Title: Force of Attraction
Author: Jennifer
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters. Belongs to Metz, Katims, UPN, 20th Century Fox.
Spoilers: Up to Sexual Healing.
Summary: A challenge by Ursa Mom. What would happen if when Liz was shot in the Crashdown, she was actually still dead? Liz did die and Max's "healing" brought her back, sort of a resurrection. She is not truly alive and the reason she feels an overwhelming need to be with Max is because without being around him she will die. When Max healed her, he made her his slave, bound to him for life. Will the group find a way to free Liz from this curse without killing her?
Author's Note: Thanks to Stacey and Silverhandprintz for betaing this for me!

Prologue

Have you ever wondered why you were so attracted to a person? Is it the physical attributes of the person? Or is it merely the liking of the person as a whole? Is it an obsession? What's the need to be constantly around the person? Like if you weren't in their arms the world would end? When I'm with Max I'm so happy. I feel like I could rule the world. I could be whoever I want and do whatever I want. But when I'm not with him, I feel like everything is falling apart and I'm disappearing. Those aren't your ordinary teen hormones. There is something behind this, but I don't know what it could be. For example, when Max and I were in the Eraser Room Why did we all of a sudden go into an over drive make out session? We aren't the the type of people that would act like that. Maybe Pam Troy, but that's a different story. I'm not like that. I wasn't like that with Kyle, not with anyone until now. In class there is a term that I think describes Max and I:

Force of attraction: Every mass or object in the universe exerts a force of attraction on every other mass or object.

Could that be us? Could we have such an attraction we can't stand being without each other? But in the Eraser Room I felt so loved so wanted. Never have I felt that way. Ok, my parents love me, but it's so different. What's that saying? "When the sun rises I think of you and when the sun sets I can't wait to be around you." Ok so maybe that's that entirely it, but do you understand what I mean? I feel like everything rests with him. Everything that is me, my entire existence. I have never felt this way about a person. Don't get me wrong, I love Max.
Do I? Can I honestly say I love him? Is it possible to love a person so much I feel like I would zap out of existence when I'm not near him? I feel like I have to have my hands on him. His mouth on mine.

Is there a hormonal pill for this?

Maybe it has to do with his alien origin. Did I mention he was an alien? Maybe it's the human/alien thing. Maybe on his planet humans were slaves to the aliens and because we made this connection when he healed me from the shooting at the Crashdown we have this force of attraction.

I don't think this is healthy.

I ask Maria about this. Some girl opinions never hurt and she says that it's normal. And that I should feel this way because this is something new. But then I think that Maria hasn't had the best dating record.

Then I ask for a guy's opinion. Alex, the average guy who thinks of average things. Again, his record isn't the best, but maybe he could make some sense of this. He says that maybe I'm obsessing over this and that I do indeed like Max, but I have the after-effects of the heat wave that passed before. The heat wave was over a month ago. Is that possible? During that time everyone seemed to be pairing off, everyone except me and Max. We had our first kiss after the heat wave, so maybe that's it. Maybe we are making up for it. But glowing hickeys?

Ok but what about this?

Before the Eraser Room Max touched my hand during biology. I felt like I was exploding, everything was going on over drive, I couldn't control it. Why do I feel this way? I should tell Max, but what do I tell him? Maybe Isabel. But we have never connected before, she would think I just want to jump her brother's bones. Which is partly true... STOP IT, LIZ PARKER!

But what's so wrong about feeling this way?

After Max and I were caught in the Eraser Room, our parents kinda gave us a time out. But we went out to the desert to find out what the flashes were about. We found some kind of orb. Well needless to say, we fell asleep and when we got back our parents were upset. So the time out was more of an off limits. And the really weird thing was when I was in my room doing my homework I felt as if time was moving really fast. I usually read at an ok pace, but one minute I was on page 456 and the next I was in the bathroom. I had a sudden head rush. Ok this may sound extremely crazy, but I think time passed without me knowing it.