Title- Lived, Lost and Loved
Summary-Michael and Selene's daughter gets taken away a few weeks after being born, but what happens when they find her and try to explain the past…
Rated T for language
Disclaimer- Don't own it, my little imagination isn't that great! The name Fiyero came from "Wicked" and I don't own the Hot Pockets organization and eventually Star Wars Episode 2 quotes.
A/N- First Underworld Fan Fiction…I have about 54 pages written as of now so it will be updated as I type them…hope I didn't royally screw it up!
Chapter 3- Real Life or Legend
"What the fuck is going Mike! I mean first you come to me saying that a grown man bite you…you go disappear for a while and come back with the mystery thing from the subway giving birth to your child! What the hell happened to you!" Adam shouted, letting all of his mixed emotions out at once.
"Adam, calm down! I'm gonna explain everything to you…but I need you to promise that you are going to have an open mind! What I'm about to tell you is going to seem totally crazy, but all of it's true…I swear!" Michael told him in a lower voice, he didn't want to wake up Selene or the baby.
"Michael, you already sound crazy! Who is she! Better yet, what?"
"Selene is a vampire…"
"What! Michael that is beyond crazy! Are you sure you are feeling okay? Everyone knows there is no such thing as vampires!" Adam started rambling on about how people used to believe they were real and that they are just a fun thing to be a Halloween.
"ADAM! God just sit down and shut up! Don't interrupt me…don't say a thing! Just listen to what I am going to tell you!" Michael's eyes started to go black, scaring Adam into sitting down and keeping quiet. "Vampires are real. Centuries ago…" He proceeded to tell Adam the same story Selene told him, adding in the corrections from Lucian's memories. "So then I got shot and was dying as a Lycan, but Selene bit me causing me to become what I am…a hybrid."
"But wait a second, you just said that you can't be both, that no one can survive that?"
"Yeah, I know, but I have this rare gene passed through my family going all the way back to the beginning of all immortals that allows my body to adapt to both."
"Right…" Adam said, totally in awe at what Michael had just told him. He spoke out loud as his mind tried to process what he had just learned, "So, werewolves and vampire are real—they hate each other—Selene is a vampire and you are both. Now the 'Lycans' and vampires are after you because of little Meghan in there and what Selene did to Viktor…"
"Exactly. We have been on the run for the past year, but couldn't go any longer because of the baby. Adam—" Michael said to get his full attention. "You can't tell anyone about this, any of it! We need to remain a myth to the humans. If they find out about us they may want to study us or see us as a threat and try to kill us too. And we don't need another group chasing us!"
"Yeah, sure I won't tell anyone!" Michael's eyes went black again, warning Adam of his seriousness. "I swear! I won't tell anyone! Just promise that you won't do the whole 'black eye' thing anymore! It's just plain creepy!"
"Sorry, it's what happens now that I am a hybrid; if I get angry or feel threatened they go black." Michael explained. He had gotten very good at controlling his urge to change when he would get angry, but some things you just can't control.
"No need to apologize…can I ask you some stuff. I mean, I don't want to pry, but you just told me that vampires and werewolves exist and…well what can I say, I'm curious."
Seeing that he had just dropped whole lot of shit on Adam, Michael agreed to answer some of his questions and sat down across from him, "Ask away…"
"Garlic—"
"No, that doesn't hurt us, that's just Hollywood…" Selene said walking out with Meghan in her arms. A lot more time had passed than Michael had realized. "It's totally untrue."
"Well, then what about sunlight?" Adam asked, slightly disappointed that garlic was a lie.
"Yes, that's very true. My kind go out in the sun, we burn up into ash," she answered.
"And Michael?"
"I can because I am half Lycan, but Selene still can't. Hopefully Meghan can," he told Adam as he lightly shook his daughter's little hand.
"Well you said that you turn into a hybrid…can I see it?"
"Selene doesn't turn really—" she cut him off. Selene felt that she could tell her side well enough. "My eyes turn bright blue and my canine teeth grow longer…"
"That's it! I would have expected—"
"Oh, well sorry to disappoint!"
"No it's okay," Adam continued, not fully realizing he had just hurt her feelings. "What about you Mike?"
"Yes, 'Mike', why don't you show him…" Selene suggested, trying to get him to scare Adam and get him back for insulting her. Michael understood and he himself thought it might be fun. "Alright, are you ready?"
"Hell yeah!" Adam answered, excited to see what he would become.
Michael's transitions had become much quicker over the past year and weren't noticeably painful. His shirt tore open because of his bulging muscles; bones bent and broke into new shapes as his skin took on its darker, almost black color. He stood in his hybrid form and turned to see that Adam had ducked behind the couch he had been sitting on.
Adam slowly popped his head up to see Michael's dark face and black eyes staring at him, "Ahhh!"
"Oh hush up!" Selene said, "He isn't going to hurt you! Michael was just playing around!"
He stood up, realizing he had just screamed like a six year old girl and said, "I knew that!" He took a step forward to cautiously examine his friend.
"Well go ahead!" Selene said, growing impatient. She knew Michael wasn't going to hurt him so there was no reason for him to take his jolly old time.
Adam reached up and touched Michael's shoulder, "Fascinating…the skin has changed color but has retained all of its normal properties. There aren't any scales or patches of anything, just a fine hair."
Just as he went to check Michael's teeth, Meghan let out a loud cry. Both men turned and looked at the child.
"Don't worry, she is probably just hungry. I'm going to go let her feed." Selene said as she stood up and went back into the room closing the door.
By the time Adam had turned back to Michael, he was already back in his human form looking through some of their bags for a new shirt.
"That was awesome! You can do that whenever you want! Can you stay like that for as long as you feel like?"
"Well, kinda…I can turn whenever, but how long I stay like that depends on if I've fed enough," he explained.
"Oh…so like a sandwich gives you like an extra hour?" Adam asked jokingly.
"Blood…we drink blood!"
"R i g h t ! Vampire….gotcha! Well listen, I have to go to work, do you think you two will be okay here while I'm gone?"
"I'm sure we'll be fine, just one thing…can I have some extra blankets or towels for the windows?" Michael asked, trying not to seem like a burden.
"Sunlight, I forgot! They are in the hall closet…bottom shelf. There is food in the fridge—if you still eat food," Adam told him.
"No thanks, but do you think you could snag some packs of blood?"
"Uh, I'll see what I can do. Any specific type: O-, A, B?" he asked doing his best to make it sound like a sincere question and not a joke.
"Ha-ha, no…anything will be fine."
"Okay, well my number is on the fridge…call if you need anything. See you guys later!" Adam said as he walked out the door.
"Yeah, bye!" Michael said, hoping that Adam could keep their secret and wondering why Adam already had his own number on the refrigerator.
Unfortunately, Adam never was too good at keeping secrets. He tried so hard not to tell anyone and made it more than half way through his shift before he caved. He walked up the stairwell of the hospital to the research floor and went to tell Meredith, the head researcher.
Adam and Meredith usually had lunch when they worked the twelve a.m. to six p.m. shift. He told her everything and she did the same.
"So last night, my friend Michael Corvin, you remember him right…" he started.
"The one who disappeared…yeah I remember you told me about him."
"Well he came to my house with this woman… who was in labor…and gave birth to his daughter in my apartment! Then he started going off on all this stuff about being a vampire-werewolf thing. I mean he was sounding totally nuts until he did this really cool thing. He turned like really dark blue and he got all these extra muscles and bones AND black eyes! It was the creepiest thing ever. You can't tell anyone! I wasn't supposed to tell you so you have to swear!"
"Adam? You sound like a raving lunatic!" she told him bluntly.
"No I swear it's the truth! Come over this weekend, I'll prove it to you! The Brown Apartments, room #317!"
"Fine, I'm going to come over…but when there is no 'vampire' or 'werewolf' man in your apartment, you need to promise that you are going to get more sleep! And lay off the coffee!"
"Yeah, fine whatever! Listen I have to go, but I'll see you on Friday, at like 5…no wait…8 the sun will be down!" he told her as he walked away.
"Don't work too hard!" she shouted after him, getting a wave of thanks in return. Meredith waited for him to disappear into the hospital before she pulled out her cell phone. She pushed 1 then hit the 'call' button…
"Hello, it's Meredith—No this is important—I have possible confirmation of the subjects' whereabouts—Yes, a reliable source—No the baby has been delivered—I am going on recon on Friday, where we go from there depends on the visit—Yeah, Brown Apartments—No he is working all day—You can't go now, they will be on edge because of the baby, just be patient—Room 317—Okay, yes sir—I will sir—Bye."
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Thanks soo much to all of you who review:
cameragirl – you know wat would be funny….one of those comments where they talk…you know the gang! (Hint hint)
Synch14- psst! Get out of my mind! It's kinda creepy, I don't want to give away too much, but some "Adam Immortal-age" can be expected! (New word!)
Memoh- oh ventures into the human psyche…soo fun! I mean really I do love it!
Katie- im sorry I can't disclose such tightly kept information…haha ill tell you later….chapter 7 or 9
twinmuse – I know I love the name Meghan Leena…it took me like an hour to figure out how to spell them the right way for the story…Megan Lena, etc.
Danielle- nice to see you finally read it! Ha just kidding, have you ever seen the movie…b/c like I told Mills… it helps to have seen it!
Bleed4theroses- hehe…I liked it too!