Max sighed softly. It had been two days since Liz disappeared again. There had been no sigh of them; even their manager was gone. They had even gone as far as to contact Larrick to see if he knew anything, but there had been no response from him as yet.
"Max?" Ava asked as she walked into the room.
"Is everything ok?" he asked turning towards her.
"I just thought of something. What did you do with Liz's journal? Maybe it has some answers."
Max stopped for a moment as he thought about that. "Why didn't I think about that?" he asked outloud. "Its back in Roswell."
"There's something else." She whispered softly.
"What is it?" he asked when he realized she had gone quite pale.
"I've been lying to you all these years." She replied softly, holding her hand up to keep him from interrupting her. "I should have told you all sooner, but I was terrified of how you would react. You were the only friends I had." She said with a shrug of helplessness.
"Ava." He began softly. "You can tell me anything."
"That's just it." She replied turning from him. "I'm not Ava."
"What?" he asked in shock.
"When Ava was on Antar, I ran into her. We immediately recognized each other, and planned to each go after one of your children, then meet back up at a designated point. I got Maxie, while she went after your daughter. We thought that by going separately we could get to the kids easier and quicker, before anyone would realize what was going on. And they all thought Tess was the only one there so their sensors missed both of us.
"But something went wrong. I saw it all in my mind. She had just gotten to the girl when Tess walked in. She was furious and killed Ava. But she hadn't realized Ava was holding Larina, your daughter. She was even angrier when she realized she had killed not only her double, but her daughter as well. I knew I had to get away before she realized I had Maxie, so I left, and came to you."
"Why did you pretend to be Ava?" he asked as he tried to grasp everything he had been told.
"I didn't think you would trust me otherwise." She replied. "And I had to get your son to you."
"So who are you?" he asked softly, some reason his heart was telling him to not think about it and simply accept. She was still the same person he had lived with for the past few years.
"My real name is Farina. Ava was my sister. All our lives on earth we would meet in our dreams, that's why we recognized each other on Antar."
"You're the one who created us?" he asked in surprise. "But how did you…"
"Get here?" she asked with a half-smile. "I was a sorceress, the only one in my family for generations. I was able to see my own future in a small way, and saw that I would die. But I also knew that you would not have all the information you would need, so with our parents' help, another hybrid was created with my DNA and sent along with Marena and the others."
"All right. So would you like to be called Farina again?" he asked with a smile.
She closed her eyes as she smiled. "You have no idea how nice that would be. And be able to have my real hair color again."
"You're not a blonde."
"No." she replied before waving her hand in front of herself. When she was done, she had the same features and blue eyes she always had, looking identical to Tess and Ava, but she had the same color hair as Michael, though hers was much longer and curlier, reaching her waist.
"Michael is going to freak." Max said with a smile.
Farina smiled softly. "Thank you."
"Your welcome. Thank you for rescuing my son."
"What else would I do." She replied.
Max shook his head before replying. "Come on, we have a lot to tell the others."
Farina took a deep breath and followed him out of the room.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Everyone sifted through the remnants of the Pod Chamber. It had been a week since the learned about Farina, and returned to Roswell to find Liz's journal. Unfortunately, it was missing. But, they had decided to look around the chamber hoping that there might be something there that could help them get a hold of Larrick.
It was the first time they had been back since the day Tess went to Antar, and things were a mess. They had been looking for hours, while the children were off with various grandparents, and were starting to think they would never find anything.
"Hey Max, what's this?" Kyle called from where he was standing near the pods. The group quickly made their way over to him, wondering what he had found. Next to one of the pods was an envelope.
"I don't know what that is." Max said surprised, how had that survived the blast?
"Whose pod is this?" Farina asked softly
"Mine." Max replied as he picked the two objects up. "Do we still have a copy of Alex's program?" he asked as he looked at them.
"Yeah, it's at the house." Maria replied.
"Well, why don't we go see what this is, maybe there is something here that will help." Iz said with a shrug.
Two hours later, everyone sat around the living room while the computer began to print the translations. Max walked over and picked up the translation of the letter like object.
"Oh my God! It's a letter, from Liz."
"In Antarian?" Isabel asked in surprise.
"Yeah…" Max trailed off as he read. "This doesn't make sense." He continued as he looked up at them.
"How did it get in the chamber anyway?" Farina asked.
"Here, let me read it." He replied.
"Dear Max,
By now I have probably disappeared, and if my dreams are true, then you have come looking for me, and probably found Alex, Serena, the others, and I. And we have probably disappeared again.
There are probably a hundred questions running through the minds of each of you, starting with who I was, as I'm sure the explanation I gave didn't answer any questions. Also, you are probably wondering who Serena is. Once again, I probably didn't give you any answers.
Unfortunately, I can't tell you. There is another like us, our guardian was a close friend, and kept in contact with Antar for a short time after she first came to earth. Serena, my daughter's namesake and our guardian, learned that Farina created another, one of herself. She is somewhere on earth as well, find her if you can. She will understand why I can't tell you all of this, and could explain why in a small way.
She will be able to help you, in more ways that just being able to answer any questions you may have about my secrecy. She was trained as a sorceress, as was I. She can help all of you with your powers, defining them even more than they are. And you will need that. Kivar will come after you. And the last thing I want to see one day is your deaths. Please, don't let that happen, I saw your deaths once, and heard of them another time. I can not manage if I know that you died once more.
By now you also know that my journal is missing. Farina will be able to help you find it. It's been about three years since I left Roswell, I know you, that you would not have read my journal. Which is probably a good thing now. I have taken it and written our history in it. I cannot tell it to you, but I could write it down. There are always ways around the rules, luckily this one will work. I snuck into the chamber and am going to leave this here for you to find. I know that none of you have thought to come back here, and my hope is that when you learn the journal is gone, you might come here to see if there is anything that could be useful.
Please know that I am truly sorry for the way things have turned out.
Liz"
"Makes sense that Serena would have heard about me." Farina said with a soft smile. "Larrick was probably the one to tell her."
"Who was Serena? The first Serena I mean." Maria asked.
"Larrick's sister. She was a good friend after I lost all of you. She volunteered to take the five here, and make sure things would get settled right."
"So we were never suppose to meet them." Max asked softly.
"No, it wasn't in the plan, Kivar would find you eventually, but we wanted to make sure he didn't find out about them until it was too late. I don't know what Serena was thinking when she brought Liz and Alex here."
"She didn't." Maria replied. "The Whitman's moved here when we were two, the Parker's about six months before. That was the reason Alex and Liz knew each other longer, they both lived in the same town in Washington, then the Whitman's followed the Parker's, something about better job opportunities."
"So she probably got all of them set up in that town in Washington, she couldn't have gotten further away from you, and especially the other set." Farina mused.
"But wasn't Liz's grandmother from here?" Kyle asked confused.
"After they married, Jeff and Nancy went north. They were both from Roswell."
"So that's why none of them talked about the adoption. People all assumed they were their children, they looked like their parents, and when they moved to Roswell, they were a part of the family." Michael said softly.
"Yeah," Max began. "Farina, what was Liz talking about?" Everyone turned towards Farina expectantly.
"The sorceress, as well as the sorcerers on Antar are governed by a group of powerful sorcerers and sorceress know as the council. They forbid us to talk of anything regarding our past. Other than that, I can't tell you anything, or else." She finished with a slight shrug.
"All right, but through the journal Liz found a way around it. So, what about the part that said you would know?"
"I don't know Max." Farina replied honestly. "Is there anything else in the letter?"
"No." Max replied thinking they had reached another dead end.
"Can I see the original?" she asked after a moment.
"Sure." He replied handing it to her.
After a few moments scanning the letter Farina sat up straighter. "She's a genius."
"What?" Iz asked.
"Liz, she's a genius. Part of the letter didn't translate, because it wasn't in the Antarian Alex created the program for."
"Then what was it in?" Michael asked confused.
"An ancient dialect of Antarian, used only by the council and others of our particular kind. It is taught only to sorcerers and sorceress."
"So…" Maria prompted.
"It's how to contact Larrick personally."