A.N. I'm also changing a little bit of the Meet the Dupes episode. I'm saying that Rath came to Roswell later (about a month later) to check what the shapeshifters did and that's when he kissed Liz. This author's note should make more sense once you read the part.

Part 2

The Next Morning

This morning Maria has the day off, while Liz is working, luckily for Liz her shift is almost done. Liz rolls her neck side to side getting some of the kinks out when she hears Maria gasp and the clatter of empty glasses falling to the floor.

Turning Liz finds the object of Maria's gasp and clatter. Rath, Lonnie, Ava, and Zan we're standing there looking defeated almost. She shakes her head and thinks that she had to have imagined that look of defeat, but if she wasn't imagining it, what caused that look?

Liz walks up to the table her friends are sitting in and stares at the four newcomers. Maria, Alex, Kyle, and her wait for the dupes to walk up to them. From what she remembered about what Max had told her was that Rath and Lonnie had tried to kill him, and Ava had told me that Rath and Lonnie had killed Zan.

Zan walks up to the group first. "Hey, I'm Zan. We needs ta talk to yous."

Liz takes a breath and looks toward the others only to find that they are looking at her for what to do. "Why?"

"It's important. Why I'm alive—and other-worldly things." Zan explains.

Going against all her better judgement Liz nods. "The back room." Liz waits for them to move but they don't, like their waiting for the humans to go first.

"Aliens firsts." Liz whispers.

Rath smirks and follows Zan, as he passes Liz he gives her a long look up and down. He nods and goes into the back room.

Liz, Maria, Alex, and Kyle follow the dupe aliens, for the first time since her parents had told her that they were still going to the restaurant convention she was happy about it. Yes, her parents knew about what happened but she didn't think they were ready to actually come face to face with aliens while they knew they were aliens.

Zan, Rath, Ava, and Lonnie take a seat on the huge couch in the break room. "Make yourself at home." Maria sarcastically says to the dupes.

"Don't mind if we do." Zan smirks at Maria glancing at her body and nodding approvingly.

Maria rolls her eyes at them, but doesn't say anything; she's waiting for Liz to start. She's not in the mood right now to deal with rude aliens or aliens that don't know the meaning of looking at someone subtlety.

"So, talk." Liz says in a hard voice that she doesn't recognize completely as her own.

"What do ya wanna know first?" Zan asks. There's a lot to tell so it might go easy if the appointed leader of the humans asked some questions.

"How about how you're still alive. Last I heard—you were made a hood ornament on a truck. Care to explain how you survived something like that?" Liz crosses her arms in front of her chest effectively causing Rath to look up at her face where he sees her glaring at him.

All right, all right so he admits he was staring at her tits, but hey can you blame him. Those breasts could fit right in his hand; he hardens at the thought, he likes the idea of her breasts filling his hand perfectly. With Lonnie, her tits over flowed and felt off in his hands. Not to say that he didn't like big breasts, hell yea he does but he loves smaller breasted woman, they fit right in your mouth and hands.

Liz feels her nipples tighten and become painful against her uniform at seeing Rath's jeans tent. She shouldn't be feeling this way but she can't help it. Having always been attracted to Michael she understands why she's attracted to Rath. But now wasn't the time to get all hot and bothered over him—she'd save that for later when she was alone.

"I'm still alive because my death wasn't exactly mine." Zan glances at the group, wondering how that little piece of information is going to go.

"So basically what you're saying is that it was a mind warp and Ava mind warped some poor person to walk in front of the truck and that Ava is like Tess, who is a mind raping bitch?" Maria seethes out wanting to attack the little blonde for being anything like Tess. Although Zan said nothing about it being a mind warp Maria just jumped to conclusions like she does sometimes.

"Hey you gotta problem wit me?" Ava stands ready to defend herself if need be.

"Ava sit down." Zan glares at Ava until the small blonde submits and sits down.

"No, that's not what I was sayin. It was a shapeshifter dat died but there is a whole other part of this that you needs ta know first. I'll start at the beginning." Zan takes a deep breath and starts with what happened to them in New York.

"We were's walkin' down the street like we's normally do, rippin' off some of the local food stores. When all of a sudden we's get ambushed. We's didn't know at the time but they were shapeshifters that Kivar sent. Anyways, we's all got kidnapped—except for Ava who we found out later was knocked out but not tied up. And in our places were shapeshifters. Ya all wit me so far?" Zan pauses waiting for them to confirm that they with him. Everyone nods so he continues.

"Good, so while my second, my sister, and me were tryin' to get da hell out of where ever we were's, Ava had woken up thinking that shapeshifters was us. Do you wanna take it from heres?" He turns to Ava.

She nods and continues with her side of the story. "Alright, here's what happened ta me. When I woke up I thought it was the others. They were different but they looked the same, so I didn't think much of it. Until the next week when the Rath shapeshifter pushed the Zan shapeshifter out in the road and had him run over by a truck…"

"Wait, why would they kill a member of their own team? That doesn't make sense?" Liz stares at them suspiciously, how does she know that these four aren't the shapeshifters.

"Because they wanted me ta go along wit anything they said, and if I thought dat they could kill me I would go along wit whatever they wanted." Ava admits.

Liz still isn't sure. Rath stands up towering over her, and she's immediately put on guard. "What are you doing?"

"You don't trust us, so I'm going ta do something that will prove ta yous who wes are." Rath smirks, he's wanted to do this ever since he saw Liz again.

"What?" Rath stalks closer to her and snakes his arm around Liz's waist dragging her adjoining to his hard body.

"You remember when I first came ta Roswell ta check out what happened wit our shapeshifter selves while they weres in Roswell and I saw yous at da school and kissed you?" He whispers low so the others can barely hear.

Liz nods and licks her lips at the memory. "I got a little flash of what you saw when you kissed da shapeshifter Rath. It was cold and black, but with me it was hot and bright." Without giving her the chance to savor the memory he places a hard deep kiss on her perfectly glossed lips.

The minute Rath kisses her she knows that he's really Rath. When the shapeshifter dupes were here their Rath had kissed her and she saw the blackness that she saw when Nasedo kissed her. All men/species kiss differently; she doesn't know why they, just do, but for her in this case it's a good thing that they do. Not thinking about what she was doing she threads her fingers through Rath's hair feeling the surprisingly soft locks slip through her fingers.

She felt the molten lava of desire rage high inside her. She knows she needs to stop kissing him but she's not sure she wants too.

Too soon he pulls back, taking the heat with him, and breathing hard. "Convinced?" Smirking at her reaction.

"No, I think I need more convincing." Liz doesn't realize what's she's saying all she knows is that she wants his lips back on hers. "You know just to be sure." She nods, convincing herself that that's the only reason why she's trying to get him to kiss her again.

When Rath is about to lean down again and capture her lips with his own Zan clears his throat calling the attention back to him and what they were talking about. Pulling away quickly she looks at her friends who are trying to contain their laughter.

"What?" She glares at each of them daring them to say something.

"Nothing." Maria smiles and turns away bursting out in laughter.

While she didn't like being laughed at she was glad that her friends were smiling and laughing again. They need some more of that in their lives.

"Alright back ta business." Ava speaks seriously wanting to get all this out. "I was heartbroken thinkin' dat Zan was really dead. It was weird dat Lonnie was suddenly so cold and distant from what she had helped Rath to do."

Zan takes Ava's hand in his and squeezes letting her know that he's here for her. Nodding at Zan she continues. "So wes robbed a guy of his car and drove ta Roswell ta find all ya. You know what happened then—the shapeshifters took Max and Tess ta New York and tried to kill him when he wouldn't agree ta Nicholas's demands. They were especially mad when they found out dat Max knew where da Granolith was and didn't tell anybody."

She glances around at everyone making sure that they were all keeping up with what she was telling them. "When I left Roswell I was heading back ta New York—it had been my home all my life and I couldn't just leave it. That's when I ran into the shapeshifter again, no more than 2 hours after I got back ta New York. But they were—different; their skin color was yellow almost like theys were sick. I guess it was cuz if they had kept dat form for more than a month—dat's what happens, if they keep the same form for to long without changing, somethin' happens to them."

"How come they just didn't change back it whatever form they had before after their plan to kill Max had failed?" Maria questions, still not completely sure that this isn't a trap of some kind.

"I don't know." Ava answers honestly.

"What happened next?" Liz asks always wanting to know more information.

"That was when they tried ta kill my ass. They didn't need me anymore—fortunately for me my real family showed up and kicked their ass before they had da chance ta touch me." Ava smiles adoringly at her family happy that they protected her—after spending a few weeks with the shapeshifters as your family you start to question what you thought was right.

"Ok so while Ava was with the shapeshifters what about the rest of you? How did you escape—who had kept you there?" Kyle throws his questions at them.

"Whoa—one thing at a time please." Lonnie smiles, she's so much different than the other Lonnie we saw no more than 6 months ago.

This Lonnie was sweeter, nicer, and didn't have so much of that hard look that the shapeshifter Lonnie had. But everything else about her—the clothes, the hair, the tattoos and piercings those were still the same.

She picks up the story from there, "When we came too we was tied up and gagged. At first we's couldn't see nothin', after a while a kid come walkin' in like he owns the place. It's Nickolas. Tells us that after the shapeshifters did their job we's would no longer be needed, because he would kill us."

"At first he wanted ta fuck Lon, since according to him they's were lovers behind Kivar's back and the little twerp wanted dat again." The humans scrunch their faces up in disgust. "Lon spat in his face, and Nickolas started ta whine. So he went and stomped off, at dat point all we's had ta do was melt the chains and kick ol' Nicky's ass." Zan explained.

"Wait, when Nickolas was here he was powerful, how come it doesn't seem like such a big deal to you?" Kyle questions.

"Cuz, the Roswell aliens were more human therefor less powerful against pre-pubescent skins like Nickolas and his crew." Rath tells the human group.

Liz shuts her eyes, feeling a headache coming on, all this was too much to process especially after the week they all had. "Do you guys have a place to stay?"

"Na, wes just got here—but don't worry we can sleep on the streets somewhere." Rath shrugs it off like it's no big deal.

"On the streets? No, you four can stay here with me; my parent's are leaving for a convention in about 2 hours." Liz explains to them.

"Liz." Maria hisses at her friend and stalks over to her. "Are you nuts inviting possible killers to stay with you in your home?"

"I believe them Maria—this isn't up for debate. They need a place to stay, Mom and Dad are going to be gone, it's perfect. And you 3 don't have to be there if you don't want too." Liz tries to reassure her friends.

"Now I know you're nuts, if you think that I'm going to leave you alone with strange people." Maria sighs and looks over at the dupes. This is going to be a long night.

TBC