Destiny vs.
Fate
By Erin
(LuckyMiss@aol.com)
Summary:
Alex on destiny and fate.
Rating: PG
Disclaimer:
I don't own any of the 'Roswell' characters.
They belong to those awesome people at the WB and I am borrowing
them. Please don't sue me. I'm a poor high school student without a
job, who writes fan fiction to let the muse out. If you do, I promise you that you won't get anything important,
other than my violin and some picture albums...
Spoilers:
This is a 'Destiny' tag, even though it aired about, oh... a month ago. It just took me a little bit of time to come
up with this idea and write it down. (that's usually my problem!)
Distribution:
Ask and ye shall receive!
Feedback:
Oh please, oh please. You can just post
it or you can send it to my e-mail address (LuckyMiss@aol.com) And please, no flames. If you hated it, don't continue reading it.
Dedication:
This goes to Drew, who was so kind to talk to me last night about feeling left
out of the crowd. And he doesn't even
know that this is to him, but I want to dedicate it to him because he made me
feel loved and forget about what happened.
If you ever get this, thanks Drew.
Author's
Note: Okay - I know that people have out-written 'Destiny' tags... I've only
written two. ::hehe:: So, I have my
third one because no one wrote a tag for Alex and I don't like people to be
left out (hey - it happened last night and prompted me to write it!)
Now on to
your regularly scheduled fiction...
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I'm sure
that when you were little, something would happen to you and your parents would
say, "Well, that was destined to happen," or "That was fated to
happen to you." And you would calm
down because you believed them... you believed that it happened because it was
planned to happen and it wasn't your fault when it really did happen. But as you grew older, you might have still
believed that things occurred because they were meant to happen, or you could
have been like me and believed that everyone makes their own destiny, no matter
what obstacles and challenges they may face.
My parents,
as I'm sure your parents, too, would use destiny and fate in the same context,
as if they had the same meaning or purpose.
But really, they're two very different words that link together in only
one way that I can cite.
Webster's
Dictionary defines destiny as the inevitable loss or fate to which a person or
thing is destined; fate; a predetermined course of events. It defines fate as the force or power held
to predetermine events; fortune; inevitability; the final result or outcome;
unfortunate destiny.
Can you see
the difference? Even though that
destiny is defined as 'fate,' the two words differences are like night and
day. Destiny is a plan set for
something or someone. Fate is the force
that determines one's destiny. My
beliefs tie into this... fate can change destiny, if there are such things.
So now, I
sit here and reflect on the news that I just heard from one of my best friends
in the whole world. Our friends (the
aliens, of course) have plans in their lives.
Their mother told them of their destinies and why they are so important
to their people. They were genetically
engineered, partly as their leaders who were killed in an interplanetary war,
and partly as humans. They were sent to
earth so that they could age and then, go back to their home planet and save
their people from the war that caused their past selves deaths.
And Liz
told me that we weren't included in their destinies, not at all. Wouldn't their mother tell them that we were
involved in the plan, too, since we helped them find the orbs that communicated
with her, in the first place? Wouldn't
we be mentioned because we led Valenti and the FBI to not believing that they
were aliens? Wouldn't we be mentioned
because we saved Max's life from the alien hunter? Wouldn't we be mentioned because we risked our lives to save
theirs? Wouldn't we? Were those all in the plan or were all of
them just freak coincidences?
I'd like to
know what's in store for us, now that they know their destinies and purposes in
lives. Are we going to be pushed aside
because we aren't in the whole big plan?
Are they going to cling to us even more because they're afraid of what
is going to occur? Or are they going to
be distant and leave us to fulfill their destinies, forgetting about our
feelings and thoughts? I sure hope that
it isn't the first or the last one, because I don't know what I would do
without Isabel. And to see her with
Michael... It would kill Maria and Liz, too.
Actually, it's already killing them; and me, too, because I don't want
to see my two best friends so broken and helpless because of their love's
'destinies'. Liz told Max to follow his
destiny and ran and Michael told Maria that he loved her... and said
goodbye. As far as they're concerned,
there is no way to change the way things are happening to us. Am I the only one who has hope?
I still
believe that a person makes their own destiny, no matter what hardships they
may encounter along the way. And I
believe that something, that day at the Crashdown, when Liz was shot, was
implying that the three aliens and the three humans were meant to be
together. Something inside my heart
keeps telling me that. (I know, I know; I'm sounding like Liz.) I don't know about what my heart is telling
me, but I'm going to follow Grandma Claudia on this one. I'm going to say that fate has brought us
together; that is, fortune, luck, or whatever you want to call it. It's the same to me. And fate changes destinies. It says so in the dictionary.
So, here's
the question. Has fate changed their
destines?
The answer,
I don't know; that's up to them to decide.
The End
