Tess woke up to fine herself in the passenger seat leaning on Alex's shoulder. He was still peacefully asleep. Straightening herself out she held her head. They were closer. Luckily, Max, Michael, and Isabel weren't using their powers at the moment so Tess's headache was very weak and vanished in a few seconds. Tess sighed and glanced at Alex again. She didn't want to admit it but...there was just something about him. Something about the sarcastic way he made fun of her for killing him, yet he stopped being grouchy about it. He's just a really good human, I guess. Tess thought. She was broken from her thoughts when she heard a car door slam. Looking up she saw Utah police cars surrounding them. Tess thought they did a pretty good parking the car hidden in the forest in the Utah part of the four corners. Someone must've saw them yesterday and called the police. They were getting out of their cars. Tess shook Alex quickly.
"Alex! Wake-up!" Tess said. Alex stirred and opened an eye.
"What?"
"Look!" Tess said, nodding her head towards the approaching police.
"Holy Shyt!" Alex umped up and grabbed the keys out of his pocket, sticking them into the ignition and slamming on the gas pedal. Tess wasn't wearing her seatbelt and almost got flung into the windshield but Alex quickly stuck his arm out protectively and prevented tess from flying out. Tess quickly grabbed the seatbelt buckle and pulled it on.
"Hurry!" Tess called looking back at the police getting back in their cars and chasing after them.
"I don't even know where we're going!" Alex said, he just kept speeding through the forest. Tess closed her eyes and concentrated.
"Alex, once you get out of their sight, stop the car completely and don't make any noise." Tess said. Alex did as she said and parked behind a gathering of trees. Tess closed her eyes and concentrated...making them disappear from the officer's sight. After a few minutes when the sirens were far off in the distance. Tess opened her eyes and nodded to Alex. "It's been awhile since it was easy to do that." Tess said. "I mean, using any power was so much tougher with Zan with me, it just took so much energy."
"You never told me what happened to your son."
"I didn't realize we were on the story-telling relationship."
"Well tell me."
"Okay, so when I came back, at first the plan was to get Max's help to get out of Roswell. But when my ship crash landed and became the FBI's "property", I had to do something to save myself and Zan. So I killed them. All of them- it was a risky move but it was the only move. Anyway, so once me and Zan got out they were on my trail, they even had a picture of me. Max and Michael tried to get me out of Roswell, but my mind warp was too weak to fool the guards at the exit. So I was stuck in Roswell. Michael, Isabel, and Maria wanted to just give me up, sort of as bait, so that the FBI would leave them alone. Liz broke the tie- she voted no."
"Liz isn't a killer." Alex said. Tess almost glared at him but didn't.
"That's what she told me when I asked her why she voted no. Anyway, so, I figured the only person who wouldn't stop me from doing what I needed to do, and someone who I needed to say a few things to- was Liz. She drove me to the FBI facility. I told her Max loved her and then, I did the only thing left for me to do. I-"
"You don't need to say it. I know." Alex said, staring at the steering wheel.
"Ya. I miss my son."
"When you saw Isabel again, did she ever yell at you or anything for..what you did to me?" Alex asked, almost desperately.
"I won't lie to you Alex. All she did was vote yes to using me as bait."
"Okay." Alex sighed. "Okay."
*Scene Switch- Crashdown Cafe*
Jeff Parker looked up, as a customer walked over to the counter.
"How may I hel-" Jeff cut himself off. "Mom?"
*Scene Switch Again- Motel somewhere*
"Are you telling me you saw Atherton making a phone call?" Max asked, curiously.
"Ya, and this was only a few hours after we saw Whittaker in the parking lot and had to use our powers to..."
"Re-kill her." Max finished. "So...all the dead people are...alive?"
"I don't know." Liz said biting her lip. Isabel walked over and dropped her coffee.
"Grant!?" Liz and Max turned to see Grant Sorensen trying to figure out why his cell phone didn't work anymore. Liz frowned and looked at Max who had no idea what to do.
*Scene Switch Back to Alex and Tess's car.*
"This problem is getting serious." Tess said.
"What problem?"
"Living in a car. I smell, I look like trash."
"Well, they're no other way, I mean, we're fugitives we can't exactly check into a Motel 6, or a fancy hotel either."
"I know." Tess sighed. "This just...really isn't good for an alien's hygiene, I mean, remember the skins?"
"What are you saying?" Alex asked.
"Oh...nothing. You just wouldn't want to stick around when an alien goes without a shower for a couple days, nasty side effects." Tess smirked.
"Allright, but you're going to have to pull off a mind-warp from the moment we step out of this car, until we get into our room." Alex said. Tess nodded.
"But first, pull the car over behind that Motel 6 or somewhere secluded." Tess said. Alex did what she said and Tess stepped out, touching the hood of the car, changing it's color to black and then walking to the license plate and changing that too. "Okay, let's go." Tess said, closing her eyes. Alex took her by the hand and led her into the motel, since she couldn't see where she was going on her own. She made them look like a young couple, clean, and happy.
"How may I help you two?" The attendant smiled.
"One room." Alex said. The attendant smiled at the man who didn't look like Alex and more like Brad Pitt. The attendant gave him the sign in book and Alex signed in and paid for a night, and the attendant gave him the key.
"Have a pleasant stay." The attendant grinned. Alex walked down the hallway and to a room at the far right, opening it and pulling Tess in.
"Okay, it's safe." Alex said. Tess opened her eyes and smiled, but then bit her lip.
"No it's not." Tess whispered. The maid was still in the hotel room and had just seen Brad Pitt and his girlfriend change into a dead guy and a dead alien. Well, she didn't know they were dead.
"Mindwarp her." Alex muttered. Tess nodded and walked up to the maid quickly, placnig her hands on either side of the maid's head and mindwarped her into thinking that never happened. The maid looked up, dazed, and left the room. Tess sighed and plopped onto a bed.
"That was my fault." Alex said, sitting down on the other bed. Tess didn't say anything in response. "So, um, what did you make us look like?"
"Uh no one in particular, I just made us look like...a pair of brother and sister." Tess lied. Alex nodded and found himself breathing heavily and asleep. Tess smiled and shook her head and then walked into the bathroom.