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Chapter 16- The Ghost Revealed
“Alex!” I whispered the words echoing off the walls of the dark living room.
“Hello, Liz! I think we need to talk?” he said, walking towards me and out of the shadows. As the question left his mouth, the shock wore off of me and I jumped off of the couch where I’ve previously been sleeping.
“We need to talk! Ya I bet! How about that your fucking dead!” I yelled.
“Shhh...... your gonna wake Allie,” he whispered.
“Ya, her coming down and see her sister talking to a dead guy,” I whispered. Alex stepped towards me until he was standing in front of me. He cupped my face with his hands and forced my face towards his. I knew I could have kicked his ass out of the house a long time ago, but i couldn’t help but wonder if it was actually him and he was alive.
“I will explain everything from start to finish. But, you need to listen and calm down,” he said to me. Waiting until I nodded and let me go, I flopped down on the couch and he followed.
“That wasn’t me in the car,” he said as I looked over at him and I tucked my left leg under my body.
“Who was it?” I asked.
“A skin, he hid in the back when I stopped for gas and he tried to kill me. We fought and I ended up rolling out of the car,” he explained.
“So, Alex....... you aren’t dead.”
“No, I’m not dead,“ he said smiling.
“Okay, so you aren’t dead..... So where th hell have you been all this time?”
“I’ve been with Max’s people. They have set up a base on Earth temporarily, they found me one night on the side of the road unconscious. Since then I have been helping them with computers, they have been showing me high tech computers and I upgraded some of the parts that needed to be. Plus, I’ve told them about Max and the other’s to help them get to know them a little better.”
“Why didn’t you go back to Isabel and everyone else?”
“Because before we could, Kivar had already put a spy in Roswell and was already close to them. I would have put there lives in danger if i went in and if i could help it just by staying away I would.”
“So, you just left them with a spy?” I asked confused.
“No, we warned someone that could help,” he explained.
Before I could ask who, I remembered words those two mysterious people said to me.
"The royal four are in danger, there is someone on the inside that has captured all of their hearts. You are the only one that can help them."
“Me.”
“Yes, Max’s and Isabel’s parent’s came to you,” he explained.
My eyes widened, “That was their parents!”
“In the flesh.”
“I have another question.”
“Go ahead.”
I leaned toward him and asked, “How the hell did you find us?”
“One of the Max’s people had the day off and went in town to a gallery and found one of your pictures,” he explained.
“That’s bullshit, there is no possible way one of those pictures ever getting tracked back to me. So, I’ll ask you again how did you find me,” I yelled pointing my finger at him.
He looked at me and I could tell that he was thinking and then he looked me straight in the eye, “When Allie used her powers a couple weeks ago, the pattern of energy was recorded and showed up on one of our scans. We were able to zero in on you in this town and then I looked for in the........”
“At the gallery, “ I interrupted.
“And found your address,” he finished. “Liz, we weren’t the only ones to find the energy, Kivar’s group did too.”
My face felt red and I could hear my blood pounding in my ears, “How long?” I asked in a whisper.
“An hour maybe two, five-ten minutes your guess is as good as mine,” he said shrugging
“I better go get the kids,” I said while I slowly got up, my mind still trying to process the news.
“Kids?” he asked confused.
I spun around and stared at him, it sounds like he didn’t know about the girls. “Yes my two daughters.”
“Liz, you don’t have one daughter let alone two,” he said his voice filled with confusion.
“I do, Eva and Hope I was pregnant with both I remember,” I said to him. “There sleeping upstairs” I was interrupted by the sound of screeching on my driveway and footsteps on the way up the door. I took off running out of the living room and up the stairs, running straight to Eva’s room. I yanked the door open and gasped, the walls were now white instead of the sky blue that we painted it when we moved in. The small bed that used to be in the middle of the room had a king size bed now resting in it’s place. All the pictures were gone from the dresser and had a bed side table.
Running out the room and to the next room and just as Eva’s room, Hope’s crib was no longer in the room and the walls were no longer yellow. The change table and dresser were gone, the chest that use to be filled with her old clothes, memorabilia and pictures were no longer there. My heart wouldn’t stop racing and all the sudden Alex’s arm’s wrapped around my waist and lifted me off the ground. Before I knew what was happening I was over Alex’s should and down the stairs, pounding on his back and swearing at him. I knew something was wrong the strength I was using he should have been on the ground by now in extreme pain. He placed me in my SUV and ran around the other side speeding out of the drive way.
“Where the hell are they and who the hell are you?” I yelled.
“Allie’s in the back,” he said calmly. Spinning around and just as Alex said Allie was laying across the back seat , I reached over to her and moved the hair from her face, watching as she stirred from her dreams and then calmed again.
My eyes got heavy and my body started to feel like a ton, my mind started to wonder as I felt a prick in my neck. My eyes closed and everything went black.
I opened my eyes slowly wincing as the light hit them. My body ached and I slowly got up, I looked down to see Allie laying beside me. Looking around the room, I saw we were in a small room hardly big enough for more than the bed and a dresser. I felt Allie stir beside me and looking down saw her eyes open, stroking her hair as she finally opened her eyes fully.
“Liz, where are we?” she asked looking around, her voice still filled with sleep.
I slowly explained to her last nights events stopping at the point of Eva and Hope.
“Allie you remember Eva and Hope, right?” I asked her not stopping stroking her hair.
She looked at me puzzled and then nodded, “Yes.”
“When I heard them coming I ran upstairs to their rooms. The rooms weren’t their’s..... i mean they were their’s but their stuff was gone their dressers, beds and photo’s everything. The room’s look like guestrooms or something..... Allie there was no sign of the girls.” After I finished we sat there in silence as the knowledge washed over us. Footsteps echoing from the outside hallway and stopped outside the door after a few moments I saw the door handle jiggle and then open. Two men were in the doorway, a blonde man stood beside Alex, “Welcome to Saraha,’ the stranger said to us.
“Who the hell are you?” I demanded sliding up on the bed so I was sitting in front of Allie.
“Well, you’ve already heard of me before......... my name’s Kivar,” he said leaning against the doorframe smiling.
My eyes widened at the name and I felt Allie squeeze my hand to the point of painful. I turned to Alex who just like the stranger had a smile on his face which made my body tremble. For a couple of moments I studied him carefully looking up and down, “You’re not Alex.”
His smile widened and then he swiped his hand over his face, his skin colour, nose, eyes and mouth turned into someone else’s and his hair colour changed from Alex’s brown hair to a red. “My name is Nicholas.” he said to us. “You should know by now that you are special.”
“You have a gift that could....” he pauses for a moment selecting his words carefully, “help us.”
I laughed and asked, “You think we will just do what you want on the snap of your finger. You are sadly mistaken.”
“You see Ms. Parker we weren’t giving you a choice. You either help us or we kill your dear sister,” Kivar says, snapping his fingers soldiers filled the room. Two of them made there way to the side of the bed where Allie was sitting and grabbed her arms, pulling her off the bed. Scrambling off the bed towards them, two of the soldiers grabbed my arms from behind and pushed me down on the bed holding me there, “You see there isn’t many choices for you, you either agree to help us or you don’t and you will be leaving your children motherless and without an aunt. Now what do you choose?”
I looked over at Allie being forced between the two soldiers. Looking back at Kivar, I nodded and whispered, “Okay!”
His smile grew if that was possible and he snapped his finger once and the soldiers le me go, “Well, it will be wonderful working with you.” Snapping his fingers again the soldiers that were holding Allie let her go. Grabbing her arm I pushed her down on the bed beside me wrapping my arm around her shoulder. “I think you might need this,” he said tossing a round silver disk no larger then the size of a silver dollar on the end of the bed. “Just put it in there,” he replied pointing to the wall the dresser was on.
The soldiers, Nicholas and Kivar started to leave the room, once everyone had gone Kivar stood in the doorway by himself, “Just call it a gift and a promise of what will come.” Waving his hand, the room disappeared and in it’s place a new one appeared. The room was huge and even the bed was different, slowly I got off the bed and walked around the room, the first thing I noticed was the room was no longer empty there was an extra dresser and a large vanity, one that someone would have seen on all those movies of the olden days. The second thing that caught my eyes was a set of french doors walking toward them I opened them and the site that caught my eyes was breath taking. Walking out and looking down I saw water laying below but instead of blue the water was a deep purple colour. “I can’t believe he actually brought us to another planet,” Allie said walking beside me and leaning her elbows on the railing and laying her chin on her hands.
I wrapped my arm around her shoulder, “Do you know what planet we are from?” I asked her.
“No but I heard about it; it’s Kivar’s planet there’s hardly any other people on it, just a couple of villages and the people working in the palace which I guess we are in..........Do you think he has the girls?” she asked standing up and leaning into my side and leaning her head on my shoulder.
“I don’t know cheeks...... I don’t know,” I whispered kissing the top fo her head. Moments past and then minutes and soon I felt Allie’s body lean more into mine and felt her yawn against my shoulder. I guess the drugs that they gave up weren’t out of her system yet, I would probably be tired if I wasn’t a transgenic. Looking once more at the purple waves crashing against the shore I turned around and led Allie over to the king size bed. Laying her down on the white sheet and covering her with the white blanket on the end of the bed.
Standing up I heard something fall to the floor looking down I saw the silver disk that Kivar that thrown on the bed earlier laying there. Reaching down I picked it up rolling it around in my fingers looking at it closely, walking over to the wall where Kivar had pointed to earlier and pushed the button and a slot opened and slowly put the disk in. The room got dark and in front of me a hologram stood.
everyone was there, they were all sitting on benches and some on the floor. A strange man stood behind an empty chair.
Lindsey was sitting on the floor in between Max’s leg’s, “Liz, Alexa, Eva and Hope are all dead.”
“Yes, I found their bodies myself. But, once we did the test it was negative they were skins,” the stranger told them.
“So, they were kidnapped?” Maria asked.
“Yes, that’s what the information so far has told us. Sir, we could find out where they are?” the stranger said to Max. I could see the questions running through his mind.
“No!”
“But sir...... it could take us no more than an hour?”
“NO! They left us behind there is no longer our problem. Come on let’s get lunch,” he replied standing up and taking Maria’s hand and..........
The hologram froze and flickered and a new one started to appear. When it cleared up I could see that it was Alex.
“Hey Liz,” he said smiling.
“Alex!”
“Yup the one and only, I’m not a hologram I just used it as a signal like a piggy back. It’s like talking on a video phone on the computer,” he explained. Watching me and looking at me closely he assured me, “It’s really me, I’m no skin or shape shifter or one of Kivar’s men.”
“I don’t believe you,” I whispered, not to wake Allie.
“When we were kids we would go out with Maria and after we would drop her off instead of going straight home we would go to the park and swing on the swings,” he stopped and then continued once he saw I still didn’t believe him. “You were afraid of water, until you were ten I convince you to come in the water as long as you were holding my hand and I said if by any chance something happened I would let you cut my hair.........Liz I know one of your abilities is knowing when someone lies. So, am I lying?” he said.
I stared at him for a good couple of minutes, “No, you’re not lying.........So, where have you been? Was Nicholas telling the truth?” I asked.
He smiled at me and leaned back on the chair he was sitting on. I had to admit it he looks like he’s worked out. He is defiantly different even the clothes. “Kinda! Max’s people did find me that night but I didn’t stay with them . I left and travelled from city to city and continue to stay in contact with them. Plus, i did help them with everything Nicolas said and mor. But around the time you were captured I have been staying with them.....”
“Wait,” I said interrupting him. “What do you mean when you said the time I was captured?”
He looked at me strangely, “Liz you’ve been with Kivar a week.”
“A week! Oh god!” I cried pacing. “What about Eva and Hope! My babies!”
“Liz calm down, “ he said and I looked over at him. “I have them.”
I stopped in my track and stared up at him, “What!”
“They were hiding in your room , when we came in and saw them. I brought them here to the base.”
“Are they safe?” I asked still worrying.
“They’re safe, happy and spending all their time with their Uncle Alex.” he replied smiling, the secret smile he saved for only me. We spent a lot more time together than people thought and we got a lot closer. He probably knew me better then any one even though I never told him the truth and he knew I was hiding something from him he never pushed. Even when he would sneak in my room at night and holding me when I was crying after I had a nightmare.
“Good; so when are you going to tell me what’s on your mind,” I said smiling.
He laughed “You always knew me best.”
“Just tell me....... I believed you about you being you . Know you owe me....Just tell me,” I said.
“The, I guess you could call him the leader..... wants me to ask you if you would get some information from inside the Kivar’s palace,” he said his head hanging.
I looked at him, “ Even if I did say yes, it will take me a month or two.”
“Just say no, please Liz! Say no and I will get you out of here as soon as I can,” he said quickly at the same time begging. Silence met our ears as the two of us didn’t know what to say and questions rolled through our minds.
“How important is this information?” I asked, already knowing the answer.
“Liz.....”
“Just answer..... How important?” I asked again a little more harshly.
He rubber his forehead and looked at me straight in the eyes. “It’s just one out of the two steps that could defeat Kivar for good,” he explained. “But, please I can’t take a chance of losing you for good.”
“Alex do you know who I am?” I asked.
“That you’re a transgenic, yes.”
“Then you should know that I can take care of myself. You said it yourself it will help, that’s one more step for giving us a normal life, for Eva, Hope, Allie and you and me.”
I could see him thinking and I knew everything was screaming to say no again. “Okay, but only a month, a month and half at the most. Promise me no more then that.”
I smiled up at him and replied, “I promise, now we have to figure out what to do with Allie.”
“I’m staying with you, “ I heard from behind me. Turning around I saw Allie sitting up on the bed cross legged. “You’re all I have Liz and I can’t leave even if you could get me out. I’m not leaving you in here your everything to me,” she told me standing up from the bed and walked over to me and I wrapped my arms around her shoulders.
“So, it’s decided,” he mumbled; I could hear the worry and sadness in his voice.
“Right,” we said together.
“Just remember as long as tomorrow you go to Kivar and tell him you are on his side, you will be fine. We have learned a lot about him and he will not hurt you, you two are what he needs to win this war. He will do anything to keep your faith and allegiance with him. The rings in the left drawer are the only thing keeping us connected just push the stone if anything happens or if you are in trouble,” he said. “ Goodbye, stay safe and come back to me.”
“Keep my girls safe Alex, and I love you.” We waved goodbye and he blew us a kiss and disappeared leaving us in the dark. Allie wrapped her arms around my waist and buried her head in my side. I hugged her tighter and kissed her head, whispering, “It’s just you and me now cheeks.”
