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Invitation
John leaned against the wall of the tunnel and slid to the ground. Being on the run from everyone wasn't nearly all it was cracked up to be. It seemed like forever ago that they had taken down Antigen, but it was barely two months. They hadn't seen or heard from anyone, even Kahn and Cynthia, since they had fled Antigen. With each day that passed, John's wish to live a peaceful, secluded life with Erika and Cynthia seemed more and more like a pipe dream.
"You okay?" Erika asked.
"Yeah," John said. "Just a little tired is all. We've been on the move for a few days now."
Erika nodded, kneeling in front of him, taking his hands in her own and smiling. "We'll be okay. Someday, we'll find Kahn and Cynthia again, and then we'll find a house in the middle of nowhere to live. Just the three of us."
John smiled, thumbs brushing over her fingers. "I hope so. I miss the old days. When we all lived in the mansion, and my biggest problem was trying to win your heart from Kraven."
Erika smiled, kissing his hands. "Well, now you have it. And I'm not going to let you give up."
She pulled John to his feet just as Selene walked out of the tunnel, supporting David. John smiled upon seeing a familiar face who wasn't Erika or Selene. He loved traveling with the two, especially Erika, but seeing a different face was practically a godsend for his mood.
"David!" John cheered, jogging over with Erika, then stopping seeing the pain on David's face. "You hurt?"
"I got shot with something," David said. "There's a safe house about three blocks away."
"Finally, someplace other than a ditch to stay in!" John groaned. "You know Selene, when you said you wanted to fight them alone, I didn't think you'd bring David back with you."
"Neither did I," Selene said.
They reached a car that John and Erika had broken into and hot-wired while Selene was fighting and John opened a door, allowing Selene and David to get into the back while John got behind the wheel, Erika sitting beside him. They started off down the road and David gave them directions to the safe house. About five minutes later, they reached the safe house and John and Erika threw the door open, stepping in and quickly clearing the safe house out. Once it was clear, Selene and David entered, John securing the door again. Once in, Selene set David on a medical table, going to work.
"So, what've we missed?" John asked.
"Some of the larger covens have managed to get their feet under them again," David said. "My father's gone to one of them."
"Larger covens?" John asked.
"Ones that weren't in a big city," David said. "Old castles and mansions set into the country side where there were no humans to rat them out."
John nodded. "Which one is he going to?"
"The Eastern Coven," David said.
John nodded. "I see. It's a fortress. What about Kahn and Cynthia?"
"They stayed at the ruins of the Western Coven," David said. "What few of the survivors that stayed are there as well."
"And the humans?" John asked.
"Without Antigen, and with the knowledge that Antigen was a lycan organization, as evidenced by security footage of the employees and guards being burned to death by silver nitrate gas, the humans have become too suspicious of each other to bother hunting us," David said, wincing as Selene prodded at the bullet hole. "Easy. Anyway. The humans don't actively hunt our kind much anymore. They're not really a problem. Plus, all of your faces have mysteriously disappeared from the world."
"Good," John nodded.
"Do you know where Eve is?" David asked.
"Fuck know," David snorted. "If Selene can't tell you where to find her daughter, how could I? I woke up one night to travel and Eve was gone."
"I see," David nodded. "Okay. Ow!"
"Oh shut up," Selene said. "I barely touched you."
She pulled the bullet out finally, staring at it. It had ridges twisted around it like a drill, with a tiny, self-propelled drill on the tip of it, previously having been burrowing into David faster than he could heal.
"Neat," John said. "Bet that hurt."
"Just a bit," David said sarcastically. "What is it?"
"I don't know," Selene said.
"Break it," John said. "Better safe than sorry."
Selene nodded, setting it on the ground and picking up a hammer, smashing the object into pieces. David's abdomen sealed and he sat up, pulling his shirt the rest of the way off, grabbing a clean one from a dresser off to the side, pulling it on after cleaning the blood off.
"Thank you," David said.
"You're welcome," Selene said, not looking away from the gear she was preparing.
"We're not staying here for tonight, are we?" John guessed.
"No," Selene said. "We're going to keep moving."
"But this is a safe house!" John said. "It's safe! And it's not a ditch!"
Selene stared at him before looking to Erika, who nodded. Selene sighed. "Fine. We'll stay one day. One day. But as soon as the sun sets we're moving again. Understood?"
"Got it," John nodded, grinning widely.
Within moments, he and Erika had chosen one of the two bedrooms and had shut and locked the door, both instantly jumping in the shower. Once they were clean, they lay on the bed, holding each other and simply enjoying having a bed to lay in. John's hand gently stroked Erika's back as she lay on his chest, earning a quiet sigh.
"It feels like forever since we've been able to just relax," Erika said.
"Yeah," John nodded. "It's been almost a month since we had a bed to sleep in."
Erika nodded, smiling, before looking up at him, smiling seductively. She slid up, kissing him and moaning as his tongue instantly met hers, his arms holding her against him tightly.
"I was wondering when you'd get tired of indulging me," John smiled.
"I still don't understand how you can enjoy cuddling more than sex," Erika smiled, sitting up and settling onto his member, moaning as she did.
"Because it lets me be just as close to you without being sweaty and smelly," John smiled, Erika beginning to move. "Not that I would ever refuse you."
Erika smiled, bending down and kissing him before rolling them over. John smiled into the kiss, taking the lead and lacing his fingers with hers on both hands.
John sighed as his hand trailed up and down Erika's back, Erika cuddling into his side, head on his shoulder. "I love you."
"I love you too," Erika smiled. "So, tell me again about this dream of yours."
"Well, there's you and me, and Cynthia," John said. "We all live in the middle of the woods in a log cabin mansion."
"Oh, so it's a log cabin mansion?" Erika grinned.
"Why not?" John shrugged. "And, of course, we'll bring Kahn so we have food."
"So we'll have to find Kahn someone to sleep with," Erika smiled.
"Obviously," John said. "And then the five of us will live happily ever after."
"I see," Erika nodded. "Well, there's only one thing wrong with that dream."
"What's that?" John asked.
Erika sat up, straddling his lap and taking one of his hands in hers, stroking his palm with her fingers for several moments.
"Erika?" John asked, starting to get worried.
Erika smiled and slowly moved his hand to her stomach. John's brow furrowed in confusion before understanding flooded him. His mouth fell open and he stared up at her.
"You're...you're sure?" John asked, Erika nodding.
"I've been trying to figure out how to tell you for weeks," Erika said. "And before you ask, yes, I took a test. Four, actually. All positive."
John stared at her. Tears slowly formed in his eyes before he sat up, kissing her passionately, Erika returning the kiss. After several moments, they separated as the door flew open, Selene standing there, an exasperated look on her face.
"Privacy?" John said.
"Intruders," Selene said flatly then disappeared out through the door.
John and Erika shot off of the bed, getting dressed in clean clothes that were essentially the same as their last outfits, then grabbed their guns and headed out to the main room, finding all of the lights off. As they silently moved through the room, five people entered, aiming around with rifles bearing flashlights, giving away their position.
Sloppy, John thought as he closed in on one of them.
Four of the vampires shouted in surprise, their lights jerking upward as Selene and David took them down rapidly. Just as they did, John grabbed the last one, one with a hood up and no gun, and slammed them to the floor, holding his P99 to her face as he shone a flashlight at them, freezing, eyes wide.
"Alexia?" John breathed.
"John!" Alexia gasped.
She sat up instantly, hugging him as the other three that John was traveling with watched. After a moment, Erika cleared her throat and John stood, helping Alexia up and turning to Erika.
"Erika, this is Alexia," John introduced. "She's my sister."
Everyone stared at him like he was crazy, Alexia staring at the ground shyly.
"What?" Erika asked.
"She's my sister," John repeated. "She looked after me when we were young. But my disorder, as a human, was a fatal one. One day, while I was lying in the hospital, she was attacked by vampires and nearly killed. But she survived and became a vampire. Out of desperation to save me, she turned me. The disorder became the stutter and shaking you all know."
"What was it as a human?" Erika asked.
"I couldn't do anything," John said. "At all. My body just wouldn't respond so I could barely do anything."
"It sounds like you've finally gotten over it, though," Alexia smiled.
"Oh no," John said, pulling his earbud out. "W-W-With th-th-the m-m-music, I'm j-j-j-j-just like b-b-b-before."
"Music?" Alexia asked, picking up his unused earbud and listening, a knowing grin spreading over her face. "Oh, I see. Smart."
"Thanks," he smiled, earbud once again in his ear. "The only problem is that in a fight, lycans sometimes catch the cord."
"True," she nodded.
"What are you doing here?" John asked.
"I was sent by the Eastern Coven," Alexia said. "To find Selene."
Selene aimed at her but John stepped in between them, Selene growling in annoyance.
"Why?" John asked.
"The council sent me to bring her in," Alexia said.
"For trial?" Selene asked.
"No," Alexia said. "For your safety. And for ours."
"You cannot expect me to believe that," Selene snorted. "Every single one of them signed my death warrant. And your brother's."
"This is from your father," Alexia said, holding a large envelope out to David.
He opened it, scanning its contents.
"Is it authentic?" Selene asked.
"Yes," David nodded. "The council has offered you both clemency and offered us all safe haven."
"Why?" Selene asked.
"Marius," Alexia said. "It is the council's humble request that you train us to defeat him and his army."
"Marius, as in, the leader of the massive lycan army that's been hunting us?" John asked, Alexia nodding. "Good. I'll happily kill him. But I'm going to need help. And a treaty."
Alexia looked confused and John shook his head. "It's not important now. Selene?"
"Do you trust her?" Selene asked.
"With my life," John nodded. "She's saved it several times over."
Selene sighed just as the intruder alarm began to sound again. They all rushed to the console, seeing lycans in their human forms and with guns heading through the tunnels toward the safe house. John glanced at the broken bullet pieces, now in a trash can.
"Tracker," John said. "Time to decide."
"We'll accept," Selene said.
Alexia nodded and they all sprinted to the stair well leading out of the safe house's back door, getting to the street and breaking into several cars. John got in with Erika and Alexia, John sitting in the passenger seat, Erika in the back seat.
"So, what have you been up to?" John asked.
"I serve Semira," Alexia said. "I'm her right hand."
"You mean her servant," John corrected.
"You've been without a proper coven for too long, John," Alexia said. "Everyone's a servant of someone."
"Yeah, that's why I hated living in a coven," John said, pulling his earbuds out for a moment and sniffing, rubbing the bottom of his nose with his fingers and putting the earbuds back in. "I can't wait to catch up in private. It's going to be quite an interesting conversation."
"I'm sure," Alexia smiled. "At least, if that wedding band on your finger is anything to go by." She looked in the mirror at Erika, seeing the glare she was receiving. "You must be his wife. It's a pleasure to meet you."
"Erika," Erika said. "A pleasure."
John could hear the hint of jealousy in Erika's voice. It was fair, honestly. She was worried that he'd stop paying attention to her because of finding his sister again. That in his excitement to reunite with his sister, he'd no longer have time for her. She was wrong, of course, but John would have to wait until they got to the Eastern Coven and got the annoying talk with the the council over with to prove that to her.
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