Title: Is There Life After Love? part 9
Author: Sarah Y.
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters of Roswell
Category: M&M fic
Summary: Pretend The End Of the World never happened except the parts about Michael and Courtney. Anyway Maria leaves Roswell after seeing Courtney in a towel and she comes back 6 years later to find out Michael is married. Maria has now lied to everyone saying she has a fiancée.
Part9*******************************************************************
The hand kept moving higher and higher until I realized it was Mark's hand!
"Get your damn hands off me. No one touches me there except Michael!" I screamed. I turned and looked at everyone's shocked expressions. I was so embarrassed. Tears started to fall down my face and I went running outside to the balcony.
"Well Michael go after her!" Liz shouted. Michael got up and ran toward the balcony
"Oh my god I now remember where I saw you Mark. You're in that Jenny Craig commercial. You're the before shot aren't you?" Tess asked.
"Yes that commercial made my mom so proud and the names Chubby not Mark."
"Maria."
I couldn't look at Michael. I looked over the balcony. "I made a complete fool out of myself tonight. He's not my fiancé in case you haven't figured that out yet. So does Gloria know you're not from around here?" I asked changing the subject.
"Yes."
"You must really love her to have trusted her with your life like that."
"Maria you don't understand."
"Michael I have to go I'm not really well." I turned around to leave.
"Dammit Maria. Stop running away!"
"That's funny coming from you."
"You're going to listen to me, but not here. Come with me."
"No."
"Fine we'll do it the hard way."
He picked me up and carried me to his car. He drove me to the cave where his pod was found.
That Maria better keep her mitts off my Michael." Gloria commented to the people at the table.
"Shut up Gloria" They all said at the same time.
Michael and I walked into the cave.
"Fine Michael you dragged me here what is so damn important that you have to tell me?
Part 10 ****************************************************************
"First of all why did you lie about Mark?" Michael asked.
I still couldn't look in his eyes. "When I came back to Roswell I found out that everybody's life has turned out perfectly since I left Roswell. Max and Liz are happily married with a baby. Tess and Kyle are together. God even my mom and Valenti are together. I came back a total failure. I couldn't make it as a singer and I was a waitress again. Then I found out you were married. You made me so mad when we argued and before I knew it I just blurted out I was engaged. Then when everyone said they wanted to meet him I hired someone to play my fiancée."
"And Mark's the best you could come up with?"
"Well it was short notice."
" Maria, You said I must have loved Gloria to tell her my secret. Well I never told Gloria I was an alien."
"Michael you've been married to her for almost 5 years. She must know. Anyway it certainly didn't take you very long to get over me."
"Maria, shut up."
"Michael I'm not going to stay here if you talk to me like that."
"Maria please listen. I never told Gloria I was an alien. One night the gang was all at the Crashdown having a meeting. We thought the place was empty but Gloria was apparently hiding in the back. She heard and saw things and figured out for herself that Max, Isabel, Tess, and me were aliens. A few days later she ended up on my door. She told me if I didn't marry her she would turn us all into the FBI."
"Michael I find this hard to believe. Why would anyone blackmail you into marring them?
"What you don't think I'm charming enough to have someone blackmail me into marriage?"
"No!" I said rolling my eyes.
"Well Gloria's from Cuba and she needed someone to marry her so she could stay in the USA."
"But why have you been married to her for almost five years?"
"According to the authorities a couple has to stay married for at least five years or they take it as a sign that you only got married for the green card and they would ship her back. Then she would've turned us all into the FBI. Our fifth year ends next week."
"That witch!"
"Actually I did hate Gloria at the beginning but we became closer through the years. She's not that bad. She told me tonight for the first time she loved me."
"That day at the Crashdown you told me you loved Gloria. I guess you two can finally be happy now."
Part 11***********************************************************
"Maria, look at me." Michael gently took my face in his hands and tilted my chin so I was looking into his eyes.
"That day when we were arguing at the Crashdown there was a large crowd of people gathered around us. I had to say I loved Gloria. I didn't know who could have been watching us. I couldn't let the truth about our marriage get back to the authorities."
"So it was a lie?"
"Yes, I lied about loving her. I've only loved one person in my life, and I thought I had lost her to a guy named Mark."
The moment he said those words I threw myself in his arms and sobbed. I was crying so hard from the relief I felt that he didn't love Gloria, and for all the pain I had gone through since that day I saw him and Courtney together. I was also crying because I knew I would finally be happy with the only one I ever wanted to be with. I continued hugging Michael for what seemed like hours. I was holding him so tight afraid that if I let go he would leave me. I finally released my hold on him.
"Michael uh, uh, did you ever sleep with her? I mean you've been married to her for so long." I was terrified to hear his answer but I had to know.
"No."
I let out the breath of air I had been holding and I hugged him once again. "Michael you don't know the hell I went through tonight. I have never been so embarrassed in my life. I thought I was going to die when I made that comment to Mark about only you touching me there."
"Believe me I wanted to deck him. Your right I will be the only one touching you there now and forever."
"Forever's a long time. I thought I would have to live the rest of my life without love."
"You were wrong." After he said those words he cupped my face in his hands and gave me the most earth-shattering kiss of my life. I had almost forgotten how great his kisses were.
Later at Michael and Gloria's apartment
"I think I have all my things packed. Gloria, I hope we'll always be friends. I just don't feel the way you do. I hope you can accept that."
"Get over yourself Michael. I'll survive without you. I got my visa now. I only hope I'll get as lucky as Maria is one day and find someone who loves me as much as you love her. That Mark guy didn't seem all that bad."
3 months later
"So Michael why did you and Maria call this emergency meeting?" Max questioned his best friend. Kyle, Tess, Liz, Max, Alex, and Isabel were all gathered in Michael's new apartment him and Maria now shared.
"We'll it's not really an emergency. I just couldn't wait I and I had to tell everyone." I was jumping up and down with joy.
"Maria you shouldn't be doing that in your condition." Michael said protectively.
"Does that mean what I think it means?"
"Yes, Liz I'm pregnant!!!"
"We'll it's no wonder the way you two horndogs have been going at it like bunnies since you got back together! Kyle laughed. "Ouch! Tess stop hitting me!"
"Pervert!" Tess said.
After everyone's laughter died down and everyone hugged me Michael turned to me. "Actually announcing Maria's pregnancy's not the only reason I asked you all here. I wanted you all to witness this."
"What are you talking about Spaceboy?"
I almost died from shock when I saw something I thought I'd never see as long as I live. Spaceboy pulled a small box out of his pocket. Strange how I hadn't noticed that during our grouping session earlier. Michael got down on one knee. Tears were streaming down my face from the moment he got down on his knee. This time it was from happiness. How did I get so lucky? The day I left Roswell 6 years ago I thought my life was over. Now the best parts are just about to begin.
"Maria, as you and everyone here know, I suck at sharing my feelings. But even though I never tell you how I feel it doesn't mean I don't mean it. What I'm trying to say is that I love you and I want you to marry me. Not just because of the baby. But because I love you. You are the only person who has ever loved me for me. Knowing all my faults. You were the first person to ever care enough about me to not let me go no matter how much I pushed you away. No one's ever fought for me like that and made me feel like I was worth something. And I want to make a family for our child and be the father like I never had. Maria will you marry me?"
I just stood there looking at his beautiful face. I pinched myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming.
"Well Maria, are you just going to stand there? I'm sort of making a complete fool out of myself in front of everyone if you don't say something."
I threw myself in his arms once again. " Yes! Yes! Yes! Hell Yes!!"
As the wedding march started Jim Valenti lead me down the isle. Jim and my mother had recently married.
I almost stopped breathing when I saw Michael standing in front of the church. Michael was actually in a tux. He looked so much better than any fantasy I had ever had.
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"Is there anyone here who sees any reason these two should not be joined together? Speak now or forever hold your peace." All eyes turned to Gloria who was sitting next to Mark or Chubby, which he liked to be called, but Gloria just smiled at the happy couple.
"Then I now pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss the bride."
I thought I was going to die right there and then from happiness as I looked into his eyes. I fought so long and hard for this moment and it had finally come. Michael leaned down and kissed me. His kisses never seemed to last long enough.
"O.K. you two save something for the honeymoon."
"Shut up Kyle!" Michael and Maria said simultaneously breaking their kiss for a moment.
"Ladies and Gentleman I now introduce to you Michael and Maria Guerin."
"It is now time for the married couple to have their first dance. Michael Guerin has requested this song, which he dedicates to his beautiful wife."
I looked up at Michael questionably not knowing what kind of song he would have picked out. But as the music started I felt even more loved.
(It's hard for me to say the things, I want to say sometimes
There's no one here but you and me, and that broken old streetlight
Lock the doors, We'll leave the world outside
All I've got to give to you are three words when I)
I knew it was hard for Michael to say how he felt. That's why I cherish all the times he says he loves me or tells me he loves to here me sing. I know it's hard for him but it always make me love him even more when he does tell me how he feels.
(Thank you for loving me, for being my eyes when I couldn't see
For parting my lips, when I couldn't breathe,
Thank you for loving me
Thank you for loving me
I never knew I had a dream, until that dream was you
When I look into your eyes, the sky's a different blue
Cross my heart, I wear no disguise
If I tried, you'd make believe that you believed my lies)
(Michaels's Point of View) Before Maria I never knew that it was even possible someone could love me. Growing up with Hank made me believe that I wasn't worth sticking around for. But Maria always stayed no matter how many times I lied and told her we were over and that she didn't matter to me.
(Thank you for loving me, for being my eyes when I couldn't see
For parting my lips, when I couldn't breathe,
Thank you for loving me
You pick me up when I fall down,
You ring the bell before they count me out,
If I was drowning you would part the sea,
And risk your life to rescue me)
I've lost count of how many times Maria has risked her life for me. If it wasn't for her I wouldn't be here. That night after Hank beat me up she didn't turn me away even though I hurt her more than anything.. Even when everyone told her to give up on me she never did.
(Lock the doors, We'll leave the world outside
All I've got to give to you are three words when I
Thank you for loving me, for being my eyes when I couldn't see
For parting my lips, when I couldn't breathe,
Thank you for loving me
When I couldn't fly, Oh you gave me wings,
You parted my lips when I couldn't breathe
Thank you for loving me, Oh for Loving me)
(Back to Maria's POV)
I never wanted this night to end. I couldn't believe how perfect this day was. "Michael thank you the song is beautiful."
"So are you, Maria and so is our son." After those words I practically jumped on Michael then and there. But I settled for a passionate kiss.
After I finally peeled myself off of Michael we walked over to my mother. She handed me our son, Jim Anthony Guerin. We named him after my father who I recently learned was none other than Jim Valenti. It seems mom had a few secrets of her own. I had always dreamed of my father walking me down the isle now thanks to a simple blood test my dream came true. My mom always thought Bryan was my father but it was a one time fling between her and Valenti that produced me. Now mom was married to the man she loved and I was married to a good-looking, if badly groomed alien. And Michael and I would spend the rest of our lives proving to each other just how much in love we were.
The End.
Author: Sarah Y.
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters of Roswell
Category: M&M fic
Summary: Pretend The End Of the World never happened except the parts about Michael and Courtney. Anyway Maria leaves Roswell after seeing Courtney in a towel and she comes back 6 years later to find out Michael is married. Maria has now lied to everyone saying she has a fiancée.
Part9*******************************************************************
The hand kept moving higher and higher until I realized it was Mark's hand!
"Get your damn hands off me. No one touches me there except Michael!" I screamed. I turned and looked at everyone's shocked expressions. I was so embarrassed. Tears started to fall down my face and I went running outside to the balcony.
"Well Michael go after her!" Liz shouted. Michael got up and ran toward the balcony
"Oh my god I now remember where I saw you Mark. You're in that Jenny Craig commercial. You're the before shot aren't you?" Tess asked.
"Yes that commercial made my mom so proud and the names Chubby not Mark."
"Maria."
I couldn't look at Michael. I looked over the balcony. "I made a complete fool out of myself tonight. He's not my fiancé in case you haven't figured that out yet. So does Gloria know you're not from around here?" I asked changing the subject.
"Yes."
"You must really love her to have trusted her with your life like that."
"Maria you don't understand."
"Michael I have to go I'm not really well." I turned around to leave.
"Dammit Maria. Stop running away!"
"That's funny coming from you."
"You're going to listen to me, but not here. Come with me."
"No."
"Fine we'll do it the hard way."
He picked me up and carried me to his car. He drove me to the cave where his pod was found.
That Maria better keep her mitts off my Michael." Gloria commented to the people at the table.
"Shut up Gloria" They all said at the same time.
Michael and I walked into the cave.
"Fine Michael you dragged me here what is so damn important that you have to tell me?
Part 10 ****************************************************************
"First of all why did you lie about Mark?" Michael asked.
I still couldn't look in his eyes. "When I came back to Roswell I found out that everybody's life has turned out perfectly since I left Roswell. Max and Liz are happily married with a baby. Tess and Kyle are together. God even my mom and Valenti are together. I came back a total failure. I couldn't make it as a singer and I was a waitress again. Then I found out you were married. You made me so mad when we argued and before I knew it I just blurted out I was engaged. Then when everyone said they wanted to meet him I hired someone to play my fiancée."
"And Mark's the best you could come up with?"
"Well it was short notice."
" Maria, You said I must have loved Gloria to tell her my secret. Well I never told Gloria I was an alien."
"Michael you've been married to her for almost 5 years. She must know. Anyway it certainly didn't take you very long to get over me."
"Maria, shut up."
"Michael I'm not going to stay here if you talk to me like that."
"Maria please listen. I never told Gloria I was an alien. One night the gang was all at the Crashdown having a meeting. We thought the place was empty but Gloria was apparently hiding in the back. She heard and saw things and figured out for herself that Max, Isabel, Tess, and me were aliens. A few days later she ended up on my door. She told me if I didn't marry her she would turn us all into the FBI."
"Michael I find this hard to believe. Why would anyone blackmail you into marring them?
"What you don't think I'm charming enough to have someone blackmail me into marriage?"
"No!" I said rolling my eyes.
"Well Gloria's from Cuba and she needed someone to marry her so she could stay in the USA."
"But why have you been married to her for almost five years?"
"According to the authorities a couple has to stay married for at least five years or they take it as a sign that you only got married for the green card and they would ship her back. Then she would've turned us all into the FBI. Our fifth year ends next week."
"That witch!"
"Actually I did hate Gloria at the beginning but we became closer through the years. She's not that bad. She told me tonight for the first time she loved me."
"That day at the Crashdown you told me you loved Gloria. I guess you two can finally be happy now."
Part 11***********************************************************
"Maria, look at me." Michael gently took my face in his hands and tilted my chin so I was looking into his eyes.
"That day when we were arguing at the Crashdown there was a large crowd of people gathered around us. I had to say I loved Gloria. I didn't know who could have been watching us. I couldn't let the truth about our marriage get back to the authorities."
"So it was a lie?"
"Yes, I lied about loving her. I've only loved one person in my life, and I thought I had lost her to a guy named Mark."
The moment he said those words I threw myself in his arms and sobbed. I was crying so hard from the relief I felt that he didn't love Gloria, and for all the pain I had gone through since that day I saw him and Courtney together. I was also crying because I knew I would finally be happy with the only one I ever wanted to be with. I continued hugging Michael for what seemed like hours. I was holding him so tight afraid that if I let go he would leave me. I finally released my hold on him.
"Michael uh, uh, did you ever sleep with her? I mean you've been married to her for so long." I was terrified to hear his answer but I had to know.
"No."
I let out the breath of air I had been holding and I hugged him once again. "Michael you don't know the hell I went through tonight. I have never been so embarrassed in my life. I thought I was going to die when I made that comment to Mark about only you touching me there."
"Believe me I wanted to deck him. Your right I will be the only one touching you there now and forever."
"Forever's a long time. I thought I would have to live the rest of my life without love."
"You were wrong." After he said those words he cupped my face in his hands and gave me the most earth-shattering kiss of my life. I had almost forgotten how great his kisses were.
Later at Michael and Gloria's apartment
"I think I have all my things packed. Gloria, I hope we'll always be friends. I just don't feel the way you do. I hope you can accept that."
"Get over yourself Michael. I'll survive without you. I got my visa now. I only hope I'll get as lucky as Maria is one day and find someone who loves me as much as you love her. That Mark guy didn't seem all that bad."
3 months later
"So Michael why did you and Maria call this emergency meeting?" Max questioned his best friend. Kyle, Tess, Liz, Max, Alex, and Isabel were all gathered in Michael's new apartment him and Maria now shared.
"We'll it's not really an emergency. I just couldn't wait I and I had to tell everyone." I was jumping up and down with joy.
"Maria you shouldn't be doing that in your condition." Michael said protectively.
"Does that mean what I think it means?"
"Yes, Liz I'm pregnant!!!"
"We'll it's no wonder the way you two horndogs have been going at it like bunnies since you got back together! Kyle laughed. "Ouch! Tess stop hitting me!"
"Pervert!" Tess said.
After everyone's laughter died down and everyone hugged me Michael turned to me. "Actually announcing Maria's pregnancy's not the only reason I asked you all here. I wanted you all to witness this."
"What are you talking about Spaceboy?"
I almost died from shock when I saw something I thought I'd never see as long as I live. Spaceboy pulled a small box out of his pocket. Strange how I hadn't noticed that during our grouping session earlier. Michael got down on one knee. Tears were streaming down my face from the moment he got down on his knee. This time it was from happiness. How did I get so lucky? The day I left Roswell 6 years ago I thought my life was over. Now the best parts are just about to begin.
"Maria, as you and everyone here know, I suck at sharing my feelings. But even though I never tell you how I feel it doesn't mean I don't mean it. What I'm trying to say is that I love you and I want you to marry me. Not just because of the baby. But because I love you. You are the only person who has ever loved me for me. Knowing all my faults. You were the first person to ever care enough about me to not let me go no matter how much I pushed you away. No one's ever fought for me like that and made me feel like I was worth something. And I want to make a family for our child and be the father like I never had. Maria will you marry me?"
I just stood there looking at his beautiful face. I pinched myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming.
"Well Maria, are you just going to stand there? I'm sort of making a complete fool out of myself in front of everyone if you don't say something."
I threw myself in his arms once again. " Yes! Yes! Yes! Hell Yes!!"
As the wedding march started Jim Valenti lead me down the isle. Jim and my mother had recently married.
I almost stopped breathing when I saw Michael standing in front of the church. Michael was actually in a tux. He looked so much better than any fantasy I had ever had.
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"Is there anyone here who sees any reason these two should not be joined together? Speak now or forever hold your peace." All eyes turned to Gloria who was sitting next to Mark or Chubby, which he liked to be called, but Gloria just smiled at the happy couple.
"Then I now pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss the bride."
I thought I was going to die right there and then from happiness as I looked into his eyes. I fought so long and hard for this moment and it had finally come. Michael leaned down and kissed me. His kisses never seemed to last long enough.
"O.K. you two save something for the honeymoon."
"Shut up Kyle!" Michael and Maria said simultaneously breaking their kiss for a moment.
"Ladies and Gentleman I now introduce to you Michael and Maria Guerin."
"It is now time for the married couple to have their first dance. Michael Guerin has requested this song, which he dedicates to his beautiful wife."
I looked up at Michael questionably not knowing what kind of song he would have picked out. But as the music started I felt even more loved.
(It's hard for me to say the things, I want to say sometimes
There's no one here but you and me, and that broken old streetlight
Lock the doors, We'll leave the world outside
All I've got to give to you are three words when I)
I knew it was hard for Michael to say how he felt. That's why I cherish all the times he says he loves me or tells me he loves to here me sing. I know it's hard for him but it always make me love him even more when he does tell me how he feels.
(Thank you for loving me, for being my eyes when I couldn't see
For parting my lips, when I couldn't breathe,
Thank you for loving me
Thank you for loving me
I never knew I had a dream, until that dream was you
When I look into your eyes, the sky's a different blue
Cross my heart, I wear no disguise
If I tried, you'd make believe that you believed my lies)
(Michaels's Point of View) Before Maria I never knew that it was even possible someone could love me. Growing up with Hank made me believe that I wasn't worth sticking around for. But Maria always stayed no matter how many times I lied and told her we were over and that she didn't matter to me.
(Thank you for loving me, for being my eyes when I couldn't see
For parting my lips, when I couldn't breathe,
Thank you for loving me
You pick me up when I fall down,
You ring the bell before they count me out,
If I was drowning you would part the sea,
And risk your life to rescue me)
I've lost count of how many times Maria has risked her life for me. If it wasn't for her I wouldn't be here. That night after Hank beat me up she didn't turn me away even though I hurt her more than anything.. Even when everyone told her to give up on me she never did.
(Lock the doors, We'll leave the world outside
All I've got to give to you are three words when I
Thank you for loving me, for being my eyes when I couldn't see
For parting my lips, when I couldn't breathe,
Thank you for loving me
When I couldn't fly, Oh you gave me wings,
You parted my lips when I couldn't breathe
Thank you for loving me, Oh for Loving me)
(Back to Maria's POV)
I never wanted this night to end. I couldn't believe how perfect this day was. "Michael thank you the song is beautiful."
"So are you, Maria and so is our son." After those words I practically jumped on Michael then and there. But I settled for a passionate kiss.
After I finally peeled myself off of Michael we walked over to my mother. She handed me our son, Jim Anthony Guerin. We named him after my father who I recently learned was none other than Jim Valenti. It seems mom had a few secrets of her own. I had always dreamed of my father walking me down the isle now thanks to a simple blood test my dream came true. My mom always thought Bryan was my father but it was a one time fling between her and Valenti that produced me. Now mom was married to the man she loved and I was married to a good-looking, if badly groomed alien. And Michael and I would spend the rest of our lives proving to each other just how much in love we were.
The End.