Chapter 2

Liz woke up the next morning and smiled when she saw that Max was still asleep before looking at her son, she was surprised to see that Sasha was sleeping in their bed but couldn't hold back a smile, she knew that Max couldn't resist bringing Sasha into their bed, he loved making sure that his children were safe.

She leaned over and kissed Jamie's forehead before kissing Max slightly on the lips, she turned back to Sasha and smiled when she saw that Sasha was awake.

"Hey honey, want to go and some breakfast?" Liz asked as she lifted up Sasha only to result in happy squeals as Sasha placed kisses on her mother's cheek, causing Liz to laugh as she held her daughter close and they headed down the stairs to make breakfast for the sleeping men.

Max stood at the living room window and looked out as he watched all the lanterns flicker while all the kids ran about from house to house, wearing their Halloween costumes. He was wearing a black tux with a white shirt; his mask was hanging around his neck while his hat sat on the window still.

He thought back to when he and Liz first got together, it was on Halloween; it was a Masquerade ball at High school, he and Liz had been flirting on and off since they were partnered for Biology but never went any further because he had believed that she was interested in someone else at the time and she had thought that he was interested in someone else at the time.

Flashback

Max sighed as he straightened his black jacket before fixing his mask, he rolled his eyes as he made his way out of the bathroom and into the main room where the ball was being held, he looked around and saw a girl standing off to the side, filling her glass with punch, he remembered how attracted to her he was, her dark hair was curled and pinned up, she wore a red dress with the straps slightly off the shoulders and red sandals. He remembered how her dark eyes were filled with a mixture of curiosity and sadness and he wanted to take the sadness out of her eyes. Her red mask was covering her face, only revealing her forehead and lips and chin.

A slow song came on and Max made his way over to her, he locked eyes with hers and lifted up his hand, soundless, she looked up at him and took his hand.

He led her out to the dance floor and wrapped his other arm around her waist as she placed her other hand on his shoulder, they both stared into each other eyes as they danced to the music.

#I could stay awake just to hear you breathing/Watch you smile while you are sleeping

Far away and dreaming/I could spend my life in this sweet surrender

I could stay lost in this moment forever/Well, every moment spent with you

Is a moment I treasure

I don't wanna close my eyes/I don't wanna fall asleep

'Cause I'd miss you, babe/And I don't wanna miss a thing

'Cause even when I dream of you/The sweetest dream will never do

I'd still miss you, babe/And I don't wanna miss a thing

Lying close to you/Feeling your heart beating

And I'm wondering what you're dreaming/Wondering if it's me you're seeing

Then I kiss your eyes and thank God we're together/And I just wanna stay with you

In this moment forever, forever and ever

I don't wanna close my eyes/I don't wanna fall asleep

'Cause I'd miss you, babe/And I don't wanna miss a thing

'Cause even when I dream of you/The sweetest dream will never do

I'd still miss you, babe/And I don't wanna miss a thing

I don't wanna miss one smile/I don't wanna miss one kiss

Well, I just wanna be with you/Right here with you, just like this

I just wanna hold you close/Feel your heart so close to mine

And stay here in this moment/For all the rest of time

I don't wanna close my eyes/I don't wanna fall asleep

'Cause I'd miss you, babe/And I don't wanna miss a thing

'Cause even when I dream of you/The sweetest dream will never do

'Cause I'd still miss you, babe/And I don't wanna miss a thing

I don't wanna close my eyes/I don't wanna fall asleep

'Cause I'd miss you, babe/And I don't wanna miss a thing

'Cause even when I dream of you/The sweetest dream will never do

I'd still miss you, babe/And I don't wanna miss a thing

Don't wanna close my eyes/Don't wanna fall asleep, yeah

I don't wanna miss a thing#

During the song, their head moved closer and their lips met as the song came to an end, Liz slid her hand up from his shoulder and cupped his cheek as the hand that was on her back slid up and cupped the back of her head.

"Okay, everyone." A male voice broke in; they broke away, dazed slightly as they turned to the headmaster. "It's now midnight, you may take your mask off and reveal yourself to your partner." He told them.

They both turned to each other and pulled their mask off only to gasp when they saw it was the other.

"Max?" Liz asked.

"Liz." Max whispered before leaning in once more and kissed her hard. Liz gasped as the pleasure rushed through her body and wrapped her arms around his neck, holding on.

"I thought you…" Liz started as she broke away and Max shook his head.

"It was you Liz," he told her. "It was always you." He promised. She smiled as she brought his head back down and they both kissed.

End Flashback

Max shook his head with a small smile before it turned into a frown, one summer, a new girl had come to Roswell and started causing problems between him and Liz, she made it clear that she was interested her Max but he had made it very clear, repeatedly, that he was not interested in her till one day she caught him off guard and kissed him just as Liz walked in.

He could remembered the look on Liz's face when she caught them and it turned into a full blown out argument, Max had tried to tell Liz that she caught him off guard and he had made it clear that he wasn't interested in her.

Liz didn't believe him because she was still convinced at that stage that he was out of her league, it provoked into him telling her if she didn't trust him, they were better off not being together. That was the downfall of their relationship, she had left Roswell to go and visit and aunt and he moped around the house miserable till she came back and told him that she was pregnant, he asked her to marry him cause he didn't want to lose her again and she had agreed and eight months later they had Jamie.

"Daddy?" Jamie asked and Max turned to him, smiling when he saw his son dressed up as a knight, he wore the whole armour and had a sword.

"Hey buddy, what's up?" Max asked.

"When Uncle Chris getting here? He promised to take us out." Jamie reminded and Max laughed.

"He just coming up the driveway." Max told him and Jamie cheered as he ran over to the door only to get lifted up by a dark blonde haired guy with blue eyes.

"Hey Jamie!" Chris greeted, he looked up and smiled when he saw Max. "Hey Max, Liz getting ready?" he asked and Max nodded.

"Yeah." Max greeted and smiled when he saw his little princess walk toward him, she was wearing a pink dress with a silver tiara in her dark locks. "Wow look at you, you're my little princess aren't you?" Max asked as he lifted Sasha into his arms and she giggled as she placed a kiss on his cheek.

"Me a princess." Sasha agreed as she waved at Chris.

"Hey their cutie." Chris teased as he tickled her side slightly, causing her to giggle.

They looked up when they heard a noise on the stairs and their jaw dropped open when the sight was revealed to them.

Liz walked down the stairs, she wore a red halter dress with black lines at the hems of her dress, she wore knee high, high heels boots as her hair was curled and pinned up as she wore mid-elbow length red gloves.

"Wow mom, you look great!" Jamie exclaimed and Liz smiled as she bent down and kissed her son's cheek before standing back up.

"Thank you sweetie," Liz told him before shooting a look at Max. "At least you can tell me what you think unlike your father." She teased while Max's mouth just opened and closed, not having the words to describe.

Liz smiled as she walked over to her husband and pushed his mouth close. "You can tell me later." She told him and Chris laughed.

"Have fun you two, we'll be fine." Chris told them and Liz nodded, Max held out his arm and Liz took it, they both were about to leave when Jamie piped up.

"Daddy didn't check my room for monsters." Jamie squeaked out and Max sighed.

"Come on buddy, let check your room." Max told him as he ruffled his son's hair as they both headed up the stairs.

"What's going on?" Chris asked and Liz rolled her eyes.

"Michael and Kyle told Jamie all about Halloween Monsters, he's been scared ever since, I made a promise that Max would check his bedroom before we leave, you've to check his bedroom before he goes to sleep and Max will check his bedroom when we come back." Liz explained and Chris shook his head.

"No problem, I hope you give Michael and Kyle hell." Chris told her and she nodded.

"Count on it, no one scares my son and gets away with it." She told him as Jamie and Max came down.

"Bedroom is monster free." Max announced and Liz nodded as she bent down once more and kissed Jamie before turning to kiss Sasha.

"You kids be good for uncle Chris." Liz warned as they walked down the pathway and Jamie nodded.

"Bye momma, bye daddy." Jamie waved and they both turned and waved back.

"Okay kids, lets have some fun!" Chris stated and both kids cheered as they moved back into the house collect their trick or treat bags before leaving the house to go trick or treat.

Max and Liz made their way to the party, smiling when they entered the house; a bubbly blonde came bouncing up to them.

"Max, Liz, you made it!" she squealed, her green eyes lighting up.

"Hey Maria, we wouldn't have missed this for the world." Liz told her as she hugged Maria.

"Right, unless it was the kids." Maria teased and Liz laughed.

"Yeah, unless it was the kids." Liz told Maria.

"That reminds me, where's your husband and Kyle?" Max asked, looking around for Michael and Kyle.

"Over at the bar." Maria stated with a roll of her eyes and Max laughed as he made his way over to the bar, ready to chew his friends out for scaring his son.

Once the kids were tuckered out from all the trick and treating, Chris had made sure that there were no monsters hiding in Jamie's room, Chris had parked himself out in front of the couch and fell asleep from all the running about he did, chasing the kids.

Jamie looked about before hurrying to his sister's room.

"Come on Sasha, we need to booby-trap the place." Jamie whispered as he helped his sister out of her cot before they tiptoed into the kitchen.

"Do you think they're alright?" Liz asked as she danced closed to Max.

"I'm sure they're fine honey." Max soothed.

Jamie found the pots and placed them around the front and back doors before filling them up with water while Sasha watched her big brother.

"That'll stop the witches from coming in." Jamie told himself before hurrying back into the kitchen, he went through the drawers before grabbing some sliver spoons, he looked more and found some sell-o-tape and started placing the spoons into a cross like before taping them so they stuck together, he found some strings and tied them around the crosses before hurrying into the kitchen and making sure that they were in place where no one could see them or the string that ran along the floor.

He grabbed some garlic before grabbing the garlic crusher that he saw his mother use whenever she was crushing garlic before mixing them back in their juice from the jar he got them and poured it into a large bowl and grabbed the ladder that he father leaves out so that he could help his parents cook sometimes.

He placed it over the door, making sure that the string was tight and that the bowl was perfectly balanced before running back out into the hallway. He grabbed his sister's hand and they moved over to the stairs where he placed a string from each of the banister and helped his sister to avoid it as they made their way up the stairs.

He hung the extra garlic he found around the bedroom doors so that no vampires would dare to enter their room. "We're safe now Sasha, these monsters will never get us." Jamie told his sister, she just looked up at him and gave him a toothy grin.

"Max, I'm really worried about the kids." Liz told Max as they stopped by the table where Michael and Kyle were taking a break and Michael rolled his eyes when he heard Liz.

"Oh get over it Liz, the kids will be fine." Michael stated and Liz rounded on them.

"Fine, if you are so sure that they are fine, you can go and check on them!" Liz told them before walking off but she turned back once more. "And I don't mean phoning home to check, you will get a cab and you will go to the house and check on them." Liz stated before walking off, Max just smirked as he turned back to his best friends since childhood.

"Well guys, you heard my wife, here's the keys." Max stated as he handed the keys over and Kyle took it before sitting the drink down and making his way out of the room with Michael following him, grumbling.

They made it at the house and looked about, seeing it was dark.

"There's no lights on, the kids are probably sleeping." Kyle told him. "Let just go back to the party."

"No way, do you really want to risk Liz's wrath?" Michael demanded and Kyle sighed as Michael nodded. "Okay, you go in the back while I go in the front, this way we make sure that there's nothing weird about." Michael told Kyle and he nodded as he made his way through the back.

Michael placed the key in the front door and opened the door, he stepped in and shut the door only to walk forward and get his feet stuck into pots of cold water, he jumped back only to get his other feet into another pot of water, causing him to slip backward, his elbows went into separate pots of water. "Oh hell." Michael muttered as he got up and kicked the pots out of the way before hearing a clatter, he moved toward the kitchen only to trip the string.

All of a sudden the spoon/crosses came flying toward Michael, attacking him.

"WHAT THE HELL?" Kyle demanded and Michael made his way into the kitchen only to find that Kyle was drenched in some liquid, he took a step closer only to back right off when he smelt the garlic.

"Those kids." Michael muttered as he and Kyle made their way through into the hallway and started to walk up the stairway when they tripped up and a bucket of water fell on top of them.

Chris was startled awake, he jumped off the couch and ran toward the stairs, not seeing the guys that were on the ground due to the darkness and hurried up the stairs to the kids rooms, where he bumped into all the garlic that were hanging.

"Kids?" Chris asked, pushed the garlic as side and saw the kids huddling in Jamie's bed, under the covers. "Kids?" Chris asked once more and Jamie peeked his head from under the covers.

"The monsters are here!" Jamie squeaked out and Chris sighed.

"Come on, we'll have a look around for the monsters." Chris told him as he picked up Sasha and they made their way down the stairs, Chris found the light switch and switched it on only to stop at the sight in front of them.

Michael and Kyle groaned from where they were lying on the ground, Chris was standing behind Jamie and Sasha when the front door opened.

"What is going on here?" a female voice demanded and everyone looked up to see Max and Liz standing in the doorway, looking at them with a confused expression.

TBC