Summary: Roswell rewritten, all the same characters. Michael was adopted by the parkers when he was first found and alex, maria, and liz know the secret from the beginning. Max and Isabel moved to roswell in the 4th grade.

Liz POV:

It started out as a totally normal day. Me and Michael and Alex and Maria opened up the Crashdown like every other Saturday. When Max got there I took a break, had breakfast with him, then he took the grill and I went back to work so Maria and Michael and Alex could have a break. Isabel showed up a little later and ate with them, and we all got to work getting ready for the early lunch/brunch group.

It was going ok, only a few customers from hell and Michael and Maria had only one massive fight and so far she'd only quit once. It's a pattern with Maria, she'll get a lousy tip or the customer is rude and she takes off her apron, loudly quits and storms into the break room, then Michael goes to talk to her, they have a fight, break up, get back together, suck face, and then she'll get back to work.

Everything was going like any other day. Until they walked in.

When the bell rang, I walked over, sat them at a booth by the window and didn't think much of it. Later on they got loud, arguing about money. It was when I walked to the back to get my dad that I heard Maria's scream.

"Liz, He has a gun!"

I turned around and I froze. There he was pointing a gun at me.

"Get over here little lady, you ain't going anywhere," the first guy, bigger of the two. The restaurant was so crowded, I knew that there was nothing anyone could do, even Michael and Izzy and Max.

It was when he started to walk slowly towards me that I started to panic. He grabbed my arm and pulled me out the door.

I was freaking out; the bigger one with the gun shoved me into a junk mobile parked out front. They jammed on the gas and the next thing I knew I was their hostage and ticket out of town.

I later learned that the one with the gun was named Harry and the big one was named Dave. We drove for about an hour until we reached this area of desert by a huge rock formation. They pulled over.

"Well, I guess it's your lucky day," Harry said, "it doesn't look like the cops followed us, so we're gonna be nice and let you go, here."

With that I was pushed out of the car thanking God that they let me live.

I walked around in a panic, not knowing how I was going to get home. I looked around and something stood out. The cliff of the rock formation, I knew that I had seen this place before, but we were miles from town off the old closed highway, so I know I had never been there before.

Then I realized why it seemed so familiar. When I was 6 my family had been driving back from Artesia, and my dad took an exit off the highway. We were on a back road trying to avoid the major traffic jam on route 285. It was dark so he had his headlights on. That was when we saw something up a head. It was a little boy, about 7. He was butt naked, and couldn't speak. What we didn't realize was that only 20 minutes before, another couple had also picked up two scared naked children, Max and Isabel.

We took him to the sheriff's office and a little less than a year later, we had adopted him. Michael Guerin Parker. Michael for my dad's dad, and Guerin for my mom's dad.

Now, 9 years later, he's my hotheaded alien big brother and I knew that right now, where I was standing, in the shoulder off the highway, was the same place that we had found Michael.

The only clear memory that Michael, Max, and Izzy have is of them when they first were…I guess the word is born. Actually they just emerged from pods in this cave. Since we were little we've tried to find that cave but we've never had any luck.

So now here I was, stuck out in the desert with the revelation that I was undoubtedly close to the place where my friend, brother, and lover had been born and I had no idea how I was going to get home.

So I looked around and found a rock to sit on, trying to figure out a way to not forget where this place was and still be able to get home.

Today started out as a totally normal day, and now, it was anything but normal.

Max POV:

I've loved Liz Parker since I met her, and when she introduced me to Michael and Alex and Maria and their life, I knew that she was the most amazing person I had ever met. I love her more than life and I know she loves me.

When that scum pointed a gun at my Liz, I felt my heart drop and I couldn't breathe. When they were gone, Michael went for his father, Isabel called the cops and Maria cried on Alex's shoulder.

I sit in my seat and I just died inside. When Sheriff Valenti arrived, only Isabel was able to speak well enough to explain what happened.

I finally found it in me to get up, and I was out the door and into my Jeep. I drove for a while when I had this feeling inside me. It was like something was pulling me in the other direction. It hit me then where I was headed, the old closed highway.

I drove on the straight road for about an hour when I saw something up ahead, on a rock off the side of the road. It stood out like a sore thumb because of its aqua color.

That was when I realized what was on the rock. It was Liz.

Liz POV:

When I saw the jeep I stood up and started jumping up and down. When I saw that it was Max I knew that I would be ok, he had found me.

We had always had this amazing connection. When he drove up beside me and got out of the car my stomach fluttered.

We ran to each other. He hugged me so close I never wanted him to let me go. There were no words for that moment. We kissed and it was just perfect. My hero rescued me.

I pulled away and said, "Max, this is the place where my parents and I found Michael. I think that that rock formation is the place where your cave is."

Max looked at me, stunned. We got into the Jeep and I said, "I think that we should go and see if this really is the place, I mean this is the first solid connection you might have to where you came from.

So Max drove to the base of the formation and we parked and got out.

I saw a passage way in the rocks, hidden so that only someone who knew it was there could find it. We walked up the hill and reached the end, there was only the cliff and the way back down. But we both knew that something had to be there. Max started running his hands against the rock of wall behind us and suddenly a handprint, a silver handprint appeared on the wall. Max placed his hand on it and suddenly the wall began to open to reveal a doorway into a cave.

We walked into the cave and there before us were four pods.

I was shocked. This was the very place that had created my family. Because, the three of them, Maria, and Alex, they really are my family.