Chapter 31 The Abductions

Santa Fe / New Mexico 1982

Diane Evans was sitting in her little garden in front of her house and took care of her flowers. It was such a nice day and she didn´t want to waste it indoors. Usually she was at work at this time, but this morning she didn´t feel to well and her husband told her to stay at home. Thank god that she could do that without problems, because she was married to the boss for three years now and he was the reason for her illness. He was the one who got her pregnant four months ago in the first place. The doctor told them a few days ago that it would be twins, a girl and a boy. Philip was so excited and listed all the things they needed and what had to be done until they would be born. Diane wiped the sweat from her face and brushed her blonde hair from her forehead. Slowly it was getting warmer and the work was more straining than before. Shortly she looked back to the house. It had been a gift from their parents when they tied the bond and they had loved it. But now they were looking for something bigger, because of the increase of their family. Philip searched after something, when he didn´t sit in his office and worked at a new case. As a lawer he hadn´t much to do in this town, but he inherited the company from his father a few years ago and he didn´t want to offend him in any way. For days now he looked up every offer for a nice, big house in their price range. Althrough they both were working and their parents would surely give them money if they wanted it, they wanted to save as much as they could for their children. They should grow up with everything they needed and shouldn´t go without something. Diane and Philip wanted to give their kids a good education and the option to be whatever they wanted like them. They both went to law school and made their exam there. Philip was in his second last year and Diane in her second year when they meet at a party of her parents. Strange, they went by each other every day, but they didn´t notice the other until that evening. They talked all night about everything and nothing. Three years later they were married and now they had two children on the way. Diane had at her age of 26 everything she wanted. Life was starting to get really good. With that thought she draw her attention to her flowers again. Just as she wanted to stand up to get more water, a bright light blinded her. Within seconds she felt kinda dizzy and her stomach did flip flop. After that she lost her consciousness. When she came around again, she felt someone shaking her and calling her name. Carefully she opened her eyes and glanced in the horrified face of her husband, which was frantically trying to get a reaction out of his wife.

" Oh thank go, you´re awake", Philip embraced her relieved. He just came home and found her lying lifelessly on the ground. He had been on the brink to call an ambulance.

Diane watched her surroundings and noticed that the sun were in the process to go down. What happened? How long had she been out cold? " What time is it?".

Philip released his wife and saw into her eyes. She seemed to be pretty confused at the moment. Why did she ask about the time? " Just after six".

" What? The last time a took a look at my watch it was shortly after three", she couldn´t have been unconsciouness for three hours? And why did nobody notice her lying there? Someone had to have seen her.

Philip got slowly worried. Maybe something was wrong with the babies. But her doctor had told them just a few days ago that everything went smoothly and they shouldn´t worry. " I should bring you into the hospital. Just to be sure".

" Yeah. I think that´s a good idea", Diane didn´t want to take chances with the life of her children. It was better to be safe than sorry.

Philip carefully helped his wife on her feet and supported her until they arrived at the car. Slowly he sat her into it and went around to the driver side. Then he drove in the direction of the hospital.

Roswell / New Mexico at the same time

Amy Valenti, a pregnant young woman with dark brown hair and brown eyes, walked along the sidewalk through the mainstreet with two shopping bags in her hands. It was slowly getting dark and she hurried as much as her weakening legs would carry her. She was in her sixth month now and her belly looked a bit out of the picture. She was a pretty petite woman and now she looked like she swallowed a bowling ball. She couldn´t wait for their twins to be born, because then she could finally see her feet again and her back would stop paining her. Her husband Jim had been so excited to hear that they would get a boy and a girl. They both were so happy when they found out that she was pregnant, just half a year after they married. Althrough Amy was still young, she got 20 a few month ago, she wasn´t scared to bring this children in this world. They were the prove of the love she shared with her husband. What could be scary at it? A few days ago she and Jim brought their first house. It wasn´t big or even the most beautiful building, but it was theirs and she loved it. They were still in the process to decorate a few rooms and fix the important things in the house, but her husband promised that everything would be set before the children would be born. He worked every minute he wasn´t in the sheriff department as deputy on repairing or painting. It was so cute to watch him when he tried to put a nail into a wall and he hit beneath it. Sometimes he hit a spot he just repaired or his thump and he cursed that even a sailor would get red ears from it. But even with all this cursing and the hard work, he didn´t want help. He refused the offer from his father to help him. He wanted to do everything by himself, because it was his house and he would fix it with his own hands. That was the reason why she fell in love with him four years ago, when he arrested her for underaged drinking at a rave. Back then he was still a newbie at the sheriff station, just fresh out of the police academy. It was his second day at work and the sheriff told him he should check the soap factory, which got closed a few months ago because of bankrupt. And there he discovered a illegally party with hundreds of underaged people. Immediately when he set a foot into the building the kids got scared and tried to get the hell out of there. And because Jim didn´t have any backup at the moment he just could get his hands on one of them, namely Amy, which was searching for her friends in the crowd. Of course she didn´t find them, instead she found herself hauled into a police car, but not without trying to talk her way out of it and she even used her charme to do that and staying the night in a cold, smelly cell with a drunken man and a purse robber. Thankfully Jim treated her really nice after he noticed that she got quite and even brought her something to eat and to drink. He noticed her discomfort and talked to her until her parents came and got her out of there. Since that day they both spent much time together and althrough their parents weren´t delighted about their relationship, because Amy was just 16 and Jim already 22, they managed everything. Amy didn´t go to college like her parents told her and she worked now at a shop which sold alien items and such strange things. No wonder in a town where aliens should have landed in 1947. Amy didn´t believe that and she didn´t think that there were other worlds up there. It was all just a rumor to pull the money out of the pockets from dumb people who believed that crap, nothing more. Suddenly a bright light threw her out of her thoughts. Startled she let her shopping bags drop to the ground and looked hypnotised into the blinding light. Within seconds she crashed to the ground and darkness engulfed her. Hours later she opened her eyes again and the first things she saw was the face of her husband. His blue eyes looked worried and scared at her. Slowly Amy surveyed her surroundings and noticed the white walls around her. Confused she faced Jim again.

" Where am I?".

Jim, who was still in his deputy uniform, bent forward and stroked her cheek. Finally the colour had returned to them and she looked better again. He had been scared of losing his family. But now he was relieved that she was awake. " You´re in the hospital, honey. Jeff Parker found you laying on the sidewalk and he immediately called an ambulance and after that me", it was the worst phone call he ever received in his life and he broke every law coming here. " Can you remember what happened?".

Amy shook her head. Everything was still fuzzy in her brain. She just remembered that light and after that everything was blank. She probably just fainted. She hadn´t felt alright the whole day and she shouldn´t have walked all the way. " I was on my way home. I went to the grocery shop and brought a few things. When I walked back I saw this bright light and then everythings after that is gone".

" It´s alright. I´m just glad that nothing happened to you", Jim kissed the forehead of his wife. He talked to a doctor and he told him that it wasn´t unusual for a woman to faint in her pregnancy. But she should rest more from now on and avoid every kind of stress.

Suddenly Amy got a worried expression on her face. " What about the babies? Are they alright?".

Jim smiled at her. The doctor said they weren´t harmed in any way. Everything was going like expected. " Don´t worry. Their fine. Strong and healthy like their father".

" Thank God", Amy rubbed her round belly. She couldn´t have beared the thought of losing them, because she wasn´t careful enough. " When can I get out of here? The smell makes me kinda sick".

" I´ll ask the doctor and if he gives his ok, we´ll leave", Jim kissed his wife again and then stood up to look for someone. Before he went out the door he turned to her once more. " Don´t ever do that to me again".

Amy laughed about that. He didn´t have to worry about that anymore. Everything would go different from now on. " I promise".

With a last smile Jim made his way out of the room.

Tucson / Arizona around noon

Cindy Adams just stepped into her bedroom after a hard shopping tour through the baby stores. Relieved she kicked her sandals from her feet and let herself slump on the armchair near the window. Before she got pregnant she enjoyed to walk all day long around the mall and try on new clothes or just look through the newest collection of jewellery. But now that she was in her seventh month she couldn´t stand on her feet that long anymore and every minute she had to find a restroom, because her bladder went crazy. Furthermore she didn´t fit in the nice dresses she saw and it was a reminder that she looked like a watermelon now. Alright she was pregnant, but why couldn´t the designer make something for expecting women? Was it too much to ask to create beautiful clothes for pregnant woman? It was bad enough that they got thicker, their feets swelled like waterballons and their backs hurt like hell. But than to look in the mirror and see the tent you had one was depressing. Cindy rubbed her round belly. She loved her children, yes it were two of it, which grew under her heart, there was no doubt about it. But she was glad when they came out and her body turned into its normal form. She watched out of the window and eyed the nice weather there. Usually when she wasn´t in college, she would sit in her deckchair at the big pool and relax with a good book. However she didn´t like the stare she got from the attentands when she walked by with her huge belly and therefore wanted to avoid that they would see her in a bathing suit and stare more. So now she enjoyed the weather from her bedroom and waited till her husband Jason came home from work. He was a employee in the company of her father, which was the supplier of piece parts for many big known car manufacturer. Her father owned nothing when he started his business thirty years ago. Nothing except for his knowledge and his strong will to make something of his life. And now he was one of the richest persons in the USA. Despite his awefully fortune he was actually pretty normal. But that was probably because of her mother, which grew up on a farm and wasn´t used to have so much money. She always told that it wasn´t wise to spend so much for things, which in her eyes were unnecessary. However sometimes her father gave her money for expensive clothes behind her mothers back and she went immediately to the mall. One of these days she meet her husband. She was just on her way to her car, pretty busy to eye her new ring she just brought, when a honk threw her out of her happy mood. She looked to the owner the expensive car, which had nothing better to do than to disturb her and showed him her middlefinger. The man behind the wheel hit her back with a nasty word and after that it grew to a hefty argument. The end of it all was that he asked about a date with him. That was two and a half year ago. Now they were married for a half year and were expecting twins in two months. Cindy was thrown out of her thoughts when she heard her stomach growl. Her babies were hungry. Slowly she stood up from her arm chair and got in a standing position. But then she felt dizzy and the room around her began to disappear. The last thing she noticed before she fainted, was a bright light shining in her eyes.

" Honey. Wake up. I´m home".

Cindy opened her eyes and stared at the smiling face of her husband. Confused she looked around her and tried to remember what happened. She was sitting in the arm chair again. Hadn´t she left it to go down into the kitchen? " You´re early".

Jason kneeled in front of his wife. Something was wrong, he could see it in her eyes. Carefully he brushed her light brown hair out of her face. " Is everything alright? Don´t you feel well?".

" It´s nothing", Cindy was scared to tell her husband about her thoughts. He would think she went loco. " How was your day?".

Jason wasn´t so convienced that it was nothing. But he knew that she wouldn´t tell him anything if he pushed her. So he stood up and offered her his hand. " I´ll tell you that later. Now I´m hungry".

Cindy took the help from her husband and together they made their way downstairs. But she couldn´t shake the feeling that something happened with her.

That evening near Roswell

Two Teenage boys were sitting on their motorbikes in the middle of the desert. They often meet there to talk or to race against each other. They wore their helmet still on their heads and were prepared to have a race. Like always they made a big show before they began. They pushed their machines to their limits without moving them. The sand under their tires flew around and a huge dustcloud developed from that. Just before they wanted to take the hand from the brake, something brightly flew directly over their heads. Startled they noticed that it was in the process to land somewhere near them. It didn´t look like a airplane or a helicopter. Scared they stepped on the gas and drove back to town.

That night the sheriff department was bombarded with phone calls about aliens landing in the desert.

TBC