PROM, REVISITED
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: If I owned Roswell, would I need to write this story? I didn't think so.
Category: Mostly M/L, with a little M/M and I/A
Summary: Junior Prom, with an AU twist. Max makes a different choice when he and Liz are talking on the dance floor. M/L, with a little M/M and A/I.
Feedback: Please. *Pretty Please*
Author's Note: I was reading the transcript for Heart of Mine because of something I needed to do for my website, when I came to the part where Max and Liz are talking on the dance floor. I thought to myself that if Max had made a different decision when Liz went to dance with Maria, things could have turned out much better. I kept reading, but then I just had to see what would happen if Max hadn't just let Liz go. This fic came out of that. Some dialogue is straight from the show and I don't claim to have made it up.
Part Two – Cross Purposes
Across the crowded gym, Tess watched them silently, bitterness boiling beneath the placid surface she presented. Dammit, she thought to herself, he was supposed to walk away from her. She could tell what they'd been discussing from the pain that had been evident on their faces. She'd felt that she'd been close to winning, and then Max had grown a spine all of the sudden. Her thoughts raging, she didn't hear Kyle coming up behind her.
"I need to talk to you."
"What?" she asked irritably, then she remembered that she was supposed to be interested in Kyle. "Oh it's you. I thought you were someone else."
Kyle smiled. "Let's find somewhere more private."
Tess pasted on a smile and let her thoughts drift to Max. She wasn't really worried about fulfilling her mission; she just had to think about how to get Max past Liz. Tess barely paid attention to what Kyle was saying, trusting herself to make the right inane comments to make it seem like she was listening.
"...don't think it could be a romantic thing."
One less problem to deal with, Tess thought silently. Aloud, she said, "I understand. You know I'm disappointed, but I understand." Disappointed...ha, she thought as she hugged him, and then followed Kyle out to the gym again.
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: If I owned Roswell, would I need to write this story? I didn't think so.
Category: Mostly M/L, with a little M/M and I/A
Summary: Junior Prom, with an AU twist. Max makes a different choice when he and Liz are talking on the dance floor. M/L, with a little M/M and A/I.
Feedback: Please. *Pretty Please*
Author's Note: I was reading the transcript for Heart of Mine because of something I needed to do for my website, when I came to the part where Max and Liz are talking on the dance floor. I thought to myself that if Max had made a different decision when Liz went to dance with Maria, things could have turned out much better. I kept reading, but then I just had to see what would happen if Max hadn't just let Liz go. This fic came out of that. Some dialogue is straight from the show and I don't claim to have made it up.
Part Two – Cross Purposes
Across the crowded gym, Tess watched them silently, bitterness boiling beneath the placid surface she presented. Dammit, she thought to herself, he was supposed to walk away from her. She could tell what they'd been discussing from the pain that had been evident on their faces. She'd felt that she'd been close to winning, and then Max had grown a spine all of the sudden. Her thoughts raging, she didn't hear Kyle coming up behind her.
"I need to talk to you."
"What?" she asked irritably, then she remembered that she was supposed to be interested in Kyle. "Oh it's you. I thought you were someone else."
Kyle smiled. "Let's find somewhere more private."
Tess pasted on a smile and let her thoughts drift to Max. She wasn't really worried about fulfilling her mission; she just had to think about how to get Max past Liz. Tess barely paid attention to what Kyle was saying, trusting herself to make the right inane comments to make it seem like she was listening.
"...don't think it could be a romantic thing."
One less problem to deal with, Tess thought silently. Aloud, she said, "I understand. You know I'm disappointed, but I understand." Disappointed...ha, she thought as she hugged him, and then followed Kyle out to the gym again.