Welcome to the Roswellian Hellmouth (XO,NR,NR) Ch. 18 [WIP]
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2003 10:47 am
Title: Welcome to the Roswellian Hellmouth
Summary: BTVS has now crossed into Roswell. Sorry but no Buffy Characters in here just Roswell.
Dislaimer: I do not own Roswell or Buffy so don’t sue me or something. But I do have many quotes from the first episode in which Joss Whedon (my god and Hubby # 5
Nae) wrote and give the credit to him!
Chapter One
Liz was lost.
Wandering through a place she didn’t know and didn’t want to know.
She wandered on through a lair of some sort, wary and confused, trying to figure out where she was, and how to find her way out again. And yet one small part of her knew she was dreaming…another part of her warned her that this place was all too real, and all too horribly close.
Images jumped put at her and quickly faded again almost instantly. She saw candles flickering a deep red pool…clawing fingers through a glow of fire…drawings of symbols and the silvery glint of a handprint. Laughter echoed ---faceless beings stalked her--- then suddenly she saw a book, a very odd looking book with the word
VAMPYR
Engraved upon its cover….
In her bed she was tossing and turning and struggling even as the dream pulled her deeper and deeper into it’s spell. She felt something behind her. This thing wasn’t evil like all the other beings but…pure. In her head she heard the words his husky voice spoke. “ You’re okay…. you’re okay now---”
Liz’s eyes flew open.
Even in the light of morning, it was as if the nightmare still lingered and the face of the guy in her dream and the words still went around in her head…calming her.
She sat up in bed, blinking against the brightness that streamed through her window. She was awake now; she was perfectly safe. This was her room…her house…her reality ---
“Liz?”
“I’m up, Mom.”
“Don’t want to be late for your first day!” Nancy Parker called.
“No,” Liz mumbled to herself. “Wouldn’t want that to happen.”
She heard the uncertainty in her voice. She sat up and stared around her room, at the half decorated walls, the unpacked boxes stacked in one corner. Then with a sigh, she forced herself out of bed and forced all of the thoughts of that nightmare she had out of her mind except the cute guys still lingered in there.
‘I wonder if he attends my school?’ she wondered.
Chapter 2
“Now, have a good time,” Nancy Parker said, watching Liz get out of the car. “I know you’ll make friends right away. Think positive. And honey…” she paused, sounding hopeful. “Try not to get in trouble.”
“I promise, I'll try not to.”
Her mother gave her a look and Liz just shrugged.
As her mother drove off, Liz stood for a moment, sizing her new situation. The weather this morning was Desert-perfect; hot, humid, and dry. Throngs of students were laughing and talking as they crammed their way leisurely into West Roswell High.
‘ Okay, you can keep this up until the 180 days are over. Think positive. Wait. Who am I kidding…..’
Sighing, Liz started in, so deep in her thoughts she didn’t even notice the cute boy staring at her from the stairs.
“Coming through…” Alex announced, weaving his way recklessly through the crowds. “Coming through…not really certain how to stop and don't really know how I started….”
Alex was tall dark-haired like his best friend Max who was in his way. The only difference between them was that Alex had a shaggy look and wasn’t built like Max was.
“Max!!!! Max!!! Get out of the way, man!!!!”
Max didn’t hear him though. He had been heading towards the entrance when he spotted a girl he’d never seen before. She was short and petite, with chocolate brown hair and big brown eyes, and her face was the most beautiful thing he’d ever seen. She was wearing boots and a really short skirt. He thought he heard someone calling his name but he didn’t care he just wanted to know more about the new girl. All of sudden someone rammed into the back of him making him and the other person tumble on their backs. A familiar face ran up to help them; he looked at her with a grin that was all charm.
“Maria!” Max and Alex exclaimed.
They picked them selves up and brushed off all the dirt on their clothes.
“Nice wipe out guys. It was a Kodak moment. I almost peed in my pants.”
Maria was considered an in-between by West Roswell High standards. She was a singer in Alex’s band, “The Whit’s”. Though Maria always said take out the “w” and put in and “s” and you get what they really are. She had a horrible crush on Michael Guerin the school rebel and also Max’s other best friend. Maria was also one of the smartest people in the school, which was why she was considered an in-between. Yet a keen intelligence shone in Maria’s shining green eyes, she was a party girl waiting to escape. Alex and Max made their way towards her.
“Maria, you I think I kinda have a problem in Math.” Alex said.
“What kind of problem?”
“Well, the math to be specific.”
“And what’s in it for me if I choose to help your lazy not studying ass?”
“Umm well I was kinda having Michael Guerin joining the band and thought that would be a good enough reward.”
“WHAT???” Maria screamed dropping all the books she had been carrying on Max’s feet.
“I think you should have waited until she put away her books.” Max said not letting all the pain he was feeling be noticed in his voice.
As Alex and Max picked up Maria’s books she ran to her locker to retrieve her cedar oil. They hurried to catch up with her.
“How could you do this?” Maria asked sniffing her oil.
“What? I thought you’d be happy?” Alex said trying to calm Maria down.
As Maria looked back at Alex she saw Michael walking approaching them.
“Oh my god!!! Do I look okay? Do I? TELL ME.”
“Jesus, you look fine.” Alex said.
Michael walked up to them and smiled at Maria. She was in shock but was able to smile back.
“Alex, gig?”
“Tonight, Crashdown.”
“Cool, Maxwell can I talk to you for a minute.”
“Sure.”
Michael pulled Max next to some empty lockers.
“So what’s wrong?”
“New girl.”
“Yeah so.”
“You should check her out. You know make sure…”
“Yeah, Yeah, sure Michael.”
“I mean it Maxwell, it could be her”
Michael left leaving Max thinking long and hard.
‘Could it be?’
Liz sat in the principal’s office, across the desk from Mr. Jeep. He was middle-aged and over-weight, slightly impressed with his own importance, she noted. As she watched him, he pulled her transcript from a folder, glanced though it, then turned a direct gaze on her.
“Liz Parker,” he recited. “Sophomore, late of Jefferson High in Chicago. Interesting record. ”
Before Liz could answer, he smiled and carefully tore up her transcript into four pieces.
“Welcome to Roswell,” he announced. “ Tabula Rasa. Do you know what that means? Clean slate, and that’s what you get here Liz, a clean slate. We’re not interested in what it says on a piece of paper. Even if it says----” he broke off and looked down again at the pieces of ripped paper. His eyes went wide. “Whoa. " Mr. Jeep continued to talk while he began putting the paper back into a whole.
“Mr. Jeep.” Liz said.
“All the kids here are free to call me Bob---”
“Bob---”
“But they don’t.”
He ripped off pieces of tape and began taping the transcript back together.
“Mr. Jeep. I know my transcripts are...eye-catching---”
.
“Hey, we’re not caring about that! Do you think ‘eye-catching’ is the right adjective? Not just ‘bleak’? Just offhand I would say ‘bleak’.”
“It's not as bad as you think. Actually it was sort of exaggerated."
“You burned down half the school.”
"I did. I really did.” Liz winced. “But you gotta see the big picture here. I mean half the school was filled with vamp…. Uh, vampire bats. I was looking in the best interest of the students, the faculty, the SCHOOL! ”
“Of course Liz. I won’t tell you those things like ‘Watch Your Step’ or ‘We’ll Be Watching You’ that’s just not the way here. "
Still grinning blandly, he slipped the messily mended transcript back into her folder and slammed it shut with his hand. Liz jumped, her own forced smile going doubtful.
"You're free to go. That's all and lets make sure we don't have frequent trips here."
Liz nodded and got up from her seat.
She felt depressed as she left Mr. Jeep’s office. As she paused there in the hallway, rummaging through her bag, a distracted student bumped into her, sending her stuff flying into the air. Frustrated, Liz knelt down and started scooping up everything. For the second time that morning she had failed to see Max, who was standing close by and saw the whole thing happen. Immediately he came over and knelt beside her.
“Need some help?” Max asked.
Liz looked up at the sound of a familiar voice and saw his face.
‘Oh My God. It’s him. It’s the guy from my dream.’
Liz was staring at him.
“You okay?” He asked standing up and handing her her papers.
Liz mentally shook herself and smiled.
“Yeah, I’m okay.”
She stood up.
“Hi, I’m Liz, I’m new here.”
“Hi, I’m Max.”
“Thanks for helping me with--- thanks.”
“No problem. If you want maybe I could show you around.”
Liz smiled.
“I’d like that.”
The bell rang and students started to exit the halls and Liz looked down the hall.
“Well I have to, um, get to class. Do you have 6th period free?”
“Yeah.”
“Okay, I’ll meet you in the library. I think.”
Max smiled. Liz suddenly she felt like she was going to melt into a puddle.
“Bye.”
“Bye.” Max said as she left. Then he noticed something on the floor. Bending down to retrieve it, he automatically called after her.
“Hey you forgot your---”
He broke off and looked at the thing he was holding.
“Stake.” He said.
He looked at it again and couldn’t believe what he was holding. He was the only one standing in the hallway now and it was really quiet. He looked down at the object again and mumbled.
“Michael was right, it is her
Chapter 3
Liz sat in the back of her history class, earnestly taking notes. She really wasn’t that good with history, but science, science was her dream. She wanted and aspired to be a molecular biologist, but all that changed when her “destiny” came along. The teacher’s voice droned on and on while she tried to keep up.
“ Now the Crusades took place between the years of 1100-1300. The Crusaders were eventually beaten. If you look at the map on page sixty-three you can trace where each battle was fought…”
-
Everyone opened their textbooks. Liz didn’t have one yet, and as she looked around at the other kids, a girl in the desk next to hers leaned over. She was tall and very pretty in a supermodel sort of way, obviously self-assured, and was wearing a killer outfit of tight leather pants and a mostly see-through shirt.
“Here,” the girl said. She moved her book so Liz could share it.
“Thanks,” Liz smiled.
“And what new instruments were given to the Europeans?” the teacher continued. Liz thought the class would never end. When the bell rang at last, the girl introduced herself.
“Hi, I’m Isabel.”
“ Hi, I’m Liz.”
“If you’re looking for your own History book there’s probably a few in the library.”
“Oh, great. Thanks. Where would that be?”
“I’ll show you.”
The girls walked down the crowded halls and Isabel glanced at Liz with interest.
“You transferred from Jefferson, right? In Chicago?”
“Yeah. Wow, news sure does travel fast here. I had about three others girls ask me the same thing.”
“Well, it's a small town, not much goes on around her without people knowing about it. But I would kill to live where you used to. Any place besides here sounds so appealing.”
“Roswell doesn’t seem that bad.”
“Yeah well you haven’t been here for the last few months. It’s been scary as hell. Anyways, why did you move here?”
“Because my family moved, I mean we all moved, but it was there idea and did I just sound like a total looney?”
Isbael laughed.
“Well, you’ll be okay here. You hang with me and it’ll be a breeze.”
They stopped at the fountain, where Maria was taking a turn.
“Maria!” Isabel raised a perfectly plucked eyebrow. “ Have you done the homework I requested? And the essay?”
Maria looked up.
“Screw you Jezebel. If you want homework done, do it yourself.”
Liz started to have a smirk on her face but quickly made it disappear.
‘I like her.’
“Well, Maria, I hope you know your social ranking just dropped.”
“Like I care hanging out with you and yours from planet ‘LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME’!”
“Fine, then never again.”
“You got it, Jezebel.”
Maria vacated the fountain. Isabel stepped up to it and glanced at Liz.
“Just one thing you have to know Liz, don't hang out and try to mingle with losers they only give you lip.”
She bent down to take a drink and Liz had a sudden urge to push her face into the fountain.
‘Can’t do that, promised mom you wouldn’t get kicked out.’
Liz look unhappily at the departing Maria, then followed Isabel to the library.
“Liz, if you’re not too swamped with catching up, you should check out the Crashdown tonight.” Isabel suggested.
“The what?”
“The Crashdown. It’s the only place worth going to around here. They let anybody in. You should show.”
“Cool, maybe I will.”
‘And maybe that cute guy Max will be there.’
When they reached the library, the two of them stopped in front of the door.
“Good. I’ll see you at gym and you can tell me everything there is to know about yourself.”
Isabel turned and went off. Liz, slightly thrown off by the idea of her whole life story being told, allowed herself an ironic smile.
“Won't that be a nice runon sentence?” She mumbled.
Liz entered the library, surprised at the elegance of it, the dark wood paneling, and the streaming sunlight across the floor, the shelves and shelves of books. A short flight of stairs led up to the second level of still more book cases, and with it’s large oak table and cozy study lamps, the room had a curiously warm country-house feeling. There didn’t seem to be anyone around. As she paused beside the check out counter, she happened to see a newspaper lying there; an article had been circled in red. The headline stated “Tess Harding still missing” and beside it was a blurry picture of the girl in her cheerleading uniform.
‘ Skank.’ Liz thought.
Liz wandered in farther. She peered around the counter.
“Hello…is anybody here?”
Without warning someone touched her shoulder. Startled she spun her face around.
“Do you need help?” the man asked politely.
Liz breathed a sigh of relief.
“I was looking for a extra book. I’m new.”
“Miss Parker.” The man said.
“ Good guess. Hvae Madame Vivian back there?"
"Excuse me?"
"Sorry, just a fortune teller I saw when I was....why am I saying this? Yeah, I'm Liz Parker and you are?
“I’m Mr. Valenti, the libraian.”
Liz studied him for an instant. Tall, slender, and with a cowboy sort of look. Kind eyes stared back at her from behind thin wire-trimmed glasses.
‘He could be a sheriff.’ Liz thought.
“ Great.” Liz smiled. “ So you have uh---”
“ I know what you’re after.”
“ OKay....now I think you just have ESP."
He turned and led her tot eh check out desk by the door. She watched curiously as he pulled a book out from beneath the counter and slid it toward her. Huge and leather bound, it bore a single word in bold upon it’s cover.
VAMPYR
It was the book from her nightmare.
Concern flooded through Liz’s face. She stepped back from the desk, but her gaze remained on the librarian.
“That’s not what I’m looking for.” She told him, her voice getting tight.
“Are you sure?”
Liz nodded
Mr. Valenti hesitated.
“My mistake.”
He replaced the book back under the counter.
“So,” he continued. “ What did you...."
He stared into he empty room.
Liz was gone.
~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*~
Maria carefully sorted through her packed lunch. She was so involved she didn’t even notice anyone approaching until a voice spoke behind her.
“Uh, hi, “ the voice said, “ Maria, right?”
Maria started to turn around.
“Why? So you can take advantage of my friendship and make me do things so I’ll be cool.”
Maria turned fully around.
“Oh, Hi, and no I will not do anything like that,”
“Why don’t we start with ‘Hi, I’m Liz.’” Liz suggested, sitting beside her. “And than let’s get directly to me asking you for a favor. It doesn’t involve you doing homework for me, but it does involve you hanging out with me for a while.”
Maria’s expression was doubtful.
“But aren’t you hanging out with Jez… Isabel?”
“Yeah, but I think your more of my type of person. She seems like she's so into her image I don’t I could ever have an intelligent conversation with her…but you…I can see myself doing that.”
Maria smiled.
“Cool, I’d like that a lot.”
Liz smiled.
“So, how you like it here so far?”
“It’s been okay met this really cute boy…” Liz gushed.
“You girls talking about me?” a voice asked.
The girls looked up and saw Alex walking towards them.
“Liz, this is Alex. Alex, this is Liz.”
“Nice to meet you.” Liz smiled.
“So Liz, what do you do for fun, what do you look for in a man, have any dark painful secrets you’d like you share?”
“Gee,” Liz’s tone was mildly sarcastic, “Everyone wants to know about me. How scary.”
“Well not a lot happens in a one Starbucks town like Roswell.” Alex confessed. “Your big news.”
“That's what everyone keeps saying...”
“Are these people bothering you?” Isabel asked suddenly appearing, a look of disgust on her face.
“Oh! No!”
“I don’t want to interrupt your moment of charity, but I just thought I’d tell you we won’t be meeting Coach Heigl, the woman with the chest hair, because gym was cancelled due a guy they found found dead in the boy's locker room.”
“What?” Liz said staring at her.
“What are you talking about?” Maria asked, looking alarmed.
“All I know is that he was dead.,” Isabel explained.
“Dead.” Liz repeated.
“Yes, like way dead.” Isabel confirmed.
“So, not just a little dead then?” Alex added.
Isabel looked at him, but it was a look of annoyance but of humor. Alex caught this but didn't say anything.
“How did he die?” Liz broke in, her gaze still steady on Isabel.
“I don’t know…”
“Well were there any marks?”
"Do I look like the coroner ?”
Liz stood up immeadietly.
“ I uhhh, I forgot some books in my locker. I’ll see you guys later.”
Liz left and went straight to the boy’s locker room. Unfortunately, Mr. Jeep was just coming out, closing the door behind him. She slipped behind a locker and waited for him to leave. When he was gone she went up to the doorknob. She twisted the knob, but it was locked. Liz looked around to make certain she was alone. With one quick tug, she pulled the door open, splintering the lock in the process. The she gave a one glance over her shoulder and slipped inside.
She saw the body at once, lying on the ground stretched out beneath a blanket. Hesitantly she approached it, feeling certain she wasn’t going to be at all pleased with what she found. Slowly she folded the blanket down from the corpse’s head and shoulders.
Grim frustration flooded Liz’s face. She stared down at the body.
“ Nice.... This is just what I wished for.” She exploded.
“What’s wrong? Vampire kill him.” A voice rang out.
Liz turned around in shock.
“Max!”
Chapter 4
“Max, what are you doing here?” Liz asked in shock.
He walked up farther out of the shadow of the lockers.
“ I heard about the dead guy. Thought it might have to do with a vampire.”
Liz couldn’t believe he was saying this to her, but she couldn’t let him know who she was…..yet.
“Vampires? What are you crazy?”
“Liz, I’m not stupid. I’ve seen them with my own eyes and I know you have, too.”
Liz was starting to get suspicious of ‘Little Mr. Know It All’.
“Really, and how’s that?”
Max pulled out the stake Liz had dropped in the hallway and held it up in front of him giving it to her.
“Because, you dropped this.”
Liz reluctantly took the stake and didn’t take her eyes off of it. Her cover was blown and she had to make sure he didn’t tell anyone.
“You can’t say anything.” She whispered still looking down at the stake.
Max walked up closer to her.
“I promise I won’t say anything, but you have to help find a certain one.”
Liz looked up instantly.
‘What was he talking about?’
“What do you mean?” Liz asked now looking up at his face.
It had grown serious and anger flashed in his eyes.
“ Her name is Tess Harding. That guy you see right there is my old best friend Sean Delfino, I know she killed him.”
Liz looked at the body. She was sad that Max had known this person, plus he was his best friend. Liz could feel tears forming up in her eyes thinking about a past similar experience. She blinked them away and looked back at Max.
“Why would she do this? I mean to him?”
“To get to me. You see when she was… alive she used to always hang around me. The night it had happened I told her off at a party. That was when she was attacked and ever since then she’s had this vendetta against me and my friends. And I need you to help me stop her before she does anything else.”
“Me? How could I stop her?” Liz was still playing dumb even though she knew he knew more than he should.
Max gave her a look.
“Liz, I know you’re the slayer. Truth is I thought you would be taller, or bigger, muscles and all that.”
“Gee, sorry to disappoint you.” Liz said sarcastically.
“You didn’t.” He said then immediately mentally kicking himself.
Liz’s started to move her mouth to say something but in the end she just looked down and blushed.
“Sorry.” He whispered looking at his feet.
“It’s….okay.” she said with a smile on her face.
“So…” Max said breaking the silence, “ I'm guessing we're gonna really need to talk. Are we still gonna meet 6th period in the library?”
“Or not,” Liz declared at once. “Or you know we could meet somewhere quieter. Louder. That place kinda gives me the heebie jeebies.”
“Ah, so you’ve met the new librarian?”
“He’s new?”
“Yeah, coicidence isn’t it? You’re new and he’s new? Could there be a connection?”
“Yeah… Max I gotta go.”
Liz started to make her way to the door but Max was close behind her. She turned around and faced him.
“Usually when someone says they’re leaving, the other person doesn’t follow this close behind.”
Max looked down and shrugged.
“The guy might have answers for me.”
“Answers for what?”
“Well…. Let’s just get there and I’ll explain.”
Max made his way past Liz and down the hall to the library and Liz was close behind him.
Chapter 5
Liz trailed behind Max as they made their way down the hall. Moments later they strode back into the library. Liz pulled Max to the side.
“Okay what’s the sitch?” she demanded. She wanted to know and she wanted to know now!
“Just wait, I’ll explain.” Max moved away from her and towards the stairs.
Mr. Valenti was on the stairs reading a book. He looked down and saw the two teenagers starting towards him.
“May I help you two?” he asked putting away his book. He knew that Liz must have found something, but he didn’t know where that boy that was with her came into all of this.
Liz made her way to Valenti before Max did. She looked right at him at she stood in front of him.
“You heard about the dead guy right?”
“Yes.”
"Okay and now while I’m in there and ‘Mr. I Know Your Little Secret’ pops up and suddenly reads me like a walking textbook. I want to know what you people know, and I want the truth starting now!” Liz breathed.
‘God, you’d think someone in town wouldn’t know I was the slayer’
“I was a afraid of this.” Valenti said sighing.
“ You? What about me? It’s my first day. I thought I would be behind in things like classes, and my hairstyle, and be left out of everything and not make any friends. I didn’t expect vampires to be roaming around in this town.”
She turned to Max.
“Now it’s your turn. Why do want answers and how do you know who I am?”
Max breathed and took a step forward.
“I’m an alien.” He blurted out.
He expected a little more a response. Liz just looked at him with a 'duh' expression on her face and Valenti didn’t look taken back by it either.
“Okay, Isn’t that bizarre? Aren’t you just gonna go ‘Ooooooh’?
“Ooooooh.” Liz said sarcastically.
He looked at both of them again.
“Aren’t you going to run out of here screaming and call the FBI or something?”
Liz looked at him.
“Well I’m not, but I’m not sure about Mr. Valenti over there. The kids say he’s filled with bottled up emotion. He might start to wail any second.”
“I will not!” Valenti protested.
“Sure, whatever. All I wanted to say is that I don’t care.”
“Then why are you here?” Max asked.
“To tell him that I don’t care, which I don’t! And so now that I have told you, I’ll be on my way…bye.”
She started to head for the door.
“Will he rise again?” Valenti called out.
Liz turned around.
“Who?”
“The boy.”
“No, he’s just dead. With the bad smell and everything that implies that you're dead."
“Are you sure?”
Liz shook her in annoyance.
“To become a vampire they have to suck your blood and then you have to suck their blood. It’s this whole big sucking thing. Like the way this conversation is. So good-bye now.”
“You have no idea what’s going on do you?” Max called out to her.“Do think its coincidence that you’re here? Sean was even the beginning and he won't be the end, either.”
“Hey, I was going to say that.” Valenti said.
Liz walked back over to the stairs.
“Why can’t you people leave me alone?”
“Because you’re the slayer.” Valenti chimed in.
“Yeah, yeah I know. Every generation, a slayer is born. One girl, in all the world, a Chosen One. One born with the strength and skill the hunt the vampires---blah, blah, blah, blah.”
Valenti looked troubled.
“It seems you have all ready accepted your duty, what’s with your attitude?”
“It keeps me sane. You know what I’ve slayed vampires before. I’ve both been there and done that. I’m done and I’m moving on.”
Max looked at Liz as she talked to Valenti. He knew everything she was going through. She had a destiny to do something she didn’t want to do. He felt the same way. Actually he was in the exact same predicament. He had this destiny and all he wanted to do was….be normal.
“What do you know about this town?”
“That the people in this town are freaks and obsessed with aliens and some actually live here.”
Max gave her a look and she shrugged.
“I believe this area is a center of mystical energy. Dig into it’s history a little bit. There are so many odd occurrences. This is the only explanation to why things tend to gravitate toward it that you might not find elsewhere.”
Valenti went in to his office and came back with a stack of books.
“Things in this town you never even belived existed do. Like werewolves, zombies, succubi, incubi…aliens.”
Max’s head snapped up.
“So we---I’m here because of some mystical energy?”
“I’m not actually sure, I’d have to refer to my texts.”
“God.” Liz looked at the book with disgust. She still couldn't believe these people. " Now I know you know I’m the slayer, but I’m retired. Hey I know! Why don’t you kill them?”
Valenti smiled and it took Liz by surprise.
“I’m a Watcher. I don’t have the skill.”
“Oh come, it’s easy. Right Max? Stake through the heart, a little sunlight---it’s like falling off a log.”
“The slayer slays,” Valenti explained. “The Watcher----”
“Watches?” Max asked.
“Yes. No!” Valenti recovered himself. “ He---he—trains her, and he prepares her---”
“Prepares me for what?” Liz answered angrily. “For getting kicked out of school? For losing all my friends? Having to spend all my time fighting for my life. Go ahead.” She looked at him straight in the eyes. He gaze challenging. “Prepare me.”
She turned on her heel and left. Max was the first to go after her.
“Liz wait.” He called after her in the hallway.
She turned around in a huff.
“What?”
He pulled her into a corner and tried to remain calm but his heart was pounding hard into his chest.
“I know how you feel. You have a secret that you can only keep to yourself and it kills you. You can’t tell the people you love because it might hurt them. I would love to tell them my secret. It might make it easier, but I can’t take that chance.”
Liz looked intently into his eyes.
“You really are reading me like a textbook.”
“I know it’s hard. But now you have me. You have someone who knows exactly what you’re going through and is able to get away with that excuse. I feel the way you do. I have a destiny too ya know. I have to do something that I wish someone else can do for me, but I can’t. It’s who I am. And the slayer is who you are. You just have to---”
“Accept it.” She finished for him.
“Yeah.” He breathed.
‘Is it getting warmer or is it just me?’ he wondered.
The bell rang and the moment was lost. Both sighed a breath of relief knowing that they could never be together. Their destinies were two different things and they just didn’t intertwine with each other. It could never be…It just wasn’t meant to be
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Valenti saw Max saw run after Liz and realized what had gone wrong. He was so intent into his thinking that he hadn’t noticed the shadowy figures lurking in the stacks. Now Maria and Alex emerged slowly into the light, a mixture of amusement, excitement, and a total disbelief on both their faces. They looked at each other for a long time then looked at the library doors. For a long time their lips moved without a sound. They turned back to each other and echoed the same thing throughout the silence.
“ What?”
Chapter 6
Liz went through the whole day just thinking about the way Max had confronted her in the hallway. She had never felt like that in her whole entire existence. And to top it all off he understood her like no one ever could understand. Liz looked up to see the teacher writing the homework assignment on the board. She quickly dotted it down and her eyes shifted to the second row third seat back. Yes, that was where Max was sitting. He was in most of her classes and she was glad that he was in her last period class. It was boring as hell, but time went by quickly as she just stared at him. She heard the bell ring and was quickly torn out of her thoughts. She picked up her backpack and gathered her books together. She walked out of the classroom and down the hallway towards her locker. She saw Maria and Alex deep in conversation standing near it. She walked up to them.
“Hey guys. What’s up?” She said putting in her combination.
“Nothing…we’re fine…see…fine…nothing to worry about… I mean we were thinking about anything peculiar…. cause we know that would be peculiar!” Maria said in a breath.
Liz smiled and started to chuckle.
“Is she okay?” She asked Alex.
“Yeah…here sniff some cedar oil.” Alex handed her the vial and she began sniffing away.
“Are you sure there’s nothing that’s bothering you two?” Liz asked suspecting something was wrong.
“No!” They both said.
“Right.” Liz said nodding her head not believing a thing.
Liz closed her locker and began to walk away.
“Wait!” Maria called out.
Liz turned around and walked back over.
“What is it?”
“We know.” Maria said.
“You know what?”
“We know that …that…. you know..”
“Okay, I’m lost.” Liz said.
‘This is way confusing.’ she thought.
Alex pulled Maria and Liz into a corner beside a row of lockers.
“We know that you’re the uh… the slayer.”
Liz started to laugh.
‘Liz remember: Deny, Deny, Deny’
“What’s a slayer anyway?” She asked innocently.
“Liz, we heard you and Max and Mr. Valenti talking. We know everything.” Alex said.
“Everything?” She asked gulping.
Maria sniffed her cedar oil again.
“Yeah, I mean you live in a town where everyone talks about aliens, but to find out they actually live among you is unbelievable!”
“Don’t say that word in public!”
“What word?”
“The “A” word!”
“Oh then what should I say?”
“Czechoslovakians?” Alex suggested.
“Alex, Czechoslovakia hasn’t been a country in like 10 years!” Liz exclaimed.
“Well have anything better?”
Liz thought for a moment.
“Fine, Czechoslovakians it is.”
“But Liz, do we know is Max is the only… Czechoslovakian?” Maria asked.
“No we don’t, but I’ll find out.”
“Well what about Isabel?” Alex asked.
“What about Isabel?” Liz asked.
“She’s Max’s sister.” Maria said then rolled her eyes.
Liz eyes practically bulged out of her head.
“Isabel…is Max’s…sister?”
Alex and Maria nodded their head in sync.
“So do you think….” Maria asked letting the question finish itself.
“I don’t know, but we’re gonna have to talk later about this.”
She opened her notebook and wrote down her number in it. She ripped it out and gave one to Alex and Maria.
“Here’s my number. Call me later.”
“Are you coming tonight?” Maria asked memorizing the number.
‘Boy am I gonna be calling her all the time!’ Maria thought.
"What's tonight?" Liz asked.
"My band and Maria are preforming at the Crashdown. We want you to come."
“Yeah I’ll come.”
“Great! See you there! And I’ll call you later!” Maria said smiling.
“Cool!” Liz said.
Liz put all her books in her backpack as she walked down the hall. She pushed the doors open and started to walk down the steps toward the sidewalk. It had gotten warmer since this morning and she couldn’t believe she had to walk in this heat. As if her prayers had been answered a green Jeep pulled up beside her.
“Need a ride?” A voice called out.
She’d know that voice anywhere. She bit her lip and turned around to see Max behind the wheel of the Jeep. Isabel was in the passenger’s seat and guy with spiky hair and a leather jacket was in the back seat.
“It’d be nice, but I don’t want to intrude.” Liz said calmly.
“You won’t be.” Max said then smiled to reassure her.
“Well, only if it’s okay with everyone else.”
Isabel smiled and shrugged her shoulders and the spiky haired dude just grunted.
“Get in.” Max said.
Liz went to the side of the Jeep and climbed in beside “Spiky”.
Isabel turned around.
“Hey Liz.”
“Hey.”
“Oh, don’t mind Michael, he’s like this to everyone.”
“It’s okay. I’m the same way most of the time.”
They sat in silence for a couple minutes.
“So you’re the Slayer, huh?”
“Michael!” Isabel shrieked.
“What?” Michael asked.
“It’s okay. Yeah, I am.”
“And I guess since Maxwell has a big mouth you know about us and so does they weird cowboy dressed librarian.”
‘So it is Max and Isabel…now this Michael guy? When Maria finds out she’ll flip!’[/i] Liz thought to herself.
“Yeah.”
“So you’re not going to freak out and call the FBI?”
“Nope.”
“Good.”
“There’s a little tiny problem though.” Liz said playing with her fingers in her lap.
“What kind of problem?” Isabel asked turning around in her seat again.
Max looked in the rear-view mirror and looked into Liz’s eyes.
“We’re weren’t alone when we were talking in the library.”
“Who else was there?” Max asked in a stern voice.
“Alex and Maria.”
Max pulled the car over to the side of the road.
Michael hit his head on Isabel’s headrest and Isabel laid back on it.
“Nice going Maxwell.” Michael said in a muffled voice.
“They’re okay though! I found them after last period and we had a chat and they’re okay with it. You for the most part.” Liz said trying to ease the tension in the car.
“Do they know it’s all of us?” Isabel asked sighing.
“No, well they suspect you, but they only know its Max.” Liz said looking down at her boots.
‘I need to get these cleaned.’
“Just don’t let them know that you know. And don’t worry about them saying anything about you in public you like the word alien. I’ve taken care of that too.”
Max smiled and started driving again.
“So you’ve just taken over everything have you?” Max asked.
Liz smiled.
“Yeah, I just don't want you getting hurt, I mean all of you.”
Isabel rolled her eyes and hid her smile.
“Flirt somewhere else please!”
Liz laughed and looked at her boots again.
The Jeep stopped and Isabel and Michael got out.
“I’m gonna drive Liz home. I’ll be back in a minute.”
“Whatever, Max.” Isabel said hoping out of the car, Michael joining her.
“You can get in the front if you want.” Max said.
Liz nodded and sat in Isabel’s previous seat. Max shifted the gear into reverse and they were back on the street.
“So what’s your address?”
“1630 Revlo Drive.”
“That’s not that far.”
“Yeah, that’s why I was gonna walk home, but this was good too.”
Max turned on to Revlo Drive and stopped in front of 1630.
“Thanks for the ride. I really appreciate it.”
“No problem.”
Liz leaned in and kissed him on the cheek. She pulled back bit her lip. She smiled shyly at him and hopped out of the Jeep.
“Hope to see you later.”
She waved to him and walked to her front door. She watched him drive away one hand cupping the cheek kissed. She smiled and chuckled and walked into her house. She closed the door behind her and banged the back of her head against it.
“Maybe this isn’t gonna be as bad as I thought it would be.” She muttered.
She dropped her bag on the floor and walked into the kitchen to see someone other than her mother in there.
“What are you doing here?”
Chapter 7
Liz looked into her kitchen again.
‘This can’t be! What was she doing here?’
Liz walked slowly towards her. She looked at her mom with a perplexed look on her face. She looked at the person in front and quickly pulled her into a hug.
“I missed you.” She whispered.
“I missed you too.” She said laughing, “ Can you let go of me now.”
Liz let go and backed off. She couldn’t stop smiling.
“Aunt Serena, what are you doing here?”
“Well, your mom said that it was a big house so…I’m moving in!”
Liz couldn’t believe it! Her aunt Serena was the best person in the world. She was her mom’s sister and a total knock out. She looked like “Posh Spice” and people even mistaken her for her. Serena always wanted to have fun and meet new people. She knew all of Liz’s secrets…. well except for the whole slayer thing.
“That’s great!” Liz exclaimed.
“Isn’t honey?” her mom said, “ This is going be so great. You’ll love Roswell, Serena. Jeff and Natalie will be back from New York City in two months, so you can help me unpack.”
Serena rolled her eyes and smiled.
“Gee, sounds like fun.”
Liz laughed at her comment.
‘Ask her and get it over with.'
“Umm mom.” Liz said.
“Yeah, honey?”
“Um, a bunch of people a t school asked me to hang with them tonight, is that cool?”
“Yes, go…have some fun.”
'YES!'
“Thanks.”
And with that Liz ran upstairs to get changed. She closed the door to her room and immediately dove into her closest. She pulled outfits that seemed worthy contestants.
She held up the first one to her chest. It was black, long, and little to…. dark.
“Ooookaay… little to goth.” She said throwing it back into the closet.
She held up the second one and stood in the mirror. It was a pink tang top and black pants. She nodded her head in approval. She undressed and put in on real quick and ran out of her room.
“I’m still good at this!”
She undressed quickly, put her slammin outfit on. S she was about to leave, her phone rang.
"Hello?"
"Liz, it's Maria!"
"Hey Maria! Man, do I have stuff to tell you!"
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After listening to Maria talk about Michael and how she was in love with him, then hearing her shriek and snif after telling her he was an alien, then her telling her things about Max and how she was gonna gt him to be there, she ran down the stairs and to the front door.
“I’m leaving, Mom! Bye Aunt Serena!”
“Bye honey.” Her mother called out.
“Bye, sweetie.” Serena called out.
Nancy Parker heard the door slam and turned to her sister.
“I think it’s going to work out here.” She said with enthusiasm as she turned again and put cups on the shelves.
“Me too.” She said her eyes staring at Nancy’s neck.
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Liz waited on the long line until she was at the top. She handed the bouncer ten dollars and was automatically let in. She could the sound of music blasting and the place was crowded. She went up to the bar.
“Cherry Cola?” She asked.
“Coming right up.” The guy said.
She looked to the stage and saw Maria up in it with Alex and Michael. She smiled. She turned to see Isabel walk through the door, she quickly saw Liz and ran over.
“Hey.” She said.
“Hey, I didn’t know Michael was in a band. And Maria and Alex too.”
Just as Isabel was about to answer the announcer got on stage and began to talk.
“Welcome everyone…tonight for your listening pleasure I give to you…. “The Whits!” He screamed.
The crowd went wild and Michael started banging on the drums and Alex strummed his guitar along with two other guys. Then, Maria went up the microphone and started to sing.
He was a boy
She was a girl
Can i make it any more obvious
He was a punk
She did ballet
What more can i say
He wanted her
She'd never tell secretly she wanted him as well
But all of her friends
Stuck up their nose
They had a problem with his baggy clothes[/i]
Maria was staring right at Isabel as she sang the song. She couldn’t believe that Alex was making her sing this song. It was a great song, but he knew “Miss Soda Pop Treat” would be in the crowd. She saw Liz standing right next to her. She was laughing, smiling, and talking to the enemy. Probably and evil Czechoslovakian trying to murder everyone…or maybe not.
He was a skater boy
She said see you later boy
He wasn't good enough for her
She had a pretty face
But her head was up in space
She needed to come back down to earth
5 years from now
She sits at home
Feeding the baby she's all alone
She turns on tv
Guess who she sees
Skater boy rockin up MTV
She calls up her friends
They already know
And they've all got
Tickets to see his show
She tags along
Stands in the crowd
Looks up at the man that she turned [/i]
‘Okay Maria…song is almost over…keep cool… OH GOD MICHAEL IS RIGHT BEHIND YOU…calm down….’
He was a skater boy
She said see you later boy
He wasn't good enough for her
Now he's a super star
Slamming on his guitar
Does your pretty face see what he's worth[/i]
‘Song… Almost… Over….’
Maria started to dance on the stage her hands in the air jumping up and down. She was surprised to see all the people in the crowd copying her moves. Evan Isabel was doing it!
‘I’ve died and am now in “The Twilight Zone!”’
Sorry girl but you missed out
Well tough luck that boy's mine now
We are more than just good friends
This is how the story ends
Too bad that you couldn't see,
See the man that boy could be
There is more that meets the eye
I see the soul that is inside
He's just a boy
And I'm just a girl
Can I make it any more obvious
We are in love
Haven't you heard
How we rock each others world
I'm with the skater boy
I said see you later boy
I'll be back stage after the show
I'll be at the studio
Singing the song we wrote
About a girl you used to know
‘Whew it’s over…and hey they not liked it!’
She turned and saw everyone turning towards the end of the stage. Walking down the stage steps she started to freak out.
“They liked it! Can you guys believe that!!!!” She hollered.
Michael turned and faced her.
“You were really good tonight, of course they like you.”
She smiled at him.
“Thanks.” She said.
He half grinned and walked away.
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Liz was alone now. Believe it or not Isabel had gone over to talk to Alex and Maria was over flirting with a guy in the corner who she checked out and knew wasn’t a vamp. She heard the stereo being cued up and one of her all time favorite songs started to play. She was a little sad cause she thought Max was gonna show, but hey ‘carpe diem’ “Seize The Moment’. She looked around the room to a crowd of complete strangers.
“Great Idea.” She mumbled.
Just then a hand swung her over into the person’s arms. He looked down at her.
“You’re right. Great idea.” He said.
She smiled at him.
“I thought you weren't gonna show, Max.”
“Yeah, I don’t usually, but a certain someone convinced me.”
She chuckled. She put her arms around his neck, looked into his eyes, swayed, and listened to the music.
I've been watching you and all you do
For quite some time
Knowing all the ins and outs of you
I should've known what was on your mind
But all the world is spinning round and round
Inside my head tonight
I will fall into the darkness
And I fear I will never see the light
So let me in
All that I wanted from you
Was something you'd never do
So let me in
Oh please tonight
Don't let this end
Tonight
I'll Fall
Through no light the darkness seems to be
So very strong
How does one alone against the world
Find the strength to carry on?
What happened to the way we used to love
It seemed as though life had just begun
But now that love has come and gone to fade away
Like the setting sun
Cuz' you won't let me in.
All that I wanted from you
Was something you'd never do
So let me in
Oh please tonight
Don't let this end
Tonight
Cuz' I'm starting to fall
So let me in
It was all that I wanted from you
It was something you never knew
To let me in
But not tonight
For this is the end
Tonight
I [/i]
The song stopped, but they still swayed to the music looking into each other’s eyes. Then out of nowhere Liz’s cell phone went.
“Sorry she said.”
He smiled.
“No problem.”
She cupped one ear and put the receiver to her other ear.
“Hello?” she asked.
“Lizzie! It’s Aunt Serena.”
“Oh hey. What’s wrong?”
“What do you mean?”
“Nothing…so how far have you and mom gotten with the unpacking?”
“Lizzie you all right?”
Liz’s stopped still and tensed up.
“Aunt Serena. Where are you?”
“At home.”
“Where?”
“Uh Liz…Chicago. You alright sweetie?”
“Yeah I got to go. Bye.”
She hung up the phone. All the color drained from Liz’s face. Max ran up to her concerned.
“Liz what’s wrong?” He asked.
“That was my aunt.” She said plainly.
“Yeah?” Max said confused.
“She was calling from Chicago.”
“And?” He pressed still not catching on.
She looked up at his face.
“Went I left the house…she was there…alone with my mother.”
Max’s eyes bulged out.
“Come on.” He said pulling her out of the club.
They ran as fast as they could to the Jeep. They both hopped in simultaneously. Max fetched his keys out of his pocket and into the ignition. He started the Jeep up and barreled out of the parking lot driving straight to Liz’s house.
Leading them straight to god knows what…
More to come wait a sec......
Summary: BTVS has now crossed into Roswell. Sorry but no Buffy Characters in here just Roswell.
Dislaimer: I do not own Roswell or Buffy so don’t sue me or something. But I do have many quotes from the first episode in which Joss Whedon (my god and Hubby # 5
Nae) wrote and give the credit to him!Chapter One
Liz was lost.
Wandering through a place she didn’t know and didn’t want to know.
She wandered on through a lair of some sort, wary and confused, trying to figure out where she was, and how to find her way out again. And yet one small part of her knew she was dreaming…another part of her warned her that this place was all too real, and all too horribly close.
Images jumped put at her and quickly faded again almost instantly. She saw candles flickering a deep red pool…clawing fingers through a glow of fire…drawings of symbols and the silvery glint of a handprint. Laughter echoed ---faceless beings stalked her--- then suddenly she saw a book, a very odd looking book with the word
VAMPYR
Engraved upon its cover….
In her bed she was tossing and turning and struggling even as the dream pulled her deeper and deeper into it’s spell. She felt something behind her. This thing wasn’t evil like all the other beings but…pure. In her head she heard the words his husky voice spoke. “ You’re okay…. you’re okay now---”
Liz’s eyes flew open.
Even in the light of morning, it was as if the nightmare still lingered and the face of the guy in her dream and the words still went around in her head…calming her.
She sat up in bed, blinking against the brightness that streamed through her window. She was awake now; she was perfectly safe. This was her room…her house…her reality ---
“Liz?”
“I’m up, Mom.”
“Don’t want to be late for your first day!” Nancy Parker called.
“No,” Liz mumbled to herself. “Wouldn’t want that to happen.”
She heard the uncertainty in her voice. She sat up and stared around her room, at the half decorated walls, the unpacked boxes stacked in one corner. Then with a sigh, she forced herself out of bed and forced all of the thoughts of that nightmare she had out of her mind except the cute guys still lingered in there.
‘I wonder if he attends my school?’ she wondered.
Chapter 2
“Now, have a good time,” Nancy Parker said, watching Liz get out of the car. “I know you’ll make friends right away. Think positive. And honey…” she paused, sounding hopeful. “Try not to get in trouble.”
“I promise, I'll try not to.”
Her mother gave her a look and Liz just shrugged.
As her mother drove off, Liz stood for a moment, sizing her new situation. The weather this morning was Desert-perfect; hot, humid, and dry. Throngs of students were laughing and talking as they crammed their way leisurely into West Roswell High.
‘ Okay, you can keep this up until the 180 days are over. Think positive. Wait. Who am I kidding…..’
Sighing, Liz started in, so deep in her thoughts she didn’t even notice the cute boy staring at her from the stairs.
“Coming through…” Alex announced, weaving his way recklessly through the crowds. “Coming through…not really certain how to stop and don't really know how I started….”
Alex was tall dark-haired like his best friend Max who was in his way. The only difference between them was that Alex had a shaggy look and wasn’t built like Max was.
“Max!!!! Max!!! Get out of the way, man!!!!”
Max didn’t hear him though. He had been heading towards the entrance when he spotted a girl he’d never seen before. She was short and petite, with chocolate brown hair and big brown eyes, and her face was the most beautiful thing he’d ever seen. She was wearing boots and a really short skirt. He thought he heard someone calling his name but he didn’t care he just wanted to know more about the new girl. All of sudden someone rammed into the back of him making him and the other person tumble on their backs. A familiar face ran up to help them; he looked at her with a grin that was all charm.
“Maria!” Max and Alex exclaimed.
They picked them selves up and brushed off all the dirt on their clothes.
“Nice wipe out guys. It was a Kodak moment. I almost peed in my pants.”
Maria was considered an in-between by West Roswell High standards. She was a singer in Alex’s band, “The Whit’s”. Though Maria always said take out the “w” and put in and “s” and you get what they really are. She had a horrible crush on Michael Guerin the school rebel and also Max’s other best friend. Maria was also one of the smartest people in the school, which was why she was considered an in-between. Yet a keen intelligence shone in Maria’s shining green eyes, she was a party girl waiting to escape. Alex and Max made their way towards her.
“Maria, you I think I kinda have a problem in Math.” Alex said.
“What kind of problem?”
“Well, the math to be specific.”
“And what’s in it for me if I choose to help your lazy not studying ass?”
“Umm well I was kinda having Michael Guerin joining the band and thought that would be a good enough reward.”
“WHAT???” Maria screamed dropping all the books she had been carrying on Max’s feet.
“I think you should have waited until she put away her books.” Max said not letting all the pain he was feeling be noticed in his voice.
As Alex and Max picked up Maria’s books she ran to her locker to retrieve her cedar oil. They hurried to catch up with her.
“How could you do this?” Maria asked sniffing her oil.
“What? I thought you’d be happy?” Alex said trying to calm Maria down.
As Maria looked back at Alex she saw Michael walking approaching them.
“Oh my god!!! Do I look okay? Do I? TELL ME.”
“Jesus, you look fine.” Alex said.
Michael walked up to them and smiled at Maria. She was in shock but was able to smile back.
“Alex, gig?”
“Tonight, Crashdown.”
“Cool, Maxwell can I talk to you for a minute.”
“Sure.”
Michael pulled Max next to some empty lockers.
“So what’s wrong?”
“New girl.”
“Yeah so.”
“You should check her out. You know make sure…”
“Yeah, Yeah, sure Michael.”
“I mean it Maxwell, it could be her”
Michael left leaving Max thinking long and hard.
‘Could it be?’
Liz sat in the principal’s office, across the desk from Mr. Jeep. He was middle-aged and over-weight, slightly impressed with his own importance, she noted. As she watched him, he pulled her transcript from a folder, glanced though it, then turned a direct gaze on her.
“Liz Parker,” he recited. “Sophomore, late of Jefferson High in Chicago. Interesting record. ”
Before Liz could answer, he smiled and carefully tore up her transcript into four pieces.
“Welcome to Roswell,” he announced. “ Tabula Rasa. Do you know what that means? Clean slate, and that’s what you get here Liz, a clean slate. We’re not interested in what it says on a piece of paper. Even if it says----” he broke off and looked down again at the pieces of ripped paper. His eyes went wide. “Whoa. " Mr. Jeep continued to talk while he began putting the paper back into a whole.
“Mr. Jeep.” Liz said.
“All the kids here are free to call me Bob---”
“Bob---”
“But they don’t.”
He ripped off pieces of tape and began taping the transcript back together.
“Mr. Jeep. I know my transcripts are...eye-catching---”
.
“Hey, we’re not caring about that! Do you think ‘eye-catching’ is the right adjective? Not just ‘bleak’? Just offhand I would say ‘bleak’.”
“It's not as bad as you think. Actually it was sort of exaggerated."
“You burned down half the school.”
"I did. I really did.” Liz winced. “But you gotta see the big picture here. I mean half the school was filled with vamp…. Uh, vampire bats. I was looking in the best interest of the students, the faculty, the SCHOOL! ”
“Of course Liz. I won’t tell you those things like ‘Watch Your Step’ or ‘We’ll Be Watching You’ that’s just not the way here. "
Still grinning blandly, he slipped the messily mended transcript back into her folder and slammed it shut with his hand. Liz jumped, her own forced smile going doubtful.
"You're free to go. That's all and lets make sure we don't have frequent trips here."
Liz nodded and got up from her seat.
She felt depressed as she left Mr. Jeep’s office. As she paused there in the hallway, rummaging through her bag, a distracted student bumped into her, sending her stuff flying into the air. Frustrated, Liz knelt down and started scooping up everything. For the second time that morning she had failed to see Max, who was standing close by and saw the whole thing happen. Immediately he came over and knelt beside her.
“Need some help?” Max asked.
Liz looked up at the sound of a familiar voice and saw his face.
‘Oh My God. It’s him. It’s the guy from my dream.’
Liz was staring at him.
“You okay?” He asked standing up and handing her her papers.
Liz mentally shook herself and smiled.
“Yeah, I’m okay.”
She stood up.
“Hi, I’m Liz, I’m new here.”
“Hi, I’m Max.”
“Thanks for helping me with--- thanks.”
“No problem. If you want maybe I could show you around.”
Liz smiled.
“I’d like that.”
The bell rang and students started to exit the halls and Liz looked down the hall.
“Well I have to, um, get to class. Do you have 6th period free?”
“Yeah.”
“Okay, I’ll meet you in the library. I think.”
Max smiled. Liz suddenly she felt like she was going to melt into a puddle.
“Bye.”
“Bye.” Max said as she left. Then he noticed something on the floor. Bending down to retrieve it, he automatically called after her.
“Hey you forgot your---”
He broke off and looked at the thing he was holding.
“Stake.” He said.
He looked at it again and couldn’t believe what he was holding. He was the only one standing in the hallway now and it was really quiet. He looked down at the object again and mumbled.
“Michael was right, it is her
Chapter 3
Liz sat in the back of her history class, earnestly taking notes. She really wasn’t that good with history, but science, science was her dream. She wanted and aspired to be a molecular biologist, but all that changed when her “destiny” came along. The teacher’s voice droned on and on while she tried to keep up.
“ Now the Crusades took place between the years of 1100-1300. The Crusaders were eventually beaten. If you look at the map on page sixty-three you can trace where each battle was fought…”
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Everyone opened their textbooks. Liz didn’t have one yet, and as she looked around at the other kids, a girl in the desk next to hers leaned over. She was tall and very pretty in a supermodel sort of way, obviously self-assured, and was wearing a killer outfit of tight leather pants and a mostly see-through shirt.
“Here,” the girl said. She moved her book so Liz could share it.
“Thanks,” Liz smiled.
“And what new instruments were given to the Europeans?” the teacher continued. Liz thought the class would never end. When the bell rang at last, the girl introduced herself.
“Hi, I’m Isabel.”
“ Hi, I’m Liz.”
“If you’re looking for your own History book there’s probably a few in the library.”
“Oh, great. Thanks. Where would that be?”
“I’ll show you.”
The girls walked down the crowded halls and Isabel glanced at Liz with interest.
“You transferred from Jefferson, right? In Chicago?”
“Yeah. Wow, news sure does travel fast here. I had about three others girls ask me the same thing.”
“Well, it's a small town, not much goes on around her without people knowing about it. But I would kill to live where you used to. Any place besides here sounds so appealing.”
“Roswell doesn’t seem that bad.”
“Yeah well you haven’t been here for the last few months. It’s been scary as hell. Anyways, why did you move here?”
“Because my family moved, I mean we all moved, but it was there idea and did I just sound like a total looney?”
Isbael laughed.
“Well, you’ll be okay here. You hang with me and it’ll be a breeze.”
They stopped at the fountain, where Maria was taking a turn.
“Maria!” Isabel raised a perfectly plucked eyebrow. “ Have you done the homework I requested? And the essay?”
Maria looked up.
“Screw you Jezebel. If you want homework done, do it yourself.”
Liz started to have a smirk on her face but quickly made it disappear.
‘I like her.’
“Well, Maria, I hope you know your social ranking just dropped.”
“Like I care hanging out with you and yours from planet ‘LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME’!”
“Fine, then never again.”
“You got it, Jezebel.”
Maria vacated the fountain. Isabel stepped up to it and glanced at Liz.
“Just one thing you have to know Liz, don't hang out and try to mingle with losers they only give you lip.”
She bent down to take a drink and Liz had a sudden urge to push her face into the fountain.
‘Can’t do that, promised mom you wouldn’t get kicked out.’
Liz look unhappily at the departing Maria, then followed Isabel to the library.
“Liz, if you’re not too swamped with catching up, you should check out the Crashdown tonight.” Isabel suggested.
“The what?”
“The Crashdown. It’s the only place worth going to around here. They let anybody in. You should show.”
“Cool, maybe I will.”
‘And maybe that cute guy Max will be there.’
When they reached the library, the two of them stopped in front of the door.
“Good. I’ll see you at gym and you can tell me everything there is to know about yourself.”
Isabel turned and went off. Liz, slightly thrown off by the idea of her whole life story being told, allowed herself an ironic smile.
“Won't that be a nice runon sentence?” She mumbled.
Liz entered the library, surprised at the elegance of it, the dark wood paneling, and the streaming sunlight across the floor, the shelves and shelves of books. A short flight of stairs led up to the second level of still more book cases, and with it’s large oak table and cozy study lamps, the room had a curiously warm country-house feeling. There didn’t seem to be anyone around. As she paused beside the check out counter, she happened to see a newspaper lying there; an article had been circled in red. The headline stated “Tess Harding still missing” and beside it was a blurry picture of the girl in her cheerleading uniform.
‘ Skank.’ Liz thought.
Liz wandered in farther. She peered around the counter.
“Hello…is anybody here?”
Without warning someone touched her shoulder. Startled she spun her face around.
“Do you need help?” the man asked politely.
Liz breathed a sigh of relief.
“I was looking for a extra book. I’m new.”
“Miss Parker.” The man said.
“ Good guess. Hvae Madame Vivian back there?"
"Excuse me?"
"Sorry, just a fortune teller I saw when I was....why am I saying this? Yeah, I'm Liz Parker and you are?
“I’m Mr. Valenti, the libraian.”
Liz studied him for an instant. Tall, slender, and with a cowboy sort of look. Kind eyes stared back at her from behind thin wire-trimmed glasses.
‘He could be a sheriff.’ Liz thought.
“ Great.” Liz smiled. “ So you have uh---”
“ I know what you’re after.”
“ OKay....now I think you just have ESP."
He turned and led her tot eh check out desk by the door. She watched curiously as he pulled a book out from beneath the counter and slid it toward her. Huge and leather bound, it bore a single word in bold upon it’s cover.
VAMPYR
It was the book from her nightmare.
Concern flooded through Liz’s face. She stepped back from the desk, but her gaze remained on the librarian.
“That’s not what I’m looking for.” She told him, her voice getting tight.
“Are you sure?”
Liz nodded
Mr. Valenti hesitated.
“My mistake.”
He replaced the book back under the counter.
“So,” he continued. “ What did you...."
He stared into he empty room.
Liz was gone.
~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*~
Maria carefully sorted through her packed lunch. She was so involved she didn’t even notice anyone approaching until a voice spoke behind her.
“Uh, hi, “ the voice said, “ Maria, right?”
Maria started to turn around.
“Why? So you can take advantage of my friendship and make me do things so I’ll be cool.”
Maria turned fully around.
“Oh, Hi, and no I will not do anything like that,”
“Why don’t we start with ‘Hi, I’m Liz.’” Liz suggested, sitting beside her. “And than let’s get directly to me asking you for a favor. It doesn’t involve you doing homework for me, but it does involve you hanging out with me for a while.”
Maria’s expression was doubtful.
“But aren’t you hanging out with Jez… Isabel?”
“Yeah, but I think your more of my type of person. She seems like she's so into her image I don’t I could ever have an intelligent conversation with her…but you…I can see myself doing that.”
Maria smiled.
“Cool, I’d like that a lot.”
Liz smiled.
“So, how you like it here so far?”
“It’s been okay met this really cute boy…” Liz gushed.
“You girls talking about me?” a voice asked.
The girls looked up and saw Alex walking towards them.
“Liz, this is Alex. Alex, this is Liz.”
“Nice to meet you.” Liz smiled.
“So Liz, what do you do for fun, what do you look for in a man, have any dark painful secrets you’d like you share?”
“Gee,” Liz’s tone was mildly sarcastic, “Everyone wants to know about me. How scary.”
“Well not a lot happens in a one Starbucks town like Roswell.” Alex confessed. “Your big news.”
“That's what everyone keeps saying...”
“Are these people bothering you?” Isabel asked suddenly appearing, a look of disgust on her face.
“Oh! No!”
“I don’t want to interrupt your moment of charity, but I just thought I’d tell you we won’t be meeting Coach Heigl, the woman with the chest hair, because gym was cancelled due a guy they found found dead in the boy's locker room.”
“What?” Liz said staring at her.
“What are you talking about?” Maria asked, looking alarmed.
“All I know is that he was dead.,” Isabel explained.
“Dead.” Liz repeated.
“Yes, like way dead.” Isabel confirmed.
“So, not just a little dead then?” Alex added.
Isabel looked at him, but it was a look of annoyance but of humor. Alex caught this but didn't say anything.
“How did he die?” Liz broke in, her gaze still steady on Isabel.
“I don’t know…”
“Well were there any marks?”
"Do I look like the coroner ?”
Liz stood up immeadietly.
“ I uhhh, I forgot some books in my locker. I’ll see you guys later.”
Liz left and went straight to the boy’s locker room. Unfortunately, Mr. Jeep was just coming out, closing the door behind him. She slipped behind a locker and waited for him to leave. When he was gone she went up to the doorknob. She twisted the knob, but it was locked. Liz looked around to make certain she was alone. With one quick tug, she pulled the door open, splintering the lock in the process. The she gave a one glance over her shoulder and slipped inside.
She saw the body at once, lying on the ground stretched out beneath a blanket. Hesitantly she approached it, feeling certain she wasn’t going to be at all pleased with what she found. Slowly she folded the blanket down from the corpse’s head and shoulders.
Grim frustration flooded Liz’s face. She stared down at the body.
“ Nice.... This is just what I wished for.” She exploded.
“What’s wrong? Vampire kill him.” A voice rang out.
Liz turned around in shock.
“Max!”
Chapter 4
“Max, what are you doing here?” Liz asked in shock.
He walked up farther out of the shadow of the lockers.
“ I heard about the dead guy. Thought it might have to do with a vampire.”
Liz couldn’t believe he was saying this to her, but she couldn’t let him know who she was…..yet.
“Vampires? What are you crazy?”
“Liz, I’m not stupid. I’ve seen them with my own eyes and I know you have, too.”
Liz was starting to get suspicious of ‘Little Mr. Know It All’.
“Really, and how’s that?”
Max pulled out the stake Liz had dropped in the hallway and held it up in front of him giving it to her.
“Because, you dropped this.”
Liz reluctantly took the stake and didn’t take her eyes off of it. Her cover was blown and she had to make sure he didn’t tell anyone.
“You can’t say anything.” She whispered still looking down at the stake.
Max walked up closer to her.
“I promise I won’t say anything, but you have to help find a certain one.”
Liz looked up instantly.
‘What was he talking about?’
“What do you mean?” Liz asked now looking up at his face.
It had grown serious and anger flashed in his eyes.
“ Her name is Tess Harding. That guy you see right there is my old best friend Sean Delfino, I know she killed him.”
Liz looked at the body. She was sad that Max had known this person, plus he was his best friend. Liz could feel tears forming up in her eyes thinking about a past similar experience. She blinked them away and looked back at Max.
“Why would she do this? I mean to him?”
“To get to me. You see when she was… alive she used to always hang around me. The night it had happened I told her off at a party. That was when she was attacked and ever since then she’s had this vendetta against me and my friends. And I need you to help me stop her before she does anything else.”
“Me? How could I stop her?” Liz was still playing dumb even though she knew he knew more than he should.
Max gave her a look.
“Liz, I know you’re the slayer. Truth is I thought you would be taller, or bigger, muscles and all that.”
“Gee, sorry to disappoint you.” Liz said sarcastically.
“You didn’t.” He said then immediately mentally kicking himself.
Liz’s started to move her mouth to say something but in the end she just looked down and blushed.
“Sorry.” He whispered looking at his feet.
“It’s….okay.” she said with a smile on her face.
“So…” Max said breaking the silence, “ I'm guessing we're gonna really need to talk. Are we still gonna meet 6th period in the library?”
“Or not,” Liz declared at once. “Or you know we could meet somewhere quieter. Louder. That place kinda gives me the heebie jeebies.”
“Ah, so you’ve met the new librarian?”
“He’s new?”
“Yeah, coicidence isn’t it? You’re new and he’s new? Could there be a connection?”
“Yeah… Max I gotta go.”
Liz started to make her way to the door but Max was close behind her. She turned around and faced him.
“Usually when someone says they’re leaving, the other person doesn’t follow this close behind.”
Max looked down and shrugged.
“The guy might have answers for me.”
“Answers for what?”
“Well…. Let’s just get there and I’ll explain.”
Max made his way past Liz and down the hall to the library and Liz was close behind him.
Chapter 5
Liz trailed behind Max as they made their way down the hall. Moments later they strode back into the library. Liz pulled Max to the side.
“Okay what’s the sitch?” she demanded. She wanted to know and she wanted to know now!
“Just wait, I’ll explain.” Max moved away from her and towards the stairs.
Mr. Valenti was on the stairs reading a book. He looked down and saw the two teenagers starting towards him.
“May I help you two?” he asked putting away his book. He knew that Liz must have found something, but he didn’t know where that boy that was with her came into all of this.
Liz made her way to Valenti before Max did. She looked right at him at she stood in front of him.
“You heard about the dead guy right?”
“Yes.”
"Okay and now while I’m in there and ‘Mr. I Know Your Little Secret’ pops up and suddenly reads me like a walking textbook. I want to know what you people know, and I want the truth starting now!” Liz breathed.
‘God, you’d think someone in town wouldn’t know I was the slayer’
“I was a afraid of this.” Valenti said sighing.
“ You? What about me? It’s my first day. I thought I would be behind in things like classes, and my hairstyle, and be left out of everything and not make any friends. I didn’t expect vampires to be roaming around in this town.”
She turned to Max.
“Now it’s your turn. Why do want answers and how do you know who I am?”
Max breathed and took a step forward.
“I’m an alien.” He blurted out.
He expected a little more a response. Liz just looked at him with a 'duh' expression on her face and Valenti didn’t look taken back by it either.
“Okay, Isn’t that bizarre? Aren’t you just gonna go ‘Ooooooh’?
“Ooooooh.” Liz said sarcastically.
He looked at both of them again.
“Aren’t you going to run out of here screaming and call the FBI or something?”
Liz looked at him.
“Well I’m not, but I’m not sure about Mr. Valenti over there. The kids say he’s filled with bottled up emotion. He might start to wail any second.”
“I will not!” Valenti protested.
“Sure, whatever. All I wanted to say is that I don’t care.”
“Then why are you here?” Max asked.
“To tell him that I don’t care, which I don’t! And so now that I have told you, I’ll be on my way…bye.”
She started to head for the door.
“Will he rise again?” Valenti called out.
Liz turned around.
“Who?”
“The boy.”
“No, he’s just dead. With the bad smell and everything that implies that you're dead."
“Are you sure?”
Liz shook her in annoyance.
“To become a vampire they have to suck your blood and then you have to suck their blood. It’s this whole big sucking thing. Like the way this conversation is. So good-bye now.”
“You have no idea what’s going on do you?” Max called out to her.“Do think its coincidence that you’re here? Sean was even the beginning and he won't be the end, either.”
“Hey, I was going to say that.” Valenti said.
Liz walked back over to the stairs.
“Why can’t you people leave me alone?”
“Because you’re the slayer.” Valenti chimed in.
“Yeah, yeah I know. Every generation, a slayer is born. One girl, in all the world, a Chosen One. One born with the strength and skill the hunt the vampires---blah, blah, blah, blah.”
Valenti looked troubled.
“It seems you have all ready accepted your duty, what’s with your attitude?”
“It keeps me sane. You know what I’ve slayed vampires before. I’ve both been there and done that. I’m done and I’m moving on.”
Max looked at Liz as she talked to Valenti. He knew everything she was going through. She had a destiny to do something she didn’t want to do. He felt the same way. Actually he was in the exact same predicament. He had this destiny and all he wanted to do was….be normal.
“What do you know about this town?”
“That the people in this town are freaks and obsessed with aliens and some actually live here.”
Max gave her a look and she shrugged.
“I believe this area is a center of mystical energy. Dig into it’s history a little bit. There are so many odd occurrences. This is the only explanation to why things tend to gravitate toward it that you might not find elsewhere.”
Valenti went in to his office and came back with a stack of books.
“Things in this town you never even belived existed do. Like werewolves, zombies, succubi, incubi…aliens.”
Max’s head snapped up.
“So we---I’m here because of some mystical energy?”
“I’m not actually sure, I’d have to refer to my texts.”
“God.” Liz looked at the book with disgust. She still couldn't believe these people. " Now I know you know I’m the slayer, but I’m retired. Hey I know! Why don’t you kill them?”
Valenti smiled and it took Liz by surprise.
“I’m a Watcher. I don’t have the skill.”
“Oh come, it’s easy. Right Max? Stake through the heart, a little sunlight---it’s like falling off a log.”
“The slayer slays,” Valenti explained. “The Watcher----”
“Watches?” Max asked.
“Yes. No!” Valenti recovered himself. “ He---he—trains her, and he prepares her---”
“Prepares me for what?” Liz answered angrily. “For getting kicked out of school? For losing all my friends? Having to spend all my time fighting for my life. Go ahead.” She looked at him straight in the eyes. He gaze challenging. “Prepare me.”
She turned on her heel and left. Max was the first to go after her.
“Liz wait.” He called after her in the hallway.
She turned around in a huff.
“What?”
He pulled her into a corner and tried to remain calm but his heart was pounding hard into his chest.
“I know how you feel. You have a secret that you can only keep to yourself and it kills you. You can’t tell the people you love because it might hurt them. I would love to tell them my secret. It might make it easier, but I can’t take that chance.”
Liz looked intently into his eyes.
“You really are reading me like a textbook.”
“I know it’s hard. But now you have me. You have someone who knows exactly what you’re going through and is able to get away with that excuse. I feel the way you do. I have a destiny too ya know. I have to do something that I wish someone else can do for me, but I can’t. It’s who I am. And the slayer is who you are. You just have to---”
“Accept it.” She finished for him.
“Yeah.” He breathed.
‘Is it getting warmer or is it just me?’ he wondered.
The bell rang and the moment was lost. Both sighed a breath of relief knowing that they could never be together. Their destinies were two different things and they just didn’t intertwine with each other. It could never be…It just wasn’t meant to be
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Valenti saw Max saw run after Liz and realized what had gone wrong. He was so intent into his thinking that he hadn’t noticed the shadowy figures lurking in the stacks. Now Maria and Alex emerged slowly into the light, a mixture of amusement, excitement, and a total disbelief on both their faces. They looked at each other for a long time then looked at the library doors. For a long time their lips moved without a sound. They turned back to each other and echoed the same thing throughout the silence.
“ What?”
Chapter 6
Liz went through the whole day just thinking about the way Max had confronted her in the hallway. She had never felt like that in her whole entire existence. And to top it all off he understood her like no one ever could understand. Liz looked up to see the teacher writing the homework assignment on the board. She quickly dotted it down and her eyes shifted to the second row third seat back. Yes, that was where Max was sitting. He was in most of her classes and she was glad that he was in her last period class. It was boring as hell, but time went by quickly as she just stared at him. She heard the bell ring and was quickly torn out of her thoughts. She picked up her backpack and gathered her books together. She walked out of the classroom and down the hallway towards her locker. She saw Maria and Alex deep in conversation standing near it. She walked up to them.
“Hey guys. What’s up?” She said putting in her combination.
“Nothing…we’re fine…see…fine…nothing to worry about… I mean we were thinking about anything peculiar…. cause we know that would be peculiar!” Maria said in a breath.
Liz smiled and started to chuckle.
“Is she okay?” She asked Alex.
“Yeah…here sniff some cedar oil.” Alex handed her the vial and she began sniffing away.
“Are you sure there’s nothing that’s bothering you two?” Liz asked suspecting something was wrong.
“No!” They both said.
“Right.” Liz said nodding her head not believing a thing.
Liz closed her locker and began to walk away.
“Wait!” Maria called out.
Liz turned around and walked back over.
“What is it?”
“We know.” Maria said.
“You know what?”
“We know that …that…. you know..”
“Okay, I’m lost.” Liz said.
‘This is way confusing.’ she thought.
Alex pulled Maria and Liz into a corner beside a row of lockers.
“We know that you’re the uh… the slayer.”
Liz started to laugh.
‘Liz remember: Deny, Deny, Deny’
“What’s a slayer anyway?” She asked innocently.
“Liz, we heard you and Max and Mr. Valenti talking. We know everything.” Alex said.
“Everything?” She asked gulping.
Maria sniffed her cedar oil again.
“Yeah, I mean you live in a town where everyone talks about aliens, but to find out they actually live among you is unbelievable!”
“Don’t say that word in public!”
“What word?”
“The “A” word!”
“Oh then what should I say?”
“Czechoslovakians?” Alex suggested.
“Alex, Czechoslovakia hasn’t been a country in like 10 years!” Liz exclaimed.
“Well have anything better?”
Liz thought for a moment.
“Fine, Czechoslovakians it is.”
“But Liz, do we know is Max is the only… Czechoslovakian?” Maria asked.
“No we don’t, but I’ll find out.”
“Well what about Isabel?” Alex asked.
“What about Isabel?” Liz asked.
“She’s Max’s sister.” Maria said then rolled her eyes.
Liz eyes practically bulged out of her head.
“Isabel…is Max’s…sister?”
Alex and Maria nodded their head in sync.
“So do you think….” Maria asked letting the question finish itself.
“I don’t know, but we’re gonna have to talk later about this.”
She opened her notebook and wrote down her number in it. She ripped it out and gave one to Alex and Maria.
“Here’s my number. Call me later.”
“Are you coming tonight?” Maria asked memorizing the number.
‘Boy am I gonna be calling her all the time!’ Maria thought.
"What's tonight?" Liz asked.
"My band and Maria are preforming at the Crashdown. We want you to come."
“Yeah I’ll come.”
“Great! See you there! And I’ll call you later!” Maria said smiling.
“Cool!” Liz said.
Liz put all her books in her backpack as she walked down the hall. She pushed the doors open and started to walk down the steps toward the sidewalk. It had gotten warmer since this morning and she couldn’t believe she had to walk in this heat. As if her prayers had been answered a green Jeep pulled up beside her.
“Need a ride?” A voice called out.
She’d know that voice anywhere. She bit her lip and turned around to see Max behind the wheel of the Jeep. Isabel was in the passenger’s seat and guy with spiky hair and a leather jacket was in the back seat.
“It’d be nice, but I don’t want to intrude.” Liz said calmly.
“You won’t be.” Max said then smiled to reassure her.
“Well, only if it’s okay with everyone else.”
Isabel smiled and shrugged her shoulders and the spiky haired dude just grunted.
“Get in.” Max said.
Liz went to the side of the Jeep and climbed in beside “Spiky”.
Isabel turned around.
“Hey Liz.”
“Hey.”
“Oh, don’t mind Michael, he’s like this to everyone.”
“It’s okay. I’m the same way most of the time.”
They sat in silence for a couple minutes.
“So you’re the Slayer, huh?”
“Michael!” Isabel shrieked.
“What?” Michael asked.
“It’s okay. Yeah, I am.”
“And I guess since Maxwell has a big mouth you know about us and so does they weird cowboy dressed librarian.”
‘So it is Max and Isabel…now this Michael guy? When Maria finds out she’ll flip!’[/i] Liz thought to herself.
“Yeah.”
“So you’re not going to freak out and call the FBI?”
“Nope.”
“Good.”
“There’s a little tiny problem though.” Liz said playing with her fingers in her lap.
“What kind of problem?” Isabel asked turning around in her seat again.
Max looked in the rear-view mirror and looked into Liz’s eyes.
“We’re weren’t alone when we were talking in the library.”
“Who else was there?” Max asked in a stern voice.
“Alex and Maria.”
Max pulled the car over to the side of the road.
Michael hit his head on Isabel’s headrest and Isabel laid back on it.
“Nice going Maxwell.” Michael said in a muffled voice.
“They’re okay though! I found them after last period and we had a chat and they’re okay with it. You for the most part.” Liz said trying to ease the tension in the car.
“Do they know it’s all of us?” Isabel asked sighing.
“No, well they suspect you, but they only know its Max.” Liz said looking down at her boots.
‘I need to get these cleaned.’
“Just don’t let them know that you know. And don’t worry about them saying anything about you in public you like the word alien. I’ve taken care of that too.”
Max smiled and started driving again.
“So you’ve just taken over everything have you?” Max asked.
Liz smiled.
“Yeah, I just don't want you getting hurt, I mean all of you.”
Isabel rolled her eyes and hid her smile.
“Flirt somewhere else please!”
Liz laughed and looked at her boots again.
The Jeep stopped and Isabel and Michael got out.
“I’m gonna drive Liz home. I’ll be back in a minute.”
“Whatever, Max.” Isabel said hoping out of the car, Michael joining her.
“You can get in the front if you want.” Max said.
Liz nodded and sat in Isabel’s previous seat. Max shifted the gear into reverse and they were back on the street.
“So what’s your address?”
“1630 Revlo Drive.”
“That’s not that far.”
“Yeah, that’s why I was gonna walk home, but this was good too.”
Max turned on to Revlo Drive and stopped in front of 1630.
“Thanks for the ride. I really appreciate it.”
“No problem.”
Liz leaned in and kissed him on the cheek. She pulled back bit her lip. She smiled shyly at him and hopped out of the Jeep.
“Hope to see you later.”
She waved to him and walked to her front door. She watched him drive away one hand cupping the cheek kissed. She smiled and chuckled and walked into her house. She closed the door behind her and banged the back of her head against it.
“Maybe this isn’t gonna be as bad as I thought it would be.” She muttered.
She dropped her bag on the floor and walked into the kitchen to see someone other than her mother in there.
“What are you doing here?”
Chapter 7
Liz looked into her kitchen again.
‘This can’t be! What was she doing here?’
Liz walked slowly towards her. She looked at her mom with a perplexed look on her face. She looked at the person in front and quickly pulled her into a hug.
“I missed you.” She whispered.
“I missed you too.” She said laughing, “ Can you let go of me now.”
Liz let go and backed off. She couldn’t stop smiling.
“Aunt Serena, what are you doing here?”
“Well, your mom said that it was a big house so…I’m moving in!”
Liz couldn’t believe it! Her aunt Serena was the best person in the world. She was her mom’s sister and a total knock out. She looked like “Posh Spice” and people even mistaken her for her. Serena always wanted to have fun and meet new people. She knew all of Liz’s secrets…. well except for the whole slayer thing.
“That’s great!” Liz exclaimed.
“Isn’t honey?” her mom said, “ This is going be so great. You’ll love Roswell, Serena. Jeff and Natalie will be back from New York City in two months, so you can help me unpack.”
Serena rolled her eyes and smiled.
“Gee, sounds like fun.”
Liz laughed at her comment.
‘Ask her and get it over with.'
“Umm mom.” Liz said.
“Yeah, honey?”
“Um, a bunch of people a t school asked me to hang with them tonight, is that cool?”
“Yes, go…have some fun.”
'YES!'
“Thanks.”
And with that Liz ran upstairs to get changed. She closed the door to her room and immediately dove into her closest. She pulled outfits that seemed worthy contestants.
She held up the first one to her chest. It was black, long, and little to…. dark.
“Ooookaay… little to goth.” She said throwing it back into the closet.
She held up the second one and stood in the mirror. It was a pink tang top and black pants. She nodded her head in approval. She undressed and put in on real quick and ran out of her room.
“I’m still good at this!”
She undressed quickly, put her slammin outfit on. S she was about to leave, her phone rang.
"Hello?"
"Liz, it's Maria!"
"Hey Maria! Man, do I have stuff to tell you!"
********
After listening to Maria talk about Michael and how she was in love with him, then hearing her shriek and snif after telling her he was an alien, then her telling her things about Max and how she was gonna gt him to be there, she ran down the stairs and to the front door.
“I’m leaving, Mom! Bye Aunt Serena!”
“Bye honey.” Her mother called out.
“Bye, sweetie.” Serena called out.
Nancy Parker heard the door slam and turned to her sister.
“I think it’s going to work out here.” She said with enthusiasm as she turned again and put cups on the shelves.
“Me too.” She said her eyes staring at Nancy’s neck.
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Liz waited on the long line until she was at the top. She handed the bouncer ten dollars and was automatically let in. She could the sound of music blasting and the place was crowded. She went up to the bar.
“Cherry Cola?” She asked.
“Coming right up.” The guy said.
She looked to the stage and saw Maria up in it with Alex and Michael. She smiled. She turned to see Isabel walk through the door, she quickly saw Liz and ran over.
“Hey.” She said.
“Hey, I didn’t know Michael was in a band. And Maria and Alex too.”
Just as Isabel was about to answer the announcer got on stage and began to talk.
“Welcome everyone…tonight for your listening pleasure I give to you…. “The Whits!” He screamed.
The crowd went wild and Michael started banging on the drums and Alex strummed his guitar along with two other guys. Then, Maria went up the microphone and started to sing.
He was a boy
She was a girl
Can i make it any more obvious
He was a punk
She did ballet
What more can i say
He wanted her
She'd never tell secretly she wanted him as well
But all of her friends
Stuck up their nose
They had a problem with his baggy clothes[/i]
Maria was staring right at Isabel as she sang the song. She couldn’t believe that Alex was making her sing this song. It was a great song, but he knew “Miss Soda Pop Treat” would be in the crowd. She saw Liz standing right next to her. She was laughing, smiling, and talking to the enemy. Probably and evil Czechoslovakian trying to murder everyone…or maybe not.
He was a skater boy
She said see you later boy
He wasn't good enough for her
She had a pretty face
But her head was up in space
She needed to come back down to earth
5 years from now
She sits at home
Feeding the baby she's all alone
She turns on tv
Guess who she sees
Skater boy rockin up MTV
She calls up her friends
They already know
And they've all got
Tickets to see his show
She tags along
Stands in the crowd
Looks up at the man that she turned [/i]
‘Okay Maria…song is almost over…keep cool… OH GOD MICHAEL IS RIGHT BEHIND YOU…calm down….’
He was a skater boy
She said see you later boy
He wasn't good enough for her
Now he's a super star
Slamming on his guitar
Does your pretty face see what he's worth[/i]
‘Song… Almost… Over….’
Maria started to dance on the stage her hands in the air jumping up and down. She was surprised to see all the people in the crowd copying her moves. Evan Isabel was doing it!
‘I’ve died and am now in “The Twilight Zone!”’
Sorry girl but you missed out
Well tough luck that boy's mine now
We are more than just good friends
This is how the story ends
Too bad that you couldn't see,
See the man that boy could be
There is more that meets the eye
I see the soul that is inside
He's just a boy
And I'm just a girl
Can I make it any more obvious
We are in love
Haven't you heard
How we rock each others world
I'm with the skater boy
I said see you later boy
I'll be back stage after the show
I'll be at the studio
Singing the song we wrote
About a girl you used to know
‘Whew it’s over…and hey they not liked it!’
She turned and saw everyone turning towards the end of the stage. Walking down the stage steps she started to freak out.
“They liked it! Can you guys believe that!!!!” She hollered.
Michael turned and faced her.
“You were really good tonight, of course they like you.”
She smiled at him.
“Thanks.” She said.
He half grinned and walked away.
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Liz was alone now. Believe it or not Isabel had gone over to talk to Alex and Maria was over flirting with a guy in the corner who she checked out and knew wasn’t a vamp. She heard the stereo being cued up and one of her all time favorite songs started to play. She was a little sad cause she thought Max was gonna show, but hey ‘carpe diem’ “Seize The Moment’. She looked around the room to a crowd of complete strangers.
“Great Idea.” She mumbled.
Just then a hand swung her over into the person’s arms. He looked down at her.
“You’re right. Great idea.” He said.
She smiled at him.
“I thought you weren't gonna show, Max.”
“Yeah, I don’t usually, but a certain someone convinced me.”
She chuckled. She put her arms around his neck, looked into his eyes, swayed, and listened to the music.
I've been watching you and all you do
For quite some time
Knowing all the ins and outs of you
I should've known what was on your mind
But all the world is spinning round and round
Inside my head tonight
I will fall into the darkness
And I fear I will never see the light
So let me in
All that I wanted from you
Was something you'd never do
So let me in
Oh please tonight
Don't let this end
Tonight
I'll Fall
Through no light the darkness seems to be
So very strong
How does one alone against the world
Find the strength to carry on?
What happened to the way we used to love
It seemed as though life had just begun
But now that love has come and gone to fade away
Like the setting sun
Cuz' you won't let me in.
All that I wanted from you
Was something you'd never do
So let me in
Oh please tonight
Don't let this end
Tonight
Cuz' I'm starting to fall
So let me in
It was all that I wanted from you
It was something you never knew
To let me in
But not tonight
For this is the end
Tonight
I [/i]
The song stopped, but they still swayed to the music looking into each other’s eyes. Then out of nowhere Liz’s cell phone went.
“Sorry she said.”
He smiled.
“No problem.”
She cupped one ear and put the receiver to her other ear.
“Hello?” she asked.
“Lizzie! It’s Aunt Serena.”
“Oh hey. What’s wrong?”
“What do you mean?”
“Nothing…so how far have you and mom gotten with the unpacking?”
“Lizzie you all right?”
Liz’s stopped still and tensed up.
“Aunt Serena. Where are you?”
“At home.”
“Where?”
“Uh Liz…Chicago. You alright sweetie?”
“Yeah I got to go. Bye.”
She hung up the phone. All the color drained from Liz’s face. Max ran up to her concerned.
“Liz what’s wrong?” He asked.
“That was my aunt.” She said plainly.
“Yeah?” Max said confused.
“She was calling from Chicago.”
“And?” He pressed still not catching on.
She looked up at his face.
“Went I left the house…she was there…alone with my mother.”
Max’s eyes bulged out.
“Come on.” He said pulling her out of the club.
They ran as fast as they could to the Jeep. They both hopped in simultaneously. Max fetched his keys out of his pocket and into the ignition. He started the Jeep up and barreled out of the parking lot driving straight to Liz’s house.
Leading them straight to god knows what…
More to come wait a sec......
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~Natty 
I promise that I won't forget you guys though! And don't worry about any new parts! They'll still be rolling in, but they might not be as long *ducks* What? You'll still be able to read the story...... Oh, and speaking of the story, here's the new semi part: