Excerpted From Chapter 17
"Why would they lie to me?" Liz asked and Max shook his head.
"I don't know," Max told her.
"I do," a male voice stated and they turned to see him standing in the doorway.
"Milton?" Max asked.
"Hey Evans," Milton grinned.
Excerpted From Chapter 17
Chapter 18"What are you doing here Milton? I thought you left," Max explained.
"Had some business to take care of," Milton told him.
"What do you mean, you know?" Liz asked.
"I know why your parents lied and I know which one of your parents isn't your parent," Milton told her as he came further into the house and sat down on the opposite couch.
"How?" Liz asked and Milton grinned.
"Max isn't the only little green alien running about," Milton teased, causing them to look at him like he had another head. "I'm your protector, Max or Zan, depending on what you liked to be called," Milton informed him and Max's jaw dropped open.
"You're a shape-shifter?" Max asked and Milton grinned as he shaped shifted in a familiar form.
"You're trespassing on private property, you better leave," he informed before shape – shifting himself back into Milton, as he did this, he pulled out a tub of tic-tac and popped one into his mouth.
"That was you?" Max asked. "How come you never told me?"
"Max, you were safe, I was watching from a distance to make sure that the F.B.I never got close, but of course that all changed when Naesco took Liz and basically handed you over to them on a silver platter," he muttered.
"That's why we never saw you after Max and I found one of the orbs, you left because Naseco was here," Liz told them and Milton nodded.
"Yes, because I believed you were safe, more fool me," he told her.
"Are there more of you?" Max asked.
"Three, Naesco, as you know; me and Kal Langley, who is currently in L.A at the moment, there was another one but she died," Milton explained.
"Naseco is dead, he was killed by the skins," Max explained and Milton nodded.
"She?" Liz asked, picking up on the last shape-shifter.
"Okay, Liz you are her daughter, your mother is the one who is not your real parents," Milton explained. "I'm sure you know Shelia Hubble?" he asked and Max paled as Liz shook her head.
"I knew her," Max told them and they both looked at him. "She was killed by Naseco, her husband thought I was the shape shifter who killed her," Max explained.
"She was a shape shifter, when I heard she was killed, I used the healing stones and healed her but it was too late for her daughter, she had died due to lack of oxygen. Something happened and Shelia ended up being a teenager again, she had no memories of being married or such. She went back to school only to end up dating a Jeff Parker, your father. She got pregnant, had you then she was killed in a car crash, your father was high. Your father lived while your mother didn't," Milton explained.
"That's why Shelia reminded me of Liz?" Max asked and Milton nodded.
"She looks so much of Shelia, it's not funny," Milton told her and Max sighed.
"Good thing Hubble hadn't seen Liz," he muttered. "He tried to kill me because he thought I was the shape shifter, I hate to see what he could have done to Liz because she looked like and is Shelia's daughter."
Liz looked at him. "What do you mean; tried to kill you?" Liz asked and Max looked at her.
"One thing, Shelia had a hell of a temper," Milton informed him with a small smirk.
"Well?" Liz asked.
"It was the week of the Convention, Hubble asked me for a ride under the pretence he needed papers, he took me to the place where Shelia was killed and pulled a gun on me, he was going to shoot me but Valenti got there and shot him first," Max explained and Liz stood up.
"Are you telling me that this just slipped your mind?" she asked.
"No, I just didn't want to worry you," Max explained.
"Oh, so you thought keeping this from would have made me worry less?" she asked. "What else have you been keeping from me?"
"Nothing, Liz…" Max started.
"Do you remember what you did on Valentine's night?" she asked and Max blanched as he scratched the back of his neck.
"Erm…" Max started and Liz threw up her hands.
"Are you telling me that you remember that night and didn't have the decency to tell me!" she demanded.
"It kept slipping from my mind!" Max protested and shut his mouth when he got a cold glare in his direction.
"It was the night you told me you loved me and it kept 'slipping' from your mind?" Liz asked, deadly, before shaking her head and looked at Milton, who was looking amused. "Will I get powers?" Liz asked and Milton nodded.
"Yes, but no shape shifting powers, you need to be fully alien for that," Milton told her. "Plus, with Max healing you, you'll get more," Milton explained before looking at Max. "Glad to see that your taste in strong willed women still runs strong," he told him and Max looked at him causing Milton to sigh. "What do you know about your past?"
"Erm, we're from a planet name Antar, Tess and I were married, Michael and Isabel were married, and we're expected to follow our destiny of begin together so we can free our people," Max told him and Milton was puzzled.
"Get together with each other?" Milton asked and Max nodded.
"Yes, Tess and I, Michael and Isabel," Max explained.
"Erm, no," Milton told them, causing them to look at him. "The queen was very specific that you were free to choose who you wished to be with," Milton explained and shook his head. "I don't understand how you came to believe you were meant to be together," Milton told them.
"The orbs," Max told him and Milton looked at him. "The orbs produced a image of our mother in human form, she told us."
"Hm, Curious," Milton stated before shaking his head. "As long you're all happy, then it's fine," he told them.
"What do you mean Max's taste is still strong?" Liz asked and Milton smiled fondly.
"Zan had a love on his planet, you remind me so much of her, she was beautiful and Zan loved her, she was very passionate and was very strong willed, she would argue with Zan if she didn't like something. She would have made Queen if she hasn't died," Milton explained.
"How did she die?" Max asked.
"She was killed, who by is anyone guess," Milton explained.
"How do I remind you of her?" Liz asked.
"Because you have the same aura, If I wasn't so sure, I would say that you got her soul but its impossible," Milton told her. "You do whatever it takes to protect the people you love," Milton told her and grinned. "Plus, you have a backbone," he informed, causing her to laugh and Max to roll his eyes.
"Just my luck," Max told him and got a thump in the arm for his trouble.
"Hey, you said you liked it when I get when I get protective," Liz told him and Max grinned, causing Liz to roll her eyes.
"What do you mean that it's impossible that Zan's love soul couldn't be in Liz?" Max asked. "Souls can transfer from plane to plane, it is possible that it could be Zan's love soul in Liz, it would make sense why I was attracted to her when I first laid eyes on her," Max explained and Milton looked at her.
"Maybe it is," Milton murmured. "It would make sense why I always felt her soul about," Milton stated.
"How did she and Zan meet?" Liz asked, curious and Milton grinned.
"Oh, she came to a ball that Zan's parents had arranged, Zan took one look at her and was besotted with her straight away. He asked her to dance and ever since then, they were inseparable," Milton told her.
"Sounds like a fairy tale," Liz whispered and Milton nodded.
"Zan was devastated when she died, she was murdered in their room as she slept, Zan had been held at a meeting and couldn't get there in time," Milton explained and Max stood up.
"Jesus," he hissed out, running a hand through his hair before shaking his head before looking at Milton once more.
"How the hell did he get married to Ava?" he asked and Milton shook his head.
"Zan's father pushed him to get married, it was two years after Lilly had been killed, Zan's father was dying and Zan needed to take over but in order to take over, he had to be married. Zan's father arranged the marriage, Zan went through with the marriage but refused to share a room with Ava let alone a bed, he stayed in the same room, slept in the same bed that Lilly shared and was killed in. He told me that it was the only time he felt close to her," Milton explained and Max slumped down on the couch, Liz reached out and grasped his hand.
"Did they ever suspect anyone?" Liz asked and Milton shook his head.
"No one could find anyone, everyone loved Lilly but there were rumours that Khivar had ordered a hit on Lilly, it was rumoured that he was in love with Lilly and decided to steal her away from Zan," Milton suggested.
"But I thought Khivar was in love with Vilandra? Isabel was told she betrayed Zan by handing us over to our enemies," Max explained.
"That was after Lilly was killed," Milton explained and Max nodded.
"That explains why the holograph referred Tess as your bride, you never got to consummated your marriage thus, she never got to be queen," Liz stated and Max looked at her before looking at Milton.
"We have some questions to ask you," Max told him and Milton nodded.
"That's what we're here for," Milton told him.
"Is it possible that I made Liz my queen?" Max asked and Milton sat back.
"It is, as Zan never actually accepted Ava nor consummated their marriage, she never got the seal. Have you two slept together?" he asked and they nodded, blushing together. "What happened after that?" he asked and Max thought about it.
"We can feel what the other is feeling, some times hear each other thoughts. Liz can help me with my powers, I can heal myself through her, like I had a scrape on my face, Liz place her hand over it and I placed mine over on top of hers and the scrape was healed. She strengthen my shield from the skins and she managed to astral project herself to me when I was in New York," Max explained and Milton nodded before it hit him.
"What on earth were you in New York for?" he demanded and he rolled his eyes.
"The dupes came to Roswell," Max told him and Milton stared at him, wide eyes.
"Damn, I thought they had died in the crash, I guess someone must have moved them," Milton told them.
"Zan is dead," Liz told him. "Rath and Lonnie conspired together and killed him. It turned out that Zan didn't want to go back to Antar, there was a summit being held and Zan refused to go, they killed him. They wanted to take Max but Max refused to go to the summit too so they went to Michael, Michael wanted to go home so he and Tess went without telling us and Max had to go and stop them," Liz explained and Milton rubbed his forehead.
"Why were they holding a summit?" he asked.
"Because Khivar sent Nicholas down, he said that Khivar would bring peace if I gave up the Granolith," Max told him and Milton looked at him. "Liz warned me not to give it up, that there's something about the Granolith which told her that it would have been dangerous if it was in the wrong hand," Max explained and Milton looked at Liz with a proud look on his face.
"Yes, that is true. I'm glad to see that you have retained some parts of Zan inside of you. The Granolith is a weapon; it can be used as anything, time travel, space travel, and a way to go home and such. In fact it can expand life expectance," Milton told them and they stared at him, shocked.
"No wonder the skins wanted it," Max muttered and Milton looked at him.
"You met up with the skins?" he demanded and Max muttered. "Jesus Christ! How the hell did you manage to escape them?" Milton asked.
"First time we met them was when we went up to copper summit, it turned out that Congress Whitaker was a skin," Max told him and he looked at him in disbelief. "Liz helped me to strength my shield and there was an explosion which allowed us to get away. The second time, they wiped out the humans. Liz stayed behind only to disappear then come back after we were captured. She drew on our powers and created a firestorm," Max explained and Milton looked at Liz once more.
"Jesus, it's like having Lilly all over again, that was her one of her main power, add in a few, like astral projection," Milton stated.
"What other powers do you think I will have?" Liz asked and Milton shrugged.
"I don't know, Lilly never got the chance to receive all of her powers as she died, in fact, none of them did. You will get more powers, as you get older. They'll come when you'll need them the most," Milton told them and Max nodded.
"I got my shield a couple of days before we went to copper summit and I had to use my powers to stop Michael and Isabel from killing Brody," Max told him and Milton raised an eyebrow. "It turns out that Brody has an alien artefact that I recognise and he gets possessed by an alien called Larek," Max explained and Milton nodded.
"I thought it was a little weird that he suddenly wanted to buy the UFO Centre," Milton murmured to himself.
"Yeah, it was the only way he could get in contact with me," Max explained and Milton nodded.
"Yeah, I understand that," Milton told him. Max looked back at his girlfriend and saw that was staring off into thin air and turned back to Milton.
"Can you give us time?" Max asked and Milton looked at Liz before nodding.
"Sure, here, I'm staying here," Milton, told him as he handed Max a piece of paper, Max took it and nodded. "Catch you later," he told them before leaving.
Max turned to his girlfriend before shifting so he was sitting right next to her and wrapped an arm around her shoulders before leaning them both back on the couch.
"Why would they lie to me?" she whispered and Max shook his head.
"Maybe they were scared of how you would react," Max suggested.
"I would have been happy to have a reason to why my mom couldn't connect with me," Liz muttered out bitterly and Max sighed as he kissed her forehead.
"What do you want to do?" Max asked and Liz looked at him.
"I want to see my dad, I need to hear it from his mouth," she told him and he looked down at her.
"Are you sure?" he asked and she nodded.
"Yeah, I need to be sure," Liz, told him and he nodded.
"Okay, now?" he asked and she nodded. He led the way out of the house and they got into the jeep.
Max pulled to a stop outside the Crashdown, he switched the engine off and they both just sat there, Liz looked at her dad, who was working. Max reached over and took her hand, causing her to look at him. "Whatever happens, you know I'll be right here," he told, she smiled as she nodded
"I know," she whispered as she turned to look at the Crashdown once more. Max climbed out of the jeep and rounded it; he helped her out of it and they both made their way into the Crashdown.
Max made his way over to the counter while Liz walked over to her dad.
"Hey Liz," Jeff greeted and Liz nodded.
"Can we talk?" she asked and he nodded. "In private," she explained and he nodded as he led the way into the backroom. Liz looked around first before looking at her dad. "I found out some things today and I just wanted to make it sure it's true before I do anything else about it," she told him and he nodded.
"Okay, what is it?" he asked. She took a deep breath before looking straight into her father's eyes.
"Dad, is it true that mom is not my mom?" Liz asked and Jeff looked at her before sighing.
"Yes, it is," Jeff, told her. "How did you know?"
"Max, believe it or not, he actually paid attention in Biology, he realised that my eyes were brown and asked me what colour were my grandparents and we found out that you were involved in a woman before mom and she died in a car crash after having a baby girl and came to the conclusion it was me," Liz admitted and Jeff closed his eyes.
"God, I never meant for you to find out this way, I tried to tell you but I couldn't find the words," Jeff admitted.
"Is it because I look like her, mom finds it hard to be close to me?" Liz asked and Jeff nodded.
"Yes Liz, you look so much like your mother it's amazing," Jeff told her. "Nancy tried to be close to you but she just couldn't bond with you properly."
"It's okay dad," Liz told him and he looked at her.
"You're not mad?" Jeff asked and Liz smiled sadly.
"No dad, I'm not, I'm just hurt that you didn't tell me though," she told him. "I just need a time to process it but I promise, I'm not mad," Liz told him and he nodded. "I gotta go, Max is waiting for me," she told him and left her father alone.
TBC