*ROSWELL* It was the late when the others returned to Michaels apartment. All were worried there still had been no word from Maria. Isabel took the picture from Michael and went to his room, the others didn't follow. Isabel looked at Michael's bed in disgust, how she was going to get comfortable with springs sticking in her she didn't know. She lay down shifting around until she felt reasonably comfortable. She took one more look at Maria's face in the picture before closing her eyes. She felt Maria's presence, but then it faded, she just couldn't connect with her. Suddenly everything around her went in slow motion. She saw Maria screaming, then she saw a figure coming behind her and putting something over her face, Maria went limp in his arms. She heard the figure say something in his phone, she blocked out the vision, concentrating instead of the man's voice. 'Yeah boss, we got her...no, no trouble at all...I think you're going to like this one...yeah, we're coming home.' She saw Maria's body thrown into the car and them pulling away, everything went black around her, she opened her eyes slowly and looked around, she was back in Michael's apartment. She got up and made her way to the others. Michael was pacing around the room, when he heard the bedroom door open, he went to Isabel's side. "Well, what happened? You were in there for ages, did you reach her?" "I didn't, but I saw what happened to her." She explained the scene she had witnessed in her dream. It didn't answer any of the questions screaming in Michaels mind. "I don't understand why you couldn't connect with her, hell I don't understand any of this. If these guys took her to get to us, why haven't they contacted us, they should have by now." Isabel went to Michael and put her arms around him holding him to her, but he pulled away from her. "Michael, I don't know why I can't connect with her, maybe she just isn't sleeping, maybe she's so far away I just can't get to her, I don't know. But the flashes just tell me what happened to her, not why, I'm not a bloody mind reader....." "She could be dead...." Everyone gasped and Max found himself sprawled on the floor and Michael looming over him. "Don't you ever say that again, Maria is not dead, I would know, in my heart I would know. Now everyone get out." Max stood and went to Michael, he put his hand on his shoulder. "Michael, I'm sorry but we have to look at the possibility that she could be d...." Michael shrugged him off and turned his back on Max and the others. "Get out." Liz took hold of Max's arm pulling him from the apartment, Isabel and Alex walked past Michael, Isabel lightly touched his hand as she went past him. "I'll try and reach her again at home." Michael didn't look at her but whispered 'thanks'. Alex stopped before leaving he let go of Isabel's hand and went back to Michael. "If nothing comes to light by tomorrow, I AM going to Valenti." "Okay Alex, we'll go to Valenti." They shut the door behind them, Michael went to his room and sat on the bed, he felt exhausted. He picked up the picture that Isabel had been holding. "Wherever you are Maria, I'm going to find you, just be okay Please." He lay down still clutching her picture to him, his tears falling unnoticed. TBC

Part 5