[b] Chapter 13 - Storms Ahead [/b]

I was enjoying the peacefulness of my room, my body relaxing as I listened to the crashing wind and rain outside my window. It doesn't rain very much in Roswell but it was Alex's and I favourite time as the other people in this town ran into there houses and scrambled to hide themselves under newspapers or briefcase. We would dance in the rain our arms outstretched and we twirl in circles. As children the moment we saw the rain come down the very first free moment we had we would sneak out our windows and meet each other in the park playing and laying on the grass the rain hitting our faces. Funny thing is we still do that today and actually we did it last night, closing the Crashdown early and running outside dancing through the quiet Roswell streets. It was the first time in a week we put our guard down, we had decided to leave the situation with Ava alone for the moment, it would have done no good going to the others, they probably wouldn't believe us anyhow. We thought it would be better keeping an eye on Ava ourselves until we know why and how she murdered that man. Since she's been in our home we've been needing to watch each others back constantly and last night was a well needed break. I heard the door creak slowly as it opened, I couldn't see who it was since I had my head to toes under the blanket. I knew it was Alex anyhow since I could feel him, the blankets at the end of the bed near my feet where pulled away and I could feel Alex jump into the bed before the blankets fell back down. He crawled up the bed finally resting on his back beside me, rolling over so I was laying across his chest he wrapped his arms around my waist and I put my head on his chest. I pushed my arms out and pulled the blankets off our heads, I could hear the rain easier as it pounded on my balcony and window. "I think I had a bad dream last night," he whispered.

Looking up at him, "You think?'

He ran his hand through his hair and replied, "I can't remember.... it's kinda fuzzy." He tightened his arms around my waist almost as I was about to run away and never come back. "Liz what did we have for supper last night?"

I looked up at him confused, "Alex we had.... it was...... I don't remember."

He shook his head and cried, "This is ridiculous we're transgenics and we can't remember what we had for supper........we probably didn't have anything."

"Right," I nodded agreeing with him. We didn't say anything else, soon I felt Alex's breathing even out and knew he was asleep. I continued to listen to the rain pounding on the street below, and the sound lulled me to sleep.

The sleeping transgenics didn't see the shadow in the doorway her eyes closed in concentration.

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The sun had come out finally, the small town of Roswell's occupants finally deciding to come out of their homes. The bakery opened, the park now had children playing in it and just as the other stores opened so did the Crashdown. Alex was behind the counter helping the waitress filling sugar, walking out of the back yawning and stretching my arms.

"You keep doing that I might start thinking you actually slept."

Glaring at him, "Beyond popular belief I do sleep."

He looked at me, his head tilted, "You have been sleeping a lot lately."

Sitting on the stool in front of him I shrugged and answered, "Ya I know.... I feel like I haven't sleep in weeks." I could see the worry in his eyes "Calm down, it's probably just stress," I replied reassuring him.

He nodded and I asked him, "I better get to work.........You staying."

"You paying," he asked as I stood up and walked away.

The day dragged on and my mood grew and as well as the tiredness that filled my body. The only customers that were left were Max and the others as well as Maria who had got off a couple moments ago. Max had called a meeting about Lantana a man who had told Max he was sent here by Max's and Isabel's parents. The meeting had yet to be started since they were all eating there supper and Alex and I were cleaning the Crash. Suddenly Alex turned to me and whispered, "Someone's coming." Nodding in agreement as I felt a presents right outside the Crashdown and before I could even make my way over to the door it burst open. A man almost a cross between Michael and Max raced through the doors falling on his knees, the group in the booth ran over to him. Max knelt in front of him and Isabel on the other side carefully the laid him on the ground. Alex and I stood a little away but we could still see what was going on, Max's hand glowed and within a couple seconds the glow faded, he looked up at us and shook his head whispering, "It's no use." I could hear Isabel and Maria let out a faint sob I knew that they had spent the day with him, the Rath's and Lonnie's faces were unreadable and Max looked scared. Everyone else looked lost except Michael out of everyone in the room he was the easiest to read it was funny that I was the one able to read him since everyone comments that he was stonewall. He looked lost but also scared and upset and something I could put my finger.

"What do we do now?" Isabel asked in a whisper.

"We have to get rid of the body," Rath declared. Everyone looked at him and he rolled his eyes, "We'll do it," he said pointing to himself and Lonnie.

"Okay," Max whispered.

No one moved so I took it a my turn to usher everyone home, "Go on they'll take care of it. Everyone go home."

Slowly they got up and left one by one. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~

I sat on the stool up in the apartment my lab top sitting on the counter in front of me, the apartment was silent. Ava had disappeared earlier that night after the group left and we had got a call from a bar saying she was drunk and needed to be picked up. Alex had woken up when the phone rang and decided that he would go, leaving me to work on the Destiny Book. The phone rang and I slowly got up from my seat swaying a little, once my head cleared I reached over and retrieved the phone turning it on and saying hello. The only thing I could hear from the other end was breathing. "Who is this?" I asked.

The breathing continued and I heard a voice whisper, "We told you to stop helping them.......... you wouldn't stay away."

[i]Suddenly I felt a presence behind me and a body pressed up against my own. "There right you know he''s amazing captures your beauty perfectly," he whispered into my ear and I tried to turn around, my arms where pinned behind my back. My left arm was twisted higher to the point it started to be painful. "So beautiful.." he whispered in my ear. "It's too bad no one will ever know the real artist. Why again didn't he just put his real name..Ohhhh.. that's right you could be found out." I started to gain my energy and started to put pressure on his stomach, "Don''t try it Ms. Parker, Or I will have no choice but to take extreme action and I''m sure Alex wouldn''t know what would hit him."

"How dare you threaten me or Alex."

"Calm down Ms. Parker I''m just here to give you a message."

"You have 30 seconds before I throw you into that wall."

"You have spunk Ms. Parker....... I don''t like it," he said putting more pressure on my wrist. "Remember citizens, you wouldn't want something to happen to anyone would you."

I looked around and saw people going with their business not even knowing what was going on.

"What do you want," I repeated through clenched teeth.

"We want you to say out of the Royal Four's business," he said.

'God, I hate this alien shit.' I did the only thing I could think of, I started laughing. "You work for Kivar," I manage to say. [/i]

"You're the one that was at the gallery."

"Glad you remember me Ms. Parker," he said laughing. "You wouldn't be home alone........would you?"

I looked around the apartment, making my way to the window. Pulling away the drapes and looking outside I saw about 20 man and woman standing outside, a thud from the roof told me that there was more on the roof. As I was looking around trying to see how many skins I was dealing with I forgot the man on the phone. "Are you feeling tired?" he asked.

"Who the hell are you?" I yelled in the phone. "A little tired........ you must have drank something that your stomach didn't agree with," he replied laughing as my gaze fell on the glass I was drinking. Suddenly I felt ten times more tired and my body felt as it want to give up. Laying my hand on the wall trying to keep myself standing, I heard the window in the kitchen open and once again I looked down at the soldiers entering the Crashdown. I knew I couldn't fight against all of them and throwing the phone on the couch I ran to the kitchen, pushing the button on the lab top and extracted the disk the Destiny Book was saved on. Running down the hall and into my room I grabbed my leather jacket of the bed and somehow managed to put it on with only once falling on the bed. Opening the window and staggering through dogging my lawn chairs, behind me I heard them entering my room. Climbing on the ledge I jumped of landing swiftly on the ground, my foot slipped a little twisting it sideways. Whatever they put in the drink must have effected me more then I thought, without a second glance I dashed out of the alley and ran down the busy Roswell streets. Ignoring the drunk teenagers who had snuck out of there houses to drink with there friends, who left them puking by themselves on the street. Suddenly I realized I had made my way to the only empty field in the Roswell's city, running across it out of no where a car screeched to a stop in front to me. Quickly turning around trying the other way a car came to a stop behind me, I saw a man get out of the passengers side and the others in the car following behind. They ran towards me and the first one that got to me tried to punch me which I blocked, before I knew it they were all fighting against me, I wasn't holding my own very well. I forgot about the car behind me and suddenly I felt someone grab my arms and another man had put his arm around my neck forcing my face towards the sky. I felt a prick of a needle on my neck and I tried to fight against them my body already giving in to the drugs in the drink and the drugs that they had forced in my body a couple moments ago. Slowly falling to the desert ground and the world went black.