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 "Well Max, where should we start?" Brody hadn't felt this good in years. Finally all of his questions had been answered, well maybe not all, but the most important ones.
"I guess the first thing is asking you if I can have my job back. I'm sorry about running out on you, but as you know I didn't have much of a choice.” Max grins at Brody.
“Well, that's a given, you are more than welcome back. Of course you might be more active behind the scenes, now.” He grins back at Max.
“Oh Brody! I almost forgot!” Maria runs into the other room. “Galaxy sub, hold the mayo and extra pepper jack.” Maria hands the bag to him
“Maria! How nice to see you back.” Taking the bag he puts it in his little refrigerator. “I missed having you deliver my lunch. When you start back to work could you start bringing it to me again?”
“Sure no problem.” Just like old times, like they never left. Maria looked a Michael, he didn't look too happy. “Cheer up Spaceboy, it's only lunch.” She reaches up and whispers in his ear, “I'll always go home with you.” Then kisses his cheek.
“Hey Max, what's this?” Liz was looking down on the floor, seeing the amulet that Larek must have dropped, she picks it up. As soon as she does it starts to glow, then hundreds of pictures flash into her mind.
“Oh!” She drops it on the floor; it felt like it was on fire. Looking at her hand she sees a burn in the form of the design on her hand. “Max, look.”
Taking her hand, Max holds his hand over it, but when he takes his hand away, the burn was still there. “What happened, it didn't work. How do you feel?”
“I feel fine, what does that mean? Why did I see all those flashes?” Liz was full of questions, but she knew that Max didn't have the answers to them…no one did. As they look at the burn, it was slowly absorbed into Liz's hand leaving no sign that it had ever been there.
“Whoa! That's like when Michael had that V thing going on. Liz you aren't feeling evil are you, like maybe taking up where Tess left off?”
“No Maria, I feel just like me…I don't think this has anything to do with Tess.” Liz looked at Max as he picked up the amulet again. “What are you going to do with it Max?”
“Hold it again; I don't think it'll hurt you If Larek brought this to use as a key for the pod chamber then he had planned on being here for a long time…which we know isn't possible, Brody's body couldn't withstand that. I think it was meant for you, to be your key…do you remember any of the flashes?”
“There were so many of them and they passed so quickly I couldn't really see anything.” She holds out her hand, Max places the amulet on it, very carefully. A soft hum comes from it, then it stops. She starts to look at it, turning it over she was amazed at what she saw. “Max…” The others come over to see what had happened. There on the back was Max's face like in the destiny book, only this time Liz's face was next to his.
 Jim was just coming into the station when he saw Hanson. He didn't want to talk to him right now, Max's questions were still weighing heavy on his mind.
“Hey Jim, could I talk to you for a minute?” He turns to go into his office. Following behind him, Jim takes a seat across from Hanson. Looking around at once was his office, he hardly recognized it.
“What can I do for you?”
“Rumor has it that Kyle is back, the others too. Do you know anything about it? Did he ever tell you why they left? It didn't have anything to do with the trouble that Max got into in Utah did it?”
That didn't take long, what do I do now? Jim was thinking. “We really haven't had a chance to talk. He was in a hurry to check on his grandfather.”
“Yea, how is your dad these days?”
“About the same as the last time I guess. Well, if there isn't anything else…I need to finish that filing.”
“Oh, sure. I was just curious about Kyle. Tell him I said hello.” Standing up he follows Jim back outside. As he passes the desk, he tells the officer on duty that he would be out on patrol.
Jim looked around, and then headed off to work on his files. As he was pulling out some of the old files he heard a noise behind him. Turning around quickly, he sees it's Kyle. “God Kyle, you scared me half to death! What are you doing here?”
“I need to talk to you, Dad. I went to see grandpa, they had him tied to his bed, they said he got violent…come on Dad, half the time he just sits there staring into space, never bothering anyone. We have to do something!” He started pacing around the room, the more he thought about what he saw the angrier he got. Jim was watching, there was something else on Kyle's mind, what? Then he saw what was bothering him…the file cabinets started to open and files were beginning to come out all by themselves.
“Kyle, what are you doing?”
“Oh yea, that too. I made pictures float off grandpa's dresser.”
think we need to go talk to Max…”
Isabel walked down the street, seeing the familiar sites, sites that she had missed all those months. I guess you can go home again, as least I hope so, she thought. Looking at her watch she realized that it was lunch time. Walking into the Crashdown she sits at the counter.
“Hey Isabel, what can I get you?”
“Oh, I had a late breakfast, but maybe I could get something for my dad, he's probably ready for lunch.” Looking at the menu she tries to figure what to get him. “Any suggestions?”
“What about one of the wraps, he comes in every once in a while and gets one.” Geoff was glad to see that her mood had picked up since last night. “How's Jesse?”
“How did you know?”
“You're grinning from ear to ear. I'll have that order for you in no time.” He winks at her as he hands the order to the cook.
“Max, I wonder what this means.” She holds it up, looking at it. “What do you think I should do with it?”
Taking it from her hand, he looks at her. Leaning in he gives her a kiss, then he slips the amulet over her head. “I think that this is where this belongs…at least for now; until we figure where it does go.
As he was getting ready to jump into the pool he had that feeling again…he didn't like it. Something was happening and now was not a good time. But then again no time would be a good time to face him again. Reaching for the bowl of lemons, he squeezed more juice into the glass. The taste still hadn't come back, all those years of struggling thrown away by one crazy act. He did notice the chlorine, a little bit, if the wind blew in the right direction.
Looking towards the sky, he wondered what he did that was so wrong to be saddled with this never ending job…why couldn't I have just killed him when I had the chance. “Damn you Max Evans I thought I'd never have to see you again.”
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