Kyle and Tess sat in Kyle's room. They had left Liz's place right after Max and Michael had woken up. Tess had dragged Kyle away and told him that they needed to talk alone.
That she had some bad news...and good news.
He couldn't believe the story Tess then had told him. That a guy had just come to The Crashdown and threatened them and taken Maria with him.
And their powers hadn't worked? Why?
It didn't make any sense. And why Maria? She wasn't an alien that they could experiment on. But he had got his answer to that one from Tess. She had told him that Maria was pregnant. With an alien-baby. Michael's baby.
Kyle had just learned accepted that guy in his almost-sister's life. And that was only because Tess had told him to.
And now he had made Maria pregnant?
He was so going to make sure that Guerin treated Maria well. That he took care of both her and the baby.
If they got her back, that is. But Kyle knew that they would.
The others had gotten Max back from the bad guys, so why not Maria?
Tess interrupted his thoughts.
"I know this is a lot to take in, Kyle" she said. "You and Maria got pretty close in the past few weeks. But we will get her back. I promise you that."
Tess's words were a little bit reassuring for Kyle, but he was still really worried.
What if they didn't get her back? How was he going to be able to tell Mrs DeLuca? She was going to be crushed.
But he couldn't think like that.
"I know we will" Kyle said and smiled at Tess. "Now that you have my help it will work out."
"Oh, big and strong football-Kyle will save the day huh?" Tess teased.
"Exactly" Kyle answered.
"Well that's good then" Tess said. "Then maybe you can run down to the store and get us some milk, for the pancakes that you are going to make. Jim and Amy is out of town for two more days, remember?
"No can do" Kyle said with a grin. "You told me that you had some good news too? You can't forget about the good news."
"Right" Tess said and her face lit up. "Alex is back!"
"Whitman's back?" Kyle asked. How was that possible? Alex had died.
"Well, at least for a while. He didn't tell us that much, but he's here to help us get Maria back."
"Well that surtenly was good news" Kyle said. "Really good news."
He smiled at the beautiful girl next to him. "And when we get Maria back, everything will be back to normal" he said. Or at least as normal it could be living with alien friends, Kyle thought to himself.
"Absolutely" Tess agreed...
Michael kept walking around in Max´s room. He had done that for the last hour.
Meanwhile, Max and Isabel had tried to figure out how it was possible for him to meet Maria.
Michael himself had thought about it. It didn't make any sense. But he didn't care all that much how it happened, he was just glad that it did.
The time with Maria had been great.
He couldn't believe that it actually made him this happy to see Maria again.
He had known that he would miss her and all, if she wasn't around anymore, but he didn't know that he would miss her this much.
Michael was the guy who didn't get intense, who didn't show much emotion.
But when Maria, Liz and Alex had come into his life it had changed..
Before, he had only cared for two people in his whole life; Max and Isabel.
And then suddenly three more people had found out about their secret and everything was turned upside-down.
But Michael was glad that it had happened. He was glad that he had found more people to care about and protect.
He had even started to feel protecting over Tess. It was when she let that whole Destiny-thing go, that he started to see what a good person she was.
Of course Michael would never admit to any if these things out loud. Not yet anyway.
"So how do you think it happened, Michael?" Isabel suddenly asked, interrupting Michael in his thoughts.
"I've already told you that I don't know" Michael said annoyed. "And it really doesn't matter how it happened. We have to focus on getting her back instead."
"I agree but..." Max said, but stopped when the doorbell rang.
"I´ll get it" Isabel volunteered and headed downstairs.
The two aliens remaining in the room stayed in silence until she got back.
Michael looked up at her when she entered the room. She looked like she'd seen a ghost.
She didn't say anything, she just handed the paper she was holding, to Max.
Max took it and read it. His face became almost as pale as Isabel´s.
"What is it?" Michael asked impatiently. It was quiet for a moment.
"It's about Maria" Max said slowly.
Michael snagged the paper from him. "What about Maria?" he asked as he started to read.
When he had finished reading, he slowly sat down on a chair behind him.
"They know about our plan..." he said and stared into the wall.
"And if we go through with it, they will kill Maria" Isabel finished. "Max, what are we going to do?"
"I don't know" Max answered.
And if the leader didn't know what to do, who did?
