Spoilers: It takes place after ID
mostly because M and M are close now.
Thanks: Thanks to my Beta reader
Happygrl1004! You're the best!
Category: Michael/Maria
Rating: PG-13, there will be
swearing....
Summary: Uh Oh!! Another car
accident only this time with Maria and
Michael...
In a little red Jetta, Michael and
Maria sped down the roads of Roswell New Mexico.
"You looked like you could
use a day off from school that's all." Michael answered when Maria asked
him why they were driving down highways when they should be in school.
Maria nodded her head.
"You're right Michael, my life is big hole of stress right now. I mean my
grades aren't doing exceptionally well, my mom is seeing Sheriff Valenti, which
creeps me out beyond belief, and I just don't feel relaxed at any part of my
day...maybe when I sleep but that's about it. Ok, I'm sorry I'm talking your
ear off." Maria apologized and stared out the window.
Michael who was driving Maria's
car slowed down a bit so he could turn his head to her. "No, It's ok, I
mean it's the least I could do for you after what you did for me the other
night. Letting me crash at your house and all. Think of this as me saying
'thank you' to you. We both know how upset you got last time when I didn't
thank you." Michael gave Maria a smile hoping it would cheer her up a bit.
She really looked like she was in a slump.
She turned to Michael and tilted
her head towards him. "Yes I remember. All I meant by that was that you
could have said a little thank you, that's all. But it's all water under the
bridge now."
"Mmm Hmm" Was the only
response Michael gave to her. "Oh can I borrow your phone, I just want to
leave a message for Max at home so he knows where I was and you, he can tell
Liz where we were. You know, so they don't worry. Max has this thing where he
worries more than he should sometimes about me." He motioned to Maria's
bag, which she flopped on the floor of the car when they got in.
Maria gave Michael a questioning
look. "I didn't picture you as the type who would check in... hmm...oh
well. I don't think I brought my phone with me though. I might have hold
on." She reached down to dig through her purse.
Michael kept glancing from the
road to Maria then back to the road then to Maria. "I'm not checking in
with Max, when he gets home from school I know he will want to know where I was
seeing now that I'm on my own, I just don't want him to send out a search party
for us, that's all. And you did bring your phone I think I remember seeing it
when you practically threw your bag on the floor. Maybe it wasn't a phone but
it looked like one. You girls keep everything but the kitchen sink in those
bags of yours." Michael forced the smile back that was starting to creep
on his mouth. He didn't want Maria to think he was enjoying this as much as he
was.
"That's because we're always
organized and men aren't. If men would get some kind of a contraption holder
like a purse or a bag then you wouldn't be so disorganized. You know I really
don't think I brought it, Oh! Here it is! I found it." Maria proudly held
up the phone.
Grabbing the phone Michael
readjusted his hold on the steering wheel. "Well it's about time." He
dialed the numbers to Max's house.
With his shoulder holding the
phone he heard. "Hi, this is the Evan's residence, we're not home at the
moment so leave your name and number and we'll call you back as soon as
possible, thank you."
Michael gave a quick smile to
Maria, taking his eyes away from the road for a minute. "Hi, Max it's
Michael I just wanted to tell you that me and Maria went for a drive today and
we'll--" Michael was cut off by a sudden scream and lots of flying glass.
"MICHAEL LOOK OUT!" It
was Maria's voice. ::SMASH:: A Car had come out from an intersection where his
light was red, and Michael had the right of way. The driver must not have been
thinking clearly. The car came and hit on Maria's side.
Michael slowly started to wake up,
shaking himself off. "Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit." He kept saying to
himself as he looked at Maria. She was lying there lifeless. Michael looked
past the broken glass that was once a window to see that the other car had
gotten away. "Great." He muttered to himself.
"Oh my God, Maria." Was
all he said as he looked at her.
Finally mustering up enough
courage he touched neck to check for a pulse. "Oh my God" He said to
himself again.
For a few moments Michael
concentrated mostly on his breathing and making sure that he actually was
breathing. He touched Maria's neck once more to make sure what he felt was
real.
She had a pulse, a slow, weak, but
steady pulse. He lightly tapped her face. "Maria, Maria, can you hear me?
Come on Maria, can you wake up? Open your eyes? Can you even slightly
move?" Michael closed his eyes for a moment before running a hand through
his hair.
Suddenly he remembered the phone.
He could call for help, yes, that's what he could do. He looked to the floor.
"Damnit!" He muttered as he saw it crumpled up and broken on the
floor. Probably because of the car crash. He moved his arms, then his legs just
to make sure any part of him wasn't paralyzed or stuck on something. Michael
tried to open the door, but it seemed to be caught on something and he didn't
have the strength to try and lift it up and push it harder.
He looked towards Maria again, she
was just lying there so lifeless. "Maria, please, just wake up! I can't
heal you, I'm in no state of mind to do that and you know how bad I am with
them. Knowing me, I'd set your hair on fire. Then you'd really have it in for
me." Michael pushed a stray piece of hair that was in her eyes around her
ear. "God Damnit Maria, if there was ever a time for you to argue with me,
come on, let it be now! All I need from you is one insult, some sign that your
not dead inside. Take your best shot eh? You can mock my hair, my clothes, my
living situation, my IQ, the way I need to be a loner, something,
anything." He was fighting a losing battle.
'All I can do is wait now' He
thought, which was true. He couldn't get out, he was too weak and too emotional
to use his powers, and he had no phone. He leaned against the 'would be' back
of his seat and sighed.
"I don't know Isabel, but
your right we should get a bell for him." Max said as they walked into
their home after school.
"Max, I thought he told you
he was going to try and come to more classes? What happened to that? He can't
just skip school like he used to anymore, he's on his own, he has no alibi, and
needs an education. He can't blame Hank anymore." Isabel saw the look Max
was giving her. A look that said 'Thanks for stating the obvious.' "Well
I'm sorry Max, I just worry about him that's all."
As soon as Isabel finished her
sentence the phone rang. Isabel picked up the receiver. "Hello?"
It was Liz, "Yeah Hi, Isabel,
look have you seen Maria at all today, because she wasn't in any classes I had
with her and she didn't come to lunch. After school I called her to see if she
was sick and her and nobody answered, and I know her mom is working. I was just
wondering." Liz kind of trailed off her last sentence.
"Hey, Max It's Liz on the
phone." Max was reading the mail, his head went straight up after he
hearing Liz's name. Isabel laughed at that, "She wants to know if we've
seen Maria, that's all."
"No, tell her I haven't seen
her." Max resumed through the mail he was looking at while Isabel got off
the phone with Liz.
"Hey, Max there is a message
on the machine." Isabel said as she pushed the 'message' button on the
machine.
On the machine speaker they heard.
"Hey Max, it's Michael."
"You see, he's fine."
Max said as he got himself a glass of juice.
"I just wanted to tell you
that me and Maria went for a drive today and we'll--" Michael's voice was
cut off by a very loud noise. Then they heard "MICHAEL LOOK OUT".
Then silence.
Max and Isabel gave each other
worried glances. "Oh my God." Isabel said to herself and to Max. Max
was so stunned he couldn't really speak.
He grabbed his keys, "Come
on, we'll pick up Liz tell her what happened to Michael and Maria and then
we'll search." Max put a reassuring hand on his sister. "It'll be ok
Isabel, they're both strong people." With that they both hurried out to
the jeep.
Isabel, Max, and Liz are driving
down the highways of Roswell and on some side streets too. "Wait, Isabel,
Max, your not making sense, Michael and Maria were together and something
happened? I don't get it." Liz was trying to make some logic out of this.
Isabel was getting pissed at Liz's
constant questions, "Liz, we told you all we know! Michael left a message
on out machine telling us he and Maria were going for a drive today, we heard
Maria scream watch out then we heard a crash and their phone probably went
dead. Now do you get it?" She snapped.
Liz laid her back against the
seat. "Yeah, I get it." She said quietly.
Max gave Isabel an evil look.
"Liz, Isabel is just worried, she didn't mean to snap at you. Right
Isabel?" Max nudged her arm, pushing for an apology.
Isabel glared at Max, "Yeah,
sorry Liz, I'm just edgy, this sort of thing never happens, well it happened
once with you and Max, but we got past that thanks to Alex. Let's just find
them ok." The three of them silently agreed not to say anything more.
After an hour and half of driving
Liz was asleep in the back seat, Isabel and Max had switched seats and Isabel
was now driving. Max looked back at Liz and smiled at her sleeping so
peacefully. He silently thanked all higher powers that it wasn't Liz that was
in that crash. He turned back and looked out onto the road. Isabel pulled off
the highway and onto a deserted road that led somewhere in the desert.
"Isabel look!" Max pointed out to Maria's car that was about 150 feet
ahead of them. "LIZ! Liz, wake up!" Max said to Liz who was starting
to stir in her seat.
Isabel picked up speed to get to
them faster. Then she quickly stopped the car and all three of them jumped out
and ran to Maria's so-called car.
Max was the first to look inside
the broken glass. "Michael? Maria? Can any of you hear me." Max said
as he saw the two figures scrunched up inside the little car.
The car moved a bit as Michael
slowly moved along. As the time passed he had lost more and more energy to do
anything. He could barely even move now. And Maria was still in the same
condition she was in a few hours ago. "Max...Max" Michael managed to
breath out.
Max quickly turned his head to
Isabel and Liz. "He's alive, Michael's alive." Max was so relieved,
but there was still Maria.
"What about Maria?" Liz
asked, more concerned now because Maria didn't seem to be talking or moving, or
else Max would have told them. "Is she alive? Is she in there Max?"
Squinting his eyes, Max looked
further into the car. With a swipe of his hand he open the banged up door of
the car. It looked like it was ready to fall off. The door was on Michael's
side so Max tried to drag Michael out first. "Isabel, Liz can you help me,
he's kind of heavy." Max saw as he heaved at getting Michael out.
Liz and Isabel walked over and
grabbed a leg and an arm and pulled him out. "Help Maria." Was the
only thing Michael said.
Once Michael was safely on the
ground Liz looked inside and screamed, "Oh my god Maria! Maria!! Oh
God!" Max walked over and put his hands on her shoulders to try and calm
her down.
Liz just tried to remember to
breath in and out after seeing her best friends, such a mess in the passenger
seat. 'I could really use some cyprus oil about now.' Liz thought as she
secretly smiled at her friends wacky ways. Maria and all her oils and remedies.
'She just has to be ok.' Lis thought, 'She just has to be'.
Max was already in the car trying
to get Maria out, while Isabel patched up Michael. Michael wasn't in bad
condition, just some scratches and bruises. But he was pretty traumatized by
the whole ordeal. Within 2 minutes Isabel had Michael back to normal again.
Michael stood up and brushed
himself off a bit. "How's Maria?" was his first question to be asked.
Max had his arms linked under
Maria's arms and he dragged her slowly out of the car. He didn't know if she
was even going to make it. "Max? Is she ok? Is she breathing?" Liz
asked frantically. Before she knew it a tear or two was rolling down her eyes.
She had never seen Maria or anyone in this condition, not even Max in their car
crash. She looked so battered and beaten, it made Liz sick to her stomach.
Isabel saw how distraught Liz was,
and even though they weren't best of friends Isabel had enough of a heart to
know a person in pain. She didn't want to see Liz hurting this much, so she
walked over and put an arm around her shoulder while Liz was still stunned
looking at Maria.
Meanwhile Michael's heart broke a
million times over each and every time he looked at Maria. 'If only I hadn't
tried to use the phone, if only I hadn't taken her for a drive, if only I had
been smart enough to have seen the car coming.' He blamed himself in each and
every way for this.
"I don't think I can heal her
using the powers, she looks too bad for it." Max said in defeat, he didn't
think his body was ready for that kind of healing.
Michael looked at Max, "Max
come on, we have to do something, I mean she might not even make it to the
hospital, she's lost a lot of blood throughout the time we were here." He
would be damned if he let Maria die right when he was getting close to her.
Letting go of Liz, Isabel turned
to the boys. "I think I have an idea." She said as she walked closer
to Maria. "What if we all heal her at the same time, you know, we'll each
put a hand on her and see if we can do anything."
"Doesn't Maria have to look
at you though, she's unconscious!" Liz said to them, getting aggravated at
the situation and that her best friend in the whole entire world is in a
comatose state right now.
Michael turned to Liz. "Not
really, if one of us hold her eyes open then it should still work, just as long
as we have some connection to her."
Liz walked over to her friend and
knelt down at her head. She used her hand to open her eyes. "Ok Go."
Liz said quietly and softly.
Michael put his hands around
Maria's head almost cradling it. Max put his hands on her arm and Isabel had
her hands on her stomach. They each concentrated hard, harder than normally.
For Isabel and Max it was a normal
procedure. But for Michael something was different, Michael saw something,
something that only he and Maria could share.
When Michael put his hands on
Maria he saw the car crash through her eyes. It seemed to just replay itself
over and over again, with images and sounds from when the cars collided.
"It's not working."
Isabel said out of breath from the healing. Michael still sat there stunned at
his visions. He didn't know why he had to see the crash again when he touched
her. It wasn't as if he didn't think about it every millisecond.
Max nodded, "Yeah but I think
we gave her enough energy for her to make it to the hospital." Three of
them got up, but Michael still stayed crouched next to Maria. "Michael,
are you ok?" Max asked him.
Hitting realization Michael nodded
in agreement, "Yeah, yeah, I'm fine, let's just get her to the
hospital." Michael and Max lifted her up and put her in the jeep.
"I'll call AAA" Isabel
chimed in as she reached for her cell phone in her purse.
When they reached the hospital,
they quickly raced in a found a wheel chair to place the lifeless Maria in.
"I need a doctor, my friend Maria Deluca was in a car accident and she's
unconscious right now." Liz said to the nurse at the desk.
The nurse slowly brought her eyes
up to Liz's. "She was in a car accident, and she's unconscious, right,
fill out these forms while I get a doctor." She said slowly.
Michael walked briskly up to her,
"Look, she needs immediate attention, so if you wouldn't mind actually
getting up to help save her life, I would appreciate it!" He said loudly
and annoyed.
The nurse held her hands up in defeat
and walked down the hall to find a doctor.
A few moments later a man who was
obviously a doctor walked into the corridor where they were waiting.
"Hello, I'm doctor Carson, I'll be taking care of..." He looked
quickly at his charts he held in his hands, "...Maria. Now, was anyone
with her in this accident?" He asked while other doctors came for Maria
and put her on a stretcher and hauled her off down the hallway. Everyone's eyes
followed her, including Michael, who was looking at her more intensely than
anyone else.
Michael wet his lips and stepped
forward, "I was." He said simply.
"Well young man, why don't we
check you out also." He was about to urge Michael in when Michael
resisted,
"No, No, I'm fine, just
concentrate on Maria. Please, I'm ok." The last thing he needed was a
doctor checking out his blood samples.
The doctor furrowed his brow,
"Are you sure son? I mean it looked like a pretty decent crash." When
he saw Michael resist again he said, "Ok then, if your sure. Now I'm going
to go give Maria a full examination, please wait here." Then he turned and
walked down where Maria was once taken.
Liz walked over to Max and clasped
his hand with hers. She needed all the comfort she could get with her best
friend in a coma at the moment.
Isabel walked around nervously for
a while, "I'm going to call Alex and fill him in on the situation, he is
her friend and all." She said as she walked towards the nearest phone
booth.
She tapped her foot nervously
against the wall till she heard his voice, "Hello?" He asked
curiously.
"Hey Alex, It's um, It's
Isabel." She said
Alex didn't let her say much,
"Oh hey, Isabel, what's up? Haven't talked to you lately." He was
about as nervous as she was about talking to her.
She cut him off, "Listen,
Alex you need to come down to the hospital. It's Maria, her and Michael were in
a car accident, he's ok, but her, well she's pretty bad, and we tried on her,
but we couldn't, so you might want to come down and give your support. Liz is
sort of freaking out now. I just thought you should know." Isabel gulped
in a breath of air.
Standing there stunned at the edge
of his kitchen, Alex gripped the phone tighter, "Yeah, yeah, sure Isabel,
I'll be right there." He said before hanging up and grabbing his keys.
Liz and Max sat in the chair
provided, next to each other, still holding hands. Michael sat about 5 chairs
away from them. He was mindlessly looking through magazines, anything to keep
his mind off of what had happened, but it was no use. The images he received
from Maria and his own experience of the car wreck were now permanently
imprinted into his brain.
After about 10 minutes Alex came
rushing through the doors. He ran directly to Liz, "God, Liz, how is
she?" He asked hugging her.
Liz wiped away another tear.
"I don't know Alex, we don't know yet, we haven't heard anything."
She hugged him tighter. Then they released and Liz went back to sitting next to
Max and Alex went and sat next to Isabel.
She turned her head at Alex and
asked, "Are you ok? I mean, I know you were close to Maria and all."
Alex nodded, "Yeah, as long
as Maria will be ok, then I'll be ok." He tried to relax in the chair and
take in all that was happening.
After awhile in agonizing torture
as Alex had described it in his head, Dr. Carson walked out and greeted them.
"Well, It seems to me, that Maria should be ok. All the test results that
have come back are good and solid. But so far she hasn't come out of her coma
yet, which isn't a good sign. So, we can't tell if she has any brain damage yet.
We suspect she shouldn't, and all her vital signs are good. She should wake up
soon, yet the longer it lasts the worst it could get."
The five of them sat there
stunned, the doctors words stung Michael like a spoon dishing his heart out.
Alex looked up at the doctor,
"Can we see her?" He asked politely.
"Yes, but one at a time. And
when you're with her, talk to her, the sound of your voice may trigger
something, talk about anything and everything, just make sure she hears you.
We've moved her to the recovery unit, you can find her in room 110. Please one
at a time." He reminded then and with that he walked away to help another
patient.
Everyone looked around at each
other. All wondering who should go first. Everyone wanting to go, but also not
wanting to go. Finally Liz spoke up, "I'll go first." She gave Max's
hand one last squeeze before getting up and walking down the corridor.
Liz slowly and cautiously walked
into Maria's room, room 110. She bit her lip afraid that if she didn't she
would scream at every higher power. Then Liz pulled a chair up to sit beside
Maria's bed. "Hey Maria." Liz began, just like Maria could actually
listen and respond. "It's me, Liz. Look you just have to come out of this,
I mean everyone's outside now waiting and hoping for you to come out of this.
Max, Alex, Michael, Isabel, are all out there, thinking only of you getting
better. I never thought I would say this but I want you to be the stubborn now!
Fight for Michael's sake if not for your own. He's out there right now taking
all the blame for this and probably killing himself inside." Liz looked
away when she heard a knock on the door. She saw Michael standing in the
doorway, waiting to come in to see Maria.
"Can I have a minute?"
He said as he waited leaning up against the doorframe.
Liz took one more look at Maria
quietly said good-bye and then walked out of the room, smiling at Michael as
she went to rejoin Max and the others.
Max stood up the moment he saw Liz
emerge from the room. "How is she?" He asked.
Liz just went up and hugged him,
she needed all the support she could get, her best friend was in a coma, and
she just felt so helpless towards it all.
She let go of him and looked him
in the eyes. "She looks like she sleeping with a lot of wires on her, I
still can't believe this is all happening." After Max took her back
to sit down.
Michael walked in and sat in the
seat Liz had once occupied. He took Maria's hand in his own and clasped them
together. "I'm sorry, I really am, if I had just been looking where I was
going and not at you, things would have turned out differently. But you have to
wake up because you have to yell at me, and tell me what an ass I am for doing
that to you, and for giving you all these bruises." He waved his hand over
her arm and removed a small scratch on her arm. "It's the least I can
do." He said to her.
For a moment he thought he saw her
eyes flutter, but after a few moments he realized it must have been his
imagination. "Damn." He muttered under his breath.
"Excuse me sir, but we need
to check up on Miss Deluca." A nurse said as she walked into the room.
Michael at first looked a little
irritated that the nurse had disrupted his time with Maria, but he was willing
to go along with it. "Yeah, sure." He said, not looking at the nurse.
"Bye Maria." He said before he kissed her hand and then left the
room.
When he walked out he saw Isabel
and Alex getting up, obviously ready to leave. "You guys leaving?" He
asked.
Everyone looked at him at once.
"Yeah, I'm going to take Isabel home and then I'm going to tell Liz's
parents where she is, while Isabel tells her parent's where Max is, and we
think it's best that you guys stay here." Alex said as he gathered his
coat and made sure Isabel was ready.
"Yeah ok, see-ya guys."
Michael said as he sat down in his chair.
Isabel turned around to face
Michael, Max, and Liz. "Call us thought, if anything at all happens or if
you need us, let's go Alex." Then the two of them headed out the doors.
"Any change?" Liz said
as she gave Max's hand a squeeze for support.
Right after she said that a group
of doctors and nurses rushed into Maria's room. Michael was the first to jump
up and try to find out what was happening. He slightly jogged over there and
asked the nearest nurse what was going on. "Please, just wait here."
She said calmly.
Michael wondered how she could be
so calm in a time of crisis. He tried to see inside her room but the blinds
were closed just enough for Michael to be blinded by what was happening. Liz
soon after followed by Max walked over to where Michael was standing.
"I can't see a thing."
Liz said in defeat. Max wrapped his arm up around her. He really didn't know
what to say, he wanted to take all the pain away but this was one circumstance
that he just couldn't do it.
Finally after countless minutes
had past a nurse emerged from the closed door and walked over to talk to the
teenagers. "You're here for Maria Deluca right?"
Michael was getting irritated, all
he wanted was to know that she was ok. "Yes we are, just tell us how she
is?"
She put her hands up to show him
to calm down. "Listen, Maria is awake, she knows who she is, and
apparently where she is, but she doesn't know how she got here, which is
understandable. From what we know she doesn't have any signs of amnesia or
brain damage. Once the doctors are finished with her you all will be able to
see you. She has been asking for a specific Michael, would that be you?"
She asked pointing to Max.
Michael jumped in, "No, that
would be me." He said, pointing the nurse in the right direction. Max and
Liz shared a look between each other.
A few minutes later everyone that
was in Maria's room came out and the nurse came over and gave Michael, Max, and
Liz the 'ok' sign. Even though they were all allowed in, Max and Liz decided
Michael should go in first alone.
"Michael." Maria said
weakly as she saw him walk him. He stuffed his hands in his pockets, not really
knowing what to do.
A smile appeared on her face while
she said, "Well Michael, once again you've managed to wreck my life, and
this time you literally mad me look bad." She laughed at that, she meant
for it to be humorous, Michael didn't laugh though. He just continued to look
at her.
"I am sorry, I should have
been looking at the road, and not at you. I really messed up this time.
Sorry." An apology was all that was coming to his mind.
She nodded her head, "It's
ok, really. I know you didn't mean to get in a car accident and I don't blame
you. I'm just glad your ok." She reached out for his hand and he grabbed
it. It felt good for him to feel her fingers moving around.
"It's funny, I thought you
would be biting my head off for this, blaming me, and yelling at me. What
happened to you while you were out of it?" For the first time in there he
smiled.
Maria pushed herself up a bit on
the bed, "Oh, don't worry, you're going to owe me so big for this. Your
time will come." She reached her arms out next, searching for a hug
somewhere in there, she just really wanted to hug him more than anything.
He allowed himself to take comfort
in her arms, letting all his guards down. He just hugged her. "Yeah, ok
Maria, I knew there would be punishment for me in there somewhere, what are you
going to have me do, clean your toilet with a toothbrush?" he joked with
her.
She let him go and look at him.
"Oh no, your going to do so much worse, I haven't thought of it yet, but
when I do, it will be horrible." They made eye contact and within that
contact they knew how much they both needed each other.
The End