I am glad you like it. This part is short.

Part 10

Earlier

After Max and Michael put the kids to bed Isabel and Alex were ringing their parents to say that they and Max were going to be spending the night at different houses again. Liz, Maria and Serena were watching the kids sleep. Maria had arranged with Amy DeLuca that she was going to be spending the week with Liz as her parents were away.
Max was speaking to Michael in another room

"I don't know why but I really don't trust Matthew. I have been getting bad vibes from him and he was very interested in Liz and my relationship.
"Well Maxwell are you sure that you aren't jealous of Liz and Matthew" Michael asked smirking.
"No, of course not. I know there is nothing going on between them, Liz loves me. Besides my mother told us so."
"There is one thing I don't understand. Why do we have to keep that secret about the kids belonging to us? I mean aren't secrets what got us into messes over the years?" Michael asked.
"Yes I see what you mean, I hate not telling Liz that Katie is really our little girl in our past life." Max agreed frustrated.
"If you don't trust Matthew there must be something up with him. Why don't we go down stairs and have a chat with him, what do you think?" Michael asked.
"Why not I think that's a great idea." Max answered.
And then they both went downstairs just in time to hear
Matthew's conversation.

"Marcus, its Matthew."
"I have got some news that is very important brother."
"What is that my dear brother?"
Unknown to Marcus and the two eaves-droppers, Liz came down and looked at Max and Michael worriedly and Max went over to Liz and put his fingers over to her lips to ‘be quiet' and then they turned their attention to Matthew with Liz listening.
"Reanna is starting to remember her life on Antar."
"What? How the hell she could remember? I thought you said all her memories were wiped when they came out of their pods."
"Well the only reason I can think of is if Zan healed Reanna it would start the memories reappearing. But it would take a year for the memories to come out." Matthew spoke into the phone.
"Right. Here is what I want you to do, you have got to try and spilt Zan and Reanna up"
"How am I supposed to do that? They are so involved with each other."
"I don't know, just use your brain"
"Okay I think I know what to do."
"I'll call you when I have more news."
"Good bye for now." Matthew put his phone in his pocket.

I forgot to post part 13.

Part 13

When Alex heard that he put his arm around Isabel and she leaned into his embrace and felt comfortable.

Max was holding on to Liz. Michael had his arms around Maria. Serena was sitting on Kyle's lap. All of them were listening to every detail of the story.

"Back to Liz, Max and Kivar" Maria asked. Wanting to know about her best friend.

"Okay, now. One day in the palace grounds Max found Liz siting on a bench crying. He went over to her and asked her what was wrong. She told him that Kivar had found out that she was on Antar and sent a letter to inform her that he was coming to Antar to see her and try to make her marry him. Max was horrified to hear this and dropped down to one knee and asked her to become his Queen. At first Liz was confused and asked him if the only reason why he asked her to marry him was because it would stop Kivar from ever putting a claim on Liz and not for love. Max then confessed to Liz that he had always loved her from the very first moment, but he was afraid that she did not feel the same. It was exactly the same as Liz felt that Max did not love her. Any way Liz confessed her feelings and then they shared their first kiss.

Max had already asked Liz's father for permission to try and see if she could become his Queen. Her father agreed to it right away.

That night at dinner Max made the announcement that Liz has agreed to become his wife and Queen. Everyone one was shocked and happy at this piece of news. Max then said that this was going to be a short engagement. Max's mother was not happy at this and asked Max in her chambers why this had to be so sudden. Max confessed the truth about Kivar coming to Antar. Max's mother agreed that although it was not proper to have the wedding ceremony to be very soon, it must happen. So it was decided the wedding would take place in a month.

"I am sorry to interrupt I think we should leave it there for now it's getting quite late." Max interrupted.

"I think you are right Max. I better go to my place. Is there anyone who needs a bed ?" Julie asked.

"Well, could Kyle and I stay with you?" Serena asked Julie.

"Yes that's fine". Julie agreed.

"Okay well, why don't you come for breakfast at the Crashdown at about 9?" Liz suggested.

They all agreed and Julie, Kyle and Serena left and Liz locked the Crashdown and then they all went to their rooms as they had done the previous night.

Max sat on Liz's bed. "So Liz, how are you coping with the fact that Matthew betrayed us?"

Liz came out all ready for bed and sat down on her chair, looking at Max with a sad face that broke his heart. "Max, it hurts. I mean apart from Alex, Maria and Kyle. He was kind to us in the children's home. We were bullied a lot. We did not really have friends apart from Matthew and each other. I did start to have a crush on him. But now I feel guilty and ashamed that I trusted him with my life, and the other's lives."

Part 14

"Oh Liz, come here." Max spoke soothingly to Liz. He held her to his chest for a little while. Liz then broke out of Max's embrace and started to kiss him on the lips. Liz's tongue rolled against Max's lips and he opened his mouth and Liz put her tongue in his opened mouth and they kissed for what seemed a long time. Liz pushed Max on her bed a straddled him, still kissing. The need to breathe reluctantly broke them apart. Max had his forehead to Liz's. Liz then kissed along Max's neck and her hands traveled underneath his shirt. Max was moaning at the sensation Liz was causing on his neck and with her hot hands running over his abdomen. Liz then stopped causing a groan of disappointment from Max at the loss of her hands. Liz sat up still straddling Max and tugged at his tee-shirt and with his help,she got it off. Then she took her shirt off and Max was staring at her body, " My god you are so beautiful, but Liz we can't."

"Max, I want to. Please make love to me. Do you want me?" Liz pleaded. Looking deeply into Max's eyes.

Max looked back at Liz, shocked at her question. "Liz, of course I do. As much as I would love to make love to you, it's too soon and we are not ready. But when the time is right, I will make love to you. But not now. Not here, while our friends are asleep down the hall, and the children are here." Max explained, wanting so much to take Liz and make her his. But knowing that Liz is still upset with what Matthew has done.

" I know, it's just that I want you so much". Liz leaned over to Max and kissed him. She then got off Max and curled up on his bear chest. Max kissed Liz on the forehead and wispered, " I loved you too. And I do want so much more as well."

"I love you too Max". Liz confessed. Then turned off the light. Soon, both of them were fast asleep.
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Alex and Isabel's room:

"I can't believe that we were married. Alex what is going to happen when Liz's parents come back and find that there are children staying here?

"Izzy bear, I have no idea. We better ask Max and Liz what to do. I know I would like to tell my parents. And I know you would like to. Maria has been wanting to tell her mother for awhile. The sheriff knows about us. That's why he was after Max. He though that Max did something to hurt Liz. He was going to expose us. I know Liz does want to tell her parents but she just doesn't want them to be endangered."

"And Michael is Michael. He doesn't want anyone else to know." Isabel interrupted.

" Yeah, anyway I suppose we should get some sleep."

"Okay, Alex can you hold me all night?" Isabel asked.

" Of course I will," Alex wispered. He kissed Isabel on the head and turned off the light and held her to his chest.
***
At eight, Liz woke up and slipped out of the bed trying not to wake up Max. He moaned a bit from the loss of Liz's body, but stayed asleep and rolled over. She pulled the cover over Max and just sat on the side of the bed looking at him for a moment. She thought about how much she loved him and her mind came back to last night when she nearly seduced Max. She and Max had never gone that far before and she loved it, and she decided to do that more often.

Liz then decided that she would have a shower, get dressed, then write in her journal for a little while before she woke Max up.

15 minutes later Liz sat down on a chair on her balcony and started to write about what she had learned last night. She still could not believe that she and Max were meant to be together. After about 20 minutes of writing in her journal, Liz was startled when Max climbed out the window and made her jump.

"Max, you know I hate it when you make me jump," she scolded him.

"I'm sorry Liz, so are you ever going to let me read your journal? Please? I promise to be a good boy?" Max begged, down on one knee, sticking out his bottom lip.

"Okay Max, you can... one day." Liz agreed.

"Oh Liz. Thank you, thank you!" Max kept on kissing Liz. "I love you so much."

"I love you too, Max." Liz whispered against his lips and kissed him back

They were interrupted by a child giggling. Max broke the kiss and he and Liz saw a fully dressed Katie smiling.

"Get over here little lady." Max called to Katie. She carefully came onto the balcony and sat on Max's lap. "So how is my favorite little lady today?" Max asked Katie.
Katie giggled and answered, "I am okay, but hungry. Everybody is up and dressed, and Serena, Aunty Tess and Uncle Kyle are here. Uncle Michael is making pancakes. Aunty Maria says we have to wait till you and Aunty Lizzy come down so Uncle Alex told me to come and either wake you up or tell you to hurry up. Uncle Alex is hungry again."
"Uncle Alex is always hungry," Liz repeated. And they all laughed. " C'mon Katie, lets leave Max to get washed and ready and he will meet us downstairs."

"But I want da……. I mean Max to give me a piggyback ride." Katie stuttered out. She knew the truth that Max was her daddy and Liz was her mummy but she wasn't sure when to mention it.

"Okay Katie and Liz, give me 5 minutes. And then we will all go down together." Max suggested. Max then disappeared into Liz's bathroom.

"So Katie, what do you think of Max?" Liz asked Katie. Liz really wanted to know how she felt when it came to Max

"I like him a lot. Will he be my daddy?" Katie asked.

" Katie, Marcus is your daddy and Julie is your mummy." Liz told Katie.

Katie looked confused at Liz, "Not in our other life. You were my mummy and Max was my daddy you two was married."

"Katie, that's not true."

"Yes it is Liz.." Max's voice made her jump.

"What Max? I don't understand." Liz turned and looked at Max.

Max then told her about what his mother said in the dream.

I have just read this from front to back and only now realized that it has been two months since it has been added to.

Are you coming back to post more? Or are you going to leave it just up in the air like this? I hope so much that you haven't just given up on it. Please come back and post more. Please?

Part 17

When Ricky came down the stairs, all the adults stared at him, making him feel uncomfortable.

"Aunty Maria," Ricky spoke softly. "Aunty Liz wanted me to ask you if you could get Katie some water please?"

"Sure thing honey. I'll be right back." Maria answered and headed off to the kitchen.

"Hey kiddo, come over here till Maria comes back with the water." Michael called out to Ricky.

"Okay Uncle Michael," Ricky replied and ran over to Michael and sat on his lap.

Ricky asked Michael, "Who are these people and why do they keep on staring at me?"

"Ricky, these are Max's and my adopted parents and these are Liz's parents." Isabel introduced the parents. She then turned to her parents and the Parkers. "Mum, Dad, Mr. and Mrs. Parker this is Ricky, the oldest of the children. And is Maria and Michael's child in our past life."

"Oh," Ricky realised.

"How's Katie?" Isabelle asked softy to Ricky in a concerned voice. Partly worried for her niece and trying to distract the parents from asking Ricky lots of questions.

Ricky looked down at his hands," she had one of her vision things. It was scary to see her like that." He said sadly while trying to fight off his tears.

"Hey little man," Michael said holding him tightly to his chest, "We will sort it out and make sure nothing happens to anyone, especially you and your sisters."

"Spaceboy is right." Maria interrupted them." Now, here is Katie's water. And I promise you that everything will work out okay. Now give me a hug and go back upstairs, okay?"

"Okay Aunt Ria, and thanks." Ricky smiled and gave Maria a very big hug and said to her and Michael, "I love you both."

"We love you to kiddo, now go," Michael told Ricky.

"Okay I am going. Bye everyone, it was nice to meet you." Ricky said to the parents and scurried off upstairs. His head peered down ward and asked, "Shall I look in on Anne and Juile?"

"That would be great Ricky, and you can come back down to tell us if we need to check on them." Isabel answered.

"Okay." Ricky's head disappeared .

"Whatever Katie saw must of been pretty bad for Ricky almost to cry like that." Serena spoke quietly.

All the parents moved their gaze from the spot where Ricky was just a moment ago, to Serena.

"Would one of you please tell us what the hell those four children are doing in my house. And where is my daughter?" Jeff shouted, clearly annoyed.

"She is upstairs trying to get our past life daughter to calm down after she saw everyone one of us murdered in cold blood. Including her older brother and her two younger sisters." A angry voice startled everyone in the room. They all turned round to see a pissed off Max.

The adults jaws were dropped open. No one had ever seen Max this angry before, apart from the pod squad.

"Oh no, Alex." Isabel cried softly. Alex hugged her to his chest.

"It's okay Bella." Alex soothed his girlfriend using his pet name for her." We will fix this, won't we Max?" Alex said looking at Max while he spoke.

"Yes we will." Max said reassuring his sister. "But before we talk about that, I want to make sure that Katie for once will have a dream that all nine year olds have. So Iz, could you please help to make that happen for her please?" Max asked his sister.

"Sure. It's the least I can do. Alex can you hold me while I do this?" Isabel asked her boyfriend shyly.

"Yeah, of course Bella." Alex replied.

Michael and Maria got of the seat and sat on the floor.

Isabel laid stretched out on the seat with Alex holding her. "Max, I need a picture of Katie.

" No you don't. Just form an image of Katie in your mind and reach out to her. " Julie instructed Isabel.

"All your powers are getting stronger." Julie informed everyone.

"Okay, can we have some quiet please? I can't do this if everyone is talking. Oh, one more question before I do this. What do nine year old girls dream of. Cause I have no idea what to do for her." Isabel admitted sheepishly.

"Try to do something with unicorns. That's her favourite mythical creature." Max suggested causing everyone to look at him.

"Okay here it goes, see you in a little while." Isabel said then closed her eyes.

"Max, how do you know what Katie's favourite mythical creature is?" His father wispered.

"Well, back on Antar, the planet we used to live on, Liz and I decorated Katie's bedroom with unicorns." Max wispered back.

"Max how did you know that?" Maria wispered.

"I don't know, I just did." Max answered.

Isabel opened her eyes and looked around.

"Well?" Max asked hopefully.

"She is now dreaming about riding unicorns with you and Liz." Isabel answered smiling at everyone.

Max went over to his sister and gave her a big hug and wispered in her ear "Thanks sis."

"No problem. I didn't want my niece to dream about bad things happening to her family again. Wow that was something I didn't think would happen for quite awhile. I have a niece." Isabel said, a bit amused.

"So, can you tell us more about yourselves?" Nancy asked the podsquad.

"I think we better wait for Liz before we tell you any more. I'll go and get her." Max suggested.

"No need Max, I'm here." Liz spoke as she came down the stairs.

"Lizzie chica, how are you and Katie?" Maria asked her.

"Well, I'm still trying to get over what Katie saw. It's just a shock. Katie is finally asleep. I checked on the girls and got Ricky to sleep next to Katie." Liz confessed.

"I knew we should have never left the children with Marcus." Liz told everyone.

"That's the children's father in this life who is working with Kivar, who is the leader of a planet neighbouring the planet that we used to live on." Max informed the parents.

"Liz, we did not have any choice in this matter. We were really young at the time. Now we can find a way of looking after the children." Alex told his sister.

"Julie can't you take the children back? I mean you are their mother." Maria asked Julie.

‘No sweetie, I can't. They don't belong to me now. They are your children. I carried them till you were able to take care of them. Katie is now your daughter Max and Liz. Ricky is now Michael and Maria's son. Anne is Alex and Isabel's daughter and Jenny is Kyle and Serena's daughter. All the children know that I am not their real mother and Marcus is not their real father. I have done what I promised Max and Isabel's mother." Julie explained. " And that was to make sure the children are with their rightful parents. I think I will explain the story to your parents.

"Liz and Max were the king and Queen of Antar, our planet. They all died on Katie's 4th birthday, murdered by Kivar and Siver, who is on Earth now. Siver wants to take Liz and Isabel back with him to Antar. So Liz will become his Queen and have Isabel as his mistress. The Queen's technicians had been working on a back up plan that was a closely guarded secret. They were able to clone dead people and send them to Earth as children. So they would be safe and be able to come back when they were older, to save their planet."

"Mum, Dad when you found us on the road, Michael, Isabel and myself were in these incubation pods. That kept us alive for 50 years. The night you found us in the desert, we had just broke free of our pods."

"But Michael, we did not see you when we picked Max and Isabel." Diane said.

"I hid when I saw the car coming. I was scared." Michael admitted.

"Oh Michael. I am so sorry. You have been best friends with Max and Isabel for so many years and are like a son to us. If we would have seen you, we would of taken you in as well." Philip told Michael

"That's okay." Michael said back.

"We didn't meet Michael till school and we realised that he was one of us. Michael was the same as us. There was someone else I saw when I got off the bus that day. It was a long haired brunette girl. I fell in love with her that day at the age of eight. But I was scared to let her know what I really was." Max told the parents while holding Liz's hand and smiling at her.

"We managed to keep everyone from knowing about what we were for a few years, till Liz got shot in the Crashdown and my dear brother healed Liz, exposing that we are aliens." Isabel pitched in.

"I promised Max I would not say anything to anyone but Maria knew that I wasn't telling her the truth so I had to tell her about Max and the others." Liz joined in.

"I was the next one to find out. Liz and I ended up in jail because the Sheriff was chasing around trying to find out about what Max did to Liz in the Crashdown. Liz finally confessed and told me what happened." Alex joined in as well.

"Kyle and the sheriff were the last ones to find out about us. We have had some trouble along the way. We had the FBI kidnapping and torturing Max ." Michael joined in.

"What? Why? When?" Philip and Diane cried out.

"Mum, Dad they did it to me because they wanted to find out why I was here. It was horrible what they did to me. It was last year." Max told his parents.

Part 18

"Oh my god Max!" Diane cried and ran over to him and hugged him.

"I want to find who ever did this and make them pay." Philip shouted angrily.

"Dad you won't have a problem with that." Max reassured his father.

"Why, Max?" Diane asked unsure what why Max would say that.

"I killed him" Michael told everyone.

There was a gasp in the room.

"You….. k….illed s….omeone." Nancy stuttered out sounding frightened.

"Yes he did. Mrs P. He did it to save Kyle's dad, Max and your daughter. " Maria defended Michael.

"Oh right." Nancy understood still confused that there are aliens among them.

"I think we better stop this for the evening. We can start afresh in the morning. There is a bit more to tell you and we need to sort out what we are going to do with the children. We also need to find out how to stop Marcus from killing us. And taking the children," said Max.

"About the children, Max. I have an idea. But Maria it's time to tell your mother the truth." Liz suggested.

"Liz you have to be kidding!" Maria told Liz shocked.

"If you want to keep Ricky, we have to tell her. Oh and Alex we need tell your parents as well." Liz told everyone.

"Liz, what is your idea?" Max asked looking at his only love.

"Well, my idea is: Mr. Evans if you could make up some adoption papers for the children and have you and Mr Evans adopt Isabel's child Anne, and get Maria's mother to adopt Ricky, My parents to adopt Katie and the Sheriff to adopt Jenny." Liz suggested.

"Um, I think I can do that." Philip Evans managed to take all that in. He was surprised that Liz and Max could take charge.

"But Liz…" Maria spoke softly. Her eyes shined with unshed tears.

"Ria, I know that you want to be with Michael and Ricky. My god I want nothing more to be with Max and Katie as a family should but we can't yet. We have so much to do and we can't afford looking after them by ourselves. It will only be for a few years and then we can all be with the people that we love." Liz said hugging her best friend.

"Kyle you need to fill in your dad, about what's going on. Max told Kyle.

"Okay then I'll let him know when we break up our little get together."

"Maria, you and Michael go with Julie first thing tomorrow and tell you mother the truth then bring her……… " Liz then looked to Max and asked "Max where are we going to meet up?"

"Mum, dad can we gather at our house tomorrow?" Max asked his parents.

"Yeah, that will be fine. We can have a barbecue." Diane suggested.

"Liz and Maria can bring the children over." Max looked over to Liz and Maria who both nodded.
The sound of shuffling on the stairs caused everyone to look up.

"Aunty Lizzie what's going on." Katie rubbed her eyes, with one hand and held Anne's hand with the other. Ricky was holding Jenny's hand.

"What are you doing up?" Liz went over to pick up Anne and placed her on Isabel's lap. Kyle went over and picked Jenny up.

"We just woke up and couldn't get back to sleep and we missed you." Katie went over and scrambled onto Max's lap.
Ricky ran over to Maria and Michael and opened his arms. Michael pulled him to Maria and himself.

The adults just stared at their children with their children.

"My baby's got a child." Nancy started to cry and buried her head in Jeff's body .

Jeff held is wife's body tightly to him.

Kyle was blowing raspberries on Jenny's tummy which caused her to bust out with laughter.
Serena just watched Kyle and Jenny with happy tears in her eyes.

Isabel and Alex were playing with Anne's toes and making her laugh.

Ricky was explaining to Michael that he loved to watch football but missed the last games.

Katie and Max were bonding talking softly to each other. While Liz was brushing Katie's hair.
Okay I think we better get the kids to sleep and then we better get some rest ourselves. Liz brought the group back to the present.

"Aunt Lizzie, who's going to take care of us?" Ricky walked over to Liz and asked her.

"Kids come here for a minute." Liz called them and they all scrambled over to Liz and Liz crouched down to their level.
Maria moved so she was near Liz. Alex and Kyle did the same.

"You know how much we love you, and how sorry we are that we weren't there to look after you. We were kids at the time ourselves. And I wished things could have been different. We would have never let Marcus take you away from us when Julie left. We are going to have to spilt you up tomorrow." Liz said softly while stroking Katie's head.

"What? No!" Ricky shouted clinging to his sisters.

"Lizzie, you promised that we would all stay together." Katie cried.

Maria cried softly into Kyle's shoulder.

Alex put his hand on Liz's shoulder to allow comfort.

"Ricky, Katie you know that in our life on Antar you were cousins." Liz spoke again." And here you still are cousins but we all can't live together, not yet. But you will be with these people. They all know who we are." Liz motioned around the room with her hand. "Katie you will be staying with me and my parents. Anne you will be staying with Kyle, Serena and his dad. Jenny you will be staying with Isabel, Max and their parents."

Maria went over to Ricky. "Ricky I want you stay with my mother and myself."

"Aunt Lizzie why can't we all be with our parents?" Katie asked confused.

"Katie, Ricky you know that things are different here. We can't afford a place of our own and I am pretty sure our parents don't want us all living together. It will also cost us some unwanted attention." Liz tried to explain.

"Okay but promise us that we can see each other every day?" Ricky agreed and asked

"Of course you can." Nancy Parker interrupted causing them to look around. They forgot that the parents were around.

"Lizzie can we have a song?" Katie asked her eyes lighting up.

"What? Now?" Liz asked.

"Yeah, please?" Ricky asked.

"Alex, can you get your guitar?"

"Liz, you can sing?" Nancy asked her daughter. Amazed

"Why have you never let us hear your voice before?" Jeff asked shocked.

"I stopped singing awhile ago." Liz confessed. "As soon as I have sung, you kids are going off to bed and we will call it a night."

STAR~~ It's been a long time! I'm so sorry. I had read part 13 two nights ago and I guess the feedback didn't post. Anyway- I love it so far and will be trying to finish the last parts in the next few days. Of course I'm right in the middle of moving out of state-- so forgive me on not leaving enough feedback.

I really flipped when Marcus betrayed her and Julie appearing. Can't wait to read the rest!