A Little note to my readers thanks so much for keeping with this, it has been an ongoing process one that started after Season One and throughout two and three.
AlienAngel- Max never touched the pendent before the last chapter he never even saw it. Liz had touched it and also wore it around her neck but she was the only one. It didn't have any effect on her though. Thanks for keeping up with me. ï
Saturday November 15th 11pm
We see Liz on her balcony where she's fallen asleep writing in her journal.
We see Max climbing quietly to see her asleep he smiles gently and pulls the blanket closer to her neck as Liz awakens to the warmth. She smiled and sits up at the sight of Max.
"Oh, Max I...wasn't expecting to see you so soon."
Max nods and sits down on a lawn chair across from Liz.
"I know, I just had to see you, to talk to you."
Liz nods and sits up as Max looks down trying to summon courage.
"I'm so sorry Liz, sorry for everything that's happened. For the way I reacted. It's just..."
Max looks into Liz's eyes they're starting to swell with tears as well.
"The thought of you, being with someone else. I couldn't bear it and."
Liz leaning forward opens her arms as Max leans to her they hug for a while. When they pull away Max is still crying along with Liz. They kiss deeply, breaking away to look into each other's eyes and smile. When they kiss again Liz gets flashes, she sees herself fourteen years from now begging Max to leave her and make things right. She can hear her older self-going over the plan to insure everything works out right. As they part again they find themselves just holding each other. Soon they're both asleep on a lawn chair outside.
7:30am Sunday November 16th 2000
Sam's alarm and phone is going at the same time. Sam picks up her phone and turns off her alarm with her powers.
"Hello?"
On the phone is Alex.
"Yeah Sam, tell me you have some idea where Max is."
Sam rubbing her eyes shakes her head.
"Did you call Liz?"
Alex who's pacing in his kitchen hands a worried Isabel water as he shakes his head on the phone.
"She's not answering her private line."
Sam fully awake now nods her head she walks over to a picture of Liz and her from when they were 12. Sam concentrating her powers clears her mind reaching out for Liz. Soon she feels a calm warmth and she can see Liz sleeping in Max's arms.
"Sam.....Sam!"
"Yeah Alex, Max is with Liz they fell asleep on her balcony but their both fine."
Alex breathes a sigh of relief.
"I'll call you back Sam."
Sam nods as she makes her way downstairs to take a shower. She runs into Miles who's counting all of his Magic cards that he got for his birthday.
"Morning Miles."
Miles laughs.
"Morning, Mom said you were late for work and to hurry up."
Sam waves her hand at Miles and walks into the shower to take a quick one.
Meanwhile Max and Liz are just waking up with the sun beating their eyes.
"Good Morning."
Liz smiles at Max and nods she stretches and then looks at his watch.
"Wow, it's really late."
Max looks at his watch as well.
"It's only 7:35 we have plenty of time."
Liz shakes her head and gets up still holding the blanket by it's corner leaving Max alone on the lawn chair.
"I'm supposed to have started my shift five minutes ago."
Max smiles and nods as he gets up and smoothes out his jeans.
"I guess I'll just head home and get changed and clean before Isabel has a cow then."
Max smiles as he looks at his cell phone, which has 25 missed calls and 23 voice messages. Liz nods as she sneaks through her window and then peaks her head back out to quickly kiss Max goodbye. As she makes a mad rush to get her uniform on Max descends the metal ladder outside her balcony. He's met by Isabel and Alex who are waiting for him.
"Are you trying to give our parents a hear attack?"
Max shrugs.
"Why do they know I'm gone?"
Isabel shakes her head.
"No, I told them you slept over Michael's house last night."
Max nods thanks to Isabel and hops into his jeep. He leaves Isabel shocked as he peels away leaving her standing with her hands on her hips with Alex at her side.
"Did that just happen?"
Alex nods and shakes his head as he leads the way into the Crashdown where Maria is cursing under her breath while covering all the tables. Just as she's about to implode Liz comes through the door and apologizes quick picking up an order for her section and kissing Maria for her help.
Isabel follows Alex to their usual booth and vents about her brother.
Meanwhile Sam is running crazy around her room changing into her uniform and screaming for her Mother.
"MOM!!"
Sam's Mom at the bottom of the stairs answers Sam's calls.
"Yes Sam?"
"Can I get a ride to work?"
Sam's Mom comes up the stairs as Sam adjusts her antennas.
"I don't think you'll need one. There's a boy waiting for you out on a Motorcycle."
Sam who's surprised to hear of Michael looks outside and there he is waiting for her. Sam turning around avoids her Mother as she passes her down the stairs.
"Uh, Samantha!"
Wincing Sam turns around.
"Yeah?"
Sam's Mom folds her arms around her chest as she slowly walks down the stairs.
"We're going to talk about this tonight right?"
Sam nods and runs out the door. She smiles at Michael gives him a quick peck and grabs her helmet as they speed off to work.
About ten minutes later Sam and Michael walk into work late. Mr. Parker who's been taking over the grill gives Michael one of his looks as they switch places.
"Sorry Mr. Parker I was picking up Sam."
Jeff Parker nods quickly as Sam starts taking on her section.
Maria who eyes Michael evilly walks over to Sam quickly.
"And we're late because?"
Sam who smiles leaving her customers to fill in their drink order replies in a whisper to Maria.
"Sorry, I woke up late and Michael was there waiting."
Maria stops and puts her hands on her hips nodding and looking at Michael.
"Uh, huh."
She follows Sam over to the fountain talking to her as she makes her customers their drinks.
"You just have to be careful with Michael."
Sam nods and continues to fill the orange soda into one of the glasses.
"Look Sam I mean it, I know you're both Czechoslovakian but.."
Sam shrugs and looks over at Maria.
"What are you talking about Maria?"
Maria shrugs and follows Sam out to the floor to check on her own tables.
They both head to the cook's window to hand in their orders. Maria stops Sam before she can head off.
"I'm talking about you getting carried away. I mean we lost Liz."
Sam shook her head and laughed.
"Maria I'm not sleeping with him if that's what you mean."
Maria is left as Sam shakes her head laughing she chases her and stops her again.
"I know, it's just... I know how things can get intense with a guy and..."
Sam nods and puts a hand on Maria's shoulder.
"Is this about me and Michael or about you and Lucas?"
Maria shrugs as Sam takes an order from an elderly couple in the corner as Maria hears her name called from Michael.
She goes to pick it up and Michael stops her holding her Will Smith Burger in the air.
"What are you talking to Sam about?"
Maria furrows her brow and gives Michael a good scowl.
"Nothing Space Boy, girl stuff."
Michael lets the plate go and shakes his head as Maria walks off to her table.
The thing about normal is that there's no real definition. I mean for us normal could be an invasion. Or who knows what. It's like a Dapple Ganger normal...Normal... the word just takes on a life of its own, changing its definition for each situation. I had hoped that today would be normal. It has been I guess if you can excuse the definition all together.
"A penny for your thoughts?"
Sam looks up from the break room where she's been waiting for Maria to change along with Liz upstairs before they hang out for the day. Michael walks in and smiles as he removes his smock. He leans over to kiss Sam but she backs away. He still has the smell of burgers and onions and sweat.
"Michael shower."
Michael laughs and walks to the bathroom in the break room he comes out and goes to his locker gathering all of his clothes and a towel to take a shower in the back.
Maria and Liz head into the break room as the shower is turned on Maria jumps on the coach next to Sam as Liz sits down gently across from them on a warn sofa.
Maria who has a red licorice in her mouth offers Sam one who shakes her head. She shrugs and points to the bathroom with a inquisitive look on her face.
"Michael."
Maria nods and takes the licorice out of her mouth.
"We should sneak in and flush the toilet!"
Sam laughs and shakes her head Liz laughs too and smiles.
"Maria that would be evil."
Liz holds out her hand for a piece as Maria throws one at her.
"Gee thanks Ria!"
Maria smiles and salutes Liz winking at Sam.
"Guys I'm bored."
Sam shakes her head.
"You know what they say only boring people get bored."
Maria sits up fast and begins to push Sam off the couch she gets her off with one good swift push and Sam laughs while she's on the floor.
"Okay, so if you're bored let's go for a walk."
Maria rolled her eyes and shook her head.
Liz laughed and shrugged.
"Maria goes for walks from one store to the other in the mall."
Sam grabs Maria's calf and threatens to tickle her knees.
"I'm sure Maria wants to go for a nice walk right??"
Maria nods nervous as Sam lets go and gets to her feet.
Liz stands up too and checks hr pockets.
"Let me go upstairs and get my cell phone I'll only be a minute."
Sam stops her and shakes her head.
"Remember that time before we had cell phones things were ... a lot more peaceful."
Maria shakes her head and starts playing with her cell phone.
"You mean boring."
Sam shakes her head and grabs Maria's cell phone she puts it in her locker and closes it fast along with her own cell phone.
"I just want a peaceful day, one without cell phones and stuff. Let's go to the park and play on the playground."
Maria wrinkled her nose and then laughed at Liz who smiled.
"I get the swings first!."
Sam laughed and nodded as the three girls headed out of the restaurant laughing and running.
Michael who just turned off the shower pokes his head out to talk to Sam.
"So what do you want to do with the rest of our day?"
Michael looks around and sees that the room is empty.
"Sam? ... Sam?"
He shakes his head and closes the door getting dressed fast he leaves the break room and looks around for Sam. When he can't find them on the floor he goes back to the break room and sees the couch is messed up and it looks like there's been a scuffle.
Nervous Michael heads across the street where Max is finishing off his shift at the UFO Museum. He runs down the stairs and seeing Max in a corner fixing a scientist doll he saunters over.
"Max!"
Max turns around holding one of the dolls arms he's a bit surprised to see Michael.
"What? Is something wrong Michael?"
Michael shrugs and nods at the same time.
"Look I think something's happened to the girls. I mean Sam was waiting for me and then the next minute she's gone. The break room looks like something went down."
Max nods and turns toward the manikin he uses his power to fix the arm and then turns towards the office to tell Brody he's leaving. Michael backs out of the museum and is met by Max who pulls out his cell phone to call Liz. When he gets her voice mail he calls Maria. Surprised that he gets no answer from either of them he looks over to Michael.
"Not Liz or Maria is answering their phone."
Michael nods.
"Maria not answering her phone that's bad right?"
Max shrugged.
"Do you have Sam's cell phone number?"
Michael stops scratching his left brow and looks at Max clueless.
"No, why should I?"
Max sighs heavily and walks towards his jeep. As they pull out of the parking area they both see Maria's Jetta is still in the same position.
"Maria's Jetta's still here."
Max nodded and switched his jeep into gear.
"Let's head to my house Isabel has everyone's number."
Meanwhile Sam, Liz and Maria are about ten minutes away from the park skipping down the sidewalk of Main Street.
Sam keeps avoiding the cracks in the wall starts humming 'Follow the yellow brick road'.
Soon the girls are laughing and singing the song together meeting a few strange glances along the way.
Back at the Evans' house Max screeches the Jeep to a halt and opens his front door quickly to find Isabel and Alex making out on the coach. Isabel who is startled throws Alex to the floor as she fumbles with her blouse, they both look pretty uncomfortable.
Back to the girls who finally make it to the park's play ground. Hungrily they run to the swings each finding one empty they begin laughing and pumping their legs.
Meanwhile at the Evans' house Alex and Isabel are sitting down on the couch listening to Max pacing the floor waiting to tell them why the sudden outburst. Michael watches amused at the situation.
"Sorry about, umm barging in on you guys."
Alex puts his hand up waving the situation away. While Isabel bloats with anger.
"Well you did interrupt, so now get on with what's up?"
Max stops pacing and nods.
"Well I was hoping
you had Sam's cell number but I'm sure Alex does, Alex?"
Alex
nods and pulls out his cell phone.
"Sure but why do you need it Max?"
Michael steps forward.
"We think they may be missing."
Alex stands up and nods as Isabel gets flustered.
Max puts up his hands trying to calm everyone.
"No, I mean we don't know anything for sure so."
Alex shrugs and speed dials Sam's number. When he gets her voice mail he slowly hits the end button and shakes his head.
Isabel stands up and smoothes out her skirt.
"Well we should call everyone here I mean Mom and Dad are gone for the week so we should let everyone know."
Alex nods along with Isabel as Michael shakes his head.
"We have to go looking for them now, we can't wait to rally the team behind us."
Max nods in agreement.
"Look Michael's right. He looks over to Alex. Start calling everyone we're going to head to the POD Chamber that's the only place I can think of."
Alex begins dialing his cell phone as Michael and Max leave to head to the desert.
Liz, Maria and Sam are slowly swinging now smiling in silence to themselves as they think about things.
"I wonder what Lucas is doing?"
Liz nods.
"Or Max."
Sam shrugs.
"Michael's probably trying to figure out which of his favorite two hockey teams he's going to watch."
The girls nod and laugh.
"Max is so different now you guys."
The two girls look to Liz and listen quietly.
"I mean, he's still the same Max but after everything that happened this past weekend he's like older now."
Sam nodded and smiled at her cousin.
Liz shrugged and hugged herself.
"I had a vision last night."
Maria looked closer to Liz.
"What about Lizzie?"
Liz smiled.
"About our Son. He's gonna be with us again, it just wasn't his time yet."
Liz smiling to herself looks over to her friends nodding.
Sam jumps off the swing and laughs her way over to the slide. The girls follow her lead and head up the aluminum stairs to slide down the tall winding yellow monster of a slide.
As Max and Michael approach the spot where the POD Chamber is they see another car waiting for them with their lights on. As they come to a stop, John and Sandie hop out of the car to greet Max and Michael. Michael looks annoyed at Max as they approach the couple.
"We came to see if we can help."
Max nodded thanks as Michael put his arms across his chest and nodded at his sister.
They followed Max to the POD chamber. Seeing there was nothing there Max leaves quickly leaving Michael and John staring at the Granolith.
"Do you have any idea where they are?"
John shrugged and walked towards the exit. Michael stopped him.
"If you know anything now would be the time to share."
John looked at Michael's hand and then back at Michael.
"Perhaps Kivar has found her."
Michael's air left his lungs at those words he spun to face John.
"Why would he care about Sam?"
John shook his head and walked out of the Granolith chamber and in front of the PODS Michael followed.
"Why aren't you answering me?"
John winced and turned around to meet eyes with Michael.
"Let's just say out of all of us Sam would be the one he'd want."
Outside Max was on his cell phone with Alex.
"So they're okay? Wait where, but why?"
Michael looked to Sandie whose face brightened as she walked over to her brother.
"Lucas and Tess found them they're okay."
Max smiled on the phone as he hung it up. He looked over to Michael and nodded with a smile.
"We're meeting them over at the playground in the park."
Michael nodded and followed Max to the car as Sandie could tell there was a strain in both John and Michael.
On the ride over to the park Michael was unusually quiet.
"What is it Michael?"
Michael shrugged.
"Just something John said. He said out of all of us the only one Kivar would want is Sam."
Max nodded absorbing the new information. Michael looked over to him.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
Max shrugged, he didn't want to think about it not today he just wanted to be with Liz and now that his heart wasn't beating a thousand times too fast he had to see her.
As they pulled to a stop they could see the girls laughing and playing on the playground. Michael who shrugged slowly walked out of the car as Max ran to join in on the fun along with the others.
Sam who could feel Lucas try to make his connection and felt his panic knew it was only a matter of time before they were found. She smiled at everyone enjoying their touch of youth again as she slid down to meet Michael at the bottom. He looked so serious but when she smiled at him he melted and they kissed for a long while.
Until the tip of the sun was no longer visible they played and had fun on the playground. Finally the darkness drove them home and Michael found himself in idle on Sam's driveway looking into her eyes under the moonlight.
Sam smiled waiting for Michael to say something. Michael played with the strings of her sweater while Sam just stood there.
"John said something weird to me and I was hoping you could help me out."
Sam fearing John's words tried to lighten the mood with a giggle.
"Yeah what was that?"
Michael looked into Sam's eyes with a very serious and sad face.
"He said out of all of us Kivar would come for you."
Sam nodded in shock and looked to her house.
"Look I told my Mom I would talk to her about some stuff so."
Michael nodded and licked his lips.
"So you have no idea why he would say something like that then Sam?"
Sam shuffled her feet a little and shook her head.
"I don't know why John would say that to you but..."
Michael nodded.
"When he did say it, my heart it stopped and for a second I was afraid. I've never felt that way before Sam."
Sam turned her head trying to hide a tear that was falling. She shrugged and looked down.
"Michael, things before were complicated ya know we all led really complicated lives and one thing I do remember and soon you will too is that..."
Sam looked hard into Michael's eyes searching for the right words.
"Who I was before, who we were, what we were to each other was often put to the test by Kivar. That's all, he was obsessed with me, I mean, I mean with her. And that's all I remember."
Michael nodded to the explanation knowing there was more there but even Sam couldn't see it. He hugged Sam and kissed her on the forehead before he started his bike up again.
"I'll see you tomorrow Sam."
Sam nodded and watched Michael pull away on his bike as she made her way inside to her Mother waiting for their chat at the kitchen table. Sam laughed as she made her way next to her Mother who was sitting next to a hot plate of leftovers from dinner.
"Sorry I'm late Mom."
Her Mother nodded and patted the stool next to her.
"So, that boy you left with today, that's Michael Guerin right?"
Sam nodded slowly barely chewing on her meatloaf.
"Yup that's him."
Her Mother nodded and played with Sam's hair softly.
"So I'm guessing Maria and he are..."
Sam nodded, taking a sip of milk.
"No longer dating."
Her Mother smiled and watched her eat her loaf.
"Has that made it weird for you and Maria?"
Sam shook her head.
"No, Maria's been dating Lucas for a while."
Sam's Mom stopped short.
"Wow, really?"
Sam smiled and nodded scooping up some mashed potatoes.
"Hmm, So are you two serious?"
Sam shrugged and washed down her food with another sip of milk.
"Not really, we're just getting acquainted."
"Uh huh. So honey you never told me how was New York city?"
Sam shrugged.
"It was pretty uneventful."
Sam's Mom laughed.
"So did the debate team win?"
Sam stopped short and had to think of something quick.
"Geeze Mom they don't really win those things they argue for like ever and then nothing gets done it's like politics."
Sam finished her milk and put her fork down.
"Speaking of I have to get some more homework done. The loaf was great thanks Mom I'll talk to ya lata."
With that Sam gave her Mother a kiss goodnight and headed to her room to proof read her essay and head to bed.
Talk about the end to a weird weekend, and now John telling Michael about Kivar coming after me. As if I wasn't having enough to deal with he puts a wrench into the whole thing. I wish I knew what was wrong with John, what does he remember that is so bad? Then again do I even want to know? I feel my visions coming to this one occurrence and I keep stopping them. What if that's it, that's what he remembers. Well if that's the case he's gonna have to keep it to himself otherwise we're going to have a problem.
