Into the Darkness
Rating: PG
Summary: There were two sets of Royal Fours. From sister planets Antar and Anterra, when sent to Earth not knowing who you are and what you're destined to become how do you survive? Alternate Universe
Coupling: M/M, M/L, A/I, K/T
Notes: Wow I dug myself in a little hole with that bombing of the Crashdown, eh? It's going to cause some major fluctuations in Liz's emotions, which are for sure.
Liz listened numbly to the school nurse as she explained what happened, ".your family's diner, the Crashdown, it blew up. The police said they think that it might have been from a gas leak, but they can't be sure. Your father was outside when it happened, but your mother.your mother was inside. I'm so sorry to be the one to have to tell you this." The nurse finished as Liz nodded, she heard her but it seemed like she was speaking to her through a wall of glass.
Liz sat down in the office that she was led to. How could this happen? There was nothing wrong with the gas; someone had to have done it, but who could? She asked herself. The enemies that her father always talked about, from the other planets, or Tess.it had to be Tess she just suddenly shows up and the man that brought her up turned out to be evil, so wouldn't she be most likely to? Liz shook her head; she didn't know what to believe. She was beginning to feel comfortably numb. But then she saw her walking with Isabel past the door, laughing, it felt like she was mocking her.
Liz stood up and ran out of the office to Tess, "How could you do this?" She shouted at a very startled and confused Tess.
"What are you talking about Liz? Are you ok?" Isabel asked her putting her hand on her shoulder. Liz pushed it away quickly.
Liz glared at her and looked at the floor waving her hand across it, causing a small earthquake which caused the floor to break apart.
Tess fell to the ground as Isabel clutched the wall, "What do you think I did? I didn't do anything." Tess said to her on the verge on tears.
"I'm sure you didn't." Liz spat back at her sarcastically, "You killed my mother!" She shouted causing all the people around them to turn, and then notice the torn apart floors.
Tess touched her hand to the floor and fixed the broken linoleum and then closed her eyes and concentrated on making them all forget, once she opened them they all went back to what they were doing oblivious to what was happening.
"Are you purposely risking exposure? Because if you are it looks like you're doing quite a fine job at it, and what are you talking about your mother?" Isabel said to her putting her arm around her shoulder leading her outside, with Tess following behind them.
"No.no I'm so sorry." Liz said beginning to cry and putting her head in her hands, wiping away the rapidly forming tears.
"What happened?" Tess said trying to forget the pain in her back from when she fell.
Liz sniffed and looked up, "At the diner, there was an accident, or at least that's what they're calling it, and my.Mom died." She said barely above a whisper.
"I'm so sorry." Isabel said hugging the crying girl. Liz was slightly shocked at the massive showing of affection and sympathy from Isabel, the girl she once thought was as cold as ice.
"Liz.I know I just got here but I'm one of you and I didn't hurt you mother, I don't want to hurt anybody. I just want to start again." Tess said to her looking down not sure if Liz would believe her.
Liz looked at the short blonde. How could she trust someone that she barely knew? She asked herself. There was just something about her she wasn't quite sure of. Liz nodded slowly and unsurely at her, "We have to go there. We have to get the others, and see if there really was a gas leak."
"We can't just rush over there and try to examine everything the police won't let a bunch of teenagers tamper with the evidence." Isabel said shaking her head.
Liz looked at Tess, "You made all the people in the hall forget, you can make the police, too."
"You mean with the mindwarp? I don't know, I don't know if I have enough energy to make them all forget, but besides it would take too long to have them watching we could get in serious trouble in the time before they forgot, and I can't make them all not see us all for that long, there's got to be a lot of them." Tess said.
"What are you all doing out here?" Max asked as he walked up to them all with Kyle and Alex.
"My Mom died." Liz said dryly.
"What? What happened? How?" Alex asked her all in one short breath.
Isabel spoke for her, "Liz said that the police talked to the school and said that they think there was a gas leak, but Liz doesn't think so."
"I'm so sorry Liz." Max said his eyes shining with sympathy for her.
"Thank you." She said softly, looking down, "Where's Michael and Maria?"
"I'm not sure, they had last period together and it just ended so they're probably be coming outside soon." Kyle said, "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'll be ok.but I have to know what really happened."
"So what did my Mom say to you this morning?" Maria asked Michael as they walked outside through the school hallway, looking for the others. It was a usual occurrence.
"She said next time I should sleep on the couch." Michael said thinking it best to leave out any mentioned threats.
"Wow, not the response I was expecting. It's surprising she didn't try to beat you over the head with a newspaper and/or pan, whatever was closer."
"She would do that?" Michael asked her running his hand over his head silently thankful that he didn't gain a new bruise due to his visit at the DeLuca's.
"My Mom is a very unpredictable person, either she would do that or she would try to make you move in, whichever sounds good to her at the moment." Maria replied like it was a common thing.
"Your house sounds like an al.a.Czechslovikian boarding house."
"It probably would be if my Mom had her way. I know she's tried to keep Kyle there against his will when we were younger. She said it was 'so cute how we played together' or something along those lines, but I guess that's just the way moms are you know?"
Michael nodded at her pretending to understand but was broken away from that train of thought when they came upon the others, "Look there they are."
Maria looked up from where her eyes were watching the floor, "Hey you guys," She began then noticing the somber mood among the group, "what's going on?" She asked panicked looking at them all.
"Liz's Mom.there was an accident, she's not.with us anymore." Alex said trying to put it in the least offensive way he could think of.
"Oh my gawd Liz sweetie I am so sorry." Maria said putting her arms around her friend trying not to cry herself. She knew what it was like to lose a parent, but not in the same way.
"It's ok," Liz said putting her arms around her friend momentarily then pulling away, "but we have to get to the diner, we have to find out what happened- the truth."
"We can't just storm over there asking a million questions." Michael pointed out, speaking up for the first time.
"It's simple enough though we can talk to Liz's father, he was there he has to have known what happened, or at least seen something. If it wasn't an accident like Liz thinks he should have been able to, "pick up on" anything strange going on around there. Since, that is one of his "gifts" right?" Max asked.
Liz nodded.
"Then let's go."
The ride to the Crashdown, or what was left of it was uneventful and quiet. Everyone was thinking of their own theories of what could have happened. After what seemed like hours the group arrived to find police cars, fire trucks, and ambulances all around them. Sitting on a stretcher next to one of the ambulances was Jeff with a paramedic who was cleaning out a gash he got from the diner windows.
They got out and walked over to him. "I am fine, leave it alone!" He said trying to push the young paramedic away.
"But sir, I have to clean it out or it will get infected."
"Do you think I care about that right now? Part of my life just literally blew up in my face and you actually think that I care whether or not I'll get an infected cut on my face! No I didn't think so." Jeff answered before giving the paramedic time to react he pushed him out of the way using a little extra force, the kind of which isn't natural to Earth, to move him out of his way. The man shook his head and went into the ambulance.
"Dad?" Liz asked him unsurely.
"Oh Lizzie, what are you doing here? You should be in school, away from here." He said the next part in a whisper, his eyes turning dark, "None of you should be here, this place isn't safe."
"You act like it was safe in the first place." Maria said to him, "No place is ever safe."
They all looked at her questioningly before she mumbled, "Sorry it's a mantra pounded into my brain since I was little."
"Don't apologize because you're right. No place is ever safe, it doesn't matter if a skin told me that or not, because it's true and this just proves it. You can't be safe at your own home or job, because he can always find us if he wants to." Tess said sadly, "He almost found me once, but that was a long time ago."
"Khivar." Max said simply.
Tess nodded, "We have to be careful."
"You think we haven't been? We have been careful since we were kids and nothing has ever happened until now." Michael said bitterly.
Liz looked from Jeff then to Michael and Tess, "Well, isn't it obvious why things would start happening now, of all times? We're all together. We're at full power now, we've become an actual threat to him so he decided he would start picking us off, starting with me and a protector, but no that's not the way things worked out is it!" She stifled a sob and mumbled,".is it." She then put her arms to her side, defeated by her own emotions.
"Did anything unusual happen?" Isabel asked then added, "Besides this whole ordeal, I mean unusual before you came outside, any unusual customers?"
Jeff furrowed his eyebrows trying to sort his thoughts, "No, it was a slow morning. No one came in, so Nancy and I were just sitting at the counter, then I took out the trash and.you know what happened."
"Maybe someone should try to get a vision from what's left? Just try to pick anything up off of things everything leaves behind a trace, it could be physical, mental, or emotional so anything should be easy to find." Kyle suggested.
"That's a good idea, but we can't really do that." Max said motioning to himself, Michael, and Isabel.
"We can you know practicing for ages, but Liz is the best." Alex said solemnly.
"Are you up for it?" Maria asked her friend.
Liz shrugged, "Ready as I'll ever be I suppose." She motioned for the group to move in front of a pile of debris so she could try to get a feel without being seen. She raised her hand above the dirt and ash and tried to feel anything. With precision she moved it directly above, eyes closed, in parallel motions trying to even out the amount of energy she was giving off and the amount she was taking in, that was the key to making it work. Suddenly her hand jerked right above a still burning ember and she slowly took her hand to it knowing the pain that it would cause her hand.
She jerked back and opened her eyes suddenly, "I saw a guy maybe fourteen or fifteen years old. He had a sweater on with jeans and sunglasses. Why would someone be dressed like that in the desert?"
"A skin." Tess said eyes widening.
"Oh no. It was Nicholas." Jeff said as they all looked at him.
Ok I know I haven't updated in a very, very, very long time because I have had no inspiration but fear not I am back! Or continue to fear whichever, it doesn't matter. Oh yeah I do realize that I have called have also called Jeff Geoff but in the first chapter where his name was used I used Jeff, but if anyone knows which one is correct please tell me. Anyways as always suggestions are always helpful and welcomed. Thanks!
Rating: PG
Summary: There were two sets of Royal Fours. From sister planets Antar and Anterra, when sent to Earth not knowing who you are and what you're destined to become how do you survive? Alternate Universe
Coupling: M/M, M/L, A/I, K/T
Notes: Wow I dug myself in a little hole with that bombing of the Crashdown, eh? It's going to cause some major fluctuations in Liz's emotions, which are for sure.
Liz listened numbly to the school nurse as she explained what happened, ".your family's diner, the Crashdown, it blew up. The police said they think that it might have been from a gas leak, but they can't be sure. Your father was outside when it happened, but your mother.your mother was inside. I'm so sorry to be the one to have to tell you this." The nurse finished as Liz nodded, she heard her but it seemed like she was speaking to her through a wall of glass.
Liz sat down in the office that she was led to. How could this happen? There was nothing wrong with the gas; someone had to have done it, but who could? She asked herself. The enemies that her father always talked about, from the other planets, or Tess.it had to be Tess she just suddenly shows up and the man that brought her up turned out to be evil, so wouldn't she be most likely to? Liz shook her head; she didn't know what to believe. She was beginning to feel comfortably numb. But then she saw her walking with Isabel past the door, laughing, it felt like she was mocking her.
Liz stood up and ran out of the office to Tess, "How could you do this?" She shouted at a very startled and confused Tess.
"What are you talking about Liz? Are you ok?" Isabel asked her putting her hand on her shoulder. Liz pushed it away quickly.
Liz glared at her and looked at the floor waving her hand across it, causing a small earthquake which caused the floor to break apart.
Tess fell to the ground as Isabel clutched the wall, "What do you think I did? I didn't do anything." Tess said to her on the verge on tears.
"I'm sure you didn't." Liz spat back at her sarcastically, "You killed my mother!" She shouted causing all the people around them to turn, and then notice the torn apart floors.
Tess touched her hand to the floor and fixed the broken linoleum and then closed her eyes and concentrated on making them all forget, once she opened them they all went back to what they were doing oblivious to what was happening.
"Are you purposely risking exposure? Because if you are it looks like you're doing quite a fine job at it, and what are you talking about your mother?" Isabel said to her putting her arm around her shoulder leading her outside, with Tess following behind them.
"No.no I'm so sorry." Liz said beginning to cry and putting her head in her hands, wiping away the rapidly forming tears.
"What happened?" Tess said trying to forget the pain in her back from when she fell.
Liz sniffed and looked up, "At the diner, there was an accident, or at least that's what they're calling it, and my.Mom died." She said barely above a whisper.
"I'm so sorry." Isabel said hugging the crying girl. Liz was slightly shocked at the massive showing of affection and sympathy from Isabel, the girl she once thought was as cold as ice.
"Liz.I know I just got here but I'm one of you and I didn't hurt you mother, I don't want to hurt anybody. I just want to start again." Tess said to her looking down not sure if Liz would believe her.
Liz looked at the short blonde. How could she trust someone that she barely knew? She asked herself. There was just something about her she wasn't quite sure of. Liz nodded slowly and unsurely at her, "We have to go there. We have to get the others, and see if there really was a gas leak."
"We can't just rush over there and try to examine everything the police won't let a bunch of teenagers tamper with the evidence." Isabel said shaking her head.
Liz looked at Tess, "You made all the people in the hall forget, you can make the police, too."
"You mean with the mindwarp? I don't know, I don't know if I have enough energy to make them all forget, but besides it would take too long to have them watching we could get in serious trouble in the time before they forgot, and I can't make them all not see us all for that long, there's got to be a lot of them." Tess said.
"What are you all doing out here?" Max asked as he walked up to them all with Kyle and Alex.
"My Mom died." Liz said dryly.
"What? What happened? How?" Alex asked her all in one short breath.
Isabel spoke for her, "Liz said that the police talked to the school and said that they think there was a gas leak, but Liz doesn't think so."
"I'm so sorry Liz." Max said his eyes shining with sympathy for her.
"Thank you." She said softly, looking down, "Where's Michael and Maria?"
"I'm not sure, they had last period together and it just ended so they're probably be coming outside soon." Kyle said, "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'll be ok.but I have to know what really happened."
"So what did my Mom say to you this morning?" Maria asked Michael as they walked outside through the school hallway, looking for the others. It was a usual occurrence.
"She said next time I should sleep on the couch." Michael said thinking it best to leave out any mentioned threats.
"Wow, not the response I was expecting. It's surprising she didn't try to beat you over the head with a newspaper and/or pan, whatever was closer."
"She would do that?" Michael asked her running his hand over his head silently thankful that he didn't gain a new bruise due to his visit at the DeLuca's.
"My Mom is a very unpredictable person, either she would do that or she would try to make you move in, whichever sounds good to her at the moment." Maria replied like it was a common thing.
"Your house sounds like an al.a.Czechslovikian boarding house."
"It probably would be if my Mom had her way. I know she's tried to keep Kyle there against his will when we were younger. She said it was 'so cute how we played together' or something along those lines, but I guess that's just the way moms are you know?"
Michael nodded at her pretending to understand but was broken away from that train of thought when they came upon the others, "Look there they are."
Maria looked up from where her eyes were watching the floor, "Hey you guys," She began then noticing the somber mood among the group, "what's going on?" She asked panicked looking at them all.
"Liz's Mom.there was an accident, she's not.with us anymore." Alex said trying to put it in the least offensive way he could think of.
"Oh my gawd Liz sweetie I am so sorry." Maria said putting her arms around her friend trying not to cry herself. She knew what it was like to lose a parent, but not in the same way.
"It's ok," Liz said putting her arms around her friend momentarily then pulling away, "but we have to get to the diner, we have to find out what happened- the truth."
"We can't just storm over there asking a million questions." Michael pointed out, speaking up for the first time.
"It's simple enough though we can talk to Liz's father, he was there he has to have known what happened, or at least seen something. If it wasn't an accident like Liz thinks he should have been able to, "pick up on" anything strange going on around there. Since, that is one of his "gifts" right?" Max asked.
Liz nodded.
"Then let's go."
The ride to the Crashdown, or what was left of it was uneventful and quiet. Everyone was thinking of their own theories of what could have happened. After what seemed like hours the group arrived to find police cars, fire trucks, and ambulances all around them. Sitting on a stretcher next to one of the ambulances was Jeff with a paramedic who was cleaning out a gash he got from the diner windows.
They got out and walked over to him. "I am fine, leave it alone!" He said trying to push the young paramedic away.
"But sir, I have to clean it out or it will get infected."
"Do you think I care about that right now? Part of my life just literally blew up in my face and you actually think that I care whether or not I'll get an infected cut on my face! No I didn't think so." Jeff answered before giving the paramedic time to react he pushed him out of the way using a little extra force, the kind of which isn't natural to Earth, to move him out of his way. The man shook his head and went into the ambulance.
"Dad?" Liz asked him unsurely.
"Oh Lizzie, what are you doing here? You should be in school, away from here." He said the next part in a whisper, his eyes turning dark, "None of you should be here, this place isn't safe."
"You act like it was safe in the first place." Maria said to him, "No place is ever safe."
They all looked at her questioningly before she mumbled, "Sorry it's a mantra pounded into my brain since I was little."
"Don't apologize because you're right. No place is ever safe, it doesn't matter if a skin told me that or not, because it's true and this just proves it. You can't be safe at your own home or job, because he can always find us if he wants to." Tess said sadly, "He almost found me once, but that was a long time ago."
"Khivar." Max said simply.
Tess nodded, "We have to be careful."
"You think we haven't been? We have been careful since we were kids and nothing has ever happened until now." Michael said bitterly.
Liz looked from Jeff then to Michael and Tess, "Well, isn't it obvious why things would start happening now, of all times? We're all together. We're at full power now, we've become an actual threat to him so he decided he would start picking us off, starting with me and a protector, but no that's not the way things worked out is it!" She stifled a sob and mumbled,".is it." She then put her arms to her side, defeated by her own emotions.
"Did anything unusual happen?" Isabel asked then added, "Besides this whole ordeal, I mean unusual before you came outside, any unusual customers?"
Jeff furrowed his eyebrows trying to sort his thoughts, "No, it was a slow morning. No one came in, so Nancy and I were just sitting at the counter, then I took out the trash and.you know what happened."
"Maybe someone should try to get a vision from what's left? Just try to pick anything up off of things everything leaves behind a trace, it could be physical, mental, or emotional so anything should be easy to find." Kyle suggested.
"That's a good idea, but we can't really do that." Max said motioning to himself, Michael, and Isabel.
"We can you know practicing for ages, but Liz is the best." Alex said solemnly.
"Are you up for it?" Maria asked her friend.
Liz shrugged, "Ready as I'll ever be I suppose." She motioned for the group to move in front of a pile of debris so she could try to get a feel without being seen. She raised her hand above the dirt and ash and tried to feel anything. With precision she moved it directly above, eyes closed, in parallel motions trying to even out the amount of energy she was giving off and the amount she was taking in, that was the key to making it work. Suddenly her hand jerked right above a still burning ember and she slowly took her hand to it knowing the pain that it would cause her hand.
She jerked back and opened her eyes suddenly, "I saw a guy maybe fourteen or fifteen years old. He had a sweater on with jeans and sunglasses. Why would someone be dressed like that in the desert?"
"A skin." Tess said eyes widening.
"Oh no. It was Nicholas." Jeff said as they all looked at him.
Ok I know I haven't updated in a very, very, very long time because I have had no inspiration but fear not I am back! Or continue to fear whichever, it doesn't matter. Oh yeah I do realize that I have called have also called Jeff Geoff but in the first chapter where his name was used I used Jeff, but if anyone knows which one is correct please tell me. Anyways as always suggestions are always helpful and welcomed. Thanks!