Michael awoke early the next morning. He'd tossed and turned all night thinking about what Isabel had said. He looked down at the beautiful petite blonde lying beside him and smiled. She looked so peaceful. He lay and watched her for a while resting on his arm. With the other hand he stroked her long wavy blonde hair and her soft porcelain skin. He watched her slow steady breathing and thought how lucky he was. He'd never have thought that he Michael Guerin would ever be here doing this with somebody as beautiful and amazing as Maria Deluca. Of course he'd never admit that he felt this way towards her or tell people that he often sat there and just watched her sleep. Not so long ago all he had was Max and Isabel, but they had each other and he'd always felt like the third wheel. Now he had someone, he had Maria and he couldn't have been happier. That was also something he wouldn't admit. He was supposed to be a stonewall who didn't feel anything for anyone and who was never happy. He intimidated most people and he liked that, no- one would try to get to know him or approach, but Maria saw through it and noticed he was just scared. Scared to let anyone in, scared of them knowing the real him and leaving, but she'd broke down the barriers gotten to know him and the whole alien thing and she was still here this had baffled him but then he'd realised why she was still here. She liked the real him, in- fact she loved him and he loved her. That's why this whole Isabel thing was so confusing what was he supposed to do. He decided he'd tell her when she woke up, but for now he'd let her sleep and watch her some more. However a loud knocking from the front door ruined his plan. He sprang out of bed and ran to the door before they woke Maria up. He swung it open and came face to face with Isabel who barged in.

"Look Michael we need to talk about this, you're not leaving all this to me, it's your repnsibilty too you know." She exclaimed.

"Hey keep it down Maria's sleeping." He hushed.

"Oh, how cosy. Does she know."

"No, I'll tell her after."

"Yeah sure you will Michael. What are you gonna say. So Maria the thing is Isabel's pregnant and the kids mine. " Isabel snapped but froze when her eyes moved towards the bedroom door. Maria was stood in the doorway in Michael's shirt looking at them both disgusted. Michael followed Isabel's gaze and his eyes landed on Maria.

"Baby how long have you been there." Michael asked.

"Long enough." She choked.

"Look, I'll leave you two alone." Isabel rushed quickly leaving. Maria stood in the doorway looking very fragile and alone, which made Michael want to protect her so he walked over to her and reached out his arm to comfort her but she slapped it, away.

"Michael just don't! I can't believe you'd do that." Maria shrieked running back into his room and slamming the door shut on him. Michael tried to open the door but she'd locked it, he went to use his powers to open it but decided against it. Maria quickly threw back her hair with a bobble and threw on her clothes and searched around the room to try and figure out what to do. Michael stood on the other side of the door arguing with himself on whether or not to open the door and what to say. He finally came up with something and blasted open the door and stepped in but found the room empty with the window open and his cheap tacky curtains billowing in the wind. He looked out and saw Maria's Jetta speeding away.

He called her numerous times that day but received no answer. Max had come over and Michael had told him the whole sorry story. Max had advised him against going over to see her and said Liz had had suggested that Maria would need time to cool down. He was practically tearing his hear out in frustration. He was about to pick up the phone and dial that familiar number again but Max put his hand over the phone and stopped him.

"What are you doing Maxwell." Michael exclaimed.

"Look I know you probably don't wanna hear this right know but you need to talk to Isabel and find out what you're gonna do. Then I think you need to talk to Tess. As much as I hate to say it, but she'll know more about alien pregnancy than we do." Max explained softly.

"Look Max I don't care. I just need to talk to Maria."

"I know you do but she doesn't wanna talk to you right know so the best thing to do is give her some space, sort out this whole pregnancy thing, then when you've decided what your gonna do go and find her okay." Max instructed. Michael considered this for a moment and nodded. He knew max was right so he set off in search of Isabel.

He found her at the crashdown sipping a lemonade. He slided into the booth opposite her sighed.

"What happened." She asked looking up at him.

"She freaked out and left me." He answered looking down at his hands.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean for her to find out like that, it was a horrible way for her to find out."

"Anyway would have been a horrible way to find out. It's not exactly something she'd wanna hear. Look, I'm not hear to talk about Maria, I'm hear to talk about what's going on with us." He replied looking up. "I think we should talk to Tess."

"Yeah me too." She replied getting up from her seat and throwing down some change.

"What, you wanna go now?" He asked rising to his feet.

"Yep, I know where she is." Isabel answered leading Michael out of the diner. Maria watched them go from the kitchen. She 'd gone down to get her and Liz some snacks when she'd seen him come in. She'd watched them talk at the table and almost cried but she decided that she wasn't going to let him have the satisfaction. He cheated on her he was the one that should be upset not her. It was his fault. She grabbed her car keys off the cutting table and ran out to car and drove.

The next day Michael arrived to school on time for once in hope of catching Maria to tell her the good news. Isabel wasn't pregnant. They'd gone to her house that night and explained to her the circumstances. At first she laughed at their naivety. He remembered her hysterical laugh when she'd said ' you can't get pregnant from a dream I never even thought YOU were that stupid Michael.' He hadn't even taken notice of her snide remark but had leapt up in sheer joy. Apparently these dreams were recollections of there past lives when they had been together on Antar. It had nothing to do with know.