Liz looked across the table at the dark haired woman, Madame Vivian.
"I've never seen the cards fall like this before. The boy, he's different." she said as she looked at the cards on the table.
"Yeah." she replied not unsure of how to answer
"He's very important, this boy. A leader."
Ok, this was starting to get a bit strange. "Yeah, he has this whole other destiny...one that doesn't include me."
"No. He chooses love." she replied, her voice filled with excitment.
"What?" she stuttered, nearly falling off her chair in shock
"He chooses you."
"No, no, no, no, see, that's impossible." she tried, it couldn't be true.
"The reading is clear. You marry your true love. You have happiness." she replied before pointing to one of the cards. "The card here? Intimacy, sex. You will not be left wanting."
~*~*~*~*~
Liz picked up her grandmother's shawl from her bed and put it over her head like a veil, looking at herself in the mirror, a smile that showed she was both sompletely happy, and a little giddy.
"I, Liz Parker, take Max Evans to be..." she said softly, before jumping twards her mirror as a loud noise was heard on the balcony.
~*~*~*~*~
"Liz, I know this is all hard to believe..." the man who looked like Max said as he followed her around her room.
"Wh-what? You expect me to believe that the...the granilith is like some sort of time machine?"
"It wasn't intended to be, but it does have an enormous amount of power, and we were able to modify it to artificially create a tear in time space." he explained
~*~*~*~*~
"In approximately 10 seconds, I will show up outside your window and begin singing to you...accompanied by a mariachi band."
"As I threw the flowers up to you, I remembered you preferred white roses."
Liz watched as the roses changed from red to white as they were in the air, then caught thwm, smiling down at Max and his mariachi band, trying to ignore the man behind her...The other Max.
"I can't tell you too much, Liz...only what you need to know...but 14 years from now, we are taken over by our enemies."
"Everyone. Earth. I need you to help me keep that from happening. We need to change the future."
"I don't entirely understand it myself, but Serina said...she's gonna be a friend of yours one day."
"Liz, what's about to happen over the next few days is critical to the history of this planet. Things between us are about to change...grow deeper. We become inseparable, and nothing comes between us ever again, until... "
"The...the end of the world?" she said softly in reply.
~*~*~*~*~
"The four of us - Michael, Isabel, Tess, and I...we made a complete unit. We all had different gifts, and with one of us missing, we weren't as strong, and everything fell apart."
"It's you I trust. It's you I have faith in,"
"We eloped. We were 19."
"If we succeed in changing history, a different version of the future will take place. All the events that led to who I am 14 years from now will be different. The man I am now will cease to exist."
~*~*~*~*~
"No. The night of Gomez I came to your room. That's the night that things between us were cemented. "
"Cemented. So when you say cemented, you..." she asked in shock
"We made love."
~*~*~*~*~
"What...what's happening?" she asked when she saw his hand go through the box of tissues.
"This must be it. What you did must have worked. I'm leaving."
~*~*~*~*~
"Just 25 minutes before I came here, I held Michael in my arms...dead. Isabel died 2 weeks before that. Now you have to do this. You have to find a way. All of our lives depend on it."
~*~*~*~*~
"Maybe. Maybe not. From now on, the future is to be determined. It's what've always said to you, Liz. We create our own destiny."
"Could you dance with me?" she asked softly.
"What?"
"I wanna have my wedding dance." she explained looking up at him, pleading with him to say yes.
Smiling he stood up and took her hand, then they walked over to a clear spot on the balcony. In her mind she heard the first strains of 'I Shall Believe' as they walked. Almost timidly she placed her hand on his shoulder, then relaxed as they danced.She laughed as he twirled her around and she spun around by herself. When she stoped, she realizes he was gone. She looked up at the night sky and saw a shooting star
~*~*~*~*~
Liz sat up suddenly and looked around her unsure of where she was or what was going on. Then she recognized the familiar scene from the night before and relaxed. Maria nad Michael were sound asleep in front of the t.v., probably from watching a hockey game. Iz and Kyle had fallen asleep on the other bed, where they had been talking the night before. Then she looked down at the still form on her right. Max looked so peaceful when he slept, like he didn't have a care in the world. He was out cold, they all were, but Max had been especially tired when they had stopped. He had been driving for eight hours before she had convinced him to stop.
Sometimes she still couldn't believe that they had been married for a little over twon months, or that they had fled Roswell on the night of their graduation, just three months earlier. Sighing she thought back to the memories in her dream. She still remembered that night when future Max came to her. She had never told anyone about it, other than Maria. She didn't think Max needed anything else to worry or blame himself for. And he would blame himslef for losing the Granolith, that she knew.
She thought about that night, when he had disappeared, she had been heartbroken, and had cried for hours on that balcony. Sometimes life was so unfair, but then again, she did get her wedding dance, just not the same way it had been before. Alex wasn't there, and they weren't in Arizona, but she had loved it. The funny thing was that they were younger this time around.
On the other hand, Tess was gone. She often wondered if her and Kyle's soon to be discovered powers were enough to make up for her in the group. In her heart she doubted that, she really did. Too bad there wasn't another Tess out there who could help them, one who wouldn't try to steal Max away and could be content without him.
"Wait a minute." she thought sitting up even straighter in bed. There was. All she had to do was find Ava.Then the unit would be complete, excpet for the Granolith... Suddenly her mind stopped all thoughts and she saw the events of that night in her mind again. He had disappeared, becasue the events that made him who he was no longer existed. "Oh dear g..." she thought as things started to click that she had never thought of before. She didn't sleep with Max that night, that alone would change his future. But she still ended up marrying Max, and Tess was still gone...
What if they didn't change the future after all, only changed a few minor details. It all made sense why he wanted to completely break them up now. Why he was so adament. And she had failed. She failed him. But she had to make it right, it was the only way.
"I've never seen the cards fall like this before. The boy, he's different." she said as she looked at the cards on the table.
"Yeah." she replied not unsure of how to answer
"He's very important, this boy. A leader."
Ok, this was starting to get a bit strange. "Yeah, he has this whole other destiny...one that doesn't include me."
"No. He chooses love." she replied, her voice filled with excitment.
"What?" she stuttered, nearly falling off her chair in shock
"He chooses you."
"No, no, no, no, see, that's impossible." she tried, it couldn't be true.
"The reading is clear. You marry your true love. You have happiness." she replied before pointing to one of the cards. "The card here? Intimacy, sex. You will not be left wanting."
~*~*~*~*~
Liz picked up her grandmother's shawl from her bed and put it over her head like a veil, looking at herself in the mirror, a smile that showed she was both sompletely happy, and a little giddy.
"I, Liz Parker, take Max Evans to be..." she said softly, before jumping twards her mirror as a loud noise was heard on the balcony.
~*~*~*~*~
"Liz, I know this is all hard to believe..." the man who looked like Max said as he followed her around her room.
"Wh-what? You expect me to believe that the...the granilith is like some sort of time machine?"
"It wasn't intended to be, but it does have an enormous amount of power, and we were able to modify it to artificially create a tear in time space." he explained
~*~*~*~*~
"In approximately 10 seconds, I will show up outside your window and begin singing to you...accompanied by a mariachi band."
"As I threw the flowers up to you, I remembered you preferred white roses."
Liz watched as the roses changed from red to white as they were in the air, then caught thwm, smiling down at Max and his mariachi band, trying to ignore the man behind her...The other Max.
"I can't tell you too much, Liz...only what you need to know...but 14 years from now, we are taken over by our enemies."
"Everyone. Earth. I need you to help me keep that from happening. We need to change the future."
"I don't entirely understand it myself, but Serina said...she's gonna be a friend of yours one day."
"Liz, what's about to happen over the next few days is critical to the history of this planet. Things between us are about to change...grow deeper. We become inseparable, and nothing comes between us ever again, until... "
"The...the end of the world?" she said softly in reply.
~*~*~*~*~
"The four of us - Michael, Isabel, Tess, and I...we made a complete unit. We all had different gifts, and with one of us missing, we weren't as strong, and everything fell apart."
"It's you I trust. It's you I have faith in,"
"We eloped. We were 19."
"If we succeed in changing history, a different version of the future will take place. All the events that led to who I am 14 years from now will be different. The man I am now will cease to exist."
~*~*~*~*~
"No. The night of Gomez I came to your room. That's the night that things between us were cemented. "
"Cemented. So when you say cemented, you..." she asked in shock
"We made love."
~*~*~*~*~
"What...what's happening?" she asked when she saw his hand go through the box of tissues.
"This must be it. What you did must have worked. I'm leaving."
~*~*~*~*~
"Just 25 minutes before I came here, I held Michael in my arms...dead. Isabel died 2 weeks before that. Now you have to do this. You have to find a way. All of our lives depend on it."
~*~*~*~*~
"Maybe. Maybe not. From now on, the future is to be determined. It's what've always said to you, Liz. We create our own destiny."
"Could you dance with me?" she asked softly.
"What?"
"I wanna have my wedding dance." she explained looking up at him, pleading with him to say yes.
Smiling he stood up and took her hand, then they walked over to a clear spot on the balcony. In her mind she heard the first strains of 'I Shall Believe' as they walked. Almost timidly she placed her hand on his shoulder, then relaxed as they danced.She laughed as he twirled her around and she spun around by herself. When she stoped, she realizes he was gone. She looked up at the night sky and saw a shooting star
~*~*~*~*~
Liz sat up suddenly and looked around her unsure of where she was or what was going on. Then she recognized the familiar scene from the night before and relaxed. Maria nad Michael were sound asleep in front of the t.v., probably from watching a hockey game. Iz and Kyle had fallen asleep on the other bed, where they had been talking the night before. Then she looked down at the still form on her right. Max looked so peaceful when he slept, like he didn't have a care in the world. He was out cold, they all were, but Max had been especially tired when they had stopped. He had been driving for eight hours before she had convinced him to stop.
Sometimes she still couldn't believe that they had been married for a little over twon months, or that they had fled Roswell on the night of their graduation, just three months earlier. Sighing she thought back to the memories in her dream. She still remembered that night when future Max came to her. She had never told anyone about it, other than Maria. She didn't think Max needed anything else to worry or blame himself for. And he would blame himslef for losing the Granolith, that she knew.
She thought about that night, when he had disappeared, she had been heartbroken, and had cried for hours on that balcony. Sometimes life was so unfair, but then again, she did get her wedding dance, just not the same way it had been before. Alex wasn't there, and they weren't in Arizona, but she had loved it. The funny thing was that they were younger this time around.
On the other hand, Tess was gone. She often wondered if her and Kyle's soon to be discovered powers were enough to make up for her in the group. In her heart she doubted that, she really did. Too bad there wasn't another Tess out there who could help them, one who wouldn't try to steal Max away and could be content without him.
"Wait a minute." she thought sitting up even straighter in bed. There was. All she had to do was find Ava.Then the unit would be complete, excpet for the Granolith... Suddenly her mind stopped all thoughts and she saw the events of that night in her mind again. He had disappeared, becasue the events that made him who he was no longer existed. "Oh dear g..." she thought as things started to click that she had never thought of before. She didn't sleep with Max that night, that alone would change his future. But she still ended up marrying Max, and Tess was still gone...
What if they didn't change the future after all, only changed a few minor details. It all made sense why he wanted to completely break them up now. Why he was so adament. And she had failed. She failed him. But she had to make it right, it was the only way.