Disclaimer: I own nothing except the plot. Even then it's based on stuff I don't own. If I owned Roswell the third Season would have turned out differently so I obviously don't own anything.

Pairings: Slight M/L, A/I but focusing on M/M.

Summary: This takes place during the summer between Season One and Season Two. Its just fluff, the beginning will mostly be about Maria, Alex and Max bonding. M/M

A/N: This is my first Roswell fanfic. I'm a huge Candy fan, so I think you know what this is most likely going to end up being about. I've had this idea rolling around in my head for a while and decided to write it out.


"Louie I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" The music began to play as the movie faded out and the credits rolled.

Alex, Maria and Max sat in a seemingly vacant movie theatre.

Max looked down at Maria, asleep, slumped against Alex's shoulder and smirked. "She wakes us up in the middle of the night to see a late night screening of Casablanca and then falls asleep during it"

"It's the DeLuca way" Alex responded.

"Who's going to wake her?"

"I like to think I live dangerously" Alex began as he started to shake Maria awake.

She stirred and suddenly woke, sat up, wide-eyed, and in the process managed to slap Max in the nose.

Tears began to swell in his eyes as he grabbed his face, and a muffled "Ow" was heard. Alex bit back a laugh as Maria asked, "What happened to you?"

Max peered over his hand with a curious look, "You hit me in the nose"

"Oh my God Max, I am so sorry" her hands began to flutter about in worry and finally landed on her face "How bad is it?"

"It'll be fine." He quickly healed his nose before it had a chance to swell and offered Maria a weak smile.

"Good" she sighed.

Alex stood up and turning to Maria said, "Come on, Slugger. It's time for me to take you home"

With a glare Maria stood as well "Very funny Alex"

Max let out a chuckle as he led them out to the aisle. The three exited the movie theatre, not knowing that someone else had been in the back the whole time, and had just slipped out before Maria's last comment.

"This was an interesting way to start the summer" Max said as they walked into the theatre's parking lot.

"Tomorrow will be better Max" Maria said trying to fill her friend with hope, hope she didn't have herself.

"Yeah," Alex added as he opened his car door, "Maybe tomorrow she won't hit you"

"Something to look forward to" Max said with a smile and climbed into his jeep. "Bye guys"

"Bye Max" Maria said as she got into Alex's car.

"Later!" Alex called before he sunk into the driver's seat.

They pulled out of the parking lot and drove down the street. "I don't think we cheered him up much" Maria said, with a smile plastered on her face.

Alex was tempted to say how he just wanted to try and cheer her up but instead nodded in agreement. "No, but we've got the whole summer"


"Will Smith Burger for you and Saturn Rings for you" Maria put down the orders and with a smile asked, "Is there anything else I can get you?"

The couple barely even shock their heads 'no' in response, they were too busy staring into in each others eyes, smiles wide on their faces.

"Great" Maria narrowed her eyes at the couple. 'Get a room' she thought to herself as she quickly went to get another set of orders. A large group of tourists had just gotten into Roswell, it being the first day of summer vacation, and the Crashdown was packed.

Throughout her shift the couple had sat in the same both not ordering anymore food just being gushy and basically mocking Maria, or so she thought.

Fifteen minutes before closing, Maria was standing behind the counter, elbows on table and face in hands gazing at the couple, who were completely oblivious to her. 'They do it on purpose' she scoffed as she inspected their matching 'Aliens are among us' baseball caps. 'Even geeks get to find love, and then use that love to rub it in everybody else's face'. She was so enthralled she didn't notice a pair of eyes watching her from outside or Alex enter from the back room.

He went to stand beside her and mimicked her stance, putting his head in his hands. "What are we doing at?"

Maria slowly looked over at him, "Oh," she said in slightly surprise "hey Alex." She turned back to the tourists "We're looking at the happy, alien obsessed couple, and basically feeling depressed"

Alex wrapped his arm around Maria. She took the comforting gesture but then stepped out of it and started scrubbing the tabletops. "No more," she stated, "I will not feel sorry for myself," she stopped scrubbing, leaned towards Alex and lowered her voice so the customers didn't hear "I mean, so what if a certain Czech won't return my phone calls, there's no reason for me to be bitter or jealous of Molder and Scully over there"

She silently went back to work putting up chairs and cleaning the tables as Alex sat down on a stool and sorted through the movies he brought.

"I love you Shnookypoo," the man murmured. "You're the best thing that ever happened to me"

"And I love you Shnookypie," the woman cooed back. "My life-"

Maria's harsh voice suddenly cut it "Could you two take the love fest someplace else. Can't you see we're trying to close?" she slammed down the chair she was putting up for emphasis.

The couple put down their money and with surprised looks left the restaurant. Watching them go Alex asked, "So you're not going to be bitter or jealous?"

"I'm trying to take it one step at a time"

"Fair enough" he nodded putting, what he assumed used to be one of Maria's favorite movies 'Out of Africa', at the bottom of the pile, and picked up 'Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom' instead. "What do you say we go grab Max and cue this bad boy up?"

Maria turned from locking the Crashdown up with an appreciative smile. "Sounds great, let's go".


Alex ducked as a pillow flew past his head and hit the TV.

"Indiana is such a…a…a…man!' Maria finally let out. "Look at this game he's playing with the blond chick!"

Max and Alex shared a knowing look. Max leaned over and paused the movie. "Maybe we should watch something else?"

Alex quickly shuffled through the movies and with a frown said, "I don't think I brought anything that's…appropriate"

Maria ignored their conversation and continued with her musings "Doesn't he remind you of Michael? Just look at that smirk, jackass." Maria began to twirl her short hair absent mindedly as she glowered at the screen "He's forcing her to touch this gross bugs and then go through the whole 'human sacrifice' thing and for what? In the third one he just ends up with some other girl! Probably does care about her at all", Maria's eyes began to swell, "Just using her. That's all he's doing"

"Maria…"Alex began but she cut him off wiping her eyes.

"Put in the next movie, I'll be fine" she sniffed and rubbed her eyes one last time "and pass me the pillow"


A/N: So that's the first chapter. Hope you enjoyed it.