A/N: Yes I confess, this story has been severely neglected. I've been
writing a different story and posting it in a different place! I may post
it here but I'm not sure. Well here's that long over due chapter! Please R
and R and leave me some feedback to encourage me to write more!!
Max lay on the sofa bed with Michael snoring beside him, his mind in turmoil. He'd done it again! He really had! He'd destroyed Liz' life again! She'd risked everything to save them and now Tess was gonna come and kill her, all of them. She'd suffered so much because of him already and now he was putting her through it again!
Every time he closed his eyes he saw Tess standing by Liz' dead body or Isabel and Michael cowering away from their certain deaths! Just like they had on Antar! Antar. He should have never have taken them back there! Antar wasn't a good place now. Kivar had total power and now Tess had supplied him with Max' son their claim to the throne was fool proof! The only thing that kept the people on the streets happy was the talk of the prophecy and the knowledge that their king was still alive!
But what of this King? A king who was barely old enough to drive? A king who had slept with the enemy, betrayed his friends and broken so many hearts? What kind of a king was that? How could someone who had made so many mistakes be told to rule a planet? Be trusted with so many lives? It just shouldn't work like that! Hell this was a king who couldn't even sleep through snoring! Albeit if it was Michael's trumpet snoring.
Suddenly the door on the other side of the room pulled open, and a figure stepped out.
***
Liz sighed looking out into the darkness of her room. This was it. This was her life! A small room at Las Cruses University, constant illness and sacrificing everything for Max Evans! That was all it would ever be! She wasn't going anywhere! She'd never get to be head of Molecular Biology at Harvard! She'd given that up, the second she left her dreams behind for Max. And now that he wasn't there for her, what was left? What could she become? Now she'd given herself alien powers, so now she was even more of an FBI target! Was that part of why she'd done it? A way out of this craziness, a way out of this life she didn't want?
And then there was Maria, Liz knew she was sleeping on the floor beside her. She always did! She'd given up everything for Liz and the aliens. Forfeited her dreams of being a singer, the idealistic girl that had existed before Liz was shot had gone completely! The girl who would have leapt off buildings just to sing hadn't sung with her full heart in years! She was trapped behind this huge alien conspiracy and it was slowly killing her! That was all that had happened to the humans who knew. Who had the knowledge so many millions didn't! They were slowly suffocated! Even Kyle hadn't escaped! He was still trapped in the never ending cycle and no matter how far he ran, he would always still be trapped!
Liz swallowed, she'd have to ring Kyle. He ought to know the aliens were back! After all, it wasn't as though this would stir up his life much. They could only go forwards, never back, it was the only way out of the limbo they were all eternally stuck in! The only way out was death and oblivion. This was what they would live with their whole lives! They had kissed goodbye to their normal, happy lives in the Crashdown that day so long ago. Liz felt guilt consume her as she realise if she'd only dodged the bullet or been allowed to die then Alex would still be alive, Maria would still sing, and Kyle wouldn't be alone! It was no good dwelling though, Alex was dead, Maria was silent and Kyle was alone! Forward, never back.
The sound of Liz' stomach rumbling wrenched the silence apart. Liz sighed, she hadn't eaten all day, just that coffee in the morning and that was it! She pulled herself out of bed, careful to avoid Maria's sleeping form, picked her torch off the dresser and made her way to the door.
Liz smiled as she heard the sound of snoring coming from the other side of the room, trust them to make that racket! Liz sighed again as she made her way through the darkness to the fridge, her torch lying unused in her hand. Darkness, the only place where Liz could be Liz. The only place she could let everything she was feeling be displayed on her face because in the light she had to again become, emotionless Liz Parker, the girl who didn't care, a girl with out a heart! As the light from the fridge lit on her face, it once again became an emotionless mask. Liz picked out a half eaten sandwich from the almost empty fridge, closed the door and sank to the ground, her head resting on the wall.
Yes, Liz Parker was stuck in limbo without her heart and without her soul. And at present, she was going no where!
Max lay on the sofa bed with Michael snoring beside him, his mind in turmoil. He'd done it again! He really had! He'd destroyed Liz' life again! She'd risked everything to save them and now Tess was gonna come and kill her, all of them. She'd suffered so much because of him already and now he was putting her through it again!
Every time he closed his eyes he saw Tess standing by Liz' dead body or Isabel and Michael cowering away from their certain deaths! Just like they had on Antar! Antar. He should have never have taken them back there! Antar wasn't a good place now. Kivar had total power and now Tess had supplied him with Max' son their claim to the throne was fool proof! The only thing that kept the people on the streets happy was the talk of the prophecy and the knowledge that their king was still alive!
But what of this King? A king who was barely old enough to drive? A king who had slept with the enemy, betrayed his friends and broken so many hearts? What kind of a king was that? How could someone who had made so many mistakes be told to rule a planet? Be trusted with so many lives? It just shouldn't work like that! Hell this was a king who couldn't even sleep through snoring! Albeit if it was Michael's trumpet snoring.
Suddenly the door on the other side of the room pulled open, and a figure stepped out.
***
Liz sighed looking out into the darkness of her room. This was it. This was her life! A small room at Las Cruses University, constant illness and sacrificing everything for Max Evans! That was all it would ever be! She wasn't going anywhere! She'd never get to be head of Molecular Biology at Harvard! She'd given that up, the second she left her dreams behind for Max. And now that he wasn't there for her, what was left? What could she become? Now she'd given herself alien powers, so now she was even more of an FBI target! Was that part of why she'd done it? A way out of this craziness, a way out of this life she didn't want?
And then there was Maria, Liz knew she was sleeping on the floor beside her. She always did! She'd given up everything for Liz and the aliens. Forfeited her dreams of being a singer, the idealistic girl that had existed before Liz was shot had gone completely! The girl who would have leapt off buildings just to sing hadn't sung with her full heart in years! She was trapped behind this huge alien conspiracy and it was slowly killing her! That was all that had happened to the humans who knew. Who had the knowledge so many millions didn't! They were slowly suffocated! Even Kyle hadn't escaped! He was still trapped in the never ending cycle and no matter how far he ran, he would always still be trapped!
Liz swallowed, she'd have to ring Kyle. He ought to know the aliens were back! After all, it wasn't as though this would stir up his life much. They could only go forwards, never back, it was the only way out of the limbo they were all eternally stuck in! The only way out was death and oblivion. This was what they would live with their whole lives! They had kissed goodbye to their normal, happy lives in the Crashdown that day so long ago. Liz felt guilt consume her as she realise if she'd only dodged the bullet or been allowed to die then Alex would still be alive, Maria would still sing, and Kyle wouldn't be alone! It was no good dwelling though, Alex was dead, Maria was silent and Kyle was alone! Forward, never back.
The sound of Liz' stomach rumbling wrenched the silence apart. Liz sighed, she hadn't eaten all day, just that coffee in the morning and that was it! She pulled herself out of bed, careful to avoid Maria's sleeping form, picked her torch off the dresser and made her way to the door.
Liz smiled as she heard the sound of snoring coming from the other side of the room, trust them to make that racket! Liz sighed again as she made her way through the darkness to the fridge, her torch lying unused in her hand. Darkness, the only place where Liz could be Liz. The only place she could let everything she was feeling be displayed on her face because in the light she had to again become, emotionless Liz Parker, the girl who didn't care, a girl with out a heart! As the light from the fridge lit on her face, it once again became an emotionless mask. Liz picked out a half eaten sandwich from the almost empty fridge, closed the door and sank to the ground, her head resting on the wall.
Yes, Liz Parker was stuck in limbo without her heart and without her soul. And at present, she was going no where!