A.N. Cole kind of took control in this part, he wanted Liz and he wanted her now! So he's going to be showing up a little sooner than I had planned. He was tired of waiting for me to decide when it was time. Now I'm sure all of you will just be upset about that ;) but when you have a deliciously hot demon threatening not strip for you anymore you tend to let him do what he wants with a story.

Also this chapter was going to be longer (the reason why it's taken so long to post) so I'm breaking chapter 9 up into 2 possibly 3 chapters.

Chapter 9

It didn't take her that long to get ready for her day out with her friends. She dressed simply not really wanting to get dressed up, it's her birthday, she's officially eighteen but there's a piece of her missing. Cole. Logically she knows she's only known him for a month but he's managed to heal her cracked heart and gave her the courage to love him and to accept his love.

These four weeks a part of her was being awakened, every fiber in her being was crying out to let loose and cease her hiding. What she was hiding, she had no idea, her fibers had told her that. All that was clear to her was the fact that she was concealing who she really is…even from herself.

Kyle was driving her, Maria, and Michael to the restaurant where they were having breakfast. Afterwards the plan is to the bowling alley and just make a day of having fun, they all needed to have a little fun. Hearing Maria ramble on about how good her bowling score has become Liz can't help but feel guilt over not telling her best friend everything that has been going on with her.

She told Maria about Cole and how important he has come to mean to her in such a short time but not about the weird occurrences that have happened since she's been back. Right in the middle of Maria's endearing babble Liz's phone rang.

Liz fishes it out of her pocket not bothering to check caller ID answering it. "Hello?"

"Happy Birthday baby. You're eighteen I'm coming to make you mine." Cole whispers to her, just the sound of his voice was enough to make her want to scream with pleasure. What was happening to her? Yes, his voice had turned her on before but nothing like this.

"Cole," She breathes out, not noticing Michael's eyebrow raise with confusion, "please." Not sure what she was begging him for, with him on the other end it could have been a myriad of things. Whether it was to not have him come or to hurry to Roswell was anybody's guess. Liz rubs her stomach and bites her lower lip, a fire shot through her belly warming her from her head to her toes.

Just a half an hour ago Cole had been dreaming an incredible dream, he and Liz were pledging their love in front of the members of the Council, Liz's father, and her belly was still slightly rounded by the birth of their child. That was the huge shocker of the dream, she was carrying his child, the dream confirmed it for him.

For the entire month Liz had left San Francisco he was drawn to her, he knew enough to know it couldn't have been her alone. Yes, she has a powerful pull and even if she wasn't pregnant he couldn't deny their connection and how he was drawn to her. However the child she was carrying was an extra link to her, which made the connection impossible to control or ignore.

"Today you will find things out about yourself that you've never thought possible," Cole knew that today was the day her father would bring her in on her demon heritage. "You're father won't approve of us being together, you and I both know that, but I can't stay away anymore."

"When…when will you be here?" Kyle now stopped at a stoplight, and Maria stare back at Liz. Their friend was short of breath and beads of sweat were forming on her tanned skin.

"Sooner than you might think." He tells her.

"Cole…"

"No, you know my true name. The name in the dream…Lakarisha." Silence followed his use of her true name, had he made a mistake and broke the news too soon, should he have waited till after her father told her about her demon family?

The dream Kyle shook her awake from couldn't be real could it? "Balthazar?" The oddity of the name raises the already spiked suspicions of the other three members in the car.

"Yes." He simply informs her. "I'll be there soon, there are last minute things I need to square away here before I leave for what I'm sure is going to be a long time, but I'll be there in an hour I promise."

"How can you get here that fast?" Liz's curiosity peaked, how could he travel from San Francisco to Roswell in an hour…less than an hour if he was finishing up some last minute loose ends.

"Trust me, I'll be there. Later tonight all your questions will be answered, you'll know why you never felt completely right in your own skin, why you've been have these dreams about me, us, our child. Everything." He assures her, tells her he loves her then hangs up.

Confused Liz turns off her phone and just stares at it for a few moments like it was a foreign object that she's never seen before. "This just got really freaky." She whispers. Lifting her gaze to her friends she tells them, "I think we better skip breakfast today. There's a lot I need to tell you guys." Child, Cole mentioned a child, her child with him. She's suspected for a few days now, queasiness, slight dizziness, and the dreams. Nothing would ever be the same again in her life.

Immediately Kyle changes direction and drives to the Michael's apartment, there no one would interrupt them and they wouldn't have to worry about anybody eavesdropping. Because the town is so small it didn't take too long to arrive at Michael's, he unlocks his door…with keys not powers, Michael let everyone in shutting the door behind Kyle. "Ok Liz, what's going on?" The group of four sits down in various places around the room.

"Kyle and Maria already know some of the story, Maria because I never could keep much of anything from her and Kyle because I kind of tried to kill Kyle this morning." She sheepishly lets them know.

"Well who hasn't wanted to maim Kyle at some point in knowing him." Maria teases her soon-to-be stepbrother.

Kyle glares at her and pushes her gently. "This was not just trying to maim Ria, this was claws and fire. Would have been cool if I wasn't being choked." He notices Liz frown and avert her eyes instantly he feels bad, "Liz, hey," he lifts her chin so she's looking at him. "I know you didn't do it on purpose, we're cool."

"I know, I just hate the fact that I did that, what kind of person am I if I can do that to someone?" She questions, pleading with her friends to tell her she is a good person and that trying to kill Kyle didn't reflect anything about her. She wanted to be reassured that she wasn't like Tess.

"You could never be like her Liz," Michael tells her, "she killed Alex, by accident yes, but I'm positive she knew what her powers could do over a long period of time." Even though Michael hardly if ever says much, when he does speak, the words that come out of his mouth instantly make her feel better.

Nodding Liz give a small smile to him and continues with what she was saying before. "Ok, I'll start from the beginning and then all of you can decide whether or not I'm crazy and should be placed in the Loony Bin."

For almost forty-five minutes Liz tells them everything, not leaving out anything. Well, ok, she didn't tell them everything, she made the intimate moments between her and Cole a nice shade of vague. Liz told them about her week in San Francisco, to the blackboard catching on fire, having icicles form from the flowing shower water, and more recently the dreams and how she thinks she's pregnant with Cole's child.

Her friends listened while everything was laid out on the table. When Liz finally took a deep breath signaling her completion of revealing secrets she sat down, it was like a weight had been lifted from her shoulders. Now her friends, the people she cared about most in her life, after her parents, knew everything.

Immediately Maria gathered Liz up in her arms and held her. "Oh honey, why didn't you tell us any of this sooner, I could have helped you through your problems."

"I thought I was crazy, and I didn't want all of you to think I was nuts or look at me like I was. Then I got thinking what if I'm not crazy and all this is real, how would three look at me then?" She admits.

Kyle wraps his arm around Liz's shoulder bringing her close to his side. "Liz we know about aliens hell we're even friends with one, and we have yet to commit him. What made you think we would have done that to you?"

Shrugging Liz speaks slowly, "Partly because I knew if I said all this out loud…it'd be real. Mostly because I know I'm not an alien, these occurrences are not alien powers, they're something else, I'm something else, I didn't want to admit that to anyone let alone myself." Liz chuckles, "I've won the prize in avoiding the personal issues."

"Not to mention she didn't have to tell you anything if she didn't want too." A deep voice familiar to Liz tells the group of four.

Michael stands, his arm shooting out; a flash of light emanating from his hand. Whoever this man was he wouldn't get the chance to rat on them, this man would be dead; he had to protect his family.

"Michael, NO!" Liz screams.

TBC