Title: Family & Secrets Author: Kellie E-mail: kjm_20181@yahoo.com.au Disclaimer: I don't own any Roswell characters. If I did Brendan would live in Melbourne, Australia with me, the show would still be going and Liz and Michael will be together forever!!!! Rating: PG/M for language (for the moment) Category: UC-Mi/L Summary: A familiar face from the past returns. Spoilers: Majority takes place after The Departure - with flash backs to other episodes. Distribution: ask and you'll probably receive Notes: I moved the story forward a year, so Liz was shot in 2000 instead of 1999, the Aliens emerged from their pods in 1990 instead of 1989. Also their will be a small crossover with the WWE at some stage, I'm just not sure when.

Chapter 1

(After The Departure - start of June)

Liz couldn't decide what was worse about this weekend, the possibility of having Max just sit there staring at her for the third straight day, or having to work with Agnes. The one decent thing about the weekend was Michael. Since Maria had broke up with him, for reasons that were only known to her, Liz and Michael had become a lot closer. Michael even agreed that Liz shouldn't jump back into a relationship with Max. The only time the 6 of them were together was when it related to alien stuff, but even that was non existent, everyone was trying to sort things out on their own.

The Crashdown was almost empty & it was too quite, so Liz told Agnes she was taking a little break & went up to her room. Flicking through her CD collection, she pulled out a CD her Callee in Australia had sent her, Total Rock, it had some kind of heavy music, which suited her mood.

Going back down stairs, she went over to Michael.

"How ya going?" she asked.

"Not so good, the gang just arrived" he said sighing. "Including Maria"

"Great, just when I thought this morning could not get any worse." Liz said. "Do you realize that to two of us are completely alienated from the group, it's like us versus them. Isabel & Kyle want Max and I to get back together plus they think Maria was right to break it off with you."

"I guess it's just you & me kid" replied Michael. "Why'd you go upstairs?"

"Can you not call me kid please"

"Ok honey"

Smiling softly, she replied "Got a CD to play."

"Thank bloody god, anything to drown out them"

"Your preaching to the converted babe. Wish me luck" Liz said as she went back out the swinging doors.

Walking over to the CD player, she put the first CD in, & pressed Random. Soon music filled the Crashdown, loud enough for Liz to hear & sing along to.

Taking a deep breath, she went over to Max, Is, Kyle & Maria.

"Hey, guys what can I get you?"

After taking their orders, she took it over to Michael, while singing under her breath.

"it's no surprise to me I am my own worst enemy Cause every now and then I kick the living shit out of me"

After a while she became aware of someone watching her, looking around the Crash, her eyes finally settled on Max, who quickly averted his eyes, looking back at Maria who was talking animatedly to the others.

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A couple of hours later, Liz was just finishing her shift, when a guy walked up to her.

"Are you Liz Parker?"

"Yeah?"

"This is for you"

"Who's it from?"

"Some chick outside asked me to give it to you"

"Thanks."

As she was opening the envelope, Michael came out from the kitchen. "Who was that?"

"Dunno, some girl outside asked him to give it to me."

"So, aren't you gonna open it?"

"Yeah" Liz replied.

Unfolding the note, she read it, a smile appearing on her lips.

"Dear teenage of the year, Nicotine, valium, vicadin, marijuana, ecstasy, and alcohol 6 things that are very, very bad for you, so you shouldn't really be singing about them, 12pm, front of the Crashdown, be there or well you know the rest. Luv your favourite Teenage Dirtbag"

Liz looked around the Crashdown, her cousin must have come in at some stage, to know that she had been singing along to "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" by Queens of the Stone Age

"Liz, why is it addressed to Teenager of the Year and signed Teenage Dirtbag?" Michael asked.

"It's a joke between my cousin and I, when she first heard the song teenage of the year, it reminded her of me, you know "Perfect Parker", anyway, when I first heard Teenage Dirtbag, I thought of my cousin Callee. She was in here, and I didn't even see her"