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Patty
Lilac Stardust
aussie-dreamer -p.s. thanks for the info :)
Jennifer
spanishgoddess86
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"Liz..Liz maybe you should sit down."
Liz ignored the voice in her head. Right now she wanted to get her point across, not sit down. Kyle could just shove it.
"What are you talking about Liz?" her mother asked slowly.
"The day of the shooting in the Crashdown, I was shot."
"That's impossible Liz. If you were shot we would have know. The entire town would have known as you would have been in the hospital." Jeff said, finally back from the shock. "That girl would do anything to make him like Max, even lie." He thought to himself in disgust. The things that boy had done to her.
"No dad, the town wouldn't have known because I was in the hospital."
"What are you talking about Liz. If you were shot, that's exactly where you would have been." He said rolling his eyes. The girl was losing it.
"No Jeff. The town would have known because they would have been at her funeral."
"Don't tell me they have you believing this rubbish too Jim."
"It's not rubbish Jeff. Max saved her life. He has since saved Kyle's and mine as well."
"That's it." Jeff said standing up. "They've brainwashed all of you." With that he started to turn and walk out of the room.
"Stop." Isabel yelled standing up. "For crying out loud. You're her father and you don't even believe her. Why do you hate her so much."
Jeff turned and looked at Isabel, his eyes narrowing to slits. "I don't hate her Mrs. Rodriguez. I hate your brother."
"Then do you hate your grandchildren as well?" Liz asked softly.
Jeff's eyes widened as far as they could and his legs gave out. He had no idea how he managed to land on a chair, considering there had not been a chair behind him.
"You're.you're pregnant?" Nancy asked in shock.
"Yes." Max replied as he helped Liz slid into her chair.
"Oh my. We're going to be grandparents?" Diane said in surprise.
"Everyone in this room is, except for Jim." Isabel said softly.
Esperanza Rodriguez looked at her trying to figure out what she meant. A second later it hit her. "You and Jessie are too?"
"Yeah. Iz is due in February." Jessie explained slowly.
"Oh my heavens. When are you due Liz?" Phillip asked as a wide smile started to appear on his face.
"January." She replied.
"I'm going to be a grandfather." Phillip said his eyes dancing with delight.
The four soon-to-be-parents looked at each other. They were all happy that at least the Evans and Mrs. Rodriguez were happy about the whole thing.
"Congratulations Lizzy." Nancy said with a smile.
Liz smiled at her mother.
"I can't believe you are pregnant with his child. Of all the.." Jeff began getting over his shock.
"Jeffery Kenneth Parker!" Nancy yelled standing up. "You will not talk to our daughter that way. I've put up with you treating her like you have since she came home. Do you have any idea what your behavior has done to her? No, don't even bother to answer that.
"You have been so busy nursing your anger at Max for ONE mistake. You've completely missed how utterly happy your daughter had been. We both saw how she was when ever they were not dating over the past three years. She was miserable, a part of her wasn't there. You said you wanted her to be happy. Well open your eyes Jeff. She is." With that Nancy Parked turned around and walked over to give her daughter a hug.
"I feel better." She said softly so only Liz and Max could hear.
Liz smiled softly, then turned to her dad. "Dad, please stay and hear us out. After that you can leave or do what ever you want. But please, just listen to us this once."
Jeff looked at her for a minute, then nodded his head. "Fine, I'll hear what you have to say. But no more lies."
Max smiled, "We haven't told you any lies."
Jeff snorted his disbelief as he sat done. "Yeah right boy. You were lying about Liz almost dying."
"No Mr. Parker, he wasn't. I was there that day. My order pad was covered in Liz's blood. Alex even compared it with a sample of Liz's blood. They were the same. She was shot. Jim had her uniform, that had a bullet hole in it. The bullet that hit her in the stomach, and killed her."
"If it killed her, how is she here. And how do you know she was dead." He challenged.
"Because she stopped breathing, and she had no pulse." Maria replied glaring at him.
Nancy gasped. "Then how is she here?"
"Max brought me back. He healed me."
"How could he do that?" Phillip asked softly.
"I'm not human, not completely." Max said slowly.
"None of us are." Isabel continued looking at Michael.
"What do you mean you aren't completely human? What are you, part alien." Amy said with a laugh, until she saw that every one of her them and Jim looking anywhere but at the adults. "Oh my God, you are aliens." She said in shock.
"That's not possible." Diane said with a hallow laugh. "You're just trying to pull a joke on us right."
Max shook his head slowly. "We're alien hybrids, half alien, half human DNA."
"How'd you get here, the non-existent crash in 47?" Jeff asked not believing it for a minute.
"Yes." Liz replied, "They were in incubation pods until the night that they we're found in the desert. Michael was with them but ran off when he saw your headlights."
"Oh Michael, if we'd known.." Diane began.
"Don't Mrs. Evans. Don't have regrets now. I'm the one who ran." He said with a half smile.
"This isn't possible." Jeff said slowly.
"It is dad. Maybe we should start at the beginning."
Over the next two hours they explained everything that had happened until Alex's death and Tess leaving. For the most part, their parents looked at them first in shock, then in surprise when they realized everything their children had been through. Amy was a bit upset to learn that she had been brainwashed so to speak, but had understood that it was for the best. She was even happier to learn that Michael had chosen her daughter over the chance to go learn who he was. In her mind it proved that they could make it, and that he deserved a chance with her.
Then there was Jeff. He listened to everything they had to say, but didn't believe it, he couldn't believe it.
"The reason we robbed that store in Utah, was because it really wasn't a store. It was actually where they had the ship. Max wanted to save his son, so we needed the ship. That's also why he went to Hollywood, we heard about the death of a man, who from what was said was probably killed by an alien. He was the same man who had threatened Michael in Utah. Max found the ship, but was unable to get it to work, so he came back."
"By that time Jessie and I were getting married, but days before the wedding I started having these dreams where Kivar was there. Then he showed up at the wedding, and subsequently followed us on our honeymoon. They figured out what was going on here, so Max and Michael came to my rescue. Although it didn't work quite as they planned. We managed to send Kivar back to Antar, and save the guy whom Kivar had been, well possessing so to speak." Isabel explained.
"That must have been quite an interesting week." Phillip said with a smile.
"Tell me about it. I lived through it, and I'm still trying to get use to it." Jessie said with a smile at his wife.
"Well, after that not much happened in terms of alien attacks. I went to Vermont, Maria went to New York, and Michael's co-worker was killed in an attempt to figure out which alien he was." Liz said looking at Max to continue who was shaking his head softly at her.
"Wonderful opening Liz." Michael said dryly.
She smiled before he continued. "Anyway, as she said, my co-worker was killed. So we got Jim a job as a security guard so we could figure out what was happening. Jim disappeared, which made Kyle quite upset. Max and Iz came the next night so we all could look for Jim. Iz and I went one way, Max another."
"Max found me, and as we were making out way out I was shot, and would have died, except Max healed me. They finally knew who the healer was so they took Max and I to another room and told Max to heal the owner of the company, who was dying of old age. Max did so, as they threatened to kill me. From what I saw, Max healed the guy, collapsed, and when I went to touch him he disintegrated into a pile of dust. Then the place caught on fire, and Michael arrived, pulling me out. I told him and Isabel what happened, and the three of us went chasing after Clayton and his wife and the others. Michael and Isabel we're a little upset to say the least, and well, they took care of the people who were shooting at us."
"Except Iz was shot, and that was when I joined the picture. I had followed her when she left the house, and found out in a not so nice way that she was an alien."
"You didn't know?" Esperanza asked interrupting him.
"Not then mama. Anyway, we took her to Jim house and a friend of mine came to do the surgery and such. But the real fun began when her temperature went soaring. I confronted Michael and found out whatever I could, drove him nuts too, making him repeat the story some twenty time or more."
"Try thirty or forty." Michael said rolling his eyes. "Somehow, I managed to get through to Iz and bring her back. still have no idea how I did that." He mused to himself. "After that we just had to think of a way to tell all of you that Max was dead.
"Until Maria called that night and told us to not say anything to anyone. She had called earlier that day to find out what was going on as Liz had woke up from a dream in the wee hours of the morning telling her Max was dead. Then she went and got herself drunk, so Maria wanted to find out what the heck was going on."
"Yeah. Threw me for a loop when we figured out Liz had woken up at the same time Max had died."
"I don't get it. How is Max here?" Phillip asked.
"When I tried to heal Clayton I used all my powers and somehow transferred myself into him. His appearance changed to look like me, and I was in his mind. He saw my memories and could feel me, he knew that I was thinking of Liz, so he believed he had to get rid of her, to get rid of me. He went to Vermont, and tried to kill Liz, after killing his wife. He also almost killed Maria, but Liz came in and he went after her instead."
"Max managed to get control once and told me to use the pipe I was holding to kill him, or Clayton would kill me. Of course, I waited to long, trying to convince myself to kill Max as I saw him. Clayton got control and came after me again. And we both fell out the attic window."
"But the school is five or six floors." Nancy said slowly in shock.
"Yeah, well I got control again and created a field to stop her from falling all the way. She hit it, the rolled off and fell about twelve feet to a bunch of bushes. Clayton on the other hand fell the entire way and died. The next thing I saw was a white light and Liz looking down at me. Then Maria came and the three of us came back here, after Maria called Iz and told her not to say anything."
"We came back, told them what had happened, then went to meet with you guys at the Crashdown, and the rest as they say is history." Maria said with a smile.
"So let's see if I got this. Max, Michael, and Isabel are aliens. Max got his alien bride pregnant, who had killed Alex, but none of you knew that. Tess went back home, and Max and Liz got married." Jeff said calmly, too calmly to Liz's thinking.
"What in heaven's name possessed you to marry and alien. I could call the FBI right now and he will be taken away." Jeff exploded.
"I wouldn't do that Jeff, they will also want her children." Jim began.
"They'd also want me dad, and Kyle, and they'd probably take Maria and Jessie for the heck of it."
"Why would they want all of you?" he asked not believing her.
"Well, Maria is Michael's girlfriend, and Jessie is Isabel's husband. As for Kyle and I, well, they'd want us because we're aliens too now."
Nancy looked at her daughter in shock. "How are you and Kyle.."
"Max brought us both back from the dead. By doing so he changed us."
Jeff looked at her in shock, the same thought running through his head, as everything really started to sink in. Liz is an alien, married to an alien, having alien children.. He saved her life. "Oh Lizzy, how could I have been so stupid?" he asked after a few minutes.
Liz smiled. "It's ok dad. I don't blame you." She said softly as she stood up and gave him a hug. "It's ok." She said softly as he started to cry.
Max gave her a smile when she looked at him. They should have done this a long time ago. He looked around the room. Amy was hugging both Maria and Kyle at the same time while Jim just stood back fighting his laughter at Kyle's expression. His mom was holding Michael like she'd never let go, and his dad stood next to her, giving Michael a smile. Esperanza was giving Jessie and Iz a hug, and Nancy was... He turned when he felt a hand on his shoulder. He smiled at his mother-in-law.
"Thank you." She said softly as she looked up at her husband and daughter.
"Thank you for letting me have her." He replied just as softly.
Patty
Lilac Stardust
aussie-dreamer -p.s. thanks for the info :)
Jennifer
spanishgoddess86
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"Liz..Liz maybe you should sit down."
Liz ignored the voice in her head. Right now she wanted to get her point across, not sit down. Kyle could just shove it.
"What are you talking about Liz?" her mother asked slowly.
"The day of the shooting in the Crashdown, I was shot."
"That's impossible Liz. If you were shot we would have know. The entire town would have known as you would have been in the hospital." Jeff said, finally back from the shock. "That girl would do anything to make him like Max, even lie." He thought to himself in disgust. The things that boy had done to her.
"No dad, the town wouldn't have known because I was in the hospital."
"What are you talking about Liz. If you were shot, that's exactly where you would have been." He said rolling his eyes. The girl was losing it.
"No Jeff. The town would have known because they would have been at her funeral."
"Don't tell me they have you believing this rubbish too Jim."
"It's not rubbish Jeff. Max saved her life. He has since saved Kyle's and mine as well."
"That's it." Jeff said standing up. "They've brainwashed all of you." With that he started to turn and walk out of the room.
"Stop." Isabel yelled standing up. "For crying out loud. You're her father and you don't even believe her. Why do you hate her so much."
Jeff turned and looked at Isabel, his eyes narrowing to slits. "I don't hate her Mrs. Rodriguez. I hate your brother."
"Then do you hate your grandchildren as well?" Liz asked softly.
Jeff's eyes widened as far as they could and his legs gave out. He had no idea how he managed to land on a chair, considering there had not been a chair behind him.
"You're.you're pregnant?" Nancy asked in shock.
"Yes." Max replied as he helped Liz slid into her chair.
"Oh my. We're going to be grandparents?" Diane said in surprise.
"Everyone in this room is, except for Jim." Isabel said softly.
Esperanza Rodriguez looked at her trying to figure out what she meant. A second later it hit her. "You and Jessie are too?"
"Yeah. Iz is due in February." Jessie explained slowly.
"Oh my heavens. When are you due Liz?" Phillip asked as a wide smile started to appear on his face.
"January." She replied.
"I'm going to be a grandfather." Phillip said his eyes dancing with delight.
The four soon-to-be-parents looked at each other. They were all happy that at least the Evans and Mrs. Rodriguez were happy about the whole thing.
"Congratulations Lizzy." Nancy said with a smile.
Liz smiled at her mother.
"I can't believe you are pregnant with his child. Of all the.." Jeff began getting over his shock.
"Jeffery Kenneth Parker!" Nancy yelled standing up. "You will not talk to our daughter that way. I've put up with you treating her like you have since she came home. Do you have any idea what your behavior has done to her? No, don't even bother to answer that.
"You have been so busy nursing your anger at Max for ONE mistake. You've completely missed how utterly happy your daughter had been. We both saw how she was when ever they were not dating over the past three years. She was miserable, a part of her wasn't there. You said you wanted her to be happy. Well open your eyes Jeff. She is." With that Nancy Parked turned around and walked over to give her daughter a hug.
"I feel better." She said softly so only Liz and Max could hear.
Liz smiled softly, then turned to her dad. "Dad, please stay and hear us out. After that you can leave or do what ever you want. But please, just listen to us this once."
Jeff looked at her for a minute, then nodded his head. "Fine, I'll hear what you have to say. But no more lies."
Max smiled, "We haven't told you any lies."
Jeff snorted his disbelief as he sat done. "Yeah right boy. You were lying about Liz almost dying."
"No Mr. Parker, he wasn't. I was there that day. My order pad was covered in Liz's blood. Alex even compared it with a sample of Liz's blood. They were the same. She was shot. Jim had her uniform, that had a bullet hole in it. The bullet that hit her in the stomach, and killed her."
"If it killed her, how is she here. And how do you know she was dead." He challenged.
"Because she stopped breathing, and she had no pulse." Maria replied glaring at him.
Nancy gasped. "Then how is she here?"
"Max brought me back. He healed me."
"How could he do that?" Phillip asked softly.
"I'm not human, not completely." Max said slowly.
"None of us are." Isabel continued looking at Michael.
"What do you mean you aren't completely human? What are you, part alien." Amy said with a laugh, until she saw that every one of her them and Jim looking anywhere but at the adults. "Oh my God, you are aliens." She said in shock.
"That's not possible." Diane said with a hallow laugh. "You're just trying to pull a joke on us right."
Max shook his head slowly. "We're alien hybrids, half alien, half human DNA."
"How'd you get here, the non-existent crash in 47?" Jeff asked not believing it for a minute.
"Yes." Liz replied, "They were in incubation pods until the night that they we're found in the desert. Michael was with them but ran off when he saw your headlights."
"Oh Michael, if we'd known.." Diane began.
"Don't Mrs. Evans. Don't have regrets now. I'm the one who ran." He said with a half smile.
"This isn't possible." Jeff said slowly.
"It is dad. Maybe we should start at the beginning."
Over the next two hours they explained everything that had happened until Alex's death and Tess leaving. For the most part, their parents looked at them first in shock, then in surprise when they realized everything their children had been through. Amy was a bit upset to learn that she had been brainwashed so to speak, but had understood that it was for the best. She was even happier to learn that Michael had chosen her daughter over the chance to go learn who he was. In her mind it proved that they could make it, and that he deserved a chance with her.
Then there was Jeff. He listened to everything they had to say, but didn't believe it, he couldn't believe it.
"The reason we robbed that store in Utah, was because it really wasn't a store. It was actually where they had the ship. Max wanted to save his son, so we needed the ship. That's also why he went to Hollywood, we heard about the death of a man, who from what was said was probably killed by an alien. He was the same man who had threatened Michael in Utah. Max found the ship, but was unable to get it to work, so he came back."
"By that time Jessie and I were getting married, but days before the wedding I started having these dreams where Kivar was there. Then he showed up at the wedding, and subsequently followed us on our honeymoon. They figured out what was going on here, so Max and Michael came to my rescue. Although it didn't work quite as they planned. We managed to send Kivar back to Antar, and save the guy whom Kivar had been, well possessing so to speak." Isabel explained.
"That must have been quite an interesting week." Phillip said with a smile.
"Tell me about it. I lived through it, and I'm still trying to get use to it." Jessie said with a smile at his wife.
"Well, after that not much happened in terms of alien attacks. I went to Vermont, Maria went to New York, and Michael's co-worker was killed in an attempt to figure out which alien he was." Liz said looking at Max to continue who was shaking his head softly at her.
"Wonderful opening Liz." Michael said dryly.
She smiled before he continued. "Anyway, as she said, my co-worker was killed. So we got Jim a job as a security guard so we could figure out what was happening. Jim disappeared, which made Kyle quite upset. Max and Iz came the next night so we all could look for Jim. Iz and I went one way, Max another."
"Max found me, and as we were making out way out I was shot, and would have died, except Max healed me. They finally knew who the healer was so they took Max and I to another room and told Max to heal the owner of the company, who was dying of old age. Max did so, as they threatened to kill me. From what I saw, Max healed the guy, collapsed, and when I went to touch him he disintegrated into a pile of dust. Then the place caught on fire, and Michael arrived, pulling me out. I told him and Isabel what happened, and the three of us went chasing after Clayton and his wife and the others. Michael and Isabel we're a little upset to say the least, and well, they took care of the people who were shooting at us."
"Except Iz was shot, and that was when I joined the picture. I had followed her when she left the house, and found out in a not so nice way that she was an alien."
"You didn't know?" Esperanza asked interrupting him.
"Not then mama. Anyway, we took her to Jim house and a friend of mine came to do the surgery and such. But the real fun began when her temperature went soaring. I confronted Michael and found out whatever I could, drove him nuts too, making him repeat the story some twenty time or more."
"Try thirty or forty." Michael said rolling his eyes. "Somehow, I managed to get through to Iz and bring her back. still have no idea how I did that." He mused to himself. "After that we just had to think of a way to tell all of you that Max was dead.
"Until Maria called that night and told us to not say anything to anyone. She had called earlier that day to find out what was going on as Liz had woke up from a dream in the wee hours of the morning telling her Max was dead. Then she went and got herself drunk, so Maria wanted to find out what the heck was going on."
"Yeah. Threw me for a loop when we figured out Liz had woken up at the same time Max had died."
"I don't get it. How is Max here?" Phillip asked.
"When I tried to heal Clayton I used all my powers and somehow transferred myself into him. His appearance changed to look like me, and I was in his mind. He saw my memories and could feel me, he knew that I was thinking of Liz, so he believed he had to get rid of her, to get rid of me. He went to Vermont, and tried to kill Liz, after killing his wife. He also almost killed Maria, but Liz came in and he went after her instead."
"Max managed to get control once and told me to use the pipe I was holding to kill him, or Clayton would kill me. Of course, I waited to long, trying to convince myself to kill Max as I saw him. Clayton got control and came after me again. And we both fell out the attic window."
"But the school is five or six floors." Nancy said slowly in shock.
"Yeah, well I got control again and created a field to stop her from falling all the way. She hit it, the rolled off and fell about twelve feet to a bunch of bushes. Clayton on the other hand fell the entire way and died. The next thing I saw was a white light and Liz looking down at me. Then Maria came and the three of us came back here, after Maria called Iz and told her not to say anything."
"We came back, told them what had happened, then went to meet with you guys at the Crashdown, and the rest as they say is history." Maria said with a smile.
"So let's see if I got this. Max, Michael, and Isabel are aliens. Max got his alien bride pregnant, who had killed Alex, but none of you knew that. Tess went back home, and Max and Liz got married." Jeff said calmly, too calmly to Liz's thinking.
"What in heaven's name possessed you to marry and alien. I could call the FBI right now and he will be taken away." Jeff exploded.
"I wouldn't do that Jeff, they will also want her children." Jim began.
"They'd also want me dad, and Kyle, and they'd probably take Maria and Jessie for the heck of it."
"Why would they want all of you?" he asked not believing her.
"Well, Maria is Michael's girlfriend, and Jessie is Isabel's husband. As for Kyle and I, well, they'd want us because we're aliens too now."
Nancy looked at her daughter in shock. "How are you and Kyle.."
"Max brought us both back from the dead. By doing so he changed us."
Jeff looked at her in shock, the same thought running through his head, as everything really started to sink in. Liz is an alien, married to an alien, having alien children.. He saved her life. "Oh Lizzy, how could I have been so stupid?" he asked after a few minutes.
Liz smiled. "It's ok dad. I don't blame you." She said softly as she stood up and gave him a hug. "It's ok." She said softly as he started to cry.
Max gave her a smile when she looked at him. They should have done this a long time ago. He looked around the room. Amy was hugging both Maria and Kyle at the same time while Jim just stood back fighting his laughter at Kyle's expression. His mom was holding Michael like she'd never let go, and his dad stood next to her, giving Michael a smile. Esperanza was giving Jessie and Iz a hug, and Nancy was... He turned when he felt a hand on his shoulder. He smiled at his mother-in-law.
"Thank you." She said softly as she looked up at her husband and daughter.
"Thank you for letting me have her." He replied just as softly.