"Tess," F Max repeated, "why didn't you tell me?"
F Tess frowned, "It's not like you cared."
"Of course I care."
"Yeah, sure, when Liz is gone you care."
"That's not fair."
"Yeah, it's NEVER fair when you don't get your way."
"I think we should leave you guys alone to discuss whatever you need to talk about." Tess said tugging Max's shirt
"I agree." Michael and Isabel said
"Well I don't." Max said, "The last thing that we are going to do is allow HIM to stay with her alone."
"Max, he's you." Isabel said
"No! I'm not like that! I love Tess! I would NEVER break her heart the way HE has."
F Tess laughed, "Even your past self knows you're a jerk."
F Max walked to Max, "You have no idea what I went through in my time. You know what you are right now? Huh? Do you? You're a child! A child!"
Max gave no reply. He stood there, just staring at F Max
"Why aren't you saying anything? Oh, you probably dunno what TO say."
"No. I just don't want to waste my breath on someone like you."
"You know, you want to go at it with me. All right, fine, let's go." He paused, "Meet me outside. Man to man. But are you MAN enough to do it?"
Michael grew angry, as did Isabel and Tess…and everyone else in the room as a matter of fact
"Alright. I'll be there." Max said, "Just be sure that there's a MAN to meet me there."
Michael resisted the urge to laugh in future Max's face. But then settled for saying something mixed in with a fake
cough, ":cough: You, tell 'em, Maxwell. :cough:"
"Max, you don't need to prove yourself to him." Tess said
"Oh, I know I don't. But he wants a fight. I'll give it to him."
F Tess sighed, "Max, when will you ever learn to bight your tongue."
F Max turned to her, "What are you talking about?"
"You always wanna fight. You always have something to say. Why can't you just leave things as they are?"
"I'm fighting for-"
"Your enormous ego?"
"Tess,"
"Look Max, all I wanted from you was to tell you that I love you. And I wanted to tell you that I was going to have your baby." She paused, "And I knoe that you couldn't care less about me, but I had to tell you anyway. Our past selves were even gunna help me come back to our time so I could tell you that. That's ALL I wanted. I just wanted to see you and tell you that I love you…I just wanted you to love me back…I just wanted you to love me…" she began to cry
F Max knelt before her, "Tess, you know I love you. I care about you more than anything else in this world. I love you more than I love myself. And now, god, now we're gunna have a baby."
"No." she shook her head, "We're not."
"What do you mean?"
"Soon, we're gunna disappear. This isn't our time and we cannot go back either. Our son won't exist."
"Our SON?"
She sighed, "We were going to have a baby boy."
"Then why did you come to the past for? Why would you want to change the way we are?"
"Look at what you have become Max! Look at yourself! You've changed! You're not the man that I fell in love with anymore. You're someone else. You're someone that I've never met before. Look at your past self. He's so much gentler than you are. His hands are soft as are his eyes…you however, do not own those qualities anymore. You're hands are always dry…and your eyes are so cold…it pains me to look at you."
"I love you Tess, and now knowing that you don't feel the same for me hurts."
"Think about how I felt. I remember when you used to make love to me and each time you loved it more. It's isn't like that anymore. You don't look at me…and see me. You just look at me as some girl that you used to do."
F Max sniffed as his eyes filled with tears, "Tess,"
"No Max, I don't want to hear it."
"Please, god, I'm sorry. I love you Tess. I love you. I'm sorry for taking advantage of you. I'm sorry for never truly appreciating you! I should have paid more attention to you when you needed me. I should've seen the signs that you had when you got sick. I was such a fool to not see that you were pregnant! God! Please, Tess, forgive me."
F Tess began to tear up and soon her tears feel from her eyes to her cheeks, "You know that I could never stay angry at you." She laughed
"You forgive me then?"
"Yes."
He kissed her passionately on the lips
F Michael and F Isabel exchange smiles…they began to disappear
F Max and F Tess parted and smiled
"I love you." They told each other…
Their intertwined fingers began to disappear
"That's what she had to do." Tess realized, "She wouldn't disappear because they needed to make amends with each other. She had to tell him she was pregnant and they had to forgive each other before they could go."
Finally, the future Royal four disappeared
They were free
Max wrapped an arm around Tess's shoulders. He kissed her forehead
Michael then did the same with Isabel
"Where do we go from here?" Isabel said
"We live our lives." Came Max's reply
A shrilled pitch scream over took the silence
The four turned to face a horrified Liz
The each raised an eyebrow
"Why the hell did you scream?" Michael asked
"Where did they go?" she asked
"They disappeared." Tess answered
"And now I think you should too." Michael said
"I don't know why I'm still here. I think I need to do something with Max since I couldn't before."
Max made a face, "Like wat?"
"Don't you wanna-"
"Hell nah!"
"Hey, uhm, Tess," Michael whispered
"What?"
"Since our future selves disappeared, and she's still here, she doesn't matter."
Tess laughed, "You really wanna kill her don't you."
Michael smirked, "Just a little,"
Tess gave him a look
"Okay, a lot."
"Be my guest."
Michael raised his eyebrows, "Really?"
"Really."
Michael walked closer to Liz, "Okay, this won't hurt unless you make it hurt."
Liz started to back off
"You know," he said, "on second thought. I want it to hurt." He lifted his hand to her
A light appeared and shot to her stomach, killing her without fail
Her body disintegrated into a pile of dust
Michael nodded in satisfaction and turned to Max, Tess and Isabel
"Very impressive." Came a voice
The four looked up
And there stood Mr. Harding standing above Liz's ashes
"Dad?" Tess questioned
"I'm not your father Tess. I'm your protector. And from what I've seen, you need not any protection." He paused,
"As I'm sure the future has told you that my name is not Edward Harding. It's Nacedo."
"We were told that you were evil." Max said
"And I promise you, I am."
The four backed up
Nacedo smirked
"Why did you lie to me all this time?" Tess asked, "I mean, you never told me that you were an alien."
"You forget that you have lied to me as well." Nacedo said
"But you KNEW that I was an alien! I didn't know that you were one! How could you make me live like that!"
"Tess, calm down. It was merely for your protection. I lie only if it protects you. So I lied."
"But you just said that you are evil." Max said
"Correct."
Then-"
Max was interrupted with a fireball to the face from Nacedo
"Max!" Tess jumped to his defense, "Just because you raised me doesn't mean I won't kill you!" she lifted her hands to him
"Go ahead. It's not like you're strong enough to harm me."
Tess was getting angrier and angrier by the second
How could he do this to her?
He raised her!
He was her father!
She loved him as one!
And he had the NERVE to hurt her one true love!
Was he mad?
She formed a fireball with her right hand and aimed it at his head
"That won't do any good." He said, "It's too small to hurt ANYONE. You couldn't kill a human with that."
She raised an eyebrow, "We'll see." She concentrated on sending it to him…she wanted it bigger…so she stretched it with mind. And sure enough it did get bigger. She then sent it at him in a wave of anger. Her power was larger than he ever thought it was…
"If you actually told me the truth, you would have trained me…only to make me stronger than I already am!"
"Tess! Don't P-"
And he was dust
"You killed him?" Michael asked
"Yes." Tess answered. She then helped Max stand; "You okay?"
"Yeah, I'm good. You?"
"Yeah. I'm good too."
"Well, I guess we don't have anything to worry about now." Isabel said, "No human found out about us, our future
is yet to be written, and no one is a threat to us."
"We can finally live without worry now that we have each other." Max said
"We just need to make sure that we'll always STAY together." Michael said
Tess nodded, "We just need to be careful with what we do and we can finally live in peace."
THE END