Dislcaimer: I don't own any of the roswell charaters except Phil Pierce and a few others not so prominent in this story.
Summary: Liz loses everything and in the process finds an unlikely ally.
Rating: For mature readers
Notes:Hey am back from a loooong hiatus
David ignored him looking between Liz and Dogget “My files only document Max Evans, Michael Guerin and Isabelle...No Tess Harding in them you said she turned up with Nacedo...when did they show up?”
Dogget interrupted feeling unjustly confused in there obviously on-the-verge-of-a-breakthrough conversation. “Wait a minute who Tess Harding...what are we even talking about now?”
David and Liz muttered “She’s an alien” from the side of their mouths, attention and eye contact reestablished.
“She turned up a few days before you... uh, a few days before Max was captured” She looked away from his uncomfortable expression “I can’t believe I just forgot about her”
Phil suddenly charged jumped into sight brightly “Is she still in Roswell?”
Liz looked back at David impatiently “No, she isn’t, she left Roswell a month before ... everything happened”
By now it had become a circle as Dogget finished it by joining in. “Where’d she go?”
“I don’t know...one day she just left and we didn’t see her again”
Continuation after this....
“Okayokayokay!...here’s what i think we should do...”
Four hours and several different couch positions later it had been decided to instead of Nacedo fix their attention on Tess Harding and find her, because she was still alive and possibly out of there reach because of her location.
She could be anywhere, especially if no one knew about her being ‘different’ But what Liz was worried about wasn’t that they wouldn’t be able to find her...she was just plain in terror of anticipating her reaction on seeing Liz again.
Would Tess help them? She doubted it, after all they did treat her kind of badly. A little anyway. Oh shut up, Tess was trying to manhandle Max away. She was!
Phil had been swinging a leg for a long time finally determining that neither one of them, including David had any ‘plans’ he decided to jump in with his own suggestion and a question.
“Liz?”
Liz looked at him startled hearing her name being shouted. “What?”
“You knew Tess...right?”
“Uh...i knew her” She shifted and sat up straight on the couch feeling decidedly uncomfortable now since everyone was staring at her to make some life changing revelation.
“Right so, You were like close to her?”
“NO!” Liz shouted unthinkably and clamped a hand on her mouth, Ismara was awake and tickling her restlessly...wait a go Liz she thought.
Phil raised an eyebrow as did David, Dogget still oblivious to the entire situation which was precariously on brink of being broken or more confused blinked at Liz while she fiddled with her hair.
David had been tapping fingers restlessly on the side of the couch’s arm and he didn’t look as bored as he did a few hours ago “...Did something happen to Tess?”
Liz looked worriedly from David to Dogget...He was getting at something, nothing happened! But then why was it that she was feeling so helplessly guilty right this minute.
“Liz? Start talking...Now!”
Liz looked at him cringing after seeing his eyebrows scrunched down unhappily, she just realized that for some really annoying reason she couldn’t lie to David. No Duh’
“Tess had sort of a...thing for Max” She started trying not to say much. The narrowed eyebrows now shot up and Liz wished she could just crawl under a rock right now.
“Ooh love triangle!”
Liz ignored David hitting Phil with a rolled up newspaper” I think she left because she heard that i was having a baby ...”
“Phil shut up”
“You think?...how did she found out”
Liz glared across at him not particularly worried when he flinch at the coldness in her stare “I told her, that’s how she knows”
“Was there any...”
“There was no argument...She just drove away, We never saw or heard from her again” Liz answered before he could make his suspicion any more obvious.
End of argument, Liz thought to herself smugly and if she didn’t know any better she felt better after giving David the ‘evil eye’. For a long time no one said anything.
“I take it no one was worried enough about her to try and find her?”
Liz sighed resigned, it’s no good holding grudges anymore, so what if she was all tricky and annoying, what boyfriend stealing girl isn’t? it doesn’t matter now does it? No ones here to fight Tess for, no reason to envy her.
“No, we just didn’t think it was going to be like this”
“Always the things you don’t think matter huh?”
Liz didn’t answer she continued to stare off into space. “Kyle liked her...”
“Valenti’s son?”
Liz nodded, If anyone really cared to know Tess, it was Kyle Valenti. “He was trying to score with her...” Liz rambled pointlessly.
“Score?”
“Oh you know...playing lap dog” Phil piped in. Liz snorted, Dogget raised a confused eyebrow and David smiled his i’ve-just-made-a-life-changing-revelation smile.
“We’re goin’ back to Roswell”
“You’re what?!” Everyone excluding David shrieked.
“I’m going back to Roswell” He repeated
“Hold it! You said WE!”
“Shut up Phil no ones going there except me”
“I think it’s hardly a good idea” Jhon side stepped Phil and came up aside David
“And why might I ask do you think so Jhon?”
“Because as it is the units running tight circles all over Roswell, they spot you…it’s all over”
“Well then how uncontrived of you to tell me Dogget, I’m still going”
Liz watched the exchange from afar she wasn’t sure what to say. She had a feeling ‘Roswell’ was going to come up sooner or later but now that he’d announced it she was speechless. That and he was going alone back where the unit could track him down and kill him.
Not good. Not good at all. She’d have jumped in and protested against being left behind by now except she wasn’t ignorant of the idea that she had to grow up a little over here. Yes. It would take a lot not to run off. But she had to secure herself and Ismara. Just because she wanted a part in all the action didn’t mean putting her self and her daughter in danger.
Did it?
***
“Phil get me some lighter fluid from the basement…might come in handy”
“When did we get lighter fluid?”
David glared at Phil until he got a move on down the basement. He could have sworn he just saw Liz on the top stairs. Must have been a shadow. She hasn’t said a word since he announced his going back to Roswell. Almost went upstairs comatose. He could imagine why, except he really wished she had say something.
If he was going to do this then he needed to be focused which is why he didn’t think it would be a good idea to do start with the whole guilt trip of not having consoled Liz yet.
Sighing slightly he checked his ‘weapons’ bag. It really was a bit of a shock when Liz mentioned Tess Harding because now that he thought back he did actually remember seeing a young almost awkward looking blonde girl around Liz’s group. Of course then the main focus was Max Evans, his sister and friend. He didn’t know there was a fourth one other than Nacedo.
He was a sharp man and when Liz mentioned Nacedo and Tess in the same context he immediately got to work linking both of them, which made the situation if possible worse. For all they knew Tess could be as powerful and dangerous as Nacedo and there was no telling what she’d do if he approached her out of the blue about Liz needing a blood donation.
David fingered one of the many full syringes he’s been able to ‘keep’ from the special unit’s medical cabinet which contained none other than the alien power bending serum. If possible he wanted to bring Tess back with him because it was pretty conceivable she was in danger of being discovered any time soon if someone did find out what she really is like he found out today and if there was any chance that she was even a fraction dangerous as Nacedo then he’d need to subdue her and drag her. He just hoped the Valenti family would be cooperative enough …provided they knew something about Tess’s where abouts.
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Silent Nights - (L/Pi Mature) 14/08/05
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Re: Silent Nights - (L/Pi Mature) 14/08/05
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