Blood of Alien, prologue
TITLE: Blood of Alien
RATING: Undecided. Eventually either PG-13 or R.
DISCLAIMER: None of the characters are mine, nor are any of the plots that the fic is based on. They belong to the WB or Jason Katims or whatever.
PAIRINGS: Honestly? I haven't decided yet. A bunch of things will probably be explored. The only thing I can practically guarantee is that sadly, it will not end up Outsider-ish.
SUMMARY: "But he was changing. He was starting to remember the person he'd once been, and that person bore no resemblance to the person he had been for the past eleven years."
What is with all the unresolved issues between the humans and the aliens and the humans and the humans and the aliens and the aliens? And also between Kivar and Max. Someone's got to fix this mess.
NOTES: In my version of Roswell, the last episode was Heart of Mine (that means no "Off the Menu", either). Therefore, this fic takes place right afterwards. In other words, Tess: good, Alex: alive.
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We try to live responsible, logical lives. But we can't tell our hearts how to feel. Sometimes our hearts lead us to places we never thought we wanted to go. And sometimes are hearts can be the sweetest, gentlest things we have. Sometimes are hearts can make us feel miserable, angry, excited and confused. All at once. But at least my heart is open. And I'm writing again. I'm feeling. I'm breathing.1
Liz closed her journal and slipped it into its hiding place in the wall of her balcony. She felt...well, a little bit like she was going to be sick. She couldn't stop picturing Max and Tess's kiss, the way he'd touched her cheek and the way she'd dipped her head. Her pretty little blonde head, not golden blonde like glamorous Isabel or dirty blonde like spunky Maria, but a real yellow blonde, like--like--Liz couldn't think what it was like, but she was sure it was something disgusting and unnatural. Tess was unnatural. She was off in her head living the life of some alien queen and Max was joining her.
Max, whom Liz had known since they were in third grade, the shy boy who'd watched her from afar for years, who looked after his sister and best friend because he was in charge. But in charge of a clique of outsiders--not the leader of a foreign kingdom. There was nothing about his personality that was alien. But he was changing. He was starting to remember the person he'd once been, and that person bore no resemblance to the person he had been for the past eleven years. The gap between Max and Liz was starting to widen drastically, and for once, it wasn't because of something she'd consciously done.
She guessed she'd never really believed it would happen. She'd been afraid, of course, that her Max would turn into Tess's Max, into the Max who ruled Antar and had an army and a planet at his command. But in her mind, when she'd run away from him that day at the cave, when she'd made him believe that she'd slept with Kyle, when she'd succeeded in getting through to him while he was in New York, she'd had control over the situation. Max was still hers, Michael and Isabel still belonged on Earth, and Tess...Tess was the alien.
On second thought, she removed the brick from the wall, pulled her diary back out again, and continued to write.
1. From ending script of "Heart of Mine."
Go to Chapter One
RATING: Undecided. Eventually either PG-13 or R.
DISCLAIMER: None of the characters are mine, nor are any of the plots that the fic is based on. They belong to the WB or Jason Katims or whatever.
PAIRINGS: Honestly? I haven't decided yet. A bunch of things will probably be explored. The only thing I can practically guarantee is that sadly, it will not end up Outsider-ish.
SUMMARY: "But he was changing. He was starting to remember the person he'd once been, and that person bore no resemblance to the person he had been for the past eleven years."
What is with all the unresolved issues between the humans and the aliens and the humans and the humans and the aliens and the aliens? And also between Kivar and Max. Someone's got to fix this mess.
NOTES: In my version of Roswell, the last episode was Heart of Mine (that means no "Off the Menu", either). Therefore, this fic takes place right afterwards. In other words, Tess: good, Alex: alive.
* * * * * * * *
We try to live responsible, logical lives. But we can't tell our hearts how to feel. Sometimes our hearts lead us to places we never thought we wanted to go. And sometimes are hearts can be the sweetest, gentlest things we have. Sometimes are hearts can make us feel miserable, angry, excited and confused. All at once. But at least my heart is open. And I'm writing again. I'm feeling. I'm breathing.1
Liz closed her journal and slipped it into its hiding place in the wall of her balcony. She felt...well, a little bit like she was going to be sick. She couldn't stop picturing Max and Tess's kiss, the way he'd touched her cheek and the way she'd dipped her head. Her pretty little blonde head, not golden blonde like glamorous Isabel or dirty blonde like spunky Maria, but a real yellow blonde, like--like--Liz couldn't think what it was like, but she was sure it was something disgusting and unnatural. Tess was unnatural. She was off in her head living the life of some alien queen and Max was joining her.
Max, whom Liz had known since they were in third grade, the shy boy who'd watched her from afar for years, who looked after his sister and best friend because he was in charge. But in charge of a clique of outsiders--not the leader of a foreign kingdom. There was nothing about his personality that was alien. But he was changing. He was starting to remember the person he'd once been, and that person bore no resemblance to the person he had been for the past eleven years. The gap between Max and Liz was starting to widen drastically, and for once, it wasn't because of something she'd consciously done.
She guessed she'd never really believed it would happen. She'd been afraid, of course, that her Max would turn into Tess's Max, into the Max who ruled Antar and had an army and a planet at his command. But in her mind, when she'd run away from him that day at the cave, when she'd made him believe that she'd slept with Kyle, when she'd succeeded in getting through to him while he was in New York, she'd had control over the situation. Max was still hers, Michael and Isabel still belonged on Earth, and Tess...Tess was the alien.
On second thought, she removed the brick from the wall, pulled her diary back out again, and continued to write.
1. From ending script of "Heart of Mine."
Go to Chapter One