Roswell

Chapter 2
Chapter 2

Sam handed Julie the device he had found and asked her to make him older. She aimed it toward him, laughed, and then pressed the down button. Suddenly, Sam began to shrink. 17-16-15.... Sam realized what she was doing and ordered her to "Stop playing around!" 14-13-12....Julie can’t help but laugh at her boyfriend as he slips back into childhood. He yells for her to "Quit it, NOW!" in his now high pitched voice. 11-10-9....Sam runs toward her to grab the device before she can make him any younger. 8-7-6.... Julie hits the button on the left. Suddenly he stops in his tracks. He looks around in and is obviously bewildered.

"Who are you, lady?" he asks.

Julie bursts out laughing "This thing really works....You’re just a regular little boy!".

He looks at her quizzically "Huh?".

She smiles and tells him "Oh, never mind. Here, take my hand. We need to get out of here."

"I ain’t sposed to talk to no strangers, lady. And I ain’t sposed to go no where with ’em either!" little Sam answered.

"Oh it’ll be all right....I’mm ummmm you’re....ummm....Aunt. You got a bump on the head and don’t remember. You’ll be OK after we get back and get you some ice cream, I bet!" she said to him.

He agreed and then promptly fell flat on his face, tripping on his over-sized pants. Once again Julie had to laugh at Sam’s plight. Julie took his jeans and they walked back to the car. Julie went through Sam’s pant pockets to find his keys. Once she found them she unlocked the car and Sam hopped up into the passenger seat.

"You sure got a nice car, lady." he says. "Thanks. And you can call me Aunt Julie. OK?".

"OK....Aunt Julie" he replies.

On the way back into town Julie makes a detour to the all night Wal-Mart Super Center. Julie tells Sam "You stay in the car and DON’T GO ANYWHERE! I’ll be right back!". He nods his head and she gets out once again locking the car.

She steps beside a van and when she’s sure no one is watching she turns the device back onto herself. 35....33....30.....25....22 ’That should do for now’ she thinks to herself and walks on into the store.Once inside she gets some conservative clothes that she thinks will go better with the 35 year old version of her self. She pays for the clothes and heads back out to the car, stopping to again make herself 35 before Sam see her as a 22 year old! She heads to a public restroom and changes into her new clothes. She now looks like any other 35 year old mother out with her son. No one would recognize her now.

"Where we goin’, Aunt Julie?" Sam asks. "I have a few ummm ’friends’ I want to see. You just be good, and we’ll get that ice cream in a while." she tells him.

Julie heads for the local Burger King where she knows one of her most hated classmates, Cindy, will soon be getting off work.

’This’ll be perfect for ’Miss Goody Two Shoes’’ she says to herself as she waits. Finally, Cindy emerges from the building. Julie walks toward her and gets her attention, asking her to "help me find my keys....".

Julie stays on the opposite side of some shrubs so that Sam can’t see what is happening. Julie quickly takes the device from her pocket and aims it at Cindy. 17-16-15-14-13-12....

"Heyyyyy ....what’s happening to me...... quit......nooooo" she cries.

11-10-9-8-7 Julie lets off the ’down’ button and hits the ’left’ button. Immediately, Cindy becomes a child just as she appears. She is still wearing her Burger King uniform, although it is now huge on her. Her hat keeps falling over her eyes.

Julie quickly grabs the small child and takes her to the car. Cindy is crying and yelling for help but there is no one around to hear her.

Sam asks "What’s going on?".

"I’m going to teach Miss Goody Two Shoes a lesson! Now shut up....and I mean it!" Julie says.

They drive off with little Cindy crying in the back seat and little Sam more confused than ever.

By this time it had gotten very late. Julie turned to Sam and tells him "I’m really kinda sorry I had to do this. But you’d never let me do this otherwise. This little thing is gonna help me even the score.... I’ll change you back when I’m finished."

None of this made any sense to little Sam "Change me back???? Huh?".

"Deal with it Kiddo. You’ll know soon enough!" Julie told him.

She now heads out to a local housing addition where one of her least favorite teachers lives. Ms. Parks. She knows the area well from her frequent trips there to egg the car and house. Julie parks the car and walks up to the house, then rings the door bell. Her teacher slowly opens the door but obviously doesn’t recognize Julie. Julie just aims the device at her teacher and holds the ’down’ button, watching as her teacher shrinks. 40-30-20-10 The teacher pleads for her to "Stop it....Please....." But Julie continues until her teacher is now just an infant.

Julie looks down at her and says "I bet you know what just happened, don’t you? You still have your adult mind, ....I bet. I just want you to think about how you made some of your students feel like ’babies’ with your ’holier than thou’ attitude. So picky..... Nit picky..... "

The infant started tried to speak but only could bawl. Julie laughed at the baby that once was her teacher and then said "Don’t worry, I won’t leave you like that.... a little bitty baby with an adult mind.... I can fix it.....".

And with that the baby quit crying as Julie aimed the device at her and hit the ’left’ button. She picked up the baby and headed back to the car. She had little Cindy hold the baby and little Cindy happily obliged, still unaware of their fate.

"This is so great. I’ll leave those two at some church. School will be _so_ much better without those two! ....AAAAND.... No one will ever know _I_ did it! Even IF someone sees me..... this little _device_ will erase the person they saw! The police will be looking for a middle aged woman! She won’t be around for almost 20 years!!!! Thank you Sam! This is perfect!" Julie was ecstatic.

Sam couldn’t understand what she was talking about.

As she drove around looking for the ’right church’ she noticed a car come up behind her. It followed them a while and then it flashed its headlights. At first she ignored it, but it kept following her....continuing to flash its headlights! Julie decided her ’device’ was all the security she would need and so she pulled over and got out of the car. Someone got out of the other car but she couldn’t make out who they were. She could only see an outline of a person in the bright beams of the headlights. "What’s up? Who are you?" she asked. The ’form’ finally emerged from the light and Julie could see it was Sam’s mother!

"Uhhhh Mrs. Miller....uhhh..." Sam’s mother cut her off "_That_ is my son’s car. He should have been home hours ago. He’s never late. You know my name so I assume that you can tell me where my son is AND what is going on!".

Before Julie could answer, little Sam came running out of the car yelling "Mommy, mommy....!!!".

Mrs. Miller looked at her son and then looked back at Julie with an icy, almost reptilian glare.

Julie was frantic! "Mrs. Miller...it’s _me_ Julie! I was uhhhhh we uhhh....DAMN!".

Mrs. Miller’s stare only deepened. Julie decided she had to use the ’device’ on Mrs. Miller! It was her only hope.... She couldn’t let the others return to normal....How would she ever explain it.... She aimed the device at Mrs. Miller and quickly hit the ’down’ button. 45-40-35-30-25 but then the youthening seemed to stop! Julie kept pressing but the woman still appeared to be about 25! She kept aiming it on pressing the button as hard as she could!

In the blinding light of the headlights she could tell that something was still happening to Mrs. Miller. But it didn’t look like she was getting younger! Press, Press... Julie kept pressing. Mrs. Miller WAS changing... her skin was getting grey! Her hair was disappearing. All of a sudden she DID shrink, but not from youth. At least not the youth that Julie expected to see. Mrs. Miller’s head seemed to get larger even. Her limbs got very narrow.

Julie stopped pressing the button, threw down the ’device’, and turned to run. All of a sudden a ’force’ grabbed her and floated her back to the scene.

Julie cried out "What are you? Why didn’t you get younger?".

"Aw, you see I DID get younger.... all the way back to my original form! I’m one of the survivors.... It seems that you somehow got one of our medical devices that we had intended to bring as gifts-until your _military_ showed its true colors!..... It’s all a matter of DNA integration techniques...blending...binding....distortions....We had to fit in.....Anyway Julie, I can’t leave you with all this knowledge so it looks like I’ll have to use this on you. The others are too young to really comprehend, so I’ll use this to restore them as close as I can.... I guess they’re all classmates?"

Julie didn’t answer only squinting to see the outline of a ’GREY!’....just like on the X-files!

"My God, you’re a.....a.....a.... an ALIEN!.... But what about Sam..... he didn’t turn into a liza....errr alien???"

"Adoption, my dear....Adoption!" and with that answer Mrs. Miller aimed the device at Julie and pressed the ’down’ button.

The end