Author's Note: I know I know, ages since I have written. I know this chapter is short, but I'll write more later, this is just to spark some interest! Read and review! Thanks to jazzypunker, trude, and dramastarOF06.

Kyle and Tess went home later that night after hours of experimenting with the crystal. They didn't know for sure who had thrown it in the window of the Crash, but they all thought it might have come from the protector of the dupes from New York.

The first plan of action was to find him, and the only way to do that would be to locate Ava. Of all of the dupes she would be the one to help them, to tell them what she knew about the protector, where he might be. Before she left Roswell she had made it clear to Liz that she didn't want to have any part in their alien destiny, but she would always help if she was really needed.

Without the protector, they didn't know how they could protect Jim and Amy from some unknown threat.

That night, Isabel was going to dreamwalk Ava, they would get some sleep and meet up in the morning to discuss what Isabel had found out.

Tess ran over everything in her mind, she knew what she had seen, the images of Kivar were not real, but she still felt it all. The pain and fear, it was paralyzing. She wanted this over.

Maria was scared, her mother was in danger and they were flying blind as to how to prevent it. They were going to tell Jim in the morning at the meeting at the Crashdown. But they did not know how to help her mother. She prayed that night for Isabel to find Ava and bring good news.

She also prayed for Michael and Tess, the only family that they had were the group of friends and Jim, who was a father figure to both people who had never had a family to run to. She didn't know what she'd do if she didn't have her mother.

Isabel lay on her bed that night with a Polaroid of Ava that Liz had kept just for this reason. She cleared her mind and hoped that wherever Ava was, she was sleeping. Things grew dim and then she was standing in the middle of an empty street, she didn't recognize the place, but she knew that it must be New York City. Everything was deserted and she looked for Ava, she didn't know how long this would last.

A hand tapped her shoulder and she turned to face the person, but who she saw was not what she had been expecting.

i have to admit, i love cliffhangers. more soon...Isabel interacts with the last person she thought she'd ever meet.