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Title:Touch of Death {cryptic huh}
Author: Kathryn C.
Disclaimer: Me No Own.
Distribution: You want it, you take it, just give me
the URL.
Feedback: Send it, or I don't feel like writing.
Well, maybe for some of you, you might want that.
Rating: Uh, pg-13/14a?
Spoilers: Well, it's mostly speculation based on
spoilers mentioned. But, spoilers for Sexual Healing
and the whole "T" person storyline.
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Maria kept trying to catch Liz's eye during French class in third period. However, her best friend was in a world of her own.
Liz was oblivious to her, and even to the teacher. As
Madame Gaylin conjugated irregular verbs on the board,
Liz stared off into space, twirling her pencil in her
fingers. Maria suspected her thoughts were focused on
one Max Evans. Or, more specifically, his
relationship with Tess.
What kind of name was Tess anyway?
The bell rang to signal the end of class. Maria
opened her mouth to speak to Liz, but her friend had
already gathered her books and dashed out the door.
Likely to catch her boyfriend before he became
otherwise occupied.
She supposed that this could wait until later.
Besides, Max wasn't ignorant. He wouldn't tell Tess
anything incriminating.
Maria sighed and walked to her locker slowly. She and
Michael had detention with Mr.Lockwood for being late
this morning. Yeesh.
When she walked into the classroom, Michael was already there, sitting behind a desk. Mr.Lockwood sat at his desk correcting the exams from this morning.
Maria took a seat 3 rows over from Michael. He gave
her a questioning look, which she ignored.
A call came over the intercom for Mr.Lockwood to come
to the office to receive a telephone call. He sighed
and shoved his papers in his briefcase.
"I trust I can leave you two alone?" He said over his
wire-rimmed glasses. "Do not even think of leaving
before I return."
Maria nodded dutifully. Michael just sat there
looking bored. Lockwood just sighed and left.
Michael quickly hopped over the rows to the seat
beside Maria.
"She's a freaking FBI agent!" were the first words out
of his mouth.
Maria sighed, "We don't know that for sure. I mean,
all we have are a couple sentences of a phone
conversation. There could be a perfectly logical
explanation."
Michael raised his eyebrows, "Name one."
Maria opened her mouth and then shut it. "Okay," she
admitted, "I can't think of any, but we can't go
jumping to conclusions."
"Why not?" Michael demanded, "This is our life we are
talking about. If she's trying to take us down I vote
we take her down first."
Maria sighed, "Listen Michael, what's she going to
find out. Max isn't stupid. He'll be
careful."
Michael shook his head, "I'm afraid he's beginning to
put too much trust in Tess too soon."
"He's not like that," Maria said skeptically, "I mean,
look at him and Liz. He's deeply in love with her.
Besides, it took him forever to tell her anything, and
then he did so only because he saved her life."
Michael shook his head again, "In a way, that's my
point. Come one, he never got close to Liz this fast,
not even when they were kids. Now, here he is with
Tess. It took him years to get this close to Liz.
I've never seen him like this before. At the very
least, he's deeply lusting after her. Max is not
thinking clearly. He's always had more sense than
this."
Maria pondered that for a moment. Max was acting like
a completely different person. She still didn't think
he would do anything risky though. Besides, if they
went to Max now he might think they just didn't like
her. But, he needed to know. God, men were so
annoying. Thinking with the thing between their legs
rather then with their brains.
"So, what do we do?" Michael asked, interestedly.
Something out of character for him.
Maria sighed, "Hell, I don't know. I'll tell Liz what
we know. She can help us decide whether or not we
should tell Max until we're absolutely sure."
At that point Mr.Lockwood chose to re-enter the room.
He looked at the seat Michael had taken beside Maria,
then said, "Listen, you guys can leave. I have a
meeting to go to. Just don't be late again
alright?"
"We won't sir," Maria promised as she and Michael all
but ran out of the room.
"Listen," Michael said when they were in the hall.
"You go talk to Liz. I'll go find Max and see if he's
done anything stupid yet."
Maria nodded. Michael took off in the opposite
direction.
Maria figured Liz would now be in the biology lab
working on some extra project, and she would go there
eventually. Right now, she needed to go to the
washroom to re-apply some much needed make-up to cover
up the evidence from her make-out session with Michael
this morning.
Maria pushed open the bathroom door only to see Liz
sitting on the counter, crying softly.
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