Consequences

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Author: Claire

Disclaimer: I own nothing of Roswell, yadda, yadda, yadda…

Rating: Don't know, probably R.

Pairing: Mostly M/L

Summary: AU. Liz comes back to Roswell after her first year of college, and she discusses a few things with Maria.

Distribution: If you want it, take it, just let me know where you put it.

Feedback: Uh-uh, you know how it works: no feedback, no story J. Oh and if someone wanna feedback in French, please do.

Author's note: Just wanna apologize for the mistakes I made L . You can tell me the mistakes I made, if you want. I'll be more than happy to correct them. E-mail me at clairinette14@aol.com

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Part 1

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June 2003

Liz stared at the Crashdown, a small suitcase at her feet. She had just arrived from the airport, and she couldn't believe she was finally here. She took a deep breath, trying to prepare herself for the rush of questions she knew would be coming from her best friend Maria that she hadn't seen in almost a year. Of course, they had talked on the phone, but it was different. There were things you just couldn't say on the phone…

**Alright, I can handle it ** She thought, before grabbing her suitcase and heading towards the alien-themed restaurant where she grew up.

The first thing she saw when she entered the Café was the news uniform the waitresses were wearing.

"Well, how lucky. I can't believe my parents waited for me to go to college before they changed those damned outfits!" She said, not realizing she had said it aloud.

"I couldn't agree more!" came a voice from behind her. She turned around and hugged her friend.

"Oh my god! Maria! You scared the Hell out of me!"

"Sorry. Oh my god, I can't believe it! You're here! Oh my gosh, it's been so long!" Maria said, or rather almost yelled while hugging her best Friend back.

"Yeah, I know." Replied Liz when Maria let go of her. However, before she could say anything else, Maria started rambling, the way Liz had missed so much.

"So?! Tell me, did you miss me? How was your first year of college? Did you enjoy it? Did you have fun? Did Kyle enjoy it? Speaking of Kyle, Where is he? Wasn't he supposed to come back with you?"

"Wow, Maria, calm down! Are you Hyper or what?" asked Liz laughing.

"Oh, come on, Chica, It's been almost a year, I need to know everything that happened to you, EVERYTHING!"

"Everything?"

"Yeah, everything!"

"Okay, right, but it might take a while, so first I'm gonna greet my parents, ya know, tell them I'm back, then we'll go in my old room to discuss everything, I swear."

"Oh, yeah, uh, actually I forgot to tell you, your parents aren't here, they're out of town for the week, a really important convention or something like that. They were really sad about not being there when you'd be back, but they couldn't get out of it."

"Oh, Okay." Said Liz, a bit disappointed that her parents weren't here to greet her.

Well, at least, Maria was here. She was going to tell Maria everything if that was what she wanted…uh, maybe leaving the SF part out. But before she could do anything Maria grabbed her arm and dragged her forcefully to her old bedroom.

Once in the bedroom, Maria and Liz settled themselves on the bed.

"So, what do you want to know exactly?"

"Already told you, I wanna know everything."

"Yeah right, um… where do I start?"

"Um… Can I suggest the beginning?"

"Okay… um okay. First of all, ya know, I was really lucky, because I got that teacher and -"

"Wait a minute Liz. Just tell me: How did it gone with all of your classes?"

"Very well. I really did well, or at least that's what all my teachers told me -"

"Okay, that's all I wanted to know."

"But, I thought you wanted to hear everything?"

"Of course I do! But I don't need to know all the details of your studies. Knowing you passed all of your classes very well is enough for me. But what I need to know is about your love life! Plus, you still didn't tell me why Kyle isn't here. Ya know, not that I miss him, but he's my stepbrother after all."

"Well, there's a good reason he didn't come back to Roswell with me."

"And that would be…?"

"He broke up with me." Maria was too shocked to say anything… well, at least for three seconds.

"HE WHAT?!!? How did he dare break up with my best friend, How? Why? I'm sorry Liz but I really don't get it."

"Well, he wasn't too thrilled when I told him I was pregnant." This time, Maria lost her voice for almost ten seconds.

"You're pregnant?"

"…."

"Liz Parker, you better answer that question! Are you pregnant?"

"Um… yeah, maybe I am." The questions came out of Maria's mouth faster than Liz would have ever thought it was possible.

"He dumped you because he got you pregnant?! The bastard! But I thought you two were waiting the marriage to… ya know?! And what are you going to do now? Are you going to keep the baby? Or are you going to get an abortion? And what about your studies? Have you told your parents yet? What did they say? Oh my god, oh my god!" when Maria eventually remained silent, Liz started answering her question very calmly.

"Yes he dumped me because I was pregnant. No, he isn't a bastard. I don't know about him waiting until the marriage, but apparently, I didn't. I am going to keep this baby and finish my studies by correspondence. No, I haven't told my parents yet, and yes, Oh my god." Liz had tried to make it unnoticed, but she was pretty sure Maria wasn't about to let it go.

"Um… Liz… may I ask what did you mean when you said 'I don't know about him waiting until the marriage, but apparently, I didn't.'?"

"He broke up with me because he knew it wasn't his baby."

"Oh My God!! Not only did you not wait until marriage to have sex, but also you had sex with someone else than your boyfriend and you managed to get pregnant from this someone else! Well, Chica, sorry to tell you this, but I think he was right to break up with you."

"I guess. Anyway, I don't care. I mean, it's not like I was in love with him."

"Yeah, I know, you already told me more than once that you liked him very much, but now that I think about it, not once did you tell me you loved him."

"Yeah, I guess I told everyone I wanted to wait until marriage because I didn't really want to do it with Kyle and that I just had to meet someone to… open my eyes."

"That's not how it's called anymore nowadays."

"What d'ya mean?"

"Nowadays, it's called: having sex."

"Maria!"

"Okay, okay. But now, I really want to know how it happened."

"Yeah. Right. Your remember when I told you at the beginning of the semester that Kyle and I were bored of being the only couple in the group we were hanging out with?"

"Um..Yeah."

"Well, a couple of days after that, I talked about it with my lab partner in bio. He told me that he and his girlfriend were having the same problem. So, we thought it could be some fun for the four of us to hang together. I talked about it with Kyle, and he agreed immediately. He told me he knew the girlfriend that she was in his English class. So we started hanging together. We really had blast. Well, at least I know I was having blasts, because, I… uh.. I kinda had a crush on my lab partner."

"Is he the Father-to-be?"

"Maria, I'm not at this point of the story yet."

"Sorry, sorry, no more interruption, I promise."

"Okay, so we really hit it off, and one day, Max, Kyle -"

"Max? Is it the name of your lab partner?"

"Maria!" said Liz, a tone of warning in her voice. "You promised!"

"Oh, yeah, I'm sorry, please, continue."

"I was going to. So, I was saying that we really hit it off, and one day Max, who's my lab partner, Kyle, Tess, who's Max's girlfriend, and I went for a walk on the cliffs. "

*Then I broke my leg, we were really far from the car and Max healed me with his aliens powers. He and Tess told Kyle and I they had these powers and that they were alien along with their friends Michael and Isabel after we asked them how it was possible that Max had healed me. They told us everything although I already knew thanks to the connection Max had made with me to heal my leg. And thanks to that connection, I also knew that Max had feelings for me, more than friendship, but that he couldn't be with me because he was destined to be with Tess. We discussed those things in private and we agreed that nothing could happen between us. *

That was what Liz wanted to tell Maria, but she wasn't sure how her friend could handle it. Plus, she swore Max she wasn't going to tell their secret. So, instead of this, she told Maria: "We were doing some kind of explorations, and Max and I lost sight of Kyle and Tess. After a few tensed moments, we started talking about some things, and eventually, He told me he was attracted to me, and I told him I was attracted to him too. But after a long talk, we agreed that it wasn't romantic feelings, and that it didn't worth endangering our relationships with Kyle and Tess. So we decided not to do anything. Then the things went back to normal for a few weeks. We were still feeling the sparkles, but we tried to ignore it. That's when the story begin to… Well, after a few weeks, Max and I learned that our Biology class had been chose to be a part of a new Biology convention being held in New York. It was going to last a week. I think I talked to you about it. Anyway, we were really happy to go, because it was a big chance, and Kyle and Tess were happy for us too. The next week, we were on the plane with our class heading to New York. Max and I were sitting side by side, and it was weird, because it was the first time since that day at the cliffs we were alone together without neither Kyle nor Tess. Anyway we tried to ignore it and eventually we kinda laughed of it, because we were acting like fools ya know. After that we were both more relaxed.

The day after, everyone had already left the hotel for the convention, except Max and I, because I was running late and Max was waiting for me. Eventually I was ready and we took the elevator. The only problem was that the elevator stopped at the third floor. We knew then that we were probably going to be there for a few hours cause the hotel was reserved for the people going to the convention, and all the guests already left. As for the personnel of the hotel, they had their own elevator and were supposed not to take the one reserved to the guests. We yelled continuously for almost half an hour hoping someone would hear us, but eventually, we gave up. We still had to wait four or five hours before the convention ended for the day. We tried to entertain ourselves, but it was kinda hard, because there was a lot, LOT of sexual tension. Finally, I gave up. I kinda gave Max to understand that maybe it was okay for us just to try a little kiss, that it was just to see how it was, and that neither Tess nor Kyle would have to hear about. He agreed, telling me it would be nothing important. How wrong we were. The first touch of his lips one mine was just magic, exactly how I would have imagined it, and within seconds, we were both engaged in a very heavy make-out session. I don't think I had ever been so sexually aroused before, and judging by the huge bulge that was against my stomach, Max was pretty aroused to. His hands were everywhere, on my back, on my ass, on my breasts, and mine weren't inactive either. One things leading to another, we both ended up naked. That's when we realized what we were about to do. We stopped kissing, just staring at each other." Liz paused and smiled as she remembered those moments.

Maria couldn't believe it. Where had gone the serious and responsible Liz Parker she knew so well? Her mouth was hanging open a she stared at her best friend. Then it hit her. She was glowing. Liz was glowing with something she had never seen on her friend before. She was glowing with love.

"Sooo? What happened next?"

"Um, well…"

=Flashback=

Max stared at Liz for a few seconds, which seems like forever for both of them.

"Liz… I…"

"No Max. Don't say it, please. I'm not sorry. I want you to make love to me. I don't want us to think about the consequences. I want to live this moment. I know about your destiny, and us making love won't have to screw it. It will be without consequences. When we'll come back, it will be like nothing ever happened. We'll just have to forget and go back to our normal lives. I… just want you to be… my first."

"You mean… You and Kyle… didn't do it?"

"Um… no. I told him I wanted to wait until the marriage."

"Liz, I don't want to screw this up. You wanted to wait until marriage, and I was going to screw it up. I could never give this to you. I'm sorry."

"No, Max. I'm not. I want it. Don't you understand? I think I'm in love with you, with an alien not less, who one day is probably going to go back to his home planet with his young bride. Don't you understand that after you'll left, I'll have to go back to a normal, boring life, with someone I care about, but whom I could never love? For once, I want… something else. Something that only you can give me."

"Liz, I don't think things will ever go back to normal after that. Because I think I'm in love with you, too."

"Then Max, let us have this thing we know we could never have after. Just let this week be only for the two of us, before we have to go back to normal, you to Tess, and me to Kyle, and before we have to forget. Just… let it be."

"I'll never forget it Liz. Even I left for another planet, and that I never see you again, you'll stay in my mind and in my heart forever. If it wasn't for the people waiting for Michael, Isabel, Tess and I to come back and deliver them from Khivar, I would have never been with Tess in the first place. I don't love her. I care about her but I don't love her. And, I just want you to know that you'll be my first, too. But, as we are both aware, we will have to… go back to normal. So, I'm going to ask you: Are you sure?"

"I'm sure. I want this more than anything." She smiled. Max smiled back. And as he bent down to kiss her before slowly making love to her, she was happier than she had ever been until that moment.

=End of Flashback=

"So, Liz, tell me, what happened?!"

"Um, yeah, sorry, I kinda zoned out."

"Yeah, I saw." Said Maria, causing Liz to blush as she remembered why she had zoned out.

"Yeah, so I was saying that we were just staring at each other, and I knew Max was going to stop us from doing anything. Before he actually had time to say it, I convinced him that we should think about the consequences, and that neither Kyle nor Tess needed to know about it."

"And?"

"And that was the best week of my life."

"Uh-uh, no way, I want details Chica."

"Maria, some things are privates."

"No, Liz, I mean it. Well, at least, if you don't want to give me little details, You'll have to answer a few questions. Nothing too personnel, I swear."

"Okay then, fine. Go ahead."

"So your first time was in an elevator?"

"Yes."

"Didn't you think about using protection?"

"I was on the pill."

"Okay, so, did you have orgasms?"

"Maria!"

"Okay, maybe too personnel. How many time did you did it?"

"Um, we did it three time in the elevator, twice in his bedroom, once in a restaurant's bathroom, once in a small office room at the convention, twice in his shower, once in my shower, and five times in my room."

At the time Liz finished speaking, Maria's mouth was hanging to the floor.

"But Liz, you were there only a week and you did it like…" Maria paused to count in her head. "LIKE 15 TIMES!!!!"

Liz had a contented smile on her face. She looked very pleased.

"Yeah, I know."

"Way to go, girl!" replied Maria, laughing. "So, what happened when you came back? Did your lives went back to normal?"

"Yeah."

"Really?" asked Maria disappointed.

"Well, almost."

"Oh, that's better. So?"

"Well, I kept dating Kyle, but I was avoiding him. Max was kind of doing the same with Tess, and we kept seeing each other in secret. But then, Kyle and Tess started getting suspicious. So Max and I decided to play it cool for a moment. It's about a week later that I found out I was pregnant. I really didn't know what to do. Both Max and Kyle noticed a change in my behavior. When Kyle asked for explanations, I just… I just pushed him away. But when Max asked… I had to tell him. You can't imagine how afraid I was of his reaction. But he stunned me. Of course, at first he was too shocked to talk. But then, you know a big smile plastered on his face, and I knew it would be okay. He told me that he was really happy he was going to be a father, but the only problem was Tess."

*What Am I going to tell her: Oh yeah, he couldn't break up with her because she was his destiny, she was his young bride in a previous life, and now they are meant to marry in order to produce an heir and to bring the peace on their home planet.*

"She, uh, their parents arranged their marriage. They're supposed to marry as soon as they come back to… where they are from." Maria had an 'Uh?-look' on her face.

"Peoples still do that?"

"Yeah, uh, you see, it's like an old tradition. Max's family and Tess's family are both really important where they live, and… Er… in order that no one fights for… the 'power?' their family decided to marry them. That way there's no fight between the family." Liz thought that her story was pretty shaky, but she hoped Maria would believe it. After all, it wasn't a lie. It's just that the families were a lot more important, royalties actually. And, oh, yeah, they lived on another planet.

"Whoa. Is it like the Mafia or something?"

Liz jumped on the idea.

"Exactly! It's that! Their families are in the Mafia! And, everyone is going to have big, BIG problems if someone find out. Maria, you have to swear you won't talk about anything I told you to anyone, Okay?"

"Um… Okay… Liz?"

"Yeah?"

"I have to ask you something. Isn't it hard?"

"Yes, it is, a little. But I know Max doesn't love her."

"So, how did you told Kyle?"

"Well, I asked him to meet me at my place. He was really nervous when he got there. So I decided not to make him wait. So I got straight to the point. I said: Kyle, I have something really important to tell you: I'm pregnant."

"Wow. What did he say?"

"You wanna know his exact words? He said: What? How is it possible? I didn't even touch you!"

"My God, that guy is so dense!"

"Yeah, anyway. I told him: I know. Then he understood. I felt like the lowest form of life on earth. He was really disappointed that I had betrayed him that way, and immediately said that he didn't want to take care of the baby as his own because it wasn't his, but that I could still call him if I needed a baby-sitter, I guess he understood that what I was feeling for him was just friendship."

"You mean he wasn't mad at you?!"

"Yeah, that was weird. Actually, he seemed kinda relieved."

"Well, you know Kyle. He's always been weird about the relationships."

"Yeah."

"So, you wanna head downstairs, we could grab a could grab some ice cream and I'd talk to you about what happened to me while you were away, deal?"

"Deal."

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20 minutes later

"It was good to see you again, Liz."

"Yeah, you too, Maria. I'll see you tomorrow?"

"You can count on me!"

"Oh, and do you know if Alex will come too?"

"Yeah, I'm sure he will. I'll give him a ride."

"Okay. I think I'll have to repeat my story." Said Liz, moaning at the thought of telling the story once more.

"I'll fill him in if you want."

"That would be really great. Thank you Maria. I know I told you not to tell anyone, but for Alex it's different."

"Yeah, you wouldn't want to hide things from one of your best friends, would you?" teased her Maria.

"No, of course, I wouldn't want to." Liz insisted on the words want to, for herself, because she was keeping things from Maria, but she didn't want to. That way, she didn't really lie to Maria; she just said the things in a diverted way.

"Okay. Goodbye then."

"Yeah, goodbye. See ya later Maria."

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TBC???

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