CHAPTER 7

****Alex's Dream****

" Great, this dream again." Alex mumbled as she looked around the desert. This dream had stopped for awhile now it's back.

" Alex." A voice whispered. Alex didn't turn around; she knew if she did she'd wake up.

" Who's there?" Alex shouted. She began to play with her hair, and then realized something was off.

" Wait, my hair is short." Alex looked at her self and her clothes looked old but new.

" Oh my god. I'm 15 again." Alex couldn't believe this.

" Alex." The voice was beginning to sound like a woman. Turning around Alex saw the women." Oh god. My life couldn't get worst." Alex mumbled.

" Alex." Isabel said.

" Let me guess. You've been trying to get into my dreams for awhile." Alex put her hands on her hips.

" Alex, please understand." Isabel was saying.

" No, it's okay. The world makes plenty of sense, Isabel." Alex was turning cold.

" I hate the desert! Take me home!" Alex screamed at the sky. And then she was in the Crashdown wearing her green top and black jeans. Alex was trying to figure how old she was. Then she spotted Isabel's ring on her finger. Valenti gave it to her when she turned 15 but Alex didn't start wearing it until Amy died. So she was almost 17.

" Wow, this is how the Crashdown looks." Isabel said looking around. Alex looked at Isabel. Her pictures didn't show how pretty she was. Isabel had grown her hair out and left it blonde. There was a small smile on Isabel's face and Alex knew that smile to well.

" I guess. Jeff says that I made this place my own." Alex told her. Isabel then looked at her.

" Your beautiful." Isabel said.

" This was two years ago." Alex stated.

" Why aren't you your normal self?" Isabel asked.

" I'm not sure." Alex said.

" Wait this is your dream. Why isn't anything happening?" Isabel asked.

" Alex, you're not allowed to use my cd player." Josh's voice came from the back room.

" Why?" Alex's voice replied.

" Oh my god, I'm reliving a memory." Alex was shocked.
" What?" Isabel asked. Suddenly the two came into the Crashdown.

" You need to keep your cds at your house." Dream Josh told her.

" Oh, and you need to keep them organized. If I'm ever going to move in with you and Kam." Dream Alex began cleaning the counters.

" Maybe we should go?" Normal Alex suggested. She didn't want Isabel seeing this.

" So what are we doing Friday?" Dream Josh asked.

" You have something in mind." Dream Alex teased.

" What a guy isn't allowed to go out with is girlfriend?" Dream Josh asked.

" Your not any guy, Josh. You're my guy and for you going out well is not normal." Dream Alex began to put up chairs.

" Well you know how heat and I are." Dream Josh said to her. The two began to kiss.

" Change, Change." Alex mumbled.

" That's Maria and Michael's Josh." Isabel stated. Suddenly they're at the park.

" Your not sleeping with him are you?" Dream Kam asked.

" Kam, it's non of your business." Dream Alex told him.

" Tell me, your not." Isabel demanded.

" You two are." Dream Kam said.

" We're not sleeping together. We made love, once." Dream Alex told him. Normal Alex couldn't believe this.

" You've had sex." Isabel couldn't believe this was her daughter.

" Oh no. Don't you dare pull the mother role on me. I needed you ten years ago, not now." Alex had to be dreaming. Wait she was but it was a nightmare. Alex walked away. Suddenly her and Isabel were back in the Crashdown. Alex realized she was her normal self.

" Why are you here?" Alex asked.

" I wanted to see you." Isabel answered. " I want you to understand why I did what I did." Isabel added.

" I already know." Alex told her.

" What? How?" Isabel didn't understand.

" Michael told me." Alex replied.

" Wait, Michael, how?" Isabel was stunned.

" We went looking for you guys and well let's just say I'm at Michael and Maria's place." Alex said.

" Why haven't they called me?" Isabel asked.

" Because I collapsed, and I wasn't ready to see you." Alex told her.

" Why?" Isabel asked.

" Why? How can you ask me that? I never knew if I was some. Some mistake. And I didn't know if you wanted to see me and I was afraid you wouldn't want me." Alex never admitted that much to someone so quick.

" Why wouldn't I want you? You're my daughter, and I love you." Isabel told her.

" This too much." Alex looked at Isabel.

" Why?" Isabel.

" I have to wake up." Alex told her.

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Isabel sat up in bed. She noticed Kyle was not in bed.

" Kyle!" Isabel called.

" Yeah?" Kyle walked back into the room.

" Yeah, Iz?" Kyle repeated.

" We have to go to Colorado." Isabel began to get dressed.

" Why?" Kyle asked.

" Alex is there." Isabel said.

*****Michael & Maria's********

" Well, what are we going to do?" Max asked. Everyone in the house was up except Alex. Meredith and Nicole kept quiet while the other seven talked.

" We can't call, Iz." Michael stated.

" Should we move Alex?" Josh asked.

" I don't think we should." Max said.

" You know, having us in a big group like this could bring attention." Liz was trying to prove a point." So why don't we have Josh and Alex stay with Maria and Michael while everyone else goes home." Liz suggested.

" The other three can go back to Roswell, I'm staying." Kam stated.

" Kam." Josh said.

" No, Josh. She is like my sister. I'm not leaving." Kam was not backing down.

" Hey, I can take the girls back. That's fine." Seth said. They all agreed on that knowing it would be easier. So as soon as they could Meredith, Seth and Nicole headed back. " See you soon." Seth said to Josh.

" You need me for anything. Anything call." Nicole told Kam.

" I will. I promise." Kam told her. Nicole got into the car with Meredith.

" Hey Kam. Call me if you need help." Seth said to him.

" You know I will." Kam said.

" Nice meeting you all." Seth said to them.

" I hope I can know you better, Max." Seth extended his hand to Max.

" Me too." Max shook his hand smiling.

After the three had left Alex came down the stairs.

" She's coming." Alex said.

" Who is?" Josh went up to her. She was frighten he could tell.

" Isabel, she came into my dream. I told her how we were here and she's going to come." Alex sobbed. Josh hugged her as she began to sob harder.

" Great going Izzy." Max said under his breath. Josh got Alex to sit on the couch.

" What happened?" Liz asked softly.

" There was a point I was having a dream where I was in the desert. I would scream and then someone would say my name. The minute I turned around I woke up. This time it was the same but different. The person that said my name was Isabel. What was weird I was reliving memories. And I was in my 15 year old body, then 17 then now." Alex explained.

" What memories?" Max asked.

" One at the Crashdown and at the park." Alex said.

" Which time at the park?" Kam asked.

" The one where you and I talked ... personal." Alex was cutting it short.

" Which time Alex?" Kam was more demanding.

" The time you asked about my sex life." Alex told him.

" Wait what?" Josh looked at Kam.

" That was two years ago." Kam told him.

" What did you tell him?" Josh asked Alex.

" It was one time." Alex replied.

" Izzy saw that?" Max asked.

" Yeah, but she the Crashdown one first." Alex told him.

" When was the Crashdown thing?" Josh asked.

" We started making out." Alex told him. Michael started laughing.

" Sorry, its just Izzy saw this?" Michael looked around the room.

" What Michael?" Maria asked.

" The Crashdown has seen a lot." Michael smirked.

" Michael." Maria started smacking him.

" So does she know about the baby?" Max ignored Michael and Maria.

" I was getting weak, I didn't have time. I just got out of there." Alex told him.

" Ok, so she has no clue." Max was saying more of to himself.

" How about we delay our plane, Max. At least till Iz gets here." Liz suggested.

*********Later in the day********

" Not bad for an old man." Kam teased as he shot a basket.

" Your young have fun with it." Max commented.

" Alex would be killing you two." Josh laughed.

" She's that good?" Michael asked.

" She beats me and Kam on her own." Josh told him.

" She gets it from Kyle." Max said.

" Don't tell her that." Kam warned.

" She's a pretty tough thing." Michael said. It was a nice change to not be fighting and yelling. When Max stopped, Michael stopped. So the two went and sat at the chairs outside as they watched the other two.

" They are a lot like us." Max said.

" It's so weird, I mean did you actually picture them to be that much like us." Michael said.

" I was figuring they'd have more Liz and Maria." Max said.

" Alex is a complete mixture of Kyle and Iz." Michael pointed out.

" Do you ever wonder if that day was different? That that...." Max couldn't find the words.

" That we could have raised our kids?" Michael said for him.

" Yeah, that. Do you?" Max asked.

" Everyday, everyday, Maxwell." Michael said.

" But, they're happy. Maybe it was meant to be this way." Michael added.

" Yeah, that's true." Max replied.

" Spaceboy." Maria came walking out.

" Oh no." Michael mumbled. " Yes?" Michael answered.

" Why are you sitting on the sidelines? I keep your body in shape for a reason." Maria sat in Michael's lap. Max couldn't help but laughed.

" Can it, Maxwell." Michael said.

" What's so funny?" Liz came out too. All four were talking to each other and that they didn't noticed that Josh and Kam we watching and listening.

" They're arguing." Max answered.

" No, we're not." Both Maria and Michael said.

" They never grew up. Did they?" Liz laughed. Then Alex came stumbling out. She stood at the doorway as the others were outside.

" Someone's not playing basketball." Kam joked.

" Shut up." Alex told him.

" Come with us in the kitchen." Maria told Alex as her and Liz headed back in.

Once the three reached the kitchen Alex sat down at the table.

" I feel so sick." Alex said.

" Being pregnant sucks." Maria said.

" Jeez, Maria make the girl feel better." Liz commented.

" Girl talk." Maria said sitting at the table with ice cream in her hands.

" What?" Alex asked as Liz sat down too.

" We won't tell the guys anything you say and we're going to see how much you are of Iz." Liz Informed her.

" Fine, ask away." Alex didn't feel like arguing.

" When did you know you and Josh were in love?" Maria asked.

" Good one. It was my birthday, and Valenti gave me this ring. At the time I was so mad he gave it to me, that I threw it at him. I stormed out of the Crashdown and started walking out to the desert. Josh being Josh, he couldn't let me go off into the desert by myself so he follows me. We started arguing and I said something about the fact no one cares about me and I wouldn't be missed. I was crying by this point so he made me look at him and wiped my tears away. And said to me ' your crazy if you think Kam and me could live without you. Everyday I wake up and even though I know I may never see my parents. Your there to smile away all our problems and to make some joke. So don't ever, ever think I could live without you. Because I can't.' He made it sound simple, like it was no big deal but it meant everything to me." Alex looked up at Liz and Maria.

" He said that?" Maria was shocked.

" Yeah, he did." Alex liked that memory.

" Ok my turn. What do you think makes Kam, Kam?" Liz asked.

" He's gentle and caring. He is thoughtful and never does something without the thinking behind it." Alex answered.

" My turn. Why did you guys get involved?" Alex looked at the two hard.

" I would be dead if Max never healed me. If he didn't sacrifice himself, even Isabel and Michael I wouldn't be here." Liz answer was simple.

" Even though they were aliens, they were human. They just wanted to know what they were and who they were. How could we not help them?" Maria looked back at Alex.

" Do you work at the Crashdown?" Liz couldn't help but ask.

" Yes I do. Jeff actually wants me to own it." Alex told her.

" Are you going to?" Maria asked.

" Yeah, I told him when I got back." Alex answered.

" How soon do you guys think she'll get here?" Alex had to know.

" She could be here today, mostly likely tomorrow sometime." Liz said.

" Do you think I can face her?" It was Alex's biggest fear at that moment. Everything else she could handle just fine but coming face to face with her mother and father. She was planning on working up the nerve to do it but somewhere that was put aside when she had to rest all the time.

" I think you can." Liz told her. " You know why we did what we did." Liz added.

" I know for you four, yeah you didn't want to. But with me, she was married and I don't know if she ever really wanted me." Alex confessed.

" You don't know Izzy then." Maria replied.

" I don't. So tell why I shouldn't be afraid." Alex told them.

" She wanted you. But by the time you were born we knew we had to do that. Her and Kyle didn't want to do it as much as us. Don't ever think otherwise." Liz said softly.

" Happier thoughts. What are some of the happier moments for you three?" Maria tried to change the mood.

" Prom was pretty good." Alex commented.

" You guys went?" Liz asked.

" Last year Josh and me. Then Kam and Nicole. For Nicole it had to be perfect. So she decides she's getting ready with me at the Crashdown. By then the other two got their apartment, thank god. Josh and I were doing it just to be one time thing. Nicole had gone crazy, completely. When I was done, Nicole was saying to me that I should dress up more often and you're so pretty. She kept going and going. We had a lot of fun though." Alex told Liz and Maria.

" How cute." Maria said.

" Do you have pictures?" Liz asked.

" Not with me. Their in the truck." Alex told them. " Valenti always took tons of pictures of us. Amy always had a camera." Alex added.

******Outside*****

" What are they doing?" Josh asked. When the three left the room.

" Liz and Maria are probably teaching Alex the meaning of girl talk." Michael told him.

" Should we be afraid?" Kam asked.

" Very. Those two women can do a lot of damage." Max told them.

" I'm worried." Josh said.

" You should be." Michael tells him.

" So what did we miss on this own 'running for our lives' adventure?" Kam sat down in one of the chairs near Max and Michael's.

" FBI has this thing that we're evil. So they are trying to hunt us down. Well we've haven't dealt with much of it in six-seven years." Max told the two.

" Why do they believe we're evil?" Josh asked.

" Our protector, Necado. Well he killed people. You should be afraid of him and Tess. But they're both dead." Max said.

" But FBI have this nice idea that we are like that. So they came after us." Michael added.

" What if, what if we were caught? Where would they take us?" Josh asked. Both Max and Michael were pretty quiet.

" I was captured one time. It's a white room they take you to. They perform experiments." Max said quietly.

" Is that where Belle went?" Josh had to ask. He needed to know.

" We don't know for sure. But we assumed." Michael looked up at Josh.

" But you guys know how to get someone out. You got Max out." Kam said.

" Depends on which building. There are many places where the FBI could have this. No telling which one." Max answered. That's what scared them, where was she and could they help her. Max decided to change the subject. " Do you think you and Alex can handle this?" Max knew Alex believed they could but what about Josh.

" Yeah, we've had worst things to do." Josh answered.

" What were some of the worst?" Michael asked.

" When Amy died, I kinda of went off the deep end." Josh told him.

" All you two did was fight." Kam commented.

" What did you do?" Michael knew Josh was hiding something about it.

" I would drink." Josh didn't want to look at Michael. He avoided his eyes at all costs.

" That's worst for us." Max said.

" You get drunk quicker." Josh said.

" Smooth, Josh. Smooth." Kam told him.

" We learned the hard way." Max said.

" Oh really. How?" Josh had to know.

" One time experiences." Michael said.

" Well, Alex whipped me back into shape." Josh said.

" How did she do that?" Max asked.

" She's pretty forceful." Josh told them.

" And you don't want to mess with her." Kam added.

" Remember the day, you came into the Crashdown drunk?" Kam asked.

" Do I remember? Alex screamed so loud." Josh said. The four were all joking around. Laughing about the good and the bad times even. So they all headed back inside to see what the girls had in store. Just what seem to be seconds after Max shut the door there was a knock at it.

" I can picture that." Max said as he went to answer the door. The blonde standing there looked mad.

" Max, Michael." Her voice was stern. She was mad and angry with the two of them.

" Izzy." Max said.

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