Part 52: Unleashing the Power II
Caleb looked up when he heard Faith enter his room and winced at her state. "How was it?" He asked. "It sounded like Pogue was having fun."
"Yeah and unfortunately for me I had to witness it." Faith said changing into her PJ's before crawling into bed with Caleb who wrapped her tightly in his arms.
"So Liz is back to her old self?"
"I am assuming so but tomorrow we will know for sure. I think the Roswell bunch will be blown away. According to Maria, Liz wore sweater sets and conservative getups in Roswell. The whole dominatrix thing might shock them." Faith said.
"Hey that was for Halloween!" Caleb protested making Faith laugh.
"Don't worry she will just be like the Liz we are used to." Faith said.
"Good, I love that Liz she is a great drinking buddy and well you know how she is."
"Yeah the best friend and sister a person could ask for." Faith whispered and Caleb hummed in agreement. "Come on big guy get some sleep we have school."
Caleb slowly went down to the kitchen the next morning knowing that he was the last one awake and that the others were waiting for him to go to school. Right when he walked into the kitchen he could feel the change, it was an electric hiss in the air covering him like a thick wool blanket, it was Liz's magic finally mixed in with the others.
"Morning Care Bear." Liz chirped bouncing around the kitchen making the others laugh.
"Ah the energy is back." Caleb laughed chancing a glance at the four aliens who just stared at her.
"You bet ya I feel wonderful, great, super duper, and oh so snazzy and that has nothing to do with the mind blowing sex Pogue and I had this morning." Liz sang making Maria and the other girls giggle.
"Damn straight." Pogue grunted.
"I am glad to see you so chipper." He said smiling when she put a plate of food in front of him.
"Oh that is just a side effect." Faith laughed.
"Yeah man all that energy pouring through her and Pogue last night was like lightening to a fly." Reid laughed stabbing at his scrambled eggs.
"I love it!" Pogue smiled.
"Yeah I know." Tyler grumbled.
"Probably because the two of you had hot monkey sex all night long." Maria added and Pogue nodded ducking when Liz moved to swat his head.
Michael looked at his best friend and saw the pained look on his face and felt bad for him. He knew how Max felt after all he had to deal with Maria and her new blonde boy toy but having to hear about your ex-girlfriends sexcapades was a low blow. "You alright?"
Max let out a soft chuckle before shaking his head. "Not really I guess I was trying to hold onto the hope that Liz was not sleeping with this guy but this conversation just proved otherwise."
Michael laid a hand on his shoulder patting his back. "Well at least you know that she was innocent when she was with you. With Maria I know she had already been with another guy." Michael said.
"I don't know Michael. Looking at all of them together and looking at how Liz acted in Roswell I am not so sure of anything anymore. It could be entirely possible that Liz was with someone else before this guy."
"Ah stop!" Liz screamed as Caleb and Pogue heaved her onto a chair and made her sit there.
"When exactly does this energy burst go away?" Caleb asked.
"When exactly does this energy burst go away?" Liz mimicked snickering when he glared at her as the others just laughed.
"In a day or two." Faith sighed. "Then she will not be as annoying."
"I am not annoying I just need something to do I mean I feel like I drank pot after pot of coffee here people." Liz said waving her hand over her plate to clean it not even flinching under Caleb's glare.
"Liz…"
"Oh shove it I am not addicted I am just not in the mood to scrub a plate."
"Come on baby we need to get to school." Pogue said pulling out her chair before he picked her up and carried her out of the house fireman style while Caleb grabbed their bags with the others scrambling to keep up.
"School sure is going to be interesting today." Caleigh grumbled.
"So Lizzie are you going to be the shy human or one of us?" Reid asked from the driver's seat of Tyler's hummer.
"Oh since being like you all is so much more fun and there is never a dull moment I am going to have to go with you!" Liz giggled when the others cheered.
"Finally my chica is back." Maria laughed.
"I never left."
"You know what I mean."
"Oh of course darling. So what are we doing after school?" Liz asked bouncing in her seat.
"We are going to practice with your powers. I want to see just how kick ass my girlfriend really is." Pogue said.
"Oh yay." Liz said clapping her hands.
"She really needs to calm down." Tyler grumbled rubbing his chest. "I can feel her all over me and it is driving me insane." Tyler groaned.
"Sorry Charlie." Liz giggled.
"Oh god make her stop, if she giggles one more time…" Tyler just glared at her.
"Don't worry I will be fine in a few days when the magical high wears off. I swear before Pogue I would have said this high is better than sex but since Pogue I am going to have to go with a close second." Liz sighed.
"I wonder if Kate is going to show up to school?" Tyler asked sending the car into a deadly silence.
"She will be there, just to taunt the hell out of us. It has been a game with her the entire time. She knew that we could not find her and she has been laughing at us whenever we make a mistake." Liz spat looking disgusted.
"No one is to go anywhere alone today." Pogue added rubbing a hand over his face. "We need to be careful we have no idea if she knows that we know yet. If she finds out that we have found her out then the game just ended and she is going to take action."
"Can I fry her?" Liz asked pouting.
"No."
"Oh please just a little zap in the butt?"
"Not gonna happen." Tyler added.
"Now who is the stick in the mud." She grumbled making Maria laugh.
"Liz no using around her." Tyler warned as she let out a huff.
"Alright, but when we get to kill her can I be the one to it?" Liz asked.
"We will see babe." Pogue said. Liz sighed as they pulled into the parking lot at school she had a feeling that today was going to suck the big one.
"Ready girlfriend?" Maria asked.
"As I will ever be." She chirped.
"Let's go." Maria dragged her away from a protesting Pogue who was hoping for a quick morning kissing session in front of the lockers but that hope was dashed when Maria pulled her away.
"Come on man the dogs await." Tyler sighed pulling his friend into school after the girls.
Pogue, Reid, and Tyler strolled down the hall looking for Caleb who had left right before them. They saw him standing a few feet away from the math hall looking glum. "Hey man why the long face?" Reid asked looking down the hall to see if he could spot what Caleb was staring at.
"Oh." Tyler said when he saw Sarah talking to Kate.
"This is bad." Pogue said.
"This is just depressing." Reid added.
"Why is Sarah back to hanging out with her?" Caleb asked.
"I don't know maybe because they are roommates." Pogue pointed out. "Which again is very scary."
"I need to warn Sarah." Caleb said moving to head towards her but Pogue stopped him pulling him backwards.
"No man you can't do that, if anything it will put her in more danger. Also the information is need to know only Caleb. We closed ranks man she is not one of us and she does not get let in." Reid said.
"But we let Alex in."
"Alex is different he is not in enemy territory on a daily basis and our enemy does not know what role he plays in our group. The one posing as Kyle would have thought he was just there to drive people around and for entertainment. Sarah is a different story. There is a reason Kate is staying so close to her." Tyler said his voice laced with anger. Caleb turned to look at his friend and was surprised to see how angry he really was.
"Ty…"
"You are smarter than this Caleb I know you are but for some reason you are thinking with the wrong brain and because of that you might get us killed. Not just the four of us but the girls as well and that is not something I am going to allow." Tyler growled before walking off in a huff.
"He is right man. You always want to run to Sarah with everything and you can't do that. Closing ranks was a group decision for all of our safety." The blonde took one last hard look at Caleb before he too walked away.
"We think with our hearts and not our heads sometimes." Pogue whispered. "I get it man really I do but I can't let you put the others at risk. At least think of Faith and Liz before you decide to do something stupid." Pogue muttered before he too walked away.
Caleb stood there for a moment longer staring at the blonde beauty at the end of the hall his chest burning. When he met her at the beginning he did not think he was going to be this attached to her this quickly but now… he knew he had been wrong. He knew that Pogue was right and that he was thinking with his heart and not about what was right for the others, for "Faith…" He breathed closing his eyes. "I am an ass." He mumbled turning away.
"You okay?" a soft voice asked behind him Caleb turned already knowing who it was.
"Not so much."
Caleigh gave him a small smile extending a hand to him. He smiled at her and clasped her hand in his walking to class with her. "What is bothering you?" She asked.
"I realized just how unfair I am being to someone." He sighed and Caleigh gave him a knowing smile.
"Faith is a big girl she knows what the score is and knows you are not interested in her that way." Caleigh said making him stop.
"What?" He asked swallowing hard.
"Us girls talk a lot more than you think. Liz asked Faith if she was sure she wanted to do this and Faith said yeah. She knows the score here Caleb and she knows you are in love with Sarah."
"But I care for her…"
"And she knows that but she has no delusions that you two sleeping together is anything more than a means to an end." His heart ached at her words hoping that Faith really did not see it that way.
"She means more to me than that. A lot more."
