What if the women hadn't been there and it was just Liz and Max? What if they stayed in Roswell? What if no one found out their secret? Well this is what I think should have happened. This is a different version of graduation, it's mixed with the beginning of that episode and then goes into a bit of its own story and then the end is based on Max's grad speech.
Graduation
Liz Parker was working an evening shift, while Max Evans, her boyfriend, sat at the counter, lingering over a basket of fries and a coffee cup. Liz looked around the Crashdown and seeing no one around. Suddenly her eyes rested upon a used newspaper with a headline about the explosion at Rogers Air Force Base.
Then after cleaning up the tables a bit, Liz's attention fell on Max. He looked over his shoulder to see her looking at him and he smiled. Liz turned in the last ticket to another waitress who was working behind the counter, and sat down a few seats away from Max.
"What're you still doin' here? Got it hot for some local waitress?" Liz said while filling a salt shaker and smiling to her self.
Max looked down for a moment, then looked over and smiled. "That's the rumor. ...Have you heard from Northwestern yet?"
"Still waiting..."
"You must be nervous."
"...I'm trying to handle the whole college acceptance thing with grace and aplomb."
"'Aplomb'?"
"Yeah... it's an SAT word that I can't get out of my head. It's slowly driving me crazy."
"Liz. ...What if I came with you to Northwestern?" Max looked at her hopefully, but Liz hesitated a long moment before she answered him.
"Max... if you think that's something that you seriously think you could or would do, then fine. We'll... we'll talk about it. But otherwise... please don't put me through the whole emotional roller coaster?" Liz said and then she saw Max look down at his coffee and nod.
While at Isabel and Jesse's place
Isabel came home to find Jesse on the phone. She looked at him and then saw that he was still talking.
"So... this is for real. Well, I'm going to have to get back to you on that. Yeah. Bye." Jesse looked at her seriously and shook his head.
Isabel seeing his serious look then questioned him. "...What?"
"Ah... my friend, Chris Hobson. He just made partner at, ah, Langtree, Watkins and Sullivan. They're one of the top law firms in Boston."
"That's nice..."
"They need someone to take over their litigation department."
"Oh... So, Boston, huh? Well... what does it pay?" Isabel looked at him with worry on her face.
"350 to start." Jesse said to her trying to make her worried look go away.
"Jesse, get real, we can't live on 350 a week, especially in that city. I mean, the cost of living alone must be at least that-"
"No. 350... a year."
"...so, you ... you mean, it's..."
"Yeah. Three hundred and fifty thousand."
"A year?" Isabel asked and looked at him in shock.
Jesse smiled and laughed, "A year..."
Isabel ran and gave him a big hug. "Oh, dear God! Honey that is so great! Oh, my God!"
"So, does that mean I'm taking it? We're going?" Jesse asked her and she looked at him skeptically.
"Probably!" She laughed. They looked at each other again and she gave him another big hug. She is excited, but Isabel looks as though she has some misgivings.
Back at the Crashdown the next evening
Liz and Maria were working at the Crashdown. Michael Guerin was working the grill, and Kyle Valenti was having lunch at the counter. While moving by Maria, Liz touched Maria's hand and saw flashes of Maria getting raped and shot when she left the building, which was in a few minutes. Kyle saw Liz smile weakly at her friend and then walk away. Michael witnessed it too and went back to where Liz was at, with Kyle on his heels.
"Liz, what just happened?" Michael put a hand on her shoulder and Liz turned to face him and Kyle.
"I saw Maria getting raped and then she was shot. It was weird like I was-" Liz heard Michael finish her sentence.
"Seeing the future." Michael looked at her and then shook his head. Michael then realized that Maria had left and they all high tail it outside and see Maria walking home. Then they could see an arm reach out and grab Maria. Michael was running as fast as he could and Kyle hurried behind him with Liz in tow.
"Maria!" Michael yelled her name and then turned the corner to see a man trying to wrestle her to the ground. Michael tackled him in fury and knocked him out. Michael takes Maria in his arms and carries her to his trailer.
At the Trailer
"Liz, what happened back there?" Kyle asked her looking at her with sincerity and then just shook his head.
"Listen, I'm going home and then I'll come back in a bit. I'll go and get Max on my way back, okay?" Liz walked out the door and left. When Liz arrived home it looked as though her mother was asleep, but she was wrong.
"Elizabeth Parker, where have you been?" Her mother's words were slurred and then Liz hearing her, hurried upstairs. She grabbed as much of her things as possible and went back downstairs.
"Where's dad?" Liz asked before leaving, noticing he wasn't around.
"He left because I told him you weren't his child." Liz looked at her mother.
"Why would you do that?" Liz asked her and then her mother stood and viciously grabbed her daughter by the hair and slammed her into the wall.
At Max's house
Max heard a knock at his door and then when he opened it he found Liz standing there.
"We need to go to Michael's, Maria was almost hurt and I saw everything before it happened." Liz winced when Max turned away. They walked over to Michael's trailer and knocked. When they went inside Maria hugged her friend, making Liz scream in pain this time.
"Liz, what's wr-" Maria then lifted Liz's shirt and saw a huge bruise on her sides, then she turned Liz around and saw more little bruises and scratches all over her back.
"It's nothing." Liz lied terribly and to them and Michael took her to the back room.
"Lay down." He went back out to the room for a moment and Liz could guess he was getting him self prepped to try and heal her, but what was strange was that it was Michael who was going to try. Liz waited and then heard Michael close the door behind him.
"Michael, are you going to try and heal me?" Liz asked cautiously and saw him nod his head.
"Lift your shirt and do not lose eye contact with me." Liz nodded and instead of lifting it, took it of. She saw Michael look at her and she shook her head.
"I trust you and I know that you aren't going to hurt me." Liz smiled weakly and then looked at him straight in the eyes. He began at the top of her chest and then when he came to her breasts, his eyes widened at her in question.
"Go ahead Michael." She said to him without breaking eye contact. She lay still as she could while his hands moved slowly over her breasts and then down the rest of her body. Soon he had finished and she put her shirt back on.
"You never answered me. Why did you heal me?" Liz then saw him blush, but look away from her.
"I think that Max is losing his spunk?" He asked her in a way that said is-that-a-believable-reason-for-you.
"Michael, what's going on and why did Max even let you do this?" Liz stood and walked behind him and put her hands on his shoulders. She felt him immediately begin to shake and could sense he was nervous.
"I needed to see if I could sense anything from you and I needed the practice." Michael said and this was a better answer for Liz. She nodded and walked out of the room leaving behind a very nervous Michael. Once he heard the door close he picked up his cell and dialed.
"Yo, Lonnie, bring our little Mikey down here, I got what I came for." Rath said to the girls on the other end.
"Alright." Said the voice on the other end to Rath and he smirked, and then hung up the phone. He heard the door open and Maria came bounding in.
"Hey, 'Ria, you feeling better?" Rath asked her still pretending to Michael.
"Yeah, thanks to you, Michael." Maria kissed him and then Rath pulled her back for another and then Maria pulled back her eyes wide, when she could taste his spit.
"Rath?" She whispered and he glared at her and then looked at her innocently.
"Don't tell them, please. I just needed to know that Liz was okay and everyone here was experiencing the same thing our Liz was. I also kinda got a bit worried about you considering you were almost killed over on our side of the tracks." Rath explained scratching his head with Maria still in his lap, straddling him.
"Is Michael coming back?" Maria asked him and he nodded at her.
"I just made the call that will bring him back here. I'll leave ya'll alone after that I promise. Sorry about this." He said and then looked down at her, making Maria look down and realize she was still sitting on his lap and straddling him.
"No, my bad." Maria said and then she looked at him.
"I thought you had the hots for Liz?" She asked him while standing. He looked at her suspiciously.
"Well, kinda." He said and she shook her head.
"Then why did you kiss me once and then pull me back for more?" Maria looked at him and he blushed.
"Rath, answer me." Maria got up in Rath's face and then she kissed him again. He pulled her back to his lap and then they continued to kiss.
"Because I hated my girl and she was nothing like you. You're different." Rath whispered in her ear and then they moved to the bed where they continued to kiss.
"You know, you don't have to bring Michael back." Maria traced Rath's face with her fingers before letting him take them into his mouth to suck on them.
"You are one bad girl. I wish I could take you with me." Rath said to Maria while still suckling her fingers.
"Stay with me. Stay with me in my house. My mom's gone for god knows how long and I am quite lonely." Maria moaned to him and he smiled.
"Are you sure about that? What about Michael?" Rath asked her and then she stopped him.
"I don't know, Rath. I guess I need to see him." Maria looked at him and saw his face turn into a smirk.
"I knew it was too good to be true." Rath stood and moved away from Maria. Maria looked at him and tears began to form.
"Go ahead walk away, just away." Maria said through her tears. Rath heard her and sat back down and held her in his arms.
"No that ain't gonna happen. I don't walk away from my girl." Rath said without thinking and Maria looked up at him.
"Your girl?" She asked him and he smiled at her before speaking.
"Yeah, my beautiful girl." Rath said to her while moving a piece of blond hair from Maria's face. Suddenly they heard a bunch of noise and Michael burst through the door.
"MICHAEL!" Maria jumped into his arms and then Michael pointed at Rath and began to yell.
"You steal me, then you steal my friends, and then you try and steal my girlfriend!" Michael's face was beet red and he was angry.
"Michael, stop it." Maria wriggled from his grasp and stood protectively in front of Rath. Rath took Maria by the hand and stood next to her.
"Why do want to choose me?" Rath whispered to her and she looked at him.
"Because I like you more than I do Michael." Maria whispered to him and then turned back to look at Michael.
"What!" Michael then lunged at Maria and Rath slammed him back against a wall with his powers.
"Come on, let's go to my house." She led Rath out of the back and to the front room where the others stood.
"Go home, I ain't comin' with ya." Rath said to Lonnie and Ava and then turned and waited for Maria.
"Is that Rath?" Liz asked and then when Maria nodded at Liz, making her blush. Max looked like he could beat up Rath, so Maria told Liz what she was going to do.
"Control Michael because I am taking Rath with me to my house to chill. I'll be fine." Maria took Rath's hand and led him to her house. After getting inside and locking the doors, Maria heard Michael outside. She looked at Rath and he nodded at her in agreement.
"Michael, please stop this now." Maria said after opening the door and looking at him. Michael dropped to his knees and then began to beg her.
"Please, I'll do anything if you just agree to take me back. I'll change my ways. I want you and I need you." Michael looked up at her and she smiled at him.
"Give me time, Michael." Maria said to him and then he nodded at her. She went back inside and shut the door. Rath took her hand and walked with her up to her room, where she fell to the bed.
"I can't believe this is happening." Maria said and then saw Rath standing nearby, unsure of what to do.
"Don't worry about, 'Ria." Rath said to her and then Maria beckoned him over to lay on the bed with her.
"Let's just sleep on it." Maria said to him and he laid next to her and wrapped him arm around her waist. Now Maria had a very big decision to make………who would she choose, Michael or Rath?
Alright, here's a new fic for ya'll. Thanks to everyone who reviewed on my other one…….here's my thanks on here. Please review this one and vote…who should Maria go with Rath or Michael? Here are my thanks anyways:
SlayerStarr- thanks! You rock in many different ways! Thanks for being my first reviewers on like both of my new stories!
Hayley- Neither did I. That's why I redid it. I like fell back in disappointment and anger when they got that close and almost kissed. Thanks for liking that version. Hope you like this one too!
Grace – I have and I hope ya'll like this one. I wish I wrote for them too. I'd get to meet Brendan…droolsThanks for your review!
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