Title: Dangerously Exotic
By: Tammi B.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Roswell or anything affiliated with it. So please
don’t sue!!
Summary: A party! Maria and Liz dress a little naughty for a party and here
are the results. This is my first Muse writing, but this weekend has been
boring and I needed to amuse myself somehow. Be forewarned it has not been
beta-ed. This takes place somewhere in Season 1 (In honor of the episodes
showing on Sci-Fi). I’m not sure where you would place it, but I gave Maria
long hair because I think she looks sooo much better with that.
Feedback: Yes please!!!
Distribution: Just ask and ye shall receive.

Maria ran her hand down her sides. The dress was killer. It was fire
engine red and fit like a second skin. It’s little red straps were just for
show. The dress could have easily held itself up without them. She said a
quick thanks that her mom had already left for the evening. Amy would never
have let her out of the house looking like she did. She giggled as she
pointed her toe in her strappy red high heels. She looked at the clock and
wondered when Liz was going to show up. She ran a hand through her long
blonde hair and wondered if she should change into something a little less
risqué. She grinned at her reflection and knew that she wasn’t going to
change. It was just one party.

The doorbell rang and Maria sauntered out of her room and down the hallway.
She opened the door and stared. Liz was dressed in some silly excuse of a
dress too. It was black and short skirted. It also had straps that served
no purpose. Both girls met each other’s eyes and they grinned. “Liz that
is a fantastic dress. Max is going to be beating his head against the wall
just to get close to you. He’ll of course have to fight off half of the
guys at the party.” Maria told her with a wink.

“Only half the guys? Where are the other half?” Liz asked laughing.

“Trying to see who can get the closest to me of course.” Maria said with a
laugh. “Come on in. It’s cool out. Did you bring a jacket?”

“Yes, but I left it in the car. I wanted to surprise you. I see I got a
surprise myself. Who are you dressing up for?” Liz asked curious to find
out what boy had finally caught Maria Deluca’s attention.

Michael Guerin’s face flashed in Maria’s mind as she said, “No one.” She
frowned and wondered why she’d thought of Michael. He wasn’t her type.
After all he was a Czechoslovakian. She was even thinking with their code
term for aliens now. It was most likely safer that way.

“Come on Maria. There isn’t one boy who you want begging on his knees?”
Liz asked curious. There was something in Maria’s expression that was
saying there was someone, but she just wasn’t going to say who.

“Seriously Liz, there isn’t anyone. I mean Roswell doesn’t exactly have the
best selection of boys. Besides the one hottie is taken. Mr. Maxwell Evans
will not be able to take his eyes off of you. Let me grab a coat and we’ll
head out. I think we are fashionably late. We’ll pick up Alex and then go
knock the socks off all the boys at the party.” Maria said as she walked
over to the closet. She pulled out a long black coat and put it on.

Liz just shook her head at Maria and decided she’d have to keep an eye open
tonight for this mysterious guy that Maria wouldn’t tell her about. “Do you
really think that Max won’t be able to take his eyes off me?” Liz asked as
they walked to the car. Liz’s parents had let her borrow the car for the
night. They gave her a lecture about how the car was not a toy for close to
an hour, but they had given her the keys.

“He’s going to trip over his tongue just trying to get to you honey.” Maria
said as she climbed in the car.

Liz and Maria both grinned. That night was going to be very interesting.

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Michael watched Max check his outfit in the mirror for the third time. “Why
are you going to all the trouble Maxwell? It is just going to be a bunch of
high school girls.”

“Liz is going to be there.” Max said as if that explained it all. Michael
didn’t know why Max was getting all worked up over a girl. There wasn’t a
girl in Roswell that he was interested in. Maria Deluca’s face flashed into
his mind, but he pushed it away. She thinks I’m a freak. He told himself
as he glanced down at his clothes. A nice pair of black pants and what he
called his disco shirt (a shiny blue shirt) were more dressy than he had
planned, but of course that had nothing to do with the fact that Maria was
going to be at the party.

Max turned from the mirror and smiled at Michael. He was amazed that
Michael had actually put something decent on for the party. “Why did you go
to all the trouble of looking nice if it‘s just a bunch of high school
girls? Is there a girl that has caught your attention?” Max asked with a
smile.

Michael frowned as Maria’s face popped into his mind again. “No!” He said a
little too forcefully.

Max raised his eyebrows and wondered who Michael was thinking of. He hadn’t
seen Michael this worked up over someone ever. Something big must be going
on. He decided he was going to keep an eye out for which girl Michael spent
a lot of time with that night. “Come one let’s go.” He said and they
headed out to the party.

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Michael and Max arrived at the party before Liz and Maria. Max began to
look around, but didn’t see Liz anywhere. “They must not be here yet.” He
yelled to Michael over the music.

Michael looked around and spotted a corner where they could talk without
yelling. He pulled Max over and asked, “Why are we here again?”

“We need to blend in. Live a little. Besides Izzy wanted to come and I
promised my parents I’d keep an eye out for her.” Max said as he spotted
his sister sitting on a couch with a circle of guys around her. He noticed
she kept glancing toward the door as if waiting for someone. He wondered
which guy had caught his sisters fancy.

Michael and Max stood talking, both trying to not be obvious in watching the
door. Max had just finished making a joke about Isabel’s fan club when
Michael sensed her. He looked at the door and he lost his breath.

There in the door stood Maria. He couldn’t tell what she was wearing
because she’d yet to take off her coat. He wondered what kind of silly
hippy dress she would be wearing this evening. Their eyes met from across
the room and held. Something electric seemed to pass through the air and
shocked them both. Both looked hastily away. Michael knew he was in for a
hell of a night as he turned to look at Max. Max’s eyes were fixed on the
door. Michael glanced over at the door again. Maria was standing to the
side of the door talking to Alex. Liz was now framed by the door wearing
some flimsy excuse of a dress. Michael raised his eyebrow, but turned his
gaze to Maria. Why hadn’t she taken off her jacket yet? Michael cleared
his throat and walked away to get some thing to drink.

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Maria’s heart rate increase threefold when she’d made eye contact with
Michael. She could almost feel the sexual tension. Both of them broke eye
contact and Maria turned to Alex. He was looking very cute in his normal
clothes. Liz and she had both tried to talk him into wearing something a
little bit more impressive. Something that would catch Isabel’s eye more
than his normal clothes would. He’d refused and said that if Isabel didn’t
like him for who he was then she could just go sit on a tack. Or something
like that. “So Mr. Cool what are you plans now? Are you going to go over
to her?”

“Nope I’m going to let her approach me. Liz it looks like your dress is
doing the trick. Here comes a very dazed Max Evans.” Alex said as he
slipped away from them. “I’ll see you guys at 1am.”

Maria looked over and sure enough Max was making his way over to them. She
looked around to see if Michael was anywhere to be found, but he’d
disappeared. She decided she could safely take off her jacket now. Michael
had made her feel very self conscious. She’d almost wished she had wore a
different dress. She turned to Liz and saw her glowing.

Of course something was going to happen between Max and Liz before the night
was over. Maybe they would both profess their undying love to each other.
Maria thought with a giggle. Liz turned to her and asked, “What? Is there
something wrong with my dress or my hair?”

“No, no it was just something funny I thought of. I‘ll tell you later.
Here he is!” Maria said as she turned back to face Max.

Max and Liz met eyes and said, “Hey” at the same time. Then they both
laughed nervously. Max gave Liz a soulful look as said, “That is a great
dress.” He watched Liz blush and turned to Maria. He saw her without her
coat for the first time. His eyes widened with shock. “You both must want
to give all the guys from Roswell High a heart attack. And boy is it ever
going to work!!!” Max said with a grin.

“Oh these old dresses? They were just something we had laying around.”
Maria said returning the grin and nudged Liz.

“Oh yeah something that was just laying around.” Liz repeated.

“Would you like to dance Liz?” Max asked cautiously.

“I’d love to Max.” Liz reassured with a smile. “See you at 1am Maria.”

And with that suddenly Maria was alone. She was happy for Liz, but she’d
thought that they would have hung out a little bit more together. Saying
you were going to be surrounded by men and actually being surrounded by them
was the key here. Maria decided to brazen it out and smiled at the first
boy that walked by. His eyes widened and he stumbled spilling the drinks
he’d been carrying all over. She grinned and felt much better. She stepped
away from the wall and went to cause trouble with all the boys.

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Michael took a drink of his cola. The party so far was pretty lame. He’d
promised Max he’d stay only until 1am. Then he was free to find something
better to do. It was only 11pm. He needed to amuse himself with someone,
but so far he hadn’t been interested in any of the girls he’d seen….there
was Maria, but he wasn’t counting that. She was not his type. No she
definitely wasn’t his type. He needed to find someone exotic, sexy,
dangerous. With that in mind he downed the rest of his cola and went to see
if Roswell held the kind of girl he was looking for.

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Chip, Tim, James, John, Mike, Jason and Jess surrounded Maria. They were
all single and on the football team. She felt so tiny and delicate, yet
sexy and exotic at the same time. It was an interesting feeling. They were
all practically panting just from looking at her. They had just come up and
started talking to her.

“Wow Maria, who knew that you were hiding a damn fine body like that.” Tim
said with his southern twang. He was from Georgia. ‘A good ol’ southern
boy,’ Maria thought with a smile.

“Me? Hiding this?” Maria asked skimming her hands down her sides. Her
eyes obtained a devilish glint as she watched all the guy’s jaws drop. “I
wouldn’t dream of hiding this, but you know the teachers at school. Always
telling kids to put on more clothes. I show up like this at school, but by
the end of the day I end up looking like I normally do.” She said with a
little pout. The boys were eating it right out of her hand. She laughed a
sultry laugh that she’d been practicing in secret and the boy were just
shivering with anticipation.

“Would you like some thing to drink Maria?” Chip asked. “Cause I can get
it for you like that.” He snapped to show that he was fast.

“She wants someone who will take his time.” Mike said with a sly smile.
“I’ll get you something to drink and I’ll get it nice and slow.”

Maria gave him a blank stare as though she didn’t understand what he was
saying. “Oh you boys just want to take the best care of me….but sometimes a
girl just wants to have fun.” She said with a little shimmy. She was in
the mood to dance. Hopefully one of the jocks knew how to dance. She was
feeling a little naughty and needed to dance.

James elbowed Mike in the ribs a bit too hard and Mike got a pained
expression on his face. He excused himself quickly in a tight voice. Maria
cocked her eyebrow and fixed her green fire eyes on James. “You seem like a
nice boy James.” She leaned in close standing on her tiptoes to whisper in
his ear. “Do you want to dance?” She ran a finger down his chest and felt
his muscles quiver underneath her touch.

“I…uh…yes.” James said with a gulp. Maria grinned and took his hand and
lead him to the dance floor. The other boys stood staring and thinking that
James was the luckiest guy at the party.

The song was a fast one with a good beat. Maria was going to find out just
how well this boy moved. She started moving to the music and really getting
into it. When the music was blaring and she was in the mood to dance she
forgot everything else and just danced. She was very into the music. She
was getting down and dirty…and James was just standing there staring. She
frowned and stopped dancing. “What is it James?” She asked a little
breathy. She watched his jaw just open and close.

John came up and elbowed James out of the way and started to dance. Maria
threw an apologetic look to James and started to dance. She watched John
dance and couldn’t help but giggle. He was a horrible dancer, but he was
trying. She danced the song with him and then retreated to the edge of the
dance floor.

James snagged her arm and pulled her into a corner. “I’m sorry Maria, you
were just so beautiful I couldn’t do anything. I hope you can forgive me.”
He said with a puppy dog face. She grinned up at him.

“Of course I can James. Would you be a dear and go grab me a water? I’m
very thirsty.” She asked with a wink.

“Yeah, yeah right away.” He said and stumbled backwards. She giggled and
leaned against the wall. She looked around and noticed Jason and Jess
making their way over to her. She felt a tap on her arm and turned to find
Liz standing there. “Hey Lizzy. Where is Max?” Out of the corner of her
eye she saw Jason and Jess stop and pretend to be chatting about something.
She grinned.

“He went to get me some water. I can see you’re having a good time. You
know this could cause problems come Monday.” Liz said in a low voice.

“What would cause problems?” Maria asked. Liz gave her a look and she
replied, “Oh they’ll forget all about me before the weekend is over. Just
let me have a little fun Liz. I haven’t had this much fun since I found out
about the Czechoslovakians.”

Liz was torn, but Maria did look like she was having a lot of fun. She bit
her lip and then said, “Just be careful. I want you to leave with me
though.”

Maria winked at Jason and Jess. “I didn’t have any other plans but that.
Now go back to Max and have a kick ass time. Oh one more thing where is
Alex?”

“He’s over in a corner somewhere talking with Isabel. She went and looked
for him, so I bet he’s happy.” Liz said as she slipped away.

Maria turned her gaze back to Jason and Jess. They appeared to be arguing.
She wondered about what as she headed over to them. When she reached them
she smiled and said, “What seems to be the problem here boys?”

“We’re deciding who is going to dance with you next.” Jason said as he
glared at Jess. “I say I should and Jess says he should.”

Maria frowned and looked from Jason to Jess. “Well when you boys figure
that out come and find me.” She told them and walked away. They didn’t
even appear to notice she was gone. She heard their voices raise in
argument and sighed. She wanted to dance. She spotted Billy Patterson
standing in the corner of the room looking around at everyone. He was cute,
but considered a geek. He was right behind Liz in class rank, meaning he
was second. At that moment she thought he would do perfectly, just as long
as he could dance.

She sauntered up to him and smiled. “Hey Billy.”

She watched his eyes grow wide and he stuttered, “H-hello M-Maria.”

“What would you say if I asked you to dance?” Maria said grinning.

“I guess I would have to ask why you wanted to dance with me when there are
so many more guys here worthy of dancing with you.” Billy said with all
seriousness.

“Why would you say that?” Maria asked with her head cocked to the side.

“Because you’re beautiful. Why would you want to dance with me?” Billy
asked sweeping his hand down his body. He was dressed nicely, if not a bit
preppy for a party.

“That decides it. I’m just going to have to dance with you now.” Maria
said with a grin. “You’re just too sexy for me to resist.”

“M-me?!” Billy squeaked.

“Yes you silly boy. Now come and dance with me.” Maria said as she held
out her hand. With a slight hesitation Billy took her hand and lead her to
the dance floor. He was the sweetest guy and Maria was glad she decided to
dance with him.

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Michael had been on the prowl for about an hour. Just when he thought he
had found a girl that fit what he was looking for she changed and she wasn’t
the girl he wanted anymore. It took a matter of going up to her and talking
for a few moments. Then she changed and she wasn’t what he wanted. He was
growing frustrated. He wanted to go home. He walked toward the dance floor
where he’d seen Max last. He was going to go home. He didn’t care what Max
said.

That’s when Michael saw her. The sexiest girl he’d ever seen. She appeared
to be exactly what he was looking for. She had a killer body in a killer
red dress. The strange thing was she was talking to Billy Patterson. The
biggest geek in the whole school. As he watched Billy took her hand. They
were headed towards the dance floor. If only he could see her face he’d
know if she was indeed perfect. It wouldn’t be that hard to steal her away
from Billy.

Michael watched Billy lead her to the dance floor. He wondered how Billy
had got such a babe to dance with him. When she started to move he knew,
despite having not seen her face, that she was exactly what he was looking
for, sexy, dangerous, and exotic. He started to move toward them and then
she turned. He stopped dead in his tracks. It was Maria! She was the girl
in the sexiest red dress he‘d ever seen.

He felt something he didn’t feel, jealousy. He was jealous of Billy
Patterson. The geek of the whole school was dancing with Maria, who was the
hottest girl in the whole school. ‘Whoa! Since when had he been thinking
of Maria as the hottest girl in the whole school?’ he asked himself as he
stood watching the way Maria moved to the beat. ‘Since she walked into the
room…since she smiled….since I found out she was the one wearing that killer
dress.’ He told himself. He knew at that moment he wanted her all to
himself. He glanced around the room and saw Max and Liz wrapped around each
other in a slow dance on the dance floor. Isabel was talking with Alex.
Neither Isabel or Max would notice if he snagged Maria away for a few
moments.

Before he could change his mind Michael crossed the room to where Maria was
dancing with Billy. “Excuse me Billy, but I need to talk to Maria for a
moment.” Michael took Maria’s hand and pulled her with him without waiting
for a response. He took her outside and around to the back of the house.
There was a bench swing in the backyard and Michael stopped by it. He
turned to Maria and looked down into her beautiful eyes.

“What makes you think you have the right to pull me out of the party?”
Maria asked her eyes spitting green fire.

“I needed to talk to you.” Michael said simply.

“Well?” Maria asked putting her hands on her hips and without realizing it
calling attention to her breasts.

“Well what?” Michael asked enchanted by her. His eyes slipping down to
take in the picture she mad when she was mad. She was breathtakingly
beautiful.

“What did you need to talk to me about?” She asked exasperated.

Michael didn’t think he just reacted. He pulled her to him and crushed her
lips to his. It was as if a switch went on and a fire started in his body.
Her arms came up around his neck and he pulled her as close as he could get
her. Her mouth opened and Michael took advantage of it. His tongue
slipping into her mouth to explore the wonderful depths.

He finally pulled back and sucked air greedily into his lungs. Maria’s
breathing was also labored. They stayed with their arms wrapped around each
other staring into each other’s eyes catching their breath.

Maria broke the trance by saying, “What was that?”

Michael grinned and said, “That was a kiss.”

“I know that! But where did it come from?” Maria said gazing up at
Michael.

“I really don’t know. When I saw you I knew I wanted you. Then when I
found out it was you I still wanted you. I brought you out here to talk to
you. And this happened.” Michael said shaking his head. He was confused.
He looked down into her eyes and was lost. He groaned and lowered his head
again.

Maria ran her hands through his hair and held him to her. The kiss was
extraordinary. She sighed and gave herself up to the kiss.

Michael got a rush of images of Maria. It was such a fast burst of them
that he couldn’t sort it out. He pulled away and then backed away from her.

Maria looked at Michael confused. “What is it Michael?”

Michael stopped and stared at her. “What happened Michael?” She was asking
him. He couldn’t believe she’d opened up to him. He knew how she felt
about him. He needed to get away and think things through. “I uh have to
go.” He told her and turned and ran away.

Maria sank down onto the swing and stared down at the ground. She didn‘t
understand what just happened. Things had been going so great and then he
ran away. What had gone wrong? Tears welled up in her eyes as she stared
at the ground. One tear fell and slid down her cheek.


I tried to keep it light, but I just couldn't at the end. Sorry!!
Tammi