Title: If They Only Knew
Author: Jenn
The Disclaimer & Such: Sadly *sniffle* I do not own Roswell or any of
its characters. Max, Liz & co. belong to Melinda Metz & the United
Paramount Network (You lucky people). All other characters in the story are
mine. But if I had my way I would definitely own Jason Behr ;)~~ ok that's
enuff I'm getting carried away. On with the show.
Rating: R ~ For situations and language
Category: Would you expect anything else? M/L mostly but the gang's
all there. Hey I’m a total Dreamgirl!!
Summary: For three and a half years, Elizabeth Parker has kept a
dark secret from her friends. The real question is if her friends knew her
secret would they all still love her?
Author’s Note:This is a Tess-free Alterna-Roswell. Let’s pretend that
they rescued Max and things went back to what they consider to be normal.
Nasedo did replace Pierce but little Miss Homewrecker Harding died in a car
accident a few years back so technically their destinies don’t exist anymore.
This story takes place towards the end of their junior year (April-May).
Feedback: Greatly appreciated.......I know I still haven’t finished “My
Ain’t That Just An Interesting Twist of Fate” yet but I got the inspiration
for this one and felt compelled to write it. I hope you like it.
Now on to your regularly scheduled fanfic.................
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Part 7 (My Lover’s Gone...)
As Isabel finished packing clothes for her and Max, she could have sworn
that she heard muffled sobs coming from Max’s room. So she decided to go
check on him.
Max’s Room
Max was laying on his bed openly sobbing when he heard someone knock on
the door. Isabel poked her head in the room. He scrambled off the floor and
hastily wiped his eyes.
As she watched her brother, Isabel felt a pain in heart. ‘He’s supposed to
be my rock. Look at him now. He’s a wreck without Liz.’ “Max you
okay?”
He looked Isabel dead in the eyes. “No.” ‘Would you be if you were me?’
His silent question went unvoiced.
I didn’t think so.’ “Do you wanna talk about it?” ‘Say yes. Please say
yes.’
“Yes and no.”
‘Hello. Confused here!?!’ “Which is it? I asked a yes or no question.
There’s no in between. You only have one choice.” She declared
impatiently.
He threw her a look of both amusement and contempt at her little outburst.
“Sorry I’m just a little impatient.”
“Yeah I noticed.” ”But why? What reason do you have to be impatient huh?
You didn’t lose the love of your life over your own stupidity. Did
you?’
He sat down on the bed and looked out the window. ’Oh but that’s
right...You don’t know that I know what really happened to Liz.’
They sat in silence for a few minutes. Isabel finally spoke up.
“Max?”
“Huh? What?”
“Do you wanna talk about it?”
“Yeah, I guess I do.” She noticed him staring at a picture of him and Liz
from when the six of them went to Florida. A lone tear fell down his
cheek.
She sat down on the bed next to him and looked at all the pictures of the six
of them (But mostly Liz.) he had around his window. “So...”
“Izzy I’m gonna cut to the chase.”
“Huh?”‘Hello. Confused here.’
“I know.” The tears once again flowed freely.
“You know what?” ’Yeah, like playing dumb will help the situation at
all.’
‘So she’s playing dumb. I see how it is.’ “Iz, seriously, the dumb blonde
act doesn’t suit you. I know that Liz was raped.”
She started crying too. “I’m so sorry Max.” She hugged him
fiercely.
“Why her Iz? She’s too good a person.”
“I don’t know Max. I just don’t know.”
“We were so horrible to her.” ‘I was the worst of all.’
“I know. But we can make up for it.”
“And how do you propose we do that? By going back in time? Begging for
forgiveness? What Iz? Tell me.” There’s nothing we can really do.’
‘To tell or not to tell? That’s the big question.’ “She’ll understand
Max.”
“No I don’t think she will.”
“Why?”
“Ummm....I....uh....” ’Now might be a good time to tell her I can dreamwalk
now.’
“Max?”
“Idreamwalkedher.”
“You what!?!” ‘He can dreamwalk?’ “You can dreamwalk? Since
when?”
“I don’t know really. I guess I did it for the first time when I dreamwalked
Liz.”
“Why though? You always told me that’s an invasion of privacy.” ‘Let me
guess it’s another one of his double standards.’
“Because, I noticed that all week she’s been having nightmares.” Isabel
opened her mouth to say something but he beat her to it. “Before you say
anything, I’ve been sneaking out every night and paying Liz a visit.”
“Still doesn’t answer my question.”
“She kept waking up screaming.”
“Oh I see. So you took it upon yourself to invade her dreams and find out
what was wrong.”
He shook his head. “I guess you could put it that way.”
“But Max,” She protested. “you always told me that, that was wrong. That we
shouldn’t use our powers like that.”‘Wait a minute what am I saying.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.’ “Scratch that. Desperate
times call for desperate measures. I’ll let it slide this time.”
“Thank You.”
“So what did you see?” ‘Translation: How is Liz dealing?’
As if he was reading her mind, he answered her silent question. “Liz isn’t
dealing to too well.”
‘In what ways come one Max I need details.’ “How so?”
He started sobbing again. “It’s too horrible for words Iz.”
‘Max I really need to know.’ “Can you just try to tell me?”
He nodded his head and began to think about Liz’s dream.
Blips of her dream flashed by in his head.
“Yeah if I didn’t know you as well as I did. I could swear that she’s
yours.”
“That’s because she is.”
“Max answer me.”
“Why should I? Huh?”
“I’m so sorry Max.”
“DON’T YOU DARE TOUCH ME!”
“I can’t even comprehend how I ever loved you. We’re done Liz.”
He was brought of his flashback by Isabel shaking him. “Max? You
okay?”
He shook his head. “Yeah fine.”
“The dream?”
“Yeah. Well first she walks into the Crashdown holding Montega’s hand. You,
me, Alex, and Maria are all sitting in our booth. When she sees us, she sends
Montega upstairs.”
“Keep going.”
“She sits down next to me and we start question who Montega is. She tells
us and Maria & Alex blow up on her and leave. You screamed at her like there
was no tomorrow. (At this point Isabel puts her hand over her mouth in
shock.) And then you took off after them. Liz kept saying my name and I
wouldn’t answer her. I finally freaked out and yelled at her and when I say
yelled at her I mean I’ve never been so angry in all my life.”
“Oh my god.”
“It gets worse Iz. Trust me.”
“Go on.”
“Well I freaked out and all, screamed my brains out, and slapped
her.”
“Slapped her? My god Max you would never.”
“I know but in her subconscious that’s how I did react. I may not have
physically hit her. But mentally.....”
“It was a slap.”
“Yeah I guess. God Iz how did things get so screwed up. How could I have
been so cold. I want, no I need to fix this.” ’But how?’
“I think I know how.”
‘This is hopeless. But I’ll humor her.’ “I’m listening.”
“I know that you heard Alex and Micheal come over.”
“Yeah.”
“Well we were scheming again.”
“Good or bad?”
“Oh good definitely good. We are going to have a little ‘pow wow’
tonight.”
“Oh really?”
“Yeah, Mom’s taking care of the planning on the parental aspect of the trip.
And you know she won’t settle until everybody’s parents give their
permission.”
“So how does this lead to solving our problems.”
“Well if all goes planned. We’re gonna meet out in the desert, that way we
have no choice but to make up.”
“It has potential.” He shook his head in approval. ’This just might work.
Why didn’t I think of it. I wonder who actually thought of this little
hair-brained scheme.’
“Yeah it does. And we have Alex to thank for our hair-brained
scheme.”
She stood up, patted him on the back, and left him with on final
though.
“Get dressed dear brother. In 15 minutes, we’re going to save our
family.”
So she left leaving a both confident and confused Max in her
wake.
**TBC**
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