Chapter 6- Getting the Shakes
"Time to get up" she whispered in his ear, kissing down his neck. "Let's go!"
"Okay, okay…" he said sleepily, "At least give me 5 minutes."
"You have ten seconds. 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1" Michael rolled over, sitting on Selene's hips. "Okay, you're up!"
"Yeah, let's get going. We have 8 minutes to get down stairs."
Selene pushed him off of her and hopped out of bed, "Ready?"
"What! I just got up?" he said looking over, seeing Selene in her signature black latex suit.
"I just woke up too, but I'm ready to go." She told him.
"Selene, did you sleep in that?" he asked with a smile.
"Yeah, I wanted to be ready to go…come on!"
"Fine," Michael got up and slipped on a clean black t-shirt and followed Selene downstairs to the kitchen where Fiyero and Truman were waiting.
"Good morning!" they both said, watching Michael and Selene walk in.
"Where's Adam?" Michael asked, pouring a cup of blood.
"He had to go to the bathroom before we left…" Fiyero said with a laugh.
"Better safe than sorry!" Adam chimed in, walking out of the bathroom.
"Right…so uh, do you have a plan?" Selene asked him.
"Yeah, it's right –"Adam searched through his pockets and pulled out a palm pilot, "here." He pushed some buttons and plugged it into the TV. The same infrared image appeared on the screen. "Nothing has really changed at our mystery building, I mean the people upstairs moved around a bit, but the other dot hasn't moved at all…so this is what we should do…"
Adam described the plan of Michael using blunt force to blast open the door; Selene, Fiyero, and Truman shooting anything that moves; he and Michael going to find the dot while the others search the rest of the building.
"Everyone know what they are doing?" Selene asked.
"Yeah…" the other four said simultaneously.
"But I have one question…" Truman spoke up, "Why are you bringing me and Fiyero? We are only like 18 and you have lots of other more experienced men that could do better than us."
"They may be experienced, but they haven't been in one of the human's complexes before."
"Yeah, but you aren't even sure that that is what this is, right?" Fiyero added.
"True, but even if it isn't, 'better safe than sorry'!" Selene said, once again mocking Adam.
It seemed strange to Michael that Selene was being so playful. Over the years it seemed that all the searching for Meghan had worn down the death dealer in Selene and her long lost human side was showing itself more and more often. She was no longer a cold hearted killer, all the time, and would cuddle and joke around…she even cried.
In an odd way, she even seemed happier now that she had something to live for. Selene's life now had a purpose, which gave her a motivation that she once lacked knowing she would live forever. It made her happy to know she would spend eternity doing something good, not just repeating the same thing each day.
The love that she had for her lost daughter made it easier for her to love others.
After Selene was done taunting Adam, they got into the car and drove off in the direction of the building. She could tell that Michael was getting nervous with each passing block, busy hoping their plan would work and that that tiny dot was his daughter.
She reached over and took his hand in hers in a comforting manner. Michael looked over and gave her a small smile; he desperately wanted Meghan to be there.
"Adam, don't forget to stop like 2 blocks away from Lock Street." Michael said, focusing on the task at hand.
"Yeah I know…time to get out."
"Okay, everyone still remembers what they are doing…" Michael asked.
"Yeah, I'm taking T and Fiyero through the building." Selene said.
"And Adam and I are going to find that extra person in the lowed levels…" Michael answered back.
"Alright, I will see you after!" she told him as she kissed his cheek.
"Ditto" he said kissing her back.
The three ran up to the locked metal doors and easily broke it down. Fiyero and Truman stepped in, guns blazing, but weren't receiving any return fire. They looked around and didn't see anyone in the lobby.
"Michael, go down with Adam. We're going up…"
"Okay…" he said, pulling Adam into the stairwell.
"Down two floors-make a right out of the stairs…" Adam told him, following the signal on his palm pilot. "Left-then another left- It's two doors down on the right."
When Michael saw the door, he froze. The sign on the front read 'Authorized Personnel Only-Controlled Experiment in Progress'. He figured Selene was right in thinking that Meghan wasn't going to be here.
The sign made it seem like there were some Petri dishes in there, not a 16 year old girl, but Michael noticed something familiar. He had caught a scent that he would never forget…his daughter's.
"Oh my god" he whispered as he tried to open the door.
"What?" Adam asked, seeing Michael frantically trying to open the door.
"It's her-Meghan is in there!"
"Are you sure? Is she okay!"
"Adam I can barely make out her heartbeat…we have to get in here!"
"Mike move…" Adam said as he put a few charges on the hinge side of the door. He pushed a few buttons, a couple lights flickered about, and then the door fell off of its hinges. "much easier than trying to break down solid steel."
"yeah, sure…" Mike took a step into the room, but turned to Adam one last time, "Do you have the med kit, just in case?"
"Yeah mike, I have it…don't worry"
Michael reassured himself that she was fine and walked into the room. They seemed to be standing in a dark control room, with entire panels of switches and video screens. He found a switch on a wall and flicked it on.
Not only did it lighten up the room, but it turned all of the screens on. From that single room, he could see Fiyero and Truman taking out some guards on the third floor and Selene raiding a lab on the second.
The one thing that seemed out of place in the entire room was the plain white wall on the left side. It looked as if it had never been finished, since it had a long line going down the middle from the floor to the ceiling like two pieces of plywood. The only thing on the wall was a single yellow button that said 'open' on it.
"God, humans are so obvious." Michael said as he pushed the button.
"Don't forget that we used to be them too!"
"Yeah, we were pretty obvi-" Michael stopped when the walls opened to reveal a Plexiglas wall.
The room on the other side was various shades of blue, green and yellow and looked like it had been made for a girl because of the sparkles on the bed and pillows. There was a plain single bed in the middle on top of a small green area rug. It seemed to be really boring but had all the things a girl would need in everyday life.
Michael easily broke through the glass and looked around the room. Her scent was incredibly strong in this room and her heartbeat could be heard more clearly now.
He and Adam looked to see if there was another room attached to it, but Michael stopped his search when he saw multiple picture frames on the wall.
All eight of the frames had pictures from when Meghan was a baby, mostly of her and her mother. Although, the one in the very middle was from a midnight walk the small family took once.
Michael never forgot that night and the photo was perfect. Selene was watching the moon, holding Meghan in her arms. The moonlight made her pale skin glow like she was an angel. Michael was behind Selene with his arms wrapped around her waist, staring up at the sky with his wife.
The picture looked like it had been posed that way, but it had felt so natural when it happened. He realized that the humans who took her had been watching them for weeks and framed some of the better surveillance pictures, a small gesture to ease her time with them.
He grabbed the frames off of the wall and put them in a bag that he had brought with him. At least they would have these memories if they didn't actually find her.
As Michael placed the last photo, the one of all three of them, into the bad he noticed that the wall didn't go all the way up to the highly arched ceiling. It only went high enough to keep a person in there.
"Adam, stay here until I tell you to come…" Michael told him as he jumped over the wall.
"But where are you go-ing…Fine, I'll stay here." He said noticing that Michael had already gone.
He landed in a stark white room with no pictures or a nice little bed. His heart sank as he turned and saw a young girl lying strapped to an exam table.
He knew that it was his daughter, his little girl, because he could smell her. Her scent hadn't changed at all, only gotten older, but she didn't look like he had expected her look. Then again, Michael had never expected to see her hooked up to various machines and IV's.
Michael went over to check on Meghan while yelling for Adam to get his ass in there.
"Just break through the wall Adam!" he cried nervously as he pulled the oxygen mask off of his child's face.
"You want me to what!" he asked, not knowing why Michael seemed so anxious.
"Just change form and run at it! But don't forget the medical kit!" he yelled, brushing some of Meghan's hair away from her face.
"Fine!" Adam said, changing into his hybrid form. Even as a great immortal hybrid, Adam still was pretty wimpy looking, but picked up speed and broke right through the wall. He stood back as he watched Michael carefully remove one of the various IV's from his daughter's arm.
"Adam! God make yourself useful! Check her pulse or something, I'm going to look around, see if I can find out what they did to her."
Adam stepped forward, placing his fingers cautiously on the young girl's neck and feeling for the familiar pulses. "Why don't you do it! She is your daughter!"
"I-I can't…" he stuttered as he shuffled through a bunch or drawers.
"Why?" Adam asked, as he checked her arms for any irregular puncture marks from needles and no IVs.
"Because I'm shaking to damn much okay?" Michael admitted. "I come in to see my only child hooked up to that many machines and shit like some lab rat…I just want to kill every son of a bitch that did this to her!" he yelled as he threw a chair across the room.
Mike found some lab reports in a composition note book and shoved them into the bag with the photos. Adam explained that her temperature was really low because the heater didn't quite reach all the way down here and that aside from that Meghan was fine and just sedated. They carefully un-strapped her from the table and wrapped her in the comforter from her 'room'.
"God, she does seem so cold." Michael said as he began to carry her to the stairwell.
"She probably won't be waking up any time soon…by the looks of the charts you found they gave her enough sedative to knock out a horse for a few hours!"
"But wouldn't that hurt her!"
"Michael, that much would kill a normal person, but then again, Meghan isn't exactly normal…"
"Let's just get out of here…" Michael said kicking open the door to the stairs.
"Selene…time to go!" Adam shouted over the radio.
"Did you find the person?" came the crackly response.
"Yeah…it's Meg." Adam told her, he heard static and then "alright, we are coming down."
Adam and Michael stepped out of the stairs with Meghan just as Selene and the boys came out of the elevator.
"Shit! We have company!" Truman yelled as he saw a group a lycans in human form walk through the broken front doors.
"Taking on her protective parent side, Selene raised her guns to fire when the lead lycan stepped back, putting his hands up to surrender.
A/N- There you go…another slightly late chapter. I was at theater camp for a few days so I couldn't type. So I hope you liked it… and I am already typing the next chapter "How To Push The Restart Button"
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Peace and be Merry!
Claire