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 65 pages written as of now so it will be updated as I type them…hope I didn't royally screw it up!
Chapter 4- A Friendly Betrayal
Adam went into the lounge to call Michael right before his lunch break, "Michael, it's Adam…"
"What is so important that you had to wake me up? Meghan just went back down…"
"Oh, sorry, are you sure you don't want a certain blood type…I mean I know I've been getting O-, but do you want A or B?"
"Adam, for the last time…We don't care. When can we expect you back today?"
"I get off at twelve."
"At night! Come on Adam, can't you get back sooner!"
"No, this afternoon…"
"Gah…fine, I'm going back to bed!"
"Okay, I'll probably be back around--" the phone clicked and the dial tone began, "12:30. Right, I guess he was tired." He said to himself.
Back at the apartment, Michael was asleep on the couch, having just gotten Meghan back to sleep. It wasn't a restful sleep, he couldn't stop tossing and turning. Michael kept having nightmares, seeing his daughter getting carried away by unknown people.
Each time he would wake up, tears would be dried on his cheeks and his chest felt tight. To take his mind off of the horrible images, Michael decided to take a long delayed look around the apartment. The bathroom was a dark violet color with an orange trim. Figures this is Adam's apartment, he always thought purple and orange went well together, Michael thought to himself.
Michael then went into the bed room to check on Selene and Meghan when a strange scent in the air alarmed him. It wasn't lycan or vampire for that matter, but it wasn't Adam's, although it was human. Michael sensed more than one presence and could hear five separate heart beats. Isolating each scent, he still couldn't find Adam's.
Feeling that his mate and newborn daughter were in danger, he let his "over protective parent" side out. He closed the bedroom door, locking Meghan and Selene in there. Michael walked over to the door and looked through the peep hole to see five uniformed men standing outside, all armed with birettas like Selene had.
Michael stepped back and turned into his hybrid from just as the men broke down the door. He lunged at the first man, snapping his neck and turned to the next man. The leader, as it seemed to Michael, who was carrying a dart gun, approached the bedroom door. The man jiggled the handle, but the door didn't open. Michael knocked out the man who he was dealing with at the time and then began hand-to-hand combat with the leader. For a strange reason, he seemed stronger that the others and put up a good fight.
While Michael was preoccupied with Marc, the leader (one of his men had shouted to him), one of the remaining two remaining men broke down the doors into the bedroom. Michael heard Selene's scream as the man injected her with a heavy tranquilizer. She had been incredibly tired from dealing with Meghan and being a mother to sense the danger and as not at the top of her game.
As Michael turned around to finish Marc off, he felt a sharp pain in his neck, he reached back to find a dart embedded in the skin. He changed back into his human form as he fell to the floor in front of the three remaining men.
Since his body was under the influence of a drug, his body was unable to heal as it would normally and he began to bleed out onto the carpet from his bullet wounds. He opened his eyes to see Meghan being carried out the door by Marc, holding her hand giving a small "wave to daddy" with a menacing look in his eyes.
He tried to scream after her, but no sound would come out of his mouth, only blood. Slowly Michael's eyes closed, his body finally giving in to the drug invading his system. His last conscious thought was of Selene and his daughter and how he wasn't able to save them.
"Holy Shit!" Adam said as he walked through his busted front door to see Michael in a pool of blood. His wounds had healed, but not before he had lost a good deal of his blood.
"Michael…Michael wake up!" he yelled, pulling the dart out of his neck. Adam tried to pick hi up, but he ended up just dragging him over to the couch.
Adam ran into the bedroom to see Selene on the floor, just starting to wake up. He knelt down next to her, slowly helping her to her feet as she came to. Adam sat her on the side of the bed as he asked, "Selene…what happened?"
"Wha…I'm sorry what?" She was still very out of it from the medicine.
"Selene, you were unconscious on the floor and Michael is out on the couch…what happened!" Then he realized that Meghan wasn't in her little bundle of sheets on the bed… "Where's Meghan!"
With those three words, Selene was up and rummaging through the room. She couldn't find her anywhere and wanted to just break down and cry…then she looked into the living room. She saw Michael's hand hanging over the edge of the couch, dripping blood onto the floor.
"Oh my god…" she said as she ran over to him. She pulled off his shirt to reveal 6 red circles on his chest. The bullet wounds had healed over, but the bullets were still inside. Selene knew as well as any immortal that even though the wounds healed shut, they wouldn't on the inside until the bullets were out.
Michael began to stir and opened his eyes to see Selene's staring back. He tried to sit up, but winced in pain as Selene told him, "No…stay down Michael. I need to get the bullets out." She was on the verge of tears, her daughter gone and Michael practically dead from blood loss.
"I have to find Meghan…They took her…Need to get her back!" he told her, getting up. Michael made it halfway to the door before the blood loss and leftover tranquilizer took hold again. Michael fell to the floor once again with a thud, but tried his hardest to continue crawling toward the door.
"Michael, NO! We need to get you fixed up before you do anything!" Selene pleaded, "Adam!" she yelled, hinting to him that he should help her stop him.
"Yeah Mike, let's get you off of the floor man. You can't go try to find Meg like this…" Adam reached down and grabbed Michael under his shoulders and began to lift him up…but Michael had other plans.
He pushed Adam over with what was left of his strength and began to crawl back towards the door, only to have his way get blocked by Selene.
"Michael, you're not going anywhere!" Her eyes had gone ice blue and in his condition, Michael knew better than to challenge Selene, so he gave in.
As he let his vulnerable human side out, so did Selene. Adam was left to watch as Selene cuddled her injured mate in her arms and cried for the loss of their daughter. Michael had wanted to stay strong for Selene so badly, but inside felt that he had let them down, both Selene and Meghan.
He held in his feelings as long as could, but the fact that Selene was with him crying made him break down as well. They stayed on the bloody floor together until Michael once again passed out.
"Adam…" she said quietly, breathing heavily from crying.
"Yeah Selene?"
"Do you have any scissors? I really do need to take these bullets out…" she told him while lightly brushing one of the pinkish circles on Michael's chest.
"Yeah Selene, I have a pair but—do you want me to do it? I am a surgeon; I can do it for you…"
"No, that's okay Adam, I'm sure I can do it, just…the scissors please…?"
Adam disappeared to go find the things Selene would need, leaving her with Michael. She leaned over and kissed Michael's forehead, quietly whispering,
"What have we done? How could we have been so reckless as to bring our child into a world like this? We wanted a child…a family so badly that we didn't even think of her safety! Michael out daughter is out in the world with god knows who…alone even! We have no way of knowing where she is…how could we have been so stupid to relax in the very city in which the people who hunt us reside? As soon as you are better, I promise you, we will look for her! I will kill anyone who stands in my way!"
Adam walked in with some clean towels and the scissors Selene had been asking for and put them down on the kitchen counter. He helped Selene move Michael onto the table and started removing the bullets.
Michael would wince at the pain, but never woke up. It took him a full three days to get back to almost normal. He practically never slept, for that vision of Meghan being carried away haunted his dreams. He only ever slept when exhaustion finally kicked in.
"Adam…thanks for letting us stay here…we are sorry about the door-the couch-the sheets-towels and your friend Meredith…is she still missing?" Michael said as he and Selene were getting ready to leave.
"yeah, she hasn't come back yet, last time I saw her was the night she came to visit…but the house was no problem…" he answered, giving Michael a brotherly hug. "Come back anytime, you know you are all welcome here!" Then he gave Selene as friendly hug and a light kiss on the cheek, which caused Michael to flinch a bit.
"We will Adam. You truly are a good friend to Michael and me," she said as she pulled out of the hug.
"We'll call you in a week or two…" Michael said, shutting the car door.
"I'll be waiting for it!" Adam called out after the Lexis speeding away…little did he know that he was partially to blame for Meghan's kidnapping.
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