion together. Oh well, there was still more time later. Now Kyle was thinking about Evelyn tomorrow night. If he played things right he would be with Evelyn the whole weekend.
As Kyle was sitting, eating his corned beef and sipping his beer, he felt a presence. “Hi there,” she said
Sitting on the bar stool was a small blonde, blue eyed lady. She wasn’t much bigger than Parker. “Hi yourself,” Kyle responded.
“By the way you are eating that sandwich, somebody just got away,” she remarked.
“What do you mean?” Kyle asked.
“Well, buy me a wine cooler and I will tell you,” she responded.
Kyle laughed. He motioned to the bartender, “Give the lady a wine cooler, please.” Then, Kyle turned to the lady, “My name is Kyle. Now teach me to read men.”
“My name is Tess and I would have thought you would have said, ‘Teach me to read women.’”
Kyle laughed again, “Naw, I want something I can do. No one can read women, not even other women.”
Tess smiled, “You would be surprised what I can do. Look how you are eating that sandwich. Most men just eat with no plan or forethought. You are carefully taking each bite. Now, you don’t look like an engineer or a banker; someone who is very precise in what they do. I take you for a woman’s man. You think about women most of the time. You are concerned about something now, so, someone must have gotten away.”
Kyle chuckled, “You may be full of bullshit, but in this case you are right. I was going to take my assistant out to lunch. I hoped it would turn into dinner and then, we could have a blissful evening. No boss, no assistant, just lovers savoring the evening.”
“There is tomorrow night,” Tess said.
Kyle shook his head. “No, tomorrow is reserved for a lady who I am really getting to know.”
“Oh, a bad boy, Kyle, cheating on the lady you want to get to know better, with your assistant,” Tess remarked.
“What can I say? My assistant was an old girl friend in high school and I scared her off. I just want to make up my score. The lady I want to know better, may have something for a long time,” Kyle explained.
“Tess looked at Kyle, “And, what do you have to offer that would make two women want you so badly?”
Kyle straightened his shoulders, “Experience,” he answered.
“Ah, experience. Experience is good if you learn from experience, but if you just keep repeating the same mistakes over and over, then experience is less than worthless. In fact, if you do not learn, you get the false confidence that experience has made you a better man. Seems to me, that you scared her off in high school and she has given you the slip, again. That doesn’t seem like learning anything.” Tess was very matter of fact and what she said was worrying Kyle. Tess stood up. She finished her wine cooler and with her manicured fingers she ran them through his hair. If you weren’t so occupied this weekend, I would try to test your experience and see if you were capable of learning.” With that, Tess was gone.
Kyle went through three more beers that afternoon. He was thinking that Parker had given him the slip, again. Pierce was scaring Kyle a lot. Evelyn was going to be a handful this weekend, but she would make the time worth it.