The reason I'm putting Marcus in here is for a few reasons, I decided to go somewhere else with my story. I might bring him back but I'm not sure yet… This next chapter is a bit different. Like the Summery says… What will happen to Marcus and Selene after Selene met her real father? Will they be closer, or farther apart?

Thanks to Evelyn (ecm84) for helping me to write my story she's a big help XD

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Underworld: Covened Beings

By: Holly

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Chapter Nine: Strawberry Gashes

"Selene?" Selene looked up as she heard the voice of her father. She stood up. The fire went away and Gage entered the room.

"Sorry about that, it's just, I really would like to get to know you." He told Selene as she yawned. She had been sitting there almost all morning and was extremely tired.

"Well you could have just said, come back tomorrow" She said as she stood up, wiping her pants to get the dirt off. She sighed and put her hands on her hips.

"You look tired, anything I can do?" Gage asked his daughter as He walked toward her. She shook her head.

"No… Look, I really think we should do this another time. I've spent almost 150 years thinking that my father was the man who raised me and all of a sudden I find out I've never been human in my whole entire life and that the devil is my father. It's a bit hard to take in on such short notice" Selene told him as she crossed her arms over her chest. Gage nodded.

"I understand Selene. And I don't want to be a burden, I just felt like you should have known" Gage admitted as he walked over to a painting that looked familiar. She glanced up at it squinting her eyes a bit.

"Mum's painting" She said simply. She remembered it now. When her mother was turning 40, Selene had gotten it for her mother's birthday. She smiled when she looked at it. She always thought it looked like her mother as a child. She looked at her father once more it looked like he adored the painting.

"After Viktor had taken you, I got one of my minions to grab it from the house and bring it to me" He confessed. Selene nodded before speaking

"Look, I have to get home. Marcus is probably going bonkers right now" Selene told her father. He nodded and turned to her.

"Is there another time I could meet with you? I really would like to know how you have been" He said generously. Selene nodded.

"How about tomorrow? I have tomorrow off. And I can just drive over, I don't need you sending your minions" She said with a small chuckle. He smiled and nodded.

"As you wish my child" Selene nodded to her father and began to walk out but then turned around to face him.

"Were you happy?" She asked her father. He looked at her before realizing whom she was talking about. He nodded.

"At one point, yes we were" Gage told Selene, hoping it would help at least a little bit. She nodded turned and walked out. Gage watched her leave silently. He left the room walking into his own room. He closed the door and walked over to an odd looking door.

Checking behind him first, he looked at the locked door and it locked. He turned and took his long black robe off. He laid it on the chair next to the weird door revealing a large and odd symbol on his back. It almost looked as if something were sewn and melted into his back under his skin. He opened the doors, flames were in the cult like cabinet he reached in and pulled out an athame.

Holding the athame to his wrist, he slowly dug its sharp cold edge into his skin. He let out a small sigh as he bled the black blood the poured from his wrist. He held his wrist over a silver bowl as the black blood started to fall from his flesh. He let out a sigh and squeezed his wrist, making the blood almost pour into the bowl.

Gage started to chant in an odd language. He closed his eyes and the blood caught fire. He opened his eyes again and reached over to a jar, he pulled out an odd looking shaped bone and put it in the blood. The blood started to glow a green color as he added a blue liquid. He winced a little as his eyes turned black.

Gage reached over and grabbed a piece of flesh then added it to the bowl. He pulled his hand away then added the pebble and licked where he had pierced his flesh with the athame. He grabbed a handful of some type of hair and added it as well.

Gage gave an evil laugh, his sliver fangs showing. Gage's skin started to turn red as he chanted. He stuck his hand in the bowl as the liquid blood covered his hand. He chanted his last words.

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Selene walked into the house and into her room where Marcus sat on her bed with a worried look painted over his face. He looked up as soon as he heard footsteps.

"Selene! Where in the bloody hell have you been?" Marcus asked, his male protective side coming out.

"With My father, Marcus" Selene told him as she took off her jacket and laid it on the bed. She sat down and closed her eyes. Marcus was a bit confused.

"I thought Viktor killed your father?" Marcus asked as he got up and came around to the side Selene was sitting on and sat next to her.

"No. He was my sister's father. My mum had an affair with the devil's son, my real father. He's the devil now" Selene informed him. Marcus's jaw dropped open shocked.

"Wow. That's a big thing to drop on you" Marcus said after a few minutes of Silence. Selene tried hard not to cry. She felt betrayed by her mother. Marcus saw the look on her face and wished he could take the pain away.

Selene gasped as a body crippling pain shot through her whole body. She felt like her body was on fire… She was having an episode. She shook her head.

"No" She screamed as she fell to the floor. Marcus watched as her hair caught a flame. He got up and backed away. Her screams were echoing as the ground shook under them.

"Selene?" Marcus asked in a bit of a shout. She fell forward even though her hair was touching the floor, nothing caught fire. The bed pushed it's self back as she let out another scream. She heard her father's voice in her head.

"No…" Selene gasped as her hands engulfed in flames. The fire kept going from red to a greenish tint.

"Daddy…" Selene said as she looked up, her fingernails digging in the sides of her face. Marcus shook his head. Selene let another scream and closed her eyes tight.

"Snap out Selene!" Marcus yelled as he got down on his knees and pulled Selene to him. She kept screaming and crying. His body was engulfed in flames but it did not burn him. He did however start to get weak.

"Don't…Mess…With… Me…" Marcus gasped as he too heard Gage's voice. Selene snapped out of it and looked at Marcus who fell back. His body went into seizures. Selene gasped. For some odd reason she started to cry for him.

"No Marcus!" She gasped as she kneeled down, her hair and hands still on fire. Marcus's eyes started to turn black and his body started to turn a blue color. Selene got up and watched as his body fought against her father's wrath.

Just then, Selene felt a power surge unlike anything before. The room filled with a bright light and her body lifted within the air. Her arms and legs dangled, her head fell back as well. Her whole body had a blast through it. She opened her eyes, pure white. She lifted her hand as white flames engulfed her hands she pointed her hands toward Marcus. Marcus gasped as his body too lifted within the air.

"Selene!" Marcus gasped as the power surge flowed through him as well. The fire died in both of them. There bodies both fell to the floor. Marcus got up and looked at Selene. She was sweating and gasping for air. Marcus crawled over to her and pulled her into his arms she had heaps of gashes all over her, bleeding like crazy.

Marcus picked her up and weakly stumbled to the bathroom. He put her into the bath, not removing her clothes and turned the water on hot, He leaned over the side of the tub and held her, stroking her hair. He kept whispering everything would be okay in her ear.

As the tub filled with the clear water, it also mixed with the red blood that came from Selene's gashes. Marcus closed his eyes and hoped for her wounds to heal quickly enough.

"Marcus" Selene said in a raspy but gentle voice. Marcus opened her eyes as Selene lifted a bloody hand to his face. Marcus stroked her face gently. She let out a smile, one he had never seen. She smiled for real she was not faking it. Marcus smiled back as he stroked her face.

"Shhhh" He told her as he looked into her cold ice blue eyes. She nodded and closed her eyes. They must have been sitting in there for what seemed like forever. Marcus finally regained his strength back and Selene's wounds were healing. Marcus pulled her from the water, feeling her breathing slow as her body calmed.

Marcus changed Selene, like he had before when he had awakened from her bad dream incident. He laid her in her bed he knew she would sleep better in her own bed. He also changed into a comfy pair of pants and kept his shirt off. Marcus did not know if he should but he was not going to let Selene from her sight.

Marcus walked into her room and lay in bed next to her. He pulled her clothed body close to him as he felt her sleep. He lay behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist and kept her close and safe to him.

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"Its not you he wants he wants me Marcus. He's doing this because I am my mother's child" Selene said as she sat on the floor next to her bed, a few visible scars from the gashes.

"What do you mean because you are your mother's child?" Marcus asked as he pulled his shirt on his body. Selene got up and sat on the bed.

"My Mother raised me. I am most likely to choose something that my mother would choose then he would. He thinks that if he can possess me then he can change me. Maybe make me think to like him" Selene got up and walked to her closet, pulling out her old death dealer wear. She walked into her bathroom and closed it but still talking to Marcus.

"Choose what though?" Marcus asked as he strapped up his boots.

"Choose to continue to see him or not." Selene said as she zipped up her black plastic leather body suit.

"But him being who he is, he can just appear at any time"

"I am aware of that Marcus. As much as I don't want to do this, I have to" Selene slipped her boots on and strapped them up.

"We can fight him off our self" Marcus said as he pulled his long trench coat over his shoulders.

"No we can't. I think there was another power helping us defeat off the possession last night. It was not me I do not have that kind of strength" Selene walked out just as Marcus looked up. He couldn't catch his breath when he sees her. She held her corset in her hands. "Could you strap this for me?" Selene asked as she held it to her covered body. Marcus nodded and she turned, her back facing him. Slowly he strapped the back of her corset. She had pulled her hair away from one side of her neck and to the other side so he could strap it up fully. Marcus looked at her neck, feeling his blood pulse.

"Thank you." She said as she let her hair go. Marcus stood close to her as she turned. Selene looked up at him. He was much taller then her. Selene all of a sudden felt fear creep over her. Fear she would lose a battle over her father. But at the same time she was not sure that he was trying to hurt her. Selene looked down at the ground and let out a small sob. Marcus held Selene to his chest.

"I don't know what to do."

"It's alright, I'm here." Marcus told Selene, comforting her stroking her hair. For the first time she felt like she could trust someone more then in a long time. Marcus tilted her head up using his finger on her chin. He let his hand slide to her cheek. This was odd. He had never seen her cry green tears. He whipped them away. His breath was caught in his throat.

"Marcus" Selene said in a small whisper.

"Shhhh" He told her gently. He knew he was probably going to get his ass kicked but he was taking a chance. He leaned in and kissed her dead on her mouth. Letting their pale cold lips touching one another, sending shocks of electricity through their bodies to all of the right places.

Surprisingly Selene did not stop she kissed him back just as much as he kissed her. Marcus put both hands on her cheeks as he kissed her. Selene wrapped her arms around his torso as they kissed. Pressing their bodies together for once they were happy in each other's arms. They did not know where the night would lead the… But they knew they were not going to stop at the kissing. Only time would tell.

Selene could feel eyes on her but when she opened them, Marcus had his closed. She shrugged it off and closed her eyes as they continued to kiss, their hands roaming around the other.

In the window on the outside a man stood watching. He had an evil smirk on his face, he chuckled evilly and blinked his eyes and in seconds he was a small monkey. He leaped off into the trees.

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