"You mean, you saw flashes?" Isabel asked Michael, stunned. After he had
gotten from his encounter with Sierra, he was in a sate beyond shock, and
had Max call everyone over. Now Max and Liz sat together on the couch,
Maria stood against a wall, Kyle next to her, and Isabel sat at the
opposite end of the couch of Max and Liz.
"Yeah." Michael said.
"Of what?" Max asked.
"Me, and this little girl, at a wedding, then me and the little girl at the park, then me, about seventeen or so years older, talking to Sierra."
"So, what, are you saying that this girl is actually the real deal?" Kyle asked.
"I think so," Michael said softly.
"Wow, Michael, Mr. Skeptic, actually believing this girl, she's either Michael's daughter, or is working some serious mojo on him." Maria remarked.
ROSWELL, NM, 2018
Sierra, Alex and Anna strolled into the club. The laser lights and pulsating beat engulfing them.
"D....Do you really think we should be here?" Anna yelled over the music as she tugged at the mini skirt Sierra had leant her. Sierra smiled at her friend.
"Of course. We deserve a little fun." Sierra said, taking Anna's hands to keep her from messing with the skirt. She took Alex's hand. "Come on, let's dance." She said, pulling her two friends to the dance floor. The three jumped around danced like there was no tomorrow. Sierra smiled to see Anna loosen up and have some fun. The girl was so terribly shy and reserved.
Sierra and Anna where dancing on either side of Alex when Sierra saw him. He was standing by the bar, watching her with interest. Sierra was caught by his dark blonde hair and dark brown eyes. She smiled seductively and slowly ran her tongue over her upper lip. She ran her fingers through her hair, arching her back, giving the good looking stranger a show, all the while keeping eye contact with him. Anna looked over to where her friend was staring and smiled. She looked at Sierra.
"He's cute." She said. Alex looked over and then looked back at the two, anger in his eyes.
"I'm going to go sit." He said, storming off the dance floor. The two watched him go. Sierra looked at Anna.
"Can you go see what's bugging him?" She said, grinning. "I'm on the prowl." Anna laughed.
"Yeah, have fun." Anna said, walking away.
"I intend to." Sierra said. She looked back over at the bar, but the stranger wasn't there anymore. She scanned the club, not seeing him. She walked over to the bar, hopping to get a better look. He wasn't anywhere to be seen. Maybe he went to the bathroom, genius. She thought to herself. She headed over to the restrooms, passing a dark hallway. She felt someone grab her arm and yank her into the hallway, slamming her back against the wall. She didn't have time to scream or react before a pair of lips crushed against hers. Hands scrunched up her top, trying to touch her skin. She put her hands on the person's chest and pushed them away. She was met with the dark brown eyes of her stranger. He smiled at her.
"You where having so much fun out there, thought we could have our own private fun." He said coolly.
"What, you think I'm some slut that makes it with whatever guy I see in a club?" She said.
"Course not." He said with a grin. "But, hey, I did break the ice didn't I?" Sierra looked at him, seeing he was joking about the whole 'private fun' thing, and laughed.
"Guess so." She said. "I'm Sierra." She said.
"Travis."
ROSWELL, NM, PRESENT DAY
Michael sat in the park, on the bench where he had found Sierra, staring up at the night sky. He hoped she'd return there, but after sitting there for two hours, he was beginning to lose hope. He heard footsteps coming toward him. He turned his head toward them.
"Sierra?" He said.
"No, it's just me." Came the voice of someone he was also happy to see, Maria. She walked over and sat next to him. She was carrying a shoulder bag.
"Oh, hey." He said.
"How long have you been out here?" She asked.
"Uh, not sure. Two hours I guess." Maria's eyes widened.
"Two hours?" She asked. "Michael, are you insane, you'll get sick in this weather, with you just wearing that leather jacket." She said.
"I'm fine." He said. Maria pulled something out of her shoulder bag. Michael looked over to see a thermos.
"Here, I thought you'd be out here, so I made you some hot chocolate." She said. Michael smiled gently.
"You didn't have to do that, Maria." He said. Maria looked at him.
"It's nothing..." She gazed into his eyes. Michael gazed into hers. The two seemed to have a brief connection before Maria quickly looked away. "..Uh......It's something....you know.......friends......do for one another." She said. Michael looked down.
"Right, friends." He said. He looked over and saw Maria shiver slightly. "You cold?" He asked.
"Uh....Yeah....." She said. Among other things She thought, feeling her pulse quicken from the fact that he was sitting by her. Calm down. She told herself. Remember, you broke up with him, be strong. Michael put an arm around her shoulders and pulled her close. Be strong. She repeated in her head, like a mantra. BE STONG BE STRONG BE STRONG
"I guess she's not coming." Michael said. He and Maria had been sitting in the park for two hours. He sighed. Maria looked at him.
"I'm sorry." Maria said. "I-"
"Hi." Came a voice. They turned to see Sierra. She walked over to them. She took notice of Michael's arm around Maria's. "Am I interrupting something?" Maria was surprise to feel her heart sink a bit when Michael slid his arm off of her.
"We need to talk." Michael said to Sierra.
"OK." She said.
"What was the whole......Flash thing, from earlier?" He asked. Sierra looked away.
"It's this thing.......Sometimes when I'm really tense, or emotions are just running crazy, it just.....like erupts or something. Whatever's in me just kind of spills onto whoever's touching me."
"Isn't it scary?" Maria asked.
"Sometimes." Sierra said.
"Where are you staying?" Michael asked.
"Nowhere, I guess." Sierra said.
"I don't want you to stay here in the park." He said. Sierra gave a smirk.
"Tell the man you're his kid and he falls into the dad role instantly."
Isabel looked at Sierra. Michael and Maria had came over a little while ago with her. Michael asked if it was all right if Sierra stayed with Isabel for a bit, seeing as there wasn't room at his place, and there was no way that Maria and Liz could explain to their parents some girl staying over, besides the two where already staying at Isabel's. Isabel agreed. Maria and Liz where out talking to the others, leaving Isabel to watch over Sierra. She had cooked Sierra some dinner, and by how quickly the girl was devouring it, Isabel guessed she hadn't eaten in a while.
"Can I ask you something?" Isabel asked. Sierra looked at her, nodding. "Well," she started out nervously. "I..."
"You want to know if you ever tell Jesse." Sierra said. Isabel looked at her.
"Yeah.." Isabel answered. Sierra didn't speak for a while.
"You do." She said. Isabel looked at her.
"So...What happens?"
"I don't know if I should be telling you this much." Sierra said. Isabel looked down.
"That bad, huh?" Isabel said. Sierra looked at her.
"Actually, no. It's good." Isabel looked up at her.
"What?" Sierra took a deep breath.
"Ok, well, I don't know all the details, cause well, I wasn't born yet, but, from what I've heard, you told Jesse when you found out you were pregnant."
"Pregnant?" Isabel said.
"Yeah. You were worried that the baby would come out looking all alien or something, so, you sat him down and told him, not wanting him to be freaked out when he sees his alien baby."
"And.."
"He was a little shocked and freaked. No one really knew if it was because of the alien part, or the baby part, or both, either way, he left you."
"He left me?"
"He had to think about stuff. He came back like a week later, and said that he loved you, and nothing could change that." Isabel smiled softly. She could feel tears well up in her eyes. She wiped at them.
"Sorry." Isabel said. Sierra smiled.
"It's ok." She said. Isabel got up and grabbed the hand towel in the kitchen and wiped at her cheeks. She laughed softly. She looked at Sierra.
"And....The baby?" She asked.
"You had a son." Sierra said. Isabel pursed her lips together.
"Oh god, what's he like? What's his name? Was I a good mother?"
"His name was Alexander Grant Ramirez." Isabel looked at her.
"Alex.....Grant..."
"I remember Alex asking you about his name. You said it was in remembrance of friends."
"Yeah.." Isabel said, swallowing back tears. "Alex Whitman and Grant Sorenson." Isabel looked at Sierra. "What else can you tell me about him?" She asked. Sierra looked away.
"Alex.........God, what can I say about him. He was an amazing person...Loving, kind of, passionate about life. Passionate about a girl.." She bit her lip.
"A girl?" Isabel asked. "What happened?" Isabel got the feeling, from Sierra's expression, that the 'girl' was Sierra herself.
"She was stupid." Sierra said. "Here was this amazing guy who would've given her the moon if she asked, and she didn't care. By the time she did.......It was too late."
"Too late?" Isabel asked. She looked at Sierra. "What happened?" Sierra looked up at her with tear soaked eyes. She looked down.
"I'm really tired." She said. Isabel looked at her.
"Right."
"Isabel? Sierra?" Came Liz's voice as she and Maria walked into the house.
"Shh." Isabel said, looking at the two. She pointed at Sierra's sleeping form on the Sofa bed. Maria and Liz nodded. The three went to Isabel's room to talk.
She was dressed in her favorite dress with the flowers on it. Grandma had made it for her. She carefully pushed herself on the swing, careful not to get her pretty dress dirty. Her pigtails swished in the air as she went back and forth.
"Mommy! Daddy!" She giggled. "Look!" She wanted to show them how high she could go. She could see them sitting together on the sheet they had laid out for the picnic. It was her birthday. Daddy said he could push her, but she didn't let him even get up. "I'm a big girl." She huffed proudly. "I can do it by myself." Her daddy simply laughed and left her to do it.
"Mommy! Daddy!" She giggled. Her giggles stopped abruptly when she saw him. The Bad Man. He was standing behind her parents.
"Mommy! Daddy!" She screamed fearfully. She stopped the swing by putting her foot on the ground, causing her to fall over. There was dirt all over her pretty dress and all over her hands. Dirt........Dirt and blood. She held her hands up to her face and looked over at her parents. They where in there bed..........She wasn't wearing her pretty dress anymore....
" NO!" She screamed. Maria woke up abruptly from her spot on the floor. She looked up to see Sierra gasping for air, her body shaking with terror and sobs.
"Sierra?" She asked. She climbed up to the bed. She went to hug her, but Sierra flinched at her touch and moved away from her. "Sweetie? What's wrong?"
"Don't." She said. "Don't call me sweetie...........She would call me that all the time.."
"She...Your mother?" Maria asked. Sierra nodded. "Where you dreaming about them?" Sierra nodded again. She wiped at her cheeks.
"I was the one who found them.." Sierra said. "They where together in their bed, in one another's embrace.........They loved each other so much........ I....I thought they where sleeping. I went to their room and said 'Mom, dad, wake up.' But, they weren't waking up. I tried shaking my dad, when I felt something wet."
"Wet?" Maria asked.
"Blood." She said. Maria's eyes widened.
"Oh my god."
"..I screamed so loud. I could've woken up a family on mars.." She said. She laid her head on Maria's lap and cried. Maria, so surprised by all this, simply stroked the girl's hair soothingly.
"Shhhh. Shhhh. It's ok." She whispered gently.
"So, what else can you tell us about the future?" Max asked. It was the next morning. Everyone sat in Isabel's living room. Sierra sighed and scratched her eyebrow. Maria's jaw dropped. Sierra caught her staring and froze, looking at her.
"What?" She asked.
"You scratched your eyebrow." Maria stated matter of factly. Sierra cocked her eyebrow.
"Uh..yeah, I did...Is something wrong?" She asked.
"No. You just looked so much like Michael when you did." Maria said.
"Oh." Sierra looked down for a second and smiled softly. "My mom used to say that too. Said I was just like my father. She'd joke about how it was a miracle she could survive with the two of us." The others simply looked at her.
"You miss her, don't you?" Jim asked. Sierra nodded.
"I miss everything from my time. Everyone." She said softly.
"Well, maybe there's a way we can fix it." Kyle said. "I mean, maybe if we like. stop this Travis guy from being born, all will be cool." Sierra looked at him and sighed.
"Nice idea." She said. "Unfortunately, Travis has already been born now. Man, if I knew anything about how to pinpoint times and junk, trust me, I would've gone back enough to prevent his conception. But, I was just trying to get away, and I ended up here."
"Is there anything we can do?" Isabel asked. "I mean, he doesn't seem to like us all very much."
"He knows that if he kills you now, the future will be different. I won't even be in it if he murders Michael and my mom. Everything will be.....well, different. And that's exactly what he wants."
"We noticed that the boy has some issues towards you." Liz pointed out. Sierra sighed.
"Oh yeah. I've ticked him off. The latest thing is, well, I killed his mother." Everyone stared at her with wide eyes.
"Excuse me, what was that?" Maria blurted out.
"You killed someone?" Max asked. Sierra nodded. She looked at Max.
"I killed her, right after she killed you." Everyone was silent as they took this all in.
"OK, this whole 'guess the future thing' is really getting tiresome." Michael sighed. "I'm you're dad, so, I order you to tell us everything." Sierra looked at him and cocked an eyebrow.
"You will be my dad, but right now, you're just some teenager, don't make me put you in your place."
"OK, ok, let's save the family squabble for some other time." Isabel said tiredly. She looked at Sierra. "He's right though. Things would be a lot easier if you just told us everything."
"I can't." Sierra said. She sighed and stood up. "You know what, it was just a mistake coming here, contacting you all. I should just go." She went to the door. Maria went over and grabbed her arm.
"No way." She said. "We are not going to let you face this Travis guy alone."
"She's right." Max said. "If what you're saying is true, and you are Michael's child, then that makes you family, and we're not going to abandon our family."
Sierra stood outside Isabel's house, staring at the sky. Michael came out and sat with her.
"I know you don't believe me." Sierra said. Michael looked at her.
"I honestly don't know what to believe." He said. Sierra nodded, keeping her eyes on the sky.
"If I was in your position, I'd feel the same." She said. "I mean, some girl shows up and says she's your daughter from the future. It's gotta be a little unbelievable."
"Yet it's not the most unbelievable thing to happen to me." Michael muttered. Sierra gave a dry laugh.
"You're an alien, you're pretty unbelievable as it is." She said. Michael looked at her.
"I guess so." He said. He was silent for a while. "What was it that I saw, when I touched you yesterday?" Sierra took a deep breath.
"I knew you'd bring that up eventually."
"Well, that's a given." He said.
"I can't tell you the wedding one. Just know that someone from the past is going to come and marry a certain future Sheriff Valenti." Sierra said. Michael blinked.
"Kyle's going to be a sheriff?" He asked. "You cant be serious. He despises the whole law enforcement thing."
"Trust me, you'll see first hand in the following years, stranger things will happen." Sierra smiled. "The fight we had was about me.......and Travis." She said, suddenly serious. Michael looked at her.
"What do you mean?" He said. Sierra sighed.
"Travis and me were a thing.....But, he was normal.....Even sweet, then suddenly something snapped and he just started being psycho like. The only persons who knew he and I were together were Alex and Annie." Michael looked at her blankly. "Oh, Izzie didn't tell you. I thought she would've after I mentioned it last night. She's going to have a kid, his name will be Alex. Annie was a friend of mine."
"Was?" Michael asked.
"I told you, everyone's dead back where I come from." Sierra sighed. "Annie was one of the first." She looked down. "And it was my fault."
"What do you mean?"
"I really don't want to talk about it." She said softly, hugging herself. Michael's instincts took over. He felt a strong fatherly pull to this girl that, might or might not be his daughter. He put an arm around her shoulders. Sierra leaned into him a bit. "Travis and I weren't supposed to be together. Kind of like, Romeo and Juliet......If Romeo was a homicidal maniac......Although some analyst have thought he was......"
"Well, seeing how you two were in the Crashdown, I'm guessing it didn't work out."
"The guy killed my parents...." Sierra said coldly. Michael shuddered a bit. He knew that he was dead during Sierra's time, but it still freaked him out a bit to hear her say it.
"I'm sorry." Was all he could say. Sierra looked at him.
"Don't worry, somehow, fatherhood turns you into a less clueless person." She smiled. Michael chuckled.
"Good to know."
"Yeah." Michael said.
"Of what?" Max asked.
"Me, and this little girl, at a wedding, then me and the little girl at the park, then me, about seventeen or so years older, talking to Sierra."
"So, what, are you saying that this girl is actually the real deal?" Kyle asked.
"I think so," Michael said softly.
"Wow, Michael, Mr. Skeptic, actually believing this girl, she's either Michael's daughter, or is working some serious mojo on him." Maria remarked.
ROSWELL, NM, 2018
Sierra, Alex and Anna strolled into the club. The laser lights and pulsating beat engulfing them.
"D....Do you really think we should be here?" Anna yelled over the music as she tugged at the mini skirt Sierra had leant her. Sierra smiled at her friend.
"Of course. We deserve a little fun." Sierra said, taking Anna's hands to keep her from messing with the skirt. She took Alex's hand. "Come on, let's dance." She said, pulling her two friends to the dance floor. The three jumped around danced like there was no tomorrow. Sierra smiled to see Anna loosen up and have some fun. The girl was so terribly shy and reserved.
Sierra and Anna where dancing on either side of Alex when Sierra saw him. He was standing by the bar, watching her with interest. Sierra was caught by his dark blonde hair and dark brown eyes. She smiled seductively and slowly ran her tongue over her upper lip. She ran her fingers through her hair, arching her back, giving the good looking stranger a show, all the while keeping eye contact with him. Anna looked over to where her friend was staring and smiled. She looked at Sierra.
"He's cute." She said. Alex looked over and then looked back at the two, anger in his eyes.
"I'm going to go sit." He said, storming off the dance floor. The two watched him go. Sierra looked at Anna.
"Can you go see what's bugging him?" She said, grinning. "I'm on the prowl." Anna laughed.
"Yeah, have fun." Anna said, walking away.
"I intend to." Sierra said. She looked back over at the bar, but the stranger wasn't there anymore. She scanned the club, not seeing him. She walked over to the bar, hopping to get a better look. He wasn't anywhere to be seen. Maybe he went to the bathroom, genius. She thought to herself. She headed over to the restrooms, passing a dark hallway. She felt someone grab her arm and yank her into the hallway, slamming her back against the wall. She didn't have time to scream or react before a pair of lips crushed against hers. Hands scrunched up her top, trying to touch her skin. She put her hands on the person's chest and pushed them away. She was met with the dark brown eyes of her stranger. He smiled at her.
"You where having so much fun out there, thought we could have our own private fun." He said coolly.
"What, you think I'm some slut that makes it with whatever guy I see in a club?" She said.
"Course not." He said with a grin. "But, hey, I did break the ice didn't I?" Sierra looked at him, seeing he was joking about the whole 'private fun' thing, and laughed.
"Guess so." She said. "I'm Sierra." She said.
"Travis."
ROSWELL, NM, PRESENT DAY
Michael sat in the park, on the bench where he had found Sierra, staring up at the night sky. He hoped she'd return there, but after sitting there for two hours, he was beginning to lose hope. He heard footsteps coming toward him. He turned his head toward them.
"Sierra?" He said.
"No, it's just me." Came the voice of someone he was also happy to see, Maria. She walked over and sat next to him. She was carrying a shoulder bag.
"Oh, hey." He said.
"How long have you been out here?" She asked.
"Uh, not sure. Two hours I guess." Maria's eyes widened.
"Two hours?" She asked. "Michael, are you insane, you'll get sick in this weather, with you just wearing that leather jacket." She said.
"I'm fine." He said. Maria pulled something out of her shoulder bag. Michael looked over to see a thermos.
"Here, I thought you'd be out here, so I made you some hot chocolate." She said. Michael smiled gently.
"You didn't have to do that, Maria." He said. Maria looked at him.
"It's nothing..." She gazed into his eyes. Michael gazed into hers. The two seemed to have a brief connection before Maria quickly looked away. "..Uh......It's something....you know.......friends......do for one another." She said. Michael looked down.
"Right, friends." He said. He looked over and saw Maria shiver slightly. "You cold?" He asked.
"Uh....Yeah....." She said. Among other things She thought, feeling her pulse quicken from the fact that he was sitting by her. Calm down. She told herself. Remember, you broke up with him, be strong. Michael put an arm around her shoulders and pulled her close. Be strong. She repeated in her head, like a mantra. BE STONG BE STRONG BE STRONG
"I guess she's not coming." Michael said. He and Maria had been sitting in the park for two hours. He sighed. Maria looked at him.
"I'm sorry." Maria said. "I-"
"Hi." Came a voice. They turned to see Sierra. She walked over to them. She took notice of Michael's arm around Maria's. "Am I interrupting something?" Maria was surprise to feel her heart sink a bit when Michael slid his arm off of her.
"We need to talk." Michael said to Sierra.
"OK." She said.
"What was the whole......Flash thing, from earlier?" He asked. Sierra looked away.
"It's this thing.......Sometimes when I'm really tense, or emotions are just running crazy, it just.....like erupts or something. Whatever's in me just kind of spills onto whoever's touching me."
"Isn't it scary?" Maria asked.
"Sometimes." Sierra said.
"Where are you staying?" Michael asked.
"Nowhere, I guess." Sierra said.
"I don't want you to stay here in the park." He said. Sierra gave a smirk.
"Tell the man you're his kid and he falls into the dad role instantly."
Isabel looked at Sierra. Michael and Maria had came over a little while ago with her. Michael asked if it was all right if Sierra stayed with Isabel for a bit, seeing as there wasn't room at his place, and there was no way that Maria and Liz could explain to their parents some girl staying over, besides the two where already staying at Isabel's. Isabel agreed. Maria and Liz where out talking to the others, leaving Isabel to watch over Sierra. She had cooked Sierra some dinner, and by how quickly the girl was devouring it, Isabel guessed she hadn't eaten in a while.
"Can I ask you something?" Isabel asked. Sierra looked at her, nodding. "Well," she started out nervously. "I..."
"You want to know if you ever tell Jesse." Sierra said. Isabel looked at her.
"Yeah.." Isabel answered. Sierra didn't speak for a while.
"You do." She said. Isabel looked at her.
"So...What happens?"
"I don't know if I should be telling you this much." Sierra said. Isabel looked down.
"That bad, huh?" Isabel said. Sierra looked at her.
"Actually, no. It's good." Isabel looked up at her.
"What?" Sierra took a deep breath.
"Ok, well, I don't know all the details, cause well, I wasn't born yet, but, from what I've heard, you told Jesse when you found out you were pregnant."
"Pregnant?" Isabel said.
"Yeah. You were worried that the baby would come out looking all alien or something, so, you sat him down and told him, not wanting him to be freaked out when he sees his alien baby."
"And.."
"He was a little shocked and freaked. No one really knew if it was because of the alien part, or the baby part, or both, either way, he left you."
"He left me?"
"He had to think about stuff. He came back like a week later, and said that he loved you, and nothing could change that." Isabel smiled softly. She could feel tears well up in her eyes. She wiped at them.
"Sorry." Isabel said. Sierra smiled.
"It's ok." She said. Isabel got up and grabbed the hand towel in the kitchen and wiped at her cheeks. She laughed softly. She looked at Sierra.
"And....The baby?" She asked.
"You had a son." Sierra said. Isabel pursed her lips together.
"Oh god, what's he like? What's his name? Was I a good mother?"
"His name was Alexander Grant Ramirez." Isabel looked at her.
"Alex.....Grant..."
"I remember Alex asking you about his name. You said it was in remembrance of friends."
"Yeah.." Isabel said, swallowing back tears. "Alex Whitman and Grant Sorenson." Isabel looked at Sierra. "What else can you tell me about him?" She asked. Sierra looked away.
"Alex.........God, what can I say about him. He was an amazing person...Loving, kind of, passionate about life. Passionate about a girl.." She bit her lip.
"A girl?" Isabel asked. "What happened?" Isabel got the feeling, from Sierra's expression, that the 'girl' was Sierra herself.
"She was stupid." Sierra said. "Here was this amazing guy who would've given her the moon if she asked, and she didn't care. By the time she did.......It was too late."
"Too late?" Isabel asked. She looked at Sierra. "What happened?" Sierra looked up at her with tear soaked eyes. She looked down.
"I'm really tired." She said. Isabel looked at her.
"Right."
"Isabel? Sierra?" Came Liz's voice as she and Maria walked into the house.
"Shh." Isabel said, looking at the two. She pointed at Sierra's sleeping form on the Sofa bed. Maria and Liz nodded. The three went to Isabel's room to talk.
She was dressed in her favorite dress with the flowers on it. Grandma had made it for her. She carefully pushed herself on the swing, careful not to get her pretty dress dirty. Her pigtails swished in the air as she went back and forth.
"Mommy! Daddy!" She giggled. "Look!" She wanted to show them how high she could go. She could see them sitting together on the sheet they had laid out for the picnic. It was her birthday. Daddy said he could push her, but she didn't let him even get up. "I'm a big girl." She huffed proudly. "I can do it by myself." Her daddy simply laughed and left her to do it.
"Mommy! Daddy!" She giggled. Her giggles stopped abruptly when she saw him. The Bad Man. He was standing behind her parents.
"Mommy! Daddy!" She screamed fearfully. She stopped the swing by putting her foot on the ground, causing her to fall over. There was dirt all over her pretty dress and all over her hands. Dirt........Dirt and blood. She held her hands up to her face and looked over at her parents. They where in there bed..........She wasn't wearing her pretty dress anymore....
" NO!" She screamed. Maria woke up abruptly from her spot on the floor. She looked up to see Sierra gasping for air, her body shaking with terror and sobs.
"Sierra?" She asked. She climbed up to the bed. She went to hug her, but Sierra flinched at her touch and moved away from her. "Sweetie? What's wrong?"
"Don't." She said. "Don't call me sweetie...........She would call me that all the time.."
"She...Your mother?" Maria asked. Sierra nodded. "Where you dreaming about them?" Sierra nodded again. She wiped at her cheeks.
"I was the one who found them.." Sierra said. "They where together in their bed, in one another's embrace.........They loved each other so much........ I....I thought they where sleeping. I went to their room and said 'Mom, dad, wake up.' But, they weren't waking up. I tried shaking my dad, when I felt something wet."
"Wet?" Maria asked.
"Blood." She said. Maria's eyes widened.
"Oh my god."
"..I screamed so loud. I could've woken up a family on mars.." She said. She laid her head on Maria's lap and cried. Maria, so surprised by all this, simply stroked the girl's hair soothingly.
"Shhhh. Shhhh. It's ok." She whispered gently.
"So, what else can you tell us about the future?" Max asked. It was the next morning. Everyone sat in Isabel's living room. Sierra sighed and scratched her eyebrow. Maria's jaw dropped. Sierra caught her staring and froze, looking at her.
"What?" She asked.
"You scratched your eyebrow." Maria stated matter of factly. Sierra cocked her eyebrow.
"Uh..yeah, I did...Is something wrong?" She asked.
"No. You just looked so much like Michael when you did." Maria said.
"Oh." Sierra looked down for a second and smiled softly. "My mom used to say that too. Said I was just like my father. She'd joke about how it was a miracle she could survive with the two of us." The others simply looked at her.
"You miss her, don't you?" Jim asked. Sierra nodded.
"I miss everything from my time. Everyone." She said softly.
"Well, maybe there's a way we can fix it." Kyle said. "I mean, maybe if we like. stop this Travis guy from being born, all will be cool." Sierra looked at him and sighed.
"Nice idea." She said. "Unfortunately, Travis has already been born now. Man, if I knew anything about how to pinpoint times and junk, trust me, I would've gone back enough to prevent his conception. But, I was just trying to get away, and I ended up here."
"Is there anything we can do?" Isabel asked. "I mean, he doesn't seem to like us all very much."
"He knows that if he kills you now, the future will be different. I won't even be in it if he murders Michael and my mom. Everything will be.....well, different. And that's exactly what he wants."
"We noticed that the boy has some issues towards you." Liz pointed out. Sierra sighed.
"Oh yeah. I've ticked him off. The latest thing is, well, I killed his mother." Everyone stared at her with wide eyes.
"Excuse me, what was that?" Maria blurted out.
"You killed someone?" Max asked. Sierra nodded. She looked at Max.
"I killed her, right after she killed you." Everyone was silent as they took this all in.
"OK, this whole 'guess the future thing' is really getting tiresome." Michael sighed. "I'm you're dad, so, I order you to tell us everything." Sierra looked at him and cocked an eyebrow.
"You will be my dad, but right now, you're just some teenager, don't make me put you in your place."
"OK, ok, let's save the family squabble for some other time." Isabel said tiredly. She looked at Sierra. "He's right though. Things would be a lot easier if you just told us everything."
"I can't." Sierra said. She sighed and stood up. "You know what, it was just a mistake coming here, contacting you all. I should just go." She went to the door. Maria went over and grabbed her arm.
"No way." She said. "We are not going to let you face this Travis guy alone."
"She's right." Max said. "If what you're saying is true, and you are Michael's child, then that makes you family, and we're not going to abandon our family."
Sierra stood outside Isabel's house, staring at the sky. Michael came out and sat with her.
"I know you don't believe me." Sierra said. Michael looked at her.
"I honestly don't know what to believe." He said. Sierra nodded, keeping her eyes on the sky.
"If I was in your position, I'd feel the same." She said. "I mean, some girl shows up and says she's your daughter from the future. It's gotta be a little unbelievable."
"Yet it's not the most unbelievable thing to happen to me." Michael muttered. Sierra gave a dry laugh.
"You're an alien, you're pretty unbelievable as it is." She said. Michael looked at her.
"I guess so." He said. He was silent for a while. "What was it that I saw, when I touched you yesterday?" Sierra took a deep breath.
"I knew you'd bring that up eventually."
"Well, that's a given." He said.
"I can't tell you the wedding one. Just know that someone from the past is going to come and marry a certain future Sheriff Valenti." Sierra said. Michael blinked.
"Kyle's going to be a sheriff?" He asked. "You cant be serious. He despises the whole law enforcement thing."
"Trust me, you'll see first hand in the following years, stranger things will happen." Sierra smiled. "The fight we had was about me.......and Travis." She said, suddenly serious. Michael looked at her.
"What do you mean?" He said. Sierra sighed.
"Travis and me were a thing.....But, he was normal.....Even sweet, then suddenly something snapped and he just started being psycho like. The only persons who knew he and I were together were Alex and Annie." Michael looked at her blankly. "Oh, Izzie didn't tell you. I thought she would've after I mentioned it last night. She's going to have a kid, his name will be Alex. Annie was a friend of mine."
"Was?" Michael asked.
"I told you, everyone's dead back where I come from." Sierra sighed. "Annie was one of the first." She looked down. "And it was my fault."
"What do you mean?"
"I really don't want to talk about it." She said softly, hugging herself. Michael's instincts took over. He felt a strong fatherly pull to this girl that, might or might not be his daughter. He put an arm around her shoulders. Sierra leaned into him a bit. "Travis and I weren't supposed to be together. Kind of like, Romeo and Juliet......If Romeo was a homicidal maniac......Although some analyst have thought he was......"
"Well, seeing how you two were in the Crashdown, I'm guessing it didn't work out."
"The guy killed my parents...." Sierra said coldly. Michael shuddered a bit. He knew that he was dead during Sierra's time, but it still freaked him out a bit to hear her say it.
"I'm sorry." Was all he could say. Sierra looked at him.
"Don't worry, somehow, fatherhood turns you into a less clueless person." She smiled. Michael chuckled.
"Good to know."