"You really are an alien!" Anna laughed as they came out of the Ciniplex.

"ANNA!" Rob said, raising his hand to cover her mouth. "You can't say things like that!"

Chase sighed. "Calm down, bro. This is Roswell. Aliens are common place."

"Not real ones."

Anna struggled and released her mouth from her brother's hand. "What I meant is, that you're acting weird. Even for you."

"Gee, thanks."

"She's right Rob. Something's up."

"After all that's happened to me in the last few days, you don't expect me to be a little different? Can't I just treat my siblings and love them? Now let's go shopping!"

Anna's jaw dropping. Rob, who didn't understand the idea of recreational shopping, wanted to shopping. He didn't even know what a mall was.

***

"I'm sorry about earlier." Jill said, taking a small bite of her meal.

"It was a misunderstanding." Alex said. "I really do want the best for you."

"I can't believe that we only have three days. I've got to go home, and say goodbye to my parents, and my sisters, and my brother, and my life…and you."

Alex shook his head. "You're leaving for Florida tomorrow. Tonight's our last night."

"You aren't coming to Florida?"

"I can't, Jill you know that. What if your parents recognized me? What would that do to them? To us?"

"Do you know what leaving you will do to me? I changed your appearance, Alex. They won't recognize you."

"What if do, Jill? Are you willing to pay that price?"

"I want my parents to meet the man I love. I want you to meet my family and see my house. Sorry if that makes me so irresponsible. I love you, Alex, and I don't want to hide it." She stood up and walked out the door, her face streamed with tears.

****
"What she said was all a lie. I love you."

"But is love enough, Nick? Is it?"

Nick grabbed Tracy and kissed her passionately. The camera zoomed out and focused in on a person in the background.

Casey threw her popcorn at the TV. Why did the writers have to be smoking such crack? Breaking Tracy and Nick up, this was a travesty. And setting Bugs up as the alien who betrayed them all? Not good.

Where was everybody?

She sighed.

"Maybe Animaniacs is on the Cartoon Channel." She said, once more picking up her trusty remote.

***

Anna stared at the package Rob had just given her. "Rob, I can't accept this."

"Yes you can!" he insists.

"No I can't. This isn't my birthday or anything. This is too much."

"It's a sweater."

"A sweater that I saw cost more money than I make in a week in the Crashdown. And Chad, you can't have yours either."

"You can't tell me what to do." Chad said, grasping his gift in my hand. "I like my boxed set of Sydney MDVDs."

"You just want to gawk at the girls."

"What's wrong with that, Anna. I saw you scopin' out all the guys."

Anna blushed. "Shut up."

They climbed into the jeep and Rob started up the car. "You're keeping the presents, and that's final."

Anna slouched down in her seat. "You are acting weird, Robert Maxwell Valenti, and I'm going to find out why."

Rob slammed on the breaks. "You want to know why I'm acting weird? Ok. Jill, Casey, and I have to back and time and change things so that the universe doesn't end. I'm going to Florida with Casey to help her say goodbye, and then we're leaving. And the odds are that I'll never come back."

Anna started crying, the tears pouring down her face. "Rob!" She said, leaning over from the passenger's seat and burying her head in his chest.

In the backseat, silent tears rolled down Chad's face.

***

Alex walked into the cemetery. It gave him the creeps. To think that on at least one level, he was buried here. Why had fate deemed him to beat death? What made him better than anybody else? All he wanted was a normal life, a home and a family. Instead he was thrust into a den of aliens, intrigue, and reality that seemed somewhat like bad science fiction.

But somehow that didn't matter.

What did matter was Jill.

She was amazing…she had brought him back to life in more ways than one. Jill was magical, special, she was a treasure. And somehow she made all this crap that he'd been going through since 1999 worthwhile.

Jill was sitting at his grave, absently tracing the headstone.

"I'm not there." He said, coming behind her touching her shoulder.

Jill jumped. "Alex."

"I'm sorry, Jill. I wasn't being fair to you."

"I wasn't being fair."

They laughed, a nervous laugh.

"I'm afraid Alex. I'm afraid of change. I found you, and I don't want to lose you."

"You could never loose me."

"I'll change the past and you'll love my mother."

"Jill, I love you. No matter what happens, I'll love you. Whatever happens, I'll keep you in my heart…being around you has changed everything in my life for the better."

"So…" Jill said shaking her head. "Where does this leave us?"

"Even though I'm still wary of it, I'm going with you. If I only have a little bit more time with you, I don't want to miss a second."

***

Casey sighed.

First, a slightly messed up Jill had been carried in the house by a giggling Alex. They waved "hi" to Casey, but ran upstairs quickly, without any further comments.

Then Anna had been led into the house by Chad, both with tearstained faces.

This was their last night in Roswell, and she was having a ball.

There was no sign of Rob.

She'd flipped through the channels of the TV, and there was absolutely nothing on. It was pathetic.

The door opened, and Casey looked up. It was Rob.

She ran to the hallway, and into his arms. "I was worried." She said, placing a kiss on his chin.

"I had something to do."

"Chad and Anna were back quite a bit ago."

"So?"

"Oh fine, Rob Valenti, go ahead and be a cheesehead!"

Rob sighed. "Don't be mad."

"What, I shouldn't be mad when I've been alone all evening? I was lonely, Rob. And then you come in a long time after everyone gets back, and you are really distant. What am I supposed to do?"

He gritted his teeth. "You're supposed to be silent and just let me propose!" Rob cried out with an air of desperation.