Ok i am sorry it has been awhile since this chapter and the last one but
there has been a bit of trouble with my uploads and i did'nt want to risk
losing a chapter like i did before. So i hope this is ok.
Oh yeah i don't own these peeps, i am merely a pretentious wannabe
who attempts to write hee hee.
"Isobel?? Isobel?" Michael's voice broke through her shock
"Isobel will you shut the goddamned....." Michael's voice faded as Isobel moved
forwards and Maria and Max followed. Liz looked over at Michael, her face a
picture of utter sadness.
Max's broke the blanket of quiet that had settled over the five. He looked at the
body on the bed and the dressed mobile Liz infront of him. He raised pained chocolate
eyes to meet Liz's and she almost looked away at the depth of feeling in them.
"You're....dead?" His voice shook
There was a hesitant pause in which everybody seemed to take a deep breath, even
Michael.
"No."
With this everyone seemed to break free from the imposing bindings of silence.
With a motion of his hand Michael closed the door and Isobel and Maria moved further
into the room smiling.
"How can we see you? How is it we didn't see you before.?" Isobel asked over Maria's
mutterings of out of body experiences and exlcamations of surprise. Michael went over
to her and placed his arm around her effectively silencing her monologue with his touch.
"I'm not sure, I just know Michael was able to see me first."
Liz could see that Max had questions but she forestalled them with a look of her eyes.
They were private and were'nt really up for public discussion.
All eyes turned to Michael when she mentioned his name and he shrugged concscious
of all the looks.
"I'm just playing Mr. Invesitgator for Liz"
Maria's eyes grew wide and angry."Without me? We always invesitgate together
Michael. We're Mulder and Scully remember?"
"When you are doing the bidding of a comatose person then you don't tend to clue a lot
of people in." Maria silenced in his arms.
"You're investigating Alex's death." Max's voice was low and neutral.
"Yeah well Maxwell, I figured that one person has already got hurt doing this solo." He
paused and looked around the room. "We all need answers."
Maria slipped her hand into his and squeezed it gently.
"I think Michael is right." Michael's face lit up in pleased surprise at Maria's words
which he quickly curbed into his usual manly façade. Liz and Max caught the look
and smiled at each other quickly.
"I think we should all just put aside our differences and help each other." Maria continued
The five looked at each other.
"Oh we should get Kyle on this." Isobel stated.
Liz shook her head. "He's not part of the original 6. I feel what ever happened started
before he got involved.
Max looked at Liz. "What about Tess?"
Liz hung her head a second then looked up. "I don't trust her Max. I can't place it
it's just a gut instinct."
Max nodded looking resigned. "Fair enough."
Max had driven back to his home and collected note-pads, pens and Isobel's
lap top. He came back and found the two girls and Michael in the waiting room.
They got up when they saw him and moved as one towards Liz's room.
They locked the room and the three aliens sealed it to prevent unwanted visitors.
Sitting in a circle beside Liz's hospital bed they looked at each other.
Michael was seated nearest Liz's bed and slipped the extra copys of the disks
into a small slit in the mattress and sealed it inconspicously so that no one would
notice. He handed Isobel the other disks.
"Right I think it would bebest if Isobel stayed here with me to work on the disks
and the manuscript. Max, Michael, Maria, you're out in the field.
They all grinned, excitement running through then as the adrenaline started to work.
"I think that you should all become different people tonight. Just in case."
Michael grinned. "Maxwell, do the honours."
Michael held his hands palm up as did Maria. Liz caught Max's eye and he winked
at her.
"Michael, why don't you do it?" Michael smiled and waved his hands over their
palms and then did the same to himself. They all gasped as the power tingled
in their fingers and then they grinned.
Michael stood and held out a hand to Max and Maria."Let's go."
He looked at Liz and then followed the others out of the room.
Some hours later.
"Hey Liz I think I found something." Isobel looked up from her laptop.
"What is it?"
"It's at the bottom of his last diary entry- It's some sort of code."
Liz picked up the manuscript that she had been working on for the past couple of hours.
They held a page of it next to the code she saw at the bottom and the key to the
translation appeared on the computer screen. Isobel and Liz both looked at the screen
in shock then gave little screams and got to work on decoding the manuscript.
Michael,Maria and Max were driving to the Crashdown to look over all the things Liz
had collected there. So far, they had no clues or leads, to work on.
As Max drove he noticed Maria's hand creep forward and slide into Michael's.
He only wished that he could find some answers so that he could help Liz.
For the next couple of hours they looked throught the weighty piles of evidence in
Liz's room. Max walked over to her bed and looked over the pictures scattered there.
As he picked up a picture of Alex and Leanna he slumped against the bed as a rush
of images burned through his mind. Maria and Michael looked over at him and rushed
to sit next to him. As she leaned in to see if he was ok she gasped as he ran his hand
over the picture revealing somthing almost too believable.
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Somewhere out in the desert.
The small blonde haired figure looked around in the darkness.
"Hello? Hello? is anyone here?"
"So you come Ava." A dark voice, darker then the desert shivered around Tess.
"The name is Tess."
"That is not important, What is important is securing the rest of the Royal Four" The
voice stopped. "And destroying the remaining 2 humans."
"The girl isn't dead."
The voice sharpened its coldness even more so, biting into Tess's skin.
"The King healed her before? It's protecting her now?"
Tess nodded. "It seems that way."
"We have already lost one King, Kivar does not want to lose another.Are you sure that
your plan is in operation? The destinies, as you call them, They believe?"
Tess grinned."What reason do they have to doubt them?"
"Well it is part truth. You were married. Ava, Zan. Rath and Valandra." The voice
gained shape and form as a man stepped infront of Tess.
"But love Tess?" He drawled her name with contempt." Not even you can fabricate
that."
Tess looked up and met his eye challengely "What about Liz?"
"Well what about her?"
"Do I have to clean up your messes as well as Kivars?"
The man's eyes narrowed."If I can't kill his soulmate, then neither can you."
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"Hey Liz? got anything yet?" Isobel frowned over her half completed section.
Liz shook her head."The words soulmates and protect keep coming up."
Liz paused. "Listen, I know you trust Tess, but I....don't. Do you think you could
ring Michael and Maria and ask them to check her room out?"
"I'll ring them Liz, but only because you are trapped here." Isobel frowned.
"Thank you."
Michael slid the case shut on Maria's phone. "Liz wants us to go to Kyle's house."
Max looked up. "Why? To tell Kyle?"
"No-to look for clues."
"I won't go." Max looked ahead.
"Max have you ever considered the possibility that Liz might give up? The your
belief that the Royal four are sacred and can do no wrong could cost her her life?
Max as a leader you have to consider ALL of the possibilites. Now you have to
face the fact that she may be right" Maria turned on him letting all her anxieties
about Liz show on her face.
Michael frowned. "What do you mean give up? Give up the search?"
Maria looked at him. "Give up living Michael. She told Isobel that she has nothing
left to live for anymore."
Max sighed and then got into the jeep the others followed him heading for the Valenti's
They pulled up outside the one storey house half an hour later. The house was dark
and it showed no signs of life. They left the jeep a couple of houses down the street and slipped
out heading for Kyle's old room.
They entered quickly and quietly, Michael efficiantly disabling the alarm. They moved
towards Tess's room light from Max's palm showing the way.
Maria immediatly headed for the desk, moving things carefully in a practised way that
showed she had done this thing before. Max stood guard ouside in the hall and Michael
by the front door. They were trusting her with this mission.
Her hand brushed somthing smooth and hard and faintly warm. She scrabbled around for it
and picked up something that looked remarkably like the device the hologram of Isobel's
and Max's real mother had come from. She closed her eyes and sighed as she found the
device with her hands. Immediatly a picture sprang from it and Maria saw a woman
who looked remarkably like Isobel. Then she began to speak. By the time she had
finished Maria was sat on the floor, shaking with shock, the device in her pocket.
there has been a bit of trouble with my uploads and i did'nt want to risk
losing a chapter like i did before. So i hope this is ok.
Oh yeah i don't own these peeps, i am merely a pretentious wannabe
who attempts to write hee hee.
"Isobel?? Isobel?" Michael's voice broke through her shock
"Isobel will you shut the goddamned....." Michael's voice faded as Isobel moved
forwards and Maria and Max followed. Liz looked over at Michael, her face a
picture of utter sadness.
Max's broke the blanket of quiet that had settled over the five. He looked at the
body on the bed and the dressed mobile Liz infront of him. He raised pained chocolate
eyes to meet Liz's and she almost looked away at the depth of feeling in them.
"You're....dead?" His voice shook
There was a hesitant pause in which everybody seemed to take a deep breath, even
Michael.
"No."
With this everyone seemed to break free from the imposing bindings of silence.
With a motion of his hand Michael closed the door and Isobel and Maria moved further
into the room smiling.
"How can we see you? How is it we didn't see you before.?" Isobel asked over Maria's
mutterings of out of body experiences and exlcamations of surprise. Michael went over
to her and placed his arm around her effectively silencing her monologue with his touch.
"I'm not sure, I just know Michael was able to see me first."
Liz could see that Max had questions but she forestalled them with a look of her eyes.
They were private and were'nt really up for public discussion.
All eyes turned to Michael when she mentioned his name and he shrugged concscious
of all the looks.
"I'm just playing Mr. Invesitgator for Liz"
Maria's eyes grew wide and angry."Without me? We always invesitgate together
Michael. We're Mulder and Scully remember?"
"When you are doing the bidding of a comatose person then you don't tend to clue a lot
of people in." Maria silenced in his arms.
"You're investigating Alex's death." Max's voice was low and neutral.
"Yeah well Maxwell, I figured that one person has already got hurt doing this solo." He
paused and looked around the room. "We all need answers."
Maria slipped her hand into his and squeezed it gently.
"I think Michael is right." Michael's face lit up in pleased surprise at Maria's words
which he quickly curbed into his usual manly façade. Liz and Max caught the look
and smiled at each other quickly.
"I think we should all just put aside our differences and help each other." Maria continued
The five looked at each other.
"Oh we should get Kyle on this." Isobel stated.
Liz shook her head. "He's not part of the original 6. I feel what ever happened started
before he got involved.
Max looked at Liz. "What about Tess?"
Liz hung her head a second then looked up. "I don't trust her Max. I can't place it
it's just a gut instinct."
Max nodded looking resigned. "Fair enough."
Max had driven back to his home and collected note-pads, pens and Isobel's
lap top. He came back and found the two girls and Michael in the waiting room.
They got up when they saw him and moved as one towards Liz's room.
They locked the room and the three aliens sealed it to prevent unwanted visitors.
Sitting in a circle beside Liz's hospital bed they looked at each other.
Michael was seated nearest Liz's bed and slipped the extra copys of the disks
into a small slit in the mattress and sealed it inconspicously so that no one would
notice. He handed Isobel the other disks.
"Right I think it would bebest if Isobel stayed here with me to work on the disks
and the manuscript. Max, Michael, Maria, you're out in the field.
They all grinned, excitement running through then as the adrenaline started to work.
"I think that you should all become different people tonight. Just in case."
Michael grinned. "Maxwell, do the honours."
Michael held his hands palm up as did Maria. Liz caught Max's eye and he winked
at her.
"Michael, why don't you do it?" Michael smiled and waved his hands over their
palms and then did the same to himself. They all gasped as the power tingled
in their fingers and then they grinned.
Michael stood and held out a hand to Max and Maria."Let's go."
He looked at Liz and then followed the others out of the room.
Some hours later.
"Hey Liz I think I found something." Isobel looked up from her laptop.
"What is it?"
"It's at the bottom of his last diary entry- It's some sort of code."
Liz picked up the manuscript that she had been working on for the past couple of hours.
They held a page of it next to the code she saw at the bottom and the key to the
translation appeared on the computer screen. Isobel and Liz both looked at the screen
in shock then gave little screams and got to work on decoding the manuscript.
Michael,Maria and Max were driving to the Crashdown to look over all the things Liz
had collected there. So far, they had no clues or leads, to work on.
As Max drove he noticed Maria's hand creep forward and slide into Michael's.
He only wished that he could find some answers so that he could help Liz.
For the next couple of hours they looked throught the weighty piles of evidence in
Liz's room. Max walked over to her bed and looked over the pictures scattered there.
As he picked up a picture of Alex and Leanna he slumped against the bed as a rush
of images burned through his mind. Maria and Michael looked over at him and rushed
to sit next to him. As she leaned in to see if he was ok she gasped as he ran his hand
over the picture revealing somthing almost too believable.
****************************************************************************************************
Somewhere out in the desert.
The small blonde haired figure looked around in the darkness.
"Hello? Hello? is anyone here?"
"So you come Ava." A dark voice, darker then the desert shivered around Tess.
"The name is Tess."
"That is not important, What is important is securing the rest of the Royal Four" The
voice stopped. "And destroying the remaining 2 humans."
"The girl isn't dead."
The voice sharpened its coldness even more so, biting into Tess's skin.
"The King healed her before? It's protecting her now?"
Tess nodded. "It seems that way."
"We have already lost one King, Kivar does not want to lose another.Are you sure that
your plan is in operation? The destinies, as you call them, They believe?"
Tess grinned."What reason do they have to doubt them?"
"Well it is part truth. You were married. Ava, Zan. Rath and Valandra." The voice
gained shape and form as a man stepped infront of Tess.
"But love Tess?" He drawled her name with contempt." Not even you can fabricate
that."
Tess looked up and met his eye challengely "What about Liz?"
"Well what about her?"
"Do I have to clean up your messes as well as Kivars?"
The man's eyes narrowed."If I can't kill his soulmate, then neither can you."
*******************************************************************************************************
"Hey Liz? got anything yet?" Isobel frowned over her half completed section.
Liz shook her head."The words soulmates and protect keep coming up."
Liz paused. "Listen, I know you trust Tess, but I....don't. Do you think you could
ring Michael and Maria and ask them to check her room out?"
"I'll ring them Liz, but only because you are trapped here." Isobel frowned.
"Thank you."
Michael slid the case shut on Maria's phone. "Liz wants us to go to Kyle's house."
Max looked up. "Why? To tell Kyle?"
"No-to look for clues."
"I won't go." Max looked ahead.
"Max have you ever considered the possibility that Liz might give up? The your
belief that the Royal four are sacred and can do no wrong could cost her her life?
Max as a leader you have to consider ALL of the possibilites. Now you have to
face the fact that she may be right" Maria turned on him letting all her anxieties
about Liz show on her face.
Michael frowned. "What do you mean give up? Give up the search?"
Maria looked at him. "Give up living Michael. She told Isobel that she has nothing
left to live for anymore."
Max sighed and then got into the jeep the others followed him heading for the Valenti's
They pulled up outside the one storey house half an hour later. The house was dark
and it showed no signs of life. They left the jeep a couple of houses down the street and slipped
out heading for Kyle's old room.
They entered quickly and quietly, Michael efficiantly disabling the alarm. They moved
towards Tess's room light from Max's palm showing the way.
Maria immediatly headed for the desk, moving things carefully in a practised way that
showed she had done this thing before. Max stood guard ouside in the hall and Michael
by the front door. They were trusting her with this mission.
Her hand brushed somthing smooth and hard and faintly warm. She scrabbled around for it
and picked up something that looked remarkably like the device the hologram of Isobel's
and Max's real mother had come from. She closed her eyes and sighed as she found the
device with her hands. Immediatly a picture sprang from it and Maria saw a woman
who looked remarkably like Isobel. Then she began to speak. By the time she had
finished Maria was sat on the floor, shaking with shock, the device in her pocket.