A/N:
A NEW BEGINNING
Chapter 2: His first watch, her first time
She stood next to the cot for a long time, watching him sleep. His chest was still bare and his trousers were torn. He was huddled against the wall with the thin blanket around him. That was when she realised she had forgotten what it was like to feel cold, she had been that way for so long. It surprised her when a chill suddenly washed over her as she watched him shivering on the thin mattress.
She stepped back slightly as he rolled over, now facing her, but still sleeping. This mouth was slightly open and suddenly she remembered sitting beside him at the mansion after Lucian had bitten him. He looked just as troubled now as he had then.
She watched silently as he moved again, caught up in his dreams. He mumbled something she couldn't make out, so she took a step forward in order to hear him better.
"No" he spoke quietly as he turned his head more in her direction, she froze "let her go, please don't do this" she watched him as he started to thrash in his sleep, totally engulfed by the power of his nightmare. "No, take me!" he was speaking more clearly now and moving quite violently, suddenly his first collided with the wall, denting the bricks, he didn't wake. Selene stepped closer still and tried to pin his shoulders to the mattress, he fought against her.
Suddenly, she felt herself falling backwards, his eyes were open but he was still inside his dream as he gripped her throat, she tried to fight him as his eyes turned black and he showed his sharp teeth. In his desperation he was so much stronger than she was, she felt his claws digging into her and she struggled to say his name, hoping he would wake up.
She felt weak and panicked, and ... Human. She felt paralysed the same way she had the night she had been turned. Standing in her room listening to the beast roaming through the house slaughtering her family.
"Michael" she gasped finally as she pushed at his shoulders.
"Leave her alone!" he growled fiercely, "You die for this Kraven!" Selene stared at him in amazement, still trying with all her strength to push him away. She watched as his face changed from and angry snarl to a tormented expression "NO! SELENE!" Then his strength failed and the power she had been subjecting his upper body to, threw him across the room.
He skidded along the ground on his back and lay there gasping for a few moments as Selene slowly got to her feet, feeling her own blood running from the claw marks on her neck.
"The sun's almost up" she stated as if nothing had happened, his head snapped up and he stared at her, her neck covered in blood her lips slightly blue, her eyes looking slightly glazed.
"What happened?" he asked as he sprang to his feet and rushed to look at her wounds. He threw caution to the wind and cupped her chin so he could look at the deep cuts better.
"You were dreaming" she said matter-of-factly. Michael looked straight into her eyes, still holding her face, her wounds were already healing. "What were you dreaming about?"
"I.. I don't remember" he lied. He wished it were true, the things he had seen in his sleep he didn't want to remember, ever.
"You were talking" she informed him "you said something about Kraven, and then you called my name, just before you woke up."
He turned his eyes away from hers, watching with interest as her neck speedily healed itself.
"Michael" her voice was surprisingly soft and he slowly returned his eyes to her own. "Tell me."
"Kraven" he sighed as he sat down on the edge of the cot, pulling her by the arm to sit beside him, she didn't argue. "He still wants you for himself, that's why he's looking for us now. And he will find us." He looked straight into her deep brown eyes and turned her to face him fully. Still holding onto her shoulders he spoke again.
"I couldn't stop him........he took you." Michael froze, staring at her as he remembered what he had seen happen to her. "I couldn't..."
Then, Selene surprised both of them (especially herself) by wrapping her arms around the hybrid who had somehow found his way into her soul. She held him tightly and rocked gently back and forth. Michael closed his eyes and wrapped his own arms around her tiny frame. He felt a small laugh vibrate in his ear.
Slowly he pulled back to look at her, not letting her go.
"What?" he asked quietly
"Nothing, just a memory." Slowly she returned his head to her shoulder, with a gentle push from her hand.
"I used to do this whenever my nieces had bad dreams." She felt him move closer to her. "That was before."
"Before the Lycans?" Michael asked quietly as he breathed in her scent.
"No, before Viktor." Again Michael lifted his head and looked deep into her eyes. She smiled again then, for the second time. "It wasn't the Lycans, it was Viktor. He lied to me for 200 years."
"How do you know it was him?"
"Kraven" Michael stiffened at the mention of the name, but refused to remove his arms from around her as she continued. "He told me after he shot you, and then Viktor confirmed it"
She turned to look him in the eye; they were so close that their noses were almost touching. Slowly, Michael began to move closer to her, wanting desperately to taste her mouth again. But suddenly she was no longer in his arms. She was standing beside the cot looking down at him, knowing full well what he had been about to do, and kicking herself for wanting him to do it.
"The sun will be up by now. You should go and stand guard; I need to sleep if I'm going to be any use tonight."
She watched as he rose from the cot and tried to take her in his arms again. This time her warning was not quite so threatening as it had been before they reached the building. She simply placed one hand out, halting him in his tracks.
"I noticed there is a locker room on the floor above us, there might be some warmer clothes in there, you should go and check."
"Right" he sighed and moved towards the stairs, amazed at how well his eyes had adapted to the darkness.
***
Selene had been right, Michael had done has she had suggested and had found a warm black sweater and a pair of dark blue jeans. There was even a pair of working boots there in his size.
He walked up another flight of stairs and found himself on the level they had entered the building at. It looked so different in the daylight, his eyes were stinging and he couldn't decide if it were because of being in the dark for so long or if it was a result of what he had become, this was after all the first daylight he had seen as the hybrid.
He managed to stay in the sunlight for roughly 7 hours before the burning became too much and he had to retreat to the darkness of the lower floors.
He stumbled at first but his eyes adjusted quickly and he moved quietly over to Selene's sleeping form. He knelt next to her, she looked so peaceful, and it was very strange to him how she also looked dead. Not moving, not breathing. Her lips were slightly open showing only a hint of her fangs. Unable to hold himself back any longer, he leaned in, hesitating right above her lips before pressing his own against them. Slowly he began to massage her lips gently with his own, she didn't react.
When he finally pulled back and looked at her, she was wide awake, not moving, only staring at him with pale blue eyes.
"What are you doing here?" she hissed, "you should be keeping watch upstairs, not down here..doing that!" she tried to sit up but he refused to move away. He only moved closer to her and captured her lips again, still no reaction.
"I can't stay up there any more, it burns!"
"What?"
"My eyes, the light burns my eyes, I can't stand it anymore"
He seated himself on the edge of the bunk and rested his arms on either side of her, lowering himself to kiss her again as he watched her eyes change back to their natural brown. This time she did react to his embrace. Gently touching his face as she kissed him back.
He pulled away only slightly to look at her pale face
"Do you always break the rules?" she asked in a playful tone.
"Only stupid rules like I'm not allowed to touch you when I know you want me to"
"Oh, you think you know what I want?" Selene watched him carefully, "tell me then"
"You want to be reminded what it is to be human, to feel. You've wanted that for a while but you have never found anything. or anyone, who can make you remember." He smiled as he watched her expression change "until me. I make you remember things don't I? I make you feel things from before. I've seen it in your eyes."
"I don't know what you're talking about" she pushed away from the cot and moved towards the stairs. Michael leapt off of the cot and, using his newly acquired speed, was suddenly in front of her. She froze.
"You want to remember what it's like to love, to make love to someone, and be made love to in return"
"How can I remember what I have never known?" she snapped
Michael stood still, blocking her path, finding it hard to believe that such a woman, was still only a girl in that sense.
She tried to pass him but he snaked an arm around her waist.
He pulled her closer to him, walking slowly around behind her and sliding his hands onto her hips "Let me show you" he whispered in one ear before lightly kissing her now fully healed neck. "Let me love you" he whispered in her other ear and kissed that side of her neck.
He smiled to himself as he felt her shiver beneath his touch. Slowly, she turned in his arms, looking deep into his eyes before she kissed him lightly. When they parted he saw something new in her eyes. She was afraid.
"Don't be scared" he whispered as he gently laid her back to the thin mattress of the cot and spent the next few hours showing her what it was like to get lost in someone.
A NEW BEGINNING
Chapter 2: His first watch, her first time
She stood next to the cot for a long time, watching him sleep. His chest was still bare and his trousers were torn. He was huddled against the wall with the thin blanket around him. That was when she realised she had forgotten what it was like to feel cold, she had been that way for so long. It surprised her when a chill suddenly washed over her as she watched him shivering on the thin mattress.
She stepped back slightly as he rolled over, now facing her, but still sleeping. This mouth was slightly open and suddenly she remembered sitting beside him at the mansion after Lucian had bitten him. He looked just as troubled now as he had then.
She watched silently as he moved again, caught up in his dreams. He mumbled something she couldn't make out, so she took a step forward in order to hear him better.
"No" he spoke quietly as he turned his head more in her direction, she froze "let her go, please don't do this" she watched him as he started to thrash in his sleep, totally engulfed by the power of his nightmare. "No, take me!" he was speaking more clearly now and moving quite violently, suddenly his first collided with the wall, denting the bricks, he didn't wake. Selene stepped closer still and tried to pin his shoulders to the mattress, he fought against her.
Suddenly, she felt herself falling backwards, his eyes were open but he was still inside his dream as he gripped her throat, she tried to fight him as his eyes turned black and he showed his sharp teeth. In his desperation he was so much stronger than she was, she felt his claws digging into her and she struggled to say his name, hoping he would wake up.
She felt weak and panicked, and ... Human. She felt paralysed the same way she had the night she had been turned. Standing in her room listening to the beast roaming through the house slaughtering her family.
"Michael" she gasped finally as she pushed at his shoulders.
"Leave her alone!" he growled fiercely, "You die for this Kraven!" Selene stared at him in amazement, still trying with all her strength to push him away. She watched as his face changed from and angry snarl to a tormented expression "NO! SELENE!" Then his strength failed and the power she had been subjecting his upper body to, threw him across the room.
He skidded along the ground on his back and lay there gasping for a few moments as Selene slowly got to her feet, feeling her own blood running from the claw marks on her neck.
"The sun's almost up" she stated as if nothing had happened, his head snapped up and he stared at her, her neck covered in blood her lips slightly blue, her eyes looking slightly glazed.
"What happened?" he asked as he sprang to his feet and rushed to look at her wounds. He threw caution to the wind and cupped her chin so he could look at the deep cuts better.
"You were dreaming" she said matter-of-factly. Michael looked straight into her eyes, still holding her face, her wounds were already healing. "What were you dreaming about?"
"I.. I don't remember" he lied. He wished it were true, the things he had seen in his sleep he didn't want to remember, ever.
"You were talking" she informed him "you said something about Kraven, and then you called my name, just before you woke up."
He turned his eyes away from hers, watching with interest as her neck speedily healed itself.
"Michael" her voice was surprisingly soft and he slowly returned his eyes to her own. "Tell me."
"Kraven" he sighed as he sat down on the edge of the cot, pulling her by the arm to sit beside him, she didn't argue. "He still wants you for himself, that's why he's looking for us now. And he will find us." He looked straight into her deep brown eyes and turned her to face him fully. Still holding onto her shoulders he spoke again.
"I couldn't stop him........he took you." Michael froze, staring at her as he remembered what he had seen happen to her. "I couldn't..."
Then, Selene surprised both of them (especially herself) by wrapping her arms around the hybrid who had somehow found his way into her soul. She held him tightly and rocked gently back and forth. Michael closed his eyes and wrapped his own arms around her tiny frame. He felt a small laugh vibrate in his ear.
Slowly he pulled back to look at her, not letting her go.
"What?" he asked quietly
"Nothing, just a memory." Slowly she returned his head to her shoulder, with a gentle push from her hand.
"I used to do this whenever my nieces had bad dreams." She felt him move closer to her. "That was before."
"Before the Lycans?" Michael asked quietly as he breathed in her scent.
"No, before Viktor." Again Michael lifted his head and looked deep into her eyes. She smiled again then, for the second time. "It wasn't the Lycans, it was Viktor. He lied to me for 200 years."
"How do you know it was him?"
"Kraven" Michael stiffened at the mention of the name, but refused to remove his arms from around her as she continued. "He told me after he shot you, and then Viktor confirmed it"
She turned to look him in the eye; they were so close that their noses were almost touching. Slowly, Michael began to move closer to her, wanting desperately to taste her mouth again. But suddenly she was no longer in his arms. She was standing beside the cot looking down at him, knowing full well what he had been about to do, and kicking herself for wanting him to do it.
"The sun will be up by now. You should go and stand guard; I need to sleep if I'm going to be any use tonight."
She watched as he rose from the cot and tried to take her in his arms again. This time her warning was not quite so threatening as it had been before they reached the building. She simply placed one hand out, halting him in his tracks.
"I noticed there is a locker room on the floor above us, there might be some warmer clothes in there, you should go and check."
"Right" he sighed and moved towards the stairs, amazed at how well his eyes had adapted to the darkness.
***
Selene had been right, Michael had done has she had suggested and had found a warm black sweater and a pair of dark blue jeans. There was even a pair of working boots there in his size.
He walked up another flight of stairs and found himself on the level they had entered the building at. It looked so different in the daylight, his eyes were stinging and he couldn't decide if it were because of being in the dark for so long or if it was a result of what he had become, this was after all the first daylight he had seen as the hybrid.
He managed to stay in the sunlight for roughly 7 hours before the burning became too much and he had to retreat to the darkness of the lower floors.
He stumbled at first but his eyes adjusted quickly and he moved quietly over to Selene's sleeping form. He knelt next to her, she looked so peaceful, and it was very strange to him how she also looked dead. Not moving, not breathing. Her lips were slightly open showing only a hint of her fangs. Unable to hold himself back any longer, he leaned in, hesitating right above her lips before pressing his own against them. Slowly he began to massage her lips gently with his own, she didn't react.
When he finally pulled back and looked at her, she was wide awake, not moving, only staring at him with pale blue eyes.
"What are you doing here?" she hissed, "you should be keeping watch upstairs, not down here..doing that!" she tried to sit up but he refused to move away. He only moved closer to her and captured her lips again, still no reaction.
"I can't stay up there any more, it burns!"
"What?"
"My eyes, the light burns my eyes, I can't stand it anymore"
He seated himself on the edge of the bunk and rested his arms on either side of her, lowering himself to kiss her again as he watched her eyes change back to their natural brown. This time she did react to his embrace. Gently touching his face as she kissed him back.
He pulled away only slightly to look at her pale face
"Do you always break the rules?" she asked in a playful tone.
"Only stupid rules like I'm not allowed to touch you when I know you want me to"
"Oh, you think you know what I want?" Selene watched him carefully, "tell me then"
"You want to be reminded what it is to be human, to feel. You've wanted that for a while but you have never found anything. or anyone, who can make you remember." He smiled as he watched her expression change "until me. I make you remember things don't I? I make you feel things from before. I've seen it in your eyes."
"I don't know what you're talking about" she pushed away from the cot and moved towards the stairs. Michael leapt off of the cot and, using his newly acquired speed, was suddenly in front of her. She froze.
"You want to remember what it's like to love, to make love to someone, and be made love to in return"
"How can I remember what I have never known?" she snapped
Michael stood still, blocking her path, finding it hard to believe that such a woman, was still only a girl in that sense.
She tried to pass him but he snaked an arm around her waist.
He pulled her closer to him, walking slowly around behind her and sliding his hands onto her hips "Let me show you" he whispered in one ear before lightly kissing her now fully healed neck. "Let me love you" he whispered in her other ear and kissed that side of her neck.
He smiled to himself as he felt her shiver beneath his touch. Slowly, she turned in his arms, looking deep into his eyes before she kissed him lightly. When they parted he saw something new in her eyes. She was afraid.
"Don't be scared" he whispered as he gently laid her back to the thin mattress of the cot and spent the next few hours showing her what it was like to get lost in someone.