You Can Never Go Back

Author: Sunnycouger (foolofatook_@hotmail.com)

Rating: R

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: Follow up to When It's Time To Leave Home.

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The War Chapter 2

The room was dark and grey. The smell of burnt flesh made him nauseous as he realised it was coming from his own body. He couldn't see past his swollen eyelids that were caked with blood but he knew that they had left the room and that he would have a few hours before they came back to see "what he knew". He was quite a prize for the rebels. Not only was he a human..one of only two actually living on the planet, he was also the consort of one of the hybrid "saviours" and as such he was a valuable bargaining chip and he also held a vast amount of potentially valuable information. They all knew that wars were won and lost on the quality of information that the armies had and they desperately needed some of it out of his head. Unfortunately, thus far, his resolve had been greater than expected. Kyle groaned as he tried to sit up, the pain from his broken bones stabbing at him with every breath that he took. He tried to look around to see if there were any other prisoners that might be able to heal him a little before they came for him. He had heard her tell him they were coming to get him and it had refreshed his belief that he could make it..that he would make it. He needed to get ready so that he wasn't jeopardising them anymore than he already was even though he knew that Tess, Max or Michael would fix him up when they arrived. He didn't want them to know everything that they had done to him. He didn't want any of them to know how close he came to telling everything, if only they would leave him alone and let them all go back. He didn't want them to know how scared he was. Looking around again he didn't see anyone that could help him so he closed his eyes and thought of her and how close he was, how close they all were to going back home...together, where they belonged.

The two people stood at the front looking at the rest of the room.

"Hardly an enthusiastic crowd you picked Maxwell. I don't think they are going to be a lot of use to us."

"They'll be fine. They'll do what I tell them..they'll be fine."

"You know, eventually you are going to have to wake up and realise that they are not
following you because they respect you. You, Tess, Kyle, Liz, the kids and me..we're hated here and they only tolerate us because of who we were. If they had a chance they would do the exact same thing the humans would do to us; put us on a slab and open us up.”

“Michael..I think you’ve made your point..”

“Just don't think that this blind faith is eternal because of who you used to be. They
don't care about you, they just want to survive."

"Michael! If you’re finished with the speech, maybe we can get going sometime in the next hour. I know what you're saying and I know it's true but..we need them for this. We'll be fine." With that they all began to file out of the room with the 6 soldiers slowly walking behind them towards the ship. As they left the room Max saw his wife walk towards them. She gave him a weak smile as he asked her how Tess was.

“Well, she’s really upset that she’s not going with us. She wants his torturers brought home to her..”

“What did you tell her? She knows that we can’t go in too hard. We need to preserve the treaty and then we can get home..”

“Max, she doesn’t care about the stupid treaty, she just wants him back. I know exactly how she feels with him being hurt and not able to save him, helpless and useless.” Her brown eyes were passionate as she spoke and Max knew what she was referring to.

“Liz, I know this is hard for both you and Tess but please believe me when I say we’ll be fine with Michael and me. There wouldn’t be much of a difference with the three of us anyway.”

“There would have been if there was 4 of us…” Michael muttered as he walked towards the ship.

“Michael we all made our own decisions. She chose to stay and we chose to go. Deal with it.” Max had heard this many times before. Michael had never been able to get over his bitterness that Isabel had a normal life whereas the rest of them had gone to hell.

“Whatever Max all I’m saying is that we could have been home two years ago if she had came with us. C’mon you two before it’s light again.” As they were left alone Max gently kissed Liz and silently asked her to stay. She replied as she always had since they had arrived, with a gentle kiss and a slight shake of the head..she had continually amazed him with her courage. As much as he cared for Kyle, he had thanked God the night that he had been taken because it hadn’t been Liz. He would have killed them all if they had even looked at her. As she looked at him he smiled at her as he took her hand towards the ship.

“You do know that I love you don’t you?”

“I love you too Max. Thank you.”

“C’mon Mrs Evans, lets go complete our contingent and blow this joint.”

“Your wish is my command, dear leader.”

They walked in the ship hand in hand as the doors closed behind them and they left the port to rescue their friend.

Kyle had raised himself to a standing position and began pacing the floor hesitantly. It had been a few hours since he got the message from Tess and he was beginning to worry. They should have been here by now. As much as he wanted out of here he wasn’t prepared for them to be captured as well. He wasn’t willing to let Tess get touched by them just to save him.

“C’mon guys. Where are you? Come and get me.”

He didn’t hear the cell door open and the guard come in behind him. He didn’t know anything until he felt his knees buckle from the kick behind them and felt his face pressed down onto the floor and felt the weight of the guard on his back. His already fractured ribs felt as though they had just shattered into dust as he struggled to find his breath. The guard had grabbed his hair and brought his head down hard against the concrete floor repeatedly leaving him semi-unconscious. Through the daze, as he felt himself slipping away he heard the guard scream at him.

“You led them straight for us! They came straight for us..it’s all over now! You stupid human..did you think for one minute that we wouldn’t kill you once we were found out! We’re all gong to die and it’s all your fault..so you die too.” As the room began to swirl around him he vaguely felt his body being kicked and punched as the last remnants of conscious thought left his body vocally. “Love you..Tessie…”

“Max, over here! The prisoners are over here! C’mon.”

“Go Michael, we’ll take on the guards and be there in a minute. Just make sure he’s ok.”

With that Max fired a blast at his assailant, as the rebels tried in vain to escape before they were captured. They knew that as soon as the humans mate caught them they would be dead. Max glanced at Liz as she blasted the weapon at them, he knew that she wanted to kill them for Tess, but he also knew that she was holding back for all of them. For the sake of the treaty she was letting them live. There was only a handful of them left he noticed and they were busy trying to escape so he yelled at the others to follow him towards the prison where Michael had already headed.

Michael had run down the corridor to the prison where there was only a few rebels left. He quickly disposed of them and went looking for Kyle’s cell. As he found the cell, he saw the guard pummelling Kyle with a barrage of blows to the head and body. Instinctively he let the power erupt from his fingers and the guard went crashing to the floor in a heap. He ran to Kyle and checked his pulse.

“Kyle, c’mon..c’mon, be alive. Think of Tess. MAX!! MAX! GET DOWN HERE! Kyle open your eyes come on!”

He seen that there was no response and instinctively tried to heal some of the damage that had been done by a month of torture. As he formed a connection he felt the memories and feelings coming from Kyle as the damage began to heal. Kyle abruptly opened his eyes as Michael fixed some of the damage and the connection was broken. Max came running in the room to see Kyle struggling for breath and Michael struggling to his feet. He immediately walked over to him and began to heal his broken ribs and the internal bleeding that he was suffering.

“Oh My God Kyle! Are you ok?” Liz came running in the room with concern in her voice.

“I will be thanks to you guys. Thank you Michael, thanks Max..”

Michael just shrugged his shoulders and Max just squeezed his shoulder and helped him to his feet.

“Listen, we have to go. They will get reinforcements in a few minutes. It’s great to see you Kyle but we have to leave. Now!” With that Liz ran out the room and began yelling at the others to begin evacuating. Max smiled proudly while Kyle smiled.

“Well I see..see you’re still whipped Max…something’s never change…”

They smiled as both Michael and Max began to guide him out the room when he told them to stop

”Where’s Tess? Is she ok? They don’t have her do they?” He was beginning to panic.

“Tess is injured. She can’t fight yet and we weren’t gong to risk her to come here. Ok?”

“You better not be lying to me…Evans, I’ll ki..kill you if she’s in danger.”

“Stop being a jack-ass Valenti, Max isn’t lying to you and besides, you would have trouble killing a flipping caterpillar just now so just chill ok?” They began to drag him along and into the ship as everyone else was getting inside. The ship left and they disappeared from view back to the palace.

“I’m sorry..Max. It’s..it’s just..” Max looked at the man sitting in front of him. He knew what it was liked to be tortured, but his ordeal only lasted a day and it had scarred him for years. Kyle had been tortured for a month and still didn’t give up anything to put them in jeopardy. He had taken a long time to like Kyle, now he had grown to rely on him more than he ever thought he would do. He knew that he would be able to help him in the future come to terms with things but that just now, all he needed was a friend.

“Shh Kyle, I know EXACTLY what you mean and how you are feeling, more than the others will. We’ll all be fine.”

“Thanks…” Kyle smiled gently as Michael and Liz came towards him. As he talked he tried to call Tess with his mind to let her know that he was coming home. “I’m coming home Tessie, I won’t let them hurt you again. I’m coming for you..”

TBC