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I have to first excuse myself for the time I took before updating but I am actually sick and I do enjoy and am able to write when I have enough energy so that' it! So I already have most of the plot done but I still have to put it black on white! (The hardest part in my opinion!) Anyway enough chit chat let's go back to our story! I hope that you will enjoy!


Chapter 3: Ending a chapter

Isabel surprised herself by waking up the next afternoon at one pm. She had slept sixteen hours without interruption. A first in her entire life! She refused to alarm herself and thought about the fact that she felt like that since the day they went to the cave and heard about their destiny. She wondered if the use of the communicator was the cause of it. She was stretching and thinking about what could be her plans for the day when Max knocked on her door. Without waiting for an answer, he entered.

"How are you doing?" he asked in a normal tone but his eyes were showing a great deal of anguish. Isabel rolled her eyes.

"I'm fine Max. Always have, always will. I'm no Liz, remember?"

"You're half human Isabel and you should remind yourself of that when you act like you're indestructible!" he mumbled.

"When have I ever done that?"Isabel replied, with a smile on her lips.

"You're my sister, the only one! A princess, no less, so it is an understatement to say that you're a precious spoiled person."Max teased her before taking his serious face again. "I'm worried about you Isabel. Yesterday you had dark circle and you slept 16 hours straight. That is not normal."

"Max, chill out! You said it yourself I'm half human so nothing wrong there."

"Yes only half and we, hybrids do not sleep so long. I maybe need to check up on you" he said while advancing his hand to her head to do so.

Isabel pushed him away before taking his hand and squeezing it.

"I'm fine, feeling great and everything. Stop it and go check on Liz!Give me some space."

"She is gone!" he said with a sad voice.

"She is on vacation Max, not gone. Listening to you, I would have thought that she was dead or moving away." Isabel complained.

"Don't speak about misfortunes please!"Max begged.

Isabel laughed and went under the shower. She felt revivified. Hearing Max talking about his loved one, she decided to see Alex. She hadn't spoken to him since 'the revelations' and even if she knew that Maria and Liz might have already briefed him about the entire details of everything, he had the right to hear it from her. She was quite apprehensive of how he was going to react. Their relationship has just begun to deepen into something of high potentials, but before giving it one chance, it has all vanished.

She opened her drawer and searched for something to wear. She wondered about the fact that even when having so much choice on clothes; she still couldn't find anything for what she was going to do. If there was one constant about her life, it has been her need of normalcy. She had always looked for it. She had played the game of the perfect human alien in every part of her life. She had been a cheerleader, had some acquaintances with the girls of her class since she wasn't able to have more. She had invested her time in associations and took an active part in school events. The last step was to build a relationship with a human boy and after debating about it with herself for a long time, she had decided to give Alex a chance, to let him in, to see her for who she really was. Now that she had realized that no matter how hard she would push herself toward normalcy, she would never achieve it, she had to admit that the only feeling she had for Alex was a strong friendship. No matter on which side she looked at it, no matter how nice he was with her, she couldn't make her heart beat faster seeing him, make her ached for him when he kissed her or missed him like crazy when he wasn't around.

She had accepted that one way or another she was going to hurt him and it seemed to her that it would be less painful if she was completely honest with him now than later. Isabel felt her inside getting all over the place with apprehension but she felt like she had to do it.

All in black as if she was attending a funeral, Isabel knocked on Alex door' house. Her heart was furiously beating and every pore of her skin seemed to be busy to make her perspiring. The sooner would be the better, Isabel thought. She took a deep breath and knocked once more. She heard Alex voice screaming two minutes but he seemed far away from opening it. She moved her hand to change the molecular structure of the door but she didn't know if his parents were there or not so she simply waited. Finally, Alex opened the door; He was covered by sweat, his shirt was grounding his body and his legs were half uncovered thanks to his Capri pants. Without being all muscles, Alex body sure had his advantage.

"Isabel? What are you doing here?" he exclaimed, visibly surprised to see her in front of his threshold.

"Do I need a reason to come visit you?"

"No, no, of course not! I was just surprised... you know ...since we didn't have any exchange since ...you know." He tried to explain.

"Do I disturb you? What were you doing?"Isabel asked a bit of impatience being heard in her voice.

"Some re-organisations in my room! Nothing extraordinary!" he replied; there was a silence and he invited her to enter.

"Do you want something to drink? I don't have anything fancy, just the basics."

"I would just like some water please." She answered following him in his kitchen.

"So what's new?"

"Hum...just the usual...Max being a stalker, Michael being..." she began before being interrupted by Alex.

"Let's not talk about him shall we? Maria is completely damaged because of him. She might have spent all her salary in tissue."

"How is she coping with all ...that?"

"She is struggling to get over him but it isn't easy for her. She is really in love with him you know." Alex said looking straight into her eyes like if he was trying to look as deep as possible in her.

"It's not easy for him also." She wanted to defend him.

"Did he say so? Is he regretting to put her into this?"He frowned while asking.

"No but it's Michael you know and..."

"Stop making yourself his defender. The truth is that there are no excuses. Just because he is Michael doesn't mean that we should kiss the ground he walks on."

"That is not what I have said. You're right it is better if we don't talk about him."

"No. I want to know. What do you think is the possible excuse for his behaviour? I'm curious."

Isabel didn't like the tone that Alex was using. It was like he was taking a hundredth steps back in their relationship. It looked like it was again team human against team alien. Alex was also very protective of Liz and Maria so she chose to not use the same tone he was using and to calm down the atmosphere which was being electric.

"I just want you to know that we also are lost in all of it. This situation is affecting each of us in ways that we didn't expect to. The Peerce situation and everything that follow has let us weaker emotionally. We have to take into consideration new parameters."

"Oh you mean like you being with Michael, and I mean by that like a couple." He ironically asked.

"No I mean the fact that he killed someone Alex. We have power but we never have to use it against someone. We never lost someone and were close to. Please Alex why don't you try to understand? We are the target; the enemy and now an entire civilisation destiny are on our shoulders. And as if it wasn't enough, now, we also have to be in constant alert about other alien who want us in one way or another." Isabel spoke and felt herself freeze as she was thinking. Saying it aloud make it so much more terrifying. She brushed her hand against her arms as if she needed warmth in the forty degree Celsius of New Mexico.

"I know Isabel but it is difficult for us too."

"I think that it is better for us to break up!"

"What? How did we go from Maria and Michael from us being apart?"

"You just said it! It is difficult for you too and it will be less..."

"Don't! Don't even try Isabel. You said that like ...like you just thought about it right now, like what I said was the reason of you wanting to break up with me. How can you? How dare you put that on my behalf when we both know that the only reason you came here was to terminate our chance of being together?"Alex lost his temper.

"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have accepted it way back then!"

"We are not Maria and Michael nor Max and Liz! We didn't rush into this, we use our brain, and there is no reason for us to end it like that. Think about it Iz!"

"I'm sorry!"

"That's not enough! Why don't you give me five good reasons, just five Isabel? If you can give those five then I will reconsider it!"

"No Alex. We could try this relation if we had at least five good reasons to continue it! There is no chance for us to be happy together. There is a time when you have to admit that you cannot fight fate."

"Fate? Really?"

"I know now why I'm here Alex. I am not going to just ignore it. I don't even know how long I will be here!"

"Here?"

"Yes Alex! Here in Roswell, here in New Mexico, here like here on earth."

"So, you're just gonna abandon, let it go after all we've been through?"

"There are no other options, I don't want you to get hurt or worse."

"That is my decision to make Isabel, not yours. I have always said to you that I'm willing to go as far as possible with you no matter what difficulties we might have to go through. You're the only one who has no faith in us. I can't make it work alone."

From there on, the tension builds up and old resentment came back in Alex mind. Before realizing it, he was shouting so much that people from the street could hear all complains and deception he had had with her. Never Isabel and Alex have had such a big fight. Most of the time Alex was compromising but he might have sensed that this time there were no coming back. All the fury kept inside just escape as a gas which has been containing in a pressurized bottle.

Alex convinced that they were master of their own life couldn't accept her acceptation of her future being planned out for her. More than anything he insisted on the fact that she did not have to go to Michael or to follow the expectations of her family. He kept on repeating that she was choosing the easy way, that she was not even giving their relation a try. He continued by adding that she was incapable of opening herself to someone else in a real relationship. Things just got worse when he predicted that she will finish alone with no one wishing to even try to see behind all her walls.

His monologue let Isabel shocked and speechless. She hadn't previewed it to go so far. She realized that she was both losing her friend and her boyfriend. She find her voice back to tell him that she was conscious that her future might not be with Mike but that one thing was sure, it was not going to be with him either.

She went home with her spirit down to find her mom looking to their family albums in which were pictures of Max and her young. She questioned Isabel again about what she did remember from her past and how often she thinks about it. Isabel tried to lie but her mother kept on repeating that she needed to know her past because it is essential to build her future. No matter how hard she says that she didn't want to talk about it, on how terrible it make her feel, it changed nothing. She felt powerless and focus on it through the night. She couldn't sleep at all.

When the sun rise again on the next day, Isabel decided to spend time with Mike. It was some time since they hadn't watched some DVD and spent some quality time together. When she arrived at Mike home he was not there so she cleaned up, did some extra shopping and cooked him an enormous real lunch. While she was waiting for him, she left exhausted and sit down on the coach which was also Mike's bed. His smell was everywhere, so strong and appeasing in some ways. She breathed deeply and it put her at ease. Soon she was sleepy and then falls asleep.


End of chapter 3! So how did you like it! Next one will be strange but I like it like that! Lol! Review please!