Authors notes: Sorry, sorry, sorry for not updating in so long. I've been really busy with school and all that boring stuff. I will hopefully get a change to write more this week cause I have easter-break. So I hope you still like this story and that you'll let me know what you think.

Alien-heritage

Maria sat down in a chair opposite to Jack who was sitting in the couch in the DeLuca living room.

Michael was sitting next to him, eyeing him suspiciously. He had insisted on going with them to make sure that Jack didn't do anything to hurt her.

Maria appreciated that, but right now she needed some time alone with her newfound brother.

"Michael, would you mind leaving me and Jack alone for a while?" she asked. "You can go fix yourself something to eat if you want to."

"I'm not leaving you alone with a stranger," Michael said, not taking his eyes of Jack.

"Michael it's okay. Jack is my brother and he's not dangerous. And besides, you'll be in the next room."

"But…" Michael started."

"Michael," Maria said and looked at him. He finally turned his gaze to her and caved in.

"Okay I'll leave, but yell if you need me."

"I will Michael. Thank you."

Michael took one last look at Jack before he stood up and left the room.

"He really cares about you," Jack commented. "Although he seems a little unstable." 

"Well he's a complicated person," Maria said with a smile. "But enough about Michael Guerin. I want to hear about you. It still blows me away when I think about you as my brother. I mean me having a brother?"

"I was kind of taken when dad first told me about you too."

"But I feel this weird connection," Maria said. "Do you feel that too?"

"Yeah. But it's natural for siblings to feel that way," Jack said. "Especially alien siblings."

"But I'm not an alien," Maria said with a laugh. "Am I?"

"Your father is one and that makes you one too. Half anyway."

"But…but I don't have any powers like the others," she said, getting really nervous.

"You just gained them when you turned eighteen if dad is right," Jack explained. "Haven't you noticed something different about yourself since then?"

"No not really," Maria said slowly, thinking back. "Unless…?"

"Unless what?" Jack asked.

"Well. The night after my birthday I started having these weird dreams. I still have them and it's like I can enter them and live in the dream," Maria said. "You must thing I'm crazy," she said.

"Not at all," Jack reassured her. "I think those dreams are defiantly alien-related."

"You do?"

"Yes, I remember my dad…our dad…telling me about entering the dream-plane and travelling in time and stuff like that," Jack said.

"Really? So that's my power?" Maria asked excited. She had always envied Isabel for being able to go into people's dreams.

"I don't know for sure, but it sounds like it could be," Jack said. "I'm sure dad can tell you more about it when we get to him."

"Wait a second. I never agreed to meet him," Maria said. She still felt a lot of anger towards her father, although now she knew why he'd left.

"Maria you have to. He's really sick and he desperately wants to see you before he dies," Jack pleaded.

Maria knew that she would never be able to live with herself if she didn't at least listen to what her dad had to say. And besides, she needed to know about her alien-heritage and all that. And your dad is always your dad and Maria really missed him.

"Of course I will come see him," she said to her brother. "I need to…"

Liz followed Max into his room. After the surprising meeting at the Crashdown Max asked her to go with him so she did.

She couldn't believe what had happened during that afternoon. Maria's father was an alien? Maria had a brother?

There were still so many unanswered questions. She put her thoughts aside and looked over at her boyfriend.

"Max are you feeling okay?" she asked, sensing Max's mood was not on top. "It must be weird finding out that there are more people involved now."

"Yeah it is," Max said. "I don't know if we can trust them. I mean I want to for Maria's sake, but what if this Jack-guy is dangerous?"

"I understand that it must be hard to trust anyone," Liz said and laid her hand on Max's arm. "But I think he's a good guy. I mean both Maria and Isabel feel connected to him remember?"

"That's not enough to trust him," Max said with a firm tone. Just like the leader he was.

"Maybe not. But how could he possible know everything he knows if he isn't who he says he is?"

"I don't know Liz. I just don't know," Max said. "I'm just glad Michael is with them, making sure nothing happens to Maria."

Just then the phone rang.

Max answered and Liz took the opportunity to go to the bathroom.

When she returned Max had an unreadable expression on his face.

"It was Michael who called," he said. "Apparently Maria's going to see her father in Phoenics and she wants all of us to come with her. Like a roadtrip or something."

"Sounds like fun!" Liz said.

"Yeah. And it's also a good opportunity to see what all of this is really about," Max added.

"Max, for Maria's sake, please try to be nice until you know the truth okay?"

"I will. But for Maria's sake and for everyone's sake I will find out if he isn't who he says he is…"

TBC...    Please let me know what you think! Is it still worth continuing?