Roswell Fanatics

Title: Cosmic Attraction
Author: Nicola (dropchica formally know as nicfehr)
Disclaimer: I do not own anything roswellian, this is a story from my imagination.
Distribution: Nope, sorry.... email me if u really want it
Summary: Short fic about a new situation with Maria, somthing is going on and the group need to find out. Story is set in future, but alex is alive, tess isnt evil and everthing is as normal as season 1. Has a new charater named Strep.
Notes: This fic has two endings. I chose to write 2 because I wanted to reader to choose between them both and settle with whatever ending they desired....



PART 1
It was Sunday, the day Maria went to buy new oils. Her oil scent collection had grown considerably, since she realized that certain scents had a calming effect on her whenever she saw Michael, her one true love. He made her feel real, beautiful, and free. She couldn't wait until she saw him today at the mall.

Max slowly rose up from under his warm covers and sat up in his bed, his sister Isabel sat there waiting on a beanbag at the bottom of his bed. He rubbed his eyes with his clenched fists and then let rip and enormous yawn.
"That's disgusting I can see your tonsil's!" Isabel remarked to Max who was now pulling back the bed sheets.
"Well you shouldn't have looked, should you?" Max replied sarcastically to his sister. Isabel hoped Max that was wearing his boxers or jogging pants or anything for that matter! She didn't want to see anything she shouldn't. Max
slowly flung his legs out of bed and stood up. He had boxers on so Isabel was relieved, and she let out a long sigh of relief.
"What's the matter sis?" Max asked.
"Nothing, just a bit bored of waiting for your ugly arse to get out of bed," Isabel said smiling. "I have some shopping to do you know." Isabel continued, "Maria is taking me and Liz to the mall, so get dressed." Isabel gave a tug at the edge of the bed to help her to her feet. "NOW" Isabel shouted at Max.
"I'm going, I'm going, god don't get so upset!" Max said looking at Isabel's blank expression. Isabel pulled down her top, which had slightly risen up, when she had been crunched up on Max's beanbag and walked out of the room.

The street looked so empty in the morning, but Maria loved it. She felt as though she was the only one alive and that she had everything to herself, that was until she veered around Michael's corner and sure enough, there he was stood standing in the middle of the road waiting for her to pick him up.
"Hi, Michael" Maria said as Michael climbed into her car slamming the door behind him.
"Watch it," She said referring to the door. Michael didn't even look at her he just stared straight in front of him. "I said hey," Maria said repeatedly.
"Hey," Michael said bluntly. He then reached over and kissed Maria's cheek. Maria bit her lip to stop her from saying anything that she would regret later. She pulled away from outside Michael's house and headed for the Mall where she would meet Liz, Isabel and Alex. She couldn't wait to get near the others and away from her boyfriend, her sexy Michael!
When Maria pulled up outside the mall, Alex was stood waiting for her with Liz and Isabel sitting behind him on a bench. All of a sudden, Maria felt like she was getting a head rush, she felt cold and flushed. She blinked her eyes hard and walked closer to Alex. Suddenly another sharp pain ran through her body forcing her to wobble on her feet and outstretch her arms, looking for something, or someone to hold onto. Michael grabbed her quickly as she slumped to the ground. What was wrong? Maria screamed in agony then she opened her eyes; the pain was gone.

PART 2
"Are you alright," Liz said pulling Maria to her feet.
"Yeah it was just a headache." Maria replied.
"Thank God you caught me, I could have gone flat on my face." Maria said directing her comment to Michael who stood next her, looking concerned.
"Yeah, are you sure you're okay, you don't look too good." he said.
"Sure." Maria smiled and started walking towards the mall entrance. "Actually I'm going to go home and get some rest, I didn't get much sleep last night anyway."
"Okay, you want me to drive you?" Liz asked her, concerned for her friend. It was unusual for Maria to be ill.
"No I'll be fine, honestly." Maria turned and kissed Michael goodbye. "Call you later." Maria said as she pulled away from the kiss. "C'ya."

When Maria returned home, she put her car keys on her dressing table and collapsed onto her bed, sighing and closing her eyes as her head met her pillow. She tried to fall asleep, blocking out all the sounds around her, the passing traffic, her fish tank bubbling and the unconscious chirping of the birds outside. Then she felt it. A strong paralyzing pain ran down her spine traveling to the pit of her stomach, she screamed in agony when the pain started to travel up into her head. She gasped for air but she couldn't breath, she was drowning in her own pain. Laying there for what seemed like an eternity, she tried to open her eyes, hoping that the pain would go away, but she couldn't, she was totally paralyzed. Maria's arms shot to her sides, and were pressed into the bed. She suddenly sat up, opened her eyes and gasped for air, she coughed and the pain was gone. She then realized that she wasn't alone, a figure stood at the bottom of her bed. Maria blinked hard and looked again. There was a young boy dressed in blue standing at the end of her bed staring at her.
She'd never seen him before, but strangely she felt safe and she had the feeling that she could trust him. She opened her mouth to speak but no words came out. The boy reached out for Maria's hands and he clasped them tightly.
Maria sat up in her bed and rubbed her eyes, her alarm rang clearly. It was morning.

PART 3
Maria couldn't account for the whole day she had lost, maybe she had dreamt the whole incident with the boy, but it seemed so real, and the pain, that was definitely real. And what was the strange necklace around her neck. She hadn't seen it before. Her mobile phone rang to the tune of Beverly Hills Cop, Maria pressed the answer button and said hello.
"Hi Michael." She said knowing he would only call her on her cell phone and not at her home.
"So why didn't you call me? Michael asked.
"I was worried. Your never ill."
"I fell asleep, sorry." Maria said avoiding the truth.
"Meet me at the Crashdown in an hour." The phone went dead. Michael hung up. Maria put her phone on her bed and walked to her closet, looking for something to change into. She pulled out a blue sweatshirt and a pair of sparkly edged jeans. She wanted to look cute for Michael. She slipped into the clothes and put on some lip-gloss, knowing that in thirty minutes she would see her man.

Maria stepped out of her car and locked the door with the key. She looked towards the Crashdown window and sure enough there he was, Michael stood waiting for her as though he had all the time in the world. She opened the
door to the Crashdown and stepped inside. Michael sat down on a stool at the counter top. The Crashdown was closed so Michael had Maria to himself. He felt scared for some reason, the same reason that had kept him awake all night. Maria sat down at the counter while Michael looked on nervously. Maria was looking forward to a good make-out session!

"I saw." Michael said vaguely. Maria wasn't sure what Michael was talking about but she sure as hell wanted to find out.
"You saw what... my underwear!" Maria flicked her hair over her shoulder and giggled, she looked over at Michael and realized that he wasn't laughing with her, but instead looked rather serious.
"I saw your vision, well I don't know what it was exactly, but I know it hasn't happened before." "It happened when I caught you the other day, when you passed out." Maria looked at Michael knowing he was telling the truth.
"What did you see?" Maria asked.
"You, a boy, a necklace, that necklace and-" His words trailed off. Maria was confused; Michael had seen the boy before she had, how? She had, had the vision later that day, after she had seen Michael and the others. She
suddenly felt very dizzy and sick. Then it came, the pain she knew too well. Not now, not here, she thought.
The pain was tremendous, it speared through her brain, calving at her skull, making every cell in her body writhe with agony. Maria fell to the ground luckily caught by Michael. He looked shocked. He saw something, something new. He lowered himself to the floor so he was level with Maria. She opened her eyes and gasped for air.
Michael pushed her hair away from her face and kissed her forehead. Tears of pain ran down Maria's face, she wiped them away.
"You okay?" He asked.
"Yes." Maria replied.
"I saw it again." Michael closed his eyes and took in a deep breath. "It was before this life, it was my home planet, Isabel, Max, Tess, Nasedo and me; we were all there." "A lot of other aliens like us... and you." Maria looked into Michaels truthful eyes.
"Me?" Maria asked confused. Michael nodded his head slightly letting Maria know she was safe and she wasn't alone. He pulled her closer, comforting her sobs.

PART 4
The phone rang, Liz picked up the receiver wondering who would contact her so late in the evening.
"Hi. Liz?" A voice asked.
"Yes." She replied
"Its me, Max. Can you get everyone to meet me at the pod chamber A.S.A.P. it's an emergency."
"Why? What's happened?" Liz asked hoping something hadn't happened to him.
"Ill explain everything when you get here. I've phoned Isabel and Tess. Alex was with Izzy, so he knows too. Could you phone Michael and Maria? Tess is coming to get you to make sure you get here ok. Gotta go, cell battery is low."
"Yeah sure." The phone went dead and Liz hung up the receiver. Liz dialed the number to Maria's home. Maria answered with 'Yello'.
"Hi it's me, Max wants us to meet him at the pod chamber. Tell Michael. See you there." Liz said before Maria could even answer her.
"No problem, bye." Maria said to the tone while hanging up the receiver.
Maria pulled up outside the Crashdown. Michael was just finishing his shift. Maria let Michael get in, and they sped away. They sat in silence all the way to the pod chambers. Maria knew the route well; she and Michael had been there many a time on serious make out sessions. Maria slammed on her brakes and they got out of the car.
They walked up to the chamber, Michael pressed his hand on the stone and the door opened; they stepped inside. Max, Tess, Liz, Kyle and Alex all stood waiting for them. Max looked tense.
"Hi you guys, lets get started." Max said. "I've detected another alien and after some research, I've concluded that he's very dangerous. His name is Strep and he's very powerful, more powerful than all four of us combined." Max looked at his family.
"And you know this, how?" Michael questioned
"Nasedo. Nasedo has had trouble with him back on our planet. He's too strong for us. All of us won't stand a chance." Max continued. "He will kill us! That's why I had to tell you here and not at the Crashdown."
"What do we do?" Maria asked.
"We stay low, I don't want any of you getting hurt." Max said looking in Liz's direction.
"Well, well, well what do we have here, four aliens, four humans, eight idiots." The intruder had walked in on the group's discussion. Maria looked at Michael hoping he would do something.
Max put out his hand to attack the intruder, but he blasted Max across the chamber and into a wall without breaking a sweat. Isabel let out a whimper and ran to help Max to his feet. "Let me introduce myself, I'm Strep, I'm a Libra, I like dining out and exotic wines. And I'm going to kill you all, slowly and painfully." Strep smirked and raised one hand, he turned around and pointed it towards Liz.

PART 5
Michael's eyes glowed with anger, he reached out to save Liz, he didn't want anything to happen to her. Strep noticed and turned to face Michael.
"Now Now, naughty boy, do you want to die first?" Strep asked. Strep snapped his fingers and almost automatically the group were forced into a circle formation with Strep flaunting his stuff in the middle. He walkied towards Isabel. "So whats your name Isabel?" Strep burst into fits of sly laughter. He looked back towards Liz forgeting Michael. Kyle, Tess, Maria and Liz were all hopeless. Max was still quite hurt and Isabel had gone to help him, Strep let her knowing she couldn't do much. Michael strained to break free of the force. He focused his attention on Strep and in no time Michael was free of the paralysing power that held the group together. He placed out his hand to stop Strep from hurting anyone else. Strep once again saw him and acted quickly but effortlessly. Strep turned and cosmically threw Michael across the chamber slamming him into the back wall beside the pods. Maria screamed and suddenly broke free of the circle. Without giving it a thought, she focused on Strep, he wasn't going to hurt Michael and get away with it. Maria let out a short gasp of distress, she closed her eyes for a long second and let out her energy. Strep flew through the air and smashed into the rock that formed the entrance. Strep got up, confussed of Marias powers, and dusted himself off as though nothing had happened. He placed out his hand to kill Maria, she held out hers. Strep pushed out the power, a blue light bolt flashed throught the air, he was very strong, but another strengh, Marias strengh was overpowering Streps efforts. Maria suceeded and Strep hurled into the air before crashing to the ground. Maria forced out her power again, getting used to the drain she felt, before Strep could get to his feet. The door to the chamber opened and Maria forced strep out and over the cliff edge. She then weakly closed the chamber door with the wave of her hand. The group stood in shock. Maria fell to the ground in exhaustion. Michael, still sat on the floor, got to his feet and ran to Maria, he cradled his uncoincious love in his arms, crying and rocking Michael tried to control himself.
"Isabel, Tess help me." Michael pleaded with tone in his voice. Maria was dying, she was drained.


Max slowly opened his eyes to the plee of Michael. Max suddenly felt very strong, very normal, if thats what you could call normal. He jumped to his feet and looked in Michaels direction, he saw Maria cradled in Michaels arms. Tess was crouched next to them looking in Max's direction. Isabel grabbed his arm knowing he was the only one who could help. Max was the only one with the abilities to heal humans, the others could only heal each other, other aliens. Max rushed to Michael whos eyes were red and wet with tears, he had never seen him like this. He was uncontrolably shaking, rocking back and forth griping Maria with both hands. Michael simply looked at Max hoping he would help his dying Maria. Max didn't hesitate, he put his hands on Marias cheaks seeing a way to connect. He then positioned his hands on her chest above her breast. Micheal closed his eyes and tilted back his head. Max strained and broke away, he couldn't heal her. He tried again, but still, nothing. Michael broke down in tears and pushed Maria's lifeless body onto the floor. He wiped his eyes. Michael placed his hand on her chest planning to heal her. He felt the connection, Liz was crying uncontrolably in Alex's arms as the group looked on. Michael focused on healing Maria, the one he would die for, the one he would heal, the one he loved. He focused for almost five minutes.

Maria sat up almost casually and gasped for air before breaking down in tears. Michael cradled her as she cowered in his arms. She was like a child, she was afraid, she was upset but most of all confused of her power.


two endings to follow.....

Ending 1: Alien Excelleration

Maria climbed to her feet, Max was wary of her not knowing or believing what he had seen...
"Erm how did I do that?" Maria asked, as puzzled as the rest of the group. They stood in silence not knowing what to say.
"You are a skin, get away Michael." Max shouted.
"No, no," Maria pleaded "No" she continued. Maria fell to the ground once again. "I can't be!" She looked up at Michael who was looking back at her.
"Look Max, Maria's not a skin, we know her... you know her." Liz said.
"You're right, I'm sorry Maria, i'm just confused." Max admitted. He didn't hesitate to apologise.
"No I'm scared." Maria told the group.
"We all are Maria, we don't know what that was, Strep was strong, very strong but you," Alex continued "You was stronger!" he looked at Isabel wishing he could confort her.
" I'm scared Michael, I am no skin!" Maria remarked. Liz picked Maria up from off the cold floor and hugged her, she held her best friend tightly as she felt her shoulder turn slightly wet with tears.
"Can you do it again?" Kyle asked, eager to see the power that had killed Strep. Maria wiped her nose on the sleeve of her jumper and sniffed hard.
"I dunno, I mean I don't know how." she explained
"Focus, all you need to do is focus." Tess encouraged. Maria squinted her eyes and focused on a rock placed in the middle of the group. She placed out her hand and focused on moving the rock. She swiftly waved her hand to point to the ceiling of the chamber. The rock smoothly lifted from the ground and hovered in mid-air.
"Wow, this is so cool!!" Maria remarked at her power. Michael looked amazed. Then in one swift move Maria made the rock explode into millions of tiny fragments. The group shielded their eyes, ducking to stop the pieces from hitting them, but nothing. Isabel opened her eyes and saw the rock fragments had been turned into bubbles, lots of bubbles. The group let out a sigh of glee and almost childlike happiness as the bubbles hit their faces. Maria smiled and began popping them bubbles with her finger. Liz laughed and started to dance in circles around Max, playfully popping the bubbles that were appearing. The gang played for hours, they forgot about events, forgot about cares, chatted and relaxed, it was unusual, but fun.
" I'd better get home, my mum will the going mad!" Maria told the group.
" I think that goes for all of us." Isabel remarked. The group headed out towards the cars without noticing that Maria had opened and closed the door to the chamber with her hand.
When Maria got home, her mum was out, probably at a friends home or out with the Sheriff, her new-found love. She went upstairs, got undressed and climbed into bed. She felt her eyes slowly close.
" Maria, wake up." a voice said. Maria opened her eyes, not to find her mother, but the boy standing at the foot of her bed, the same boy who gave her the necklace and who stopped her headaches.
"Hi." Maria waved nervelessly.
"Hi Maria." the boy said " I'd better start, I only have a few hours." Maria smiled not knowing what the hell he was talking about. "Well, I guess you've broken loose, I knew it would happen soon, you developed powers Maria, strong powers. A human brain functions at like 5% of its knowledge, A skins at around 70% and well a hybrid at around 85% your knowledge is currently at 93% ish..."He was trying to sound funny but Maria was confused. "Look Maria, I know you're confused, my brain functions at 100% I'm like eternal life. In the year 3000 we all have the answer to everything, the royal four and you are very special. Since your Isabel died, well she was killed by an illness named 'Watchers Disease' it's almost a hundred times more complicated than say Aids. It is everything and unfortunately you are born with it Isabel was born with it and something in the air let off after the revolution set off, ignited the Disease. We miss her but we needed someone to take her place, the one, the only one Michael loved was you, so I was sent here to further your knowledge, if you like, but I sorta screwed-up, you overdeveloped." Maria suddenly knew she was definately dreaming, there was no way she was overdeveloped! "Your brain power, your physical power is much more developed than the royal four or the skins, evidently making you stronger. Maria, you cannot tell anyone other than the ones who already know of your power. Events must happen as normal, the Third World War, the end of the world, invasion 2850 all of it... don't worry we all survive, I don't really know why they called it the end of the world, I mean this dude invented this molecular machine which kinda saved us all." the boy started to giggle.
"Hmm excuse me," Maria asked. "If you lived through all this and you're still alive in a 1000 years, shouldn't you be like at least wrinkly and all old?" Maria said confused. The boy started to laugh.
"If your brain had the knowledge to do anything would you choose to grow old?" he asked making a point.
"Michael sparked the release of your power, you risked yourself for him, you proved you love him." He continued "And he loves you Maria, he loves you so much, and you, wow, your love is stronger than anything,greater than anything. Be greatful, you're lucky!" The boy vanished in front of Marias eyes, he was gone.
Maria walked into the Crashdown and headed straight for the backroom. The rest of her friends were there, she had to explain herself.
"Right, im not an alien! Maria exclaimed.
"Ok, you are Maria, how do you explain the whole power thing?" Max told her not believing that she hadnt excepted she was one of them now, that she was an alien.
"No, neither are you, you're human, it's just your brain is far more developed than say, Alex's." Maria told the group.
"HEY!" Alex was instuted.
"Don't take it personally. You can produce powers, Max, because your special in terms of that you are royalty, and thats it, sorta like, higher queen power, i mean king power!" Maria corrected herself. She knew she couldn't tell them the whole story and reasoning behind her power becaue it wold devistate the group to learn of Isabels death-to-come.
Maria explained as much as she could to the group, telling them of her visit from the boy, missing out the detail he was her child, saying that the love her and Michael share was special. Michael smiled at her conclusion, he knew it was special, she was special! She explained how her brain was excellerated by Michael, and that the necklace was suposed to keep the power underwraps, but it hadnt worked. She was glad it hadn't worked. Maria looked at the faces of the others in the group.
"The flash you saw, Michael, of us on your home planet, it is of the future not the past." The group looked confused not knowing any knowledge of any vision. Michael smiled. "Isabel, you wanna go shoping?" Maria asked
"Id love to.....tommorrow when all the shops are open!" Isabel giggled and gave Maria a little sisterly squeeze. Maria gigled and sat down next to Michael in a booth. He hugged he tightly kissing her forhead lightly as she sighed and closed her eyes.

Ending 2: Human Abduction

Maria climbed to her feet, Max was wary of her not knowing or believing what he had seen...
"Erm how did I do that?" Maria asked, as puzzled as the rest of the group. They stood in silence not knowing what to say.
"You are a skin, get away Michael." Max shouted.
"Yeah right Max, thanks, Im leavin'," Maria stormed out of the the chamber using her powers to open the door.

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The phone rang, Maria opened her eyes and picked up the phone from its hook, she heard the familar voice of Liz saying hello.
"Maria? Max was just over-reacting, hes sorry. We all want you to come to the Crashdown, were all here, we need to talk!" Liz's voice was fast so she could say all she wanted to say without an interuption or breath.
"Liz, ok, im sorry I stormed out like that, Ill be over in a minute." Maria sounded relieved that Liz had called.
"Ok Cya" Liz hung up the phone.
Maria walked to the closet in the corner of her room and opened the door, she raised one hand and used her powers to open a secret passage. Maria walked through. Inside was a room, quite dark but with high blackedout windows and one naked lightbulb in the centre of the room, a girl was crouched in the corner. Maria headed straight for her. The girl who looked excately like Maria was tied with ropes, gagged and unable to move. Maria riped away the gag that was in the girls mouth. The girl spat out the remaining material.
"Bitch!" she said, "You're never gonna get away with this, aslong as im alive ill..." Maria covered her mouth with a hand.
"Look, ok, im not bad, im evil, im not gonna kill you cause i need you alive, im gonna get Strep if its the last thing I do!" She screamed, holding one hand to her head, she twisted her neck. "Why must you all try to question everything I do." Her voice sounded almost childlike.
"Look Pipi, whatever your name is, if im suposed to be helping you, why the hell am I feeling like im not!" The real Maria spat out. The fake Maria looked angry.
"The names Piprar, P.I.P.R.A.R." She spelt out her name for Maria before grabing her by the hair, then letting it fall free only to smooth it back into place. "Piprar." She repeated calmly "Your helping by being out of the picture, got it?" She asked
"Yeah, but I don't get why you need me" Maria asked
"Visit by the son of Rath...contact to my home planet...Hello??" Piprar said sarcastically. "After I knew you had those visions... and Micheal knew about them I had to take things into my own hands, and besides I need to go home and this is the only way back to that god forsaken planet." Piprar smoothed "oh and besides I get to kill you when im done." Piprar deeply smirked and Marias gag had suddenly re-appeared, she tried to scream and break free of the ropes, but she was only wasting much needed energy. Piprar casually strode back through the door and back into the bedroom. The phone rang. She decided to let the machine pick it up. It was Liz.
"Maria,its Liz, Are you coming?" Piprar picked up the phone.
"Liz? Yep im on my way, it should only take me 10 minutes to get to yours!" She put down the phone. She picked up the jacket she had left on the bed and slid it onto her shoulders. She then slid her hand over the door to Maria, seeing her stare back, Piprar gave a smile and sealed the entrance shut. Picking up the car keys from off the dresser she walked out into the hallway, slamming the door behind her.