Roswell Fanatics

Alexander

“It was a lie, Xan. Liz discovered the truth and Tess confirmed it when I confronted her,” Dad said, his lips reducing to a thin line for an instant. What truth? What was the lie?

“She’d killed a friend of ours while getting the information we needed to get home to Antar, and she would have killed me, too. She told me that there was a deal made with Khivar to deliver the Granolith to him, along with my unborn child, and the royal four. My sister and Michael and I would be killed, and she would raise my child to be Khivar’s puppet.”

Our mother killed a friend? Who . . .? Why had they kept it a secret for so long? The more he explained, the more questions seemed to come into my head. Why was he making her up to seem . . . like a ruthless murderer, a traitor? Was it because of Mom?

“I had to let her go with you because she’d mind-warped me into believing that you couldn’t survive on Earth. It was the hardest thing I’d ever done and I’d tried for a year to find a way to follow you here, to save you, but in the end, Tess came back and brought Xan to me. She said Khivar was going to kill him but she never mentioned you, Xadalyn.”

She had been with me, taken care of me, for a year? I had been on Antar- for a year? I was too young to remember anything, but I wished I could. When we were babies, Xadalyn and I- we had been together. Apart from my father's absence, we had been a family.

But what had happened in that one year? Had there been happiness at all?

“I’m just glad that in the end, she decided to protect you and work against Khivar instead,” my father finished.

I could feel my sister tense, and I gave her hand a reassuring squeeze. She was upset, surely. And then, just as I was about to open my mouth, I saw Kyria leaving. I sighed. The girl was really difficult.

Then again, girls were always difficult.

I was certain that there was a very different side to our mother, and I wanted to know about that part of her. Somehow, I felt that the woman Xadalyn knew as her mom was not the same woman who betrayed my father.

*Max*

I stop briefly, waiting for Xan or Xadalyn to respond. It was true that I'd left out the smaller details, but I'm sure I included all of the pertinent aspects of the story, as I knew it.

I notice that Xan looks away, his eyes following Kyria as she gets up and leaves the immediate area. Her apparent lack of interest is puzzling. I suppose the story doesn't affect her directly, although she is Xadalyn's second. I'm sure Michael would be showing more interest than that if he were here. Still, I really can't bother to be worried about Kyria's behavior. I'm far more interested in my children and what they are thinking and feeling.

I'm anxious to ask my own questions about Tess and about the Granolith, which I'm sure is now back in the right hands, but first I need to sort out the children. I'm sure they must have a lot of questions that I need to answer first.

OOC: I’m sorry I haven’t been posting this week, I’ve taken on more hours at work and its been hard to find time to post. Hopefully it will die down next week…hope this works.

~Xadalyn~

I sit quietly as my father tells us of his and my mother’s past. On the outside I look completely calm but on the inside I’m screaming inside. The fact that my mother killed someone doesn’t surprise me, she killed many of Khivar’s men in order to protect me, but the thing about her being a traitor I just can’t accept that.

“I’m just glad that in the end, she decided to protect you and work against Khivar instead.” he says and I tense and Xan knows because he gives my hand a reassuring squeeze.

“My mother would never have made any kind of deal with Khivar. We spent half my life running from him, she hated him with a passion. By the time she took the throne he was in hiding or she would have had him executed despite the political difficulties it would have cost Antar. But Khivar wasn’t caught until after she died so she never got a chance. I don’t believe you.”

OOC - Awww.... It's a shame Xadalyn didn't remember what Khivar himself had told her. She remembered the lies about Max well enough. *sigh* Oh well.
And, if Kyria really does know this whole story already, now would be a GREAT time for her to come and confirm what Max had said....


*Max*

I shake my head, gently. Xadalyn's resistance isn't unexpected. Tess had turned against Khivar before bringing Xan to me, even if she wasn't truthful about WHY she'd done that. But Xadalyn had only known that other Tess, the one working against Khivar.

"I'm sorry, Xadalyn," I tell her gently. "I know this can't be easy for you to hear, but it's true. Tess told me herself. Our Protector had become a traitor. Tess claimed that he had been the one to make the deal with Khivar before any of us were reborn on Earth. I don't know what he was promised or why Tess had decided to go through with it even after Nacedo died."

There are so many questions I've had about this over the years. Did Nacedo separate Tess from us on purpose so it would be easier for her to turn on us? Would she still have gone through with it if I had actually fallen in love with her? She and Nacedo and Khivar are all gone now, so I will probably never know the answers...

"You were both born here in this palace while Khivar ruled on his stolen throne. He and your mother were allies at the time. But when Tess returned with Xan, she'd already turned against Khivar, so I'm sure that's what you remember of her and I'm glad about that. I think she must have decided she loved the two of you more than she hated me. Although she still didn't tell me the whole truth, even then."

.

Alexander

Xadalyn's denial was only natural. Wasn't I skeptical? This was the girl who had spent half her life with our mother- of course she didn't believe it.

Or didn't want to believe it.

"I know this can't be easy for you to hear, but it's true. Tess told me herself. Our Protector had become a traitor. Tess claimed that he had been the one to make the deal with Khivar before any of us were reborn on Earth. I don't know what he was promised or why Tess had decided to go through with it even after Nacedo died."

So our mother hadn't been the only one- this protector of theirs had been in on it too. But why did she betray them still, after his death? The picture my father was painting of our mother was getting dirtier and dirtier. Could she really be the woman I had seen in the hologram Xadalyn had showed me?

I put my free hand in my pocket and felt the small compact disc still there . . .

"You were both born here in this palace while Khivar ruled on his stolen throne. He and your mother were allies at the time. But when Tess returned with Xan, she'd already turned against Khivar, so I'm sure that's what you remember of her and I'm glad about that. I think she must have decided she loved the two of you more than she hated me. Although she still didn't tell me the whole truth, even then."

. . . she must have decided she loved the two of you more than she hated me . . .

Had she really loved me as well? She had had the heart to give me up, after all. But still . . . there was no answer to that one- that was one question my father couldn't answer for me.

The manner in which my father spoke made it clear that, though he didn't want us to have anything against her, he still held a certain grudge.

Well, duh, Xan, if you were betrayed by your meant-to-be wife, you wouldn't be too happy about it, would you?

Betrayed. Dad had said that she'd killed a friend. I wanted to know who. Well, I most probably wouldn't know the person, since it had happened before I was born. But maybe they had mentioned this friend before.

"Who did she kill, Dad?" I asked. "What was the incident that made you realise that she was . . ." I looked at my sister, knowing that she was upset. ". . . the incident that made you believe that she had betrayed you?"

Too much had been kept secret for too long. It was time for the truth to be revealed- all of it.

OOC - sure. Makes sense to me.


*Max*

At Alexander's question, I have to look over at Liz. As much as Alex was important to me, he was closer to my sister and to Liz. He'd known Liz since they were toddlers, almost. I squeeze her hand again, rubbing it gently, knowing that it's not going to be easy for her to hear this, either.

"Alex," I tell him, but then realize what I'm saying is ambiguous, as that's his name, too. "We've talked about him. Alex Whitman was a friend of your mother's -- Liz, I mean, -- since they were both pre-schoolers. He'd been very close to my sister, too. Tess had him using his computer skills to help decode the Granolith and then mind-warped him into forgetting what he'd done. She killed him and then --" I stop myself, not sure if I should say more, but I can see that Alexander wants to know all of it. " --she mindwarped Justin's dad into helping her cover it up."

She'd killed other people, too. Enemies like the skins and even Lonnie and Rath. She was protecting all of us then. Or at least, we thought so. But using our friend and then killing him wasn't the same at all...

Sometimes I wonder if she ever even cared if I loved her or not. Whether it would have made any difference to her... Maybe she only wanted that as a means to get a child from me. I don't know if the rest ever mattered to her.

OOC: Athenea- I like it! And I love that song

Alexander

Alex Whitman. I knew that name. I recalled a conversation I had had with my aunt, Dad's sister.

"First crush, huh?"

"Yeah."

"Is she pretty?"

"OH yeah."

"The first guy I ever considered being serious with was . . . well, his name was Alex Whitman. He was the first nice, decent guy who ever liked me . . ."

"What happened?"

"Well, obviously things . . . didn't work out."

So this was why Aunt Isabel had looked so . . . sad then. This guy had been killed by a person she trusted. And Justin's father, Mr. Valenti, he had been involved as well. Why had our mother gone to such terrible lengths? Had she no conscience?

I didn't know what to think. It was hard to believe that that vivacious woman in the hologram had been so . . . ruthless, so cruel. And yet, would my dutiful by-the-book father ever lie?

I leant back in my seat, closing my eyes and rubbing my temple. "This . . ." I began, shaking my head. ". . . all of this - it's just so . . . crazy, almost too much to take in."

I had always wanted to have alien powers, just like my parents and Sarah. Now, my wish had come true, and more. I now had a twin sister and I was on a strange planet. I'd just met a beautiful but really withdrawn alien girl. And . . . it just seemed too much for me to handle at one go.

And what about Xadalyn? She had just listened to a load of Mom-bashing. Obviously, she wasn't going to sing and laugh about it.

~*~Sarah~*~

"But this can't be true either......I mean, I've seen things that can't happen and things that aren't looking normal..." Justin said.

oh poor Justin he was pulled into this situation without know what is going on. "I'm sorry Justin this may be hard to believe but its true. This planet is not earth that we born born on. This planet is call Antar, the planet my father ruled. Eveyrthing here is alot different than earth."

I look at his expression carefully wondering if he freak out, I know if I was on earth I wouldnt even be telling him. But the fact I'm telling now is different. I dont know if were ever going back home. or if were ever going to see justin again. I know this all comes to a shock to him, after all he's only a baby.

I hear my mother voice inviting me to the library for a family meet, but I'm in middle of explain ther to Justin. And beside this meeting probably has nothing to do with me.

"Justin I'm telling you all this because you have the right to know. And like I said about this planet I too have powers as well. But there not a blessing, more like a curse if ask me."

Kyria

I got bored with my book and decided to join the family again, though I was still sticking to my policy of 'not getting involved and staying in the background.'

I walked over to where they were all sitting and nodded at my guard to let him know that he was excused. I then pulled up a chair and sat down.

I tried to listen to what the family was saying but all I seemed to hear most the time was 'blah, blah, blah'..... all this was stuff I basically already knew. My thoughts were drifted to Earth. What it was like there, what a life there would be like....

~Xadalyn~

He tells us about the person my mother killed and other things she told me come to mind.
"This. . . all of this - it's just so . . . crazy, almost too much to take in." Xansays but I keep my emotions in check.

“She warned me not to use the mind warp on humans, that there minds were to weak to support it and if used over an extensive amount of time the mind would break. She said she learned that the hard way, I guess that’s what she was talking about.” I say

“But I still don’t believe she would make a deal with Khivar. Prove it to us.” I tell him, “Let us connect with you and show us.”

Now when you connect mentally with another person the flashes can’t be a lie and it’s a good way to experience what happened for yourself. But when you connect it leaves your mind and memories vulnerable to the other person. On Antar it’s the ultimate symbol of trust to let someone ‘see’ you.

Even though Max is my father, I’m not so sure I want to connect, but I do need to know what happened. And if that means letting him in then so be it.