Part 25: The New Fear III
Monday morning rolled around and the Roswell gang was just pulling into Ipswich after driving all day and night with few rest stops. To say Isabel and Tess were not pleased would have been an understatement. They had a week off from school and they were going to put it to good use. They did not want to be spending all of their time chasing after Liz and Maria in a strange town full of threats.
"Where to first El Presidente?" Kyle asked.
"Alex?" Max asked hoping for help from his lanky friend.
"Yeah like I am going to tell you where to find Liz and Maria." Alex said crossing his arms over his chest leaning against the side of Isabel's mom's car.
"Guys it is a school day and knowing Liz she is probably at school." Michael said knowing that where Liz was Maria was sure to be there as well.
"They go to Spencer right?" Tess asked.
"Yeah." Alex grumbled not wanting to give Max a way to get to Liz.
"Maxwell I seriously doubt a swanky school like that is just going to allow us to walk right in there and talk to Liz and Maria." Michael said.
"Michael is right, Spencer is high security no getting in without a code." Alex said.
"Do you have it?" Max asked.
"No." Alex said.
"Well then we are going to wait outside for her to leave." Max said not seeing the others roll their eyes.
"Maxwell all of us sitting outside all day is going to draw some looks that is not the brightest of ideas." Michael said.
"Yeah as much as it pains me to say this I agree with Guerin us sitting outside is going to look very bad." Kyle said not wanting to get arrested in a strange state.
"Max, Spencer has some of the nations best and brightest who have money coming out their butts. The school is not going to risk anything happening to them." Alex said his dark eyes boring into Max.
"Fine then just Michael and I will wait outside." Max said hating that his friends were being so stubborn.
"Oh joy." Michael muttered.
Spencer Academy
Liz slowly made her way down the hall hating how people kept looking at her, the guys looked disappointed and many of the girls looked jealous. Apparently Kate told the whole school about Pogue breaking up with her and had started a nasty rumor that Liz was the cause of it since she was sleeping with both Caleb and Pogue.
"Hey." A girl said stopping her progression in the hall. "You alright?" The girl asked her brown eyes searching Liz.
"Ah yeah I just hate the gossip." Liz mumbled.
"Tell me about it, can you say someone is jealous. Everyone knows Kate is just pissed that Pogue was more interested in the new girl than her and is taking it out on you. For the record no one believes Kate." The girl said before leaving. Liz stood there for a moment letting out an unconscious sigh of relief, she had no idea why she cared so much what these people thought of her but she did.
"You alright chica?" Maria asked looping her arm through Liz's.
"I am now." Liz said giving her a small smile. The two made their way to their next class with Faith and Caleb. Faith smirked when she spotted her girlfriends and waved them over.
"So Honey Bear word is the two of us are bed buddies." Caleb said laughing when Maria smacked him upside the head.
"I know we have been sneaking into each others' rooms every night. Oh and Pogue has been bedding me as well. I am a dirty nasty wench." Liz said nodding her head making Caleb laugh.
"Good news is no one believes that and they just think Kate is full of it. Bad news is the girls are taking sides." Faith said rolling her eyes.
"What?" Liz asked her brown doe eyes wide with worry.
"The upperclassmen are all on your side, they have known Pogue and Kate the longest and have gotten to know you better and think that this is a total crock. The underclassmen on the other hand see Kate as their ticket in and are siding with her." Faith said.
"God I really hate girl drama." Caleb muttered.
"Try being the center of it." Liz groaned slamming her head on her books.
"Hey careful Liz." Caleb said lifting her head off the desk. "You don't want to hurt the books." Caleb said ducking when three small hands dived for him. "Jeez women watch the claws." Caleb said the four not realizing they had an audience until their instructor came in and the four broke away looking sheepish.
Class went by in a whirlwind and soon the four friends were walking outside in the bitter cold that Ipswich was known for, or at least bitter cold compared to Roswell. Liz and Caleb had a free hour before lunch and were going home to eat with their parents. Liz glared at Caleb when she saw that he had the top down on his flashy car. "What?" Caleb asked.
"Caleb it is like sub zero outside." Liz snapped.
"I can heat it up for you." Caleb purred his black eyes flashing at her. The witch in them wanted to play.
"I don't know if you are up to the challenge, I know Pogue is man enough for the job." Liz said her black eyes flashing as the air around the two crackled.
"I taught Pogue everything he knows." Caleb purred back.
"Oh no he has moves you have never seen Danvers." Liz said getting into the passenger seat.
"I am still not sure I like the idea of him putting moves on you." Caleb grumbled as he got into his car heading for the front gate.
"I thought you would be happy Caleb. Pogue is a great guy and one of your best friends…"
"Right best friend. I know what he is like with girls and how fast he moves." Caleb grumbled as they waited for the security guard to open the gate for them. Liz shifted in her seat slightly a tug at the back of her mind alerting her to something off.
"What is it?" Caleb asked glaring at the security guard and the car in front of them that was taking forever to show identification and a pass.
"Something is off, my senses are going crazy." Liz said her eyes flashing black as she let her magic wander but the voice of a security guard knocked her back to reality.
"Alright you two may go." The guard said waving them away. Neither Caleb nor Liz saw Max and Michael staring after their car and they did not see the two aliens hop into the car and follow them.
Max watched through angry amber eyes as Liz and some guy raced down the road, the dumb guy was even driving on the wrong side of the road half the time. "Who is that?" Michael asked.
"No idea." Max ground out but he intended to find out. Neither of the guys paid attention to the winding roads and where they were taken but suddenly the two Roswell aliens found themselves
pulling up to a large iron gate that the silver car Liz was in had just passed through. Max and Michael waited until the two were inside before they got out inspecting their surroundings.
"Michael." Max said hitting his friend in the side pointing towards the house. Michael's mouth fell open when he caught his first glimpse of the house Liz had entered, if you could even call it that.
"That place is huge." Michael breathed.
"How does Liz know this guy? I mean it's not like the Parker's can afford a place like this." Max said walking up to the gate.
"Come on Maxwell let's go take a look around the perimeter so we can gage what we are dealing with." Michael said not really looking forward to the task but an alien could never be too careful after all Alex did say that the guys Liz were involved with her dangerous and he had a sinking feeling that this was one of those guys.
Liz smiled at Amy who was helping her father cook lunch. Caleb was lounging on the couch next to her in the breakfast nook his head on her shoulder. His hands dancing across her leg making his mother laugh. "Careful my little darling or Pogue will think you are moving in on his territory." His mother laughed obviously having heard of the new Covenant, Scion relationship from Nancy and Amy who were bouncing off the walls with excitement. Jeff on the other hand was brooding not liking that his baby girl was dating again, he still liked to think of her as his little girl and he was the center of her small world.
Max and Michael found themselves back at the front gate amazed at the size of the compound. Max let out a disheartened sigh as he gripped the bars of the gate seeing the security system attached. "Michael. Most people are not home during the middle of the day so it is safe to assume that it is just Liz and that guy in there right?" Max asked.
"Right." Michael said instinctively knowing that he was not going to like where this train of thought was headed.
"So that means if we were to disable the alarm system and storm the place we would not be seen by anyone else?" Max asked.
"Right." Michael said hating that Max was inching towards danger zone.
"Good." Max said his hand suddenly glowing over the small metal box. Michael watched in awe as the system shut down but out the corner of his eye he saw lights in the house flash green twice.
Caleb bolted upright the wards in the house flashing. Someone had disabled the alarm with powers.