Love Conquers All
Part 1 Alex and Isabel
Name:Laura
E-Mail:Sweetstuff_27_5@yahoo.com
Disclamer:I
do not own
characters,
wish I did though.
Rating:PG-13
Spoilers:Changed
the Max can't bring Alex back scene.
This
is the first story in a series of three. A/I is
the
first story. M/M and M/L will follow.
Ch 1
It
was so bizarre, she could hardly believe that it was true. Alex Whitman was
dead, and she, Isabel
Evans,
his semi—girlfriend , was waiting out side
of a morgue, while her brother climbed into the ambulance
where
Alex’s body still was to try and save him. Bizarre was the best word she could
come up with for
the situation.
She
wasn’t going to cry. She wasn’t.
Alex wasn’t really gone not for good anyway.
He loved her, like
no
one had ever loved her. He thought
that she was special, not because of the grades, not because she
was
gorgeous, ok so those things factored into it, but because she was Isabel Evans.
He didn’t care that she
was
an alien, he didn’t care that it put his life on the line.
Alex didn’t think about things like that. Alex thought about things in
terms of how she could get hurt. He
was an angel on Earth, and she intended that he stay here with her.
Isabel
knew she was on the verge of tears. It
didn’t help that Maria and Liz were sniffing around her. Tess wasn’t even
comforting, it was like she was somewhere else. Kyle was paying most of his
attention to Liz and Tess and Michael had his arms rapped tightly around Maria
to keep her standing. ‘We need you
Alex. Please come home.’
Isabel’s
thoughts went to the prom. A week
ago they had been dancing together. He’d
taken a chance on her
again
and she was ready for him for the first time. She had fallen for Alex that
night, no one could tell
her
otherwise, no one. Max stepped down from the ambulance.
It seemed like forever since he got in.
Where was Alex? He wasn’t
behind Max.
“I
couldn’t save him. I’m sorry.”
Max said, his voice strained.
No
one moved. It was almost as if they
didn’t move they would wake up from this nightmare, that it would
all
go away.
“No!”
Maria’s anguished moan was the first break to the silence.
Soon
all of the girls were in tears. Isabel
stood still, watching the ambulance as Max Michael and Kyle
were
herding everyone back to the cars.
“Come
on Izzy.” Max said gently.
“He’s gone. You need to
get some sleep, Iz. You won’t be
able to
function
if you don’t.”
“Max’s
words were foreign to her, like she could no longer understand the language, but
they made
something
inside of her snap. Isabel did
something completely uncharacteristic. She
took off at a run
and
threw open the ambulance doors and scrambled to climb inside.
She sat down next to Alex and began to
cry
and yell at him.
“Damn
you Alex Whitman!” She screamed through her tears. “You weren’t the only
one taking a chance you
know,
I was taking a chance on you. I’ve
never actually been out on a date. No
one has ever cared
about
me the way that you do. You can’t
leave me, you can’t.”
Isabel
put her arms around Alex’s neck and laid her head down on his chest and sobbed
hysterically, holding on for dear life. Inside
she was hoping to hear a heartbeat or that she die herself so that she could go
with him.
Max
climbed in after his sister and grabbed her by the shoulders.
“He’s gone Izzy, he’s gone. There’s
nothing I can do. I tried, really I
did, for you, for everyone, but he’s gone Izzy.
Say goodbye.”
Isabel
moved her hands up on either side of Alex’s head, as if to give him one last
message, or to get in
one
last time. Max put his hands over
Isabel’s to try and pull her out, but an amazing surge of power went
through
them both, throwing Max out of the ambulance.
Isabel
didn’t know what to do. She turned
to look at Max, and almost went out to help him, but movement
from
inside the ambulance stopped her. Her
head instantly whipped back to the prone body, lying on the
gurney.
“Alex.”
Isabel said softly, praying to whoever was up
up,
please Alex.”
“Iz.”
Alex said as his eyes fluttered open. “You
saved me.” His voice sounded like
dry leaves.
“Yes.
Yes I did.” Isabel said as
tears began to fall down her face again. She
laid her head over his heart
again
and this time heard a definite beat, she cried even harder.
“Don’t
cry Izzy.” Alex said as he moved his hand to stroke her hair.
“Please baby, don’t cry. I’m right
here.”
“Why,
Alex? Why were you in that accident? What
happened?” Isabel asked, needing to know.
“There
was no accident Iz.” Alex said tonelessly.
“Yes
there was. It’s what killed you.” Isabel noticed that she was starting to
get hysterical again and
instantly
tried to calm herself down. “It’s alright, you just don’t remember.”
“There
was no accident Iz.” Alex said,
tears welling up in his eyes as he got ready to tell her the truth.
“It
was Tess Iz. She did this to me.
She broke me.” Tears began to fall down Alex’s face as he remembered
everything that had happened over the past year.
He hadn’t wanted Isabel to know what Tess had done to him, he’d
feared it would make him less desireable in her eyes and he never wanted to lose
her.
Isabel
stared at Alex. Tess.
Tess couldn’t have done this, she wasn’t capable of this.
But why would Alex
lie?
Why would Alex say these things about her best friend if they weren’t
true? He wouldn’t.
It was that simple. Alex
would do anything to save her pain, he would never intentionally cause it.
Isabel
instantly blamed herself. She’d
brought Tess into the circle, she was the one that had convinced everyone that
Tess was OK. Well not
everyone. Liz and Maria had never
liked her, they’d been right all along. “I’m
so sorry Alex. She’ll pay for
this, I promise. She’ll pay for
this.”
Max
stood up outside the ambulance shocked. Power
like that had never gone through him, not even when
he’d
saved Liz and had had his whole being focused on her.
Max figured that Iz had somehow used him to try
and
get Alex back. He just felt bad that
there was nothing that he could do.
That
was when he heard it. “She’ll
pay for this, I promise. She’ll
pay for this.”
Max
jumped back into the ambulance, not caring how exhausted he was.
The sight that greeted him was
shocking.
Isabel was holding on to Alex making
“Alex.”
Max said, his voice filled with breathless wonder.
Isabel
sat up straight upon hearing Max’s voice and put on a smile while wiping away
her tears. “You were
wrong.”
She said, the teasing element obvious in her voice.
“Well
Alex, we’ve got to get you out of here.” Max said smiling.
“I don’t think they approve of corpses
coming
back to life.”
“Maxwell,
what the hell is taking so long?” Michael’s
voice echoed from outside the ambulance. “Damn
it
Isabel.
If Maxwell can’t drag you out I sure as hell will. I’ve already got Maria in
the car-” Michael
stopped
short upon seeing Alex. “You
brought him back. Alright Maxwell,
we’re dragging Alex out of
here.
Get out Isabel, so we have enough room to pick him up.”
“Which
car?” Max asked looking over Alex to Michael.
“The
Jetta. I think this is what Maria
really needs right now. Besides Kyle
already took Liz and Tess
home”
Michael said.
The
boys picked Alex up and carried him to the Jetta, and laid him down in the
backseat. Isabel slid in
with
him, putting his head on her lap. Michael
climbed into the driver’s seat and nudged Maria who
had
fallen asleep in the passenger’s seat.
“Maria.”
Michael’s voice was gentle as he stroked Maria’s hair.
“There’s someone here I think you’d
like
to see.”
“I
don’t want to see anyone Michael. I
just want to go home.” Maria’s
voice was filled with tears and
exhaustion.
“Not
even me Ria?” Alex questioned from the backseat.
“Alex?”
Maria asked, shocked. She
peeked around her seat and saw her dear friend behind her.
“Alex!” She
screamed
throwing her arms around him, practically climbing in the backseat.
“OK
Maria.” Michael said
“Get back in your seat so I can drive.”
Maria
did as Michael asked but kept on talking the entire way home.
Michael decided that Alex would stay
at
his place for the night, or until they could come up with some plausible excuse
for this resurrection.
Isabel
and Maria insisted on staying as well. Each
called home and told their mothers that they were
staying
at the Parker’s to spend time remembering Alex.
Lying wasn’t on their top list of priorities but they didn’t know
what else to do.
Michael
put Alex down in his bed and said that he would be sleeping on the couch that
night. Maria stayed a little longer,
but eventually she to left to go be with Michael.
Isabel sat there for over an hour just holding his hand.
Once she was too tired to even sit there she got up to go find a place to
sleep. Alex held her hand tight.
“I
can’t sleep Izzy. I need you here
with me. Come lie down next to me.
I just need to feel you in my arms Iz, to hold you close.”
He
didn’t have to ask her twice. Isabel
crawled into the bed next to him and a smile lit up her face as his arms slipped
around her body. He was alive and at
that moment that was all that mattered, they’d deal with the rest later. They
fell asleep together, breathing to the same beat.