Tess smiled as Kyle reached up and gently tugged on her arm, successfully pulling her to the ground next to him where he proceeded to place his arm around her shoulders. "Hey Stranger, I've missed you!" He said between the kisses he was placing on her neck.

"Kyle, we just saw each other at practice and then again at the game," she giggled.

"That doesn't count."

"Why doesn't it?"

"Because, we didn't get to spend any time alone together, there was always someone around, but I like it better this way. Just Kyle/Tess time you know?"

"I know what you mean," she said as she grabbed his face and brought their mouths together for a deep passionate kiss. She pouted slightly when he broke the kiss and moved away from her pulling out a picnic basket. Which he started removing the contents from, placing the few candles down along edges of the blanket lighting them. Next he pulled out two glasses and a bottle of sparkling cider, along with some chocolate covered strawberries. Finally he pulled the last item out a thermos, "Hot chocolate to warm us up later." he blushed at the look she gave him.

"This is amazing! You did it all for me?"

"I just wanted tonight to be special," He said kissing her cheek, "I love you Tessa Ann Fisher. You're; beautiful, amazing, kind, caring, and you drive me completely insane, but I wouldn't want it any other way." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small velvet box opening it he asked, "Tess will you wear my promise ring?"

Tess was stunned, she couldn't believe her life could be this wonderful, she had to be dreaming and wanted to pinch herself to wake her up. But, she found herself unable to move, she didn't even dare blink because if it was a dream she really didn't want to wake up. She looked from the box in his hand to his chocolate eyes, seeing nothing but unconditional love. Her throat felt like someone had run sandpaper through it, she had to repeatedly swallow to moisten it enough to talk. "Are you sure about this?" She asked a little afraid of the answer, she really loved Kyle she could feel it in her bones, but she didn't want him to throw his life away on a girl like her, he deserved someone better, someone good, someone worthy.

"Of course Tess, I fully intend to make you my wife and put a proper ring on your finger one day, but until then will you wear my ring?"

Tess reached over and pulled him into a kiss, when they broke a part she smiled at him, "Yes, I'll wear your ring! I love you so much Kyle James Valenti! I can't wait until the day you ask me to be yours."

"You're already mine from now until the end of eternity and the day after, just as I'm yours Tess!" he told her with such passion in his voice, pulling her in for another kiss. She was in bliss as the picnic was soon forgotten and she attacked him in hungry passion. She didn't know how long they had been like that, it could've been minutes or hours, she didn't care. Her head was now lying on his chest and she was tracing little patterns on the back of his hand, "We'll have to head back soon, you know?" she whispered sadly.

"Not yet, we have to wait!" he said kissing the top of her head.

"Wait for what?" she asked as he placed his finger against her lips to silence her, "Shh…just listen!" Sounds of little kid's laughter filled the park, "They're calling to you Tess. You have to go. Just promise me you won't forget any of this, or that I love you!" With that he stood up pulling her with him.

She stared at him and the sadness on his face, made her heart ache, "Kyle, what's wrong? You're scaring me!" She was suddenly very cold it was as if all her body heat had been drained, she started shivering.

"I'm sorry; I didn't mean to scare you." He said placing his jacket around her shoulders and bringing her into a hug, "But we got to go, its coming from this way." He placed an arm around her and led her toward the sounds. As they grew near, she had a sudden irrational fear of what was to come and the hair on the back of her neck stood up, she snuggled deeper into Kyle, as they entered the clearing. In front of them was the playground equipment, she saw two blurs spinning extremely fast on the merry-go-round. As the blurs went by again, she could make out a small girl with pigtails flying behind her as her dress puffed out in the wind. Behind her was a little boy that every so often would put his foot down and push to make it go faster. The little girl was giggling "Can you make it go faster?"

"We have company!" the little boy said as he stuck his foot out to stop the ride. When the ride had completely stopped the two children climbed off and walked toward them. The little spiky haired boy stood slightly in front of the little girl protectively, "Who are you?"

"Tessie!" the blond ran to Tess and wrapped her arms around her, "It took you long enough to get here, I didn't think you were coming for me!"

Looking down at the little girl who was now attached to her waist, Tess instantly recognized her, "Mia?" The little Maria raised her head and locked eyes with her sister, and Tess could see the pools of unshed tears forming and her lip was becoming a little wobbly. It was breaking Tess' heart, how many times had she seen this same face happen over the years from the torture that the Pierce made them suffer through? She bent down so she was level with her and "I'm sorry, I didn't know you were waiting here for me. But I'm here now and that's all that matters right?"

Maria pulled back grinning, and turned to the little spiky hair boy, "Can we show her yet?"

"Yeah, come on!" He grabbed Maria's hand, motioning for Tess to follow them, as they disappeared into the woods.

Tess turned to Kyle, "What's going on?"

"You have to go with them Tess, it's important. I can't go with you, but I'll be waiting for you to come back to me, always." He gave her one last kiss, when he pulled back he gave her a weak smile, before fading into thin air.

"Kyle? Maria? Where did everyone go?" She screamed as she headed toward where Maria and the strange boy disappeared to. She stumbled through the woods for what felt like an eternity and suddenly like magic she was standing in the middle of the desert, in front of a giant rock formation. "Hello? Is anyone there?" it was so quiet, to quiet it sent chills through her. She suddenly heard a noise behind and turned around to see Maria standing with three other children. "What's going on, Mia?" she was getting frustrated and wanted answers.

"They're like us Tessie!" Maria exclaimed excitedly, "They've been waiting for us!"

"Welcome Home," The little boy with the spiky hair smiled. As they all come up to her one by one and hugged her, she knew he was right, this was where they belonged with more like them, smiling she hugged them back with all her might. Maria walked over to her and grasped her hand, "Tessie, you have to go now!"

"But, I just got here, we just found them."

"Tess the bad men are coming you have to go, it's not safe!" Maria was frantic now, "Please Tess! Just trust me and go!"

"How do I get out of here?"

"Just wake up! You have to wake up!"

"Wake up! Come on Tess you have to wake up" Vaguely Tess could hear the distant voice and felt her whole world shaking, her eyes flew open and she was staring directly into her brother's warm blue eyes, "Adam?" She was covered in sweat and still kinda of diluted from the dream, "What's wrong?"

"Tessie are you ok? You kept shaking and mumbling incoherently in your sleep, I had a hard time waking you up, you scared me half to death. Was it a nightmare or something?" He asked pulling her into a hug.

Suddenly she felt like she was a little kid again, waking up screaming and crying from the nightmares and Adam always there to comfort her and make it all better and keep her safe. She relaxed into the warmth of his comforting embrace, "I'm fine Adam! Really, I am it was just a bad dream!"

He pulled back from her a little, and wiped a few tears from her face that she didn't even realize were falling. "It's going to be okay Tessie, I promise! I'll find a way to fix it and make it all better!"

"I know you will Adam, you're the greatest big brother!"

"Are you hungry or anything?"

"Not really, I think I'm just gonna get started on my homework."

"Okay, I'll bring back some food for later, and you know where to find us if you need anything." He gave her one last hug and headed out of the room.

Tess looked around the room, and found her backpack she'd dropped when they got back from the base. As she picked it up her mind wondered back to the dream, 'Was it really just a bad dream? It felt so real, but it didn't make any sense. And, why was the seven year old version there with those little kids? And oh god, if it wasn't a dream does that mean there really is more of us out there? Maybe I should talk to Mia about it, I mean what bad men was she talking about? But, then what if it really was a dream, it would just be getting everyone's hopes up that there are more like us. And, then there was the whole thing with Kyle it felt so right, like I could actually remember us together, how is that possible?' She reached into her bag and pulled out a bottle of mortion, she was getting a killer headache. "Tessie?" she could feel her sister's presence in her mind.

"I'm fine Mia! It was just a bad dream!"

"You sure?"

"Yeah, now aren't you supposed to be working?" Tess could feel the relief rolling off of Maria.

"I am, but guess what?"

"What?"

"Michael asked me out on a date!"

"That's awesome Mia! I have a headache tho, so can you tell me when you're here?" Tess practically begged.

"Sure thing chica, get some rest!" With that the connection was broken Tess' mind was her own again, knowing now she would have to tell her sister about the dream, because Maria would never let it go. Sighing she opened her books and started studying.

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Adam walked out on the balcony and saw Star with a mug in her hand looking out over the city. He wrapped his arms around her and she snuggled deeper into his embrace. "Isn't the night sky amazing?" She sighed, "Your planet is shining brightly tonight."

"Maybe their throwing a wild party or maybe its search lights looking for us," he half joked he knew that there was no one on that planet that cared even in the slightest that they were trapped on Earth. How could they have not sent rescue for them, returned them to the planet that was rightfully their home? Didn't they care about what he, his sisters and brother went through, are still going through? And if they did send a ship for them, would he even still consider them 'his' people? No after all that happened, he didn't want any connection with anyone from his planet, they were dead to him. He had a new mission protect his family at all cost, their home was on Earth and he would make sure they stayed as safe as he could keep them. Leaning over he kissed Star behind her ear, "Have I mentioned lately how beautiful you are?"

"Yes, but a girl never gets tired of hearing it!" She turned around to face him and her smile disappearing as she saw his expression, "What's wrong?"

"I'm worried," he sighed knowing he couldn't lie to her and he wouldn't want to anyway.

"About Tess?"

"Not just her, about Mia too, they're hiding something from us Star, it's not like them and Mia's avoiding me. I don't like it, how can I protect them if they don't let me in? I can't lose them; I can't lose any of you. You're all I have left to live for."

"Adam, I know you're their big brother and you feel you have to protect them, but sometimes you have to let them learn things on their own. I'm sure if it was really important they'd let us in on it, but for now we just have to trust them, okay?" She looked in right in the eye and said, "It'll be okay, I promise!" And pulled him into a hug, "How is she by the way? She's blocking me, but what I could feel was pretty strong."

"She said she was okay, that it just another nightmare and that she was going to start her homework for tomorrow. I told her I'd bring her back some dinner."

"You're going to the Crashdown?" Star backed away from him and had the slightest hint of jealousy in her voice, "So it's starting then?"

Adam picked up on her tone and wrapped his arms around her again, "Baby, you know I don't want to have to do this, but I was given orders I have to follow. Do you honestly think I want to go and seduce this Parker chick?"

"I don't know what to think anymore Adam, there are limits to this whole 'I'm a solider, I follow orders' thing you know. You should tell Pierce to assign someone else to this mission, that it's not fair to me or you. We should just ask to be taken off of this case completely, all of us. Tell someone else to go alien hunting, you know maybe someone that's not an alien."

Adam placed a finger over her lips to silence her, "Star, you're beginning to sound like Mia!"

"I'll take that as a compliant."

"But, you know we can't not follow orders right? What if he wasn't bluffing? We can't disobey him, because if we do he'll hurt Mia and Tess."

Star shuddered, "I know, but it doesn't mean I have to like it. I love you so much Adam, I don't want to loose you to someone else."

"Don't worry you're not going to loose me to anyone ever, you're my whole reason for existing and I'll always come back to you no matter what. You're my life, and I love you." He said bringing her lips to his. "Now, do you want to come with me and see Mia?"

"No, if I had to watch what you're about to do, I'd probably kill the girl and I don't really want any more innocent blood on my hands. Besides, I should stay here in case Tess' nightmares start up again, but be careful alright?"

Nodding as he grabbed his jacket he headed for the Crashdown.

Sticky or slimy, everything Maria touched seemed to vary between the two or there was the occasionally surprise of a combination of the two. It was about three hours into her shift and she had long since decided that waitressing was not for her. The customers were; rude, noisy, messy, cheap, and the majority of them want her to share stories about how she'd been abducted by aliens or something. She wanted to scream, if it wasn't part of her mission she would've turned in her apron hours ago, seriously the only good thing about the job was that Michael was cooking in the kitchen. Every time she went to place an order in the back, he would find a way for their skin to make contact it sent little electric sparks through her that warmed her entire body. She still couldn't believe that he asked her out on a date that thought both thrilled and scared her she'd never been on a date before. And she just knew that if he found out why she was really in Roswell or who she really was, that he would think she was a disgusting monster and probably run screaming from her. The theme song to the 'Close Encounters' pulled her out of her thoughts and signaled a new customer, groaning, she went over to the table, "Welcome to the Crashdown, where the food is outta this world. I'm Maria I'll be your server tonight. What can I start you off with?"

"I'll just have a cherry coke and some pasta if that's alright!" he said politely.

She wrote the order down; "I'll be right back with your drink!" she walked to the back window to give Michael the order, "Hey!"

"Hey!" he grinned at her, "You look exhausted, and why don't you take your break now and go take a nap on the couch?"

"Nah, I'm good," she heard the music go through the restaurant again, and groaned. "You'd think this is the only alien themed place in town!"

"Well it's the only one cute waitress', and orbit rings outta this world"

"Well, I better go feed the masses!" she said looking for the newest customer, and smiled seeing Liz showing her brother to a booth. She bounced over to the booth, "Hey Liz!"

"Oh, hey Maria, did you have a question or need something?"

Maria giggled, "No, well yes actually. I was wondering if I could take my break now and let this fine gentleman buy me dinner."

"Who says I'm buying you dinner Mia? You're the one working here, you should buy me dinner!"

"As if! Besides you have this like obligatory right to buy my dinner!" Maria said sticking her tongue out at him.

"Do you two know each other?" Liz asked watching the exchange amused.

Maria stopped and looked at Liz and smiled, "Oh yeah I forgot my manners!"

"That's because you don't have any manners," Adam smirked, "Hello its Liz right? My name is Adam; I'm Maria's older brother." He held out his hand to her and she gladly took it, "It's very nice to meet you; I'm not often graced with such elegant beauty in my presence!"

"Thank you," Liz blushed, "its nice meeting you too. It's not that busy right now, so if you want to have dinner with your brother that's fine with me, I can handle the floor for a bit."

"Thanks Liz," Maria smacked her brother upside his head, "And I do so have manners!" she slid into the booth across from him, "Now whatcha gonna buy me for dinner?" She asked animatedly waiting for Liz to be outta earshot, "So Star isn't taking you're newest assignment very well, huh?"

"No, but can you really blame her? I'm not even taking it well, what am I going to do Mia? I don't know how to seduce this girl and I don't really want to either."

"Then refuse the mission!

"You say that like it's easy, almost like we have a choice in the matter."

"Well we should Adam, we should be able to decide our own destinies. Don't you ever get tired of following orders? Let's just go AWAL or M.I.A. or something and disappear."

"Look around you Maria, there everywhere constantly watching us, this is our life." He hissed quietly causing her to flinch, "Do you want to end up like Nikolas?" She quietly shook her head, "I didn't think so, we're soilders Mia and until I can find a way to get us away from this, we're all going to sit tight and follow orders, understood?"

"Yes Sir!" she was staring at the table for a second, "I'm sorry Adam!"

"No, I'm sorry I snapped at you, but don't think I didn't notice you've been avoiding me. Now what's going on?" he asked giving her his best, sad puppy dog face.

"I don't know, being back here just feels so werid. And its bringing back lots of memories and I just didn't feel like bothering you with it, you have to much to worry about already. I didn't mean to worry you."

He gave her a weak smile, "It's okay Mia, as long as your not mad at me or something, but promise me if something is bothering you, you'll come talk to me?"

"I promise, now weren't you supposed to buy me dinner?" she asked waving Liz over, "I'm straving!"

Roswell Earlier that night:

Naseado waved his hand over the dark brown dirt and smiled as a pattern emerged and traces of blue-purplish light streamed out of the ground. After ten long years of waiting, someone had finally answered his call, he could only hope that it was someone on his side and not one of the hunters. He first feared coming back to Roswell would lead the hunters to the younglings, but he wasn't even sure if they were still here. The night of their awakening, the hunters were on his trail so he had to back track and devert them, and when he finally made it back the chamber was empty. He knew they were safe because he could feel them through their connection, he often wondered if they could feel him as well, but tried not to dwell on it. He had since made a life for himself and only returned to Roswell once a year to leave the message and if by three days time he got no reply he went back to his life. But, this time he was surprised someone answered him. He waved his hand back over the symbol returning the ground as it once had been, making sure there was no one around, he shifted into a young clean cut middle aged man. Wondering through town he stopped in front of a small diner called 'The Crashdown,' "It wouldn't kill me to stop and grab a quick bite to eat!" He mumbled to himself, stepping inside he felt it, his connection grew extremly strong. The younglings were here, looking around quickly he didn't see anything outta the oridanary. "Welcome to the Crashdown, table or Booth?" a small mouse of a girl asked him.

"A table is fine, thank you."

As he sat down she handed him a menu, "Your server will be right with you," with that she wandered to help other customers.

As he was looking at the menu the feeling got stronger, he knew they were here, did they know he was here? He looked around again and sighed, he'd never be able to pinpoint them in this crowd, and even if he did what would he tell them? He couldn't come right out and tell them they're lives might be in danger, that alien hunters might be on their trail. "Welcome to the Crashdown, where the food is outta this world. I'm Maria I'll be your server tonight. What can I start you off with?"

He looked up from his menu and had to hold in a gasp. He knew instantly this was one of the younglings, she looked just like her mother, "I'll just have a cherry coke and some pasta if that's alright!" he managed politly.

"I'll be right back with your drink!" he watched as she headed to the back, 'this might be harder then I thought, they have lives here in Roswell can I tear them from it.' He looked up again at the cook and felt through the connection he was like them as well, looking around again he saw Maria talking to a blond boy, he'd found all three of them all at the same location. 'Of course they would bond toghter and became friends, their connected.' He decided not to bother them tonight, that he'd lay low for a while, he knew the hunters were coming but he also knew the special unit was already here, so he vowed to stuck around and protect them at all cost.