YOU WERE MINE – PART TWO
Title: You Were Mine
Part: Two
Author: Lillie – catcharm17@hotmail.com
Disclaimer: Yeah, yeah. I don't own Roswell (even though I wish I did) I don't know any of the actors (even though I would DIE to have Brendan Fehr, or Jason Behr, or Nick Weschler, or Colin Hanks.) And I have no association with the WB, UPN, Jason Katims or any other the other producer ppl. Don't sue me, I'm using the characters for a non-profit thing, purely for the fans of Roswell's enjoyment. Besides even if you did sue me, I have nothing to give you! Enjoy the story
Rating: PG 13
Category: Max/Liz…….. a little Maria/Michael and Alex/Isabel
Summery: Max returns after 6 years. How does Liz cope with his return. How do his children cope with seeing the father who left them, again. And where did Alex come from????
Muse-ic: Once You've Loved Somebody – Dixie Chicks
1 ' I said I wanna touch the earth
I wanna break it in my hands
I wanna grow something wild and unruley
I wanna sleep on the hard ground
In the comfort of your arms
I wanna pillow of blue bonnets
And a blanket made of stars
Oh it sounds good to me'
Liz laughed, thinking of Max 'Me to.' Maria, who had just walked in the door, snorted and said sarcastically, ' What – you want to get all dirty, get a crick in your neck, get leaves and sticks stuck in your hair and pneumonia? – Sound like fun.'
Liz laughed at the expression on Maria's face. Maria always knew how to make her laugh. She turned back to Maria who was saying something to her. ' …. so anyway, that's over now. Lizzie. why are you listening to the Dixie Chicks. You know as well as I do that you only listen to them when you fight with Max. And unless Max suddenly dropped out of the sky…. Which is possible, but not very likely….although it could happen, I guess, I mean its happened before. Right? Liz?….. Liz? Hey! Liz… I was talking to you. Liz, where'd ya go???' Maria turned as she heard a voice that she hadn't herd in over 5 years, behind her. 'Dropped out o the sky, huh?'
Maria whipped around as she realised who is was. ' MAX!!!!' Oh My God!!!!' Maria jumped up from where she had been sitting, and flung her self at Max. 'How? When? I mean….. why?……..' Max laughed as Maria stammered for words. 'Lost for words? Well that's a first!'
Liz came out of her bedroom, where Max had emerged from, and Maria heard a sound coming from the bedroom. Max turned back to her and said ' Well 'ria, I'll let Liz explain her side, and then I'll tell you mine.' Max disapeared into the bedroom, and Maria turned to Liz in confusion. 'Did I just hear a baby cry?' Liz laughed…. ' and on with the story…'
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3
4 Four Hours Earlier
4.1 'There is no good reason
5 I should have to be so alone
I'm smothered by this emptiness
Lord, I wish I was made of stone
Like a fool I lead my soul to love
And it paid me back in change
God, help me
Am I the only one who's ever felt this way?
A heart that's worn and weathered
Would know better than to fight
But I will earn mine like a weapon
Played out love like a crime
And it wrung me out
And strung me out
And it hung years on my face
God, help me,
Am I the only one who's ever felt this way.'
Liz flipped through radio stations until she found one that was playing a song she liked. She was driving through the desert on her way back from picking up Londra and Rath from her parents house. Her parents had moved to Santa Fe four years previously, leaving the Crash Down for Liz to run.
Londra was 9 now and was sitting in the backseat of Max's old jeep listening to her new CD. Liz frowned. Why could she hear that music so loudly. She glanced in the rear-view mirror, and caught a glimpse of Londra holding the CD to her ear. Liz smiled. 'Londra, sweetie. I thought I asked you not to listen to CD's that way. You know that normal people don't understand it…… you didn't listen to it like that at grams and gramps did you?'
Liz frowned, wondering what her parents would think if they saw their grand daughter listen to a CD by placing it next to her ear. Damn Isabel. I should have known she'd teach them to do something like that. Next thing I know they'll both be walking into my dreams. Liz clicked back to reality when she heard Londra say ' Take a chill pill momma. I only do this round you, Rath, aunt Issy, uncle Alex, Ashlee, Harrison, aunt Ria, uncle Michael, Sky, Starr, Cloud and grama Amy and poppa Jim.'
Liz's head shot up when she heard the expression 'chill pill'. Obviously Isabel wasn't the only one teaching her daughter things. She'd have to talk to Michael about that one. Liz looked over at her 12 year old son who was sitting next to her. He was gazing out the window with such a solemn look on his face. He was forever frowning. So much like his father, Liz thought.
Liz was singing along with the music and she started laughing when she heard Rath grumble 'Mom, geez, do you HAVE to sing quite so loudly?' Liz looked over at him, and poked her tongue out. 'I'll sing as loudly as I want.' She smiled to herself when she was a slight smile on Raths mouth as he tried not to crack a grin at her silly behaviour. Liz turned back to riving and braced herself when she realised where they were about to pass by. It was the place where she had last seen Max. She turned to that she could still see the road but not the desert on her right hand side. As usual Londra and Rath practically hung over the edge of the car trying to see something. Anything. Liz was worried. She knew they hoped their father would come home. But they did this every time they passed through here. She was lost in her thoughts when she realised that she was almost past the place, and Londra was calling her name.
'Mommy. Mom? MOM!' Liz shock her head to let herself click back to reality. 'What sweetie?' Liz got the shock of her life at Londra's next word. 'Daddy. Its Daddy.'
Liz gasped. ' Londra. Sweetie. What are you talking about?' Liz pulled the car over to the side of the road. 'Rath. Whats going on? Rath?' She turned to look at her son, who had turned around and was staring over the back of his eat with his mouth gaping open. ' Oh My God, Mom. You have GOT to see this.'
Liz turned around in her seat, and did a double take. There was a man sitting on the side of the road a hundred feet back….. and while he certainly looked like Max…….. well obviously it couldn't be Max. Could it? Definitely not, Liz thought to herself. Its just some hitchhiker looking for a ride. And while Liz would normally never pick up anyone, she reversed the jeep back to that she was beside that man. She didn't look up, hardly daring to, and asked him 'Need a ride?'
The man looked up and smiled, and then winked at Rath. 'Well, well….. if it isn't little Lizzie Evans…. And driving my car to.'
His car. And that voice…….. Liz looked up and gasped. 'Max!' Max grinned at her and nodded. ' Liz.' He stated. Liz shrieked. ' Oh my God – Max!' She jumped out of the car and threw herself at him. But just before she reached him, she stopped. 'Max. Where's…… Tess' Just the name was painful for her to say….. Max gave her a stunned look. ' Tess??? What are you talking about? Tess never… Oh.' Max stopped talking and smiled slightly. ' Guess she never came back huh?' Liz looked at him. ' Max, what are you talking about?'
Max smiled ' Well, after you guys left me and Tess here, we headed to the cave, but she left, she had never planned to come along, but…. I don't know. She just turned to me and said. ' I can't go through with this. I won't be responsible for breaking you up….' I thought she went back to Roswell. But I guess not.'
Liz heard a sound behind her. The kids. She'd forgotten all about them. How would they take Max coming back? Rath came up beside her. ' Dad?'
Max grinned…. ' So, Rath, happy to see your old man again?'
Liz looked at him. She saw a smile start to creep on to his face, and then she saw the anger creep into his eyes. 'Mom may be happy to just forgive you for leaving, but I'm not. You've been gone 6 years. 6 whole years.' With that, Rath turned and stormed back to the jeep. Max started to go after him, but Liz stopped him. 'Leave him Max, he just needs to cool down.'
Max frowned, then smiled ' A little TO much like me, huh?'
Liz smiled ' Isabel says exactly the same thing' Max looked up at her. 'Isabel? How is she? Hope shes not as pissed at me, as Rath is.'
Liz glanced at him ' Well, after we got Alex back…….'
Max almost jumped ten feet into the air. 'Alex? But… I thought. What?'
Liz grinned ' My thoughts exactly.'
Liz glanced behind her again as she heard footsteps. It was Londra. 'So, Pops. Whatcha doing out here in the desert?' Liz laughed. That kid was so much like Isabel.
Max looked confused ' Pops??? Excuse me. Pops. Its Dad, thank you very much.'
'Yeah, well whatever' Londra muttered
Max thought aloud ' Damn, she is EXACTLY like Isabel!'
Vilondra looked up at him ' Once again, so Aunt Issy says. Anyway, as Mom was saying, Uncle Alex came back. We used the Grenolith to get him back.'
'Woah!!!!! UNCLE Alex????????? Does that mean Issy finally got married? And the Grenolith? How the hell did you guys use that?'
Liz frowned. 'Language. Little Ears around.'
Londra frowned. 'Excuse me Mom. Little ears they are not.' With that she moved her hand over both of her ears, and two very large ears appeared. Max started laughing 'Abusing your powers, just like Isabel huh?' Londra waved her hand in the air and her ears returned to normal ' Well, I'm a little more experienced than she was, but yeah, I use 'em for fun…. You got a problem with that?'
Liz started laughing even harder. 'Londra, sweetie, can you go take some of Dad's stuff over to the jeep and get Rath to help you load to up?'
Londra took off over to where Max's pile of stuff was. Max looked down at Liz and smiled. ' Londra, huh? Cute nick name………. So alone at last…'
Liz snorted ' Huh! We both know what happened last time you used that line….. shes standing right over there!'
Max leaned in to give Liz a kiss, when suddenly they heard Londra cry out ' Mom! Dad! Why is there a baby over here?'
Liz shrieked 'What!!!!!! Max????"
Max smiled ' Opps, kinda…. Ummmmm forgot about her. Damn I gotta get better at this. OK, Liz calm down. Shes not mine. Exactly. Well what I mean, is she… no I mean, I'm not her father.'
'Max, sweetie, your babbling.'
'OK, the thing is, it kinda took me a while to ummmmm, find out planet, and when I got there, they took me to this hospital type place. Well it turns out, when Me and Issy's…. and as it turns out Michael's, mother put us on the ship to come out here, she was pregnant. When the baby was born, they put her into this pod like thing. Like ours. You know, it stops you from getting older. Well anyway, the people were under orders not to take her out until, either, Issy, Michael or I turned up. Unfortunately Mom died a week after having her, and our Dad was killed a year later. So anyway, she was in the pod for almost 70 years. And when they took her out, only 3 days a go, she was only 3 days old. So shes well, six days old now.'
'OK, let me get this straight. Apart from all this baby stuff…. I took you what? 6 years to get there…….. and THREE days to get back?'
Max laughed ' Well, not exactly. I was lost for like 4 years, and well Delaina is a big place, and it took me a year to find the right people. So then that's, what 5 years, and then I was taken to the hospital, but that didn't happen for almost 11 months. So, its just under 6 years. And it was this time warp thing that sent me and Taysha back.'
Liz gasped ' Taysha? Is that her name? That is so nice.'
Max smiled. 'I thought so to. Mom had left a list of names, and told us to choose one. So I choose Taysha Elizabeth Evans.'
Liz gasped again ' Elizabeth? Max that is so sweet!'
Max smiled 'Londra, will you bring Taysha over here?' he called out to his daughter.
'Also she left insructions, that whoever claimed her……..i.e. – me, would be her parent, as well as whoever they were married to. So, Mom…….. this is kid number three…' Max kidded around.
Now my sense of humour needs a break
See your shadow in a mirror
And she's laughing through her tears
One more smiles all I can fake
There is a wound inside me,
And it's bleeding like a flood
There's times when I see a light ahead
And hope is not enough
And another night surrounds me
And it pounds me like a weight
God help me
Am I the only one who's ever felt this way.
God help me,
Am I the only one who's ever felt this way.
To be continued in Part Two of 'Once You've Loved Somebody'
Title: You Were Mine
Part: Two
Author: Lillie – catcharm17@hotmail.com
Disclaimer: Yeah, yeah. I don't own Roswell (even though I wish I did) I don't know any of the actors (even though I would DIE to have Brendan Fehr, or Jason Behr, or Nick Weschler, or Colin Hanks.) And I have no association with the WB, UPN, Jason Katims or any other the other producer ppl. Don't sue me, I'm using the characters for a non-profit thing, purely for the fans of Roswell's enjoyment. Besides even if you did sue me, I have nothing to give you! Enjoy the story
Rating: PG 13
Category: Max/Liz…….. a little Maria/Michael and Alex/Isabel
Summery: Max returns after 6 years. How does Liz cope with his return. How do his children cope with seeing the father who left them, again. And where did Alex come from????
Muse-ic: Once You've Loved Somebody – Dixie Chicks
1 ' I said I wanna touch the earth
I wanna break it in my hands
I wanna grow something wild and unruley
I wanna sleep on the hard ground
In the comfort of your arms
I wanna pillow of blue bonnets
And a blanket made of stars
Oh it sounds good to me'
Liz laughed, thinking of Max 'Me to.' Maria, who had just walked in the door, snorted and said sarcastically, ' What – you want to get all dirty, get a crick in your neck, get leaves and sticks stuck in your hair and pneumonia? – Sound like fun.'
Liz laughed at the expression on Maria's face. Maria always knew how to make her laugh. She turned back to Maria who was saying something to her. ' …. so anyway, that's over now. Lizzie. why are you listening to the Dixie Chicks. You know as well as I do that you only listen to them when you fight with Max. And unless Max suddenly dropped out of the sky…. Which is possible, but not very likely….although it could happen, I guess, I mean its happened before. Right? Liz?….. Liz? Hey! Liz… I was talking to you. Liz, where'd ya go???' Maria turned as she heard a voice that she hadn't herd in over 5 years, behind her. 'Dropped out o the sky, huh?'
Maria whipped around as she realised who is was. ' MAX!!!!' Oh My God!!!!' Maria jumped up from where she had been sitting, and flung her self at Max. 'How? When? I mean….. why?……..' Max laughed as Maria stammered for words. 'Lost for words? Well that's a first!'
Liz came out of her bedroom, where Max had emerged from, and Maria heard a sound coming from the bedroom. Max turned back to her and said ' Well 'ria, I'll let Liz explain her side, and then I'll tell you mine.' Max disapeared into the bedroom, and Maria turned to Liz in confusion. 'Did I just hear a baby cry?' Liz laughed…. ' and on with the story…'
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3
4 Four Hours Earlier
4.1 'There is no good reason
5 I should have to be so alone
I'm smothered by this emptiness
Lord, I wish I was made of stone
Like a fool I lead my soul to love
And it paid me back in change
God, help me
Am I the only one who's ever felt this way?
A heart that's worn and weathered
Would know better than to fight
But I will earn mine like a weapon
Played out love like a crime
And it wrung me out
And strung me out
And it hung years on my face
God, help me,
Am I the only one who's ever felt this way.'
Liz flipped through radio stations until she found one that was playing a song she liked. She was driving through the desert on her way back from picking up Londra and Rath from her parents house. Her parents had moved to Santa Fe four years previously, leaving the Crash Down for Liz to run.
Londra was 9 now and was sitting in the backseat of Max's old jeep listening to her new CD. Liz frowned. Why could she hear that music so loudly. She glanced in the rear-view mirror, and caught a glimpse of Londra holding the CD to her ear. Liz smiled. 'Londra, sweetie. I thought I asked you not to listen to CD's that way. You know that normal people don't understand it…… you didn't listen to it like that at grams and gramps did you?'
Liz frowned, wondering what her parents would think if they saw their grand daughter listen to a CD by placing it next to her ear. Damn Isabel. I should have known she'd teach them to do something like that. Next thing I know they'll both be walking into my dreams. Liz clicked back to reality when she heard Londra say ' Take a chill pill momma. I only do this round you, Rath, aunt Issy, uncle Alex, Ashlee, Harrison, aunt Ria, uncle Michael, Sky, Starr, Cloud and grama Amy and poppa Jim.'
Liz's head shot up when she heard the expression 'chill pill'. Obviously Isabel wasn't the only one teaching her daughter things. She'd have to talk to Michael about that one. Liz looked over at her 12 year old son who was sitting next to her. He was gazing out the window with such a solemn look on his face. He was forever frowning. So much like his father, Liz thought.
Liz was singing along with the music and she started laughing when she heard Rath grumble 'Mom, geez, do you HAVE to sing quite so loudly?' Liz looked over at him, and poked her tongue out. 'I'll sing as loudly as I want.' She smiled to herself when she was a slight smile on Raths mouth as he tried not to crack a grin at her silly behaviour. Liz turned back to riving and braced herself when she realised where they were about to pass by. It was the place where she had last seen Max. She turned to that she could still see the road but not the desert on her right hand side. As usual Londra and Rath practically hung over the edge of the car trying to see something. Anything. Liz was worried. She knew they hoped their father would come home. But they did this every time they passed through here. She was lost in her thoughts when she realised that she was almost past the place, and Londra was calling her name.
'Mommy. Mom? MOM!' Liz shock her head to let herself click back to reality. 'What sweetie?' Liz got the shock of her life at Londra's next word. 'Daddy. Its Daddy.'
Liz gasped. ' Londra. Sweetie. What are you talking about?' Liz pulled the car over to the side of the road. 'Rath. Whats going on? Rath?' She turned to look at her son, who had turned around and was staring over the back of his eat with his mouth gaping open. ' Oh My God, Mom. You have GOT to see this.'
Liz turned around in her seat, and did a double take. There was a man sitting on the side of the road a hundred feet back….. and while he certainly looked like Max…….. well obviously it couldn't be Max. Could it? Definitely not, Liz thought to herself. Its just some hitchhiker looking for a ride. And while Liz would normally never pick up anyone, she reversed the jeep back to that she was beside that man. She didn't look up, hardly daring to, and asked him 'Need a ride?'
The man looked up and smiled, and then winked at Rath. 'Well, well….. if it isn't little Lizzie Evans…. And driving my car to.'
His car. And that voice…….. Liz looked up and gasped. 'Max!' Max grinned at her and nodded. ' Liz.' He stated. Liz shrieked. ' Oh my God – Max!' She jumped out of the car and threw herself at him. But just before she reached him, she stopped. 'Max. Where's…… Tess' Just the name was painful for her to say….. Max gave her a stunned look. ' Tess??? What are you talking about? Tess never… Oh.' Max stopped talking and smiled slightly. ' Guess she never came back huh?' Liz looked at him. ' Max, what are you talking about?'
Max smiled ' Well, after you guys left me and Tess here, we headed to the cave, but she left, she had never planned to come along, but…. I don't know. She just turned to me and said. ' I can't go through with this. I won't be responsible for breaking you up….' I thought she went back to Roswell. But I guess not.'
Liz heard a sound behind her. The kids. She'd forgotten all about them. How would they take Max coming back? Rath came up beside her. ' Dad?'
Max grinned…. ' So, Rath, happy to see your old man again?'
Liz looked at him. She saw a smile start to creep on to his face, and then she saw the anger creep into his eyes. 'Mom may be happy to just forgive you for leaving, but I'm not. You've been gone 6 years. 6 whole years.' With that, Rath turned and stormed back to the jeep. Max started to go after him, but Liz stopped him. 'Leave him Max, he just needs to cool down.'
Max frowned, then smiled ' A little TO much like me, huh?'
Liz smiled ' Isabel says exactly the same thing' Max looked up at her. 'Isabel? How is she? Hope shes not as pissed at me, as Rath is.'
Liz glanced at him ' Well, after we got Alex back…….'
Max almost jumped ten feet into the air. 'Alex? But… I thought. What?'
Liz grinned ' My thoughts exactly.'
Liz glanced behind her again as she heard footsteps. It was Londra. 'So, Pops. Whatcha doing out here in the desert?' Liz laughed. That kid was so much like Isabel.
Max looked confused ' Pops??? Excuse me. Pops. Its Dad, thank you very much.'
'Yeah, well whatever' Londra muttered
Max thought aloud ' Damn, she is EXACTLY like Isabel!'
Vilondra looked up at him ' Once again, so Aunt Issy says. Anyway, as Mom was saying, Uncle Alex came back. We used the Grenolith to get him back.'
'Woah!!!!! UNCLE Alex????????? Does that mean Issy finally got married? And the Grenolith? How the hell did you guys use that?'
Liz frowned. 'Language. Little Ears around.'
Londra frowned. 'Excuse me Mom. Little ears they are not.' With that she moved her hand over both of her ears, and two very large ears appeared. Max started laughing 'Abusing your powers, just like Isabel huh?' Londra waved her hand in the air and her ears returned to normal ' Well, I'm a little more experienced than she was, but yeah, I use 'em for fun…. You got a problem with that?'
Liz started laughing even harder. 'Londra, sweetie, can you go take some of Dad's stuff over to the jeep and get Rath to help you load to up?'
Londra took off over to where Max's pile of stuff was. Max looked down at Liz and smiled. ' Londra, huh? Cute nick name………. So alone at last…'
Liz snorted ' Huh! We both know what happened last time you used that line….. shes standing right over there!'
Max leaned in to give Liz a kiss, when suddenly they heard Londra cry out ' Mom! Dad! Why is there a baby over here?'
Liz shrieked 'What!!!!!! Max????"
Max smiled ' Opps, kinda…. Ummmmm forgot about her. Damn I gotta get better at this. OK, Liz calm down. Shes not mine. Exactly. Well what I mean, is she… no I mean, I'm not her father.'
'Max, sweetie, your babbling.'
'OK, the thing is, it kinda took me a while to ummmmm, find out planet, and when I got there, they took me to this hospital type place. Well it turns out, when Me and Issy's…. and as it turns out Michael's, mother put us on the ship to come out here, she was pregnant. When the baby was born, they put her into this pod like thing. Like ours. You know, it stops you from getting older. Well anyway, the people were under orders not to take her out until, either, Issy, Michael or I turned up. Unfortunately Mom died a week after having her, and our Dad was killed a year later. So anyway, she was in the pod for almost 70 years. And when they took her out, only 3 days a go, she was only 3 days old. So shes well, six days old now.'
'OK, let me get this straight. Apart from all this baby stuff…. I took you what? 6 years to get there…….. and THREE days to get back?'
Max laughed ' Well, not exactly. I was lost for like 4 years, and well Delaina is a big place, and it took me a year to find the right people. So then that's, what 5 years, and then I was taken to the hospital, but that didn't happen for almost 11 months. So, its just under 6 years. And it was this time warp thing that sent me and Taysha back.'
Liz gasped ' Taysha? Is that her name? That is so nice.'
Max smiled. 'I thought so to. Mom had left a list of names, and told us to choose one. So I choose Taysha Elizabeth Evans.'
Liz gasped again ' Elizabeth? Max that is so sweet!'
Max smiled 'Londra, will you bring Taysha over here?' he called out to his daughter.
'Also she left insructions, that whoever claimed her……..i.e. – me, would be her parent, as well as whoever they were married to. So, Mom…….. this is kid number three…' Max kidded around.
Now my sense of humour needs a break
See your shadow in a mirror
And she's laughing through her tears
One more smiles all I can fake
There is a wound inside me,
And it's bleeding like a flood
There's times when I see a light ahead
And hope is not enough
And another night surrounds me
And it pounds me like a weight
God help me
Am I the only one who's ever felt this way.
God help me,
Am I the only one who's ever felt this way.
To be continued in Part Two of 'Once You've Loved Somebody'