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Michael wasn't wrong when he was scared of her driving a bike, she drove 'almost' normally to the industrial zone and then, without advice him, she speeded up and since then they had been at full speed, all the way cutting through the crisp and cold air.
Although she had been driven for an hour or more to Michael that had been an eternity, she didn't slow down in the curves or when they were close to others vehicles.
When she finally stopped the bike Michael found himself relieved but that didn't last much because he knew what that meant. Taking the helmet out he felt a faint scent of lycans, that's weird, he thought they would find with vampires and for the look of disconcert in Selene's face he knew she too. "These lycans smell different to the others I know." He said as he got down of the bike.
"Yeah, they don't stink..." She left the bike and decided to approach the place walking, trying to make the slightest noise possible. This place hasn't changed, she found herself in a big field with bushes that hid their scent from the lycans. As soon as she saw the building she crouched, Michael did exactly the same. It was a simple structure made of iron and wood, it had two levels, there was a car outside, a construction at a side and all the lights inside the principal building were off. Michael sensed four lycans and two vampires in the building. He told her. But why lycans? She knew that was the place were the renegades were once, vampires renegades...
He watched as she studied their perimeter, "Are we going to get in?" Michael whispered when he saw her doubting, but she didn't answer, instead she made sure of have her guns ready and began to prepare another weapon, his, he supposed. As he looked around him he couldn't help to ponder that in movies warehouses were used for dangerous meetings and that in this occasion it wasn't the exception. "If they are the contact, why are you preparing your guns?" He asked confused as she glanced up from where she was crouching and he saw something flash across her face, excitement.
"Protection," She said as she saw two guards in the entrance, "we don't know what it could happen there, besides right now everyone wants us dead..." At least me, she added in her mind. "And they are not our contact." She said with monotony present in her voice but he could see the thrill in her eyes.
"How are we going to get in?" He asked intimidated. She looked at a window in the second floor and he knew what she was thinking. Climbing.
"I hope you have learned something in the lycan's den..." She said slapping a magazine back into the gun and giving it to him.
"Selene, they didn't taugh -" He began to say, sighing and taking the gun.
"Well then, you will learn..." She interrupted with a matter of fact tone as she stood up, "It is easy, you will see." Looking at her and then at the building he felt that an imminent doom was falling on him, and then unexpectedly she swiftly crouched again as bullets passed their sides.
"Shit!" Screamed Michael as he covered his head.
Well, there it goes the surprise element, she thought smirking, "Change of plans..." she said as she stood up and without miss a beat began to run shooting. That surprised Michael, and made him remember the subway shooting, she is insane! Not knowing what else to do he ran after her.
After a couple of seconds growls of pain were heard, as he approached her, he could see two lycans, one of them still alive, but not for too long, with bullets in their arms and chest, one of them had a bullet in the head. Meanwhile Selene was taking their guns, as she was going to throw them away she got the magazine out and saw the conventional silver bullets. That's weird, why do they have silver bullets and not the UV? What's going on in this place? She thought as she stood and throw the guns to a side and saved the magazines.
"Why are they using silver bullets?" Michael vocalized her same doubts. She shook her head telling him that that wasn't the moment. She raised her guns as she looked at him and with her right hand, in a military posture, indicated him the left side of the building. Michael understanding nodded and raised his gun too as he approached her. After a couple of seconds they got in the building sharpening their senses, especially the eyesight. The only thing they could see were the shadows of crates upon crates, for all the building. But they knew there were others, and that they were close, suddenly the lights were switched on and that blinded Michael and Selene for a couple of seconds, but it was enough for the lycans to get down of the platform they were standing.
Michael growled as the lycans got close to them, looking at Selene he saw her aiming her guns at two of them, quickly he aimed to the others two.
"Easy, we are not your enemy..." Said one of the lycans to Michael. He had short red hair and his eyes were slightly hidden by dark glasses, "There's no need for violence." he looked at Selene. "I'm Benjamin, these are George, Jhon and Clarice." He indicated them as he spoke, the first a vampire shorter than him with raven black hair and electric blue eyes, the second, a vampire too, tall with dark eyes and hair and some tattoos in his right arm, he looked at them with superiority and Selene had no doubt that he was their leader. And the last had long brown hair in a pony tail, dark eyes and a reassuring look, she smiled quietly to Selene and Michael. To Selene, that look and smile were too hypocrite. "The other two that you killed... Well, there's not need to introduce them, right?" He smirked arrogantly at her.
Selene was not convinced of any of them, but if she wanted something she will have to act politely, so she lowered her guns. "Who are you?" She asked as she moved towards them, her expression proud and angry.
"I like that, direct to the point." Benjamin laughed loudly. "We are two lycans and two vampires, I thought that you knew that death dealer." He spat the last two words with hate and looking her from toe to head.
"Stop wasting my time." Selene says with irritation present in her voice.
"She has attitude..." He was annoyed by her behavior.
"We were expecting you..." Said Jhon to Selene, "We were sure that you would come to us. We thought that you would be alone though." He studied Michael as he said that, "We will explain everything if you follow us." he showed her a table with four chairs, reluctantly Selene followed them.
Jhon and Benjamin sat in front of Michael and Selene and behind them George and Clarice were standing. Selene could see their movements reflected in Benjamin glasses. Knowing they expected her to put the guns over the table she did it, but let her hands close to them. "We are part of a little group that the society, the one we both were part once, doesn't want, not anymore. We have been existing for almost five centuries, hiding from them, from the death dealers and specially from Viktor and-"
"I thought you were vampires not lycans, and why -" Selene asked but was interrupted.
"We were, we still are, but they decided to make some alliances, put the antique differences aside and prepare for what it is to come..." As he talked Selene could see George smiling malicious at Clarice, but she ignored them for now. "It hasn't come yet."
"If the coven knew this, why didn't they attack? Why didn't they attack when they thought you were just vampires?" She asked hostilely, not liking have been interrupted, but at the same time she was confused.
"They still don't know about the lycans. And they didn't attack because for them a little group of vampires renegades wasn't anything..." He stared intently at Selene, "Viktor knew this but he wasn't concerned about it."
"He would have if he had known the lycans were there too..." Benjamin scoffed at his own comment.
"How did you know she was going to come here?" Michael asked trying to keep his voice neutral, not wanting to show how nervous he really was.
"Well, well, well, I thought you were mute." Benjamin exclaims.
"I'm not." Michael answered and Benjamin didn't say anything, instead looked at him disgusted. "Answer the question." Michael ordered standing his ground, thing that surprised Selene, but it didn't seem to like to the others especially at Benjamin, all of them were taken aback by Michael's attitude, they clearly disliked him. From the silence Michael knew that he shouldn't have done that so he looked at Selene, but instead of find her looking at him with rage she subtly narrowed her eyes trying to tell him something, but he didn't know what was it, thing that made him worry. That went unnoticed to the others.
"There's not other place to go if you need to run away." Jhon recovered his aplomb and looked at Michael, "You can be sure that nobody is going to betray you, or that you will be searched there..."
Jhon was going to say something else but Benjamin interrupted him, "Why are you with him? You of course know what Viktor thought about us, about...him." He looked disapproving at Michael as he asked this to Selene.
"You talk about Viktor as if you knew him." Selene said as her gaze hardened and looking back at Benjamin.
"I did." he said with rage in his voice, "Viktor, one of the Elders... He raged at the revolting prospect of being related to us. His daughter Sonja, how could she do something as disgusting as to take a filthy and abhorrent creature as her partner? Did her lust overwhelm her reason and pride?" He yelled looking with hate at Selene, "How did she fall so low? An action that everyone would find completely horrendous." Then he smiled bitterly, "Those were his words the day he found out about her daughter and Lucian... And since then all the vampires had repudiated us, they think that they are better than us!" Those words it seemed not to do much to Michael and Selene that knew the true, but it did to the others two behind them that gasped as Benjamin spoke, "Even now, you think you are better than me!" He yelled to Selene and she didn't say anything, with her silence accepting what he had just said.
"She didn't know the true. That's the way she was raced and has lived all her life that way." Jhon scolded falsely, in a way trying to calm Benjamin. "We are going to change that, right?" He asked to Selene but she didn't answer immediately, instead she looked at Benjamin's glasses to see what Clarice and George were doing. She could see them looking intensely at Benjamin, waiting for instructions.
"If you don't try anything against me then I will not kill you." She said, her patience dwindling.
That wasn't taking good by Benjamin, "We can't even imagine how many of my kind she has killed. She is not going to change just like that! That's impossible; she is, after all, one of Viktor's descendent." He said to Jhon and then looked at Selene, "Be sincere with me. Do you really think that you'll forget your high and mighty 'code of honor' that easily? You are a fucking death dealer, sired for the most powerful of the vampires."
It wasn't like he wasn't right, the thing that made her angry was his way of talking to her. Somethings are difficult to forget, "That's enough!" Selene hissed at him.
"Did I hit a nerve?" He asked happily, searching for fight.
Selene's eyes color changed to an ice blue, mixed with rage, "I will not tolerate this!" she felt disrespected, few lycans had spoke to her like that. She lifts her gun but Benjamin grabbed her arm, making her even more furious. He held it hard in his powerful grip as he tried to pull her over the table, but she was stronger than what he believed. When Michael saw this he stood up and leaned over the table trying to make Benjamin let her go but when he grabbed Benjamin, Selene had already freed herself.
"You dare to touch me, hybrid?!" Benjamin took his anger with the closest object, Michael.
"All of you, calm down!" Jhon yelled when he noted that this could turn in something more violent. Benjamin tried to strike Michael for his imprudence but Michael, preventing his moves, shoved him violently against the chair he was previously sat. Benjamin, shocked, just remained there, without say or do anything. After this Michael looked at Selene and she was aiming at Benjamin again. "Drop your guns." said Jhon calmly, Selene wanted to pull the trigger, but she looked at him and did what he said. She wanted to know more even when she was sure they were plotting something. She sat and looked at Michael who was disconcerted by her attitude, knowing that she was after something and that Benjamin will not try anything he nodded and sat again.
"Calm down? They are disrespecting us! You don't care because you are a vampire..." He murmured to Jhon as he looked towards Clarice. Selene knew that was just a distraction, so displaying them confidence she let her guns in the table and puts her hands over her thighs.
"Enough, if we are going to live together we have to respect each other." Jhon smiled at see what Selene had just done, "Your arrogance is what doesn't let him trust in you." He looked at Selene and then at Michael, "And you... Well, Benjamin thinks that Viktor would have just killed Lucian if Sonja hadn't been pregnant, and he sees you as that child, the reason of the war."
"Either way Viktor would have declared the war." Michael said staring at Benjamin. I'm not going to let you touch Selene again.
Jhon nodded and looked at everyone in the room but when he looked at George and Clarice a sparkle was seen in his eyes. "Anyway, we weren't talking about that." He smiled trying to make time and let Selene and Michael relax before attack them, "...As you would have noticed this place is not our house. Some time ago, one century and a half ago, one death dealer caught a lycan of ours and that was the sign that we were in danger. We were too close to Ordoghaz and we feared that they could keep tracking the lycans or vampires so we moved. Now we are in Szombathely, if something happens there we easily could run to Austria." He said the last words to Selene.
"Why did you say that? We can't trust them! Everyone wants them; if they go with us then tomorrow the death dealers will attack us!" Benjamin said with falseness in his voice and looking at a smirking Jhon, obviously to Selene they had been practicing that. Slowly she got out a pair of Ninja Stars she had attached at her legs holsters and that her coat covered.
"I know...But it's not like they are going that far." Jhon got a gun with UV ammunition out of his pocket but he was too slow because as he finished saying that Selene, with a flick of her wrist, sent the Ninja Stars whirling across the table and they embed in his neck and chest. She heard a growl from Michael as she quickly tried to get her guns but Benjamin grabbed her wrists and held them with more force than before as he slapped her with the other hand. When he began to change he looked at her expecting to see panic in her eyes but she didn't even gasp at his transformation, the only thing he saw is her emotionless face was a thread of blood that ran from her mouth to her neck, trembling of anger his eyes got injected with livid rage and he tossed her to the floor. As he strode over her, Selene saw a jackknife with blood at her side so she got it, when she looked at him he was tall and imposing but not completely transformed in front of her, he lifted her and slammed her against the table that kept standing. She heard several shots but she was too busy to check if Michael was alright. He can take care for himself. When Benjamin towered over her to bite her in the neck she stabbed him in the chest and he roared in fury and pain letting her go but she didn't stand, instead she got the guns that were under her and as he tried to bite her again she shot at him four times, and then other two as he fell to the floor.
Michael wasn't that fast. When Selene threw the stars, Clarice stabbed him two times in his side, he growled when he felt the pain and immediately tried to stand up but George stopped him by putting a hand in his shoulder. At this Michael transformed and stood up, George couldn't stop him. Michael ignoring the immense pain he was feeling grabbed Clarice and sent her flying, she collided with crates until she hit a wall, her momentum and the position which she hit the wall broke her neck. Michael looked down as he heard the sound of a gun safety been removed and he saw George aiming at him, instantly he heard several shots, one bullet grazed his neck, other hit him in the shoulder, other in his ribs, close to where he was stabbed and the last one in his leg. He kicked George, breaking some ribs, but with the last part of his strength George took Michael's foot and made him fall to his side. Michael took the gun and hit him with it, still, George stood up and ran. Michael was too weak to run after him so having nothing more to do, he aimed the gun and shot at George several times, the UV killed him almost instantly. As Michael lay on the floor, the last thing he saw, when everything became blurry, was Selene over a table shooting at someone.
Sighing Selene sat on the table and looked around her while she, with the back of her hand, cleaned the blood of her chin. Jhon and Benjamin were in the floor, but Jhon was still alive, taking his gun she shot him several times. She turned her face when the UV began to make its effect, as she turned she saw Clarice's body, her position said everything. Close to her, a mountain of ashes with a human form was on the floor. Michael was in front of her, on the floor, over a pool of his own blood. "Shit" she stood up and went to Michael, that looked tormented even unconscious. He was transformed but he was loosing blood quickly. What happened here? She asked as she crouched at his side and saw the deep cuts he had at his side. "Michael. Michael...Michael!" She shook him trying to wake him but he didn't respond.
Suddenly an eerie feeling washed over her and she froze on the spot although her instincts were telling her that she had to separate from him. Abruptly his hand grabbed her arm, stopping her, surprised, she tried to shook him off but he remained silent, just gripping her arm tightly, then he looked at her and she saw something that stunned her. Michael stared at her icily and with a purpose. "Let Go" she ordered but it seemed like he wasn't listening.
With a growl he yanked her arm and now she was on top of him, her eyes turned electric blue and her fangs grew as she hissed at him but he didn't move, seeing that she began to struggle violently but he didn't let her go, instead Michael brought himself on top of her as he grinned evilly. "Get off me!" she said trying to look calmed. She knew what he wanted and knew that she had been bleeding and that she still had his blood and the lycan's over her. Suddenly he freed her hands and she dug her nails into his arms and neck, trying to make him enter in reason. "Come on Michael!" she could hear the frustration in her voice as he cupped her neck between his cold hands, moments later Michael's mouth opened and Selene put her hands in his head trying to avoid him, seeing that that didn't work she began to punch him but this instead made him more violent. He pulled a hand in her head and brought her even nearer. Selene pressed her head against him and struggled more trying to not let him bite her but he was stronger than her. "Stop it!", Selene yelled as she deepened her fingers in the bullets wounds he had in his chest and stabs, at this he began to shake furiously but then he stayed still and didn't try to attack her more.
Michael drew back as he came to himself, "Selene?" he asked scared as he released her, the sight of her face was too much for him, he rolled onto his back and turned his face away, ashamed. He had not the valor to look at her, his breath was deep and fast with the realization of what he had almost done. I almost bit her, he was so close that he found himself scared by the force that had possessed him. "I'm sorry." He said looking at her as she stood up but she didn't look at him. After a moment she said something while she looked at him with disgust, but he didn't care, the only thing he perceived was the blood in her chin and neck. He knew he was going to lose control again, "Get away, get away, Selene. Please run!" He yelled desperately as he tried to fight it.
Selene was relieved when he came into himself but now that he was yelling she knew that there was not much she could do. Seeing the guns in the table she went for them, she took one of hers and the other with the UV ammo, as she got them, Michael pushed her away and tripped her, she fell backwards and he looked down at her while he came closer and straddled her.
Somehow Michael was more aware of what he was doing but he couldn't stop it. It was hard to do it. Before, he had pushed her away with effort but now something was different, he could smell the blood beneath her skin and his blood in her, he wanted it desperately and that didn't let him move, instead he gripped her wrists over her head yet she didn't release the guns, she moved violently beneath him. He leaned to her and she felt his moist lips against her neck, at first almost gentle, then he began to press urgently as she felt the hardness of his fangs behind his cold lips, then he opened his mouth and she felt his raged breath in her neck as he began to lick her blood, after a couple of seconds of this she felt the fangs, she struggled with all her forces closing her eyes as she waited for a contact that didn't come...
Michael ran the tips of his fangs down her throat, creasing but not breaking the skin, there was not enough blood as before and he whined with frustration as he pressed his mouth against the soft neck, then his teeth lightly, "You must concentrate, Michael" she urged him and he wanted to answer that he was trying but it was like a part of him didn't let him act.
Doing the last thing she imagined she would do she exposed her neck completely to him, giving him some kind of approval, at this Michael momentarily recovered control and he forced himself to push away from her just enough to look at her eyes and what he saw was like a blow to his stomach, that was when he freed her hands and she quickly brought the guns to his chest waiting, suddenly his glance changed to her neck and stayed there as he breathed deeply, then he snarled as he brought his face towards it.
She shot him four times, one of them between the stab wounds that Clarice hade done to him, he growled and let her go, Selene immediately rolled on top of him and straddled him as she aimed her guns to his head, "You have to concentrate!" she yelled looking at his eyes and could see he was struggling with himself, trying to resist his nature, "Come on Michael." after a couple of seconds he grew still and began to change to his human form, he looked weak and tired as he turned his face avoiding her.
Michael closed his eyes and stayed motionless trying to slow down his breathing, and ignoring his senses and pain. Seeing this Selene stood roughly, with the guns still in her hands and she directed to the table, after a couple of minutes Michael tried to stood up and walk away but he couldn't, he was too weak, instead he sat against some crates and when the pain had reduced he moved away from his own puddle of blood. As he saw the blood he felt its flavor in his mouth and he remembered that she had been bleeding. Selene's blood. I have drunk from her... "Oh, God, what did I just do?" He asked, "I'm sorry, I'm really sorry." He brought his trembling hands towards his mouth and furiously wiped the blood off as he sobbed frustrated.
Selene didn't know what to do or say. She didn't know how to comfort someone and she was not sure that she wanted to do it, in that precise instant the only thing she could feel was anger towards him and her. She knew this was going to happen but his humanity blinded her and when the moment presented she wasn't ready to handle it. Looking at him she saw him sitting shaking, sighing she moved to leave, still with her guns, ready for if something presented.
When Selene got out of the warehouse she saw that it was raining but she didn't pay much attention to that, the rain was welcome, the water always helped her to think clearly. As she walked slowly and deliberately towards the bike she couldn't stop thinking in how he lost control completely and the look of power he had, it was as he couldn't reason, even the lycans could think in those moments, the rest was their decision but with Michael... It was as he hadn't been in his body, she had seen new turned vampires and lycans lost control hundreds of times but never something like that. Apparently Lucian didn't have in mind all the outcomes when he made his plan... Evidently Michael was stronger that both vampires and lycans but he had some of their defects too.
But what disturbed her even more was that she couldn't stop that part of him, that it dominated her so easily, that part of him that knew the power he had and knew how to use it. Finally she found his bag and she lift it, then she walked to the place she came. She didn't like to think in the way she acted because she couldn't deny that a part of her that hoped he entered in reason before she had to hurt or kill him... Kill him? Would I be able to do that? she thought darkly and decided not to think more on that. She knew her actions would have been completely different with others vampire or lycan that did the same to her and somehow that frightened her. To know that she lost everything and everyone she had and now has to take care for and from him, was something that she didn't like, and all the anger and pity she was feeling it was not helping her. As she walked to the warehouse she stared at the car and then walked toward it. The worst part of all was that she knew this kind of time happened more than once... He has to learn to control it or he will kill someone or will get himself killed.
She dropped the bag as she got to the car and she was going to shoot at the window but instead she broke it with her elbow, this way trying to set free some of her frustration, although it seemed that this was not enough. She yanked the door brusquely and as she looked inside she found what she needed in the backseat, several bags of blood, she frowned even more, weirdly enough there were from Ziodex Industries.
He didn't say anything when he saw her disappear behind the doorway, what could I say? He couldn't blame her if she wanted to leave him after all the things he did...
For the first time Michael really noticed what he had become, until now the only remotely bad thing he had done as that thing, the hybrid, was drink blood, the first time was when he was in the lycan's den an that was the worst of all, then he learned to do it and not to think about it, not leave his conscious affect him, but now everything was wrong, in the last ten minutes he killed his first vampire and lycan and the worst of all was that he lost control and harmed the only person he trusted. He tried to fight back the angst but he couldn't.
What the fuck happened to me? And why I couldn't stop it? She had been betrayed enough and then he came and did something like that to her... He had told her that he would never hurt her and that was the first thing he did, he knew he was a burden for her and now she will leave him. Why I am so weak? He couldn't breathe because of the pain and his feelings, he tried to calm down while he slowly took breaths of air. How could I have done that? She had been everything to him in the last days and had support him in a way that lycans didn't and although she was always cold with him he had grown fond of her.
Looking at himself he saw the blood and the bullets wounds he had but that wasn't important. He knew that the lycan that Selene shot still was alive and also knew that if Benjamin stood up and tried to kill him he would not do anything to defend himself, for him this was his end, without her he was lost. Maybe that way was better, he wouldn't stand hurt her again or worse, kill her or any human, from his point of view he could go lower and that was something he didn't want. What would have happened if she hadn't had her guns? The answer was easy, she would be dead by now, he would have killed her. To him the physical pain was nothing compared to what he was feeling inside him, from that moment he knew that he was not going to forgive himself for that, it always will be present in his conscience, he will have eternity for self recrimination towards the being he has turned and that he couldn't control.
He could sense her as she approached him but he was carefully to not to look at her, he couldn't bring himself to look at her again, not yet, he knew that she must have been hating him at the moment and that a few 'I'm sorry' weren't enough. He could offer her his head on a platter and that wouldn't change anything.
She walked to him and put his bag with the blood at his side but he didn't look at her, she could see that he was consuming himself with guilt, scowling she directed to the second floor, there she found several rooms, more boxes a practice room and an office, there she found some guns, ammo, more blood, towels, keys cars, some clothes, plans and papers that said what was in the crates in the first level. Opening a drawer of the desk in the office she found a first aid kit and in other box were all kind of forceps, taking some of them she directed again towards the first level, to Michael that was trying to stop the bleeding with a shirt that he got out of his bag.
Crouching to his side her electric blue eyes turned distant as she opened the kit and the box, then she looked at his wounds, his body had already absorbed the UV liquid from the wounds in his shoulder, chest, close and between the stabs and in his leg, and they were beginning to heal quickly. The other two bullets that were at each side of his torso had to be extracted since they were common silver bullets.
He lifted the shirt that for the last couple of minutes he had been pressing against the stab wounds and he found it completely stained in red, he felt her put a towel over one of the stabs but she didn't press it, so he let go of his shirt and brought his hand against the towel and the wound.
"Lie down and don't move." She ordered without looking at him, her voice harsh and although she had tried to contain her anger and disappointment she had failed. Trying to ignore the cold tone of her voice he did as she said, then he heard something made of metal been lifted from the floor and then something cold pressed against one of his bullet wounds, he closed his eyes waiting for the pain that it came when she introduced the forceps and began to search for the bullet. After a moment she founds it and extracted it, out of the corner of her eye she could see the pain he was feeling, but she didn't pay much attention to it. She went for the next bullet, as she searched for it his eyes suddenly snapped open and he jerked upright from the pain, at the same time Selene's face clouded even more, she kept searching but a little uneasily, then he jerked again, "Don't move!" she exclaimed annoyed, he couldn't help to notice that her fingers were colder than before, after a couple of seconds she got the bullet out, looking at him she noted that his heart was racing and his face was covered in sweat.
Trying not to he faced her fully, his eyes were on hers "What did I do to you?" his voice was soft and small but the bitterness in it could be heard, he waited for her to say something but she glared at him and moved to his other side to clean the stabs.
As she walked around him she felt his sidelong glance in her, waiting for an answer, "I'm fine" she answered in a tone that made clear that she didn't want to talk. As she looked at the stabs she believed that they were done before he transformed and because of that they were healing very slow.
"I'm worry about you. Of what I can do to you... What I did to you." he admitted plainly knowing that she didn't want to hear him and although he didn't doubt that she took satisfaction of what she just did to him, he didn't want to hurt her, he could never want to hurt her.
Selene looked at him, at heard that, and she shot at him a deadly and cold glance that made him avert her face. She didn't want to talk about it and he knew it, so why he keeps talking? He looked really hurt by what he did, but she didn't want to deal with him right now, she couldn't deal with him right now or she would finish injuring him. She took a blood bag and furiously opened it with her fangs.
"I don't want lost control again..." He said sincerely.
She glared at him, catching his nervous gaze and wanting to answer that she neither wanted it, "That can't be helped." she said bluntly instead, and then poured the blood in the deep cuts trying of that way make then heal faster.
Michael was shocked to hear that, "I don't want that to happen again..." he replied, his voice even fainter as he closed his eyes at the smell and the feel of the blood. Calm down, calm down, calm down, he repeated to himself when he felt that his throat became even more dry.
Selene stared at him and knowing what it was happening she quickly took another blood bag and gave it to him, he immediately took it and began to drink of it, instantly feeling its effect in his body.
"Then, I suggest you work this problem before something that...we might regret happens." She declared imperious and rudely, she noted that her voice sounded higher than she intended but she ignored it and took the forces again, then she went and stood close to the table and looked at Benjamin's body.
Michael was stunned at hear her cold and impassible words, he didn't expect her compassion but neither this attitude, but either way he understood, the fail was mine and she is in her right to do or think what she wants, if she was going to leave him he was not going to impede it but he was not going to resign to his fate either... And those words he didn't know if she was talking about him killing her or the opposite, and maybe he will never know. He grabbed another towel and began to clean himself, all the way drinking from another blood bag.
With her foot she turned Benjamin and saw him looking at her with hate and fury, she grabbed him by the neck of his shirt, "There's a bathroom in the second floor and clothes in some boxes." she said not as harsh as before while she dragged the lycan towards a corner of the warehouse.
"You can...Kill me here...Because..." his voice hoarse and breathless as he spoke "I will not... tell you anything...you fucking bitch!"
"Yes you will, and then I will kill you..." Selene said to him secure of what she was going to do, her hate towards him was showed in her voice.
Michael leaned on his hands and walked to the second floor as she began to cruelly interrogate Benjamin. The only thing he could think as he took a shower was in what he was going to do if she left him. He could hide, but if what she said was true and he loses control again... He couldn't even think about it, go back to the lycan's den...No way, go back to the States... Tired he tried not to think more, at least until he knew what she was going to do with him.
He got out of the shower when he felt clean and better, he changed in the clothes that were in a box, his bag and everything he had brought with him was useless now, everything was stained in blood. He came down slowly and kept a clean towel in the cuts that were almost healed but that sometimes when he made certain movements they began to bleed again. As he was midway he heard four shoots and a couple of seconds later Selene turned around a corner, she was looking intensely at the floor in deep thought, he noticed the blood in her hands and in her boots but he also noticed that it wasn't hers.
She looked up and suddenly found herself looking at his eyes, she redirected her stare and saw that he was recovered for the most part, he was not as pale as before, the visible wounds were already healed, she noticed his hand under his shirt, she also noted that he was using clothes that gave him an attractive look, she was surprised to find herself thinking about that, "Do you feel better?" she asked, quickly diverting her gaze before he noticed that she was worry about him and that she was staring.
As she began to go upstairs Michael noticed that she was not as distant as before and he felt a little relieved, now with a little more of security he answered her, "I'm all right; I'm still bleeding a little though." he moved the hand under his shirt. Selene nodded and she was going to keep ascending when she found herself in front of him, he stopped her saying, "All of this, will make sense when..." but he stopped, he didn't know how to finish the sentence. When this is over? Is this going to be over? Are we going to be alive when this finish? Then what? He had many questions but he knew that it wasn't proper to make them, at least no in those circumstances, besides, she either wouldn't answer him or she wouldn't know.
Looking at him she sighed, "I don't know if it will make sense to you, maybe with time..." she said as she began to walk. When she was atop of the stairways she added, without looking back, "But you can learn to control it." She entered a room and searched for some clothes then went to the bathroom and got in.
She enjoyed the warm water, different to the rain but equal of comforting. Finally she was alone, the door was closed, she felt calmer after what she did at Benjamin...That did set free her tension, Michael was downstairs and there was nothing to disturb her, except for her feelings and thoughts...
All the things Benjamin told her were not good, at least now she had some hope to be accepted in the renegade's house.
Kraven was alive and planning something against her. The coward contacted several groups, between them Jhon's and promised them money and total freedom if they delivered her alive to him but not in Ordoghaz. He also made a pact with the new leader of Lucian's den after the lycans that tried to attack the mansion were dead; apparently he convinced every lycan that he wasn't the one who killed Lucian and that he was their only allied. In Ordoghaz, the only ones that knew the true about him were Viktor, Kahn and her, two of them were dead and they wouldn't believe in her...And mysteriously all the tapes of those days disappeared. But Kraven didn't know that the lycans were going to betray him, all the lycans were united to bring him down as soon as he got the power of the covens, then they were going to kill the death dealers and the vampires that were against them.
Another thing was that Markus was awake, apparently he was already awake when the council went to the crypt. He had been behaving estrange, he was indifferent towards Viktor's dead and her own persecution, but had put all his death dealers to search for Michael...
And Michael, why didn't he tell her the true? If he wanted, he could be right now with the lycans, he would be more comfortable than running with her. If he had done what they told him... Certainly he could do it, he was close to do it an hour ago...But he didn't. It seemed that her feelings for him were in constant change, one instant she was... comfortable with him and the next she was hating him. If he had killed her, as the lycans asked him to, that would have made everything much simpler for him and her, but it seemed that he was more loyal to her than to his lycan side. Why couldn't she stay mad at him? What he did wasn't right, but after she knew what the lycans had proposed him to become their new leader and that he had denied... In that instant all her anger dissolved and let her feeling different...
Michael was cleaning the trench coat she had left in the office when he felt her close, he got nervous knowing that she would tell him what she was going to do, although he suspected that she was not going to left him behind, not after all the things she did for him, he rapidly stopped the cleaning and put the coat over a chair just as she entered, turning around he saw her with new pants and a tight short-sleeved shirt, they were all black and tight fitting and her boots were now clean. Michael was astonished for the change, now she didn't look that tough, she looked even a little, just a little relaxed, looking at her face he saw her surprised and looking at the coat, trying to compose himself he said "I thought that it might have some emotional value for you..."
She nodded as she kept inspecting the coat, aware of his staring, more than ever she didn't like what he was doing at the moment. Looking back at him, he looked at his bag, "Are you ready?" she asked knowing that he had come to think that she was going to keep her way without him, she saw a relieved feeling wash over him. Selene went for her coat but he took it and upheld it so she could put it on. At the same time he winced and drew all the air he could, holding it for a moment and then releasing it in a painful sigh. Selene looked at him scowling but he didn't give it importance, I'm well now, he had stopped bleeding ten minutes ago and the injury was almost closed.
Doubting, she went to him and left him putting it on, "You know that I didn't do it on purpose, right?" he asked seriously when she had her back towards him.
"I know." she said as she turned, her eyes softening for an instant but enough for him to notice it. Knowing that if she didn't put some space between them he could take that as consent to do something, she backed away while he tried to say something, what, she didn't know. "Let's go" she said as she took from the table several UV magazines.
Knowing that try something with her in that moment would be inappropriate, he was going to say something similar to what she said, should we go? but she said it first. They walked downstairs and he saw his bag over a table, "Can I just let it here?" he asked her pointing at the bag and the stained clothes.
Selene nodded and they began to walk but then she stopped remembering something she had seen when he borrowed her clothes to sleep. She hadn't seen what it was inside but she supposed what it was, "You are forgetting something." She said and received a blank look, she directed to the bag and extracted a white envelope. He looked at it confused and nodded taking it.
As they were on the bike he sadly thought in how he could have forgotten about it...
After a couple of minutes he saw a sign:
Szombathely 280 Miles.
We are going there after all that has happened? He asked to himself but didn't want to ask her, she must have her reasons.
.
.
.
"And why are you so sure that he said the truth?" Michael asked confused, after all, they had tried to kill them.
"Experience." Selene said as she saw the security system and knew she had been discovered. After a couple of minutes nothing happened so she directed and knocked on the door of what it looked like a basement. After a couple of seconds a vampire opened the door, he looked at them knowing that she was a vampire but insecure of Michael, as he was going to say something Selene stopped him, "We're looking for Gabriel."
"What do you want with him?" He asked becoming wary, it wasn't every day that a vampire came looking for refuge.
"That's not your business." She said looking at him defiantly and Michael sighed knowing that that was not the way if they wanted to get in.
"I'm sorry but I can't let you pass if Gabriel doesn't know that you are here. If you want to, you can wait while I -"
"You will take us to him, now." Selene spoke in a tone not just of deep confidence but with the attitude of waiting for obedience. Michael gulped knowing that they could be getting in problems by her attitude. The vampire seemed shocked to hear that, suddenly they were aware of someone's else presence.
"Let them in, they are welcome here." Said a deep voice that Selene instantly recognized. At hear this words Michael felt relieved, the vampire moved to a side and closed the door, then he disappeared by a door in the corner of an alley. As they approached him, Selene saw that he had barely changed, he was wearing plain black pants with an elegant white shirt that made him look muscular, his hair was cut short, apart of that, he was the same of decades ago. "Like what you see?" he asked playfully at Selene that cocked an eyebrow, but didn't answer. "I never thought that I was going to see you again..." He said seriously when they were in front of each other, "And let alone in these circumstances..."
"I know. Me too..." She uttered sincerely but then she remembered all that had happened, "Would you care to explain me what this place is? And how did you get to handle all this?" she said rudely, wanting for answers.
"I see that you haven't change." He said sarcastically, hiding his disappointment. "You must be Michael, you are quite famous now, you know?" He extended his hand, when he saw Michael doubting he smiled and added, "you're welcome here too..."
Embarrassed by his attitude Michael shook his hand, "I'm sorry... I don't know in whom to trust." He answered seriously.
"Don't worry, it always is difficult at the beginning." He said cordially. Looking at Selene they both see her looking at them with little patience "...Anyway, let's go to my office" as he turned around and began to walk, Selene made a gesture to Michael to pay attention, he nodded and followed him. Selene noted that the place was different from Ordoghaz in some aspects, mostly in its architecture, at the same time she also noted they didn't seem to have the useless society that existed on Viktor's coven. Looking around she scowled as she spotted a vampire that in its moment she was glad not see again, turning her face with a gesture of distaste she saw Michael amused. He noticed that in this place the vampires and lycans seemed a little relaxed and didn't look aggressive towards each other or towards them. They were walking by the halls without the tension he supposed existed on Selene's former coven, a tinny group inside of some type of booth were laughing at something, there was a room with people watching TV, also, and for his delight, some of them were using medical white gowns. Some people stared at them, ones with discretion others not. Comparing it with the lycans' den Michael could say that this place seemed very comfortable, pacific, and certainly cleaner.
When they came to Gabriel's office he offered them blood, "We had a traitor group that we sent to our former house." He said looking tiredly at them, "We didn't know that they were in conspiring with Kraven and Clive." seeing that they didn't know who Clave was he explained, "The new lycan leader... anyway, it was too late to send a group to annihilate them but we did it. And you two showed before them..."
"And you let us do your dirty work..." Selene said after drink a little of blood, she could admit she was hungry, as soon as she saw the blood packets her mouth watered.
"I know you could do it, who better than you...?" He looked at the monitor over his desktop, "I had not seen a torture like that in some time, you have not lost your touch..." seeing that Selene was not going to comment anything and the discomfort in Michael's face he changed the subject, "You now know the actual situation of the coven and lycan's den, so what else do you want to know?"
Selene nodded and Michael felt that he had no idea of what they were talking about. In the way Selene told him some things but apparently not all, suddenly a thought struck him, "You saw everything...You have cameras in that warehouse..." Michael said distrustful, Gabriel nodded as he looked at Selene, "Did you know that?" she shook her head but didn't let him know that she suspected they had been taped.
"We have them... And, Michael, you can learn to control it. We could show you if you stay here. The secret is the concentration and the canalization of your forces and anxieties." He said suddenly, knowing that having Michael at their side could be a turning point.
"I don't know if we are going to stay, but thanks for the advice..." Michael said rudely.
"We will stay..." Selene said to no one in particular but then she looked at Gabriel directly, "...after you tell me everything... and I agree with that."
He smiled at her and then scowled remembering something, "I know your hate for the lycans and the reason for it, Selene, but here we have a pact that you already know. Would you follow it?" Seeing her silence he added, "I know it's too hard for you but if you don't agree with it, I can't let you stay." The way he spoke and stared at Selene made Michael think that Gabriel knew her very well.
"...Viktor killed my family. That's why I killed him." she said, at first doubting. She can see that Gabriel was shocked to hear that. He hadn't imagined it, but either had accepted the other version, anyone that really knew Selene would know that that was a lie. Suddenly the door opened, Michael noted that the way she walked was similar to Selene's, with her back straight, her chin lightly raised in a gesture that showed character instead of arrogance, she had blue eyes, brown hair, and a posture of security. Selene looked at her and sighed.
"I'm glad to see you too Selene." She said smirking, but Selene didn't answer. Michael seemed interested in this, was she some kind of threat to them? Or was that Selene just didn't like her?
"Michael, this is Brianna, she is a former Death Dealer but now she is my right hand. She is in charge of the training of our warriors and she makes sure that everything works as it should, even when I'm here..." Gabriel commented, ignoring the animosity between Selene and Brianna.
Michael looked at her and made a gesture of acknowledgment with his hand. She looked at him and smiled politely, then she looked at Selene and her smile turned in a smirk, "So, this is your new boy toy... I have always appraised your likes..." it was obvious she was trying to annoy Selene. Brianna never liked her, nor her disinterest towards everything that wasn't the war, her attitude and the lack of showing emotions... And apparently nothing had changed.
Selene brushed it off, "I know..." she said and for a second she looked from Brianna to Gabriel. Michael perceived the discomfort between the three of them when Selene said that. After a moment Brianna smiled, maybe she had changed. Seeing Brianna smiling, Selene added, "...and he is not my boy toy."
That made Brianna smile broadly, ...well maybe just a little. She knew that if they were going to live under the same roof again they must put all their discrepancies aside, "So..." she said but didn't know with what continue. With no bad intention she asked for the first thing that came to her mind "...how is Fiona?" She received a glare and sighed, ok, maybe that wasn't a good idea. Michael pay attention to that little interaction and for the first time thought that he really didn't know Selene, he shook his head, he knew her just a little...
Gabriel cleared his throat trying to call the attention of the others. Ignoring Brianna Selene looked at him. Changing the topic he spoke to her, "Selene this place is not Ordoghaz. Here everybody has a function that has to perform to stay...we have money but not the quantity you are accustomed to handle..."
"That's not a problem." She interrupted him, knowing that if she needed something she always could take it from her accounts, and for her function, she was a warrior...but still, there were things that she didn't know and that she wanted to so she could stay, "Are you going to answer my questions?" she asked as Brianna sat at Gabriel's side. At the same time Michael was thinking in what could be his functions, if they indeed stayed.
"Of course, what do you want to know?" He knew that if he convinced her, they would have the winning hand on that war with Michael at their side.
"Who is your benefactor? Why did you have Ziodex blood? What do you win of this?" Selene asked the questions she had in mind since she interrogated Benjamin.
"Well, you do want to know everything, aren't you?" He grinned and suddenly a knock in the door distracted him. "...Come in."
The door opened, it was a lycan, "Sir, our contact sent the data you were expecting." He waited for instructions but Gabriel didn't say anything, instead he looked at Brianna and she nodded.
Selene with great difficulty suppressed her feelings to take her guns. It must be something important if his right hand went with the lycan, she thought as she saw Brianna closing the door. How did Brianna manage to let her hate at a side? she asked herself as she looked at Gabriel expectantly, "Well..."
He nodded, "We have our own laboratories. And I think you are asking why Benjamin had Ziodex blood with him and the answer is that I don't know. Probably Kraven gave it to them when he contacted them." Selene nodded although she noted that he didn't answer her first question, "You two are great assets for the war that it's to come. Selene you are a Death Dealer...or were, and you are the only one here that knows the actual security system in Ordoghaz. With you we have a tremendous advantage over the Death Dealers and Michael has the power that we need to-"
Michael interrupted him feeling a little startled; he hadn't thought that he would be in the war, he thought he was running away from it, "What power?"
"You are powerful, strong, and you can try to persuade some lycans to join us." Michael wasn't convinced of that and Gabriel noticed it, "Look, we want this war to end. We have been working for that. Everyone is tired of this massacre and neither lycan nor vampire will be totally free until it is finished. We have everything planned and this is the perfect moment, but we don't have the quantity of warriors we need." Gabriel looked at Selene that had been too quiet. Totally free? she didn't like how that sounded.
"I already went there and the only thing they wanted was the total destruction of the vampires, they don't want -" He tried to explain what happened but was interrupted.
"Michael not all the lycans agree with this but believe me, out there are lycans that want this to be over. They just don't join us because they think the vampires are going to betray them... You could talk with the lycan in charge here and come to an understanding with him; I know he would be pleased to have you as an alley..." Gabriel spoke knowing that convince Michael was going to be difficult.
"Gabriel, I understand your point but I don't think Michael could bring together all those lycans. You probably have just hundreds of warriors, but the covens and the dens have thousands that want to destroy each other..." Selene said watching Michael sighing.
He let out a self-sufficiency smile, "We are not hundreds, we have more allies than what you believe. We are around the globe. Where there is a coven, there's one of our houses, and inside the covens we have some infiltrated." Gabriel said with pride as he saw that Selene looked impressed "We could attack right now but we wouldn't be prepared for all the outcomes. That's why we need you two, that's why we are waiting..."
"Infiltrated? You have infiltrated Ordoghaz?" Selene asked skeptically, "Then, why didn't you know what Kraven was planning to take the power?"
"Who says we didn't? We knew and we were waiting to that moment, but then you awoke Viktor, and not only Kraven's plans got changed." He said trying to show her that they knew everything. Michael looked astonished at Selene, he didn't know that she had awoken Viktor.
Selene was disconcerted. Who could be the infiltrates? Was he hiding something or was telling the truth? She looked at Michael, "Who is your benefactor?" he asked and suddenly she remembered once again that Gabriel had not answered her that question.
He sighed, "I know you are not going to like hearing this but his name I can't tell you, yet...but you will meet him soon..."
"Why can't you tell me?" Selene asked distrustful.
"I have to ask him first. Things here are handled different than in Ordoghaz, and although I know he will be glad to have you here, I still have to follow rules."
She knew he was making excuses trying to convince her. And he was right, she didn't like that, distrustful she asked him, "How do you know you can trust the vampires and lycans that are out of that door? Even us? After all, we are all here because we... have betrayed our kind..." She still wasn't used to say it, she didn't consider she had betrayed her kind.
"Most of the lycans and vampires here are new beings that have been bitten and didn't have a place to go. We receive them and teach them all we can to survive; we also have some fugitives that accepted our rules. Of course, everyone sees things different, there are always disagreements but until today everything has solve peaceful." He said sincerely and looking from Michael to Selene. "...And we have cameras and microphones in the entire house and cars. We already knew they were betraying us..." Selene still doubted, he stared at her letting her know he had spoken with the truth, "...I still trust you Selene and in your decisions even if we have been in different sides of this war. But if you stay those decisions will have to change..."
Selene stared at him and felt she still could read him like all those years ago. After think for a long time Selene agreed to stay, for the moment, "I will stay...I'll try to tolerate them and accepted them as long as they don't try something against me..." he nodded and grinned at her, at that she added, "After all, if Brianna could do it I don't think it can be that hard..." she smirked at him and he couldn't avoid to laugh. Michael looked uncomfortable at their interaction; it seemed that Selene also knew him very well and that they had been close in the past.
At that moment Brianna entered the room with some papers in hand and gave a part to Gabriel, at the same moment Selene remembered the seriousness of the subject, "Do they know everything?" Brianna asked him and Gabriel nodded. Then she looked at Selene and extended some papers to her, "Fiona was interrogated some hours ago and it seems that you three had quite a fight."
Selene took the papers and read them carefully as Michael leaned to take a look, they have Fiona's declarations and some pictures. She was impressed by the reach they had, looking at the pictures she saw some members of the council and some Death Dealers, that meant some high ranking member was the traitor. While she read the declarations she noted that Fiona lied, maybe knowing that if she said the truth she would be punished.
"Is it true?" Brianna asked to Selene, knowing first hand the kind of relationship Fiona and Selene had. Selene shook her head and told the truth of what happened.
"She tried to protect you." Michael whispered just for her at recognize the affected tone on her voice, she looked at him with disbelief, "You can't be sure of that..." he said with security and trying to reassurance her.
"She did it because if not she might be executed." She was sure of that and made everyone doubt about Fiona's intentions. Not wanting to think about it she changed the topic "Who is the intruder?"
"We will talk about that at nightfall. It is already dawning and -" He began to say tiredly, after all, it had been a long day, but Brianna interrupted him.
"Are you going to stay?" she asked feigning discomfort.
"Yes, you have a problem with that?" Selene asked defensively.
Not wanting fights Gabriel faked a yawn as he stood up, "I suppose you two are tired..."
Michael nodded but Selene ignored him, "Not really. I want to know everything before-"
"Come on Selene, you are tired. You can't deny that, it doesn't show in your body," Brianna said in a conciliatory tone that made Selene look at her surprised, seeing Selene's reaction she added smirking, "but in your attitude. You are not been aggressive; you haven't aimed anyone, yet..." Selene rolled her eyes but didn't make a comment, thing that surprised everyone. Brianna then turned to Gabriel, "Did you explain the functions?"
He nodded, "Yes but we still have to talk about what they will have to do." he said walking out of the office while they followed.
"Selene obviously will be in charge of our warriors and in the training." Brianna looked at Selene as she spoke, "We have some former Death Dealers and they all work in that, but if you want to do something else just say it..." she saw Selene shaking her head, then she looked at Michael that clearly was thinking in what he could do, she smiled at him, "...And Michael, you are a doctor, right?"
Michael looked at Selene but she wasn't looking at them. He knew he shouldn't count with her to answer that, still he was a little confused for the question, "A human doctor, I know nothing about lycans or vampires..."
She put a hand in his shoulder and tapped it lightly, "Oh, don't worry you will learn...if you want. We have a research team; they are very good and know everything that is to know about our kinds." She saw him raising his eyebrows and smiled broadly at him, "Most of them began as human doctors and... others made themselves on the way. But if you don't feel capable or don't want to, then what else do you know to do?" She asked trying to make him feel comfortable.
Michael was disconcerted by her attitude. Certainly she was more relaxed and friendly than Selene, "I...I guess that it will be good." He felt comfortable with that, he still could be working in something that resembled what he loved. He turned his head and saw Selene frowning at them.
"Where are we going?" She avoided Michael's eyes and asked Gabriel, who was at her side.
"To the dormitories. I'm tired and I bet you too..." He saw that Selene was going to say something but he interrupted her, "I told you, we will talk in the night." Selene noted the authoritarian tone in his voice and knew she wasn't going to get anything more, she sighed and then heard Brianna whispering something to Michael, something she wasn't suppose to hear so she ignored it.
"So, do you want a bedroom for the two of you or are you already tired of her?" She asked and saw Michael looking at the floor trying to hide his smirk, then she added with a fake shiver "believe me, I know what it is to be just with her for almost a week..." the way she spoke made Michael grin openly and he felt her squeezing his shoulder in a friendly way, "You are not going to answer me, do you?" she asked playfully as Michael stared at Selene. Suddenly they stopped in front of a room.
"This is your bedroom Selene." Gabriel said as he opened the room, the only thing Selene noted was the big bed with an apparently warm quilt. She felt that after all she was tired, looking around she saw a closet, a chair and a small table, "It has everything you may need..." After a moment he turned around. Selene couldn't help to think that she was going to be left alone with Michael, that was a thing that definitely didn't make her feel comfortable, but she either wanted him far from her, at the other side of the house. Gabriel entered the bathroom and she followed him noticing it was a simple one.
There was another door in the bathroom and Gabriel directed to it, "And this, Michael, is your room." Selene felt relieved with that, he was going to be close without be in the same room with her, that way she could begin to put some distance between them and at the same time know what occurs with him.
Michael had been looking around Selene's room thinking that he didn't want to get separated from her, and he was going to say it if they tried to take him to another part of the enormous house, although he suspected Selene wouldn't like it. Sighing with relieve he entered the room and saw the same things Selene's room had. "I hope you like it."
Michael nodded, "It looks very comfortable...thank you." He saw Gabriel getting out of his room and entering Selene's.
"Ok, we will see you later..." Brianna said to Michael and Selene as she and Gabriel got out of the room.
Selene looked towards the bathroom and to Michael's bedroom, he was looking back at her. "I hope you rest well." he said tiredly and as she was going to close the door of her side, he doubting said, "Thank you...for all you have done. I know that I didn't deserve it after what I did to you." He spoke sincerely and obviously feeling guilty.
Selene saw he still was ashamed for that, and not wanting to make him feel guiltier, "Don't worry." she said and stared at him for a couple of seconds more, then, "You too rest well." and slowly closed the door. She stayed there for a moment and then went to the bed, she was deep asleep a moment later.
At the same time Michael was waiting for sleep to come for him.
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dark-punk: I'm glad that you liked it.
uhhhh i forgot: I appraise your comment. I don't know why I forgot to put the Ring in my list, that's one of my favorite movies.
Dudette: I'm glad you think they are similar to the movie's characters because that's what I have been trying to do.