Title: Deliverance

Title: Deliverance

Author: Anerastar

Date: 4.01.01

Disclaimer: This story is not affiliated with the WB or Roswell, the TV show, in any way, and is not intended to infringe upon any copyrights.

Summary: Liz breaks free and runs away to meet her destiny.

Category: M/L; Liz POV; AU

Rating: PG-13

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So I am free.

Finally.

You know, even when I was planning this I never thought I would go through with it. I am not usually the one to abandon familiarity just to embrace the unknown.

 Not me.

But deep down I think that everyone needs to break free and be themselves. Not the person your parents so desperately want you to be. Had I stayed with that course of action my name would be Liz Parker, Attorney at Law. I had no interest in law though, but my parents wouldn't hear of it.

 Jeff Parker was a successful trial attorney, and he was damned sure that his little girl was going to learn by his side to become the best lawyer in Portland, hell, maybe the world. I tried to tell him. To tell him that there was no way in God's green earth that I was going to become what he had turned into.

A cold, driven man who spent 16 hours in the office every day seven days a week.

 He wouldn't listen so I turned to mother..unfortunately that route came to a dead end too. You see, Elizabeth Parker is another successful attorney at another law firm across town. I approached her and told her that I was not going to Harvard and that I was not going to be what they desired for me to become. It didn't work.

I should add that mother is also one of the best arguers also, a trait that has gotten her far in her prestigious career.

I should also add at this time that basically since I entered Forest Park High they were grooming me to follow in their steps. I took Advanced Placement courses left and right, mixed with a few extra-curriculars, so, as my mother said so frequently

"You will look nicely well-rounded to those college administrators."

I didn't want to look well rounded but you have to understand that at that point Submissive Liz was still the controlling factor in all the decisions that I made. Hah!.

Decisions.. That is a big joke. I just did whatever anyone told me to do..

Then Aggressive Liz took hold and I have never been happier.

          I knew that just 2 weeks after graduation mom and dad were going to put me on a plane headed straight to what I thought was surely hell, Harvard.

I think they just wanted me to be there so they could preen to all their colleagues, "you know, my daughter Liz is in Harvard." A phrase as snooty as that made me want to puke.

 So last night I made up my mind that I was not going to be pushed around by two people who clearly had no idea of who I was or what I wanted for my life. So I chose 5 cities that I had always wanted to visit and that I thought would be fun to go to and I wrote the name of each on a piece of paper and threw them into my baseball cap.

 Nashville, TN; San Francisco, CA; Roswell, NM; Seattle, WA; and Key West, FL.

 I closed my eyes and chose my destiny, packed my duffel bag, stopped by the ATM to drain my savings, and headed for the bus station.

          So here I am 17 and sitting next to a man who could seriously pass for Chris Farley's long-lost twin.

I am sitting on a bus that has just departed from Portland, OR and is heading for my destiny…Roswell, NM.