Title: Pieces Of Me
Author: Katie; After Michael spent the night in Independence Day, he did not get arrested or go talk to Mr. Evans. Instead he went back with Hank. This is what happened. A Michael/Maria Fan fiction.
Spoilers: Up to and including Independence Day
Pairing: Michael and Maria
Authors Note: Feedback is appreciated.
Distribution: Please! Just let me know.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything Roswell. I wish I did though.
Chapter Five: Who Knows
Michael left and Maria fell back asleep. Two and half hours later Maria woke up and left her room. She walked into the living room to find Michael putting a VHS tape into the player and putting a pizza on the coffee table. She glanced down at her watch – noon – really? She wondered to herself. It was noon all ready?
Michael had returned about 5 minutes before. He used his powers to unlock her door and he placed the VHS tape and pizza and soda he had bought on the way back to Maria's house on the coffee table in her living room. He walked the short hall way to Maria's room. He stood in the door way and smiled at what he saw, Maria all tangled in her blankets, asleep. Michael left her room and went to set up the living room for them to hang out. He was completely unaware of her watching him.
"What movie?" Maria asked and giggled a little as Michael jumped slightly.
Michael turned and walked over to her. He kissed her lightly. "Casablanca" he answered when they pulled back, "you told Liz you liked it a few weeks back while you were working, and I overheard" Michael answered her unasked question of how he knew. Maria smiled and leaned up to kiss him. Maria slowly pulled back and ran her fingers lightly down a bruise on his arm. She was still scared to hold on to him to tightly, scared she would hurt him.
"It really doesn't hurt anymore, I heal fast, promise" Michael said, all most as if reading her thoughts.
Maria smiled. She kissed him again. When they pulled away from each other Maria went to the kitchen to get plates and cups and paper towels. When she came back Michael was sitting on the couch. Maria dropped everything onto the coffee table and sat down with him on the couch.
Michael pulled Maria close to him as they watched the movie. Or more accurately, as Maria watched the movie and he watched Maria.
Michael smiled every time Maria giggled, or sighed, or reacted to the movie. He kissed her temple softly. She looked up at him and he smiled at her. He loved this girl so much. She meant everything to him, and he didn't even have any idea how it happened. He tightened his arm around her and smiled again when she giggled.
Maria snuggled closer to Michael. She loved him so much. She had no idea what she was going to do when he had to leave. She pushed the thought as far out of her head as possible as he pulled her closer to him. She leaned up and kissed his cheek before turning his attention back to the movie that Michael was sweet enough to rent for her.
"Maria…?" Michael mumbled to get her attention.
"Yeah?" she asked shifting so that she was facing him.
Michael sighed. He knew that Maria wanted to know where he went this morning, and she had been really great about not asking him, knowing that he hadn't wanted to talk about it. Michael looked at her looking at him and smiled. He kissed her lightly and smiled softly at her when they pulled away.
"I went to see Mr. Evans this morning" Michael told her.
"Max's dad?" Maria asked.
"Yeah, he's a lawyer. I asked him about emancipation – getting permission to live on my own – he seems to think it might be a possibility. I'm going to go by his office in few hours" Michael looked over at her. She was smiling brightly at him, and he couldn't not kiss her.
Maria smiled into the kiss and laid her hand on his cheek, gently at first, making sure not to hurt him. When Michael's tongue ran across her bottom lip she opened her mouth, granting his tongue entrance to her mouth. Michael leaned forward, causing Maria to lean back until she was lying on her back on the couch, and Michael was over her. Holding himself up with one hand on the couch next to her head while his other hand slipped under her shirt and Maria deepened the kiss. Maria moved her hands under Michael's shirt. She broke the kiss just long enough to pull his shirt over his head and throw it to the floor. Their lips came back together before Michael kissed down her jaw line. Michael pulled her so that they were sitting and he pulled her shirt off. This time Maria leaned forward until Michael was laying down on his back on the couch, and Maria was over him.
Michael's hands were exploring Maria. He heard himself moan from deep in his throat when Maria moved her mouth to his neck, and she moved her hands over his chest and stomach. Michael was loosing control and all thoughts left his head as Maria's lips came back to his. Michael tangled his hand in her hair and deepened their kiss. In a moment of clarity Michael pulled back from the kiss. He left one hand tangled in her hair and placed the other on her cheek. He looked at her intently, at her face, at her chest covered by nothing other than a small lacy pink bra. He swallowed – hard. "We have to stop" Michael whispered, the words all most getting caught in his throat as he looked at his beautiful girlfriend. He left one hand in her hair and let the other slid down her body to the top of her jeans. He played with the band of her jeans for a moment before sliding his hand back to her shoulder.
"Why?" Maria asked. She put her arm on Michael's chest and used it to hold herself up enough to look in his eyes and she placed the other hand on his cheek.
"If we don't stop now, I don't know that I'll be able to later and we don't even know what could happen" Michael answered.
Maria sighed softly. "What's the worst that could happen?" Maria asked with only a trace of sarcasm in her voice. Maria sat up and pulled her shirt back on.
Michael ran his hand through his hair as he sat back up and pulled his shirt on. "You could get hurt or sick or I don't know, I don't have any idea what could happen." Michael looked over at her.
"We can't never do anything because we don't know what could happen." Maria sighed, "You know, really, we didn't know what could happen if we kissed and we did that"
"And you got flashes" Michael pointed out, "Something alien did happen when we kissed. Come on 'Ria, don't make me feel guilty that I don't want to put you in danger." Michael looked at her. Silently pleading with her.
Maria smiled when he called her by the nick name 'Ria. No one really called her that anymore. Her dad used to call her that all the time, Maria really couldn't even really remember a time when her dad called her anything except 'Ria, except, of course when she was in trouble. Since he left no one called her 'Ria, everyone thought it would make her sad to hear her dad's old nick name for her, but in all reality she missed it. She knew that Michael had no idea her dad called her 'Ria, and that's why she loved that he called her that. She listened to his words and when she looked into his eyes, silently asking her to understand she smiled to herself. He loved her, and it was so obvious in what he was doing and saying.
She leaned over and wrapped her arms around his neck. "I love you" She whispered into his neck.
Michael wrapped his arms around her waist in obvious confusion, "I love you too"
"Can we put that conversation off for a while?" Maria asked pulling back from him.
"Yeah, sounds good." Michael answered. He kissed her softly and when they pulled back he glanced at the clock on the TV. "I should go…I have to meet with Mr. Evans" Michael sighed as he stood up.
"Okay, well I think I'm going to hang out at the Crashdown, so do you just wanna meet me there when you're done?" Maria asked. She wasn't working but it was Saturday so a lot of her friends would be there, not that she had many friends out side the 'I know an alien club' anymore, but Max might be there to watch Liz who was working, or someone else might be there.
"Yeah, sounds good" Michael answered.
They walked out of the house together. They got to the point where the Crashdown was in one direction and Mr. Evans office was in another so Michael kissed Maria softly before the headed in different directions.
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