Part 4

"W-Who just... Who j-just spoke?" asked Liz, anxiously.
"I did."
A figure moved from Liz's window and everyone looked at her. It was Tess.

No one spoke. For Liz, it's like her worst nightmare coming true again.
Is she ever going to stay out of my life? She thought to herself.
Eventually, Max spoke:
"What. Are. You. Doing. Here?" His voice was trembling
with rage, but considering what he had in his mind, Max's words were really
nice. He didn't want to see her. Ever.
" You can't be here. You're unwanted.
Plus, it's too dangerous for the baby."
Liz almost cried at these words. She almost forgot about this. She didn't know
how, but she was pregnant with Max's child. And she almost cried because she
wasn't the only one.
"Actually, that's why I came. I think I owe you some explanation."
"What are you talking about?"
"I'm not pregnant."
"WHAT? But, I, uh, I saw the baby, he was weak and -"
"There never was any baby... well, uh... except Liz's."
Liz's heart filled with such hope at this words, she could never have think it
was even possible.
Tess wasn't pregnant, or so she said, 'coz for the moment, Liz didn't know if
Tess could be trusted. Not after all she'd already done in the past.
"Um, Tess, I'm really confused now, and I think I'm not the only one."
"Well, patience Buddha Boy, I'm gonna tell you everything. But please, No one
speak before I finish, otherwise, it'll never be over."
Everyone silently nodded for her to explain... well, everything. Hell, there was
a lot they wanted to know: Why she mindwarped Alex, and Alex's death, why she
faked a pregnancy… why she came back.
"Okay, um, where to start?"
"I guess the beginning is a good start."
"Um... yeah, right. Well, I guess we could say it all started a few weeks after
the whole 'destiny' thing.
I was starting to feel a little... um... lonely. Yeah, I guess lonely is the
word. I also felt... nostalgic."
"Nostalgic?"
"Um, yeah, about our home planet. Please no more interruptions Max."
"Um, yeah sorry."
The girl was slowly regaining Max's trust. He didn't know why, or how, but he
felt like he could trust her, and that what she had to say was going to make him
happy and... relieved. It was just a feeling, but... actually it was more than a
feeling. He was confident of it.
"So, as I was saying, I was feeling nostalgic. When Max started letting me in,
after Liz 'betrayed' him... um sorry for the word, I know, it's not like that,
but, after Liz 'betrayed' him, I wasn't feeling alone anymore. I felt accepted. And that was a great feeling. But, one night, it was after Max and I
went to New York, I started thinking about how Liz had found Max in New York,
thousands of miles away from Roswell, she found him, thanks to their connection.
I was thinking really hard about it, and I came to this conclusion. Whatever Liz
had done to Max for him to feel betrayed, they were still in love with each
other. And I couldn't get the idea of destiny out of my head. Then, some time
later, Alex was going to Sweden. I told myself those exact words: He deserves
it. He is really smart, intelligent. That's when a new idea start to form in my
head. I was going to leave. And Alex was going to help me. And then, I started
using my mindwarp. I made Alex go to Las Cruzes and he started translating the
'book of destiny' for me. Well, he thought he was doing it for you guys. He
didn't remember he should have been in Sweden. When he finished the translation,
he came back to Roswell, thinking he just spend a month in Sweden, with all
those fake memories and fake slides. I wasn't sure anymore if I wanted to go. I
mean, I was going to the prom with Kyle, and everyone had started acting kinda
nice to me. So I decided to let it go for a moment. And then, the night of the
prom, I talked to Max when we were alone. I told him how I thought he was doing
great with Liz, and I asked him if they were going to date again. He answered me
that he didn't know if he could ever forget. At first, I didn't understood what
he meant. So he explain me. Everything. The whole Kyle/Liz thing. I was
disgusted. And I was angry. At Liz, for making Max suffer this horrible way. At
Kyle for sleeping with Liz and never told me, when I thought we were having
something, I didn't know exactly what it was, but we had it. And I was angry
with Liz again, for having the love of both Max and Kyle. And I was jealous, not
because she had Max's love, but because she had Kyle's, and because she had made
love with him. I wanted them to suffer the way we did. That's when I remembered.
Destiny. We could make them suffer. I told Max. Of course I didn't tell him I
wanted Liz to suffer. He would never have agreed. So I told him about Destiny.
About how our respective loves easily forgot us one night."
Kyle couldn't help but notice that she used the 'Love' word. It was weird, but
he enjoyed it. A lot.
"He was kinda reluctant at first, but a lil' mindwarp later, he agreed, and we
kissed. We weren't really happy doing it, both thinking about someone else, but
I really wanted them to suffer as we did. And, well, for Max, the mindwarp
helped him.
Anyway, at this time Alex was starting to remember things, and I didn't want him
to tell you what I intended to do. So I had to make him go away for some time. I
stole some of the files of the transcription, and then I send a letter to Alex,
explaining there were files missing. He had to go back to Las Cruzes. But I knew
this time people were going to get suspicious. So I killed him. OH! That's not
what I mean, I mean, I mindwarped you into believing he was dead, this way, no
one'll be looking for him. Well, I wasn't that lucky. I send Alex to a fake
'meeting' the day Liz came to Las Cruzes, and I'm the one who sends him this
journal when I didn't have to worry about him telling to everyone what I did."
Tess paused a moment. The hardest part was coming. When they'll hear what she
was going to say, they'll probably be mad at her. Of course she thought they
already was, but she thought they were going to get a lot angrier. But she had
to continue.
"Then, a little time later, because we were both in love with someone else, Max and I decided to break up. We never made love that night as I made all of you think."
There were gasps in the room. From stupefaction, disbelief, but also relief, for
three person. Yeah, Max, Liz and Kyle were all relieved, now they knew for sure
that Max and Tess had never had sex.
"My story isn't over yet. That night, I knew it was time for me to take a break.
I wanted to go home, I wanted explanations, 'cause I wouldn't believe in that
Destiny crap anymore. I wanted answers. But I had to check on something before I
left. So I went to Liz's bedroom.-"
"Why did you -"
"No, please Liz, let me finish. So I went to Liz's bedroom, and I saw them. Max and Liz. Both asleep in each other's arms. It was really sweet, but as much as I wanted to believe that "Destiny" was just some crap, I couldn't know for sure. I had to go to Antar to find out and the other's had to come with me. But I knew Max would never come with me, now that he and Liz…. um… you know, well, I knew he would never leave her behind, so I had to have a reason for him to come with me, because the only way Isabel and Michael were going to come with me was if Max came. I didn't want to be alone. It was everyone or just me. So, I thought about something. Max was responsible, if he thought he had impregnated me, and that I had to leave for the baby's security, I knew he would have to come with me. But for me to be pregnant, he had to think we had sex. So when he woke up that morning and he looked at Liz that's me he saw. Let me tell you, it's not really pleasant to see someone looks disgusted when he thinks he's looking at you. I guess he understood that I had mindwarped him. He didn't remember the moment when we broke up the night before, neither did he remember going to Liz.
He just remembered fake memories, about the two of us having sex. And Liz, well… she didn't remember anything at all, except what would've normally happen if Max didn't came.
One day later, I told Max I was pregnant, and then you know what happened."

Whoa. That was all anybody in the room could think at that moment.

"I guess that's all. Does anybody have questions now."
"Um… Yes I have. Why are you back if you wanted so much to go to our home
planet?" Max couldn't help it, even if he was relieved, he was still a bit angry
with the girl. She almost screwed up his life just because she wanted to 'go
home'
"Well, that's easy. I wanted to go home, and I wanted to have some answer, but I also wanted to come back when I had those answers. And anyway I had to come back, if I didn't want the world to end."

Liz gasped. She knew… But how?

"How did you know about that, I mean, you'd already left when I told everyone."
"Um… well… uh… I'm sorry, but please don't be mad at me…. I.. um.. when I was
waiting for Max to wake up to mindwarp him… I.. read your journal."
"Oh. That's ok I guess, it must be an alien habit."
Just when she finished her sentence, Liz realized what she just said, but before she could say another word, Max cut her.
"You mean that an alien already read your journal? Who did?"
"Um, well, I can't say."
"It's you Michael, isn't it?" said Maria suspiciously
"But, how, how do you know Maria? It hurts me that you can think that way about me!"
"Oh, come on Michael! I know its you, there's just four alien in this room, We
know Tess read the journal, we know Max didn't, and we know Isabel would never do something like that."
"Well, okay I admit it, it's me who stole Liz's journal. There, you're happy now? !"
"Oh my god! I can't believe it! Michael Guerin reading a girl's diary!!!" Said Maria laughing.
"Well I had my reasons, can we go back to the topic here please?!"
"Okay, okay. Don't worry, I won't tell anyone you like reading emotional stuffs"
"Please, you guys, I'm sorry to interrupt you, but Michael made a point here. Can we go back to the topic please."
"Ok, Ok, I'm sorry Lizzie, I'll stop." Said Maria to her friend as she realized that a lot of things that were told tonight were really important to her best friend.
So, as I was saying, I read Liz's journal, and that's when I realized that it was really important for me to come back. I also realized that Kyle and Liz never betrayed Max and I. I felt a little ashamed about what I was going to do, knowing how Liz already suffered because of me, but I kept telling myself that it was what I had to do if I really wanted to know about that destiny we were told. So I kept my plan on going."
"Oh."
"Um, Tess, what's that stuff that you said you wanted to check on at my house?"
"Um, well, actually I was coming to check on your journal, because I wanted to know what exactly happened between you and Kyle, because I was afraid that you two would be tempted to go back together if Max and I were away for a moment. I wanted to check on your emotions, I… I just needed to know what was happening in your head."

Liz couldn't believe her ears with everything she heard tonight. Tess was emotional, sentimental and susceptible. Tess was a normal girl, who wanted to see her home, her parents, and who wanted Buddha Boy's love!

"Whoa." Hell, that was all she could say to that girl, to that almost normal girl, 'almost' because she was an alien. But there was still something that Max wanted to know.
"You were gone less than a week. Did you get your answers?" he asked, actually thinking: 'tell me destiny is crap!'
"Well, actually…"

TBC…
Hey, I know it's been a while, but I couldn't get myself to write. Sorry it's just a lot of blab, but Tess had a lot to say to answer everyone's questions and it was kinda hard for me to get her nice again. lol. ;-)