What the Hell is that thing.

There was a noise of squealing tires filled the air.
She was not going to hyperventilate! She would remain in control!
Maggie stopped looking out the windscreen and shut her eyes.
No, she was okay.
What was a military helicopter flying into Crossville for? There had to be a rational explanation.
Instead she turned to look at Mars.
He stared at the fading spectre entranced probably caught up in a memory or something.
She realised the hand brake and eased her foot off the gas pedal. The car lurched forward but she managed to avoid the ditch as she headed home again. About a mile down the road she took a left and bypassed the road that would have taken them back to the road where she had found the three men.

The Military showed up in the movies every time Aliens appeared in the movies. The movies couldn't be completely wrong- right? I mean this could actually be the beginning of an Alien Invasion! She could be aiding and abetting the enemy who would end up impregnating her and then she would...
Mars stared at her with one eyebrow slightly raised and she clamped her mouth shut and put a hand over it.
He was so calm it was scary.
She pointed out the windscreen and tried to say something but nothing came out save for a squeak.

Mars leaned towards her and came so close that he could have kissed her. For a moment, she was sure he was going to. Instead, he breathed soft humid air into her face and said.
"Why do you keep acting so irrationally?"
She just stared at him and then she pushed her face against his and kissed him.

Time seemed to stop and then Mars said something into her mouth. She froze.
The moment passed.

She sat back, he had tasted good for the moment they had almost kissed.

When had she stopped the car? Maggie looked around looked around. She was driving on automatic. They were stopped at the farmed gate.

She held up her hands, then after a moment put the car in park and got out of the car and opened the gate.
She climbed back in and drove down to her trailer.

Some things seemed to be okay, at least, the same.
Well the same crappy trailer, same junk that a previous boyfriend had abandoned in her yard.

She was out of the car and marching to the door before she remembered that she had an alien in the car.
She turned to find him standing a few feet behind her.

She shook her head, she needed a shower, a drink and some sleep in her own bed.
As she thought this a warm memory creeped into her head of mars holding her while she slept.

Dammit Maggie. Get a Grip!
She should have known that something was wrong when her front door just open when she touched it.
But she was too busy to look for the guy coming for her from the darkened interior until it was too late.

Things to do when your world is ending.

After everything had happened it turned out that she had spent the rest of the night asleep in the man who called himself Mars' arms. She couldn't remember how she had gotten there but she felt better when she awoke to the morning sunlight coming through the sunlight.
She yawned and looked up at him as he sat there looking down at her. She smiled at him and he nodded before gently helping her back up to sit behind the wheel. She complied because it felt right. Once she was sitting up he got out of the car and walked into the field until he disappeared into the trees.
She took a look in the rearview mirror and sighed. She was a wreck. Total loss.
Maggie realized she was alone in the car. The other 2 aliens were not there. Aliens. The word did not scare her as much as she thought it should. Where were they anyway. They had left the Walmart and driven towards her home. Then she had...
Shit! Yes, Maggie had gone to pieces. Classic ex-girl friend fashion to boot. At least one of the aliens was cute and the other hugged very nicely. She blew out a breath and considered her options. What does one do with three aliens who are not doing well passing off as human beings.
It would have been good if her brother was here in Tennessee, then she could go ask him. He was the one who read all the sci fi books while the most she had covered was some of his less violent comic books and harlequin romances (hers). Thinking of Lawrence made her flinch, he was still in Iraq fighting that fucking war and might be killed at any point and then all Maggie and Grace would have left was the memory of his smile.
Poor Grace, they had only been married like 3 days when we invaded Iraq. No honeymoon, no time to even really say goodbye. Maggie decided she would call Grace once she got home and showered and -
Oh right the Aliens.
Well that was a game changer as Larry always would say. What would he think of his little sister now? I mean other than the fact I dropped out of school, picked up a string of loser boyfriends and lost my 4th job since he had left?

She looked back out to where Mars had vanished. Then she spotted them standing a ways off in the field talking. Well Mars and Kimat were talking but Fishbowl was running around flapping his arms and screaming. Not for the first time, she was grateful that they were in the virtual middle of nowhere. At least home was on a farm away from the city and her mother's house was at least a mile from her trailer.

Fishbowl suddenly stopped running around and fell into the grass. A wail like a siren erupted from where he had fallen. Obviously he hadn't hurt himself as the other two men took one look at him and then resumed their conversation. She wondered what they were discussing.


Mars looked down at Fijbold in disgust. He figured that the Marcreation (what?) would not make it long on this world. It was a bad turn of luck that Fijbold had not connected near a hydrocarbon mass and gotten a different form. This form lacked a lot but Mars could see some possibilities to it. Of the three, Kymat had the least transition to the new form, his species had been bipedal and adept at walking upright. He had the least adjustment then Mars or Fijbold even though his lower limbs- his legs moved in the opposite direction as his previous ones.
Kymat sighed.
"So it is settled then." he said. "we must go our separate ways."
"We were never friends." Mars said but then stopped as they both realized the strange word did not quite accurately describe their prior relationship.
"I will go with the woman." The word felt right to his body although the concept did match something Mars could not quite define in himself. "I would advise you each to find similar, since the other was less approachable."
Kymat nodded. Fijbold wailed.
"This is a fairly large world. we probably will not need to encounter again." Mars said.
"But should we need to we will all come back to the place we first connected in 2 passes of this world around its star." Kymat said and Mars nodded. Fijbold stopped wailing and nodded.
"I don' like it." was all he said from where he crouched in the grass.
Mars knew it would be very unlikely Fijbold would ever make it back to this place even if he survived.

The men stopped talking and walked away in different directions. Mars walked back to the car. He turned once a raised his hands skyward. Kimat stopped and did the same. Fishbowl did not stop nor look back as he walked away into the woods. Kimat walked away from them down the road.

Mars opened the door and got in. He looked at her and made as if to smile but it did not work. he shook his head and said
"We decided to go our own ways from here."
"Oh." Maggie replied.
"I have decided to remain with you." Mars said.
Maggie's heart jumped inside her chest and she flushed with pleasure. She glanced at Mars who did not look back he was staring at the sky.
"Okay. I guess I will take you home then." She said but he was now pointing up into the sky.
"What is that thing?" He said.
She followed his finger to the Helicopter that was flying back towards town. It was the biggest helicopter she had ever seen.
"Shit." was all she could manage.