Chapter 4
Tammy woke up the next morning, she looked around the room before sliding out of her bed and walking out of her room, she looked about the hall before seeing light shining at the end of the hall and she walked over to it. Tammy entered the kitchen and looked at the cupboard before opening one and reaching into pull out a bag, she sat down and looked into it curiously before tipping the contents out. The white sugar filled the floor and she reached over to try and stick it together but it wasn't working, frustrated she looked back into the cupboard and pulled out another bag and tipped the contents out, brown sugar filled the floor and she began packing it together, smiling when it stuck together.
Max woke up due to sunlight shining in his face, he sighed as he rubbed a hand over his face before pulling back the covers and stepping out of bed, he scratched his chest as he pulled up his joggers before stepping out of his bedroom and heading toward Tammy's to see if she was up.
He walked by her bedroom and looked in only for his brows to furrow when he realised that she wasn't in her bed, he stepped into the room and looked around, not finding her.
"Tammy?" he called out, when she didn't poke her head out from under anything he backed out of the bedroom and looked down into the hallway, he could hear some patting noises, he, with a puzzled face, walked toward the kitchen.
He stepped into the kitchen only to stop short when he saw Tammy playing with the brown sugar, making a sandcastle.
"Oh Hell." He muttered under his breath as he walked over to Tammy. "Tammy." Max called out and Tammy looked up and gave him her sweet smile causing his heart to jolt slightly and him to shake his head. He knelt down beside her and stroked back her hair.
"Max?" a female voice asked and he turned around to see his mother standing in the doorway.
"Tammy decided to play with the sugar." Max explained and Diane smiled slightly as she stepped into the kitchen and saw the white sugar abandoned all over the floor and Tammy playing with the brown sugar.
"You were same sweetie." Diane told him as she lifted Tammy and sat her on the stool while pulling out some wet wipes.
"I did not play with the sugar." Max stated as the doorbell rang, he moved toward it get it and opened it.
"Hey." Liz greeted as she kissed Max only to pull back. "What's wrong?" she asked.
"Tammy decided to make a sandcastle out of sugar." Max told her and she bit her bottom lip.
"You're kidding?" she asked and Max shook his head.
"Nope, she found the white sugar and poured it all over the kitchen floor, when that wouldn't stick together, she found the brown sugar and happily played with that." Max informed her as he led her into the kitchen.
Tammy was sitting at the counter, watching as Diane wiped her hands cleaned with the wet wipes, trying to get the sugar of her hands, she turned and smiled when she saw Liz.
"Hi sweetie, you been playing?" Liz asked as she kissed Tammy's forehead.
"With the sugar no doubt." Isabel told her from where she was sitting at the edge of the counter and Liz smiled.
"Could you finish off cleaning her hands? I need to get the sugar cleared up." Diane told her and she nodded.
"Sure, no problem." Liz told her as she pulled out a couple of wet wipes and started cleaning Tammy's hands and Diane grabbed the dust and the dust pan and started clearing up the sugar.
"It's amazing how much mess a child could make." Diane told them and Liz laughed.
"Tell me about it, my cousins were the same." Liz told her and smiled as Tammy's hands were cleaned. "There you go, all clean." Liz told her.
Tammy raised herself up slightly; hands held out, wanting Liz to hold her and Liz picked her up, placing her on her lap.
"How come you are here?" Isabel asked and Liz looked at her.
"Max and I are taking Tammy to the park, we thought it'll be good for Tammy to get out and meet some kids of her own age and see if she can pick up on the talking." Liz explained and Diane nodded.
"That's a good idea, Phillip and I did that with Max and Isabel when they wouldn't talk." Diane explained as she finished up clearing the sugar and binning it. "Looks like I need to go shopping this morning after all." Diane remarked, amused.
"If you want, Liz and I can go to the shop this afternoon to get the sugar after we go to the park." Max asked and Diane nodded.
"That'll be good honey, I have a meeting this morning anyway." Diane explained and Max nodded.
"No problem." He replied before turning to Liz. "Give me a min to grab my sneakers and keys." Max stated and Liz smiled.
"I think you are gonna need more than a minute considering that Tammy is still not dressed." Liz teased and Max looked down at Tammy in confusion.
"Then why is wearing jeans and a t-shirt?" Max asked and everyone looked down at Tammy, dressed while resting her head on Liz's chest.
"Wow, I didn't know she could use her powers that quick." Isabel stated and Liz shrugged.
"Must be picking up on what Max did yesterday." Liz stated as she stood up and placed Tammy on the ground. "Come on, let's see if we can find your sneakers." She told her as she led her into the bedroom with Tammy clinging to her hand.
"How come she's attached herself to yours and Liz's side?" Isabel asked. "I'm her sister."
"I don't know, when I saw the flashes, it was just me in the flashes; maybe if you connect to her you can see if she remember you." Max explained. "I think she likes Liz because Liz was with me when we found her." Isabel nodded.
"Sure, can I connect with her now?" Isabel asked and Max nodded.
"Sure, I'm gonna find my sneakers." Max stated as he headed into his bedroom to look for his sneakers, he soon found them under his bed only to find that they were blue. "For crying out loud!" he muttered as he waved his hands over his trainers and changed them back to normal.
Isabel stepped into Tammy's bedroom; she saw that Tammy was sitting on the bed while Liz was under the bed.
"Liz, what are you doing?" Isabel asked, amused and Liz stuck her head out.
"Found Tammy's sneakers, she hid them under the bed." Liz explained as she held up the sneakers before pulling herself off the bed and settling on it. "How come you're in here?" Liz asked as she lifted one of Tammy's feet and slid the sneaker on it.
"I was wondering if I could connect with Tammy, you know, see if she remembers me." Isabel explained and Liz nodded as she looked at Tammy, Isabel sat on the bed next to her and reached out and placed her hands on Tammy's face and connected, soon she was in Tammy's mind.
Max smiling down at his little sister as she held on to her.
Isabel smiling before walking away toward a group of men and women.
Max laughing as he swung her around before settling her on his hip as Liz walked toward them, laughing.
Seeing her mother smiling down at her before hugging her tightly to her before letting her walk off with Max.
Isabel came out the flash with a gasp, Liz looked at Isabel, concerned.
"You okay?" Liz asked and Isabel nodded.
"Yeah, I just saw our mother." She whispered and Liz's eyes soften in understanding.
"Do you want time to process everything?" Liz asked and Isabel shook her head.
"Not a the moment, I saw you in one of the flashes Liz." Isabel whispered.
"What?" and that wasn't from Liz, they turned around and saw Max standing in the doorway, stunned.
"Is it one of the flashes of when we found her?" Liz asked and Isabel shook her head.
"It was definitely from our planet Liz, you were on it." Isabel explained and Max shook his head as he sat on the bed.
"Liz is human." Max pointed out and Isabel shrugged.
"Maybe when she died, her soul was reincarnated here?" Isabel suggested and shrugged. "I don't know but it was most definitely Liz in the flash." Isabel explained and Max sighed.
"Looks like Tammy is the key to everything we've been trying to fond out." Max explained and Liz shot him a glare.
"Don't even think about using her Max, she is still too young." Liz warned and Max smiled, softly, at her.
"Don't worry, I'm not, we gotta find out why Tammy is the key to everything and why she was born later than us, I get that we were older when she was born but it still doesn't make sense." Max stressed out before turning to Isabel. "Did you see if she recognised you?" Max asked and Isabel nodded.
"Yeah, the problem is that I didn't spend a lot of time around her when she was young, you were in more of the flashes than anyone else." Isabel explained and shrugged. "I'm guessing you were her protector or something like that."
"Maybe Tammy was programmed not to come out till you guys were ready to accept your past, maybe the people up there wanted to make sure that you were old enough to be able to protect Tammy when she came out and to ensure that you were ready to accept what happened in the past." Liz suggested.
"Maybe." Max stated as he looked at Tammy, she was looking outside at the bird sitting on the window still. "Better take her to the park before she goes changing anything else, I found my sneakers blue this morning." Max informed them and Liz bit her bottom lip as she picked up Tammy and they all headed out of the room.
"You make it sound like she keeps doing that." Isabel noticed and Liz turned to face her.
"She changed my furniture to match my underwear colour." Liz stated and they left her standing there with a gob smacked look on her face.
"Damn." She whispered before heading into her room.
Max, Liz and Tammy found themselves at the park, Tammy was looking in different directions at the once, trying to take in the scenery.
"Look, there's a sandbox with sand." Max exclaimed as he pointed to the box, Tammy walked over to it with curiosity filling her face as she peered in before stepping in and patting the sand together, Max sighed as they both headed over to the bench next to the sandbox.
"Do you think she'll be okay?" Liz asked and Max nodded as he leaned back on the bench and threw his arm over the head of the bench.
"She'll be fine, we're sitting right here." Max reminded and she nodded as she leaned back and rested her head on his shoulder.
"You're still confused about why Isabel saw me in the flash aren't you?" Liz asked and Max sighed.
"Yeah, we know you are human, so I don't understand why you would be in our past, unless what Isabel says about reincarnation is true." Max explained with a shrug, both of them keeping an eye on Tammy.
"When do you think Tammy will stop using her powers?" Liz asked.
"Hopefully soon, mom and dad want to try and put her into school soon because she is of age, there's no reason to hold her back other than she is an alien." Max whispered the last one, making sure that no one was around to hear them.
"Good thing the F.B.I have given up with you guys, Tammy wouldn't be able to protect herself from them." Liz muttered and Max nodded.
"Gotta agree with you there." Max stated as Tammy walked over to them and tried to pull herself up onto his lap, he smiled as he helped her up onto his lap.
Tammy settled herself on his lap and rested her head on his chest as she looked up at Liz with a smile before looking off into the distance; all three of them just watched the scenery, relishing their time together without any trouble.
Isabel found herself sitting on her bed, staring into nothing when there was a tap at the door; she turned and saw Alex standing there.
"Hey, your mom let me in before she left for her meeting." Alex explained and she nodded as she patted the space on the bed in front of her. "So, what's wrong?" he asked. "I don't really usually find you sitting on your bed staring into space."
"I connected with Tammy this morning, I saw my mother." She explained and Alex nodded.
"Still trying to process it?" he asked and she nodded.
"Yeah, I mean, I thought about my real mother all the time and what she would look like, to actually see it from Tammy, it just kinda hit home." She explained and Alex nodded.
"I get that, why did you make a connection with Tammy anyway?" Alex asked, curious.
"I was wondering if she recognized me, you know, the fact that she had been spending time with Max and Liz." She told him and he nodded.
"Does she…" Alex started but was cut off when Isabel shook her head.
"No, she doesn't. I wasn't around a lot when Tammy was born, Max was the one who spent most of his time with her and she had a closer bond with him." She explained then looked up at him. "I saw Liz in one of the flashes." She told him and he smiled.
"You would, I mean, Liz has been spending most of her time with her since she and Max found her." Alex told her and Isabel shook her head.
"No Alex, she was in our past life, the whole scenery, it was our planet, not earth." Isabel explained and Alex sat there, stunned.
Liz looked around the area; Max was shaking his head as he scratched the back of his head in confusion.
"How hard can it be to lose a six year old?" Max asked.
"Very easily apparently." Liz stated and sighed. "We better split up and look for her, god knows what she might do." Liz stated and Max nodded in agreement, he went one way and she went another, trying to figure out where she had went to.
Meanwhile, Tammy was very busy changing the names of the contents on the shelves, she was having a lot of fun doing this; it was funny to see people's face looking confused whenever they picked up an item in confusion.
Max soon found her reaching up toward an item on one of the higher shelf, he saw her hand glowing and it hit him, she was changing everything! He hurried over and lifted her up into her arms, causing her to squeal in delight and fright.
Liz soon hurried up and caught sight of them. "You got her." She stated and Max nodded.
"Yep, but not before she did a lot of damage, she has been changing the contents names'." He explained as he pointed to most of the contents and she shook her head.
"Maybe we should get her one of those baby lead, you know, the ones you hold to make sure she doesn't run off." Liz told him and he shrugged.
"How do we know she doesn't use her powers to take the lead off?" he asked and she groaned.
"Should have known that shopping with a six year old was going to be a nightmare." She informed him and he laughed as they headed back to the trolley that they had left behind.
Maybe now they can finish their shopping.
TBC