Disclaimer: see chapter 1
A/N: not much changed, a little of the wording
Funny Quote:
In the interrogation room talking about the tools on the table for removing the silver bullets
Kate: All the women on the set walked past the table and thought, 'Damn, I must get a Pap smear.'
Chapter 8: The Crypt
"Okay, what am I to do?" Felicite asked, looking at Selene, quite bewildered.
"Now Cat, I want you to understand that what I am about to do is against the covenant, but I fear it is also the only way to save this coven. Once they learn what I have done, I will need to answer for my actions, and the punishment will be great. Are you still willing to help?" she asked looking straight into Felicite's eyes for her to understand the true severity of her words.
"Yes," she answered plainly.
"If you're sure, go to the surveillance booth and tell the guard on duty that Kahn wants to see him. Then sit and wait. If you see anyone coming, flick the lights off and on, then hide. If I get caught, hopefully you can at least stay out of trouble," she ordered. Felicite gave a nod and proceeded into the crypt. Looking into the tainted glass, she did all she was instructed to. As soon as the guard, Duncan, had left, she entered the abandoned booth silently entrusted to her.
She immediately allowed Selene into the crypt and went to work setting the closed circuit televisions to the stations necessary to her job of watching Selene's back. The final screen was set to look inside the crypt itself. There she sat and watched Selene's unexplained actions.
Selene walked over to the copper colored circle on the right side of the room. It was one of three laid in the turquoise tiled floor. They lay arranged on the floor in an equilateral triangle. In the center of each sat a small initial, an A, M, or V, one for each of the elders. However, Selene knelt beside the one baring the V. Viktor lay beneath the cap resting, in theory, undisturbed until his turn to rule in just over 100 years. That was when it occurred to Felicite what was about to happen. Selene was planning to awaken Viktor! 'So, that was what she was talking about when she said she was going to commit a crime against the Coven,' she thought.
Selene grabbed a hold of the inner circle and turned it a quarter turn. Ancient gears grinded to life forcing various parts of the cap to spring to life in an unknown sequence. It sunk into the floor, split into fourths, and spread apart, revealing a large V. The coffin baring the V rose above the ground, tower over Selene. She hastily released a button on either side allowing it to turn on its axis so that it came to rest horizontal, like a cradle. That was when Felicite could finally see what lay inside but what she saw was far from what she expected. Inside rested a mummified Vampire. Although never having seen Viktor before now, she was sure that this thing lying inside the tomb was a far cry from the glorious elder Selene use to describe. Selene as well was obviously surprised by the present state of her dark father. Yet she pushed her horror aside in order to finish the task at hand. She released another hidden button on the side of the sarcophagus. Again ancient gears grinded to life, moving a small silver tube down the middle of the coffin to come to rest over the vampires open mouth. Selene unzipped part of her sleeve and raised her exposed wrist to her mouth, where she bit into her own flesh. She removed her bleeding wrist and wiped her mouth and allowed a stream of the crimson liquid to fall into a series of shallow silver bowls on the side of the sarcophagus. It began to run through the bowls, and into the tube, where the drops fell passed peeled back lips into a parched mouth.
With that part of her task completed, Selene disappeared from view to do only she knew what. Felicite took that time to do what she was suppose to be doing all along, check the monitors. She had not been watching them as she should, having been entranced with the events occurring within the tomb, and the last thing she needed was be caught in the surveillance room off guard. Lucky for her, it seemed all clear. Looking back, Selene had moved Viktor somewhere else, allowing her do her original job undistracted. Felicite again looked at each of the monitors only this time she saw someone. Not just anyone though, Soren, and he was headed their way, not far away. She must have missed him on her last look over the monitors; he was too close to have just started on his way towards them. Felicite quickly flashed the lights inside the tomb and switched all the monitors back to where they had been. When Soren entered, Felicite was pulling her coat tail behind the console she was hiding behind. Her heart was beating a mile a minute and she had begun taking shallow breaths through her mouth to be as soundless as possible. But the tense worry soon died as she heard the stone tomb doors open and Soren leave the room. He soon returned though mumbling something along the lines of, "he is lucky nothing is wrong." She smirked at the realization that they had so far gotten away with it. Feeling confident he had no idea that she was in the room, she peaked around the corner. For the first moment all was okay but they both soon noticed a cab pull up and let a passenger out in front of the mansion. Soren was almost immediately on the phone and it didn't take long for Felicite to realize that the cold, wet, wandering man was none other than Michael Corven.
"What's so pressing," Kraven asked at about the same time Michael found the inter com on the wall of the gate way.
"See for yourself," Soren answered showing him the screen which was now full of Michael's face.
"I want to speak to Selene!" he yelled. Selene herself had exited the tomb through a back door in hopes of not being noticed. But hearing Michael's voice she came closer to truly see if it was him, allowing Kraven to catch sight of her.
"Is it Michael?" he demanded. Selene did not respond. "Is it Michael!" he asked more desperately this time.
Again she ignored him and just answered Michael, "I'll be right out."
"If you leave, you will never be welcome in this house again," Kraven demanded.
"Now that Viktor's awake, we'll see what he has to say about that," she retorted. She stormed out, Felicite silently on her heels.
Exiting the tomb, Selene didn't stop, or seem to take notice that Felicite had escaped. She headed up the stairs, as though going to her room, but in stead Felicite decided to go straight to the car. Felicite knew that the moment Selene realized she was there she would make her leave. That was just not acceptable to her. She ran as fast as she could down to the garage and hoped into the gray le sabre, Selene's newest issued car since she crashed her other one. Lying flat on the back floor, she waited for a few quick minutes for Selene to get there. She hopped in the car and sped off like the demon from hell vampires were said to be. She slammed on the brakes just outside the mansion gate. "Get in," she heard her say to who ever opened the door, she assumed Michael.