Searching For A Better Life

by Danally

After Viktor's death Selene left Michael with the Lycans but he didn't want to stay with them so he searched for her, they decided to go in the search of a renegades group that could help them to bring the peace in the Underworld.

8. Uncertainty And Cruelty

Special Thanks to ErthGrl9870 who did the proofreading of the chapter, and all her nice comments about the history.

Although now I know approximately the age of Selene I'm going to let it in 200 years old.

Warning: This chapter contains strong language and sexual situations.

CHAP 8: UNCERTAINTY AND CRUELTY.

Michael's skin is warm against hers and his weight is not unpleasant, as he kisses her she feels goosebumps and shakes under his lips and hands, she feels him tense as she softly runs her fingers by his nape, his hair, his muscular back. She pulls him towards her and kisses him fiercely, when they part she runs her lips towards his neck, there she licks and nibbles at it as she feels him doing the same. As she runs her fangs along his neck and bites into his flesh drinking his blood she feels her breath become harsher by the second, after a couple of seconds of this she searches for his mouth again and kisses him deeply and urgently as his touches and movements drive her crazy. Selene sits upright in her bed as she opens her eyes, she feels her heart pounding madly while she scans the room, only the moon light illuminates the bedroom. She had one of those damn dreams again.

Flashback:

One day she finds that she can't sleep so she makes her way downstairs towards Gabriel's office, but it is daylight hours and almost every vampire is sleeping. She stays in his office reading some papers but after a while she decides to go to the practice room. On her way she notices that the house seems almost empty at this hour, she only finds a couple of lycans and vampires. The same occurs in the laboratories, the offices, the shooting room, the only room that is full of people is the vigilance room, at least she expects that the place she is directing be empty or almost.
As she enters she immediately feels Michael close and the curiosity makes her walk towards him. As she turns and enters another room she sees him training alone, her breath catches and her pulse raises as she sees his muscular back tensed and sweaty, his brawny shoulders, his ample chest, his abdomen and strong legs, looking at his face she sees his hair tangled and sweaty and falling in his face. When she notices what she is doing she clenches her teeth and shuts her eyes tightly trying to keep her cold mind, then she opens her eyes and notes that he hasn't seen her so she begins to walk to the next room not wanting to be noticed but she sees him jump startled and putting himself in a weird defense position. "You seemed very concentrated." She is amused at his reaction but she says it sharply.

When he notes that it's only her he feels his heart go back to its usual rate "God, you scared the hell out of me." he says letting his position. "I was, I didn't even hear you come in… Why are you awake?" He adds frowning.

"Because I couldn't sleep." The sarcasm and irritation didn't go unnoted for Michael who decides that she is in a bad mood so it's better to let her go. Instead of going to the next room she decides to go to the shooting room that's a little farther away.

End Flashback.

Now this is becoming absurd, since she saw Michael almost three months ago she had dreamed about him several times, she thinks as she goes to take a shower, although her subconscious confirms that she desires Michael, this doesn't mean that she would allow herself to think of him as a potential sexual interest, but this is not what annoys her, after all, all humans, vampires, lycans and animals have that kind of sensations, the problem is when emotions are in the way, it's not like she has all emotions but she has some, physical attraction being the principal. The worst is that she knows Michael wants her, she had recognized the look to many times and immediately after she had done or had said something to put distance but recently she has recognized how Michael sees her and that wasn't good, he has high expectations of her, and when he discovers that she is not as 'good' as he assumes he gets concerned and wary.

Flashback:

"Tell me you didn't do it." Michael says scared as he enters to the training room.

"Didn't do what?" she asks as she turns, confused at his behavior.

"I had a nightmare… I don't know if it's real… or… I…" He is very anxious and restless and doesn't know how to ask her.

At that she gets annoyed, she can't believe that he would interrupt her when she was training because he had a stupid nightmare, "Every now and then we all have one." she says dismissively as she keeps training.

When he hears that he feels angry because she never takes him seriously "I don't know if it was that or one of your memories." He says acidly.

At that she turns around, "Just forget it then." she says not liking the idea of him having her memories.

"So it's true…"

She notes the deception in his voice and can't avoid wanting to know why and what he saw, "What was it?" she asks nonchalantly.

"You were drinking from a human… I never thought you could do something like that…" So that's why he is distressed, she thinks as she sighs, thanks to her moral she hadn't enjoyed that, it had been a difficult circumstance and something that she was not proud of. Seeing her silence Michael knows that it wasn't a nightmare but he knows her and couldn't imagine her doing that, she must have had a valid reason to do that "Why did you do it?"

Not knowing why she answers him "I know that this is not a valid reason but he wasn't a good… civilian, when I arrived where he was, he was already dead and I was going to die if I didn't drink blood, there was no one around me that could help me and I didn't have blood so there wasn't anything more I could do…"

In the tone of her voice and in her eyes he knows that she is being sincere but that brings another fear "Did you like it?" He asks fearful.

"What?" She asks surprised.

"Did you like the blood?"

At that she thinks for a long time and also remembers when she bit him so she decides be sincere with him "I did." seeing his shocked expression she adds "That was what frightened me the most…"

"Did you do it again?" Michael asks as he looks at the floor, thinking about what all this represented for him.

And he says that he knows her, she thinks as she shakes her head "Not until you…" she says as she turns around disregarding him for her practice again.

Michael feels a little relieved, "OK." He says as he walks out of the door.

End Flashback.

As Selene walks out of the bathroom she looks at the envelope on her desk, she had founded it almost twelve hours ago but she hadn't wanted to open it, she knew that Michael had left it there, she doesn't know what's inside and is not sure if she wants to know. After what happened a week ago she has been avoiding him even more than ever, the next day after what happened she had gone on a mission for four days and when she came back she hadn't had a 'proper conversation' with him. She hadn't liked the way she reacted at his caresses and if it hadn't been for what he said she is not sure of what might have happened. It's not only how she reacted that time, is how she reacts every time he is around, if she is calmer then she loses her temper and when she is angry and he makes some comment…
Averting that kind of thought she dresses and then she heads towards her desk for her guns, although she has been surrounded by lycans for the last few months she is not comfortable with them, and suspects that she is never going to be, after all, four months can't erase two centuries of butchery, and its not like she has stopped doing it, often in her missions they had to track betrayers or groups that can act against them, they first 'interrogated' them and then killed them, and although there were vampires among them she still felt more adrenaline, hate and anger towards the lycans even though she knows that they didn't kill her family. Everyone knows that and maybe that's why lycans feel intimidated by her, few are the lycans that train with her, at first she was at a loss of what to do and how to act around them but with the help of Gabriel she learned, sometimes she surprises herself with her self control but there are other times when she feels that she can't tolerate them and loses her control…

Flashback:

She is training and Brianna suddenly approaches her and asks her to join a test, she quickly explains to her that it consist of two groups with integrants of both kinds, they are disqualified if they fall to the floor or if they change and the group that has more integrants standing after fifteen minutes wins the test, she accepts although still having her reservations of her closeness with the lycans. The groups are done it aleatorily and she is in a group with Brianna, they are against Joseph, Michael and Robert.
Everything is right until the moment that the other group begins to get out all the vampires, she fights with some of the lycans with care to not let her emotions get in the way, beating some of them isn't a problem thanks to their inexperience, but when she is hitting a vampire she feels that a lycan is approaching her with great velocity as she turns she sees that his fist comes directly towards her face, immediately she avoids it and takes his hand twisting it and throwing him to the floor putting her boot in his back, then she sees Robert running towards her smirking, at the last moment she moves to a side and extends her arm making him fall backwards as he falls she feels an intense pain in her cheek and for the momentum she loses her equilibrium but manages to keep standing, after the dizziness passes she sees Brianna running towards them and she hears a growl, tat is when she sees Michael hurling the lycan that had punched her towards a wall then upholding him as he shakes him violently. She doesn't do anything to defend the lycan as Brianna does, she sees that as soon as Brianna touches Michael he calms and lets the lycan go, then her attention is directed to Robert when she hears him sneer, seeing him still lying on the floor looking up at her with scorn there is no doubt in her mind that he had planned everything.

"I..." She heard Michael say as he realizes what he has done.

"We'll talk about that later" The tone of Brianna's voice surprises Selene, "You broke his arm. I have to get him to Sophie" she sounds almost angry.

"Are you ok?" She hears Brianna ask her and she nodes still looking at Robert smirking at her. Knowing what Selene is feeling, Brianna says as she passes Selene's side "Calm down." Selene doesn't know if she should ignore her comment or follow her senses and feelings.

"The practice is over." Joseph says as Brianna gets out of the room with the lycan and approaching Selene and Robert that don't let their positions. "You two can go…" He says specially to her, because he knows very well Selene's position and although he knows that she had been trying to control her hate anything could happen now.
After a moment she clenches her fists and sighs, she feels fury as she leaves the room but she knows it's the best for the lycan and for her, as she enters to her bathroom she looks at the mirror and sees her cheek swelled and a little bruised and with blood, but she feels that it's already healing. As she is cleaning she hears a knock on the door of Michael's side of the bathroom, doubting if she should, she opens the door and sees him looking at her apologeticly and with a cup of blood in his hands.

As she looks at him with disdain he thinks that maybe he should have waited. "I brought you this," he says showing her the cup "I thought it could help to heal you faster" he says sheepishly. She looks at the blood and then ignores it as she takes a towel and begins to clean her cheek, she had thought that, as always, he had come to apologies but it seemed like that was not the case. Michael doesn't know what to do, he wasn't going to say that he is regretful because weirdly he is not, he had done it without thinking and with one resolution in his mind: to protect her. She doesn't say anything as she directs towards him and for a moment he thinks that she is going to shut the door in his face but instead she gingerly takes the cup out of his hand and takes a sip. "I know you are furious with me and -"

"Of course I am!" She interrupts him as she looks defiantly at him. "I was hit by a lycan and I didn't have time to defend myself." She wasn't going to say that she didn't like to be defended by him of all people because she knows that this could be taken in another context. But the most importantly she is not going to say it with a loud voice because she would be accepting to herself that the problem is that it was him and that this has a reason in which she is not going to think.

"You didn't look angry with him but with Robert."

That was true "I don't trust him."

"You don't trust anyone" Michael mumbles to himself but she can hear it, "And you said that he hit you… but how many did you get out of the game?" The game? That's not a game for her, she thinks as she gets angry. Seeing her annoyance to his comment he waits a couple of seconds "…So the hate didn't have anything to do with your attitude down there?"

She knows that he is not speaking with bad intention or is judging her, he's only interested, "I can't change from one day to the other, I'm not comfortable with them and although I try to not see them as what I thought they were once there are moments in which I can't fight against my instincts."

Michael nodes understanding and he notices that she is looking at her clock impatiently, he remembers that she is going out today, so he knows that he doesn't have much time, "So it is something more… like damaged pride?" he asks friendly.

She looks at him intensely "It might be." she says as she gives back the empty cup. "I have to go." She turns without waiting for him to say anything and goes for her guns.

He nodes. "Take care" He says after a few seconds and closing the door. Hurriedly she puts her guns in her holsters and goes to the training room.

End Flashback.

She doesn't know why but she knows that Robert is after something, although no one believes her he sometimes acts as if he is after something, he hardly has thirty five years old but he already gained the trust of Gabriel, something that is very hard, and her resentments against him doesn't have anything to do with her suspects. He has made it very clear that he hates her and on several occasions he has made comments against her or tries to fight fight with her, on one occasion he was training and said he wanted to fight against her, Brianna and Joseph didn't have problem with that, at first everything was normal until he began to be more aggressive and haughty, seeing that Brianna and Joseph didn't stop the fight she gave him what he deserved. That wasn't taken against her by Gabriel but it had gained a reputation for her. She finishes charging the guns and takes some papers off her desk as she walks towards the door. To tell the truth there are only two lycans she 'accepts' they are Sophie and Joseph, they understand her position and don't expect anything of her.

"Here are the papers you requested" She says putting the papers on Gabriel's table, she notes that he looks anxious.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing… There is some chaos at Ordoghaz but we don't know exactly what's happening." He says looking at his monitor.

He calls that nothing? Selene thinks as she stands at his side and sees the report on his computer "What?" She asks alarmed.

"That could mean anything you said that they do that sometimes to prove the perimeter of the house" He says tiredly.

"Yes, but this is different, this looks disordered…" she absently says as she keeps reading.

"I want you in the vigilance room." He states knowing that she wants to be there.

"Of course, if anything occurs I will send someone to notify you." She says as she walks towards the door.

"And Selene" he says before she gets out "The training tonight is with Brianna, Joseph is out of town."

She nodes not liking the idea of been just with Brianna and Michael, somehow they sometimes looked close to each other, not that she cares is just that Brianna being Brianna… Since the moment she arrived with Viktor at Ordoghaz Brianna and her had problems and with time they became bigger, different point of views, different backgrounds, her obsession for breaking the rules, how she likes to contradict everyone, how she never takes anything seriously, although she has to admit that Brianna has changed the last one but even now they barely could stand each other. One thing that makes her feels at ease with herself is that although she is confused with the whole Michael thing she doesn't feel jealous when she sees him very comfortable with other women, or the kind of emotions one is suppose to feel when you are interested in someone.
As she enters in the vigilance room she notes everyone concentrated on what they are doing as she sees the lycan in charge of the room she approaches and tells him what she came for. He nodes and shows her a monitor some papers, and recordings, and videos she plays them one by one looking for hints of what its happening.
After almost two hours she hadn't found anything and everything in Ordoghaz it seemed to have been controlled even before she came, this doesn't mean that she is not going to be back after the training with Michael is finished. Before she leaves she gets a disk with information and brings it to her room there she pass them to her hard disk to read them after. As she is seated in her desk she sees again the envelop and with uncertainty she takes it, she turns it and turns it doubting if she should open it, for the thickness of it only could be a piece of paper, she throws it again where a pile of documents are and decides to look at the monitor instead, she doubts it be a ridiculous letter but if it is… She just hopes not, that would be one of the more absurd things that happens in her life, impulsively she reaches out for it and carelessly opens it, then she reaches inside and withdraws a piece of paper, she turns it to see what it is and her heart stops for a moment and she feels tears in her eyes remembering, the only thing she had missed from Ordoghaz was the picture but now in front of her there is a drawing of her family, the details of it amuse her, it even looks better than the picture she had, the only explination she has for this is that he saw one of her memories and drew it and it looks like he took his time doing it, she looks intensely at the picture trying to memorize their faces again, its not like she forgot them but she hadn't 'seen' them for four months, suddenly the alarm of her clock begins to sound startling her, quickly she saves the drawing in the envelop and puts it in a drawer then she extracts the disk and leaves her room again, she returns the disk and quickly goes towards the training room.

"You're late." Brianna says as she enters.

"I know, I was busy." Knowing what she is talking about Brianna doesn't say anything more. Instead she goes for some swords on the other side of the room. Selene sees Michael leaned against a wall looking at the floor and she begins to walk towards him slowly.

Michael had noted that Selene was avoiding him more than normal, he had only seen her or talked with her in the two last trainings and she had spent their time directing him, that's why he decided to give her the drawing he had began to do it since he had her first memories, but he wasn't going to give it to her, until she changed with him, still he doesn't think she is going to open the envelope, probably now its in the garbage can of her room. Selene sees Michael's amused look as she slowly approaches him, she doesn't know what to say, she is not angry with him, she is angry with herself for not stoping him before he entered her room and said all that crap, but now she knows that she has to say something "I saw it." It's the only thing she says but not looking at him.

Michael was surprised when he saw her coming towards him but now he is more after what she just said "I know that what I said last wee-" He stops when he sees the barely noticable movement of her head as she shakes it, obviously she didn't want to talk about it, seeing that she still is standing in front of him is a good signal he changes the topic "…So… did you like it? I know it's not perfect and maybe they are not as similar."

"It's beautiful," She says looking at him and sees him sighing relieved "Thanks" she adds and Michael smiles at her as she turns and goes to the center of the room. Knowing that with her that was one of the most normal conversations they could have, he catches up with her and softly he leans on to her shoulder and shoves her friendly with his own, she staggers a little and tries to stop a smirk and she achieves but Michael can see the barely visible sparkle in her eyes. As she looks in front of her Brianna is already in the center of the room and is looking at her raising an eyebrow.

Flashback:

She enters Gabriel's office to say to him what had happened in the last four days she was out of the house with another Death Dealers and lycans but he is on his way towards a reunion, so she begins to follow him for the house, as they turn around a corner she sees Michael and Brianna hugging but she doesn't put her attention to this, she is too angry because she reaffirmed her doubts about Robert but as always Gabriel doesn't take them in count, she knows that she doesn't have evidence but she also knows he has dark motivations and she is going to prove it as she did with Kraven, although she doesn't know how. Gabriel tired of that makes her look at the last recordings he has from Robert but she doesn't find anything, tired after almost six hours she retires to her room.

"Selene" Charles says as he sees her rounding a corner. She doesn't say anything and just stares at him "Could you give this to Michael? I have a meeting with Gabriel and I am already late."

She looks at the little container and the capsules inside it "What are they for?"

"An experiment we are doing since five days ago, I know you hadn't been around but if you want I'll explain in to you later…" Seeing his hurry she takes it. There are some experiments in which she hasn't agreed but everyone said that they were to study more the hybrid composition. As she enters her room and sees the bed she remembers that she barely has sleep in the last four days and that's why she is so tired, so she decides to give the recipient to Michael, then she is going to take a long shower and then she is going to sleep. She knocks on his door and waits for him to let her in but it seems like he is not in his room, as she turns around she hears him say that she can come in. As she enters and looks at him she sees that he has been crying and that he is very sad, but as she stares his sad look turns in fury.

"If you came to tell me how wrong I was, or that you told me so, you can save it." He says with hate in his voice, the last thing he needed was her scolding him as always.

She doesn't understand what he is talking about and although he looks like he is suffering she is feeling rage at the way he spoke to her. "I don't know what you are talking about." She simply says as she throws the container at him.

"You don't know?" He asks incredulous and catching it in mid air. What's he talking about? Did he lose control again? That can't be, Gabriel or Charles would had tell her, or is this one of his dramas like the one of the nightmare, as she begins to feel interest she also thinks that she is very tired and if it is one of his childishness… "My father is dead…" he announces suddenly as his eyes moisten again.

"Oh… When it did happen?" She asks frowning and disturbed, she hadn't expected that and she had never liked to see someone crying, although this time it is different.

"Almost one month ago…" He bends and then cleans his face after a tear runs from it. She doesn't know what to say to comfort him, she knows by experience that even if she would have something to say it wouldn't make him feel better, she just nodes and keeps looking at him. "I just knew it today." He says looking back at her.

"I'm sorry for you loss." Is the only thing she occurs to say after a few seconds, she wasn't going to lie saying that he will be fine or that with time all its forgotten because she and he know that this is not true. He nods and bends his head again wanting to hide his tears, he has motives to be repentant and to think that he can't apologies to him is making him despaired and that's a thing he doesn't know how to handle. Looking at her standing silent and not knowing why he begins to walks towards her, as she sees this her first impulse is to step back but she doesn't know what's happening and moments later she finds herself in an uncomfortable embrace. As he puts his arms tightly around her, he waits for her to push him away but she doesn't so he gently puts his head on her shoulder. As he begins to violently sob she remembers her family and the pain and although it's not the same she feels like she should do something and not keep standing there with her arms at her sides, as the seconds pass she feels the violent rise and fall of his chest.

"He didn't want me… to come to Hun… Hungary… He couldn't comprehend…" He says between sobs and intensifying his gently and firm grip, "that I needed… to… get… away…" Feeling his anguish she awkwardly and trying to be soothing begins to stroke softly his tangled and damp hair. "He was mad because I was going… to let everything… without even look… back… he even said… that all was her fault… I angry said things… I knew it wasn't true…" He didn't expected her do this for him but he appreciates it, slowly he begins to feel calmer and that the air returns to him, he doesn't know if its for her or for relieving his burden, he begins to brush his hand on her back "But I was not going to… accept it, a couple of days… later I took the first plane… I found… The few occasions I called home my… my mother kept telling me that…" She is listening to him but also is well aware of his hand and the tears that run from her shoulder to the hand that is still limp by her side "he was waiting for my excuses… and that he hadn't changed… his mind…but I never did it… and we never spoke again. …Now I feel regret and fury… and there's nothing I can do…"

As they stay that way for a while Selene already has her suspects, this is more than a coincidence that his father died barely just two weeks later that Michael called home, but she is not going to say that to him now she is not that cruel. But if her suspicions are true that means that someone could obtain the blood that permits the combination of both DNA and it could be used to do atrocities… Now its too late to try to stop them from doing something like that, she doesn't even know who could had took the blood, the lycans, Kraven, Marcus or another enemy she doesn't even know exists. They are in deep trouble.
When she lets that kind of thoughts she feels that his sobbing has ended and that he is not crying anymore suddenly he raises his head, his eyes of course are red and swelled. "Sorry about that…" He says as her piercing brown eyes look back at him and as always she has her eternal frown. She shakes her head as he backs away and sits on his bed. Knowing what she must be thinking he says "Don't worry, he is not my biological father…"

She sighs relieved but still there is something on her mind. "Are you going to be ok?"

He recognizes the real question 'Are you going to do something stupid?' he shrugs as he shakes his head. "Thanks for listening to me…" He says as she makes her way out of the room.

She looks at him over her shoulder as she closes the door. As she looks at her bed she thinks that she has to do something else before… find Brianna. The first place to look for her was in Gabriel office but she is not there, neither in the training room or in the vigilance room or in the shooting room so her room will be her next visit. She knocks at the door and waits until Brianna opens it and raises a brow surprised. "We have a problem."

"I know." She says letting Selene enter. And sitting in front of her computer "I'm researching but I can't find anything about his father, I also sent a group of the closest coven to investigate his death and they didn't find anything outstanding…"

Apparently Michael had forgotten to tell her "He is not his biological father… The problem is the rest of his family, we have to do something to ensure that they don't be found by the enemy…"

At that Brianna raises her head "He could have saved me a lot of time!" she says angry and closing her laptop "Valuable time… Anyway, he told me that the only family he has are his mother, his brother and his sister and he told her mother the first time he called that they had to hide, his mother believed him but his father not… and he stayed in their house…"

At hear that she begins to think that she doesn't know him at all "Did he tell you where they are?" Selene asks as she walks for the room impatiently.

"He didn't want to tell me. He didn't call again instead he checked his mail tonight when he was out with Charles and Sophie and there was the notice… Sophie was with him, she memorized the IP and told it to me after, we gave it to Robert, and he is doing the task now."

"Robert?" Selens asks distrustful.

"He is a hacker, this is nothing for him." Brianna says disgusted at the distrust of Selene.

"If it is nothing why you don't have the answer on top of that desk?"

"I gave the IP to him five minutes ago, he will be here in less than other five…And he is the one who is going to be in charge of Michael's family." She doubts about saying this to Selene "

"You are going to send him to America?" She asks slamming her hands on the table and towering over Brianna.

Brianna knows the effort Selene has done to tolerate the lycans and she has learned to control her hate for then although she only spoke or got close to them when it was necessary but apparently Robert was the exception. "No, he is going to be in charge from here. And what has he done to make you distrust him?"

"I know he is plotting something, I still don't know what but I'm going to find out." Knowing that Brianna thinks the same thing Gabriel does she change the topic "What if something happens to his family? He is not going to be very happy to kn-"

"Why do you care what he might think or if he is happy or not?" Brianna interrupts her as she stands up.

"Oh, not again. This is serious." Selene says with distaste.

"This too… He has feelings for you although I don't know which and why." She confronts Selene.

"I don't care, I don't feel the same." She says shrugging and thinking that she is only here because she is waiting for Robert to come.

"Are you sure? You must feel something." Brianna suspects that she does, after all she lets Michael do some intransigence that before she would never have permitted.

"I don't"

Selene speaks surely of herself, thing that makes Brianna doubt about her own deductions "That's the same thing you said almost two centuries ago and look how everything finished."

"That wasn't my fault and you know it." Selene says defensive and feeling irate.

"I know that that wasn't your fault but it was directly took it by the decision you made. And you did have feelings for him." She finishes saying that almost yelling.

"That didn't stop you." Selene speaks without thinking.

"Oh for fuck's sake I never slept with him, not in that way… that was a stupid excuse you took."

Why is she bringing all this now? What does she want from this? There is one thing she is sure Brianna is overreacting everything that happened "You are making a drama out of that, it wasn't that importa-"

"Maybe not for you but for him it was important." She says knowing that this conversation is leading nowhere. "One of the vampires that is going to be there is Thomas, so you can be calm." She adds after a while of uncomfortable and hostile silence, "Are you not going to ask me how he is?" she asks seeing the glance of hate that Selene directs her, suddenly a knock is heard at the door "Come in" she says as she sits again in her chair.

"I have it. I already sent a group to find them… Majority Death Dealers as you requested." He says as he looks from Brianna to Selene.

"Ok, tell them they can't hurt them, don't let them see them, they have to protect them against everything." She says seriously and knowing that if Michael learns about this he is going to get mad.

"I already told them that."

"Good, keep me informed of everything." She says dismissing him.

"I will." He says nodding and letting the room, immediately after Selene does the same.

But before she gets to the door Brianna makes a last comment "Don't be too hard with him at least not now, he is very sensible."

End Flashback.

Seeing Brianna she knows what she is thinking. Maybe Michael has feelings for her but it's just that, feelings and love are way far apart and with time he will forget about this emotion, he is confused and he just wants anyone it doesn't matter who, she, Brianna, Sophie or somebody else, he needs someone to understands him and accepts him. For her attitude he may believe she doesn't understand or accept him or never will, so he is just lusting after her. "Let's begin with this." She says to no one in particular.

"Are you ready?" Brianna asks Michael as she throws a sword at Selene and two at him.

Michael doesn't know what to answer, training with them was difficult, each one is very aggressive and now they are going to do it united, somehow he knows he will not get out unharmed "I guess."

"Ok, it's you against us." Brianna says after noticing the uncertainty in his voice. "And everything is valid" She adds with an evil smirk.

"Great." He mutters as he puts himself in defensive position. One hour and a half later he is bleeding a little and now the swords seem heavier than before. He runs towards Selene with his swords and suddenly out of nowhere Brianna appears and kicks him in his stomach, thanks to the velocity he has instead of fall backwards he goes forwards and turns in mid air but everything is too fast that he can't even react to fall standing, the next thing he sees is Selene and Brianna standing at each side of him and making a decapitation movement with contrary movements, the blades barely four or five centimeters away of his neck, seconds later he feels blood oozing out of them but nothing serious, if not he already would have been dead.

Selene backs away as Brianna helps him to stand up "Don't ever forget the other enemy. You have to be alert." Michael nods, this training had been the most difficult until now, they were always a step ahead of him it was like they were reading his movements even before doing them. "But you are much better now." Brianna says moving the sword as he cleans his neck. The training keeps going the same way until he begins to think about their relationship with the lycans.

"Don't you two feel regret?" He asks as he attacks Brianna.

"Regret for what?" Selene asks as Brianna evades Michael.

"For killing lycans."

"No." Selene answers without doubt.

"No?" He asks astonished and Brianna exploits this, "And you?"

"Neither." She says as Selene stands behind Michael.

"Why not?" He asks as he raises over his head a sword and blocks Selenes.

"We were Death Dealers." Brianna says as she tries to touch Michael chest with her sword but he stop it with the other sword.

"If we hadn't done it they would have killed us." Selene says and seeing his position she sweeps her legs making him fall.

"Don't you understand it?" Brianna asks letting him stand. He shakes his head.

"You have killed too, are you regretful of that?" Selene asks acidly.

She had a point there but he sometimes felt bad about it "Yeah… No… it was to protect us."

"Exactly." Brianna declares as she crouches when Michael tries to hit her.

"But that's not my point." He says as Selene begins to attack him.

"What is it then?" Brianna asks following their movements.

"Its that… you must have killed innocent lycans… without any emotion." He sees the look that Selene sends him and he knows that he didn't explain it well and that this was probably not the best moment to make her angry "What I meant was…" Michael has difficulties thinking because Selene is being very aggressive.

"I understand your point but still I don't regret it." Brianna says at seeing what Selene is doing. "I have thought about it but I don't like to think about it." She says as Selene disarms Michael with her on sword.

"The past is the past, we can't fix anything just by being sorry." Selene says as she thinks about the first sentence in her answer.

"The thing is that now we wouldn't do it unless it was in defense." Brianna says as she looks at her clock, "So I don't think you will see us having an emotional breakdown about it." She says giving for finished the training.

Michael nodes not understanding how they can live with so many lycans and not feel anything for what they had done. As Selene is getting out of the training room he hears Brianna asking her if she is going towards the vigilance room and she nodes then Brianna begins to follow her leaving all the disorder for him as always, he can't resist making a last comment believing that Selene is out, "You know I think you two should settle your disagreements."

"Don't push it" Brianna says as Michael raises his eyes to look at her and smiles then he sees Selene standing behind Brianna with a look of 'yeah, right'.

"What do you think of the situation in Ordoghaz?" Brianna asks her as they make their way.

"I don't know everything is too confused now, I first thought they were checking the system but now that they have put new alarms and defense hardware..."

"Maybe they think they are going to be attacked and that's why they are doing all that."

"Yeah, but why have so many Death Dealers left the coven and why hasn't your infiltrate called or sent something… I don't know but this doesn't look good."

"I think Kraven discovered that he is going to be betrayed by the lycans and is doing all he can to avoid it and at the same time don't let the coven know about his deal." Selene has to recognize that Brianna may be right in everything she has said, and she even hopes that Brianna be correct, as they enter the vigilance room they note that everything is normal, it seemed that everything had changed back in Ordoghaz.

They must have told him, he doesn't understand why everyone is hiding information from him it's like he doesn't count for them, he knew that something was going on but he didn't put much interest in it and went to sleep and when he wakes up he became acquainted because he heard a conversation, What they were waiting to tell them? Or were they going to betray them? Michael doesn't want to be trespassing her personal space that's the last thing on his mind as he enters her room he sees her facing the wall and her back is towards him, he immediately approaches her. "Wake up." He says but she is sound asleep and doesn't seems to have heard him, "Wake up!" he repeats and nothing, knowing that she is going to be mad at him anyway he softly grasps her shoulders and shakes it "Selene".

Selene looks at the clock in the table 3:00 P.M. she has been sleeping for almost two hours, she closes her eyes again but slowly she becomes more focused and aware of the warmth on her shoulder immediately she feels that she is being waggled, Michael's scent, and hears her name, instantly she puts away his hand and moves to a sitting position "What the hell do you want?" she asks crossing her arms in irritation, this was not the time for anything he might want.

"We have to go." He says fast and making space for her to stand up.

"What are you talking about?" She asks now more preoccupied knowing he is being serious "What happened?" she stands and picks one of her Death Dealer suits and goes to the bathroom suspecting that the problem is in Ordoghaz.

Michael although worried for the serious, very serious problem can't help to glance Selene in her sleep clothes, he shakes his head vigorously "Some Death Dealers left Ordoghaz yesterday but almost two hours ago another great quantity of them did the same with Marcus, and some informants said that they are coming here."

That's not good, why didn't Gabriel wake her up, this is very serious "How did you know?" she asks getting out of the bathroom.

"I heard a conversation, besides down there it's a havoc, Gabriel office, the vigilance room, even the laboratory." He says as she puts a magazine in each gun.

"Stay here." She orders as she is going out of her room, as she notices that he is going to object she turns and seeing her feral look Michael stops "Stay!" she shouts and then slams the door. As she makes her way downstairs to all the commotion she keeps her hands on her guns one filled with uv bullets and another with silver, just in case. "What the hell is going on?" she asks as she enters Gabriel's office, everyone that is inside looks at her disapproving but she doesn't care.

Gabriel excuses and gets out making her follow him "I suppose you already know?" He says and then he sees her hand in her holster "Are you doubting of me?" He asks a little angry and hurt.

She ignores the tone of his voice and all the vampires and lycans that are staring at them "When were you going to tell me? When he would be at the door?"

"You know we have to be sure before we evacuate someone."

"For them I'm not just someone! I'm Viktor's assassin!" She says as she begins to walk towards the garage to get ready her car.

"I know but-" He says trying to stop her but she interrupts him.

Selene turns around pushing away the hand in her arm "And Michael he is a hybrid, there's no doubt in my mind about their intentions, you can't be that blind! Even you know it, there's not other reason!" she yells "Or is it?"

Gabriel sighs and touches his forehead, he knows she is right but that could be a trap, if they leave the house it will be more easily for the Death Dealers to kill them, there's only one option, "You have to go to Sebastian house… it's the only option if you want to survive." he adds seeing her shaking her head.

She is not convinced of that, she barely knows Sebastian "I don't-"

"Hear me! It's not that far and he has a big and powerful army to his disposition, they can protect you and I know he will be glad to have you there although he is out of the country. Believe me I will have everything ready when you arrive there."

Selene looks at him trying to read him but she knows that he has no bad intentions "Where is it?" she asks frowning.

"Close to Grossglockner" seeing the face of disconcert of Selene he adds "Austria, go for your things I will have the instructions when you come back."

She doubts for a couple of seconds knowing that time is the last she has, she nodes "Hurry, I will be back in less than five minutes." She says as she turns and walks away.

Gabriel sighs relieved and goes to his office "Communicate me with Sebastian." He says at Robert who nods.

Meanwhile Michael was pacing in Selene's room from one side to the other with only one thing in his mind, they have to run away again, well he is sure that he is going to do it but what if Selene decides to stay? What is he going to do to convince her? Is there anything he can do? She is in the same problems that he is, she broke all the important rules of the coven, and ran away with him nonetheless, and although she is the strongest Death Dealer and he has some strength too if that group find them they would be dead even before they could do anything, they are too much. Michael goes to his room and puts in a bag the few items he has acquired and things he might need. As he hears Selene's door open he finishes packing his things and then goes to her room to see her doing the same he was doing, he sees how she gets out a bag that she already had made, probably the same she used for her missions, he thinks suspiciously, in less than two minutes she has everything ready and seeing that she hasn't spoke to him is making him doubt if she is going to take him with her. Doesn't matter at least she is not going to stay, he thinks as people are heard running in the alleys. She takes one last look hoping hadn't forget anything important, then she looks at him frowning, if he is going to come with her better that he has everything ready "Are you coming?" He nodes and disappears into his room she is going to leave the room believing he was going to pack but even before she reaches the door he is at her side.

"Where are we going?" He asks as they get to Gabriel's office.

"Far away." She says obviously concentrated on something else. He sighs, four months and nothing had changed.

Before they even enter in the office Gabriel gets out and gives a paper to Selene "This is the position of Sebastian's house." He says hurriedly and looking into his office. Well that surprised Michael, he thought they would be running away from everything and everyone that was united to this house, but it seems that he was wrong again, but that calms him a little after all Sebastian is the leader of this group and he has made clear that he wants… him and that he will protect them.

Selene looks at the paper "Ok, I suppose you will notify him about everything that happens here."

Gabriel nods "Of course."

"About the blood samples-" Michael is going to ask Gabriel but he is interrupted by Brianna.

"Don't worry they all were destroyed by Sophie and Charles, I saw it." She says and then looks at Selene "The same happened with all the documents we had about it. Everything is clean."

"Take care." Gabriel says looking at them and then Selene nodes and turns going to the garage.

"Thanks" Michael says seeing Selene going away and shaking Gabriel's hand then he gives a hug to Brianna that seems surprised by this action.

"Better run after her or she might leave you… I know it by experience." She says smiling at him and pushing him, he nodes thinking that of all people here probably she is going to be the only one he is going to miss… with jokes and everything.

As he enters in the garage he sees Selene putting one bag in the truck of her car, one bag she puts it in the back seat, seeing the truck open he assumes she left it open for him, so he puts his back there and closes it. As soon as he gets in she speeds up, after a couple of minutes he sees the note of the position on the board and proceeds to introduce it to the GPS. After one hour of driving he sees that they are not following the GPS. "Where are we g-" he begins to say but she slows and enters in some kind of old and useless shelter.

"Get the bags, I will be waiting over there." She orders picking the bag of the back seat and signalizing a door that obviously went to somewhere else.

Michael nods but then remembers her problem with the sun, he is going to stop her but she already is out and running covering with her coat "Shit!" he says doing what she said quickly and following her knowing that she must be hurt. When he enters he sees the dusty and dark room but he doesn't sees her only her coat in front of a door "Are you ok?".

"I've been better." She answers as she changes of clothes trying to forget the pain.

At that he tranquilizes a little but stills feel angry by her irresponsibility. He puts the bags on the floor and sees a switch at his side he looks up searching a light bulb and finds one so he turns it on but instead of light he sees a very quickly movement of light that turns on and off for several seconds and hears a metallic sound, after barely five seconds of this everything becomes dark again and then the light turns on and he discovers several ninja stars embed in the wall that is behind him, one star just three centimeters of his head and other with a blood mark, he follows the path it made and sees that a hole in his pant and feels a small thread of blood descending by his leg, that was close, he thinks as he sees the graze. Those ninja stars where made of silver so the light he saw was UV? Shaking his head he decides not to touch anything more and very carefully he moves around the room, soon he enters to another room and sees what it looks like a car covered with a sheet, somehow he knows that Selene owns the car, he had learned that she manages big quantities of money, of where it came he doesn't know, the questions here are why she has two cars and why they are hiding here, evidently for him she had everything planned to runaway at any moment, a thing that hurts him, she even had planned the defense of the place… Seeing that this could be a mortal trap he reruns the steps he made, after a couple of minutes he is back in the room waiting for her. When finally she gets out he notes she is in civilian clothes but what makes him even angrier are the skin of her hands that is burned as it is a small part of her left cheek and her blue eyes are obviously irritated by the light "What the fuck were you thinking?" he asks angry and shocked.

She knew he was going to react like this, impatiently she passes by his side without even answering him and takes her other bag noticing the stars and smelling his blood, by his attitude she assumes he is fine "Take your cloths off, there are cloths inside and change quickly." she orders without even looking at him.

Her conduct makes him angry, it's as if she doesn't see that he was worried! "Why?" he growls not knowing why she is doing all this.

"Just do it!" She shouts as she gets in the other room. Michael enters furious slamming the door and he notes how he loosens it, searching for the cloths he finds some and cleans his leg then he hastily puts them on, when he is getting out he listens the engine of the car on, as he approaches her he sees that she has the hood of the car open and has some tools in her hands, is she a mechanic too? he thinks acerbically, he then looks at the dark blue car… it isn't as showy as her previous cars but still looks very good. "Leave the clothes here." she says without even turn to look at him.

"What?" he asks surprised.

"Leave the clothes, if you have a cellphone or a computer, leave it too, leave everything that may have a tracking device." She says as she closes the hood. "Just bring the essential things, you can take the clothes that are in there if you want." He reluctant gets everything out and goes for some clothes when he goes back he sees she is getting the hard disk out of the computer, and throws away the computer "Put everything in that bag." She says showing it over the roof the car.

He does it and when he puts it in the truck a thought strikes him "This car has UV filter right? …And all that stuff?" He sees her nodding and getting inside of the car.

"I'm not going to kill myself if that is what you are thinking." she says as he sits besides her.

"It didn't seem to me, sometimes you are so careless…" He murmurs and she rolls her eyes getting out of the shelter, after a couple of minutes they leave the dirty road and go to the highway again, "Why did you have all that things in that shelter, what if someone enters?"

"Probably right now some Death Dealers have arrived at Gabriel's house and they will do anything to find us, Gabriel had microphones and cameras in all the house so no doubt they may have had someone put some on you, or in your things." Michael doesn't believe they are capable of doing all that "You are very important for them." She adds seeing his face.

He nods, knowing she may have reason to think this but why she had everything ready to runaway, did she suspected they were going to find them? Or was it for another reason? "Didn't you trust Gabriel? I thought you were friends before…"

She shrugs, she doesn't trust anyone now, maybe him, but she is not going to say that "I had to be ready for if anything happened with Gabriel or the lycans or vampires and if someone had entered the shelter… well that someone would be dead or badly hurt, that's why I put them there."

He notes how she eludes his question but prefers not ask anything more for the moment. Seeing the roadway Michael believes that this is not the way to Austria so he searches for the paper to put the position in the GPS before saying to Selene that she is going in the wrong direction but he doesn't find it "Where are the positions?" he asks as he searches in the glove compartment.

"I'm not going to Austria." She says looking at him frowning.

"What? I thought that we were going to Sebastian's house." He closes the glove compartment and stares at her surprised.

"I never said I was going there." She says looking at the road and then at Michael. He sighs not liking the idea, where else are they going to be safe, he feels as she slows the car and stops to a side of the road and then looks at him "If you believe you are going to be safe there and if you want to go, you can do it, I'm not going to stop you, you are no hostage." She speaks with calmness and security, she felt responsible in her on way for what she did to him but now that he knows how to defend himself and in who to trust he can go wherever he want, what she is feeling is just because she has adjusted to their ambiguous relationship and nothing more.

He is stunned at what she just said and doesn't know what to say, for a side he could go to Sebastian and learn whatever he wants and at the same time be safe but worrying about her safety, with her, insecurities for their lives, running away who knows for how much time, fights, murders, practically the hell without count the lack of understanding they have towards each other plus the whole confused things. In the last week he had understood that she will never look at him like anything more than a powerful thing they have to protect for their welfare, but still, she was in almost all occasions he needed someone and she didn't have to do it, but she did. 'I need your help, you might help me and in change I will help you, In me you have someone in which you can trust, I will keep one eye on you while you sleep and in the fights. I know you are very strong but you know that not always you'll get out of the battles unharmed, I just want you to understand that together we have more chances to survive and maybe to put an end to this ridiculous war' These were his words four months ago and he plans to keep them, although it may be more difficult than what he thought or thinks, damn, live and learn "We are in this together." he says and then looks out of the window, at least this time he hopes she gives him more information about what they are going to do, "Where are we going?"

For a moment she thought he was going to go to Sebastian's house, she was sure even before saying it that he was going to go but to her concern he had declined her offer, she keeps looking at him "Slovenia, we have to put some distance for the moment." and then she accelerates again.

Another country… "So how are we going to know what is really happening in Gabriel's house? I don't know how… we can't call maybe all the lines will be blocked as soon as the Death Dealers arrive."

"I installed some items myself, mostly microphones in the most essential parts of the house, we can hear them."

Michael is amused by her distrust and at the same time all the things she did to assure her safety "Why did you do all that? I thought you trusted them."

"I already answered that, and even if I trust Gabriel they are going to do drastic things to him to find our whereabouts, I know he will talk no one has endured what he is going to experience."

"And then?" Michael asks suspecting the answer.

"You already know the answer to that." She says calmly as if she doesn't care. Michael doesn't ask or say anything more about their problem in all their way, it had dusked and dawned and dusked again before she stopped in an apparently rundown and abandoned farm for now both were tired but he suspected she was more, she hadn't let him drive. After hiding the car inside Michael begins to ask himself what they are going to eat or drink, he is hungry and he hasn't eaten anything since they left the house, as he looks around he sees that it's only a dirty and dark room with garbage on the floor, dust, bugs and cobwebs everywhere, evidently no one had visited this place for years, when he looks to see what she is doing he sees her opening a door in the floor, apparently the entrance of a basement, he follows her and adjusts to the darkness of the room and to follow the bad light of the lantern she has in her hand as they pass by a very long and narrow corridor made of stone "How do you know this place?" He asks trying to not to fall for the irregularity of the floor.

"A mission three years ago." She looks at the walls, it seems this place is longer than the last time she was here, or maybe is the tiredness, she thinks as she aligns the lamp with the corridor.

"Were you alone?" He asks doubting that the answer be no, he knows that Death Dealers work in group and only separate if the circumstances were indispensable.

She knows where he is going with that question "He is dead, no one can know we are here… at least not for the moment." She says remembering Rigel's death. He nodes feeling a little calmer. "We will be moving in a couple of days though." She adds as she sees the end of the corridor, she immediately directs towards it and when she enters she releases her bags and goes to a corner.

Michael follows her and stumbles with something, as he sharpens his senses he sees the shade of a bag and her blurry image trying to do something in a corner as he approaches he sees what seems to be an electric plant and he hopes that it still works. "Don't you know how to turn it on?" he asks amused after a couple of minutes, when she turns to look at him he notes that her eyes have that shine that lions have when they are in the dark, just that hers are blue "Let me help you" he says standing at her side and searching for something he could turn or push, as he begins to touch the sides he doesn't find anything, he even touches the bottom of it and nothing after two minutes of this she approaches and hands him something, he looks at it and then at her.

"Neither works with that." She says exasperatedly as he begins to push buttons and pull levers, after a while he knows he can't do it.

"Maybe it's broken." He says after a while recognizing the tone in her voice, he doesn't want to ask why is too important, by the corner of his eye he sees her standing at his side and looking at it intensely he knows what she is going to do "Err… I don't think that's going to work" he begins to say but she lightly kicks the generator anyway, as he finishes saying this immediately a humming noise is heard and the light bulb begins to flicker until it stays on.

She looks at him before turning around as her eyes change back to brown, then she walks towards the table and pulls the sheet that is covering it off and doeas the with a chair then she lets the dirty sheets fall on the floor and picks up her bags and then puts them over the table, immediately after she unzipped them and begins to get out two computers, electrical cords, hard drives, a cellphone and other things he doesn't recognize. "Help me with this." She gives him a electrical cord, he looks at it astonished that she has asked him for help, he begins to untangle it and then plugs it in, then she throws him what he assumes is a voltage converter or a regulator he connects it suspecting that it may cut the energy again but it doesn't, then he gets close to the table with it and notes she has everything ready "Put it there." She indicates with her eyes and then turns on the computer and sits in a chair, he does what she says and connects all the things she had ready.

"What can I do?" He asks wanting to be useful although her letting him was another thing.

"Blood." She says without look at him. What? Where is he going to find blood? She's not thinking of sending him to kill some animal or something like that right? Seeing that he doesn't know what to do she explains, "The trunk of the car is full of ammunition and blood packs, bring it all in."

He carries with him the lantern, when he gets to the car he notes that is almost impossible to know that someone is down there and with lights on he opens the trunk he sees at least six bags he puts two under his arms and other two in his hands, as he begins to walk the alley he sees that it is almost impossible with its thickness, so it takes him three travels to have everything in the basement. "Which one?" he asks not wanting to open one that has her personal belongings.

She distracted looks at them "The one in the middle." she says as she looks at the monitor again. Two seconds later he puts at her side two bags of blood, she carelessly takes one and bites it enjoying the flavor and the warm that comes with it, after a couple of seconds she feels with new energies to continue.

Michael does the same as he looks around, this place is not as dirty as upstairs in fact it's very clean to be abandoned and is larger than what he thought, what calls his attention is the bed under a sheet, he is so tired that he could sleep for two days but he doesn't think she is going to like the idea, but even so he takes off the sheet to see if it is in good conditions and immediately after he regrets, it looks so damn comfortable, pushing away the tiredness he goes back to the table "Is there anything more I can do?"

She looks at him doubting for a second but she knows that she needs him to do it "Listen to this, if you hear anything outstanding tell me." She says turning towards him a computer and giving him a set of earphones.

He nodes and sits in another chair in front of her "Is this direct?"

"No, I'm hearing the direct conversation, but still nothing important is said, it seems that Marcus has not arrived, but the first group of Death Dealers did a couple of hours after we left."

Michael pays careful attention to every word he hears and even searches for double meanings, but he finds nothing, after almost twelve hours he hears another conversation, it doesn't say anything important but that voice he knows it but he is not sure to whom it belongs "Selene?" he asks but it seems she is not hearing him so he raises his glance to see her very concentrated, "Selene" he repeats and nothing so he moves his hands to make her put attention to him.

"What?" She asks shaking her head, she had just heard Gabriel and Brianna talking, apparently Marcus's Death Dealers divided vampires and lycans and are keeping an eye specially in the latest, and although the Dealers were few compared to the residents of the house they had surrendered easily and almost without fight. They also weren't letting anyone move until Marcus arrives there, well except Gabriel, Brianna and the vampires of higher ranking but apparently there was not much they could do, his intentions were yet unknown but the Death Dealers were becoming impatient after the delay of one day and a half of Marcus. "What did you hear?" she asks worried, maybe he had found something important.

"Nothing important." he says and then he sees the fury in her glance so he advances to what she is going to say "I think I heard Fionna, I'm not sure but I think it is her."

That could be, Fionna would do anything to take revenge even to invade a house full of lycans. "Play it again." She orders as she stands and disconnects his earphones.

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"Who? I don't know what you are talking about." Brianna says playing stupid and entering a room with Fionna.

"We had someone inside who told us Selene was here with him." Fionna explains.

"Well, you were deceived, the last time I saw that bitch was eighty years ago or more. And who is he? Is the guy she helped to kill Viktor?" She asks feigning amusement and she sees how Fionna gets angry at her comment, "Why would I lie? You better than anyone knows how we hated each other..."

"I see you keep being a hypocrite." She notes how Brianna changed the topic if she wouldn't be hiding anything she would be insulting Selene and making fun of her being with a lycan.

"And that it's said by my former friend." Brianna feigns a chuckle as she wonders if Selene was right and maybe Robert was implicated in all this.

"Oh shut up. Where the hell are they?" She is not for games, she knows that Selene must be somewhere in this house and she is going to find her, Marcus can deal with Michael when he arrives.

"Don't you think that if I knew it I would have told you? I still hate her!" She says dryly as she begins to follow Fionna "Where are you going?"

"To find her!" She yells angry.

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Michael looks at her waiting for a confirmation but instead he sees her face of shock "It is her." she says frowning, until that moment never had crossed for her mind that Fionna would be in the group of Death Dealers obviously she had forget about it with the anguish of the moment. "How much since that conversation?" she asks thinking that maybe Fionna let the house when she didn't find her, after all she had not hear her, or Brianna or Gabriel mentioning Fionna.

"Fourteen hours ago." Michael says after he searches the hour in the file, "that's the last thing recorded, you already heard the rest." She nodes absently and goes back to the chair. Michael wants to know if she heard anything important but it seems that not, "Did you hear anything important?" he asks as he stands and stretches tired from beeing seated for the last two days. Selene looks at him and says everything she heard, "That's all?"

"Yes, at this pace, that thing is going to stop to working before we hear anything important." As she speaks she looks at the generator and then at him "You know you can rest." she says as he begins to gyrate his neck seeing that he is tired.

"Ok, but can you take off the earphones and put some volume so I can still hear it from there?" Michael says looking at the bed longingly. She nodes and does it and he can hear anything so he asks what he had noted "Do the microphones only activate when people are around or are they recording all the time?"

"Just when someone is around." She says as he lies down.

"Aren't you tired?" He asks after a yawn.

She shakes her head "I'm habituate."

He knows that its true but he also knows she is exhausted "When you feel tired, just tell me. I'll listen to it while you take a break."

Selene looks at him, not surprised of his offer but grateful, she nodes "Ok" and looks at the monitor again, then at the hard drives she has at her side, now she can read the information she obtained of the house as at the same time can hear what its happening, although she doesn't know why she is going to read all this if they are not going to go back to Gabriel's house… to find information that can be useful for them, so she directs towards the computer Michael was previously sited and turns it off then extracts the hard drive and introduces another and turns it on again. As she reads and reads things, ones she will have in count and others without importance she feels how tired she really is, after a few hours she had read the information of three hard drives and still are two more, she stands and takes another blood pack thinking that this will help her to continue after a couple of minutes she changes the drives again and sits, things in the house where almost normal, no important conversations or Fionna or Marcus the only thing she doesn't explain is why they are not killed the lycans yet, maybe they are waiting for Marcus, but waiting for what? And in a couple of hours if Gabriel can communicate with Sebastian they will know they didn't go there, another thing is Fionna, she disappeared after her talk with Brianna, she knows that if Fionna inspected the house she now knows that she indeed was there… As she forgets these kind of thoughts and concentrates again on the reading she finds that the blood didn't have an effect on her, but she struggles to keep awake as more time passes her eyes begins to shut and her head leans forward in several occasions until she falls asleep.

When Michael reacts again he knows that he fell sleep looking at his clock he sees that he slept for almost nine hours, sighing he turns around and sits in the bed then puts his head in his hands for a couple of minutes and stands up and as he looks at her he finds her asleep on the table evidently tired, he knew for their daily schedule that she in the last three days had slept almost two hours and that all this time she was pushing off her tiredness but it seems that this time she was beaten. Quietly he walks towards her and carries her to the bed and gently puts her on it and removes her boots, then he goes again towards the table and decreases a little the volume of the speakers as he sits and begins to read what it is in front of him, still tired. Selene stirrers a little and opens her eyes for a second to see him very concentrated reading something, knowing he is not useless she closes them again.
Michael reads things he didn't know happened in the house or with the vampires and lycans that lived there, they had a file with everyone that lived and lives there, and it had a detailed resume of everything, things that they do to maintain the house, the safety, people implicated in human assassinations and disappearances, every battle over the last fifty years, what they do to hide the people…
Michael is very attentive with every sound he hears, mostly Death Dealers giving orders to each other, dogs barking, murmurs, stepping sounds after a while of this he hears a door open.

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"You, come with us." A Death Dealer says as he enters in a room full of lycans drinking blood.

"Me?" Charles asks and the Death Dealer nods, nervously he stands up knowing he is going to be questioned "Why?" he asks as he passes Robert and Sophie.

"You are about to know." The Death Dealer says as he puts a gun to his head "Walk" he orders and they let the room. The Death Dealers inside of the room look at each other and then to the lycans as they get their guns out.

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Michael had recognized the voice of Charles on the moment he heard it, the question is what they want with him? He thought they were going to interrogate Gabriel as Selene said, maybe they already killed him? No, that can't be, maybe they are going to wait to Marcus to interrogate him and the Death Dealers are going to begin with the lycans? This seems to be the answer as he hears several guns safety been removed, then total silence again. After a couple of minutes of uncertainty he hears a door been yanked open and someone been throw to the floor.

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Charles looks scared at the two Death Dealers in front of him "What do you want?"

"Information." Logan says calmly as he sits in a chair and shows Charles another "You can sit too…"

Charles stands up and sits "I don't know anything you might be interested in."

"Terrible beginning." Fionna says as she shakes her head and sits at a side of Logan "Why did you say that? You didn't even know what we are going to ask…"

"I'm not anyone here, why do you think -" He stops when Fionna gets out a silver knife of her coat and begins to see it feigning interest in it.

After a while she puts the knife at eye level for him to see it and at the same time he can see her face "We know who you are, and what you did in the past months," she upholds it between her index fingers and begins to gyrate it "the type of research you were doing… the lycans that worked with you…" she suddenly stops it and for the first time averts her look from the knife and looks directly at him, seeing the move of her eyes he looks at her "and who you helped."

"…I don't know what you are talking about!" He says gulping remembering Gabriel and Brianna saying to everybody that they couldn't say that Michael and Selene were there.

Logan and Fionna look at each other and then again to Charles "Its better you talk with us than with Marcus." Logan advises him.

At the name of Marcus his heart begins to beat quickly and he begins to sweat "He will be here in eight hours and then… you will wish have talked to us." Fionna says still watching the knife.

"I'll be dead anyway." The fear in his voice can be heard.

Fionna puts the knife again in her coat "Yeah, but believe me, with us it would be less painful." Logan says as he stands up and Fionna does the same. Intimidated he begins to think if it is true and if it suits him to say the truth. "Stand up." Charles does it wishing for the full moon but no, no until two weeks, "Walk."

"Where are we going?" He asks as they begin to push him but not violently.

Logan looks at him from head to toe "Where you were before."

"We will be entertained anyway when we see it…" Fionna says smirking evilly and ignoring Charles, then her smirk drops "although not as much as doing it." they left the room and closed the door.

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Why didn't they hurt him? And if they know the blood experiments they were doing there is a possibility, a small one that they are after his blood, to do God knows what, but if this is true why is Marcus after it? It's not better destroy it before can be used to make more 'abominations' or is he thinking that they already have put it in other lycans and vampires and that's why they hadn't kill anyone… And why are the Death Dealers waiting for him? They can get out the information as efficiently as he supposes Marcus can, or is that he is equal or crueler than Viktor and he wants to do it all by himself?
The rest of the day passes by with that kind of confusing thought and superficial conversations but are other two that include Death Dealers and Brianna.

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"Why don't we interrogate the others?" Someone asks Logan as they enter Gabriel's office.

"We will not go anywhere without violence."

"I know… if only Marcus hadn't said that we weren't allowed to hurt them."

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Brianna sees Fionna walking towards her "What the hell were you doing?" she asks when Fionna passes by her side ignoring her, but Brianna grasps her arm and turns her, she just knew what they had done to Charles.

"Nothing, calm down." Fionna says smirking "Believe me no one will be hurt." She says freeing herself of Brianna.

"Not even the lycans?" Brianna asks suspecting a million things.

"If they don't want to." Fionna murmurs as she walks away.

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In two hours Marcus will get to the house and then all their doubts will be washed, Michael thinks as he drinks a blood bag, if Selene hasn't awoken by then he will wake her, he knows she can't and will not want to loose it, then he suspects they will be running again. Michael tries to make himself comfortable in the chairs but this doesn't work so he decides to lay at Selene's side taking advantage of the large bed size, although knowing this could represent a problem if she awakes and he is still at her side.
Selene slowly awakes as she hears the speakers on and apparently nothing was going on, she still is tired but not as much as before, she turns around trying to sleep another while but she hits something, quickly she raises her head off the pillow to see what is it and almost falls off the bed when she sees Michael at her side. Michael is startled when he feels her kicking and the jump of surprise she did so he knows she is awake, he turns to face her and looks at her and she is looking at him intensely and raising an eyebrow. She knew he had put her in the bed but not that he was in it with her, "I suppose nothing has happened since you are here..." She says as she lays flat in her back trying to not put too much importance to her discomfort.

That's not the reaction he expected "Not since I laid down." He says and proceeds to tell her the things he heard and suspects.

"So Marcus is going to arrive in about half an hour?" Michael nods suspecting what she is going to ask next "And when were you going to wake me up?"

He smiles, "Actually I would have done it in ten minutes, you looked too tired and I know that as soon we hear this we will be leaving so I supposed that it was better to let you sleep all you can." He gets off the bed and directs towards the computer and puts on the recordings he heard. Selene is more comfortable now with him in the other side of the room, she hears everything again and she doesn't recognize anything more or different that what he told her. "So… What do you think?" He asks as he approaches with a bag of blood.

"Same as you, we will have to wait." She says sitting as she notes that on top of putting her in the bed he also took off her boots, looking at her clock she sees that she slept for more than twelve hours "I hope he doesn't delay more." she looks at the generator as she puts her boots on. Michael knows what she is thinking and nods.

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"I suppose you can't wait any longer?" Fionna says with jealousy as she approaches Brianna.

Brianna suspects what Fionna must be feeling, "I don't know what he is plotting."

She doubts that Brianna knows the truth about him, well one of them, but still… "Did you know?"

"Know what?"

"That he doesn't hate the lycans."

Present tense, he still doesn't hate them? And why he would say that to Fionna? Perhaps he doesn't know she was sired by Viktor, that's impossible, but if he doesn't hate the lycans why did he trust her… "He told me before he awoke Viktor."

"So why do you keep doing it?" she asks interested as they begin to walk.

"I was a Death Dealer I couldn't stop doing it just like that." She shrugs "What is he really going to do?"

"You can ask him in a couple of minutes, he is already here." At that Brianna looks at her, "He went for a glass of blood and he will be in the meeting room in ten minutes." she nodes a little nervous "He knows you are here and requested your presence."

She tries to hide the shock she is feeling, she and Marcus were on good terms until he said that to her but now… "What are you his right hand?" she asks trying to hide her insecurities, when she sees Fionna's smirk she shakes her head, how things change, "So… how is Kraven?"

At that the smirk drops, Fionna rolls her eyes making a disgusted noise "You haven't changed."

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They had listened to the conversation, to Selene it was important, she didn't know how his position was with the lycans but now… this is not important at least for the two of them, soon they will know what he is plotting, how is he going to search for them, where he is going to send his Death Dealers… The organization of their hunt, nothing strange there, she knows how the Death Dealers work and sh- they will run away, the problem was the closeness between them and Marcus, but this has been settled for now. Seeing Michael's face she knows he is thinking about something but about what she doesn't know, she takes the bag and begins to drink it as she sits in front of the computer. Michael goes and sits in front of her in the other computer, there is one thing he doesn't know and he knows Selene does "How close is Brianna to Marcus?" he asks after a couple of seconds.

"Are you jealous?" She asks without thinking and kicks herself for that, for her that's the only thing that may be troubling him or the interest.

At that Michael looks at her, the tone of her voice was careless but he notes that she spoke without thinking, maybe she did care… a little "No, interest… Why? Are you jealous?" he asks with a cocky smile.

If looks could kill he would be dead by now. Why would she be jealous? She sees how Michael's smile drops "She was sired by Marcus." It's her answer as she looks at the monitor again.

"Ok, but what kind of relationship did she have with him? …You know like yours with Viktor or something more?" He asks knowing she is not going to answer that or simply she doesn't know.

Well, it seems that he already left the politeness at a side, "I don't know, I wasn't around in that time, I'm not a gossiper." She answers struggling to read but with him asking all this…

Is she implicating that he is a gossiper? Is it just him or is she loosing a little bit? He looks around again wishing for the ten minutes to pass quickly, taking advantage of her mood he tries to keep the conversation going although he knows that this is very difficult "Wow, were the tree of you important? I mean you were like the daughters of the more important vampires…"

"No, you have to gain the respect of everybody if you are not a pureblood. And if you are sired by an Elder or someone with power it gets more difficult." She says looking at him again and knowing what he is doing.

He nods, "I suppose you have cameras in the meeting room, right?" He knows that if not her humor would be totally distinct. She nodes without attention. "Are your missions always like this?"

"What exactly you mean?" She says stopping her reading and looking at him, she sounded offended instead of intrigued at where he was going with this.

He tries not to smirk by the way she reacted, "I don't know, high tech spy thing, hiding, dirty places, barely sleeping, and too much tiredness."

She leans against the chair giving for finished her reading, "Usually its more easy, just shoot or a fight and all is finished but when there are nights of full moon everything turns dangerous as you must have noticed it, and there are the difficult ones, the ones that require time and attention, not killings…"

"And what kind were you doing for Gabriel?" He asks as she takes a sip of her blood.

"All kind, I don't care as long as I'm doing something." She answers shrugging.

"And what kind do you like more?"

"I like challenges." She says giving him an obvious look.

"I knew you were going to say something like that…" He says smiling and standing as she rolls her eyes "You know what I'm wishing?" At her sarcastic questioning look he answers "A shower, I mean we've gone three days without taking one, I don't want to begin to stink, you know…"

At that she puts a hand in her head her hair is entangled, her cloths are sticky and wrinkled, that indeed would put more energy in her, a cold shower "…I have gone four days without taking one."

He smiles at her "Well you-" Suddenly a beep from the computer distracts them from their conversation.

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"What are you doing here?" Gabriel asks as Brianna sits at his side.

"He requested my presence." She says as they are left alone.

That's weird but still… "I called Sebastian's house and Selene and Michael hadn't arrived yet." He murmurs worry just to her to hear it.

"You are too ingenuous if you think she is going there…" She murmurs back as she begins to walk to side to side.

He knows he is "You are nervous."

"Of course I am." She says stopping as the door opens.

"He is waiting for you." Logan says.

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Selene and Michael look at each other, finally they are going to know what Marcus is after.

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"They will be here soon." Fionna says as she and Marcus enter the meeting room.

The room is spaciousness and with a big table over it are several glasses of blood "Well done." He says as he walks for the room. "I knew that you were all going to fulfill my orders."

"Of course, may I ask why you delayed?"

"I was observing, things have changed in these two hundreds years." He says as he looks around, Fionna suspects of this but a knock on the door distracts her from her thoughts "Come in."

Logan enters and bows to Marcus "My Lord, they are waiting."

"Let them in." Logan gets out and then enters again followed by Gabriel and Brianna, Gabriel crouches in front of him "You can raise up" he says after a couple of seconds, then he looks at Brianna.

She has her chin high, she had bowed several times at the beginning of her transformation but he had said that she didn't have to do it, and after all this time she wasn't going to begin again and less knowing that he is after something or than in a couple of minutes he would take her life, the said 'I gave you life and I can take it' its been fucking ironic now "My Lord." Is the only thing she says and does.

He smiles at her "I see you remember…" he sees the disconcert in her face, "I'm not here to harm anyone, you can be calm."

"Why are you here then?" She asks suspiciously, her voice still defensive.

He turns and begins to walk towards a chair "You know I don't have anything against the lycans and never have…"

"So why are we treated like hostages?"

"You are not hostages. Has anyone tried to leave the house? No." He says ironically as he makes a sign to all to sit as he continues "Has excessive violence been implemented? No. Is there anyone hurt? No. I don't see how you can say that you are hostages."

How is anyone going to try to leave the house if someone is aiming at them? But he had reason, the Death Dealers hadn't hurt anyone with bad intentions, only trying to defend themselves and they had only shot at the walls and "You were intimidating them…"

"Of course I was, how I was going to leave six vampires in a room with thirty lycans without fear that some of the lycans could change and then kill them? The arms are for protection not for killing…" He says calmly as he sits and takes a sip of his blood.

"Where are you going with all this?" She asks as she sees that Fionna sits at Marcus side and Logan in front of them.

"You have changed, you are not as immature as before, you are a serious vampire now, I'm glad at that and seeing you helping the lycans that I tried to protect-"

"Why if you were so concerned about their well being, why did you keep sending Death Dealers to kill them? That's what I don't understand and I never have, YOU are an Elder why do you care for the lycans?" She asks the question she had in her mind for the last two hundred years with hate and anger.

Everyone except Marcus is shocked by her attitude. Every vampire respected the Elders if not they would be killed and she is being disrespectful towards him, although he wasn't considered an Elder now, not after his transformation, she didn't know therefore she has to respect him, but seeing the peaceful face of Marcus Fionna knows he is not going to take this against Brianna, in fact it seems that he enjoyed that question. "If you had let me explain it two hundred years ago you wouldn't be so confused." He says as he waits for Gabriel and her to sit.

They sit at Logan's side Brianna notes something in the air but she doesn't know what is it "You can do it now." She says as she looks at Gabriel and sees that he has noted it too.

"When I was awaked by Amelia she told me what had happened, what had unchained the war between lycans and vampires, she and I weren't agreed of how things had been treated but there wasn't anything we could do, so she kept doing it but I don't, I got information on where the lycans were and… some of my Death Dealers in charge knew what I thought about it so they followed me, they always sent the Dealers to another part, of course they sometimes found other groups and exterminated them or when they attacked us…"

"How come Viktor didn't notice it or Amelia?" Gabriel asks for the first time.

Marcus smile "She knew it but Viktor-"

"You passed your memories to them…" Brianna says searching for holes in his story.

"You are forgetting that we have the power of control the memories we pass, we even can change them or invent them…"

At that Brianna looks at Logan who nods and then at Fionna who stares back at her, somehow she knows Fionna didn't know it until a couple of months ago. "So you deceived everyone for the last hundred of years…" He nods without remorsefulness, this makes her angry remembering all the things she did to lycans because she believed in him and his crusade "So what the hell are you doing here? There's no one in your way now, Amelia, Viktor, the majority of the council are dead, you can establish a trust with the lycans" she says as she thinks of Kraven, What does Kraven think about this? He will make Kraven and his followers fall to pieces… Or did Marcus already fall into Kraven's web of lies?

"Don't talk to me that way." He says seeing her behavior towards him, at that she looks down but immediately looks at him again defiantly but not saying anything more, he still looks at her coldly "That's not as easy as you think, I had problems with Kraven and-"

"What kind of problems? And why did you leave him -"

"All in due time." He interrupts tired of her lack of respect "As I was saying we had problems and the only ones I have on my side are my Death Dealers and a couple of Amelia and Viktor's" At that she looks at Brianna and Logan clearly they represented those Death Dealers in the meeting "As you know Viktor has ten times the number of warriors than I have and to his army was united the one of Amelia, as you see I'm in great disadvantage to do as I want, they don't want peace… They want total extermination of any kind different than the vampires."

"So you are here to ally with us?" Gabriel asks worried and distrustful as he knows Brianna is.

"Actually I have been allied with you for quite a time." He says as he looks at the door, at the same time Gabriel and Brianna shocked expression follow his path as this begins to open slowly. Confusion is the only thing on their minds. To Gabriel because he didn't know anything of this and he had let Selene and Michael stay there not knowing that they too would be betrayed and he was betrayed by the last person he thought could do it. Seeing the face of Gabriel Brianna knows he is as surprised as she is, she is confused for several reasons, between them why didn't Marcus go for Michael and Selene when he was informed they were there? Or maybe he wasn't informed? What happened between him and Kraven? Is Marcus being sincere about all this or is this a way to make them comfortable and then take revenge for Michael creation and Viktor and Amelia's death? …How more twisted is this going to become?

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What happened? Who entered in the room? Is true all that has been said? Those were the questions that Michael and Selene had after the long silence. "Are the microphones still working?" Michael asks anxious and standing at Selene's side.

She revises the software in the computer and nods "All is fine".

"Is there any possibility that they had disabled the microphones?" That's an answer she doesn't know and she just shrugs.

"Surprised?" The person in the recording asks and they immediately recognize the voice.

"Shit." Selene says as she looks up at Michael.

"Fuck." He says at the same time.

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Sebastian enters the room and walks slowly and deliberately towards the table and sits in front of Gabriel and Brianna, after a long silence he looks at Marcus who nods at him, "Surprised?" Sebastian asks at Brianna and Gabriel.

Brianna chuckles at that as she shakes her head clearly disappointed "That's why you knew Selene and Michael were here, right?" she asks to Fionna but she doesn't answer.

"Actually he didn't tell me, you just did." Marcus says smiling. At that Brianna lowers her head shaken and with fury, after a moment she looks at Gabriel that is very angry but not with her. "Why he didn't tell me? You must be asking yourselves that, and the answer is because he wanted to protect him. He thought that I was going to come here to kill them, that's why he invited Michael to stay with him, to protect him from me. But I explained my reasons and he understood although he didn't tell me anything, he was still suspecting of me." He knows that after they know his truth, he will have more chances to stay and meet Michael. He is one step closer to revealing the truth.

"And what were these reasons?." Gabriel asks angrily.

"That's a long histo-"

"We have time to hear it" Brianna interrupts with rancor in her voice.

"I just want you to know that I don't have anything against Michael." He says drinking from his blood as he stands the hate look Brianna is throwing at him.

"What about Selene?" Gabriel asks after a couple of seconds.

"She did us a great favour, Viktor needed to be exterminated." He says as he puts the cup on the table, at that Brianna looks at Fionna but she has an emotionless face, somehow all this doesn't convince her.

"And why didn't you do it?" Gabriel asks incredulous.

"I didn't have the power to do it."

At that Brianna looks at him skeptically "Didn't? Do you have it now?" Marcus nods, "How could you have that kind of power?" She asks knowing that if someone is as strong as Viktor was that's Michael.

"I don't want distractions" He says before of begin his history but knowing that that may not be possible. At that Gabriel nods "If you don't remember I'm a descendent of the Corvinus family I'm related to Michael,-"

"That's why you are not going to kill him, because you are related to him? I don't believe that! If you are going to try to trick us you should have invented something better!" Brianna says as she stands, she is not going to stand this, not anymore, if he wants he can kill her now.

"Stop your childishness!" He yells loosing his patience, if she doesn't want to stay she can go but she can't stay and be interrupting him every time he speaks! "You want to hear the truth? I will give you the true! But you have to behave!" She looks at him haughtily and defiantly for a couple of seconds and then sits. "Good, as I was saying Michael and I shared some characteristics in our DNA. The same night that I was going to be awakened Selene brought a lycan to the Chamber and Viktor and her interrogated him, how was she going to know in what this act would finish? There was an interrogatory and an assassination. Blood was spilled in my tomb, lycan blood." At that Gabriel and Brianna look at each other knowing the implications this may have.

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Selene had forgotten about it, this hadn't passed by her mind not even for a second in the last four months now she is wishing with all her being that her neglect hadn't meant what she is fearing. Seeing her worry Michael tries to encourage her "That doesn't mean anything, he wasn't bitten by the lycan… He just drank the blood as you did and you still are a vampire."

"I really hope you are right." She mumbles as she feels how her heart races, not resisting the silence and her anguish she stands up. After all she is not a Corvinus.

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Marcus had paused and drank all the blood of his cup waiting for the shock to leave them and the reality of this become part of them. He knew Brianna wants to say something so he looks at her. Seeing him looking at her almost smirking makes her even more shocked, he is enjoying this… "That doesn't mean anything…" she says shaking her head as if doing it could erase what she had heard.

He is going to explain it all for them not to doubt more of him, "As you know no one can stand the bite of both kinds if that someone is not a Corvinus, we did our own researches, as you were beginning to do it," He says looking at Gabriel who nods "the conclusions were that if a vampire or a lycan drink from the blood of an 'hybrid' they will not change, if it is bitten they will die, but the two together may change them if the vampire or lycan is strong and old enough to endure it."

Brianna is shocked to hear all this, what more have they done? And where are the ones who they changed? And more important how the hell did they obtain Michael's blood? She is one hundred percent sure that Michael's family is safe… So there's no other reason Marcus is a hybrid but how? "How?" By then Gabriel had arrived to the same conclusions that Brianna, and the smell it's like Michael but at the same time is different.

He knows they already noticed it "Singe's blood ran from my body to my DNA changing it, mutating it…"

She speaks without notice it "But Michael didn't drink from Selene" Not that she knows of course, "or from another vampire… she bit him that's what transformed him."

"That's one of the differences between our races, we don't know how but for me it was enough just to drink it…"

"I don't believe you." Brianna says denying this and standing. Why couldn't he be clearer in his last comment? it's very clear that he already knows the scientific developments of this era so what stopped him? For her this is bullshit.

"I can prove it" Marcus says as he stands.

She looks at him intensely and distrustful "Do it." she says finally.

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As soon as Selene's doubts had been cleared she had in her frustration broke the chair with a kick and now was passing anxious for the room. All this is her fault! Now this changes all! Michael was as anxious as her but he knows they have to calm down to think about what they are going to do, where are they going to hide… "We have to calm down." He says more towards her than to himself.

She immediately stops and looks at him angrily, "Calm down? How the hell am I going to calm down? Do you even know what the hell this means?"

Michael sees how his inoffensive comment made her change "I do know what it means! Fuck! I'm not as brainless as you think!" He yells standing in front of her "You are the one who doesn't-" he stops when she abruptly and brusquely takes his shirt with both of her hands and looking at her blue eyes he sees fury.

Seeing his astound face Selene releases him and instead hits the stone wall with her fist making a big hole in it, she knows its not his fault, its hers, And their frustration is making them fight, "You are right." she says with her voice unaffected for what just happened and going towards the computer. Michael just looks at her shocked and stays where he is.

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Looking at Marcus transformed Brianna notes he doesn't look at all like Michael, Michael is more lycan but Marcus is more vampire, without the claws, the blue-gray color or the eyes but with the same fangs, the same ribcage… Now this changes it all "It is true…"

"You don't look like him." Gabriel states.

"I haven't seen him, but I've been told how he looks." He says looking from Gabriel to Fionna. "Now do you believe me?" He asks to Brianna and Gabriel.

Gabriel nods "You don't want to kill Michael because he is your kind…"

"We are the only ones… I do want to protect him…" Marcus says changing back and putting his jacket again. Then he looks at Sebastian telling him that he can speak now.

"Marcus has been one of our biggest benefactors, and he still is, he was united to us even before I united to them… There's no doubt that he doesn't represent a problem to the lycans, actually since this meeting began all vampires and lycans were liberated I spoke to them and now Edward is with them explaining the situation to them, all except that Marcus is a hybrid."

"Why?" Gabriel asks now less distrustful.

"Kraven, he doesn't know it and maybe he has infiltrates here."

Does he know what Kraven is plotting? "Why are you sure that we are not infiltrates?"

"Your history, I know Brianna and Sebastian would put his hands in fire for you." he says looking at Gabriel.

"Do you know about Kraven's treacherous ways?" Brianna asks as she sits in her chair.

"I know everything, I had Singe's memories I saw his final moments and I saw everything, since his research until how Kraven was innocently between all this."

"Innocently?" Brianna asks chuckling.

"I meant that he didn't know what Lucian was scheming, in that part he was innocent but not in the rest, I know that I too was betraying the coven but it wasn't for my benefit. Now he is doing it again with a great quantity of lycans. He discovered my stance about the lycans and made it of public knowledge, sadly almost all Death Dealers believed him, his new resolution is finish Michael and me with the help of the lycans then when everything is finished the lycans will be assassinated by the Death Dealers. Of course there are several Death Dealers that knows this, what Kraven doesn't know is that probably he will be betrayed by the same lycans. More betrayals, this will unchain another and maybe worst war in all covens..."

"So let me guess… you have a plan…"

"Actually it's your plan, the same you have. Obtain more allies and training them, a surprise attack in all the covens and dens of the world, killing all that don't agree with us, then the house will be much like this with both kinds leaving peaceful. Some rules will change and others not."

"What's going to happen with Michael?" Brianna asks looking at Marcus then she adds "And Selene?" looking at Fionna.

"They will keep living here as they had done or if they want to come with me, they can do it or stay in one of our houses, our intention is that Kraven doesn't find them…" Sebastian says.

"That's your intention but yours?" Brianna asks still looking at Fionna "I don't think you had forgiven her that easily for what she did…"

Fionna upholds her glance "My problem it's not with Michael, its with Selene, I'm not going to deny that I'm not hurt, I am but my relationship with Viktor wasn't as strong as with Selene, our relationship will never be the same but I'm not going to do anything against her." Fionna says sincerely to Brianna. "I just want to talk with her."

Brianna tries to see some dishonesty in her attitude but she doesn't find anything "Why are you here? I know your position about the lycans?"

"I wasn't going to stay in Ordoghaz with Kraven stalking me and definitely I wasn't going to become one of his pawns…"

Brianna nodes knowing that the hate Fionna has for Kraven is deeper than the hate she may have for Selene. But how she ended being the right hand of Marcus is another thing "Can you call them? I want to talk with Michael." Marcus says after a while.

"He is not here" Gabriel answers "He went to Sebastian's house but he didn't get there, we don't know where they are. Or if they are together."

"Any idea of where they may be?" Brianna and Gabriel shake their heads. They know Selene is not as trustful as to be where the track devices say she is, probably she is in another country now, or flying who knows where. "Well, tomorrow night we'll send several groups to find them with both lycans and vampires, now they need to rest." Marcus says as he stands. "Each one of you could be in a group, for what I heard from Selene she is not as trustful, maybe seeing you, you can convince her to come back here with Michael" This comment is directed to everybody in the room.

Everyone nodes except Brianna "Well I'm not going, I will put someone else in my place, but I'm not leaving you here alone, I still don't trust in your sincerity." She says as she begins to follow him.

"For me that's fine, Now… where is everybody reunited?" He asks to Sebastian and stopping in front of the door.

"In the main room." He says knowing he has to explain things to Gabriel.

"I will go to talk with them… Care to join me? I know you will do it for the next days…" He says to Brianna as he opens the door and leaves the room, without doubt she follows him.

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Well, things now don't seem that bad but what if Marcus is lying too… What if he is power hungry like Kraven is? Michael thinks as he shakes his head, at least for what they said he doesn't think that Marcus is after something bad as they had previously thought. Seeing her he knows she is as perplexed as he is, he doesn't want go there, not yet, at least until they are sure of his real intentions, but where are they going to go now? Are they going to stay here or will be they moving as soon as nightfall? Somehow he doesn't think she wants to answer all this now, he thinks as he sits in the only chair left in the room.
Why she didn't put a damn microphone in the main room? It is true what they had talked about? They don't have anything against them or is this a trap? Somehow Fionna's tone of voice was so carelessly that she couldn't detect falseness in it. Tired and confused she lays in the bed again, should they pack everything and runaway? Or wait to hear anything that Marcus had said in his meeting with the habitants of the house.
Not knowing what to do Micahel stays where he is surprised that she had laid down, the hours pass and he doesn't hear anything then the only thing he hears is vampires and lycans talking about what they had heard and from Marcus, apparently he had left them amused with his presence. Tired he lays at her side.
When she awakes she feels that outside is dark, what if Marcus wants to kill Michael and her? She knows Michael will never hurt anyone but Marcus? For how much time they will keep running away, she sighs, their rooms still must be smelling at them, if Marcus senses are like Michael's then they wouldn't be running away for much time, Where are they going to hide, Sebastian is associated with Marcus there's no way they can't find them. Does she want to keep running away? Certainly she can't stand this uncertainty, she can't stand it anymore she will not keep running away! She decides as she stands and unpacks the bag full of ammo and guns.
Michael awakes to all the noise she is doing, as he looks around he sees her with her back towards him and in a Death Dealer suit, it seems that she already knows where they are going, "Where are we going?" he asks as he sees on the table her clothes and some blood bags with guns and ammunitions.

She hadn't meant to wake him, now everything is going to be more difficult "This is for you." She says without look at him.

He nods as he stands "Where are we going?" he repeats the question knowing something is happening, as he looks at the computers all is turn off.

She shakes her head as she puts several ammunitions in the pockets of her coat and her guns in her holsters, certainly she is well armed, "I don't think you want to go where I'm going."

What she meant by that? Why wouldn't he want to go with her? Was she going to let him there sleeping? "Where are you going?" He asks alarmed but she doesn't puts attention, "You are not going to Gabriel's house right?" For the first time she looks at him defiantly and her look tells him everything "You can't do that! Even if Marcus intentions are not bad you don't know about Fionna's" He says approaching her.

She takes another gun, she was hoping this not to happen, "I don't care, I'm going to finish what I started" she says as she puts the ammo inside and removing the safety, Michael immediately knew what she meant, she is going to try to kill Marcus.

"That wasn't your fault! How were you going to know what that implied?" She doesn't answer "I am what I am for you! Are you going to kill me too?" still not answer he sighs tiredly "What do you gain of all this?"

She knows he is right, but he is not as corrupted as she suppose Marcus is "If I die in the process it's not important, at least he will not change more vampires or lycans." She says after a long while.

Michael is shocked by what she is saying and doing, she has a wish death or what? "I don't think he has changed anyone" He tries to convince her but she keeps giving him her back, deciding to ignore him "Why are you so desperate to kill yourself? Since the moment I met you-"

"I'm not dead yet." She says without emotion, eventually she is going to die, she knows this since she became a Death Dealer, death is something she doesn't fear. Nothing is eternal not even immortals.

"Well if you go there with that attitude, you will!" He spats with anger, he notes she finished arranging everything "I'm not going to let you go." He says calmly, although that is the only thing he doesn't have.

"You can't stop me" She says as she begins to walk and suddenly in front of her is Michael with a decisive look.

"You are going to stay here!" He orders gripping her arm tightly.

Furious with him, with her free arm she hits him in the nose, very hard drawing blood, he releases her "Don't tell me what to do! This is my fucking fault and there's nothing you can do to stop me!" and she begins to walk quickly.

He can force her, he is stronger than her! "You are not going anywhere." He says not moving. She looks at the gun in her hand but she knows that shoot at him its not going to stop him, but if he keeps like that she is going to use it. Michael sees the movement of her head and knows what she is thinking. He approaches to her, now out of the room in the corridor, he is going to put his hand in her shoulder but quickly she grabs his arm and pushes him as rough as she can against the wall. Michael is gasping for air on the floor, if she wants to play rough he will play rough, he thinks as anger and frustration consume him.

She gives him one last glance before of turning around and begins to walk again, she knows he is stronger but she is not going to appear weak "You don't have to worry, only hide and everything will be fine." Again he is in front of her, this time changed "Why are you doing all this?" she asks tired of this and with rage as she also changes "After I had finished you may have a better life."

He shakes his head "I'm concerned for you is that you don't see it?" He asks but she makes him to a side ignoring that and keeps walking, he knows he can't hurt her but he is going to do everything he can to stop her "I care for you!" He says again in front of her and looking at her eyes and she rolls hers he can't avoid to feel hurt by her lack of reaction, it's obvious she doesn't care.

"That's your problem." She is not going to think in what she just heard, her only feelings are hate and fury, as she gets out of the corridor he is in front of her again! And looking at her eyes, "And so what? That's not going to impede me to do what I want," she knows that saying all this may hurt him more than a blow, "I don't care for your feelings, and I never will!" seeing his face she sees that she was right, taking advantage of this she gets out of the farm and enters in the car, "Don't become your problems mine." she says as soon as she accelerates.
Michael is stunned by her cruelty, present in her eyes, her actions and words, although he knows he is not in love of her he was too close to been, now his crush has finished, how could she had say something like that? That hurt him. When he looks again she is not anywhere close. Should he stay here and hide or go to Gabriel's house and see what Marcus really want? Is he capable to bear her? In a second he decides and remembers how Lucian reached Selene's car running, so he begins to run after the car.
As Selene leaves the dusty road she puts the safety of the gun and then puts it over the board, she knew she had been extremely cruel but that was the only way to stop him, that was the best, after all the one they want is him not her. She already had everything planned, how she was going to get in without been noticed, what she was going to do, she knows she will not may get away after that, but to that moment her mission will be accomplished. Suddenly she sees something in the rear mirror, knowing what it is she accelerates even more, What didn't he understand? She glances at the mirror again but now there is nothing in the back, this is not good, she thinks as she looks again to the roadway and she sees him at twenty meters of the car, without even think she puts the breaks, thanks to the velocity she had and the damp concrete the car begins to slide. Why did she do that? He would have avoided the car before even hit him! She begins to think recognizing her mistake as the car keeps sliding but now also begins to gyrate in his axe, finally the car stops ahead of Michael. The only thing he can do to stop her at least by now is that he breaks the damn window! She thinks as he approaches slowly, she is going to accelerate again knowing this is futile but in a moment the car door is open and he sits at her side.

"I am going to come." He says as he closes the door and looks out of the window, not even looking at her.
One day and a half later they arrive to Gabriel's house and they hadn't talked in all the way, she parks the car in the high of a hill, as she gets out the car she notes that this is going to be even more difficult of what she thought, looking for a way to enter she surrounds the fence and enter by the back part, as they quietly make their way inside in a mistake of both they step on a branch that is over the graze and this cracks loudly "Damn!" both say at the same time as dogs begin to bark and approaches them, they stay quietly trying to not catch their attention, then by a corner six big and aggressive dogs come towards them and Michael prepares to attack.

"Don't" Selene says stopping him.

"What the hell are you doing?" he murmurs not understanding what she wants, then to his surprise the dogs calm and approach her and stay at her side, not attacking, not barking, obviously they had recognize her, then one person appears behind the corner.

"I thought you will not come." Fionna says as she calmly approaches them. Michael growls at her and Selene puts her hand in her holster ready, Fionna seeing this raises her hands showing that she doesn't have anything "Markus is waiting for you" is the only thing she says as she turns around and begins to walk. Michael looks at Selene and then begins to walk after Fionna.

"What are his intentions?" He asks walking at Fionna's side.

"They are not bad, you can be sure of that." She says looking at him and then she looks behind her to see Selene follow them, "I need to talk with you later." She says as Selene studies her. Michael begins to slow his walk now staying at Selene side he looks at her trying to know if she still is going to follow her plan or not but she doesn't look at him.

As they enter in the house Michael sees that they are not taking special cares, the only vampires he doesn't recognize are two, one of them must be Marcus and the other a Death Dealer. Selene looks intensely at Marcus, seeing the little security they have she is going to hear everything and then she will take a decision.

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anon 2005-10-22

I'm sorry for all the errors and the butchery of the grammar but I barely speak English, I try to post the chapters with the fewer mistakes I can but it seems it doesn't work, but now a kind person is helping to fix the chapters coming. Thanks for the nice things you said about the history.

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Thanks for the review, you know I read Heart Veneer several months ago, in those days I was not passing by a good moment in my life, and I know it sounds weird but when I read the last paragraph… I don't know it made me see things… with more clarity.

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