Just before Dawn, almost Saturday
The aliens stood around the glowing granolith. "This is it." Max said. "Everyone ready?" He asked. Michael stayed silent. Tess moaned. Isabel shook her head. "I'm not sure, this is goings o fast." She kept quiet after that, Michael rubbed her back. Max held Tess' hand, her nails had broken his skin and a small amount of blood trickled down his finger. He didn't flinch, or make a sound. Tess didn't even know that she had hurt him. She was so preoccupied with her own pain, to notice.
Liz and Maria lay in Maria's room, talking about how this day that they knew would come had indeed finally arrived. "I just can't believe they're leaving." Liz cried. "I love Michael, he can't leave." Maria cried. In the mists of their tears Liz stopped, she had an idea. "Tess said she tried to heal Alex in the early morning, right?" Liz sniffled. Maria sniffled with her. "Yeah, why?" Maria asked, sitting up with her. "Well, that's not possible, because Alex didn't get up until 12 in the afternoon. I called him, at noon and he was sleepy, he told me I had woken him up." Liz explained. "So?' Maria didn't get it. "Well if that's true than if Tess did heal him it had to be late, much later, like… oh, man, when he died, it matches the time, she killed Alex!" Liz screamed. Maria sat up. "Wait a second, are you sure about this! I mean, you've had a lot to drink, and you still love Max, I mean you could just be wanting this…" Maria suggested. "No, she did it!" Liz assured. They ran out to head for the granolith.
Outside the granolith
Liz, Maria, and Kyle, who Liz had insisted on picking up, all pounded in vain on the rock. "They can't hear us, it's no use!" Kyle yelled over the wind. "Do you feel that?" Liz asked, kneeling down and touching the ground. Maria shook her head no. "I do, I feel it!" Kyle exclaimed. "What the hell is that!" He asked, excited and worried all at once. "Um, that's great guys, but um, Liz, what's that?" Maria asked, backing away and pointing to the top of the rock. "Holy Shit!" Kyle backed away with Maria and Liz.
The top of the rock was forming a metal covering, metallic looking. It looked like liquid metal spilling forth from some kind of volcano. The rock that contained the aliens began to shake, the door opened. They three friends ran inside, and burst into the granolith chamber, just as Max was creating the door into their ship. "Stop!" Liz shouted. "Liz?" Max asked, angry. "Tess, Tess killed Alex, she did, and she lied to us, to our faces!" Liz announced. Max rolled his eyes, pushing the three intruders out. "Liz, what ever this is, you can never understand. I know Tess killed him, but there were circumstances, it wasn't a murder, she didn't KILL him." Max explained. "Your human, you'll never know, what it's like for us, we have to leave." Max said, ready to return. "I do, I'm not human, not anymore." Liz announced. "Or Kyle." Liz finished.
Max rolled his eyes. "No Liz, it's not it's just a change, your still human, it'll pass." Max assured. "No, Max, wait! Don't leave." Liz called. Max turned. "I love you!" She yelled. Max smiled. He grabbed her kissing her hard on the lips. "Liz, I'll always love you, but I'm still leaving." Max hugged her, then ran back into the granolith chamber. Michael and Isabel were already inside. Tess wasn't going to leave with out him. "Max!" She called. "I here, I'm here." He comforted. "Get in." He told her, opening the way. Tess disappeared, reappearing inside with Michael and Isabel. Max turned facing Kyle, Liz and Maria watching him. He entered. They all looked around.
Liz and the others ran outside, just in time to see the ship shoot off into space. It was gone. Liz hugged her friends. 'I'm sorry." She cried, realizing what she had put them through. Liz returns home to write in her diary, one last time.
Liz's Diary
"I'm Liz Parker, 16 hours ago, my true love, and his family left Roswell, forever. His name was Max, he saved my life, and in more ways then I can even care to count. I'm reminded of a poem, it's song really but the words and they mean so much to me. 'I don't want to call my friends, they might wake me from this dream, I can't leave this place risk forgetting all that's been, oh, I am what I am, I'll do what I want…' the next line says that they can't leave, but they did, so it doesn't matter, nothing does. See what most people knew about me and Max was that one-day we didn't know each other, the next we were inseparable. It confused just about everyone. But what they didn't know was one night, about a week before he and the others left. He came to me, through my window. He had, had a dream, he knew he was going to have to leave, leave me. I cried, like the sissy I am. He told me that he finally figured out why he could never choose between Tess and me. Neither of us would ever be happy with what they had in him, because he wasn't the same person. Half of him begged to be with me, the other pleaded to be with Tess. When I told him that he still needed to choose he told me. I'm sorry but you know I can't stay here. I'm not human, I'll never be human. I spent my entire life trying to run from that fact, not I have to face it. Liz, I'll always love you, you know that, but I'm can't be Max Evans, normal human boy anymore, I'm sorry.' Then he bent in and gave me a kiss, his goodbye kiss."
"I ran after him, calling out that I loved him. He turned around yelling something back, but I never made it out. Then as I watched his ship leave the earth I knew what he meant, when he said we would never be happy. I would have to live with half of him, something I could never do. Tess gets to have Zan back the love of her life. Max and her shared this weird connection. Even as I told him that she killed Alex, he couldn't bare to leave her. Sometimes I wonder what my life would be like, if Max had chosen me over her, sent her away. I guess now, I'll never know, they left and I never even got to tell him that, I loved him. So I suppose this is the end. I have a date, with Kyle. Our shared experience of alien healing has brought us together, now we have the strange connection."
Liz finally put her pen down. She smiled as she wrote the final words into her last diary. "The End" It was. The end of her journey, the end of her love for Max, although, in secret she'd always hope he'd come back to her.
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In New York
A busy political office, was the spotlight of news reporters. "Sir." A young politician's aid began. "Yes?" Senator James asked. "This came for you." The aid handed him a page. It was fax from their branch office in Roswell New Mexico. "The targets escaped, 72 hours ago. 42 hours ago, their was numerous reports of a UFO re-entering Roswell, New Mexico. They're back." Senator James looked up. "Get the head of the board on the phone, we have a code red."