77So I ran into some old Roswell vids and read some old Roswell fanfics and got this crazy idea in my head and had to get it out. If anyone reads this and is interested please review and I'll consider developing it. If no one reads I will probably still write it just very slowly. Also if you are not open to UC/unpredictable couples be warned and stop reading now. Things will likely flow and I haven't decided final pairings, though you should know I'm a cliffie fan.
Royal Child
At the Crashdown. Michael puts a glass of milk in front of Isabel.
"Calcium."
"Michael, this can't be."
" I know. But why not?"
Max comes in and sits next to Isabel.
"Isabel, you're not pregnant."
"Are you sure?"
"Tess says the dreams are just to guide us in our destinies. She says the constellations have aligned and awakened our biological drives but the usual methods still apply. You can't get pregnant from a dream. It's good news right?"
"Yeah," Isabel answers hesitantly with a tinge of sadness on her voice.
Michael then speaks. "What about this destiny thing? I mean are we still meant to pair up? You and Tess, me and Isabel? "
"That's our choice, Michael."
"I saw the book, Max, I'm not sure we have much to say about it."
"We control our own lives. I won't let any book tell me what to do," Max adds as he looks pointedly at the other two. He notices his sister has a strange look on her face. "Izzy, what's wrong?"
"Nothing."
"You're my sister. What is it?"
"I… I'm… relieved because I don't want to be pregnant, but I just… it's like I know that baby… like I, like we… we're supposed to…"
"Protect him," Michael finishes.
"Yeah."
"So now you want to have a baby?" Max asks his sister and friend, not believing what he just heard. She looks like she might cry.
"Stop it man," Michael admonishes. For once he simply gets it. It's not that Iz wants to sleep with him and make a baby, it's that the baby must be protected, which is insane because they don't have a baby. He takes hold of her hand and looks at her eyes, "It'll be alright. We'll figure out how to protect him, whatever that means."
Suddenly, Isabel's eyes open up like saucers and she stands up. "Oh my god!" she exclaims and begins to run towards the door, looking desperate. Michael and Max follow while calling for her. Maria who was in the back overhears them practically yelling after Isabel and makes her way outside also.
"Iz!" the boys call as they see her head to the jeep.
"Iz!" Micheal screams at her as he reaches her and grabs her arm.
"I have to go!"
"Where?" he asks and then he gets the same expression Iz did inside the Crashdown. "Come on!" he screams and they both hurry to the jeep. Michael jumps into the driver's seat and Isabel takes the passenger's.
"What is going on?" Max screams at them, grabbing the driver's door to the jeep. Maria is right behind him.
"Get in or let go Maxwell!" Michael states with fury.
"What?"
"We have to get the baby!" Isabel says.
"I thought she was only pregnant. How is there a baby?" Maria asks, looking straight at Michael.
"I don't know!" Michael yells.
"What do you know?" Max asks clearly frustrated.
"I saw him! He was sent to earth with us," Isabel answers. "He's just a baby. He needs us."
"Where?" Max asks.
"The place where we were born," Isabel says. "My son –"
Michael interrupts, "Our son, our son is in that cave."
Max jumps in the back of the jeep. Maria watches as they drive off to the dessert.
Max, Michael and Isabel enter the pod chamber.
"So, what are we looking for?" Max asks.
"A pod just like these four but smaller," Isabel answers.
"Iz, there is nothing here," her brother replies.
"I know what I saw in that flash, Max!"
"I saw it too," Michael adds.
"What exactly did you see?" Max asks.
"It started with the two us, in our planet," Isabel says, looking at Max. "I was speaking with you about cloning. I screamed that the only way I would to go through the procedure was if you could guarantee I would still have my son. Then I saw another scene where Michael and I were speaking with two men and a woman. They told us that it had been very difficult but it was done. They had been able to capture the essence of our unborn child. But, he would not be able to grow and hatch like the rest of us because they weren't able to add as much human DNA. His essence was too fragile, too new. They told us if the worst happened and we were sent to earth then we had to give him the last of the genes he needs or he would be trapped forever. Then I saw small pod with a little body, in a cave covered with cobwebs. He has to be here Max," Isabel says in a pleading tone.
The three aliens walk around the cave looking for clues, but come up short. Isabel is frantic in a way they have never seen before. Meanwhile Michael inspects the cave methodically. As he examines the pods, he realizes that Isabel's is different from the rest.
"Look at this," he says.
They see a small handle on the side, one that the other pods don't have. Michael tries to turn the handle and nothing happens. Max and Isabel try with the same results, nothing. Isabel then takes Michael's hand.
"What are you doing?" Max asks.
"Just a hunch," she says. Then she places her and Michael's joined hands on the handle. The handle then glows and turns easily, opening the back of Isabel's pod. The trio crawl into a new chamber and there they see it. A smaller pod with a tiny body inside.
Isabel practically leaps to the pod and begins cleaning off cobwebs. Michael looks at the pod in complete awe but quickly begins to help Isabel.
Max stares at them and exhales, "Oh my God."
Meanwhile at the Crash down, Maria is pacing inside the kitchen. She is freaking out. Michael is gone. They have orders to fill and need a cook. Michael is gone. There is an alien baby in the desert. Michael is gone. He left with Isabel. Michael is gone. He is someone's father.
She grabs the phone and calls Jose to come cover the kitchen. She must have sounded panicked because he said he would be right over and to take a deep breath. Maybe he is right. Maria tries to breathe and yet feels like there is no air in the room. She hears someone call her name. It's the new girl saying she needs help. There is barely people here but they are getting impatient about their food.
"Tell them it's coming," Maria says and she dumps some onion rings and fries into the deep fryer. She's seen Michael do this enough times that she can take care of some small things. The thought of Michael brings all anxiety back. A baby. There is a baby. Suddenly, she can't help the tears that roll down her cheeks and she needs to speak to someone. She runs to the nearest phone and dials Liz's number.
"Hello," Liz says.
Maria just cries. "Liz," she hiccups after a few seconds.
"Maria? What's wrong?"
"They have a baby."
"What?" No answer. "Maria, what are you talking about? What baby?"
"Michael and Isabel… they have a baby… in the… in the desert."
"What arae you talking about? A baby? How?"
"I don't know."
"Maria, talk to Michael. This sounds crazy."
"Liz, I talked, I asked him how and he said he didn't know. They just knew that the baby was there so they left."
"Okay Maria, breathe. There must be a reasonable explanation for this. Let me tell Max and we'll figure out what to do."
"What do you mean tell Max? He already knows."
"No, he doesn't. He's with me. He's been with me all afternoon."
"Liz, Max was with them when they figured it out. He went with Michael and Isabel to the cave where they were born."
