Chapter 2

Disclaimer: I don’t own Roswell or it’s characters, nor do I own ET, MTV or any of the lyrics written.
Rating: PG/R
Spoilers: None, its AU
Pairing: Michael/Maria with some Kyle/Tess
Summary: A stalker wants her dead. What will she do when she finds out that the killer is actually a close friend? Secrets from the past are revealed and a new love is born.
Distribution: Belit’s site, Kraving Candy, Candy is Dandy, Aliens love and Roses, Second in Command, Fanfiction.net, Roswell Desert Skies, Ally’s site, and if anyone else wants it, all you have to do is ask.
Author’s note: This is in response to a challenge issued at Belit’s planet called Bodyguard. As I was reading it all these thoughts just entered my head so I couldn’t not write it. Remember when reading this that I intend this fic to have a sequel so there will be many questions but all with eventually be answered. This is in no way related to the movie. Feedback is appreciated, as is honesty. Challenge can be found here:
http://pub10.ezboard.com/fbelitsplanetfrm110.showMessage?topicID=54.topic
Email: sezza43@hotmail.com

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Michael sighed as the cab pulled up to the Mansion. ‘Great,’ he thought. ‘She may be Kyle’s sister but she’s a snob.’ He hated jobs like this, the person always seemed way too polished and thought they were above everyone else. That and they tended to overdramatise their situations. More than likely this ‘stalker’ was just an over zealous fan.

Letting out a low whistle, Kyle stepped out of the cab after paying the driver. “I should visit more,” he said as he picked up his bag. He and Michael walked over to the gates and watched as they opened and a voice said to enter. Reaching up to knock on the door, Kyle was shocked as a small blonde figure jumped on him.

“Kyle!” She cried as she jumped into his arms, almost knocking him over. Kyle laughed and hugged her back.

“Sis, what are you trying to do to me huh?” He let go of her but kept one arm around her waist as he turned her to Michael.

Michael’s breath caught in his throat. The person who stood before him was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. She had long blonde hair, piercing green eyes, luscious lips, legs that went on for ages and a perfect figure. She walked towards him and he almost fainted when she smiled. She was perfect.

“Maria, this is my partner Michael, Michael, this is my sister Maria.” Maria stuck her hand out for him to shake and he grasped it firmly. They both drew a quick breath, feeling electricity course through their bodies at the small touch. Michael lifted his gaze and met the most amazing set of piercing green eyes he had ever seen. They were beautiful. She was beautiful.

Kyle frowned when he noticed the looks between the two. Maybe bringing Michael wasn’t such a good idea after all. Suddenly Liz appeared at the door and ushered them all inside. Making themselves comfortable on the sofa, Kyle decided to find out what was going on. “So, want to tell me why I’m here?”

Glancing at Liz and taking a breath, Maria started to speak. “I’ve been receiving threatening letters in the mail recently and I’ve also had a few phone calls, you know the heavy breathing ones?” Kyle nodded and she handed him the letters and photos. She pointed to the most recent of them. “I got that one last night.” Kyle handed the letters to Michael before standing and pacing around the room.

“Why the hell didn’t you contact me earlier Maria? This is serious, this person isn’t just some stalker, he wants you dead.” Maria shrugged.

“I didn’t think it was really important before and I had my own bodyguards with me but they’ve been coming up with nothing. At first it was just the phone calls but now they’re sending photos. Kyle, this person has been following me everywhere.” She said as she stood. “I didn’t mention it sooner because I didn’t think it cause for concern but now…now he’s scaring me.” Kyle sighed and pulled his sister into his arms.

“Don’t worry sis, we’ll find the jerk who’s doing this ok?” Nodding, Maria whispered a thank you into his chest as he hugged her tighter. Some asshole was after his sister and there was no way in hell he was going to let anything happen to her. He turned to Michael who was still looking over the letters and photos. “What do you think?”

Looking up, Michael shrugged. “I don’t know yet.” He glanced at Maria. “We’ll need a list of everyone that you talk to, anyone you think might have some kind of grudge against you, and everyone that you work with. We’ll also set up a tracking device on your phones in case this person calls again.”

“I’ll go start the list,” Liz said and walked into another room. Michael motioned to where Liz had walked off.

“Who is she to you?” Maria looked at him then up to Kyle.

“She’s Liz Parker, my best friend and manager. Kyle and I have known her all our lives, she used to live in Roswell too.” She told him then furrowed her brows. “Why?”

Michael shook his head. “Just curious.” He said as he went back to glancing over the letters. “Parker, does her family own the Crashdown?”

“Yeah, Jeff is her dad, she and I used to work there.” Maria narrowed her eyes at him. “Did you always live in Roswell?” Michael nodded. “Well how come I’ve never seen you?”

“I went to East Roswell High and we had our own Diner near it so we went there. I moved onto the west side with my sisters a few years ago.” Maria made an ‘o’ shape with her mouth as she nodded. He looked at her. “So you’re famous huh?” Maria looked at him with a shocked look set upon her face and Kyle tried not to laugh. Almost everyone knew who Maria was, but Kyle also knew Michael and knows that he would rather die than listen to Maria’s music genre. Michael gave her an apologetic look. “Sorry, don’t get around to reading chick mags or watching TV much.”

Maria narrowed her eyes. “Chick mags? A bit sexist don’t you think?” Michael mumbled a ‘Whatever’ and Maria rolled her eyes. “Listen, let me show you to your rooms.” She told them as they followed her into the lobby and up the stairs. “So Kyle how’s Tess and the kids?” Kyle smiled as he started to think about his wife. They had gotten married three years ago and had two children.

“Tess is great, Liam is a terror and Kara wants to be just like you when she grows up.” Maria grinned when she heard the last bit. “So besides this, how have you been?” Maria sighed.

“I’ve been ok, I mean, singing is great and all but I don’t know. I miss everyone.” Kyle nodded as they reached the top of the stairs. “I think that after the tour, I want to go home and visit for a while, what do you think?”

Kyle thought for a moment. “When does the tour finish?” Maria told him that it ended in two weeks. “Cool, well Michael and I will stay here until then, and look into this case, then after the two weeks, you can come back to Roswell with us. Hopefully we’ll have this fucker before then.” Maria nodded.

“Sounds great, I’ll tell Liz, later. I’m sure she’s missing home too. Ok Kyle, this is your room,” she said pointing to a door before turning to Michael, “And this is yours.” She said pointing to another room. Michael ducked his head inside inspecting the room before nodding in approval.

“Where’s your room?” He asked innocently and Maria gave him a suspicious look. Michael raised his hands. “Just for safety purposes, wouldn’t want this sicko attacking in the night then have to search every room looking for you.” Maria gave him a ‘yeah right’ look before pointing to the room across from his.

“Mine’s there and Liz’s is two doors down.” She said motioning down the hall. Michael gave her a strange look. “What?”

Michael pursed his lips together. “Liz lives here too?” Maria nodded, silently asking why. Michael shrugged. “Curious is all.” Maria rolled her eyes at him and shook her head.

“I’m going to help Liz with that list, you guys make yourselves at home.” Kyle nodded and waved as she headed back down the stairs.

Turning to Michael, Kyle asked, “What’s with all the questions about Liz?” Michael shrugged not giving an answer. Kyle narrowed his eyes. “Ok then, what was with those looks you were giving my sister?”

“What looks?” Michael asked with false innocence. He was not about to tell Kyle how hot he thought his sister was. He valued his life. “I haven’t given her any looks, you’re just imagining things.” Kyle was about to object but Michael cut him off with a change of subject. “Let’s go set those bugs up.” Kyle sighed and nodded.

He knew that Michael wasn’t telling him something but let it drop for now. They had work to do. Maria’s safety came first.

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“What looks? I wasn’t giving Michael any looks,” Maria said as she entered the living room, Liz on her heels, “and besides, I think he has a crush on you.” Liz froze and stared at Maria wide-eyed.

“Why do you say that?” She asked when she could again move. The thought that Michael could have a crush on her was…well it was preposterous. He was so not her type and there were definite vibes going on between him and Maria.

Maria shrugged. “He was just asking questions about you, I don’t know. He is cute though huh?” Liz nodded as she got a strange look on her face. Maria was about to question her but Kyle, followed by Michael, came into the room. Kyle asked where the phone was and headed towards it as Michael pulled out tracking devices from a bag. “You like your rooms?”

Kyle nodded. “Yeah they’re great. We’ve bugged the phones upstairs and the one in the kitchen. Is this the last one?” he asked as he started adding the equipment to the receiver. Maria nodded and Liz went to get some drinks. As she walked back into the room, she placed the glasses on the table and her jacket sleeve rose. Michael eyed the piece of jewellery there. It was a plain silver chain with some charms hanging off it.

“Nice bracelet.”

Startled, Liz looked up at him. “Ah yeah, my brother bought it for me a few years ago. I never take it off.” She said as she pulled her sleeve back down. Michael glanced over to Maria who gave him a weird look before walking out of the room. He looked at Kyle who was still bugging the phone, before getting up to follow her.

Maria jumped when she felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned and came face to face with a pair of incredibly intense looking eyes. “What are you doing?” she asked. “Trying to give me a heart attack?” Michael grinned and stepped back.

“Nope, just a mild stroke.” Maria rolled her eyes and he chuckled. “Do you have that list for us yet?” Maria nodded and handed him the list. As he read it, Maria took in his profile. He was beautiful. He had a strong jaw, great muscle tone and from what she could see before, a cute little scar above his left eyebrow, which she yearned to touch. Michael lifted his gaze off the paper to Maria and noticed her staring.

“What?”

Blushing at having been caught, Maria tried changing the subject. “So what do you think of Liz?” He gave her a questioning look, so she continued. “You know, it’s just you were asking questions about her, I thought that you might, I don’t know…like her?” Michael burst into laughter and Maria furrowed her brows in confusion.

“Me? Like Liz?” Michael asked trying to contain his laughter. “No, I don’t like Liz. No offence but she’s ah… not my type. Too boring looking, and no body either.” He told her then smirked. “Why? You jealous?”

Maria scoffed. “Of what? You?” Michael nodded and Maria laughed. “No, sorry but you’re not my type.” Michael nodded but stepped closer to her. Maria took a step back and hit the bench. Michael brought his arms to either side of her, effectively trapping her and leant in close to her ear.

“That’s a pity,” he whispered then backed away when Kyle called out to him. Maria watched as Michael walked out of the room and started to breathe again. She hadn’t even realised that she was holding her breath and now felt cold since he removed his body from hers. ‘Did he just flirt with me?’ she asked herself before shaking her head and walking out the same door he just did.

*~*~*~*

Later that afternoon Maria walked onto her balcony where she liked to sit and write songs. She found the view from her bedroom to be beautiful and it was just so peaceful. As she sat on the wicker chair she gazed into the distance and breathed in the fresh air before opening her notepad. She started to sing what she already had.

She’s his yellow brick road
Leading him on
And letting him go as far as she lets him go
Going down to nowhere

Putting the pen to her mouth she closed her eyes and let the music flow through her head as she placed more words onto her paper.

She puts on her make-up
The same as she did yesterday
Hoping everything’s the same
But everything has changed

“That’s a nice song.” Maria jumped as the person behind her spoke. She turned her head and glared at Michael who now had a smirk on his face.

“Do you get some sick pleasure out of sneaking up on me?” Michael chuckled and shook his head. He was about to comment when the cordless phone next to Maria rang. She held up her hand for him to be silent.

“Hello?” She asked into the phone. Upon receiving no answer she greeted them again with a sterner voice. “Hello?” Michael’s expression became serious at that and he grabbed the phone off Maria and listened. All he heard was breathing. Saying a gruff ‘Who is this?’ into the phone, the other person hung up. “It was the same as the others I’ve gotten.” Maria said after he handed the phone back to her. “They call and all I hear is breathing.”

Michael pursed his lips together. “I’ll go downstairs and see if Kyle traced it but I don’t think he did. They weren’t on the phone long enough.” Maria nodded and jumped out of her chair saying that she was going with him. As they headed down the staircase they heard a muffled voice curse followed by a loud crash. Michael turned the corner and watched as Kyle jumped around the living room holding his foot. “Kyle?”

Turning to his friend, Kyle stopped jumping and sat on a sofa. “Stupid thing,” he said pointing to one of the broken devices that lay on the floor, “it’s broken and when I picked it up, I dropped it and it landed on my foot. Useless piece of--”

“How can it be broken?” Michael asked, cutting off Kyle’s swearing. “I checked it earlier and it was all working.” He walked over to the box and held it at eye level. Taking off the cover he looked inside to see that all the wires had been cut or ripped out of its place. “How the hell did this happen Kyle?”

He shrugged. “I don’t know man. I pulled it out of the bag, went to the car to grab a tool I had left, and when I came back, it was broken.” Michael turned to Maria and asked her who was currently in the house.

“Just us, Liz and a few maids. Why?” She asked, then upon realising what he was suggesting she shook her head. “No, no! I trust everyone that is in this house and they would not have done it. My servants would not have done such a thing.” Michael looked away and cricked his neck. It wasn’t the servants he was thinking of. At that moment Liz came into the room.

“What’s going on?” She asked. Maria explained what had happened to the equipment and Liz gasped. “Who would do such a thing? Are you sure it wasn’t already broken before you got here? I mean all of Maria’s help are incredibly trustworthy. Maybe you didn’t check it properly.” Michael slowly nodded and mumbled a quick ‘Maybe’ before scratching his head.

“How important was that piece anyway?” Maria asked.

Kyle picked it up and placed it back in the bag. “Very, it was the thing that would tell us where the calls were coming from. Now all the bugs are useless.”

“Well what does that mean? Were they the only things you had to work with?” Maria asked getting worried. Kyle shook his head.

“No but it would have helped. Now we just resort to some old fashioned detective work.” He said with a smile and Maria rolled her eyes. “You’re lucky Michael and I used to be cops.”

Maria turned to face Michael who had been standing behind her. “Cop huh? How long have you two known each other exactly?” Michael shrugged and told her they had met a few years ago. “Oh,” she said. “So did you quit the cop jig for the same reason Kyle did?” Michael nodded. “How do you get bored being a cop?” Maria wondered out loud and Kyle chuckled.

“Roswell is not really known for its high in crime rating. There was nothing to do.” He said standing back up. “Ok, so Michael, you have that list they wrote up?” Michael nodded. “Right, well we’ll start going through it and talking to the people on it.”

“Sounds good,” he said as he pulled the said list out of his pocket. “The first name we have is Mary. Who is Mary?”

“Mary’s one of our friends, a back up singer on the tour.” Liz told him. Michael asked why she was on the grudge side. “Well I have overheard her tell a few people that she’d love to be where Maria is and would do anything she could to get it. I also heard from a few people that she has been saying a few bad words about Maria. She’s one of those, ‘Friend to your face but stabs you in the back’ type of people.”

Maria furrowed her brow in confusion. “How come you never told me this?” Liz opened her mouth to try to explain but was saved when Courtney, one of Maria’s maids entered the room. She announced that there was some mail and handed it to Maria who mumbled a thank you before turning and sifting through it. “Bill, Bill, Bill.” She said throwing them onto the nearby desk.

Michael rolled his eyes at Liz who kept on talking about this Mary girl whom she thought might be worth talking to. Kyle smirked at his partner before looking over towards the corner that Courtney had previously left in. He noticed that she hadn’t in fact left, but was standing by the door staring at Michael with a look of lust on her face. Kyle’s eyebrows rose as he glanced at Michael who didn’t seem to notice anything in the room but Maria. He then shifted his gaze back to Courtney who jumped and scurried away after catching Kyle’s eye, knowing that she had been caught. ‘I’ll have to keep my eye on that one.’

The last letter in the pile that Maria had been looking through was another unmarked blue envelope. Upon reading its contents she gasped. Michael walked up behind her and took the letter out of her hands and read it aloud.

You think those bodyguards will stop me Maria? Think again.

Maria grew pale and swayed a little where she stood. Michael grabbed her shoulders and leant down near her ear. “It’s ok, we’ll find this asshole.” He said with so much conviction that Maria couldn’t help but believe. Maria nodded and became a little shocked when Michael didn’t release her upper arms but was now rubbing them gently in a comforting manner.

Flushing red, Maria stepped forward making Michael drop his arms. She couldn’t push down the disappointment that shone through at the loss of his touch, but all she wanted to do now was lie down. One of her headaches was vastly approaching. Michael coughed a little from behind her then stepped forward. “Kyle we should look around the grounds, check with everyone and ask if they saw anyone near the mail box.” Kyle nodded and they headed for the door.

Liz turned to Maria. “Why don’t you go lay down for a bit, I’ll bring up some painkillers later.” Maria smiled graciously and left the room as Liz went to the kitchen. Michael stayed in the living room for a while longer staring at his hands. They still tingled from when he touched Maria. Her skin had felt so soft against his, so right. Shaking his head, he swivelled around and started to walk in the direction that Liz had left in. He had a few questions to ask the girl. Kyle could search the grounds by himself.

Outside, Kyle slapped his forehead after realising that he left the list that Maria had written inside by the coffee table. As he glided back into the room be heard a hushed voice in the shadows.

“Where are you now?” The voice, obviously female, said. “Good, don’t do anything else until I call you again ok?” Kyle furrowed his brows. Could this voice belong to the stalker? “Uh huh, we’ll wait a few days before going ahead with the rest of the plan. She’ll never suspect a thing.” Kyle’s jaw dropped as he heard the last sentence and watched as Courtney, the maid who brought in the mail, left the shadows and hurried into the dining room with Kyle, hot on her trail.

TBC

Thanks for the reviews; Oh and I forgot to mention that this fic is part of a trilogy. This is Part 1 of ‘The Bodyguard Trilogy’. When it is finished I will post Part 2, which is titled ‘Doing it for love’. This part will leave unanswered questions but that is expected with a trilogy fic. All will eventually be revealed so keep reading. –Sarah.

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