Part 2
"Hey Michael, what are we gonna do? No one's come into check on her?" Maria asks in a very low tone in the Crashdown's kitchen after closing time.
Turning around Michael glances out of the kitchen into the restaurant looking at the booth where the sleeping child is curled up in Max's arms. Max is looking so intently at Aurora that he doesn't even bother paying any attention to Alex and Isabel having a conversation opposite him.
"I don't know Maria, I've called Kyle and told him to get over here with his dad. No one deserves a child like that if they're going to just abandon it. I-I just r-really don't want to see her end up in the states care is all." Michael murmurs never talking his eyes off of her.
"Damn I wish Liz was here, she would know what to do." Maria says with a sigh.
"When she getting back with her parents?" Michael asks removing his eyes from the resting youngster.
"She's meant to be getting back some time tonight, all depends when her flight lands and how soon she can get a taxi back here. Her parents have decided to stay another few days at the restaurant convention."
Michael just does a male grunt in reply to this turning back round to watch the slumbering child.
~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~
A few Minutes latter...
"NO! I won't!" Aurora's little voice screeches and tug's her arm away from Sheriff Valentie. "I won't Go! I've gotta wait here!"
"Hey, Hey, Aurora calm down, don't worry. The Sheriff is a friend of ours his come to take you to some people that will take care of you." Maria says pleadingly kneeling down in front of her trying to pick her up.
"NO!" She shouts at the top of her lungs wriggling out of Maria's grasp and running over to Max grasping one of his hands in both of hers and hiding behind him.
They all look around at each other wondering what they should do. Kyle looks baffled at the whole scene just as the Sheriff does, Isabel, Maria and Alex, are all wearing pained expressions, Michael is tense, giving none of what his feeling away and Max just looks lost as the small girl clings to him for safety.
In a more quieter voice, but still full of resolve she mutter's, "I've gotta wait here, I need to know why."
"Who are you waiting for?" Kyle asks trying to ignore the occasional death glares from Max.
"I'm waiting for my mommy." Aurora states, as everyone once again looks around at each other.
"I though you said Iz that her parents left her?" Alex mumbles to Isabel, which receives ends up receiving Alex an elbow in the ribs.
"They did." Aurora replies hearing Alex's comment and he flinches at hearing it. "But she's not my real mommy, not yet at least."
"Do you mean she's going to be your adopted mother?" The sheriff asks skeptically.
"No." She answer's simply staring up at everyone in the room with her wide beautiful eyes and tucks a bit of hair behind her ear.
"Well then what the hell are you talking ab.." Kyle asks just as Liz walks through the Crashdown doors.
"Hey guys, what's going on?" She asks puzzled, looking first at Kyle and then noting everyone else in the room. 'Oh god, PLEASE don't tell me aliens are invading.' Liz thinks to herself.
"Hi Chica, ya've been missing all the action. This is Aur." Maria begins, but gets cut off by a high pitched yell.
"WHY?!?!" Aurora wails at Liz, and everyone turns to look at the little child in her sudden outburst.
"Excuse me?" Liz asks puzzled watching the adorable little girl before her as her tawny-honey eyes start to shimmer with tears.
"Why did you do it?" Aurora asks pleadingly as the tears start to pour down her soft cheeks. "Did I do something wrong? Is that why?"
"I-I don't know what you're talking about." Liz replies with a frown studying the small girl as a slight tremble starts to go through her body.
"Why didn't you or daddy want me anymore?" Aurora asks as her little fingers start to shake as she fiddles with the strap on her bag unconsciously. A few gasps can be heard around the room in shock, but Liz continues to stare transfixed on the tiny child in pain.
"I-I'm s-sorry, Aurora is it?" Liz says tortured tone, as her eye's become locked in that terribly sad and soulful gaze that reminds her so much of Max. "But I think you've mistaken me for someone."
"No, no I haven't. I-I got the wrong time, I wanted to ask daddy, but I got the wrong time. Now you're the only one left that can tell me. I know you're not my mommy right now, but you would've been if daddy hadn't used the Granolith to come back to this time to see you." Aurora's voice states in broken words.
The moment she said the word 'Granolith' Liz and every Alien tenses up. It's only then Liz breaks eye contact with her as she give distressed look as everyone, Max especially gives her questioning look followed by a frown and unreadable expression.
"I-I.. this... urm..." Liz starts unsure what to say.
"I just wanted to know 'why'? Why.. didn't you.. want me.. anymore?" Aurora says between sobs, but before anyone including Liz could answer she continues.
"Everyone was dying, Kivar and Nicholas were doing bad things you said, and that they had to be changed, Nicholas had killed aunt Isabel two weeks ago and uncle Michael died just before we reached the pod chamber. You said that using the Grenolith was going to make everything better, but it didn't get better, IT DIDN'T GET BETTER!" She finishes in a high pitched scream and Liz drops down to her knees as she realizes who this child must be. Only daring to give one quick glance at Max, but regretting it instantly as his agony is clearing shown for everyone to see as he starts to connect the dot's as well on what Aurora's talking about.
"Daddy set up the Grenolith to go back in time to make you do something that was going to change everything to make it better. He got sucked into the cone thingy, mommy was crying, he reached out with his hand and I ran over to the Grenolith out of mommy's arm's to touch it. But then he was gone, back to this time somewhere. I turned around to ask mommy when he was coming back, but just as I did I saw her fade away to nothing. I closed my eyes tightly, hoping that if I did next time I opened them my mommy and daddy would be there, but when I did open them everything was dark and cold. I spun around looking for mommy in the chamber but she wasn't there anymore, neither was the Grenolith.
The walls were a gray stone, when I went into pod chamber everything was rubble and I had to try and find a way out." She says quietly, Liz crawls towards her to embrace her, but Aurora shrinks away from her touch, which causes Liz to let an agonizing sob.
"I fell over trying to get out and scrapped my knee, I cried but no one came to help me. I ended up healing it and eventually got out of the cave. Everything was cold, the sky looked blood red even though it was no where near sunset or sunrise. It was scary, I ran at first out into the desert till I got to the road, but the road was all broken up, when I couldn't run no mores I walked, my legs ached, and I was really thirsty but still no one came to help me, I can't remember what happened after that, I fell onto the road and didn't get back up again.
Later when I woke up I was on a hard metal floor and there were people around me shouting and saying bad things. I was so scared, then I saw aunt Isabel standing next to the man that was shouting, I didn't understand why she was alive again, her hair and cloths were different, but it was still my aunt Isabel. I ran over to her rapping my arms around her waist, begging her to help me, but she pushed me away saying bad things to me, when I tried to hold her again she slapped across the face and I fell to the floor, it really hurt." Aurora says with a sob on the last part looking down at the floor and Isabel grabs hold of Alex's hand besides the counter swallowing back a cry.
"I didn't know what to do, so I stayed down and hid my face in my knees crying as I listened to them. Aunt Isabel called the man she was talking to Kivar, I couldn't understand why she was talking to the one mommy and daddy said was the bad guy. He kept on shouting at her wanting to know why I had something called a seal in me, but she didn't know and he hit her. Then he came over to me picking me up by the wrist yelling questions at me, something about only daddy having the royal seal." She says
sniffling and looking back up at Liz continues, "Then he hurt me." At hearing this Liz's body becomes racked with sobs and she starts to chant almost in a mantra. "I didn't know, I didn't know, he didn't tell me we had a child."
Maria collapses down on the floor ignoring everyone else and wraps her arms around Liz as she cries. Michael has a fine tremor going through is body and everyone except Max are soaked in grief at hearing the story.
Max takes two steps towards Aurora and crouches down putting a hand on her shoulder and holding back all emotion still, asks in an unsteady voice, "What did he do to you?"
"He made my head burn with his hands, it was scolding hot, and he took things from inside my head. Afterwards when he let go of me I fell to the floor in pain and he laughed, and said something about not believing how lucky he is. Then he ordered me taken to somewhere until he decided what he wanted done with me. It was gloomy and smelt bad, there were loads of other people locked up in the big room as well. This one guy in there grabbed me and dragged me over to a dark corner, he was going to hurt me real bad, I could sense it, but then someone hit him hard with a pole and he dropped down onto the floor in a puddle of blood.
It was aunt Maria, then when I turned around some more I saw aunt Serena and she picked me up. They took me over to the other side of the room. They didn't look the same though, both of their faces were covered in nasty burn scar's, I barely knew it was them, but I could still feel it was them inside. Serena starts asking me loads of questions in a harsh voice about something she over herd from the guards about me having a seal. I asked them what was going on and where mommy and daddy had gone but they acted like they didn't know me, and aunt Maria shouted at me until I told her everything about mommy and daddy and what had happened to me.
Then it was like they forgot I was there, they started talking to each other yelling things about wanting to kill gerbils. I didn't understand, and they didn't take notice of me again until I started crying to know where my parents were. Serena said when daddy went back in time to talk with my past mommy he got her to do things that changed the future, and that changed it so they wouldn't be together. She said I wasn't meant to exist anymore, that the only reason I was still here was because I got caught in the eye of the storm when the grenolith sent daddy back, like begin trapped in a pocket of space that didn't effect me. I was so close to the grenolith when everything changed that it skipped me, but that it wouldn't last long, that I would still disappear eventually as if I never was.
That's when Kivar appeared from the shadows and dragged me off again thanking them for informing him on what happened. I kept on hearing their screams of anger even as I reached the end of the corridor.
He was laughing really nasty, as he dragged me into a big brightly lit room that had the grenolith in the center. He wanted me to do something to the grenolith, said that only someone with the seal could do it, I didn't understand, but even if I did I wouldn't do it, he was a bad man and when I told him it he got really mad. After he calmed down he told me why daddy really went back into the past, he said that my mommy and daddy didn't want me anymore that's why they left me all alone in the world, they wanted to make it like I never existed. He said no one wanted me anymore, except him.
I cried, I said it wasn't true, but then aunt Isabel stepped in, I thought she was going to tell me it was all a lie, but she didn't, she said no one, not my mommy, not my daddy, no one wanted me, they said I was bad and nasty, everyone hated me and didn't want to even see me anymore.
Then Kivar pulled me over to the grenolith and told me to activate it the way he wanted it to be activated or else even he wouldn't want me anymore and I'd be left all on my own. I made him think I was doing it, but instead I did what I saw daddy do when he went back in time, I had to find out why, why you didn't want me anymore.
I wanted to ask daddy himself, but I got the time wrong and his already gone now." Looking over at Liz, Aurora stares at her for a moment before saying in a quiet voice, barely audible, "You're the only one left now that can tell me why my mommy and daddy didn't want me. Why they'd rather have that horrible future without me, why they'd go to so much trouble just to make me disappear."
It's then Liz springs out of Maria's grasp and moves the whole two foot distance to grab hold of Aurora clutching her tightly to her chest crying, but Aurora pushes back a bit to look Liz in the eyes. "Did I do something wrong? Is that why you didn't want me? I promise I'll be good from now on, just please, please don't leave me on my own again." She sobs allowing the tears to flow freely down her cheeks once more.
"Oh God, Oh God, I didn't know, I didn't know, he never told me we had a child." Liz starts mumbling again pulling Aurora towards her, and Max without a second thought wraps his arms around both of them. That's how they all remain for the next 15 or 20 minutes as the others stand around them watching the tears fall.
When Max finally pulls away he looks down on his daughter's sleeping form once more this time carried firmly in Liz's arms. He helps Liz stand up and walks her over to a booth where they sit down with Aurora still cradled in her arms. When Liz looks up with her red rimmed eye's which are puffy and have dark bags beneath them from crying she realizes that there's no point in hiding it from them anymore, they might as well know since they can most probably guess the rest. So she tells them of the whole ordeal involving future Max and trying to get him together with Tess by faking sex with Kyle.
Everyone stands around the café in silence, it's so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. Isabel, Alex, Michael and the Sheriff look at Liz with deep admiration, astonished that she could of willingly given up a happy future with Max for at least 14 years just to save everyone else, Kyle looks relieved that he finally knows the reason and even more thankful that Max is no longer sending death glares at him, Michael is just standing there in shock, half realising his sort of an uncle right now and the other half finally realising what those weird vibes he was getting of the kid now were, and Maria is just standing there looking at Max and Liz with an immense smile on her face at them holding one another with their child.
Max wraps his arm more firmly around Liz who's sitting in his lap and his other arm round little Aurora who's asleep in Liz's arms with a small smile on her face snuggling deeper into the embrace seeking warmth.
"I can't believe you did all that Liz, for us. You gave up everything so that we all could live." Max mumbles into Liz's hair.
Gulping she turns her head to look at Max, "Believe me, it wasn't an easy thing to do, I came so close to just saying 'screw the world' I want my happy ever with my soulmate, Max Evan's." She says with a strained chuckle.
"Don't worry Liz, somehow will take care of it, I don't know how, but now we know what could happen we know what to avoid, but I won't lose you Liz, no matter what, I won't let you get away from me ever again."
They both give each other a reassuring smile looking deep into one another's eyes, finding peace once more in the act.
"Hey guys, you want us to take the little chica into the back and find somewhere for her to sleep while you talk all this out." Maria asks with a smile still plastered to her face.
Looking up at Maria Liz can't help but return the smile and softly getting up out of Max's lap places Aurora gently in Maria's arms.
"Don't worry, will take good care of her." She says with a grin. "Come on spaceboy you can lend a hand."
"Hey wait," Isabel says, "I want a chance to tuck my little niece into bed as well." Isabel followed by Alex, chases after Maria and Michael in the back of the Crashdown.
"God Max, what are we going to do?" Liz asks with worry. "It's not that I'm ungrateful I have my daughter, in fact I'm over the moon about it, but how am I going to explain it to my parents? Oh hey Mum, hey Dad, guess what I'm a mother of a 6 year old."
"I know what you mean." Max says running a hand through his hair. "But don't worry will make it work out somehow, and on top of that we still have to deal with Tess. We've got to make sure she doesn't leave us as a group or Roswell all together."
"Yeah, I think that.." Liz stop's in mid-sentence and flinches at hearing Maria's high pitched scream from the back of the Crashdown.
Quickly exchanging glances Max and Liz rush to kitchen with the rest following behind them not prepared for the sight before them.
"Oh God No..!" Liz cries in pain at seeing Aurora standing in the middle of the kitchen flickering from opaqueness into something transparent, almost like a ghost.
"Liz I didn't do anything, she woke up saying she felt strange, I put her down for second going to get her something to drink when she started blinking in and out like this." Maria rattles out in a hurried panic.
"No, God please no, she said that Serena told her 'it wouldn't last long, that she would still disappear eventually as if she never was'. Time's catching up on her, she's going to disappear just like Future Max did before me." Liz whimpers, tears rolling down her cheeks.
"Mommy!" Aurora little voice shrieks in panic. "Mommy please, I love you and daddy, please don't let me disappear, I promise I'll be good, I'll be a good girl and you'll want to keep me then, but please don't let me disappear, please."
Liz feeling her throat tightening up allowing nearly no air into her lungs as she watches the tears rolling down Aurora's semi-transparent cheeks. She falls to the floor and crawls over to her embracing her in a cuddle.
"I love you Aurora, I could never not want you, do you hear me I could NEVER not want you." Liz weeps in pain, her whole body shaking.
"Mommy, I'm scared."
Liz gives one desperate glance at Max pleading at him to do something, anything, while watching the tears run down his cheeks as well as he comes to crouch down besides her.
"I don't want to be alone. please don't let me be alone anymore mommy." Aurora's voice fades into whisper, just as her whole body fades at the same moment leaving Liz clutching nothing to her breast but thin air.
Letting out a cry of anguish she falls to the floor beating her fists on to the hard floor in pain and grief, as she feels Max's strong arms being rapped around her securely.
"Hey Michael, what are we gonna do? No one's come into check on her?" Maria asks in a very low tone in the Crashdown's kitchen after closing time.
Turning around Michael glances out of the kitchen into the restaurant looking at the booth where the sleeping child is curled up in Max's arms. Max is looking so intently at Aurora that he doesn't even bother paying any attention to Alex and Isabel having a conversation opposite him.
"I don't know Maria, I've called Kyle and told him to get over here with his dad. No one deserves a child like that if they're going to just abandon it. I-I just r-really don't want to see her end up in the states care is all." Michael murmurs never talking his eyes off of her.
"Damn I wish Liz was here, she would know what to do." Maria says with a sigh.
"When she getting back with her parents?" Michael asks removing his eyes from the resting youngster.
"She's meant to be getting back some time tonight, all depends when her flight lands and how soon she can get a taxi back here. Her parents have decided to stay another few days at the restaurant convention."
Michael just does a male grunt in reply to this turning back round to watch the slumbering child.
~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~
A few Minutes latter...
"NO! I won't!" Aurora's little voice screeches and tug's her arm away from Sheriff Valentie. "I won't Go! I've gotta wait here!"
"Hey, Hey, Aurora calm down, don't worry. The Sheriff is a friend of ours his come to take you to some people that will take care of you." Maria says pleadingly kneeling down in front of her trying to pick her up.
"NO!" She shouts at the top of her lungs wriggling out of Maria's grasp and running over to Max grasping one of his hands in both of hers and hiding behind him.
They all look around at each other wondering what they should do. Kyle looks baffled at the whole scene just as the Sheriff does, Isabel, Maria and Alex, are all wearing pained expressions, Michael is tense, giving none of what his feeling away and Max just looks lost as the small girl clings to him for safety.
In a more quieter voice, but still full of resolve she mutter's, "I've gotta wait here, I need to know why."
"Who are you waiting for?" Kyle asks trying to ignore the occasional death glares from Max.
"I'm waiting for my mommy." Aurora states, as everyone once again looks around at each other.
"I though you said Iz that her parents left her?" Alex mumbles to Isabel, which receives ends up receiving Alex an elbow in the ribs.
"They did." Aurora replies hearing Alex's comment and he flinches at hearing it. "But she's not my real mommy, not yet at least."
"Do you mean she's going to be your adopted mother?" The sheriff asks skeptically.
"No." She answer's simply staring up at everyone in the room with her wide beautiful eyes and tucks a bit of hair behind her ear.
"Well then what the hell are you talking ab.." Kyle asks just as Liz walks through the Crashdown doors.
"Hey guys, what's going on?" She asks puzzled, looking first at Kyle and then noting everyone else in the room. 'Oh god, PLEASE don't tell me aliens are invading.' Liz thinks to herself.
"Hi Chica, ya've been missing all the action. This is Aur." Maria begins, but gets cut off by a high pitched yell.
"WHY?!?!" Aurora wails at Liz, and everyone turns to look at the little child in her sudden outburst.
"Excuse me?" Liz asks puzzled watching the adorable little girl before her as her tawny-honey eyes start to shimmer with tears.
"Why did you do it?" Aurora asks pleadingly as the tears start to pour down her soft cheeks. "Did I do something wrong? Is that why?"
"I-I don't know what you're talking about." Liz replies with a frown studying the small girl as a slight tremble starts to go through her body.
"Why didn't you or daddy want me anymore?" Aurora asks as her little fingers start to shake as she fiddles with the strap on her bag unconsciously. A few gasps can be heard around the room in shock, but Liz continues to stare transfixed on the tiny child in pain.
"I-I'm s-sorry, Aurora is it?" Liz says tortured tone, as her eye's become locked in that terribly sad and soulful gaze that reminds her so much of Max. "But I think you've mistaken me for someone."
"No, no I haven't. I-I got the wrong time, I wanted to ask daddy, but I got the wrong time. Now you're the only one left that can tell me. I know you're not my mommy right now, but you would've been if daddy hadn't used the Granolith to come back to this time to see you." Aurora's voice states in broken words.
The moment she said the word 'Granolith' Liz and every Alien tenses up. It's only then Liz breaks eye contact with her as she give distressed look as everyone, Max especially gives her questioning look followed by a frown and unreadable expression.
"I-I.. this... urm..." Liz starts unsure what to say.
"I just wanted to know 'why'? Why.. didn't you.. want me.. anymore?" Aurora says between sobs, but before anyone including Liz could answer she continues.
"Everyone was dying, Kivar and Nicholas were doing bad things you said, and that they had to be changed, Nicholas had killed aunt Isabel two weeks ago and uncle Michael died just before we reached the pod chamber. You said that using the Grenolith was going to make everything better, but it didn't get better, IT DIDN'T GET BETTER!" She finishes in a high pitched scream and Liz drops down to her knees as she realizes who this child must be. Only daring to give one quick glance at Max, but regretting it instantly as his agony is clearing shown for everyone to see as he starts to connect the dot's as well on what Aurora's talking about.
"Daddy set up the Grenolith to go back in time to make you do something that was going to change everything to make it better. He got sucked into the cone thingy, mommy was crying, he reached out with his hand and I ran over to the Grenolith out of mommy's arm's to touch it. But then he was gone, back to this time somewhere. I turned around to ask mommy when he was coming back, but just as I did I saw her fade away to nothing. I closed my eyes tightly, hoping that if I did next time I opened them my mommy and daddy would be there, but when I did open them everything was dark and cold. I spun around looking for mommy in the chamber but she wasn't there anymore, neither was the Grenolith.
The walls were a gray stone, when I went into pod chamber everything was rubble and I had to try and find a way out." She says quietly, Liz crawls towards her to embrace her, but Aurora shrinks away from her touch, which causes Liz to let an agonizing sob.
"I fell over trying to get out and scrapped my knee, I cried but no one came to help me. I ended up healing it and eventually got out of the cave. Everything was cold, the sky looked blood red even though it was no where near sunset or sunrise. It was scary, I ran at first out into the desert till I got to the road, but the road was all broken up, when I couldn't run no mores I walked, my legs ached, and I was really thirsty but still no one came to help me, I can't remember what happened after that, I fell onto the road and didn't get back up again.
Later when I woke up I was on a hard metal floor and there were people around me shouting and saying bad things. I was so scared, then I saw aunt Isabel standing next to the man that was shouting, I didn't understand why she was alive again, her hair and cloths were different, but it was still my aunt Isabel. I ran over to her rapping my arms around her waist, begging her to help me, but she pushed me away saying bad things to me, when I tried to hold her again she slapped across the face and I fell to the floor, it really hurt." Aurora says with a sob on the last part looking down at the floor and Isabel grabs hold of Alex's hand besides the counter swallowing back a cry.
"I didn't know what to do, so I stayed down and hid my face in my knees crying as I listened to them. Aunt Isabel called the man she was talking to Kivar, I couldn't understand why she was talking to the one mommy and daddy said was the bad guy. He kept on shouting at her wanting to know why I had something called a seal in me, but she didn't know and he hit her. Then he came over to me picking me up by the wrist yelling questions at me, something about only daddy having the royal seal." She says
sniffling and looking back up at Liz continues, "Then he hurt me." At hearing this Liz's body becomes racked with sobs and she starts to chant almost in a mantra. "I didn't know, I didn't know, he didn't tell me we had a child."
Maria collapses down on the floor ignoring everyone else and wraps her arms around Liz as she cries. Michael has a fine tremor going through is body and everyone except Max are soaked in grief at hearing the story.
Max takes two steps towards Aurora and crouches down putting a hand on her shoulder and holding back all emotion still, asks in an unsteady voice, "What did he do to you?"
"He made my head burn with his hands, it was scolding hot, and he took things from inside my head. Afterwards when he let go of me I fell to the floor in pain and he laughed, and said something about not believing how lucky he is. Then he ordered me taken to somewhere until he decided what he wanted done with me. It was gloomy and smelt bad, there were loads of other people locked up in the big room as well. This one guy in there grabbed me and dragged me over to a dark corner, he was going to hurt me real bad, I could sense it, but then someone hit him hard with a pole and he dropped down onto the floor in a puddle of blood.
It was aunt Maria, then when I turned around some more I saw aunt Serena and she picked me up. They took me over to the other side of the room. They didn't look the same though, both of their faces were covered in nasty burn scar's, I barely knew it was them, but I could still feel it was them inside. Serena starts asking me loads of questions in a harsh voice about something she over herd from the guards about me having a seal. I asked them what was going on and where mommy and daddy had gone but they acted like they didn't know me, and aunt Maria shouted at me until I told her everything about mommy and daddy and what had happened to me.
Then it was like they forgot I was there, they started talking to each other yelling things about wanting to kill gerbils. I didn't understand, and they didn't take notice of me again until I started crying to know where my parents were. Serena said when daddy went back in time to talk with my past mommy he got her to do things that changed the future, and that changed it so they wouldn't be together. She said I wasn't meant to exist anymore, that the only reason I was still here was because I got caught in the eye of the storm when the grenolith sent daddy back, like begin trapped in a pocket of space that didn't effect me. I was so close to the grenolith when everything changed that it skipped me, but that it wouldn't last long, that I would still disappear eventually as if I never was.
That's when Kivar appeared from the shadows and dragged me off again thanking them for informing him on what happened. I kept on hearing their screams of anger even as I reached the end of the corridor.
He was laughing really nasty, as he dragged me into a big brightly lit room that had the grenolith in the center. He wanted me to do something to the grenolith, said that only someone with the seal could do it, I didn't understand, but even if I did I wouldn't do it, he was a bad man and when I told him it he got really mad. After he calmed down he told me why daddy really went back into the past, he said that my mommy and daddy didn't want me anymore that's why they left me all alone in the world, they wanted to make it like I never existed. He said no one wanted me anymore, except him.
I cried, I said it wasn't true, but then aunt Isabel stepped in, I thought she was going to tell me it was all a lie, but she didn't, she said no one, not my mommy, not my daddy, no one wanted me, they said I was bad and nasty, everyone hated me and didn't want to even see me anymore.
Then Kivar pulled me over to the grenolith and told me to activate it the way he wanted it to be activated or else even he wouldn't want me anymore and I'd be left all on my own. I made him think I was doing it, but instead I did what I saw daddy do when he went back in time, I had to find out why, why you didn't want me anymore.
I wanted to ask daddy himself, but I got the time wrong and his already gone now." Looking over at Liz, Aurora stares at her for a moment before saying in a quiet voice, barely audible, "You're the only one left now that can tell me why my mommy and daddy didn't want me. Why they'd rather have that horrible future without me, why they'd go to so much trouble just to make me disappear."
It's then Liz springs out of Maria's grasp and moves the whole two foot distance to grab hold of Aurora clutching her tightly to her chest crying, but Aurora pushes back a bit to look Liz in the eyes. "Did I do something wrong? Is that why you didn't want me? I promise I'll be good from now on, just please, please don't leave me on my own again." She sobs allowing the tears to flow freely down her cheeks once more.
"Oh God, Oh God, I didn't know, I didn't know, he never told me we had a child." Liz starts mumbling again pulling Aurora towards her, and Max without a second thought wraps his arms around both of them. That's how they all remain for the next 15 or 20 minutes as the others stand around them watching the tears fall.
When Max finally pulls away he looks down on his daughter's sleeping form once more this time carried firmly in Liz's arms. He helps Liz stand up and walks her over to a booth where they sit down with Aurora still cradled in her arms. When Liz looks up with her red rimmed eye's which are puffy and have dark bags beneath them from crying she realizes that there's no point in hiding it from them anymore, they might as well know since they can most probably guess the rest. So she tells them of the whole ordeal involving future Max and trying to get him together with Tess by faking sex with Kyle.
Everyone stands around the café in silence, it's so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. Isabel, Alex, Michael and the Sheriff look at Liz with deep admiration, astonished that she could of willingly given up a happy future with Max for at least 14 years just to save everyone else, Kyle looks relieved that he finally knows the reason and even more thankful that Max is no longer sending death glares at him, Michael is just standing there in shock, half realising his sort of an uncle right now and the other half finally realising what those weird vibes he was getting of the kid now were, and Maria is just standing there looking at Max and Liz with an immense smile on her face at them holding one another with their child.
Max wraps his arm more firmly around Liz who's sitting in his lap and his other arm round little Aurora who's asleep in Liz's arms with a small smile on her face snuggling deeper into the embrace seeking warmth.
"I can't believe you did all that Liz, for us. You gave up everything so that we all could live." Max mumbles into Liz's hair.
Gulping she turns her head to look at Max, "Believe me, it wasn't an easy thing to do, I came so close to just saying 'screw the world' I want my happy ever with my soulmate, Max Evan's." She says with a strained chuckle.
"Don't worry Liz, somehow will take care of it, I don't know how, but now we know what could happen we know what to avoid, but I won't lose you Liz, no matter what, I won't let you get away from me ever again."
They both give each other a reassuring smile looking deep into one another's eyes, finding peace once more in the act.
"Hey guys, you want us to take the little chica into the back and find somewhere for her to sleep while you talk all this out." Maria asks with a smile still plastered to her face.
Looking up at Maria Liz can't help but return the smile and softly getting up out of Max's lap places Aurora gently in Maria's arms.
"Don't worry, will take good care of her." She says with a grin. "Come on spaceboy you can lend a hand."
"Hey wait," Isabel says, "I want a chance to tuck my little niece into bed as well." Isabel followed by Alex, chases after Maria and Michael in the back of the Crashdown.
"God Max, what are we going to do?" Liz asks with worry. "It's not that I'm ungrateful I have my daughter, in fact I'm over the moon about it, but how am I going to explain it to my parents? Oh hey Mum, hey Dad, guess what I'm a mother of a 6 year old."
"I know what you mean." Max says running a hand through his hair. "But don't worry will make it work out somehow, and on top of that we still have to deal with Tess. We've got to make sure she doesn't leave us as a group or Roswell all together."
"Yeah, I think that.." Liz stop's in mid-sentence and flinches at hearing Maria's high pitched scream from the back of the Crashdown.
Quickly exchanging glances Max and Liz rush to kitchen with the rest following behind them not prepared for the sight before them.
"Oh God No..!" Liz cries in pain at seeing Aurora standing in the middle of the kitchen flickering from opaqueness into something transparent, almost like a ghost.
"Liz I didn't do anything, she woke up saying she felt strange, I put her down for second going to get her something to drink when she started blinking in and out like this." Maria rattles out in a hurried panic.
"No, God please no, she said that Serena told her 'it wouldn't last long, that she would still disappear eventually as if she never was'. Time's catching up on her, she's going to disappear just like Future Max did before me." Liz whimpers, tears rolling down her cheeks.
"Mommy!" Aurora little voice shrieks in panic. "Mommy please, I love you and daddy, please don't let me disappear, I promise I'll be good, I'll be a good girl and you'll want to keep me then, but please don't let me disappear, please."
Liz feeling her throat tightening up allowing nearly no air into her lungs as she watches the tears rolling down Aurora's semi-transparent cheeks. She falls to the floor and crawls over to her embracing her in a cuddle.
"I love you Aurora, I could never not want you, do you hear me I could NEVER not want you." Liz weeps in pain, her whole body shaking.
"Mommy, I'm scared."
Liz gives one desperate glance at Max pleading at him to do something, anything, while watching the tears run down his cheeks as well as he comes to crouch down besides her.
"I don't want to be alone. please don't let me be alone anymore mommy." Aurora's voice fades into whisper, just as her whole body fades at the same moment leaving Liz clutching nothing to her breast but thin air.
Letting out a cry of anguish she falls to the floor beating her fists on to the hard floor in pain and grief, as she feels Max's strong arms being rapped around her securely.