Chapter 9

Connection

A/N: Sorry this is a short chapter! Thanx so much for the reviews... this is gonna b my lass chap. that i can put up for a least 2- 21/2 weeks. I am going to HAWAII!! So i hope u enjoy and know i have not forgotten about this story

Max looked at Liz dazed and confused. How could she possibly know? He kept wandering was this some sort of joke?

"I... I don't know what your talking about Liz" - Max says trying to act non- susicously.

His mind was filled with the hows? and what ifs? and whys? this information would bring. But the other part of his mind was reeling with the thought that she didn't look disgusted at him or like she wanted to hurt him in anyway. It was all getting to much for Max so he was slowly backing away and trying to grab the door to the closet.

Liz saw this and reacted

" Max.. don't go. I know who you are and I havn't turned you away... so why are you tunring me away?- Liz asked knowing it would get him to stop....

Liz's mind was filled with can he handle this? This Max... this younger version of Max knows nothing of the real hardship of who he is. He dosen't know that he's a King... he dosen't know what he can do. This young and innoncent Max... can he handle this. Liz kept wandering but knowing that she can't not tell him now. How could she explain this to him?

"Liz... like I said I don't know what your talking about? What is this some kind of joke?"- Max asked... still trying to play it off as nothing, but what Max didn'y know was that Liz knew all his tell-tell signs. She knew he was lying... not only because of wat she'd lived through but because his eyes wouldn't meet his.

"Max, knock it off! I know... i know about Michael and Isabel too. I know so much about you, that you don't even know. God, Max... you think this easy for me either. You don't have clue of what I have been through and you... you think your life is tough? Well its nothing compared to what it could be Max!" - Liz explains... exsaperated... why was he being such a... well... such a 16 yr old boy. He's better then this and he knows it, but Liz slowly calmed herself down realizing how scared he has to be.

"How.. could you know?"- Max asked

"God.... how do I tell you this?" - Liz said, mostly talking to herself and running her fingers through her hair with aggrivation!

It is when it occurs to Liz.... how Max had shown her not to be afraid of him.... the connection of course. That was one thing that always got them through was this incredible connection they had.

"Max,.. I.. I need you to trust me... there is only one way I can explain this to you.. there is only one way that you'd actually understand me. But you have to trust me"- Liz told Max ... staring straight into his eyes

Max paused for a moment ...looking into her eyes. and then said

"I trust you"

"Okay... Max, I am going to ask you to use your powers and just look into my eyes and just let yourself see what I see... its a connection"- Liz told Max

"How do you know about what powers I have?"- Max asked even more bewildered

"The same way I know who you are"- Liz told him

Liz grabbed his hands and looked straight into his eyes... max was looking into hers.. but she knew the connection wasn't forming.. Liz leaned up to Max's ear and

"Trust me..." She whispered and then went and kissed him

The moment they started kissing the flashes came.... the connection was made...