Chapter 15

"Maria, get down!" Michael ordered as he pushed her behind a bush. There were special unit cars swarming the street.

"Michael, they have my mom." Maria said fear filled her voice. She started to get up, she had to save her mom, she didn't know how, but she knew she had too.

Michael grabbed her arm, and pulled her back down. "How do you expect we get her? Just waltz in and grab her? No, that is not going to work. We have to get the others." Maria shook her head.

"No, I am not leaving her."

"Maria, she with be fine. They won't her. They haven't yet. They need us, and they can use her as leverage. They must have found out somehow that we knew about Liz's parents, so they went for your mom instead. Trying to trick us, but they don't know we know. We have the upper hand." Michael was holding Maria's shoulders, hoping that he could talk some sense into her.

Maria calmed down a little, and was able to think logically. After a few deep breathes she was able to talk. "Okay, Okay, let's go get the others." With that they walked the opposite direction, until they were out of sight, then took off down the street.

"He is beautiful Liz." Nancy Parker said while she kissed her grandson's head. Liz smiled at her mom and son. She had missed her parents so much. She just didn't want to say anything to Max. She knew he felt bad enough, about having to travel all the time.

Max and Jeff Parker sat at the bar of the Crash Down café. "Max, I want you to know that I have had a year to soak all of this in. An alien, turning my daughter into an alien, and I just want you to know." He stopped and looked at his daughter. "That I don't think my Lizzy could have picked a better man."

Max smiled at Jeff, he was afraid that he was going to get yelled at, but that wasn't the case. "Thank you Mr. Parker."

"Call me Jeff." He said patting him on the back. "Come on, I want to hold my grandson." They started to get out of their seats when the bell rang, and Isabel, Jesse, and Kyle walked in, with Valenti.

"What took you guys so long?" Max said in a hushed voice, while he walked over to them.

"Sorry Max, I wanted to see my dad." Kyle said looking at his dad.

"Then I would let them go, unless I got to come too. After all I had to see the baby, and I am not going to let you guys fight them without me." Valenti said, staring Max in the eyes, before walking over to Liz and her parents. Max watched as Liz looked up, and when she saw Valenti she jumped out of her seat, and gave him a big hug.

"Sorry Max." Kyle said again, looking at the ground. Max shook his head.

"It's ok. Come on." He turned around to walk over to the rest of them.

They were all talking like normal when Maria and Michael came bursting through the door. Max stood up quickly at the sight of them. They were both out of breath, and Maria looked terrified. Liz must have noticed that Maria was upset, because she got up instantly and ran over to her friend, and helped her to a seat.

"Maria, breathe. What's wrong?" Liz said, grabbing a glass of water her dad had brought over when he saw them.

"They have my mom." Maria got out between gasps.

Liz's eyes got wide, and she looked at Max who had the same look on his face. He looked at Michael.

"Were you guys followed?" Michael shook his head, and put his hands on his knees.

"No, I don't think so." He said, shaking his head.

"Good." Max said, "Now what happened." Michael finally having caught his breath stood up.

"They have Maria's mom. There are a lot of them Max." Max looked at the group, and then at his son. He knew this time was going to come.

"Alright, we are going to go after her, check out the scene, so I can figure out a plan. Kyle and Jesse you guys come with us. The rest of you stay here, we will be back." Max ordered. Liz stood up and walked over to him, and wrapped her arms around his neck.

"Come back to me." She said before giving him a deep sensual kiss.

"I promise." He said. After a quick hug, and kissing his son good-bye, he Michael, Kyle, and Jesse went out to face who knows what.

The guys had only been gone for 10 minutes, but it seemed like an eternity. Maria was pacing the floor, and Isabel was sitting with her knees folded up in a booth. She was tearing a napkin into tiny pieces, while her parents watched the baby. Valenti sat their cocking his gun, and tapping his foot.

"This is ridiculous." Maria exclaimed before coming to plop down next to Liz. "I should be out there with them. After all she is my mom." Liz stopped tearing her napkin so she could look at her friend.

"Maria, you wouldn't have been able to help. You don't even have any powers. No way to defend yourself if captured. You would have been a hindrance, not a help." Liz looked at the hurt in her friend's eye.

"I know, I just wish we could do something." She said, before plopping her head on the table. Liz ran her hands through hair and took a deep breath.

"I know, I know."

"Do they know you guys are here?" Jeff asked them in a concerned voice.

"I don't know, I don't think so." Liz started, but before she could even finish 5 special unit guys came bursting through the door.