Dear Journal,
It's September 7th 2000, I'm Samantha Simons and when I left you
yesterday I
had no idea what a day today was going to be. As you can tell I didn't wake up to find
myself back in Kansas. But I did make some discoveries, for instance I learned that
things aren't always going to turn out the way you think they are. That sometimes you
have to let others take control to see how to levy a situation. With that I should give you
the scoop on what happened today.
We see Liz still wrapped up in the bed linen in the bathroom, he heart is beating like crazy, for Future Max is gone. As she turns she sees an amber pendant hanging from a leather rope. Liz smiles and picks it up, Future Max must have left this for her. She places it around her neck and is overwhelmed with a calm feeling. Liz feels like everything is going to work out now for the best. As she smiles and leaves her bathroom her alarm clock rings. It's 12:30pm she has a half hour before Maria comes to pick her up. Liz makes a beeline for her clothes to get ready.
Downstairs Maria comes into the Crashdown; she looks frustrated and waves to Mr. Parker as she heads up to Liz's room.
Liz, now putting the finishing touches on her hair, hears a knock and Maria's voice from outside her door. Smiling, Liz realized Future Max must have locked the door with his powers just in case. Liz opens the door and then turns away to put her brush on her dresser. Maria storms in and closes the door.
"Girlfriend we need to talk."
Liz looks taken back, but sits down to talk to Maria.
"Okay what's up?"
Maria smiles, she can't believe Liz hasn't told her about this mystery guy yet.
"What's up? Me from like 11pm till 2am listening to the love of your life tell me you were with another guy last night."
Liz nodded and looked down. Maria was now upset and sat down next to her.
"Liz, why didn't you tell me you were seeing someone else?"
Liz looked up at Maria, and tears began to well in her eyes.
"I wasn't with someone else, I was with Max."
Maria, now really confused tilted her head to the side.
"No, honey you weren't."
Liz stopped Maria with a heavy breath.
She began to tell Maria everything that has happened in the last few days.
Maria hugs Liz and tries to calm her. Liz laughs to herself slightly and Maria looks at her comfortingly.
"Okay, well this has turned into the weirdest soap opera ever, like the young and the restless alien style."
Liz noddes trying to smile.
"Okay so damage control, I'll tell Max that nothing happened between you two but you realized from last night that you want to be single for a while. And that way you can like change and learn to use your powers better and Max won't be there to hinder them. I'll be the chaperone for you two, no smooching and no re-enactments of last night with Future Max."
Liz smiled and hugged her friend tightly.
They parted and Maria smiled.
"Well girlfriend we're going to be late for Sam's if we don't leave now."
Liz nodded and they leave the Crashdown heading to Sam's.
Meanwhile at Sam's house down in the basement the B squad minus the humans add one Courtney are having a small meeting before everyone comes over.
Courtney's in the corner listening.
Sam's talking to everyone.
"Well they're going to have questions of course we know what not to tell them."
Everyone nodded.
Courtney leaned in for a question.
"Should I be out here or what?"
Sam looked to Courtney, "I think you should stay in the laundry room. I'll need them to hear me out first."
Everyone nodded in agreement to Courtney.
Sam started to set up music and food.
"So, Max said he was going to bring some pizzas, I guess we'll provide the junk food. And Miles is going to send everyone down so we should be fine just waiting down here."
Everyone started to help set the basement up as Maria and Liz walked down the steps.
Sam smiled at her two friends.
"Hey where's Alex?"
Maria and Liz look behind them as Alex trailed with Kyle down the stairs.
Sam nodded as the boys made it to her.
Kyle was the first one to speak.
"Hello hybrid freak."
Sam smiled at Kyle, "Hello mindless jock."
Kyle laughed, "That's Mr. Mindless Jock to you."
Sam poked Kyle and handed him a bag of chips to help set up. Outside Max had just pulled up to Sam's house. The entire Pod Squad was sitting in his jeep. Michael was holding the pizzas in the back with Tess while Isabel was in the passenger seat.
"We can do this Max, right, I mean we're ready to go in."
Tess looked at Max and then to Isabel she shrugged.
Michael excited to get his questions answered was becoming restless.
"Look Maxamillion these pizzas are getting cold and you know how gross cold pizza is. Let's just bite the bullet and get in there. I mean everyone is in there waiting for us."
Max nodded and led everyone to Sam's door, they rang the doorbell and Miles opened it with a huge grin.
"Hey Max!"
Max smiled at the little kid.
"Hey Miles, we're here for the.."
"I know the party, it's downstairs in the basement I'm going to lead you."
Max smiled and nodded as Miles led him to the basement door.
"If you get bored, you can always come up and get beat in Smash Brothers."
Max nodded and walked down the stairway.
Hearing the Pod Squad approach, Liz and Maria sat down along with everyone else. Courtney stayed in the laundry room. Michael put the pizzas down on the table next to the plates. There was an awkward silence as everyone looked to Sam then back to Max waiting for one of them to initiate something.
Sam was the first to clear her throat and flash everyone a smile.
"Well I guess we should start eating first right, I mean there's no reason for us to stay hungry."
Michael opened his mouth to protest but Max had beat him to it. He answered Sam while staring at Liz.
"Sounds good to me, we'll eat first, ask questions later."
Isabel smiled at Alex who stood up and joined the line as people stood to get their pizzas.
Max positioned himself near Maria as Liz stood with Sam.
Max leaned over to talk to Maria as they processed themselves in the line.
"So did you talk to Liz about last night?"
Maria nodded to Max.
"Nothing happened and she's not going out with him. She said he made her realize that she needs to be single for a while. Liz just wants to find herself, ya know. You have no competition my friend just give her some space and time."
Max smiled and nodded. He stole a gaze at Liz who was talking to Sam and walking with her to one of the couches to eat their pizza.
"So Sam, I just can't explain what happened but it just happened."
Sam looked to her cousin.
"Liz, did you use anything?"
Liz looked down as if trying to remember.
"I, don't think we did, I mean there was no time to you know, think."
Sam nodded. Liz looked worried.
"But, I mean can we get pregnant from them?"
Sam looked back to her cousin and nodded solemnly.
"Of course you can."
Liz nodded in shock. And sat down placing her pizza barely on the table, Sam used her powers to keep it from falling and placed it on the table fully.
"Look Liz, don't freak out I have a plan we'll talk later it'll be okay."
Liz tried to smile and looked up to find Max meeting her gaze as he sat on a chair near a coffee table. Everyone was eating and having small conversations. By the time the food was gone and everyone was full Michael had to bring up the alien status again.
"Is this a Q and A or what Maxwell?"
Sam looked up first to Michael and then to Max, who nodded and put down his cherry coke.
Max grabbed a piece of paper out of his back pocket and everyone sat back except for Sam.
"Well, question number oneā¦"
Sam put her hand up.
"I'm sorry before we start there's some things we can't tell you."
Max looked up as everyone else did waiting for Sam's explanation.
"We can't tell you about your past lives for instance."
Tess looked straight to Max and then to Sam. Michael spoke up first.
"Why not?"
Sam half smiled and looked to Lucas who nodded.
"Because, you have to acquire your memory on your own. Forcing it before you're ready can change everything. In return you may never gain your real memories."
Max shifted his weight from one foot to the other.
"Whose rule is this?"
Sam looked to Max.
"Our watcher, my Father, Pete."
Tess cleared her throat.
"Naseado told me things about my past, I mean why would he?"
Sam shrugged and looked to Lucas who was giving his sister a sad look.
Max spoke up again.
"Okay no past lives questions then."
Sam nodded apologizing.
"So, who are you guys then? I mean are you aliens or.."
"We're hybrids, like you."
Michael looked up to Sam.
"But you were born of human parents, I mean Maria showed me those pictures of your Mom pregnant with you."
Sam's heart raced she was actually talking to Michael about her alien ness something that harnessed her near speechless.
"Well, after the crash, your crash in 1947 the allied planets knew that there was a traitor among the watchers."
The Pod Squad looked shocked.
"A traitor?" Michael asked.
Sam nodded and continued.
"So that's when plan B went into effect. The Jesuits, they're a holy tribe, like Soothe Sayers where we come from. They're the ones who created us, and the whole process of hybridization. After studying the human race further Plan B, us, had to be more precise. So for 20 years my Father, Pete searched for those women who could carry a hybrid child and also who had the defective gene. One in five million, but he found only three. After relocating them in the same area, their eggs were implanted with one half the DNA of our original selves."
Everyone nodded some in half confusion.
"So you're different then?" Sam smiled at Kyle's question.
"Yeah, we seem 100% human our blood, nothing is detectable by human science. We get sick, break bones."
Max spoke up with the next question.
"What, powers do you have. I mean we each have our own special unique powers so."
Sam nodded.
"Right, well we can all modify molecular structures, umm I have the gift of foresight. I can tell the future well I get flashes of the future. Usually they're of things that benefit us or you."
Isabel tilted her head she was curious about Sam's powers but stayed silent next to Alex.
Sam continued.
"I also have a force field."
Max looked up surprised. Sam nodded and smiled at him acknowledging their same power.
"Umm, Lucas can mind warp, he's really good and.."
Tess looked up surprised Max looked at her and then to Lucas. They were staring at one another.
"Wait they have the same powers?"
Sam nodded, "Our powers are native to the planets that we came from."
"So that means that we're not from the same.."
Sam shook her head, "Planet no, I mean you and Isabel were brother and sister as you know, women were more likely to have the power of the minds on Antar. Tess and Lucas, were, or are brother and sister."
Lucas smiled at Tess who looked back shocked but calm to her brother.
"John's powers well, it's only right to show you."
John let go of Sandie's hand and readied himself. Sam picked up her napkin and began to drop it as John manipulated time and quickly grabbed the napkin before it fell to the ground standing in front of Sam he handed the napkin back to her. And made his way over to Sandie again.
"As you can see he can manipulate time, it's a pretty handy power really. And Sandie well, she's pretty good at blowing things up, kinetics things of that nature."
Sam laughed to herself, "It's probably better if I don't show my powers huh."
Michael looked to Sandie and smiled, "I know how you feel."
Sandie nodded at her brother. Sam looked to Michael.
"You would Michael, she was your sister in that other life."
Michael looked back to Sandie and she shyly nodded to him.
Michael felt warm inside, he had a family and that was something. He stood stoic again awaiting more of Max's questions.
Max spoke up again.
"Why did you come here when you did?"
Sam nodded at the question.
"Well after May when you guys set off a pulse that would lead many of your
enemies to Roswell. We all thought of
coming here and protecting you. You see
that's our job, but we were told to protect from afar."
Isabel looked up.
"Why did you break that then I mean, letting us in isn't protecting from afar."
Sam nodded at Isabel.
"You're right we decided to come after a strange vision I had, to try to prevent it we came here. But after another vision recently of the future."
Sam looked to Liz and then back to everyone else.
"I knew we had to tell you everything that we could. That you needed to know we're protecting you."
Tess nodded, "You're going to protect us?"
Lucas nodded to his sister.
"Our powers are much advanced than yours. Using special techniques we can train you harder and more efficient than you've been trained before."
The Pod Squad looked to one another, as Sam smiles at Lucas for his help.
Tess smiled at her brother, "Well I feel a little bit better knowing we have more good guys."
Sam looked to Michael, and then quickly away.
"So then, I'm guessing you guys know about the skins, and everything."
Sam nodded at Michael.
Max looked to Sam.
"So you know that a Skin killed Naseado, Congress Woman Whittaker in fact."
Sam nodded to Max as well.
"We have a plan to deal with the Skins."
She looked to the laundry room.
"Courtney you can come out now."
The Pod Squad turned to the laundry room and froze as Courtney came out Michael's hand went up instinctively Sam put her force field up as a shield. Michael lowered his hand in shock as her pinkish power gelled into a shield to stop him from blasting Courtney.
"She's on our side, one of the few skins who have infiltrated their side as spies, awaiting our return."
Max looked to Courtney.
"You're a skin?"
Courtney nodded.
"Yes she's a skin Max, and she's been working with us in preparation for the Harvest."
Max looked clueless to Sam as she tried to explain their plan.
When she was done Max looked around lost. Michael stood.
"Max is the King here, he's in charge."
John and Lucas stood up closer to Sam.
"Sam is the leader of us, not Max."
Michael looked to both of them and then back to Sam.
"Michael the whole idea of two leaders is to insure that past mistakes are not repeated. We will work together but have to keep the allusion that we are not all together as in one group."
Max looked to Sam. "What do you mean?"
Sam tried to explain taking a deep breath first.
"There's always someone watching Max, and they don't know about us, no-one does especially Kivar. That's why we have to be covert about meeting and being seen together."
Everyone nodded it became clear.
Max looked at the questions left on the paper, none of them mattered anymore. They had a lot to think about to let settle in. Right now he just wanted to go home and think about everything that was just said. To think about Liz, about the plan with the Skins. But more importantly to play some Counting Crows and brute about his life.
"Well I guess that's about all there is to talk about for now."
Kyle looked to Tess, he nudged her she gave him a later kind of look."
The party wound down and Sam was left to stew alone in her basement. She had no work today and it was almost six pm. Hoping for normalcy she went up and joined her family in human conventions such as TV and scrabble.
I have work in the morning, with Michael, and Maria and Liz. This would have all been fine and dandy three days ago. Now it's going to be weird and listening to Michael for the day won't be my highlight. It should be right, I should be enthusiastic to spend the entire day with Michael. But the more I think about it, the less I'm convinced that we'll ever get a chance. Two things would have to happen, Maria would have to find out that we like each other. Then the whole, Michael would have to make a move is also standing in the way. So maybe I'll play my girlish games and flirt with other guys and not ask anyone for a ride from work. Hey it beats the heck out of late night television I'll tell you that.
