Outside Roswell

by lynsay

This story takes place almost a year later after the show Roswell ended. The story line is quite the same as the show and nothing is really changed except for one minor detail Tess didn't die from the explosion of the FBI building, she survives but has amnesia and loses her powers as well. I don't own the characters or the show Roswell; if I did it would still be on the air.

4. Chapter 3: Who's Tess?

Chapter 3: Who's Tess?

They all assumed that Tess died in the explosion even though there was no body found; they just thought that her body burned until there was nothing left. Tess entered the building knowing that she wouldn't ever come out again or so she thought. She burned the whole unit down to the ground taking all the evidence against them and the agents all with her. To start such a blaze, it took every ounce of her powers that she had.

Afterwards Tess was blown quite a ways free from the blast. She fell to the ground hoping that death would take her because she had nothing else to give. Even though Tess prayed for death it didn't come for her because life wasn't done with her yet. A few day later she woke up in some hospital in Boston. She didn't know how she got there; she didn't remember anything, not even her own name. No one knew who she was either, which is why they marked her down as a Jane Doe. Lucky for her that they didn't draw her blood because then they would realize that she wasn't human.

The doctors told her that she was found unconscious on the side of the road just outside of Roswell. There wasn't a mark on her; she only had a slight concussion. When they found her she was unconscious, at first they thought she might be dead but she had a weak pulse. She didn't wake up right away when she was brought in, it almost seemed like she didn't want to wake up.

The day that they were going to draw her blood she woke up and started screaming when she saw the needle. She didn't even know why she was screaming but needless to say they never did draw her blood. The minute that they realized she was awake the other doctors came rushing in and forgot about drawing her blood altogether. They all bombarded her with questions that she couldn't answer; which is how they figured out that she had no memories of anything.

Everything her whole life was just gone, she couldn't remember anything. The doctors told her that some hikers found her just outside Roswell, New Mexico, and they had brought her to the hospital, the doctors informed her that she had been there for a few days now. The only thing that had been on her was the clothes that she was wearing. The doctor gave them to her, hoping that it would jog her memory but it didn't.

She put the clothes on since it was the only thing that she owned to wear. She didn't have any shoes; she must have lost them somewhere. The hospital gave her some shoes. She didn't even know her own name but since the doctors called her Jane Doe, that is the name that she will use until she can figure out her real name. The hospital released her but she didn't have anywhere to go but she did have a clue. She was determined to find out her identity and where she came from. She had found an old newspaper clipping in her jeans it was from Roswell New Mexico, it was about a spaceship crashing in that town.

It seemed clear to her that she had been there before and she thought that by going there it might revive her lost memories. She wanted to fill in the missing pieces of her life and she hoped that going there would provide some answers that she was seeking. She didn't know it then but going to Roswell would only lead to more unanswered question. She would go there anyway in search of her long forgotten past.