Title- Lived, Lost and Loved Again
Summary-Michael and Selene's daughter gets taken away a few weeks after being born, but what happens when they find her and try to explain the past…
Rated T for language
Disclaimer- Don't own it, my little imagination isn't that great! The name Fiyero came from "Wicked" and I don't own the Hot Pockets organization.
A/N- First Underworld Fan Fiction…I have about thirty pages written as of now so it will be updated as I type them…hope I didn't royally screw it up! As you read, you will come across text surrounded with and bolded- that is a dream.
Chapter 1- A Narrow Escape
"Selene, they are catching up!" Michael shouted as he and Selene were running to escape the large group of Death Dealers trying to catch them. "Let me carry you! We will go faster!"
"No, I can make it on my own!" she spat back. Even 32 weeks pregnant, Selene was still as stubborn as ever. She wasn't going to let anything harm their child, at any cost. Michael turned and shot the vampire that was closest to them, who was only 25m back. They weren't allowed to shoot her because they needed the child alive. The vampires believed that the child should suffer for its mother's slaying of Viktor and Selene's betrayal of the covenant.
"Selene, I'm not screwing around!" he changed into his hybrid form and went to pick her up when she quickened her pace.
She turned back to him, since she was now ahead and said, "Neither am I, now just shut up! I'll be fine!"
Selene got faster the longer she was ran and in his hybrid form, Michael kept up with her. He looked back to see that the dealers were slowing and began to scatter in all directions. Michael turned back around to see the sun was slowly coming over the small city in which they were running.
Selene was oblivious to the rising sun and was only focused on keeping their child safe. Her only thought was running, just stay rung at this pace and they will get tired and stop chasing.
"Selene!" he shouted as he picked her up in his strong arms and jumped into a nearby building. Michael made sure to shield Selene's swelling mid-section as they crashed through the window.
When she realized why Michael had grabbed her, Selene covered her face from the increasing light and relaxed into his arms. They got out of the sun, but not quite soon enough; Selene's skin was lightly burned.
"You need to rest! That was too close!" he told her.
"I don't care, we need to keep going!" Selene winced as she softly touched her skin. The burn wasn't bad, but it was bad enough that Michael thought he would get the idea. He felt that she was pushing too hard and didn't want her to get too stressed or tired.
"No! You can't keep going like this! God, you are so stubborn, but you usually know when to stop! You are getting reckless again, like the night Lucian bit me." Michael looked into her eyes seeing that they were cold and emotionless.
He pleaded on, "You said the exact same thing that night that you said earlier… right before you nearly died! I won't let that happen again! If you keep going this far and pushing your body to the limit…Selene you may endanger your own life-it might hurt the baby!"
His eyes were welling with tears, but he refused to let any fall. Michael turned back to face Selene and saw her body go limp and begin to fall. He ran to catch her at the last minute and she fell into his arms. Her body couldn't go any longer and finally just gave out. Hopefully this would give her body time to heal itself and relieve some of her stress.
Selene woke up near dusk on the floor of the abandoned building in Michael's arms. He held her tight enough that she would wake him if she moved, but not enough to hurt her skin. Michael loosened his grip to let her sit when he felt her head leave his shoulder. Soon after she sat up, he followed her into the same sitting position. Her normally pale skin was still pink, but had healed enough that it didn't hurt to touch.
Selene slowly moved her hands to her stomach and looked down as if to make sure their baby was still there. When she felt a light kick, Selene slowly leaned back into Michael, nuzzling close to his chest. To her, he was always so warm and she began to drift back to sleep when Michael woke her.
"You need to feed, Selene…you haven't eaten in a day or two and you are getting weaker…"
"No, I'll be fine for a little while longer," Selene began to drift again, but Michael pursued the issue.
"Selene, you can barely stay awake and it is almost dark. The dealers will be out again and you can't even run…"
"Michael, we don't have any blood, and I can too stay awake! I am just a little tired; we should get up and get ready to leave."
"I don't want your body under any extra stress!" Michael held onto her forearm, not letting her get up.
"I'm fine Michael, let me go!" Selene turned and hissed at him with ice blue eyes and fangs bared. Giving into her stern warning, he let go, keeping his arms extended as he sat back up to catch her if she fell.
Sure enough, Selene stood up and felt very dizzy. Michael helped her sit back down and looked into her eyes, now back to their normal dark brown color.
"Selene, let me carry you to the safe house. You can feed and rest there, it's only a few blocks," he pleaded. Michael hated seeing her so weak. He was so used to the strong independent woman that the vulnerable and helpless Selene made his heart ache. Michael wished so much that there was something more he could do. Selene nodded and Michael lifted her up as he changed form and walked out the door.
It was very dark for the time of day and a stead rain was falling. The scent of the dealers no longer lingered in the air. Michael checked the street signs to get an idea of where he was and started on the way. Even though the death dealers' scents were gone, he wasn't going to wait to see if they were going to come back.
As Michael came up on the dilapidated old house, he noticed a strange scent in the air. He couldn't quite make out what it was, lycan or vampire. It seemed a lot like a perfect mix of both, but he couldn't decide. At the time, that didn't matter, the safe house was used by vampires many years ago to hold lycans and that was probably why the scent seemed so strange.
Selene stirred in his arms and Michael remembered his purpose for carrying her here in the first place. He slowly walked through the front door, making sure he didn't bump Selene into it.
Michael laid her down on the dusty couch and went into the kitchen, changing back to his human form on the way. He pushed a spider web out of his way to the refrigerator and opened the door with a loud creak. Even though it looked like it didn't work, the blood packs inside remained cold and unspoiled.
There weren't very many, only three or four, so he took two for Selene and 1 for himself. Michael never could get used to the idea of drinking blood, but it was the only thing that could keep either of them going. Selene needed the blood more anyway, since she was eating for two.
The two cups that he took from the cabinet were cracked and old looking, but they held the blood just fine. After emptying the contents of Selene's two bags into one glass and his single into the other, Michael walked into the living room where Selene was just starting to wake up.
"I have something for you…" he told her playfully. She immediately sat up when she smelled the blood, eyes turning blue, ready to feed. Selene nearly jumped at him to take the glass and began chugging its liquid.
"Now I don't want to see a single drop—" he was cut off by the sound of her very empty cup hitting the coffee table. "Okay, that's good…you should rest some more and get more of your strength back."
"What about you…have you fed?"
"Yeah, I already drank half of it before I came in. I guess I was just as hungry as you." It killed him to lie to her like that, but it was better that way. She just needed to worry about herself, not Michael.
"What time is it? We should really probably get going again."
"No, Selene, sunrise is in about an hour, we won't make it anywhere. You need to just go back to sleep. Now that you have eaten, you should be good to go tonight when we leave."
"Fine, but we should leave as soon as it sets!"
"I know, now go to sleep," Michael said as he watched Selene lay back down onto the couch, keeping her hands protectively over her stomach. "Don't worry; I will keep both of you safe…" With those calming words, Selene drifted off into a restful sleep.
Michael sat awake across the small living room in a wooden chair. Whenever he heard any noise, he got up and checked to see what it was. Finally, after hours of sitting awake, hardly ever taking his eyes off of Selene, Michael finally let himself drift off.
Selene rarely dreamed, she always had horrible nightmares of the night her family was killed, but tonight was different. That night, Selene dreamed
: Michael and their son were laughing and playing in the front yard of what seemed to be a nice home. She fell in love with Michael all over again when he picked up their son and put him up on his shoulders. He looked like such a great father and didn't stop smiling. He carried him up onto the porch where Selene herself sat. It was midday and they were having lunch, without Selene burning to bits. She dreamt of the warmth of the sun on her face and her once pale skin seemed lightly tanned. There were no glasses of blood anywhere to be seen, just peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and iced tea. Her, Michael, and their son were living a normal life and were:
"Selene!" Michael shouted as he shook her awake. "We have to go! I fell asleep and I caught their scent and woke up! We need to leave now!" He practically sprinted over and picked up their things from the kitchen and came back to see Selene tying back her hair getting ready to leave. They ran out the back door and started to weave through the woods away from whoever was coming.
"How many?" she asked as she dodged a bush.
"Hard to tell, they all mix together…"
"Both!"
"Lycans definitely, but vampires…I can't tell. It's faint but there are more lycans."
"Well then how are we going to lose them Michael? They have probably caught our scent by now."
"I think we should fine a car and go back…" he told her, "You need to get checked out by a doctor and you need to find a safe place to have the baby. If we go back, they won't look for us! Marcus would think you are too smart to go back! It's the last place they'd look!" Michael narrowly missed a tree as he waited for Selene's input.
"Fine, we need to find a road!" she said. Selene wasn't too sure his plan would work, but she trusted Michael with her life and that of their child.
The two came to a river and crossed through at an angle to avoid getting pulled away by the strong current. The water would make it harder for the lycans to follow them by their scent, but it would not wash it away totally.
With his hybrid senses, Michael could see lights about a half a kilometer away. They were coming up on a road. The first car they saw, Michael went all "hybrid" on the driver, throwing him out of the window. Selene jumped into the now vacant driver's seat and Michael was forced into the passenger. She pulled a hard U-turn, going back in the direction of the mess they had just been running from.
Please R&R...i so hope i didnt kill the entire thing!