Re: Arriving (CC, M/L, ALL, MATURE) Ch 10 12/7 pg 8
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 2:33 pm
A/N Thanks for all the feedback, everyone, esp. about my Candy parts. I wasn't sure if I could write Michael and Maria well, so thanks for letting me know it came out ok.
Ok, I know I left a bit of a cliffhanger with the next part, and I'm sorry to say, this part follows the same pattern, but we will find out what happened in Chapter 12. Of course, there will be more questions to answer as well.
Chapter 11-Stop, Rewind, Replay
Without a thought, Liz’s hand immediately flew back to the same pocket where she had shoved the two objects several hours ago. She had totally forgotten about them until now. She fumbled around, searching for the two pieces, and her eyes opened widely when her fingers came in contact with the contents of her pocket. Her mind struggled to comprehend the discovery her fingers told. She grabbed a hold of the string and slowly pulled the pendant from her pocket, still shining dimly in the dark room, but now completely whole and in one piece!
“Oh my God, Max!! I don’t understand. It’s fixed!!! I had the broken piece in my pocket as well as the necklace and now it’s one piece!” Liz was incredulous as she examined the necklace, running her fingers over the spot where the two parts had been broken apart. It was seamless. There was no sign that it had ever been fractured before.
Max ran his fingers over the surface as well, as he also examined the pendant. “Where in the world did you get the other piece, Liz?”
“I . . . I had the other piece from a long time ago. Do you remember when Eddie told me that River Dog wanted to talk to me and we went out to the reservation? Well, he brought the broken piece to show me that River Dog knew about the necklace. I, um, I guess I should have given it to you, but I wanted to keep it. I wanted something of yours to keep.” Liz’s voice was soft and wistful as she thought back to that time in their relationship when she wanted to be with him, but he was still telling her it wasn’t safe.
Max’s chest tightened slightly, as he received the feelings that Liz felt from reliving that memory. He gently brushed the pad of his thumb across her cheek, as he realized how much she loved him, even then. “It’s Ok, Liz. I understand how you felt.” Liz smiled back at him and Max returned his attention to the pendant.
“So, you put the broken piece and the necklace in your pocket earlier, and then it somehow fixed itself? Do you think the pieces just needed to be placed together and then the necklace fused back together on its own?” he speculated.
Liz shook her head. “No, that wasn’t it. I played with the two pieces before I ever put them in my pocket. I pieced them back together, wondering why or how it was broken in the first place. I didn’t notice any change at all when I did that. It must have been something else.”
Max thought back to the events that transpired in Liz’s room that morning. Something nagged at the back of his mind. Something that happened earlier. Something that had to do with Liz. As his eyes looked over Liz’s body, they stopped at her delicate hips. He remembered how they felt, pressed up against him, and suddenly it hit him. He had felt something earlier, and now he realized what it was. He had fixed the necklace, or the necklace used his powers to fix itself.
“Liz! It was in your back pocket this whole time?” The pieces of the puzzle suddenly fell into place. Max decided a physical demonstration was in order. He wrapped his hands around Liz’s hips, pulling her tight against him. His large hands wrapped all the way around her small hips and around the fullness of her bottom, covering the area of her back pocket. Liz gasped out loud at the sudden moment and the feel of Max as she was pulled against him. Max tightened painfully against his jeans the moment Liz came in contact with him, and he couldn’t help but bend his knees a little and push up against her slightly as his hips soared uncontrollably. However, the motion had the desired effect as Liz immediately thought back to the same incident in her room earlier. Max saw the recognition in her eyes, and he slowly stroked his fingers over her butt, caressing the area where the necklace had lain. Just as before, Liz’s hands unconsciously followed Max’s and she rested her hands over his, the cord of the necklace still between her fingers.
“Max!! Do you really think that’s what happened? That you somehow fixed it earlier without knowing it?”
“Well, I know I felt something strange, and it wasn’t just the things your body was doing to mine.”
Liz blushed slightly, but her gaze never wavered from Max’s.
Max smiled down at Liz. “I felt something go out of me, but at the time, I didn’t pay much attention to it. My mind was busy trying to keep myself from tearing your clothes off and devouring you. But, now I’m sure that it was a release of my power. I felt it. We were generating a lot of energy together. I think that might have triggered something, and we fixed the necklace without really trying to.”
Liz bit her lip at the mention of that moment in her bed earlier that morning. That action pulled Max’s attention away from everything else, and he just had to lean in and kiss her. As soon as their mouths met, they both got a flash. But, this flash was different. The vision was crisper and clearer than anything they had experienced so far. It was like all their previous flashes had been watched through a dirty lens that had now been wiped clean.
They saw themselves standing in the UFO Center earlier that day, in almost exactly the same position that they were standing in now. They were surrounded by an aura of colors that was so beautiful, that it was breathtaking. They watched as they both saw for the first time, the green glow that emanated from Max’s eyes as his gaze commanded the information from the others. The vision zoomed in on Max and Liz’s entwined hands resting on Liz’s hips, and they both saw the faint glow coming from beneath their hands.
During the vision, Max and Liz continued to kiss. As the vision faded, Liz and Max broke apart and stared at each other in awe of what had just happened.
“Wow!! That was different.”
“You saw it, too. Us in the UFO center earlier?”
“Yeah. I did. We the saw same thing,” Max replied.
“But, that’s never happened before. We always used to see something different in the flashes.”
“And that’s not all. Did you see . . . how everything was so much clearer and more focused . .”
“ . . . and did you see those colors surrounding us? What was that, Max?”
“I’m not sure. But if that’s what the new and improved flashes are going to be like, then sign me up for some more.”
“Did that flash come from the pendant?” Liz asked.
Max raised Liz’s hand, which still held the now glowing necklace. “I think so. It must have some power of its own. The flash showed it was glowing when I used my power on the others.”
“Max? Do you think the necklace might somehow amplify your powers? Maybe you can use it to generate a flash. You know, like you were touching me just now, we saw a flash of when you touched me like that before and also what was happening then. Maybe using the necklace, you can touch something in here, someplace where Tess was, and force a flash that might tell you what really happened that night.”
“Well. It’s worth a try.” Max looked around, searching for something to touch to trigger a flash. He spied the area of the floor where he remembered waking up, naked, lying next to Tess. He took Liz’s hand in his and walked over there. Liz handed the pendant to Max, and he reached out to take it. “I’m going to try this alone first, to see if it works, but if it does, I want to do it again with you, so you can see, too. Unless you think it might be too hard. I don’t want to hurt you Liz.”
Liz swallowed hard. “Go ahead and try, Max. If it does work and you get the answers you need, you can tell me about it first, but then I want to see it for myself. I’ll never be able to get past this, Max, if I don’t.”
Max nodded as he understood and then took the pendant in his hand and knelt down on the ground, in exactly the same spot where he had woken up that morning. He gripped the pendant tightly as he concentrated, hoping to trigger a flash. He closed his eyes and the pendant began to glow faintly. He reached out with his other hand to touch the surface of the floor where he had lain. He was rewarded with a flash, but they were his regular semi-focused flashes again. Several images flickered across his mind; a janitor sweeping the floor, a group of kids on tour of the Observatory, a young man, a old woman, a mother, a father, all of them walking past this section of floor, but nothing about him and Tess. He concentrated harder and was rewarded with an image of himself waking up naked, then looking down to see Tess lying on top of him, but that was it. Nothing else. No images of what happened before that came to his mind.
He opened up his eyes and stood up. Liz was looking at him anxiously. “Did it work? Did you see anything?”
“Yeah, but it wasn’t the same kind of flash as earlier. It was just like my old flashes were. I saw people passing by this area, probably everyone in the last week. And I saw myself and Tess waking up that morning, but nothing before that. Damn!! I was really hoping this would work!” Max looked down at the pendant in exasperation, wondering why his experiment didn’t work.
“Max, don’t give up. We can try something else. If you can’t do it on your own, maybe if Michael and Isabel were here too, it would help. We can come back later and try it again. We got this far on our own. At least we know your memory was tampered with. Those visions of duality you saw. Whatever happened, Tess was mindwarping you, controlling you.”
Max looked at Liz and then back down at the pendant. “You’re right. But, I was hoping to get the answers I needed today. I want to move on, to get past this, so I can be with you,” Max lifted his eyes to meet Liz’s, “with nothing standing between us,” he finished. “Until then, I want you to wear this. I’ve wanted you to have this ever since I first put it on you that day you came for it.”
Max brought his hand around to hold the string of the necklace. He carefully spread the cord and placed it around Liz’s neck, almost as reverently as if he were placing a crown on her head. Max looked at Liz as this action felt exactly right—that this was exactly where this necklace belonged, where it wanted to be.
Just like that day so many months ago, Max leaned his head forward to touch foreheads with Liz. He reached down with his left hand to link fingers with her hand and touched the smooth surface of the pendant with the forefinger of his right hand. The necklace was resting directly between Liz’s breasts, and watching the moment of his finger across the surface of the pendant was exciting to them both.
“Soon Liz. Soon we’ll have the answers we need to continue what we started in your bedroom earlier. When I find out the truth about that night,” Max looked directly into Liz’s eyes as their connection heated up, “then I’ll. . .”
Liz never knew what Max was about to say, because just at that moment, the necklace began to glow brightly, and they were both captivated by an explosive flash that they were helpless to resist.
Ok, I know I left a bit of a cliffhanger with the next part, and I'm sorry to say, this part follows the same pattern, but we will find out what happened in Chapter 12. Of course, there will be more questions to answer as well.
Chapter 11-Stop, Rewind, Replay
Without a thought, Liz’s hand immediately flew back to the same pocket where she had shoved the two objects several hours ago. She had totally forgotten about them until now. She fumbled around, searching for the two pieces, and her eyes opened widely when her fingers came in contact with the contents of her pocket. Her mind struggled to comprehend the discovery her fingers told. She grabbed a hold of the string and slowly pulled the pendant from her pocket, still shining dimly in the dark room, but now completely whole and in one piece!
“Oh my God, Max!! I don’t understand. It’s fixed!!! I had the broken piece in my pocket as well as the necklace and now it’s one piece!” Liz was incredulous as she examined the necklace, running her fingers over the spot where the two parts had been broken apart. It was seamless. There was no sign that it had ever been fractured before.
Max ran his fingers over the surface as well, as he also examined the pendant. “Where in the world did you get the other piece, Liz?”
“I . . . I had the other piece from a long time ago. Do you remember when Eddie told me that River Dog wanted to talk to me and we went out to the reservation? Well, he brought the broken piece to show me that River Dog knew about the necklace. I, um, I guess I should have given it to you, but I wanted to keep it. I wanted something of yours to keep.” Liz’s voice was soft and wistful as she thought back to that time in their relationship when she wanted to be with him, but he was still telling her it wasn’t safe.
Max’s chest tightened slightly, as he received the feelings that Liz felt from reliving that memory. He gently brushed the pad of his thumb across her cheek, as he realized how much she loved him, even then. “It’s Ok, Liz. I understand how you felt.” Liz smiled back at him and Max returned his attention to the pendant.
“So, you put the broken piece and the necklace in your pocket earlier, and then it somehow fixed itself? Do you think the pieces just needed to be placed together and then the necklace fused back together on its own?” he speculated.
Liz shook her head. “No, that wasn’t it. I played with the two pieces before I ever put them in my pocket. I pieced them back together, wondering why or how it was broken in the first place. I didn’t notice any change at all when I did that. It must have been something else.”
Max thought back to the events that transpired in Liz’s room that morning. Something nagged at the back of his mind. Something that happened earlier. Something that had to do with Liz. As his eyes looked over Liz’s body, they stopped at her delicate hips. He remembered how they felt, pressed up against him, and suddenly it hit him. He had felt something earlier, and now he realized what it was. He had fixed the necklace, or the necklace used his powers to fix itself.
“Liz! It was in your back pocket this whole time?” The pieces of the puzzle suddenly fell into place. Max decided a physical demonstration was in order. He wrapped his hands around Liz’s hips, pulling her tight against him. His large hands wrapped all the way around her small hips and around the fullness of her bottom, covering the area of her back pocket. Liz gasped out loud at the sudden moment and the feel of Max as she was pulled against him. Max tightened painfully against his jeans the moment Liz came in contact with him, and he couldn’t help but bend his knees a little and push up against her slightly as his hips soared uncontrollably. However, the motion had the desired effect as Liz immediately thought back to the same incident in her room earlier. Max saw the recognition in her eyes, and he slowly stroked his fingers over her butt, caressing the area where the necklace had lain. Just as before, Liz’s hands unconsciously followed Max’s and she rested her hands over his, the cord of the necklace still between her fingers.
“Max!! Do you really think that’s what happened? That you somehow fixed it earlier without knowing it?”
“Well, I know I felt something strange, and it wasn’t just the things your body was doing to mine.”
Liz blushed slightly, but her gaze never wavered from Max’s.
Max smiled down at Liz. “I felt something go out of me, but at the time, I didn’t pay much attention to it. My mind was busy trying to keep myself from tearing your clothes off and devouring you. But, now I’m sure that it was a release of my power. I felt it. We were generating a lot of energy together. I think that might have triggered something, and we fixed the necklace without really trying to.”
Liz bit her lip at the mention of that moment in her bed earlier that morning. That action pulled Max’s attention away from everything else, and he just had to lean in and kiss her. As soon as their mouths met, they both got a flash. But, this flash was different. The vision was crisper and clearer than anything they had experienced so far. It was like all their previous flashes had been watched through a dirty lens that had now been wiped clean.
They saw themselves standing in the UFO Center earlier that day, in almost exactly the same position that they were standing in now. They were surrounded by an aura of colors that was so beautiful, that it was breathtaking. They watched as they both saw for the first time, the green glow that emanated from Max’s eyes as his gaze commanded the information from the others. The vision zoomed in on Max and Liz’s entwined hands resting on Liz’s hips, and they both saw the faint glow coming from beneath their hands.
During the vision, Max and Liz continued to kiss. As the vision faded, Liz and Max broke apart and stared at each other in awe of what had just happened.
“Wow!! That was different.”
“You saw it, too. Us in the UFO center earlier?”
“Yeah. I did. We the saw same thing,” Max replied.
“But, that’s never happened before. We always used to see something different in the flashes.”
“And that’s not all. Did you see . . . how everything was so much clearer and more focused . .”
“ . . . and did you see those colors surrounding us? What was that, Max?”
“I’m not sure. But if that’s what the new and improved flashes are going to be like, then sign me up for some more.”
“Did that flash come from the pendant?” Liz asked.
Max raised Liz’s hand, which still held the now glowing necklace. “I think so. It must have some power of its own. The flash showed it was glowing when I used my power on the others.”
“Max? Do you think the necklace might somehow amplify your powers? Maybe you can use it to generate a flash. You know, like you were touching me just now, we saw a flash of when you touched me like that before and also what was happening then. Maybe using the necklace, you can touch something in here, someplace where Tess was, and force a flash that might tell you what really happened that night.”
“Well. It’s worth a try.” Max looked around, searching for something to touch to trigger a flash. He spied the area of the floor where he remembered waking up, naked, lying next to Tess. He took Liz’s hand in his and walked over there. Liz handed the pendant to Max, and he reached out to take it. “I’m going to try this alone first, to see if it works, but if it does, I want to do it again with you, so you can see, too. Unless you think it might be too hard. I don’t want to hurt you Liz.”
Liz swallowed hard. “Go ahead and try, Max. If it does work and you get the answers you need, you can tell me about it first, but then I want to see it for myself. I’ll never be able to get past this, Max, if I don’t.”
Max nodded as he understood and then took the pendant in his hand and knelt down on the ground, in exactly the same spot where he had woken up that morning. He gripped the pendant tightly as he concentrated, hoping to trigger a flash. He closed his eyes and the pendant began to glow faintly. He reached out with his other hand to touch the surface of the floor where he had lain. He was rewarded with a flash, but they were his regular semi-focused flashes again. Several images flickered across his mind; a janitor sweeping the floor, a group of kids on tour of the Observatory, a young man, a old woman, a mother, a father, all of them walking past this section of floor, but nothing about him and Tess. He concentrated harder and was rewarded with an image of himself waking up naked, then looking down to see Tess lying on top of him, but that was it. Nothing else. No images of what happened before that came to his mind.
He opened up his eyes and stood up. Liz was looking at him anxiously. “Did it work? Did you see anything?”
“Yeah, but it wasn’t the same kind of flash as earlier. It was just like my old flashes were. I saw people passing by this area, probably everyone in the last week. And I saw myself and Tess waking up that morning, but nothing before that. Damn!! I was really hoping this would work!” Max looked down at the pendant in exasperation, wondering why his experiment didn’t work.
“Max, don’t give up. We can try something else. If you can’t do it on your own, maybe if Michael and Isabel were here too, it would help. We can come back later and try it again. We got this far on our own. At least we know your memory was tampered with. Those visions of duality you saw. Whatever happened, Tess was mindwarping you, controlling you.”
Max looked at Liz and then back down at the pendant. “You’re right. But, I was hoping to get the answers I needed today. I want to move on, to get past this, so I can be with you,” Max lifted his eyes to meet Liz’s, “with nothing standing between us,” he finished. “Until then, I want you to wear this. I’ve wanted you to have this ever since I first put it on you that day you came for it.”
Max brought his hand around to hold the string of the necklace. He carefully spread the cord and placed it around Liz’s neck, almost as reverently as if he were placing a crown on her head. Max looked at Liz as this action felt exactly right—that this was exactly where this necklace belonged, where it wanted to be.
Just like that day so many months ago, Max leaned his head forward to touch foreheads with Liz. He reached down with his left hand to link fingers with her hand and touched the smooth surface of the pendant with the forefinger of his right hand. The necklace was resting directly between Liz’s breasts, and watching the moment of his finger across the surface of the pendant was exciting to them both.
“Soon Liz. Soon we’ll have the answers we need to continue what we started in your bedroom earlier. When I find out the truth about that night,” Max looked directly into Liz’s eyes as their connection heated up, “then I’ll. . .”
Liz never knew what Max was about to say, because just at that moment, the necklace began to glow brightly, and they were both captivated by an explosive flash that they were helpless to resist.