Author: cameraman_dc
Summary: A new alien hunter comes to Roswell, but he is more than he appears.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything, it does not belong to me. I am in no way associated with the UPN,
Jason Katims, or Melinda Metz.
Crashdown Cafe
August 5, 2006
12:00 PM
Liz and Max sat in the booth alone, and in utter silence. Neither had said a word since Michael, Isabel, and Maria had moved into the backroom to leave the two alone.
Liz looked over Max's shoulder to see a little boy spining on a stool at the counter. The young boy bared a close resemblance to his father, from his dark hair right down to his ears that stood out. Liz often wondered if that's what Max looked like when he was a child.
Of course there was always that one difference between Max and the young boy that always bothered Liz.
"He's gotten bigger," Liz said.
"Yeah," Max said glancing over his shoulder.
"So....," Max said tensely. "How's Sean?"
"I'm not with him anymore," Liz said with a saddened look in her eyes.
"Really?" Max asked, relief washing over him. "What happened?"
"He was arrested," Liz said.
"I'm sorry to hear that," Max said.
"Well it was bound to happen," Liz said. "At first everything was great, but then he lost his job and everything just went downhill from there. I really don't want to talk about it."
"Okay," Max said.
"So how has it been with the two you?" Liz asked.
"We've been doing alright," Max said. "Considering..."
"Considering what?" Liz asked.
"He misses you," Max said placing his hand over Liz's hand. "We miss you."
Liz shivered at Max's touch, she felt her heart pounding in her chest. How she longed to be in his arms again, to hold him, to be with him.
"Lizzie," Eric said running up to Liz and engulfing her in a hug.
"Hello Eric," Liz said returning the hug.
"Where you been?" Eric asked his arms still wrapped around her. "I miss you alot, are you gonna come liv wit us again?"
During the years she had lived with Max and Eric, she had come to love Eric like he was her own son. There were nights when Liz would fall asleep on the couch of Max's living room. And when she woke up there would be Eric nestled into her side with his teddybear. Liz smiled at the memory and pulled back to look Eric in the face.
But Liz's smile faded as she looked into the Eric's deep blue eyes.
Outside the Crashdown
Alex stood there watching them through the window.
He couldn't help but laugh the irony of the situation. But such things had to wait for another time. Now he had to get them ready for what was to come.
The Soap Factory
July 14, 2001
7:13 AM
"Yo when she gonna git here?" Rath asked impatiently.
"Soon," Nicholas said. "You don't rush these things, space travel takes time you know."
"So Khivar's really dead?" Lonnie asked.
"He bought the very same day the kid was born," Nicholas said. "They extracted his essence, and it should be here pretty soon."
The noise of a door opening caught their attention. The three turned to see Tess standing in the doorway. In one hand a small cylinder, nestled in the other arm a month old baby.
"So how was your flight?" Nicholas asked, an amused look on his face.
"He's a little sick from the trip," Tess said motioning to her child.
"Lonnie show her to the restroom?" Nicholas ordered.
As soon as Lonnie and Tess were out of sight Rath snatched the cylinder away from Nicholas.
"So this is Khivar's Essence?" Rath asked waving the cylinder around. "Why don't we just dump it, and claim Antar for ourselves."
"Because you idiot," Nicholas started. "While we may not be the most loyal of Khivar's subjects, he still has people that are willing to die for him if things don't go as planned."
"Whose to say something didn't go wrong during the process," Rath said. "There could have been a mistake or malfunction."
"Let me put it into simpler terms," Nicholas said. "If the process doesn't go as planned, well when we get back to Antar there will be a nice welcome back party ready to execute us."
Rath handed Nicholas back the cylinder as Lonnie returned alone.
"Where's Tess?" Nicholas asked.
"She's takin care of the kid," Lonnie said. "Why is she here anyway?"
"Khivar wants to keep a close eye on her," Nicholas said making his way to his work table. Once at the table Nicholas removed the lid to the cylinder, careful not to drop it. He the took a syringe type of device and placed it into the cylinder, withdrawing the entire amount of genetic material from within.
"So how does this work?" Rath asked.
"Follow me," Nicholas said.
Nicholas lead Lonnie and Rath into the basement are of the factory. There in the middle of the room was a cloning pod.
"How long does this whole process thingie take?" Rath asked.
"Oh this shouldn't take to long," Nicholas said injecting the serum into the pod.
The three watched as the pod began to pulsate and glow.
"The essence is now bonding with the DNA," Nicholas said. "That liquid in the pod is full of DNA information we got from that blood."
Lonnie and Rath watched in surprise as the body begins to form in the pod
"It took us forty years to develop in our pods," Rath said. "How come it only took him about a minutes?"
"Technology has advanced since then," Nicholas said. "We've been able to accelerate the development process."
"And Khivar will remember everything?" Lonnie asked.
"He'll remember everything up until his death," Nicholas said. "It'll be as if Khivar had never died."
By this time the body had become fully developed, lightly struggling to remove itself from the pod.
Lonnie and Rath watched as Khivar emerged from the pod, similar to the way they had many years before. His hand tore thru the thin membrane surrouding the pod. Slowly Khivar stumbled out of the pod nude covered in the DNA enriched liquid.
Khivar breathed life for the first time in his new body, the body that
had once been Alex Whitman.