"You are so beautiful," Michael whispered in her ear. His hands were wrapped around her waist, and his breath was tickling her ear. It was a promise, an unspoken one, but valid nonetheless. His fingers were tracing small patterns along her waist where his hands lay. Her skin was aglow, and all she could think of was what he was going to do in a moment or two from now. She wasn't sure if she could hold out much longer. She had to kiss him. Just to know what the sensation was like. She had never been kissed before, and god, she hoped that he would be her first. Her body was telling her crazy things. Things she had never felt before. It was as if her body was only just waking from a long slumber, and she prayed she would never sleep again.

His soft lips were trailing kisses along her neck. What was he going to do next? Would she like it? Would she be able to do it back? The only answer she could come up with was definitely, and the thought put a smile on her face. But the real question was weather she would be able to do it properly. Would she; when the time came? It wasn't now. It was too soon. The timing wasn't right, and they both new that, but there wasn't any point in denying what they felt, what they wanted. His face found hers. His green eyes met hers in perfect understanding. He leaned forward, and she closed her eyes in anticipation...

The blinking lights stared at her from her nightstand. Where was she? The clock was still blinking at her fuzzily. Twelve o'clock? The electric must have gone out while she had been sleeping. The sun was shinning through her window, the birds were chirping, the answering machine's light was blinking, and Michael and she were entwined. Nothing in the world could be more perfect...wait... She...and Michael...were...dare she think it....entwined?

How could that have happened? What if everything that had just happened a minute ago, really had happened and it wasn't apart of a dream. Maybe it really had had happened, and because of the excitement of it all, she had simply fell asleep in his arms, and was now here. Or perhaps they hadn't just fallen asleep. Perhaps something else happened. Something she had felt she hadn't been ready for before. Was she still a virgin? Could she get pregnant? Was it a possibility? What would he think? How was she going to tell him? What about school? It was still early in the year, they could get home schooling, couldn't they? Or maybe he would go to school, and she would have to stay home by her self. Mum needed to work, so how was she going to get her education? Babies' cost money, how was she going to pay for it all? There was doctor's visits, and diapers...and at that moment, reality came back to Maria.

He had held her in his arms, and she had fallen asleep, and what had 'really' happened minutes before was nothing more than a dream; a very nice dream. Ahhh..To have him in my arms..wait, he is in my arms.

"You are so beautiful when you sleep," came the muffled reply from Maria's side. She quickly turned her head to look at the owner of the voice to find that he still had his eyes closed and looked as if he had no intention of letting her go.

"Michael how did we-"

"You don't remember?" asked Michael.

~

"You don't remember?" I asked. She was beautiful. It didn't matter what she was doing. She was the most gorges girl in the world, and he would never trade her for anything. To my immense stupidity, I told her so. She smiled at me (which I could see after I opened my eyes) and looked slightly shocked that I returned it. "I told the girl I love how I felt about her, and she doesn't remember it, is what happened. Although, I did wake up with her lying, basically, on top of me this morning, so maybe it isn't such a bad thing."

"Michael, be serious. I know all of that, but how did I end up like this.. with you..in my bed?"

You were upset last night, and I was just a shoulder to cry on. You fell asleep, and I tried to get some sleep on the couch, since the door was open and I didn't think it would be cool if mum came in and.." I trailed off.

I had just called Ms. De Luca mum.

I had just called Ms. Amy De Luca mum.

The same person's mum-whom-I-happen-to-be-holding-for-dear-life-mum.

Another thing that scared me is that I did it last night too. When I thought 'Ria was dead I had done it. The other thought that was scurrying about in mind was one of incest. If I thought of Amy as my mother, than who was 'Ria to me?? A sister?? A sister whom I happened to have had..umm..naughty (?) feelings for?

'Ria noticed my silence, and smiled. It was such a beautiful smile. One of content and.when did I become so sappy. I seriously need to stop sleeping during English; I think the poetry unit we're doing is starting to seep into my brain.

I quickly came back down to reality as I felt a certain someone rub themselves against me, and sigh in contentment. (See there I go again!! I better take the silent treatment with anyone I don't REALLY know. If it's this bad in my head what's going to happen when I talk to people?) He eyes closed and she looked like she was drifting off to sleep.

"'Ria, what do you think you're doing? It's about four in the afternoon. If you continue to sleep like this, you're going to keep me up all night, and we have to go to school tomorrow and..'RIA!!"

"What? I'm trying to get comfortable, now keep still..ummm you really are comfortable to lay on, ya know that?" Maria was now on top of me, sort of. It was more of a half on me sort of thing. Mm-mmm. Doesn't she know what she's doing to me??

~

He is so cute. God he's comfortable. Just being here with him like this..I have never felt so..together. I'm not talking 'put it together' together, more like: 'I cut my toe off and they sewed it back on' together.

He thinks of us as his family. Finally after all of these years..we are a family. I've always wanted a family and now I have one.

My hand snakes its way up to his face and I found, to my surprise, that my fingers are stroking his eyebrows. Mm-mmm.

Wait.I'M STROKING HIS EYEBROWS???

~

She is stroking my eyebrows. Weird, I know, but it's so..relaxing, and calming. My breath is starting to even out. My eyes are drowsy, and I move to shut them, but I found that they were already shut. The pillow feels so soft, and they keep on stroking, and suddenly it stops.

I had temporarily been outside of my body. I was in nirvana, and suddenly I'm back inside of my body, and as the feeling of loss enclosed on me. I had another memory come to me. It was another moment of tenderness between the two of us. It was a time where she had been laying on me in much the same way, and had been trying to calm me back to sleep. Nothing had worked, and I had feared the worse for the baby, but she had still been trying to get me to sleep, and by touching my eyebrows she had.

I was remembering things I hadn't ever remembered before. The closer we got to each other the more I seemed to remember. I seemed to remember more of the something else I had been at another time. A person I couldn't recall without her. A man I hadn't been able to become without her and that damn cedar oil. God I love her. I want to kiss her. I want to feel her soft lips against mine. I want to know for certain if she felt the same way about me and would express it.

It would be my first kiss. Would she want to kiss me? Would I know how? Would she know how? Had she ever kissed someone before, and hadn't told me? She hadn't really wanted to talk about that idiot Tommy this morning. Maybe she had had boyfriends, and simply hadn't told me. It's possible.

Suddenly a warm mouth was pressed against his.

~

It was coming now in such a fast succession that the world seemed to have fallen off of its axis. There were pictures and memories, dates, name lives, thoughts, feelings, ideas, everything. It was like their whole world had been shared in that single kiss. What they didn't know was that there was more than one world. There was a world inside of them they couldn't and wouldn't remember until they had expressed their love in the most eternal way possible.

Michael and Maria were just starting to admit their feelings for each other, while Alex and Isabel discussed the plan.

~

"They did it; finally. I was starting to wonder if he was ever going to kiss her."

"He didn't. She kissed him."

"How do you know?" asked Isabel.

"How else would I know? I saw it. I felt it when she did it," responded Alex.

"It's time than isn't it?" asked Isabel.

"Yeah. We have to go and get them. But before we do, why don't we practice a little more, so we can have something impressive to show them? You know my powers go out of control whenever we're all in the same room. Need I remind you of the little food fight that gets started every year on the first day of school? Besides, I don't think I want to interrupt Maria and Michael right now. Do you know how she gets when she's pissed?"

"All right, we'll practice with a few chairs, and then we'll go and get Liz and Max before we go see Michael and Maria." Isabel then threw a plate at Alex face, and before it made contact it was hovering in the air.

~

A half hour later found Alex and Isabel walking down the street towards the elementary playground where all six of them would play during recess. They never really played together, but all of them swung on the swings with their counter-part, and quietly enjoyed the rests' company. Max and Liz were waiting for them.

Alex was watching Liz. Her head was thrown back, and she was laughing. She was aglow and looked as if she hadn't a worry in the world. She was pumping her legs up and down trying to get the swing to go "higher, higher!" just as she had when they were younger. Max was talking to her, but Alex didn't miss the expression on his face. His body was relaxed, and a small smile was on his face. He looked like a little boy who had just found a secret stash of the largest jaw-breakers ever made.

Suddenly his body tensed, and Liz looked over to them at the same moment. They were in sync with each other. No wonder Alex thought to him self. With a past like that, who would waste the time they do have.

Alex and Isabel were holding hands. They were just standing there waiting for us to notice them. Alex had always been like that. Knew who he was and what he was going to do, and he would wait patiently for the rest of the world to realize what he was doing and to know that whatever decision he had come up with during his wait was his last and final one. He had always thought a lot, and never cared what people said. He cared about the way they thought though. He used to say that it wasn't the thoughts themselves he was interested in, but rather why they thought them, and it was only proof of what was to come. I had always been the shy one. I only wanted to be accepted in love. I wanted to do right by the world, and fall in love with a good man, and be happy, and I wished the same for the rest of the world, but things were so different then, and no wonder..

We knew that they would come. I had felt it for days, and I knew Max knew it when she had finally done it. It was going to start now. It was a kiss that was going to seal our fate one way or another. It was Destiny.

"We thought you might come here," Liz said.

"Bull Shit. Liz, you knew we would come. You saw it. You've seem it more times than I have," retorted Alex.

"OK, I knew. But is that how you're gonna treat me? Where's my hug?" Liz asked. At that moment the tension broke, and hugs were given all around. They hadn't ever really talked before; afraid of what some of them knew was coming. There was no delaying it any further and today they had to be together; a unit that wouldn't be destroyed...again.

~

Their first kiss. It was the last kiss. It was time. She hadn't prepared them. She hadn't wanted to. Maria remembered some of it, but not all 0of it, and what she knew was completely different from the truth. They had to know. They had to find out what was really going on. That damn kiss!! If only..I have to get there as soon as possible. I have to help them. It's only a matter of time before someone gets there before she does. OH GOD..HER POWERS!! I left the two of them in the house by themselves, and then she's going to get her powers, and lord only knew why they enhanced emotions. If only she was back home. Than maybe she would be able to get to them faster. Damn rush hour!! She didn't want to have an emotional, hormonal, teenage girl, and her boyfriend in the house by themselves a minute longer. It was safe to say that Amy De Luca was in a rush to get to her ho0use before any one else did.

~

"We have to go somewhere where no one could hear us. Somewhere no one would know where we were." Max was pacing up and down the living room. He was driving Maria crazy. If he didn't stop any minute she wouldn't be responsible. 59..58..57..56..

10..9..

2..1..

Michael's arm slipped around Maria's shoulders just as she thought she was going to kill Max. She leaned into his arms and concentrated solely on Michael's heart beating under his shirt. He smelled so good. It was so different. They used the same soap, and he never wore cologne, and yet he managed to smell so completely different that her. It was a mystery, and it was one she was trying to solve to keep her mind away from Max and his pacing.

"Ya know, we do have a tree house," Michael interrupted Max in mid rant. "It's not finished exactly, 'cause when school started we had to put it off to the weekends, and than 'Ria got sick.."

Max didn't seem to hear the last part of the sentence, and was already pulling his jacket around his shoulders. "Where to?" he asked.

"Oh no buddy, you're not getting of that easily. There are some things we need to talk about if you're coming in me and Michaels' tree house. First off NO PACING!! It's driving me crazy, and we had to use some cheap boards if we were going to have enough money for the rest of it. Secondly, there's no little Max and Liz trips without the consent of the both of us, and we both have to be there when you ask. The same goes for the rest of you. And if you think.." Michael slipped his arm around her at the last part, and quite suddenly Maria ended her tirade. This act didn't go unnoticed by the rest of the group.

Her body visibly relaxed into him. He leaned down and whispered something into her hair. He kissed her head and they lead the way to the tree house

~

"So what's the low-down on everything. I just have bits and pieces, and I'm not sure about those." Maria knew for certain that she was an alien from outer space, and the other teens around her would be able to help her. She had forgotten about the time when she was younger and she had been certain of this knowledge, but it was strange, it was as if it had been wiped from her memory; or until she had kissed Michael. What a kiss, Maria had thought to her self.

"Well all of us have special abilities," stated Liz. She had always been the scientific one, and she was quickly 'morphing' as Max liked to cal it, into that state of mind. "Each of us here can do things. There are major abilities we can do best with our partner."

"Partner?" questioned Maria.

"Come on, don't tell me you haven't figured it out yet," Liz asked in disbelief. When she saw Maria's total look of confusion she said gently in a much calmer tone: "We're paired off the six of us: me and Max, Isabel and Alex, and you and Michael. I don't know if we were supposed to find each other this way or not, but nonetheless it is obvious that we are paired. Max and I can heal; Animals, people, and sometimes plants, although we can't heal ourselves."

"Alex and I can move things with our minds," volunteered Isabel. She hadn't spoken much since before she and Alex had left the house. Alex's hand moved and found hers. Isabel felt a contented stupor fall over her. Her breath was starting to even out. She was at peace. She had temporarily been outside of her body. She was in nirvana, and suddenly she was back inside of her body, and as the feeling of loss enclosed on her she realized why.

His hand was buzzing with energy. His pulse was starting to grow more and more rapid. It was coming. I could feel it. "Max, Michael!!! It's coming!!! Another one is coming!!" I don't know what happened next, but I was there. I was inside of his vision. I was standing next to him and was holding on to him for dear life. I was telekinetic. I didn't have premonitions like they did. I sensed people's emotions (mostly Alex's) I was a telekinetic empathy, and being inside of a premonition was scaring the shit out of me.

Everyone was there. I don't remember how exactly, but they were. Amy and the adults were there. She was standing next to man Michael and Maria couldn't place exactly, and when they did they realized it was their parents.

Amy had always had one blue eye and one green. Michael tended to forget, but in the vision it was startling. The man next to her (Maria's father) had the same eyes. They were the same height and where her right eye was green his left was green. When they stood next to each other it was like two identical eyes. Mr. and Mrs. Whitman were there also and he noticed that they were the same, except their eyes were blue and hazel. The same color as Alex's and Isabel's eyes. Nancy and Jeff Parker had brown and Hazel eyes, but their primary color being brown just like Max and Liz's.

Just as suddenly as the vision had begun it ended, and the six of them found themselves sprawled along the floor. It was going to be OK. Things were going to be fine.

The six teens talked about their first kiss. They talked about their powers, and they found that they had many things in common. Max, Michael, and Isabel were Empaths, although they mostly used that power with their partner. Alex, Maria, and Liz had visions, although Maria couldn't remember most of hers.

It was true that Max and Liz could heal, and Alex and Isabel could move things with their minds, they realized that Michael and Maria could dream walk. It meant they could go into people's dreams. It explained things Maria had always questioned.

They all had secrets, but it was now, for the first time that the De Luca secrets had been shared and now the sixth of them were part of the secret.

~

They used their powers to finish the rest of the tree fort, and spent the rest of the day talking about nothing in particular, most of the time. Years had passed, and their sophomore year was about to begin. Life was defiantly going to take another turn.

TBC..

AN: Hey guys!! Thanks so much for the reviews!! You have no idea how much I love reading them. They make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I'm really happy that I got this finished on Sunday. (So far I've had each chapter posted on..oh wait that was Saturday..oh well, it's still the weekend.) Anyway, I hope you liked it. I wanted to have more in it, but I haven't typed this much in a long time, and my wrists hurt. I plan to follow a lot of the show from here o out, but there are going to be a lot of differences. Everything you once knew about Roswell is going to be different. Believe me!!! But the MaJoR events are going to still happen; Like the Shooting. Opps. Is that saying too much? N E Way, I hope you like the direction it's going so far, and I hope you keep reviewing.

PS If there's anyone out there who's reading this, and they know the specifics on Destiny, could they please send me their email address in a review. I'll email you the specifics then. Gtg, I hope you enjoyed it!!!

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