Michael sighed and leaned back in his chair. It had been almost four hours since he had moved from the small room he was in. It was another boring meeting, of course he wanted to know what was going on, but a lot of the arguments they had were really pointless.
Luke and Drake sat at one end of the table, Drake looking at the ceiling and making pictures in his mind, and Luke carving his initials in the table with a sharp knife.
"Marcus is aware of us, and obviously he knows a lot more than we thought he could." A man said crossing his arms over his chest.
"Yes, but he might not know our exact location. I mean, I never got the feeling that he knew where we were when he was beating me to a bloody pulp." Drake said titling his head down and looking at all of them.
"That sounds promising." Luke sighed.
Drake shrugged, and the rest of the lycans around the table began talking about different options. To Michael they all sounded like a bunch of mumbling. His mind drifted to the morning he had spent with Selene, the human Selene. He had never felt happier since he had came to England, hell, even in his whole life, except for the moments he had spent with her.
Even though things seemed calm, and smooth on the surface, he knew there was something brewing just beyond the horizon. Marcus was planning something. They didn't know what, but it just might involve one ex-vampire.
"What about that vampire?"
"What one?"
"The one that was here yesterday?"
Michael listened to two of the lycans talk, both of their eyes were now on him.
"Lydia." He said calmly.
"Yes, what was her purpose? She was here and talked to you, then she left? Can you tell us what may have happened? It just might put most of us at ease."
"She was helping me."
"With what?" Another lycan interjected.
"If you would let me finish," Michael said slightly annoyed and not wanting to be in the room much longer, "She was telling us what she knew of the virus."
"You let a vampire in to find information of a forbidden virus?" A lycan shouted jumping up and his chair falling over backwards.
"This virus is a matter between life and death. And Marcus has almost full control over it. One shot, and it could kill you understand? Her knowledge may be able to save your life and the man sitting next to you."
"It has more importance to you though, does it not?" A lycan in the corner of the room asked speaking up for what seemed to be the first time.
"Yes, her information could help me more than saving all of your lives."
"Selene?" He asked.
Michael nodded, "Yes, Selene's life."
"If Marcus really can control the virus and whoever it is doing it. Don't you think we should stop him before he goes any further."
"You're right. But I have already put a lot of you in danger by just hunting for food. I can't order an attack when I don't know what he is planning or doing."
"May I make a suggestion?" Luke said putting his knife back inside his pocket.
"Go ahead."
"We could organize a spy team. To watch the mansion. See perhaps what they are up to. The spys will go and watch, and return any information that they find. We should have enough information in a few short nights of spying."
Michael nodded, "So it is settled then. Luke, assemble a team. If you will, lead them do not make contact with any vampires if you are spotted try to get back without engaging in combat. If you are followed, try confusing them so we can make sure they do not stumble across our den."
The lycans stood and walked out of the room silently following their orders and leaving with their thoughts.
Michael watched the ground as he walked along the corridor and down the hall making his way back to his room to see what Selene was up to.
He climbed the stairs with a bounce in his step and grinned as he reached the top in record time. He didn't know what to expect when he opened the door, whether she was there or not he had no clue. It was for the simple fact that for once in his life he actually looked forward to seeing someone.
He frowned when he saw that she wasn't in the room. The door leading to the bathroom was ajar, so she must be out walking around in the den. Sighing Michael walked out of the room closing the door behind him. He sniffed the air, now that she was human, her scent was harder to identify.
~*~
Selene walked down the hall her eyes wandering. She was still living in the past and everything here was so different then what she was used to.
A few of the lycans standing in the hall would glance at her as she walked past, but most made no move to attempt to speak with her or even let her know of their prescence. That was until she bumped into someone turning a corner.
He grabbed her shoulders to make sure she didn't lose her balance and smiled at her when his blue eyes made contact with her own dark green orbs.
"Sorry, are you okay, Selene?" He asked.
She nodded at him, noticing that she didn't have a clue as to who he was. He dropped his hands from her shoulders and ran his hand through his short blonde hair. "I'm Drake." He said extending his hand.
She took it and shook it, "I guess you already know me."
"You'd be surprised. Of course I know you."
"I'm sorry that I can't remember you though."
"That's no big deal." He reassured her smiling.
She smiled back, "So," Selene started glancing around, "I seem to be lost." She said blushing.
Drake gave a short laugh. "Where were you headed?"
"I was just looking around. I didn't like just waiting up in the room by myself."
Drake nodded, "Well, the meeting let out not too long ago, and I am sure that Michael is worried and looking for you already."
"I'm not fragile. Or helpless."
"Yes, I am sure he knows that, but I think Michael hasn't really liked anyone the way he does you."
"Or her you mean."
"What do you mean?" He asked raising an eyebrow.
"He likes the Selene I used to be, the one who saved him. The one he has told me so much about. The one that I will never be."
Drake gave her a sad smile and placed his hand on her shoulder, "I think you're blind."
Selene who had looked at the ground after her last comment looked up at him a confused look on her face. "I can see you just fine."
"Not blind that way... well, maybe. You're blind because he does love you, sometimes you just can't see it. The other way is that the looks he gives you. Have you seen this man? He looks at you like a lost puppy. Before and after this whole- situation. Hell, he even still talks about you. You're his number one priority."
"It all sounds really flattering too. I just don't know if I can believe it. Even so, I don't know how I feel for him."
"Maybe it is just a little early to tell." Drake suggested before he saw someone ou of the corner of his eye.
"Drake." They called out walking over to him, "Gotta job for you."
"What is it, Luke?"
"Special mission. Michael is having me assemble a spy team to overlook the mansion."
"Sure, sounds real special."
"That's not your mission."
"Then why bother telling me? I already knew that, I was there remember." Drake said crossing his arms over his chest.
"You're going to watch Lydia."
Drake sighed, "Why me?"
Luke smirked, "Well, me and the boys have a bet going, and we think you know who she is, on a personal level."
"Like hell I do!" Drake yelled dropping his arms to his sides and turning them into fists.
"Whoa! Calm down, I was just joking." Luke said putting his hands up slightly. "No need to get your ass kicked over a few words."
Drake glared at him, "I don't know her. Other than stories, see is just a legend, besides what I have seen with my own two eyes."
"Sure." Luke said smirking, "What things did you see with your own two eyes exactly?"
Drake snapped his eyes lit in anger as he picked Luke up by his collar and slammed him up against the wall. Selene who had been watching the exchange quietly jumped back at the sudden and violent movement.
"I don't know her! And if you know what is good for you, you will leave it where it lies! She is stronger than most of us put together! I wouldn't invoke her!" Drake yelled his face inches away from Luke's and a deep growl emitting from his throat.
Luke shoved him back and let out a small roar. Both of them were breathing fairly heavy at the moment and Selene could feel the tension in the air she took a step back. Knowing full and well that they were both primal beasts.
Luke was the first to move ripping off his coat and changing into his lycan form. Drake soon followed, once both were changed they jumped at eachother.
Selene stumbled backwards to avoid being hit and fell to the ground with a thud. So this was what they looked like, she thought to herself as she crawled backwards. The scene infront of her made her think back to the day of the bloody massacre of her family. Although, Michael had told her that it was Viktor and not the lycans that killed her family.
Watching them, it sure didn't feel like it.
It was hard to tell them apart now. All she did know was that there was blood starting to fall to the ground from the claw wounds. More lycans had started to gather around the fight. Most of them yelling and cheering them on. Others looking, much like Selene, terrified.
It was a loud and angry voice that stopped everything though, "STOP!" The word was mixed between a growl and a hiss as a fully hybrid Michael stepped through the crowd and shoved both lycans apart from eachother.
They stopped growling and stopped snarling. Changing back into their former selfs, covered in cuts and bruises, grabbing their coats they hung their heads as Michael glared at them from his cold black eyes. A memory flashed and Michael spoke, "Your acting like a bunch of rabid dogs!"
They looked up at him, both with confused looks on their faces but stayed silent none the less. "You're starting to make me question the orders in which I gave you tonight, Luke."
"And the faith which I put in you, Drake."
Michael spun on his heel, "Now leave. On with your orders, and no fighting." His cold black gaze seem to soften as they landed on Selene who was sitting up against the wall her eyes wide.
She didn't know who it was at first, but judging from the hair and his voice, and they way he looked different, it had to be Michael.
He looked worried as he came to his knees infront of her. "Are you okay?" He asked his voice quiet and soft.
Selene didn't answer, but kept her gaze on him her eyes traveling over his body, which was strangely a grayish blue.
Her hand came up slowly and rested on his cheek. His skin was rough, like a tough amour. But it was also soft under her finger tips.
His large hand came up and covered her's as he gazed into her eyes. Suddenly she was looking at the human Michael his deep blue eyes piercing hers.
He picked her up after dropping his hand from her's. She closed her eyes but reopened them when he didn't put her down, but instead started walking away.
Lycans watched the scene in amazement, but they soon scattered as Michael glanced back at them.
~*~
Drake walked into William's office and started raiding the cabinets. William walked into the room and frowned.
"What are you doing?" He asked setting down a empty bottle on the desk.
Drake turned around to face him and William flinched.
"Jesus Christ, what happened to you?"
"Luke." Drake muttered turning around and going through the cabinets once again.
William sighed and walked across the room, he opened and cabinet and began pulling out supplies. Drake turned and looked at him, "You'd think I'd know where everything is by now."
"Yeah." William said coming over to Drake who took a seat on a table. "You really need to come to a truce with him."
"I know, I just don't know what his problem is. I mean, just because I was alive a lot longer than he was, I don't think that really gives him a reason to treat me like pond scum."
William cleaned a deep gash over Drake's eye brow, "I think that one might leave a scar."
"No kidding," Drake mumbled as he fidgeted with a bandage sitting on the edge of the table. "Why I have been assigned to watch over Lydia I have no idea."
"What do you mean?" William asked bandaging up the cut above his eye.
"Well, I really don't think Michael would want me to look up on Lydia. He seems to put a complete faith in her, and I think that Luke is doing this from his own cautions. That and so he can tease me."
"About what?" William said tending to the rest of the wounds.
"Anything he can find. Which may be a lot since I do have a long past."
William dropped a cloth that he had been using and walked over to the cabinet to get another one, "So, have you talked to Michael about it?"
"No, I'm afraid that he might be a little angry at me for the moment."
"Don't tell me.." William started.
"Yep, he broke us up."
"Well, he couldn't be that upset about it."
"I don't know," Drake said looking ashamed.
"What now?" William asked sighing.
"It sorta happened right in front of Selene."
William smacked him in the back of the head.
"Ouch! What in the hell was that for, I am already injured!" The banadaged lycan yelled holding the back of his head.
"I cannot believe what an idiot you are."
"Really, you've had a few centuries to get used to it."
William smacked him in the head again.
"Jesus Christ! Are you trying to give me a concussion? I don't need you slapping me around like some..idiot." He said starting to get up but William pushed him down.
"Did you forget that Selene is a human now. You probably scared the shit out of her, you both turned too didn't you?"
"No, we used words." He said sarcastically.
"No wonder he was angry, you're such an idiot."
"Well, I am sorry, I just may have some issues that are a little more important to me at the moment."
"Like what?"
"Like-stuff that doesn't concern you."
William dropped his tools and walked away from him, "That's your flaw, Drake. You keep secrets, and secrets won't help you."
"They have so far, besides, most likely I won't have anymore in less than a week."
"So, is that your commitment, or your challenge? Telling all your secrets in less than a week-"
"Its not that!" Drake yelled, "They will come out without me opening my mouth. They will take place right in front of your eyes. Then, maybe, just maybe, you'll all get off my back and realize the secrets were put in place for a good reason!"
"You're starting to make me question the faith and effort I put into knowing you."
"Really? So is Michael."
"How old are you really, Drake? Where are you from? How did you become what you are? Why do you have so many damn secrets? Whe-"
Drake tossed a knife and it stopped William; hitting the wall inches from his head.
"I've told you all that already. Me saying them again won't help you."
"But how do I really know that you're telling the truth? Maybe it is just some lie to keep a secret."
"I wouldn't make it up, William." Drake said walking to the door, he placed his hand on it and without turning around he spoke again, "You put your faith in me, you trusted me, and I have done the same with you. Don't question my actions, and I won't question any of yours."
Drake left a dumbfounded William standing in the room the knife still vibrating in the wall next to him until he pulled it out.
~*~
Michael sighed as he finished walking up the stairs. He didn't want Selene to see him like that; afraid that it might scare her just a bit.
She hadn't said a single word since he found her sitting on the floor. That really made him angry, he could sense her fear when he saw the crowd, and he knew she was there. He wanted to rip Luke's and Drake's necks at that moment.
Still, he could feel her eyes on him as he opened up the door and walked in, kicking it with his foot to shut it behind him.
"I'm sorry." He told her setting her down on the bed.
"Don't be, it wasn't your fault, they acted like they were supposed to."
"And how was that?"
She looked at him, her eyes showing innocence and fear, "They acted like beasts."
Michael was a bit surprised at her words, "That is what they are."
"I know.." She trailed off looking down at the blanket on the bed, which seemed more interesting at the moment.
He wondered if she hated him for being part beast, or if she didn't like the idea that he was both, a vampire and a lycan. Part that killed her family, and part that she came to believe that did kill them.
It wasn't good in any situation in his opinion. He didn't want her to be scared of him, and he feared that was where he was headed.
She looked up at him after he was silent for a few moments.
"I don't scare you, do I?" He asked his nervousness almost showing through.
Selene looked at him, "No, you don't scare me."
"What about my beast form?"
She thought a moment, trying to find the right words to tell him, "I will admit, it is a bit scary, its like I can feel your power in your essence. But, I think that if you are truely both races, that they equal eachother. Making you less scary."
"So you're not scared?"
"No, actually it sort of gives me some comfort amoung the chaos, like that of what took place today."
He gave her a small smile.
"Could you-" She started but he nodded before she finished her sentence.
He stood up quickly, and it was the first time she noticed he was only in his pants. He closed his eyes for a moment, and she watched in amazement as he started to change, more quickly than he had when the transformation had first occured.
She gasped when he opened his eyes again staring at her with black eyes, that seemed to make her soul warm, but she supposed that it would strike fear into most other people.
"It must hurt."
He let out a deep breath and took in another one, "Not really, the first time was by far the worst though."
She stood up infront of him and looked him over. Everything from his black eyes and grayish blue skin. To his claws and dark black pants. Her hand came out fast and she touched his hair; twirling it between her fingers.
Her hand left his hair and moved back to his face, her warm body heat spreading over his cold cheek. Her thumb rubbed his skin gently before she touched her thumb to his lips and ran her warm fingers over his icy cold lips.
His lips parted slightly showing his long white fangs. Her eyes glanced at them but quickly moved away as her hand rested on his chest.
His breathing began to become harder as his eyes concentrated on her. Her eyes seemed to take in every detail of his hybrid form.
They must have lost all awareness as Michael slowly changed back into his human form, panting slightly from the pain of changing.
His hair now hung down over his face as Selene tucked it behind his ears still, just staring at his eyes which were now deep pools of blue.
Michael's shifted his hand so that it rested on her around her waist. He pulled her to him and hugged her, loving the feeling of her in his arms more than anything. She seemed surprised at first but soon relaxed into his embrace.
Truth be told, the scene she hd witnessed had scared her more than she thought was possible. She just didn't want him to worry about it. She may have missed the last two hundred years, but she knew he had enough to deal with at the moment.
Selene layed her head on his shoulder and wrapped her arms around his neck as his wrapped around her waist. It felt normal for her, like he was the only person she had ever let hold her and the only person she ever would.
Her eyes closed momentarily but she reopened them when she felt his warm breath on her neck. She moved her head to look at him. His eyes were filled with lust and hunger, and something that she couldn't really describe, but she knew it was stronger than the other two put together.
He moved closer to her face and she felt herself leaning up to meet him half way. Their noses were touching now, but neither said a word and just stopped moving for a second. They both started to move at the same time, their eyes closing as their breath could be felt on the other's lips....
~*~
A/n: You have no idea how fun it is to torment you all. I know half of you will want to beat me down with a giant metal pipe. Well, anyways, it seems that Marcus and Erika didn't quite fit in this chapter, but I promise that they will be in the next chapter, as will Lydia.
I hope you all are enjoying this and now I have to get started on replying to those reviews. It may take forever, but as luck would have it, I am not that busy this week. :D, please review, and if you're reading this, I already know you read the whole damn thing! See you all around, by the way, sorry this chapter was up so late, I had a busy previous week.
Luke and Drake sat at one end of the table, Drake looking at the ceiling and making pictures in his mind, and Luke carving his initials in the table with a sharp knife.
"Marcus is aware of us, and obviously he knows a lot more than we thought he could." A man said crossing his arms over his chest.
"Yes, but he might not know our exact location. I mean, I never got the feeling that he knew where we were when he was beating me to a bloody pulp." Drake said titling his head down and looking at all of them.
"That sounds promising." Luke sighed.
Drake shrugged, and the rest of the lycans around the table began talking about different options. To Michael they all sounded like a bunch of mumbling. His mind drifted to the morning he had spent with Selene, the human Selene. He had never felt happier since he had came to England, hell, even in his whole life, except for the moments he had spent with her.
Even though things seemed calm, and smooth on the surface, he knew there was something brewing just beyond the horizon. Marcus was planning something. They didn't know what, but it just might involve one ex-vampire.
"What about that vampire?"
"What one?"
"The one that was here yesterday?"
Michael listened to two of the lycans talk, both of their eyes were now on him.
"Lydia." He said calmly.
"Yes, what was her purpose? She was here and talked to you, then she left? Can you tell us what may have happened? It just might put most of us at ease."
"She was helping me."
"With what?" Another lycan interjected.
"If you would let me finish," Michael said slightly annoyed and not wanting to be in the room much longer, "She was telling us what she knew of the virus."
"You let a vampire in to find information of a forbidden virus?" A lycan shouted jumping up and his chair falling over backwards.
"This virus is a matter between life and death. And Marcus has almost full control over it. One shot, and it could kill you understand? Her knowledge may be able to save your life and the man sitting next to you."
"It has more importance to you though, does it not?" A lycan in the corner of the room asked speaking up for what seemed to be the first time.
"Yes, her information could help me more than saving all of your lives."
"Selene?" He asked.
Michael nodded, "Yes, Selene's life."
"If Marcus really can control the virus and whoever it is doing it. Don't you think we should stop him before he goes any further."
"You're right. But I have already put a lot of you in danger by just hunting for food. I can't order an attack when I don't know what he is planning or doing."
"May I make a suggestion?" Luke said putting his knife back inside his pocket.
"Go ahead."
"We could organize a spy team. To watch the mansion. See perhaps what they are up to. The spys will go and watch, and return any information that they find. We should have enough information in a few short nights of spying."
Michael nodded, "So it is settled then. Luke, assemble a team. If you will, lead them do not make contact with any vampires if you are spotted try to get back without engaging in combat. If you are followed, try confusing them so we can make sure they do not stumble across our den."
The lycans stood and walked out of the room silently following their orders and leaving with their thoughts.
Michael watched the ground as he walked along the corridor and down the hall making his way back to his room to see what Selene was up to.
He climbed the stairs with a bounce in his step and grinned as he reached the top in record time. He didn't know what to expect when he opened the door, whether she was there or not he had no clue. It was for the simple fact that for once in his life he actually looked forward to seeing someone.
He frowned when he saw that she wasn't in the room. The door leading to the bathroom was ajar, so she must be out walking around in the den. Sighing Michael walked out of the room closing the door behind him. He sniffed the air, now that she was human, her scent was harder to identify.
~*~
Selene walked down the hall her eyes wandering. She was still living in the past and everything here was so different then what she was used to.
A few of the lycans standing in the hall would glance at her as she walked past, but most made no move to attempt to speak with her or even let her know of their prescence. That was until she bumped into someone turning a corner.
He grabbed her shoulders to make sure she didn't lose her balance and smiled at her when his blue eyes made contact with her own dark green orbs.
"Sorry, are you okay, Selene?" He asked.
She nodded at him, noticing that she didn't have a clue as to who he was. He dropped his hands from her shoulders and ran his hand through his short blonde hair. "I'm Drake." He said extending his hand.
She took it and shook it, "I guess you already know me."
"You'd be surprised. Of course I know you."
"I'm sorry that I can't remember you though."
"That's no big deal." He reassured her smiling.
She smiled back, "So," Selene started glancing around, "I seem to be lost." She said blushing.
Drake gave a short laugh. "Where were you headed?"
"I was just looking around. I didn't like just waiting up in the room by myself."
Drake nodded, "Well, the meeting let out not too long ago, and I am sure that Michael is worried and looking for you already."
"I'm not fragile. Or helpless."
"Yes, I am sure he knows that, but I think Michael hasn't really liked anyone the way he does you."
"Or her you mean."
"What do you mean?" He asked raising an eyebrow.
"He likes the Selene I used to be, the one who saved him. The one he has told me so much about. The one that I will never be."
Drake gave her a sad smile and placed his hand on her shoulder, "I think you're blind."
Selene who had looked at the ground after her last comment looked up at him a confused look on her face. "I can see you just fine."
"Not blind that way... well, maybe. You're blind because he does love you, sometimes you just can't see it. The other way is that the looks he gives you. Have you seen this man? He looks at you like a lost puppy. Before and after this whole- situation. Hell, he even still talks about you. You're his number one priority."
"It all sounds really flattering too. I just don't know if I can believe it. Even so, I don't know how I feel for him."
"Maybe it is just a little early to tell." Drake suggested before he saw someone ou of the corner of his eye.
"Drake." They called out walking over to him, "Gotta job for you."
"What is it, Luke?"
"Special mission. Michael is having me assemble a spy team to overlook the mansion."
"Sure, sounds real special."
"That's not your mission."
"Then why bother telling me? I already knew that, I was there remember." Drake said crossing his arms over his chest.
"You're going to watch Lydia."
Drake sighed, "Why me?"
Luke smirked, "Well, me and the boys have a bet going, and we think you know who she is, on a personal level."
"Like hell I do!" Drake yelled dropping his arms to his sides and turning them into fists.
"Whoa! Calm down, I was just joking." Luke said putting his hands up slightly. "No need to get your ass kicked over a few words."
Drake glared at him, "I don't know her. Other than stories, see is just a legend, besides what I have seen with my own two eyes."
"Sure." Luke said smirking, "What things did you see with your own two eyes exactly?"
Drake snapped his eyes lit in anger as he picked Luke up by his collar and slammed him up against the wall. Selene who had been watching the exchange quietly jumped back at the sudden and violent movement.
"I don't know her! And if you know what is good for you, you will leave it where it lies! She is stronger than most of us put together! I wouldn't invoke her!" Drake yelled his face inches away from Luke's and a deep growl emitting from his throat.
Luke shoved him back and let out a small roar. Both of them were breathing fairly heavy at the moment and Selene could feel the tension in the air she took a step back. Knowing full and well that they were both primal beasts.
Luke was the first to move ripping off his coat and changing into his lycan form. Drake soon followed, once both were changed they jumped at eachother.
Selene stumbled backwards to avoid being hit and fell to the ground with a thud. So this was what they looked like, she thought to herself as she crawled backwards. The scene infront of her made her think back to the day of the bloody massacre of her family. Although, Michael had told her that it was Viktor and not the lycans that killed her family.
Watching them, it sure didn't feel like it.
It was hard to tell them apart now. All she did know was that there was blood starting to fall to the ground from the claw wounds. More lycans had started to gather around the fight. Most of them yelling and cheering them on. Others looking, much like Selene, terrified.
It was a loud and angry voice that stopped everything though, "STOP!" The word was mixed between a growl and a hiss as a fully hybrid Michael stepped through the crowd and shoved both lycans apart from eachother.
They stopped growling and stopped snarling. Changing back into their former selfs, covered in cuts and bruises, grabbing their coats they hung their heads as Michael glared at them from his cold black eyes. A memory flashed and Michael spoke, "Your acting like a bunch of rabid dogs!"
They looked up at him, both with confused looks on their faces but stayed silent none the less. "You're starting to make me question the orders in which I gave you tonight, Luke."
"And the faith which I put in you, Drake."
Michael spun on his heel, "Now leave. On with your orders, and no fighting." His cold black gaze seem to soften as they landed on Selene who was sitting up against the wall her eyes wide.
She didn't know who it was at first, but judging from the hair and his voice, and they way he looked different, it had to be Michael.
He looked worried as he came to his knees infront of her. "Are you okay?" He asked his voice quiet and soft.
Selene didn't answer, but kept her gaze on him her eyes traveling over his body, which was strangely a grayish blue.
Her hand came up slowly and rested on his cheek. His skin was rough, like a tough amour. But it was also soft under her finger tips.
His large hand came up and covered her's as he gazed into her eyes. Suddenly she was looking at the human Michael his deep blue eyes piercing hers.
He picked her up after dropping his hand from her's. She closed her eyes but reopened them when he didn't put her down, but instead started walking away.
Lycans watched the scene in amazement, but they soon scattered as Michael glanced back at them.
~*~
Drake walked into William's office and started raiding the cabinets. William walked into the room and frowned.
"What are you doing?" He asked setting down a empty bottle on the desk.
Drake turned around to face him and William flinched.
"Jesus Christ, what happened to you?"
"Luke." Drake muttered turning around and going through the cabinets once again.
William sighed and walked across the room, he opened and cabinet and began pulling out supplies. Drake turned and looked at him, "You'd think I'd know where everything is by now."
"Yeah." William said coming over to Drake who took a seat on a table. "You really need to come to a truce with him."
"I know, I just don't know what his problem is. I mean, just because I was alive a lot longer than he was, I don't think that really gives him a reason to treat me like pond scum."
William cleaned a deep gash over Drake's eye brow, "I think that one might leave a scar."
"No kidding," Drake mumbled as he fidgeted with a bandage sitting on the edge of the table. "Why I have been assigned to watch over Lydia I have no idea."
"What do you mean?" William asked bandaging up the cut above his eye.
"Well, I really don't think Michael would want me to look up on Lydia. He seems to put a complete faith in her, and I think that Luke is doing this from his own cautions. That and so he can tease me."
"About what?" William said tending to the rest of the wounds.
"Anything he can find. Which may be a lot since I do have a long past."
William dropped a cloth that he had been using and walked over to the cabinet to get another one, "So, have you talked to Michael about it?"
"No, I'm afraid that he might be a little angry at me for the moment."
"Don't tell me.." William started.
"Yep, he broke us up."
"Well, he couldn't be that upset about it."
"I don't know," Drake said looking ashamed.
"What now?" William asked sighing.
"It sorta happened right in front of Selene."
William smacked him in the back of the head.
"Ouch! What in the hell was that for, I am already injured!" The banadaged lycan yelled holding the back of his head.
"I cannot believe what an idiot you are."
"Really, you've had a few centuries to get used to it."
William smacked him in the head again.
"Jesus Christ! Are you trying to give me a concussion? I don't need you slapping me around like some..idiot." He said starting to get up but William pushed him down.
"Did you forget that Selene is a human now. You probably scared the shit out of her, you both turned too didn't you?"
"No, we used words." He said sarcastically.
"No wonder he was angry, you're such an idiot."
"Well, I am sorry, I just may have some issues that are a little more important to me at the moment."
"Like what?"
"Like-stuff that doesn't concern you."
William dropped his tools and walked away from him, "That's your flaw, Drake. You keep secrets, and secrets won't help you."
"They have so far, besides, most likely I won't have anymore in less than a week."
"So, is that your commitment, or your challenge? Telling all your secrets in less than a week-"
"Its not that!" Drake yelled, "They will come out without me opening my mouth. They will take place right in front of your eyes. Then, maybe, just maybe, you'll all get off my back and realize the secrets were put in place for a good reason!"
"You're starting to make me question the faith and effort I put into knowing you."
"Really? So is Michael."
"How old are you really, Drake? Where are you from? How did you become what you are? Why do you have so many damn secrets? Whe-"
Drake tossed a knife and it stopped William; hitting the wall inches from his head.
"I've told you all that already. Me saying them again won't help you."
"But how do I really know that you're telling the truth? Maybe it is just some lie to keep a secret."
"I wouldn't make it up, William." Drake said walking to the door, he placed his hand on it and without turning around he spoke again, "You put your faith in me, you trusted me, and I have done the same with you. Don't question my actions, and I won't question any of yours."
Drake left a dumbfounded William standing in the room the knife still vibrating in the wall next to him until he pulled it out.
~*~
Michael sighed as he finished walking up the stairs. He didn't want Selene to see him like that; afraid that it might scare her just a bit.
She hadn't said a single word since he found her sitting on the floor. That really made him angry, he could sense her fear when he saw the crowd, and he knew she was there. He wanted to rip Luke's and Drake's necks at that moment.
Still, he could feel her eyes on him as he opened up the door and walked in, kicking it with his foot to shut it behind him.
"I'm sorry." He told her setting her down on the bed.
"Don't be, it wasn't your fault, they acted like they were supposed to."
"And how was that?"
She looked at him, her eyes showing innocence and fear, "They acted like beasts."
Michael was a bit surprised at her words, "That is what they are."
"I know.." She trailed off looking down at the blanket on the bed, which seemed more interesting at the moment.
He wondered if she hated him for being part beast, or if she didn't like the idea that he was both, a vampire and a lycan. Part that killed her family, and part that she came to believe that did kill them.
It wasn't good in any situation in his opinion. He didn't want her to be scared of him, and he feared that was where he was headed.
She looked up at him after he was silent for a few moments.
"I don't scare you, do I?" He asked his nervousness almost showing through.
Selene looked at him, "No, you don't scare me."
"What about my beast form?"
She thought a moment, trying to find the right words to tell him, "I will admit, it is a bit scary, its like I can feel your power in your essence. But, I think that if you are truely both races, that they equal eachother. Making you less scary."
"So you're not scared?"
"No, actually it sort of gives me some comfort amoung the chaos, like that of what took place today."
He gave her a small smile.
"Could you-" She started but he nodded before she finished her sentence.
He stood up quickly, and it was the first time she noticed he was only in his pants. He closed his eyes for a moment, and she watched in amazement as he started to change, more quickly than he had when the transformation had first occured.
She gasped when he opened his eyes again staring at her with black eyes, that seemed to make her soul warm, but she supposed that it would strike fear into most other people.
"It must hurt."
He let out a deep breath and took in another one, "Not really, the first time was by far the worst though."
She stood up infront of him and looked him over. Everything from his black eyes and grayish blue skin. To his claws and dark black pants. Her hand came out fast and she touched his hair; twirling it between her fingers.
Her hand left his hair and moved back to his face, her warm body heat spreading over his cold cheek. Her thumb rubbed his skin gently before she touched her thumb to his lips and ran her warm fingers over his icy cold lips.
His lips parted slightly showing his long white fangs. Her eyes glanced at them but quickly moved away as her hand rested on his chest.
His breathing began to become harder as his eyes concentrated on her. Her eyes seemed to take in every detail of his hybrid form.
They must have lost all awareness as Michael slowly changed back into his human form, panting slightly from the pain of changing.
His hair now hung down over his face as Selene tucked it behind his ears still, just staring at his eyes which were now deep pools of blue.
Michael's shifted his hand so that it rested on her around her waist. He pulled her to him and hugged her, loving the feeling of her in his arms more than anything. She seemed surprised at first but soon relaxed into his embrace.
Truth be told, the scene she hd witnessed had scared her more than she thought was possible. She just didn't want him to worry about it. She may have missed the last two hundred years, but she knew he had enough to deal with at the moment.
Selene layed her head on his shoulder and wrapped her arms around his neck as his wrapped around her waist. It felt normal for her, like he was the only person she had ever let hold her and the only person she ever would.
Her eyes closed momentarily but she reopened them when she felt his warm breath on her neck. She moved her head to look at him. His eyes were filled with lust and hunger, and something that she couldn't really describe, but she knew it was stronger than the other two put together.
He moved closer to her face and she felt herself leaning up to meet him half way. Their noses were touching now, but neither said a word and just stopped moving for a second. They both started to move at the same time, their eyes closing as their breath could be felt on the other's lips....
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A/n: You have no idea how fun it is to torment you all. I know half of you will want to beat me down with a giant metal pipe. Well, anyways, it seems that Marcus and Erika didn't quite fit in this chapter, but I promise that they will be in the next chapter, as will Lydia.
I hope you all are enjoying this and now I have to get started on replying to those reviews. It may take forever, but as luck would have it, I am not that busy this week. :D, please review, and if you're reading this, I already know you read the whole damn thing! See you all around, by the way, sorry this chapter was up so late, I had a busy previous week.