Disclaimer: see chapter 1
A/N: Major change alert! I completely rewrote the journal entry by Viktor about how he turned Selene in order to reflect how it was in Underworld Evolution
Funny Quote:
Watching the first crypt scene, the set was built on a basket ball court. Scott complains how they couldn't actually play on the court.
Len: Didn't you go, you went outside of town
Scott: I went outside of town-
Len: I mean like out side of town, like an hour and a half
Scott: Yeah the bellhop of my hotel… I kept walking out with a basketball
Kate: You know why the bellhop liked you, it was the short shorts
Laughter
Scott: They were not short, they were basketball shorts
Len: Those were short, they were like-
Kate: We argued about those shorts the whole time
Len: He comes out in these Richard Simmons shorts
Scott: Those were real basketball shorts
Len: They look like on the cover of a "Wheatys" box
Scott: Well, maybe I wash them too much but those are my favorite pair of they were good, stretched out.
Kate: It's because you like short shorts
Scott: Those were MJ basketball shorts, Michael Jordan; he doesn't wear short shorts.
Kate: Well, you do
Scott: Well, Okay so I need a new pair.
Chapter 9: Who are you?
"You can never come here again. They'll kill you, do you understand?" Selene began as soon as the car had begun to speed away from the mansion.
"Why, who are you people?" Michael asked, clearly confused. Felicite could hear a moment of silence except for shifting in seats and the ruffling of clothes.
Selene let out a breath in what sounded like frustration. "Whether you like it or not, you're in the middle of a war that has been raging for the better part of a thousand years, a blood feud between vampires and lycans, werewolves. Consider yourself lucky most humans die within an hour of being bitten by an immortal, the viruses we transmit are deadly," she explained.
"And if you bit me, what I become a Vampire instead?"
"No, you'd die. No one has ever survived a bite from both species. And by all rights I should I'd stop the car and kill you myself…"
"Then why are you helping me?"
"I'm not. I track down and kill your kind," Selene corrected nastily. "My only interest is finding out why Lucian wants you so badly."
They both fell silent, unsure what to say to the other. The rest of the car ride was short, but with Selene driving, how could it not? Selene stopped the car in front of a huge concrete building, belonging to the coven as a hide out. Selene got out of the car and Michael followed her lead. But Felicite waited, sure that if she was caught here, she would be in big trouble.
She hid in the car for fifteen minutes, enough time for them to make it to the interrogation room. Feeling it might be safe to go up in that general vicinity, she rose for the first time up off the back floor of the car. The old safe house was not a familiar place to her, 'thanks to Selene sheltering me,' she thought. Felicite had never been out of the mansion before her adventure in Michael's apartment building. That still didn't stop her from knowing where the room was. She could smell her two companions' path. On the fifth floor she found the room but, hid inside the foyer to the interrogation room. She hid in a dark corner with her back against the wall and her knees at her chin. However she could hear the two immortals talking on the other side of the wall. She listened, unsure what else to do.
"Why do you hate them so much?" Michael asked.
"I've told you, we're at war," Selene answered coldly.
"So you're just following orders?" She didn't answer. "Why can't you just answer the question?" Again she ignored him. "Fine," he conceded.
"Something was in the stables, tearing our horses to pieces. I couldn't have saved my mother or my sister, their screams woke me. My father died outside, trying to fend them off. I stood at my door about to run to my nieces' room when… twin girls, barely six years old, butcher like animals."
"Jesus Christ," Michael empathized almost inaudibly.
"The next thing I knew I was in his arms. The war had spilled into our house. He'd been tracking the lycans for days. He drove them off and saved me," she said a knot audibly in her throat.
"Who?"
"Viktor, the oldest and strongest of us. That night he made me a vampire. He gave me the strength to avenge my family, since then I've never looked back," Selene finished, answering his questions. But clearly she felt if he were to know his past, she was going to learn his. "I saw your pictures, who is the woman, your wife?" she asked.
Michael took a deep breathe; this was clearly a touchy subject. "I tried to swerve but he hit us anyways. Sent us right into a lane of on coming traffic. When I came to, I realize that part of the engine was in the front seat and she was pinned, not six inches from me, in this horrible position. I think she was in shock because she just kept asking me over and over again if I was okay. She was more worried about me. You know if I knew then what I know now, I could have saved her; there is no doubt n my mind about that. But instead she died right there, about two minutes before the ambulance arrived. After that, I didn't see any reason to stick around. I had spent a summer here with my grandfather when I was a kid so… After I got my degree, I just…I took off. I came here to move on, to forget. It seemed like a good idea at the time."
"And have you… moved on?" Selene asked.
"Have you?"
"Julia," Felicite breathed. Her friend and cousin's wife was dead. Although Julia was two years older than Felicite, they had been friends for what seemed like forever. They were at one of Felicite's parents' parties when Felicite introduced Julia to Michael. After they started dating, their friendship had only become stronger, but when Felicite's parents had died, she had to leave the country. That was when she lost her memory and they thought she had died. She never truly got to say good bye and now, never would. Felicite didn't hear any more of Selene and Michael's conversation as she began to sob over the lost of a long forgotten friend.
It was a good twenty minutes later that she finally calmed down and whipped away her tears. She became ashamed of her weakness. She also realized that she should be happy because her memories were slowly, one at a time, coming back to her. Michael had to be the key to that. He was the reason to why she remembered Julia, and her family and the…everything. It all was coming back.
Even as her memory continued to come back to her, it became evident that Selene was missing. There was silence on the other side of the wall except for what sounded like chains clanging. She got up and whipped her still slightly wet eyes. She walked into the interrogation room to find Michael chained to a concrete chair. "What happened?" Felicite asked. Michael had looked at her when she had come through the door, and was surprised to see her.
"Who are you?"
"Felicite, Felicite Vander," she answered.
"How is that? She died three years ago, in a homicide," he said.
"Well, I am Felicite Vander. Selene saved me from the Lycans the night my grandfather was killed. She made me a vampire so no, I didn't die," Felicite said.
"That is not possible. They said you died. They never found the body," he said unbelieving.
"They never found my body because Selene saved me," she said walking up and standing directly inform of him. I had amnesia so she turned me so I would have a home. Grandfather was the last living relative that Selene could find so she saved me from an orphanage," Felicite said.
"I thought it was you back in the mansion but with all the other weird things going on in there, I thought I was just going crazy. Oh, god, Licy, I thought I would never see you again," he said getting up and hugging her. She hugged him back, thankful for having some family, a link to her past. They released each other and Michael asked, "How did you get here it is almost sunrise?" motioning toward the open window. Felicite quickly ran to it and shut the blinds.
"I've been here the whole time. I was hiding in the next room until I realized that Selene was gone. She will kill me when she finds out I was here the whole time," she told him. "What are you doing chained up?"
"Selene did it to me when we kissed," he said.
"You kissed?" Felicite asked excited that Selene would open up like that.
"Yeah, well the point is that it ended with me in shackles," he insisted. Felicite gave a small giggle at the comment. "Can you get me out?" he asked.
"Well, why did she lock you up? Were you being a bad boy?" she asked in return.
"She said something about it being a full moon tomorrow and that I would change, kill, and feed," he explained.
"I forgot tomorrow was a full moon. She is right Michael, You need to stay like this until someone can watch you, someone experienced," she corrected before he could argue. "But I can keep you company," she comforted at the sight of his long face.
"I guess company is better than nothing," he said.
"And this company is better than some others I can think of," Felicite gloated. Michael only gave a small laugh.
They sat for a few moments in silence before Michael decided to speak. "So, what memories do you have before… well, you lost your memory?" he asked.
"Nothing," she answered. "I didn't even know my name until Selene found it. That is why she calls me Cat. She started calling me that before she found out my name, but I like Cat better. However she is the only one who understood that point, so she is the only one who still calls me that…" Felicite began rambling, beginning to speak so fast that Michael had a problem understanding her.
"Whoa, whoa, calm down. So you don't remember anything?"
"No, not until she found you. Your face was just enough of a jog to remind me of you, Julia, my parents, and remember where this came from," she said pulling her locket out from inside her black top. Michael gawked at the golden locket in the girl's hand.
"Julia picked it out. She was hoping you would like it," he said reaching out to touch it. Felicite came close enough for him grab hold of the pendant.
"I never took it off. I was wearing it when Grandfather died and they tried to kill me," she said.
Michael dropped the locket allowing it to fall and hit Felicite's chest. "Who killed him and attempted to do the same to you?"
"The lycans," she answered unable to look at him. It was ironic, the reason she lost her memory was because of the beast she hated and now the one person who had been able to revive her memory was becoming one of them. She knew it was not by his choice but it was still weird.
"Oh," was all he had to say.
"You should get some rest. Selene will return tomorrow night and you will need al your strength to resist the change," Felicite said getting up and sitting with her back against the far wall. He gave a sigh of defeat and attempted to go to sleep. Although Felicite was tired, she had too much going on in her head to actually be able to sleep. She shifted restlessly in her corner. But when she shifted, she could feel something hard in the pocket of her coat. She reached inside the pocket to find what she had left in there much earlier that night. She opened it again but this time to a much later date than when she had read before. She began to read the words written a good six hundred of years ago by the well taught hand of the elder Viktor.
"I couldn't risk leaving the family alive. Although Seamus had done magnificent work on me, he knew too much for him to be allowed to live. A pity that I had to kill him and his family, but the sport of it was thrilling.
"I took Kraven and a few of his most trusted men, including Soren, which did not thrill me, but I gave Kraven a first chance to prove himself. We crept up silently, but the horses seemed to sense our presence and worked themselves into a frenzy. Seamus came to the stable in hopes of finding and eliminating the problem. When realizing whom it was, he did not fight. In turn, he was the first to meet his end. I moved with on to the house, and took the lady next. His eldest daughter followed shortly behind her mother, their blood delicious. The men killed two young twins. The screams of her mother and sister woke Seamus' youngest, Selene. At seeing her family dead, and hearing the men, she took off, fearful of her own life. She took off towards the stable, unsure where else to go. The men and I followed once realizing she was gone, not far behind when she reached the stable. I found her weeping over her father's dead body. She whipped around at hearing me enter fear in her eyes. Looking upon her face, she looked too much like my precious Sonja for me to kill her. She came and wept on my shoulder, just like my daughter had when she was alive and had a problem. I decided then to make her like a daughter, like the one I lost only a few years before.
"I told her that the lycans had killed her family, and she believed me, agreeing to be turned. She was strong, becoming a vampire with class and without fear. She returned with us to the mansion and has pledged to become a death dealer, saying she is determined to avenge her dead family. She will become the best warrior in the coven, my Selene."
Felicite's jaw dropped at what she read. It was impossible. Viktor lied to Selene? Her hero was actually the one who she should hate. It was hard to comprehend. But as hard as that was to comprehend, what was she to do now? Should she tell her, or just pretend she never learned such things. Digging into the past was forbidden and revealing this information would divulge her folly.
With all of the information she had just attained, her head began to spin, but sleep was slowly able to take over and calm her whirling mind.