Collision 4

"Max?" Isabel whispered tearfully, her eyebrows wrinkled in confusion. There was sadness in her eyes. Tears invaded them as she made her way towards him.

Ella ran behind him, peeking cautiously around his waist. "Who's that daddy?" she interrupted.

"That... is Isabel," Max said affectionately as he looked between them. His eyes blurred with tears as Isabel threw her arms around him.

"Hi," Ella smiled up shyly at her aunt.

"Ella...," Max chuckled at her shyness.

"Hello all," Chloe-Beth curtsied. "I'm Chloe-Beth," she grinned excitedly. "That's Ella" she pointed at her twin.

"Hi," Isabel giggled at her excitement. Her eyes were wet with tears- nevertheless she was smiling.

"Did you just curtsy?" Michael laughed.

"Maybe we should get out of here," Max said worriedly as he looked around them.

"Yeah," Liz breathed when he placed a chaste kiss on her lips. "I mean- we should," she said more clearly.

"So, you all live in California," Isabel asked as they made their way out the Pier.

"Only recently," Liz said as she reached for Ella's hand. "We attended University in New York. But decided to settle here so Max could start his residency."

"Daddy, my feet don't feel so good" Chloe-Beth pouted as she tugged on her daddy's hand.

"It doesn't?" he pretended to act shocked.

"No daddy, it hurts weeely bad," She exaggerated.

"Well why don't I pick you up for now and when we get home daddy will make it all better, okay?"

"Okay daddy, that's all I ask because it weeely hurts" she pouted prettily.

"Come here," he laughed as he picked her up.
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"I'm going to put the girls down for a nap," Liz said as they walked through the foyer of their estate. "Say bye-bye to daddy," she whispered to a sleepy Ella.

"Bye-bye daddy," Ella yawned.

"I'll come with you," Max said when Liz reached for sleeping beauty. "I have to heal the princess's feet, remember?" He chuckled as he stared down at Chloe-Beth, wrapped in his arms.

"Because they weeely weeely hurt," Liz teased fondly as she kissed Chloe-Beth's forehead.
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"This place is gorgeous" Isabel complemented as she gazed out the large bay windows of Max and Liz's beachfront home. It was surrounded by deliciously beautiful turquoise water and palm trees. It felt freeing while at the same time secure. It had an aura of magic all around it. "I love how you can see the water from here."

This was the way the conversation went for a while; long silences filled with even longer pauses. Isabel was just on the verge of turning 17 the last time she laid eyes on her brother."Where were you? Why did you leave?" All of those questions seemed so empty. And now here they were after all these years.

"What happened back there," Michael wondered confused.

"I actually have no idea," Isabel thought out loud. "I walked into Langley Productions to make the appointment..."

"When she saw me" Liz finished for her. "But I saw someone," she remembered.

"You saw someone else?" Max asked.

"I saw you. Except, it wasn't you, and he was talking to Tess."

"That's absurd," Tess dismissed her words.

"It wasn't Tess," Isabel corrected. "Her name Is Ava. That is why we're here."

"I don't understand," Max said.

"She's a model," Isabel inputted. "I came across a photo of her in Vanity Fair."

"In what?" Max asked thoroughly confused.

"Its a Fashion Magazine Sweetie," Liz clarified.

"It's much more than that," Tess rolled her eyes.

"The point is," Michael Interrupted. "She looks like Tess."

"An exact replica," Liz confirmed. "It's no coincidence that there are two duplicates. We have to go back."