Title: Alienated

Author: Wijit

Disclaimer: I do not own the television show "Roswell". It and all the characters I borrowed from it belong to the WB (reruns), the UPN, 20'Th Century Fox, Jason Katims (producer), and Melinda Metz (original book series author). I promise to return them the way I found them.

Summary: In an alternate universe set in the year 2272, Kavahr and his followers are attacking the Antardrin race. Antar, their original planet, exploded because of pent up gases in the core of the planet and the survivors live on earth segregated from humans. Max, as the unknown king of Antar, must go into hiding with Isabel and his mother. Liz, whose mother just admitted to being an Antardrin, and her family go into hiding with them.

Category: Max/Liz, Isabel/Michael

Rating: NC-17 eventually, PG-13 for now.

Author's Note: I got the idea for this while I was watching "The Diary of Anne Frank" with my little sister. In case any of you see resemblance to the book or the movie, that's why. I am profusely sorry to all of the stargazers out there. I was so crushed when Alex died last season I haven't been able to put him into any of my stories (without crying anyway) since. I was going to keep Michael with Maria and put Isabel with Kyle, but it got too complicated so this is what I was forced to do. I've always liked the idea of Isabel and Michael together, and I'm hoping that people who read this will try and deal with this. A friend of mine who's been reading this as I write it hated the entire concept of Isabel and Michael when she started this and now is looking for more stories with them as a couple, so, go figure.

Feedback: Uh... duh.

Part One

June 5'Th, 2272

When my father first told me we were going into hiding, I was shocked to say the least.

Why did we have to go into hiding? The aliens were the one's being attacked thus the ones that had to hide from Kavahr. I explained this to him, but he just shook his head sadly. When I look back on this I realize I knew the truth, I was just in terrible, terrible denial.

Then my mother came into the room. She had a look on her face that I could only describe as guilty. Dad looked at Mom and she started to speak. She told me that long ago, while she was still a baby, her parents were killed. Because she didn't have any other family to go to she was adopted. Though she was too young to be checked at the time her real parents were aliens making her one as well. Once her adoptive parents, the people I had grown to know as my Gamo and Papa, found out that she was actually a descendent from Antar they protected her, training her not to use her powers and keeping her origins a secret from everyone.

But, she said, somehow a Kavahr Follower suspected her and forced her to take a blood sample. Sure enough her cells were anything but normal. So, Dad says, that we have two choices: either Mom, Tess, and I can give ourselves up to the Kavahr followers and hope that they have mercy on three people who grew up hating aliens, just like you're suppose to, and using human ways, or we can go into hiding.

By the way I found most of Mom and Dad's precious belongings already packed when I finally stopped crying and went outside for some soup I think that the decision is already made.

June 6'Th, 2272

Tess has been complaining and moping around the house nonstop since Mom told us about her origins and the fact that we have to go into hiding until the Alien-Alien War in over. I keep trying to explain to her that if we don't do this we could very well be killed, but her reaction to my words is her staring at me as if I'm crazy then bursting into tears half yelling- half mumbling about how she's not an alien and she doesn't deserve to be treated this way.

Mom says Tess's in denial and to give her time, and I tell her that the Nile's a river in Egypt, Tess is going insane.

Doing all this packing, I've had a lot of time to think. All my life I've been raised to shun aliens; raised to think that there is something wrong with them. After all they eat at different restaurants, drink at different water fountains, use different public bathrooms. The only things humans share with Antardrins are schools because the government wants all children to know about the history of Earth and the history of Antar. What else is there to think other then there's something wicked about them? But does that mean that I'm wicked? That Mom and Tess are wicked as well?

I'm beginning to think that there's something wrong with the way our government has trained us to think.

June 7'Th, 2272

I went to the Library today. I wanted to look up information on Antardrins and figured that would be the best place to look. I would have gone on the Internet, but that too it segregated. If you're an Antardrin you have one Internet service and if you're a human you have another. I doubt I would have found anything useful.

I found one book that gave any information on their history, but when I went to check it out the librarian said that book is forbidden and threw it to some guy mouthing, "Burn it!" Then she smiled at me as if nothing had happened and asked if there was anything else she could help me find. I stared at her for a moment before I shook my head and left the Library again.

When I got home Dad broke some new to us. He said that a family of aliens was going to stay with us, and that despite what they are we would have to be civil to them. I tried to stop myself, but I pointed out to him that Mom, Tess and I were aliens too. Did that mean that he was going to have to try and be civil to us as well? An air of awkwardness fell on the room and Mom turned slightly green and left. As if Mom leaving opened an trap door through which every one could escape Tess left, grumbling something about "those damn aliens" and my "big mouth" soon followed by Dad who seemed to be sort of glaring at me.

I've always been one to voice my opinions, but it's never gotten the whole family so upset before.

I wonder what the alien family is going to be like. I tried asking Dad about it, but all he told me was it was a single mother with a boy and a girl named the Evans'. Will they be allowed to use their powers while we're in hiding? I've never seen an alien use it's powers before, I don't even know what they can do exactly, but I've always been curious.

Hey! It just occurred to me that I must have powers of some kind too. But why is that getting me so excited? Aliens are different from me, I... but their not. I am an alien. Why are aliens shunned so much if they're just like me? Why are my friends nice to me and not to other aliens? Yes, they didn't know I was an alien, but that's beside the point. I always thought that there must be something really, really wrong with them; you know something you would notice if you met one.

But maybe I was wrong...

~*~

June 8'Th, 2272

We're going into hiding. I always knew this day would come, I just didn't think it would come so soon. The war only started a little less then a year ago, I always figured that we'd wait until my life was on the line before we left the real world and disappeared. But now that I think about it, it makes more sense to leave before all the Kavahr followers are looking for me.

Its time's like these I wonder why I'm the expectant king. It blows my mind how naive and stupid I can be sometimes. I mean if we go into hiding now, maybe Kavahr won't figure out I didn't die with my father when I was a baby at all.

None of this seems to be even registering in Isabel's head. All she seems to think about is Michael. I love my best friend, really I do, but listening to my sister go on and on about how much she's going to miss him and how she doesn't know if she can survive without him is enough to make you want to kill them both.

I might have to try and talk Mom into having him come into hiding with us. If we had stayed on Antar he was going to be my second in command anyway, he might be kidnapped or worse killed if Kavahr finds that out.

Ooh, I really shouldn't have thought of that! Now I'm worried about him too.

June 9'Th, 2272

Mom broke some really bad news to Isabel and I today: when we go into hiding we're not going to be alone. Another alien family is going with us. Well... sort of another alien family. This is really hard to explain, but I'll do my best. Okay the mom in said family is Antardrin, but was raised by humans. So basically she's an Antardrin that hates her own kind. She and her very human husband have two girls who are both, obviously, half alien. Some Kavahr follower discovered her origins and that's why they have to go into hiding.

To make a much longer story short: our time in hiding is going to be hell.

Mom, as the queen of Antar, has always been very giving and understanding so I wasn't surprised when she told us that she allowed this other family to stay with us when we go into hiding. But something she doesn't seem to understand is that these people are human, they've all been raised to hate and fear our kind. Spending God only knows how much time with them is not going to be a fun experience.

I asked her if they knew about our being part of the Antardrin Monarchy. She was silent for a few seconds before she whispered that no one knows. I wanted to mention that Michael knows but bit my tongue; I doubted that would give me a good reaction.

On a lighter note, not only am I going to be sharing a house with four human raised people, I'm going to be surrounded by girls. The only other male around is going to be the father and he's the only full-blooded human in the bunch. Don't get me wrong: I like girls... I like girls a lot, but if you take into consideration what girls I'm going to be surrounded by I think you see my problem. Girl #1: my sister, girl #2: my mom, girl #3: the other family's mom, girl #4: one of the human-raised daughters, and girl #5: the other human-raised daughter.

I'm gonna say it again: it's going to be hell.

June 10'Th, 2272

We're going into hiding tomorrow.

I tried to find a time to ask mom about Michael coming with us, but she was out practically the whole day.

I don't think Michael would have been grateful about it any way. He came over this afternoon, waved to me while I was packing up plates, bowls, cups, and silverware, then walked into my sister's room and didn't come out for another three hours. His fly was halfway undone, his shirt was on backwards, and he had a goofy half-smile on his face. Then Isabel came out after him in a robe and the same weird smile on her face and kissed him goodbye. They both ignored me and my open-mouthed stare completely.

Once Michael left Isabel walked into the living room and sat down on a chair. Curling her legs up under her she put her face her hands and began to cry. Loud, agonizing sobs escaped her throat and I felt my heart break for her. I hadn't realized how much she loved Michael until that moment.

Going back over all that had happened to Isabel and Michael I can see why. When Isabel was younger, maybe fifteen, she fell in love with a human boy named Jesse. He was the wild, outlaw type guy: rode a motorcycle, wore a leather jacket 24/7, smoked, and never went to class. Isabel, who was a cheerleader and straight-A student, was attracted to him because being with him meant she got to break the rules for once.

Michael never trusted him, always telling me that he was going to hurt her and ruin her life. I have to admit I didn't like Jesse, not only was he a human, he was a human his own species didn't like, but I didn't see any harm in Isabel testing he limits a little and figured Michael was overreacting. He did - and still does - that a lot.

I was wrong.

One night Isabel went out with Jesse and Michael followed. I still don't understand how he knew something bad was going to happen, but he did. When Isabel got home it was limp in Michael's arms. She was crying into his shoulder and he was rubbing her back trying to calm her down. Later Michael explained to me what happened. He said Jesse had taken Isabel to a little shack in the middle of the desert. Michael said he'd burst into the room just as Jesse was about to force himself on to Isabel. Obviously I was furious, but, for the first time, Michael calmed me down. He told me that Isabel swore it had never happened before and that he was going to help Isabel report Jesse to the police.

After that Isabel and Michael's friendship slowly became something more. I realize now I've never seen either of them as happy as when they're together.

Michael's coming with us; he has to.

~*~

June 10'Th, 2272

Maria came over today. She was all excited about an issue of Seventeen Magazine she had found at the Library from the year 2100. Even I was pretty amazed it was around that long ago, but hearing her talk about things like make-up and a hot guy she had met while shopping made me want to cry. I wouldn't be able to do anything like this with her for a long, long time. Then I realized I might never be able to do this with her again. If we get lucky and no one discovers that we're in hiding and I get to see her again, what if she hates me? She hates aliens more then anyone else I know because one killed her father. When she finds out that I'm one, what is she going to think? How is she going to react?

I wanted to tell her that I was leaving, but I knew I couldn't. First of all, even if she doesn't hate me, our location might slip out. Next, if she does hate me, then she might tell someone on purpose. It's weird thinking of Maria in those terms; I always thought I could trust her with anything and everything, but now...

But if I can't trust humans who is it can I trust? Aliens?

I'm so confused.

TBC…