Inside my Mind
Part 18
A/N: Sorry this took so long to get up. The next two parts to this are already written. I'll be posting part 19 very soon. Please please let me know if anyone is still reading this. Thanks so much.
His boots clicked against the white tiles with his quick pace, as he walked down the long hopsital corridor. Turning the corner he made his way to the area that he was informed of. There he spotted the familiar face that he knew would be waiting there for him. He distracted his view from the window, and shoved the door open. "Max." He greeted tipping his hat.
"Jim." Max replied warmly.
"Where is everyone?"
"Went to get some familiar food."
"Crashdown?"
"You know anything better." Max joked. "So now is as good a time as any to start this, probably better since I'm the only one here."
"Yeah I suppose." Jim Valenti, also known as the town sheriff really wasn't looking forward to this. He hated seeing the kids in danger. All though they were hardly kids anymore. He still remembered when Max would gaze at his sheriff star with wide eyes asking a million questions about his job. When Isabel would spend hours trying to convince Kyle to play barbies with her, before Kyle would give in and make all the Barbie's go to the imaginary football game to watch the star player. He laughed at that thought. Then the time when Michael got pulled over for his first speeding ticket, an hour after getting his license. Those were the good times he enjoyed remembering. Not the bad when he was called under secret alien circumstances, to help keep them out of danger or from the public eye.
Max took a seat at the small table in the waiting room and motioned for the slightly worn man to join him.
Jim took a seat across from Max, and asked the most obvious of questions. Usually the most important one. "This alien related?"
Max knew that was coming. In all the years that Jim had known about the three of them, whenever they got into trouble that was always the first question. "No, not that we know of."
"All right. Good to hear, in some repsects. Go on." Jim emphasized by moving his hand forward through the air.
"Well there's this girl Liz." Max face quickly brightened at the sound of her name. Which didn't go unnoticed by Jim. He knew this was going to be a case that they were all emotionally attached to.
Alex awoke in Isabel's room still in his same chair. Isabel was awake and watching T.V next to him in her hospital bed, showered by the blue blanket. He noticed that she seemed to glow this morning. Maybe she was just a morning person, or maybe she was feeling better today. He hoped that it was the latter.
"He's alive." She commented with a genuine smile.
"That he is." Alex said standing and stretching his arms above his head. That little chair had been murder on his back all night. He was surprised that he'd slept at all.
Isabel looked at him as he stretched. He wasn't bad to look at in the slightest she decided. She didn't know if she should comment on the fact that he had slept in her room all night or not, she decided to leave it as it lay. Did it mean something, did he like her? No. She decided. He couldn't possibly, he doesn't even know me. Probably just something about the ventilation in here, or the view, maybe he had come in to watch T.V or something.
"Sleep well?" He asked taking his seat again next to her bed.
She noticed that he'd moved the chair closer when he sat down again. The simple act excited her. Maybe he did like me after all she thought. "Yeah. Well, as well as I can I guess. I just wish that I could do something be out there instead of trapped in her, completely bed ridden! They won't even let me take a little walk through the hospital!" She started to rant, she hated it when she ranted like that.
She was so cute when she started ranting he noted. "You'll be up and wandering the hospital before you know it. Promise." He said with a wink. "You hungry though. I'm guessing that since I wasn't kicked out by a nurse all night, that you haven't eaten yet."
"Yeah food would be nice. But no worries Liz and Maria accompanied by a protective Michael left a while ago to get some Crashdown food."
"Crashdown?" Alex questioned.
She did a pretend gasp, "You've never heard of the Crashdown?"
"Nope." He said smirking at her.
"You'll love it the food is fantastic, I'll have to take you there when I get out of this damn hospital." She vowed.
Was that... did she just... she had made future plans with him. Alex was in total awe, the excitement overwhelmed him. He hadn't intended to fall asleep in her room. He thought for sure when he woke up that she would have been furiated that a strange man whom she didn't know slept in her room all night unbenounced to her. He surely hadn't expected her to be so kind to him. She was just as he had imagined, kind, generous, sweet... perfect.
"So you are saying that he is here in Roswell." Jim questioned. "And he did that to Isabel." He shook his head. This was unbelievable. After hearing everything he'd wished that this Sean guy would be an alien, so that he wouldn't have to think of a human doing this to someone, he wanted him to be an evil alien that was here to wipe out the planet earth, so that when they succeeded in killing him, he could feel good about himself, about saving everyone. Just the thought that a human, someone that had been raised in this society would do all these things, always gave him the creeps.
"I know I wish he were alien too." Max commented under his breath. He knew what Jim was thinking, he wished it was the other way too. But it wasn't and either way they had to deal with it, and fast.
"We've been doing this to long." Jim commented in response to Max's words. Too Long.
"Where do you want to start, what should we do first?" Max asked, eager to get this over with, so that everyone was safe and that he could be with Liz, he waited for that day, hoped for that day, and prayed that it would come soon. That they could go out on the streets of the town, walk through the park holding hands, feel and be completely safe.
"Don't worry about it Max. It's been slow at the station, I've got it covered. If I need anymore information I'll call you." Jim said standing and ready to go.
Max was relieved, he'd been really hoping that he'd say that. "Thanks Jim. Make sure to keep me updated." Max said as Jim nodded.
"What room is Isabel in. I wanted to see how she was doing before I left."
"She's in room 29." Max replied.
"Thanks." Jim said closing the door behind him.
"Funner?" Alex asked. "Funner isn't proper english, but is it considered a word?"
"It is now." Isabel beamed as she wrote down the 7 points that her word gave her.
Isabel and Alex sat on her hospital bed playing with the scrabble board that the nurse had brought them. Isabel was now up by 7 points, and it was Alex's turn to put down his word.
He carefully laid his word down starting from the s to the t and through to the r. He smiled when he was done.
Isabel turned her head to look at the word. "Stargazer?" She asked. "Oh crap that means you win." She faked upset folding her arms across her chest and pouting.
"That I do." He laughed. "But winner bies loser a soda right?"
"Right you are." Isabel said waving him off to get her a soda from the hall vending machine.
"Fine fine, I'll be back." He said as he got up to leave to get her a soda.
Just as he'd gotten off the bed they heard a knock on the door. Alex making himself useful answered it. When he opened the door he found an older man on the other side taking in his ettiar Alex figure him to be the Sheriff that was meeting Max. "Come in." Alex said moving aside so he could step in.
"Jim!" Isabel gushed as she saw him come in. Making Jim smile. He walked over to the side of the bed leaned in and gave her a big hug. He pulled back to look at her. It crushed him to see her like this. He had to make it right for her again. "How are you feeling?" He asked.
"Good, very good."
"That's good. Just wanted to see how you were."
"Oh. Well I'm good." She said smiling, realizing how much she'd used the word good. "I've got someone to keep me company, and beat me at scrabble." She said gesturing towards Alex. Making Jim turn to look at the young man that had let him in. He outstretched his hand for Alex to shake.
"Jim Valenti."
"Alex Whitman." Alex said shaking the other mans hand.
"Well I will let you two get back to your game. Call me if anything comes up Iz." He said tipping his hat and leaving the room.
After the door shut behind him Alex turned to Isabel. "So you guys get in trouble a lot?" He asked. It did seem kinda weird to him that they would all be so close to the Sheriff.
Isabel was a little worried by his question how should she answer that. She liked Alex a lot, he'd been so kind to her. She wanted to tell him her secret, she knew that he'd understand she just knew it. But it wasn't her secret to tell, if she told she'd could be putting Michael and Max in danger as well. "Our uh families are close, small town and all, you know how it goes." She lied.
He just left it at that. No reason to push, it was most likely true. For some strange reason he had the feeling that it was more than that, like they knew him personally because something had happened. "Well I'll go get your soda now." He smiled and walked out the door.
"I can't believe you took an hour deciding what to order for two people! That's ridiculous, don't you think that's ridiculous Liz?" Maria said waving her hands about as she talked about how long it'd taken Micheal to order for him, Isabel, and Max. Truth was Michael just hated being in the hospital, if being at the Crashdown to pick up food for everyone was his only escape then so be it. They walked down the hall of the hospital towards Isabel's room.
"Yeah Maria." Liz said kinda distracted. "You two go take Isabel and Alex the food. I'll see where Max is." She announced as she branched off from them to go down to their waiting room where she figured Max would be.
She really hadn't wanted to go with Michael and Maria to get food, but Max insisted that he talk to the sheriff guy alone, so after awhile she finally gave in, only when he'd promised to tell her everything about the meeting.
She pushed the door of the room open to find him in there as she expected. He was sitting at the small table drinking a Pepsi, seemingly lost in thought. He looked up when he heard her enter, his face automatically brightened at the sight of her. She seemed to have a way of doing that to him.
"Hey." She said walking over to him. She took a seat on the table next to his chair. "How'd it go?"
"As I hoped. Jim said he'd handle everything and keep us updated." Max replied smiling up at her.
"Good to hear. We brought breakfast back, they took it to Isabel's room." Liz said scooting a little closer to Max as she sat on the hard wood table, she couldn't help it all she wanted to do was kiss him and hold him and be with him forever. She didn't understand how she'd developed such strong feelings for him over the past days but she had, and she loved feeling this way.
"You wanna go eat?" He asked, hoping that she'd say no so they could stay in the room and just be alone, that's all he really wanted to do right now. Just be with her. He didn't know if he should feel bad for feeling this way, his sister had almost died and here he was wanting to spend every free second he had with another person.
"Among other things." She said under her breath, she hadn't even meant to say it out loud. Judging from the pleased expression on his face he'd heard her though.
"Is that so." Max said rubbing his hand casually over her thigh and looking up into her deep eyes, he loved being able to watch all her emotions reflect back to him through her amazing eyes. He hoped that when she looked into his eyes she saw all the emotions he was feeling as well.
In response Liz just smiled and leaned down to kiss him. She'd meant it to be a quick kiss but he moved his other hand up to hold her cheek and their kiss quickly became more passionate.
Max needed her closer. He put both his hands on her waist and in one quick motion pulled her down to be on his lap.
Liz was surprised, but incredibly excited by his action. She loved being close to him, feeling him, knowing that he wanted her just as much as she wanted him. It made her feel alive again.
TBC
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