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Ways of Life! – Chapter 4
Kyle went down the street. It was his lunch break and normally he would meet his girlfriend - But not today. Today he wanted to look once more at this gorgeous ring at the jeweller. Next week, with his next wage he would be able to buy it. And then he would ask Melissa the question that could change their lives. Kyle smiled.
Maybe he should ask Isabel to come with him to look at the ring. Her feeling for these things was more than good. Probably she would be even angry with him if he would not ask her.
With the thoughts coming to Isabel Kyle's smile faded. He knew that something went terrible wrong with her but he didn't know what to do. Years ago they had found Jesse in Philadelphia and had settled down. First, it had been enough for her just to know that he was near. But now.. Isabel wanted to hide it from him, but Kyle couldn't ignore her sad smiles and the desperate expression of her eyes. Every time he tried to speak with Isabel about her problems, she didn't want to see him for weeks. Once he told her what he thought about her taking up the chase on Jesse, following him wherever he goes. It was pure obsession; it was not good for Isabel and not good for her job. Well, maybe the idea of Isabel judge his choice of an engagement-ring wasn't that good too. It would just remind her of Jesse.
Liz looked down on her stomach and then again up on the screen. The ultrasound-picture was blurred; grey and white colours showed what had to be her daughter. She smiled. It wasn't the first time she thought of the foetus as female.
Max concentrated on the screen. He read the results and searched the picture for abnormalities. Finally he took relieved the hand of Liz and kissed it. Everything was okay. They both smiled.
When Liz first told Max about her pregnancy he hadn't been sure whether to be worried or just happy. Liz told him that the baby was fine; the sense for her body had grown with her other powers over the last years. But in memory of Zan and Tess telling him that he couldn't survive on earth he had to go his own way to discover everything was all right. So he had managed to get every week 20 minutes with the ultrasound in the hospital where he worked.
Four years ago the management of the hospital had surprisingly decided to pay Max a small wage every month for his honorary office. Liz guessed that a special doctor had told them about Max being every time when he was needed where he was needed doing what he was asked without questioning how to do it. Dr. Miles Ames was the only one in the hospital knowing about the alien thing. Once Max healed him as an addict thrust a scalpel into his stomach. After this episode Dr. Ames helped Max with his medical education. Miles enabled him to visit every round, lecture or congress he wanted to go to. He borrowed him books about medicine and showed him how to heal people without alien powers. Now Max wasn't a doctor; he hadn't a diploma in medicine but he was really useful for the daily work in the hospital and everyone there knew it.
And that's how he knew how to interpret ultrasound-pictures.
Liz was aware of the heavy thoughts that sometimes clouded her husband's thoughts. With his powers he could heal everyone… but he couldn't dare to do it and so he could often just watch the patients suffering. Oh, he had healed with his powers but in his whole time in the hospital (over seven years!) only six times; the serious cases he had build up a mental connection to. Max understood the circle of life and death better now but it was still not easy to accept when friends died – so sometimes they didn't.
Since the Bradleys had agreed to her suggestion of finding Jakes' parents Maria hadn't lost a minute. Now she sat on her bed, crossing names on a notepad. Again she dialled a number.
"Hi, Joyce, this is Maria Myers. – Well, yes I know it is late but…. – Thanks you're great! – I want to know who is responsible for adoptions made out of other states! – Ah, no,… the States of America… - Really? But isn't he… - Wow, so he definitely made a career; the last time I saw him, he was a lowly-paid lawyer! – Right… - Thanks Joyce! – Good Night!" Maria grinned as she put down the phone. Then she frowned and laid her hand against her forehead. "I'm so forgettable", she murmured. Michael on the other side of the bed raised his head and blinked. "What's up?"
"Argh… I want to call Tom Brian but I left his number in the practice!"
"No problem… just call Tommy tomorrow."
"No, I want to do it now." She crossed her legs.
"Can't you look him up in the phone book?" He yawned.
Maria shook her head. "In there I could only find the official number of the chambers or his office… The private number I need because it is late isn't in this book."
Michael shrugged. "By the way, what is so important?"
"You remember the family we met, the Bradleys? – I want to find out who the real parents of Jake are."
"And can't you find it out tomorrow?"
"It is just exciting and.. well, I hoped I could tell Jake more the next time I see him than just the fact that he wasn't born in New York where his adoptive parents lived. I just know him for a few days but I feel that I have to do more for him. - Sounds that crazy?"
Michael sighed, then stood up and took his jeans. "Let's go."
"I thought I should do it tomorrow?"
He grinned at her. "Maria darling, you are on a mission and I reckon that I won't get sleep tonight when you don't call Tom."
Maria grinned back and hugged her boyfriend. "Right."
Agent Tim Blake was bored. Out of Quantico for two months he had been ordered to this department working on alien stuff and he had been really exited. But all he was asked to do now was watching a completely normal teenager living his completely normal life. Sure, it wasn't an easy life but a normal one. Tim Blake even begun to doubt the existence of aliens on earth and this was really odd. His whole childhood he had been fascinated by stories of aliens and in his teenage years he wanted to go to the NASA. Then he chose the FBI thinking of the empty space above mankind and the secrets that had to be revealed on earth itself.
Now he installed and hid bugs in a therapist's bureau. Agent Blake sighed and turned to the table to grab a bug when he glanced at a photo on the desk. He tried to remember where he had seen the two persons on it. The moment the realization hit him he heard voices outside. In great haste he grabbed the last bug, put it in his pocket and crossed the room.
The door opened and a shocked Maria looked into a muzzle. Michael stood behind her equally shocked but faster able to react. He lifted his hand and with a FUMP the agent flew back into the room.
Michael grabbed Maria's arm and together they ran.
Ten minutes later they stopped. Maria had problems to breathe. "Everything okay", Michael asked and she nodded. "I'm… okay… thanks…" He hugged her checking that she was really there. This idiot of an agent nearly SHOT her!