Chapter 1: Leaving Roswell Behind

Liz Parker wiped a tear off of her face. She had just spent the last ten minutes listening to Max and Isabel's mother tells them about their destiny. She needed to leave Roswell. She would ask her mother to let her go stay with her Aunt Joyce in Sunnydale, California.

When she got to the dirt road, Liz ran into Sheriff Valenti. He was doing his rounds and said, "Liz, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be with Max and the other aliens?"

"We don't say aliens! It's Czechoslovakians. Can you take me home?"

"Sure! What is wrong?"

"I don't want to talk about it!"

Valenti nodded and they drove in silence to the Crash Down, the restaurant her parents owned.

Her dad was behind the cash register ringing someone's food up when she walked in.

"Liz! Where have you been! I haven't seen you since yesterday!"

Used to lying she said, "I was out with Maria. The time got away from us and it was too late to call so I decided to call you today. I just got up and just headed home."

"Alright."

"Dad, Can I go spend some time with Aunt Joyce in Sunnydale. Maybe I can stay for the summer and next school year? I know you talked about spending time at a boarding school but I just want to spend some time with family."

"That is fine. I will call your Aunt Joyce and see if it is okay with her."

Back in Sunnydale

Buffy Summers walked into the school library with Angel and Xander following behind her. She looked around. The place was completely destroyed.

"You know I heard there is a dance at the Bronze. Maybe we should go?" Rupert Giles asked his surprised audience.

"Alright, we saved the world, I say we party," Buffy exclaimed.

"Yeah Buffy died and everything," Xander added in.

As they were leaving Angel looked at Buffy and said, "By the way I really like your dress!"

"Yeah, yeah, it was a big hit with everyone," Buffy sighed annoyed.

At the Summers' house

"Joyce Summers here! Who may I ask is calling?"

"Joyce it's me Jeff, Jeff Parker. Your favorite brother-in-law!"

"Hi Jeff! How is the café?"

"It is doing great, but that is not why I am calling."

"Why, may I ask, are you calling?"

"Liz was wondering if she could stay with you for a little while? During the summer and school year. Of course if it is alright with you?"

"That is fine with me but it will be just the two of us for a little while because Buffy is going to visit Hank during the summer."

"Hold on!"

Joyce could hear Jeff mumbling something to someone beside him and then he heard Liz speak, "That is fine, Aunt Joyce. I just need to get out of Roswell for a little while if that is okay? Plus I would love to stay with my favorite aunt and cousin."

"Alright well I'll see you soon!"

"I'll call you when I get my flight information!"

A couple hours later…

Buffy walked in the door after the dance. They had managed to dry her dress before they got to the Bronze so that no one would suspect anything.

"Buffy, is that you?"

"Yes, Mom! I'm going to sleep!"

"Hold on! I have to tell you something!"

Buffy headed to where her mother was in her room.

"How do you fell about seeing your cousin, Liz?" her Mom said as soon as she entered the room.

"Great, but I'm going to see dad over the summer, remember?"

"I know, but what if you could do both? What would you say?"

"Yes!"

"Well your cousin will be staying here until next summer!"

Buffy was not happy about this because this meant she would have one more person in her house to keep her secret from but in spite of her hesitation she said, "That sounds great, Mom!"

She would have to speak to Giles tomorrow about this new development.

Later at the Crash Down in Roswell, New Mexico

"The next flight I could get is not until Wednesday."

"That is fine. Thank you dad!"

Liz hugged her dad and kissed him on the cheek before heading up to her room.

When she got there, Max was sitting on her bed.

Liz closed the door but stayed close to it.

"Max, what are you doing here?"

"I'm here to try and convince you to be my girlfriend again!"

"Max I can't!"

"Why not?"

"Because you have a destiny to be with Tess! I can't get in your way of destiny! I'm standing in your way of it. Your mother said she was your wife!"

"That was in a different life time! Literally! I don't love her. I love you! Please!"

"I can't!" by this time Liz was crying so Max made a move to comfort her but Liz moved away. Max tiredly sat back down on the bed.

"I'm going to stay with my aunt in California for a little while so that I can get over you!"

"I don't want you to! I want you to stay loving me! How long will you be gone?"

"Until next summer at the least. Maybe more. It depends! My parents know where I am going I will tell them unless it is an emergency, not to let you know how to get a hold of me. Maria will have to be the mediator to if it is serious or not."

"When are you leaving?"

"In two days (AN: I put this so you would have a general idea of when she was flying out.)"

"That is too soon! Please don't go that soon! I need to spend some time with you to help you realize that you're the only person I will ever love!"

"That may be true but it is also true that your destiny is Tess. Plus you're an alien and I am human. It could never work Max! Now please leave!"

"Fine, I will leave, but I am not happy about it! Bye!"

Max stepped through her window and left. Liz lay down on her bed crying. She had just kicked the love of her life out of her house. And worse, she was leaving. Hopefully she would fall for some cute guy in Sunnydale and forget all about Max. She doubted it though. She was to in love with Max to be able to do that.

The phone rang and she picked it up and put it to her ear.

"What did you do to my brother! He is listening to the Counting Crows! He only listens to it when he is depressed!"

"Isabel, you heard your mother! He is destined to be with Tess. I let him go. Alright? And second of all, how do you think I feel about all of this destiny crap? Especially because it effects us humans so much. I hate it. I love him and I can't be with him. I'm leaving town on Wednesday."

"What do you mean you're leaving town on Wednesday?"

"I'm going to stay with an aunt in California. I'll be there until next summer. Maybe I'll stay longer if I like it. I will of course be back for holidays but I can't stay here and deal with Tess and Max! You can't force me!"

"Alright. Have a good time but I hope you realize what you are doing to Max! Bye!"

"Bye, Isabel."

When they hung up Liz picked up the phone and dialed the number she knew better then her own.

"Deluca house! Who are you calling for?"

"Maria, please!"

She heard Mrs. Deluca scream in the background, "Maria! Phone is for you! It's Liz."

A few seconds later, Maria picked up the phone, "Hey, chica! How are you doing? What happened in the Pod chamber?"

"Max and Liz talked to their mother. It turns out that Isabel is supposed to be Michael's fiancé, and this is the killer, and Tess is supposed to be Max's wife!"

"Oh no! What did you do? You stood by Max, right? And told Tess to shove it!"

"No I left the pod chambers and Valenti drove me back home."

"Liz you should have fought for him and showed him that through his temporary insanity, he loves you not her!"

"Actually he wanted me to stay but it didn't work out because of all the stuff we've been through. I couldn't take it anymore!"

"Liz, you were the one last year trying to get Max to see past the whole alien thing!"

"Let's talk about the reason I called and stop talking about the Pod Chamber event."

"Alright, if not to talk about that, why did you call?"

"I called to tell you that I am going to move and live with my cousin, Buffy for a little while. I don't know how long. Don't tell Max where I am. He knows that I'm going to California but he doesn't know that it is Sunnydale, California."

"Alright, Liz I will do as you ask."

"Don't tell Max unless it is an emergency. You will determine if it is an emergency."

"Alright!"

The next night in Sunnydale

Buffy walked into the school library. Giles was sitting at the table

Beside him say a young man in a tweed suitHe had short black hair that fell in his sparkling, intelligent green eyes. Unlike Giles, he doesn't wear glasses. He was towering her at an amazing 5'7". He was also very thin and obviously athletic.

"Who are you?"

"I am John Tweeter. The Watchers' Council sent me. The slayer before you died tragically because of a gun shot wound. I have found out recently that she did not indeed die but lived but it was to late the next slayer was called, you. Well she is coming to Sunnydale. I am to be her watcher. We still haven't figured out how she survived her surely fatal wound."

"This is not good!"

Just as she said this, Ms. Calendar, Xander and Willow came in.

They all ask at the same time, "Who is he?"

"This is John Tweeter from the Watchers' Council. He's found the slayer that died before me. Apparently she's still alive. She's on her way here."

Angel had snuck in when she was talking and said, "So now there are three slayers?"

"No there are two remember, me and the other one," Buffy replied.

"No, you've died, too. Remember?" Angel reminded.

"She's died?" John asked.

"I only stopped breathing for a minute.

That Wednesday at the Roswell Airport

Liz was getting in line to go through the metal detector when she heard someone whisper in her ear, "Liz, talk to me for a minute! Please! If you don't I'll make the metal detectors go off and you'll be delayed even longer."

"Fine, what do you want Max?"

"Don't leave! Please! I love you! I need you here, safe where I can protect you!" Then he continued in a whisper, "where else are you going to fall in love with an Alien King that knows nothing of his past, but when he finds out a little, he chooses you over his wife from his past life?"

"That's why I need to go! I need to get a way from the alien abyss. If I don't, I won't survive," Liz said just as quietly.

"Liz!" Max cried out passionately and then pulled her to him for a kiss.

Flash

Max looking back at Tess in the pods when he was six.

Flash

Zan dying at the hands of Kivar. He was clutching a dying Ava.

"Vilandra! Why did you betray me?"

Rath lay dead on the floor nearby.

Flash

Zan was on his honeymoon with Ava at this nice park. It was obviously on another planet.

Flash

Zan and Ava getting married.

Liz ripped her lips from Max's. Max stood stunned for a minute trying to figure out where they were and why.

"I have to go!" Liz cried then picked up her carry on and got in the very short line.

She was not naïve enough to think the Max in the flashes were of his future. She know they were of him in his past life.

Max really had loved Tess back then. It had not been about duty.

Flashes never lied. They told the absolute truth even when you didn't want to hear it.