Chapter 15- Rescue and Explanations

The endless waiting of Nicholas blast to rip through my body was worse knowing I was waiting for my own death. Between the blood loss and pain, my eyes would hardly open my body almost giving up the battle itself, not waiting for Nicholas satisfaction of my death. The noises grew, that started a few moments ago but they never reached my ears so I couldn't figure out what it was. Probably the guards or Kivar interrupting Nicholas who was probably glad to wait and talk to them knowing the pain I was in would only increase. Suddenly I could feel someone's hands run up my body and I wigged away, "Shhhh....." someone whispered in my ear. Smiling and opening my eyes quickly already knowing who it was, "Alex," I barely whispered.

"Miss me," he replied, untying my legs. Putting each arm beside me and doing the same to my arms. I clutched the poll as I felt my arms slip free of the rope, trying not to fall on my face. Alex bent down and put his arm under my legs lifting me into his arms. At the same time I let go of the wooden poll and with one hand clutched his shirt and put the other behind his neck.

"You would believe how much," I whispered. My eyes dropped again and I fought to stay awake, the fight which I was losing quickly. "Gr- grace...... Matthew," I managed to whisper before I gave up.

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I opened my eyes a little, but snapped them shut when the harsh light hit them. I felt someone lift my left arm and winced as the cold water hit my bruised wrist. Opening my eyes slowly, I smiled as I saw Alex sitting beside me holding a cloth over my wrist, which was sitting on his lap. He smiled back at me and brushed a piece of my hair behind my ear, "Hey," he whispered.

"Hi," I whispered back, my throat pounding. "Where are we?" I asked as I looked around the small room we were in.

"It's a ship," he said avoiding me eyes.

"What!" I cried, sitting up but wincing when pain shot through the side of my body and flopping back down to the mattress. Clutching my eyes close and waited until the pain lessoned, "Alex what's going on?"

"I don't know.... everything happened so fast," he whispered rubbing his forehead with the palm of his hand. "One moment I'm finding your bedroom empty and the next I'm carrying you onto a ship. It all happened so fast and they haven't told us anything yet."

I could tell he was frustrated with all of this, slowly I moved over farther to the wall and he laid down beside me. "Us?" I asked, thinking back to what he said.

"Me, you and Michael."

"Michael's here?" I asked looking over at him.

"Yup, they came and took him a little while ago," he answered. Silence filled the room and he shifted onto his side, resting his hand on my forehead, "Go to sleep," he whispered. Too tired to argue I moved closer to him and rested my head on his arm and closed my eyes falling into a restless sleep.

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I opened my eyes and looked around, Alex was fast asleep his head tucked in my shoulder and Michael was sitting on the chair. He was slowly opening his eyes and scanned the room, 'Always the protector.' I thought

"Hey," I whispered.

His head snapped towards me as I spoke, after a couple of moments he whispered back, "Hey...... How are you?"

"Sore," I answered.

"I would imagen so."

"Michael...."

"I don't know what's going on.," he interrupted shaking his head. "The only thing they told me is they will talk........."

The door opened with a loud click, shaking Alex from his sleep. Slowly Alex rose from the bed and as he did a man walked in, "Welcome to our ship, I'm am sorry for your confusion and keeping you here for such a long time but precautions and other things took a moment of importance." He looked at me, lying on the bed behind Alex and looking to Michael he asked, "Why have you not healed her?"

"Because I can't heal people," he answered looking over at us.

The strange man looked at all us in confusion and said, "Why don't you all come with me, there are plenty that needs to be explained." Michael looked over at us again and stood up from the chair, Alex swung his legs over the side of the bed and held out hand to me. Slowly I got up, wincing when my side accidentally hit his hand, shaking his head he bent down and took me into his arms. Carrying me out of the door, Michael walked beside and I could feel his hand on my ankle. Together they walked down a long metal hallway and the man stopped in front of a door way. Waiting for a couple seconds the door opened with the same loud click and he walked in with Michael and then we followed.

In the room a long grey circular table and black chairs, "Please sit," the man said. "I shall be right back," he replied walking to another door on the wall to the right of us and disappearing through it.

"Creepy or what," Michael whispered and walked to the table, pulling out one of the chairs. Alex walked up beside him and put me down on the chair gently, Alex sat beside me and Michael walked around the room. A few moments of silence past quickly and Michael's pacing was causing my stomach to turn, "Michael please your gonna make me sick," I whimpered, ready for Michael to fight but instead he walked to the empty chair beside me and sat down whispering an apology. No more then a couple seconds later the door opened and the same man walked through what surprised me was that Grace followed him with some other person behind her.

"Grace," I cried causing Alex and Michael to look at me in surprised.

She smiled at me and walked up to the chair I was sitting on. Leaning down she wrapped her arms around me, pulling away too quickly she smiled again and walked to the front of the table and sat on the chair the one of the strangers pulled out for her. Each one of the strangers sat on the other side of her, "Who are you?" Michael demanded.

"She's Max and Isabel's mother.........she was kidnapped with a little boy and helped me while I was there." I answered him, looking over at Michael it looked like he just swallowed a fly

"This is Max and Isabel's Uncle," Grace said pointing to the dirty blonde man beside her. "And this is our second in command," she replied pointing to the man we met earlier.

"What... what are we doing here?" Michael asks.

Grace smiles at him and replied, "All in good time but there is some stuff we need to discuss first...... Like you Michael healing Liz."

"Like I told that guy; I can't heal people. Max is the only one that can do that," he said annoyed.

Grace shook her head, "No, Michael you can heal people you just don't know it. You all can heal Isabel, Ava, you and Max....."

"You said Ava," Michael interrupted.

Grace looked confused, "Yes, Ava."

"Don't you mean Tess," Alex asked.

She shook her head and rubbed her forehead, "One step at a time, since Michael doesn't have the healing ability known to him at the moment. Liz will you let me heal you?"

"NO!" Michael and Alex yelled and jumping out of there seats. "Calm down, she's had plenty of time to kill me if she wanted to," I said, still confused as why Michael yelled as well.

"I don't trust her," Michael cried.

"Me either."

"Guys, we don't have to trust her but at the moment she is the only one that got the answers we need."

"We don't need anything Liz," Alex said.

"Were on a ship, and they are running it. I was tortured, drugged and beaten and I for one wanna know the answers," I said to them. Looking over at Grace, I replied, "Yes, Grace you can heal me." She nodded and got up from her seat and kneeled down beside me, placing her hand on my chest right over my heart and the other resting on the top of my head. Alex stood over her and I could feel Michael behind me, her hand glowed a soft purple colour and a warm feeling past through my body.

Looking down at my wrist the bruised flesh was now back to my healthy skin colour, Grace snapped out of the connection and asked, "How do you feel?"

"Much better," I answered twisting around in the chair, smiling when I felt no pain.

Grace stood up and walked back to her chair and sat down. "Are you okay?" Alex asked.

"Nothing freaky?" Michael added.

"No guys; I'm fine," I answered rolling my eyes. Alex and Michael glanced at each other, "I'm fine......really."

Slowly they sat back down in there seat, the three of us where silent; no one knew what to say. Grace must have noticed because she started to explain, "Liz you remember what I told you about your mother?" She paused for a second when I nodded and then continued, "Alex your and Liz's mother was my best friend."

"Wow," Alex whispered

"I told you that two weeks before the wedding I found out that Anthony was dead and I was already pregnant with Max and Isabel. What I didn't tell you is how your mother and you guys got to Earth, you see we started a program to send children to Earth. Not only to live with but also to learn about humans, first we needed to set up a the stasis chamber to hold the pods. Which is where your mother came in, she was one of the scientist that needed to go to Earth we aren't sure what really happened. Two years before she died she told me that they had already succeed in creating the status chamber and suddenly one of the chambers near the one they had set up them up in, exploded and they all went to investigate. Your mother didn't remember a lot after that, she remember a lot of soldiers and tests. She said it was all very fuzzy and nothing was very clear."

"Manticore?" Alex whispered.

"Yes, she told me that one of the younger scientist where tortured and confessed to them who that they were from another planet. He also helped Manticore soldiers modify the stasis chamber technology so that a body could be put in there and a child inside a woman would grow in maybe a couple months instead of nine. When she your mother was put in there for two months she was equal to nine months pregnant the chamber had a malfunction and she was taken out two weeks early. In the end one week before she would give birth to her first child she escaped and went straight back to the chamber where she did end up giving birth.

"Wait! Won't Manticore know where the chamber was?"

"No, when they were originally captured the chamber was in another structure but not all of the scientist where taken so the remainder moved it a little farther away. Anyways she said she put her child into the chamber which she fixed so that when the child would grow to the age of seven who be put in a stasis like sleep and would also stop growing...... Michael you where that child.......you are Liz and Alex's brother."

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