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Summary: The story starts off from when Liz got that phone call before she left for Sweden. She is at the airport but she doesn't know what to do, then Leanna shows up and tells her that Alex isn't dead. Liz doesn't trust her but it's her only hope of getting the truth so she goes with her.
The plane Liz almost got on crashes and she is believed dead. Alex and Liz return to Roswell some time after Liz's funeral but are not allowed to claim back their lives. They help and protect the others from a distance. How long can they keep their distance? And who really is Leanna? Please read and review!
Shadows
Part 1
As Liz raced towards the tiny plane in the middle of the night, her heart hammered with fear and anticipation. Anticipation of her finally getting her answers and fear of maybe finally having to accept that her best friend was dead. Maybe this was why she was going on this wild goose chase – because the reality of the events that had taken place hadn't sunk in yet. Maybe she needed some piece of evidence except seeing his dead body to realize that he was really gone, that he was not coming back.
Or maybe she wanted to believe in something, something that would help her deal with this once it finally dawned on her that Alex hadn't been killed but had died in a normal car accident.
I guess that's why I have been acting the way I have, because I don't want to accept it. Liz thought. She needed something or someone to blame and found that to blame the aliens would be the most convenient and rational way to do so.
Liz had to laugh at herself as she thought about this. If believing that aliens had killed Alex was the only way she could make sense of this, then her life was really screwed up. Her laugh turned bitter when she contemplated all that they had had to go through.
We didn't ask for any of this. None of us wanted to have such crazy, mixed up lives, not even Max, Michael or Isabel. She thought angrily.
Over the course of a year they had had to deal with distrust, the FBI, the Skins, Kivar, the dupes and now Alex's death. It all seems too much to take in at times. At times she wondered how they'd made it through the year unscathed. But then as Liz looked up at the plane she realized that they didn't come out unscathed. They'd all gotten scars that wouldn't heal easily, and maybe they didn't want them to either.
Maybe proving that Alex's death wasn't an accident wasn't the only reason she was going to Sweden. Maybe it was one way of healing her scars. Maybe it's the only way she could finally accept the truth.
Liz's cell phone began to ring, jarring her out of her thoughts. She quickly pulled it out, expecting it to be Maria trying to reason with her once Max told her about her plan. But what she heard on the phone left her stunned. Liz had to focus her thoughts to be able to realize what the new information all meant.
Alex was really killed by an alien. She might not have believed it totally before but now she had no doubt about it. If the building never existed, then Alex didn't really go to Sweden, which meant he was here all this time.
Liz shut off her phone in a daze after thanking the man. She turned around and headed back into the airport. It won't do any good to go to Sweden now. Now she had to figure out what she had to do next and for the first time in the weeks, she had no idea what she should do.