Warning: Even though the Tess character has grown on me and I like her, in this story she did kill Alex so don't expect any love from Liz in regards to her.

Chapter 6

Once Liz returned from the kitchen and gave them back their drinks she continued the story. Told them everything from Christmas time to when they went to Vegas unbeknownst to all their parents. "When I got home there was major hell to pay-sort of. Mom yelled at me demanded to know why I was insane enough to go along with it. While Dad couldn't keep the smile off his face." Got grounded for a few weeks, thankfully the punishment was lifted before Prom.

She really hadn't meant to tell them all of what happened to them, but once she got going it was hard to stop and there were still more stories to tell. "Then Prom came around, Max and I were on shaky footing but we decided to go together, a big mistake. He and Tess got serious that night, they kissed and began to get much closer."

"So wait, he took you to the Prom but then started making out with another girl?" Sam questioned. He'd never have done that to a girl-Dean sure but he's a major player.

"Yea, but to be fair I told Max before hand some things that-that probably helped him move on more. Maria and I spent almost an hour dancing," she smiled and stared at the floor remembering that happy moment, the last happy moment for quite a while.

"Anyway I saw Max and Tess then left Prom. Broke into the bowling alley and unwound with Maria's cousin, Sean." She didn't elaborate…who cared if they thought she slept with him as part of her unwinding. Liz picked at a stray thread on her blanket. If she didn't care why did it bother her if Dean thought she slept with him.

"Umm," now comes the hard part, "after Prom, Alex and Isabel also got closer, they were really starting a romantic relationship. Unfortunately," she steeled her voice, it would be the only way to get through it. "Unfortunately Alex was killed a week later. And Tess was the one that killed him."

Dean watched as Liz's face hardened, eyes turned cold, every emotion was on display for him to read. Anger, sadness, and a look he knew well, a desire for revenge. "This-girl-who had gained the trust of all of us, even me, killed a member of our group." Now just because she grew to trust the murderess didn't mean she liked her, it only meant that she could be counted on in a pinch.

"For months she had been using her main power, mindwarping, on him to decode a book that was left by their people. Alex finally did and for a while broke out of the mindwarp. He went to see Tess and in order for him not to talk and reveal what she did she mindwarped him again. Only this time it was too much for him and he collapsed dead. Kyle even saw it…but she made him forget. She got Kyle to take Alex's body and put it in his car and somehow made it seem like a car accident."

"How did you find out about it?" Liz stared at something behind them, not looking at them as if looking at them would make it harder to tell them. To the untrained eye it would seem like Liz didn't care about her friends death but seeing a tiny tick in her jaw and the hard steely gaze she had going she cared very deeply about Alex's murder.

"Although it seemed longer it was only a month, I found a picture, contacted the Swedish Embassy which was where Alex had told everyone he had gone, faxed the picture over to them. I cleaned out my savings when they didn't seem to have any answers for me. Nothing was going to stop me from finding out who killed him." Never mind the fact that she pushed everyone away to the point that her friendships were strained for a while even after she had been proven right.

"I convinced Maria to come with me to Las Cruses where Alex had been when he was supposed to be in Sweden. Michael followed us; there we found information on Leanna, who was supposedly his girlfriend in Sweden. The trail led us to an abandon building where we found the translated text and a crystal of some kind. Then we came back to Roswell. During that time however Max and Tess slept together and she became pregnant."

Dean shook his head in shock. One blow after the other hit this woman-boy could he tell her some stories about his life. He took a long drink from his hot coffee; he'd grown accustomed to the strong bitter taste of black coffee. Reminded him of long cold nights sitting in his car waiting for a creature of the night to come terrorize a neighborhood.

"Tess after she got pregnant became really weak, turned out her and Max's son couldn't survive on this planet, so now thanks to Maria, Michael and I they had a way home. The Granolith would transport them back to Antar, they only had a couple days left on Earth." And as worse as things were at the moment in time it wouldn't compare to what happened later.

"Max and I went to take care of Leanna, he was going to kill her because we thought it was her fault, we thought she was an evil alien. But as I was watching her I saw that she pricked her finger. Why wouldn't she just heal it if she were really an alien? Got her out of her dorm and stopped Max from killing her, looked at her cells and they were 100 human. Afterwards he told me that they were leaving the planet, told me about Tess and the baby." That was only the beginning of shocking information in a whole night of shocks.

She drank the remaining bit of her coffee, which would be the last cup for her tonight. Thanks to being changed she couldn't tolerate too much caffeine or alcohol. One beer she's buzzed and two beers she's swinging from chandeliers telling people she could fly.

"He dropped me off and just to make sure the knife was really stuck in my heart I asked him if he loved her. To which he replied 'Not like I love you'."

Sam and Dean both roll their eyes in disgust. "That was the line he used? Come on even Dean wouldn't use that piece of crap. At least he has some standards."

"Bitch."

"Jerk."

Liz smirked. They were insults certainly but they were said with love. "Instead of going inside I went to Maria's, she wasn't there yet but her Mom let me crash in her room while I waited. A few hours later she showed up, she and Michael slept together and she couldn't believe that their first time together was also going to be their last."

"We had only been in her room for a few minutes when we heard Amy, her Mom, shouting about an event that happened a week previously, but one that Tess also mindwarped away. When she saw us she came back to the present but that was when I put it together. Amy was drumming her fingers on the stove, Alex before he died was drumming his fingers on his guitar, and Kyle was drumming his fingers at the Crashdown."

"And it pointed to Tess." Dean stated.

"Yea, so we drove to Kyle's, talked to him and eventually he remembered what Tess made him forget. We hurried to the Pod Chamber. We couldn't let them leave with Tess, unfortunately they were already inside and no matter how hard we beat on the rock they couldn't hear us." Maria's hands bled she pounded on the rock so hard desperate to get to Michael.

"The chamber started rumbling, we ran off the rock and watched as they flew away back to Antar. The good news was Alex's killer was no longer in Roswell but the bad news was that she was with three other people that we cared about. So the threat to us was gone we should have been safe…but we weren't. Not by a long shot."

TBC