Note to Sarah, yes actually I am Scottish, hence just being born in New Zealand, I'm a Mackenzie, the fist Scots to arrive in this country, we still speak the same but we do say eh more here, sorry I didn't mean to offend you in anyway, but Duncan doesn't say it within like everyone else does he deliberately says it, as to confirm the person he spoke to heard it, no as like the way is in a sentence, hard to explain. I got it from my Uncle he does it. We also say Bugger allot for some reason all my American friends seem to find hilariously funny.
Please be nice to me and review this is my first fanfic, I know I'm not very good at this, the story is almost over anyway.
Thanks
-Evelyn-
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Soren lay under the trees, the sun was setting and he could now open his eyes, he knew he would have to make a run for it a the sun set, they would be out to look for him, or what they thought was the rest of him. His body had healed somewhat, and the drugs had worn off, his body had created a knew skin for itself, one that didn't burn in the sun, he had burnt off all his vampyre skin and grown a tanned UV tolerant skin. he hoped Cyrus wouldn't figure this out. He stumbled to his feet and climbed out of the hole into the forest, he scrambled painfully thought the trees, sharp bark tearing his skin as he tore past, getting as far as he could, he kept running and running until he ran out onto the road. Before he knew it he was in the centre of the road, he heard the deafening screech of car wheels slide along the road, leaving black marks. He hit the bonnet with a hollow thud, his ribs cracked on impact like matchsticks, almost giving up his battle he rolled off the bonnet and onto the road that was warm from the days sun. With all the pain and broken bones, he closed his eyes giving up, all that way for nothing.
"Get him up and into the car!" Soren knew that voice, thankfully it was not Cyrus's, or Amos's or any of their dealers.
"Hurry up the sun is setting"
He was painfully scooped up off the pavement and carried into the back seat of the large limo like car. As soon as the door was slammed shut the car did a quick U then speed off with a screech as loud as the one it took to stop. Soren laid on the seat opposite his saviours.
"So the rumours are true you are still alive Kraven" Soren said without opening his eyes.
"I could say the same about you" Kraven replied he was more interested with his scent, he was unmistakably an evolved Vampyre Kraven thought studying Soren's state.
Soren finally opened his eyes fully in the dark tinted windowed car, when he looked across to see him, at first he did not recognise the Kraven he once knew, the Kraven with long hair, manicured and groomed to the max, a arrogant postured stance, wearing the top silks and jewellery money could by. Not now, in front of him sat a bald man with dark glasses, littered in scars, her posture relaxed, but still with a confidant stance to it, and he wore armour with a long dark blue coat. However the one main thing that Soren noticed was Kraven's brief smile upon his face, it was one of content happiness.
"How are you my friend" Soren winced at the pain, though his bones cracked back into place as they the spoke.
"Fitting choice of words coming from someone who left me to burn in the light"
"I couldn't help Cyrus knew I would have and had me restrained, and as you can see gave me punishment as being used as a lab rat"
"Alright" Kraven smiled his words where relaxed and quite friendly, he never even question him. Soren was well confused, his senses confirmed the rumour of him being a hybrid was true, but why he was happy with the way he was with less in his life was puzzling. Kraven was always one for material possessions, all the pleasures in life, Soren was about to find out Kraven's one desire and pleasure in his life, was the love of Selene, the only thing that has ever made him happy. The car pulled up in the garage, where guards with a stretcher where waiting. They took him out the car slowly, fist things first injecting him with a blood pack giving him what he needed. Soren almost got the shock of his life as he was being carried inside, he saw Kraven down the hall, with Selene who was holding Kain. Kraven leant in and gave her a kiss, unlike what Soren had always seen she did not pull away, she kissed him in return. Kraven then smiled at Kain gently brushing down a his missy hair. Soren wondered either it was true, or they had given him drugs and he was seeing things. He saw Kraven point him out to Selene, she watched him as he disappeared around the corner. Could it be? Selene and Kraven where an item, and they have a child together, he asked himself, but his world went dark in an instant when the doctor injected the drugs into his system.
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The battle was only a day away, and Selene hadn't been able to ask Erika and Duncan the biggest task she could ever ask anyone. With Kain in her arms she stood outside their door, her gut knotted she didn't want to ask but she knew she couldn't think of anyone else, she trusted them more than anyone else.
"Stop lingering outside the door and come in" Erika yelled from the other side of the door, her Vamcan senses had picked her up over five minutes ago. Selene opened the door to be greeted with Russ, Erika sat on a couch against the wall sprawling of the side annoying Duncan who was trying to get Gomez out of the top shelf of the wardrobe where he had gotten stuck
"Don't pull him" Erika sat and pointed rather then helped. She say Selene holding Kain jumped to her feet and sprinted over to her. Selene let her take him
"Hey Lucky" Erika said cuddling him then blowing a raspberry on his cheek causing him to laugh. Erika had nicknamed him lucky though all the times he had come close to being killed.
"Good your both here" Selene said taking a seat on the couch next to Erika who was listening but not listening occupied with Kain who not had a hold of one of her locks of hair and was pulling it, Selene still talking pulled it out of his hand
"Watch anything that dangles" She joked, Kain kept grabbing Selene's hair as it is, since it was now almost near her mid back, and everything else he could get his little fingers around.
"And he's starting to bite" She was avoiding her question but she was still on bit of an edge.
"He's already bitten Kraven once, and Marcus three times, for some reason" Erika took delight in the information she and Marcus still did not get on, and Duncan had gotten over the whole Shadow was Kraven issue. With the sound of a cats hiss and the screech of Duncan, Gomez came free then ran under the bed.
"Rightly he's out" He strolled over to Erika and sat by her side smiling at Kain who watched him eyes wide.
"Hey little man. So what's happening"
Selene hesitated, she decided to be strait to the point
"I'm here to ask the both of you to do something for me"
"Oh, sure" Erika said cheerfully she could read a slight pain in Selene's eyes, but didn't have a clue why.
"Its not a small thing to ask"
"Where up to it, and you haven't asked us yet ain't that for us to decide?" Duncan said pulling faces at Kain, who giggled at them pointing to him.
"Well, the battle that's a night away, I'm asking you not to fight, or take part in the battle" Selene said grabbing both their attentions strait away
"But they us" she protested
"No, we don't we have enough to fight with trust me on that one, but I need you to do something for me" Erika and Duncan froze, they realised what she was going to ask, Selene's eyes where on Kain, beginning to water a little she didn't want to bare the thought
"Tomorrow night, I want you to take Kain, and leave, go,... go anywhere, just get him away from here, and don't tell anyone where you go, just go some place safe, there's a large chance I wont live though this war, he will be safer with the both of you, I know its a big thing to ask, and I'm sorry I've left it to this late, I didn't know how to ask you both to raise him" by this point Selene's cheeks where covered in tears, she could barley breath, her chest was so tight, her heart barely made a beat, she was giving up her son, all she could do was tell herself it was the best she could do for him.
Erika and Duncan looked at in a way shocked, it was a big decision and a hard one for Selene
"Please" Selene pleaded
"I can give you allot of money, a car anything you need to get him away from here, I beg of you please" It was not Selene to do such a thing, but if that's what it took she would get on her hands and knees and beg. Erika could feel Selene's pain and desperation, she looked at Kain who looked up at her with his big brown eyes, so innocent and unaware of what was about to happen
"I could do it, I would raise him as my own" Erika said, her mind and heart said yes form the moment Selene asked, but it was Duncan who she wondered would want to do it as well. She looked up at him he was looking down at Kain possessing the information in his mind.
"Yes, yes well do it"
"Thankyou, you have no idea what this means to me!" Selene's voice let out a boom of relief and gratitude.
"You will live though it we know you will" Duncan tried to reassure her
"If I don't, you will be his parents, he can at least have a mother and father"
"We will love him like out own yes, but if you live how will you find us?"
"I will give you a phone, if I don't ring in two days after the battle, I won't be coming for him. You should then leave the country"
They could see the pain in every part of her face, they knew it was that hardest thing she would ever have to do.
Duncan and Erika had agreed to a time the next night to leave with Kain, and left her to what may be her last day with her son.
Selene lay in her bed with Kain next to her, her eyes hardly left him, he lay bundled in the sheets and blankets of her bed, she didn't want to sleep, she wanted every moment she had left with him to be awake, but with watching him so intensely before long sleep took her over.
Kain woke Selene, he had slept the whole day without waking her until now. Moving form the very same position she had fallen asleep in she picked him up, slowly got up, she was so down and her chest so tight, she fed him and changed him, then packed his things, watching always to the point she was walking into everything not taking her eyes off him, and her eyes where so bloodshot and swollen from her ever present tears. Before she left her eyes fell upon a photo Erika had given her, from the wedding, the one taken when he was looking up at her, and she down at him smiling lovingly, she kept a copy of it on her always, but she stuffed the photo into the bag in case one day he would wonder what his mother looked like. Unfortunately this brought on the thought of the fact she had not photo of Michael for him, she hoped there would be one on the internet somewhere from Michael's school days, why she hadn't thought of it before was beyond her.
Kraven knocked on the door
"You want me to take the bags?"
"Please" she could barely talk, she preferred not to, or she would break down and cry, as the time approached it was getting harder by the second as it was. Every minute that passed was like a clamp on her heart tightening all she could to was cuddle Kain in her arms, she didn't want to let him go, but she had to. Kraven took up the bags and car seat and headed for the main garage leaving Selene to follow at her own pace, he couldn't think of what to say to sooth her pain, the bond between mother and child was about to be parted, there really isn't anything you can say at a moment a mother has to reluctantly give up her child. Selene doordled behind leaning her cheek again Kain's for head of raven black hair, it was becoming longer, and was static, sticking up in huffs making him look even more cute than he already was. As Selene arrived at the garage Erika and Duncan waited by the car with Marcus, Kraven and Kahn. Marcus was the first to walk up to Selene and say goodbye to Kain
"I hope to see you again if I live little one, I know be strong like your mother" He looked up at Selene,
"You will see him again, I have a feeling you will" He placed his hand on Selene's shoulder as sympathy, then left giving her time alone with Kain before she handed him over. He left into the lounge down the hall. Even he felt sorrow at the pain Selene was going though and he had grown fond of Kain, he would miss seeing him with Selene.
Kraven and Kahn where next, then Erika and Duncan stood out side for a moment. Leaving Selene alone for a moment. Selene's eyes full of water, finally broke loose and once again strolled down her porcelain face.
"I wish I could say this was not the end and I would see you gain, but I cannot make a promise of something that may not happen" She could hardly talk the words tore her apart, she was crying so bad they where blubbery "But you are and always will be the best thing that ever happened to me, nothing will ever change that" Kain with wide eyes watched her silently almost as if he knew what she was saying.
Erika stood outside, she could still hear Selene from where she stood, her eyes watered and her own tears fell, she my never see her best friend again, and Selene's words where heart breaking to her. Duncan hugged her, he knew she could hear Selene.
All Selene could do was stare at Kain who stared back, in a way she knew he knew, the way he was flickering a frown laying still watching her. She kissed his forehead, then headed for the car. Duncan and Erika came back in, hardly a word was said, Erika hugged Selene for a moment then stood ready for the hardest moment for Selene. Selene stood still staring down at Kain, she had to hand him over, but every motherly impulse was stopping her, her arms trembled she was shaking bad. She gritted her teeth and handed him over, using the excuse of that hope in her mind she would see him again. As soon as Selene's hands lost contact Kain began to grizzle, he knew. Duncan gave Selene the biggest of hugs, and whispered in her ear
"I will be seeing you later"
Selene tried to swallow but it was no use, it was too hard this pain was different to the pain of losing her family and Michael in a way, some how it was worse. Selene kissed Kain's forehead one last time
"Goodbye, Kain" Selene barely choked, then had to hold herself back as Erika got in the car, Kain began to scream and cry loudly, the sound was the worst sound Selene ever wanted to hear, as his mother she just wanted to take him back up in her arms and sooth him, not this time. Duncan got into the drivers side then started the car. Selene never took one breath as the car drove down the drive and out the gate slowly, every moment was pure torture from within she shook so badly as the car drove out of sight, she fell to her knees. She cried aloud like she had never cried before, it only the small thought of his safety was holding her from passing out completely, and maybe the hope of seeing him again, but logic was eating her telling her she wouldn't. He was gone.
Kraven came running to her side, and scooped her up into his arms, he could almost feel the pain seeping out her skin into his has he held her tightly.
They sat in the middle of the floor for hours, she stopped crying after an hour or so and went numb just staring at the gate, silently lost in thought. Marcus eventually came in, seeing her blank expression that seemed to say it all, he didn't want to move them but they had to prepare. He gave Kraven the nod then left.
"You want to go now?" he softly asked
"He's gone"
"And I will do everything in my power to see that you will see him again I promise"
Selene's numbness turned, it flipped like a coin into silent anger. She sat up her face like ice her eyes almost pure black, Kraven could see her hate rise. She now had only one mission in her mind. Cyrus, Amos and Jarad where going to pay, then she would see her son again, her anger caused her to shake badly again, she got to her feet, and stood like a statue. Kraven knew what was happening in her mind, she did exactly this when she first became a death dealer and took to her first Lycans after her family was killed, that night she was the coldest fearsome warrior that gave her, her name, this was the state you did not want to cross her in. In this state of anger nothing in her way would live for a second. He stood up next to her, he could almost see her targets faces in her eyes, they where the cause in which she had to give up her son.
No one would get though to her now, she never said a word, silent anger built up more as everyone prepared, she just sat still, quiet waiting, like a spider with a web, Kraven got her, her guns, a sword, and armour if she wanted it. He organised everything while she lay on her bed staring at the ceiling she looked like a corpse lying in wake, she hardly even blinked.
Kraven wondered if she thought of Kain or the delights of what she was going to do to her foes as soon as she got her hands on them, their horror her delight, but the one thing that was for sure, they would die at her hands.
