Title: Changes and Discoveries
Author: secrets_of_the_sky@hotmail.com
Disclaimer: I don't own anything of Roswell, except Claire, Chris, Josh, and Linda.
Category: Liz/Max
Rating: PG-13
Summary: It takes after Destiny, it's mostly centered around Liz, and instead of going to Florida for the summer she went to New York. Now read and find out the rest.
Distribution: Just ask.
Author's note: I want to thank Julie for giving me the names (Josh, and Chris) and Rainydayinapril for correcting this fic.
Feedback: Depending on the feedback, I'll decide if I'll continue this. Please tell me what you think!
Changes and Discoveries 5
After Liz recovered from her surprise at being caught, she said, "Josh, what the hell do you think you are doing?" Seeing Josh's skeptical look she continued, "Can't you take a hint? I want to be alone!"
Josh let go of her arm. "Liz, you shouldn't have left. You should have told someone you were going out."
"What? I should have told you that I was going out so you could have Chris follow me around?"
"Well, Liz, it would have save you the run. Besides Liz, you know I can find you anywhere."
Liz crosses her arms, "Humph. I like to exercises from time to time and maybe I let you find me."
Josh raised his eyebrow giving her a skeptical look that infuriated Liz further more. "Liz, Liz, you still have lots to learn," Josh mocked.
"Don't tell me, you are just the person to teach them to me?"
"No, Linda is and let's go before she finds out we aren't there."
"Josh, don't you know?" Liz asked, mysteriously.
Josh got confused not having the slightest idea what Liz meant. "What?"
"She already knows we aren't there." Liz didn't wait for Josh to react, she turned and started to make her way back to the Crashdown, they had a long walk to make.
Josh caught up with Liz. "How do you know?"
Liz shrugged, "I don't know, I guess it's in the same way you knew I had left."
Josh intertwined his arm with Liz's. "You aren't still angry with me? Are you?"
Liz drew Josh closer. "No, not anymore. You are forgiven."
"Liz, how are you dealing with the news of your parents?" Josh asked, knowing it still bothered her.
"I'm okay, this had to happen sooner or later. At least they aren't really dead. The hard part will be acting as if they were. The only thing that has kept me going is that they are alive." Abruptly Liz asked, "How did you deal with this, Josh?"
"I had Claire," Josh answered as if that would explain everything. "Liz, there's something else bothering you. What is it?" Josh changed the subject.
"Josh, when you found out about us-about that part of yourself that was dormant and had to be waken up and it did wake up…didn't you feel like you didn't know who you were anymore?"
"I felt that way many times…I think, we all have felt that way including Chris and Claire. But like you said it's a part of us, we just have to adjust to it."
When Liz got aware of her surrounding, she saw that they stood in front of the Crashdown. "Wow, we are already here. I hadn't even noticed we were walking."
Josh pulled Liz by the arm and headed inside the Crashdown, immediately bumping into Linda.
Liz saw Linda's face was neutral not giving a way any signs of anger or anything else, but she knew better. Liz turned to Josh. "We'll continue or little talk tomorrow, okay?"
"Okay," Josh leaned and kissed Liz on the cheek.
After Josh was gone, Liz stayed silent waiting for Linda to speak.
"What did you learn?" Linda implored.
Liz knew this was not a time to play games, so she went straight to the point. "That I still have lots to learn, and I can learn from them as they can learn from me."
"Good, you are finally learning, Liz. You can go to sleep now and Liz, I hope this doesn't happen again." Linda turned her back to Liz dismissing her.
Liz looked at the clock and saw it was 3:00 a.m., making sure she didn't disturbed Claire she dropped on her side of the bed not bothering to change clothes.
Liz woke up, when she felt someone shaking her. Liz opened her eyes and saw Linda hovering above her.
"Finally, get dress. We are going to jog."
Liz looked at the clock and saw it was 5:00 a.m. "What? Are you kidding me?"
"Shh. You are going to wake up Claire. You have ten minutes to get ready."
Liz didn't argued, she dashed to the bathroom, taking a cold shower in the process, and in record time, she was ready to go. She wore long, lose pants and a t-shirt that didn't covered her tattoo, some worn out sneakers and her hair was in a ponytail. Liz went downstairs and saw Linda impatiently waiting for her.
As soon as Linda saw her, she said, "You are late."
Liz shrugged not knowing what else to do. "I had to take a bath."
Linda shook her head. "Let's go."
As soon as they stepped out of the Crashdown they started jogging. Linda was astride Liz. Liz knew that Linda wasn't going at her usual pace for she knew that if she went at her usual pace, she would be left behind. "Why didn't you bring the others? Why are we even jogging?"
Linda looked at Liz for a second then returned her gaze to her path. "They will be joining us soon enough, but not today. We have to talk just the two of us. And Liz you can't always rely on your powers sometimes you have to do normal things--like running. What if you had to run away from your enemy? They would catch up with you in no time, since you aren't in shape. You can never underestimate your opponents."
Liz listened to every word Linda spoke as she tried to match her pace. "I understand."
"Good. Every day at this hour we will go for a run and the others will join us. Now to the reason I wanted to be alone with you. You know that you can't tell Max, Isabel, and Michael what's going on, correct?" Linda saw Liz nod so she continued, "They still aren't ready to know and you still aren't ready to tell them. You also know they have a protector that goes by the name Nasedo, I understand that you have meet him?"
Liz slowed down at the mention of Nasedo. "Yes, I have met him. What does this have to do with anything?"
"Liz, can you quicken up the pace?" When she saw Liz stride next to her she started speaking again. "Then you know who he is, and you can help me. He must not see me, or he will recognize me, and we can't have that-not yet, at least."
"Let me get this straight. Nasedo can't see you because he will recognize you and know immediately you are also a shapeshifter, am I right?" Liz asked even though she knew she was.
Linda gave Liz a sideways glance, "Yes, and don't forget your life will be in danger."
Those words caused chills to run up and down Liz's spine and all thoughts about making any smart-mouth comments left her thoughts, leaving her in deep thoughts.
Linda interrupted Liz's thoughts, "Liz, come on, you have to take a bath and get ready for the funeral."
Liz looked up at the sound of Linda's voice and just a little ahead saw the Crashdown and began jogging towards it, Linda besides her. She didn't pay much attention to Linda, she was to busy thinking. 'How am I going to make it through the day? Will I be able to pull off the charade? I mean, they know me so well, especially Max. I know they are alive, would it have been better of thinking they were dead. How will I be able to act as the grieving daughter, if I'm happy that they are alive? I prefer to not have them than for them to be dead.'
Liz was going up the stairs when she heard Linda call her name. Liz turned and looked at her.
Linda knew this would be hard for Liz, but she had to do it. "Liz, you can do it. "
Liz watched as Linda left, and she couldn't help but stare at her retrieving, the words that Linda had just told her were the closest she had come to a compliment. Liz shook her head and continued with her destination.
Josh saw Liz was about to enter her room. "Liz!"
Liz heard her name being called and looked to where the sound came from, she saw Josh coming towards her. "What up, Josh?"
Josh got closer to Liz and answered, "Linda didn't do any damage, right?"
Liz laughed, "No, she didn't. Why would you think that?"
Josh smiled, happy to hear Liz laughing. "Let's just say Linda isn't much into peaceful talks."
"Yeah, but that's her."
"How was the morning jog?"
"Interesting," Liz answered.
Josh knew that meant she wasn't going to tell him. "You know keeping secrets is not good."
Liz's expression changed at those words. "Then why can't I tell the others the truth? Why can't I tell them about us?" Liz knew Josh didn't have any answers for the question, but they haunted her every day. Liz felt Josh's helplessness. "Forget it, Josh, I already know. It's just a small sacrifice."
Josh didn't know what to do, so he did the next best thing, he hugged her. "Liz, it will be okay, you'll see."
Claire got out of Liz's room to find Josh and Liz hugging. "Hey! I turn my back and you guys start cheating on me," Claire joked.
Liz wiped her tears before facing Claire. "There is no way I would come between you and Josh. I know how you can be, and I prefer to save myself the trouble, and for that matter I still want to live."
Claire wrapped her arms around Josh's waist. "What?? I'm just protecting interest."
Liz laughed when she saw Josh's face go red; he was so easy to tease. "I'll leave you two love birds alone. I'm going to take a bath. I'm all sweaty. Yuck!"
After Liz left to her room, Claire and Josh went to find Chris. They found him in the kitchen eating.
Claire immediately went to inspect what he was eating. "Oh, Chris! Can't you eat anything healthy!?"
Chris jumped and turned, "What?! This is healthy!"
Claire took it out of his hands and started to wave it around. "This healthy? I don't think so! I can't even tell what this is!"
Chris a little angry took the sandwich out of her hands, and took a bite, ignoring Claire's disgusted sound.
Josh knew Claire wasn't done yet, so he intervened before they really started fighting. 'Linda won't be happy if the entire town sees a white flash come out of the Crashdown.' "Claire, leave him alone. You should be used to it by now. I mean, when is he not eating or inventing something uneatable by any human being."
Chris saw Clare cross her arms in a sign that said I'm not done yet, not wanting to hear her fight, he asked, "Why were you guys looking for me?"
Claire forgot all about fighting and grew serious. "Liz," She answered, solemnly.
Chris didn't need to know anything else. "What's wrong?"
Claire looked at Josh, she knew what was going on, but Liz was always more open with her feelings with Josh and Chris than with her. Liz came to her when she needed boy tips--not wise ones like Chris and Josh offered her.
Josh felt all eyes on him and grew uncomfortable, he knew he was the leader of the team, but he still was not use to it. "Today Linda is going to have the funeral. She insisted it should be done as soon as possible."
Chris with his mouth full interrupted Josh. "I agree with Linda the sooner that's out of our minds the better. What wrong with that?"
Josh glared at Chris, "If you hadn't interrupted me, you would know!"
Claire sent Chris a glare of her own, but she stayed quiet and put her hand over Josh's shoulder effectively calming him down.
Josh smiled gratefully at Claire, and took a deep breath before continuing. "That's not the problem, and I know it's for the best. The problem is that I'm not sure Liz can take all of this. I mean, first, she finds out she is an alien and not only that, but that Claire and the two of us are also aliens, and Linda is a shapeshifter. She was already depressed when she got to New York and now her parents are taken away from her." Before Chris could interrupt him again he continued, "We had a year to adjust to the new found knowledge, but with Liz it's different because this was all dump on her now, she hasn't passed a storm when another one is already beginning."
Claire spoke once Josh quieted down. "Liz hides behind her new look, but that's not her, and we know it. She uses her change of attire as an excuse for her new attitude."
"Liz is stronger than we think, and she understands what we have to do and why we have to do it. And Claire, why are you complaining about her attitude? You are like that too, besides I think it was about time Liz got a back-bone."
Josh shook his head at Chris' clueless attitude, "I know the sooner the funeral is over the better and I also know Liz is strong, but you have to remember that she is also fragile…a lot rest on her shoulders. She is still learning." Josh was interrupted by a knock on the door. "I'll be right back."
Josh got to the door in a few seconds, he opened the door, and there stood Max.
To be continued…
Author: secrets_of_the_sky@hotmail.com
Disclaimer: I don't own anything of Roswell, except Claire, Chris, Josh, and Linda.
Category: Liz/Max
Rating: PG-13
Summary: It takes after Destiny, it's mostly centered around Liz, and instead of going to Florida for the summer she went to New York. Now read and find out the rest.
Distribution: Just ask.
Author's note: I want to thank Julie for giving me the names (Josh, and Chris) and Rainydayinapril for correcting this fic.
Feedback: Depending on the feedback, I'll decide if I'll continue this. Please tell me what you think!
Changes and Discoveries 5
After Liz recovered from her surprise at being caught, she said, "Josh, what the hell do you think you are doing?" Seeing Josh's skeptical look she continued, "Can't you take a hint? I want to be alone!"
Josh let go of her arm. "Liz, you shouldn't have left. You should have told someone you were going out."
"What? I should have told you that I was going out so you could have Chris follow me around?"
"Well, Liz, it would have save you the run. Besides Liz, you know I can find you anywhere."
Liz crosses her arms, "Humph. I like to exercises from time to time and maybe I let you find me."
Josh raised his eyebrow giving her a skeptical look that infuriated Liz further more. "Liz, Liz, you still have lots to learn," Josh mocked.
"Don't tell me, you are just the person to teach them to me?"
"No, Linda is and let's go before she finds out we aren't there."
"Josh, don't you know?" Liz asked, mysteriously.
Josh got confused not having the slightest idea what Liz meant. "What?"
"She already knows we aren't there." Liz didn't wait for Josh to react, she turned and started to make her way back to the Crashdown, they had a long walk to make.
Josh caught up with Liz. "How do you know?"
Liz shrugged, "I don't know, I guess it's in the same way you knew I had left."
Josh intertwined his arm with Liz's. "You aren't still angry with me? Are you?"
Liz drew Josh closer. "No, not anymore. You are forgiven."
"Liz, how are you dealing with the news of your parents?" Josh asked, knowing it still bothered her.
"I'm okay, this had to happen sooner or later. At least they aren't really dead. The hard part will be acting as if they were. The only thing that has kept me going is that they are alive." Abruptly Liz asked, "How did you deal with this, Josh?"
"I had Claire," Josh answered as if that would explain everything. "Liz, there's something else bothering you. What is it?" Josh changed the subject.
"Josh, when you found out about us-about that part of yourself that was dormant and had to be waken up and it did wake up…didn't you feel like you didn't know who you were anymore?"
"I felt that way many times…I think, we all have felt that way including Chris and Claire. But like you said it's a part of us, we just have to adjust to it."
When Liz got aware of her surrounding, she saw that they stood in front of the Crashdown. "Wow, we are already here. I hadn't even noticed we were walking."
Josh pulled Liz by the arm and headed inside the Crashdown, immediately bumping into Linda.
Liz saw Linda's face was neutral not giving a way any signs of anger or anything else, but she knew better. Liz turned to Josh. "We'll continue or little talk tomorrow, okay?"
"Okay," Josh leaned and kissed Liz on the cheek.
After Josh was gone, Liz stayed silent waiting for Linda to speak.
"What did you learn?" Linda implored.
Liz knew this was not a time to play games, so she went straight to the point. "That I still have lots to learn, and I can learn from them as they can learn from me."
"Good, you are finally learning, Liz. You can go to sleep now and Liz, I hope this doesn't happen again." Linda turned her back to Liz dismissing her.
Liz looked at the clock and saw it was 3:00 a.m., making sure she didn't disturbed Claire she dropped on her side of the bed not bothering to change clothes.
Liz woke up, when she felt someone shaking her. Liz opened her eyes and saw Linda hovering above her.
"Finally, get dress. We are going to jog."
Liz looked at the clock and saw it was 5:00 a.m. "What? Are you kidding me?"
"Shh. You are going to wake up Claire. You have ten minutes to get ready."
Liz didn't argued, she dashed to the bathroom, taking a cold shower in the process, and in record time, she was ready to go. She wore long, lose pants and a t-shirt that didn't covered her tattoo, some worn out sneakers and her hair was in a ponytail. Liz went downstairs and saw Linda impatiently waiting for her.
As soon as Linda saw her, she said, "You are late."
Liz shrugged not knowing what else to do. "I had to take a bath."
Linda shook her head. "Let's go."
As soon as they stepped out of the Crashdown they started jogging. Linda was astride Liz. Liz knew that Linda wasn't going at her usual pace for she knew that if she went at her usual pace, she would be left behind. "Why didn't you bring the others? Why are we even jogging?"
Linda looked at Liz for a second then returned her gaze to her path. "They will be joining us soon enough, but not today. We have to talk just the two of us. And Liz you can't always rely on your powers sometimes you have to do normal things--like running. What if you had to run away from your enemy? They would catch up with you in no time, since you aren't in shape. You can never underestimate your opponents."
Liz listened to every word Linda spoke as she tried to match her pace. "I understand."
"Good. Every day at this hour we will go for a run and the others will join us. Now to the reason I wanted to be alone with you. You know that you can't tell Max, Isabel, and Michael what's going on, correct?" Linda saw Liz nod so she continued, "They still aren't ready to know and you still aren't ready to tell them. You also know they have a protector that goes by the name Nasedo, I understand that you have meet him?"
Liz slowed down at the mention of Nasedo. "Yes, I have met him. What does this have to do with anything?"
"Liz, can you quicken up the pace?" When she saw Liz stride next to her she started speaking again. "Then you know who he is, and you can help me. He must not see me, or he will recognize me, and we can't have that-not yet, at least."
"Let me get this straight. Nasedo can't see you because he will recognize you and know immediately you are also a shapeshifter, am I right?" Liz asked even though she knew she was.
Linda gave Liz a sideways glance, "Yes, and don't forget your life will be in danger."
Those words caused chills to run up and down Liz's spine and all thoughts about making any smart-mouth comments left her thoughts, leaving her in deep thoughts.
Linda interrupted Liz's thoughts, "Liz, come on, you have to take a bath and get ready for the funeral."
Liz looked up at the sound of Linda's voice and just a little ahead saw the Crashdown and began jogging towards it, Linda besides her. She didn't pay much attention to Linda, she was to busy thinking. 'How am I going to make it through the day? Will I be able to pull off the charade? I mean, they know me so well, especially Max. I know they are alive, would it have been better of thinking they were dead. How will I be able to act as the grieving daughter, if I'm happy that they are alive? I prefer to not have them than for them to be dead.'
Liz was going up the stairs when she heard Linda call her name. Liz turned and looked at her.
Linda knew this would be hard for Liz, but she had to do it. "Liz, you can do it. "
Liz watched as Linda left, and she couldn't help but stare at her retrieving, the words that Linda had just told her were the closest she had come to a compliment. Liz shook her head and continued with her destination.
Josh saw Liz was about to enter her room. "Liz!"
Liz heard her name being called and looked to where the sound came from, she saw Josh coming towards her. "What up, Josh?"
Josh got closer to Liz and answered, "Linda didn't do any damage, right?"
Liz laughed, "No, she didn't. Why would you think that?"
Josh smiled, happy to hear Liz laughing. "Let's just say Linda isn't much into peaceful talks."
"Yeah, but that's her."
"How was the morning jog?"
"Interesting," Liz answered.
Josh knew that meant she wasn't going to tell him. "You know keeping secrets is not good."
Liz's expression changed at those words. "Then why can't I tell the others the truth? Why can't I tell them about us?" Liz knew Josh didn't have any answers for the question, but they haunted her every day. Liz felt Josh's helplessness. "Forget it, Josh, I already know. It's just a small sacrifice."
Josh didn't know what to do, so he did the next best thing, he hugged her. "Liz, it will be okay, you'll see."
Claire got out of Liz's room to find Josh and Liz hugging. "Hey! I turn my back and you guys start cheating on me," Claire joked.
Liz wiped her tears before facing Claire. "There is no way I would come between you and Josh. I know how you can be, and I prefer to save myself the trouble, and for that matter I still want to live."
Claire wrapped her arms around Josh's waist. "What?? I'm just protecting interest."
Liz laughed when she saw Josh's face go red; he was so easy to tease. "I'll leave you two love birds alone. I'm going to take a bath. I'm all sweaty. Yuck!"
After Liz left to her room, Claire and Josh went to find Chris. They found him in the kitchen eating.
Claire immediately went to inspect what he was eating. "Oh, Chris! Can't you eat anything healthy!?"
Chris jumped and turned, "What?! This is healthy!"
Claire took it out of his hands and started to wave it around. "This healthy? I don't think so! I can't even tell what this is!"
Chris a little angry took the sandwich out of her hands, and took a bite, ignoring Claire's disgusted sound.
Josh knew Claire wasn't done yet, so he intervened before they really started fighting. 'Linda won't be happy if the entire town sees a white flash come out of the Crashdown.' "Claire, leave him alone. You should be used to it by now. I mean, when is he not eating or inventing something uneatable by any human being."
Chris saw Clare cross her arms in a sign that said I'm not done yet, not wanting to hear her fight, he asked, "Why were you guys looking for me?"
Claire forgot all about fighting and grew serious. "Liz," She answered, solemnly.
Chris didn't need to know anything else. "What's wrong?"
Claire looked at Josh, she knew what was going on, but Liz was always more open with her feelings with Josh and Chris than with her. Liz came to her when she needed boy tips--not wise ones like Chris and Josh offered her.
Josh felt all eyes on him and grew uncomfortable, he knew he was the leader of the team, but he still was not use to it. "Today Linda is going to have the funeral. She insisted it should be done as soon as possible."
Chris with his mouth full interrupted Josh. "I agree with Linda the sooner that's out of our minds the better. What wrong with that?"
Josh glared at Chris, "If you hadn't interrupted me, you would know!"
Claire sent Chris a glare of her own, but she stayed quiet and put her hand over Josh's shoulder effectively calming him down.
Josh smiled gratefully at Claire, and took a deep breath before continuing. "That's not the problem, and I know it's for the best. The problem is that I'm not sure Liz can take all of this. I mean, first, she finds out she is an alien and not only that, but that Claire and the two of us are also aliens, and Linda is a shapeshifter. She was already depressed when she got to New York and now her parents are taken away from her." Before Chris could interrupt him again he continued, "We had a year to adjust to the new found knowledge, but with Liz it's different because this was all dump on her now, she hasn't passed a storm when another one is already beginning."
Claire spoke once Josh quieted down. "Liz hides behind her new look, but that's not her, and we know it. She uses her change of attire as an excuse for her new attitude."
"Liz is stronger than we think, and she understands what we have to do and why we have to do it. And Claire, why are you complaining about her attitude? You are like that too, besides I think it was about time Liz got a back-bone."
Josh shook his head at Chris' clueless attitude, "I know the sooner the funeral is over the better and I also know Liz is strong, but you have to remember that she is also fragile…a lot rest on her shoulders. She is still learning." Josh was interrupted by a knock on the door. "I'll be right back."
Josh got to the door in a few seconds, he opened the door, and there stood Max.
To be continued…