Chapter 4
Downstairs
Max: She'll be down in a minute, just needed to wash up first.
Phillip: Max, what's wrong?
Max: Back home anxieties but she's fine. Isabel comes downstairs.
Isabel: Okay lets try this again shall we? Isabel sits next to Michael, his
hand on her knee and her hand on his.
Diane: Isabel, what is going on?
Isabel: Okay, well as you know Jesse and I got a divorce over two years
ago. Since then Michael and I have been seeing each other and um, four
months ago, we um, well I, I um, I found out that you were going to be
grandparents. There I said it, I'm just gonna go now. Isabel gets up and
starts heading for the door. Phillip and Diane follow.
Phillip: Wait a second Isabel. Did you just say what I think you said?
Isabel turns around to face her parents.
Isabel: That you and mom are going to be grandparents? Yea, yea, that's
what I said.
Phillip: That's great!
Diane: Phillip. Come back over here. We need to talk. Mr. and Mrs. Evans
take a seat. Isabel stays standing. Honey, when did this happen?
Max: Mom she just said...
Diane: Four months ago, I know. That's not what I meant. How did it happen?
Isabel: Ah, mom. Isabel turned away with a look of disgust and
embarrassment.
Diane: Let me rephrase. What made you go and decide to do something like
this? You're only twenty years old.
Phillip: Diane they really don't need a reason do they?
Diane: Yes. What made you go and decide to do something like this?
Isabel: My heart did. Michael and I have loved each other since before we
hatched out of the pods. It was Michael's choice and mine but it was
destiny's choice as well.
Phillip: Wait, destiny?
Michael: Before we were sent here...
Isabel: Michael can we please not stir up the past?
Phillip: Why? What's so bad about it? Isabel turns around, her back facing
everyone, a sad look on her face.
Isabel: It's just something I want to forget that's all. Isabel turns
around facing her parents. But do you really want to know?
Diane: I think as your parents we have a right to know. Isabel tries to
fight off some tears.
Isabel: Okay. In our past, before we were sent here, Michael and I were
married. Everything was going great and at the time we never had any kids
because before we could I had gone behind Michael's back and feel in love
with a being named Kivar. He was a feared enemy of our people. Isabel
begins to tear. And I helped him by betraying my family, my husband, and my
brother by killing everyone and I personally killed my own brother. It
wasn't Nicholas as he had said. It was me. Isabel looks at Max, who looks
back at her.
Max: You what?
Isabel: I'm sorry Max, I really am. If I could change the past I would but
I can't. Max goes over to Isabel and hugs her. She begins to cry.
Max: Hey it's okay.
Isabel: No, it's not okay. Max and Isabel face each other. Everyday I think
about how I betrayed you and Michael.
Max: Isabel you have to remember that it wasn't you.
Isabel: But it was me Max. I've tried so hard to get Vilandra out of my
system but I can't. She's the demon that lives inside me and I worry that
she'll resurface and I'll betray you again.
Max: I know you, you're stronger than she is and I know that you won't let
that happen.
Liz: Isabel can I ask, how do you remember that so clearly? Isabel dries
her eyes.
Isabel: Two years ago, the day before Michael and I got together I had a
dream and it all just came to me.
Phillip: That still doesn't explain the whole destiny thing.
Isabel: Right, well since Michael and I were together back home, Michael
and I were sent to be together here on Earth.
Michael: There was that and the dreams.
Diane: Dreams?
Isabel: Yea, five years ago Michael and I began having these same dreams.
They were dreams of what was to be. We saw ourselves together and then we
saw ourselves with our child. The problem now is I'm not sure if this is
normal.
Phillip: What do you mean?
Isabel: It takes alien pregnancies only a month and all ready it's been
four.
Liz: Do you think it's possible that it's your human half that's kicking
in?
Isabel: I'm not sure. Michael, do you think we can go home?
Michael: Yea, sure.
Downstairs
Max: She'll be down in a minute, just needed to wash up first.
Phillip: Max, what's wrong?
Max: Back home anxieties but she's fine. Isabel comes downstairs.
Isabel: Okay lets try this again shall we? Isabel sits next to Michael, his
hand on her knee and her hand on his.
Diane: Isabel, what is going on?
Isabel: Okay, well as you know Jesse and I got a divorce over two years
ago. Since then Michael and I have been seeing each other and um, four
months ago, we um, well I, I um, I found out that you were going to be
grandparents. There I said it, I'm just gonna go now. Isabel gets up and
starts heading for the door. Phillip and Diane follow.
Phillip: Wait a second Isabel. Did you just say what I think you said?
Isabel turns around to face her parents.
Isabel: That you and mom are going to be grandparents? Yea, yea, that's
what I said.
Phillip: That's great!
Diane: Phillip. Come back over here. We need to talk. Mr. and Mrs. Evans
take a seat. Isabel stays standing. Honey, when did this happen?
Max: Mom she just said...
Diane: Four months ago, I know. That's not what I meant. How did it happen?
Isabel: Ah, mom. Isabel turned away with a look of disgust and
embarrassment.
Diane: Let me rephrase. What made you go and decide to do something like
this? You're only twenty years old.
Phillip: Diane they really don't need a reason do they?
Diane: Yes. What made you go and decide to do something like this?
Isabel: My heart did. Michael and I have loved each other since before we
hatched out of the pods. It was Michael's choice and mine but it was
destiny's choice as well.
Phillip: Wait, destiny?
Michael: Before we were sent here...
Isabel: Michael can we please not stir up the past?
Phillip: Why? What's so bad about it? Isabel turns around, her back facing
everyone, a sad look on her face.
Isabel: It's just something I want to forget that's all. Isabel turns
around facing her parents. But do you really want to know?
Diane: I think as your parents we have a right to know. Isabel tries to
fight off some tears.
Isabel: Okay. In our past, before we were sent here, Michael and I were
married. Everything was going great and at the time we never had any kids
because before we could I had gone behind Michael's back and feel in love
with a being named Kivar. He was a feared enemy of our people. Isabel
begins to tear. And I helped him by betraying my family, my husband, and my
brother by killing everyone and I personally killed my own brother. It
wasn't Nicholas as he had said. It was me. Isabel looks at Max, who looks
back at her.
Max: You what?
Isabel: I'm sorry Max, I really am. If I could change the past I would but
I can't. Max goes over to Isabel and hugs her. She begins to cry.
Max: Hey it's okay.
Isabel: No, it's not okay. Max and Isabel face each other. Everyday I think
about how I betrayed you and Michael.
Max: Isabel you have to remember that it wasn't you.
Isabel: But it was me Max. I've tried so hard to get Vilandra out of my
system but I can't. She's the demon that lives inside me and I worry that
she'll resurface and I'll betray you again.
Max: I know you, you're stronger than she is and I know that you won't let
that happen.
Liz: Isabel can I ask, how do you remember that so clearly? Isabel dries
her eyes.
Isabel: Two years ago, the day before Michael and I got together I had a
dream and it all just came to me.
Phillip: That still doesn't explain the whole destiny thing.
Isabel: Right, well since Michael and I were together back home, Michael
and I were sent to be together here on Earth.
Michael: There was that and the dreams.
Diane: Dreams?
Isabel: Yea, five years ago Michael and I began having these same dreams.
They were dreams of what was to be. We saw ourselves together and then we
saw ourselves with our child. The problem now is I'm not sure if this is
normal.
Phillip: What do you mean?
Isabel: It takes alien pregnancies only a month and all ready it's been
four.
Liz: Do you think it's possible that it's your human half that's kicking
in?
Isabel: I'm not sure. Michael, do you think we can go home?
Michael: Yea, sure.