In the kitchen

"So what is the real reason why you came to our time." Michael demanded as he paced around; he stopped to glare at Liz

"I told you. To stop certain events from happening." Liz answered casually and annoyed

"Why do I have a feeling that isn't true."

"That's your problem."

"Well it can become your problem."

"Then we'll wait until it does and then you can see wat happens."

"Is that a threat!"

"So what if it is."

"You better watch it Liz! You don't know what we're capable of!"

"Don't I?"

"Nah, you don't!"

"Wanna bet?"

"Yeah!"

Liz stood, "Try me."

"Don't tempt me."

"Go ahead."

"Hey!" Tess stepped in, "What the hell is going on!"

"Tess!" Michael backed off

"What the hell is up?"

"Michael seems to think that he can kill me with his powers." Liz answered casually

Tess looked to Michael

"I didn't say that!"

"I didn't say you did." Tess agreed, "Iz," she looked to Isabel who was sitting on a chair watching, "you weren't gunna stop them?"

She shrugged, "He can kill her for all I care."

Tess gave Isabel a look, "Iz,"

"Well, I don't!"

"And besides, she's gunna cease to exist anyway. It wouldn't hurt anyone…" Michael said innocently

Tess smiled, "Still. We can't. So we won't. And please try and keep it down. Tess needs to rest. She's REALLY tried. Imma go and see if I can cook something for her." She then walked to the fridge and started to take stuff out

"You know what she wants?" Michael asked

"No. But I know what I like." Tess laughed out

"Where's Max?" Isabel asked

"Keeping her company."

"Is it weird for you to see him with her? Aren't you jealous that he's not paying ANY attention to you?" Isabel asked

"No. Not really."

Isabel raised an eyebrow

"Okay, maybe a little. But she's me, so it isn't like he's cheating on me."

"Didn't she say he doesn't care about you?" Michael asked

"That was his future self. He's changed. She said that he has." Tess answered

"But how do YOU know that he won't BECOME that?" Isabel asked

"I love Max, and if he changes, he changes. I'll love him just the same."

Liz smiled, "Glad u feel strong for him."

Tess smiled, "I love him to death and even then, I'll still luv him."

Isabel smiled, "Your love his strong and true."

Tess smiled wider, "Yeah, thanks." She waved a hand over two bread slices, toasting them to perfection and quickly adding butter with Tabasco Sauce. She then waved a hand over a mug of water, warming it up. She placed a tea bag in it and stirred with a teaspoon, "Okay, Imma go and see how Tess is doing now." She walked out with the plate with toast and the mug

Isabel sighed, "We should leave the three of them alone, ryte?"

"Yeah, it'd be best." Liz agreed

Michael and Isabel sat

As did Liz soon after

In the living room

Tess set the food down on the coffee table, "Feel any better to eat something?"

F Tess shook her head, "No thanks."

Tess nodded

"But you have to eat something." Max said, "When was the last time that you has anything?"

"I don't know. But I'm really not up to eating." F Tess answered

"I have a question." Tess said, "Now that you aren't under pressure with Liz here to listen and all: Did you go along with the deal? Just out of curiosity."

"No of course not. It was just ironic that once I did become pregnant, we found out about the Granolith being able to take us home and then I remembered the deal, but I didn't know what to make of it."

Max nodded, "But you never were against us?"

"No, never."

He smiled, "The there isn't a problem."

"Oh, but there is."

"What?" Tess and Max both asked

F Tess frowned and her eyes glistened, "I'll never be able to tell my Max that. I'll never be able to tell him that I love him."

"Hey! I have an idea!" Tess said after a long, awkward, silent moment

"What?" Max asked hopeful

"Why don't we use OUR Granolith to bring you back to your time?"

F Tess frowned, "No, because if we did, then you won't be able to come back to your time. And then you wouldn't change and…well it would be this big mess."

"We'll take the chance." Max said, "You have to tell your times Max the feelings you have."

"No," F Tess shook her head; "It's too late."

"It's never too late." Tess said

"I can't go back."

"Come on, don't you want to tell Max that you love him and-and that you're sorry it would have to end like the way it did?"

"There would be no way for you to return to your time."

"So?"

"Both of our times wouldn't exist. Hence: none of us would happen."

"I'm sure we would come to earth eventually."

"Maybe we can find a way for the Granolith to work a two way." Max suggested, "After all, we decoded the book when you couldn't." he said to F Tess

"True. But I doubt the Granolith could be THAT useful. I mean, if we make it do the time travel and it manages the two way…then you wouldn't be able to go home."

"We don't want to go home." Max argued

"Are you sure about that? Have you asked Isabel and Michael and Tess? Or is that just your opinion?"

Max looked to Tess; "You wanna go home?"

"Well, yeah, I mean, it's home. Ryte?"

"Max, we can't use your Granolith." F Tess said

"Maybe there's another way!" Max said happily

Tess and F Tess looked at him like he was crazy

"Perhaps you didn't hear me." F Tess said, "The Granolith is the only mode of transportation for going home and time travel. Only good for ONE time."

"But what about the communicators?" He asked, "Maybe we can use them for something. We can read the translation that you gave us, review it and see what we could do."

"Hey, that's a good idea. I think the communicators can be used to go home and we can use the Granolith to go to the past for Tess and then come back to our time." Tess said

"What do you think?" he asked

"I think," F Tess paused, "we might just be able to pull it off."

Max and Tess smiled, "Okay."

Max picked up the translation, "Lemme go over this and see what we can do."

"Ooh, we can get a computer nerd and make him help. And then delete his memory about the whole thing." Tess suggested

"Good idea."

"Who do we know?"

"Alex Whitman is mad good with comps." Michael said as he, Isabel and Liz reentered

"You should stay clear of Alex and mindwarps." Liz said

Liz and F Tess exchanged a look

"Yeah, definitely, stay away from him." F Tess agreed

"Why? Mindwarps are perfectly safe." Tess said

F Tess looked to Liz, "Well, they ARE very safe."

"But if it were to wear off, we don't want him to know the secret." Liz fought, "And besides, what could possibly so important for you to involve someone?"

"Can I PLEASE kill her?" Michael whined

Tess smiled, "No."

"WHY?" he whined harder

"FOUND IT!" Max jumped up, "Look!"

Tess rushed to sit down beside him. She took the translation. He pointed to words, "It says that the communicators, if put in sync with the sun, they can make like a sound of a beacon and that should send an electrical force down to earth, causing the ones making the connection to go home."

"There's another way to go home?" Michael asked hopeful

"Yeah. I guess this I like a back up if the Granolith doesn't work. So yeah, we can. But right now, we're not." Tess said

"Who cares of we're not going now! The point is that we CAN!"

Max and Tess smiled, "True."

"Okay, but what does Alex Whitman have to do without anything?" Isabel asked

"Well, we were gunna see if he could help us out with something." Max said

"The Granolith can be used as a-" Tess stopped

"As a?" Isabel and Michael said

Liz looked to Tess, "OH! Sorry." She then walked out of the room

"I'll go keep an eye on her." Max said and stood

"Okay." Tess said

Max kissed her forehead and walked out

"We want to go to Tess's time so she could do some unfinished business."

Isabel's eyes went wide, "Go to the future? As in see-our-future-selves go to the future?"

"Well, I guess you could."

"Great. Let's go." Michael said

"It's not as easy as it sounds." F Tess said

"What do you mean?" Isabel and Michael asked

"Well, for starters, the Granolith can do only ONE trip. You'd be stuck in my time. And when the thing that you went do to is completed, you disappear."

"But maybe we can come back." Michael said

F Tess shook her head; "It doesn't matter."

In the kitchen

Max and Liz sat across each other

In silence

"So, you and Tess look good together." Liz said breaking the silence

He nodded, "Thank you."

She looked awkwardly to the floor; "You wouldn't knoe this. But in my time, we're very much in love."

He looked to her, "That's your time."

Back in the living room

"Uhm, I appreciate everything you guys are doing for me, but now, I'm extremely tired. If it's okay, I'd like to rest." F Tess said

Isabel and Michael nodded, "Okay." Then they left

Tess nodded, "Please, eat something. U need all the strength that you can get. Okay?"

"Okay."

"Good." She then left the room

F Tess then drifted into a sleep

Tess, Isabel and Michael went into the kitchen

Isabel and Michael each took a seat on either side of Liz

Tess sat next to Max

The two held hands and exchanged smiles

"How is she?" he asked

"Tired. But she's okay." She answered

He nodded, "What are we gunna do about the…uhm…the task we must do for her?" he tried to talk in code

They didn't want to clue Liz on anything

"Well, as far as we knoe, we can go. But that would also mean we might not be able to come back." Tess answered

Max nodded, "So wat are our options."

"We don't have any." Michael said

"Yes we do." Isabel said, "Either go and be stuck or stay and feel terrible for the rest of our lives."

"There's one thing I don't understand." Liz stated, like she wanted to get in on the conversation. As if she knew wat they were talking about. The four looked at her, she sighed, "When the two times see each other, there's a side effect. Both times selves cease to exist. Like, both Tesses shouldn't be here because they saw each other."

The four raised an eyebrow

"Was that supposed to make sense?" Michael asked

"Tess from your time and Tess from my time couldn't make contact of any kind. Not touching, no talking, absolutely nothing." Liz said

Max nodded, "We get it."

"But then why were they able to make any contact?" Isabel asked

"Because they did something wrong to the Granolith." Someone said

The five turned to the doorway and there stood Max, Isabel, and Michael

Max, Tess, Isabel and Michael stood

The four faced the three

They stared at each other in the eye, daring the other to make a move

The Max standing at the doorway, looked to the Isabel and Michael that were standing next to him and jerked his

head to the living room

Isabel and Michael nodded and walked away

"Max?" Liz asked walking passed Max, Tess, Isabel and Michael

"Liz." He said and walked to her

"Max, I think we should go get Tess." Tess whispered

"Yeah, I think so too." Max whispered back

Max and Liz hugged

"I've missed you." He said

"Ditto." She said

Tess raised an eyebrow in disgust, "Let's go."

"Why did you leave?" Max asked Liz

"To change."

"Maxwell," Michael reentered the room, "found her."

Max looked to Michael and nodded. He let go of Liz and walked out of the room

Max, Tess, Isabel and Michael watched in confusion

"We should have left when we had the chance." Isabel said

The four walked out of the room following Max and Michael

The living room

Max knelt down beside Tess and caressed her face

Max, Tess, Isabel and Michael entered the room quietly

Tess awoke slowly

She stared at Max

He smiled

"Max," she whispered, "How?"

"I told you I'd find a way."

Max cleared his throat, "Uh-hem."

Max and Tess looked up, "Max, Tess, Isabel, Michael, this is the Max from my time. And Isabel from my time."

She smiled, "and Michael too."

Isabel and Michael walked to Tess and sat beside her

"Why did you come to the past for?" F Isabel asked F Tess

"We wanted to stop a lot of events from happening." She answered

"What did you change?" F Max asked, "And what time are we in?"

"1999." Michael said

F Max looked to Max and co., "1999." He repeated, "Then why is Tess here?"

"Because I came earlier than I was supposed to." Tess answered

"Nacedo" F Max said, "Where is he?"

"There is no Nacedo." Tess said

"The man we know as Nacedo is human." F Tess said

"How?" F Isabel asked, "That's impossible."

F Tess shrugged, "I don't know. He looked pretty human to me. I think we should look into it."

F Michael nodded, "I agree."

"So," Michael said, "this is what we'll look like in the future."

"Not really." F Isabel said, "You shape your own future according to how you want to live. Don't look at us and say that's how we have to look. Do wat you want to do when you want to do it."

F Max looked to F Tess, "I've missed you."

F Tess's eye glistened in the light; "I've missed you too."

"I'm sorry to ruin the moment and all," Tess said, "but didn't you say that to Liz?" she asked offended

F Tess gave a hurt look

"Of course I missed Liz too. I thought something happened when the two disappeared." He said in defense

"It's okay," F Tess said, "I know how big your heart is. Of course you can miss more than one person. Even if the other people are female."

"See," F Max said, "that's what I love about you. So understanding." He kissed her forehead

"Hey, where'd Liz go?" F Isabel asked looking around the room

Tess gave Michael a look, since he was last next to her

"What! Don't look at me!" he yelled in defense, "I didn't do anything!"

"I didn't say you did. I just looked at you. Why you got all jumpy? Guilty conscious?" Tess smiled

Michael laughed, "Killing or getting rid of someone and having a guilty conscious are two different things."

Tess laughed, "Uh-huh."

"We should look for her." F Max said, "Something could be wrong."

F Tess looked to the floor, "I'm sure she's fine."

F Max looked to her again, "We can never be too sure."

Max rolled his eyes, "How can you even be like that!" he roared and stormed over to F Max
He grabbed him by the collar and lifted him in the air and threw him to the wall

"What are you doing?" F Max asked

"I'm giving you what you deserve!" Max then punched F Max in the face, "Tess is pregnant over there and all u can do is worry about Liz!" Max was outraged and he kept punching F Max

"WHAT!" F Max roared

He punched Max down to get him off

Max jumped back to F Max, "How could you do that to her!"

"Tess!" F Max yelled as he pushed Max off him again. F Max walked to F Tess, "You're pregnant?" he asked