A.N. I decided to kick out the Pod Squad part, it was giving me too much grief and it just didn't seem to fit in this chapter. For me it felt more like a Liz/Clark type of a chapter and I didn't want the Pod Squad part to screw it up. So it's a little shorter than it would have been with that small part in it but not that much shorter.
Also just a quick reminder there are many things that have been changed, Liz didn't go to Florida for the summer, Clark didn't run off influenced by Red K during summer of S2 instead summer of S1, the message Clark received from the ship was that he was sent here to conquer and he must find his mate and also the message V. Swann translated is slightly different. Some of it will be in this part. Enjoy.
Chapter 3
Parker Household; June 23; 7:44 p.m.
Kyle and Alex have been sitting with the girls for the past twenty minutes regaling the girls with the double dates they returned from. The girls were twins and didn't speak a word of English, but the guys didn't care, they were blonde, blue-eyed, with curvy figures, and extremely interested in both Kyle and Alex.
"No offense and really I mean this in the nicest way guys, but it couldn't have been a very good date if you're here with us now. It's still really early; most good dates don't end till at least midnight." Maria teases the guys good-naturedly.
"Ha-ha, very funny Ria." Alex leans back in Liz's computer chair; he's been corresponding with Doctor Virgil Swann for a few weeks now. Ever since the man first contacted Liz with a picture of the Kryptonian symbol for 'hope' and said that he had answers for her and Liz wanted to find out more about this character before she met him.
First she asked Alex if he could check the e-mail to make sure if it was legit, no FBI codes that screamed 'this is a trap', fortunately he didn't find any but Liz still wasn't prepared to meet with this man. She wrote him as much a couple days after the first e-mail. Dr. Swann sent an e-mail message saying 'If you can read this I have the answers you're looking for.' followed by a series of symbols, to which Liz instantly read, the symbols read 'I'm a friend'.
From that point on Dr. Swann proceeded to send her messages in Kryptonian, telling her why she can read the symbols and that there was at least one more Kryptonian on this planet, possibly even more. The other alien he was talking about also arrived here on Earth during a meteor shower that Liz had come crashing down in. Where that child went he hadn't figured out till a little bit before he contacted her.
"Our dates if you must know had to go back to the hotel, something about not being able to stay out past 9 or something." Alex tells them distractedly typing with purpose on the keyboard.
Liz rolls her eyes. "Uh-huh, and it's only before 8:00 now, hmm, yep, dates didn't wanna have to deal with you two anymore." She teases; they know she loves them but they're like her brother's, so she has to torture them sometimes.
Kyle and Alex nod their heads and both the girls can see the gears in their heads turning with idea's, before they could react the two teenage boys jump onto the bed tickling and tossing pillows at the girls. Within seconds laughter and teasing insults were being passed back and forth, all didn't care that they could be heard downstairs. None of them really cared, all four were too busy being teenagers.
Approximately ten minutes later Jeff knocks on Liz's door, he hears the laughter and Liz's happily strained voice telling him to come in, he opens the door seeing Liz laying with her head on Kyle's chest and Maria laying on her legs and Alex shaking his head at the desk. All laughing deeply like they don't have a care in the world. "What are you four laughing at?"
"Maria was remembering a time when…" Liz put her hand over Kyle's mouth before he could continue, this was one memory that her father didn't need to hear or know about. At all. Coughing nervously Kyle abruptly stops laughing. "Never mind."
"Ahh, one of those remember when's…believe me I know those well enough," He shakes his head, "Have plenty of my own." Jeff whispers soft enough where Alex, Kyle, and Maria couldn't hear him but the way Liz rose her eyebrows he wondered if she heard him. With super-speed, heat vision, and super-strength being part of the mix why not super-hearing.
"What's up Dad?" Liz chuckles wiping the tears that formed in her eyes from laughing too hard.
"I need you to do me a favor, the Kent's are staying here for about a month or so they'll be arriving in a little over a week and I'm going to need the attic really clean."
Liz just stares at him. "The whole attic? Dad no one's gone up there in years. Why do you want me to clean it out anyway, we have a guest room now."
"Yes, but Clark is coming with them and he's not going to be sleeping on the couch" He begins to turn away to leave the room but twists back around "…and he's definitely not sleeping in your bed." He tells her as an afterthought.
Curling her lip in disgust she fake shivers, "Gross Dad, Clark Kent? In my bed? Let alone in my room? No way. I could hardly stand that little butt muncher when we were kids do you really think that's changed at all?" Shrugging her shoulders. "Besides he deserves the couch after everything he put me through as a kid."
"Like you didn't give as good as you got?" Jeff questions.
"Not the point," she points her index finger at him. Sighing Liz drops her head back, instead of landing on Kyle's chest she lands on the pillow. "Fine, I'll clean it out tomorrow after orientation up at the school; it should only take me a few minutes anyway."
"Thanks sweetie, I'm also going to need your help in bringing up some furniture." Liz scrunches up her nose but doesn't say a word as her father leaves. Great, she's going to be living under the same roof as Clark the Hellion Kent, what did she do to deserve this? She couldn't help the shiver that traveled through her body at just the name of Clark Kent, and it had nothing to do with disgust. What the hell is wrong with her?
Maria shakes her head. "I can't believe you and Alex are taking extra classes during the summer. It's official both of you are out of your minds." She leans back on the bed with Liz while lies face up between Maria's legs so he could lie on the bed too.
"Any college is going to look favorably on taking extra classes it gives me a better chance to get into Harvard. Besides it's not going to be all peaches and cream, Max, Tess, and Isabel are also taking that class." Liz sighs not looking forward to the class that starts in a week.
Alex turns from the computer to stare at Liz. "Don't worry, it's not like you're going to be alone while there, I'll be there." He grins at her before spinning back to the computer.
Kent Farm; June 24; 4:58 p.m.
Jonathan turns toward Martha away from the sink where he finished the dishes and smiles at her. He can hardly believe that she was his, that she chose to be his and no one else's. "How would you like to stay with Jeff and Nancy when we go up to Roswell here in the next couple of weeks?"
"Oh Jonathan I would love that. We haven't seen them in so long, gosh the last time I even spoke to Nancy was when Liz turned thirteen and got her heart broken by that Jimmy Stern and Samantha Redding." Nancy had told Martha all about the incident.
Liz had been ready to go to her new friend Samantha's birthday party, had on a pretty dark blue dress with new low-heeled navy blue shoes and her hair all done prettily. Samantha was the most popular girl in school and Jimmy Stern was the most popular boy at school and to be invited by him to her birthday party was a big deal. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to Liz she wasn't being invited because they wanted her there. Oh sure they did want her there but only to tease and torment.
The young teenager had gone to the party hoping to finally be apart of the popular crowd, every little girl went through that want at some point. Wanting to be apart of the elite few, most grew out of that but some continued to strive for that goal. Jeff had waited in the car as Liz made her way up the walkway and watched as she knocked…and knocked…and knocked. Liz knocked for almost five minutes but no one answered the door, with super-speed she ran to her father's car and told him to take her home.
At school the next day Samantha and Jimmy were laughing along with all their friends at Liz, the only boy who wasn't laughing was Kyle Valenti. That day at lunch he sat with her, Maria, and Alex, telling her that he had nothing to do with the cruel joke that Sam and Jim played on her the previous night. It took a while for Liz to trust him but eventually she did. Even dated him for about five seconds until they realized they were better off as friends.
Clark came bounding into the room sweaty from playing basketball with Pete Ross his best friend, early that year he had told Pete his secret about being not quite normal and not quite human. At first he was freaked but eventually he came around and was now his only friend that he had no secrets from. It felt good to have a friend like that.
"Whose Samantha Redding?" He had caught the last few words his mother spoke to his father. Clark stalks to the fridge, opens it up and grabs the milk carton gulping down almost half the liquid before putting it back into the refrigerator.
Martha just rolls her eyes at Clark's lack of manners, she's told him a thousand times not to drink out of the milk carton or any other carton in the fridge but he hasn't listened since he was ten, why would he start now? "She's a girl that hurt Liz Parker's feelings when she was thirteen."
"Liz Parker? That little brat that tied me to a chair and put various sandwich condiments on me?" Pete who has never heard this story began laughing at the image that Clark put in his head.
"A little girl tied you to a chair. But your like super-guy, how could she tie you to a chair unless you wanted her too?" Pete continues to chuckle holding his side.
Clark rolls his eyes, "I was eight years old and so was she, the tying up was for purely tortuous reasons. The next day she planned a water attack while I was playing in the back alley behind her parent's restaurant. She's a hellion."
"That may be Clark but I seem to recall you starting the whole mess by sticking gum in her hair. Liz never would have come after you if you hadn't done that." Jonathan points out much to his son's irritation.
Clark shakes his head but doesn't say a word knowing his Dad's right. Was it wrong that he felt a tug at his heart and other parts of his anatomy at the name of Liz? It wasn't a new feeling when her name was mentioned; he had always felt some kind of pull toward her, one of the reasons he stuck gum in her hair he didn't know what do to with those feelings so torturing her seemed like the thing to do.
"And we're talking about Liz because we're going to be going up to Roswell for probably about a month. The three of us are going to be staying with them, so you better learn to get along with Liz, she's going to be around quite a bit." Jonathan tells him.
Clark stares at his Mom and Dad like they've grown two heads; they were staying in Roswell…at her house no less? "Please no."
TBC
Coming up…
Chapter 4: The Pod Squad call a meeting, wanting Liz and the others to be there, tension and arguments are bound to happen.
Chapter 5: The Kent's arrive in Roswell!
