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.

Author's Note: Some of the dialogue is taken directly from It's Too Late and It's Too Bad, (Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts) and Baby It's You, (Lisa Klink). Yes, I know they were horrible episodes, but the dialogue suits this chapter.

Rating: PG-13 – possibly to R

Chapter Sixty – Five Ewwwwww, Ick!

Tess heard Max groan with passion, and the sound aroused her even further. She slid her hand down his chest until it came in contact with his belt buckle. The buckle came undone beneath her nimble fingers, and she deftly unsnapped his jeans and pulled his zipper down. Sliding her hand inside, she shivered with anticipation when her hand came in contact with his rock hard erection.

"Oh, God, Max, I want you so bad," she moaned against his lips.

"Tess," he whispered back. "Oh Tess." He savagely tugged her shirt away from her body. He gently lowered her to the floor, and covered her body with his. Their bodies joined together as if the were created to be that way for eternity. Tess felt his moment of climax, as he filled her body with his warm seed.

After, they lay quietly together, with her head resting on his chest. Tess felt a stirring in her body, almost an awakening of sorts. She smiled a feral smile. She knew what that feeling was. It was her body and Max's, joining together to create new life.

"My whole life, I've wanted to be this person, this normal person. Human. My whole life I've been thinking that this alien side of me was this bad thing. This thing that made me a freak. This monster. I realize that I haven't just been hiding from the government and the law all this time. I've been hiding from myself. I don't know what's going on anymore. I thought I knew but I don't. I've lost everyone.

"I'll be here for eternity," Tess whispered. "Nothing will ever separate us now, Max." Max said nothing; he only held her closer and kissed her softly. She moved in closer to him, and drifted off to sleep.

Max waited until she was deeply asleep, and then pulled away from Tess, careful not to disturb her slumber. He walked softly across the floor of the observatory, and climbed the ladder to the walkway that encircled the telescope.

"You got here just in time," he whispered. "I didn't know what I was going to do. There was no way in hell I was going to go through with it."

"We're sorry, Max," Ava whispered. "Kyle's car broke down on the way out here. We got here as quick as we could. I am so, so sorry."

"It's okay," Max said. "It's over with. What did you make her think she saw, anyhow? She was looking pretty damn happy over there."

Ava giggled softly, while Kyle gave Max a knowing smirk. "Well, the two of you had mad passionate sex. In fact, you practically ripped her shirt right off of her," Ava said.

"That was my idea," proclaimed Kyle, proudly.

"That so doesn't surprise me," said Max. "So, we had sex, we've done that before, at least in her mind."

"Yeah, but this time, she's pregnant," said Ava.

"WHAT!" Max roared.

"Quiet you idiot, you'll wake her," whispered Kyle. "She's not really pregnant you idiot. She only thinks she is."

"Why?" Max asked weakly. "Did you make her think that?"

"Simple," said Ava. "If she is on to us, Liz and the baby are in the most danger. If we give her a baby of her own, maybe she'll back off and leave Liz alone."

"Oh, that's actually a good idea," he admitted.

"What, you think you're the only one with the market on good ideas?" snapped Kyle. "We Earthlings have brains too."

"I'm sorry Kyle, I'm being a jerk, I know," said Max. "I'm still just a little freaked at having to even kiss her. I tried stalling as long as I could, but she just about attacked me. I was never so happy to see anyone as I was when I saw you and Ava up on the catwalk."

"Yeah, I guess being near her is enough to freak out the most enlightened of us," said Kyle.

"What else do you have planned," asked Max. "How am I going to get out of here?"

"Well, about that," Kyle said, rubbing the back of his neck. "Max, old buddy, I'm afraid you're going to have to have a morning after. Ava and I are going to get out of here, and a few hours before dawn, you are going to try and sneak Tess back into the house. My Dad will be lying in wait, and behave like the typical angry parent whose daughter has been out all night with her boyfriend."

"Why?" Max asked weakly. The thought of an angry sheriff, even a pretend angry sheriff, made him feel nauseous.

"It will make it seem all the more real in her mind," said Ava. "If it really happened, and Sheriff Valenti found out, he'd freak."

"That's good thinking," said Max, looking at her with new respect. "Ava, if it wasn't for you, we wouldn't be able to pull any of this off. Thank you so much." He leaned over and hugged her. "I don't know who is luckier," he said. "Michael for having you as a sister, or Kyle for having you for his wife. You're the best."

"Thanks Max," Ava said, blushing. "That's probably the nicest thing anybody's ever said to me.

"It's weird," Max continued. "Hugging you is nothing like hugging Tess. When I held her in my arms, it was like I was being enveloped in a dark cloud. You are the total antithesis of that. You are sunshine and light."

"You nailed it right there," said Kyle. "I noticed those differences a long time ago. "Those doubles of yours, their not duplicates. They're like the negative image of you. All of your positive characteristics are blacked out in them."

"I wonder if we'll ever really understand why the other faction wanted us to be so evil?" pondered Max.

"One mystery at a time," said Kyle. "Let's deal with what we have in front of us, then we can contemplate the mysteries of life both here and on Antar."

"We'd better go," said Ava softly. "It's starting to get light, and we need time to get me back to Michael's before Max and Tess show up at your house."

Max watched as his friends drove out of site, then he slid down on the floor beside Tess. The movement disturbed her, and she opened her eyes and looked at Max, sleepily.

"Hey," she whispered to Max, touching his face with her hand.

"Hey," said Max. Tess smiled at him and drifted off to sleep again. Max waited about an hour, and then woke her again.

"We need to head back," he said.

"Okay," Tess answered. The two straightened their clothing, and drove back to the Valenti house. The car was filled with a strained silence. At the Valenti house, the two sneak in quietly, and Max looked over to the sofa where Kyle was feigning sleep.

"So, I guess I'll see you at school," said Tess.

"Yeah," answered Max, trying to muster some enthusiasm for the thought. He catches Kyle glaring at him and making kissing motions, so he leans down and kisses Tess briefly.

"Is everything okay?" Tess asks, puzzled by the brevity of the kiss.

"Yeah…yeah great," answers Max

"Where the hell have you…?" shouted Jim Valenti, walking into the room "Max! Tess, go to you're room!"

"Yes, sir," she said and quickly exited the room.

"Sheriff," began Max.

"Go home, Max. We'll talk about this later."

"Right," said Max. He gave Jim a pointed look and motioned to the door.

"As a matter of fact, I think I escort you to your car," continued Jim. "Just so I can be certain you do actually leave."

"Sheriff, look, I'm sorry," said Max.

"Save it, Evans. I said we'll talk about this later." Jim pushed Max out the door, and slammed it behind them.

"Did it work?" Jim asked.

"I think so," said Max. "Ava did a fantastic job. She thinks we're together, and that she's pregnant."

"I can't say I like all of this," said Jim. "And I'm still having a hard time accepting that Tess would go to these lengths."

"She's evil, Sheriff," said Max. And she'll stop at nothing to get her way.

"Watch out," said Jim, as Max climbed into his Jeep.

Max started the Jeep and sped off down the road raising a cloud of dust.

"I don't know what I want more," he said to the empty Jeep. "A shower, or a hug from Liz."