Lucian slept on the couch during most of the day hearing the faint words of Michael talking to Selene as he dozed lightly he didn't care what happened between them as long as he and Michael where on the same team.
Selene awoke with cloggy eyes from a night full of tears that didn't seem to stop no matter how much she had wanted them to. She remembered Michael sleeping next to her but his warm presence was gone. Lightly stretching as everything came into focus she felt a pair of eyes watching her.
In moments of turning around Selene's heart almost leapt with fright in auto pilot reaction she flung herself up onto the roof and scurried along to the corner looking down at Lucian who stood next to the bed his eyes black. He frowned at her, in response she let out a high pitch hiss at him
"What where you doing?" She ordered trying to keep her grip to the wall but her ability could only allow her to cling to the roof for only so long
"I was just looking for something" He spoke calmly.
"And what would that be?" She snapped coldly glaring at him as she slowly slid down the wall. She swore she saw his glare soften for a brief moment
"Looking for what Viktor saw of Sonja in you, his replacement daughter"
Selene finally landed on her feet staring at Lucian not knowing quite what to say, the one thing she did know was she had flipped herself into a corner and now Lucian stood in the path of her own way out.
Lucian could more then tell by her defensive stance she was apprehensive at him nearing her and looking for a way out of her cornered state.
"Personally I can't see any of her in you, not in your looks, not in your cold eyes and certainly not in your nature, you as frozen as ice Sonja was warm and caring… obviously something your never capable of" he spoke stern as he inched closer to her. She gave off another hiss as a warning
"Back off!"
"Or what?"
She hissed at him again leaving her teeth bared backing till she was against the wall she knew she had no chance against a hybrid she had no weapons, nothing.
"I said back off" She snapped trying to jump past him but he grabbed her ankle before she got past his shoulder and slammed her back into the corner.
"Michael!" She yelped as she hit the solid concrete.
"That's it" Lucian said taking a step back. Selene awkwardly sat up
"What! Where is Michael?" She spoke but not as abruptly, she said crouched a little like a child who had been hit putting them into place.
"He is getting you food" Lucian took another step back his eyes still peeled on her.
"I have got what I came down to see you for" He backed off completely leaving her sitting on the floor. Selene knew Michael had joined and made pack with Lucian, Lucian had to see her as one of his pack and in a way by his own natural instinct putting her in her place wanting to shift her down in the pecking order.
In other names letting her know who's boss.
Michael came in the front door carrying two bags of take away and a pack of blood for Selene.
"Smells good what ever it is" Lucian said licking his lips.
"Is Selene awake?"
"Yes"
"Is she coming up?"
"I'm not sure and about what she said last night" Lucian whispered looking to the basement door direction
"It was a lie, she does care and trust you" Lucian said most certain of himself after Selene yelped for Michael it was a way of forcing the truth from her Lucian just wanted to be certain.
"How do you know?" Michael said passing him a bag of food
"I talked to her" Lucian said quickly pulling it open and pulling out the burgers.
"You talked to her?"
"Yes" Lucian answers spitting food out as he spoke with his mouth full. Michael put his own bag down and picked up the blood pack taking it down to Selene. He found her sitting on the side of the bed leaning over
"Here I have some blood for you" he spoke and smiled warmly as he approached her. She sat up looking at him he stopped seeing her red eyes
"You've been crying again"
For some reason she expecting him to be annoyed or something hostile toward her since she was showing weakness but he didn't. His face softened and he sat next to her like he did the night before and gave her another hug. How could this be she asked herself, someone who actually wants to care or could this be another lie she realized making herself pull away. She reached for the blood pack disguising her pulling away as hunger
"Thank you" she whispered biting into the packet. She closed her eyes as the chilled liquid gold drained from its packet into her mouth she devoured it like she had been starved for a week, Michael sat watching her with such curiosity and interest there was still a lot about this wounded soul that he so wanted to know and heal. As the packet neared on empty Selene finally stopped drinking to open her eyes and look to her side seeing the smiling Michael watching. She took the packet away from her mouth
"It's just my nature" She muttered.
"I know I was just… thinking" He paused for a moment as Selene's pink lips where now a lustrous red with the blood she was drinking, for the first time Michael was compelled at an attraction to drink blood from the enticement of it sitting on her lip. He snapped out of his lustful fantasy realizing she had tensed up her expression had changed to one that was unsure of him, she had seen his black eyes fall to her mouth and became uneasy of his intention if it was a harmless kiss or a sinister bite.
"Sorry I didn't mean to stare"
"Your eyes Michael" She told him about to wipe her lip with her finger when he stopped her with a half smile.
"I would never hurt you" he said so warmly, the type of warmth Viktor would use to lie to her yet somehow when Michael spoke it, it was so much different.
Truth.
"I don't know if you know you can control the beat inside you" Her words turned into a whisper as he pulled her in closer
"It's not a full moon" he answered finishing his sentence locking his lips on hers.
Selene hated him for this, she melted into him every time he came so close and made such contact she could not resist yet was thankful for it in moments such as these the trouble of her whole life was a blur there was nothing else but the two of them, she didn't need to worry about where they where going to go, what they where going to do. It was just the two of them in a moment that made her feel, not human she would never be a human again and she had long come to except that, it made her feel warm and alive.
A lingering lust that forever seemed be withheld finally emerged, Selene finally let go of her stubbornness and let her self open she let her hands run up over his chest up to his neck where they pulled her arms up drawing herself in closer making the kiss deepen with more passion than before. Michael was pleasantly surprised by her move, to him his confidence to finally lean in and kiss her on his accord not hers was paying off. His hand responded like hers trailing around her smaller waist pulling her body against his, his arm resting across the arc of her back while the other found its way across her thigh until she suddenly jolted pulling away.
He could tell it was a sudden jolt of pain. She smiled ever so slightly that did not go unnoticed
"You have no idea how beautiful you are when you smile" He tried to provoke it into a full smile. Instead she looked away
"Those stitch things are still on, I think you ripped one off when it got caught to the pants" She told him getting up.
"Would you like me to take a look at the wound?" he happily volunteered.
"It would have healed by now the dressing just needs to come off" She picked up the blood sachet and finished it off.
"I better get moving if I want to get to Kraven's before I spot any dealers or Lycans" She headed for the door to hesitate slightly as she picked up Lucian's scent.
"Are you sure you want to do this?"
Michael asked following her up the steps, she was more comfortable with Michael close when near Lucian, she still couldn't believe Michael had left her alone venerable and sleeping while Lucian was around. She guessed Michael didn't really realize how much dealers and Lycans including X Lycans hated each other.
"I don't see why you don't just kill Kraven and take the money then he won't have him on our tails for all eternity"
"If he has no money then he cannot chase us" Michael answered, Selene stood quiet not giving Lucian eye contact.
"I will ring the clinic if anything goes wrong" Selene talked to Michael totally ignoring Lucian.
"Or my cell phone number" Lucian said waving his phone then wrote his number down and held it out to Selene
"Hope you don't mind me giving your girlfriend my number" he joked. He got a laugh out of Michael and naturally he got a glare out of Selene just as he expected, her answer was just her snatching the number and stuffing it into her pocket.
"You'll hear from me" She said stern marching out the front door.
"Selene wait" Michael ran outside after her
"Hey it was just a joke to lighten the mood"
"He's getting on my wick, I hope you don't thing he's coming with us when I get the money"
"He's part of our pack"
"I'm doing this for us not him"
Michael smiled
"Us" He said pointing out she finally came out with 'us' not 'you and me'.
She frowned at him narrowing her eyes
"I mean it in a good way, at least let me give you a goodbye kiss I know you don't need one for luck" he tried to patch up from over stepping the line.
"Michael…" Before she could cover herself in her stubborn mask he stole the words from her mouth by stealing a quick kiss.
"I'll be waiting" he smirked watching her try not to smile heading off down the drive.
On the inside Selene cursed at herself, great now she has a weakness from Michael.
elvishphoenix: Thanks. Usually dont two two storys at once but I put my foot in it by posting a pilot chapter to Raminisce for once lived hymns. This one will only be a short one for all those who annoy me for a Michael and Selene fic heheheheh.
loving it: Thankyou. I usually post a chapter a day (on my Song to the Siren triliogy and I think thats why it got its popularity) I did not get many reveiws for that one till Iabout the 10th chapter. Now the 2nd on to that one has 356 reviews or something like that but thats not the point the difference is I write and post because I love writing and posting chapters wheather people like them or not, its nice to have a reveiw to know people are reading it but I'm not one who holds chapters to randsom because im not getting reveiws that just seems to defeat the purpose of writing :) to me anyway. I need the practice hehehe. Thanks again for the review and I will finish the story I garentee that (Unless Im hit by a bus or something) I like to finish things I start.