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Chapter 3
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Bat your eyes girl
Be otherworldly
Count your blessings
Seduce a stranger
What's so wrong with
Being happy
Kudos to those who
See through sickness
When she woke in the morning
She knew that her life had passed her by
And she called out a warning!
"Don't ever let life pass you by"
I suggest we
Learn to love ourselves before it's
Made illegal
When will we learn?
When will we change?
Just in time to
See it all fall down
Those left standing...will make millions
Writing books on the way it should have been
When she woke in the morning
She knew that her life had passed her by
And she called out a warning!
"Don't ever let life pass you by"
Floating in this
Cosmic jacuzzi
We are like frogs oblivious
To the water
Starting to boil
No one flinches
We all flow face down
When she woke in the morning
She knew that her life had passed her by
And she called out a warning!
"Don't ever let life pass you by."
~Incubus, "Warning", Morning View, 2001

In the next years, there were significant marking points in Liz, her baby and those she cared about in Roswell. After Liz left, he was sure he would never be able to find anyone. Sure, he was a guy and would look at girls, but no one was his Liz, he learned however to be nicer to Tess, and accepted her into his world. Max was a hermit for a couple of months, but Tess was always there when he was in his weakest moments. They dated throughout the rest of high school.

After junior year, Alex and Maria both went to New Orleans. They helped Liz throughout her pregnancy. Maria was right, Liz did have weird cravings, when she was almost due she would always have before she went to bed a glass of milk with a sprinkle of tabasco sauce. It wasn't good, but it was something she needed to have. Everything had to have tabasco. It was really disgusting. Maria was about to puke when she saw Liz put tabasco sauce in chocolate ice cream. And Liz actually enjoyed it! It was a normal pregnancy, except for the tabasco sauce. Morning sickness, she would usually wake up Alex with the sound of her running to the bathroom. The cravings, the lower back pains. But the weirdest thing was when one night when Liz was sleeping, she put her hand over her womb and she saw flashes of her baby. It was a boy. She had the weirdest thoughts about the baby. Would it be human? Would he have powers? Would he be green and have large tentacles? Ok, so maybe that was stretching it, but it's possible, right?

The baby was born into the world late July. Both of her friends were there. Alex a couple of weeks before did some research, so that he knew what was going to happen and he wanted to make sure he wasn't going to faint. Yes, faint. Once in bio class they had to watch a video of the reproductive system and when the woman gave birth, Alex almost fainted. He never thought it would be that graphic. Lucky for him, Maria had some of the herbal sniffers she always carried. And a couple of days later, we had a career day in school. And we had these lectures, so I got some pretty good lectures, Alex on the other hand, had a Ob/Gyn lecture. He felt so embarassed. Maria kept making fun of him, especially since Isabel got that class too, he received a book on the labor process and I would have thought he would have burned the book as soon as he got home, but when I was giving birth he had that by his side.

When the baby was a couple of months old, he learned his first word. Oh, by the way the baby's name is Connor. Why Connor? I don't know. Connor Evans just flows together. Ok, so I took Max's last name. Don't kill me ok. Anyway, back to Connor's first word, so you thought it would be "mama" or "dada", nope, it was all Alex's fault. Alex has the tendency to say the word "dude", ALOT. So one day after school and when Maria and Alex had off, Alex was trying to make Connor say his name, so he would say "Dude, c'mon say Alex" Really it was the cutest thing. So then Alex just gave up. "Dudddddddeeeeeeee" Alex said to the baby, pleadingly. He giggled, Connor really loves Alex. Alex is the only male figure in Connor's life, so I think he thinks Alex is his father. So when Alex turned around to get his baby bottle, Connor started saying "dude". I was in the next room, and when I felt that he was saying something I ran and got my camera, and true to what I said Connor say "dude". For days that's all the baby would say. "Dude, dude, dude." Wow, my baby said something. So what that it was "dude"? I have a baby. To be honest, when I was pregnant I didn't really think I would be so close to him. I mean, yeah, I'm bringing a child into the world, but Connor was born out of love. Yeah it was Future Max, but it was Max. But I do regret it though. But Connor is a blessing. I probably sound contradicting, but I guess you can say it's complex. Everything sometimes gets bottled up, I want to tell Maria and Alex, but I see that they're having a good time here in New Orleans, and with Connor, I don't want to spoil it. But I'll die that way, won't I? I haven't written in my journal in a while. Maybe I'll share an entry with you.

But I do want to share something with you, the weirdest but most incredible thing. Remember when I said I wasn't sure if the baby would be alien? Well, he is.

I don't know if he's fully alien, but he has powers. Me and him are able to communicate. At first I thought I was dreaming. I just heard babble in my head, the normal baby talk. It wasn't like the movie, Look Who's Talking. But has the months progressed, I heard words and felt feelings. Like I knew exactly when the baby was hungry or when the baby wanted to play. At first I thought it was the motherly instincts you get when you have a baby, but its so much more that than. Maria was clearly freaked out about it, but she found kinda cool. Alex on the other hand went straight to the computer and tried to look things up. We conluded that Connor isn't fully alien. Since Max is a hybrid, he's half and half. And I'm fully human, except with the changes, but I think that started to develop with Connor being born. So with Max's 50 percent and my 100 percent of humaness, assuming that Max is 50 percent human, that would make Connor 25 percent alien and 75 percent human.

All this happened and no one in Roswell ever knew.

Once I finished high school I was able to keep the apartment, good because it would have been hard to get one in this neighborhood. Being here for 4 years, everything grows on you. I still miss Roswell and its residents, but I like it here. There's a park down the street that I take Connor too and there also he took his first steps.

Maria and Michael, well they didn't really work it out. They tried to have the long distance relationship but it just didn't work out. But really they did try. I think Michael wanted Maria to have a normal life, and with her being here it would just be easier. But I think that if Maria and Michael would to be in the same room together, alone, they would definitely be back together. Maria doesn't really talk about him, I think she wants to get over what she had with him.

Alex and Isabel - Their thing went sour the first summer Alex came out here. I guess what I said a while back really got to her. But I heard from Kyle that they actually talk. A couple of times, I caught Alex talking on the phone to someone late at night. So maybe there isn't anything, but at least they're friends. I really hope they're friends.

Max and Tess - Well I haven't really heard anything. When I talked to Kyle, he stayed clear from them. So I guess something did happen between them. Do I still have feelings for Max? Of course I do, but with all the secrets that I've kept do you think we could ever go back to what we had? The looks, the kisses, the innocent glances, the sneaky smiles? Maybe, if Future Max would have never come. I guess its possible. Actually I think it would have happened. But here I am, I'm alone with a baby to raise and two really good friends.

Somewhere outside of Roswell

"Where could the Messiah be?" Murdoch said to himself. He was very impatient. His brotherhood had been in search for the Messiah for a number of years now. They thought it was in Roswell. But the messengers have searched though out the whole town. They even found the Royal Four, but that wasn't their mission. The brotherhood wanted the Messiah, and they were going to find the baby no matter what.

The brotherhood were social outcasts of Antar. Exiled from the main land, they became larger with every protest. Earth was their Babylon. They tried numerous times to overthrow Kivar, but nothing worked. The army that Rath had trained and perfected by Kivar was too strong for the brotherhood. The third party tried to fill positions in Kivar's party, but they were out numbered by the legion of Kivar's people. Kivar was a dictatorship, he ruled the whole planet. His subjects were not fond of him, no one was. But no one was couragous to stand up to him. They knew they would be killed immediately if they were lucky by Kivar's secret police, if they weren't lucky, the unforunate would be the light in Kivar's office. Most were given a slow and painful death, sometimes screams would fill the air, when the ill - fated "hero" was burned.

When Zan, and the queen fell, the brotherhood tried to gain control, but Kivar was swift and cunning and they once again fell. But now they had a plan, a plan that would not fail them. The Messiah or the son of the mighty Zan would be the way to gain control of Antar, and ultimately the universe.

"Murdoch, sir, we have a disturbance in a place called New Orleans. We believe that the Messiah is there", Madison said. Thank the heavens that be, that they found the Messiah, he thought. He was dying to leave Earth. All he saw here was pain, coldness, cruelty, everything that wasn't his home planet. He had been here for over 2 years and he had enough. A place like Earth was not easy to get adjusted to, when you come from Antar, even though Kivar is at the reigns.

"Finally a breakthrough, gather the hood, we will leave immediately," Murdoch said.

"Finally, we will go home."