When It's Time To Leave Home

Author: Sunnycouger (foolofatook_@hotmail.com)

Rating: PG

Disclaimer: You all don't honestly think that I own any of this do you? Roswell and all its characters are property of Melinda Metz and Jason Katims..I just take them out to play sometimes...

Category: CC

Summary: This is a future fic when the aliens get a chance to go “home” and the story follows each of their reactions to the news and their final decision.

Authors Notes: This is the introduction to a story arc that involves all the characters. Basically parts 1,2,3 and 4 all run concurrent with each other with the intro and the epilogue starting and finishing things nicely. The parts can stand alone but will work better if you at least read the intro first.

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Prologue

Time: 21.00

The jeep was standing deserted alone in the middle of the New Mexico desert. Almost a mile away stood it's four young occupants staring at each other as though their world was going to end. In truth THEIR world is what awaited them..they had just received word that they could all go home. Suprisingly out of the four of them - Max Evans, Michael Guerin, Tess Harding and Isabel Evans-Whitman, not one of them looked even remotely happy. They all looked and felt drained as they all knew that they were expected to forget their human lives and return home to a planet they knew nothing about and to a species that they only faintly comprehended. The message had been mercifully brief but none the less effective or heartstopping. They had just over twenty hours to get ready and this was their only chance - take it or leave it. The message had asked the "Royal Four" to come and asked how any of them could not go - it was their planet that was asking for their saviours. The silent question that resounded between the four of them was how could they leave? They were all human..this was their home..their lives.

"Well...what do we do now?" asked a tearful and scared Isabel.

"The only thing we can do - we go talk to them. They have a right to decide or at least have a say in it - it's their lives too. Their lives are being wrecked..." he took a deep breath before he continued. "We 'll each make our own minds up and if.. if we don't all decide the same we'll go our separate ways and pray that we can meet again...someday." Max's words were rational but his voice betrayed the anger and bitterness he felt about being dictated to by a planet that he had grown to despise over the years. He looked around and seen the faces of the others they were all the same empty faces dreading the future. "C'mon we better get home...I don't want to miss a second that I don't need to."

The four figures quickly got back to the jeep and drove as fast as they could to the other three cars that they had left outside the town of Roswell while they drove to the desert. As they each left the jeep to get in their own car they had a quick glance at each other and quickly got in and drove of to their respective homes. As they each stopped the car they took a deep breath. One by one their hands found the door as they all wondered what they were going to do...

TBC

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