Still Looking
Epilogue.
It took 3 days before they reached Roswell, Maria wanted to see her mother first, she knocked at the door with Michael standing behind her, when the door opened her mother screamed her name, she grabbed Maria and held her, Maria could barely breath but she didn't care she was home, she clung to her mother both were in tears, Amy looked up at Michael and smiled at him, "thank you Michael, thank you for bringing my baby home." Maria looked over her mom's shoulder and saw Jim Valenti standing there, he had tears in his eyes. Maria said "hi" it was all she could manage to say as she could barely breath from the bear hug. Her mom must have heard her because she let go and looked around, she saw Jim and held her hand out, he took it and then put his arm around her waist. "Umm…Maria, there's something you need to know, Jim and I are married, we've been married for a year now, are you okay about this?" Maria looked between them both, she noticed how happy her mother was, who could not be happy for them both, "yeah mom I'm okay about it," Maria walked up to Jim and hugged him, she pulled back in his arms and smiled, "Thank you, for loving my mom." Jim blushed. Michael came into the house and they all went in and sat down, Maria began to explain to her mom and step-dad what had happened, all the while Michael held her hand passing on his strength to her….
After telling her story, and telling about how Michael found
her, Amy sat weeping for her child, Jim held her. Maria and Michael stood and were leaving when Amy called her
name, "you are coming back again aren't you? You won't leave again will
you?" Maria walked back and knelt down
in front of her, "I'm here to stay mom, I'm going to see the others then I'll
come back, I promise." Amy smiled then
and Michael and Maria left.
Michael looked at Maria, "that was tough, so, are you sure
you want to do this now? We could wait until tomorrow if you want." "No Michael, I want to see them. Lets leave
my bike I'll ride behind you, if that's okay with you." "Come on, hop on."
When they pulled up to the Crashdown, Michael took hold of
Maria's hand and kissed her palm, he squeezed her hand and opened the door,
there in the booth sat all of their friends, all the people that they cared
about, Isabel was the first to look up, she screamed his name and the others
looked over, then Isabel saw Maria, she flew over to her, pushed Michael out of
the way and hugged her, "I thought you were gone forever, I thought I'd never
see you again," Isabel was crying, Maria was shocked she'd never seen her like
this before, Maria pulled back and looked at her with tears in her eyes,
"Isabel thank you, you saved my life," Isabel shook her head, "I thought you
were dead, you told me to let you go, I thought you were gone." "Nah Isabel, I was just sleeping, I was just
waiting for Michael," Maria looked at them all and smiled at the faces she had
missed for so long, "I went to find myself, but it took something tragic to
happen to make me realise that it was here in front of me all the time, you
guys are the ones that make me, me, thank you, now where's the waitress I'm
starving." They all started to talk at
once and the noise was deafening, Maria looked over to Michael, they just
looked and smiled at each other. Everything was going to be okay, they would
tell them about what happened, but for now they were just happy to be all
together, this was their family.
End.
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