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Broken Ties part 11

Michael's statement seemed to echo throughout the whole room. He wiped his face and then ran his hands through his spiky brown hair.

"Alright guys, I guess it's time to tell you why I'm really here." He took a moment to think, and realized how dramatic that sounded. He shrugged it off and set down on the arm of a chair, which Maria quickly preceded to sit in.

"Alright," He started. "Let's start off with how I got here--" Max interrupted him by standing up, and crossing his arm over his chest.

"I think what we all really want to know, is why you came here. I mean, besides that fact that you wanted to see us again." Michael glared at him. Who made him king? But despite his annoyance, he knew that Max only wanted to know the truth, and to help him. So he gritted his teeth and nodded.

"Whatever. Look, the truth is, the reason I came back, besides wanting to see you, is because i didn't like it up there. It's that simple. School sucked, home sucked. I figured that Roswell wasn't looking all that bad." Maria poked him in the back. He didn't respond and so she poked him again, a little harder this time. He grunted and looked down at her. She smiled sweetly, and glared.

"Point taken." He murmured at her. "Ok. I guess it isn't that simple, but it's not a whole lot more complicated then that. My foster father's a jerk." He paused as Max looked over at Isabel. "Look, it was a bad situation, and I got out of it." Max walked a few steps closer to him, and uncrossed one of his arms.

"Michael, when you first got here.... were those bruises really.. from a crash?" Michaels eye brows shot up. He shook his head and sighed, running his hand through his brown locks again.

"Yes, No.. I don't know!" He shouted. His scream echoed off the walls and an awkward silence filled the room. "Look, the truth is he knocked me around sometimes. He was a jerk, and like I said-I decided that I would rather be here then there. The point it I left. A few times, to be exact. The first, I hitched a ride, the dude was drunk, we crashed, and I went back. Then, i waited till Lee came into town, and hitched a ride with him back here." He left out the part where he had shown his powers to the entire town of Gainesville. They didn't really need to know that. "So, here I am." He nodded and without thinking reached behind him, and was rewarded by Maria's small hand clamping down on his.

Max looked at the others. Michael followed suite. Liz had her hands tightly clamped in her lap, looking at the floor, Michael was sure that she was going over every bit of information that he had given her. A scientist to the end. Isabel looked utterly distressed, her arm was looped through Alex's, she was holding his hand between hers, and playing with it. Alex was looking at Isabel, figuring out her reaction to the news, and trying to figure out his own. He looked over his shoulder at Maria; she was looking right at him. When he turned she smiled at him, and nodded. Giving her approval that he had finally told them the truth. He couldn't help but smile back at her. She rubbed a finger over his thumb and sighed. He forced himself to turn back around and face the others. Max was looking at him again.

"I'm -" Michael lurched to his feet.

"No! Don't even. None of you, don't any of you even try to feel sorry for me at all. I don't need pity, and i don't appreciate it. So what, It sucked here with Hank, and it sucked up there in with Tim. It doesn't even matter now. Cause I'm away from it, and I plan to stay that way." Max nodded.

"Ok Michael, but you ran away. If Tim reports you, then you're more then likely going to go to Jail." Michael shook his head.

"He's not going to report me. Cause he would just rather come here and get me." There was a gasp from behind him and the pressure on his hand increased. Maria hadn't known that bit of information. He stopped himself from looking back at her and went on.

"When I called Nick, he told me that Tim had left, and that he would more then likely be here by morning." Isabel was sitting up a little straighter now.

"What? Why would he do that? Why, when he could just could just report you?" Her voice was angry and Michael smiled at her a little bit. He missed her, he still hadn't really had a chance to just talk to her.

"Answer me!" She snapped at him. He shook his thoughts away and did what she asked of him.

"I don't know Izzy, besides the fact that he's freaking insane. He probley thinks that he can squeeze some more money out of them if he offers to keep me. You know, me being a troublemaker and all." He looked back to Max,

"But the point is that he's coming here. And I'm not going back there." Max nodded.

"We'll do what ever we can to help you. Though I'm not really all that sure what we can do." Michael nodded. It was what he had been hoping for. But in the back of his mind he knew that he couldn't hide forever.

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They set around for a while, the conversation drifted to what it was like for Michael back where he lived, and what he had been doing, what they were going to do, to the sixth grade dance. Or some times they just watched TV and didn't say anything at all.

"I'm going to go and get a drink." Isabel said, pushing up from the couch. Michael laughed softly and whispered in Maria's ear. She followed his gaze and saw that Alex was concentrating very hard on Isabel walking away. Michael looked back as the kitchen door swung shut, and got up to follow her.

"Hey," He said as he let the door swing shut. She looked up at him and smiled.

"Hey." She reached under the counter and grabbed a can of sprite, sitting it down on the counter.

"I just wanted a chance to talk to you." He told her. "I missed you, I missed not getting to talk to you whenever I wanted."

"Yeah, I missed you to. I was so shocked when you left like you did." He grabbed a barstool and slid it over to the counter so he could sit down.

"Well, it wasn't really my choice. I was pretty shocked to." She nodded.

"I know that." She jumped up to sit on the counter facing him, tucking her legs under her Indian style. She played with the unopened can that sit in front of her.

"You know, Mr. Lee was pretty shocked to." Michael laughed.

"I guess he was. What happened after I left?" He asked. "I mean, what happened to Hank and stuff." Isabel looked down at her can for a moment, then to the cabinet, like she was considering getting up and grabbing a glass and some ice. She decided against it and looked back up to him.

"Well, I know that after you left, Mr. Lee called around allot, trying to find out what happened to you. I guess after a while of people not telling him anything, and people hanging up on him, he just got tired of listening to it. After that, after I learned to control my powers more, I tried to dream walk you, but I always got a busy signal." He smiled at her. "So, Michael, where did you go after you left Roswell?" He bit his lip, thinking back.

"Well, after we left the school we drove for a long, long time. They didn't even take me by Hank's, cause they had already been there and got the things that I had. Anyways, we got to an airport, and they flew me to a group home some where in Atlanta. After about three or four mouths there, they flew me back to Gainesville, to my new foster home. If you could call it that." Isabel nodded.

"Mom and Dad looked for you to, you know. But that kind of stuff is keep secret. They say that they care about the kids, but when they yank some one out of their lives like that, it just screams the opposite." Michael nodded, and realized that one of his questions hadn't been answered.

"So, what ever did happen to Hank?" She played with the top of her sprite for a moment before saying; "well, they took him to court and tried him. He got a minimal charge, he clamed that he had been messed up since his brother died. They gave him probation for 2 years, and 500 hundred hours of community service. Well, after that I didn't really hear all that much about him, until about a year or so ago some one found him in his trailer, dead. No one knows who did it, it was clear that some one else was there. But there's like, no evidence as to who could have done it. I don't even know if the case is still being investigated." Michael nodded.

"Hard to believe he's dead." Isabel nodded thoughtfully, and said; "Yeah, I guess that a lot of things have changed." Michael sighed, and agreed.

"Are you ever going to drink that stupid thing?" She looked down at it, and tapped on the top with one long gold fingernail.

"It's hot." Michael laughed and placed his hand on the bottom of the can. He closed his eyes and prayed he didn't blow it up. He channeled his feelings, like he had when he'd changed the color of the windowsill, with Nick. He felt a chill under his hand, and opened his eyes. Isabel was smiling. The can was freezing.

"Oh my God Michael!" She said. "You learned to control your powers! I really figured that you were about to blow it up." He smacked at her. She opened up the can and took a sip.

"Yum. Thanks. That's really great Michael." He nodded and did a mock bow, as well as he could sitting down.

"That's not the only thing that's changed. You and Alex... what's up with that?" She glared at him, and shot back:

"What's up with you and Maria?" Michael rolled his eyes and pushed him self-up.

"I think that's enough girl talk for one night." Isabel laughed.

"Yeah, say that." Just as she was about to jump down off of the counter to join the others in the living room, Alex pushed open the door and stuck his head in.

"Hey guys, it's getting late and we humans are heading home." Isabel nodded and got down.

"Alright, we're coming." Alex smiled at her, and then let the door swing shut.

"Shall we?" She asked. Michael nodded. They walked out of the kitchen, to see that only Maria remained.

"Hey." She said, "The others are out side, I was... hoping to talk-" Isabel made a move towards the door.

"Right, I'm going to go and say bye to Alex and Liz." She walked out, closing the door softly behind her. As soon as she shut the door, Maria slapped Michael on the chest.

"What? He's coming here, and you didn't tell me?" Michael rubbed his chest.

"I didn't know until I called Nick." She shook her head.

"Right, sorry." She turned away from him, and he tilted his head to the side.

"Hey, hey." He said walking up to her, and placing his hands on her shoulders. "Hey, what's wrong?" She shook her head.

"Nothing, I'm fine. Completely fine, you know, besides the fact that I'm not." He dropped his hands from her shoulders, and took her hand in his. He led her over to the couch, and set down, forcing her to follow.

"What's wrong Maria?" She folded her legs under her, and scooted closer, stopping when her knees touched his.

"What's wrong is, I just convinced myself that you were going to be able to stick around for a little while. And now, that jerk is coming here to look for you? What's up with that? Does anything ever work out?" He took her other hand and pulled them both to rest on his leg. "I'm not going anywhere. It will work out." She only shook her head.

"I just have a really bad feeling about this whole thing. I know that it can't be as easy as it looks." He shrugged.

"Maybe not, but what worth fighting for is?" Maria laughed.

"Yeah, I guess your right." She leaned over and laid her head on his chest. "You know Space Boy, that was kind of romantic."

"I'm all up with the girl talk tonight."

"Well, I kind of like it."

"Yeah, well, don't get used to it." She laughed and looked up, as he looked down to meet her eyes. She smiled up at him as he brought one of her hands up to his lips and kissed it softly.

"As long as I have something to get used to." She whispered as she leaned her head back more and he leaned down and kissed her passionately on the lips. He wrapped his arms around her back and brought her closer, suddenly wanting to be closer to her. He ran his hands through her hair and rubbed soft circles on her back, as he let his whole self sink in to her, in to the kiss. He was concentrating so hard on nothing but Maria, that he didn't even notice that someone had come into the room, until that someone cleared there throat... twice.

Michael pulled away quickly as Maria threw herself back from him like they had been caught, which they had. Alex stood there, blushing so badly that his ears were red.

"Um, um, Maria, Liz told me to.. she told me to come get you so that she could drive you home." He nodded to back up the statement. She smiled up at him and placed her hand to her mouth before smoothing her hair.

"Tell her I'll be right there." Alex was no longer blushing, but about to burst into laughter. He walked out, closing the door rather loudly. Michael looked to Maria and rolled his eyes. She stood up off of the couch, he followed her.

"Yeah, I have to work tomorrow, early. So I guess I do need to go." He nodded.

"Yeah, I guess." He wrapped his arms around her, and kissed her again, it made her heart soar, and her knees go so weak that she had to throw her arms about his neck so that she didn't fall to the floor. When he pulled back, his eyes still closed, she wondered if she had the same effect on him. When he opened his eyes, she smiled at him, and they walked together to the door. Alex was already gone, haven drove himself, and Isabel and Max were standing talking to Liz.

"Hurry up guys!" She shouted and kissed Max, then hugged him bye, waving to Isabel before she shut the door. Max and Isabel walked around, and stood on the sidewalk beside Maria and Michael.

"Bye guys." Maria waved, then turned to say bye to Michael.

"Bye Space boy." She couldn't help but to stand up on her tiptoes and quickly kiss him, a friendly type kiss that meant more then it showed.

"Bye." She said again. She quickly opened the door, and slipped in. Michael backed up, and ignored the knowing smiles that Max and Isabel were giving him. As Liz cranked the car up, he did look over at them.

"My God, you guys are such girls." Shaking his head he turned around and walked back into the house. Max pushed the intended insult off his shoulders as the smile slid from his face. He was already trying to formulate a plan in his head as to how he was going to keep Tim away from Michael. All he had at the moment was that he would. He would just have to work on the rest of it....

Inside the car, Liz pulled away from the curb and glanced over at Maria. "Your lipstick is smeared." She said matterafactly, and looked back to the road. Maria quickly pulled down the mirror and looked. "No it's not... oh." She smiled looking over at Liz. "That's great Liz, just great." Liz only said, "guess you're happy you didn't take Guy up on his offer."

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THE NEXT MORNING.........

Tim put a hand over his eyes, and looked around in the bright morning sun light. He took a draw off of his cigarette, and blew the smoke out of his nose, ignoring the glare as a mother blocked the smoke from her baby and hurried away. He flicked it to the ground, not bothering to step on it. He was standing in front of a restaurant. Some dinner called the Crash Down.

Tim had rolled his eyes when he saw it, it figured-alien town, alien dinner. He rubbed his greasy hands over tired eyes. He had drove all night to get to Roswell early. He'd better find the brat soon; cause he would be the one driving back-with no breaks. He growled under his breath. He might just give the kid a few painful breaks of his own. He grunted and pushed the door open, then looked around. This looked like a popular place, he figured if he headed here the brat might have to.

He looked for some on to ask and spotted some one behind the counter. He cleared his throat and ran his hands through his oily black hair.

He walked up to the cute bubbly blond behind the counter, maybe she could tell him where the kid was hiding out....

TBC......

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