Author's note: I AM SO SORRY! I haven't updated in FOREVER, and I really, really hate myself right now. At least I didn't leave you guys on a cliffhanger:D

Thank you to all who post reviews, (especially angel of muse you're awesome) because you're who keep me going when I just want to throw away Silver and Dan. :D But here we go, and I hope you like this chapter.

DISLCAIMER: I DO NOT OWN MICHAEL, SELENE, OR THE IDEA OF LYCANS. I did, however, make up the Lycans themselves.

When Dan awoke, he almost jumped out of his skin. Silver was staring up at him, the moonlight dancing in her eyes. Dan ran a finger over her cheek, and kissed her lips for a second, and then pulled back.

"Morning sunshine," Silver muttered when he pulled back.

"Good morning."

He sat up, and Silver noticed he looked a bit tense. She sat up too, pulling the blanket off them and snuggling up in his rock hard chest.

"Ready to get to Selene's?" she asked, closing her eyes and yawning.

"As ready as I'll ever be," he admitted. He looked up at the moon, noticing it wasn't full yet, and he was slightly glad. Lycans were very strong when full moons came around, but the old myth of them turning only when full moons were there was just as false as the garlic myth for vampires. But Lycans were strong during full moons, and Dan wondered if he'd change during then.

"What's the matter?"

Silver's black concerned eyes stared up at him, the eyebrows over them furrowed in worry. He smiled and ran his finger over them, straightening them out. "Nothing's the matter, honey," he whispered. Beside the fact that I'm going to be a Lycan. Other than that…

"Are you sure?"

"Yes."

She stayed silent for a moment, burrowing her head in Dan's chest, listening to him breathe. She barely knew anything- she didn't know how vampires worked, Lycans, how Selene was going to treat her, how this would end up, if it would end up like Cindy's life? Or would she and Dan get married…live in a house with a picket fence…

She almost laughed at that image. There'd be no picket fence, that's for sure.

"Silver?" Dan whispered, not wanting to disrupt wherever her thoughts were going, but needing to talk to her. He felt extremely close to her now, like he could tell her anything and she'd accept it. He had a shoe fetish? No problem for Silver.

"Yes, Dan?"

"What if this ended badly? What if…we didn't make it?"

Silver looked up at him, her long brown hair falling in her eyes. He brushed it out so he could see them better. "I…" she thought for a moment. What if this ended badly? What kind of question was that? She asked herself. Did Dan not believe that this was going to be okay? "If this ended badly…then I'd want to die."

"What?" Silver…dead….it was almost painful to think. Dead, dead. Not vampire dead.

"If you died…then I'd want to die too."

He was not thinking about it ending like that. He was thinking of him turning into a Lycan…that showed him where they were different. She was very extreme, wasn't she?

He laughed, making her look at him like he was crazy. This was not funny! This was serious! But here Dan was, laughing with his head thrown back like she just said the funniest thing in the world.

"Dan!"

"What? Oh I'm sorry Silver, but come on. I can't die. And anyway, that's silly. If I died…I wouldn't want you to come with me."

"Why?" She was hurt, offended. Did Dan not want her that much? "Why wouldn't you want to spend your afterlife with me too?"

"This is my afterlife," he said, gesturing to all around him. "And I want, no, I intend to spend every waking- and sleeping- moment of it with you."

She sighed, pressing her head against his chest once more. He was cold, but she didn't care; she could feel it anyhow. "But you don't want me to come after you when you die? Why not?"

"I want you to live your life, your afterlife, if I ever die, Silver," he said, sighing and laying his head against hers. "See, I've lived for twenty years wandering around, doing Selene's bidding, doing this, killing that, that I've never settled down or taken the time to…like someone the way I like you."

"Like me?" Silver smiled.

"Well…" Dan smiled too. "Maybe a bit more than like."

Silver raised her head to look into his eyes. She flipped over so she was on her hands and knees and faced him. "Well, I a-bit-more-than-like you too."

She rose her lips to meet his, and they kissed once more.

She threw her body on top of his, and he was so taken off guard that he fell over onto his back. Silver lay on top of him, kissing his mouth, and suddenly he felt he could stay like this forever.

Silver tangled her fingers through his hair and he rested his hand on the small of her back. He could feel her whole body pressed against his, and he parted his lips slowly and moaned.

"Silver…we have to get going now."

Silver groaned and whispered back, "Not now, Dan. We'll go later."

She kissed him again, and for a little while Dan let her. She felt so good…but no, they had to leave….

Screw it, Dan thought as he kissed her back romantically, we can leave later. We don't have a deadline.

Kissing her felt so damn good.