When he returns to the cave, on dropping Liz off at the Crashdown, he opened his notebook to where he had left the notes of his writing. He journaled about the events of the weekend. There was material there he felt he could turn into the novel he had always wanted. With Liz finally inviting him into her heart, the muses were screaming. He talked out loud, as though Isobel were there, thinking through the feedback she would provide him if he were. This time, she would support the idea of Liz in his life, because of how much she had been giving them over the years. Because the remorse of her actions, the remorse everyone was feeling, would move the past aside, for a new beginning. He dared to allow himself to be the hoping kind.

As he began reading outline about the darkened, hidden chambers of his heart, he heard a rustle and looked up to see Liz walking in to the cave.

"Did you write that" she asks.

He didn't know what to say, bashful that she had caught any bit of it. He walks towards her, "What are you doing here?" he asks standing up and walking towards her.

As she began to explain her work, he bent down to kiss her, "Thank you," he whispered as he parted from her lips, knowing that she was here with the serum.

"But before we try," she says setting her hands up to keep distance, "there's something I need to tell you. There have been more alien-related deaths in Roswell…

"But Isobel only backed out in 2008," he interrupted.

"Without evidence I know that," she explains and as she pulls the serum out of her pocket, she says, "that's why I brought this."

She melted more of her silver, into which she dipped his hand, and he reached into the pod to pull Isobel out of it.

Once she was out of the pod, Isobel says, "Did you find a cure?"

"There's only one way to find out," Liz answered as she punctured the needle into Isobel's heart.

Isobel immediately felt her strength coming back. She pulled the blanket Max wrapped around her tighter. "Oh, God," she gasped, "I feel it working...thank you, Liz!"

Liz smiled at her, turning her eyes to Max as Isobel stumbled to stand by herself.

Feeling a temperature change in the air, Isobel asks, "how long was I in there?"

"Six weeks," Max answered as Liz reached to grab his hand.

Liz added, "MIchael and I have been working on it during my time off. He didn't rest until we…

Isobel reached for Liz with one arm, taking her in a tight embrace, "I'm so-thank you so-"

"It's okay, Isobel," Liz says taking her in, unintentionally breaking apart from Max, "where should we take you to get you dressed? We can't just take you home like that…"

"I have a change of clothes for you at home," Max says taking in the scene of the two most important women in his life hugging each other, "and then we can think about how to get you to Noah. He's been so pissed…"

"Pissed?"

"He didn't believe you were in rehab," Max explained as they shuffled outside of the cave, "and we couldn't tell him where you were, soo…"

Isobel sighed, "I promised I wouldn't lie to him anymore…" she thought out loud, "and now I have to-again."

"We can plan it out in the truck-

"Where's your jeep, Max?" she asks as they neared Michael's truck.

"I need to take it to the shop," he answered, "I'm borrowing Michael's-

"Yeah," Liz interrupted, "Michael spent the night with Maria and left us to fend for ourselves in Texas."

"Texas?" Isobel repeated shifting her stare from Max to Liz and back again.

"Yeah," Liz says, "long story."

"Can I call you later?" Max asks Liz.

She nodded as she walks towards him and kissed him goodbye.

As Liz walks to her car, Max watched her taking in all the events of the weekend, hopeful with what tomorrow would bring. He let his mind wander into the memory of Liz's first kiss until Isobel's throat clearing brought him back to the present. "I guess it is a long story…"

On the way home, Max caught Isobel up backwards, starting with Liz's kiss, going to the Native healer who let him know there was a fourth alien who may have been responsible for other deaths besides Rosa's and Michael's heartbreak between Alex and Maria. Isobel took it all in fairly quickly, not asking questions.

While Max had considered not telling her everything, given what happened before she went into the pod, he felt it pertinent to be completely honest.

When she walks into his house, she directs herself to where he says he keeps her clothes and then went to take a shower.

In the meanwhile, Max pulls out a change of clothes for him, a pillow and a blanket so he can sleep on the couch. As Isobel walks out of the bathroom, she finds Max setting up the couch as a bed. "I can sleep on the couch," she suggests.

He shakes his head no and says, "I'll be fine out here," adding, "it's better than being camped out next to you…"

"Oh, Max," she begins, "I really thought-

"No need to explain," he interrupts walking towards her, "I'm just so glad you're here. I missed you…"

He takes her in and tries to catching up on six weeks of hugs.

"I'm scared, Max," she admits before they break apart, "I don't want to hurt anyone anymore."

"Well," he says, "knowing there's a fourth alien; knowing they're the source of some violence, and knowing there was an alien who died before we walked out of our pods, there's more to us than meets the eye-that reminds me, I should text Michael and let him know you're here."

He pulls out his phone to text Michael, and watches Isobel dry her hair.

"I want to get back to the world slowly," she says. "I need to figure out what I am going to tell Noah...I want to start on the right foot without telling him…

Max shrugs, "whatever you need, I'm here-we all are."

"Thanks, Max," she sighs, "I just wish I would know that he would love me as much as Liz loves you-

"Wait," he interrupts smiling, "what?"

"Oh," Isobel says covering her mouth, then saying, "she hasn't said it yet?"

"No," he says through his smile, bowing his head to keep from having Isobel see him blush, "not yet. We just kissed today…"

"Just kissed?" Isobel asks walking towards him, "You have it soo bad."

He looks up to find her smiling from ear to ear. He rolls his eyes, and says, "Michael will come by to see you tomorrow," adding, "he's working his feelings out with Alex…"

"I am gone six weeks and my brothers finally get the guts to find love," she says turning towards the room, "maybe they'll stop being so mopey-

"Maybe," he says, "see you in the morning, Is."

"See you in the morning," she says as she closes the door.

WIth Isobel settled, Max takes a shower, letting the water pound on the knots on his back. He would finally be able to sleep to dream of another day of holding Liz close to him.