Title: Twins

Author: SnowyOwl-17

Category: Roswell/Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel the Series Crossover

Pairing: Angel/Liz...if there are going to be any others I haven't decided yet.

Rating: I am rating this story Mature for violence and possibly language. If it needs to increase I will change it.

Disclaimer: I don't own Roswell, Buffy or Angel. Roswell belongs to it creators, writers, etc. Buffy and Angel belongs to Joss Whedon and anyone else who worked on them.

Summary: This is a challenge that I took up from LizNdAlec4eva...the challenge can also be found posted at www.roswellfanatics.net

LizNdAlec4eva wrote:#64
ANGEL/BTVS XO
Rating:Adult ANGEL/LIZ

Seasons: Roswell:2
Angel:3
BTVS:AU

Changes:
--Max and Tess aren't actually together, they are only pretending to go out to mak Liz and Kyle jealous.
--Angel and Darla didn't sleep together.
--Angel and Buffy weren't together, they were just friends but everybody thought they were more.
--Buffy and Joyce died at the same time in BTVS.
--Buffy and Liz are twins, Joyce got pregnant by Jeff, but once they were born Jeff and Joyce split up 1 year later, both of them re-married. Jeff to Nancy and Joyce to Hank (who then supposedly 'gave birth to' Dawn). Then the twins were split up Liz went with Jeff and Nancy to Roswell and Buffy went with Joyce to L.A
--Liz knows all about slaying, vamps and Angel. Buffy knows all about the aliens, Max and Tess. Only Giles, Angel, Alex (alive), Maria, Kyle and Isabel know about the twins.
--So, Buffy and Joyce die and everybody from L.A and Sunnydale go to Roswell for the funeral (many of them want to know why the funeral is in Roswell.
--When they arrive its only about lunch time and Angel decides to go and get Liz, so he puts on the ring of Omara (he didnt destroy it) goes into the school goes straight up to Liz and kisses her in front of everybody.
--So, everybody goes to the funeral. Then they all find out that Liz is the new slayer.
--Max, Micheal, Tess, the A.I team and the Scoobie gang all find out the truth about Liz & Buffy, that Liz and Angel have been dating for 6mnths, that they meet up in a house every weekend that Angel bought 4mnths ago, that they have slept together but Angel always wear the ring.
--Max gets mad, he and Angel fight (Angel wins of course).

Happy Angel/Liz ending...

Prologue:

Liz P.O.V.

The dream woke her violently. As she sat there, her breath erratic, the gruesome details of the dream played over and over again before her mind’s eye. She had known many things in her life…things that most people would write off as myths or nonsense. But nothing had ever chilled her to the bone, caused so much grief, or inflicted such emotional turmoil within her soul.

She didn’t want to believe anything she had ‘seen’, however, years of experience and an instinctive dreadful feeling deep down in her gut kept butting heads with her denial.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath in a completely useless attempt to get her breathing under control. After a moment she flung what blankets still remained off of her and headed into the kitchen.

As she stood there, with the refrigerator door open, staring blankly into space, she vaguely felt her father walk into the kitchen behind her. She didn’t move a muscle as he went over to the cabinet and pulled out two glasses and matching bowls. As he walked over toward her, he grabbed a spoon from the drawer. He filled the two glasses with milk, and opened the freezer to pull out the ice cream. As he set all the items on the kitchen table he whispered, “Close the door, Lizzie.”

After a moment she did as she was told and slowly moved toward the table to take a seat next to her father.

Jeff P.O.V.

Jeff Parker watched as his daughter moved in a zombie like motion. He had seen his little Lizzie do this countless times throughout her seventeen years. The occurrences had increased after she had turned fifteen, but never had any of her detached moments gone on this long or had been this extreme.

Usually she would only stare off into space for a few minutes before putting his nerves at ease, but not on this far too quite night. Tonight she was barely focusing on anything… and it was something that did not sit well with him.

He left the bowl of ice cream in front of her, hoping that eventually she would take a bite.

Not many knew this, but when his Lizzie got like this…he was always scared far more than he would ever like to be; not so much because he was afraid of what these actions meant for Liz’s well being…she was a resilient girl who had learned long ago that life was something precious and not to be taken lightly and unfortunately his little girl had learned it the hard way.

He knew that whenever she was like this it could only mean one thing…her fraternal twin sister was hurt.

“How bad is it, baby?” he asked cautiously.

He knew that every time he asked that question was one more time closer to hearing of the death of his oldest daughter.

The fact that it was taking his youngest daughter so long to answer him did not bode well with his inner turmoil. Usually she was quick to reassure him that her sister was fine…but tonight she was doing anything but.

Liz P.O.V.

All she could do was sit there with this numb feeling she had thought she had prepared herself for but she now knew that nothing could have prepared her for the empty spot that was now left behind. She knew her silence was hurting her father…but how was she supposed to tell him that she was gone…that they were both gone.

She felt his fingers wrap around her own and she allowed the touch to pull her slightly out of her dazed grief. She looked him in the eyes and preyed she would be able to hold it together for her father.

“How bad, baby?” he asked her once again.

She swallowed heavily and opened her mouth to answer him…when the phone began ringing.

“That will be Giles,” she said softly.

Liz watched her father mechanically get up to answer the phone. She also knew her step-mother would be entering the kitchen within moments…a fact that angered her unbelievably so. For one it would mean she and her father would not get to mourn properly. Secondly…Nancy Parker had made her feelings toward Buffy Anne Parker-Summers perfectly clear.

Nancy had always believed that Buffy had always been a delinquent who wanted attention anyway she could get it; a fact that had caused many a screaming matches between herself and her step-mother.

Liz saw Nancy enter the kitchen just as she heard her father let out a grief filled sob.

Life as her and her father knew it…was over…and they would be changed completely.

My name is Elizabeth Claudia Parker and yesterday my twin sister Buffy Anne Parker-Summers and my mother Joyce Caroline Summers died. The details of their deaths were not something that could be stomached by many a person unless they lived the life of a slayer or were very close to one. It was not something that a sister or a daughter should ever have to witness…because now…there is no going back and my life had changed irrevocably and forever.

Interesting start.

Great start I can't wait to see what is going to happen next!

TWINS



CHAPTER ONE

LIZ P.O.V

She hadn’t been able to fall back to sleep after she awoke from the nightmare of her sister’s and mother’s deaths. Not that she would have been able to even if she had wanted to. To say that Jeff Parker had never been angrier with his wife of fourteen years was the understatement of the century.

She had heard the two argue over Buffy before but never like they had last night. She had needed to escape to her balcony just to keep herself from joining the screaming match and saying something she might regret later on. She had always known that Nancy had a strong dislike for Buffy and her birthmother, but she had never imagined that Nancy could be such a cold hearted bitch when faced with their deaths.

As soon as the sun rose over the horizon she called Maria and Alex. They were two of the few people that knew about Buffy and her birthmother. She made quick plans to head over to Angel’s house on the outskirts of town in order to get ready for school, since she knew that Nancy would insist that she go.

She grabbed her book bag and left a note for her father on her desk. She then climbed down the latter attached to her balcony to wait for her two best childhood friends at one of the picnic tables in front of the Crashdown, pajamas and all.

MARIA P.O.V

She was out of the car before Alex even got a chance to bring the car to a complete stop, “Chica!” she called out as she ran to her best-girl-friend and pulled her into a tight hug, “Chica, what’s wrong? You didn’t sound good on the phone?” she asked in concern when she pulled back.

She could see a mixture of emotions in Liz’s eyes that were really putting her nerves on edge. Some calming oils would be needed at some point today that was for sure.
Before she could get an answer about what had her best friends emotions all over the place, their other best friend walked/ran over to both her and Liz and wrapped his arms around Liz’s waist from behind in a show of his own support.

LIZ P.O.V

She felt tears well up in her eyes at her two friends concern, love and support. She couldn’t help but think that Nancy should take a few lessons from two people that were a little over twenty years younger than her.

“Can we just go to Angel’s house now? I really need to get away from Nancy,” she asked as she finally let tears of grief, anger, sadness and frustration fall.

ALEX P.O.V

He shared a concerned look with Maria. Liz rarely used Nancy’s real name. From a very young age, even before Jeff and Nancy were married, Nancy had been adamant, if not downright demanding, that she be considered and addressed as Liz’s ‘Mom’; if Liz was no longer following the ‘expected’ behavior set by her ‘mother’ then that could only mean one thing…the one topic Nancy refused to budge on had been touched upon in the Parker household…Buffy Anne Parker-Summers.

“Of course, Liz, why don’t you and Maria sit in the back and I’ll drive to Angel’s okay?” he asked as he rubbed soothing circles on Liz’s back.

He became even more concerned as he took her book bag from her and released her into Maria’s care. She simply nodded but the flow of tears had not eased, if anything they had increased.

He walked ahead of his two girls and opened the back door for Maria to guide Liz into the car, before getting back into the driver’s seat and putting Liz’s book bag into the passenger seat next to him. He kept glancing back at Maria and Liz in the rearview mirror as he drove to the house Liz ‘shared’ with her boyfriend Angel Aurelius.

When they arrived at Liz and Angel’s five bedroom, five bathroom, two story home, he got out his key and opened the front door to allow Maria to guide Liz into the living room.

He watched as Maria did the girl talk/comforting thing with Liz before quickly making his way into the kitchen to call Kyle, Isabel, Giles and Angel.

He sighed as he picked up the cordless phone hoping and praying to whoever controlled the ways of the world that his gut instinct was wrong. He closed his eyes waiting for Jim or Kyle to pick up.

“Hello?” came a somewhat groggy voice from the other line.

He immediately knew it was Kyle; Jim would have already woken up at around 5:00 AM.

“Kyle, it’s Alex, I need you to head over to the Evans’s home, pick up Isabel and then get to Angel’s as fast you possibly can.”

He heard rustling around before he even finished the statement. “What’s up Alex?” a more awake Kyle demanded.

He sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose, “I’m not sure. But I’m 99.9% sure it’s Buffy. Liz called Mrs. Parker Nancy when Maria and I picked her up this morning.”

“Shit!” Kyle muttered, “Alright man, I’m on my way.”

The two hung up and he began dialing Isabel’s cell phone, compliments of one Angel Aurelius, to let her know what was going on. Angel had provided everyone that Liz had chosen to tell in Roswell about their (Liz and Angel's) relationship with a key to the house and
a cell phone.

The second he mentioned Angel’s house he could hear Isabel’s Ice Princess Persona drop into place as if she were preparing for the worst. It was something she always did so that if it was really bad she would be the level head that Liz could turn to for help…meaning that
Isabel would do everything needed to handle the designated funeral arrangements if she and the arrangements were needed.

Chapter Two:

Angel POV

Sighing as he sat down at his desk with his morning cup of blood, he turned on the computer. He was hoping that an extra cup of blood and then some heavy working out would allow him to relax a bit.

He glanced at the clock on the wall and sighed. Buffy should have checked in by now. He was expecting a call from a panicked Liz and moment.

The thought of Liz caused his eyes to stray to the two rings he wore. They had had one of their worst fights over the Gem of Amara. He didn’t think he should wear it. One thing goes wrong and it could end up in the wrong hands. If he lost his soul Angelus would be unleashed on the world in both the daylight and the sunlight.

But Liz had been adamant about him wearing it. She had even played on his weakness by saying the ring would allow him to protect her better.

Eventually he relented and she won that argument…as she did almost every other argument they had. Buffy always laughed at how a two and a half century old vampire constantly relented to a seventeen year old human girl.

He let a small smile grace his face as he realized just how much he would let Liz tell him what to do. He loved her more than he had ever loved anyone in his life or un-life. He had even let her friend Alex research the Gem of Amara and then let her friend Isabel use her powers to anchor his soul whenever he wore the ring.

Liz had just smiled at him and said that it was his 244th birthday present.

The other ring they had exchanged on her seventeenth birthday. Her Claddagh ring was white gold with a Garnet heart for her birthstone, while his was a simple Claddagh made from white gold.

He was pulled out of his thoughts when his cell phone began ringing. He frowned slightly when he saw that it was the number from his house in New Mexico.

“Hello?” he answered quickly.

“Angel what’s going on?” he heard the concerned voice of his girlfriends childhood friend.

“Alex? Why are you guys at the house? –Liz said you all only go there when something is wrong!” he asked in confusion.

“Man, there is something very wrong! Liz is practically catatonic. She just keeps staring off into space and she’s barely speaking. Not to mention this morning she called Mrs. Parker Nancy and you know how well that would go over on a regular basis,” Alex said in exasperation.

He closed his eyes in dread, “Damn, that means Buffy was definitely brought up in conversation. Alright, Alex, I’m going to call Giles and see what’s up. Buffy was supposed to check in already anyway.”

The line was silent for a moment before Alex broke the silence with a concerned whisper, “Angel, man, you don’t think…”

He understood the question not being voiced loud and clear. Sighing he ran his hand over his face, “I hope not, Alex. I really hope not.”

“Alright, call me as soon as you know something,” Alex said softly.

He nodded even though Alex couldn’t see him, “I will. And I know I don’t have to say it, but I’m going to anyway…take care of my girl.”

“You know I will,” Alex answered before the two hung up.

Closing his eyes he sighed once again before pinching the bridge of his nose and calling Giles on speed dial.

“Angel?” he heard the other man on the other end answer the phone.

“Giles…” he simply said waiting for the British man to fill in what happened.

He heard Giles sigh in both a tired and saddened way, “Joyce and Buffy were attacked at home. The authorities are saying a wild rabid animal or the gangs on PCP.”

He once again closed his eyes in dread, knowing that Liz had probably seen the whole thing in her dreams, “Was it vampires?”

“I’m not sure. We’re still looking into it. If it was vampires they didn’t drain them at all, there was blood everywhere,” he could hear Giles’ voice turn cold. A simple defense mechanism he himself knew all too well.

He sighed, “Alright, I’ll do what I can to help but Liz needs to bury her sister and mother for closure.”

Giles sighed, “I know, the others are trying to plan the wake and funeral. I am trying to tell them otherwise but they are not listening.”

“What’s Dawn saying?” he asked curiously. Liz and Buffy’s younger half-sister was closer to Liz, but was also very vocal about what she wanted, something she had definitely picked up from Buffy.

Giles sighed and he could just picture the watcher cleaning his glasses, “She won’t talk to anyone. She’s eleven and alone while the others are trying to cling to whatever connection to Buffy and Joyce they have left.”

He could feel a growl building in his throat, “Alright, Giles, make me the bad guy if you have too, but the wake and funerals need to happen in Roswell. I’ll take care of any financial problems that arise and send me whatever bill you get for moving them to Roswell.”

“Of course, Angel. –I also have another question…what about Dawn? Joyce’s lawyer already contacted me…Hank signed away his parental rights and Joyce wrote in her will that Jeff couldn’t have custody because of Nancy,” he could hear Giles’ concern deepen.

“I’ll talk to Liz when I get to Roswell. But I should have no problems getting a hold of some forged papers that will give one of us custody of her. But I have a feeling Liz is going to want her close by,” he said seriously.

“Alright, I’ll take care of things here and then I’ll somehow get the others down to Roswell…when they find out that they were kept out of this…things are not going to go over well.”

He nodded, “Now there is an understatement. They just better not piss of Liz. Buffy may have been the slayer but those two have twin tempers. – You have my cell number. The others and I will be heading down to Roswell today. From what Alex has told me I think Liz already knows.”

“Alright, Angel, I’ll see you soon. Take care of Liz,” Giles said before the two disconnected.

He sighed and put his phone back into his pocket before resting his elbows on the desk and burying his face in both of his hands.

Things were about to get extremely rocky.
Those who thought they knew everything were about to find out they barely knew anything and those who did know everything were about to see what happens when secrets are kept from loved ones.

“Angel?”

He looked up to see Fred and Gunn standing in the doorway, looking at him in concern.

“You alright man?”

He sighed and shook his head, “Buffy and Joyce were killed last night. The wake and funerals are going to be in Roswell, New Mexico.”

He heard Gunn sigh a bit before quietly saying, “Then I guess we’re going on a really sad and depressing road trip?”

He nodded, “Yeah. This is not how I wanted you all to find out about the connection I have to Roswell.”

Gunn raised an eyebrow, “What? You got some double life or something?”

He forced a smile, “Something like that.”

Liz POV

She sighed and just stood there looking at the building in front of her with Isabel and Maria on either side of her.

“I don’t want to be here,” she whispered.

Maria wrapped an arm around her shoulders and Isabel wrapped an arm around her waist.

“We know, Chica. But we’ll be here with you. And Angel called Alex back. He will be here later today, okay?” Maria asked in a comforting way.

Isabel gave her a squeeze in agreement with Maria.

Sighing she nodded and let Maria and Isabel lead her into school.

Chapter Three

Liz P.O.V

She could tell that Max, Tess and Michael were annoyed with the fact that Isabel, Maria, Alex and Kyle never left her side. Though she could see some concern from Michael as well, but there really wasn’t any from Max or Tess. They just wanted to know what they were being left out of.

Standing at her locker she sighed and fought back the tears when she caught sight of a picture of her, her sister, and her mother smiling back at her, from inside her locker. It was the only place she could put one that didn’t have Nancy going on a rampage or something like that.

“Hey, Lizzie, how are you holding up?” Alex asked her softly.

She looked at her best friend and just shrugged. She would be fine once Angel got here. He would make everything okay.

As if reading her mind Alex pulled her into a tight hug, “He’ll be here soon, Lizzie, I promise.”

She just nodded into his chest. She knew he was right, but she couldn’t help but want Angel here to hold her, sooth her, love her, calm her. All of the absurd drama would be gone when he finally arrived. Nancy would shut up, considering her step-mother loved the fact that she had ‘bagged herself a rich man’, but also she could tell Nancy was afraid of him. And her father, having known about Buffy being the Slayer, knew all about Angel. At first he didn’t trust Angel, but had grown to like him a great deal both because Angel made her happy and kept her safe, which in Jeff Parker’s mind was a whole sky scrapper of a difference from Max Evans, who had constantly been putting her in the center of danger. And, finally, she knew that Angel would put an end to the Max Evans drama once and for all, even if he had to kick Max’s ass to do it.

“Liz what is going on?” Max demanded as he walked up to her and Alex, with Tess on his heels.

She rolled her eyes and ignored him, just as her cell phone began ringing. She wasn’t going to answer it until she saw the caller ID…it was Dawnie. She took a deep breath to calm her nerves. She need to be strong for her sister, “Hey, how are you holding up?” she asked softly when she answered the phone.

“Okay, I guess,” Dawn sniffled on the other end.

She smiled sadly, “Liar. Now, seriously, how are you holding up?”

Dawnie let out a sob, “Willow’s already talking about selling the house and Mom and Buffy’s stuff to set up a college fund for me.”

She frowned at that, “What? –First of all, none of those decisions are up to her, and second, Angel already bought the house from Mom a few years ago. Plus, your college fund will already allow you to go to any Ivy League school for your Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctorate degrees.”

Her sister once again sniffled on the other end, “I know. Giles is yelling at her left and right, but Xander and Willow keep ganging up on him and speaking for me, like they know what I want.”

“I want to live with you,” Dawn whispered.

She felt tears flood her eyes and her throat grow tight, “I know, baby. And I will do everything in my power to make sure that happens, I promise you.”

“I love you, Lizzie,” Dawn cried.

Closing her eyes as her heart constricted hearing her sisters pain, “I love you too, Dawnie. Don’t ever forget that, alright?”

“Yeah.”

She forced a smile and nodded for head to get her emotions under control, “Alright, Baby girl, I have to get to lunch, but I’ll call you after school, okay?”

“Okay, bye, Lizzie,” Dawn mumbled.

“Bye, Baby,” she said just as softly before hanging up on her baby sister.

“Liz?” Alex asked her in concern.

She glared at him, thought her anger wasn’t directed at him, and she knew that he would know that. She set her jaw as her anger over powered any other emotion, “Remind me to put that little red-headed witch in her place.”

She hadn’t even noticed Isabel join them, but she heard the anger in the former alien princess’s voice, “What did she do this time?”

She matched Isabel’s tone without even trying, “Said she was going to sell everything to set up a college fund for Dawn.”

Isabel’s eyes flared in anger, “And where’s Dawn supposed to live?”

She raised an eyebrow, “Where do you think she suggested? I don’t even have to ask that one.”

“Will someone please tell me what’s going on?” Max practically yelled.

“I wouldn’t be yelling at my girl if I were you, Evan,” said an annoyed voice behind them all.

She spun around so quickly she made herself dizzy. But she didn’t care. Angel was here!

She let out a relieved sob and ran to him. He immediately had her wrapped up in his safe arms, “It’s okay now, Baby. I’m here now. You don’t have to be strong all the time anymore. I’m here to help,” he whispered to her softly.

She buried her face in his chest, “Then make me forget. Kiss me and make me forget even if it’s only for a few minutes.”

He obviously didn’t have to be told twice. Before she even finished speaking he cupped her face. Then he was leaning down and devouring her lips with his own. She immediately opened for him, dying to taste him again. She lost herself in the feel of his body around her, sheltering her from the outside world, and the feel of his tongue stroking her own and slowly soothing the stress tension from her body.

Isabel POV

She smiled happily and sadly as she watched Liz and Angel make out in the middle of the school hallway. She was happy because Angel was finally here to take away Liz’s stress and to put a smile back on his girls face. But she was sad because of the reason that Angel was needed here for.

She knew Max was going to cause problems, but she also knew that Liz and Angel were the real deal. These two dealt with problems that were so much larger than her brother. She could only hope that everyone made it through this without too much bloodshed.

She sighed as she realized no bloodshed was just too much to ask for.

“Do you think we’ll ever be like that?—Minus the threat of losing my soul at any given moment of true happiness, mind you,” Alex whispered in her ear.

She smiled and leaned back against his chest, “I hope so,” she whispered back.

Ever since she had become a part of Liz’s secret, she and Alex had become much closer. She would be thrilled and set for life if she could have with Alex what Liz had with Angel.

Max POV

‘How could she do this to me? To us?’

Was all he could think as he watched the spectacle Liz made of herself.

She was his souldmate, this bastard didn’t have the right to touch her like that!