Chapter 8

Rie had been standing in silence throughout the entire conversation at Michael's apartment. Isabel had felt really sorry for her and had asked her if she wanted to come to her house. Fortunately Jesse would be working late, so no awkward questions would be asked.

Isabel grabbed a pizza from the freezer and heated it quickly with her powers. She then went and sat with Rie.

"Help youself" she said grabbing a slice of pizza.

"Thanks" Rie said taking a piece.

"So how has your day been?"

"Pretty good until the whole "We're going to be killed" thing!"

"Yeah, it was a bit of a shock huh?" Isabel said, even though she was actually freaking out.

"Yeah. But other than that my day was good. Max was really nice to me." She said.

"Oh yeah? What did you do?" Isabel asked.

"Talked mostly, you know about the murderous tendencies of my parents."

Isabel swallowed the rather large mouthful of pizza the wrong way. She coughed for a bit, and drank some water. Max had told her about Zan.

"Was Lonnie very horrible to you?"

"Well unless you count the fact that she abused me and then tried to kill me then no" Rie said.

"She tried to kill you?" Isabel gasped.

"Yeah. I was about six months old. She tried to kill me but I coincidently raised my hands and went somewhere else. It was the first time I'd done it and I couldn't find my way back. Eventually I was found and adopted. But I didn't like my adopted parents, so when I was seven I ran away. I've been looking for Lonnie and Rath ever since. I'd thought I'd found them but...."Rie trailed off.

Isabel felt like she could kill Lonnie. How dare she do that?

"You shouldn't look for them, they'll kill you" Isabel said.

"Maybe but it would be better than living without knowing why" Rie replied.

Isabel took another slice of pizza. She didn't know what to say. Lucky for her Rie said something. But it wasn't quite what she expected.

"How much do you know about Vilandra?"

"Vilandra? She killed her family for Kivar" Isabel replied.

"Yes, and no" Rie said quietly.

"What? How do you know?" Isabel questioned her, shocked.

"Lonnie told me as a baby. Vilandra and Kivar were in love. They were meant to be together, but Vilandra was already engaged to Rath. They had been friends since they were born, but there was no spark. With Kivar, their love was electric.

"One day when Vilandra and Kivar were together, Zan, Rath and Ava found them. Rath told her to leave him, but she refused. Zan told her to choose between the throne and Kivar.

"She chose Kivar. Zan in a rage threw himself at Kivar. Zan was hurting him, and trying to kill him. Kivar called out to Vilandra. Vilandra was so angry that she used her power on Zan. But Ava jumped in front of him. She was killed.

"All hell set loose. Kivar's right hand man, Nicholas killed Rath. Zan and Vilandra were fighting. Zan was going to kill her. Kivar tried to save Vilandra, but he was so angry that his powers were out of control. Without meaning to, he killed them both.

"Vilandra did not kill the others, they tried to kill her."

Isabel looked shocked at this revelation. She couldn't take it in. For the last few years, everyone had been telling her that Vilandra had been the one who destroyed her family. Who was she to believe?

"Maybe Lonnie was making it up?" Isabel said.

"No she wasn't."

"Why not? She tried to kill you! Isabel reminded her.

"Don't you want to believe that you didn't kill them?" Rie asked her.

"I do but Nicholas and Whittaker said..."

"Whittaker? Was she a skin too?"

"How do you know about that?" Isabel said shocked.

"Nicholas visited Lonnie often. They were very... intimate."

"Oh"

"But my point is if they were both skins, why should you trust them? They both wanted to return you to Kivar! Why wouldn't they try to persuade you to kill the others and return to him?"

Isabel thought about it and Rie did have a point. Maybe she hadn't done it.

A key turned in the lock, and Jesse strode in.

"Hi hon..." Jesse looked at Rie and dropped his suitcase on his foot.

"Ow! Oh my god! Who's this?"

Isabel looked at Jesse. How on Earth was she going to explain this?

"Honey I thought you were working late?" Isabel said going to greet him.

"Philip let me go early, but who is this? What's going on?" Jesse said confused.

"Come and sit down honey"

Jesse walked cautiously over to a chair, and sat in it looking bewildered and expectant as though he knew he wasn't going to like what he was about to hear.

"Maybe I should go?" Rie asked.

"That might be best" she said giving Rie a small smile.

"Ok, well, bye" she said lifting up her arms and vanishing.

Jesse fell off his chair.

"What? How?"

"It's ok honey" Isabel said as she helped him back to his chair, "Let me explain"


"The sooner you help us the quicker you can leave"

Three men in suits were holding a woman somewhere in Roswell.

"They saved me I just can't..."

"I expect your children would like to see you, it's getting dark."

The woman looked at the men, scared. She looked at the photographs in front of her. She pointed to Liz and then Max.

"You were never here" one of them told her as she left the room.

The elder of the three men took four photographs and placed them on top of the pile.

"Is this it? Is that all of them?" a younger guy asked.

"I don't think so. There's one that looks like a younger version of her" he said pointing at Isabel.

"Offspring?"

"I would think so."

"So it's the five of them."

"Yes. Let's move."

"When?"

"Someplace, when they are all together. Someplace they can't expect."

NB - Hope you liked this chapter. Please review!

The next chapter will be a lot lot longer than this one! (Lots of action next chapter!)