Disclaimer: You know the drill…the characters aren't mine. A lot of stuff in the beginning is taken from End of the World. God knows THAT'S not mine. Anything that makes sense and makes it all better, now that's mine. Seriously, Roswell and all characters belong to Jason Katims, 20th Century Fox etc. I'm just borrowing them.

Rating: PG-13 – possibly to R

Love Changes Everything

Chapter Ten – Destiny Revealed

"You four, are capable of far more than we imagined," said Alex. "The more you use your powers, the more they grow and develop. It's amazing. And you should know, that holographic image of your mother you saw, well it was a fake."
"What!" cried Isabelle. Seeing that image of her mother gave her comfort. It was something for her to hold onto in the dark lonely night.
"Well, the image was real, that's what she looked like," said Alex, reaching across to take Isabelle's hand in a gesture of silent comfort. "But everything she said, was implanted in our minds by Tess. Reach back in your mind to that time, and you will hear what your mother really had to say."

Isabelle thought back to that time in the pod chamber, where her mother told them of their lives on their home planet, and of the great war, and how their essence was cloned and mixed with human DNA and sent to Earth. She thought harder, and she could hear her mother's voice, but the words shifted and changed, until their meaning became clear.

     I am taking this form because it is familiar to you. Our world is in the midst of a great civil war. You, my son Zan, were destined to rule our world, but you were murdered, as were your sister, Vilondra, and your closest friend and second in command, Rath, and his sister, Ava. The four of you were inseparable on Antar. You grew up together and were the best of friends, and I consider you all my children.
     Your essence was mixed with human DNA to make it stronger, to ensure that you could survive on Earth. It is my hope as your Mother that you will survive, to someday find your way back to us, but if that never happens, I take great joy in knowing that my children were given the chance to live again.
     But beware my children, you were betrayed by someone close to our family, be cautious, for the evil may follow you. When your essence was merged with the human DNA, two sets were created. Our enemies were able to tamper with one of the sets, and they then mixed the two sets together. We were unable to tell which four were the ones we had chosen to send to Earth. Rather than take the risk of destroying the wrong set, we sent both to Earth.
Each set was sent with two protectors to watch over them. Listen to your protectors, for they will be able to teach you about our world. Let them guide you, my children. They will help you, and are there to do your bidding. Do not grieve for a world you do not know, my children.

      If you find your way back to Antar, you will be welcomed with open arms, but if you remain on Earth, know that all I want for you is to live long and healthy lives.
The time will come when you fall in love. Any children you may have will have your gifts and abilities. Guide your children well, as I would have guided you if I only had the chance. I love you.

     Isabelle opened her eyes and saw everyone staring at each other with varying looks of shock and amazement on their faces.
"There was no destiny, was there?" asked Liz, bitterly. "You weren't destined to be with Tess, she was your childhood playmate, not your betrothed."
"She's my sister," said Michael. "She knew how badly I wanted family, and she kept it from me. Why would she do that?"
"Who knows why she's done anything?" asked Max. "But at least we know she's doing it. Alex, what else did the book say?"

"It lists all the powers you had on Antar, including Tess's mind warping ability. But apparently, that power was often used for evil purposes on Antar, so they developed a way to block it.
"The platinum," said Kyle.
"Right," said Alex. "Hey, I'm hungry, is there any more pizza left?" Maria passed him a slice of pepperoni, and he continued his dissertation. "The book teaches you how to develop your powers, but basically, I think the things you can do are endless. Once you tap into your powers, I mean really tap into them, they will grow exponentionally.

"What else?" asked Michael.
"Well, you know how your powers always go all freaky when you are upset?" asked Alex. "Apparently it happens on your planet to a lot of people. Your powers are centered in your brains. You basically are using parts of the brain that we don't use. But even though they are centered in your brains, they are emotion driven. Once you learn to control your emotions, you can control your powers."

"I'm sorry," said Maria. "But Michael controls his emotions. Half the time you can't even tell he has any."
"There's a difference between controlling, and containing," said Alex. "It's kind of like the stuff Kyle does with his meditating. It brings him into focus. There are exercises in the book to help with that."
"Really," said Kyle. "I wouldn't mind giving those a try."
"You are more right than you know," said Alex. "Max healed both you and Liz. When he did, he sent a burst of power into your bodies that accelerated the development in your brains. There is a huge chance that you will start to develop powers as well."
"There is just so much to absorb," said Liz. "I don't even know what to think about first."

"Well, I think the first thing we need to think about is Tess, and why she is doing what she's doing," said Michael.
"Michael's right," said Max. "She obviously has her own agenda. We need to find out what it is."
"But how?" asked Isabelle.
"We should go along with her," said Liz. "She thinks she broke Max and I up, and she thinks Max has turned to her. Let's play along. If what Alex says is true, we can tell when she tries to mess with our minds. We can play along for now. That way she won't get suspicious."
"It should work," said Max. "Is everybody agreed?" The group looked at one another and one by one they nodded.

"The first thing we have to do is get some more platinum," said Isabelle. "And that costs money."
"Well, I don't like doing it, but we can change some money to buy what we need," said Max. "Alex, what you did, it was great. I can't believe you figured out the book. How did you do it?"
"Well, it wasn't easy, but it wasn't hard either," said Alex. "I took what we did the other night and fed it all into my computer. I went back out to the reservation with Isabelle, and we searched the cave and we found some more symbols, so we copied them down and put them into the computer. Then I scanned the images in the book in as well. Isabelle helped me write a program to assign a numeric value to each symbol, and from there, we assigned a letter value."
"Never mind," said Max, holding up his hand and laughing. "It worked, obviously. When you can figure out a way to translate everything you just said into English, then you can tell me."

One by one, the group climbed out the window, until only Max and Liz were left in her room. Max slipped the ring belonging to Liz's grandmother off his hand and knelt down on one knee in front of Liz. He took her hand in his and looked up into her beautiful eyes.
"Liz Parker. You are my world, my life. If I do have a destiny, it is you. I can't imagine anyone I would rather spend the rest of my life with. Liz, will you marry me?" he asked as he slid her grandmother's engagement ring onto her hand.

"Oh Max," Liz said softly. There isn't anyone else I would rather spend the rest of my life with. You gave me back my life, and let me look into your soul. We belong together." Max stood up and wrapped her in his embrace and the two kissed passionately. Pulling away, Liz walked over to her bed and grabbed a comforter off of it. Taking Max by the hand, she led him out through the window and onto the rooftop. They spread the blanket on the ground, and knelt down on it.
"Are you sure?" asked Max.
"More sure than I have ever been in my life Max," Liz whispered. They lay down on the blanket and cemented their love under the star filled sky.