While driving, Maria had called Liz and the others, so they could meet at Michaels apartment. She decided not to tell them about their alien company, that would only scare them more then needed. And besides, if she knew them as well as she thought, they would freak out anyway, so why freak them out now, when they could freak out later. She smiled inwardly at her little joke. Michael noticed.

"Something funny DeLuca?"

Maria glanced at him from her place next to him and retorted, "Well I was actually thinking about how I like seeing you like this."

"Like what? Behind the wheel? Or pissed off at you?" he smirked.

"Freaked out" Maria muttered, but with a smirk forming on her face. "And seeing how you freak out a lot, I like seeing you… A lot."

Michael took his eyes of the road for a second to look at her, and she couldn't define his look. It was soft, nothing like his usual hard and stony looks. She softened a little and smiled at him, wishing they were alone right now, and not in the company of another alien. A sudden voice from the backseat took her back to the present.

"So this is what flirting looks like, right?" the teenage boy asked, with a serious expression on his face.

Maria looked down, trying to hide her blushing face. As she peaked at Michael through her eyelashes, she saw him look in the rear-view mirror and mouth a yes to the other alien. She playfully punched his arm.

"Just drive Spaceboy."

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Arriving at Michaels apartment the others had already arrived… And as soon as the trio entered the room questions were fired at them.

"What happened?"

"Are you alright?"

"Who is that?"

"Don't you have any dingdongs…?" Kyle asked, unaware of the weird looks everyone was giving him.

"What? I'm hungry, I can't worry on an empty stomach…"

This eased the tension an bit and Max turned towards the three newcomers.

"So, who is your guest?"

Michael decided the best way to tell was to just dive in,

"This is Robin, he's an alien…"

Looking at everyone's reactions, Maria grinned, she had been right. They were freaking out, Max had a worried frown on his face, while he was thoroughly watching the boy. Isabels eyes were now tiny slits as she also examined the new alien. Liz had moved a little closer to Max, probably to be safe if something happened. Kyle and Tess were just openly staring at the other alien.

The first one to actually speak was, of course, Max.

"So… He's an alien?"

Robin decided to say something, after all those stares he started to feel a little uncomfortable. So he raised up his hand, as a hello gesture, and said the first thing he could come up with. "Hi, and yes I'm an alien from Antar. Nice to meet you all. And sorry for the explosion…"

Isabels eyes widened, " That was you? How could you do that! Michael, you brought an evil alien to us?" she almost screamed.

Michael decided to explain, before his 'sister' blew up herself.

"Isabel, calm down. He's not evil, well, that's what we think… But he didn't cause that explosion, something else did." A sudden thought coming to him, he turned to Robin, "You don't happen to know who did cause that explosion, do you?"

For a second the new alien looked a bit uncomfortable but then he slowly responded. "Well yes." He paused for a second before continuing, " He is from our planet and he is pure evil. That's the reason I came here, to warn you before he could get to you. In your previous lives he succeeded in killing you, and knowing that you were here, he decided to make sure you would never return. By destroying you… again."

At that moment you could have heard a pin drop, everybody was listening to his story and waiting for him to continue, but he didn't. So Michael, always the impatient one, asked him who was after them.

The boy's eyes widened a bit and Maria thought she saw raw fear there. But he continued,

"He rules our planet now, I believe you have already heard from him. His name is Kivar…