Chapter 2
There was a small girl standing in front of the pods, she looked about five or six to them and she naked. She had long dark brown hair and deep brown eyes and a small button nose.
Zan? She called out in her head, Max flinched when he heard this in his head, causing Liz to look up at him.
"Max?" she asked.
"I heard her, she spoke to me in my head." Max whispered and Liz looked at the girl before looking at him.
"Didn't you tell me that you, Isabel and Michael couldn't speak when you first came out of your pods?" Liz asked and Max nodded. "Judging by the look of her, I think she just came out of her pod." Liz explained and Max nodded.
"I don't understand how I could forget it, I mean, we know that there is a fourth alien out there but to know that she was still here all that time." Max breathed out and Liz nodded.
She noticed that the girl shivered slightly and she felt her heart melt, she pulled off her jacket and walked over to her and wrapped it around the little girl before lifting her up.
"What are we going to do with her Max? We can't hand her over to the authorities!" and Max nodded.
"Maybe if we talk to my mom and dad, they'll let us keep her." Max explained, he watched as the little girl rested her head on Liz's shoulder, Liz looked down and the little girl gave her a slow sweet smile, causing her to smile back.
"Max, I think she is your sister." Liz explained and Max looked at her.
"What do you mean?" Max asked and Liz smiled up at him.
"She has your eyes, your colour of hair and your smile." Liz explained, Max walked over to them and the girl lifted her hand and placed it on Max's cheek, they both locked eyes and Max soon got flashes.
His mother smiling down at him as she held a bundle in her arms, he looked in it and smiled when he saw his little sister.
The girl laughing as Max chased her down the corridors, his laughers mixing in with hers and her squeal of delights as he swung her up and swung them around.
His agony of seeing her flying across the room and her back hitting the wall, seeing her crumple to the ground, lifeless.
Seeing her push her way out of the pod, crying out for her big brother as she looked at the empty pods.
Max gasped as he broke out of the flashes; he saw that he was kneeling on the ground, tears running down his face as Liz wiped them away, kneeling down beside him. "Max?" Liz whispered and Max reached up and touched the girl's cheek gently, both of them watched as she leaned into the hand.
"She's my little sister." Max whispered and Liz smiled slightly as she wiped his tears away.
"You okay?" she asked and he nodded.
"Yeah, just stunned you know, Michael, Isabel and I just thought we were the only ones along with the fourth one on earth, to know that I have a little sister just…" Max trailed off.
"Mind-blowing?" Liz asked and Max nodded.
"God she beautiful." Max whispered out and Liz smiled.
"I have to agree with you there." Liz whispered as she stroked back the girl's hair. "I think I fell in love with her the minute I saw her." Liz admitted and Max laughed softly.
"It was the same in our past life, everyone fell in love with her because she was cute." Max whispered and Liz looked at him.
"You remember your past?" she asked and Max shook his head.
"Not all of it, just her." Max explained and Liz looked at him.
"What happened? You just freaked out and slumped to the ground and tears came." Liz explained and Max shook his head, trying to sort out his memories and feeling.
"I saw her die." He whispered and Liz gasped. "She was flung against a wall by someone, I know he's dangerous but I can't remember who he is, she was only eight at the time when she died."
"Oh Max." Liz whispered as she pulled Max into a hug while hugging the little girl tighter to her.
"I know it's not real but my heart still need time process it." Max whispered and she nodded.
"How are we gonna tell the others?" Liz asked and Max shrugged.
"I have no idea." Max stated with a shake of his head and she sighed.
"We better head back home, my jacket is not going to keep her warmer for very long." Liz told him and he nodded he helped her up, Liz transferred the girl into Max's arms and watched as the little girl smile up at Max before resting her head on his shoulder, causing her to fall in love with her all over again, she was most definitely adorable.
Max shifted the car into motion as they sped down the highway, heading back to Roswell, back to their homes. Liz had phone ahead and told everyone to meet up at Michael's apartment as they had a meeting and had something to tell them, they demanded answers over the phone but Liz had cut them off saying that they'll get the answers they want when they get home. "She's sleeping." Liz told Max as she turned back to the front before looking behind her once more, the little girl was curled up under the blankets, sleeping peacefully, her dark locks scattered all over the place.
"Can't keep your eyes off her can you?" Max teased and Liz blushed slightly as she turned to face him with laugher filling the air.
"No, she's just adorable." Liz explained and Max nodded.
"I feel the same." Mad admitted and Liz sighed.
"What do you think Isabel and Michael will do?" Liz asked and Max shrugged.
"I have no idea, I'm hoping that they will fall in love with her when they see her but they are more cautious than I am." Max admitted.
"I just know that Maria will end up hogging her for the rest of the night, she loves children and Alex probably fall in love with her." Liz stated and Max smiled.
"What about you? How do you feel?" Max asked and Liz shrugged.
"I don't know, I feel that a piece of the puzzle has finally been filled, when you reversed the connection, I felt a sense of misplaceness in you, now I think we have finally found out why you were feeling that way." Liz told him and Max nodded before smirking at her.
"Misplaceness?" Max asked and Liz, playfully, hit him on the arm.
"So sue me for making up a word to try and fit in." Liz told him and he laughed. "Do you think your mom and dad will accept her?" Liz asked and Max shrugged and Liz sighed. "Max." she stated, Max looked away from the road to look at her in the eyes and sighed. "I really think you should tell your parents about you and Isabel, how are you going to explain that she is your sister? You can hardly say that your parents abandoned her, it won't work."
"Liz…" Max started and Liz reached over and covered his hand with hers.
"I know you are scared Max, you have every right to be but you your mother loves you so much, I feel she will accept this no problem. In her heart, you are her children." Liz whispered and Max sighed.
"Can I at least think about it?" Max asked and Liz nodded.
"Yes but please, try and not think about the worse scenarios about what could happen, I do that all the time only to get a different response from what I was expecting, you parents just might surprise you Max." Liz explained and Max nodded.
They rode the rest of the way in silence till they reached Michael's apartment, where they stopped outside, they both sat there and looked up the building, wondering what they were going to tell the gang, they were still having a hard time believing that the little girl behind them was Max's sister let alone just came out of her pod, how the gang going to react?
Liz was the first one to make a move. "They're not gonna know if we just sit here." She told him and he nodded.
"I know, I'm just…" he trailed off and she looked at him.
"Scared?" she asked and he nodded. "I feel the same but I'm sure the gang will accept her once they find out how we found her." Liz tried to convince Max; Max looked at her and gave her a smile telling her that he knew what she was trying to do and that he loved her for it.
"Yeah, you're right, lets move." He told her as he got out of the jeep; Liz got out and walked over to the little girl sleeping in the back.
"Hi sweetie." Liz whispered as the girl opened her eyes and locked eyes with Liz, she gave Liz a sweet smile before lifting her hands, wanting to be held.
Liz unfastened her seatbelt and wrapped the covers around her before lifting her out and settling her in her arms, Max smiled as he wrapped an arm around Liz's waist and they both headed up the stairs to Michael's apartment. Max opened the door and he stepped through first, he saw Michael leaning against the counter, Isabel and Maria sitting on the counter chairs and Alex sitting on the small couch.
"What's the meeting about Maxwell?" Michael demanded, Max stepped aside and Liz stepped in with the small girl huddling into her.
Everyone stood up and stared at the small girl in a stunned shock.
"Oh my…" Maria whispered, Max closed the door and stood next to Liz.
"Earlier I had a strange feeling, it was a pressing need so I decided to follow it, Liz came with me and we found the pod chamber, where we were born. That was where we found her." Max stated as he pointed at the little girl.
"Max, are you saying she's like one of us?" Isabel asked and Max nodded.
"Isabel, she just came out of her pod." Max explained.
"Why call you, why not all of us?" Michael demanded.
"Michael, she's my little sister, she was calling out for me because I wasn't in the Pod Chamber waiting for her." Max explained.
"She's our sister?" Isabel asked and Max nodded.
"Yeah, I don't know why she didn't call out for you." Max admitted.
The little girl started to feel nervous with everyone except Max and Liz staring at her, she felt a small tingle in her hands, and Maria gasped when she saw the girl's hands glowing.
"Liz." Maria whispered, Max turned around and saw his sister was leaving small handprints over Liz's arms.
"Liz, she is leaving handprints over you." Max stated, Liz looked down and smiled when she saw small handprints before looking up.
"I think she is scared." Liz whispered. "I'm gonna take her into the bedroom, continue, I'll be right back." She told him before kissing him on the cheek and heading into the bedroom with the girl.
"Right Maxwell, we want answers and we want them now!" Michael stated and Max sighed.
Liz settled the girl on the bed and smiled when she saw the handprints fading away, the little girl looked up at her with a smile causing Liz to giggle slightly, she leaned over and tapped her nose slightly, causing the little girl to let out a small giggle and bat the finger away.
"Okay, we need to get you some clothes as that cover won't help you any longer, maybe we could get Max to change some of Michael's clothes so they can fit you." Liz told her as she walked over to Michael's closet and looked for a t-shirt and some soft pair of jeans, she soon found a pair of plain back t-shirt and a dark blue soft jean.
She settled them on the bed and walked over to the door. She opened it and stuck her head out. "Hi." She stated when everyone looked at her. "Could one of you three please come in here?" She asked, Max got up and moved into the bedroom.
"What's wrong?" he asked and she pointed to the clothes.
"Could you shrink them so they could fit her? I don't think it's a good idea to let her stay in the covers any longer." Liz explained and Max nodded as he walked over and swiped his hand over the clothes, shrinking them down to the girl's size.
"You know, we can't keep calling her, her or little girl." Max stated and Liz laughed as she took the clothes and settled the girl on her lap.
"Tell me about it, do you have any names in mind?" Liz asked as she pulled the t-shirt over the girl's head. Max sat down next to her.
"What about Tammy?" Max asked and Liz thought about it before looking down at the girl.
"What do you think?" Liz asked, the girl giggled as she smiled up at Liz, causing Liz to smile. "Tammy is it then." Liz stated as she pulled on the jeans and fastened it for her. She lifted Tammy up into her arms, smiling at Tammy curled herself up in Liz's arms, resting her head on Liz's shoulder and playing with a strand of Liz's hair as she looked at Max. "She looks like you when you are being serious." Liz teased and Max laughed as he kissed her forehead before stroking Tammy's cheek and leading the way out of Michael's room where the rest was waiting for them.
"What are you going to do about her?" Alex asked once Max, Liz and Tammy entered the living room.
"Her name is Tammy, we felt we couldn't keep calling her little girl or her." Liz explained as she walked over to the couch and sat down, settling Tammy on her lap.
"She's cute." Maria stated as she sat down next to Liz, Tammy looked at her before giving her a sweet smile, reaching over and touching Maria's cheek, causing Maria's heart to melt and Liz smiled.
"You're in love with her aren't you?" Liz teased Maria and she blushed slightly as she stroked Tammy's cheek.
"So arrest me." Maria teased back and Liz laughed as Max sat down next to her.
"To answer Alex's question, Liz and I talked about it, we need to tell Mom and Dad the truth." Max stated, he saw hope light up in Isabel's eyes.
"Really?" She asked and Max nodded.
"How else can we explain that she is really our sister? Our parents believe that we were abandoned or our parents died in a car crash." Max explained and Michael shook his head.
"Bad idea Max." Michael stated and Max stood up.
"Michael, I don't really want to tell my parents in fear of what they'll say but we have to keep Tammy with us, I'm not going to allow the adoption service just take her away from us." Max stated.
"Why doesn't she stay here?" Michael asked and Liz looked at him.
"Michael, you can't leave a child alone, you are either at work or school, it's not fair on Tammy." Liz explained.
"I still don't see why you should tell your parents!" Michael exploded and Isabel huffed.
"Michael, they are our parents, they deserve the truth!" Isabel exclaimed and Michael crossed his arms.
"No they don't, you haven't done anything to make them think you are different, therefore you can just tell them that the Adoption Service phone you and told you that you have a sister." Michael replied and Max shook his head.
"That won't work, there are too many holes in the story, they'll ask why not phone them as they are the ones who adopted us, they'll want to make sure that they are able to take on another child beside, they'll just phone the adoption service and find out that we lied." Max explained before looking at Michael. "I know you hate the thought, if you want, we can just tell mom and dad about Isabel, Tammy and I, we won't mention you if you are that scared." Max explained.
"I still don't like it." Michael grounded out and Isabel shrugged.
"Tough, it's our decision if we want to tell mom and dad, not yours." Isabel stated before storming out of the apartment, leaving everyone silent in her wake.
"Uh, I'm gonna go after her." Alex told them as he grabbed his jacket and hurried after Isabel.
Liz looked down at Tammy, who was know huddled up in her arms, sliver handprints forming once more.
"I guess we can safely say that she leaves handprints when she is scared or upset." Liz spoke up and everyone looked down to see that Liz had sliver handprints on her arms and clothes once more.
"Great, why don't we just phone the F.B.I?" Michael bit out and Liz stood up.
"Maybe if you stop being angry, she wouldn't get upset, you are scaring her by being angry!" Liz snapped; Michael stood up straight. "Good, now maybe we can talk about this rationally rather than snapping at everyone." Liz stated as Tammy started to calm down in her arms, Max stepped next to her and took Tammy into his arms, everyone watched as the handprints faded.
"I thought they take a few days." Maria commented as she stood next to Liz.
"Apparently with Tammy, once she's calmed down, they fade." Liz explained, everyone watched as Tammy snuggled in closer to Max.
"Maybe we should take a vote." Maria suggested and everyone looked at her. "You know, to see if Max and Isabel should tell their parents the truth."
"Good idea." Alex told them as he and Isabel entered the apartment.
"Great, yes we tell them, no, we find something else to do about Tammy." Max stated.
"I think you should tell them, they obviously love you and they would be able to help us when we go on these road trips and such. And add in the fact that Tammy has powers, she need to be around people who can help her to control it." Liz voted.
"I vote no." Michael stated.
"I vote yes, I agree with Liz, they really could help us when it comes to disappearing." Maria put forward.
"I vote yes, they are my parents, I love them and I don't want to lie to them." Isabel informed.
"I vote yes, I agree with Liz about Tammy need to be around people who understand what's happening to her." Alex voted and everyone turned to Max.
"I vote yes." Max sighed and Isabel smiled.
"Can we go and tell them now?" Isabel asked and Max nodded.
"Might as well get this over and done with." Max stated, fear filling his body slightly, Liz linked her hand with his, comforting him.
"Do you want me to come?" Liz asked and Max nodded.
"Please, you can help us where to start and such." Max whispered and Liz nodded.
Max, Liz, Isabel grabbed their stuff, ready to get going when Maria piped up.
"Phone us and let us know what happen." Maria asked and Liz nodded as the led the gang out of the apartment to head to the jeep so they could go to the Evans' house and finally tell them their children's heritance.
TBC
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