Author's notes: Okay this chapter has been driving me insane and as taken me ages to write and I still haven't gotten it the way I wanted it but now I am too pissed off to change it so it will have to do. Okay another point this whole story is jumping and changing and not really going the way I had planned it too and its coming out all weird with the characters changing their views and stuff I have already planned the ending out and I think this story has only got like three more chapters until the end. Anyway I have no idea if any of that made sense I am too tired to care. Hope you enjoy this chapter and remember to review!

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Where do we go from here? His voice echoes in her head even after he had left

Where do we go from here? The words were haunting her

Where do we go from here? The question he had asked and she hadn't been able to under answer.

Flashback

"Where do we go from here?" Michael asks his eyes full of hope; blind to the problems that Maria was not seeing all too clearly

"I don't know!" Maria sighs. Why didn't she know? A voice screams in the back of her head.

If he had asked her an hour ago or even ten minutes ago she would have been able to answer him straight away, she would of said to him that she loved him and that she forgave him and that she wanted to get back together.

But now, now she had heard the whole story, the whole reason and she wasn't sure if she could take him back, she didn't think that she could be that selfish.

"You don't know!" Michael repeats, he closes his eyes tight, that hadn't been the answer he had been expecting or wanting

"Michael, this is all to much for me to taken I just need time!" she says running her hand through her hair to keep from reaching for him

"Is this because of that Riley guy?" Michael asks his voice barely coming out as a whisper

"No its not. This is about me and you!" Maria says shaking her head her curls flying wildly around her face

"I don't understand!" Michael says looking at her with pure confusion in his honey brown eyes

"Michael, what you told me has opened my eyes and I just need time to think!"

"I love you!" Michael whispers reaching for her hand

"I love you too but you have a destiny and if you don't follow that destiny with Isabel then all those people on your home planet are going to die!" Maria tells him

"Maria, I don't care all I care about is you!" Michael states

"We both know that you care and if you didn't help those people then you would regret for the rest of your life and you would hate me because I let you do it I let you walk away from all those people!" Maria says tear welling up in her eyes making them shine.

"I could never hate you!"

"Michael please I just need time to be by myself!" Maria states pulling her hand away from him

"Time? Just promise me that once you have done whatever you have to do your come and find me!" Michael says getting up from the floor

"Good bye Michael!" Maria says softly

"Not a good bye just a see you later!" Michael says just as softly before leaving the way he had came

End of flashback

Maria cries softly into her pillow, her heart breaking, she couldn't let go of him, she couldn't it would kill her to live without him any longer. She needed him like oxygen.

She quickly wipes her eyes and pulls on a jacket; she knew where she had to be!

She walks through the dark street, trying to clear her mind of all that Michael had said.

It was all so unbelievable but she knew deep down that it was the truth; she just wasn't sure what she was going to about it.

She runs up the stairs of Michael's apartment block and walks quickly to his door.

She reaches up to knock the door but something makes her stop, her hand just centimetres from the door.

Maybe she shouldn't of come maybe she needs more time to think these things though.

The door swings open to revel Michael, his eyes full of questions as he drinks in the sight off her, as she stands on his doorstep looking unsure of herself and nervous.

"Hey," he says the first of the two to speak

"Hey," Maria says biting her lip unsure of what else to say

"We need to talk still!" Maria states and Michael moves aside to let her enter the apartment

"Maria…"

"Michael, let me talk!" Maria orders and Michael nods since he needed to know what Maria was going to say, he needed to hear her say whatever she was about to say in hope that it would give him piece of mind

"You have a destiny with Isabel and you have to save those people on that planet but I can't let go of you, Michael I love you so much it hurts but I can't let you forget about your destiny there is too many lives at stake and I won't be able to forgive myself knowing that because of me helpless beings died because I was selfish. I need to be with you but you need to be with Isabel!" Maria stops pausing for a breath and gives Michael a chance to speak

"Maria, I need you! Not Isabel!" Michael states and moves closer to her.

In the beginning, when he had first discovered about destiny, when he had still held on to that dream of going home, when Max and Liz had first started with their little talks, he had believed that what he was doing was for the best that what he was doing was for the best for everyone, it was best for Maria for him to leave her alone and he needed to be a stone wall and when he was around Maria he didn't feel like a stone wall he felt human and that was something he always thought he would never ever want to feel because he didn't belong here on this planet he belonged somewhere else.

But being away from Maria, feeling like his heart was being ripped to sheds every time he saw her and knowing that he couldn't go to her, couldn't talk her, the feeling of emptiness that had engulfed him.

Michael can't help but remember a time before Maria when that emptiness had been all he had while he searched for somewhere he belonged.

He always believed that he was searching for a planet hidden in the stars his home, always out of his reach but now he had found what he was looking for and it wasn't a far off planet, it was Maria.

Maria was his home, he had found somewhere he belonged and he didn't want to let go of it!

"Michael…" Maria sighs not knowing what to say or do. She wanted him, she needed him and she knew that she was selfish because of it. It just hurt so much.

"Maria…" Michael says taking her hands into his.

They stand still, just looking at each other, absorbing everything.

"You and Isabel are meant to be together. Michael you were made for her!" Maria says pulling away from him. She moves towards the window and watches as the grey clouds pull together.

How could things change so quickly? This morning she was full of plans on how to make Michael jealous and now she was the on telling him that they couldn't be together.

"Maria, I love you. What do I have to do to prove it to you!" Michael asks running his hands through his hair

"You don't have to prove it to me cause I know!"

"Then why…"

"You have a…"

"You know what Maria I know I have a destiny and you know I don't need you to keep remind me!" Michael says angrily

"I should never of come here!" Maria turns and starts to walk out

"Maria you keep using destiny has your excuse as to why we can't be together but you know what I think you are scared!" Michael shouts to her back

"You right Michael! I am scared, you walked away the first time I gave you my heart what's to stop you doing it a second time? What's to stop you running off with Isabel again?" Maria cries at him

"What's to stop you leaving me and going back to your home planet with Isabel? How do I know that you're not going to break my heart again? It nearly killed me the first time I don't think I could go through that a second time!" Maria says and tears fall gracefully down her pale cheeks causing Michael's heart to bleed with pain

"Maria I promise…"

"Don't!" Maria says before he could finish his promise

"Don't make promises you can't keep!" Maria whispers

"Maria, please don't walk away from me!" Michael pleads

"I can't do this Michael, I am not strong enough to go through the heart break again"

"I won't break your heart Maria, I need you!"

"I have to go!" Maria states and tries to leave the apartment but Michael grabs her arm and pulls her towards him

"Stop running!" Michael orders not willing to let Maria leave until they had finished talking

"Let go of me, I need to go home!" Maria says trying to pull herself free

"Not until we have sorted this thing out!" Michael states

"Michael we can't be together, I love you but we just can't!" Maria sobs and Michael pulls her closer to him, wrapping his arms around her waist.

"Shh its okay!" Michael whispers in her ear

"Its not okay, its not fair!" Maria cries gripping the front of his shirt and resting her forehead on his shoulder.

Why did life have to be so unfair?

She had never counted on finding her perfect match at such a young age; she had always thought that she would have to go through a few Mr wrongs before she got to her Mr right but then again life never seems to go the way you planned it to go its always changing and twisting.   

"Maria, just listen do what I have to say!" Michael begs. God he had missed the feel of her in his arms.

Maria nods unable to move from his embrace, not wanting to move.

"We could just take it slow, get to know each other again!" Michael suggests in a whisper

"We don't have to rush into anything, please don't shut me out!" Michael says and holds his breath has he waits for her reply

"Slow?" Maria repeats

"Yeah we don't even have to tell anyone if you don't want to, not until you're ready!" Michael says nodding his head hoping that what he was saying making sense to Maria

Slow.

"Okay" Maria sighs resting her head on his shoulder

"Okay?" Michael asks in shock, he hadn't expected her to say okay so quickly.

"I love you Michael!" Maria whispers feeling emotionally drained

"I love you too!"