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Ch. 8
Liz's POV
"God MARIA will you just shut up!" I screamed at the bobbing girl to my right.
"Liz! That's the exit! That's it!" She bounced up and down in her seat, and pointed.
"Okay! Okay! Just shut it!" I snapped.
God was her constant bickering and ranting about Michael Guerin REALLY getting to me! I mean the girl had nonstop been talking about him since our last fiasco.
"Oh my gosh I'm so nervous! I'm so, I'm just so nervous! My hands are shaking and everything! Oh my god Liz what if he didn't even want me to come?! I mean Iz asked for Alex and Max asked for you but… But…" Maria's excited face turned sour, "But Michael never asked for… Me." She whispered. "Liz, pull over." Maria asked gentle.
"Maria?" I looked at her and asked worried.
"I said pull OVER!" She screamed.
"Woo! Yes Ma'am!" I skidded off the exit to the curb.
As soon as the car stopped Maria jumped out and ran away towards the fields.
"Maria!" I screamed after her, jumping out of the car as well.
"Liz?" Alex said as he leaped out of the Navigator and ran beside me.
"Maria's freaking out because she thinks Michael doesn't want her here." I explained as fast I could so that I didn't run out of breath. Man that Maria could run!
"Maria!" Alex yelled.
"Maria!" I yelled after Alex did.
Suddenly she stopped… and she looked like she had seen a ghost.
" Be careful with my heart,
You could break it,
Don't take my love for granted,
Things could change,
Sometimes I go insane,
I played the fool and you'll agree,
I'll never be the same,
Without you here with me,
Cuidado [Please be careful]
Con mi corazón
Me siento algo desnuda
Cuidado [Please be careful]
Es mi corazón
Mi corazón
Be careful with my heart,
You could break it,
Don't take my love for granted,
Things could change,
Sometimes I go insane,
I played the fool and you'll agree,
I'll never be the same,
Without you here with me,
Cuidado [Please be careful]
Con mi corazón
Carino no me lastimes
Cuidado [Please be careful]
Es mi corazón
Mi corazón
If I could reach out to you/
Nothing will stop me
Take your hands in my hands/
Tell me what would you do
Kiss your eyes, sing you to sleep/
Your voice sounds like a lullaby
Here's my heart, this is time to keep/
Here's my heart to keep
Cuidado [Please be careful]
Con mi corazón
Carino no me lastimes
Cuidado [Please be careful]
Es mi corazón
Mi corazón
Cuidado [Please be careful]
Con mi corazón
Me siento algo desnuda
Cuidado [Please be careful]
Es mi corazón
Mi corazón
Cuidado [Please be careful]
Con mi corazón
Me siento algo desnuda
Cuidado [Please be careful]
Es mi corazón
Mi corazón… "
(Be Careful {Cuidado Con Mi Corazon} [#5], By Ricky Martin & Madonna – Ricky Martin)
***
Isabel's POV
"Wh-what do we do Michael?" I shouted, scared to stone.
"It's okay Iz, I'm sure they miss us." Michael squeezed my hand harder.
I saw the look of fear on his face; I could see the yellow lightning streaks swirl through his aura and the sparkles of curiosity floating about. But I knew he was thinking about one thing. One person. Maria Deluca. Then as if on cue I saw her. She looked as though she were running from someone, she was panting so hard. "Maria?" I was the first to speak.
She stood up tall and stiff, eye's wide with fear and contempt. Her eyes were locked with Michael's; he squeezed my hand harder… harder…. And then- "OW! Geezus! Michael!" I slapped him away.
Geez did he have a hard handshake!
"Huh? What?" Michael shook his head and refocused on me, then to Maria.
"Maria!" I shouted up to her, she stood silent atop a large hill.
"Liz! Alex!" Maria turned and bolted the other way.
"Well I miss you too Maria." I muttered to myself.
***
Liz's POV
"Oh God Liz they're down there! He's… Down there." Maria ran into my arms.
"M-Maria? W-what?" I stuttered.
Alex tried to gain control, "Okay, okay, let's calm down, let's just take a deep breath and-and-"
"Alex! Liz! …Maria?" He heard Isabel's voice call. Then all color drained from his face in the little light I could she him in.
"Alex?" I tapped his shoulder, Maria still shaking in my arms.
"Right, calm deep breaths… Calm…" Alex chanted to himself.
"Alex?" Isabel shouted a second time.
"Okay… I think I am going to be sick." Alex held his stomach and slumped to the floor.
"Oh c'mon you bunch of pansies! Get your fat asses up and go hug the love's of your lives!" I shouted to them, giving Maria a nudge and Alex a slight kick in his rear.
"You first." Maria's face turned serious and smiled a bit.
To prove a point (and save my dignity) I went over the hill to initiate the conversation.
I gulped down the bile that rose to my throat as I tip toed up the hill towards the edge. I kept thinking that I would see Tess and Max making out or something worse… Like them staring at each other lovingly as they held their child.
WHY! Why did Max ask me to come? Did he just want to rub his and Tess' relationship in my face?! How could I be the strong one when I can't even stop my body from shaking?
I stole a look behind me to see Alex and Maria huddled together and SLOWLY, and I do emphasize SLOWLY here, making their way up the hill too. Rolling my eyes I started back up. I HAD to be the strong one here.
As I was trying my hardest to maintain my cool, I was suddenly hit again with a flash…
*FLASH*
"So...we have something in common." Kyle said.
"Yeah? What's that?" Liz looked into his eyes.
"We, uh...we're the only two people I know of who have died and were brought back by an alien." Kyle humored her.
"Yeah. You're right." She nodded slightly.
"You feel different?" He looked over to her side of the bed.
"Yeah. Kyle...when he healed you, um...did...did you see things?" Liz got serious.
"See things?" Kyle's eyebrow rose in confusion.
"Flashes. Images." She explained.
"No. But since he healed me, I keep getting these flashes of Max Evans naked." He furrowed his forehead causing Liz into hysterics of laughter.
*FLASH*
"I've fought a thousand battles...but watching you do that was the hardest thing I've ever had to do." Future Max said to Liz Parker up on her patio just outside her bedroom door.
"The look on his face...on your face." The pain was evident on her face and she made no attempt to hide it.
"Maybe it's for the best. For you, too." Future Max side smiled.
"What are you talking about?" Liz's voice rose irritated.
"I saw you with Kyle. He's turning out to be a...a great guy. Maybe it would be better for you to be with a human." He looked away.
"Don't you realize what you are to me...and you're always gonna be? You're the love of my life. Everyone else is gonna be second best. There'll never be another you." Liz cried and looked up into the stars.
*FLASH*
"So Max and... Tess are going to be together now." Liz looked at her feet.
"I don't know. I don't know anything now. This is a different world." He replied remorseful.
"I'm gonna be alone." Liz whispered teary eyed.
*END FLASH*
Second best. That was what my new life with Kyle had felt like.
The only difference about this flash was the fact that I didn't pass out. It was more like a memory this time. This time it had actually happened and it wasn't really that scary like the last ones, the ones where I saw Alex die.
Still, I shuddered.
I had in fact ended up with Kyle, only to have him hurt me in the end. For him to leave me the way Max did.
"There'll never be another you." Echoed in my mind as I stepped wobbly up that steep hill. There may have not been another Max but I had tried my hardest to fill Kyle in his place. "I'm going to be alone." Was another sentence that danced within my minds walls.
What was happening to me?
***
Isabel's POV
"Max?" I whimpered. Were they really just up that Hill? I wondered, I looked to a dazed Michael, "Was that Maria? …Michael? MICHAEL!" I smacked him.
"Huh?" He shook his head a bit dazed, "I –Uh…"
"Okay… Max?" I turned to my brother.
He stood staring up the hill, completely still and looking as if he was in shock.
"Max!" I said a little louder, causing him to flinch.
"I-I-I don't know… I-."
"Arrrgh!" I huffed, "What are we supposed to do here? Hello? Calling all confused Czeckosavakians! If you haven't noticed I'm just as scared as all of you but at least I'm still keeping it together."
"Okay… Okay, Michael. You go up there." Max said finally, nodding his chin in the direction of the hill. "We'll be right here."
Michael looked at him like he had asked him to strip naked and dance around, "Are you serious?"
"No Michael I only asked you because I wanted to know how my voice sounded different on Earth than on Antar! Yes I'm serious! Now GO!" Max crinkled up his face and grimaced. "GO!" He shouted a second time.
"No way." Michael spat irritated, "You can't tell me what to do, at least not here you can't." Michael said as an excuse for his cowardness.
"Michael Go! That was Maria up there, you can't just leave her." Max said.
"Like you left Liz after she told you the truth?" Michael snapped.
My eyes opened wide, "You knew about that too?" I said surprised.
Michael nodded his head; "I knew before Max did, Liz swore me to secrecy."
"I did what I thought was best for my child!" Max yelled angry.
"But there IS no CHILD Max! That's just it!" Michael shouted back.
"Would you two PLEASE just STOP IT! This is supposed to be a good thing happening here and you guys are all ruining it for me!" I screamed.
"I can go if you guys don't want to." Midea offered.
We all turned to her stared at her as our savior.
"You would do that for us?" Max said.
Midea thought a moment and took a step back, "Their not going to hurt me or anything… are they?" She asked a bit frightened.
"OH NO!" Max yelled a bit too loud, making us all jump, "We're just a little nervous about seeing them again… It's been a while." He explained.
"More like a lifetime." I whispered.
"So it's settled, Midea goes." Michael burst out, rude as usual.
"Yea." Max assured us, looking from us to Midea.
She nodded and smiled, "My first encounter with an earthling."
"Just don't say that to them and everything will be fine." I muttered, taking both my "brother's" hands in mine. I took the deepest breath at that moment and didn't let it out until I saw Midea make it to the top of the hill.
It was then that I had the flash…
*FLASH*
It was Max, Isabel, Michael and Tess all huddled around the Granolith.
"This is a key. When we insert it the Granolith will transport us...home. It will take 24 hours for it to prepare itself. When it's ready, we have to be on board or we don't go. The granolith is capable of one mission, only one. When we use it, it's gone. It's our only way home. Is everyone ready?" Max stood tall and strong.
"This is happening too fast." Isabel shook her head vigorously upset.
"We have no choice, Iz." Max looked sympathetic.
"Max..." Tess whimpered holding her stomach.
Max inserts "key" into granolith and clock starts on the wall, counting down 24 hours.
"Everyone say your goodbyes." He looked to all their worried glances and held his tough stamina.
*END FLASH*
Then I screamed.
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Ch. 8
Liz's POV
"God MARIA will you just shut up!" I screamed at the bobbing girl to my right.
"Liz! That's the exit! That's it!" She bounced up and down in her seat, and pointed.
"Okay! Okay! Just shut it!" I snapped.
God was her constant bickering and ranting about Michael Guerin REALLY getting to me! I mean the girl had nonstop been talking about him since our last fiasco.
"Oh my gosh I'm so nervous! I'm so, I'm just so nervous! My hands are shaking and everything! Oh my god Liz what if he didn't even want me to come?! I mean Iz asked for Alex and Max asked for you but… But…" Maria's excited face turned sour, "But Michael never asked for… Me." She whispered. "Liz, pull over." Maria asked gentle.
"Maria?" I looked at her and asked worried.
"I said pull OVER!" She screamed.
"Woo! Yes Ma'am!" I skidded off the exit to the curb.
As soon as the car stopped Maria jumped out and ran away towards the fields.
"Maria!" I screamed after her, jumping out of the car as well.
"Liz?" Alex said as he leaped out of the Navigator and ran beside me.
"Maria's freaking out because she thinks Michael doesn't want her here." I explained as fast I could so that I didn't run out of breath. Man that Maria could run!
"Maria!" Alex yelled.
"Maria!" I yelled after Alex did.
Suddenly she stopped… and she looked like she had seen a ghost.
" Be careful with my heart,
You could break it,
Don't take my love for granted,
Things could change,
Sometimes I go insane,
I played the fool and you'll agree,
I'll never be the same,
Without you here with me,
Cuidado [Please be careful]
Con mi corazón
Me siento algo desnuda
Cuidado [Please be careful]
Es mi corazón
Mi corazón
Be careful with my heart,
You could break it,
Don't take my love for granted,
Things could change,
Sometimes I go insane,
I played the fool and you'll agree,
I'll never be the same,
Without you here with me,
Cuidado [Please be careful]
Con mi corazón
Carino no me lastimes
Cuidado [Please be careful]
Es mi corazón
Mi corazón
If I could reach out to you/
Nothing will stop me
Take your hands in my hands/
Tell me what would you do
Kiss your eyes, sing you to sleep/
Your voice sounds like a lullaby
Here's my heart, this is time to keep/
Here's my heart to keep
Cuidado [Please be careful]
Con mi corazón
Carino no me lastimes
Cuidado [Please be careful]
Es mi corazón
Mi corazón
Cuidado [Please be careful]
Con mi corazón
Me siento algo desnuda
Cuidado [Please be careful]
Es mi corazón
Mi corazón
Cuidado [Please be careful]
Con mi corazón
Me siento algo desnuda
Cuidado [Please be careful]
Es mi corazón
Mi corazón… "
(Be Careful {Cuidado Con Mi Corazon} [#5], By Ricky Martin & Madonna – Ricky Martin)
***
Isabel's POV
"Wh-what do we do Michael?" I shouted, scared to stone.
"It's okay Iz, I'm sure they miss us." Michael squeezed my hand harder.
I saw the look of fear on his face; I could see the yellow lightning streaks swirl through his aura and the sparkles of curiosity floating about. But I knew he was thinking about one thing. One person. Maria Deluca. Then as if on cue I saw her. She looked as though she were running from someone, she was panting so hard. "Maria?" I was the first to speak.
She stood up tall and stiff, eye's wide with fear and contempt. Her eyes were locked with Michael's; he squeezed my hand harder… harder…. And then- "OW! Geezus! Michael!" I slapped him away.
Geez did he have a hard handshake!
"Huh? What?" Michael shook his head and refocused on me, then to Maria.
"Maria!" I shouted up to her, she stood silent atop a large hill.
"Liz! Alex!" Maria turned and bolted the other way.
"Well I miss you too Maria." I muttered to myself.
***
Liz's POV
"Oh God Liz they're down there! He's… Down there." Maria ran into my arms.
"M-Maria? W-what?" I stuttered.
Alex tried to gain control, "Okay, okay, let's calm down, let's just take a deep breath and-and-"
"Alex! Liz! …Maria?" He heard Isabel's voice call. Then all color drained from his face in the little light I could she him in.
"Alex?" I tapped his shoulder, Maria still shaking in my arms.
"Right, calm deep breaths… Calm…" Alex chanted to himself.
"Alex?" Isabel shouted a second time.
"Okay… I think I am going to be sick." Alex held his stomach and slumped to the floor.
"Oh c'mon you bunch of pansies! Get your fat asses up and go hug the love's of your lives!" I shouted to them, giving Maria a nudge and Alex a slight kick in his rear.
"You first." Maria's face turned serious and smiled a bit.
To prove a point (and save my dignity) I went over the hill to initiate the conversation.
I gulped down the bile that rose to my throat as I tip toed up the hill towards the edge. I kept thinking that I would see Tess and Max making out or something worse… Like them staring at each other lovingly as they held their child.
WHY! Why did Max ask me to come? Did he just want to rub his and Tess' relationship in my face?! How could I be the strong one when I can't even stop my body from shaking?
I stole a look behind me to see Alex and Maria huddled together and SLOWLY, and I do emphasize SLOWLY here, making their way up the hill too. Rolling my eyes I started back up. I HAD to be the strong one here.
As I was trying my hardest to maintain my cool, I was suddenly hit again with a flash…
*FLASH*
"So...we have something in common." Kyle said.
"Yeah? What's that?" Liz looked into his eyes.
"We, uh...we're the only two people I know of who have died and were brought back by an alien." Kyle humored her.
"Yeah. You're right." She nodded slightly.
"You feel different?" He looked over to her side of the bed.
"Yeah. Kyle...when he healed you, um...did...did you see things?" Liz got serious.
"See things?" Kyle's eyebrow rose in confusion.
"Flashes. Images." She explained.
"No. But since he healed me, I keep getting these flashes of Max Evans naked." He furrowed his forehead causing Liz into hysterics of laughter.
*FLASH*
"I've fought a thousand battles...but watching you do that was the hardest thing I've ever had to do." Future Max said to Liz Parker up on her patio just outside her bedroom door.
"The look on his face...on your face." The pain was evident on her face and she made no attempt to hide it.
"Maybe it's for the best. For you, too." Future Max side smiled.
"What are you talking about?" Liz's voice rose irritated.
"I saw you with Kyle. He's turning out to be a...a great guy. Maybe it would be better for you to be with a human." He looked away.
"Don't you realize what you are to me...and you're always gonna be? You're the love of my life. Everyone else is gonna be second best. There'll never be another you." Liz cried and looked up into the stars.
*FLASH*
"So Max and... Tess are going to be together now." Liz looked at her feet.
"I don't know. I don't know anything now. This is a different world." He replied remorseful.
"I'm gonna be alone." Liz whispered teary eyed.
*END FLASH*
Second best. That was what my new life with Kyle had felt like.
The only difference about this flash was the fact that I didn't pass out. It was more like a memory this time. This time it had actually happened and it wasn't really that scary like the last ones, the ones where I saw Alex die.
Still, I shuddered.
I had in fact ended up with Kyle, only to have him hurt me in the end. For him to leave me the way Max did.
"There'll never be another you." Echoed in my mind as I stepped wobbly up that steep hill. There may have not been another Max but I had tried my hardest to fill Kyle in his place. "I'm going to be alone." Was another sentence that danced within my minds walls.
What was happening to me?
***
Isabel's POV
"Max?" I whimpered. Were they really just up that Hill? I wondered, I looked to a dazed Michael, "Was that Maria? …Michael? MICHAEL!" I smacked him.
"Huh?" He shook his head a bit dazed, "I –Uh…"
"Okay… Max?" I turned to my brother.
He stood staring up the hill, completely still and looking as if he was in shock.
"Max!" I said a little louder, causing him to flinch.
"I-I-I don't know… I-."
"Arrrgh!" I huffed, "What are we supposed to do here? Hello? Calling all confused Czeckosavakians! If you haven't noticed I'm just as scared as all of you but at least I'm still keeping it together."
"Okay… Okay, Michael. You go up there." Max said finally, nodding his chin in the direction of the hill. "We'll be right here."
Michael looked at him like he had asked him to strip naked and dance around, "Are you serious?"
"No Michael I only asked you because I wanted to know how my voice sounded different on Earth than on Antar! Yes I'm serious! Now GO!" Max crinkled up his face and grimaced. "GO!" He shouted a second time.
"No way." Michael spat irritated, "You can't tell me what to do, at least not here you can't." Michael said as an excuse for his cowardness.
"Michael Go! That was Maria up there, you can't just leave her." Max said.
"Like you left Liz after she told you the truth?" Michael snapped.
My eyes opened wide, "You knew about that too?" I said surprised.
Michael nodded his head; "I knew before Max did, Liz swore me to secrecy."
"I did what I thought was best for my child!" Max yelled angry.
"But there IS no CHILD Max! That's just it!" Michael shouted back.
"Would you two PLEASE just STOP IT! This is supposed to be a good thing happening here and you guys are all ruining it for me!" I screamed.
"I can go if you guys don't want to." Midea offered.
We all turned to her stared at her as our savior.
"You would do that for us?" Max said.
Midea thought a moment and took a step back, "Their not going to hurt me or anything… are they?" She asked a bit frightened.
"OH NO!" Max yelled a bit too loud, making us all jump, "We're just a little nervous about seeing them again… It's been a while." He explained.
"More like a lifetime." I whispered.
"So it's settled, Midea goes." Michael burst out, rude as usual.
"Yea." Max assured us, looking from us to Midea.
She nodded and smiled, "My first encounter with an earthling."
"Just don't say that to them and everything will be fine." I muttered, taking both my "brother's" hands in mine. I took the deepest breath at that moment and didn't let it out until I saw Midea make it to the top of the hill.
It was then that I had the flash…
*FLASH*
It was Max, Isabel, Michael and Tess all huddled around the Granolith.
"This is a key. When we insert it the Granolith will transport us...home. It will take 24 hours for it to prepare itself. When it's ready, we have to be on board or we don't go. The granolith is capable of one mission, only one. When we use it, it's gone. It's our only way home. Is everyone ready?" Max stood tall and strong.
"This is happening too fast." Isabel shook her head vigorously upset.
"We have no choice, Iz." Max looked sympathetic.
"Max..." Tess whimpered holding her stomach.
Max inserts "key" into granolith and clock starts on the wall, counting down 24 hours.
"Everyone say your goodbyes." He looked to all their worried glances and held his tough stamina.
*END FLASH*
Then I screamed.
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A/N: Suspense! I love it! Ha!
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