A chilling wind ripped along the dark tunnels, it was the only sound heard until the rising echo of running footsteps made its way along the dark sewer way. A dark mud covered figure breathed hard running though the murky pipe line, every muscle in Selene's legs burned, her lungs felt like they where going to explode, her unnatural dark heart pounded in her chest like a over worked piston feeling as if it was going to explode. In her mind she knew she couldn't stop or look back, even though she had been running for over an hour a group of death dealers where hot on her heals she had to get out before daybreak.

She wondered where Michael had gone, the group of death dealers had split them apart forcing them into separate tunnels they both had hoped to meet on the surface.

She came to another split in the tunnels and still no exit, her legs where beginning to refuse to carry her, they felt like they where now on fire. But her will power kept her running she darted down the passage to the left the in the direction of what she thought would hopefully run into the passage Michael was on. Luck and fortune was not on her side, she failed to see a sharp chunk of metal grid half submerged out of the murky water as she ran exhausted, she caught it on her thigh gashing it deeply. She unintentionally let out a yelp in pain as she swung to the ground landing half in the brown water that began to mix red with her blood. She spat out the mouthful of water and sat up to look at her leg, blood gushed from the open wound and she had nothing to seal it up with. She looked around desperately for something or some place to hide her eyes caught hold of a drain above her. Holding the wound closed as best she could she barely pulled herself to her feet and dragged herself over to the drain with one last effort she pulled herself up into the small pipe then began shuffling her way up along the pipe to where ever it may lead.

To her relief it lead her to the surface, she came out of a grid in the gutter, now she couldn't even walk, let alone stand up she was losing blood fast.

"Fuck" she cursed in pain the wound ached and stung like mad if she didn't stop the bleeding soon she would pass out and become a crisp at dawn or bleed to death.

"Michael where are you" She whispered feeling the dizziness of blood loss starting to reach her

"What do we have here" the familiar voice of Kraven poured down onto her from him standing above her. She looked up at him his face was the last thing she wanted to see. He knelt down next to her and lifted her chin so she would look at him

"Just think you wouldn't be in this mess if you had just come with me. You could have been my queen I could have given you everything you wanted but no you had to run off with him. Tell me Selene where is he now?"

"Here" Michael's voice beamed from behind, Kraven had only a split second to turn she a blue fist with black claws tore across his face and flung him a good hundred meters down the road.

"Selene!"

"I'm okay I just cut my leg" she still wore her cold mask and tried to sit up

"No stay still you are loosing a lot of blood" he tore off a shred of fabric from what was left of his pants and wound it tightly around the wound.

"Where did he go?" she snapped looking for Kraven

"He's gone"

Selene let out a sigh of disappointment the scum had gotten away 'again'.

"We have to move they are coming" Michael's sharp hybrid ears picked up their running footsteps from a distance. She barely pulled herself to her feet and headed over to the parked car on the other side of the road.

"You can't walk let me carry you"

"I'm fine" she barked at him coldly and tried to smash the car window in but she had grown to week from blood loss. Michael came up and punched it in with one blow then unlocked the door. She opened the door about to get in when he stopped her

"No I'm driving"

"Like hell you are"

"No remember what happened last time you drove with a blood loss injury" he snapped back at her opening the back door for her and began to stuff her in

"Michael!" she growled but he pushed her onto the back seat forcing her to lye down.

"Now lye down and rest I'm driving" he shut the car door careful not to hit her legs then got into the front and hotwired the car in a minute.

"Where are you going to go?" just as she asked bullets smashed though the back window and into the car, two clipped Michael who turned the wheel and did a fast take off throwing Selene into the seat.

"They got you" she watched his shoulder bleed for a second then heal itself up.

Better than an arse full of glass" he moaned at the glass he sat on from the smashed window. She heard the bullets bouncing off the bumper and back of the car until they eventually stopped as Michael drove further and further away into a safe distance he slowed a little

"How are you doing back there?"

"I think there is a hunk of metal in the wound" she groaned holding her leg in pain. She lifted her leg to look closer when Michael swerved the car suddenly speeding up sending her sliding along the back seat into the door jarring her legs into the door. She let out a cry of pain as the movement and push twisted her leg and muscle tearing the wound even more, when a loud thud and the sound of a heavy object rolled along the bonnet up the windscreen cracking it then over the back of the car, there was no mistaking it was a body

"Got you bastard!" Michael yelled driving on, if he had had the time he would have backed over Kraven but he needed to get Selene to safety.

"Michael!" She screamed at him in pain.

"Sorry!" he realized he had hurt her leg even further

"Don't worry I know a place we can go, you'll be alright" he tried to reassure her. She was in so much pain and was so exhausted she had no more effort to yell and scream at him ordering him what to do and began to let the dizziness take over. For the next five minutes Michael grew more and more concerned as her moans got quieter and she was moving less, but he kept talking to her relentlessly.

"It's alright where here now" he pulled up into the old doctors clinic he used to work at that was still used but it was the abandoned house behind it he drove to, the clinic would be a quick easy source of medical supplies. He parked the car in the old brick garage, got out and closed the door hiding the car.

"Selene!" he called to her opening the back door of the car she gave a small moan hearing him, she didn't open her eyes.

"Shit" Michael pulled her out of the car and carried her directly to the clinic he was fortunate the code to the back door was still the same. Creeping in though the dark he took her in and placed her on the bed, closed the curtains then flicked on the lamp.

"Oh shit" He cursed seeing the tight fabric around her thigh had come loose and was now soaked with blood. Her face was pale and whiter than usual

"Selene stay with me" He tightened the fabric and ran to the lab at the end. Kicking open the door he pulled open the fridge, he smiled he knew for a fact the clinic took blood donations leaving a couple of bags available.

"Yes!" He took the bags, needles and tubes back to Selene. Lifting her arm it took him a moment to get the gauntlet off and pull back her sleeve to inject the lure into her vein and begin to transfer the blood.

Barely after a minute Selene begun to regain consciousness, she fluttered open her eyes to see Michael cutting away her tight pants around the gash.

She relaxed letting take care of the wound until his hand slid a little too far up her thigh and his knuckles brushed her inner thigh of her other leg as he innocently tried to turn her leg a little looking into the wound.

His touch sent feelings though her, warm feelings she had never felt she felt so… human. She had unintentionally sat up looking at his hand he noticed her movement and followed her eyes and moved his hand away

"Sorry" He looked up at her locking their eyes waiting for a reaction but she sat still saying nothing.

Slowly she sat back watching him and his hands pull a small piece of metal out of the wound then braced it shut with temporary stitches, swab and bandage wrapping it ever to carefully. Selene pulled out the lure in her arm grabbed the blood back and began to feed directly watching him clean up.

Just before sunrise Michael took Selene back to the house he dragged an old and the only bed in the house down to the basement for Selene to sleep on during the day. Slightly wincing Selene laid herself down on the old dusty bed.

"Aren't you going to sleep?" She asked him watching him walk toward the stairs.

"I'm just going to secure the house"

Selene hesitated wondering whether or not to believe him. She looked at her thigh she couldn't go anywhere anyway and rested her head. She listened to him walking around upstairs trying to stay awake as the human world out side came to life.

As she lay still her eyes became not only heavy but glassy as the nights events played over and over in her mind, what Viktor had done was really beginning to sink in, scaring her even more on the inside. The pillow beneath her pale face began to soak up all her tears holding it in was too much, she let herself cry just not loud enough for Michael to hear. Just enough for after a while it put her off to sleep tormenting dreams of her and her once lived family and now the guilt of her actions for over the last one hundred years.