Title: Another Sunset
Author: etoile1 aka Eva
Disclaimer: Roswell isn't mine, obviously!
Email: etoileone@hotmail.com
Rating: PG to NC-17
Summary: After Liz is in a car accident her life will never be the same.
Author's Note: There is no Tess. There are no aliens. Alex is alive and is Liz's brother, he is 20 and dates Maria. Amy and Jim are married, so Kyle and Maria are stepbrother and sister. Kyle is 21 and Maria is 17. Kyle and Isabel are dating. Isabel is 20. She and Max are siblings. Max is 18. He is currently dating Liz, who is 17. But things will change soon enough.
Liz could taste the blood in her mouth. Its metallic flavor a reminder of the fact that her entire body felt like an open wound. It hurt way too much to move. She couldn’t even open her eyes.
If she could have she would have been horrified.
Another wave of pain ran through her body. It felt as if someone was stabbing into her flesh with tiny knives and then scraping them across her skin. She tried to move once more, but the comforting black of nothingness overtook her world.
*****
Jim Valenti shook his head. A drunk driver had effectively destroyed what he had always termed as the perfect All-American family. He had known Jeff and Nancy Parker for years; their kids were friends with his son, Kyle, and stepdaughter, Maria. Now their daughter, Liz was lying amid the wreckage of their old ’86 Volvo as the ambulance men strove to save her life, and their son, Alex was about to find out that the world as he knew it was over.
Jim had seen the same scene over and over as the Sheriff of their small town. Only this time he tried to hold on to hope. Liz Parker didn’t deserve to die, she was so young and she had so much ahead of her. And Alex Parker sure as hell didn’t deserve to lose everything at once.
The EMT guys were loading the ambulance, through a haze Jim heard them say that the girl was stable, but the sooner she was taken to the hospital the better. It was serious. Jim nodded and waved them off. It was time for him to make a few phone calls with the numbers the dispatcher had recited to him over the two-way earlier.
He always hated this part of his job, calling people up to tell them hey life sucks and your does more because blah blah blah. As he dialed the number to Alex’s cell phone an ungenerous thought popped into his head.
At least the lousy son-of-a-bitch who caused this mess had the decency to kill himself on impact. All too often they were the only survivors.
*****
Alex looked at the phone number on his cell’s caller id. He didn’t recognize it and wasn’t really in the mood to answer it. His girlfriend, Maria, was singing, and he was her number one fan as well as her accompanist. But when the phone continued to ring, he sighed and answered it and listened to the sound of his world falling to pieces.
*****
Maria watched as Alex dropped the phone, all the blood draining from his face. She picked it up and heard her stepfather’s voice as he told her what had happened. Somehow she remained calm. She who usually was the first to freak out asked Jim for the name of the hospital. She would drive Alex there. She asked Jim to call Kyle and her mom. They would need to be a family on this one.
*****
Shattered lives have a funny way of coming back together again. But one thing that remains true is that once broken it will never be quite the same again. Humpty-Dumpty couldn’t be put together again, not the way Liz was. And had he survived his own fall, the scars would have remained as a testament to the fact that life has a way of biting you in the ass.
Amy and Jim saw the relief on their children’s faces when they heard Liz would survive. But Alex collapsed, his joy buried under layers of pain. Because how would he put his life back together again? How would Liz and he survive without their family?
Author: etoile1 aka Eva
Disclaimer: Roswell isn't mine, obviously!
Email: etoileone@hotmail.com
Rating: PG to NC-17
Summary: After Liz is in a car accident her life will never be the same.
Author's Note: There is no Tess. There are no aliens. Alex is alive and is Liz's brother, he is 20 and dates Maria. Amy and Jim are married, so Kyle and Maria are stepbrother and sister. Kyle is 21 and Maria is 17. Kyle and Isabel are dating. Isabel is 20. She and Max are siblings. Max is 18. He is currently dating Liz, who is 17. But things will change soon enough.
Another Sunset
Prologue
Liz could taste the blood in her mouth. Its metallic flavor a reminder of the fact that her entire body felt like an open wound. It hurt way too much to move. She couldn’t even open her eyes.
If she could have she would have been horrified.
Another wave of pain ran through her body. It felt as if someone was stabbing into her flesh with tiny knives and then scraping them across her skin. She tried to move once more, but the comforting black of nothingness overtook her world.
*****
Jim Valenti shook his head. A drunk driver had effectively destroyed what he had always termed as the perfect All-American family. He had known Jeff and Nancy Parker for years; their kids were friends with his son, Kyle, and stepdaughter, Maria. Now their daughter, Liz was lying amid the wreckage of their old ’86 Volvo as the ambulance men strove to save her life, and their son, Alex was about to find out that the world as he knew it was over.
Jim had seen the same scene over and over as the Sheriff of their small town. Only this time he tried to hold on to hope. Liz Parker didn’t deserve to die, she was so young and she had so much ahead of her. And Alex Parker sure as hell didn’t deserve to lose everything at once.
The EMT guys were loading the ambulance, through a haze Jim heard them say that the girl was stable, but the sooner she was taken to the hospital the better. It was serious. Jim nodded and waved them off. It was time for him to make a few phone calls with the numbers the dispatcher had recited to him over the two-way earlier.
He always hated this part of his job, calling people up to tell them hey life sucks and your does more because blah blah blah. As he dialed the number to Alex’s cell phone an ungenerous thought popped into his head.
At least the lousy son-of-a-bitch who caused this mess had the decency to kill himself on impact. All too often they were the only survivors.
*****
Alex looked at the phone number on his cell’s caller id. He didn’t recognize it and wasn’t really in the mood to answer it. His girlfriend, Maria, was singing, and he was her number one fan as well as her accompanist. But when the phone continued to ring, he sighed and answered it and listened to the sound of his world falling to pieces.
*****
Maria watched as Alex dropped the phone, all the blood draining from his face. She picked it up and heard her stepfather’s voice as he told her what had happened. Somehow she remained calm. She who usually was the first to freak out asked Jim for the name of the hospital. She would drive Alex there. She asked Jim to call Kyle and her mom. They would need to be a family on this one.
*****
Shattered lives have a funny way of coming back together again. But one thing that remains true is that once broken it will never be quite the same again. Humpty-Dumpty couldn’t be put together again, not the way Liz was. And had he survived his own fall, the scars would have remained as a testament to the fact that life has a way of biting you in the ass.
Amy and Jim saw the relief on their children’s faces when they heard Liz would survive. But Alex collapsed, his joy buried under layers of pain. Because how would he put his life back together again? How would Liz and he survive without their family?
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