Disclaimer: Roswell and none of the characters are mine. Any events this fanfic refers back to without being written by me don't belong to me either.

Authors Note: Sorry about the delay. I still have to write Chapter 6 and I really have problems thinking at the moment with all my classes. I hope you like this Chapter! Please leave a review if you read. I would really appreciate any feedback. Either good or bad, it can only help my writing ;-)

Aligewe

Chapter 5 – The Past Relived

Nobody answered Michaels question, instead they just looked at each other as if they didn't know what to say. To get an answer Michael had no other choice but to repeat his question, "What did I miss?"

Maria was looking at Max so were Kyle, Ava, and Dan. Max didn't like being in the spotlight but quickly decided that if he wanted to become 'the invisible king' again he would have to tell Michael what they had discussed during Michael's absence.

"We… well I told them everything."

"What do you mean with everything?"

"Everything that happened to us since I healed Liz. Before you ask yes also about the special unit and what they did to me."

"Did you also tell them about how we got the sheriff off of our backs in the beginning? Oh, and my illness, and Agent Pierce, the Special unit, maybe even Nasedo? Also how we brought him back to life? Did I forget something?" Michael interrupted Max and getting angrier with each fact he had listed things from his life he wanted to forget. Especially the fact of him nearly dying.

"Michael, stop acting like an ass and listen. We have to tell them everything because if something happens to us, Ava and Dan are also involved. And yes you did miss something. I also told them about the pod chamber and the granolith."

"Ava, Dan, go for a walk" Michael said rather rudely.

"Michael, stop trying to hide who you are. You already confessed to being an alien. It doesn't help you or them if you send them away. The only thing you would do is risk their lives because you don't like going through what happened. Well neither do I but I stay because we are stronger together than apart. And because I need you" Maria tried to calm him down without any result. Instead Michael left the room and Ava and Dan stayed.

"Kyle, could you call Liz, Alex, and Isabel and tell them what's going on?" Maria asked to loosen the tension a little bit after Michael's outburst.

"Sure, but I don't know how to contact either one of them."

"Here is Liz's number. Isabel and Alex should be with her."

"Tha…"

"Isabel and Alex are with Liz?" Max interrupted Kyle, "how do you know that?" with every word Max was getting louder.

"I know because I gave Liz's phone number to Isabel who immediately called her. Short after that Alex told me that they would be visiting Liz for about 2 weeks."

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"Because I made a promise to Liz, Alex and Isabel. And I keep promises and you should know that otherwise you wouldn't be standing here being angry at me for hiding where Liz was you would be happy not knowing." With that Maria left the room and joined Michael in the kitchen.

Kyle also left the living room but to call Liz from the phone in his room.

Max, Ava and Dan were the only ones left in the living room. Dan was still sitting in his chair.

Dan suddenly asked Max "Do you have a computer where I can look up the government index to look if there is a Special Unit?"

"Dan, you won't be able to find anything because the Unit is an unofficial army branch."

"Can you tell me again please, what happened to you?" Max retold him 'the story' but Dan was so convinced that the Special Unit didn't exist, that Max gave up repeating his experience to him.

Instead he asked, "I can make a mental connection with people. I can show you exactly what the Special Unit did to me. Do you mind if I touch your arm so I can show you what they did to me instead?"

"Go ahead."

Max walked up to Dan's chair and kneeled down next to him so he could easily touch Dan's arm. Max reached out and established the connection as soon as their skin touched. Max showed Dan everything. He even let some of his emotions and hurt out through the connection so Dan could feel what he felt while being imprisoned. Immediately after Max broke the connection and took his hand away, Dan stood up and left the living room through the door to the backyard.

"Max, what did you do to him?" asked a concerned Ava.

"I showed him everything I have been telling you over and over again. I also let a few emotions out", Max answered.

"Can you show me too, please?" Ava asked in a shy but audible voice.

Max just nodded his head and walked over to Ava and touched her arm immediately establishing a connection. Ava saw the same things Dan saw, the only exception was that Max didn't let any emotions out, because he wasn't sure how Ava would handle it, being an alien herself.

After the connection broke Ava said, "Thank you Max, I'm gonna go to Dan and see how he is handling this."

Nobody said anything after Ava left; they just looked at each other with a loss of words.

Ava went up to Dan and sat down next to him on the wall dividing the Valenti backyard with their neighbor's.

After some time Ava asked "Are you alright?"

"I don't know yet, ask me again when I digested all this information."

"I can understand why. Do you need somebody to talk to? I mean to work through all this?"

"No I don't think so, but if I have a question can I ask you to explain further?"

"Sure but maybe you will also have to ask the others inside."

"I will, thank you."

Ava didn't say anything for a couple minutes.

"You do know that you won't be able to back out or leave us because you belong to the group as do I. Whether we like it or not, we are stuck here. We also have to help them the best we can."

"I wasn't about to back out or so, I just have to work through this first. But if I have to move here because of this then I want to meet everyone involved in this 'I-know-an-Alien-Group'"

"Don't say that to me, say it to the others."

In the living room Michael and Maria were sitting on the sofa. Maria was leaning against Michael who had his arm around her. It seemed like he was holding her to protect her from somebody.

Kyle still wasn't back and Max was still sitting in his arm chair.

When the terrace door opened and Ava and Dan stepped through and closed it behind them Dan said, "I want to meet everyone who is involved with this alien thingy."

"That will be hard to do because Liz, Alex, and Isabel are not here. And the others you already met."

Maria said, "Alex and Isabel are coming back in two weeks anyway and Liz will come here in about one month. Do you think that they will be ok?"

"Yeah I think so, at least when they are careful", Max answered. "Dan, are you ok with that?" Dan agreed.