FIC: Roswell New Mexico - Lost to Time 2/?
Summary: Time is not unchangeable if someone has the time, patience and drive to make sure history doesn’t repeat itself. Even if it means removing oneself from the equation.
TITLE: Legacies
RATING: R (for language)
CHARACTERS: Alex Manes, Kyle Valenti, Michael Guerin, Max Evans, Isobel Evans, Liz Ortecho, Maria DeLuca, Jim Valenti, Jesse Manes, Mimi DeLuca, Nora Truman, Eugene (Tripp) Manes
PAIRING: Alex/Michael
AUTHOR: Melanie
Summary: Time is not unchangeable if someone has the time, patience and drive to make sure history doesn’t repeat itself. Even if it means removing oneself from the equation..
DISCLAIMER: I own nothing.
FEEDBACK: Please?
Lost to Time 2/?
When Jenna finds Nora she’s in the basement, squatting in front of one of the pods and muttering to herself.
“Is Alex coming?” Nora asks when she notices her standing there.
“I think he was still talking to Tripp outside,” Jenna says, they’re up to something. The two men have had heads bent close together talking or arguing for the last couple of days.
“They’re up to something,” Nora says, she sighs heavily.
“Mimi and I were talking about it, we haven’t figure out what yet though,” Jenna says and Nora just looks at her with an expression on her face that Jenna takes to mean that Nora knows exactly what they’re up to and is waiting for the three of them to be locked up in their little pod prisons waiting for time to pass so she can undo it.
“He means to try and change the future,” Nora say.
“Isn’t that the whole point of us going into the pods? So you guys can try and mitigate whatever damage has already been caused by us being here?”
Nora shrugs, she comes smoothly to her feet, starts to drag a hand through her hair then seems to realize that she’s got dirt on her hands.
“Some damage has already been done, “ she looks troubled with a side of distressed, “I’m honestly not even sure this is going to work, the pods aren’t designed for you and I don’t even know what type of world we’re sending you into at this rate.”
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Jenna knows she’s awake, not awake awake, but she’s conscious and aware even though to the outside world it definitely still looks like she’s not.
It gives her time to figure out that she’s in the hospital, can hear the beeping of machines that probably don’t need to be hooked up to her but are also someone’s way of covering their asses. She doesn’t really relax until she hears the soft drawl of Max’s voice, then Kyle’s responding one.
They’re safe, they’re awake and where they’re supposed to be.
“So they’re fine?” Max is asking and Kyle doesn’t actually respond so she assumes he’s nodding his head.
“I’ve been going through Nora’s notes and she said there’d be a period of unawareness while their bodies fought of the effects of the pods…” Kyle starts.
“They were ice cold,” Max says softly. It takes a minute for Kyle to respond, long enough that Jenna has finally focused on what he said and the fact that he knew Nora’s name, that… he shouldn’t know that.
“I know, I don’t,” she can feel the soft press of Kyle’s hand against her ankle, testing her reflexes, reassuring himself that she’s there, she doesn’t know. “I can’t explain it,” he finally says and she can hear the uneasiness in his voice.
She doesn’t actually know what she’s hearing, there’s soft rustling, there’s sighs and whispers that she can’t hear or make out.
“Nora said she was on her way,” Max says softly, “she wants us to wait until she gets here to question them about what happened.”
“You know that’s not going to go over well with my dad,” Kyle says and the laugh that she hears come from Max is soft and fond.
If Jenna could stiffen and gasp, make any sort of movement or sound, she would, she’s sure wherever they have Mimi stashed she would as well.
Jenna doesn’t know how to process any of that.
Max had never even known Nora, he hadn’t even been at Caulfield when Alex, Michael and Kyle had found her locked up there.
Jim Valenti is Kyle’s dad, and he’s been dead for longer than Jenna has been in Roswell.
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The room is dark and quiet when she finally convinces her eyes to open, swallowing thickly and coughing lightly.
There’s a gentle hand on the side of her face and the press of a straw between her lips. She drinks greedily until it’s pulled away and she makes a noise that sounds annoyed to her own ears.
“No more until Kyle comes back in,” she hears, that’s Liz’s voice sounding amused and when she manages to demand her eyes open, she can see the other woman sitting next to her.
Liz looks exhausted and Jenna doesn’t actually know the current date, so she has no idea how long they’ve been missing. Liz doesn’t look vastly more aged then normal, so probably just a couple days, maybe a few weeks… she doesn’t even know if they talked about a plan on when they’d be woken up.
She turns her head slightly and she can see Mimi in the bed to her left, Maria sitting next to her touching her mother’s arm.
She turns her head to the right and there’s nothing but wall, Alex is male she didn’t figure they would keep them in the same room, except they all went missing under the same circumstances so she would have thought they’d try and contain them as much as possible.
“Hey,” Kyle’s voice is warm when he pushes the door open, Max is right behind him in uniform. “You’re awake finally.”
“How long?” she gets out, her voice sounds rough even to her own ears and she feels like she could close her eyes and go back to sleep that’s how draining getting just those two little words out is.
“We found the pods about five days ago,” Max stands at the end of her bed, thumbs hooked through his belt as he watches Kyle go through his checks.
“Am I the last one to wake up?” she mutters, Mimi’s eyes aren’t open and Alex isn’t in the room so she has no clue how he’s doing but he’s also super stubborn so probably has been up and about since right after they were found.
“Mimi woke up for a few minutes about an hour ago, so we figured you would be soon,” Kyle says absently, he’s moved next to Max, marking something in her chart as she watches him.
“What about Alex?” she asks, she can’t believe she has to actually ask, Kyle has professed multiple times, mostly without any prompting at all, that he’s Alex’s best friend, he’s probably spent most of his time wherever they have Alex laid up.
“Who?” Kyle asks her and his expression is absolutely blank, no sign of recognition at the name and Jenna’s stomach drops.
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Jenna is in the middle of having a panic attack when Nora comes in, her appearance only makes things worse in Jenna’s mind.
Nora looking just a fraction of time older than the last time that Jenna saw her which was over 70 fucking years earlier.
She should be dead.
“I told you not to talk to her,” she sounds annoyed.
“She talked to us first,” Liz says defensively, “but now she’s talking about some guy that was supposed to be there and she’s acting like we’re supposed to know him.”
“Oh Jenna,” Nora says, she sighs heavily and the door opens behind her admitting two more people into the room, Michael Guerin looking clean cut and healthy and a man that Jenna has only seen in pictures behind the Sheriff’s desk or in Jesse Manes’ files.
“Where Alex?” Jenna manages to say, she can’t even focus on the dead man standing next to his son. “Nora, where’s Alex?”
“He did it,” Mimi says softly, Jenna turns her head to look at her and Mimi looks so soft and sad. “I knew he was up to something, all those secret conversations with Tripp…”
Nora looks at them, looks at the room filled with people who have no clue who they’re talking about, Jenna knows she’s trying to figure out how to lie to them.
“Please don’t lie to us,” she says, begs really and Nora’s face just hardens. Jenna doesn’t really want to know what’s happened over the intervening years to make Nora who always was bright and friendly and mostly kind to them look like that.
“Can I have a few minutes with them?” she asks and there’s a cacophony of voices expressing their disapproval.
“Please,” she says and there’s a hint of force to her voice. The Sheriff nods once.
“Few minutes,” he says, voice gruff, “but then we’ve got questions as well.”
Nora nods and the room starts to clear out, Jenna hadn’t even noticed that Michael had followed his mom in.
“You as well Maria,” Nora says and Maria looks like she’s going to fight to stay by her mom’s side.
“Go on now,” Mimi says softly, Jenna can see her squeezing Maria’s hand and then she follows the group out, the door closing with a soft thump behind her.
Nora sits on the edge of her bed, touches her leg gently, looks over at Mimi then back at her.
“Keep in mind that I know just about as much as you, Louise said there was something wrong,” she starts, her mouth twists, “about a month after we put you in the pods she told me to go check on them, that there was something wrong, off, she couldn’t articulate it past that.”
Jenna breathes, tries not to let the panic that feels like it’s going to engulf her overwhelm her completely.
“The pod we put Alex in was gone, I’m not even sure how Tripp managed to move it but maybe he brought someone else into his confidence…”
“Or maybe he woke Alex up and they moved it together,” Mimi offers and Nora shrugs slightly. “You know they were planning something; we should have been expecting this.”
“I was expecting them to have a plan for Tripp to shut down Shepherd, to eliminate Caulfield and the other sites, to help us protect ourselves and the children… we couldn’t have expected this,” Nora says.
Jenna remembers multiple nights hidden away in that little house walking in on Alex and Tripp with heads bent together as Alex and Tripp were putting together detailed plans on how Tripp was going to get Caulfield shut down and keep it shut down.
She should have known that Alex wouldn’t leave it being done completely up to Tripp though.
“You should have,” Mimi’s voice is sharp, and Jenna knows she’s not the only one looking at her in surprise.
“That boy has carried the weight and blame of everything done to you and your families since the moment he found out it was happening. He promised to put an end to it, to make it safe for Michael, Isobel and Max to have lives here. For you and Louise and any other survivors that found their way to here to have their own lives…”
“By erasing his entire existence?” Nora says, “because that’s what he’s done, Shepherd was done, Caulfield was rubble, we were safe.”
“How are you even here, Nora?” Jenna asks, “you should be…” She can’t say dead, Nora should have been dead of old age, yet she looks not much older than Jim Valenti had.
“Two pods showed up several years after Tripp vanished with Alex’s pod; there was a note and a suggestion that maybe Louise and I should use them so the children wouldn’t wake up alone. Louise balked at going back in one, she had a life and a little family that she didn’t want to be parted with even as she wanted to be there when her daughter woke up. She’d go in for a couple of years here and there I guess, so she could try and extend her life long enough that she could at least see her daughter before she passed,” Nora looks down at her hands twisting in her lap.
“I woke up a few weeks before the children did, collected them and took them home with me,” Nora twists her head to look at the closed door. Like she can see Michael and Max and Isobel on the other side of the door.
“How do you know there’s no Alex, that he…” Jenna swallows roughly, she can feel the truth of Nora’s words, of her belief.
“I waited, I knew that at some point the Manes’ would have to show back in Roswell, so when Jesse left after school I waited for him to come back and he finally did… with only his three sons in tow and no wife and no Alex.”
“Mindy left him,” Mimi says and Nora nods once, “and you think Tripp and Alex had something to do with it?”
“I don’t know how they did it, things should have tried to rebound if it was able, but in the end Mindy and Jesse only had three boys, Flint is the youngest now and there doesn’t seem to be any Alex.”
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TITLE: Legacies
RATING: R (for language)
CHARACTERS: Alex Manes, Kyle Valenti, Michael Guerin, Max Evans, Isobel Evans, Liz Ortecho, Maria DeLuca, Jim Valenti, Jesse Manes, Mimi DeLuca, Nora Truman, Eugene (Tripp) Manes
PAIRING: Alex/Michael
AUTHOR: Melanie
Summary: Time is not unchangeable if someone has the time, patience and drive to make sure history doesn’t repeat itself. Even if it means removing oneself from the equation..
DISCLAIMER: I own nothing.
FEEDBACK: Please?
Lost to Time 2/?
When Jenna finds Nora she’s in the basement, squatting in front of one of the pods and muttering to herself.
“Is Alex coming?” Nora asks when she notices her standing there.
“I think he was still talking to Tripp outside,” Jenna says, they’re up to something. The two men have had heads bent close together talking or arguing for the last couple of days.
“They’re up to something,” Nora says, she sighs heavily.
“Mimi and I were talking about it, we haven’t figure out what yet though,” Jenna says and Nora just looks at her with an expression on her face that Jenna takes to mean that Nora knows exactly what they’re up to and is waiting for the three of them to be locked up in their little pod prisons waiting for time to pass so she can undo it.
“He means to try and change the future,” Nora say.
“Isn’t that the whole point of us going into the pods? So you guys can try and mitigate whatever damage has already been caused by us being here?”
Nora shrugs, she comes smoothly to her feet, starts to drag a hand through her hair then seems to realize that she’s got dirt on her hands.
“Some damage has already been done, “ she looks troubled with a side of distressed, “I’m honestly not even sure this is going to work, the pods aren’t designed for you and I don’t even know what type of world we’re sending you into at this rate.”
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Jenna knows she’s awake, not awake awake, but she’s conscious and aware even though to the outside world it definitely still looks like she’s not.
It gives her time to figure out that she’s in the hospital, can hear the beeping of machines that probably don’t need to be hooked up to her but are also someone’s way of covering their asses. She doesn’t really relax until she hears the soft drawl of Max’s voice, then Kyle’s responding one.
They’re safe, they’re awake and where they’re supposed to be.
“So they’re fine?” Max is asking and Kyle doesn’t actually respond so she assumes he’s nodding his head.
“I’ve been going through Nora’s notes and she said there’d be a period of unawareness while their bodies fought of the effects of the pods…” Kyle starts.
“They were ice cold,” Max says softly. It takes a minute for Kyle to respond, long enough that Jenna has finally focused on what he said and the fact that he knew Nora’s name, that… he shouldn’t know that.
“I know, I don’t,” she can feel the soft press of Kyle’s hand against her ankle, testing her reflexes, reassuring himself that she’s there, she doesn’t know. “I can’t explain it,” he finally says and she can hear the uneasiness in his voice.
She doesn’t actually know what she’s hearing, there’s soft rustling, there’s sighs and whispers that she can’t hear or make out.
“Nora said she was on her way,” Max says softly, “she wants us to wait until she gets here to question them about what happened.”
“You know that’s not going to go over well with my dad,” Kyle says and the laugh that she hears come from Max is soft and fond.
If Jenna could stiffen and gasp, make any sort of movement or sound, she would, she’s sure wherever they have Mimi stashed she would as well.
Jenna doesn’t know how to process any of that.
Max had never even known Nora, he hadn’t even been at Caulfield when Alex, Michael and Kyle had found her locked up there.
Jim Valenti is Kyle’s dad, and he’s been dead for longer than Jenna has been in Roswell.
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The room is dark and quiet when she finally convinces her eyes to open, swallowing thickly and coughing lightly.
There’s a gentle hand on the side of her face and the press of a straw between her lips. She drinks greedily until it’s pulled away and she makes a noise that sounds annoyed to her own ears.
“No more until Kyle comes back in,” she hears, that’s Liz’s voice sounding amused and when she manages to demand her eyes open, she can see the other woman sitting next to her.
Liz looks exhausted and Jenna doesn’t actually know the current date, so she has no idea how long they’ve been missing. Liz doesn’t look vastly more aged then normal, so probably just a couple days, maybe a few weeks… she doesn’t even know if they talked about a plan on when they’d be woken up.
She turns her head slightly and she can see Mimi in the bed to her left, Maria sitting next to her touching her mother’s arm.
She turns her head to the right and there’s nothing but wall, Alex is male she didn’t figure they would keep them in the same room, except they all went missing under the same circumstances so she would have thought they’d try and contain them as much as possible.
“Hey,” Kyle’s voice is warm when he pushes the door open, Max is right behind him in uniform. “You’re awake finally.”
“How long?” she gets out, her voice sounds rough even to her own ears and she feels like she could close her eyes and go back to sleep that’s how draining getting just those two little words out is.
“We found the pods about five days ago,” Max stands at the end of her bed, thumbs hooked through his belt as he watches Kyle go through his checks.
“Am I the last one to wake up?” she mutters, Mimi’s eyes aren’t open and Alex isn’t in the room so she has no clue how he’s doing but he’s also super stubborn so probably has been up and about since right after they were found.
“Mimi woke up for a few minutes about an hour ago, so we figured you would be soon,” Kyle says absently, he’s moved next to Max, marking something in her chart as she watches him.
“What about Alex?” she asks, she can’t believe she has to actually ask, Kyle has professed multiple times, mostly without any prompting at all, that he’s Alex’s best friend, he’s probably spent most of his time wherever they have Alex laid up.
“Who?” Kyle asks her and his expression is absolutely blank, no sign of recognition at the name and Jenna’s stomach drops.
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Jenna is in the middle of having a panic attack when Nora comes in, her appearance only makes things worse in Jenna’s mind.
Nora looking just a fraction of time older than the last time that Jenna saw her which was over 70 fucking years earlier.
She should be dead.
“I told you not to talk to her,” she sounds annoyed.
“She talked to us first,” Liz says defensively, “but now she’s talking about some guy that was supposed to be there and she’s acting like we’re supposed to know him.”
“Oh Jenna,” Nora says, she sighs heavily and the door opens behind her admitting two more people into the room, Michael Guerin looking clean cut and healthy and a man that Jenna has only seen in pictures behind the Sheriff’s desk or in Jesse Manes’ files.
“Where Alex?” Jenna manages to say, she can’t even focus on the dead man standing next to his son. “Nora, where’s Alex?”
“He did it,” Mimi says softly, Jenna turns her head to look at her and Mimi looks so soft and sad. “I knew he was up to something, all those secret conversations with Tripp…”
Nora looks at them, looks at the room filled with people who have no clue who they’re talking about, Jenna knows she’s trying to figure out how to lie to them.
“Please don’t lie to us,” she says, begs really and Nora’s face just hardens. Jenna doesn’t really want to know what’s happened over the intervening years to make Nora who always was bright and friendly and mostly kind to them look like that.
“Can I have a few minutes with them?” she asks and there’s a cacophony of voices expressing their disapproval.
“Please,” she says and there’s a hint of force to her voice. The Sheriff nods once.
“Few minutes,” he says, voice gruff, “but then we’ve got questions as well.”
Nora nods and the room starts to clear out, Jenna hadn’t even noticed that Michael had followed his mom in.
“You as well Maria,” Nora says and Maria looks like she’s going to fight to stay by her mom’s side.
“Go on now,” Mimi says softly, Jenna can see her squeezing Maria’s hand and then she follows the group out, the door closing with a soft thump behind her.
Nora sits on the edge of her bed, touches her leg gently, looks over at Mimi then back at her.
“Keep in mind that I know just about as much as you, Louise said there was something wrong,” she starts, her mouth twists, “about a month after we put you in the pods she told me to go check on them, that there was something wrong, off, she couldn’t articulate it past that.”
Jenna breathes, tries not to let the panic that feels like it’s going to engulf her overwhelm her completely.
“The pod we put Alex in was gone, I’m not even sure how Tripp managed to move it but maybe he brought someone else into his confidence…”
“Or maybe he woke Alex up and they moved it together,” Mimi offers and Nora shrugs slightly. “You know they were planning something; we should have been expecting this.”
“I was expecting them to have a plan for Tripp to shut down Shepherd, to eliminate Caulfield and the other sites, to help us protect ourselves and the children… we couldn’t have expected this,” Nora says.
Jenna remembers multiple nights hidden away in that little house walking in on Alex and Tripp with heads bent together as Alex and Tripp were putting together detailed plans on how Tripp was going to get Caulfield shut down and keep it shut down.
She should have known that Alex wouldn’t leave it being done completely up to Tripp though.
“You should have,” Mimi’s voice is sharp, and Jenna knows she’s not the only one looking at her in surprise.
“That boy has carried the weight and blame of everything done to you and your families since the moment he found out it was happening. He promised to put an end to it, to make it safe for Michael, Isobel and Max to have lives here. For you and Louise and any other survivors that found their way to here to have their own lives…”
“By erasing his entire existence?” Nora says, “because that’s what he’s done, Shepherd was done, Caulfield was rubble, we were safe.”
“How are you even here, Nora?” Jenna asks, “you should be…” She can’t say dead, Nora should have been dead of old age, yet she looks not much older than Jim Valenti had.
“Two pods showed up several years after Tripp vanished with Alex’s pod; there was a note and a suggestion that maybe Louise and I should use them so the children wouldn’t wake up alone. Louise balked at going back in one, she had a life and a little family that she didn’t want to be parted with even as she wanted to be there when her daughter woke up. She’d go in for a couple of years here and there I guess, so she could try and extend her life long enough that she could at least see her daughter before she passed,” Nora looks down at her hands twisting in her lap.
“I woke up a few weeks before the children did, collected them and took them home with me,” Nora twists her head to look at the closed door. Like she can see Michael and Max and Isobel on the other side of the door.
“How do you know there’s no Alex, that he…” Jenna swallows roughly, she can feel the truth of Nora’s words, of her belief.
“I waited, I knew that at some point the Manes’ would have to show back in Roswell, so when Jesse left after school I waited for him to come back and he finally did… with only his three sons in tow and no wife and no Alex.”
“Mindy left him,” Mimi says and Nora nods once, “and you think Tripp and Alex had something to do with it?”
“I don’t know how they did it, things should have tried to rebound if it was able, but in the end Mindy and Jesse only had three boys, Flint is the youngest now and there doesn’t seem to be any Alex.”
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