Part 24.
When Michael and Maria walked through the door they were met by the others.
"Are you ok?" Alex asked Maria as they sat down around the kitchen table.
"I'm ok, scared, but ok" Maria said, and squeezed Michael's hand. Michael looked into Maria´s face and smiled.
"So you are ok to continue?" Kyle asked.
"Yea" Maria answered.
"So what happened when the FBI took us?" Liz asked Maria.
"They made me choose between you or myself to stay behind" Maria answered, and then took a long breath, trying not to breakdown.
"What did you choose?" Isabel asked curiously.
"I chose myself but they just lied. They kept us all" Maria answered, and then took a break to calm down.
"Go on" Kyle said, and did a rolling motion with his hand. Sure, that may be wrong to do with a fragile, scared girl, but he wanted to know what happened to them.
"Me and Michael were tested on" Maria said as she looked into Michael eyes, and saw a flicker of hurt in his eyes. She knew she was telling him his worst nightmare, and there was nothing she could do.
"Why just you two?" Max asked.
"Well it would have only been me if Michael hadn't taken my place" Maria explained to them.
"Maria, what happened next?" Tess asked for the first time since they came back.
"You guys escaped" Maria said, hoping no one picked up on the small detail, but she wasn't that lucky because the next question that came was:
"We left, what about you?"
"There is nothing to tell" Maria stated.
"Maria you said we left, not you" Liz asked, and walked up to her now shaking best friend.
"Liz, please stop asking, ok." Maria snapped at her.
"No, Maria, I...We want to know" Liz said, and looked very intensely at Maria. She knew that everyone in the room was now looking at Maria waiting for an answer, and it came as a shock to everyone:
"There is no me ok; I died!" Maria answered as tears ran down her face as she remembered her dream. Finally Michael understood why she was so scared, sure if you knew that the FBI was going to get you, you would be scared, but Maria was more then just scared.
TBC.
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