Chapter 2: Surprise

She walked to the door keeping her hand on the handle of one of her guns. It could be friend or foe. She reached up and un-did the lock on the door and then grasped her hand tightly on the handle and opened the door slowly. Standing in front of her was a young man around his mid twenties with medium length dark brown hair the same color as hers. He had bright blue eyes that were hidden behind a pair of glasses.

Evvveertt...?" Selene mumbled out as she took a step forward and pulled him into a hug. He was at least a head taller then her as her head easily rested under his chin.

"Hey there sis." Everett said as he returned the hug with a kiss to the top of her head. "Miss me?" he asked as he pulled her back to get a better look at her.

"I..I thought that you had died in combat almost 3 years ago." Selene said still not believing that her older brother was now standing in front of her.

"What do you mean? Who told you that?" Everett asked clearly surprised at the information she had just told him.

"Marcus." Selene said.

Everett felt a slight shiver go up his immortal spine at the mention of the vampire elder's name.

"I think you and me need to have a long talk." he said leading her inside and closing the backdoor behind him sliding the lock back in place. He knew something wasn't right and that he had put both her and him at risk by coming here in the first place.

Everett took Selene into the living room and sat her down on the sofa.

"Now what did Marcus tell you." Everett asked.

Selene took in a small breath and began her story.

Flashback

Selene sat in her chamber in the vampire manor. She had wanted to go with the rest of the vampire warriors which call them selves Death Dealers on the raid against the Lycan's, this would be the biggest one yet. They had found the large manor where the Lycan's called home but, her brother didn't want her to go. He couldn't bare to see her get hurt even though she had been a death dealer ever since she had come to the manor with her brother after her parents had been killed.

"Selene I know you want to go on this raid, but we both don't need to go and get killed mom and dad wouldn't allow it you know that." Everett had told her only an hour and a half ago.

"Just come back alive and not in a body bag." Selene had said as she gave her brother a hug as he went out the door to the awaiting vans sitting in the drive.

ONE HOUR LATER...

It was around one in the morning when Selene awoke with a start. She had had a terrible dream. Everett had been fighting with a Lycan when one came behind him and stabbed a knife into his side right under his heart. He fell to the ground slowly bleeding to death the wound to large for him to heal.

"No Everett." Selene whispered when she realized that she was lying in bed and it couldn't have been real.

She heard a noise outside, the sound of tires on gravel. She quickly got out of bed in only a black tank top and black pants. She ran down the stairs to the front foyer her bare feet making a kind of patter noise on the tiled floor. She saw some vamp's coming in on stretchers and other limping in though the door. But there was no sigh of her brother. She ran up to one of the better-looking vamp's named Judson. He was one of Everett's friends.

"Judson where's Everett?" She asked hoping that he would say that he was on his way in.

Judson looked up at Selene with sad looking eyes when she heard her name called from across the hall. She turned to see that it had been Marcus. He looked at her with sad eyes just like Judson.

She walked over to him knowing in a way that her dream had been right, that her brother was dead but she didn't want to believe it until she head it from someone she trusted. It just couldn't be true.

Marcus lead her to his office and gestured for her to take a seat, but she stood right in front of him not budging.

"Where is Everett?" She said slowly.

"Selene he didn't make it out of the battle field." Marcus said. "He was attacked from behind by another Lycan. He was bleed dry by the time we found him."

"What no...NO HE'S NOT DEAD!" She yelled at Marcus as she sunk to the ground in tears.

Marcus knelt down and pulled her into an embrace rubbing small circles into her back. Once most of her tears had been shed she looked up to Marcus.

"I want to see the body." She said, which sounded more like a command.

"The ones that were dead we buried in the battle field, we only brought back those that were injured." he told her.

Selene walked across the battlefield where not more then 2 day ago there had been a battle. She walked towards the markers that marked the graves of those that had fallen. She walked along the line of graves until she found the one she had come to find. She traced the lines on the name that was engraved in the marker.

"EVERTT CHRISTIAN"