AN: This story will be a lot more Max and Liz-centric. But I can promise you some Stargazer and Candy moments. If you love Tess and think that she can do no wrong then I warn you, maybe this isn't the story for you. (I never liked her much, but I started to really hate her in season two.)
AN2: I think this story will be shorter then the first one.
Chapter One – Plans and planes
"Michael, try to imagine your power as a ray. Try to concentrate in a smaller point or you risk to hit someone near your target." Tess screamed to his friend. They were training since eight in the morning, and she was merciless. "Max you are doing good with the aim, but you need to build up more power, like this." She blasted the boulder that he was working on, making it explode.
"I'm a little tired, Tess, and we need to eat. Can we stop?" Michael asked using a towel to whip away the sweat from his forehead.
"Okay, let's eat!" She screamed to Liz and Isabel that where working near Maria and Alex.
We sat down on some boulders and started to eat the sandwich that Mr. Parker prepared for our day out.
"How Liz is going?" Tess asked to Isabel.
"Surprisingly good." She answered smiling down at the brunette girl. "She need to build up her stamina, but she can use without too much problem manipulation, blasting, telekinesis and healing."
Thank you again, Max. Liz smiled at him and squeezed his hand.
Nothing. All day long he had helped her to train, letting her have access to his memories about how to use his powers.
"She's very powerful for a human." Tess said with a little bit of disgust on the last word. Everyone ignored her, knowing that antagonizing her would result in a harder training session. "But it's not so strange. Everyone of us can use that powers. On Antar we could access more or less powerfully to all of them."
"Do you mean that I can dream-walk too?" Asked Michael.
"Sure. It won't come as easier as blasting to you, but you can learn." Tess took a sip of water before going on. "Powers on Antar are classified in three categories. Minimal, basic, and advanced. Without anyone teaching you, you first found out the powers that are more powerful, then the other ones."
"Do you think that we can use even the mind-wrap?" Liz asked her. "Because no one of the original pod squad could."
"That's because my power is very... complicated. It's very hard to learn to use it alone. On Antar only Michael and I had it, and Michael was a lot less powerful than me, but Nasedo told me that mixing our DNA with that of human could give us more powers, so maybe we all can now. We'll try it later on."
They trained again for five more hours before Tess let them go.
Liz was going to sat down on the jeep, near Max, when she started to feel the pressure at the edge of her mind.
She's doing it again, Max. What should we do?
Ignore her, let her think what she likes. He gave her a kiss then turned on the engine.
"What are you waiting for?" Max asked Tess when she didn't climb in the backseat.
"Nothing..." she shook her head started to move.
They left Tess at her house, then decided to go somewhere else, where he and Liz could be alone for a while.
_.-._.- SRW -._.-._
"It's not working."
"They are not taking seriously the training sessions? Because that would make things easier in the end."
"No, Nasedo." Tess sighed in the phone. She didn't like to hear Pierce voice on the other side of it. "Our plan to let them grow apart."
"I don't understand emotion. I'm no help to you." He said without any inflection in his voice, as if the idea of dying didn't touch him.
"There is something strange with that bitch. Today I tried to mind-wrap her. It didn't work." She went on, remembering the event of only some hours ago.
"That's strange."
"Now that I think about it, I couldn't mind-wrap her even the other day." She remembered that in the caves, she had tried to make her go away, but she stayed.
"Do you think that she has the shield power?"
"It's the only explanation. What I tell the other if she use the shield someday?" It had been harder to lie to them all day long that she had thought it would be. Training them while leaving out the things that they didn't already know required a lot of her concentration.
"Tell them that it's a new power, or something." He took a deep breath before going on. "Kivar called. He wants results and you aren't giving him any. He said he'll wait another year, then he will simply erase all of us. You need to start using real mind-wrap on the baby king. Make yourself look like the Parker's girl if you want to seduce him."
"I can do it! I'm the queen, I don't need to mind-wrap him!" She almost screamed in the phone, enraged for his insinuations.
"Very well, as you wish, my queen." He said with contempt in his voice. "I won't die because of your pride! Do something, and do it now!" He then closed the call.
Tess threw her phone toward the wall. It broke in million of pieces. She destroyed other things in the room, but with and without her powers, then, when she was calm enough, she restored everything back to normal.
She needed to separate Max and Liz, but she didn't know how to. Now that the girl had power she couldn't use the excuse that she doesn't belong with them, and it seemed that she couldn't use the mind-wrap to convince her that she needed to go away.
"I need good idea...".
_.-._.- SRW -._.-._
"Kyle called." Were Liz first words when her best friend, Maria, came to the Crash Down to start her shift.
"Good call or bad call?" Maria said while putting on her uniform.
"I don't know. He only told me that his dad explained to him what happened, that he needed to talk with us, and that his dad wouldn't let him go out of town before he talked with Max." It wasn't a real recap of the conversation. Kyle to her had said little more.
"So what did you do?" Maria adjusted her apron and took her pen and pad.
"That will pick him up today, after our shift." She went behind the counter. "I already told Max, and he will inform Isabel, Michael and Tess, and I'm sure that Isabel will tell Alex. If she don't he will anyway come here."
"Lizzy, the food won't deliver itself to the tables." Her dad interrupted her jokingly.
"Yes Sir." She took the dishes that were ready and went to do her work.
_.-._.- SRW -._.-._
"Where are we going?" Tess asked Max and Michael when they picked her up.
"The Crash Down." Michael answered her.
"Kyle don't trust us. He wanted a place where he could be heard if he screamed." Max added when Tess looked at him strangely. "Liz's room will be safe enough. Isabel will act as our lookout."
"Where is she?" The blond girl asked noticing that Isabel wasn't in the Jeep. "She went to the Crash Down with Alex this morning. I think we can call it a date." He answered smiling happily at the thought. Thanks to Alex his sister had changed a lot in the last month. She was more open with everyone.
In five minutes they were in front of the Crash Down, and after parking the car they went in.
"Max." Liz called him with a sweet smile on her face. He gave her a chaste kiss, knowing that her parents were looking at them.
"Hey..." he said in a whisper while caressing her cheek. "Is Kyle already here?"
"In my room, with Maria, Alex and Isabel." She looked behind him and waved to Tess and Michael. "Come on guys, better if we don't give my dad something to be worried of with our long faces."
She was right, everyone but her had a worried expression because of what could happen with Kyle. Max could already see that Jeff will have some questions for her daughter.
"Your dad is so suspicious?" It was the first time that Max heard Tess talk with Liz without a hint of disgust of jealousy in her voice.
"Yes, he don't like that I'm with Max very much." She smirked to him, letting him know with their connection that he had good reasons too. "But he is my dad. He want me to be his little girl forever." She added shaking her shoulder.
Liz guided them upstairs.
"Hey, Izzy." Max said to his sister, finding her in the hallway, near the door to the bathroom. "How is he?"
"A little shaken, a little scared, and a little curios." She summed up.
Liz opened her room's door, finding Maria laying down on her bad, and Kyle and Alex chatting about some rock bands near her desk.
"I see we are all here." Maria sat up and made some space for Michael.
"My dad wouldn't let me go anywhere without first talking with you." Kyle said to Max. "I had plans for my vacancies. So please tell me what you need to so we can all go our ways."
"Kyle..." Liz pleaded him to tone down the hostility with only a word. The boy seemed to understand, and after a big breath seemed to calm down.
"I mean, dad already told me about what you are..." he was looking at Max, Tess and Michael. "I'm grateful for what you did, for saving me, and I won't tell anyone the truth, so I don't understand why I needed to be here." He looked around, he probably spotted some guilty expressions coming from the girls.
"It won't be an easy conversation, Kyle." Liz went near him and put her hand on his arms. "Maybe you should sit down." She pointed to the chair. Kyle probably trusted Liz the most, because he didn't ask anything, he simply did what she told him.
"You already know that I healed you, but we asked the Sheriff to let us explain what my action will comport to you in the near future." Max said to him. "We are not even sure that it will happen to you, but is a possibility."
"What are you talking about?"
Maybe I should explain it. I lived through it, Max. Liz looked her boyfriend in the eyes and he answered her with a little nod.
"Do you remember the day of the shooting?" She started.
"How couldn't I?"
"Your dad was right, the bullet hit me." She put her hand on her abdomen while talking. "I would have died if it was for Max."
"Yeah, dad didn't tell me that, but I guessed that something like that happened." He pushed down his t-shirt, letting everyone see a barely there silver hand-print. "I remembered that you had this."
"Max saved us both." She looked at him, a sweet smile on her face. "But that day he didn't know that while doing so he was changing me." Kyle face started to show some fear. "I'm still me, Kyle." Liz reassured him. "I'm still the same Liz Parker that you have know for most of your life."
"What changed?" He asked bravely.
"My body." He looked her up and down, a frown on his face. "Not externally." Liz added with a smirk.
"Oh..." Kyle blushed a little.
"It's not easy to explain, and you will need some information about them to completely understand." Liz was stalling, she didn't know how to say it.
"You will become us us." Michael interrupted.
"Michael!" Both Liz and Maria screamed at him.
"You are tactless." Maria added giving him a little slap on his arm.
"What?" Kyle looked at all of them, like they were crazy.
"It's true." Liz sat down near Max. "Max, Isabel, Tess and Michael are hybrid. Half human, half aliens." She started to explain. "We don't know a lot about how that was possible. But I have a theory."
"When ever you didn't?" Kyle joked with a sad smile on his face.
"They were in some sort of incubators for years, since the crash down of the 1947." Liz went on. "The two DNAs mixed in that time, making them what they are today. Looking at them, their organs, their bones, you couldn't tell the differences. But their blood... our blood." She corrected herself after a second. "It's different. When Max heal someone with a big enough wound, he leaves behind that hand-print. If we analyze it with a microscope, we'll probably find traces of his DNA in it. This is how I changed. Their DNA is not only compatible with ours, but it's dominant. Our body adsorbed the little pieces of DNA in the hand-print and the new DNA started to take over. It took me almost a whole year for the change to happen..."
"She is telling you that you are Peter Parker and Max is the radioactive spider." Alex added seeing the confused expression on Kyle face.
"It's unbelievable." he whispered looking a Liz.
"Don't I know it?" She smiled then brought her hand up, palm up. Slowly her hand started to glow.
"What the fuck!" Kyle exclaimed taking a step back.
"Don't worry, I can control it..." she closed her hand. The glow stopped. "Well, almost always." She added when Tess looked at her, making her think back at their last session of training, when she almost blasted her own face.
Everyone but Kyle giggled a little.
"So you are saying that this will happen to me too?"
"Well, Max only healed me before you, so we can't be sure at one hundred percent that it will happen, but if I'm right, then it probably will."
"My dad knew it? When he let you heal me I mean."
"Yes, I told him that it was a possibility." Max admitted. "But you were dying Kyle. The bullet went through the aorta, you would have bleed out in seconds."
"What all of this means for me?" Kyle asked after a minute of silence.
"We would like for you to come to our training session." Max said to him. "So if your powers will come out you'll be ready, you'll know what to do and you want make all the lights around you explode." He gave Liz an half smile.
"I... I need to think about it..." Kyle sighed. "Can I still go away for the summer?"
"Sure Kyle!" Liz looked at him. "You have time." She stood up from the bed and went to him. "Whatever it will happen, I will be here for you." She gave him a hug.
"Thank you."
"When you will be ready, we can explain and answer your questions." Max added trying to give him his most reassuring smile.
"Thank you." Kyle got up and went out of the room.
"Do you trust him?" Asked Tess when Isabel got in. "I mean, are you sure he won't tell someone."
"I'm sure. I wouldn't lie to me." Liz reassured her. The blond girl wasn't convinced but seemed to let it go.
"Well, if we have finished here, I want to go down and eat something." Maria said. "You could go cook us a good dinner, Spaceboy." She said sweetly to Michael.
"Like hell I'm cooking when I'm not on my shift."
Everyone went down, happy for how the conversation turned out.
_.-._.- SRW -._.-._
"I'm calling you to tell you that I have a plan, I'll give you results before the end of the summer." Tess said to Nasedo that evening.
"You did? How if I can ask you, my queen."
"The bitch herself gave me the idea." Tess smirked a little. "I only needed to talk a bit with her parents alone. It was so easy, I didn't even have to use lots of mind-wrap."
"What didi you do?"
"I told them that some time away from Max would have been good for Liz. She will pass the summer with her aunt, far, far away from Roswell."
_.-._.- SRW -._.-._
"What? Why?" Liz exclaimed when her parents told her that they had decided that she should go to her aunt house for the rest of the summer.
"You are getting too friendly with that Evans boy." Her dad said as explanation. "A little time away should be good for the both of you."
"I love him dad! Sending me away won't change it!" She said angrily. She could feel that her new powers were getting out of her control because of her anger, so she took a deep breath and tried to calm down.
"We are not asking you to not be with him, sweety." Her mom said. "But we think that you are going too fast with him, time away will let you think about your future, prevent you from doing some... mistakes." Liz finally understood.
"You are afraid that we are having sex, don't you?" She crossed her arms.
"Are you, Liz?" Her mom asked her.
"It's not your business, and even if we are, you should know that I'm a very responsible girl. You thought me everything about being safe, mom. I won't get pregnant."
Please, just kill me, Max. She called to him, she was doing so good at not blushing in front of her parents, but inside she was embarrassed like hell. Max didn't answer her, he was chuckling, she could tell. Have fun of me... but don't expect any help when your parents will have the same conversation with you.
"I know, Liz, and I trust you." Her mom said, a little surprised at how calmly she was face the discussion.
"I don't trust him." Her dad mumbled crossing his arms and almost pouting.
"But..." Her mom rolled her eyes at her father, making her smile a little. "I still think is a good idea sweety. If what you have is true, he'll be here for you."
She was right, but she didn't know that she had to stay there not only for Max, but to be able to train her new powers.
"We already bought you the ticket and told Jessica, you leave in two days." Her dad dropped the bomb.
"Without asking me first?" She was angry again. "That's a low blow, dad." She started to get out of the room.
"Sweety..." her mom tried to stop her.
"No." She turned back and stopped her mom. "I will go, not because I'm okay with what you did, but because it will hurt aunt Jessica if I don't." Their parents looked a little ashamed. "Now, if you will excuse me, I will go out to see Max, don't expect me back before tomorrow evening, when I'll come to do my bags. Max will give me a lift to the airport, so don't worry." She turned again, walked out the Crash Down and closed with a bang the door.
_.-._.- SRW -._.-._
"I will miss you so much." Max said kissing again Liz's lips.
"Not as much as me." She looked him from head to toes, not wanting to forget anything about him in the month they will be apart. "I wish I could stay, but my aunt will think that I changed my mind and I didn't want to spend time with her." She was sad, not only about leaving, but even for losing those weeks of training while she will be away. Her powers were new, she didn't really know how to use them.
"Do you think that our connection will break, being so far away?"
"I don't really know." She smiled at him. "I'm the one new in this."
"I hope it won't. Or Tess will be able to influence me." His eyes where surely reflecting the fear he could feel inside. "I love you, Liz. I can't lose you."
"You won't." She kissed him again. "And you can always use the diary if the connection won't work. Write about me." They heard her flight being called. "I really need to go now."
They kissed one last time, opening the link as much as they could, letting all their emotion mix together for one last time. Word weren't needed after that.
Liz turned and walked away without looking back, knowing that if she did that she would cry.
I love you. She heard while the plane took off, bringing her far away from the man she loved.
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P.s. I'm searching for someone that know how to write the slang used by the dupes. Anyone out there?