Max looked over at Isabel with panic written all over his face. "What's wrong Max?" Isabel asked. "Is, Liz and I can hear each other's thoughts. The guards are taking her. What if they have discovered who she is?" Max said in a low whisper. "Max, she'll be alright. You have to remember that powers or no powers Liz is strong." Isabel said honestly.
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"Let go of her you bastards!" Maria spat. "Shut up! Don't worry you'll be next." The guard yelled back.
"What are you going to do to me?" Liz asked softly.
"Why we are going to do a little probing and see you if you two are fertile." The guard grinned.
"Liz!" Maria screamed. "Maria, I'll be alright. Focus on yourself." Liz told her. The guards took off her straps and escorted her to a room. Maria lay there with a tear rolling down her face. 'Oh, Liz. She always thinks of everyone else. She's such a Max. I hope she's okay. Oh God, I'm next.'
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Michael and Kyle's head shot up and they tried to look out the little window. They both said "Maria!" Michael turned to Kyle and said, "What are they doing to Maria? I hope she's okay."
"Michael, she'll be okay." Kyle tried to reassure Michael, when in fact Kyle doubted it. 'When I get my hands on those guards I'll kill them.
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Max turned to Isabel when he heard Maria's screaming. Max's eyes began to water. "Is, what are they doing to them. It's not fair. I just don't understand it. We didn't do anything wrong damn it! Why can't they just leave us alone?" Max started to yell, but it broke down to a soft sob.
"I'm sure they are okay. I'm sure Maria is just overreacting. And Liz, she's…well you know. She can take care of herself now if she has to." Isabel said softly.
"Yeah but Is, Liz hasn't have the years of experience we have had to learn how to control it. She might not know how to do it. I mean she just learned herself in the last few hours." Max whispered. Isabel felt defeated. She knew Max was right, but she had to remain strong for Max. She had to remain strong for herself.
Max remembered something. 'Liz can you hear me? Are you okay? What are they doing to you?' 'Max, I'm fine. Don't worry about me, I'm okay.' Liz thought back. 'Liz, tell me what are they doing?' Liz blocked him out of her thoughts. She didn't want him to know. He would find out soon enough, there is no sense in alarming him now.
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A few hours later…
Guards came in and undid the straps of Michael and Kyle. Kyle shot Michael a confused look. Michael spoke up. "Is it recess already? I told you Kyle, time flies when you're having fun." Both Michael and Kyle smiled.
"That's enough out of you. Time to visit your friends. Darran has some exciting news to tell you all."
Michael and Kyle were shoved into the large room. Just like before everyone was paired off hugging one another. Maria ran up and hugged Michael. Kyle silently walked over to the lonely Tess and gave her a soft hug. Kyle glanced over to a pale faced Liz. 'What did they do to her? Why is she so pale?'
Max just sat there hugging Liz. Liz didn't say a single word to him when he came into the room. He didn't want to ask her what had happened. He already had an idea. What helped keep him so silent was he looked down at her small hand. Her nail polish on one finger was now blue. 'She's been practicing. I suppose it's good for her to focus on something.'
Tess, Kyle, Alex, and Michael all had noticed Liz's nail polish as well. Their minds raced. 'Maybe it was like that before, but I just didn't notice it,' They all thought. It was the most logical explanation. But what they both couldn't figure out is why was Max looking Liz's nail polish? What was so fascinating about it?
Max looked up from Liz's hand and nodded to Isabel and Maria. They knew what he meant. Isabel whispered to Alex, and Maria whispered to Michael. Both Alex and Michael's eyes widened. Their eyes immediately went to Liz. Kyle and Tess wondering what was going both pretended to cough. Isabel got up and sat next to Tess. Maria sat next to Kyle. Their eyes also widened. Tess couldn't hold back her rage. "No! It can't be true!" Tess screamed. Kyle immediately put his hand over her mouth to soften her screaming.
Liz slowly looked up to all the staring faces. 'What am I supposed to say? I don't know what to say.' Max heard her thoughts and said back 'You don't have to say anything until you are ready. Besides, everything you know they know too. I see you've been working your new powers on nail polish.' Max thought with a grin. Liz looked at Max who was smiling. Liz couldn't help but give a half smile. 'Liz, you never did tell me what happened earlier. What did they do to you?' Max thought. Liz tried to block out the last few hours out of her mind. She was afraid what he might find out.
Darran and Mr. Spencer came into the room. Darran spoke up. "Hello kiddies, I hope you've been enjoying yourself here at my humble quarters. Well I have a lot to tell you all. First of all, as much as I know you all want to know who the hybrid is, unfortunately our tests were inconclusive. However, rest assured, we will find out within 24 hrs."
Liz couldn't lift her head up to look at the man. After all this is the man that has been torturing her friends and most recently herself. This is also the man who with the knowledge of who she really is will kill her without thinking twice. Max slowly stroked her arms trying to soothe her worries.
Maria tried to hold back her tears. She was so frightened for her best friend. Michael was worried too. He didn't care who found out that he, the "stone wall", was on the break of tears. The mere though that these men had been hurting Maria and his best friends was driving him insane. 'What's the point of having these powers if I can't save them?' Now the thought that this petite brunette, who had become like a little sister, was now in threat of being killed any moment was killing him.
Kyle just sat there in shock. His ex-girlfriend is a hybrid. 'I've kissed a part alien!' Then he thought of the severity of the situation. He couldn't believe that anyone would be willing to kill such a sweet and innocent person. Tess just cuddled up to Kyle. She never really liked Liz, now she knew why. Not only did she have Max before, but now also had his destiny. Tess looked up at Kyle. She knew deep down she loved Kyle. She never wanted to admit it though. 'How can I love a human?' Although she didn't like Liz very much, she liked having a female to talk to. Now she might die because she is destined to help bring peace to their home planet. 'Our planet. How strange, I never pictured Liz as a part of this.'
Alex and Isabel sat there hugging one another. Alex in a way felt betrayed that although Liz didn't know it, all this time she wasn't the person he thought she was. 'But she was. She's always been Liz. Just not the full blooded human like me.' Isabel was over the shock, but she couldn't believe that she would probably have a sister in-law soon and now she could be killed.
"Also I suppose since you haven't yelled at me yet, Liz and Maria haven't explained their screaming earlier." Darran looked at their faces. Except for Liz and Maria everyone had questioning looks on their faces. "I'll take it that my presumption was correct; you don't know. Well remember the other day I told you that we wanted to make hybrids. Well we figured that the female aliens wouldn't be able to carry full term. So we tested Maria and Liz to see if they were fertile, after all we want to reproduce as quickly as we can." Max and Michael shot their heads up and looked at Darran and then looked down at their girlfriends. 'Why didn't she tell me?' they both thought.
Max realized why Liz had been blocking her thoughts from him. 'Liz why do you always have to deal with things by yourself? We need to help each other.' Liz looked at Max and nodded her head. She realized that it wasn't fair to not tell him. She was too embarrassed to tell him. Plus Liz was afraid Max would flip out and end up hurting himself in the long run. Luckily Max was smarter than that. He knew there was nothing he could do now, except try and comfort Liz as much as possible.
"Oh common, stop with your oh poor Liz and Maria. Don't you all want to know who's fertile? Don't you want to know who will help start our army? I know you are all dying to know. Well according to our results…."
