Roswell Next Generation (ADULT/UC/CC) Thread #1

[magikhands]

*Erik*

I shake my head. I can't seem to shake this burining sensation rushing through my body. My hand is still shifting colors as if it can't seem to take on its original hue. Then I notice it spreading further up my arm, nearly to my elbow.

"Shit." I whimper completely terrified with what's happening.

I look at Christina and see that she's noticed it as well. Her eyes are wide and filled with concern but she doesn't seem scared, not of me anyway.

"This has never happened before. I've felt ..." I start but then stop. I've never told anyone about the strange things that happen sometimes and the way Sabrina and I communicate silently to each other. She'll probably think I'm nuts.

[Fehr'sBear]

Christina

I watch his face change to one of fear as the color changing phenomenon spreads, and I feel for him.

"This has never happened before. I've felt ..." Erik says, and I wonder why he's trailed off. In my head I think about the can again, and a few other moments stick out, times when something I've been looking for ends up at the ground near my feet, or the time the remote control went across the table when I didn't feel like getting up.

"Strange things...have been happening to me too." I say quietly, rubbing his arm comfortingly, wishing it would stop what was happening to him.

[magikhands]

*Erik*

I look at her confused. Why would she think that strange things are happening to me? Ok, maybe my skin is doing some funky color changing thing, but that didn't mean...yeah, well yes it does. I don't know how many times in the past couple of years that I'll touch something and it will change colors or shape. Only after intense concentration and a little freak out will it return to normal. I haven't told anyone, not even my sister. But then, I know she's hiding something from me also.

I feel Christina's hand rub my arm and it seems as if it's easing the pain, like her touch is drawing it from me. It's slow but still I feel a difference in the level of pain. I let out a sigh of relief. With my other hand, I reach out and let it lay lightly on her leg in thankful gesture.

"What kind of strange things?" I ask feeling a calmness begin to blanket my panic.

[Fehr'sBear]

Christina

"What kind of strange things?" Erik asks me, and he seems to calm down, even though the colors keep changing. He lays a gently on my leg and I bring my hand from his arm to his hand linking our fingers together.

Instantly I don't want to tell him, because he'll probably run away screaming something about me being a freak. Well, okay, color changing isn't too normal either. "Well, um...on my way out here to find you I think I...kind of made a trashcan move." I say, speaking quickly. "And it's happened before, and well, there also that thing that happens when I sing..." I trail off again, realizing how insane I must sound.

When I sing? God he's going to think I'm crazy. Right now, his hand is the only thing keeping me from running off.

[magikhands]

*Erik*

She's ready to bolt. I can see it in the way her body stiffens and how she tightens her grip on my hand. But it's her words that keep me calm. Objects move for her. And her voice? I've heard her sing. It's as beautiful as her mother's...maybe more so, if you as me, but then again, I'm a little biased.

My thumb starts caressing her hand. It looks wierd, the swirling colors, that seem to b slowing, against her tanned skin.

"I think it's easing." I say, my eyes still looking at our hands. "Please stay...stay and tell me what happens when you sing." I finally look up. "You have a beautiful voice. I've never seen anything happen from it."

[Fehr'sBear]

Christina

I watch as he rubs my hand again and figure if I had to tell someone other that Ty, who kind of already knows, it would be Erik. Because I know he won't tell anyone.

The colors are moving slower now, and it is a bit soothing, kind of like one of those lamps with the swirling colors. Of course, I wish his skin would go back to normal. "Please stay...stay and tell me what happens when you sing." Erik tells me, and I know that he really wants to listen. "You have a beautiful voice." he says after, and I blush a little bit. I've been told that a lot, and that is part of the weirdness.

"Thank you," I whisper, before letting out a deep breath and continuing. "When I sing in public...it's like people are drawn to me. At first I thought it was normal, but then I realized that it was mostly guys, and it was almost as if I was like commanding them. And everyone always complimented me."

I stop for a moment, tightening my grip on his hand before continuing. "And sometimes, if I asked them to do something for me, they'd change their mind after they heard me sing. I told Ty, but we figured it was nothing."

Looking up at him, I realize that this color thing had to have maybe happened in some way before, so I ask him about it. "Does anything...strange happen to you?"

[magikhands]

*Erik*

I had to laugh. "Besides this?"

She nods sheepishly. "Well..." I thought. She had told him about her mysterious happenings...why couldn't he? He knew he could trust her. They'd known each other all their lives. In fact, all of the kids that came from the small tight knit family their parents made, rarely spoke of family happenings outside of the group.

I sigh and lean my head back against the wall. The pain had subsided greatly and I was feeling almost normal again. I glanced down at my hand and found that it was the same color of Christina's. I closed my eyes, wishing it would go away but otherwise didn't panic. I decide to think of other things.

"Sometimes, when I pick up objects they will change color or shape on me. I can't control when or how it happens but luckily, I've always been alone."

I look to her, glad not to see a repulsed expression. In fact, she seemed a bit more relaxed, as I was starting to feel.

"Then there's this thing..." Should I? Would Bre get angry that I told our secret?

Christina waits patiently as I decide. "Bre and I have. We can speak to each other. In here." I point to my head with my free hand. "I know this is all weird. But tonight is the first night its ever been like this. I've never felt pain like this. It's as if something is changing in me."

I look down terribly embarrassed. Me, small town Erik Whitman. Eldest child to local Band Teacher and the town's local charity Natzi, is admitting to the girl I've got feelings for that I'm changing inside. She must think I'm absolutely nuts.

[Fehr'sBear]

Christina

I listen quietly as Erik explains how things change color for him, and how he can talk with his sister inside his mind. That sounds just as strange as what is happening to me, and for some reason I am comforted by the thought.

Then, when I look down, he finishes up his story, but his skin has also returned to the same color as mine. I'm happy for him, maybe this won't happen again. "It's as if something is changing in me." He says, and then blushes, embarrassed.

"No, I know what you mean," I reply, tilting his head up again. Everything is just so weird, and hard to understand. Tonight was just supposed to be another party, and then time to hang out with Erik, but now there are strange things happening too.

"I don't know what to do about it," I mumble, staring into his eyes. What caused all this? And why is it happening?

[maxandliz4ever1357]

<center> Oliver </center>

"I saw you... looking at me too. You thought I was beautiful," She said, and I looked down in embarrassment. Then she added, "Thank you. You were always my best friends sister... I never thought you could see me. In fact I wasn't sure if you knew I existed, but I've always been interested Oliver."

I laughed then, stroking her hand with the pad of my thumb. "You know, you're the only one who's ever been able to completely unnerve me." I told her. "Usually I can keep my calm under any circumstances, and come out looking like the cool bad boy everyone thinks I am. But with you... well, remember when I told you you looked like Lily at your house earlier?" I laughed again. "You just throw me off balance."

I stopped talking for a second and thought about the memory flash things. Then I remembered...

"Amy, has anything weird ever happened to you before? Like, have you ever been able to... do something? Something you shouldn't be able to do?" I asked her cautiously.

[magikhands]

*Erik*

"Me either." I sigh though I know she didn't expect a response. There was sadness in her words and it nearly broke my heart. I know I had to be the cause of it, why else would she have such an emotion.

"I'm sorry. I really didn't mean to mess up your night. I had hoped to enjoy it, you know...spend a little time with you, get to know you. Not turn into some freakazoid."