She cupped his cheek gently and looked into his eyes. He wanted to
protect her, and at the same time she wanted to protect him too. She could
feel his breath warm on her throat as he stepped closer to her, pressing
his body against hers.
"What do you want me to say to that?" She asked him quietly.
"You don't have to say anything. I don't care if you don't feel the same now, or feel the same ever. I just don't want you to leave me."
"Then do you know what you're saying?"
"I do. I'm saying that I feel things that I have never felt before. When I look at you...I-I know that I can't live without you, and would have rather been dead."
She closed her eyes when she felt his arms wrap around her waist. It was like being enveloped in a warm blanket, and for the first time since Viktor's death, she felt safe. Her green eyes burned into his blue oens as she dropped her hand from his face. "I couldn't tell you what I feel. I haven't felt for two hundred years."
"I don't need you to say anything. Just tell me that you'll never leave me." He whispered in her ear.
"I won't leave you." She told him.
She didn't know what was going on in his head, but she could figure it out later. He seemed to be at his breaking point. She froze when he layed his head on her shoulder.
"What are you doing?" Selene asked a little bit alarmed.
"I don't know." He answered her and buried his face in her neck. She gasped surprised by his actions, but was enjoying it more than she would admit.
She could feel him kiss her neck lightly and she wrapped her arms around his neck. She realized that he was all she had left more times than she could count. Now, it actually meant something. He was doing this because he loved her, and not because he wanted what he could not have... like Kraven. He actually felt something...for her.
He brought his head back up from her neck and to her face. He touched his nose to hers and smiled at her, before touching his lips to hers.
~*~
Michael looked up from the book as Selene walked in, "Feeling better?" He asked her closing the book.
"Yeah, what happened though?" She answered.
Michael scratched his head, "I don't know that much just the part when one had you up in the air with it's claws around your throat." Images of the lycan flashed through his head, along with the images of Sonja burning, instead though, it was Selene, and he was tied down screaming. This is the same thing he had been seeing since he saved her.
"I killed it." He mumbled when she didn't say anything and ran his hand over his face, "Then I took you to the room and cleaned off your blood."
She nodded at him and became silent, "Why must you protect me?" She asked him.
He had this whole thing already worked out in his head, and he had already explained it to her, or tried to. "We already talked about this." He said getting off the table and starting to walk out of the room, but she grabbed his arm.
"Tell me." She commanded.
"Lucian once told me that the lycans were once the daylight guardians of the vampires. I feel like I have to protect you, as an instinct, and because I want to. Your all I have left, all there is left. I want to make sure your safe... and when I saw that lycan about to kill you. I thought I had failed to protect you, failed to keep the one thing I love most in this world alive. I was scared, I am still scared, but not of dieing. Just of you dieing and leaving me here."
She opened her mouth to speak, but closed it not saying anything. He watched her closely. He had said what he felt, and had no regrets, he just hoped that she wouldn't freak out to him loving her. He knew it was love, he could feel it, fueling him, and making him weak at the same time.
He kept his gaze locked with hers as she blinked slowly and stepped closer to him. Her hand came up and cupped his cheek, and his breathing became faster. He kept her gaze but her touch was becoming overwhelming, so he stepped forward and pressed his body against hers.
"What do you want me to say to that?" She asked him in almost a whisper.
All of his rational thoughts went out the window as he answered her, "You don't have to say anything. I don't care if you feel the same now, or feel the same ever. I just don't want you to leave me."
"Then do you know what you're saying?" She asked him her eyes searching his.
He had already made up his mind, a long time ago, "I do. I'm saying that I feel things that I have never felt before. When I look at you... I- I know that I can't live without you, and would have rather been dead."
He gave into his emotions and wrapped his arms around her waist. Liking the comfort she could bring him. She watched him, and he kepted his eyes locked with hers as she dropped her hand from his face, his skin missing the contact already.
"I couldn't tell you what I feel. I haven't felt for two hundred years." Her voice holding an almost unnoticable sadness.
"I don't need you to say anything. Just tell me you'll never leave me." He whispered in her ear.
When she didn't answer at first, his stomach seemed to drop to the floor, "I won't leave you."
He felt happy again and laid his head down on her shoulder. He knew she wouldn't leave him, but there were other obsticles in the way. Again images of Selene under the sun burned in his mind, the thoughts were tearing at his mind. He could feel her freeze when he did this but didn't move.
"What are you doing?" She asked him, her voice sounding alarmed.
"I don't know." He told her honestly and buried his face in her neck, taking in her scent where it was strongest... on her skin.
He started to gently kiss her neck and felt her arms wrap around his neck. He skin was cold like ice underneath his lips, and it felt good. He let his lips glide over her neck, leaving warm trails from kiss to kiss.
He brought his head up and touched his nose to hers. He loved her, and he didn't care if she didn't, he just wanted her to know how he felt, he had to show her. He couldn't resist the temptation and smiled at her, before bringing his lips to hers.
~*~
He tightened his grip on her waist as she did hers around his neck. His head was spinning at the cold contact of his warm lips to her cold ones. Her hands traveled through his hair as the kiss deepened. He was in heaven knowing that he was kissing her, and she was kissing back.
He kissed her with all the passion he could muster into a kiss before pulling back to take in a deep breath. He then crushed her lips again with his. She scratched his scalp with her cold fingers which made him shiver as he continued to kiss her. He let out a moan as her tongue darted out of her mouth and to his lips.
She knew that it was wrong to kiss him, but it's something that she realized made her feel very much alive. She wanted to stop what she was doing but she couldn't.
Selene was loving the feeling of his arms around her and his lips on hers. It opened a new feeling in her that she hadn't felt before. She pushed back against his lips in equal force and ran her fingers through his hair.
She felt his hands roam over her skin tight suit as he continued to kiss her. He had taken a breath earlier, he was still attached to breathing from being a human for so long.
She did something she had never done before and slid her tongue into his mouth and across his lips, and did it once again, this time his mouth opened up and let his own tongue out. They dueled in a battle fueled by passion.
She felt her knees go slightly weak and he held onto her holding her up in his strong arms. He pulled away and his mouth trailed her jaw line, and her neck. He kisses light and gentle but held a warmth and passion.
She closed her eyes and gave into the feeling he was giving her. She opened them when it stopped. Selene connected gazes with him before crushing her lips to his, kissing him with a passion she didn't know she could have.
When they finally broke apart, he smiled at her, "I love you." She stared back at him. She knew he wasn't expecting anything from her, just wanting her to know what he felt. She accepted what he felt, even if she didn't feel it. It didn't matter. For once she felt almost completely human again.
He pulled her closer to him and buried his face in her neck again. She played with the tips of his hair, and just let him hold her. Somewhere in her mind, she knew he needed to hold her, to comfort himself, to make sure she was safe and he hadn't failed.
After a long silence she felt him grow a little heavier in their embrace and she tilted her head so she could see his face. He had his eyes closed, "Aren't you tired?" She asked him. It was more of a statement though.
"No." He mumbled against her skin, which vibrated and made her shiver.
"Yes you are Michael."
"I have to protect you."
"Well, you can protect me and fall asleep now can you?"
He sighed, sending a hot breath onto her skin. "I don't want to leave you."
"C'mon Michael, you have to go to sleep, and the sun is probably up by now."
He sighed again, and pulled away but kept one of his arms loosly around her waist. "Fine, but your coming with me."
It was her turn to sigh and she did. She walked with him back to the room with the bed and he reluctantly let go of her waist and layed down on the matress. He moved over so she would have enough room to lay beside him.
She crossed her arms over her chest not moving from the spot. "Go to sleep." She told him.
He made a groaning sound as he tilted his head towards her, his eyes closed. "Selene..." He whined.
She muttered a curse under her breath before laying down beside him. He layed his arm over her waist as soon as she did and pulled her closer to him. Michael smiled to himself as he drifted off to sleep, and Selene wanted to laugh. If she only remembered how, she hadn't laughed since she became a vampire, and forgotten how.
She felt him sit up slightly and he kissed her cheek before laying back down and mumbling, "I love you." To her again.
She kept her focus on the ceiling as his breathing became regular and slow. She knew that he had fallen asleep and she tilted her head to the side to get a better look at him. His eyes were closed and his lips parted slightly as his chest moved up and down. His hair had fallen onto his face. Selene knitted her eyebrows together in confusion.
She had no idea why she was even in the same bed as him, let alone letting him touch her. She had distanced herself from everyone who had seemed to care after she became a vampire. Not wanting to feel the pain of loss once again. Not wanting to get hurt, and only out for revenge.
His arm was laying gently on her waist and didn't move, but she could feel the warmth it brought to her skin. Selene closed her eyes and sighed to herself. Half of herself didn't know what was going on, but the other half seemed to know, only it wouldn't let her in on it.
She must have still been tired because she soon found herself drifting off to sleep as well.
~*~
Michael opened his eyes and glanced around. He noticed Selene asleep next to him and smiled. He carefully took his arm off of her waist so he wouldn't wake her up and stood up. He stretched and yawned before walking down the tunnel and back to the ladder.
The blood was still staining the floor and walls, but he had gotten rid of the bodies the night before. He dumped them in the river where he and Selene had stood ealier. The water should have washed some of their scent away, and they really wouldn't be able to tell where they had been before they were killed.
If they ever found the bodies. Michael sighed to himself and ran his hand through his hair. Not far away in a small room was the vampire he loved. He had loved once, but this love seemed different, maybe because he had come across his feelings so quickly.
Or maybe it was the fact that this love was immortal. He didn't know yet, but knew he would find out. He tilted his head up and looked up at the hatch above his head. They couldn't stay here forever, and he knew that, but he couldn't think of anywhere else to go.
Michael stared at the hatch awhile longer, he senses getting stronger by the minute, and he now could feel the warmness coming through the hatch, but could also feel the coolness starting to spread. It would be night soon, and then, he and Selene would go, and find somewhere else to hide.
He could hear her get up from the bed, and could hear her light footsteps, but he didn't move his head just kept his gaze on the hatch.
"Awake?" He asked her.
"Yes." She told him.
"The sun should be down soon, and we will be able to move on."
She nodded and looked down at the floor then back at him, "What are you doing?"
He tilted his head back down to her, "I'm waiting for the sun to go down, and watching over you."
She sighed but must have thought that she didn't want to fight with him because she just turned and went down one of the tunnels. Michael stood still in the spot, he knew where she had gone, and that she would be back soon.
He closed his eyes for a moment, listening to his surroundings. It was then he heard it, the faint noise of footsteps. These footsteps however were heavy and coming from above him, not Selene's. He sniffed the air, but couldn't really smell anything yet.
His eyes opened slowly and he noticed Selene standing a few feet away from him at the entrance of a tunnel. He swallowed the lump in his throat that had begun to form for some reason unknown to him.
"They're coming." He whispered.
Selene gave him a confused look and walked up to him, "What?" She asked him.
"I can hear them, heavy footsteps above us, coming closer." He managed to say the anger of earlier starting to take over.
"Lycans.." She whispered to him.
As soon as the word escaped her lips Michael let out a growl and his eyes changed blue and then black, his fangs grew longer and he exposed them when he let out another growl. His skin also changed to its blue and silver color.
"Does this mean that you have figured out how to change from hybrid to human form?"
He remained silent his black and cold eyes staring into her own. "Is that a yes?"
He grabbed her hand and placed it over his heart. It was beating rather fastly, so fast in fact that she couldn't count the beats, or tell them apart. She pulled her hand back slowly and he let go of it.
She knitted her eyebrows together in confusion. He took her hand once again and placed it back over his heart, then took her hand back and placed it on her heart. The action was confusing, but had to have some simple meaning to it.
Michael let out a growl, that sounded like a word, but was to much of a growl to decifer. He came close to her ear and let out a lower growl.
Maybe it was just her or he said, "Emotions."
"Emotions?" She asked more than stated.
He nodded.
"They are how you change? When you feel a certain emotion?"
He nodded again.
"What were you feeling just now then when you changed?"
Michael looked down at the ground, and in a spilt second he was at the wall, and punched it, making a large dent and some of the surrounding rock crumble to the ground.
"It was anger." She said looking back up at the hatch, "Lycans."
He let out a fierce growl and moved towards the ladder, he stopped and looked over his shoulder at her, before starting to climb up it.
Selene took out her guns that she had reloaded and started going up after him.
When they reached the ground, Michael swung the hatch closed, he then sniffed the air and turned to her. He held his arm up in the direction it came from and she nodded, understanding. The lycans were in their path to the city. Blocking them.
Selene decided they would try and go around them. She moved swiftly and quickly through the thick trees and plants, and Michael followed his hands out to his sides, and hands trembling as his anger grew, and the more he sensed.
~*~
Michael stopped frozen in the spot, they were coming fast, they had tracked their scent, and now they were going to be attacked. He looked ahead Selene had stopped and was looking at him a bit annoyed.
"Go!" He growled, which she probably couldn't make out, but he pointed his finger to the direction she was going.
She hesitated not moving but staring at him shaking her head.
Michael felt a tingle on the back of his neck and spun around just in time to catch a lycan that had jumped at him, he tossed him to the ground and growled.
He held his claws out and cut the flesh of the lycan, cutting and ripping until he was satisfied that it was dead. He knew however he was in a lot of trouble. The other lycans were probably hiding in the shadows waiting for the perfect moment to strike.
Michael walked over to Selene and picked her up, he then took off at a dead sprint towards the city, his scent disappearing behind him. He placed her down at the edge of the city and the woods.
He changed back into his human form and stared at her as she looked at him.
"Why did you tell me to go? You were doing something rash you realize."
He sighed, "I know, but I figured I could handle it, and you would be safer away when they attacked than infront of me."
"Fine, let's get going then."
Michael followed her again, walking aimlessly through the streets after her. Wondering again what was going on in her head, and what they were doing."
As they walked past a tall dark building a feeling rose up in the back of his neck and he transformed into his hybrid form. He spun around but it was a little late.
Silver nitrate bullets were coming one by one, and going into his chest. He howled in pain after the first five, the pain starting to hurt him more than he realized. He fell to his knees, changing back into his human form and clutching his chest. There was too much silver in his blood, and it was killing his lycan half, which would mean it would kill him.
He could hear his hearbeat ringing in his ears, everything seeming to slow around him, his eyes flashed over to Selene, her face was confused but determined as she looked around. He could feel the bullets still hitting his chest. It felt like his veins were on fire, and his skin was burning. He closed his eyes, breathing becoming harder to do. He fell back onto his back, the liquid silver
Selene immediately rushed to his side firing her guns in the direction of where the shots had came from, only satisfied when the body fell from the roof.
Her attention however was once again returned to Michael as he gasped for air, his eyes starting to close. It reminded her of just a few days ago when she had bit him.
"S-Selene..." He choked out.
"Don't move." She commanded, maybe just maybe if she bit him again, she could drain some of the silver out of his blood. She tilted his head back her eyes turning the same icy blue. She brought her face closer to his neck and sunk her fangs into his flesh.
His blood tasted sweet, like a hot metal burning as it went down her throat. She felt an energy run through her body as she drank from him, pulling back before draining too much blood though.
His eyes were slowly opening, then he gasped before sitting up and his body changing into his hybrid form. The holes over his body closing fastly.
He was breathing fast and his chest was rising and falling as he put his hand down and helped Selene off the ground. He noticed the blood on her lip and wiped it off with his finger. He let his eyes roam over the area before pulling Selene next to him and holding on to her.
She looked up at him curiously as he covered her mouth with his hand. He picked her up and ran down the street and farther away from the building. Although to Selene it only took a mere second to reach their destination, to Michael it wasn't fast enough.
He set her down and tried to sense the presense he had tried to escape from, it was gone for now.
"Michael?" She questioned.
He changed back into his human form and looked around, "Lets keep moving." He told her.
She nodded although she was slightly confused as to why he ran like he did. Selene turned around with her back to him and started walking. They weren't far from a place they would be able to stay at, it might be a little easier to find if you know to where to look, though.
She stopped in front of a large iron door that entered the large old steel building. She pushed the door open and walked inside Michael following her close behind. She shut the door firmly behind them and started walking down a small spiral staircase.
Michael looked around for a few seconds before following her down.
When they reached they reached the bottom there was barely enough space for both of them to fit on the floor before Selene opened the door and walked through. Michael closed and locked it behind them.
They were in a basement of some kind, the room was a large circle, furniture scattered around it in different parts. It had four doors leading four different ways. The one behind them leading to the stairs, the others he had no clue.
"It will be safe here." She told him going straight and into the next room. He didn't move but instead stayed in the same place looking around the room.
"How long will we stay here?" He called out to her.
"Not very long." She replied, "Markus would be able to find us very quickly since he is an elder, and has connections with all the vampire clans."
"Oh." He replied trailing his fingers over some carvings beside a door.
He turned around to find Selene leaning against the door frame her arms crossed over her chest. Her gaze was fixed on the floor and her eyes seemed clouded over.
"What's the matter?" He asked her.
"Nothing." She replied quickly still keeping her gaze on the floor.
"It has to be something." He told her.
"It's nothing."
"Selene..." He started.
"Just drop it Michael, it's nothing." She snapped.
He sighed. "Sorry." He mumbled leaning back against the wall.
"Why did you run earlier when you were shot. I mean, what made you move so quickly away from there?"
He closed his eyes, "I felt something." He replied.
"Like what?"
"Like...I don't know alright. Something strong, stronger than me and stronger than you. I don't know what it was, but it was getting closer, and I had to do something. I had to get you out of there."
"Stronger than you?"
"Yes stronger than me, and angry. It wanted to rip, to kill, us." He told her opening his eyes.
"Markus." She whispered, "He's out for revenge."
"Yes, I suppose that could be it." Michael said standing up straight now and meeting her gaze as she lifted it from the floor. "He won't get it from us though. I don't care how strong he is, I won't let him touch you." Michael's voice became deeper at the end of his sentence.
Selene looked at his eyes, they were filled with compassion and love. "I know."
"Good." He responded, "So what are we gonna do for now?"
"Rest and wait." She told him, "Not much else to do I suppose."
"Okay," Michael said plopping himself down in a chair. Selene turned around and walked back into the room she had came from.
She came out of the room a few minutes later wearing a long black leather trench coat. He looked up at her, "Where did you get that?"
"In that room," She told him pointing behind herslef, "There are clothes in there, we used this place as a hideout when we were tracking lycans once. It's pretty useful."
He nodded and crossed his arms over his chest looking at the wall opposite of him. He heard her shift where she was standing and he looked at her out of the corner of his eyes. "Anything wrong?" He asked, even though he knew what her answer would be, and wondered why he asked her so much, maybe it was the fact that he cared for her.
"No, nothing's wrong, just thinking." She replied.
"Oh." Well, atleast it wasn't just plain no and drop it, maybe she was opening up a bit, "Do you mind if I ask what?"
She looked at the ground her hair falling over her face and Michael felt himself want to hold her, "Just about my whole life. My lie of a life."
Michael stood up and walked closer to her, she didn't move but kept her gaze on the ground. "I've wasted two hundred years on something that was all a lie. I was in the arms of the enemy and didn't even realize it. I was fighting against the wrong side. The side that was innocent, and I slaughtered them."
She brought her head up slowly and looked at him, her gaze soft and unfocused. "He killed his own daughter, his own flesh and blood. All over some stupid belief of 'not' blending the species. He lied to me." Her voice wavering slightly and the end of her sentence ending in a whisper.
Michael closed his eyes momentarily but reopened them and wrapped his arms around her, bringing her closer to him and pulling her against his chest. She buried her face in his bare chest taking in his mixed scent of rain and blood.
He placed his hand on the back of of her head and stroked her hair. Her small arms came up and slid around his waist trying to pull him closer to her and he could feel her warm tears slide down his chest. He kissed the top of her head letting his lips linger for a few moments.
She was feeling horrible now he knew that. She had been lied to, for two hundred years, it couldn't be that easy to deal with. "It will be okay." He told her gently. She was breaking down, most of him felt extremely bad for her, but the other was happy that she was starting to open up to him and show that she was hurting and allowing him to help.
"Everyone is coming after us, I don't think that puts it under the category of okay, Michael." She told him pulling her face back and looking at him. Tears still visible in her eyes.
"I didn't mean that. I meant that you will be okay. You will get through your past and the lies in it. I will help you if you need me. I just want you to be okay."
Selene didn't know what it was, could it have been that being in his arms and him talking to her made her feel more like a human than she had ever felt before, or the way his eyes showed how much he truely loved her.
All she knew is that right at the moment, she wanted to kiss him, she wanted to kiss him so badly her heart ached. It ached to fill the warmth she knew he could give her.
Her arms moved up to his neck and she pulled his face to hers crushing his lips with hers and kissing him with everything she had. Her hands became tangled in his hair as he kissed her back letting out a low moan as her tongue slid into his mouth.
A few minutes later they pulled apart, and Michael trailed light kisses on her jaw and her neck. His fangs grazed her skin and she gasped. He stopped and moved his head up so that he was looking into her eyes.
"Sorry." He whispered.
"Don't be." She told him. It wasn't his fault that he coudln't control his beast yet.
He began to nibble on her earlobe his hot breath on her making her skin tingle. "I love you." He whispered in her ear. She closed her eyes for a moment, then opened them to find Michael looking at her a sad smile playing on his lips.
He brought his hand up gently and cupped her cheek, his thumb stroking her cheek softly. "I'm sorry you had to find out the truth, because I know it has to hurt. However, I will tell you that I will try my best to make you forget about it."
"Is that going to be your mission then. To make me forget about two hundred years of lies?"
"That and to protect you until I die myself." He said grinning but still being serious.
Selene leaned forward and gave him a chaste kiss on the lips before pulling away. "I hope you succeed." She told him pulling away and walking back into the room she had came from.
Michael sighed and followed behind her. He stopped when she shoved a long black trench coat at him. He took it and looked curiously at her.
"The lycans wear coats, so when they transform, they can take their coat off and not shred their clothes. I figured you could use the coat because you've ripped all your shirts transforming, it would be easier and keep you warm." She told him as he put it on.
"Thanks." He told her, not really worry about the coat at the moment, but thankful for it all the same.
The coat fit him perfectly and she nodded."Your welcome." She told him as he looked back at her.
"Do you...you know, think we have a chance at beating Markus?" He asked her hesitantly leaning against the wall.
"I don't know. I mean, we killed Viktor, and he was not only the strongest but oldest of my kind. I'm sure once you come to grip with your powers, I suppose we could. But, he does have the whole vampire clan behind him, and the lycans are after us too."
"I know that, but I don't think that they're our biggest threat. Markus...he felt...strong, and I want to believe that I can beat him, if I can't how am I supposed to protect you?"
"Again, I never asked for your protection, you just gave it."
"I know you never asked but I had to because I love you and I can't lose you." He told her.
"And I never asked you to fall in love with me. I'm sorry if I am sounding rude, but as much as you care for me, you can't let that get in your way. That's why Viktor almost killed you. You let your anger cloud your judgement, and didn't see what was coming or how to beat it."
Michael sighed.
"If you really want to protect me, Michael. Then you won't let your emotions get the best of you. They will only make you weaker, and be your weakness."
He had been looking at the ground as she spoke but looked up at her, his blue eyes locking gazes with her green ones. "Can you teach me then."
"Teach you what?"
"How to be like you. Teach me how to feel nothing when I fight. Help me beat him, so I can protect you." He said standing up.
~*~
A/N: Well, another exciting chapter...I think. I just finished...the last scene if that's what you want to call it. I call it...the human scene of the story. Don't worry though, there will be a hell of a lot more than that later on. Now, before I get any questions, I do have the DVD, and I took a lot of time, and a lot of debating with my cousin, sister, and friends over what color their eyes are. That's why I never used it until now! ^_^ The pics off the net don't give you that much, and you can't really tell in the movie because it's always dark. So pause and zoom if very effective. I used the scenes where Selene was talking to Kahn, when she brought back the round of bullets from the subway shoot out. For Michael, I used a number of them. When he met Lucian in the elevator, and when he woke up at the vampire mansion after having Lucian's memories play in his head.
Boring yes, but thought that I would explain now, better than later. This chapter is up a lot quicker than normal, because I am grounded from the internet, but sneak on from time to time to post or to check my mail. I had already written over half of this chapter before I posted the first chapter, so the next chapter might be up a little slower. I sort of have an obsession for making each chapter atleast 9 pages long...call me weird I just believe chapters should be long.
I'm glad for all the reviews I had gotten, just after the first day of posting. Amazing though, I'm just glad there are more fans out there that like Selene and Michael as much as I do! :P. Anyways, it's about...midnight here, and I have a Spanish test tomorrow.
If you have an suggestions for the story, email me or leave it in your review, I think a story is always better when the readers actually have some things they want to happen...happen. And this is the longest A/N I have ever written...damn...bye! R+R Please!!
"What do you want me to say to that?" She asked him quietly.
"You don't have to say anything. I don't care if you don't feel the same now, or feel the same ever. I just don't want you to leave me."
"Then do you know what you're saying?"
"I do. I'm saying that I feel things that I have never felt before. When I look at you...I-I know that I can't live without you, and would have rather been dead."
She closed her eyes when she felt his arms wrap around her waist. It was like being enveloped in a warm blanket, and for the first time since Viktor's death, she felt safe. Her green eyes burned into his blue oens as she dropped her hand from his face. "I couldn't tell you what I feel. I haven't felt for two hundred years."
"I don't need you to say anything. Just tell me that you'll never leave me." He whispered in her ear.
"I won't leave you." She told him.
She didn't know what was going on in his head, but she could figure it out later. He seemed to be at his breaking point. She froze when he layed his head on her shoulder.
"What are you doing?" Selene asked a little bit alarmed.
"I don't know." He answered her and buried his face in her neck. She gasped surprised by his actions, but was enjoying it more than she would admit.
She could feel him kiss her neck lightly and she wrapped her arms around his neck. She realized that he was all she had left more times than she could count. Now, it actually meant something. He was doing this because he loved her, and not because he wanted what he could not have... like Kraven. He actually felt something...for her.
He brought his head back up from her neck and to her face. He touched his nose to hers and smiled at her, before touching his lips to hers.
~*~
Michael looked up from the book as Selene walked in, "Feeling better?" He asked her closing the book.
"Yeah, what happened though?" She answered.
Michael scratched his head, "I don't know that much just the part when one had you up in the air with it's claws around your throat." Images of the lycan flashed through his head, along with the images of Sonja burning, instead though, it was Selene, and he was tied down screaming. This is the same thing he had been seeing since he saved her.
"I killed it." He mumbled when she didn't say anything and ran his hand over his face, "Then I took you to the room and cleaned off your blood."
She nodded at him and became silent, "Why must you protect me?" She asked him.
He had this whole thing already worked out in his head, and he had already explained it to her, or tried to. "We already talked about this." He said getting off the table and starting to walk out of the room, but she grabbed his arm.
"Tell me." She commanded.
"Lucian once told me that the lycans were once the daylight guardians of the vampires. I feel like I have to protect you, as an instinct, and because I want to. Your all I have left, all there is left. I want to make sure your safe... and when I saw that lycan about to kill you. I thought I had failed to protect you, failed to keep the one thing I love most in this world alive. I was scared, I am still scared, but not of dieing. Just of you dieing and leaving me here."
She opened her mouth to speak, but closed it not saying anything. He watched her closely. He had said what he felt, and had no regrets, he just hoped that she wouldn't freak out to him loving her. He knew it was love, he could feel it, fueling him, and making him weak at the same time.
He kept his gaze locked with hers as she blinked slowly and stepped closer to him. Her hand came up and cupped his cheek, and his breathing became faster. He kept her gaze but her touch was becoming overwhelming, so he stepped forward and pressed his body against hers.
"What do you want me to say to that?" She asked him in almost a whisper.
All of his rational thoughts went out the window as he answered her, "You don't have to say anything. I don't care if you feel the same now, or feel the same ever. I just don't want you to leave me."
"Then do you know what you're saying?" She asked him her eyes searching his.
He had already made up his mind, a long time ago, "I do. I'm saying that I feel things that I have never felt before. When I look at you... I- I know that I can't live without you, and would have rather been dead."
He gave into his emotions and wrapped his arms around her waist. Liking the comfort she could bring him. She watched him, and he kepted his eyes locked with hers as she dropped her hand from his face, his skin missing the contact already.
"I couldn't tell you what I feel. I haven't felt for two hundred years." Her voice holding an almost unnoticable sadness.
"I don't need you to say anything. Just tell me you'll never leave me." He whispered in her ear.
When she didn't answer at first, his stomach seemed to drop to the floor, "I won't leave you."
He felt happy again and laid his head down on her shoulder. He knew she wouldn't leave him, but there were other obsticles in the way. Again images of Selene under the sun burned in his mind, the thoughts were tearing at his mind. He could feel her freeze when he did this but didn't move.
"What are you doing?" She asked him, her voice sounding alarmed.
"I don't know." He told her honestly and buried his face in her neck, taking in her scent where it was strongest... on her skin.
He started to gently kiss her neck and felt her arms wrap around his neck. He skin was cold like ice underneath his lips, and it felt good. He let his lips glide over her neck, leaving warm trails from kiss to kiss.
He brought his head up and touched his nose to hers. He loved her, and he didn't care if she didn't, he just wanted her to know how he felt, he had to show her. He couldn't resist the temptation and smiled at her, before bringing his lips to hers.
~*~
He tightened his grip on her waist as she did hers around his neck. His head was spinning at the cold contact of his warm lips to her cold ones. Her hands traveled through his hair as the kiss deepened. He was in heaven knowing that he was kissing her, and she was kissing back.
He kissed her with all the passion he could muster into a kiss before pulling back to take in a deep breath. He then crushed her lips again with his. She scratched his scalp with her cold fingers which made him shiver as he continued to kiss her. He let out a moan as her tongue darted out of her mouth and to his lips.
She knew that it was wrong to kiss him, but it's something that she realized made her feel very much alive. She wanted to stop what she was doing but she couldn't.
Selene was loving the feeling of his arms around her and his lips on hers. It opened a new feeling in her that she hadn't felt before. She pushed back against his lips in equal force and ran her fingers through his hair.
She felt his hands roam over her skin tight suit as he continued to kiss her. He had taken a breath earlier, he was still attached to breathing from being a human for so long.
She did something she had never done before and slid her tongue into his mouth and across his lips, and did it once again, this time his mouth opened up and let his own tongue out. They dueled in a battle fueled by passion.
She felt her knees go slightly weak and he held onto her holding her up in his strong arms. He pulled away and his mouth trailed her jaw line, and her neck. He kisses light and gentle but held a warmth and passion.
She closed her eyes and gave into the feeling he was giving her. She opened them when it stopped. Selene connected gazes with him before crushing her lips to his, kissing him with a passion she didn't know she could have.
When they finally broke apart, he smiled at her, "I love you." She stared back at him. She knew he wasn't expecting anything from her, just wanting her to know what he felt. She accepted what he felt, even if she didn't feel it. It didn't matter. For once she felt almost completely human again.
He pulled her closer to him and buried his face in her neck again. She played with the tips of his hair, and just let him hold her. Somewhere in her mind, she knew he needed to hold her, to comfort himself, to make sure she was safe and he hadn't failed.
After a long silence she felt him grow a little heavier in their embrace and she tilted her head so she could see his face. He had his eyes closed, "Aren't you tired?" She asked him. It was more of a statement though.
"No." He mumbled against her skin, which vibrated and made her shiver.
"Yes you are Michael."
"I have to protect you."
"Well, you can protect me and fall asleep now can you?"
He sighed, sending a hot breath onto her skin. "I don't want to leave you."
"C'mon Michael, you have to go to sleep, and the sun is probably up by now."
He sighed again, and pulled away but kept one of his arms loosly around her waist. "Fine, but your coming with me."
It was her turn to sigh and she did. She walked with him back to the room with the bed and he reluctantly let go of her waist and layed down on the matress. He moved over so she would have enough room to lay beside him.
She crossed her arms over her chest not moving from the spot. "Go to sleep." She told him.
He made a groaning sound as he tilted his head towards her, his eyes closed. "Selene..." He whined.
She muttered a curse under her breath before laying down beside him. He layed his arm over her waist as soon as she did and pulled her closer to him. Michael smiled to himself as he drifted off to sleep, and Selene wanted to laugh. If she only remembered how, she hadn't laughed since she became a vampire, and forgotten how.
She felt him sit up slightly and he kissed her cheek before laying back down and mumbling, "I love you." To her again.
She kept her focus on the ceiling as his breathing became regular and slow. She knew that he had fallen asleep and she tilted her head to the side to get a better look at him. His eyes were closed and his lips parted slightly as his chest moved up and down. His hair had fallen onto his face. Selene knitted her eyebrows together in confusion.
She had no idea why she was even in the same bed as him, let alone letting him touch her. She had distanced herself from everyone who had seemed to care after she became a vampire. Not wanting to feel the pain of loss once again. Not wanting to get hurt, and only out for revenge.
His arm was laying gently on her waist and didn't move, but she could feel the warmth it brought to her skin. Selene closed her eyes and sighed to herself. Half of herself didn't know what was going on, but the other half seemed to know, only it wouldn't let her in on it.
She must have still been tired because she soon found herself drifting off to sleep as well.
~*~
Michael opened his eyes and glanced around. He noticed Selene asleep next to him and smiled. He carefully took his arm off of her waist so he wouldn't wake her up and stood up. He stretched and yawned before walking down the tunnel and back to the ladder.
The blood was still staining the floor and walls, but he had gotten rid of the bodies the night before. He dumped them in the river where he and Selene had stood ealier. The water should have washed some of their scent away, and they really wouldn't be able to tell where they had been before they were killed.
If they ever found the bodies. Michael sighed to himself and ran his hand through his hair. Not far away in a small room was the vampire he loved. He had loved once, but this love seemed different, maybe because he had come across his feelings so quickly.
Or maybe it was the fact that this love was immortal. He didn't know yet, but knew he would find out. He tilted his head up and looked up at the hatch above his head. They couldn't stay here forever, and he knew that, but he couldn't think of anywhere else to go.
Michael stared at the hatch awhile longer, he senses getting stronger by the minute, and he now could feel the warmness coming through the hatch, but could also feel the coolness starting to spread. It would be night soon, and then, he and Selene would go, and find somewhere else to hide.
He could hear her get up from the bed, and could hear her light footsteps, but he didn't move his head just kept his gaze on the hatch.
"Awake?" He asked her.
"Yes." She told him.
"The sun should be down soon, and we will be able to move on."
She nodded and looked down at the floor then back at him, "What are you doing?"
He tilted his head back down to her, "I'm waiting for the sun to go down, and watching over you."
She sighed but must have thought that she didn't want to fight with him because she just turned and went down one of the tunnels. Michael stood still in the spot, he knew where she had gone, and that she would be back soon.
He closed his eyes for a moment, listening to his surroundings. It was then he heard it, the faint noise of footsteps. These footsteps however were heavy and coming from above him, not Selene's. He sniffed the air, but couldn't really smell anything yet.
His eyes opened slowly and he noticed Selene standing a few feet away from him at the entrance of a tunnel. He swallowed the lump in his throat that had begun to form for some reason unknown to him.
"They're coming." He whispered.
Selene gave him a confused look and walked up to him, "What?" She asked him.
"I can hear them, heavy footsteps above us, coming closer." He managed to say the anger of earlier starting to take over.
"Lycans.." She whispered to him.
As soon as the word escaped her lips Michael let out a growl and his eyes changed blue and then black, his fangs grew longer and he exposed them when he let out another growl. His skin also changed to its blue and silver color.
"Does this mean that you have figured out how to change from hybrid to human form?"
He remained silent his black and cold eyes staring into her own. "Is that a yes?"
He grabbed her hand and placed it over his heart. It was beating rather fastly, so fast in fact that she couldn't count the beats, or tell them apart. She pulled her hand back slowly and he let go of it.
She knitted her eyebrows together in confusion. He took her hand once again and placed it back over his heart, then took her hand back and placed it on her heart. The action was confusing, but had to have some simple meaning to it.
Michael let out a growl, that sounded like a word, but was to much of a growl to decifer. He came close to her ear and let out a lower growl.
Maybe it was just her or he said, "Emotions."
"Emotions?" She asked more than stated.
He nodded.
"They are how you change? When you feel a certain emotion?"
He nodded again.
"What were you feeling just now then when you changed?"
Michael looked down at the ground, and in a spilt second he was at the wall, and punched it, making a large dent and some of the surrounding rock crumble to the ground.
"It was anger." She said looking back up at the hatch, "Lycans."
He let out a fierce growl and moved towards the ladder, he stopped and looked over his shoulder at her, before starting to climb up it.
Selene took out her guns that she had reloaded and started going up after him.
When they reached the ground, Michael swung the hatch closed, he then sniffed the air and turned to her. He held his arm up in the direction it came from and she nodded, understanding. The lycans were in their path to the city. Blocking them.
Selene decided they would try and go around them. She moved swiftly and quickly through the thick trees and plants, and Michael followed his hands out to his sides, and hands trembling as his anger grew, and the more he sensed.
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Michael stopped frozen in the spot, they were coming fast, they had tracked their scent, and now they were going to be attacked. He looked ahead Selene had stopped and was looking at him a bit annoyed.
"Go!" He growled, which she probably couldn't make out, but he pointed his finger to the direction she was going.
She hesitated not moving but staring at him shaking her head.
Michael felt a tingle on the back of his neck and spun around just in time to catch a lycan that had jumped at him, he tossed him to the ground and growled.
He held his claws out and cut the flesh of the lycan, cutting and ripping until he was satisfied that it was dead. He knew however he was in a lot of trouble. The other lycans were probably hiding in the shadows waiting for the perfect moment to strike.
Michael walked over to Selene and picked her up, he then took off at a dead sprint towards the city, his scent disappearing behind him. He placed her down at the edge of the city and the woods.
He changed back into his human form and stared at her as she looked at him.
"Why did you tell me to go? You were doing something rash you realize."
He sighed, "I know, but I figured I could handle it, and you would be safer away when they attacked than infront of me."
"Fine, let's get going then."
Michael followed her again, walking aimlessly through the streets after her. Wondering again what was going on in her head, and what they were doing."
As they walked past a tall dark building a feeling rose up in the back of his neck and he transformed into his hybrid form. He spun around but it was a little late.
Silver nitrate bullets were coming one by one, and going into his chest. He howled in pain after the first five, the pain starting to hurt him more than he realized. He fell to his knees, changing back into his human form and clutching his chest. There was too much silver in his blood, and it was killing his lycan half, which would mean it would kill him.
He could hear his hearbeat ringing in his ears, everything seeming to slow around him, his eyes flashed over to Selene, her face was confused but determined as she looked around. He could feel the bullets still hitting his chest. It felt like his veins were on fire, and his skin was burning. He closed his eyes, breathing becoming harder to do. He fell back onto his back, the liquid silver
Selene immediately rushed to his side firing her guns in the direction of where the shots had came from, only satisfied when the body fell from the roof.
Her attention however was once again returned to Michael as he gasped for air, his eyes starting to close. It reminded her of just a few days ago when she had bit him.
"S-Selene..." He choked out.
"Don't move." She commanded, maybe just maybe if she bit him again, she could drain some of the silver out of his blood. She tilted his head back her eyes turning the same icy blue. She brought her face closer to his neck and sunk her fangs into his flesh.
His blood tasted sweet, like a hot metal burning as it went down her throat. She felt an energy run through her body as she drank from him, pulling back before draining too much blood though.
His eyes were slowly opening, then he gasped before sitting up and his body changing into his hybrid form. The holes over his body closing fastly.
He was breathing fast and his chest was rising and falling as he put his hand down and helped Selene off the ground. He noticed the blood on her lip and wiped it off with his finger. He let his eyes roam over the area before pulling Selene next to him and holding on to her.
She looked up at him curiously as he covered her mouth with his hand. He picked her up and ran down the street and farther away from the building. Although to Selene it only took a mere second to reach their destination, to Michael it wasn't fast enough.
He set her down and tried to sense the presense he had tried to escape from, it was gone for now.
"Michael?" She questioned.
He changed back into his human form and looked around, "Lets keep moving." He told her.
She nodded although she was slightly confused as to why he ran like he did. Selene turned around with her back to him and started walking. They weren't far from a place they would be able to stay at, it might be a little easier to find if you know to where to look, though.
She stopped in front of a large iron door that entered the large old steel building. She pushed the door open and walked inside Michael following her close behind. She shut the door firmly behind them and started walking down a small spiral staircase.
Michael looked around for a few seconds before following her down.
When they reached they reached the bottom there was barely enough space for both of them to fit on the floor before Selene opened the door and walked through. Michael closed and locked it behind them.
They were in a basement of some kind, the room was a large circle, furniture scattered around it in different parts. It had four doors leading four different ways. The one behind them leading to the stairs, the others he had no clue.
"It will be safe here." She told him going straight and into the next room. He didn't move but instead stayed in the same place looking around the room.
"How long will we stay here?" He called out to her.
"Not very long." She replied, "Markus would be able to find us very quickly since he is an elder, and has connections with all the vampire clans."
"Oh." He replied trailing his fingers over some carvings beside a door.
He turned around to find Selene leaning against the door frame her arms crossed over her chest. Her gaze was fixed on the floor and her eyes seemed clouded over.
"What's the matter?" He asked her.
"Nothing." She replied quickly still keeping her gaze on the floor.
"It has to be something." He told her.
"It's nothing."
"Selene..." He started.
"Just drop it Michael, it's nothing." She snapped.
He sighed. "Sorry." He mumbled leaning back against the wall.
"Why did you run earlier when you were shot. I mean, what made you move so quickly away from there?"
He closed his eyes, "I felt something." He replied.
"Like what?"
"Like...I don't know alright. Something strong, stronger than me and stronger than you. I don't know what it was, but it was getting closer, and I had to do something. I had to get you out of there."
"Stronger than you?"
"Yes stronger than me, and angry. It wanted to rip, to kill, us." He told her opening his eyes.
"Markus." She whispered, "He's out for revenge."
"Yes, I suppose that could be it." Michael said standing up straight now and meeting her gaze as she lifted it from the floor. "He won't get it from us though. I don't care how strong he is, I won't let him touch you." Michael's voice became deeper at the end of his sentence.
Selene looked at his eyes, they were filled with compassion and love. "I know."
"Good." He responded, "So what are we gonna do for now?"
"Rest and wait." She told him, "Not much else to do I suppose."
"Okay," Michael said plopping himself down in a chair. Selene turned around and walked back into the room she had came from.
She came out of the room a few minutes later wearing a long black leather trench coat. He looked up at her, "Where did you get that?"
"In that room," She told him pointing behind herslef, "There are clothes in there, we used this place as a hideout when we were tracking lycans once. It's pretty useful."
He nodded and crossed his arms over his chest looking at the wall opposite of him. He heard her shift where she was standing and he looked at her out of the corner of his eyes. "Anything wrong?" He asked, even though he knew what her answer would be, and wondered why he asked her so much, maybe it was the fact that he cared for her.
"No, nothing's wrong, just thinking." She replied.
"Oh." Well, atleast it wasn't just plain no and drop it, maybe she was opening up a bit, "Do you mind if I ask what?"
She looked at the ground her hair falling over her face and Michael felt himself want to hold her, "Just about my whole life. My lie of a life."
Michael stood up and walked closer to her, she didn't move but kept her gaze on the ground. "I've wasted two hundred years on something that was all a lie. I was in the arms of the enemy and didn't even realize it. I was fighting against the wrong side. The side that was innocent, and I slaughtered them."
She brought her head up slowly and looked at him, her gaze soft and unfocused. "He killed his own daughter, his own flesh and blood. All over some stupid belief of 'not' blending the species. He lied to me." Her voice wavering slightly and the end of her sentence ending in a whisper.
Michael closed his eyes momentarily but reopened them and wrapped his arms around her, bringing her closer to him and pulling her against his chest. She buried her face in his bare chest taking in his mixed scent of rain and blood.
He placed his hand on the back of of her head and stroked her hair. Her small arms came up and slid around his waist trying to pull him closer to her and he could feel her warm tears slide down his chest. He kissed the top of her head letting his lips linger for a few moments.
She was feeling horrible now he knew that. She had been lied to, for two hundred years, it couldn't be that easy to deal with. "It will be okay." He told her gently. She was breaking down, most of him felt extremely bad for her, but the other was happy that she was starting to open up to him and show that she was hurting and allowing him to help.
"Everyone is coming after us, I don't think that puts it under the category of okay, Michael." She told him pulling her face back and looking at him. Tears still visible in her eyes.
"I didn't mean that. I meant that you will be okay. You will get through your past and the lies in it. I will help you if you need me. I just want you to be okay."
Selene didn't know what it was, could it have been that being in his arms and him talking to her made her feel more like a human than she had ever felt before, or the way his eyes showed how much he truely loved her.
All she knew is that right at the moment, she wanted to kiss him, she wanted to kiss him so badly her heart ached. It ached to fill the warmth she knew he could give her.
Her arms moved up to his neck and she pulled his face to hers crushing his lips with hers and kissing him with everything she had. Her hands became tangled in his hair as he kissed her back letting out a low moan as her tongue slid into his mouth.
A few minutes later they pulled apart, and Michael trailed light kisses on her jaw and her neck. His fangs grazed her skin and she gasped. He stopped and moved his head up so that he was looking into her eyes.
"Sorry." He whispered.
"Don't be." She told him. It wasn't his fault that he coudln't control his beast yet.
He began to nibble on her earlobe his hot breath on her making her skin tingle. "I love you." He whispered in her ear. She closed her eyes for a moment, then opened them to find Michael looking at her a sad smile playing on his lips.
He brought his hand up gently and cupped her cheek, his thumb stroking her cheek softly. "I'm sorry you had to find out the truth, because I know it has to hurt. However, I will tell you that I will try my best to make you forget about it."
"Is that going to be your mission then. To make me forget about two hundred years of lies?"
"That and to protect you until I die myself." He said grinning but still being serious.
Selene leaned forward and gave him a chaste kiss on the lips before pulling away. "I hope you succeed." She told him pulling away and walking back into the room she had came from.
Michael sighed and followed behind her. He stopped when she shoved a long black trench coat at him. He took it and looked curiously at her.
"The lycans wear coats, so when they transform, they can take their coat off and not shred their clothes. I figured you could use the coat because you've ripped all your shirts transforming, it would be easier and keep you warm." She told him as he put it on.
"Thanks." He told her, not really worry about the coat at the moment, but thankful for it all the same.
The coat fit him perfectly and she nodded."Your welcome." She told him as he looked back at her.
"Do you...you know, think we have a chance at beating Markus?" He asked her hesitantly leaning against the wall.
"I don't know. I mean, we killed Viktor, and he was not only the strongest but oldest of my kind. I'm sure once you come to grip with your powers, I suppose we could. But, he does have the whole vampire clan behind him, and the lycans are after us too."
"I know that, but I don't think that they're our biggest threat. Markus...he felt...strong, and I want to believe that I can beat him, if I can't how am I supposed to protect you?"
"Again, I never asked for your protection, you just gave it."
"I know you never asked but I had to because I love you and I can't lose you." He told her.
"And I never asked you to fall in love with me. I'm sorry if I am sounding rude, but as much as you care for me, you can't let that get in your way. That's why Viktor almost killed you. You let your anger cloud your judgement, and didn't see what was coming or how to beat it."
Michael sighed.
"If you really want to protect me, Michael. Then you won't let your emotions get the best of you. They will only make you weaker, and be your weakness."
He had been looking at the ground as she spoke but looked up at her, his blue eyes locking gazes with her green ones. "Can you teach me then."
"Teach you what?"
"How to be like you. Teach me how to feel nothing when I fight. Help me beat him, so I can protect you." He said standing up.
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A/N: Well, another exciting chapter...I think. I just finished...the last scene if that's what you want to call it. I call it...the human scene of the story. Don't worry though, there will be a hell of a lot more than that later on. Now, before I get any questions, I do have the DVD, and I took a lot of time, and a lot of debating with my cousin, sister, and friends over what color their eyes are. That's why I never used it until now! ^_^ The pics off the net don't give you that much, and you can't really tell in the movie because it's always dark. So pause and zoom if very effective. I used the scenes where Selene was talking to Kahn, when she brought back the round of bullets from the subway shoot out. For Michael, I used a number of them. When he met Lucian in the elevator, and when he woke up at the vampire mansion after having Lucian's memories play in his head.
Boring yes, but thought that I would explain now, better than later. This chapter is up a lot quicker than normal, because I am grounded from the internet, but sneak on from time to time to post or to check my mail. I had already written over half of this chapter before I posted the first chapter, so the next chapter might be up a little slower. I sort of have an obsession for making each chapter atleast 9 pages long...call me weird I just believe chapters should be long.
I'm glad for all the reviews I had gotten, just after the first day of posting. Amazing though, I'm just glad there are more fans out there that like Selene and Michael as much as I do! :P. Anyways, it's about...midnight here, and I have a Spanish test tomorrow.
If you have an suggestions for the story, email me or leave it in your review, I think a story is always better when the readers actually have some things they want to happen...happen. And this is the longest A/N I have ever written...damn...bye! R+R Please!!