"What are we doing her so abruptly like this Max? This must be serious, you've never acted this way before."
"I've never had to Isabel, I thought I never would…but things have happened which I can't begin to explain."
"Come on Maxwell, if this thing is as serious as your making out then it effects all of us, we have a right to know what's going on, right now, so spare us the small talk."
"I'm trying to, but you're just going to get upset and overreact Michael."
"Max, you're scaring me."
"I'm sorry." Isabel is his sister, he is devoted to her, and he hates to be the barer of this bad news, which is sure to sadden her. He is just as devoted to Michael and shares a different bond with him. Michael almost instantly knows what Max is about to tell them. "Our secret…it isn't exactly a secret any more."
"What the hell is wrong with you Maxwell? How could you do this to us? You know how serious this is…and you just go off and advertise that we're aliens without thinking about us?" Michael's words aren't well chosen. He isn't the brightest person academically, but he would do better if his anger wasn't blinding him right now. The desperation shining from Isabel's face doesn't help either.
"Michael…Isabel…you know I wouldn't…I'd never risk my own safety let alone yours. I didn't tell anybody, it never happened like that."
"Then how exactly did it happen? You better start giving us facts Max, and give them quick because I am not feeling very understanding right now." Isabel on the other hand, could look past her anger to choose words.
"It's Liz…Liz Parker. Something happened to her the day she was attacked. You know I was there when it happened. She…changed. Somehow she knew that I wanted to save her with my powers…and somehow she knows that we are aliens…all three of us. It's hard to explain but stranger things have happened, I mean the three of us are living proof of that."
"Great Max, and you what? Just…assured her that she was correct? I can't believe I'm hearing this right now."
"Isabel, it didn't matter what I said. She already knew and it was scaring her. Would you sooner have had me deny it and then had her exploit us due to panic? I know her, we know each other, we are friends. But she looked at me so deeply, so intimately, that it scared me. She was still Liz, but she was seeing more of me in her own eyes. I know she is telling the truth, there is no way she isn't. She knows things there is no other way she could know."
"What are we supposed to do about his Maxwell? I mean, can we trust her?"
"I think if Liz's trust wasn't in our favor, we would have found out by now."
"Michael is just worried Max. As we all should be. Why wait till now to tell us?"
"I had to let things settle with Liz and see what was going on with her, I didn't want to cause any unnecessary suspicion. Things get better before they get worse."
"Hold on a minute…exactly how does she know all this?"
"She doesn't exactly know how either Michael…but she saw it all…somehow her mind could see another world or another time, where things happened differently. We figure that something happened to her while she was unconscious, we just don't know what. But she even knows us all. It's as complicated and unfortunate for her, as it is for us."
"OK Max." Isabel was famous for her being an ice-queen, but deep down she had a compassion that was worthy of even greater fame. She understood that Liz was just as equally in-deep in all of this. What worried her though, was the use of the word 'we' her brother had just operated a little too comfortably. "Whatever is going on right now, we are all together in this. We can't change what's happened but we can be a part of it and that is the only way anything is going to work for us. Michael, we know we can trust Max more than anyone, even more than me and you can trust each other. He's only been putting this off for our own safety."
"Well Iz, you seem to know everything, so what do we do now?"
"We all talk…me, you, Max and Liz, together…and that's the only way we'll find out where we go after that." Isabel and Michael can see that Max is so sorry that all of this had to happen.
"This was out of your control Max, you couldn't help it…I know that, but I'm just…I'm trying to deal with this right now."
"It's OK Michael, I understand. Let's go back. I'll go to Liz, alone, and we'll arrange for us all to meet somewhere." With that they ventured back to central Roswell and Max felt a little but sorry for the others. They didn't know the true and pure devotion towards them that he had felt from Liz. They didn't know that in truth, due to this, he wouldn't have things any differently. They had no idea.