Roswell Fanatics

OOC: Cool video I like the art too

Zan

"How, Serena...h-how c-an I help you...? H-how does the mirror fix the broken pieces...?" Liz asked Serena, understandably with a stammer in her voice.

Ava quickly explained to her snippets of what Aeidon had told us before and then went on to demonstrating how she thought Liz could form a connection with Serena. “. . . Then just try and meet her eyes. After that it’s up to you. It’s time to wake up Liz.”

"Serena, will you let me try and help...?" Liz asked, and I was grateful that she used a gentle tone of voice, though I guessed that she was probably like that by nature anyway.

The guy who'd just showed up, what's-his-name, offered some smartass thoughts, to which I paid no attention. And I should have, because everything counted. But for the moment, I was concentrating on Liz and Serena. Everything was in Liz's hands now . . .

"What do you say...shall we try...?"

I was taken aback by Serena's response. “Mirror is broken too,” she said, placing a hand over Liz’s heart. For once, she seemed to be focusing her full concentration on something.

“No, ‘Rena, Liz isn’t broken, you are, and she can help you," Ava tried to make it clearer for her, but Serena's words, unintelligible as they often seemed, usually held meaning beneath the surface. And it was all of us who needed to understand her. This couldn't be good.

“Mirror’s not ready yet! Not whole!” Serena shrieked before pulling away.

Ava gave me a helpless look and I covered my eyes with a hand momentarily, wishing I could vent my frustration. I had been so hopeful . . . I should have learned by now to never be so hopeful. When I took my hand off, I turned my attention Liz once more.

"I think . . . I think Serena's got the idea that you aren't . . . that you're not entirely at peace with, I don't know, yourself maybe," I said, throwing my guesses out. "That maybe - I'm not certain myself - maybe you're hurt. In some way. And if you're hurt, you can't be ready to offer her help."

But if my guess was right, then that meant that we had to fix Liz before we could fix Serena. Another pothole in the road, another dastardly complication.

*Max*

She's broken? I can't imagine what that means and I look to Zan for an explanation, too. Maybe Serena's wrong on this one. It doesn't make sense, unless she just means Liz isn't whole because she doesn't have her powers yet.

"I think . . . I think Serena's got the idea that you aren't . . . that you're not entirely at peace with, I don't know, yourself maybe, that maybe - I'm not certain myself - maybe you're hurt. In some way. And if you're hurt, you can't be ready to offer her help," Zan suggests.

I ball my fists together at that, offering Kyle a glare that could melt steel if it were made physical. He's the one with her now. Did he sleep with her and then dump her? Something worse? If he's done something to hurt her, I would LOVE to exact punishment or revenge on him although I'm not sure I would ever actually do it. I have to stay in control but that's hard to do when Liz is involved. If he actually hurt her...

With an effort, I open my hands and try to relax my muscles. This isn't the time for that, but I will find out if he did something. That's a promise I make to myself.

"Maybe it just means she's not whole because she doesn't have her powers," I suggest. I throw it out just to be sure, but I haven't let go of the idea that this is Kyle's doing. "Is there a way she should activate them?"

OOC: Kat, I can't see the pic. But maybe it's just my computer.

Zan

Max's suggestion made sense. It was possible that Serena meant that Liz wasn't whole because of her lack of powers, but the thing that irked me was that Serena referred to herself as broken as well, and so her meaning would probably similar.

What did Serena mean when she called herself broken? Was she referring to her mental state? Or physically, in terms of being plagued - in a sense - by sudden possession of power? Or emotionally . . .?

"Is there a way she should activate them?" Max asked.

I shook my head. "Not that I know of," I answered, crossing my arms over my chest again just so they didn't have to hang awkwardly. "Serena's powers got 'activated' when she became the way she is now. Or rather, she became this way because her powers got activated."

Whenever we came to the subject of Serena's condition, especially the beginning of it, I always felt like kicking myself. I knew that I might have to tell Max about it at some point, for Serena's sake- but I couldn't announce it to the rest.

*Max*

My eyes go wide in alarm when Zan says that Serena became 'broken' like this because of her powers or her powers made her 'broken.' Either way, I'm afraid for Liz. right now, she's safe and she is 'whole,' in spite of Serena's claims. What if fixing Serena damages Liz?

It sounds foolish. Afterall, when I heal other people, it doesn't make me injured. Still, I have to ask it. "This won't hurt Liz, will it? If she's able to 'fix' Serena and gets her powers, too, will it affect her?" I look from Zan to Ava and back, waiting for an answer.

I'm sure Serena is a perfectly lovely girl, but I don't want to lose Liz. I can't. I know I've already lost her but I couldn't ever bear to see her 'broken' like Serena. I don't even want to imagine what Zan must be feeling. I don't suppose he loves her the way I love Liz, but I can see that he cares for her. Still, as much as I sympathize with him, I don't want to risk Liz's safety and sanity. I haven't forgotten about Kyle, but this comes first...


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Gorgeous Kat Truly!

Michael

"I'll do just about anything to help you forget. How can I put your mind at ease." she asks, batting her eyelashes like some chick in a cheesy movie.

I grin at her again, "Well, you're creative, I'm sure you can think of something." While she reacts, I lean down, kissing her again.

*Maria*

He kisses me and caution is completely thrown into the wind. Why is it that no one effects me like he does? I can be standing in a large crowd and all he has to do is look at me and instantly we are alone.
I cherish this connection we have. I just hope it goes both ways.

"When your around. I pretty much have a one track mind."

Oh my gosh. Did I really just say that. It sounded moxy even to me.

Alex ((sorry this has been so long coming))

I had a question for Liz, so I walked to the crashdown to see if she was there. Her father said she'd gone to the UFO center,; naturally, I made my way there. "Hey, Liz, your dad said you were down her-" I said, walking down the steps to the exhibit. There were two sets of the podsquad there, and a girl that looked unaturally like Liz.

"Um Liz, what is going on?"

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Serena

Darkness, she could feel the dark soul just getting closer and closer while the others spoke of things they couldn’t understand, and their was no way for her to make them understand. He was here, she could feel his dark soul slowly honing in on their location. He’s been watching them for some time, watching and waiting, he interfered once and he thought it would be enough to destroy the dynamics if their group, but now he knows better.

She felt their fear, but they feared the wrong thing, for he was coming and he brought death. They weren’t strong enough to defeat him. They weren’t in the last life and they aren’t now, but there was still hope. She could run away and hide and leave them to their foredooming deaths, she had tried, several times to just leave them, but something always brought her back.

But now they were running out of time, she was running out of time. Everyday she fought to stay on the edge of sanity. It’s like her mind was fighting for two different things. Her alien side wanted to take over Serena and destroy her, it wasn’t supposed to be like that, Serena and Enyanna were just supposed to mesh, not collide and fight over complete dominance.

One thing held her together, a man, a man she had loved as both Enyanna and Serena. He was the thread that was holding the pieces together, but she wondered how much longer she could do this, she was tired of fighting, but she would do it, for him, to see him through Serena’s eyes once again, not the old Serena but the one that would be created when Serena and Enya meshed as one being, the way it was supposed to be.

The mirror had to be fixed, that was the only way. The mirror lies too much, her love, has to see that she’s been lying to him. But how? She had been lying to him for this long, can she keep it up? The mirror is just as stubborn as the king. She’ll never tell, unless he see’s for himself by forming a connection and she won’t let him do that.

So there’s only one way for him to see. But they will be mad, but it has to be done, they were running out of time. It needs to be precise, a spot where it will be fatal but she won’t die instantly so he’ll have time to form a healing connection.

Serena slipped the letter opener out of her hiding spot while the others were talking. Both King’s are going to be mad but then hopefully they’ll see and the mirror’s first step to be whole will have began.

Serena whispered, “I’m sorry” as she gripped her weapon tightly as she plunged it deep inside of Liz’s stomach....

*Tess*

I listen to Max and Zan talk but have nothing to say. I stand near Max but my mind is somewhere else entirely. If Liz is Max's second and Nasedo knew why didn't he tell us. I watch Liz get up and go over to Serena asking her what she could do to help and Serena starts going on about a broken mirror or something.

Unfortunately my attention is drawn away from them as Alex appears and comes down the steps towards us and stops in surprise when he sees our Dupes and Serena."Hey, Liz, your dad said you were down her-" Alex says and then trails off.

"Um Liz, what is going on?"

I move towards them ready ro explain to Alex what's going on when I notice Serena move and it sounds like she says sorry just before she plungs something into Liz's stomach. I can see the surprise on Liz's face and the horror on Alex's."Max." I cry, moving forward quickly but making sure to stay out of Serena's line of fire

OOC: Kat, that's lovely!! Hope you make more And Athenea-- I really didn't see that coming

Zan

"This won't hurt Liz, will it? If she's able to 'fix' Serena and gets her powers, too, will it affect her?" Max asked, understandably concerned.

I cracked my knuckles as I thought for a moment. It shouldn't hurt Liz. But then, I didn't know for sure. None of us knew anything for sure, did we? Except maybe Serena, who couldn't tell us. Honestly, even though I was set on helping Serena regain her sanity, I didn't want it to be at the cost of that of Liz's.

"It shouldn't," I answered slowly, trying to sound more confident than I felt. At that moment, another boy came in- he was one of them, so I ignored his entrance and went on. "We just need to pull Serena out of her shell. I think her powers are too much to bear because she carries it all, for them both, and -"

Before I could finish, I heard Serena whisper, "I'm sorry." A sudden gleam passed before my eyes and I could do nothing when, to my horror, she attacked Liz with the weapon.

"No!" I screamed almost at the same moment as when Tess cried Max's name. I leapt forward to pull Serena away. But it was too late. Frantically, I tore her away from Liz and, as I did, saw a sight that looked so familiar. September '99 . . . Serena . . . shot . . . dying . . .

My first thought was to heal Liz, but did I have any right? I had said that it shouldn't hurt Liz- now Serena had ruined it. Max would know what to do- he'd healed her before.

Furious, I cast my gaze down on the weapon still embedded in Liz's stomach. "Where did she get that?" I demanded of Ava angrily, though I knew well that Serena was always wandering about on her own and could easily have picked it up anywhere. Why hadn't we been more careful?

I continued to restrain Serena so that Max had space to do his thing, gripping her arms tightly so that she wouldn't be able to pry her way out. I was tempted to let Serena sleep again, to get her out of the way, but she had been telling us everything in her twisted words . . . we had been so close . . . this close to bringing her back . . .

Did she even know that she was destroying her chances?

I held her by the arms with greater force and, without bothering to keep the anger and frustration out of my voice, asked her, "Why did you do that, Serena?"