Re: Hindsight (AU/Adult, M/L) Chapter 18 08/01/09
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:09 pm
Title: Hindsight
Author: SpiderGirl
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Roswell belongs to Fox.
Rating: This is mature. If this isn't your thing then don't read it.
Summary: Things go wrong. They go about as wrong as they possible could and it takes someone with hindsight to try and make things right.
Pairing: Future Max/Future Liz, Mi/Maria, Isabel/Alex, Future-Present Liz/Max. I know that last one sounds odd but trust me all will be explained.
“It’s Pierce. I have a new assignment for you” he said dispensing with pleasantries “I want you go develop a rapport with the Sheriff. He knows things, things he shouldn’t know and I want to know why and how”
“Yes sir” she nodded as she did her exercises in her office
“Have you made any progress with the Harding girl?”
“Not much, she’s only started at school this week. I do know that she has a twin sister, Ava but they have different names. I can’t trace Ava’s name, it has nothing to do with either of their parents. It’s almost as if she chose it at random”
“In the file I have on the Harding’s, Tess is listed as an only child. I want a full dossier on this Ava girl. Are they living together?”
“Yes sir. They have an apartment they’re sharing with another girl...” she stopped exercising and opened the file that was on her desk “Laurie DuPree, she has a pretty hefty bank account and there’s a claimed relationship between her and a one Michael Guerin”
“Michael Guerin... he was in the CrashDown when that waitress was miraculous healed of a gunshot wound wasn’t he?”
“Yes sir he was. Do you think he’s somehow related to Tess Harding and Ava Parker?”
“Maybe... what was the name of the waitress was shot? I want you to get me a list of all these people and how they relate to each. There’s a bigger picture here, we just need to figure it out”
“The waitresses name is Liz Parker. I think you’re right, sir, Laurie DuPree is involved in a relationship with the Sheriff’s son. I’ll look into this and report back my findings” she said then rung off
“I wouldn’t do that if I were you” she looked up to see one of the students standing there
“Oh, you scared me! You’re Deluca, Maria... that’s right isn’t it”
“Don’t pull that photographic memory crap on me” she replied roughly as she came into the room and sat down in the chair
“What can I do for you?”
“I came here to help you. I didn’t believe it at first... you see I was in the girl’s bathroom when I heard. One of the girls in there was talking about a substitute teacher who’d got something wrong and then she said your name... after that I knew where I’d find you”
“I’m sorry, I’m not sure...”
“Kathleen Topolski of the Special Unit, FBI” stated Maria as she folded her arms over her lap and leaned forward. The older woman went pale and had to sit down
“How...”
“That doesn’t matter. What matters is you and your life” she told her “You and the choices you make with what I’m about to tell you. I’m not about to tell you everything, yes I’m a part of it, but I’m not sure you can be trusted. We’re going to need an ally and from what I know I have reason to believe that ally is you”
“You’re not making any sense. How do you know me?”
“Like I said that isn’t important. I know why you’re here and what you want... you’re looking for aliens aren’t you. Can I ask, out of interest, which one of us you’re investigating?”
“You... you’re an... an alien” gasped Topolski, she stood up and quickly went for the gun hidden in her draw
“No I’m not an alien. I’m completely human; not Antarian, not a Skin and not a shapeshifter. So I think you should put that away... we can’t exactly have a decent conversation if you’re waving a gun in my face”
“Maria? Are you in here?” both of them looked up to see Kyle standing there. As soon as he saw the situation he put his hand up and came into the room “Maria! What the hell is going on? That’s Topolski!”
“Kyle... put your hand down. I think we should both just calm down before someone gets hurt”
“What do you think you’re doing? Why come here?”
“You have the memories too. You know what happens to her, what Pierce does to her”
“Yes I know. I also remember I got shot!” he snapped angrily “Christ if the General knew what you were doing! Let along the King or Queen! How do you think they’re going to react when they find out you went to Topolski?” the older woman watched the two younger people arguing and slowly lowered her gun. Kyle noticed this and lowered his arm
“I think we should all sit down and talk about this. I want to know what’s going on” she suggested; she wanted to know everything about what they had been talking about.
“Crap. If we get hell for this then I’m going to blame you!”
“We’re not telling her everything. Just the stuff relevant to her life” Maria answered as he sat down in the spare seat and Topolski laid her gun on the table. Kyle held up his hand and the gun slid across the desk towards his open palm “Removing temptation” he said as he put the safety on and tossed it onto the small couch behind him.
She blubbered like a fish when she saw him using his powers in front of her, flopping back down in her chair she stared at him wide eyed
“Are you okay?” asked Maria
“You’re not an alien... but you are...”
“I’m a hybrid... god that’s weird to say that now! I’m... part alien” he said to himself then wriggled in disgust
“What about me? I’m going to give birth to the smartest Antarian babies who ever lived!” Maria giggled
“Hello... we’re talking about me here!” snapped Kathleen, a little annoyed that they’d started their own conversation
“Yes... right, sorry” said Kyle before continuing “You die. Murdered”
“I...” she looked round frantically “When? Who?”
“Pierce... in a few months time” Maria told her sadly “He tortured you and you escaped. You came to us for protection”
“How do you know what’s going to happen in the future? How do you know that’s going to happen to me? It shouldn’t be possible!”
“Because the King and Queen that I mentioned before, they came back from the future using a machine... I haven’t mentioned their names because they’ve been through so much. Much more than any person should go through; in their future there was a war and we lost. Their... our enemy took them from the Earth after he destroyed the sun and imprisoned them on the King’s home planet. They were locked away and tortured for ten years”
“The sun was destroyed!” she gasped. Maria looked at Kyle who just nodded
“Not just the sun... we lost, everyone did, we all lost... there was nothing left but the King and Queen. They were the last of humanity; they came back to this time so that it would never happen”
“That’s what we’re trying to do, protect the human race from invasion!”
“But Pierce screwed up along the way. In the line the King and Queen came from he took one of them... He took the King when he was just a teenager and tortured him for information. We’re working on making sure that doesn’t happen; we’re stopping all the events that could have lead up to the end of the world”
“What do you need me to do?”
“Be an ally to us, help us and bring us information on Pierce. He’s the one who can’t be trusted, he’s an evil man and he’s part of the reason things ended up the way they did. In return we’ll protect you... you’ll be a part of the group”
“Maria...”
“The Queen trusted her and she was right to do so. Topolski died trying to get us to believe in her! She was on our side and Pierce knew it and killed her for it!”
“Who are the King and Queen? What are they royalty of?”
“Well I guess Antar” said Kyle “But only the King is from Antar, the Queen was human”
“Was?”
“He changed her like he did with me. He brought us both back from the dead and because of that we’re different...”
“So that’s how you can do what you can do. But who are they? If you want me to trust you then tell me!”
“Kyle... you can show her part of the future can’t you. Show her the leaders of the resistance and what they went through” said Maria. He stared at her for a moment before nodding; Maria was Liz’s general just like Michael was Max’s. She wouldn’t have come if she didn’t think it was the right thing to do. He slowly stood up and walked round the side of the desk
“Will this hurt?”
“It won’t be painful...”
“But?”
“Brace yourself” he said then put his hands on her hand. She gasped as the images were passed from him to her. When it was over she resisted the urge to scream and throw up
“God! They lived through that! Max and Liz! Oh my God! Oh My God!”
“I think it’s time we went. If you need to contact us then you come to us, leave Max and Liz alone for the time being. I have to start my shift at the
CrashDown, life goes on”
***
Tess got home and sighed with relief, it had been a tough week starting school. Thankfully Kal and Kevin had helped her get all her stuff in Phoenix either sold off or brought to the new apartment she shared with Laurie and Ava
“Tough day at school?”
“The worst! God I have so much homework! You’re lucky you don’t have to do all that”
“Yeah lucky me” she mumbled as she worked on dinner. Tess watched her hurry around trying to make the evening meal almost to perfection
“What’s going on?”
“Adam... Adam’s coming round” she whispered “I’m cooking him dinner... oh Tess! I’m freaking out here! I’ve never been around boys apart from Zan and Rath! What am I going to do? What am I going to say? What if he hates me? What if he gets sick off my food and picks up the plate and throws it at me? What if Zan comes and finds that I’m alive and with another guy and kills Adam with the breadsticks! I don’t want Zan to kill him with breadsticks!” Tess just watched her rant with humoured disbelief
“Calm down... it’s just a date. He’s going to show up with something nice for you and you’re going to sit down and he’s going to see how much effort you put in the meal and just fall madly in love with you if he hasn’t already”
“Really?” she asked hopefully, Tess nodded
“Yeah, I really think so. It’s going to be fine...” she reassured her new sister then sighed “I’m going to go to bed. I’m not feeling too good; I’ve had a headache all day”
“Maybe you should see Max about that? We shouldn’t get sick”
“I’m fine. It’s probably just the stress of moving here and all the other... stuff” she told her twin “I want you to tell me all about it in the morning though, and if you’re worried about Zan coming to kill Adam with breadsticks then don’t put the breadsticks on the table” she said with a grin. Ava blushed but just nodded
“Night sis!” she called as Tess went into the room they shared with each other.
She kicked her shoes off under her bed before lying down and pulling the covers up over her, she had no idea why she felt so scared about going to sleep... she’d kept seeing things that scared her so much, things from the future that were so terrible and bad. They came every night but she would never remember it in the morning; it was getting stronger and she was beginning to remember brief flashes and images.
“I’m tired” she mumbled to herself “So tired” it didn’t take long for sleep to claim her, when she first started getting the visions in her dreams she’d tried not sleeping but that had just made things worse. She was still feeling the effects of the four days she stayed awake nonstop.
“Rose! Rosie!” she called as she stood in the park, her daughter was playing on the grass with her father “Let’s go play on the swings!”
“Okay mommy!” said Rose; she was five years old, almost six, and he’d surprised them both with a picnic at the park. She was beautiful, her little girl, with dark blonde hair and big blue eyes! Rose settled on the seat of the swing ready to be pushed when Tess smelt it... she looked around for a moment and saw Zan lying in the grass with his crutches by his side. He’d probably fallen asleep with how hard he was working it wasn’t really all that surprising
“Are you ready?” she asked turning back to their daughter
“Ahuh... I’m ready mommy” replied Rose as Tess began to push her higher and higher. Rose had been swinging back and forth for a few minutes before her voice got a little panicked “Mommy? What’s that? Mommy!” Tess grabbed Rose off the swings and pulled her close.
“Zan!” she screamed for him but he didn’t move. They were coming across the grass towards them and suddenly everyone was running. She didn’t want to leave him but she got the impression that he was already gone “Come on Rose! Run!” the two of them took off across the grass leaving the park completely.
It was much more violent on the main street, a few houses had already been destroyed and people just lay in the street as the enemy Antarians marched forwards blasting people with their powers. Rose was finding it hard to run so Tess quickly pulled her up into her arms which made running even more difficult; Rose was tall for her age and she wasn’t exactly the world’s tallest person!
She saw the light before she felt it, she could feel the warmth of blood running down her front and she realised she’d been hit. It all happened in slow motion; she fell forwards and tried not to land on her little girl. Tess lay there for a moment waiting to feel the pain but nothing happened.
“Mommy” whispered Rose
“Shush. Stay still... be quiet” she ordered softly, she knew that she was done for but her daughter didn’t have to die. She closed her eyes as an Antarian came over to see if she was alive, he stood for a moment before she sensed him moving away. Carefully peeking out of one eye she watched the line of enemy Antarians run further down the street until there were out of sight completely leaving behind smoking rubble and empty shells “Rose. Listen to mommy, I want you to...” she looked down at her daughter who was staring at her “Rose?” Rose was staring at her but her eyes were empty and unfocused, she looked down to see the large soggy red patch on her white shirt and she realised that she wasn’t the one who’d been hit. She couldn’t help but scream as she sat up and pulled her into her arms
“Aaaaaarhhhhhhhhhhh!” she screamed as she jerked awake in bed. She remembered it all and she looked down to find her arms empty “Rose!”
As soon as Adam and Ava heard her screaming they both rushed into her room, Laurie came out to see what was going on and stood in the doorway
“Tess? Sweetie? What’s wrong? What happened?” asked Ava as she cupped her sisters face
“My daughter! My little girl!” she sobbed “They killed her!” she glanced from her sister to Adam who pulled out his phone and called his father.
“Tess it was just a dream, it wasn’t real” Ava tried to convince her but she just shook her head
“No it wasn’t. I saw it! I saw it!”
“Ava, she has the power to see the future. She got it off Liz when Max replaced Tess as the Queen” said Adam before he went back to explaining what had happened to his estranged father “My father says to put her to sleep and get Max and Liz”
“No! No! I have to save my baby!” she screamed wriggling away from Ava to get away from them “No! Rose! My baby! I won’t let you take her away from me!” Adam snapped his phone shut and helped Ava corner Tess so she could put her back to sleep. She fought back but that managed to knock her unconscious using their powers and get her back into the bed
“You get them, I want to watch over her” she said softly
“No, you should come with me” he said as he put his hand on her shoulder “She’s dangerous and this just proves it. She was ready to hurt you to get this Rose back”
“Wouldn’t you try if you lost your child? And she’s not dangerous! She’s my sister! I know her. Why does everyone believe she’s evil”
“Because she is”
“I’m her copy... am I evil too?” she hissed
“You’re different”
“Why?” she snapped back angrily, she turned to glare at him “She’s not evil and if you really believe that she is when she’s done nothing bad except protect us and prove you all wrong. If she’s so evil then that means I am too and if you have a problem with that Mr Goody Two Shoes then I don’t see any future for you and me”
“Fine. You’re evil, you’re both fucking mad and evil and you should both burn in hell” he hissed as he turned on his heel and left the room. Laurie stepped aside as he moved through the doorway and watched him go before turning back to the twins
“Is she going to be okay?” she asked
“Fuck off!” screamed Ava angrily. She got up from the bed and slammed the door shut in Laurie’s face before returning back to sit on the edge of the bed “I would have called my daughter Rose” she told her sleeping sister as she stroked her hair back off her damp forehead
TBC...
Author: SpiderGirl
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Roswell belongs to Fox.
Rating: This is mature. If this isn't your thing then don't read it.
Summary: Things go wrong. They go about as wrong as they possible could and it takes someone with hindsight to try and make things right.
Pairing: Future Max/Future Liz, Mi/Maria, Isabel/Alex, Future-Present Liz/Max. I know that last one sounds odd but trust me all will be explained.
Chapter Nineteen
“Topolski” she said as she answered her phone “It’s Pierce. I have a new assignment for you” he said dispensing with pleasantries “I want you go develop a rapport with the Sheriff. He knows things, things he shouldn’t know and I want to know why and how”
“Yes sir” she nodded as she did her exercises in her office
“Have you made any progress with the Harding girl?”
“Not much, she’s only started at school this week. I do know that she has a twin sister, Ava but they have different names. I can’t trace Ava’s name, it has nothing to do with either of their parents. It’s almost as if she chose it at random”
“In the file I have on the Harding’s, Tess is listed as an only child. I want a full dossier on this Ava girl. Are they living together?”
“Yes sir. They have an apartment they’re sharing with another girl...” she stopped exercising and opened the file that was on her desk “Laurie DuPree, she has a pretty hefty bank account and there’s a claimed relationship between her and a one Michael Guerin”
“Michael Guerin... he was in the CrashDown when that waitress was miraculous healed of a gunshot wound wasn’t he?”
“Yes sir he was. Do you think he’s somehow related to Tess Harding and Ava Parker?”
“Maybe... what was the name of the waitress was shot? I want you to get me a list of all these people and how they relate to each. There’s a bigger picture here, we just need to figure it out”
“The waitresses name is Liz Parker. I think you’re right, sir, Laurie DuPree is involved in a relationship with the Sheriff’s son. I’ll look into this and report back my findings” she said then rung off
“I wouldn’t do that if I were you” she looked up to see one of the students standing there
“Oh, you scared me! You’re Deluca, Maria... that’s right isn’t it”
“Don’t pull that photographic memory crap on me” she replied roughly as she came into the room and sat down in the chair
“What can I do for you?”
“I came here to help you. I didn’t believe it at first... you see I was in the girl’s bathroom when I heard. One of the girls in there was talking about a substitute teacher who’d got something wrong and then she said your name... after that I knew where I’d find you”
“I’m sorry, I’m not sure...”
“Kathleen Topolski of the Special Unit, FBI” stated Maria as she folded her arms over her lap and leaned forward. The older woman went pale and had to sit down
“How...”
“That doesn’t matter. What matters is you and your life” she told her “You and the choices you make with what I’m about to tell you. I’m not about to tell you everything, yes I’m a part of it, but I’m not sure you can be trusted. We’re going to need an ally and from what I know I have reason to believe that ally is you”
“You’re not making any sense. How do you know me?”
“Like I said that isn’t important. I know why you’re here and what you want... you’re looking for aliens aren’t you. Can I ask, out of interest, which one of us you’re investigating?”
“You... you’re an... an alien” gasped Topolski, she stood up and quickly went for the gun hidden in her draw
“No I’m not an alien. I’m completely human; not Antarian, not a Skin and not a shapeshifter. So I think you should put that away... we can’t exactly have a decent conversation if you’re waving a gun in my face”
“Maria? Are you in here?” both of them looked up to see Kyle standing there. As soon as he saw the situation he put his hand up and came into the room “Maria! What the hell is going on? That’s Topolski!”
“Kyle... put your hand down. I think we should both just calm down before someone gets hurt”
“What do you think you’re doing? Why come here?”
“You have the memories too. You know what happens to her, what Pierce does to her”
“Yes I know. I also remember I got shot!” he snapped angrily “Christ if the General knew what you were doing! Let along the King or Queen! How do you think they’re going to react when they find out you went to Topolski?” the older woman watched the two younger people arguing and slowly lowered her gun. Kyle noticed this and lowered his arm
“I think we should all sit down and talk about this. I want to know what’s going on” she suggested; she wanted to know everything about what they had been talking about.
“Crap. If we get hell for this then I’m going to blame you!”
“We’re not telling her everything. Just the stuff relevant to her life” Maria answered as he sat down in the spare seat and Topolski laid her gun on the table. Kyle held up his hand and the gun slid across the desk towards his open palm “Removing temptation” he said as he put the safety on and tossed it onto the small couch behind him.
She blubbered like a fish when she saw him using his powers in front of her, flopping back down in her chair she stared at him wide eyed
“Are you okay?” asked Maria
“You’re not an alien... but you are...”
“I’m a hybrid... god that’s weird to say that now! I’m... part alien” he said to himself then wriggled in disgust
“What about me? I’m going to give birth to the smartest Antarian babies who ever lived!” Maria giggled
“Hello... we’re talking about me here!” snapped Kathleen, a little annoyed that they’d started their own conversation
“Yes... right, sorry” said Kyle before continuing “You die. Murdered”
“I...” she looked round frantically “When? Who?”
“Pierce... in a few months time” Maria told her sadly “He tortured you and you escaped. You came to us for protection”
“How do you know what’s going to happen in the future? How do you know that’s going to happen to me? It shouldn’t be possible!”
“Because the King and Queen that I mentioned before, they came back from the future using a machine... I haven’t mentioned their names because they’ve been through so much. Much more than any person should go through; in their future there was a war and we lost. Their... our enemy took them from the Earth after he destroyed the sun and imprisoned them on the King’s home planet. They were locked away and tortured for ten years”
“The sun was destroyed!” she gasped. Maria looked at Kyle who just nodded
“Not just the sun... we lost, everyone did, we all lost... there was nothing left but the King and Queen. They were the last of humanity; they came back to this time so that it would never happen”
“That’s what we’re trying to do, protect the human race from invasion!”
“But Pierce screwed up along the way. In the line the King and Queen came from he took one of them... He took the King when he was just a teenager and tortured him for information. We’re working on making sure that doesn’t happen; we’re stopping all the events that could have lead up to the end of the world”
“What do you need me to do?”
“Be an ally to us, help us and bring us information on Pierce. He’s the one who can’t be trusted, he’s an evil man and he’s part of the reason things ended up the way they did. In return we’ll protect you... you’ll be a part of the group”
“Maria...”
“The Queen trusted her and she was right to do so. Topolski died trying to get us to believe in her! She was on our side and Pierce knew it and killed her for it!”
“Who are the King and Queen? What are they royalty of?”
“Well I guess Antar” said Kyle “But only the King is from Antar, the Queen was human”
“Was?”
“He changed her like he did with me. He brought us both back from the dead and because of that we’re different...”
“So that’s how you can do what you can do. But who are they? If you want me to trust you then tell me!”
“Kyle... you can show her part of the future can’t you. Show her the leaders of the resistance and what they went through” said Maria. He stared at her for a moment before nodding; Maria was Liz’s general just like Michael was Max’s. She wouldn’t have come if she didn’t think it was the right thing to do. He slowly stood up and walked round the side of the desk
“Will this hurt?”
“It won’t be painful...”
“But?”
“Brace yourself” he said then put his hands on her hand. She gasped as the images were passed from him to her. When it was over she resisted the urge to scream and throw up
“God! They lived through that! Max and Liz! Oh my God! Oh My God!”
“I think it’s time we went. If you need to contact us then you come to us, leave Max and Liz alone for the time being. I have to start my shift at the
CrashDown, life goes on”
***
Tess got home and sighed with relief, it had been a tough week starting school. Thankfully Kal and Kevin had helped her get all her stuff in Phoenix either sold off or brought to the new apartment she shared with Laurie and Ava
“Tough day at school?”
“The worst! God I have so much homework! You’re lucky you don’t have to do all that”
“Yeah lucky me” she mumbled as she worked on dinner. Tess watched her hurry around trying to make the evening meal almost to perfection
“What’s going on?”
“Adam... Adam’s coming round” she whispered “I’m cooking him dinner... oh Tess! I’m freaking out here! I’ve never been around boys apart from Zan and Rath! What am I going to do? What am I going to say? What if he hates me? What if he gets sick off my food and picks up the plate and throws it at me? What if Zan comes and finds that I’m alive and with another guy and kills Adam with the breadsticks! I don’t want Zan to kill him with breadsticks!” Tess just watched her rant with humoured disbelief
“Calm down... it’s just a date. He’s going to show up with something nice for you and you’re going to sit down and he’s going to see how much effort you put in the meal and just fall madly in love with you if he hasn’t already”
“Really?” she asked hopefully, Tess nodded
“Yeah, I really think so. It’s going to be fine...” she reassured her new sister then sighed “I’m going to go to bed. I’m not feeling too good; I’ve had a headache all day”
“Maybe you should see Max about that? We shouldn’t get sick”
“I’m fine. It’s probably just the stress of moving here and all the other... stuff” she told her twin “I want you to tell me all about it in the morning though, and if you’re worried about Zan coming to kill Adam with breadsticks then don’t put the breadsticks on the table” she said with a grin. Ava blushed but just nodded
“Night sis!” she called as Tess went into the room they shared with each other.
She kicked her shoes off under her bed before lying down and pulling the covers up over her, she had no idea why she felt so scared about going to sleep... she’d kept seeing things that scared her so much, things from the future that were so terrible and bad. They came every night but she would never remember it in the morning; it was getting stronger and she was beginning to remember brief flashes and images.
“I’m tired” she mumbled to herself “So tired” it didn’t take long for sleep to claim her, when she first started getting the visions in her dreams she’d tried not sleeping but that had just made things worse. She was still feeling the effects of the four days she stayed awake nonstop.
“Rose! Rosie!” she called as she stood in the park, her daughter was playing on the grass with her father “Let’s go play on the swings!”
“Okay mommy!” said Rose; she was five years old, almost six, and he’d surprised them both with a picnic at the park. She was beautiful, her little girl, with dark blonde hair and big blue eyes! Rose settled on the seat of the swing ready to be pushed when Tess smelt it... she looked around for a moment and saw Zan lying in the grass with his crutches by his side. He’d probably fallen asleep with how hard he was working it wasn’t really all that surprising
“Are you ready?” she asked turning back to their daughter
“Ahuh... I’m ready mommy” replied Rose as Tess began to push her higher and higher. Rose had been swinging back and forth for a few minutes before her voice got a little panicked “Mommy? What’s that? Mommy!” Tess grabbed Rose off the swings and pulled her close.
“Zan!” she screamed for him but he didn’t move. They were coming across the grass towards them and suddenly everyone was running. She didn’t want to leave him but she got the impression that he was already gone “Come on Rose! Run!” the two of them took off across the grass leaving the park completely.
It was much more violent on the main street, a few houses had already been destroyed and people just lay in the street as the enemy Antarians marched forwards blasting people with their powers. Rose was finding it hard to run so Tess quickly pulled her up into her arms which made running even more difficult; Rose was tall for her age and she wasn’t exactly the world’s tallest person!
She saw the light before she felt it, she could feel the warmth of blood running down her front and she realised she’d been hit. It all happened in slow motion; she fell forwards and tried not to land on her little girl. Tess lay there for a moment waiting to feel the pain but nothing happened.
“Mommy” whispered Rose
“Shush. Stay still... be quiet” she ordered softly, she knew that she was done for but her daughter didn’t have to die. She closed her eyes as an Antarian came over to see if she was alive, he stood for a moment before she sensed him moving away. Carefully peeking out of one eye she watched the line of enemy Antarians run further down the street until there were out of sight completely leaving behind smoking rubble and empty shells “Rose. Listen to mommy, I want you to...” she looked down at her daughter who was staring at her “Rose?” Rose was staring at her but her eyes were empty and unfocused, she looked down to see the large soggy red patch on her white shirt and she realised that she wasn’t the one who’d been hit. She couldn’t help but scream as she sat up and pulled her into her arms
“Aaaaaarhhhhhhhhhhh!” she screamed as she jerked awake in bed. She remembered it all and she looked down to find her arms empty “Rose!”
As soon as Adam and Ava heard her screaming they both rushed into her room, Laurie came out to see what was going on and stood in the doorway
“Tess? Sweetie? What’s wrong? What happened?” asked Ava as she cupped her sisters face
“My daughter! My little girl!” she sobbed “They killed her!” she glanced from her sister to Adam who pulled out his phone and called his father.
“Tess it was just a dream, it wasn’t real” Ava tried to convince her but she just shook her head
“No it wasn’t. I saw it! I saw it!”
“Ava, she has the power to see the future. She got it off Liz when Max replaced Tess as the Queen” said Adam before he went back to explaining what had happened to his estranged father “My father says to put her to sleep and get Max and Liz”
“No! No! I have to save my baby!” she screamed wriggling away from Ava to get away from them “No! Rose! My baby! I won’t let you take her away from me!” Adam snapped his phone shut and helped Ava corner Tess so she could put her back to sleep. She fought back but that managed to knock her unconscious using their powers and get her back into the bed
“You get them, I want to watch over her” she said softly
“No, you should come with me” he said as he put his hand on her shoulder “She’s dangerous and this just proves it. She was ready to hurt you to get this Rose back”
“Wouldn’t you try if you lost your child? And she’s not dangerous! She’s my sister! I know her. Why does everyone believe she’s evil”
“Because she is”
“I’m her copy... am I evil too?” she hissed
“You’re different”
“Why?” she snapped back angrily, she turned to glare at him “She’s not evil and if you really believe that she is when she’s done nothing bad except protect us and prove you all wrong. If she’s so evil then that means I am too and if you have a problem with that Mr Goody Two Shoes then I don’t see any future for you and me”
“Fine. You’re evil, you’re both fucking mad and evil and you should both burn in hell” he hissed as he turned on his heel and left the room. Laurie stepped aside as he moved through the doorway and watched him go before turning back to the twins
“Is she going to be okay?” she asked
“Fuck off!” screamed Ava angrily. She got up from the bed and slammed the door shut in Laurie’s face before returning back to sit on the edge of the bed “I would have called my daughter Rose” she told her sleeping sister as she stroked her hair back off her damp forehead
TBC...