Confrontations
The psychic vampire clasps her hands in joy and bounces on her heels like an excited schoolgirl. "Oh goodie, you know who I am! This will make your death even more enjoyable when I suck the juicy fear from your soul." Selene looks over Kurt with an appraising eye from top to bottom. "Too bad I don't recognize you, though. A handsome priest as your self would have looked good in my collection. Now wake the girl and hand her over, and I will make your last moments of life glorious to behold!"
"Fuck! This headache is going to last all day." mutters Romana as she stirs and grabs the side of her head where she shot herself only minutes before.
--Romana, thank God--
"It was silly of you to try and run from the Church, my dear. What did you think you were going to accomplish?" Selene asks with a disapproving pout of her lips. Romana gets up with a hand from Kurt and discretely slips the gun into the back of her pants.
"I was getting tired, Selene, and I thought I could make a friend." Romana says as she stares defiantly in Selene's eyes.
Kurt remains silent, thanking the powers that be that he never encountered Selene with the X-Men before. --She doesn't know my powers, so we still might have a chance to get away if we play this right-He places his hand on Romana's shoulder and squeezes gently in support. --I won't leave you, Romana-
"Well dear, you know what they say about friends. You win some," Selene says with a sly grin as she signals the limousine, "and you lose some."
"Heartless bitch," Romana mutters as she looks quickly away to blink away a tear.
"It's too bad your previous friend couldn't escape with you, because then you could share your deaths together," Selene says with a delicately raised eyebrow. " This is turning out to be my kind of night, however, because I get to savor the pain and sorrow growing in you before I kill you. Any last words?" Her eyes start to shine with a red glow as she holds out a gloved hand towards her. Romana feels a sharp pain inside her chest and a tingling feeling of energy through her fingers. As she looks back at Selene she can't help but notice a bright green glow, coming not from Selene, but from the limousine? The glow continues to grow until it explodes out the windshield of the limousine with a shattering force, the shards of glass coming at them like a hundred knives.
"Not again," Romana cries.
Selene ducks behind her leather coat and is quickly shielded by her servant holding the umbrella, the shards of glass impaling themselves into his back with a sickening thud. Kurt ducks behind a dumpster and tries to grab Romana with him, but is unable to as the glowing ball of energy slams into her chest and lifts her off the ground. It doesn't throw her back with the force, however, but engulfs her in a blinding glow as she hovers above the ground. Her head is thrown back in a silent scream as the light radiates through her eyes and mouth.
--This may be our only chance. Just let her be okay-Seizing the moment of distraction, Kurt leaps at the glowing Romana and wraps himself around her in a desperate embrace as he teleports away in a puff of swirling smoke.
"NO!" Selene screams as she throws her servant off her with a force that slams him into the side of the limousine. "Her powers MUST be mine!" her eyes burn with an intense red light as her beautiful face twists in demonic anger. She screams into the air for a few seconds and then quickly stops and runs her hands over her face and hair. When she is done, she is once again the smooth skinned seductive woman. With a sniff of disdain she turns and walks to the limousine. She tosses the dead servant off her car and reaches in to grab her cell phone. "One just can't get good help these days."
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Kurt shudders in the tunnel beneath Selene as she screams. He cradles the unconscious body of Romana in his arms as he crouches in the dim light of her now barely glowing form. "Romana, liebchen, you must wake up! We need to get out of here, now!" he whispers fiercely in her ear.
"Unh-Kurt?" Romana mutters faintly. "Where are we?" she weakly reaches up and rubs her face. "What happened?"
"I was going to ask you that myself, liebchen. But for now, we need to get moving away from here." Kurt says as he helps Romana stand, keeping a hand at her back for support for her still wobbly legs.
"Where are we going?"
"Somewhere I am sure she wouldn't expect, and the only thing I could think of at the time," Kurt says rather sheepishly. "We're going to the Morlocks." Romana nods in readiness, her balance retained, and their echoing footsteps are soon the only trace of their flight down the dark tunnel.
**Next chapter will take a little longer, unfortunately. This story has a mind of it's own, and now I have to do some research on the Morlocks before I can continue. Stay tuned! ;) **-Syreene
The psychic vampire clasps her hands in joy and bounces on her heels like an excited schoolgirl. "Oh goodie, you know who I am! This will make your death even more enjoyable when I suck the juicy fear from your soul." Selene looks over Kurt with an appraising eye from top to bottom. "Too bad I don't recognize you, though. A handsome priest as your self would have looked good in my collection. Now wake the girl and hand her over, and I will make your last moments of life glorious to behold!"
"Fuck! This headache is going to last all day." mutters Romana as she stirs and grabs the side of her head where she shot herself only minutes before.
--Romana, thank God--
"It was silly of you to try and run from the Church, my dear. What did you think you were going to accomplish?" Selene asks with a disapproving pout of her lips. Romana gets up with a hand from Kurt and discretely slips the gun into the back of her pants.
"I was getting tired, Selene, and I thought I could make a friend." Romana says as she stares defiantly in Selene's eyes.
Kurt remains silent, thanking the powers that be that he never encountered Selene with the X-Men before. --She doesn't know my powers, so we still might have a chance to get away if we play this right-He places his hand on Romana's shoulder and squeezes gently in support. --I won't leave you, Romana-
"Well dear, you know what they say about friends. You win some," Selene says with a sly grin as she signals the limousine, "and you lose some."
"Heartless bitch," Romana mutters as she looks quickly away to blink away a tear.
"It's too bad your previous friend couldn't escape with you, because then you could share your deaths together," Selene says with a delicately raised eyebrow. " This is turning out to be my kind of night, however, because I get to savor the pain and sorrow growing in you before I kill you. Any last words?" Her eyes start to shine with a red glow as she holds out a gloved hand towards her. Romana feels a sharp pain inside her chest and a tingling feeling of energy through her fingers. As she looks back at Selene she can't help but notice a bright green glow, coming not from Selene, but from the limousine? The glow continues to grow until it explodes out the windshield of the limousine with a shattering force, the shards of glass coming at them like a hundred knives.
"Not again," Romana cries.
Selene ducks behind her leather coat and is quickly shielded by her servant holding the umbrella, the shards of glass impaling themselves into his back with a sickening thud. Kurt ducks behind a dumpster and tries to grab Romana with him, but is unable to as the glowing ball of energy slams into her chest and lifts her off the ground. It doesn't throw her back with the force, however, but engulfs her in a blinding glow as she hovers above the ground. Her head is thrown back in a silent scream as the light radiates through her eyes and mouth.
--This may be our only chance. Just let her be okay-Seizing the moment of distraction, Kurt leaps at the glowing Romana and wraps himself around her in a desperate embrace as he teleports away in a puff of swirling smoke.
"NO!" Selene screams as she throws her servant off her with a force that slams him into the side of the limousine. "Her powers MUST be mine!" her eyes burn with an intense red light as her beautiful face twists in demonic anger. She screams into the air for a few seconds and then quickly stops and runs her hands over her face and hair. When she is done, she is once again the smooth skinned seductive woman. With a sniff of disdain she turns and walks to the limousine. She tosses the dead servant off her car and reaches in to grab her cell phone. "One just can't get good help these days."
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Kurt shudders in the tunnel beneath Selene as she screams. He cradles the unconscious body of Romana in his arms as he crouches in the dim light of her now barely glowing form. "Romana, liebchen, you must wake up! We need to get out of here, now!" he whispers fiercely in her ear.
"Unh-Kurt?" Romana mutters faintly. "Where are we?" she weakly reaches up and rubs her face. "What happened?"
"I was going to ask you that myself, liebchen. But for now, we need to get moving away from here." Kurt says as he helps Romana stand, keeping a hand at her back for support for her still wobbly legs.
"Where are we going?"
"Somewhere I am sure she wouldn't expect, and the only thing I could think of at the time," Kurt says rather sheepishly. "We're going to the Morlocks." Romana nods in readiness, her balance retained, and their echoing footsteps are soon the only trace of their flight down the dark tunnel.
**Next chapter will take a little longer, unfortunately. This story has a mind of it's own, and now I have to do some research on the Morlocks before I can continue. Stay tuned! ;) **-Syreene
