"How?" Max asked, finding things making less and less sense.

"You had used the Granilith. You explained that it had powers we had not discovered yet. You brought a warning and asked me to do something," Liz said.

"Go to bed with Kyle?" Max said, feeling even more confused. He looked over at Kyle, who was keeping his eyes to the ground. The boy looked as embarrassed as Max was confused.

"No," Liz replied. "You described a scene similar to the one in my premonition, where there was a battle and both Isabel and Michael died. And it was all because Tess had left and the four of you were not together for the battle. Max, Tess had left because… ”

"Of you and me," Max said, finally beginning to understand.

"You told me that 1 had to give you up to keep peace between Tess and the group," Liz said.

"Why didn't you just tell me?" Max said.

"You told me not to. You from the future told me that you would try to find another way," Liz said. "You said the only way to be sure was if you believed that it was over between us.”

Then the totality of it hit Max. Liz had given up so much… all because he had asked her to. Not who he was now, but some version of him from the future.

"It was all for nothing," Max said finally. "Tess…"He didn't have to say any more. Everyone there knew what Tess had done. She had killed Alex and betrayed them all. She had given birth to Max's son and tried to turn him over to Max's enemy Kevar on their home world. Then, when Kevar rejected Max's son as heir, she had come back looking for shelter.

"You didn't think to mention any of this before?' Michael asked. Then he turned to Maria and said, "And you knew?”

"What good would have it have done?" Liz said.

That stopped Michael in his tracks.

"How would you prepare for some mysterious danger fifteen years in the future?" Liz continued.