Author: Qualen
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters.
Rating: PG
Category: General
The Long Distance Call
"What happened?" asked Brody.
"You fainted" replied Max "It happened before Isabel could use her "special" gift to find out anything about your abduction, I'm sorry about that Brody".
"That's ok Max" answered Brody as he sat there rubbing his chest, which was still painful from the CPR that Max had just performed on him. "Maybe we should do this another time, as I don't really feel up to it at the moment" said Brody "I might go home early, you don't mind closing up for me, do you?"
"Not at all, I'll get Isabel and Liz to help me" responded Max looking at his boss who was also becoming a friend to him, with concern, he held his hand out to Brody and pulled him to his feet. "Okay guys I'll see you later" replied Brody as he left them in his office.
Max, Liz and Isabel just starred out each other in silence for a few seconds before they all started talking at once "Wait" shouted Max so he could be heard over Liz and Isabel, he left and went to close up the UFO Centre before coming back to the girls in the office.
"Okay we have the place to ourselves; we need to have a meeting with the others" announced Max going into his leader mode "Liz you need to phone Maria and get her and Michael back here ASAP, I know that's going to be hard but you need to make sure they understand how important this is".
"I'll try Max but you know how Michael can get when he's, on a mission" replied Liz as she pulled her cell phone out of her jacket pocket "and he's really taken with this Laurie Dupree mystery but I'm sure I can get Maria to convince him to put it on hold till later".
"That is, if there is a later" she whispered to herself not wanting to upset Max and Isabel anymore than they probably were she herself couldn't believe how cool, calm and collective she was being right now but it must be worse for them knowing that they could be the cause for the end of the world.
"Isabel...Isabel....hey Isabel snap out of it this is not a good time to lose your cool" Max was almost yelling at her "you need to go get the rest of the gang and bring them back here now!"
"Uh huh, okay, I'm back, I'm on to it" replied Isabel as she made her way to the exit "I'll see you soon".
"Be careful Iz that FBI agent is still in town, the last thing we need is her snooping around".
Max just stood there watching Isabel leave, he could hear Liz arguing on her phone with Michael just outside of Brody's office door but it felt like she was a million miles away, his mind preoccupied with what Larek had said after they had contacted him through Brody.
BRODY: You shouldn't have done that.
MAX: Brody?
BRODY: Larek. This body has not been prepared for communication. Its heart has stopped.
BRODY: It may restart once I've released him. What is it you want?
MAX: We need your help. We think that some form of a-- a parasite was released into our earth's ecosystem when our ship crashed fifty years ago. We think they're dangerous--
BRODY: When you say parasite, do you mean the gandarium from your ship have escaped into the ecosystem?
MAX: I don't know. It looks like blue crystals.
BRODY: Earth is in serious trouble. You must leave now.
MAX: What are you talking about?
BRODY: Earth has become infected. You're no longer safe there. Get off the planet now.
What the hell were they going to do now, he thought to himself this was serious if they couldn't stop this-- this gandarium thing he didn't know what would happen but he knew it would be bad like apocalypse now, end of the world BAD!
Liz entered the office again no longer talking on her phone, he look at her and their eyes met, she look so calm standing there but her eyes told another story, through them he could feel all her fears and trepidation about this whole situation and he just wanted to go up to her, hold her close to him and reassure her that everything was going to be alright but he didn't and so the moment was lost.
"Maria and Michael will be back tomorrow morning" said Liz continuing "Their going to drive all night I think they got the point that this is serious although I didn't go into great detail about it".
"Thanks Liz" Max answered "I knew you could do it".
"Max" replied Liz going up to him and taking his hands into hers "Its going to be alright, I'm sure with all of us working together we will be able to get through this" she look up at him reassuring him with her eyes, those same eyes that only a minute ago were filled with fear.
"I believe in you" she whispered, he wished he had as much confidence in himself as Liz had in him, just then they heard a noise outside the office.
"That must be Izzy, back with the others we may as well go get this over with" Max kept hold of her hand as he said this and they both walked out of the office to the enquiring faces of all there friends.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters.
Rating: PG
Category: General
The Long Distance Call
"What happened?" asked Brody.
"You fainted" replied Max "It happened before Isabel could use her "special" gift to find out anything about your abduction, I'm sorry about that Brody".
"That's ok Max" answered Brody as he sat there rubbing his chest, which was still painful from the CPR that Max had just performed on him. "Maybe we should do this another time, as I don't really feel up to it at the moment" said Brody "I might go home early, you don't mind closing up for me, do you?"
"Not at all, I'll get Isabel and Liz to help me" responded Max looking at his boss who was also becoming a friend to him, with concern, he held his hand out to Brody and pulled him to his feet. "Okay guys I'll see you later" replied Brody as he left them in his office.
Max, Liz and Isabel just starred out each other in silence for a few seconds before they all started talking at once "Wait" shouted Max so he could be heard over Liz and Isabel, he left and went to close up the UFO Centre before coming back to the girls in the office.
"Okay we have the place to ourselves; we need to have a meeting with the others" announced Max going into his leader mode "Liz you need to phone Maria and get her and Michael back here ASAP, I know that's going to be hard but you need to make sure they understand how important this is".
"I'll try Max but you know how Michael can get when he's, on a mission" replied Liz as she pulled her cell phone out of her jacket pocket "and he's really taken with this Laurie Dupree mystery but I'm sure I can get Maria to convince him to put it on hold till later".
"That is, if there is a later" she whispered to herself not wanting to upset Max and Isabel anymore than they probably were she herself couldn't believe how cool, calm and collective she was being right now but it must be worse for them knowing that they could be the cause for the end of the world.
"Isabel...Isabel....hey Isabel snap out of it this is not a good time to lose your cool" Max was almost yelling at her "you need to go get the rest of the gang and bring them back here now!"
"Uh huh, okay, I'm back, I'm on to it" replied Isabel as she made her way to the exit "I'll see you soon".
"Be careful Iz that FBI agent is still in town, the last thing we need is her snooping around".
Max just stood there watching Isabel leave, he could hear Liz arguing on her phone with Michael just outside of Brody's office door but it felt like she was a million miles away, his mind preoccupied with what Larek had said after they had contacted him through Brody.
BRODY: You shouldn't have done that.
MAX: Brody?
BRODY: Larek. This body has not been prepared for communication. Its heart has stopped.
BRODY: It may restart once I've released him. What is it you want?
MAX: We need your help. We think that some form of a-- a parasite was released into our earth's ecosystem when our ship crashed fifty years ago. We think they're dangerous--
BRODY: When you say parasite, do you mean the gandarium from your ship have escaped into the ecosystem?
MAX: I don't know. It looks like blue crystals.
BRODY: Earth is in serious trouble. You must leave now.
MAX: What are you talking about?
BRODY: Earth has become infected. You're no longer safe there. Get off the planet now.
What the hell were they going to do now, he thought to himself this was serious if they couldn't stop this-- this gandarium thing he didn't know what would happen but he knew it would be bad like apocalypse now, end of the world BAD!
Liz entered the office again no longer talking on her phone, he look at her and their eyes met, she look so calm standing there but her eyes told another story, through them he could feel all her fears and trepidation about this whole situation and he just wanted to go up to her, hold her close to him and reassure her that everything was going to be alright but he didn't and so the moment was lost.
"Maria and Michael will be back tomorrow morning" said Liz continuing "Their going to drive all night I think they got the point that this is serious although I didn't go into great detail about it".
"Thanks Liz" Max answered "I knew you could do it".
"Max" replied Liz going up to him and taking his hands into hers "Its going to be alright, I'm sure with all of us working together we will be able to get through this" she look up at him reassuring him with her eyes, those same eyes that only a minute ago were filled with fear.
"I believe in you" she whispered, he wished he had as much confidence in himself as Liz had in him, just then they heard a noise outside the office.
"That must be Izzy, back with the others we may as well go get this over with" Max kept hold of her hand as he said this and they both walked out of the office to the enquiring faces of all there friends.