"My dad was the only one who ever called me that. How did you know that name?"

"Someone very special told me about you."

"Who?" Sera asked with wide eyes.

Maria gasped suddenly. "Serena, Serena?" she asked looking at Liz.

Liz shook her head and wiped at her teary eyes.

"I've been wondering when you were going to show up." She reached forward and pulled

Sera into a hug.

"Liz. Don't!" Max said fearing for his girlfriend's safety.

"Max its OK. She's a friend. She's one of you."

"Yeah and we all know how well that turned out last time." Kyle said bitterly from the

corner.

"Kyle." Sera looked at her boyfriend.

He walked to her. "Just tell me one thing. Why? Why did you lie to me."

"Kyle, I didn't lie to you."

"YOU LIED! Failing to tell me that you are another life form is

a lie!"

"Kyle, what." Sera began reaching out to touch him.

"Don't touch me! Don't ever touch me again!

His voice lowered as he looked at his friends. "I can't do this."

He focused on Maria and Liz. "I can't. Not after Tess."

He looked back at Sera. "You're just as bad as she was, maybe worse."



"Kyle!" Sera gasped, startled by his vehemence

"It's done. We're over." he spat angrily before striding to the door.

"Kyle." Isabel called.

"Not now Iz." he slammed the door behind him as he left.

The Pod Squad, Maria and Liz looked at each other warily.

Liz smoothed Sera's hair, "You know he didn't mean that. He was just venting. He'll be

OK once he's had time to process everything."

Sera didn't respond, she just stared at the door and tried not to fall to pieces.

"You really believe that this is the mystery woman Future Maxwell told you?" Michael

asked looking at Liz.

She nodded. "It makes sense, doesn't it. Future Max told me Serena was going to be a

friend of mine someday. This is her Michael, I'm sure.

"Liz, we can't afford to be wrong. I won't let what happened with Tess to happen

again." Max stated, his tone firm

I think Liz's right."

Everyone looked at Isabel. "I've been in her dreams. There's nothing alien related,

nothing dark and mysterious."

"You've been in my dreams? What does that mean?" Sera finally snapped out of her

trance. She turned from the door to regard Isabel.

"I have abilities like you. One of mine is that I can enter people's dreams."

"How is that possible."

"The same way you can do what you do."

"Why do we have these abilities? What's causing it?"

"Nothing's causing it. It's the way we were created."

Sera's eyes widened. "Created?"

Liz took Sera's hands in hers. "Max, Michael and Isabel are different from us. They

aren't from around here."

"What are you talking about?"

"Liz! Michael met her eyes. We made a pact when Alex died; no one else would ever

find out. You agreed to that!"

"Michael she's one of you, she has the right to know. She can help us."

"Like Tess helped us?"

"She's not like Tess."

"How do you know? When Tess was revealed to be one of us no one trusted her. We

let her have a bit of trust and what did she do? She betrayed us, killed one of our

friends and blasted off this planet with Max's son in tow. Now I don't know about you

but those previous events don't make me feel all warm and cuddly concerning the

latest alien in the mix."

"Michael." Iz warned.

"Dammit Isabel. We let Tess in and she murdered your boyfriend. Are you

experiencing Déjà vu yet or do you need another dead body to turn up before

it sinks in?"

"That's not fair Michael!"

"No, fair would be Alex here with us. Fair would have been to never have seen the

woman I love in that much pain and not a damn thing I could do about it.

Fair would be for the alien shit to finally be over and for us to be able to lead some

kind of normal life. Isn't that what you always wanted?"

"I'm sorry." Everyone's attention turned to Sera, who was sitting with her knees pulled to

her chest rocking back and forth slightly.

"I didn't mean for any of this to happen, I don't even know why its happening;

but I don't want to be the cause of problems between all of you."

Liz patted Sera's arm once before moving to Max and speaking in a hushed tone to him.

"I want to try something."

He looked down at his girlfriend. "What?"

"I want to tell Sera our story."

Max shook his head. "I don't understand."

"I want to show her what's happened since you've saved me."

"No."

"Max."

"No, Liz, we don't know who she is anymore, we don't know what she could do."

Maria bristled at this. "We know she's our friend. We know she saved my life tonight."

"She could have staged the whole thing to gain our trust."

"Paranoid much Michael."

"Isabel, this isn't a joke. We have enemies out there. Probably even more since we

didn't return home this summer per Nasedo's plan."

"I'm with Liz." Maria said moving closer to her best friend.

Michael shook his head. "No way."

"I don't think it's a good idea." Max said.

Isabel looked torn for a moment before looking at Liz and Maria.

"I'm sorry you guys. But something bad always seems to happen to everyone who

knows about us."

Liz wasn't ready to give up.

"You all know what Future Max said. Serena helps us in the future."

"Yeah well. Future Max also said Alex was at your wedding." Michael said, looking

directly at Liz

Her eyes filled with tears and she quickly looked away.

"That's enough!!" Max yelled silencing everyone.

He looked at Sera. "Can I, I need to see something."

Sera tried to read Max's face. She sensed anger and distrust, but mostly a want to trust, all he

needed was a reassurance.

"What ever you need Max. What ever you need."

Michael caught Max's arm as he walked toward Sera, "Maxwell, I don't think this is such a

good idea."

"You'll be here to save me if I get into trouble."

Max sat next to Sera. "Look at me."

Sera raised her eyes to meet Max's and she nodded her head.

Max grasped the sides of Sera's face; but before he could open a connection, Liz took

one of his hands.

"Liz, no."

"Max, I want her to see everything."

"Liz."

"Max do you trust me?"

"Of course I do, with my life."

"And I trust Sera. Please let me help."

There was an extremely pregnant pause before Max spoke again.

"OK" TBC