Chapter 9

Waiting for Alec seemed to take longer than it should have. Jondy wasn't pacing, she wasn't crying, she wasn't talking, all she did was sit on the hood and stare out into the woods. Mole leaned against the SUV beside her keeping his distance from her but staying close enough to leap into action if necessary.

Biggs and Maxie were standing on the other side of Jondy ready to be there when she was ready to go. Joshua and Scheg were waiting by the vehicle they would be going to Seattle in.

Jondy glanced at her watch, only eight minutes had passed. There were still seven minutes left, Alec could still show up. She had to believe that.

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The fire was burning out of control, windows were blowing out and flames licked the side of the facility. Alec, along with three others, was running passed the fence that enclosed the building.

Jondy would be so furious at him for not being there in Max's cell when he said he would be. But as he was passing by the infirmary he saw three people that he couldn't leave behind, not in good conscious anyway.

If he left those people behind, Jondy would never forgive him. It took him a few minutes to get them unhooked and aware of their surroundings. Once they were alert he ordered them to follow him.

The only female huffed behind him, his girlfriend and her sister wouldn't be too happy about that addition. Not because she was female, if anything that would probably make them warm to her easier. It was who specifically the female was.

Wow, he just called Jondy his girlfriend. During the whole time they were in Manticore he never thought in terms of girlfriend/boyfriend. Mate, lover, even breeding partner but never girlfriend. That thought made him push a little faster.

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As she sat and waited for Alec, Jondy thought back to when she was Liz Parker. Would she continue to be Liz Parker when she showed up back in Roswell? Or would she bury that persona forever and stay Jondy?

There was a third option though. Mixing the two. Would that make her Lidy or Jonz? Right like that made sense. She wondered briefly about her friends, Maria would hug her close when she showed back up then she'd probably smack her on the arm for leaving without telling her.

Kyle, he'd hug her too, then he'd wonder silently for a while where she'd been since May. Blue Lady, she'd almost been gone for a year. Eight months she had been gone.

She loved them so much, she wished Alex would be there but there was no hope of that. Her best friend next to Maria was dead and had been since a few weeks before she left for Seattle.

As for Michael, Isabel, Tess, and Max it seemed unlikely that they'd still be on Earth. Why would they stay? She knew that Tess had been pregnant when she left for Seattle and that the baby couldn't survive on Earth. Those four had to leave if the baby were to survive.

Six minutes left. Hurry Alec. He didn't feel dead, she couldn't explain it but inside her Alec radar told her that he was still alive. She had to hold out hope that her radar wasn't completely wrong.

Deep in the woods Joshua heard footsteps. "People coming."

Jondy hopped off the hood, Maxie and Biggs stood on one side of her while Mole closed in on the other side. Joshua and Scheg stood near the group but didn't crowd in close.

Two minutes later a most welcome face broke through the trees. "Alec." Jondy breathed out. Relief flooded her system and threatened to bring her to her knees.

He slowed but didn't stop moving until he had Jondy in his arms. "Why are you still here?" He whispered into her hair.

"I couldn't leave you." She burrowed into his chest. It wasn't until she noticed Maxie hadn't moved an inch from her side, Max was stone still. "Max?"

"It can't be."

Jondy looked over Alec's shoulder. "Oh Blue Lady."

"They were in the infirmary. As I was running by they were still bound to the beds. That's why I was late." Alec explained.

"Zack?" Jondy breathed out.

"Ben?" Max said in the same shocked and questioning tone as her sister.

TBC