A/N: Just wanted to say thanks again to all the people who keep reading my story, and for all the great reviews, they have been a real encouragement. I would love to get more, and just to let you all know I am going out of town, and will not be able to update for about a week. SORRY, but please read and review to tell me what you think.

CHAPTER 8

Maria stared at Liz. Her face and hands had green electric currents flowing through them, like when she first got her power, only worse. "When did that start?" Maria asked Isabel.

"When she blew up the lamp." Isabel answered, never taking her eyes off of Liz.

Max could hear Liz screaming when he opened the door to their floor. He took off full speed down the hall. Michael and Kyle were close behind, but he wasn't waiting for them. He was running so fast he almost missed the door, he stopped running, and tried turning the doorknob, but it was locked. Not wasting anytime he just blew the door open using his power, and what he saw when he entered, almost made his heart stop.

Isabel saw her brother in the door, and got up so he could sit by Liz. "Max, she said her stomach was hurting, then she started grabbing her head, and screaming, then she blew up the lamp, and I don't know what is going on." Isabel knew she was babbling, but she didn't care. She was scared for Liz.

Liz was watching all the worst images over and over again, like it was a skipped record. It just kept playing over and over again. Alex, Max, her parents, Alex, Max, her parents. She felt like she was about to split into a million pieces when she heard a voice through it all.

"Liz, Liz, Liz come back to me, please." Max's voice was soft and sweet. He reached over to gently run one hand through her hair. "Liz, it's me Max." he said in a shaky voice.

The vision ceased, and she was just standing in a dark room. She could hear Max's voice calling out for her, but anytime she tried to call out to him, he didn't hear her. She closed her eyes, and tried to find him. She had to be with him.

Kyle and Michael were standing at the end of the bed, watching Max run his hands over Liz trying to find where the source of her pain was, but they saw the look of disappointment when he didn't sense anything.

Liz had stopped moving almost completely now. Max grabbed her hand and laid his head on her stomach. He could feel a tear slide down his cheek, but he quickly wiped it away. He couldn't give up. "Liz, I love you."

Liz could hear his voice slipping away, and she called out to him. "No, don't go." She screamed, but there was nothing. A tear slid down her cheek, and she stood there staring into the blackness. She had almost given up all hope when she felt the baby kick. She smiled and placed a protective hand on her stomach. That is when she heard his voice again. She smiled when he heard her say that he loved her. She closed her eyes again, taking it all in. When the next thing she knew she was laying on the bed.

"Max." she called out, sitting up quickly.

"Liz." He grabbed her and pulled her close, and kissed the top of her forehead. He knew then that he was never leaving her again.

Liz held on to him tightly, she never wanted him to let go of her again, ever. She hated what she saw, and she didn't know what was happening, but she knew that she wasn't going to block him out ever again.

"Liz, are you ok?" Maria sounded so quiet, and if it wasn't for Liz's hearing being exceptional she would never have heard her.

"I'm ok, what I saw." Then the flashes of her parents went through her head, and she looked at Max with wide eyes. "Max, my parents are in trouble."

"It's ok Liz." Max said soothingly, trying to hide the worry in his voice. "We will figure it out. I promise, but you need to sleep. Get some rest, please."

Liz looked into his beautiful soulful eyes. She knew that he wouldn't let anything happen to her, the baby, or her parents. "Ok." She said yawning. Max helped her up, and they walked through the connecting door to their room.

As soon as Michael knew that Max and Liz were safe in their room, and Liz wasn't about to have an aneurism, he turned to stare at Jesse. "What are you doing here?" he said it in a harsher voice than normal, but at the current moment, he didn't trust anyone.

Jesse took a step back, and raised his arms. Like a sign for peace. "Nice to see you too Michael." He said sarcastically.

Michael raised his arm toward him and took a step closer. "Ha…Ha, not funny Jesse."

Jesse knew that Michael had a temper. That plus his powers made him a pretty powerful threat. "Now, come on. Lets not be ridiculous here." He said taking more steps back, until he could step no longer.

Michael never really liked Jesse that much, and never really trusted him, but he had to be nice, because he was Isabel's husband, but he isn't anymore. "Ridiculous? Ridiculous, let me tell you a little something about ridiculous. It is ridiculous that Liz is about to pop, and is having vision of people coming to try and take her baby. It is ridiculous that we are 19 years old, and are running from the FBI never being able to stay in one place longer than 2 weeks, and you know what I think is the most ridiculous thing out of it all?" he looked at Jesse then at the chair a few feet away. He pointed his hand toward the chair, and it moved across the floor slamming into Jesse. "I think it is ridiculous that you pick now out of all times to decide to show up."

"Michael, that is enough!" Isabel demanded. She went to go stand between Jesse and Michael. "How can you be acting like this? It is Jesse, God Michael, grow up."

"Get out of the way Isabel, I will find out why he is here, one way or another." Michael didn't move. He didn't want to take the risk of hurting Isabel.

"No, not until you calm down." Isabel knew that he wouldn't take the risk of hurting her, and that with some talking he would calm down, but he didn't seem to be showing any signs of slowing down this time. So she was hoping that Maria could help. "Maria, try and talk some sense into him."

Maria didn't like to be dragged into fights, especially when it became two aliens, and one of them being her boyfriend, and the other one of her best friends. She knew that she should be stopping him, but she couldn't help believe but have a little doubt. He did just kind of show up out of the blue, but it was no reason to blow him into a million pieces. "Michael, calm down." She put her hand on his arm, and he lowered it a little.

"Maria, he is not one of us, and we aren't letting anyone else in." he looked at Jesse, but didn't raise his arm up.

"But Michael, I am already in. I know your secret. Why can't I just be with my wife?" Jesse took a step away from the wall, but when Michael raised his arm at his movement, he put his arms back up.

"Fine, we aren't letting anyone else BACK in." he puts an emphasis on back, hoping Jesse would get it through his head. "Anyway, you are a liability, we can't protect any more of you humans. "

"You protect Kyle and Maria, what is one more?" Jesse asked, knowing he had proven a point.

"Actually, Kyle protects himself now. I got my long awaited alien powers a few weeks ago." he sounded proud, even though he hadn't quite gotten the hang of controlling them, the fact that he got them was what was the cool thing.

"Kyle you're not helping." Michael said through gritted teeth. Kyle shrugged his shoulders, in an innocent gesture. Michael rolled his eyes, and looked back at Jesse.

"Look Michael." Jesse put his arms down, and took a step forward, but that was all it took for Michael. He lifted his arm, and within a second Jesse was against the wall with a loud thunk.

"Michael!" Isabel yelled, running over to help Jesse off the ground.

"Hey, what's going on in here?" Max said, peeking his head through the door. "Liz is trying to get some sleep, and I think the least you can do is be quiet." Max looked at Michael, but then saw Jesse sitting on the ground with Isabel hovered over him.

Max had noticed him earlier, but didn't pay it much mind. His main focus was on Liz, but now that he thought about it, he wanted to know why he was there, and from the looks of it. Michael wanted to know the same thing.

"Max, help me get him to go away." Michael sounded irritated, and Max knew that if he wasn't there to intervene Michael might do something stupid. He looked back into their room real quick. To make sure that Liz was still sleeping, and shut the door quietly.

"Max, you know that I wouldn't do anything to you guys, right?" Jesse looked up at him.

"Max, please." Isabel sounded so sad, and Max couldn't stand it when the people he loved were hurting.

"What are you doing here?" Max asked.

Kyle recognized the tone in Max's voice. It was the tone, of you have my attention, but you better not say anything stupid, because I am not in the mood for it. So don't blow it. He knew the tone very well, he had heard Max, use it on him countless times.

"I just needed to see my wife. I couldn't stand being away from her." Jesse looked at Isabel, and smiled. Isabel smiled back then looked at Max.

"See, a perfectly reasonable excuse." She said like there was nothing more to it. Max on the other hand wasn't convinced.

"Isabel, we have to make sure he is safe." He looked at Jesse, and then at Michael. "You two come out in the hall with me." Max looked towards his room one last time. Even though he couldn't see her, he just wanted to make sure Liz was ok. Then he walked out into the hallway with Jesse and Michael.

"Why did you want us to come out here?" Michael looked irritated, and Jesse looked a little scared.

"I just wanted to see how he acted out from under Isabel's watchful eye." Max looked at Jesse, and he thought he could sense something from him, he just couldn't place his finger on it.

What if they find out? Jesse thought to himself. It is too early. It has to be at the opportune moment. If it is not at the opportune moment everything will be ruined.

"Max!" Maria said frantically throwing the door open. Max turned around quickly, forgetting about Jesse.

"What is Liz ok? What's wrong?" he said his eyes quickly filling with fear.

"She is in labor."