Selene awoke to a presence she had never felt before, one that had long since left her memory.
Warmth.
On the single bed Michael had brought down a blanket lay in against her and covered the both of them putting his arms around her. She felt comfortable but odd at the presence around her it was enough to make her forget her dark past and savor the moment. It was her cold finger tips that brushed against his face when she shifted the hair from his face that woke him. Without opening his eyes he smiled and grabbed her hand
"Your fingers are cold" He breathed a warm breath onto her fingers and rubbed them gently. He was surprised her hands where so soft, from holding guns all the time he thought they would be coarse but hers was soft and smooth real woman's hands.
"They are always cold" She pulled away rolling away from him she didn't want to continue sucking the heat from him like the Vampyre she was. His warmth was the cold reminder of what she was.
"They don't have to be" He shuffled over to give her more warmth but she tore away getting up off the bed
"Did I say something?"
She didn't answer just looked at her watch sundown was at least an hour ago.
"Great" She snapped pulling open the door and marched upstairs.
"Now I have to find a pair of pants" She growled
"No you don't" Kraven answered sitting in a large hand carved wooden chair his eyes scanning the rarely viewed bare area of her thigh. He sat with a sleazy smirk on his face obviously enjoying the view. Selene stood still glaring at him she had no weapons nothing. Kraven put his hands up as if he where surrendering
"I come for business no need for that look"
"Business?" She sarcasticly snapped back
"Yes, both sides are after us we are better watching each others back and a few others I have rallied up both Lycans and Vampyre's who are not welcome either side"
"You shot Lucian in the back how are we to trust you!" Michael snapped
"Well I'm only offering a place to go with those who are in the same situation" Kraven took a piece of card out of his pocket and placed it on the table next to him then got to his feet.
"You could say kicking me down the street then running me over to me shooting you calls that about even don't you think? Besides I have all the money from all sides I could make your living style very comfortable" He took a step closer to Selene. Kraven backed off as soon as Michael took a step closer to Selene
"Just give it a thought" Kraven turned away and walked out.
"Like we would" Michael snapped picking up the note about to rip it up when Selene snatched it off him
"We may need it you never know" She stuffed it into a pouch on her belt.
"It could be a trap"
"I don't know if you have noticed but we have nothing, no food, no money and no cloths"
"I have some money"
"Not in the quantities we need to get out of here"
"So you're saying we should go with him? It could be a trap I know he wants to kill me"
"At this point Michael everyone wants to kill you" She snapped watching Kraven get in the car at the end of the drive. She looked back at Michael who lowered his head a little she instantly felt bad
"I didn't mean it like that"
"Well I don't know what I've done to upset you ever since you woke you you've been… grumpy" She stood watching her for a moment in silence.
"But I know your not, I heard you last night crying"
Selene looked away forgetting his hybrid ears heard a lot more than her Vampyre ones.
"I'm not one of them Selene, I don't want to hurt you"
"I know" She walked up stairs to look for a pair of pants of some sort once again stuffing her feelings away ignoring them. Finding an old pair of tattered brown flares that had a few holes at the bottom she came back down the stairs tucking the flared ends into the boots.
"Retro"
"What?"
"Never mind an old saying" She sat down on a chair with no back and crossed her arms.
"Why don't we leave" Michael suggested
"And go where? They will find us as soon as we walk out that door"
"They'll find us if we say here"
"Then where as good as dead"
"I thought you where a warrior!"
"I was… but Kraven was right" she muttered
"What!"
"He said I took the warrior business far too seriously, I did"
"So you're going to roll over and die?"
"No exactly no"
"Oh so you have nothing to live for is that it? You bite me and change me into a form in this underworld to leave me here alone" he growled.
"No Michael that is not what I meant" She snapped back.
"Why don't we leave? Get on a plane and fly away? Start a new life somewhere else? I mean wouldn't your family want you to move on and be happy? Maybe have a family of your own or something?"
To his surprise Selene's face softened up
"I have to say that has crossed my mind, more than once. But you must understand it's not as easy as that as a human yes but not as a Vampyre. I can't get on a plain, I have no passport no money and most flights cross over into the day I'll burn up" She explained in a more calm tone.
"Steal a van and we drive"
"No I have a better idea" She pulled the card Kraven gave her out and waved it about.