Maria finished pouring herself a cup of tea when she heard a knock on the back door. She turned and saw Karen waving to her and she smiled and gestured for her to come inside. �So, how�d it go?� Karen asked as she hung her coat up. �It went really well, all things considered.� Maria said as she retold her friend the stories from the night before. When she was done she shook her head at the other woman who was laughing hysterically. �Oh God I wished I could have seen Michael�s face. Gay, I can�t believe it. I guess he didn�t get the memo about populating the earth with little alien/human hybrids.� She said with a giggled. �Karen!� Maria shouted as she joined in the laughter. �It was kinda funny, which is what I needed after hearing about Alex.� Karen stopped laughing and reached out and held Maria�s hand. �I�m sorry about your friend. I shouldn�t have been laughing like that.� �No Karen, it�s ok. Really. Alex loved a good laugh and I think he would have found it hysterical if heard Michael Guerin proclaim Liz Parker �The Gay Maker�. It�s just weird you know, we still need to find out about how Max got his son back and Michael and I need to tell them about The Elders and their true destiny of The Legacy. I just don�t know how they are going to feel about it all.� She explained. �I know, when will they get here?� She asked as she poured herself a cup of tea and grabbed a blueberry scone. �Later this morning. I really am anxious to see the rest of them and I can�t wait to meet my baby sister. I just hope Michael doesn�t get all weird around Max and Kyle.� She confessed as she broke off a piece of the scone and nibbled on it. �I�m sure he�ll be fine. Speaking of Michael, where is he anyways?� Karen said as she munched on her pastry. Maria smiled. �He was awaken by �his� puppy. I don�t care what he says, he got that dog for himself anyways he took Doyle for a ride to pick up the girls from Dad and Jeanie.� Karen snorted at that last remark. �Please now Peter wants to get a dog for the boys. Your right though, it�s really for them because Marc is pestering Carrie about getting one too.� �Boys will be boys.� Maria said with a chuckle as her and Karen started making up a shopping list of things to get for the others while they are staying at the inn. ********************** A few hours later everyone was up at the inn waiting for the others to join them. Sarah and Becky ran to the front window when several cars started to pull into the driveway. �Mommy, Mommy it�s them, it�s Grandma Amy!� The shouted together. Maria smiled at her daughters as she wrapped her arm around Jeanie�s shoulder. She knew the girls were excited to meet her mother but she never wanted Jeanie to feel funny about the arrival of their other grandmother. Both women smiled and walked out together to greet everyone. ************************ After everyone had been introduced and everybody was shown to their rooms all the adults went into the main sitting room as Josh and Emma brought all the kids to the rumpus room to play and watch a videos. �Baby it is so good to see you.� Amy cried softly as she hugged her daughter for the hundredth time within the past hour. Maria hugged her mother back. �It�s good to see you too Momma.� She whispered backed. �I hate to be a jerk, but there really is stuff we need to discuss.� Michael told them. Maria giggled and pulled back from her mom. �It�s ok Honey, somebody has to be the jerk.� She teased. �Thanks Babe.� He joked as he went over and kissing both her and Amy on the cheek. Max laughed, happy to see how much his brother had come into his own. �Michael right, I know that we didn�t talk about everything last night. I know you have things you want to ask me.� He said as he went over to Michael and handed him a mug of coffee. Michael smiled, remembering how Maria made him promise not to say anything that SHE considered inappropriate. �Thanks. Yeah actually I hope you don�t mind if I ask how you were finally was reunited with Timmy?� Max shook his head and nodded for everyone to sit down while he explained how he found his son. Michael groaned softly when he watch Max go over to the chair Kyle was sitting in and sat down on the arm, slipping his hand into the other man�s hand. Chancing a glance he saw how his father and brothers all roll their eyes and noticed that Jim and the other men didn�t appear any more comfortable with the show of affection between the two either. He was pulled back as he listen to Max telling everyone how he managed to confirm that Tess never made it to Antar. That the Granolith never even left their atmosphere and that it actually traveled half way around the world to Australia. He told them of how he and Kyle began to work together tracking her moves. He spoke of how they gradually found themselves falling in love, both were shocked of their feelings and tried for over two years to fight them. It was while they were home in Roswell for Liz�s and Sean�s wedding that they finally realized that everyone in their lives were happy and in love, building their lives together and they were both miserable trying to deny their feeling for each other while searching for the woman who had betrayed them and killed their friend, stealing Max�s son. A few months later while in West Germany following some leads on Tess and his son they decided not deny their feelings for each others any longer and became lovers. That was over six years earlier and they had been together ever since. He continued as he spoke about the next four and half years of searching for Tess and his son. Both him and Kyle had ended up working odd jobs so that they could earn money and were in Amsterdam working constructions two years ago when they got the break they had been looking for. Max had kept in contact with his old bosses Brody and Milton who kept track of anything unusual in the UFO department and found out that a woman and child had been spotted in Italy and that the child had supposedly changed the color of car in front of a group of onlookers. He told them about traveling to Italy and tracking down each witness, confirming without a shadow of a doubt that the woman with the child was Tess. It took them another six months to locate her and Tim in a village on the outskirts of Baths. Kyle finally spoke up, saying how Tess had become even more diabolical and bitter as she had decided that everything in her life that had gone wrong was all their fault and had brainwashed Tim to believe this as well. Michael found himself hurting as he watched Max�s face, he couldn�t even begin to know what it must have been like for him to finally be reunited with his child and to have that child hate you. He couldn�t image living a day not knowing where his daughters were and if they were alright. Max coughed as he went on and said that he was left with no choice other than to battle it out with Tess. He couldn�t even remember how it started, all he knew was that when it was over he was on his hands and knees, his arm was sliced open where one of her bolts of power had hit him and Tess�s dead body was draped over a large bolder. He found himself crawling over, awed as he watched her body slowly change into a pile of dust. It was Kyle gurgle cry for help that brought him back, he turned to see his lover on the ground with Tim above him. He watched in horror as his son began to slowly crush Kyle�s windpipe. Without thinking Max throw up a protective shield around Kyle and used his powers to take his son down. Max and Kyle then proceeded to tell of how they brought Tim back with them to Roswell and how they slowly had to gain his trust and prove to him that they were not his enemy and how they had the horrible task of telling the boy the truth of who his mother really was. Isabel turned to Michael and Maria and smiled, saying that it wasn�t easy. That it took almost a full year before they felt any real connection with Tim. That they finally realized that they had been able to form a bond when Kyle had been hurt while home alone with Tim and the boy had healed him. Maria smiled at the others, for some reason she felt there was something wrong with the story they told, not that they were lying but that something just didn�t ring true. She turned to see that Karen and Carrie seemed to feel the same way as they both shook their heads towards her. �I�m so sorry Maxwell, it must have been Hell not knowing where you son was and to finally be with him and to have him not trust you. I can�t even imagine anything like it.� Michael said as he wrapped his arms around Maria, pulling her closer to him. He couldn�t explain it but he felt an uncontrollable desire to protect her and the boys, even though there wasn�t anything or anyone here threatening them. �Thanks Michael.� Max said as he got up and went over to look out the bay window. �This really is an amazing view. Your lucky to be raising you children here, this place is very peaceful.� Everyone smiled and nodded as they began to discuss their live. The others following Michael�s and Maria�s lead and tabling the discussion of The Legacy. It still wasn�t the right time to tell Max and Isabel that part of the story. So instead they spent the next few hours talking of the most common and mundane subjects never realizing the children were being uncommonly quite. ********************** Josh and Emma had placed a video in the VCR and the kids were all watching some old Adam Sandler comedy when each of them had started to drift off to sleep. All of them except one. He got up and walked around the room looking at the future, at The Legacy. The Elders had been right, these were the ones who would lead their armies to victory. The Second�s children were all strong as were their chosen mates, especially the oldest and the youngest girls. The one they call Emma was obviously the greatest threat to his armies. She had the intelligence to plan the battles that would win the war. She and her twin sisters worked as a unit, a well oil machine. Emma would plan and the twins carry out her orders, never communicating in words only with their minds. The connection between the twins stronger than the connection with the others but it was still there between all the children, even the humans boys. Now with them being exposed the Valandra�s children and the children of the human woman who was branded with the seal of the Royal Four their power will only amplify and will ensure that The Legacy will bring down the enemy�s army when their time to fight is upon them. The other two who slumber in the womb must also be destroyed. They are meant to be the true rulers of their father�s world. They were their father�s sons. Their sisters would protect them against anyone who threatened them, the one called Hannah sitting on the throne protecting it until both could ascend to it. The Elders had realized that just because a man is born onto the throne doesn�t make him a great leader. The Second had what it would have taken to be such a leader, if only he wasn�t blinded by his loyalty to the King. Of course their own loyalty was what made them save the King�s essence as well. Of course he had his purpose, as did the whore they called his wife Ava and his sister Valandra. No, his loyalty was one of his greatest attributions and The Elders made sure that it was included when his essence had been sent to earth. The other set, with The Second called Rath they had tried and experimented by leaving his loyalty out of his makeup when they created him. The same was true for the one they called Lonnie. The fools all they succeed to do was to creating two maniac who had to be destroyed later by the old woman they called Ruthie. No this set was the real thing and their children will be the ones to lead Antar to victory with the twin boys as joint rulers, if he doesn�t stop them now. He had waited so long for this time to come, until he made the other feel comfortable enough to approach The Second. Now he was here and would be able to destroy them all. Starting now with the one they call Hannah. Where the other three powers were easier to see, it was obvious that this one�s was the strongest. She was the one The Elders revealed themselves to, the one who saw people for who they really were. The one who threaten his very existence here, she was the first one he needed to eliminate. With an evil gleam in his eyes her stood over the small girl as she snuggled next to her chosen mate and held his hand out over her and felt the power travel through his body as he watched her begin to struggle for air. ************************ �Michael honey maybe you should go check on the kids.� Maria said, an uneasy feeling in her stomach. �Oh Michael honey can you say the words whipped.� Sean cooed in his very best girly girl voice. He had heard so many stories over the year about the great Michael Guerin and how he had taken Maria with him when the feds had kidnapped Liz and the other two. �Watch it Deluca, I speak from experience you don�t want to piss off the extremely moody alien.� Peter said with a chuckle as he regaled the story of Michael�s and Maria�s wedding and how he changed Marc into a purple drag queen with a Betty Boop voice. They all started laughing as they started to tell embarrassing stories, Maria request to check on the children completely forgotten. *********************** Hannah awoke as she felt herself unable to breath, she looked up in shock into the eyes of the boy who made her feel funny all day. Now she knew why, why she had bad feeling as one name came to her mind and slid past her lips, �KIVAR�. ************************ Emma felt herself stir as if she was waking up after hitting her head or something. Everything around her was fuzzy and she turned to see Josh lying on the couch next to her, his arm securely wrapped around her middle. She wanted to go back to sleep, but something or someone was pulling her back to reality. Shaking her head she sat up a little, a muffled noise to her left caught her attention and she gasped when she turned and saw Hannah on the ground, desperately trying to breath and the one introduced to them as Tim Evans stood over her, using his powers to hurt her. �Hannah.� Emma whispered harshly, her voice seeming to fail her. Tim looked over at her as she struggled to her feet. He watched as she held up her hands, generating a protective barrier around the others. He heard her calling out to her sisters and saw how they slowly began to awaken to her pleas for help. He turned to see that the youngest one had found a chink in the power he was using to destroy her and watch with amusement as she began to fight back, trying to disable him but failing miserable. Vaguely he heard the others. �Emma we need Daddy.� Sarah cried out as she watched in horror the small opening Hannah had managed to create closing back up and her struggling for air. �Becky, Sarah call for Dad. Call for him now, we can�t keep the force field up much longer to protect everyone.� Emma urged as she and Josh joined hands and moved to helping Hannah fight back. Emma had tears streaming down her face as she watched her baby sister struggle for life. With more power than she knew she possessed she watched as Tim flew away from Hannah and saw that the energy force he was using falter enough so that Zach could pull her into the safety of the barrier. Thomas and Dylan scrambled over to the twins and quickly grabbed their hands as they both concentrated on their father. They had never communicated with either of their parents this way and they needed all the strength they could get to reach their father. �DADDY, HELP US!� The shouted out with their minds. Praying that he would hear them and come to help them before it was too late. ********************** �Michael, I can�t believe you just told that story in front of my mother.� Maria screeched as she buried her face in her hands from the embarrassment of everyone hearing of the time he knocked the tent down after catching her in a �private moment�. �Oh Maria, that just makes up for the him and my brother over there retelling the whole bumper story to everyone in the room.� Isabel said as she chuckled. �Sorry Baby, but it was fu�.� Michael jumped up from the couch and sprinted through the halls. �What was that all about?� Kyle asked. Maria got that sickening feeling in her stomach again and got up and started to head out of the room. Peter got up and met her at the door. �What is it Maria?� Tears were in her eyes, she couldn�t put it into words she just knew that the children were being hurt. �The kids. Oh God Peter, somebody is hurting our babies.� She cried as she hurried out of the room and followed the same path Michael did to get to the children. The rest of the adults ran out of the room, following Maria until they were at door to the rumpus room. Looking inside they were shocked to see all the children and Michael on one side of the room and Tim on the other, obviously trying to use his powers against them. Michael had joined hands with Emma and the twins and had been able to strengthen their barrier, but they were weakening and Tim just seem to be gathering more strength. Michael turned and saw the other and called out to Isabel and Max for help. Isabel ran over and joined them as Max stood and watched his son. Good God in heaven why was he doing this. He was draining them of their powers and knew that when that happened he would destroy them all. He watched as Kyle, Peter and Marc tried to charge Tim and saw that with a flick of his wrist they went flying through the air, landing like rag dolls. Maria and Liz stood in shock as Jessie, Sean, John and Jim also try to attack the boy and watched in horror as they all stopped in their tracks and collapsed to the floor all clutching at their throats as if invisible hands where squeezing their necks. �MAX!� Michael and Isabel shouted together, it was enough to snap Max out of the hazy fog that was clouding his brain and catapulted him into action. Raising his hands he focused all on his energy on the boy in front of him and manage to break his concentration enough that he had to stop the assault on the four men on the ground. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Michael and Isabel remove themselves from the children and make their way over to him. Grabbing hold of each other�s hand they stood next to Max and focused their powers onto Tim. They watched as he slowly began to stumble backwards, unable to break the barrier or fight back from the attack from the remaining three of the Royal Four. Gradually he felt his body give away and knew he had failed. With his remaining energy source he threw his hand up towards the sky and the other watched as a brilliant white light engulfed the room as a portal was open between their worlds. Maria gasped as she watched Tim�s body collapse to the ground and a black mass of swirling mist seemed to be drawn into the light, shooting upwards until suddenly the white light vanished as quickly as it appeared. Maria and the other mothers ran over to their children. Michael quickly joined her as she rocked Hannah in her arms. Reaching out he gather his other three girls and held them close. Kissing each of his girls on their foreheads, whispering words of love he felt a horrible lump in his throat as he watch his best friend and brother gather the small boy who had caused so much damage in his arms weeping for the son he never knew. Michael turned as he watched the rest of the parents hugging their children knowing that soon when the time was right that they needed to reveal The Legacy and Destiny to the others. Sighing he realized there was more to their saga than they original thought. TBC

Part 36

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