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"Max, I still think it's a bad idea." Liz Parker whispered to her husband, watching Kal Langley activate the Granolith. "I don't trust him at all."
"We talked about it before." Max curtly answered while his eyes followed the shapeshifter's moves. "We have no other choice left Liz."
"We could wait for a couple more days." Liz said not backing up easily. "We haven't talked over the details Max. What if he blows it up?"
"That's a risk I'm willing to take." Max replied her question sharply. "Look, we have no time. The only thing we could do is to hope for the best. He's going and he's doing it right now."
Liz surrendered hearing the determined tone in his voice. She knew there was no use arguing with him. "If he does something stupid, Serena will be dead for nothing. Nothing, Max!"
"What about everyone else?" Max snapped. "If we don't try now, they all will be the ones who died for nothing. Do you really want that Liz? Do you?" His eyes clouded with fresh tears.
"Let me go." Liz tried for one last time. "I don't trust him, let me do this."
"No!" Max shouted which caused Kal to turn to them and glare. Max's ears flushed and he went back to whispering. "It would be too dangerous, I told you. He has to follow my orders and he will. Besides, he's not doing it for us. He's doing it for himself."
"Time is up!" Kal called out not bothering to look at them. Max quickly walked up to him.
"Remember everything I said. You need to follow exactly my orders. If you screw up, it will be over. For you too Kal. Don't forget, if you do this you can go back and live your old glamorous life."
"I know." He coldly spat. "I lost everything the day you showed up in L.A. I'm just doing this for everything to go back to the way it were."
After that he stepped into the Granolith and closed his eyes. Max and Liz ran outside and stopped some distance away where they could watch Kal go. Max grabbed his wife's hand and turned to her fully.
"I love you Liz. I know I haven't said that for a long time and I know I couldn't make you happy. I couldn't give you the life you deserved. But I never stopped loving you, even though I didn't show it recently."
"I know." Liz gave him a weary smile. "I don't blame you, we've been through a lot."
They could hear Granolith humming loudly. Max squeezed Liz's hand and shouted. "This will be our second chance. You'll always be my destiny Liz, no matter how many times we change our future."
Liz took a one last glance of the man she once was head over heels in love with. Then, she shut her eyes tightly as she heard a loud crash. She still could feel Max by her side and she knew they only had seconds before the end. A tear rolled down her cheek but she never got the chance to wipe it off before everything went dark.
x x x x x
"She is gone." Liz cried out. "Isabel is dead."
Max's knees buckled but he tried to regain his power. "Did you get it?" He asked trying to suppress his sobs.
"We have it." Michael answered not hiding his fury. "We lost Iz for a stupid piece of rock which we don't even know how to alternate. We don't know if it would work and you still sent your sister to die there Max."
"Don't!" Max yelled. "Don't blame me for what happened Michael. Don't you know how hard it is for me to make decisions? Something bad happens and I'm always the responsible one. I can't do this anymore, I can't keep losing everyone I love." His voice trailed off.
"Please." Liz piped in. "Please stop it. I'm gonna start working on Serena's instructions now if you stop fighting." She waited for both of them to involuntarily nod, then she turned to Kal. "And you, you didn't do something out there to help us a bit. We should have never taken you with us."
"I don't care about any of you." Kal snarled. "Why would I do something to help the traitorous princess anyway? I told you before, the only reason I'm here is because you sent the FBI after me and I need to stay with you to keep alive. Other than that, I hate all of you."
Liz spat at the royal four's supposedly protector's face and stormed out of the room.
x x x x x
"I couldn't save him." The door swung open revealing a sobbing Max. "He died in front of me and I couldn't save him."
"Oh God!" Liz ran to him pulling him to a tight embrace trying to take control of her tears. She knew she had to be strong that moment. She bit her lip as Max blamed himself frantically.
"It's all my fault Liz. He was the only one left and I couldn't do anything to save him.",
"Look." Liz got up disentangling herself from him. "I finished working on the Granolith today. I think it's ready."
"We have to fix this mess we created." Max got up too and started pacing around. "We have to save all those innocent lives. You should have never gotten involved. Maria, Kyle, Alex.. They all died because of us. And you gave up your life, your dreams. Was it worth it?" He shouted. "Tell me."
"No." Liz told the truth. "It wasn't. I'm sorry Max but it wasn't worth all the pain."
"I know." Max collapsed to the chair. "But I'm not giving up on you. We could find a way to be happy, in a different future. All we need to do is to find another way, to make less mistakes. We have to try.."
"Max!" Liz cut her off. "I don't think.."
Max suddenly slid up from the chair."Go get Kal here." He ordered determinedly not listening to what Liz was saying.
"Why?" Liz asked tiredly. "What are you going to tell him now?"
"I'm gonna tell him what to do when he goes back into the time." Max casually replied. "He's going to 1999, to prevent you from getting shot."