Helen (Roswelllostcause) - Good idea about how to get rid of Sean *thumbs up*
Concerning Alex and Liz; Liz's foundation has been severely rocked. She feels like she's been lied to her whole life. So she's a bit unsure if she can trust Alex right now. But don't worry; she'll probably come around. Good thing you got out of Crazy Town. I hope this next chapter won't pull you back in...
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Ashely (Morning Dreamgirl) - You are all very good at coming up with ideas on how to kill Sean
I wonder why that is... I can assure you that I'm no sadist
If I am, I'm like the most soft sadist ever (since my heart breaks when I accidentally run over bumblebees that suddenly appear in front of the lawn mower). I updated before your feedback this time; felt a bit bad about leaving it where I left it. Hopefully, a quicker update is okay
L-J-L 76 - What will Sean do next? Well... there's some (disturbing) clues in the next chapter
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Carolyn (keepsmiling7) - Liz will probably - in time - get over the fact that Alex has hidden a large part of his true self from her during their upbringing. Thank you for the feedback!
AlysLuv - Yeah.... BIG trouble
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Natalie36 - Thank you
Eve (begonia9508)
Liz should talk to her father and in secret, they should run away from Roswell! We all know how big the world is, so don't tell me that they can go to another place or country... But maybe, these damn aliens are everywhere...
It would be a great alternative, wouldn't it... But is it possible...? Or are the aliens everywhere, as you say? I love your confidence in Liz, but unfortunately Sean is strong, so... Thank you for the feedback!
Alien_Friend
I sure hope the title means what I think it means and it's not just a metaphor because I'll be sad if they can break their bond.
Don't lose hope just yet...
I feel for Max. His self esteem is clearly in the toilet rightly so considering all the things his peers, family, and species has done. But I think if he stops and really takes stock of Liz's feelings he would know they aren't just because of the bond. I get his fear and he doesn't want to use her and he wants to protect her. I respect it even. But like so many women before not getting the chance to, if he loves her he needs to be different and give her a choice whether or not to be with him.
Very true
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From TWENTY-EIGHT:
My heart fluttered with a touch of nervousness and without really having any justification as to why, I quickened my steps, pushed the door to the gymnasium open and let the emptiness of the vast room swallow me up.
Heartbeats were thumping wildly in my chest, the pulse strong against my temples, and I forced a nervous laugh out of me.
Don’t be ridiculous, Parker.
It was in the middle of the day, in a public high school - why should I be scared?
Then the door to the gymnasium opened behind me. I had managed to put about twenty feet between me and the door by then, and I swirled around to see who it was.
Cornflower blue glittering eyes accompanied the smirk on his lips as he let the door swing closed behind him. ”There you are.”
I stopped breathing and my biology book hit the floor with a heavy thud.
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TWENTY-NINE
”I almost get the feeling that you’re avoiding me,” Sean said, walking slowly towards me.
My steps were equally slow as I started to walk backwards, keeping my eyes on him. ”Just leave me alone, Sean.”
He grinned, putting his hands out in an expression of innocence. ”I’m just trying to understand what happened. I thought we had something good going.”
With your mind control, bending my thoughts and will?
The blood was rushing in my ears. ”It was just one date. I didn’t feel like we clicked.”
My legs trembled as I kept on walking backwards, him prowling towards me with matching slowness.
There was a frightening gleam in his eyes as he added, ”You didn’t give me a chance, Liz. I like you. I really do.”
”Sorry,” I mumbled, losing my voice. ”I just wasn’t feeling it. The chemistry.”
He laughed. Dry and humorless. I shuddered.
”Oh, Lizzie. There was chemistry. Trust me. I think…” he looked at something behind me and I resisted the urge to look over my shoulder. I wanted to keep him in my line of sight the whole time.
He looked back at me, finishing, ”…that someone else came in between us.”
Max.
My thoughts brushed against the hum at the back of my mind briefly, before my back slammed into the short side of the large room.
I gasped in surprise at the sudden stop, while watching Sean getting closer. He continued to walk at a leisurely pace, letting me know that he had all the time in the world. All the control in the world.
”And who would that be?” I challenged, proud of myself for managing to keep the trembles out of my voice.
”Oh,” Sean said, a large smile stretched across his lips, ”I think we both know who I’m talking about.”
He stopped two feet in front of me and I quickly glanced to my right, trying to estimate how far away the exit was; what the chances were of me getting there before Sean could reach out and grab me.
He grinned as he followed my look.
He’s enjoying this.
”I think,” he licked his lips and breached the space between us at the same time as I bolted to the right. But his arms were too long, or my legs were too much like jelly, because he easily grabbed my upper arm and tugged me harshly back against the wall.
He was panting as he pressed his body up against mine, trapping me between the wall and his body, his face only an inch from mine as he sneered, ”I think Max really has taken his chances with you.”
”Let me go, Sean,” I whispered, intending to sound strong but unable to produce more than a whisper.
Sean’s hands tightened around my arms and he slammed me once up against the wall, the back of my head impacting with the unyielding structure. I winced.
”I think you two have screwed,” he said, an easy smile on his lips but only coldness in his eyes.
He’s 100% alien. He’s hiding behind a human mask.
I squeezed my eyes shut, wishing him to go away like a bad dream.
He jostled me again, spitting, ”Look at me, Liz.”
I opened my eyes, almost expecting a real grey alien to look back at me (was that what he really looked like?), but those unnaturally blue eyes were still burrowing into my head. Had he chosen those blue eyes? Did he consider the chosen color of his eyes a pleasant human trait that would speak to the human female population?
”You’re scaring me, Sean,” I whispered.
He couldn’t know that I knew so much. He couldn’t know that I was anything else but a clueless human. Because Max wouldn’t tell.
Right?
His eyes turned dark, shifting into nuances of dark marine, as if he was angered by my weakness rather than sympathetic to it. ”Did he fuck you?”
I jumped as if he had struck me, because his hands were suddenly at my waist, his fingers curling into my abdomen.
I shook my head, answering honestly while looking him straight in the eyes, ”No.”
His eyes narrowed and I inhaled sharply as he pushed his hands underneath my shirt, sliding up the bare skin beneath, to cup the underside of my bra. ”He did something.”
”Get off me,” I whispered, my voice stronger now as survival and anger overrode my instinctive fear of aliens and what they could do to a insignificant human like me.
With my anger, the buzz in that small area of my mind increased, like someone was turning up the volume. I wanted to press my palms against my ears - as though it would stop the painful sound - but I didn’t want to give anything away in front of him.
”He’s in your mind. Where
I should be.” He cupped my breasts.
My arms came up and shoved at him, but I barely made an impact, only causing mirth to crinkle around his emotionless eyes.
Sean tsk’ed. ”Now now…” His fingers were slowly sliding inside the protective cups of my bra as he leaned in and placed a (uncharacteristically) soft kiss on my cheek. Pulling back, he looked into my frightened eyes, continuing, ”I wanted to do this the right way. Make you fall for me. Make you mine in every way possible. But that-” he took a deep breath ”-fucking Max Evans had to interfere.” His thumb brushed against my left nipple and my stomach cramped with nausea. ”So I just have to make this quick. Cause once I’ve change your-” he laughed and continued - as if his voice was making air quote signs ”-’mind’, you wouldn’t want some alternative like Max Evans.”
Through the buzz I heard a distinct voice. Worried and sharp.
Liz?!
Outside my mind, Sean pulled his hands away from my breasts, out of my shirt, pressed his hands into the my shoulders, rooting me in place, and pushed his mouth onto mine.
I struggled as his tongue tried to pry my lips open.
”Noo,” I mumbled through tightly squeezed lips and used every ounce of energy in my being to push against him.
Where are you?
The buzzing had stopped and Max’s voice was as clear as if he was standing next to me. I reacted the only way I could; I focused on pushing Max away, on denying his presence, while physically struggling against Sean whose hands were putting a painful pressure on my shoulders.
I couldn’t have Max in my head when this was happening. I couldn’t let him see me weak, vulnerable, and exposed while at the mercy of one from his own species. I couldn’t let him watch as I was being sexually assaulted.
There was a snap in my mind. Like a light switch clicking off. Instant coldness spread in my whole body and I was so perplexed by the sensation that for a second I lost focus on Sean and he forced his tongue into my mouth.
I gagged, kicked up with my knee, trying to hit something ’vital’. But he was standing too close, immobilizing me.
”Mmm,” he moaned and pulled back, a smile of delight on his lips, as if he had just tasted his favorite dessert, and my heart was thumping in my ears as I stared at him breathlessly.
By the time I saw the understanding dawn in his eyes by the small line forming above his nose, it was too late to avert my eyes.
”Ah,” he sighed satisfactorily as my body stopped cooperating. ”There we go.”
He’s in my mind. He’s in my mind. He’s in my mind.
”That wasn’t so hard, was it?” Sean mused with a bright smile. I would have shivered if I could.
Sean took a step back, put his head to the side in thought as he hungrily glanced down my body. My slow mind registered that he had let go of my eyes, but I was still trapped in his control.
His eyes locked with mine again and he reached out and took my hand in his.
”Let’s go some place more private,” he said with mock gentleness.
My legs greedily agreed, following easily after him.
While walking towards the side doors - leading to the locker rooms - I heard the door at the other end of the gym open.
I wanted to turn my head and look. But I couldn’t.
”Ha,” Sean mocked, giving a triumphant laugh. ”You’re a tiny bit too late, Evans.”
Even during the control Sean had over my body, my heart rate escalated as hope ignited in me.
Evans. It was either Max or Isabel.
I would gladly take either.
”You do know it’s not such a good idea to force yourself on girls, huh, Carter?”
Max. It was Max.
Sean shrugged, winking at me as if we shared an intimate joke. My body was motionless, stiff as a statue.
”I think I can win her over without force. Right, Liz?”
Sean looked away from me, in the direction of where I’d heard Max’s voice. ”Besides, you should learn to share, Evans. It’s not like you’ve married the girl or anything. You don’t really have any claim on her.”
”Neither do you, by the looks of it.” Max’s voice was controlled and even, and increasing in volume. I suspected he was slowly walking closer. ”She doesn’t necessarily strike me as a willing participant.”
I watched Sean’s eyes narrow as he looked at Max.
”Tell me, Sean,” Max continued. ”After you’ve gotten what you wanted, how do you plan on keeping this from her? It’s not really like you can go on erasing her mind. You know as well as I do what happens with too many memory wipes.”
Sean glanced at me, the hint of a smile on his lips. ”Eh… I guess I’ll just have fun as long as it lasts. There are more fish in the sea.”
”So you’d risk her life-”
Sean sighed impatiently. ”When are you going to learn, Evans? We’re the superior species here. We can do whatever we want - fuck the consequences.” He hitched his head towards my frozen shape. ”Just take Liz here. I was convinced that you had gotten to her first, but after just a little coaxing, a little one-on-one,” he wiggled his eyebrows meaningfully at Max, provoking him, ”not even
she could resist me.”
There was a pause, in which I had time to become afraid. Where was the comeback? Why wasn’t Max doing anything? Why wasn’t he tackling Sean to the ground or just pulling me out of his grip?
”You’re wrong, Sean,” Max said then, quietly. ”I
have made a claim on her.”
The smugness on Sean’s face fell.
”That’s why you haven’t been able to control her.”
Sean shook his head. ”No, no one has given you the right-”
”Has anyone given
you the right?” Max interrupted.
”My father is-”
”Yeah yeah,” Max brushed off. ”Your fucking dad’s in charge. That doesn’t mean that you don’t have to follow the rules like everyone else.”
The smug slowly crept back onto Sean’s face. ”No, but it means that I get first dibs. And this one,” Sean put a hand behind my neck and sharply pulled me into his body. I crumbled against him. ”This one is a keeper. I want this one.”
”You can’t break this claim,” Max said quietly and he sounded further away as Sean’s body was shielding me from him. I was basically hanging off his side, my body losing strength and energy by the second.
”I’m sure my dad would like to know what you did to her,” Sean mused. ”How did you
claim her, as you so conveniently calls it?”
Max responded with silence and I fought against the darkness that was weighing down on my eyelids. Whatever Sean was forcing me into doing, my body couldn’t take the strain much longer.
Then I heard Max sigh and he said, under his breath, ”Fine. Do whatever.”
Ice spread into every part of my body.
What?
To my horror, I heard footsteps retreating. Was he walking away?
Sean smiled at me. ”See? You’re better off without that loser. He’s a coward.”
But I wasn’t listening to him. I was listening to the sounds of my only hope growing weaker until I heard the opening of the door echo in the large hall and slam shut.
Sean tightened his arm around my waist and hauled my limp body up against his. His lips were cold as they brushed against my cheek with his whispered promise of, ”Now it’s just the two of us.”
TBC...
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Eh... *donning an innocent and slightly guilty expression* What would this story be without cliffhangers, huh?
