#69
I came up with this idea listening to the song "We Used to Be Friends", the ever-famous Veronica Mars theme song. This is an AU With Aliens, and I'm pretty sure this is the right thread to post it in (looks around nervously).
The basic concept of the plot is that Jeff and Nancy Parker are famous scientists who have one eight-year-old daughter named Liz. Nasado and Tess live in the same neighborhood as them because Nasado sees the Parker's work in the field of molecular biology as potentially dangerous and compromising to the alien's wellbeing and is worried that the FBI might approach them at some point. Tess is badly neglected by him, and never allowed out of the house to play or meet other children. One day while Nasado is out following Liz's parents, however, Liz sneaks away from her baby-sitter and finds the equally devious Tess playing in her backyard. The two girls develop a fast friendship, one where Tess uses her powers without hesitation and Liz readily agrees to keep the secret. Nasado's fears prove founded, however, when the FBI approaches the Parkers with an offer of lab space and research funding that they can't refuse at the mere price of overseeing the further review of the findings gleaned back in the 40's when the other three shapeshifters were tortured and killed at the Special Unit's hands. Nasado waits until evening a few weeks later and then breaks into the Parker's house, killing them and setting fire to the house. Tess, who has been sneaking out of the house to visit Liz at night, is there when it happens, and when Nasado moves to Liz's bedroom intent on "finishing the job" she orders him not to kill Liz - and because of his biological imperative, he has no choice but to obey. Because the order will be in effect until Tess gives him permission to kill Liz, Nasado realizes that his only choice is to bring her with them.
Liz and Tess grow up together, and Nasado's iron vice and subtle minipulations give them both the impression that Liz is of lower class than Tess, which to his dismay doesn't seem to faze Tess a bit and only strengthens Liz's gratitude and loyalty to Tess for saving her life. Over the years Liz emerges as the smarter of the two and Tess is considered the prettier, more social one. They don't let anyone in, and although Liz is painfully shy and Tess is brazen and seductive in public, when the guards come down Tess is actually the calmer and more lighthearted of the two while Liz is sassy, serious-minded, and has a dominant personality almost equal to Tess's so that they continue to balance each other out.
Tess has grown up hearing about her "destiny" and so has Liz, and although Liz views it as ridiculous she doesn't question it and encourages Tess be ready for an immediate relationship with her mystery king, the only player mentioned in Nasado's drawn-out stories about her home planet.
Whenever Tess isn't around to protect Liz, Nasado uses the opportunity to threaten and abuse her - be it verbally, physically, or otherwise. It is the only secret between the two girls, because Liz believe that Nasado is the only one capable of protecting Tess and is worried about what would happen to him if she told Tess the truth.
After years of searching for the other three podsters, Nasado discovers their location in Roswell -- Liz's birthplace and previous home. When they move there, they cause quite a commotion: the sheriff is suspicious, school player Kyle Valenti can't believe his luck, Maria DeLuca is tickled pink to have her childhood bestfriend back in state and confused by Liz's "adoptive family", and although Max, Michael, and Isabel all feel an uncomfortable pull to Tess, they're wary of her and put off by her "sister", who Isabel and Michael made a point of bullying after Liz got too close to the three hybrids back in second grade. Liz is surprised and disgusted by the news that
Max is the one who's supposed to be Tess's prince charming, and although Tess couldn't be happier with the news, she soon realizes that she's not the sister Max has his eye on.
Requirements:
- The core eight (Isabel, Kyle, Michael, Max, Tess, Liz, Maria, and Alex) must somehow be brought together; how Maria, Kyle, and Alex are let in on the secret is the author's choice.
- Couples must be CC.
- Liz and the three Roswell aliens must be extremely wary of each other.
- Tess and Liz have to have a best friends/sisterly relationship. Basically, Tess is NOT evil and Liz is neither the self-centered little brat or superhuman savior of the aliens, the two roles that writers seem to put her in when Tess is on the good side.
- Nasado must meet a gruesome and horrible end (well, this isn't a requirement, really, but you're certainly free to take the idea and run with it
).