Title: AfterShock
Author: Caroline
Email: [email protected]
Disclaimer: no money is being made, don't sue
Spoilers: I don't think there are any, if so, oh well, deal
Category: mostly Max and Liz but also M/M
Rating: PG as usual.
Summary: umm, Maria and Liz went to the Carribean over summer vacation
together, have things changed??
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After being out in the desert for several hours, ok well practically
all night long, Max had come home completley calm and serene. It seemed
he and God had a little one on one soul searching. He thought alot
about Liz, and what Liz did, and what he was going to do about it. He
loved Liz so much. But, all the damage she had caused. I mean, she
slept with another guy. A stranger who she will never see again. While
thinking a momen of clarity rushed through him. Suddenly he knew what
he needed to do.
After last night Michael didn't feel like going home to his drunked
foster father, Isabelle offered to to take him back to their home, but
Michael said he wanted to give Max his space until he cooled down. So
then Maria told Michael if he wanted to he could spend the night at her
place. "Only on a platonic level." She had said to him. He agreed.
Sunshine cracked through Maria's window. Maria awoke to find Michael
sleeping peacefully next to her. He was still in his jeans and t-shirt.
It took her a moment to remember why he was there, but she eventually
remembered. She took her pillow and wacked him right in the stomach to
wake him up.
"Ooophh." Michael exclaimed as the pillow wacked him. He sat up grabbed
the pillow from Maria and hit her over the head with it. "How do you
like being hit in the morning? Go back to sleep Maria, it's only, 9:00
God it's early, go to sleep." He demanded as he slumped back down on
his pillow and got comfy.
Maria looked apalled. "Early, Come on, let's go get something for
breakfast. Crashdown?" She asked going into her bathroom to get
dressed.
Michael opened one eyelid at the mention of food. "Yeah ok." He got up
slowly, arched his back to stretch and put his shoes on.
A few moments later Maria retrieved from the bathroom and her and
Michael began their drive to the popular Roswell restaraunt.
Isabelle woke up and walked around her house. "MAX? MOM? DAD?" She
sighed. "Oh super, nobody's home. Just great. Arg, there's nothing to
do. I wonder where Max is?" She said aloud.
Max enjoyed the sun shining on his shoulders as he walked down the
streets of Roswell, he was a man on a mission. Once he reached his
destination he climbed up the familiar ladder he had once climbed up
practically every day.
"Liz." Max said as he saw her writing in her journal with headphones
on. Also he back was turned to him. 'No wonder she didn't hear me come
up.' He thought to himself. 'God she looks a mess.' He felt bad knowing
why she looked that way.
Suddenly Liz started singing the words of the song still oblivious that
Max was there.
"How do you turn your eyes from a romantic glare How do you block the
sound of the voice you'd know anywhere (Jann Arden's Insensitive)
MAX?!" Liz finally looked around to see Max staring at her, with a
rather weird look on his face.
"Liz, um, Hi. Can we talk?" He asked seeing Liz get up and close her
window.
"Sure, Max go ahead." She found it really hard to look him in the eye.
He was like Medusa. She feared that by looking at him, her heart would
break once again knowing she couldn't just throw her arms around him
and let all the problems dissolve.
"Ok, please don't interruput me, because I don't want to repeat
myself." Max saw Liz nod.
Maria and Micheal walked into the Crashdown and a frantic Mrs. Parker
rushed over to them. "Oh Maria, have you seen Liz, I can't find her
anywhere, she's not here for her shift and I have to go do some errands
right away." "Mrs. Parker, go ahead I'll find Liz, go." They watched as
she ran out of the Crashdown while Maria grabbed Michael's hand and
rushed him upstairs to the Parker residence. They searched the grounds
until Maria spotted them through the window. She opened it a crack so
she could hear, luckily Max and Liz didn't notice her. Michael rushed
into the room and was about to say something when Maria silenced him.
She pointed to Liz and Max. They both listened to thier conversation.
"Sure" Liz said weakly.
"Ok," Max ran a hand through his hair and he took a deep breath. "Ok I
did some deep thinking these past few days, and especially last night
when I was out in the desert. I thought alot about what happened to you
over the summer, and to us all over the past few years. Saving you is
one thing I know I will never regret in my whole life. Being with you
is another. You hurt me alot by what you did Liz, more than I knew a
person could be hurt. But despite that I know I still love you, this
proves that nothing you could ever do could stop that. But I need
something from you." Liz looked at Max in a quizzical manner.
Michael and Maria entered the crashdown. Maria saw Liz's mom rush over
to her. "Maria! Have you seen Liz, I have to go and I can't find here,
she's not here for her shift."
Max continued. "Liz, I can always forgive you, But I can't forget, But
I need you to look me straight in the eye, and I need you to tell me
that what you did in the Carribean, that it meant absolutley nothing to
you, tell me that it was a complete mistake and if you had to do it
over again, you wouldn't have done it. I need to know you truly love
me. If we have any future together, you'll give me this." Max breathed.
'There I said it. It's up to her now.'
Liz walked a little closer to Max she looked at him directly in the
eye.. "Max, are you nuts? Of coarse if I had to do it over again that I
would NEVER had even gone with that guy, he's not you, nobody will ever
be you. I wouldn't have done it, and I do truly love you Max, that you
have to believe because its the truth, it's the only truth I've ever
known." Liz reluctantly looked at Max who was smiling at her.
"I think that's the best news I've heard yet." Max rushed over to her
and hugged her. He hugged her so much Liz thought she might burst, but
she loved it. Max gave her a simple kiss and returned hugging her.
A single tear of happiness rolled down Maria's cheeck. Michael rolled
his eyes at Maria's sappiness. After looking at Max and Liz she turned
to Michael and slapped him many times with her jacket while saying,
"Why-Can't-You-Act-Like-That-With-ME!?" Every word she slapped him
again.
Michael rubbed his now bruised shoulder while Maria dragged Michael out
of Liz's house, leaving Max and Liz embracing on the roof.
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