Once More With Feeling
by Tracy (biancaheart@yahoo.com)

Rating:PG

Category:AU

Spoilers: Ummm, I'm not really sure. Somewhere in season 3.

Summary: The Musical Roswell episode...a really stupid idea that just had to get out. Inspired by the Musical Buffy ep.

Disclaimer: I own nothing.


Max stood out on Michael's balcony. The stars were bright tonight. Very twinkly. Very stupid.

Stars were nothing but trouble. Max opened up his mouth and started to sing.

"I look up at the stars at night
And somehow nothing seems quite right
Go to school and play the part
Fight my battles in the dark
Memories taunting me
Why can't I escape this misery?

Star Light,
Star Bright
Would you grant my wish tonight
Take things back
Make them right
Star Light,
Star Bright

I can't go forward
I can't move ahead
My life goes on
Alone I tread

Star Light
Star Bright
Is this the Man
I'm supposed to be?
A helpless man
Not a king

Oh, Star Light
Star Bright
I wish I may
I wish I might

But it's not like you'd grant a wish
A wish is just a dream
That never comes true"

Michael groaned. "Max, would you shut the hell up?" He paused for a second. "And are you singing?"

***

The alarm clock rang.

Kyle rolled out of bed and hit the alarm. He started doing his morning push ups.

"Every day…it's the same old thing." He sang.

"Did I just sing that?" Kyle stopped doing his pushups and sat up straight on the floor. "No way, this is way beyond freaky."

"But freaky is normal for here…" He sang as he walked towards the closet.

"What in the hell?" He muttered as he flipped through his closet.

"I'm only seventeen
And yet my life's a mess
I have no direction, no pleasure, no rest
Moving here
And going there
Only unaware

I'm only seventeen
And I don't know what that means
I'm only seventeen…

When you're a teenager
You're supposed to run free
You're supposed to act irresponsibly
It's the time of your life, footloose and fancy free
Because you're only…
Seventeen

I go to school
And then I work
Paying the bills
Because my father's being a jerk
Playing in a band, what is that supposed to be?
Shouldn't he be the one supporting me?

Liz is in love
Alex is dead
Max has a son
Isabel is getting married
And me?

I'm only seventeen."

"Son?" Jim called "Do you have the radio on or something?"

***

Maria pounded on Michael's door. "C'mon, Michael we're gonna be late for school."

Michael opened the door, his hair soaking wet and a toothbrush in his mouth.

"You overslept again, didn't you?"

"Mgehehe." He mumbled.

"Spit the toothpaste out, Michael."

Michael nodded and ran to the sink. "You'll never guess what I heard last night."

"I'm sure." She rolled her eyes. "What did you and the guys do last night?"

"I had the night off."

"Oh."

"Max was singing."

Maria's jaw dropped. "Does he have a good voice?"

Michael shrugged. "Like I know?"

Michael, what's the deal?
Why won't show me the emotions that you feel?

Michael looked at her puzzedly. "Why are you singing?"

She shrugged. "I don't know!"

Maria, Maria
You're really a mess
A turbine, a twister, a typhoon at best
Blasting in here
Tearing up my heart
Yet it's like torture when we are apart…

Maria smiled.

"Michael, Michael,
I must be insane
How could I let a Snapple chugging Czechoslovakian invade my brain?
But when you're with me
It's like I can fly…

Michael took Maria's hand and they started to dance around the apartment.

"You make me feel like a king
You put the stars up in the sky
You annoy the hell out of me
And you make me want to smile

I don't know what I did to deserve someone like you
My blessing from the stars turned out to be you
And if I never find my way
Back to Antar then that's fine
Cuz all I need is you, and a Snapple by my side.."

Maria looked up at Michael. "A Snapple?"

He spun her around, and Maria began to sing.

I always wanted a storybook love
My prince in armor so true
The man I loved would be so perfect,
But somehow I fell in love with you…

"Hey!"

"Well it's true!"

"Once you said you loved me too much,
And then too much to go,
But you stayed
And our love remains
And I found my prince…

"You found your prince.. He echoed.

" I found my prince…with a Snapple by his side."

Michael bent down and pressed his lips to Maria's.

***

"Hey 'Ria, do you have the notes for history?" Kyle asked.

"Yeah." She said, grabbing them out of her locker.

"Thanks. You're a lifesaver."

Maria smiled. "Yeah, I know I'm great. Kyle…"

Kyle looked up from the notes. "Yeah?"

"Did anything funny happen to you today?"

His eyebrows piked up. "Define funny."

"You didn't…by chance…break into song?"

He nodded. "You too?"

"It must be some sort of epidemic or something."

"What?" Liz said slamming her locker shut. "Did I miss something?"

"Oh, nothing." Maria said. "Just a little fun and frivolity."

"And musical numbers." Kyle added.

"What are you two on?" She laughed.

"I wish I knew, Liz." Kyle said, shaking his head. "I wish I knew."


***

"Order at table twelve is up, Lizzy."

"Okay, Dad."

Liz took a deep breath. She was sick of working, sick of all this crap. Sick of seeing Max behind her parents' backs, sick of having secrets.

Another order, another request Liz started to sing.

"What the?" She walked over to table twelve and dropped off the order, and then walked into the breakroom.
"Be the perfect daughter
Get the perfect grades
Date the perfect boy
Just be perfect in everyway

Well I'm not perfect,
You don't really know me
I have feelings
I can cry
I can hate
No I'm not perfect"

"Lizzy?" Jeff Parker stuck his head in the door. "Are you okay?"

"Just fine, Daddy." she said with a fake smile.

She left the Crash Down and started to wander around downtown Roswell. Not that there was much of a downtown, but still..

"I'm not sure if there's anything that's perfect
A perfect love can fail
A perfect future can crumble
A perfect dream can fade

And maybe imperfect is about as perfect as I can get".

***

"So what kind of flowers do you want for the wedding?" Jesse asked, looking through a bridal magazine.

"Purple roses." Isabel answered with a smile. "My favorite."

"Really?" He wrinkled his nose. "I didn't know that."

"That's not all you don't know." Isabel sang in a breathless voice.

"Huh? Iz, are you okay? And why are you singing?"

I'm more than meets the eye
A blessing and a curse
A vixen and an innocent
Two sides of one coin
Little girl and women in one…

"I can see you
I see myself in your eyes
The eyes that are ageless than ever
Calling me, drawing me
A siren of my very own.. Jesse sang, rising from his siting position on the floor.

"I'm more than meets the eye
I have lived before
A history, a present, a future, all tied up in one
I'm more than meets the eye,
And you don't know me, you couldn't know me…
I don't even know myself."
"Our hearts beat as one, Isabel
I can see you,
I can feel you,
I know you
And you are mine
And soon we will be together forever.

"There is no such thing as forever.
Certainly forever fades away.
There is no forever" Isabel sang, dropping Jesse's hands and sinking to her knees, tears streaking down her face.

***
There was a knock on the door.

Amy De Luca stood there with a smile on her face. "Hey there." She leaned up and kissed Jim on the lips. It's time for lunch."

He smiled. "Come on in."

"How goes the job search?" She asked, sitting the picnic table down on the kitchen table. The room was filled with old newspapers, all still in the plastic protective baggie.

"It's going, definetly."

"You haven't even looked, have you? How are you managing to eat, to stay alive?"

"Kyle has a job."

"He's only seventeen."

"I was only seventeen…"

"And do you want him to turn out like you?"

Jim flinched. "Amy, that was harsh."

"I'm…I'm sorry, Jim. But you know, you do have a second chance."

Jim took her hand in his.

You are my second chance
My dream come true
For so many years I walked alone
And then I turned around, and there was you
You are my second chance,
My shooting star.
The only place I want to be, is Amy, where you are."

Amy blushed.

"Never thought I'd love again
Never thought I'd trust
Thought my experiences in the life department were destined to go bust
I never thought I'd love again
Tucked my heart away
And then you came, and blew all that away."

They joined hands and started to dance a quick latin dance around the kitchen.

"A second chance,
A second love
A chance to do it right
A second chance for family…

A chance to have a best friend
A chance to chase a dream
A chance to weather the storms
A chance to wake up in your arms…

Many years ago,
We almost blew it
But somehow we came through it
And we're stronger than before…
Much stronger than before…

Jim dropped down on one knee. "Amelia Rayanne De Luca, will you marry me?"

***

"QUIET!" Max yelled, getting the group of frantic teenagers in Michael's apartment to be silent for a second.

Five pairs of eyes stared at him.

"So let me get this straight, everybody has been singing?"

"It's really quite disturbing." Liz muttered. "It's like a bad Hollywood musical. Or some bad plot device."

"I'm actually a much better singer than I ever thought I would be." Michael remarked, leaning back. "I mean, man, I've got pipes."

"This has to be some sort of alien thing, right?" Liz said, looking at Max.

Kyle rolled his eyes. "No, it's your normal, everyday human thing."

"Shut up, Kyle." Max snapped.

"Maybe I don't want to." He replied.

"I'm the leader."

"But you're not the only one that has problems, you're just the one that's blind..

"Oh great, here it goes again." Maria groaned.

"King of the world, King of some distant star
You don't even notice the world where you are
Your so called friends and family,
Are falling apart
And you don't see a thing."

"That is so not true!"

"When was the last time you stopped to think
About anyone but yourself?
When was the last time that you thought about anybody else in this mess?

[/i] "Time is a luxury I don't really have."[/i] Max countered.

"King of the world, king of the world
The world revolves around yourself
Max this, Max that
King of the world, king of the world,
The world's imploding
And you throw out the welcome mat.

"You want to be king
You used to be cool
You want to be the one to rule." Max stood up and started circling around Kyle.

"You don't understand, you don't understand, you don't understand."

You want to go back to how things were be

And then they started to sing in sync, taunting each other.

"You want to be king
You want to rule
King of the world
King of the world
King of the world
You want the power in your hand."

"King of the world, you want to be superman."

"You wouldn't be alive if for the power in my hand.."

"King of the world, king of the world, king of the world, king of the world..

Max and Kyle reached out their hands at the same second, as if they were both going to collapse.

They touched hands and both fell into a dead faint.

Michael's eye widened. "Do you think they worked out some aggression, or what?"


END ACT 1