Title: Missing
Author: Linda
Chapter summary: They meet at the Crashdown and everybody gets to meet Alex! We get to know Tess a little bit better!
Category: Everybody; M&M, M&L, K&T and A&I (in a way)
Disclaimer: I don't own anything
Authors note: This story takes place somewhere in season 2. Alex is dead, but Tess isn't evil, and she never got pregnant because Max and Liz are happily together. I apologise if my english sucks because I'm swedish.
Also...please rewiew!!!!!
Max reached out and pressed the off-button on his alarmclock. He wanted to stay in bed longer, but then remembered what he was supposed to do today.
He was going to meet the others at The Crashdown early. They were going to discuss how to get Maria back.
And for that, Max would go up at any time.
He got out of bed and took a quick shower.
Then he pulled on a pair of jeans and a dark blue shirt. Maria had once told him that he looked good in that colour, so he decided to wear that.
That was in that summer when Liz had left and went to Florida.
That was the worst time in his life. But Maria had been there for him and helped him. She had been having problems of her one with that whole Michael-crap, so they kind of knew what the other one was going through.
Luckily he and Liz got back together and so did Maria and Michael. After that he and Maria hadn't had a lot of time to hang out. He missed that.
He missed how Maria could always make him laugh and make him forget his problems.
Max promised himself that when she was back, he would see to it that they spent more "Girlfriend-time" together.
But of course that didn't mean that he would spend less time with Liz. He couldn't even bare the thought of that.
But right now he had to get going...
Liz's face lightened up when she saw Max enter The Crashdown. She went up and gave him a quick kiss on the lips.
Then she took his hand, and they sat down in their usual booth.
Michael and Tess sat opposite to them and Liz could tell that Michael was way off in his own thoughts. He is probably thinking of Maria, she thought.
And why wouldn't he? That was all she had been able to think about since last night.
"So where is Isabel?" Tess asked, turned to Max. "Why didn't she come with you?"
"She said that she has a surprise for us" Max answered. "Something that could help us get Maria back".
"Really?" Michael said, suddenly directing all of is attention to the others.
"Don't get your hopes up too much" Max said quickly. "We don't know what it is yet".
"But we are about to find out" Liz said.
Isabel had just entered The Crashdown with a big smile on her face.
Liz couldn't remember a time when she had seen Isabel this happy since Alex died.
Alex! Suddenly Liz saw him walking in after Isabel.
"Alex!" she screamed and ran over to him.
She hugged him as hard as she could. She couldn't believe this. Alex was alive. But she had seen his dead body. It didn't make any sense. But right now she didn't care. Right now all she cared about was that he was here.
"Are you trying to hug me to death" Alex joked when Liz finally let go of him.
She then stepped aside so that the others could hug him too.
Max went first:
"It's great to have you back, Alex. We've all missed you".
Then Michael gave him a quick, very manly, hug.
"I'm glad you made it, man," he said. And that was a lot, coming from Michael.
Tess then stepped over and gave Alex a hug.
"It is great to see you again, Alex!" she said and smiled at him. "I hope you're here to stay?"
"Actually...I'm not," Alex said.
"What do you mean?" Liz asked, beginning to feel worried.
"Well...as you all know I died" Alex started. "And all that really happened. I'm still dead".
"But you're here" Liz said, confused. This didn't make any sense.
"I'm here because I was sent here on a mission" Alex explained.
"By who?" Max asked.
"By the ones who rule everything up there".
"Up there?" Michael asked.
"I'm not really allowed to tell you about it. If I did, I would have to kill you" Alex said seriously.
Liz saw Isabel squeeze Alex's hand and Liz took his other and held on to it hard.
"You don't have to tell us anything," Isabel said. "Except for what you know about Maria".
"Maria?" Michael said. "You know something about Maria?"
He is more worried than I thought, Liz thought to herself. He looked like he was ready to kill someone to get what he wanted. And he is not alone.
Probably everyone in this room is ready to kill for Maria. Liz sure know she would do anything to get her best friend back.
"If we sit down, I will tell you everything I know" Alex said.
They did what he said and Liz felt calmer than before.
Together they could do anything...especially if it had to do with saving Maria...
Tess walked down the hall of West Roswell high.
The meeting at The Crashdown had gone quite well in her opinion.
Alex knew were Maria was, so now they only had to get there and save her.
It sounded so simple when she put it like that.
But they didn't know what the place looked like inside, or were Maria was being held, so they could meet some problems on the way. But they could handle it, Tess thought. Together they could do it.
She smiled to herself. If anyone had told her 6 months ago, that she, Tess Harding, would help save Maria DeLuca, she would have laughed.
Maria was a human and didn't deserve anyone wasting time on her.
But now Tess didn't feel like that at all.
She had realised that Maria, Liz and Alex ment more to Max, Michael and Isabel than anything.
And she had dropped the whole Destiny-thing. She knew that it was never going to work out.
She didn't even like Max in that way. She never really had, she had just been determent that everything that Nasedo had told her was true.
She was glad that it wasn't. Because now she could feel free to flirt with other guys…like Kyle Valenti.
She really liked Kyle. He was funny, smart (at least most of the times), good-looking.
They really got along great, and Tess hoped that Kyle felt the same way.
Tess hadn't told Kyle about Maria yet. That she was missing.
She wasn't sure how he would take it. After all the two of them were practically brother and sister.
Ever since their parents had gotten married, Tess had noticed that they seemed to really like each other. In a totally non-romantic sort of way, Tess added to her thoughts.
Now she really had to get to English-class, or her teacher would kill her.
She quickly opened her locker and grabbed her English-books, and ran towards the classroom.
She stopped and turned around when she heard someone gasp in pain.
She looked around the corner, that she had just passed, and saw a group of people crowding around something. But she couldn't see what.
She went over there and saw that it was Michael lying on the floor.
She pushed her way pass some people and slid down on the floor next to Michael.
He did not look well. Maybe it was alien-related. She couldn't risk it.
"Okay, the show is over" she said to the people who were curiously looking at Michael. "Go to your lessons, please. I will take care of this."
They did what Tess said and soon only Tess and Michael were left.
And Kyle, Tess realised.
"Is everything okay?" he asked, and looked worriedly at Tess and Michael.
"I don't know, Kyle" Tess answered. "I don't know what's wrong with him".
She gently shook Michael. "Michael" she said. No response.
She shook him harder. "Michael! Wake up".
Michael opened his eyes and looked directly at Tess.
"Maria" he said slowly. Then he passed out again.
Tess turned to Kyle. "Will you help me get him to The Crashdown?"
That was the only place Tess could think of, where they could take him.
"We can call the others when we get there" she continued.
"Sure" Kyle answered.
And the two teens carried Michael out of the school, into Kyle's car, and to the restaurant that was like their headquarters.
They took him in the back-way as they both knew where the key was.
Liz had told everybody where it was, in case of an emergency. And this was definatly an emergency.
"I´ll go call the others," Kyle said.
Tess sat down next to the bed that they had laid Michael in, and took his hand.
What was going on with him, she wondered…?
TBC... if you want me to!
