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-Jenifer

Chapter 18

"Please, please do this for me." Liz and Max had both agreed that Maria and Jesse should take Sawyer, incase something like this would ever happen, but they wouldn't cooperate.

"No, Liz I need to stay here and help you fight. I can help you fight." Maria was holding her hands in the air and shaking her head. "Please, don't do this to me. Please, I can't take care of your son. I mean he obviously has powers. He needs his parents so you can teach him how to use his powers. I can't do that. Jesse and I can't do that." She looked at Jesse for backup, but it looked like he was still trying to process it all.

"Jesse, take good care of my son." Max said, while handing Sawyer to Jesse. Jesse took him with hesitation.

"Maria, you can do this. I promise you can do this." Liz grabbed Maria by the shoulders, and made her look her in the eye. "Promise me Maria, that if I don't make it. Tell him when he is older and will understand that I didn't do this for nothing. I did this because it was for the best, and the only way to keep him safe, was to keep him away. Please tell him I love him, Maria can you do that for me." Liz could feel tears slide down her cheeks. Maria was crying also. She was nodding her head, and taking deep breaths.

"I promise Liz, I promise." She gave her a quick hug. With a kiss good-bye from Michael, she and Jesse along with Amy and Liz's parents, snuck out of Liz's bedroom window, and down the fire escape ladder. Valenti was going to stay with them to help them fight.

Liz and Max stood looking down as their loved ones disappeared around the corner. Liz laid her head on Max's shoulder when he heard Michael calling them from the door. The were about to turn around to see what he wanted, when he Liz saw someone run around the corner again, it was Maria.

"Maria, what are you doing? It isn't safe, go." Liz was trying to yell, but couldn't, not knowing if anybody was listening. She watched Maria climb up the fire escape ladder, and hop onto the balcony.

"When you come back and want to find us. I thought I would tell you were we would be." She looked over the balcony, and then at the others one. She smiled and looked back at Liz. "We'll be in the place with the thing that you said was stupid, and I said it would be fun, and with the girl with the weird outfit."

Isabel and Max stared at her like she was stupid, but Liz understood every word. "Ok." She said, before watching her friend descend down the ladder, and run around the corner.

Liz turned around to Isabel and Max, and they were staring at her with the same look. They are definitely brother and sister. "What was that?" Max asked.

Liz shrugged her shoulders, and passed through them. "She was letting me know where they would be."

"You got where they would be from that?" Liz looked at Max like he was stupid.

"Yeah."

Isabel stared over the balcony. Hoping that one day she would get to see Jesse again. It was so hard to say good-bye again. It brought tears to her eyes, but she held them back. She would never get to see him again if she lost focus on what needed to be done.

Liz turned around to see Isabel staring down the balcony. She walked over to her, ignoring the guy's fighting plan. "Isabel, we will get them back. I promise."

Isabel looked at the determination in Liz's eyes, but behind it all she could see the pain and fear. She knew Liz was scared, but she wasn't going to get the best of her. "I know we will." She smiled and Liz smiled back, and they turned around to fight one of the biggest battles of their lives.

"You guys ok?" Kyle asked Isabel and Liz when they walked up.

The girls looked at each other then back at Kyle. "We're fine." Isabel answered. "What's going on?"

"They are figuring out a plan." Almost as soon as he finished his sentence was there a loud banging on the door.

"We know you're in there! If you come out with your hands up no one with get hurt." The voice was trying to sound persuasive, but in reality it just sounded annoyed.

Without saying anything Michael threw the door open, puts his hands out. "If you insist." He said with a tone of sarcasm. There were 4 people and before any of them could react Michael was blowing them with his power. He used so much that a couple of them actually went through the wall.

Liz flinched as she watched her home being destroyed. The men downstairs must have heard the bang from the guys hitting the wall, because a whole bunch of them came running up carrying guns.

"Nice going Michael." Max said, quickly shutting the door when they started shooting at them. "What happened to working out a game plan?"

Michael looked at Max and shrugged. "I figured I would go for the direct approach."

"Well the direct approach almost got us killed." Max said angrily. He put his hand to his head trying to come up with a plan.

"Whatever we do, we need to figure it out fairly fast." Valenti said, the whole time keeping his gun pointed toward the door.

"Ok, Ok." Max said looking up. "Isabel, Liz, and Kyle, you three go down the fire escape, and try and trap them from behind. Maybe if we surround them they will give in.

Liz, Valenti, and Isabel started to walk towards the fire escape ladder, when Liz felt someone grab her arm and jerk her back. She knew the touch almost immediately. There was only one persons' touch that could leave her skin feeling tingling like that.

"Max." Was the only thing she got out before his mouth descended on hers, and they kissed, the most passionate kiss ever. When they broke apart Max puts his hands on both sides of her face and looked at her in the eyes.

"Liz, we will see each other again. I swear, we will raise our son together." Max sounded determined, and angry for even having to fight to begin with. He looked into his wife's eyes, and hoped that this would not be the last time he got to see her.

Liz kissed him good-bye and turned around to the others. They had surveyed to make sure no one was waiting for them at the bottom of ladder. When the coast was clear they headed down. Not know what awaits them.