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 "Max, what's going on? I thought you said it took a month...I can't go outside like this."
Max sat on the edge of the bed, placing his hand on Liz's stomach, he made a connection with the baby.
"She seems fine, she's breathing okay and is really active." He grins as he feels another kick.
"No kidding. I can't even get dressed, I don't have anything I can wear!” Then she looks down and puts her hand on top of Max's, maybe she could connect too. Then she saw what Max saw.
Oh Max, she's beautiful…” She turns to look at him, they both had tears in their eyes.
“Knock, knock!” Nancy sticks her head into the bedroom, “Hope I didn't come in at a bad moment…Liz, what happened?”
“We don't know…something's not right.” Seeing the panic on her mother's face, Liz hurries up to add. “Oh, we're fine; we just don't know why things are going so fast.” She looks at Max, he just grins and nods. “Mom come here.” Nancy walks over to the bed, wondering what she wanted.
Liz takes her mother's hand then places it on top of Max's, letting her see and feel everything with the baby. “See, she's just fine.”
Nancy gives them a look of amazement. What a wonderful thing to be able to experience all the time. She reaches down and touches Liz's face. “You were right, he will take care of you both. Thank you, Max.” It was her turn to kiss Max on the cheek. “Could I get your father? Would it be okay?”
“Sure. Of course you know, we'll have to go through this all over again with my parents. Of course I guess I should tell them first, huh?” He grinned at Liz again.
“I think that would be a good idea.” She just laughed. “If she keeps growing like this, we'll probably wake up tomorrow with her in the bed between us.”
“I'm going to try to find Skylar, he's a protector, he might have some answers.”
“Can I come in, your mother said there was something you wanted to show me…Lizzie, you better go on a diet.”
“I don't think so Dad. Just come here for a minute.” Liz and Max just look at each other, trying to keep from laughing. “Now don't take this the wrong way, but you I want you to hold hands with Max.” She starts to laugh.
“What?” Liz grabs her dads hand and puts it on top of Max's; the expression on her father's face was beyond priceless. “Meet your granddaughter.”
“I've never seen your father speechless before.” Max hated to break the connection with her father, but he had to leave. “I hate to leave, but I have to try to find Skylar, we need some answers.” Leaning down, he kisses Liz good-bye. Rubbing her stomach he adds “Bye baby, we love you.” As he goes out of the bedroom door, he turns and gives her a wave.
“You just stay up here and relax, we won't need you down there until the lunch rush” He was on his way out of the door. Looking back at her horrified face, he couldn't resist. “Kidding.” She throws a pillow at him.
 “Okay, Dad, you never said what happened with Grandpa yesterday. Is he doing better?” Kyle was pouring them both some coffee. It had become their morning routine.
“Well, I didn't get over there. I got busy.” Jim turns to the stove, stirring the eggs.
“Busy, you got busy! You promised to go see him. I'm really worried that they are going to want to start shooting him up with stuff to keep him quiet. We have to take care of him, Dad.”
“Kyle, if you only knew what this does to me…I keep thinking about what it would be like if it was me there and you didn't come to visit, it would really bite.” He puts the eggs and biscuits on the table.
“Dad I know why you don't go. You feel guilty. You know the truth, and you can't tell him. It's okay, you don't need to feel that way. He would understand. I understand.”
“Hey, when did you get so smart?”
“I traveled in a van for eight months; I didn't have much to do, so I had a lot of time to think.”
He puts his hand on Jim's shoulder “It'll be all right, Dad.”
Max looked around the Center hoping to see Skylar. Brody comes over to him wondering what was going on. “Max, is Liz okay?”
“Yes and no. Yes she's fine, but she's now five months pregnant. Antarian pregnancies are only one month. The way she's going she won't last a week.” He takes some postcards out of a box and starts to fill the rack. Brody takes the box from him.
“You go find whoever it is you need to find. I think we can take care of things here. Liz is more important. Oh, Max, I forgot to tell you, today is Sydney's birthday.”
Max turns to look at him, he's thinking about his own daughter. “That's great Brody. Bet she's getting big.”
“Yes she is. She is so strong now. Thank you.”
Max just smiled “It was my pleasure.”
Max ran across the street, he wanted to check on Liz. Just as he was ready to open the door he saw him. Skylar saw him too. He turned and walked the other way. “Stop!”
Skylar hated this, he would never be able to deny the King anything. “What do you want? There isn't much more about the ship that I can tell you.”
“I don't care about the ship. It's Liz. We need your help.”
“What's wrong? Amanda said she thought she didn't look right yesterday.”
“She's pregnant.”
“Women are pregnant everywhere, why does she need my help?”
“I think you know why. Besides it's not everyday a woman goes from two days to five months over night. Come with me, we need to figure this out.”
Maria sees them walk in. “Hey Max, Liz sure is popping.”
Max starts to panic “What! Don't tell me…”
“Oh, no! Not that! She's just the same. I just meant the whole overnight thing.” She picks up some ketchup bottles to refill.
Upstairs, they walk into the bedroom. Liz is sitting on the balcony wearing her favorite pajamas. Opening the window, Max and Skylar go out to see how she is. “Any change?”
“No, I'm just still semi-big. My mother and Maria are going shopping to see if they can find me something to wear. Hello, I don't think I know you.”
“No your Highness, it's a great pleasure. My name is Skylar.”
“Oh, it's you. Please, call me Liz, we don't go by that here.” She tries to find a comfortable spot. Max goes into the bedroom and gets her a pillow. Putting it behind her back, he makes sure she's comfortable. Then he turns to Skylar.
“What can you tell me about this? Do you know why she'd get to five months so fast?” Max looks at him, Skylar could see the fear on his face.
“Sometimes on Antar women have been known to progress quickly in the first week, then they level off for the rest of the month. I know this doesn't happen here. But with your situation, this is all unknown territory.” Walking over to Liz, he looks into her eyes. “I don't see anything, at least, that's good. Have you had anything different to eat?”
“Are you saying that if I ate something different, that it could make my baby grow faster? That doesn't make sense.” She looks at Max, he reaches down and takes her hand. “I haven't been able to eat anything, the morning sickness…well it was more like morning, afternoon and evening sickness just about did me in. The only thing I had that helped was that herbal tea. I had two cups and felt back to normal.”
“Herbal tea? Did you buy it in the store?” He is beginning to think he was onto something.
“No, Miranda gave it to my mother. Somehow she knew this would happen. She left the herbs with her.”
He starts to laugh, “Miranda gave them to her? Well that answers that question.”
Max looks at him, “Did she give her something bad? Will it hurt the baby?”
“On the contrary, Miranda would never hurt a soul. Her intentions were good, she just should have warned your mother of the consequences. She has or should say had an herbal treatment for everything. She had the cure for morning sickness and the women loved her for it. But with Liz being human, this would definitely make changes in her.”
“But she isn't human any more…well she is, but she's more alien than human now, would she still be affected?”
“Her body is still essentially human; it's the powers that are alien. I think the herbs jump started her body to get her past the early trimester. That's when the morning sickness is most common. Therefore, if she is passed that point, the morning sickness would be gone. Also, Miranda felt that there would be trouble brewing soon, the baby's chances would be better if it had grown. If I figure right, you should have leveled off and things should go back to normal. Whether that is Antarian normal or human normal, I don't know.”
“Trouble, what kind of trouble?” Max looked at Liz, could they be on the verge of some kind of battle?
“That's why we need the files, we need to know who we're up against. I'm sorry Amanda is so rough. She was sent here to train you. As you could see, she is the best and she will teach you to be the same.” Looking at Liz, he smiles. “But you, I think will have to wait.”
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