Title: What the Future Holds (Part Nine)
Author: SpyGirl314
Email: GroupieChic319@aol.com
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don't own Roswell, although I really wish I did.
Summary: This takes place a few days after "Summer of '47" but before "The End of the World". The Granolith comes to life when teens from the future come to straighten out a problem that can't be handled by the pod squad. However, problems arise when the identity of the future teens is revealed.
Category: Max/Liz
Author's Note: Thanks for the feedback, it's what keeps me going! :)
Liz felt awkward at that particular moment. She knew she ishould/i be scared. Really scared, because she was about to go to war against an alien race that had super powers. But she wasn't. Not at all. Or at least that's what she told herself so her heart didn't beat out of her chest.
*I can do this.* Her mind said confidently. *I ihave/i to do this. For my life....for Max's life.... for our future together.*
Kivar, furious anger evident in his eyes, stepped forward and Max quickly held up his hand creating a shield.
The aliens moved to stand in front beside Max.
"What are we gonna do Maxwell?" Michael asked, in an oddly serious tone. "You can't keep this up forever."
"I'll do it as long as it takes." Max stated, his voice shaky. He was already losing energy. "Figure out a way to get us out of here."
He must have been talking to Adri, because she nodded her head and whirled around to come face to face with Katie.
"Who-" She started but Katie rolled her eyes and smiled.
"We idon't/i have time to get into it." Katie grabbed Adri's arm and motioned for the rest of them to follow her back towards the wall.
Liz walked over and stood by Maria when she noticed her best friend was shivering....in fear.
The relief was evident in her eyes. "Thanks babe."
Liz looked straight into her eyes and grabbed her hand. "We're going to make it Maria. This whole thing..... it's almost over. We can do this."
Maria nodded her head and smiled a little. "You know.... you're starting to sound just like Mr.Responsible over there."
Liz smiled a little, then her gaze shifted to Max who was losing energy fastly. She swallowed a lump in her throat and looked away. *He's going to be fine..... We're going to be fine...*
"So what's the plan K-dog?" Stan asked Katie.
She was silent a moment, then asked. "How many guards are there?"
Adri lifted her head and counted the enemies. "Five guards in addition to Tess, Kivar, and Nikolas."
"Eight....." Katie's voice trailed off. "And how many exits?"
"Just one." Adri told her. "And it's on the other side of the room."
"Damn." Alex whispered, running his hands through his hair.
"Remember when we thought things couldn't get worse when Topolsky was here?" Maria reminded them, then sighed. "Well it has."
"So how are we going to get out?" Liz asked the group. "What's our plan?"
Out of the corner of her eye Liz saw Michael walking towards them.
"He can't hold that up any longer. What's the plan?" Michael asked in his usual demanding tone.
Magnolia rolled her eyes and hit Michael in the ribs with her elbow. "We're in the middle of a life-or-death decision here, please don't expect us to have an answer in two minutes."
Michael turned to her and scowled. "Listen princess, I'm just trying to get out of here alive. Okay?"
Mags rolled her eyes and Michael turned around just in time to catch Maria doing the same. He looked at both of them and sighed in exasperation. "Oh god there's two of them now..."
Maria opened her mouth to say something when Katie quickly butt in and nervously laughed. "Okay back to the plan that's gonna save our lives!"
"Yeah, so what is it?" Michael asked, ignoring another punch in the stomach by Magnolia.
Katie cleared her throat nervously. "You see.... we're gonna just like.... go over there and walk through the door and get out of the building."
The group was silent for a minute and Michael raised his eyebrow. "What?"
Katie cleared her throat and asked innocently. "What?"
"Wha--" Michael turned around and looked at the door, which was guarded by five huge aliens, then he turned back to face Katie. "That's your iplan/i??!!"
Katie nodded her head. "Um...yep that's pretty much it."
Michael opened his mouth, but nothing came out. This icouldn't/i be her plan. "You -- You've gotta be kidding me!"
"Hurry up!" They heard Isabel shout from her stance beside Max. "He's barely holding up anymore!"
"Think of something!" Michael told her and the group started to get frantic.
"I can't!" Katie cried, the stress evident in her voice.
"Can't you teleport us out of here or something?" Michael asked incredulously. "You're from the future, right?"
Mags rolled her eyes. "Teleport us out? Sorry last time we checked we weren't iPower Rangers/i!" She looked over at Maria. "Why do we put iup/i with this guy?" Maria shrugged and shook her head.
"Guys...." Gabriel broke interrupted. "I think we should......run." He said just as Max's shield went down.
Katie looked at him oddly, then to the scene unfolding in front of her. "Oh god, here they come!" Kivar had gone straight for Max while Nikolas was coming straight for them.
"Everyone stay close together. Michael, Stan, Mags, and I will hold them off until all of you get through the door. As isoon/i as you get out on the other side stay itogether/i and try to find a way out..... no matter what happens." Katie instructed her and with that they all ran for their lives across the room.
As soon as they started running Nikolas stopped and smiled. There was no way they'd get past the guards. Or so he thought....
As soon as the group passed through the middle of her room, the aliens teamed up on the guards. Adri and Katie projected as many flashes as she could onto them, making their heads almost explode in pain. Mags, along with Michael, held up their hands and shot as much force they could at the evil aliens. The others simply tried to force their feet to go as fast as humanly possible.
With their joint effort they knocked the guards to the ground and the group stopped in front of the door. Vaguely they heard Kivar yell to stop them and saw Nikolas start towards them.
"Go!" Katie said while she and Michael stood in front of the group, staring at Nikolas, who was sauntering towards them casually.
Maria, Stan, Magnolia, and Alex got out safely through the door and Katie turned to Michael.
"They're going to need you, go." Katie said and before Michael could protest she said firmly, "Go."
Michael looked at Nikolas who was now half-way to them, then back to her. "I'll be back as soon as they're safe."
Katie nodded her head then turned around when she saw Adri standing there. "You go, too." She smiled briefly. "You've already helped us out alot."
Adri hesitated, then nodded her head and smiled. After she disappeared behind the door she realized Gabriel and Liz were still standing there.
"What are you two doing? Get out of here!" Katie told them and looked over to Nikolas.
"Going somewhere?" He asked them and flicked his wrist. Before it could hit her, Gabriel shoved Liz out of the door to safety.
Liz stumbled and landed on the cold concrete floor. As she stood up she turned around to face a brick wall..... that she had just come out of.
"That...." She said dusting off her jeans. "Is scientifically impossible."
She turned her head to see the others walking around a corner out of her sight. Liz stepped forward towards them but motion behind her stopped her from catching up with them.
She turned around slowly and came to face with one of her demons. She had to face this before she would ever feel safe again. She had had enough of this. Tess Harding's time in Roswell was up.
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Max groaned in pain as his knees sunk to the ground in an oddly familiar way. It was like deja-vu. He remembered almost all of his past life now. Meeting and falling in love with Zara, their romance hidden for almost twenty years, the birth of their first child, the moment he saw her lying dead on the castle steps.......
But he wasn't thinking about that at all as Kivar drained his life force for the second time. All he could think about was Liz. Liz....Liz.....Liz.....Liz.... She had such a beautiful name. A beautiful name for a beautiful person. She had enchanted him in two lives now. Now how many women can say they've done ithat/i?
His mind suddenly jerked. He couldn't let anything bad happen to her. No matter what the cost. He started fighting Kivar right then. Forcing the foreign being from his mind with all the might he had in him. He saw Isabel trying desperately to pry Kivar away from him, and he saw the tears in her eyes.
Across the room Nikolas stood over Gabriel and Katie who were lying helpless on the floor. Katie tried to get up and drug Gabriel up with her. "Leave him out of this." She warned in a violent tone. "He's a ihuman/i he's done nothing wrong!"
"Yes he has." Nikolas countered and then smirked, fluttering his eyes sarcastically. "He's fallen in love with a princess."
Just as Nikolas raised his hand to induce more pain, Isabel ran up behind him and kicked him in the back, causing him to go limp and fall to the ground.
The three of them looked down at the form quizzically.
"Did I--" Isabel's voice trailed off.
Katie knelt down to Nikolas' lifeless form and peeled back his shirt across his neck. She laughed a little then showed the others. "Looks like our pal Nicky was kind like a wind-up doll. Punch a little button on the back of his neck and he goes kaput."
"That's all fine and dandy, but we better get out of here." Gabriel motioned towards Max and Kivar.
Katie looked wide-eyed at the sight before her and she was.....frightened. Not by Kivar, but by iMax/i. It was indescribable but he looked..... violent. Something that Max inever/i looked like.
Katie grabbed Gabriel's hand, "I think we'd better go make sure the others got away safely. Besides...." She paused and looked back to her father, "I think this is something dad wants---no ineeds/i to do alone."
Isabel nodded in agreement and walked out of the door following Katie and Gabriel.... leaving Max and Kivar alone.
Kivar smiled at the steaming hot reincarnated King. "Have I angered you sire?"
Max looked around the room, making sure they were alone so he wouldn't hurt anyone if his powers went out of control, which he was afraid might happen any second now.
"You killed me." Max growled through clenched teeth. "You killed my love, you killed my family, my friends..." His voice rose to a yell as he shouted, "You made my daughter suffer for years with the pain of seeing both her parents killed!"
Max calmed down a bit and noticed Kivar was chuckling.
"Yes," Kivar laughed proudly. "Quite an accomplishment, eh?"
Max didn't know how he did it, but within a half a second he had grabbed Kivar by the front of his clothes and had him pinned against the wall. He put his hand over Kivars heart and started to burn him.... on the inside.
Kivar started gasping for breath and tried to struggle but to no avail. This was not like last time. This time he was losing....
"Wait, Max!" A voice called to him and cause Max to snap out of his death trance and turn around.
Adri walked towards him, then looked at Kivar who was slumped against the wall, barely conscious. "I need to do this."
Max nodded his head and stepped aside. She needed closure, and for that he completely understood. She had been living with this pain for decades.
Adri walked over and stood in front of the person that over the years had cost her more pain than any fight she'd had. "I lost my parents when I was 6 years old, because of you. I had to grow up ialone/i. I didn't have anyone to take care of me. I grew up on the streets, under a rebel government that would have had me ikilled/i if they had known who I was. Do you know what that feels like?"
Kivar jerked a little, her words obviously affecting him. She shook her head a sadly. "Of course you wouldn't know what it feels like. You've never been on the recieving end of death....until now."
"I have something I want to give you. You can have it all." She said, as she put her hands on the sides of the evil rulers face. She heard him whimper, and knew that he realized what she was going to do. "61 Earth years......of ipain/i." She emphasized the last word began forcing her memories onto him. Deep into his mind, into his soul.
Memories of when her mother was kidnapped and killed, of watching her father die, of fighting every day for a scraps of food, of never giving up even when the whole world told her to go to sleep and never wake up, dreaming of the ultimate revenge against the person who had caused her and her family so much pain.
As she let the images flow, Adri felt the pain in her heart recede for the first time in what seemed like forever. She began to feel whole again. She continued to release herself and when the flashes slowed she opened her eyes and found Kivar on the floor.
She hadn't realized it, but she was crying. While she studied the face of her dead nemesis, she saw tear tracks on his face as well.
Adri shuddered and let out a sigh, then turned to her fathers duplicate. Everything was going to be okay now.
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Liz walked into the room she saw Tess walk into and stood cautiously in the doorway. She spotted Tess on the other side of the room with her arms crossed, smiling that despicable plastic grin.
"Hi Liz!" She said cheerfully. "What's up?"
*One last chance to back out, Parker.* Her mind told her, but Liz knew she couldn't back down. She was sick and tired of this. It was ending today. iAll/i of it. Right inow/i.
Tess frowned sarcastically. "What's the matter Lizzy? Scared? Are you finally remembering your past life?"
Liz nodded her head slowly. "Yeah, I am. But how is it possible?"
"Hel-LO! You're a hybrid too, Liz. I thought you, little Miss Scientist, would figure it out first." Tess stated. "You don't think Zan would make duplicates of everyone and leave iyou/i, the love of his life, out do you?"
Liz walked a little closer to her. She wanted to get as much information as she could. "So, I was in the other set of pods that were sent to earth, like Michael said." She saw Tess nod her head. "Then why do I not remember being 'hatched' like Max, Michael, and Isabel? Why do I have very distinct memories of my childhood ibefore/i third grade when the others came to life?"
"You have your nosey Grandma Claudia to thank for that." Tess told her. "Your Grandma knew Nasedo and when the other set of pods hatched years earlier than they were supposed to, he let her take one. He said he had orders from the King to take baby Zara and have her raised as a human. So your Grandma let your mother raise you, since your mom couldn't have kids."
Liz swallowed hard. She was just like Max. There were no alien/human boundaries anymore. Well....except for one, and she was going to take care of that right now.
Tess smirked at Liz. "I don't know what King Zan saw in you. You were just a whore he felt obligated to."
Liz looked at the floor, then back up to Tess and almost made the alien jump. Tess saw pure fury in Liz's eyes.
"You know what Tess?" Liz said calmly in her 'innocent Liz' voice. "I'm tired of you." She paused and starting taking small steps towards her, like a predator stalking its prey. "I'm tired of your tricks, your schemes, deceptions, and lies."
Tess backed up until she hit the wall. Liz kept coming at her.
"You have tried relentlessly to break Max and I up and you know what? You're never going to. Max and I are going to be together, in this life, and in the next..... forever. Do you get that? IForever/I."
"You want to know about destiny, Tess?" Liz asked her as she stopped to come face to face with her worst enemy. "I can tell you alot about it. Because it was the only thing I thought about last summer and every single second since I walked away from Max that day in the cave. I ithought/i that you were Max's destiny, because I was foolish enough to believe something a mind-control induced hologram said over what my heart was saying. I've ialways/i done that! I've always let what people say dictate all of my decisions in life but you know what Tess? I've bHAD IT/b!" Liz screamed in her face. "I'm not going to let you or anyone else try and tell me I'm not good enough or that I don't belong, or that I'm not Max's destiny!"
"Liz, I--" Tess started but Liz took one hand and put it around Tess's throat and the other one went around her mouth.
Liz shook her head and smiled. "No no, I'm not ready for you to talk yet. You see... I've only just ibegun/i telling you about destiny, and you know what? I think I have a pretty good idea what yours is....."
To be continued...
Author: SpyGirl314
Email: GroupieChic319@aol.com
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don't own Roswell, although I really wish I did.
Summary: This takes place a few days after "Summer of '47" but before "The End of the World". The Granolith comes to life when teens from the future come to straighten out a problem that can't be handled by the pod squad. However, problems arise when the identity of the future teens is revealed.
Category: Max/Liz
Author's Note: Thanks for the feedback, it's what keeps me going! :)
Liz felt awkward at that particular moment. She knew she ishould/i be scared. Really scared, because she was about to go to war against an alien race that had super powers. But she wasn't. Not at all. Or at least that's what she told herself so her heart didn't beat out of her chest.
*I can do this.* Her mind said confidently. *I ihave/i to do this. For my life....for Max's life.... for our future together.*
Kivar, furious anger evident in his eyes, stepped forward and Max quickly held up his hand creating a shield.
The aliens moved to stand in front beside Max.
"What are we gonna do Maxwell?" Michael asked, in an oddly serious tone. "You can't keep this up forever."
"I'll do it as long as it takes." Max stated, his voice shaky. He was already losing energy. "Figure out a way to get us out of here."
He must have been talking to Adri, because she nodded her head and whirled around to come face to face with Katie.
"Who-" She started but Katie rolled her eyes and smiled.
"We idon't/i have time to get into it." Katie grabbed Adri's arm and motioned for the rest of them to follow her back towards the wall.
Liz walked over and stood by Maria when she noticed her best friend was shivering....in fear.
The relief was evident in her eyes. "Thanks babe."
Liz looked straight into her eyes and grabbed her hand. "We're going to make it Maria. This whole thing..... it's almost over. We can do this."
Maria nodded her head and smiled a little. "You know.... you're starting to sound just like Mr.Responsible over there."
Liz smiled a little, then her gaze shifted to Max who was losing energy fastly. She swallowed a lump in her throat and looked away. *He's going to be fine..... We're going to be fine...*
"So what's the plan K-dog?" Stan asked Katie.
She was silent a moment, then asked. "How many guards are there?"
Adri lifted her head and counted the enemies. "Five guards in addition to Tess, Kivar, and Nikolas."
"Eight....." Katie's voice trailed off. "And how many exits?"
"Just one." Adri told her. "And it's on the other side of the room."
"Damn." Alex whispered, running his hands through his hair.
"Remember when we thought things couldn't get worse when Topolsky was here?" Maria reminded them, then sighed. "Well it has."
"So how are we going to get out?" Liz asked the group. "What's our plan?"
Out of the corner of her eye Liz saw Michael walking towards them.
"He can't hold that up any longer. What's the plan?" Michael asked in his usual demanding tone.
Magnolia rolled her eyes and hit Michael in the ribs with her elbow. "We're in the middle of a life-or-death decision here, please don't expect us to have an answer in two minutes."
Michael turned to her and scowled. "Listen princess, I'm just trying to get out of here alive. Okay?"
Mags rolled her eyes and Michael turned around just in time to catch Maria doing the same. He looked at both of them and sighed in exasperation. "Oh god there's two of them now..."
Maria opened her mouth to say something when Katie quickly butt in and nervously laughed. "Okay back to the plan that's gonna save our lives!"
"Yeah, so what is it?" Michael asked, ignoring another punch in the stomach by Magnolia.
Katie cleared her throat nervously. "You see.... we're gonna just like.... go over there and walk through the door and get out of the building."
The group was silent for a minute and Michael raised his eyebrow. "What?"
Katie cleared her throat and asked innocently. "What?"
"Wha--" Michael turned around and looked at the door, which was guarded by five huge aliens, then he turned back to face Katie. "That's your iplan/i??!!"
Katie nodded her head. "Um...yep that's pretty much it."
Michael opened his mouth, but nothing came out. This icouldn't/i be her plan. "You -- You've gotta be kidding me!"
"Hurry up!" They heard Isabel shout from her stance beside Max. "He's barely holding up anymore!"
"Think of something!" Michael told her and the group started to get frantic.
"I can't!" Katie cried, the stress evident in her voice.
"Can't you teleport us out of here or something?" Michael asked incredulously. "You're from the future, right?"
Mags rolled her eyes. "Teleport us out? Sorry last time we checked we weren't iPower Rangers/i!" She looked over at Maria. "Why do we put iup/i with this guy?" Maria shrugged and shook her head.
"Guys...." Gabriel broke interrupted. "I think we should......run." He said just as Max's shield went down.
Katie looked at him oddly, then to the scene unfolding in front of her. "Oh god, here they come!" Kivar had gone straight for Max while Nikolas was coming straight for them.
"Everyone stay close together. Michael, Stan, Mags, and I will hold them off until all of you get through the door. As isoon/i as you get out on the other side stay itogether/i and try to find a way out..... no matter what happens." Katie instructed her and with that they all ran for their lives across the room.
As soon as they started running Nikolas stopped and smiled. There was no way they'd get past the guards. Or so he thought....
As soon as the group passed through the middle of her room, the aliens teamed up on the guards. Adri and Katie projected as many flashes as she could onto them, making their heads almost explode in pain. Mags, along with Michael, held up their hands and shot as much force they could at the evil aliens. The others simply tried to force their feet to go as fast as humanly possible.
With their joint effort they knocked the guards to the ground and the group stopped in front of the door. Vaguely they heard Kivar yell to stop them and saw Nikolas start towards them.
"Go!" Katie said while she and Michael stood in front of the group, staring at Nikolas, who was sauntering towards them casually.
Maria, Stan, Magnolia, and Alex got out safely through the door and Katie turned to Michael.
"They're going to need you, go." Katie said and before Michael could protest she said firmly, "Go."
Michael looked at Nikolas who was now half-way to them, then back to her. "I'll be back as soon as they're safe."
Katie nodded her head then turned around when she saw Adri standing there. "You go, too." She smiled briefly. "You've already helped us out alot."
Adri hesitated, then nodded her head and smiled. After she disappeared behind the door she realized Gabriel and Liz were still standing there.
"What are you two doing? Get out of here!" Katie told them and looked over to Nikolas.
"Going somewhere?" He asked them and flicked his wrist. Before it could hit her, Gabriel shoved Liz out of the door to safety.
Liz stumbled and landed on the cold concrete floor. As she stood up she turned around to face a brick wall..... that she had just come out of.
"That...." She said dusting off her jeans. "Is scientifically impossible."
She turned her head to see the others walking around a corner out of her sight. Liz stepped forward towards them but motion behind her stopped her from catching up with them.
She turned around slowly and came to face with one of her demons. She had to face this before she would ever feel safe again. She had had enough of this. Tess Harding's time in Roswell was up.
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Max groaned in pain as his knees sunk to the ground in an oddly familiar way. It was like deja-vu. He remembered almost all of his past life now. Meeting and falling in love with Zara, their romance hidden for almost twenty years, the birth of their first child, the moment he saw her lying dead on the castle steps.......
But he wasn't thinking about that at all as Kivar drained his life force for the second time. All he could think about was Liz. Liz....Liz.....Liz.....Liz.... She had such a beautiful name. A beautiful name for a beautiful person. She had enchanted him in two lives now. Now how many women can say they've done ithat/i?
His mind suddenly jerked. He couldn't let anything bad happen to her. No matter what the cost. He started fighting Kivar right then. Forcing the foreign being from his mind with all the might he had in him. He saw Isabel trying desperately to pry Kivar away from him, and he saw the tears in her eyes.
Across the room Nikolas stood over Gabriel and Katie who were lying helpless on the floor. Katie tried to get up and drug Gabriel up with her. "Leave him out of this." She warned in a violent tone. "He's a ihuman/i he's done nothing wrong!"
"Yes he has." Nikolas countered and then smirked, fluttering his eyes sarcastically. "He's fallen in love with a princess."
Just as Nikolas raised his hand to induce more pain, Isabel ran up behind him and kicked him in the back, causing him to go limp and fall to the ground.
The three of them looked down at the form quizzically.
"Did I--" Isabel's voice trailed off.
Katie knelt down to Nikolas' lifeless form and peeled back his shirt across his neck. She laughed a little then showed the others. "Looks like our pal Nicky was kind like a wind-up doll. Punch a little button on the back of his neck and he goes kaput."
"That's all fine and dandy, but we better get out of here." Gabriel motioned towards Max and Kivar.
Katie looked wide-eyed at the sight before her and she was.....frightened. Not by Kivar, but by iMax/i. It was indescribable but he looked..... violent. Something that Max inever/i looked like.
Katie grabbed Gabriel's hand, "I think we'd better go make sure the others got away safely. Besides...." She paused and looked back to her father, "I think this is something dad wants---no ineeds/i to do alone."
Isabel nodded in agreement and walked out of the door following Katie and Gabriel.... leaving Max and Kivar alone.
Kivar smiled at the steaming hot reincarnated King. "Have I angered you sire?"
Max looked around the room, making sure they were alone so he wouldn't hurt anyone if his powers went out of control, which he was afraid might happen any second now.
"You killed me." Max growled through clenched teeth. "You killed my love, you killed my family, my friends..." His voice rose to a yell as he shouted, "You made my daughter suffer for years with the pain of seeing both her parents killed!"
Max calmed down a bit and noticed Kivar was chuckling.
"Yes," Kivar laughed proudly. "Quite an accomplishment, eh?"
Max didn't know how he did it, but within a half a second he had grabbed Kivar by the front of his clothes and had him pinned against the wall. He put his hand over Kivars heart and started to burn him.... on the inside.
Kivar started gasping for breath and tried to struggle but to no avail. This was not like last time. This time he was losing....
"Wait, Max!" A voice called to him and cause Max to snap out of his death trance and turn around.
Adri walked towards him, then looked at Kivar who was slumped against the wall, barely conscious. "I need to do this."
Max nodded his head and stepped aside. She needed closure, and for that he completely understood. She had been living with this pain for decades.
Adri walked over and stood in front of the person that over the years had cost her more pain than any fight she'd had. "I lost my parents when I was 6 years old, because of you. I had to grow up ialone/i. I didn't have anyone to take care of me. I grew up on the streets, under a rebel government that would have had me ikilled/i if they had known who I was. Do you know what that feels like?"
Kivar jerked a little, her words obviously affecting him. She shook her head a sadly. "Of course you wouldn't know what it feels like. You've never been on the recieving end of death....until now."
"I have something I want to give you. You can have it all." She said, as she put her hands on the sides of the evil rulers face. She heard him whimper, and knew that he realized what she was going to do. "61 Earth years......of ipain/i." She emphasized the last word began forcing her memories onto him. Deep into his mind, into his soul.
Memories of when her mother was kidnapped and killed, of watching her father die, of fighting every day for a scraps of food, of never giving up even when the whole world told her to go to sleep and never wake up, dreaming of the ultimate revenge against the person who had caused her and her family so much pain.
As she let the images flow, Adri felt the pain in her heart recede for the first time in what seemed like forever. She began to feel whole again. She continued to release herself and when the flashes slowed she opened her eyes and found Kivar on the floor.
She hadn't realized it, but she was crying. While she studied the face of her dead nemesis, she saw tear tracks on his face as well.
Adri shuddered and let out a sigh, then turned to her fathers duplicate. Everything was going to be okay now.
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Liz walked into the room she saw Tess walk into and stood cautiously in the doorway. She spotted Tess on the other side of the room with her arms crossed, smiling that despicable plastic grin.
"Hi Liz!" She said cheerfully. "What's up?"
*One last chance to back out, Parker.* Her mind told her, but Liz knew she couldn't back down. She was sick and tired of this. It was ending today. iAll/i of it. Right inow/i.
Tess frowned sarcastically. "What's the matter Lizzy? Scared? Are you finally remembering your past life?"
Liz nodded her head slowly. "Yeah, I am. But how is it possible?"
"Hel-LO! You're a hybrid too, Liz. I thought you, little Miss Scientist, would figure it out first." Tess stated. "You don't think Zan would make duplicates of everyone and leave iyou/i, the love of his life, out do you?"
Liz walked a little closer to her. She wanted to get as much information as she could. "So, I was in the other set of pods that were sent to earth, like Michael said." She saw Tess nod her head. "Then why do I not remember being 'hatched' like Max, Michael, and Isabel? Why do I have very distinct memories of my childhood ibefore/i third grade when the others came to life?"
"You have your nosey Grandma Claudia to thank for that." Tess told her. "Your Grandma knew Nasedo and when the other set of pods hatched years earlier than they were supposed to, he let her take one. He said he had orders from the King to take baby Zara and have her raised as a human. So your Grandma let your mother raise you, since your mom couldn't have kids."
Liz swallowed hard. She was just like Max. There were no alien/human boundaries anymore. Well....except for one, and she was going to take care of that right now.
Tess smirked at Liz. "I don't know what King Zan saw in you. You were just a whore he felt obligated to."
Liz looked at the floor, then back up to Tess and almost made the alien jump. Tess saw pure fury in Liz's eyes.
"You know what Tess?" Liz said calmly in her 'innocent Liz' voice. "I'm tired of you." She paused and starting taking small steps towards her, like a predator stalking its prey. "I'm tired of your tricks, your schemes, deceptions, and lies."
Tess backed up until she hit the wall. Liz kept coming at her.
"You have tried relentlessly to break Max and I up and you know what? You're never going to. Max and I are going to be together, in this life, and in the next..... forever. Do you get that? IForever/I."
"You want to know about destiny, Tess?" Liz asked her as she stopped to come face to face with her worst enemy. "I can tell you alot about it. Because it was the only thing I thought about last summer and every single second since I walked away from Max that day in the cave. I ithought/i that you were Max's destiny, because I was foolish enough to believe something a mind-control induced hologram said over what my heart was saying. I've ialways/i done that! I've always let what people say dictate all of my decisions in life but you know what Tess? I've bHAD IT/b!" Liz screamed in her face. "I'm not going to let you or anyone else try and tell me I'm not good enough or that I don't belong, or that I'm not Max's destiny!"
"Liz, I--" Tess started but Liz took one hand and put it around Tess's throat and the other one went around her mouth.
Liz shook her head and smiled. "No no, I'm not ready for you to talk yet. You see... I've only just ibegun/i telling you about destiny, and you know what? I think I have a pretty good idea what yours is....."
To be continued...