Author: Susan
E-Mail: susanandtad@cs.com
Category: UC/CC, M/M, Maria/Kyle and Michael/Isabel
Rating: PG-13 – R (for language and talk about sex)
Distribution: Roswell Desert Skies. Anyone else can have it if they want just ask first.
Disclaimer: Don’t own a thing.
Summary: Seventh part to my Unexpected series, which can be found at Roswell Desert Skies.
Author’s Note: Series is based on Improv challenges. At this point who knows how it will end. It could be unconventional or conventional.
Improv
#9: tender - - pale - - glory -
- collage
It has been a week since I found out who the father of my son is and I am still nowhere near ready to deal with it all. Grandma decided it would be best to wait and tell my mom the big news until after I took my last class, which was yesterday. She thought it best for me to not have to worry about my mom’s rampage while I am trying to study and take finals. Jim and my mom had already worked it out with the school here in Phoenix for my grades to be transferred back to Roswell where I would actually receive my diploma and graduate. Roswell’s graduation isn’t till next week so I have a week to get my act together and make my final decisions on what to do about this whole complicated situation.
So today was the big day. Grandma told my mom. To say she was upset would be a major understatement and of course the first thing out of her mouth was who was the father. I told her that she would know as soon as I told him. Of course at that point I could hear her screaming for Kyle and Jim, who were both thankfully not home. I am expecting a call any moment now from Kyle because I know that as soon as he walks in the door my mom is going to go berserk on him. I feel really bad for him. You know my mom is actually truly in her glory when she is in her crazed mother state. I am just glad that I am several hundred miles away from her at this point in time.
So as I wait I am putting together a collage for my son. I want him to know where he came from and that everyone in our lives will forever love him. I sit here and look at pictures of all my friends and of the men I love and wonder how my news is going to affect everyone and where we will all go from here.
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Well I guess the sh*t has officially hit the fan. Kyle called me a couple hours ago. He sounds really freaked. I’m not sure what freaks him more that he may be a father or that he may not be. I told him that I didn’t want to discuss it over the phone and that I would be back in Roswell in two days. I would talk to him about it then. He didn’t want to let it go but I asked him to please give me this time. He eventually conceded and said he would wait until then but he had to know one thing before we got off the phone. Did I love him? I told him yes that I loved him very much and nothing would ever change that.
Liz called me about an hour ago to tell me that my mom came storming into the Crashdown and practically attacked Michael. Mom told him I was pregnant and demanded to know whether he was the father or not. Liz told me that Michael just looked at my mom and then took off. She had to calm my mom down so she wasn’t able to talk to Michael at all. Knowing Michael I am sure he went to go see Kyle. I wouldn’t be too surprised to see them both at my doorstep tomorrow morning when I wake up.
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The
next morning Maria is woke up by someone knocking on her bedroom window. When
she gets to the window she sees both Michael and Kyle outside. She had been
partially correct in assuming they would be here this morning only they didn’t
show up at her doorstep instead they showed up at her bedroom window.
“Why
am I not surprised to see you both?” Maria says to them as she lets them in
the window. “Keep it down I don’t want you to wake my Grandma up too.”
Michael
just looks at Maria with his arms crossed in front of his chest waiting for her
to tell them what they came here to find out.
Maria
starts pacing back and forth. She doesn’t know how to tell them. She doesn’t
even know where to begin. She glances from Michael to Kyle seeing the
anticipation on both their faces.
“Ok
sit down and stop looking at me like that. I guess I will start at the
beginning. When I found out I was pregnant I was shocked and scared. What scared
me the most was I wasn’t sure who the father was. It could’ve have been
either or you.”
“So
you don’t know?” Kyle asks.
“Would
you please let me finish Kyle.” She gives them both a look that they both
recognize quite well. It told them to shut up or else.
“Like
I was saying I didn’t know so I called Liz and asked her and Max to come
here.”
“What?
Maxwell knows and hasn’t said anything.” Michael shouts.
“Listen
Spaceboy I am in no mood right now. I told you to keep in down. Now for the last
time LET ME FINISH.” Maria practically shouts the last words.
“Max
and Liz came here about a week ago and he checked me out. Everything is fine by
the way in case you care about that at all.”
Michael
and Kyle instantly look guilty because obviously they hadn’t even thought to
wonder if she was ok all they were concerned about was who the father was.
“He
is doing fine too.”
“He.”
Michael and Kyle say at the same time.
“Yeah
Max told me it is a boy.” Maria puts her hand on her stomach and smiles. “He
also could tell without a doubt who the father is.”
“Jesus
Maria just tell us already.” Michael says as Kyle shakes his head in
agreement.
“I
need to talk to Kyle alone Michael. Can you please give us just a minute?
Please?”
“What.
No way Maria. You can’t do this now. Just tell me am I the father.”
“Michael
I am not telling you anything until you let me talk to Kyle alone. I mean it.”
Michael could see the fierce determination in her face.
“Fine
I will wait outside. You have 10 minutes.” Before Michael crawled out the
window he placed his hand on Maria’s face in a tender gesture. He wanted her
to know how he felt without having to say the words.
Maria
closed her eyes for a moment before turning back to Kyle who was anxiously
looking at her.
“Maria…”
“Kyle
please let me say this ok. When I was waiting for Max to come I tried not to
think about who the father was. I didn’t want to hope either way but when I
found out to be honest with you I didn’t feel like I thought I would. I
wasn’t exactly disappointed but I wasn’t completely happy about it either. I
knew that no matter who the father was that the baby would be loved and that I
would be taken care of because I know that both of you love me and I love you
both so much. God Kyle things are just so damn complicated. Six months ago I was
in love with Michael and granted our relationship was not perfect but things
were still great and then things changed and me and you happened and I fell in
love with you. Now I am pregnant. Before I found out about the baby I was pretty
sure I had made my decision about who I wanted to be but now I don’t know what
is going to happen because the man I had decided to be with isn’t the father
of my child. I’m sorry Kyle but he is Michael’s.”
Kyle
let out a deep breath and sat down hard on the bed. He was pale and visibly
shaking. He obviously had been hoping that the baby was his.
Maria
could see the pain clearly written on Kyle’s face. She goes and sits down
beside him pulling his hand into her own. “I meant what I said Kyle I did want
to be with you.”
“And
now?” Kyle asks.
“Now
things are just so complicated. You know Michael. You know that he will want to
be apart of our son’s life, plus there is the whole alien thing to consider.
Can you honestly say that it will not bother it that I share I child with
Michael? Can you accept Michael always being in our lives? Can you help raise a
child that isn’t your own and still love him? You have to decide these things
for yourself Kyle I can’t. I know that I don’t want to loose you. I want you
in my life. I love you but I can’t ask you to do anything that you don’t
want or can’t do.”
Kyle
gets up off the bed and paces the room. “God Maria you know I love you but
this is to much for me to take right now. I tried not to hope too much that the
baby was mine because I think I always knew that it wasn’t. I should have
realized it right away. I shouldn’t have even hoped. I should have known that
the one thing I wanted most in the world would once again be taken away by a
damn alien.”
“Kyle…”
“No
Maria don’t. Don’t apologize and don’t tell me that you love me because I
already know these things. Remember I know you. I have known you all your life.
I just can’t believe I was so stupid and so blind to not realize how wonderful
you were until it was to late. Till after you had already fell in love with
Michael. If I hadn’t been so stupid it would have been you that I fell for in
our freshman year instead of Liz and then maybe things would be different
now.”
Kyle
goes over to Maria who is crying and gives her a hug and kisses her gently on
the lips “I do love you Maria Deluca.” and turns and crawls out the window.
Maria
sinks down on the floor in front of her bed sobbing because she knows she has
just lost the man that she loves more than she even thought possible. She feels
someone pull her into his arms and realizes that it is Michael. She crawls
closer to him and lays her head on his chest letting all the pain she is feeling
at the moment wash out of her soaking into Michael’s shirt.
After
awhile she lifts her head up and looks at Michael. “He left didn’t he?”
“Yeah.
He told me to take care of you and our son.”
“So
you know then?”
“Yes.”
“I
had to tell him first Michael. I had planned to tell you first but then seeing
you both here in the same room I knew that I needed to do it.”
“I
understand.” Michael touches her face and makes him look at her. “You know
he loves you right.”
“I
know Michael. But I hurt him so bad tonight. I don’t know if he will ever come
back to me.”
“Well
you know Deluca no one can stay away from you long. Just look at me. I always
come back to you. Seriously, Maria you know that I will always be here.
Right?”
“I
know you will. I never had any doubt. But Michael about us. I don’t
know….”
“I
know Maria. We will worry about that later. I want you to know though that I
love you. I always have and I always will nothing and no one will ever change
that. We will decide later what to do about us. Ok?”
“Ok.”
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So I am headed back to Roswell. I woke Grandma up this morning and told her that Michael had come to get me. So Michael and I and the Jetta are on our way home. We just stopped for gas. Michael is being wonderful. Of course, I knew that he would be. He always has been able to take care of me when I truly needed him to. Just look at all he did when Alex died. God I miss Alex. I wish he were here right now to help me deal with all this stuff. He would find a way to make it all better.
I don’t know if I have lost Kyle forever and I don’t know what is in store for Michael and I but I do know that whatever happens my son will be loved. His Daddy will make sure that he always knows that he is the most important thing in the world to him.
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Maria
drifts off the sleep with a smile on his face. Michael comes back to the car and
finds Maria holding her journal close to her body and wonders what exactly she
rights in it. Maybe someday she will show him or maybe he will just have to
sneak a peak at it like he did Liz Parker’s journal years ago.
“Don’t
even think about it Spaceboy?” Maria turns to Michael sleepily.
“What?”
Michael asks.
“I
know you were just thinking about reading my journal. If you know what’s good
for your alien butt you wont even tempt it.” Maria turns her head and once
again falls back to sleep.
Michael
just smiles at the pixie sleeping in the seat beside him. He pulls out onto the
highway and sees the sign on the side of the road.
Roswell—40 miles
Forty
miles before they get home. He wonders if things will ever be the same for
anyone ever again.
Far
from the End… The story has truly just begun…
