Author's note: Here's the next chappy! And I just want my reviewers to know that I got 5 yet for some cursed reason, I was only able to access 4...sorry. Well here are those that I can thank:
Magali: Yeah I've read almost all of the books and know all about Trevor. I chose to give Michael a twin sister for Kyle's reason actually, I thought the poor guy needed someone :P Although I'm not sure how to get those two together... any advice from anyone would be good.
JumpStreetBaby: Glad you like the fic and the wait is over for now :P
tiny-pixie: you are becoming one of my fave reviewers as you review every chapter I have ever posted on this site (about Roswell) so a HUGE hug to you :) And how I come up with this stuff is a mystery to me too lol. I do feel a lot better thanks!
Sam-c: Now you gave me an interesting review. I now get what Maria said and found it so much more hilarious that I watched that sceen again, once i found it :P I am sorry to al lreaders that know this, but I didn't until Sam-c told me: arsenic is a poison...so let's jsut pretend that the scene was Maria being sarcastic as it was...but in the fic it's a new type of drink okay? No, not with poison but a name for some weird "alien" flavour or soemthing :P
Time we could have shared
Chapter Two: Connection
Everyone watched as Melinda drove off and Michael just stood there. He did not move at all…
'He found out something' Max realised and they all went out to him with Maria in the lead.
'You okay Spaceboy?' she asked him and placed a hand on his back.
Michael was unaware of their presence and his mind was operating at a thousand miles an hour.
'What did she say?' Liz asked.
Michael shook his head and removed his apron. He handed it to Maria and left.
'I'm going home' he said in a weird voice. Maria knew him enough to say he was confused, shocked and possibly…excited?
'Let him go' Max said as Maria and Isabel were about to follow him. 'He'll come through when he's ready or we could always confront Melinda'
It was two weeks later and Michael was at home and just sat there with his face in his hands. I have a sister, a twin sister. It all seemed way too surreal for him to apprehend, but he wanted to know more, he wanted to talk to her. What did she see? How could she be so sure? Why don't I remember her? All these questions were going through his mind that it took until third ring for him to realise the phone was actually ringing. He didn't want to answer it, but he then realised that it was his cell phone.
'What?' he answered.
'Hello to you too' came Melinda's voice and he suddenly went into full alert to her every word.
'I was wondering if I could come over…you know? Talk? That is if you want to'
'Sure, 502 Powell Avenue' Michael told her his address and took a deep breath.
'Okay, I'll see you soon' she hung up and he did so as well, now getting all nervous and even excited.
Melinda knocked on his door and couldn't believe how nervous she was. It was like her nerves were trying to take over.
Michael opened the door and let her inside, shutting the door behind her. She had a brief glance around the room before she seated herself on the couch.
'So ah, how are you feeling?' she asked him, wondering if he believed her or not.
He almost laughed then, there being no real way to describe what he was feeling, so he just shrugged.
'Do you believe me?' she asked fearfully.
Michael looked at her and he could tell be the expression in her eyes that there was no way she could be lying about this, so he nodded.
Melinda breathed a sigh of relief and smiled. 'I've been looking for you so long'
'How did you know?' he asked. 'I-I don't remember you' he suddenly felt a surge of guilt.
'Well, based on what I felt and saw during the flash, I was able to see you but for some reason you were unable to see me. When I was young I kept having weird dreams about this boy and stuff…but Kal was the one who told me I had a twin…but he never told me anything else…other than the fact that I'm not one of the royal four…so I had to shut up and do what I was told' she sighed.
Michael nodded; he really was lost for words. When he'd found Laurie Dupree it was like he'd found a small portion of his soul, the emptiness in him was beginning to patch. But now that he'd found Melinda it was like he was almost completely whole again. The one real thing missing in his life was a real sense of belonging to a family. Seeing Max and Isabel with their family hurt him and began to eat at him, but now it was as though he now has what he'd been searching all his life for.
'I know how you feel' Melinda said, being able to read his expression in his eyes, which she had a feeling he never let his guard down often.
He looked at her and actually smiled.
'I want to try something' Melinda said and got out the device. 'I want to see if it'll work for two as much as it will for one'
'Okay, sure' he said and sat next to her, he couldn't help but trust her now. He watched her hold one part with her hand so he held the other part. It glowed instantly with their combined touch and their hands began to glow liquid blue. They were both hit with a flash…
Michael had lost Max and Isabel so he was wandering on his own until he was found and taken to social services. Melinda had also been wandering, but Nasadeo made sure she was found before he went to pick up Tess. She was the queen so she was important, but he didn't actually feel all the comfortable about leaving Melinda out there alone. Oh well.
The pair were given clothes to wear by the people there and placed in a room with other kids of all ages. Some were younger; others were older.
They were both placed in foster homes and moved around a lot to different ones. Until several months after they re-united in that room again.
They knew they had a connection with each other; they could both feel it.
'You think we could reach the sky?' Michael asked, as they played with blocks together, building a tower atop a table.
'That's not the real sky silly' Melinda laughed as she looked at the cloud-painted ceiling.
A man came into the room; he was wearing a black suit and unbeknown to them, he was an FBI agent.
'I'm a doctor' the man lied to the social services lady. 'And I am here to check up on those two' he pointed to Michael and Melinda while they were laughing as the blocks fell all over the floor.
After a long conversation and fake id showing, the man was able to take the two twins with him to the white room at the special unit's new base.
'Is my dad coming?' A teenaged boy asked the other agents as he watched the two twins sit silently in fear.
'Yes, Mr pierce will be here soon…you seem to have a lot of interest in this…maybe you could run it one day'
'I'd like that' the teen smiled.
Michael and Melinda sat there on the white floor until three doctors came into the room. They were about to do some testing on them when the place was filled with a blinding bright light and two men stepped into the room. They took the twins and left.
'Now what do we do with them?' Nasadeo asked.
'He's important, so send him back…we cannot allow them to meet again, it's too dangerous' Langley replied. 'I'll take her and keep an eye on her'
Nasadeo nodded and placed his hand on Michael's head, glowing white.
'I erased his memory of her' he explained and took him away while Melinda screamed out for him. Langley held onto her and she fought hard, kicking and screaming.
'No! Rath! Come back!' she screamed. 'Come back!!'
The flash ended as Michael's door slammed open and there stood Max and Isabel.
'What is she doing here?' Isabel questioned, but then noticing the tears in both of their eyes as they held onto the device. 'Michael what has she done to you?'
Michael stood up and tried to wipe his eyes without making it obvious. Gr, I can't believe I'm crying. He grumbled to himself then looked over at Melinda also wiping her tears.
'Why are you here?' he asked them, avoiding the question they'd asked.
'Seeing if you're okay' Isabel replied. 'You haven't been to work in two weeks and by the looks of it you have not even left your apartment.
Melinda was now no longer crying of sadness…but anger…and pure hatred.
The other three jumped as Michael's lamp exploded and fell to the ground.
'Hey, calm down' Michael told Melinda, but not understanding why she was in the raged stage that she was.
'She's dangerous Michael' Max whispered to him.
'No she's not' Michael said, not believing a single word against her now.
'Look at Tess…she was raised by a killer so she became a killer…Melinda was raised by a killer also…think about it'
'You don't know anything about her!' Michael snapped.
'And you do?' Isabel asked, but then she saw a look in Michael's eyes that she'd never seen before. 'Michael, what did she tell you?'
Melinda felt dizzy as her emotions consumed her and she knew that if she didn't get out of this apartment and calm down, someone was going to be seriously hurt…or worst. She felt the device in her hand light up again, but this time it was red and flashing. There was a sudden blast of energy and she, along with Michael were thrown against the wall behind them and slid to the ground.
'Michael!' Max and Isabel rushed to his side to find he was unconscious.
'Check her' Max told Isabel and she went over to Melinda. 'She's out as well, god what happened?'
'I don't know…let's just…get them to Liz's. Her parents are away for a few days and there's more room there than there is here' Max said and Isabel nodded.
Maria and Liz helped Isabel and Max as they lay the pair side by side on Liz's bed as they didn't know where else to put them and they were easier to watch over if they were together.
'Oh Michael' Maria said and sat on a chair as she ran her fingers through his hair. Everyone was watching Michael in concern and Kyle even joined the group an hour later to see what was going on. He seemed the only one to be even the slightest worried about Melinda.
Many hours later and it was starting to get dark. There wasn't anything they could do for Michael or even Melinda so they all headed downstairs to grab something to eat, but planned to go back upstairs to check on them afterwards. Meanwhile though, Melinda's mind was spinning with information. The device had sent this surge of energy and information into her body that is was trying to cope and make sense of what it had just received. Michael was the same, but when he was thrown into the wall he was physically injured from the objects he collided with as he'd had been thrown further. His back, arms, chest and head were bleeding and possibly broken in some places.
Melinda felt a whirl of dizziness and a blurring room came into focus. She sat up slowly, but then lay back down instantly as the spinning was giving her a headache and hurting her.
'Ahh!' she gasped out when she tried to move her right arm. 'Damn' she cursed when she realised it was broken. They must have been thrown pretty hard. She looked to her left and saw Michael just lying there, almost as if he was lifeless.
She attempted sitting up again and found it slightly easier than her first attempt.
The others climbed up the stairs and saw that Melinda was sitting up but there was no change to Michael.
'What did you do to him?!' Maria yelled and Max grabbed her before she could attack Melinda.
Melinda gasped at the noise and fell back onto the bed. She clutched her arm in pain and her head was hurting so bad that her eyes went watery.
Mex watched her and as much as she seemed to have put Michael and even everyone else in danger, he still didn't like the fact that she was going through this amount of pain and they were just watching. He also didn't believe that she'd set that device off intentionally.
'Max?' Isabel asked as he went over to Melinda and placed one hand on her arm (despite her yelling in pain) and another on her head.
'I'm going to heal you' he told Melinda as she clenched her teeth in the extra pain he was placing upon her. 'Just look at me' he told her and she glared at him. He concentrated and his hands began to glow. He made a connection with her and saw the flash she'd had of coming out of the pods as well as some of what the flash she and Michael had shared in the apartment. He also got small ones of when she was growing up with Langley as well as some of her foster homes. He let her go, out of breath, but she was completely healed.
'Thankyou' she gasped and looked over at Michael. 'Oh I'm so sorry' she told him.
Max was out of breath, but knew that Michael was also injured.
'No' Melinda said, sensing what he was about to do. 'Let me' she said and placed both hands on his chest.
'You can heal?' Isabel asked. 'But I thought Max was the only one that could'
'He is…but Langley told me that since Michael and I are twins we can heal each other' She said, then mentally kicked herself…the others didn't know about that part! She tried to keep her mind clean and closed her eyes.
'Did she just say…they…' Maria asked, her mind blacking out for a second.
'Yeah, wow' Liz replied.
'Makes sense though' Kyle said. 'I mean look at them. They have the same eyes, hair, skin colour and the facts all fit' he shrugged.
A blue and white light went from Melinda's hands and through Michael's chest and the rest of his body. The room went bright and once they could see again they saw Melinda sitting beside Michael as he woke up looking confused.
'Spaceboy' Maria grinned and ran over to him. She hugged him tight while he just looked around weirdly.
'What happened?' he asked.
While everyone went into "explain the events, yell at him for not telling them about his sister…then asking questions" mode, Kyle noticed Melinda slip away from the group and bolt out the door.
'Hey!' he chased after her and she stopped at the Crashdown doors. 'Where are you going?' he asked.
'I've caused enough trouble here and they don't like nor trust me…It's better if I leave' She said and ran out the doors and from sight. The others came downstairs and looked at Kyle for an explanation.
'Great. Thanks' Michael said angrily as Kyle told them what she'd just said. 'Thanks for scaring off the only real family I've ever had' he said sarcastically to the group and left, slamming the door behind him; which shattered the glass totally.
'Is he going to be okay Max?' Isabel asked him fearfully.
'I dunno…but I don't think so. He's not going to give up on her though' Max sighed. 'I just hope he doesn't go too far'
Author's notes: Well? Like it/hate it? I wanna know and why:P
I jsut wanted to say that this fanfiction is about the twins and Michael/Maria as well as the other couples mentioned before last chapter, but I hav also written it to be a lot about Antar later on. As in what happened the day they were killed, Kivar and Vilandra's connections to those events etc. And keep in mind that this fanfiction takes place before "crash". I am also going to bring Kal Langley into the story a lot as he is one of my fave guest stars and I know it will go well with this fanfic...so anyways, let me know what you think please!
Extra note: Just so you lot know, this quote from this chapter:
" 'Sure, 502 Powell Avenue' Michael told her his address and took a deep breath." -This is Michael's real address in the show, his apartment i mean :) Just goes to show how obsessed i am lol...if you don't belive me then watch the scene in 'Suprise' where Valenti is reading Tess's phone and address book:P I also hope this information will help other fanfic writers out there:P