Thanks for the reviews and WOW! A lot of you commented on how much you hated Max for not standing up for Liz, just remember, he never got the chance to speak because Jeff came in and shouted at Tess. There is a reason why Isabel and Michael went with Tess and you will get to see it in this chapter.

Just relax people; things will come together soon.

And yes you will find out if Liz had been captured by the F.B.I in this story but I must warn you, the memories back flash will be a bit upsetting. If you have any problems with them, e-mail me and complain to me. Thanks

Chapter 4

"What the hell did you think you were doing?" Max demanded as the four of them entered Michael's apartment.

"That bitch was stealing you from me!" Tess snapped back "And what the hell did you think you were doing kissing her?" Tess demanded.

"We didn't mean to okay. We just kissed, in fact I'm the one who started the kiss!" Max shouted at Tess.

Tess saw red as she lifted up her hand and slapped Max across the cheek with a sound crack, Isabel and Michael looked at Tess in a stunned shock while Max brought his head round, Tess could see that a red mark was beginning to form on his cheek.

"You are nothing but a selfish spoilt brat!" Max hissed out, his eyes filled with hate as he glared at her. He stormed out of the apartment, refusing to look at Tess anymore.

"Well done Tess, that's twice you managed to slap someone today, are you going for a record?" Isabel snapped.

"She shouldn't have went near Max and Max shouldn't have cheated on me!" Tess shouted at Isabel and Isabel rolled her eyes.

"Grow up Tess!" she snapped, "Max's right, you are a spoilt brat who can't see past her own nose." Isabel agreed before storming out of the apartment to go after her brother.

"You agree with me Michael, don't you?" Tess asked and Michael shook his head.

"You heard what Max said when he told us how he felt about Liz, it's not Liz's fault that Max is attracted to her and Max knew what he was doing when he kissed her. You shouldn't have slapped her." Michael explained and sighed. "You better go Tess." He motioned outside the door as he opened it. Tess threw him a glare and huffed as she stormed out of the apartment without a backward glance.

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Liz was sitting on her bed with a blanket wrapped round her body as she looked out of the window, tears running down her face as she looked at the photograph of her mother. Her mother never died by a car crash, she died by Pierce's hand with Liz watching her. Liz sobbed even harder as she rested her head on the pillow as the memories came back with a vengeance.

Flash back

It was when Liz was seven years old, Nancy took her to the fun fair for a day out; Jeff was out of town on a mission to look for the other royal four so it was fun time for the two women.

"Mummy! Look!" Liz shouted excitedly at the merry go around and Nancy laughed at her daughter's excitement.

"What do you want to go on first?" Nancy asked and Liz pulled on her hand to go over to the toy booth where you threw a ring and win a toy.

"Can you get me a toy mummy?" Liz asked and Nancy smiled as she paid for the rings and threw them. One of them landed on the big square at the back, resulting in a happy squeal from Liz.

"What do you want?" Nancy asked and Liz peered over the booth and pointed at the huge white teddy.

"The teddy mummy." Liz replied in a sweet happy tone and Nancy smiled as the man laughed and handed the toy over to her.

"Your daughter is a sweet one isn't she?" he asked and Nancy smiled down at her Liz who was currently hugging the huge teddy and her arms couldn't reach around the neck.

"Yes, she's very sweet and special." Nancy replied as she smoothed her daughter's hair back. "Come on honey, let's go and have a look around." Nancy said to Liz as she picked up the teddy. Liz smiled as they both walked around only to stop when a man came up to them.

"Excuse me, Mrs Parker?" the man asked and Nancy looked at him with a wary eye.

"Yes, who are you?" she asked

"You have to come with me." He said and Nancy looked behind him and saw more men coming toward them.

Fear clenched her heart as she pushed Liz.

"Liz! Run!" Nancy shouted, Liz just turned and ran while dragging the teddy along with her, she heard thumping of footsteps behind her. Soon arms wrapped themselves around her body, causing her to scream and kick the capture. Her teddy dropped to the floor and she started crying as she was flung into the back of a black van, she felt her head hit something hard, knocking her out.

Liz woke up a while later, she looked around the room that she was in and saw that there was a glass window, she slowly walked over to it and saw her mother in the other room.

"Mummy!" Liz shouted as she banged on the window. Nancy looked up, saw Liz standing at the window, and hurried over to her.

"Are you okay sweetie?" Nancy asked and Liz nodded.

"I just bumped my head." Liz explained as she rubbed the sore bit and pulled away, Nancy panicked when she saw the blood on Liz's hand.

"Sweetie you are bleeding, you need to heal yourself." Nancy explained and Liz looked at her.

"I don't know how, daddy said I wasn't to use my powers." Liz cried and Nancy softened, she knew that Liz was her daddy's little girl.

"Place your hand on your head and focus on bringing the skin together to stop the bleeding." Nancy helped, Liz placed her hand on the back of her head and closed her eyes, and there was a slight sheen of sweat as she concentrated on healing her wound.

Liz gasped when she felt her wound healed and Nancy gasped when she saw Liz's hand glowing.

"Are you okay?" Nancy asked.

"Just a little tired mummy." Liz whispered as she slumped down to her bum, she saw her teddy and crawled toward it, hugging it as she closed her eyes. Nancy nodded but froze when she heard the door opened behind her. She turned to face the intruder and saw him. Her heart froze when she looked into Blue ice eyes.

"Pierce." Nancy whispered; she instinctively knew who he was.

"Hello Nancy." He greeted and Nancy flinched.

"Why are you holding us here? Let Liz go!" Nancy demanded; Liz woke up to her mother shouting.

"Mummy?" Liz asked as she stood back up and looked through the window and saw a man standing in the same room as her.

(This is Nancy's POV Liz can't hear this)

Pierce walked up to the window and placed his fingers on the window, near Liz's cheek.

"She's so beautiful isn't she?" Pierce asked and Nancy threw a glare at him. "Just imagine what she would be like when she reach her teenaged years and her adult years." Pierce said and turned to face Nancy. "Bet she would be a wild one in the bed." He leered and Nancy hurled herself at Pierce in pure anger.

"You will not get anywhere near her at all!" Nancy screamed as she clawed his face. Pierce pushed her off him and stood up.

"You slept with an alien and you took one in! You are a traitor to the mankind!" Pierce shouted as he backhanded Nancy, sending her across the room. Liz was screaming with tears running down her face as she watched through the glass window.

(This is back to Liz's POV)

"Stop it!" Liz screamed as she banged the window, Pierce bent over her mother and ripped her shirt apart, Nancy started fighting Pierce but he was too strong, he slammed her against the wall and pushed up her skirt as he unzipped his pants and thrusted himself into her.

Nancy let out a cry as she started tearing at his face but he managed to dodge them as he continued to rape her.

Liz watched horrified at the man forcing himself on her mother, at the time she didn't know what was happening but once she learned about it, she was angry. Liz started slamming her fists on the window once more.

"Leave her alone, please!" Liz sobbed out. Pierce was finished, he pulled himself off her and zipped himself up and snapped his fingers. Four men in white came in with a sliver table, two men lifted Nancy off the floor and laid her on the table and strapped her to the table.

"What are you doing?" Liz shouted, Pierce turned to her and smiled as another man came in with a small sliver tray. Pierce picked up a small scalpel knife and drew a cut down Nancy's chest. Nancy screamed out in pain while Liz had tears running down her face while screaming.

Liz watched as the agents took her mother apart, piece-by-piece. By the time, Pierce was finished, her mother was facing her with a blank empty look, and blood was everywhere. Liz was no longer crying; she was just completely numb inside.

End Flash Back

Liz closed her eyes as tears leaked out from her eyes. She could remember how furious her father was when he found out that she was kidnapped, she had managed to contact him through her link, he came barging into the building and knocked out the F.B.I agents that got in his way. He managed to find her, she was curled up, hugging the teddy bear as dry tears ran down her cheek, he had picked her up, relieved that she was safe only to look through the window into the other room where he was that his wife was brutally murdered and he could sense that she had been raped. He lost it, he killed every agent there was in the building and set the building up in flames, destroying his wife's body, letting her soul be at peace.

Liz sighed; Pierce was out of the building at the time when Jeff had arrived at the building so he had escaped. Before Jeff killed everyone, he went into his wife memories and found out that Pierce wanted Liz to have his child, he didn't tell Liz in order to keep her safe. Liz hugged the teddy to her, it was the last thing she had of her mother so it meant a lot to her. She couldn't believe how cruel people could be, especially to another human.

Jeff came up the stairs and saw Liz curled up on her bed, clutching the teddy bare that her mother gave her and felt his heart break. She saw everything that her mother went through so it was harder for her to overcome it, she was only eight years old at the time and she saw how cruel how people could be in the worst way. He had sworn on his soul that he was going to avenge Nancy's death and get payback for Liz, forced to watch her mother suffer for being in love with a alien and for taking in an alien child.

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Alex was looking through the net for all the car crashes when Liz was eight, He found on that said Nancy's name but it never proved that it was actually her. Alex groaned as he rubbed his face until an idea came to him. He could hack into the F.B.I files and see if Liz had been captured.

With a renewed determination, he started typing away, hacking into the site until he got the information that he needed.

"Female – 30 years old, white.

Red hair, blue eyes.

Female – 8 years old, white

Brown hair and brown eyes.

First female was questioned and had sampled taken from her. Second female escaped, her father (alien) had breached the building and killed every good men and women there was in the building. The first female did not survive as the Alien had killed her"

Alex was stunned. Jeff had killed Nancy? Somehow, it didn't seem right, Jeff was protective of Liz because he had lost Nancy, not because he killed her. Questions ran about in his brain, he had no answers and he needed some. He sighed as he ran his hand through his hair while waiting for the printer to finish printer the information.

A beeping noise started on the computer causing Alex to snap his head back up to look at the screen. He panicked when he sat that the F.B.I was tracker. The printer finished and Alex quickly shut down the computer, cutting off the transmitter. He vowed to himself as he breathed a sigh of relief that he was not going to do that again, at least not without a better hider transmitter.

He looked down at his notes and nodded to himself, he was going to get the answers that he needed and damn anyone who got in his way!

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Max was sitting in the jeep, looking at the lake that he had arrived to. He remembered the last time he was here and that was with Liz.

He didn't understand why he felt this way, why he was attracted to her. He just wish that she would give him a sign that she was an alien so that he could talk to her but so far, nothing.

His cell went off and he answered it.

"Hello, Max's here." Max answered.

"Max?" a female voice asked puzzled and he smiled, he knew that voice!

"Liz!" He greeted.

"I'm really sorry Max, I was calling for Maria; I guessed I dialled the wrong number." Liz explained.

"It's okay. How are you?" Max asked and heard a soft sob on the other side of the phone. "Liz?" Max asked concerned.

"It's nothing Max!" Liz snapped. "I'm just thinking about my mother and if you excuse me, I must phone Maria." Liz finished as she hung up the phone.

Max looked at the phone and shut it with a weary sigh, he had never hated Tess than he did right now, and he really hated her for telling Liz to stay away from him.

The phone rang again and Max picked it up.

"Hello?" he asked.

"Not again!" he heard Liz muttered and he smiled. "Can you give me the number that Maria gave you?" Max asked, Liz replayed the number over to him and he rolled his eyes. "That the number for my phone." Max explained and Liz groaned.

"Figures she would do that to me." Liz muttered. Max chuckled and he heard cars coming, he looked up and saw the gang coming toward him, fear began to clutch at his chest.

"Liz, I have to go, I'll phone you later okay?" Max explained.

"NO! You can't phone me later, I promised Tess that I'll stay away from you and that includes the phone. Goodbye Max." Liz finished as she hung up.

Max just stared at the phone in dismay but covered it up when the group headed toward him.

"Who was it?" Tess asked, suspicious clearly shown in her voice.

"My mom, she wanted to make sure that I was going to be home tonight." Max lied, Isabel looked at him in confusion while Tess just nodded, glad it wasn't Liz. "What are you doing here anyway?" Max asked.

"Alex said he had found something out." Maria explained and everyone turned to Alex.

"Right, I was curious about Liz's reaction to the F.B.I so I checked out her background. I found the car crash but it wasn't confirmed that it was actually Nancy who had died in the crash so I hacked my way into the F.B.I site." Everyone looked at him, stunned. "What I found out that two people were captured by the F.B.I, one was eight years old, she had brown hair and brown eyes while one was 30 years old, she had red hair and blue eyes. They reported that they had taken a sample and questioned the red haired but they never got the chance to do anything to the child because an Alien breached the building, killing everyone, including the wide, which just confused me because if it was Nancy, I seriously doubt that Jeff would have killed her." Alex finished.

"The more answers we get, the more questions we have." Maria complained as she turned to face the lake.

"The one thing is that it happened eight years ago ... today." Alex explained.

"That explains why Liz was crying." Max murmured and Tess heard him.

"And when did you see Liz?" she demanded.

"I drove past the Crashdown on my way here. I don't remember that being against the law." Max snapped at her.

"The other thing is, Nancy died in the crash to weeks later, so why would Liz be crying now?" Alex asked, "Unless she was captured by the F.B.I." Alex stated thoughtfully.

Everyone just stared out into the water in a deep thoughtful thought, they had no idea what they were going to do with this information or how to go to Liz with it.

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The next day, Liz entered the school, she smiled as she past some students before making her way to her locker; Maria turned up and rolled her eyes.

"I hate Mondays, why on earth do we have them." Maria complained and Liz laughed.

"It just the way the world works. By the way, thanks for giving me Max's cell number...NOT!" Liz exclaimed and Maria looked at her confused.

"When did you call Max?" Maria asked and Liz thought back.

"About half two, why?" Liz asked and Maria shook her head.

"Just wondering, we were with Max for most of the day and didn't hear his cell ring." Maria explained and Liz shrugged, unconcerned.

"I don't really care, I just don't appreciate having to find out that I called him, especially after I promised Tess that I'll stay away from him." Liz explained and Maria wrapped her arm around Liz's shoulder to lead her to her next class.

"Lizzie, Lizzie "You can't avoid Max forever, you have him as a partner in Biology remember and he will come by the Crashdown at any chance he'll get." Maria stated wisely and Liz shook her head.

"He can't come anywhere near me, I'm making him confused about his feelings!" Liz explained and Maria laughed.

"Honey, Max wants you, he likes you and trust me; he's not confused." Maria explained and Liz shook her head.

"I don't care, he and Tess were happy before I came and I will do whatever it took for them to be happy again." Liz stated with a determined before stepping into her English class, leaving Maria in the hallway, wondering what Liz meant by that.

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Max was walking toward his biology class, he wondered what he was going to do when he saw Liz, after all the stuff Alex had told him, he hadn't had a clue what to do, it was like everything was jumbling up together. He reached his class and heard a noise coming from it.

Max looked in the window of his Biology class and saw that Liz was sitting on the stool holding a white mouse.

"Shh, it'll alright, I promise you." Liz soothed as she held a hand over the mouse back. Max watched in fascination as her hand glowed slightly then she smiled brightly as the mouse nudged her finger in thanks. "No problem, I'll send you the bill." Liz teased as she placed the mouse back in its cage and locked it as she turned back to her work.

"She is one of us." Max whispered as he hurried off to meet up with the gang.

"Where is Max?" Maria asked, "I really need to speak to him." Maria explained as she entered the Band room, her head still puzzling over what Liz had told her. Max had called a meeting to go over the rules and how they were going to talk to Liz but so far, he hadn't shown up, much to the pleasure of Alex.

"You know, if he calls a meeting, the least he could is show up!" Alex complaining/teasing; which caused Isabel to laugh.

"Tell me about it." Isabel agreed, then the door slammed open, revealing a harassed Max.

"What is it? What happened?" Michael demanded as he hurried over to Max.

"It's Liz! She's one of us! I saw her heal one of the mice in the lab, her hand glowed!" Max explained and everyone was stunned as they looked at him.

Liz was one of them, now what were they going to do?

You know the drill people, review and you will see what happens in the next chapter and just how will Liz get Max and Tess to be happy again?

Moreover, you saw Liz's capture. Sorry if it offended anyone, I didn't mean too.

Six pages this time and I will try to make it longer the next time. Thanks for the reviews and I hope to see some good one for this one.

I just wanted to let you know that there will be an update every Friday night; this is just letting you know ahead of time.

To ParkerEvans, the first song was 'Liquid dreams' by O Town, which was merely a little thought of Max's feeling for her.

The second one was 'Keep on moving' by Five. This was just showing the aliens, even though life sucks, it's still okay and you just have to keep on moving.