PART 5

They walked for a while. To her relief and surprise they didn't go to the sewers. Maria payed attention and looked around so that she was aware where they were. Then Rath started to drag her towards an apartment building. Maria tripped and Rath was beside her right away.

"Ya okay?" He asked and to her surprise he sounded very concerned.

"Just peachy." She mumbled and got up. Again Rath wrapped his hand around her shoulders but now she noticed that she could escape if she wanted to.

"C'mon." He said and led her in.

They stopped in front of a door and Rath put his hand on the lock. After a click he opened the door and pushed her in. Then he turned to close the door.

"Rath? Did ya bring anythin' to eat?" She heard a familiar sound asking. "Whose the chick?"

In front of her stood a guy with dark hair styled to spikes and a ring on his right eyebrow. 'Max?' was Maria's first thougth but then it cleared to her. "ZAN?!"

"So he knows my name. Ya've told her about me?" He asked and Rath took his jacket off. Zan look closely at her wearing long denim skirt, baby blue sleeveless shirt which stopped just before the skirt started, and denim jacket. "So ya bring her here... for what? For a little bit fun?"

"No." Rath said. "Ya remember that hot chick I told ya about after the summit thing?"

"Yea... Ya mean, she's the..?" Zan asked and Rath nodded. "Ya were right. Damn!"

Maria didn't pay attention to the conversation. She looked around in the, as shocking as it sounds like, quite clean apartment. They had a couch and an armchair next to the couch. They were placed in front of a table where were a small portable tv-set. Between the tv-set and the couch was a coffee table. On the floor was few rugs and then there was a small kitchen and near the kitchen were three doors. Two of them were open and she could see that one was the bathroom and the other one was a bedroom. She saw an unmade bed and some clothes on the floor. There wasn't any curtains on the windows but it wasn't like there was any need. They were on the fourth floor. She wondered how they could keep their place so clean but another thought came to her mind. 'Zan. Alive. How?' She tried to clear her head but it was quite hard. After a month of being pregnant and alone she had now seen both Michael and Max's dupes. It was very disturbing.

"YO! Maria!" She heard Rath yell and turned around. Sure she was scared and confused but she was also a teflon babe.

"What do you want from me?" She asked, not liking the situation at all. "And how is it that you're alive?" She asked from Zan.

"I could want lots of things right now, sweetheart." Zan said and the way he said it made Maria want to throw up. He looked like Max, for crying out loud, and that tone and Max was just didn't fit.

"Stuff it, Zan." Rath said quickly and turned to Maria. "Sit down."

"No, I won't." She said back and a memory of her and Michael fighting and making up after that flashed to her mind.

"She has fire in her." Zan said and flashed a grin. Rath dragged her next to a couch.

"Sit or I'll make ya sit."

Maria sat to a couch and noticed how comfortable it was. She first looked at Zan and then Rath and then again Zan. "How you're still alive? You were supposed to be dead."

"She knows?" Zan asked.

"Ava gave a flash to someone in Roswell." Rath explained.

"Why anyone doesn't tell me anything anymore? Crap!" Zan swore and turned to Maria. "Ava wasn't the only one who could mind warp. That truck wasn't a truck. It was an illusion."

"Now it's yar turn to answer. Where's the others?" Rath asked and Zan raised his eyebrow's.

"She's alone in the city?" He asked and Rath nodded. "I like the fact."

"Not now, Zan. Maybe later." Rath said and sat next to Maria.

"I allready told you. They're still in Roswell, New Mexico." She said and got up. "I'm leaving."

"Not yet, babe." Rath said and drew her back to the couch. "Besides, the door's welded shut."

Rath put his arm around her and Zan sat to the other side of her so that she was sitting in the middle of them.

"Tell us, whacha doin' in here all by yourself." Rath asked. 'And why I want to protect ya?' he added in his mind.

"What are you going to do to me?" she asked with fear. Zan took her face to his hand turned her face so that she was facing him.

"Whacha want us to do to ya?" He asked his lips inches apart from Maria's.

"Nuthin'." Rath said and pushed Zan's face away from Maria's. "We ain't gonna do nuthin' if yar co-operative."

"I was forced to leave. He couldn't kill me so he told me to leave?" she told them and put her head to her hands.

"Who forced ya? My dupe?" Rath asked and Maria shook her head 'no'.

"It was a guy named Bob. An alien." Maria had a feeling that told her that it was safe to tell them everything. "He said that he was the royal four's protector. He wanted to take them to Antar but Michael didn't want to go. He said that it was because of me. He had to kill me but after he tried he said that he couldn't."

"Why?" Zan asked.

"He said that he couldn't kill an Antarian even thought it isn't a full blooded one." Maria told them.

After the shock Rath found his voice. "Ya mean yar an alien? An Antarian?" he asked but Maria shook her head 'no'.

"Then what is it?" Zan asked and Maria got up.

"I don't have to tell you anything." She said and walked to the door and tried to open it.

"Welded, remember?" Rath yelled and Maria started to bang the door. Each bang was louder and louder than the one before. Rath noticed that she was doing more than trying to break the door. She was letting out of rage.

Maria kicked and slammed her fist against the door. She wanted to be with Michael. Not in his dupe's apartment. She wanted to kill Bob for trying to kill her and her baby. She wanted to kill him for threating to kill her friends. Tears started to ran down her cheeks.

Rath got up and walked behind her, took a hold of her wrists and turned her around. Immeaditely Maria's face was buried against his chest and he felt her shaking. His shirt started to get wet and it was then when he realized that she was crying. Not used to comforting a crying woman he let go of her wrists and wrapped his arms around her slowly smoothing her back.

"What is it? What's wrong?" he asked and she mumbled something against his shirt.

"What?" Zan asked and walked next to them.

"I said I'm pregnant. Michael's the father." She said loud and clear and started to cry again against Rath's shirt.

TBC...

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A/N: If anyone can tell me how to use boldfacing, underlining and italicizing, please, tell me. I am more than happy to know. :) Thanks. Review!