Chap 11
It's now the next day and after a fulling nights sleep on the couch Maria wakes up to the scent of bacon and eggs In the air.
Maria: Ummmmmm, something smells good.
Zan: Hey good your up, I made breakfast
Maria: Smells good what's the occasion.
Zan: What I can't cook for my gorgeous wife and child. I didn't know that was against the rules.
Maria: Well no c'mere.
Maria pulls Zan into a passionate kiss things start to get hot and heavy. Just as they are about to go all the way there is a knock at the door. They choose to ignore it and keep going then the knock turns to pounding and then blasting. The door flies off the hinges and Zan immediately gets into a defensive position fearing the worst…
Zan: What the HELL??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!
Maria: How did you find us?
Michael: I followed you last night…
Maria: What? Why?
Liz: We were worried… Maria we told you he was bad news….
Maria: Not this again!
Isabelle: Maria when are you gonna wise up to what we've been saying, HE is bad news.
Maria: That's it SHUT UP!!! I've had enough!
Michael: Yah your right Maria that is enough!
Max: Michael don't do anything stupid.
Alex: Think before you make a move.
Michael: I've thought, now its' time to do ….
Just as those words left Michael's mouth he leaped into action ready to tear Zan apart. Zan, dodged Michael and prepared to attack; Max trying to save Michael from Zan tried to use his shield on Zan again but he failed Zan dodged it and used it on Michael and proving that he was a superior fighter channelled his power through his mind to his hand and bent his shield into a ring like shape. As he gradually closed his hand into a fist, the ring grew smaller and Michael hollered out in agony.
The others immediately try and stop Zan, but Zan once again outmatches them by blocking them with a shield. He continues to put the squeeze on Michael draining him of his power.
Ava: ZAN!!! PLEASE!!!
Zan continues to squeeze Michael. Maria places her hand on Zan's shoulder he turns to look at her.
Maria: Zan please this isn't solving anything.
Looking at Maria and realizing she was right Zan let Michael go. After he lets Michael go the other's run up to him checking him over to see if he was okay. Zan walks away back to where Maria is standing staring at the others who are helping Michael to stand. Deciding that fighting gets them nowhere, they all decide to sit down and discuss the situation.
Alex: No that we've decided to talk this out I think we should tell you the truth.
Maria: About what?
Kyle: About why we've been ignoring you and treating you like crap?
Maria: Oh I thought that was because I was useless and you hated me.
Liz: No, how could you think that? I'm your best friend and even I couldn't do that to you.
Maria: HA AHHAHAAH! That's really funny Liz! That's why for weeks on end, up till I left you, all of you ignored me and made my life miserable!
Ava: You said you'd listen.
Maria: okay, I'm listening.
Liz: It all started when I was doing inventory for the restaurant. I was checking the shelves to see what we needed when I was rocked by this vision…
Maria: So it was a vision! Big Whoop!
Max: It was no ordinary vision… I've seen Liz have her visions but none as violent or as destructive as this…
Isabel: Ditto. She was screaming and convulsing flying around in the air, calling out for help. Blood was spewing out of her mouth and ears even her eyes…
Ava: Yah… her tears were blood. It took all of us just to shut her down and knock her out
Zan: Knock her out?
Micheal: Yah knock her… we had to stop the visions some how and knocking her out is all we could think of.
Maria: This is all fine and dandy but so far you haven't told me anything that tells me why you acted like total assholes for me all the time I was living with you.
Liz: I was getting to that. It's not the physical effects of my dream that had us worried.
Zan: What did you see?
Liz: Maria running down a street coming to an alley, being beaten black and blue then her laying down on the ground paralysed and then a voice came and told me that this would happen if we didn't stay away from you. And as added incentive I got to feel what they did to you feel like. But that's not the half of it…
Maria: I can't believe it… All this time you ignore me. You know It's funny I had a dream that's what I came to tell you that night Michael. I needed help… it seemed so real. I went down the hall and who do I see you in bed with…
Ava: That's the other half of it, what you saw, it wasn't what you think you saw. It was a…
Maria: What I saw Ava was you in bed with my boyfriend!!!
Michael: That's not what happened.
Ava: It was a mindwarp.
Maria: A what?
Liz: A mindwarp the voice said that if we didn't stay away from you that you'd be hurt… we'd tried for weeks to stay away and be less than civil to you but kept coming back so we had to do something to make you not want to be so friendly.
Zan: So you mindwarped her?!??!?!?!?
Maria: It's okay Zan. You know this whole situation is ironic.
Liz: Why? I don't see any irony.
Maria: Of course you wouldn't. Now that you told your story let me tell mine. I had the same dream and the same voice visited me except it told me something completely different. It told me that I could never get pregnant and as added incentive it killed my mother. . And now that I think back to your vision I know why you had it I understand completely and I must say Liz that you are a fool.
Liz: What?!
Maria: Don't you see we had identical dreams except where as mine was a warning about being pregnant yours was about me being injured…
Liz: So?..
Maria: SO! SO! IT HAPPENED ANYWAY!!!
Michael: WHAT?!?!?!??
Maria: Yes it happened anyway! Right after I went to your room to see you and I saw what I thought I saw I ran out of the restaurant. I walked down the street I was followed… You know what happens next. Don't you see the vision you had was sent to you deliberately.
Kyle: Why?
Michael: Cause it wanted her alone, isolated from us. And by doing what we did that night we gave it exactly what it wanted…
Alex: Maria…
They all sat there in silence saying nothing. After a while Maria began to speak.
Maria: Well at least I know why you ignored me. But it's still no excuse, because what you did ultimately caused the very thing that you were trying to prevent.
Liz: I know I'm sorry, we all are
Maria: Well maybe in time I may be able to forgive you but not now. Now if you excuse me I'm going to my room to lay down for a while all this stuff has made me tired.
She gets up to leave but starts to sway from side to side. She clutches her stomach and starts to fall; Zan catches her and takes her to their room. He begins to scan her to see what's wrong. Suddenly he puts her hand on her stomach, what he sees has him grinning from ear to ear. He leaves Maria lying on the bed and goes back out to the others in the living room.
Michael: So?…
Zan: So what?
Liz: What's wrong ?
Zan: Oh nothing much it's just the baby... or should I say babies
Ava: Babies?
Zan: Oh yah Maria's having twins…
The others immediately perk up having heard the news, and for once set aside there differences to congratulate Zan. Meanwhile from the window a mysterious figure looks on once more at the house watching as the others talk to happy Zan about Maria and the twins.
TBC
It's now the next day and after a fulling nights sleep on the couch Maria wakes up to the scent of bacon and eggs In the air.
Maria: Ummmmmm, something smells good.
Zan: Hey good your up, I made breakfast
Maria: Smells good what's the occasion.
Zan: What I can't cook for my gorgeous wife and child. I didn't know that was against the rules.
Maria: Well no c'mere.
Maria pulls Zan into a passionate kiss things start to get hot and heavy. Just as they are about to go all the way there is a knock at the door. They choose to ignore it and keep going then the knock turns to pounding and then blasting. The door flies off the hinges and Zan immediately gets into a defensive position fearing the worst…
Zan: What the HELL??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!
Maria: How did you find us?
Michael: I followed you last night…
Maria: What? Why?
Liz: We were worried… Maria we told you he was bad news….
Maria: Not this again!
Isabelle: Maria when are you gonna wise up to what we've been saying, HE is bad news.
Maria: That's it SHUT UP!!! I've had enough!
Michael: Yah your right Maria that is enough!
Max: Michael don't do anything stupid.
Alex: Think before you make a move.
Michael: I've thought, now its' time to do ….
Just as those words left Michael's mouth he leaped into action ready to tear Zan apart. Zan, dodged Michael and prepared to attack; Max trying to save Michael from Zan tried to use his shield on Zan again but he failed Zan dodged it and used it on Michael and proving that he was a superior fighter channelled his power through his mind to his hand and bent his shield into a ring like shape. As he gradually closed his hand into a fist, the ring grew smaller and Michael hollered out in agony.
The others immediately try and stop Zan, but Zan once again outmatches them by blocking them with a shield. He continues to put the squeeze on Michael draining him of his power.
Ava: ZAN!!! PLEASE!!!
Zan continues to squeeze Michael. Maria places her hand on Zan's shoulder he turns to look at her.
Maria: Zan please this isn't solving anything.
Looking at Maria and realizing she was right Zan let Michael go. After he lets Michael go the other's run up to him checking him over to see if he was okay. Zan walks away back to where Maria is standing staring at the others who are helping Michael to stand. Deciding that fighting gets them nowhere, they all decide to sit down and discuss the situation.
Alex: No that we've decided to talk this out I think we should tell you the truth.
Maria: About what?
Kyle: About why we've been ignoring you and treating you like crap?
Maria: Oh I thought that was because I was useless and you hated me.
Liz: No, how could you think that? I'm your best friend and even I couldn't do that to you.
Maria: HA AHHAHAAH! That's really funny Liz! That's why for weeks on end, up till I left you, all of you ignored me and made my life miserable!
Ava: You said you'd listen.
Maria: okay, I'm listening.
Liz: It all started when I was doing inventory for the restaurant. I was checking the shelves to see what we needed when I was rocked by this vision…
Maria: So it was a vision! Big Whoop!
Max: It was no ordinary vision… I've seen Liz have her visions but none as violent or as destructive as this…
Isabel: Ditto. She was screaming and convulsing flying around in the air, calling out for help. Blood was spewing out of her mouth and ears even her eyes…
Ava: Yah… her tears were blood. It took all of us just to shut her down and knock her out
Zan: Knock her out?
Micheal: Yah knock her… we had to stop the visions some how and knocking her out is all we could think of.
Maria: This is all fine and dandy but so far you haven't told me anything that tells me why you acted like total assholes for me all the time I was living with you.
Liz: I was getting to that. It's not the physical effects of my dream that had us worried.
Zan: What did you see?
Liz: Maria running down a street coming to an alley, being beaten black and blue then her laying down on the ground paralysed and then a voice came and told me that this would happen if we didn't stay away from you. And as added incentive I got to feel what they did to you feel like. But that's not the half of it…
Maria: I can't believe it… All this time you ignore me. You know It's funny I had a dream that's what I came to tell you that night Michael. I needed help… it seemed so real. I went down the hall and who do I see you in bed with…
Ava: That's the other half of it, what you saw, it wasn't what you think you saw. It was a…
Maria: What I saw Ava was you in bed with my boyfriend!!!
Michael: That's not what happened.
Ava: It was a mindwarp.
Maria: A what?
Liz: A mindwarp the voice said that if we didn't stay away from you that you'd be hurt… we'd tried for weeks to stay away and be less than civil to you but kept coming back so we had to do something to make you not want to be so friendly.
Zan: So you mindwarped her?!??!?!?!?
Maria: It's okay Zan. You know this whole situation is ironic.
Liz: Why? I don't see any irony.
Maria: Of course you wouldn't. Now that you told your story let me tell mine. I had the same dream and the same voice visited me except it told me something completely different. It told me that I could never get pregnant and as added incentive it killed my mother. . And now that I think back to your vision I know why you had it I understand completely and I must say Liz that you are a fool.
Liz: What?!
Maria: Don't you see we had identical dreams except where as mine was a warning about being pregnant yours was about me being injured…
Liz: So?..
Maria: SO! SO! IT HAPPENED ANYWAY!!!
Michael: WHAT?!?!?!??
Maria: Yes it happened anyway! Right after I went to your room to see you and I saw what I thought I saw I ran out of the restaurant. I walked down the street I was followed… You know what happens next. Don't you see the vision you had was sent to you deliberately.
Kyle: Why?
Michael: Cause it wanted her alone, isolated from us. And by doing what we did that night we gave it exactly what it wanted…
Alex: Maria…
They all sat there in silence saying nothing. After a while Maria began to speak.
Maria: Well at least I know why you ignored me. But it's still no excuse, because what you did ultimately caused the very thing that you were trying to prevent.
Liz: I know I'm sorry, we all are
Maria: Well maybe in time I may be able to forgive you but not now. Now if you excuse me I'm going to my room to lay down for a while all this stuff has made me tired.
She gets up to leave but starts to sway from side to side. She clutches her stomach and starts to fall; Zan catches her and takes her to their room. He begins to scan her to see what's wrong. Suddenly he puts her hand on her stomach, what he sees has him grinning from ear to ear. He leaves Maria lying on the bed and goes back out to the others in the living room.
Michael: So?…
Zan: So what?
Liz: What's wrong ?
Zan: Oh nothing much it's just the baby... or should I say babies
Ava: Babies?
Zan: Oh yah Maria's having twins…
The others immediately perk up having heard the news, and for once set aside there differences to congratulate Zan. Meanwhile from the window a mysterious figure looks on once more at the house watching as the others talk to happy Zan about Maria and the twins.
TBC