SPOILER WARNING! This chapter has slight spoilers for Angel season five.
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CH 16: Pregnant Vampires are Unpleasant
"MIchael! Michael!"
"What is it Selene?" Michael trotted into the living room in thier apartment. Selene was on the couch and he was met with her baleful stare. She was mad at him because he'd sentenced her to bedrest for the last month and a half of her pregnancy.
"Could you go out and get me some pigs blood at the butcher?" She remembered drinking pigs blood from before there was clone blood. She wanted some right now.
Michael grimaced; but agreed. He was her errand boy until she had the baby, or until he allowed her to do things herself. It was her way of making him as miserable as she was.
They'd contacted Amadillo and Marcus to ask what information they had about vampire and lycan pregnancies. As it turned out, they had been researching the subject as well, because Erika was pregnant to her lycan husband Farrun.
Marcus and Amadillo both spoke to Selene and told her she had about two months longer than a human pregnancy. She wasn't very happy about that. Being pregnant wasn't fun anymore. She wanted her baby and she wanted to be able to move around again.
All she did aside from eating and sleeping was watch TV and read and attempt to knit out of pure boredom. She was getting better at it; but patience had never been her strong suit.
She could feel the baby moving around a lot. She'd talk to it when Michael was sleeping. She wanted badly to see what it looked like. She'd never been to see a doctor, because she flatly refused on that subject. They didn't even know if it was a boy or a girl. Michael had done his internship in prenatal medicine and Selene insisted that his knowledge was enough.
Michael had countered with the bedrest order. If she wouldn't be checked out, then they would be safe. To his surprise she had complied. She'd taken it out on him, sure; but she had done it.
He'd even gone and got some medical supplies for before and after the birth. Selene had said no hospitals unless he couldn't help the baby if it were in danger. He unwillingly agreed.
Luckily for him, Selene was able to sense that the baby was allright. She already had a connection to it.
He sighed as he threw on a coat and left, calling out that he would be back soon.
As he walked down the wet Los Angeles street, he took in all the scents of thier nieghborhood. It wasn't too bad considering it was such a large city. He was suprised at how low the crime rates were in thier area.
He smirked. Here he was, thinking human again. He could feel Selenes' amusement through thier bond.
"You'll never get over it." She said, not unkindly.
"Sorry."
"I like it." She replied simply. "I'm going to take a nap. Wake me when you get home?"
"Sure."
She was out like a light. The baby made her very tired. He hoped that it wouldn't take any more out of her. There were so seldom Vampire births that Marcus and Amadillo hadn't been able to give them much information on the recovery period.
He was snapped out of his reverie by the loud sounds of a fight. His senses kicked in and told him it was taking place two alleys down.
He stealthily crept up to the alley and was suprised at the sight he was met with. A very blonde man was fighting with someone who had thier back to Michael. Whoever it was had very dark hair and seemed familiar.
Suddenly the blond man threw a hard punch and knocked the dark haired one around.
"Kraven!" Michael changed instantly.
Kravens' head whipped around at the sound of his name. He froze when he saw Michael.
"What the bloody hell is that?" Yelled the blond man.
Kraven bolted; but Michael caught him before he had taken more than three steps.
Michael was shaking with rage as he held the dark man high off of his feet. He wanted badly to kill him on the spot; but he also didn't want to kill anymore. He willed himself to change back.
"Michael." Kraven wheezed through his blocked off windpipe.
"Shut up!" Michael spat. "You are in my territory. Leave. NOW!"
He dropped the simpering vampire, who took a second to rub his throat.
Michael growled angrily and Kraven flinched. "Go!" Michael said. "If I so much as smell you, I will gut you. Got it?"
Kraven gathered his wits and ran.
The blond man had been all but forgotten in this exchange and then he spoke up.
"Nice moves mate."
Michael turned to him. There was something unsettling about the man that he couldn't place. He wasn't human, that was sure.
"Thanks." He replied warily. "Who are you?"
"Names Spike. Or William the Bloody if you so choose. If y' don't mind me askin', what exactly are you?"
"I'm a hybrid." Michael replied without thinking. He cringed, glad Selene was asleep.
"Of what, exactly?"
Michael sighed, no use holding back now. "Vampire and Lycan."
Spikes' only comment was, "hmm."
"What are you?" Asked Michael.
"Vampire." Replied Spike. "You knew that pillock I was beating on huh?"
Michaels' expression darkened. "Yes."
"I caught him feeding off some homeless kids." Spike said. "Figured I'd teach him a lesson. What'd he do to you?"
"Shot me with silver nitrate back when I was only a lycan. But that's not what I hate him for."
"Oh? Care to enlighten me?"
"He's obsessed with my mate. Wouldn't leave her alone."
"Why'd you give him a pass?" Spike asked, curious.
"I don't want to kill unless it's neccesary." Michael sighed. "I should have killed him. Now he knows she's here and he won't leave."
Spike understood this feeling. He remembered what it was like when Angelus was all over Dru, and then the whole Buffy fiasco. He cringed, thinking of her, off with that immortal prick in Europe. It just wasn't fair.
"Look mate, you have any trouble with him, you come to Wolfram and Hart. I'm sure we could find a nice punishment for him without having to kill him."
"What's Wolfram and Hart?"
"A lawfirm." At Michaels' confused look he elaborated, "They deal in a lot of supernatrual stuff. Trust me."
"They, you don't work for them?"
"Nah, was thier damned ghost for a while; but I got my body back a few weeks ago...Oh and I'm the boss' grandchilde."
Michael was still confused.
Spike smirked. "It's a long and involved story, mate. Maybe we could get together for beers sometime and share war stories?"
Michael nodded. "Sounds like fun."
"Your girl's welcome to come too. Some of my friends might join us."
"I don't know if she'd want to...wait, I take it back, she'd love to. I've sentenced her to the couch because she's pregnant and she won't go to the doctor."
Spike smirked. "Women. Maybe she'd consent to having one of the Wolfram and Hart doctors look at her. They're used to creatures like us."
Michael nodded. "If it gets her off the couch, I'm sure she'll at least come to meet you."
"You're damn right I will!" Selene broke in.
Michael jumped. "Could you not do that?!?" He asked her out loud.
"What?" Asked Spike, thoroughly confused.
"Not you." Said Michael crossly. "We have a bond. We can speak telepathically. She said she will come."
"Michael, who is it you are talking to?" Asked Selene.
Michael opened up the connection fully so that she could see what he was seeing, etc.
She gasped when she fully sensed Spike. "Old one!"
MIchael tensed staring at Spike.
"Wha'?" Spike said.
Michael changed.
"Whoa big guy!" Spike said. "I'm not a threat! I swear!"
AN: Kay, I decided to do a cliffhanger there. Sorry about that. LOL I just feel like being evil right now. Also I want to go to bed. LOL Obviously this is set in the middle of season five of Angel. I know i am fiddling with timelines; but using Underworld has the advantage that the timeline is easily manipulated. I love Spike so much! I had to put him in. The crew will make an appearance in the next chapter. Hope you all liked the Kraven scene!
SPOILERS FOR ALL WHO HAVEN'T SEEN SEAS. 5 OF ANGEL IN THE NEXT CHAPTER!
P.S. Didn't you just love when Spike got all corporeal again and walked straight into Angels' office door? That was a riot! LOL