"No poor Maria you can't help him, you can't even help yourself." He said
laughing harder. Michael fell to his knees and looked up at Maria one last
time and then fell to the ground landing on his stomach trying not to push
the blade in farther than it was.

Maria struggled with Shane kicking her legs wildly. "Let
me go, he needs me! I can't believe you did this you Mother Fucker." She yelled
through the fresh tears that were now running down her face.

"He needs you? What about me? I need you Maria, Forget about him!" He
twirled her around to face him. " Now either come with me or so help me God
I'll kill you, Its that simple make your choice I'm getting sick and tired of
fucking around."

"Boy your mind must be some whacked and deluded place! After all of this you expect me to go with you? Yeah right, Now why don't you just do what your going to do, all of this is getting very
old." She said frigidly. 'Oh Michael don't worry I'll be with you soon.' Maria thought to herself. She couldn't wait to die now. After witnessing what Shane did she didn't know if she wanted to live anymore. 'Might as well be tough in your final minutes.' She said to herself.

"So come on Shane I don't have all friggen night lets go here! Your so
pathetic you know that! Oooo...Maria won't go out with me I guess I better
nag the hell out of her 10 times a day, Steal her diary and read it out loud,
try to rape her and now stab Michael, Yeah that'll change her mind she'll
surely want to go out with me now." She shouted in a whinny voice. "Whatever
your going to do get it over with now God Damnit!!"

Shane just looked at her and then grabbed her by her hair. "Fine I don't need
you! Fun while it lasted but its over now!" He dragged her over to the pond and threw her into a shallow section. He followed her in and grabbed her before she could get away. "Maria this could have been different." He said as he grabbed her hair again and forced her to her knees. The water came up to her waist now, he pushed her down and shoved her head underwater.

Maria was horrified now, thoughts racing threw her head. She put her hands
down and tried pushing herself up. All the stones dug into her hands and the
wet marshy sand found its way under her nails as she tried desperately to
push her head above water for a breath of air. She started thrashing her
whole body around. Maria opened her mouth to scream but
the water ran in choking her. Shane lifted her head and Maria spit out water
and started gasping for air. "What's wrong Maria can't you breath?" He shoved
her head back under water not allowing her to recover.

Michael raised his head and looked around. He seen Shane holding Maria down
in the water and knew this was as good a time as any, no one would see. He
lifted himself up to his knees and griped the handle of the knife and started
pulling it out slowly trying not to let out a yell as the pain hit him. He
knew it would all be over quickly though, as the final part of the blade came
out of his skin the blood poured out freely. Michael dropped the knife then
covered his wound with his hand and concentrated. He felt his organs, muscles and skin meshing
itself back together and the pain disappeared at once. He picked up the knife, stood then started walking over to them.

"What's that Maria I can't hear you." He held her struggling form under the
water no intentions of letting her up this time. Maria started to weaken her
legs stopped kicking and the water started to engulf her lungs. She felt the
life start to leave her when Shane's hand lost its hold on her and she flew
up trying to breathe but started choking up all the water that was in her.

Michael held the knife to Shane's throat. "Don't you move, I'll kill you.
How could you hurt her like this? Huh? Answer me now!" Michael yelled at him.
Shane was not affected at all by his anger and tried to look at him. "Don't
you look at me apologize to her right now before I kill you."

Shane looked at Maria and entertained the idea of apologizing to her but
dismissed it. "I don't apologize to anyone especially loose little sluts." He raised
his foot swiftly kicking it at Maria, connecting it with her face, knocking her out
instantly. Maria flew back landing on the shore the water partially covering her. Michael couldn't believe he did that. He looked at Maria's battered body and felt something in his brain disconnect.

"That's it I gave you a fucking chance, She would have never been with you
anyways look at how you would have treated her. She deserves to be treated
like a goddess, and you could have never given her that but I can make her
happy and I will. Sorry Shane but your time is up." Michael brought back the
knife and thrusted it into his back twisting it up and then rising it slowly
slicing his insides. Shane's eyes shook for a moment before he gave out and
hung there on the blade which was supported by Michael's hand. Michael pushed
him off and he dropped into the water. Michael held the knife in one hand and passed over it with the other and it disintegrated instantly.

Michael walked over to where Maria lay and brought her further up the shore.
He kneeled down beside her and took off his jacket. He pulled her uniform
together and adjusted her ripped coat so it would cover her as best as it
could. He then covered her with his own jacket and put her arm behind his
neck. He placed one hand under her knees and the other under her neck and lifted her to him and stood. He started walking in the direction of her home. He knew exactly where it was, Sometimes when he felt really alone he'd walk there and sit across the street wondering what she was doing. Sometimes he could see her in her room and wished he was in there with her, she always
seemed so happy.

Michael carried her through the rest of the park and down some of the streets
of Roswell. He made it to her house and went around to her window and opened
it up. He put her threw the window first and laid her gently on her bedroom
floor. He came in after her and then picked her up again and carried her to
the bed where he laid her down. He pulled his coat and then Maria's off of
her and looked over the cuts that scattered her body. He brought his hand up
and stroked the welt's and bruises that were forming on her face. His hand
started to glow and the swelling started to vanish. He brought his hand down
to her neck and healed the small slice that was there. Michael then brought
his hand down to her legs and healed each small cut until her legs were
perfect again.

Michael scanned her body and didn't see anymore visible marks so he placed
his hand on her chest and it started to glow even more brightly than before,
it seemed to be digging deeper into her body examining her lungs and getting
rid of the stagnate water that was in there. Michael pulled away and the glowing
stopped. He closed her uniform and pulled up the comforter to cover her.

Michael wasn't going to leave her alone tonight so he grabbed some extra
blankets out of her closet and made a bed on the ground beside her. He would however be gone before she woke up in the morning.