Hey guys. Anyway, thanks so much for the reviews. By the way, the last line by Maria in the last chapter: "meshoppinggood times had by all" got screwed up in Microsoft word. It was supposed to say "me plus shopping equals good times had by all" I did the symbols, but I guess m. word or deleted them. Oh well. Enjoy the chapter.
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A little while later, Michael went to sleep. Sierra told him he could have the sofa bed since she wasn't tired yet. She and Maria just sat in the kitchen talking.
"So, Michael told me about you and Travis.." Maria said. "I'm sorry."
"For what?" Sierra asked.
"Well, it must be hard fighting someone who you were once close with." Maria said. Sierra pursed her lips together then looked at Maria.
"You'd be surprised how easily I let it go once he started killing people I cared about." She said. Maria looked down.
"So, did you know me?" Maria asked. "I mean, was I-"
"One of the people killed?" Sierra asked. Maria let out a breath.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't-"
"No." Sierra said. "I only knew about you from what dad and the others told me." Sierra said. "You were off perusing your music career." Maria looked at her.
"Did..........Did I ever, you know, become famous?" She asked. Sierra smiled.
"I'm not supposed to tell you this much about the future." She said. Maria groaned.
"Aw, come on, give me something!" Maria protested.
"Maria, I'm not some sort of fortune teller!" Sierra laughed.
"Well, you kind of are." She said.
"Look, do you think you'll be famous?" Sierra asked.
"I guess, I don't know." Maria said. "Maybe."
"Then hold on to that."
"Is this your way of telling me that I will be famous?" Maria asked.
"No, it's my way of saying I ain't telling you jack." Sierra grinned. Maria gave her a mean look.
"Oh fine." Maria sighed.
"So, you and my dad were an item?" Sierra asked. Maria looked at her surprised. "The other night, when you two were in the park waiting for me, I sensed some vibes."
"I........Yeah, we used to be." Maria said. "We're just friends now." She blinked. "Why am I talking about this with you? You're his.....Well, you will be his daughter." Maria said. "Man my life is so weird." She said with a small laugh. Sierra smiled.
"I know, it's kind of weird for me too. I mean, seeing everyone as just a few years older then me and seeing this whole town and thinking 'hey, that should be something else' or something, it's just freaky. I mean, the UFO center, it gets converted into a night club for crying out loud." Sierra laughed.
"A night club? What about Brody?" Maria asked.
"You mean that guy that owned it? I think he moved to be closer to his ex and kid or something, I'm not sure." Sierra said. She sighed.
"So, I wasn't in your life?" Maria asked. "At all?" Sierra shook her head. Maria looked at her. "Well, I wish I was."
"No you don't." Sierra said quickly. Maria looked at her. "Everyone in my life is dead. It's like everyone I touched was just doomed."
"Sierra, you know that's not true. What happened to your family and friends wasn't your fault." Maria said comfortingly. Sierra looked at her; tears were collecting in her eyes.
"Oh yeah? Then why is it that everything around me started turning to shit right around the time Travis was in my life?" Sierra asked. "Why is it that Annie and my parents and everyone else lost their lives then? Huh? Tell me that." Sierra's voice hitched a bit as she tried to hold back her sobs. "You know what; maybe Travis isn't the one to blame. Maybe none of this would've happened if I had never been born."
"I'm sure that having you around enriched so many people's lives." Maria said. "I mean, I've only known you what, a couple of days, and I already feel like anyone who knew you...........or will know you...........is incredibly lucky."
"God, why didn't I listen to everyone who tried to warn me?" Sierra asked herself softly. "My friends, when I told them who Travis was, they told me to break it off but I didn't listen. I was so convinced that I was in love and that Travis and I being together would fix things, you know? Star-crossed lovers and all that bull like Romeo and Juliet, except I thought we could succeed in bringing the two sides together and ending the war for good."
"What do you mean? What power over the war will Travis have?" Maria asked. Sierra shook her head.
"I can't." She said. "I can't tell you. It'll mess everything up." Sierra said.
"What do you mean?" Maria insisted. "How will it mess everything up?" Sierra sprang to her feet.
"I've got to go." She said. And with that, she ran out of the house.
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ROSWELL 2018
"I'm going to tell them if you won't." Alex swore. He and Sierra were sitting at the base in the common room. There were some other people there, but they were on the other end of the room.
"Tell who what?" Sierra asked as she absentmindedly flipped through a magazine. Alex leaned forward.
"Tell your parents, my parents and Uncle Max about Travis." He hissed. Sierra's head shot up and she nearly threw the magazine on the table.
"What?" She asked lowly.
"Sierra, they have to know." Alex said.
"Wh-Why do they have to know? And besides, I told you and Annie about it in confidence, not so you could use it to blackmail me." She said.
"Blackmail?!" Alex said, louder then intended. Some of the people looked up at him. He sighed and looked back at Sierra. "Blackmail?" He said in a lower voice. "How the hell is this blackmail? I'm just telling you this for your own good."
"Yeah, well, Alex, I'm a big girl, I think I know what's for my own good." She snapped at him lowly. Alex rolled his eyes.
"Travis is the enemy." He said through clenched teeth. "I can't believe you're too horny and love sick to see that." Sierra glared at him. Alex stared at her, regretting what he had just said. Sierra's hand flew across his face.
"You're just jealous that someone loves me." She growled. She got up and stormed out of the common room, leaving Alex and other people staring at her.
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"Where do you think she could've gone?" Michael asked. He, Isabel and Maria were in Maria's car. After Sierra had run out of the house, Maria awoke Isabel and Michael and called Max, Liz and the Valentis. The others were searching in either Max's car.
"I have no idea." Maria said.
"We've got to find her." Isabel said, nervously turning her wedding band around her finger. Maria's cell phone rang. She quickly answered it.
"Hello?" She asked.
"Maria, it's me." Came Kyle's voice over the phone. "Listen, Max thought of something, what if she's at the cave."
"What cave?" Maria asked, her concern for Sierra blocking her rational thinking.
"The cave." Kyle said. "As in the one where that thing was."
"WHAT THING?!" Maria yelled. Isabel reached up from the back seat and yanked the phone away from Maria.
"Let a calm person talk." Isabel said softly. "Hello?" She said into the phone.
"Isabel, Max thinks that maybe Sierra might've gone to the cave in the dessert." Kyle said.
"Well, we're closer to it, so we'll go check it out." Isabel said. She hung up. She looked at Michael. "Max thinks she might have gone to where the granolith was." Isabel said.
"Why the hell didn't Kyle say that in the first place?" Maria snapped.
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Sierra climbed up the rocks to the cave where the granolith once was and would be again in a decade or so. She sat on the ground.
"I can't do this.." She whispered to the air. "I can't.." She said, cutting herself off with her sobs. "I need help and you're not here and no one understands." She said. "I'm so scared, but I can't be scared because I'm the only one who knows what to do...But I don't know what to do." She whimpered.
"Who ya talking to?" Said a voice. Sierra turned and saw Travis standing at the mouth of the cave. "You haven't gone crazy, have you?" He asked. Sierra climbed to her feet, balancing herself against the wall of the cave.
"Go away." She growled. Travis smirked.
"Me-ow." He said. "Little Miss Hellcat, I see." He said. Sierra glared at him.
"Why are you here? Why are you in this time?" She asked. Travis looked contemplative for a bit.
"Hmm, I don't know." He said. "Maybe it's to make sure you're never born. You killed my mother, you bitch!" He yelled.
"You killed everyone I ever loved." Sierra screamed. Travis smirked.
"Now, now, I wasn't the one who bombed Isabel and Jesse's car, nor did I kill Liz or your precious King."
"No, but your whore of a mother did." Sierra spat out. Travis used his powers to slam her against a wall. Sierra cried out as she felt the jagged pieces of rock pierce her back and arms.
"Don't you ever talk about my mother like that!" Travis yelled.
"Why? It's true. Your mother was a disgusting, back-stabbing, murderous bitch, and I'm glad I killed her!" Sierra screamed. Travis growled and pressed her harder against the wall.
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Michael, Maria and Isabel got out of Maria's car just to hear Sierra cry out in pain.
"Come on." Michael said to Isabel as they headed to climb up the rocks. "Maria, stay here and call the others, we might need back up." He said. Maria quickly nodded and grabbed her phone. She dialed Kyle's number.
"Yeah?" Came Kyle's voice.
"Sierra's at the cave, and she might be in trouble." She said. She heard Kyle relay the message to Max. "We'll be right there." Kyle said. Maria hung up the phone and looked up. Her instincts drove her to climb up the rocks after Isabel and Michael.
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"I should've killed you when I had the chance." Travis snarled.
"Guess you're too much of a wussy." Sierra forced out.
"Sierra!" She heard Michael's voice.
"Awww, Daddy's come to save his little girl." Travis said in a voice with mock sweetness. Sierra saw Michael and Isabel at the entrance of the cave.
"Get...Out....Of......Here..." Sierra forced out to the two.
"Oh, the big powerful Sierra, refusing help, how noble." Travis mocked. He threw her against another wall and let her fall to the ground. Sierra lay on the ground in a bleeding heap. Michael blasted some rocks near Travis.
"You ever touch her again I swear-" Michael began.
"A little late for that, huh pops?" Travis countered. "I've touched her plenty of times." He smirked. Michael growled and tossed him backwards with his powers. Travis simply laughed. Isabel helped Michael in holding him down. Maria made it to the cave. She saw Sierra laying there.
"Oh god." She said. Michael turned and saw Maria.
"Get Sierra out of here." He ordered. Maria nodded. She ran over to her.
"The guest of honor can't leave yet." Travis chuckled. He made Maria fall.
"Leave her alone!" Sierra grunted through her pain. She struggled to get to her feet. Travis pushed Isabel and Michael back out of the cave and off the hill of rocks. The two were sent flying to the ground beneath them. "No!" Sierra screamed.