Michael opened his eyes slowly and yawned. He glanced at the empty spot on the bed beside him and sat up quickly.
"Well, your awake." A voice said.
Michael turned his head to see Selene sitting in one of the chairs. "How long was I asleep?"
"Just a few more hours than me, your wounds were healing, so it was nothing big." Selene replied.
He looked down at his stomach to find the bandage still attached to his skin, after pulling it off, he found that she was right, all that was left was a large scar. He let his fingers run over it before glancing back up at her. She had her arms folded across her chest her head hung low and her hair in her face.
Michael swung his feet over the edge of the bed and stood up. "Are you okay?" He asked her.
"Yeah, I am fine."
He knew she was probably stressed or thinking, she still wasn't used to being friends with the lycans. It had to be hard for her, and now having to deal with human emotions because of a virus couldn't be all that great either. "I am going to get in the shower before I have to go back and hunt."
Selene nodded looking up at him, "I am going to visit William."
Michael was shocked at her comment, "Really, alone?"
She nodded, "I can't be scared of them forever, besides William is supposed to be finished examining my blood, and I want to be the first to know what I am facing."
Michael smiled, "Okay, I will be down as soon as I am finished." He grabbed a pair of clean pants and walked into the bathroom while Selene walked out and down the stairs.
Once she was in the hallway she kept her gaze focused infront of her, true, she knew she shouldn't be scared, but it was hard when there was so many of them, and it kinda intimidated her. She took a deep breath and sighed when she saw William's office door and amazed that she had found it without getting lost.
Selene knocked and waited for him to answer, hopefully it wasn't a bad time. He answered by opening the door a few seconds later a small smile on his face when he saw her.
"Come in."
She walked past him and into the room and he shut the door behind her. William made his way over to his desk and flipped through his notes. "I presume you are here for your test results."
"Yes I am." Selene responded sitting down in the same chair she had sat in the day before.
William looked up at her, after putting his glasses on he glanced back down at his paper, "Well, you probably already know what the virus was trying to do to you. I don't think it succeeded though or the other affects would have already happened. Since there are no recorded events on this topic, I don't think I have much information, but I will tell you all that I have."
Selene nodded for him to continue, William looked back down at his paper and started to read off some of the notes he had taken, "First, the only time this type of virus was mentioned was almost 600 years ago. It just said that it was performed on one of the immortal damned, it never mentioned who it was though. The virus is supposed to eat away at the virus that was transmitted to them, the vampire or the lycan virus. It trys to mutate the virus, to change them back to their human self again. The symptoms of the virus includes, loss of memory, they lose any memory that had as an immortal and continue as if it were the same day they were changed. A loss of power, they shall lose all of their strength, speed, and anything enhanced by their immortal virus."
He took a moment to glance up at her, "By the time the virus is finished they shall be human once again. The virus is pretty much a miracle for some of us who hate to be immortal, and a curse for us who live for it. The downside to this virus is that changing you back, is even more painful that changing to an immortal."
"Is that all." Selene asked after a moment.
"Well, there is one more thing you might want to know. The virus may work and change the immortal back into a human, but it can also kill them without any sudden warning. The books and records don't give me much, and they don't give any word on if the immortal survived the virus."
The door opened as William finished the sentence, "Hey Willy!" Drake yelled looking down at a book as he walked in.
"Do you mind?" William asked him and Drake looked up from his book, he noticed Selene and smiled at her.
"Sorry, I guess I just pop in all the places at the wrong time eh? I will just be outside, tell me when your done."
William rolled his eyes as Drake walked out of the room, he then took off his glasses and looked back at Selene, "That is all I have for now. I am pretty sure that the virus didn't work, it probably didn't have the right type of blood it needed to work."
"The right type of blood?"
"Yes, the blood from one of the first true immortals, but not that of Corvinus. There is another tale, of the time in which Christ was alive. A man corupted by power was damned to hell by his family and country. He tried to kill one of holy men that walked this Earth and was thought to be the first demon. He was cursed by them, to live forever as a human. His blood is pure of that of Adam and Eve, the first humans. His blood is the only blood that can reverse our curse. He had thought to be dead a long time ago though. Even before the war, no one had seen or heard from him, some even say he was killed."
"So mean, the guy with the pure blood, he could still be alive?"
"Yes, I guess he could."
"Do you think he could be able to reverse what ever is happening to me, if it does continue to happen?"
"I don't know. How could we ask for help if it was him infact that did it? Even if he didn't do it, who else has access to his own blood?"
Selene remained silent and William sighed, "I will look for more answers to your questions. I want to know the answers as much as you do anyway." He gave her a small smile and placed his glass back on the bridge of his nose his eyes gliding across the paper as he re-read his notes.
"Do you think the virus actually worked?"
"I doubt it, it didn't seem as if there was a substantial amount of the virus injected into your blood stream. I am pretty sure that you will be okay."
Selene felt comfortable with William, like she had known him for years. In fact he reminded her of a bother she had, who died many years ago though, a few years before her family was slaughtered. His body recovered found mutilated almost, but his body parts all together and he was recognizable.
She shook her head, all of her memories had been coming back the last couple of days since she had woke up, she tried not to let it bother her, but.. it sorta did sometimes, she didn't need to remember her mortal life when she was immortal. Her head snapped up when she heard the door open and Michael walked in, his hair still wet from his shower.
"Hey William." He greeted and walked over to Selene, he gave her a smile and looked back at the door as Drake walked in dropping a book on the desk.
"'Ello Michael, Selene... Willy." He greeted them all before disappearing behind one of the shelfs. Michael and William locked gazes and gave eachother an equal confused stare.
"Is he always this happy?" Selene whispered to Michael.
"I don't know, most of the time I think. I think he is just excited that he is going on another hunt tonight."
At this statement Selene crossed her arms over her chest never letting go of Michael's gaze. Michael sighed and crossed his arms over his chest as well. "We have already gone over this Selene."
"Yes, and the last time we had this conversation, you came back after being impaled, you were almost turned into a hybrid on a stick, you almost died."
"But here I am alive. I told you, I was just distracted, and if you went I might be even more distracted. I know you can handle yourself. I just don't think I could control myself with you there. I might end up getting us both killed."
Selene tilted her head to the side, "Michael you couldn't get me killed."
"I almost got myself killed." He responded breaking her gaze and looking down at the floor.
Drake made a gagging noise from behind the shelf and they all turned to look, "Sorry.." He mumbled and went back behind the shelf.
William looked back at them, staying silent for this was not his fight, and he had no purpose to break in.
"If I am there I can watch your back." She told him almost pleadingly.
"...Selene..."
"I don't understand Michael, I know you want my help, but what is holding you back!" She almost yelled some of her humman emotions surfacing and a tear forming in the corner of her eye. She wiped it away quickly and ran out of the room. Michael ran after her shouting her name, trying to get her to listen to him.
Drake looked at William and William looked back at him, "So what do you thing will happen?" Drake asked.
"I don't know, but I am betting she will win. She is much stronger, and seems more stubborn than he does. He will succumb to her point of view in not long."
Drake nodded, "Well, better get back to the old book shelf."
William shook his head and looked down at his notes and flipped through a couple of pages in the book he had laying open.
~*~
Michael chased Selene through the hall and up the stairs, either he wasn't going as fast as he could because he knew she didn't want to talk about it and that is why she was running, or she was faster than he was at the moment.
Her heavy boots were clanking on the metal staircase as she ran up them determined to reach the top before he did. His face showed determination as he climbed faster behind her.
Lycans they had passed had watched on silently as they ran and he called out to her, and she never answered him.
"Selene, please stop!" He called out to her as she reached the top of the the stairs.
She spun around a tear slipping out of her eye as she stepped back and closed the door. Michael reached the top of the stairs and pounded his fist against the door, "Selene, I'm sorry, please open the door. Tell me what's the matter?"
The door never opened, and there was never a sound, even with his enhanced hearing.
Michael sighed and hit the door once more, "Damn!" He whispered harsly to himself as he began to climb down the stairs in a slow pace hoping the door would open. But it didn't and he kept walking.
He sat down on the last metal step and closed his eyes. He really didn't understand why she ran like she did, or why she wouldn't answer him. It confused him more than he could explain. It didn't help matters that she wouldn't explain to him what he had done to upset her. He knew with all the emotions she had been feeling him adding on to it didn't help though.
The door of in front of Michael opened and Drake stepped in. Michael glanced at him before putting his head in his hands and sighing.
"She's not talking to you eh?"
"Nope."
"She will come around."
"What do you mean?" Michael asked looking up at him.
"Selene, is very wise even at the young age of 200. She is very strong, and I have known many women. Human, vampire, lycan, none of them are as strong as she is. So, she will tell you what is wrong when she knows what is wrong. Don't forget, she isn't human, she doesn't know, she may have never known."
"Known what?"
"What love is. What it means, and how you know when you love somebody." Drake responded taking a seat next to him on the stairs.
"I am totally lost." Admitted Michael.
"She will set you back on track. I on one hand think you should have just agreed and let her come on the hunt with us tonight. If anything she would be an asset."
"Yeah I know, but it is just to risky, the vampires are determined now more than ever to catch either me or her. I can't let them do that to her, no telling what they would do as punishment for Viktor's death."
Drake nodded, "She doesn't want you to protect her all of the time Michael, and pretty soon you won't be able to protect her she knows that."
"Any advice then?" Michael asked him.
"Yeah," Drake started standing up, "Back off Michael. Let her figure this out on her own it works out better that way. Just don't bring it up anymore and she will tell you what is on her mind."
"How do you know so much about this?"
"I know women, I have dated them for over 700 years, why not know how they all act?" Drake said smirking, "Every one of them have been different in their own way. I may not know all of their personalitys, but I do know that they take things very seriously, and most of the time it takes awhile for them to think about things."
"Hope it doesn't take her very long, I want to be able to talk to her, and see her."
"She is just confused right now. Having to go through all the human emotions again can't be good."
"Thanks."
"No problem, Boss." Drake said walking out of the room.
"I feel so stupid..." Michael told himself outloud.
~*~
Selene sat down her back against the door as she closed her eyes. See could hear Michael's footsteps as he walked down the stairs. She wiped another tear out of her eye, she couldn't cry not now, not ever. She was stronger than this, and how could she let anything make her sob like a teenage girl. Certainly not a man she had only met a few days ago, one that had already told her he loved her. Could she?
She coudln't remember when her life became so messed up. Was it when she met him? Or when she killed Viktor. When ever it was, she had never felt the things she had been filling now. She supposed she had the stupid virus for that. Running a hand through her hair she heard Michael talking to someone. Using her vampire senses she found out that it was Drake he was talking to.
Selene kept silent and listened in on the conversation. It didn't hold anything that interesting, they were just talking about her. She felt a little sorry for just hiding from Michael and not trying to explain or anything.
She pushed the feeling away though and stood up. Sighing she sat down on the bed and tucked her legs up to her chest resting her chin on her knees and wrapping her arms around her legs. Her dark eyelashes resting against her pale cheeks as she closed her eyes again.
Images kept flashing through her mind, some of her past, and some of moments ago. Even with her eyes closed tight a few tears had escaped leaving a warm trail of salty water on her face. She couldn't begin to count everything bad that had happened to her, the one sticking out the most was loosing her family to a lair whom she trusted. Two hundred years... wasted by a lie.
Her tears stopped as she heard the door close she opened her eyes and looked towards the door. It was then she heard Michael, "I feel so stupid..." He uttered, and she could hear the sorrow in his voice.
Selene stood up from the bed and walked over to the door. Her hand resting on the cold handle as she took a deep breath. She had no idea what she would say to him, or what he would ask her, all she knew was that she couldn't fight with him forever. He was the only constant in her life now, the only thing she had.
Slowly she opened the door and looked down at the bottom of the stairs. On the ground Michael was pacing back and forth, mumbling to himself as he sighed. Suddenly he raised his head and looked up at her as she stood almost frozen in the spot.
Cautiously he started to walk up the stairs his gaze never leaving hers. He stopped a few steps before he reached the top. Selene still had her hand resting on the handle as she looked at him.
"I'm sorry.." He told her.
"No, I should be the one saying I am sorry."
Michael glanced down before looking back up, "I was the one who started arguing with you, and I should have just listened to you."
"Michael, it is alright. I was just upset that you won't let me go out with all of you."
"I understand, I want to let you know though, that I didn't mean to upset you and I have come to a decision. If you still want to go out with us. I will let you. It's not worth fighting over. Even though I feel as if I will regret it sometime..."
Selene squinted her eyes a bit, not fully believing that he would give up that easy and let her go with them. "Are you serious."
"As I will ever be, and you better hurry up and decide before I change my mind."
"Thanks." She whispered.
Michael gave her a small smile and put his hands in the pockets of his coat, "No problem."
~*~
"See, I already regret this." Michael told her as Drake danced around the street singing some song he made up about a queen.
Selene just looked at him, "I can see why he hasn't died hunting yet."
"Really?" Michael asked as they continued walking.
"Yeah, they think he will get himself killed just by running around. No need to kill something that is like a walking death."
Michael laughed at this and continued walking glancing back at Drake who was currently jumping on Luke's back.
"Get off of me you over grown child!" Luke said grabbing at Drake who jumped off and ran up to Michael and Selene as Luke glared at him.
"You didn't drink anything before we left did you Drake?"
He looked at Michael shocked and stopped walking, "You really have no faith in me do you? FYI, no I didn't just excited being out with you and Selene, and even Luke tonight. I am finally glad to be on the same side as her and not the opposite side running for my life." He said grinning at Selene who made no comment.
"Okay, just making sure." Michael told him stopping and everyone else followed suit.
Drake sniffed the air and looked over at Luke who had evidently sensed the same thing. "Vampires..."
Drake was the first to change taking off his jacket followed by Luke. Michael looked at Selene who pulled out her guns. "Are you ready?" He asked.
"As I will ever be." He nodded and took off his coat. Transforming into his hybrid form he growled and walked behind Selene as she walked behind Luke and Drake.
They stayed quite as they traveled the street the lycans with their heavy foot falls and Selene with her silent steps and the swaying of her coat in the wind. Then you had Michael his cold black eyes looking back and forth across the area, his breathing heavy.
The sound of machine guns going off soon were heard as the vampires came out of their hiding shooting at the group standing in the street. Luke and Drake took leaps tearing apart their opponents. Selene started shooting not blinking, the lycans had supplied her with their new bullets, and they were very effective as she spun around shooting at some of the vampires that had began to come out of the alley ways.
Michael ripped flesh and snapped bones as he tossed his screaming victims around. His skin was pierced every once in awhile by a silver bullet, but it was not enough to stop him. Good thing the bullets weren't silver nitrate.
He let out a roar and stopped most of the vampires that still had their guns. Soon, the group of death delers were all dead. Drake and Luke returned to their normal form and Selene put her guns down. Michael however stayed in his hybrid form. He still felt something.
It hit him like a wall, "Change back now!" He commanded. Jumping up on the roof of a small building. Where a scream was heard. Selene pulled her guns back up and started firing on vampires that started jumping through windows on buildings and shooting from the roofs. It was a trap...
Luke and Drake had changed quickly and let their animal instincts take over biting and tearing. The bullets starting not to faze them. Meanwhile Michael jumped off the roof covered in blood. Vampires started advancing on Selene and Michael stopped them one by one as she fired on most of them. Changing rounds Selene glanced at Michael who had closelined one of the vampires.
She shot one down as it came after him with their sword held up high. It was then she felt a small twinge on the back of her neck and her gun in her left hand fell from her grasp. She closed her eyes as she felt a hot liquid start to burn her skin.
Selene dropped her other gun and Michael turned around when he heard it echo as it hit the ground. He ran over to her and knelt down as her breathing became slow and in short gasps. Michael changed back to his human form and placed a hand on her arm.
Drake and Luke killed the last vampire and changed back, both of them bloody and bruised both fairly concerned about Selene.
"Selene!" He said starting to panic.
"My..n-neck." She stuttered, the burning sensation starting to spread throughout her body. Michael moved her hair gently away from her neck to find the same metal thing on the back of her neck that held the virus. Quickly he pulled it off and crushed it between his fingers ignoring the effect it had on his skin.
He lifted her up, "We have to get her back.. now!" Michael said taking off in a sprint heading back towards the lycan hideout.
Drake and Luke exchanged glances before they picked up their own coats and Drake picking up Michael's. Before they left they took a look at the devistation they had just took part in. Both a bit satisfied for getting some small amount of revenge.
~*~
"Well, well, looks like we found them boys." A man with short black hair said with a smirk on his face."
"Lord, should we follow them?"
"No, just wait, the time will come and we will be able to eliminate them once and for all without breaking a sweat."
"Are you sure Marcus?" A another vampire asked.
"Positive."
~*~
A/N: This chapter is sorta short, and I have some issues with my friends to take care of as of now. So I had to cut the chapter short so you could atleast read it while I deal with stuff! So, some drama... will be on the way! And looks like someone is out for the hunt again.
Ah...Marcus's second appearance, and incase you didn't realize his first one was in the last chapter. Well, review and I will see you all in the next chapter. :D...Had fun writing this...yep...especially the part about Drake dancing, I think he is drunk, or on something, but I am not going to make conclusions..yet!
"Well, your awake." A voice said.
Michael turned his head to see Selene sitting in one of the chairs. "How long was I asleep?"
"Just a few more hours than me, your wounds were healing, so it was nothing big." Selene replied.
He looked down at his stomach to find the bandage still attached to his skin, after pulling it off, he found that she was right, all that was left was a large scar. He let his fingers run over it before glancing back up at her. She had her arms folded across her chest her head hung low and her hair in her face.
Michael swung his feet over the edge of the bed and stood up. "Are you okay?" He asked her.
"Yeah, I am fine."
He knew she was probably stressed or thinking, she still wasn't used to being friends with the lycans. It had to be hard for her, and now having to deal with human emotions because of a virus couldn't be all that great either. "I am going to get in the shower before I have to go back and hunt."
Selene nodded looking up at him, "I am going to visit William."
Michael was shocked at her comment, "Really, alone?"
She nodded, "I can't be scared of them forever, besides William is supposed to be finished examining my blood, and I want to be the first to know what I am facing."
Michael smiled, "Okay, I will be down as soon as I am finished." He grabbed a pair of clean pants and walked into the bathroom while Selene walked out and down the stairs.
Once she was in the hallway she kept her gaze focused infront of her, true, she knew she shouldn't be scared, but it was hard when there was so many of them, and it kinda intimidated her. She took a deep breath and sighed when she saw William's office door and amazed that she had found it without getting lost.
Selene knocked and waited for him to answer, hopefully it wasn't a bad time. He answered by opening the door a few seconds later a small smile on his face when he saw her.
"Come in."
She walked past him and into the room and he shut the door behind her. William made his way over to his desk and flipped through his notes. "I presume you are here for your test results."
"Yes I am." Selene responded sitting down in the same chair she had sat in the day before.
William looked up at her, after putting his glasses on he glanced back down at his paper, "Well, you probably already know what the virus was trying to do to you. I don't think it succeeded though or the other affects would have already happened. Since there are no recorded events on this topic, I don't think I have much information, but I will tell you all that I have."
Selene nodded for him to continue, William looked back down at his paper and started to read off some of the notes he had taken, "First, the only time this type of virus was mentioned was almost 600 years ago. It just said that it was performed on one of the immortal damned, it never mentioned who it was though. The virus is supposed to eat away at the virus that was transmitted to them, the vampire or the lycan virus. It trys to mutate the virus, to change them back to their human self again. The symptoms of the virus includes, loss of memory, they lose any memory that had as an immortal and continue as if it were the same day they were changed. A loss of power, they shall lose all of their strength, speed, and anything enhanced by their immortal virus."
He took a moment to glance up at her, "By the time the virus is finished they shall be human once again. The virus is pretty much a miracle for some of us who hate to be immortal, and a curse for us who live for it. The downside to this virus is that changing you back, is even more painful that changing to an immortal."
"Is that all." Selene asked after a moment.
"Well, there is one more thing you might want to know. The virus may work and change the immortal back into a human, but it can also kill them without any sudden warning. The books and records don't give me much, and they don't give any word on if the immortal survived the virus."
The door opened as William finished the sentence, "Hey Willy!" Drake yelled looking down at a book as he walked in.
"Do you mind?" William asked him and Drake looked up from his book, he noticed Selene and smiled at her.
"Sorry, I guess I just pop in all the places at the wrong time eh? I will just be outside, tell me when your done."
William rolled his eyes as Drake walked out of the room, he then took off his glasses and looked back at Selene, "That is all I have for now. I am pretty sure that the virus didn't work, it probably didn't have the right type of blood it needed to work."
"The right type of blood?"
"Yes, the blood from one of the first true immortals, but not that of Corvinus. There is another tale, of the time in which Christ was alive. A man corupted by power was damned to hell by his family and country. He tried to kill one of holy men that walked this Earth and was thought to be the first demon. He was cursed by them, to live forever as a human. His blood is pure of that of Adam and Eve, the first humans. His blood is the only blood that can reverse our curse. He had thought to be dead a long time ago though. Even before the war, no one had seen or heard from him, some even say he was killed."
"So mean, the guy with the pure blood, he could still be alive?"
"Yes, I guess he could."
"Do you think he could be able to reverse what ever is happening to me, if it does continue to happen?"
"I don't know. How could we ask for help if it was him infact that did it? Even if he didn't do it, who else has access to his own blood?"
Selene remained silent and William sighed, "I will look for more answers to your questions. I want to know the answers as much as you do anyway." He gave her a small smile and placed his glass back on the bridge of his nose his eyes gliding across the paper as he re-read his notes.
"Do you think the virus actually worked?"
"I doubt it, it didn't seem as if there was a substantial amount of the virus injected into your blood stream. I am pretty sure that you will be okay."
Selene felt comfortable with William, like she had known him for years. In fact he reminded her of a bother she had, who died many years ago though, a few years before her family was slaughtered. His body recovered found mutilated almost, but his body parts all together and he was recognizable.
She shook her head, all of her memories had been coming back the last couple of days since she had woke up, she tried not to let it bother her, but.. it sorta did sometimes, she didn't need to remember her mortal life when she was immortal. Her head snapped up when she heard the door open and Michael walked in, his hair still wet from his shower.
"Hey William." He greeted and walked over to Selene, he gave her a smile and looked back at the door as Drake walked in dropping a book on the desk.
"'Ello Michael, Selene... Willy." He greeted them all before disappearing behind one of the shelfs. Michael and William locked gazes and gave eachother an equal confused stare.
"Is he always this happy?" Selene whispered to Michael.
"I don't know, most of the time I think. I think he is just excited that he is going on another hunt tonight."
At this statement Selene crossed her arms over her chest never letting go of Michael's gaze. Michael sighed and crossed his arms over his chest as well. "We have already gone over this Selene."
"Yes, and the last time we had this conversation, you came back after being impaled, you were almost turned into a hybrid on a stick, you almost died."
"But here I am alive. I told you, I was just distracted, and if you went I might be even more distracted. I know you can handle yourself. I just don't think I could control myself with you there. I might end up getting us both killed."
Selene tilted her head to the side, "Michael you couldn't get me killed."
"I almost got myself killed." He responded breaking her gaze and looking down at the floor.
Drake made a gagging noise from behind the shelf and they all turned to look, "Sorry.." He mumbled and went back behind the shelf.
William looked back at them, staying silent for this was not his fight, and he had no purpose to break in.
"If I am there I can watch your back." She told him almost pleadingly.
"...Selene..."
"I don't understand Michael, I know you want my help, but what is holding you back!" She almost yelled some of her humman emotions surfacing and a tear forming in the corner of her eye. She wiped it away quickly and ran out of the room. Michael ran after her shouting her name, trying to get her to listen to him.
Drake looked at William and William looked back at him, "So what do you thing will happen?" Drake asked.
"I don't know, but I am betting she will win. She is much stronger, and seems more stubborn than he does. He will succumb to her point of view in not long."
Drake nodded, "Well, better get back to the old book shelf."
William shook his head and looked down at his notes and flipped through a couple of pages in the book he had laying open.
~*~
Michael chased Selene through the hall and up the stairs, either he wasn't going as fast as he could because he knew she didn't want to talk about it and that is why she was running, or she was faster than he was at the moment.
Her heavy boots were clanking on the metal staircase as she ran up them determined to reach the top before he did. His face showed determination as he climbed faster behind her.
Lycans they had passed had watched on silently as they ran and he called out to her, and she never answered him.
"Selene, please stop!" He called out to her as she reached the top of the the stairs.
She spun around a tear slipping out of her eye as she stepped back and closed the door. Michael reached the top of the stairs and pounded his fist against the door, "Selene, I'm sorry, please open the door. Tell me what's the matter?"
The door never opened, and there was never a sound, even with his enhanced hearing.
Michael sighed and hit the door once more, "Damn!" He whispered harsly to himself as he began to climb down the stairs in a slow pace hoping the door would open. But it didn't and he kept walking.
He sat down on the last metal step and closed his eyes. He really didn't understand why she ran like she did, or why she wouldn't answer him. It confused him more than he could explain. It didn't help matters that she wouldn't explain to him what he had done to upset her. He knew with all the emotions she had been feeling him adding on to it didn't help though.
The door of in front of Michael opened and Drake stepped in. Michael glanced at him before putting his head in his hands and sighing.
"She's not talking to you eh?"
"Nope."
"She will come around."
"What do you mean?" Michael asked looking up at him.
"Selene, is very wise even at the young age of 200. She is very strong, and I have known many women. Human, vampire, lycan, none of them are as strong as she is. So, she will tell you what is wrong when she knows what is wrong. Don't forget, she isn't human, she doesn't know, she may have never known."
"Known what?"
"What love is. What it means, and how you know when you love somebody." Drake responded taking a seat next to him on the stairs.
"I am totally lost." Admitted Michael.
"She will set you back on track. I on one hand think you should have just agreed and let her come on the hunt with us tonight. If anything she would be an asset."
"Yeah I know, but it is just to risky, the vampires are determined now more than ever to catch either me or her. I can't let them do that to her, no telling what they would do as punishment for Viktor's death."
Drake nodded, "She doesn't want you to protect her all of the time Michael, and pretty soon you won't be able to protect her she knows that."
"Any advice then?" Michael asked him.
"Yeah," Drake started standing up, "Back off Michael. Let her figure this out on her own it works out better that way. Just don't bring it up anymore and she will tell you what is on her mind."
"How do you know so much about this?"
"I know women, I have dated them for over 700 years, why not know how they all act?" Drake said smirking, "Every one of them have been different in their own way. I may not know all of their personalitys, but I do know that they take things very seriously, and most of the time it takes awhile for them to think about things."
"Hope it doesn't take her very long, I want to be able to talk to her, and see her."
"She is just confused right now. Having to go through all the human emotions again can't be good."
"Thanks."
"No problem, Boss." Drake said walking out of the room.
"I feel so stupid..." Michael told himself outloud.
~*~
Selene sat down her back against the door as she closed her eyes. See could hear Michael's footsteps as he walked down the stairs. She wiped another tear out of her eye, she couldn't cry not now, not ever. She was stronger than this, and how could she let anything make her sob like a teenage girl. Certainly not a man she had only met a few days ago, one that had already told her he loved her. Could she?
She coudln't remember when her life became so messed up. Was it when she met him? Or when she killed Viktor. When ever it was, she had never felt the things she had been filling now. She supposed she had the stupid virus for that. Running a hand through her hair she heard Michael talking to someone. Using her vampire senses she found out that it was Drake he was talking to.
Selene kept silent and listened in on the conversation. It didn't hold anything that interesting, they were just talking about her. She felt a little sorry for just hiding from Michael and not trying to explain or anything.
She pushed the feeling away though and stood up. Sighing she sat down on the bed and tucked her legs up to her chest resting her chin on her knees and wrapping her arms around her legs. Her dark eyelashes resting against her pale cheeks as she closed her eyes again.
Images kept flashing through her mind, some of her past, and some of moments ago. Even with her eyes closed tight a few tears had escaped leaving a warm trail of salty water on her face. She couldn't begin to count everything bad that had happened to her, the one sticking out the most was loosing her family to a lair whom she trusted. Two hundred years... wasted by a lie.
Her tears stopped as she heard the door close she opened her eyes and looked towards the door. It was then she heard Michael, "I feel so stupid..." He uttered, and she could hear the sorrow in his voice.
Selene stood up from the bed and walked over to the door. Her hand resting on the cold handle as she took a deep breath. She had no idea what she would say to him, or what he would ask her, all she knew was that she couldn't fight with him forever. He was the only constant in her life now, the only thing she had.
Slowly she opened the door and looked down at the bottom of the stairs. On the ground Michael was pacing back and forth, mumbling to himself as he sighed. Suddenly he raised his head and looked up at her as she stood almost frozen in the spot.
Cautiously he started to walk up the stairs his gaze never leaving hers. He stopped a few steps before he reached the top. Selene still had her hand resting on the handle as she looked at him.
"I'm sorry.." He told her.
"No, I should be the one saying I am sorry."
Michael glanced down before looking back up, "I was the one who started arguing with you, and I should have just listened to you."
"Michael, it is alright. I was just upset that you won't let me go out with all of you."
"I understand, I want to let you know though, that I didn't mean to upset you and I have come to a decision. If you still want to go out with us. I will let you. It's not worth fighting over. Even though I feel as if I will regret it sometime..."
Selene squinted her eyes a bit, not fully believing that he would give up that easy and let her go with them. "Are you serious."
"As I will ever be, and you better hurry up and decide before I change my mind."
"Thanks." She whispered.
Michael gave her a small smile and put his hands in the pockets of his coat, "No problem."
~*~
"See, I already regret this." Michael told her as Drake danced around the street singing some song he made up about a queen.
Selene just looked at him, "I can see why he hasn't died hunting yet."
"Really?" Michael asked as they continued walking.
"Yeah, they think he will get himself killed just by running around. No need to kill something that is like a walking death."
Michael laughed at this and continued walking glancing back at Drake who was currently jumping on Luke's back.
"Get off of me you over grown child!" Luke said grabbing at Drake who jumped off and ran up to Michael and Selene as Luke glared at him.
"You didn't drink anything before we left did you Drake?"
He looked at Michael shocked and stopped walking, "You really have no faith in me do you? FYI, no I didn't just excited being out with you and Selene, and even Luke tonight. I am finally glad to be on the same side as her and not the opposite side running for my life." He said grinning at Selene who made no comment.
"Okay, just making sure." Michael told him stopping and everyone else followed suit.
Drake sniffed the air and looked over at Luke who had evidently sensed the same thing. "Vampires..."
Drake was the first to change taking off his jacket followed by Luke. Michael looked at Selene who pulled out her guns. "Are you ready?" He asked.
"As I will ever be." He nodded and took off his coat. Transforming into his hybrid form he growled and walked behind Selene as she walked behind Luke and Drake.
They stayed quite as they traveled the street the lycans with their heavy foot falls and Selene with her silent steps and the swaying of her coat in the wind. Then you had Michael his cold black eyes looking back and forth across the area, his breathing heavy.
The sound of machine guns going off soon were heard as the vampires came out of their hiding shooting at the group standing in the street. Luke and Drake took leaps tearing apart their opponents. Selene started shooting not blinking, the lycans had supplied her with their new bullets, and they were very effective as she spun around shooting at some of the vampires that had began to come out of the alley ways.
Michael ripped flesh and snapped bones as he tossed his screaming victims around. His skin was pierced every once in awhile by a silver bullet, but it was not enough to stop him. Good thing the bullets weren't silver nitrate.
He let out a roar and stopped most of the vampires that still had their guns. Soon, the group of death delers were all dead. Drake and Luke returned to their normal form and Selene put her guns down. Michael however stayed in his hybrid form. He still felt something.
It hit him like a wall, "Change back now!" He commanded. Jumping up on the roof of a small building. Where a scream was heard. Selene pulled her guns back up and started firing on vampires that started jumping through windows on buildings and shooting from the roofs. It was a trap...
Luke and Drake had changed quickly and let their animal instincts take over biting and tearing. The bullets starting not to faze them. Meanwhile Michael jumped off the roof covered in blood. Vampires started advancing on Selene and Michael stopped them one by one as she fired on most of them. Changing rounds Selene glanced at Michael who had closelined one of the vampires.
She shot one down as it came after him with their sword held up high. It was then she felt a small twinge on the back of her neck and her gun in her left hand fell from her grasp. She closed her eyes as she felt a hot liquid start to burn her skin.
Selene dropped her other gun and Michael turned around when he heard it echo as it hit the ground. He ran over to her and knelt down as her breathing became slow and in short gasps. Michael changed back to his human form and placed a hand on her arm.
Drake and Luke killed the last vampire and changed back, both of them bloody and bruised both fairly concerned about Selene.
"Selene!" He said starting to panic.
"My..n-neck." She stuttered, the burning sensation starting to spread throughout her body. Michael moved her hair gently away from her neck to find the same metal thing on the back of her neck that held the virus. Quickly he pulled it off and crushed it between his fingers ignoring the effect it had on his skin.
He lifted her up, "We have to get her back.. now!" Michael said taking off in a sprint heading back towards the lycan hideout.
Drake and Luke exchanged glances before they picked up their own coats and Drake picking up Michael's. Before they left they took a look at the devistation they had just took part in. Both a bit satisfied for getting some small amount of revenge.
~*~
"Well, well, looks like we found them boys." A man with short black hair said with a smirk on his face."
"Lord, should we follow them?"
"No, just wait, the time will come and we will be able to eliminate them once and for all without breaking a sweat."
"Are you sure Marcus?" A another vampire asked.
"Positive."
~*~
A/N: This chapter is sorta short, and I have some issues with my friends to take care of as of now. So I had to cut the chapter short so you could atleast read it while I deal with stuff! So, some drama... will be on the way! And looks like someone is out for the hunt again.
Ah...Marcus's second appearance, and incase you didn't realize his first one was in the last chapter. Well, review and I will see you all in the next chapter. :D...Had fun writing this...yep...especially the part about Drake dancing, I think he is drunk, or on something, but I am not going to make conclusions..yet!