Special Thanks to ErthGrl9870 who did the proofreading of the chapter.
CHAP 10: DISAPPEARANCE.
As he wakes up he feels even sicker than the night before, his head is killing him and his body too, why is he feeling like this? He thought immortals didn't get sick, as he turns around he sees Fionna lying to his side, has Marcus even gotten sick? Or is it those stupid pills he is taking? But if that's it, why didn't he feel like this before? As he looks around the room he begins to remember how he finished there.
Flashback:
He is in the garage when he sees Fionna entering and approaching the car's lot "Hey, What's going on?" he asks distrustful.
Wonderful. She wanted to be alone and it seemed like she can't do it "I'm going away, I'm tired of being here… see you later…" she says walking towards one of Marcus cars in a huff.
Michael stares at her in bewilderment as she enters in the car, he can't let her go alone, "Where are you going?"
"Away… Look…" she says looking at him but she realizes he looks kind of sick if that's possible.
Seeing her blank stare Michael speaks "I want to come…"
"Are you hurt?" She didn't have anything against him he was the only person that she can say doubted her but wasn't obvious about it and sometimes was friendly.
Michael stares at her confused "I'm fine" he lies.
She nodes and raises an eyebrow "You don't look so well."
"Maybe I need fresh air…" he says sitting at her side.
She sighs and stares at him not liking the idea but then changes it "By the way…" she says smirking evilly "…Brianna told me I drove worst than Selene."
"Is that even possible?" He asks skeptical but putting the seat belt… just in case. She smirks even wider and speeds up. He discovers after a couple of minutes she had been right… "What really happened with Selene a month ago?" he asks trying to block the desire to throw up.
"Why? I thought she may have told you…"
"She is very secretive with her things…" Michael sighs.
"And here I thought she may have changed a little…" she says with sarcasm.
"She did change…" He says defensively, she had done it, after that night they have done the same they did four months ago… pretended nothing happened and it had worked, now she wasn't as distant or aggressive, she had opened a little bit with him, a thing he likes.
"Maybe with you…" she says looking at him and smiling evilly.
"Look out!" He says seeing in front of them a very pronounced curve and several cars, at the velocity they are going that doesn't look well.
End Flashback.
If anyone had told him to associate her for attitude with someone he would had elected Brianna instead of Selene, he can't believe Fionna and Selene were friends a long time ago… Fionna was even more relaxed than Brianna she and the car were well prepared to go to a war in that instant but instead she went to a cinema. There was no need to say he was pleased. She was the first vampire he saw eating 'normal human food' and that voiced she liked it although it didn't have any nutritious valor, That was the most human night one can have and he hadn't had one for more than five or six months. Looking at the wall clock he thinks that by now Sebastian and Marcus must have noticed their disappearance.
Flashback:
"Did I really hurt you?" She asks when she remembers their fight several months ago.
"What do you think?" He asks cynically.
"Well, it didn't seem, you stood quickly… I think your girly scream was more of surprise than pain…" She adds laughing.
Girly scream? "Let's see… I was peacefully talking with you when out of nowhere you got out a gun… I had been shot before as you knew but that was very different, call me coward all you want but seeing you pulling the trigger, the small explosion and the cartridge been ejected… it's very intimidating… And I haven't gotten to the part where I felt the bullet in my chest and -"
"Yeah, you were very exaggerated, if I recall well you threw yourself backwards with chair and all… that kind of bullet doesn't have that power… I think you got more harmed when you head slammed to the floor than by the bullet it self…" She says having fun with that topic.
"Well… the bullet was too close to my heart I thought I was going to die there and the worst was when I felt its chemical began to spread to my bloodstream making me weaker."
"I thought you were agonizing, that's why I went back for Selene." She says seriously now.
That answers why she didn't finish him there… "After a couple of minutes I felt my body fighting it and I opened my eyes and saw that you were trying to go with Selene."
"And then you attacked me… You wouldn't let me do anything to harm your precious Selene."
Michael ignores her comment "Well you attacked me first! Besides I didn't hurt you much…"
"Yeah… you could have killed me back there if you wanted to." She says scowling.
"I'm not a killer…" He says sighing. "Where are we going?" He asks when he sees she is not taking the road back to the house.
"I'm not going to pass the day in the house…"
"What? Why you didn't tell me that?" He says surprised.
"You didn't ask…"
"You are doing this to put me in trouble with Sebastian, aren't you?" He asks sure of that.
She looks at him surprised, he is not worried that she may try to attack him he is only worried about getting in trouble "I didn't oblige you to come, you did it in your own …I didn't even invite you." She says smirking.
"Thanks…" He says sarcastically, "Why are you going to do that? What bothers you so much about the house?"
"Sinceraly I'm tired of being there I just needed a day of my own" Seeing his face of distrust she decides to say a part of the truth "…And the lycans."
"That's all?" Michael asks frowning.
"What did you think I was going to do?" She asks curious.
"I don't know… Some conspiracy or something like that…"
She rolls her eyes "Ok…"
"Are you not comfortable with the lycans?" He asks after a couple of minutes.
She nodes "It is difficult, after all I have done… With the majority I don't have anything against them but there are others that… you know…" She has difficulty speaking about this with him because he hasn't killed any lycan for pleasure as she did, "But I'm not the only one, I heard Selene had some problems too…" She says remembering what Brianna had told her. "…Sophie, I like her, she is one of the lycans I had no difficulty tolerating but someone told me than when Selene and Sophie were in a town a kid was hurt and neither of them was sure of the intentions of the other."
Michael nods, he remembered the problem that generated in that mission "The kid was loosing blood and both believed the other was going to feed off him…" Brianna nodes knowing Selene wouldn't do something like that, at least she believes.
After a short while they enter a tiny hotel and then to the room, seeing only a bed they feel really uncomfortable "Well that's…" Michael says but he doesn't know what else to say.
"Yeah… you will sleep in the floor…" She says as she inspects the room then when everything is sure she continues "…I don't know you too much to know that you are not going to try something in bed…" She says smirking.
"I wouldn't try to do that…" He says smiling and amused.
She is very sure he is saying the truth, "Don't look at me like that, I'm not going to fall for your charm…"
He knows very well she is joking "Why not? No lady can resist me…" he says feigning smugness.
She smiles mischievously at that "Are you flirting with me?"
"No, I just don't want to sleep on the floor" He says returning to himself and sitting in a chair.
"You will have to…" she murmurs and he nodes "and by the way you were wrong… Selene did." He nodes discouraging "Or that's what I assume…" seeing his face she knows she was right. "…At least she kissed you."
"What?" He didn't like to be talking about this with anyone and how does she know that? Did she see them?
Fionna smirks as she leans against the wall "Brianna can't keep her mouth shut." She lies. Michael shook his head, Brianna knew about the first kiss from one of his slips but that was all… but why had she told Fionna?
He sighs, he prefers to tell her the truth than wait for her to go to ask Selene "It was just to handcuff me to -"
"Oh I didn't know Selene was kinky…" She says chuckling and interrupting him.
Michael shakes his head vehemently, why did he have to say that? "It was only to distract me… I… I wanted to go to Ordoghaz with her so she handcuffed me to the chair… that's all…"
He sure was stupid, being a lycan and go to a house full of vampires… "I believe you and I will not tell anyone you told me, specially at her…" she says seriously, Kraven had told her they had kissed but he had destroyed the recording before showing it to her, for her that was one of the suggestions she had for Selene's change. Knowing that Selene wasn't one to show emotions she assumed a lot of things she had discovered were not right when she got to Gabriel's house and although they hadn't had a conversation since one month ago she had seen in her attitude that she was in an inner turmoil and that wasn't just for her presence and Marcus in the house, she had seen how Selene changed when Michael got closer and the way she seemed to put a barrier between them, you have to be blind to not see that they're attracted to each another, and she wasn't the only one to notice it even Marcus had told her about Michael pursuing Selene and that she just shrugged him off.
Noting the change in Fionna's attitude and her strange look, he sharpens his senses believing something is out there but he doesn't notices anything. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing." she says quickly irritated to have been startled.
In the few conversations he has had with her he had noticed she was very open with her emotions and thoughts and if you ask her she would answer… "Come on…"
She looks at him and nods as she goes and sits on the bed "You are not going to like this… I was thinking that… I doubt she… I don't think she ever has allowed emotional intimacy with anyone and I don't think she is going to begin now…"
Michael nods, he also had thought about it and knows she is right… Sadly in the last month he had recognized that he had fallen in love with Selene he was tired of denying to himself but after that kiss his confusions had disappeared, then every time they were in the same place he ignored his feelings and made as if anything and somehow he suspects that his change was what had made Selene open a little but sometimes he would subconsciously stare at her or say something that made her look away… Being in love tends to suck a lot. "You are right."
"But I think you still have hopes…" She comments as she lies is bed. Michael shakes his head, he doesn't want to keep talking about that, "Why not? You are handsome, gentle you care for her…"
"I don't-" Michael sighs as he stands.
"Let me continue I promise I never will talk about this again…" She interrupts him and continues "You hadn't thought abouy why she kissed you if she could just punch you and let you out? …You were a lycan and she kissed you, in normal circumstances believe me she wouldn't have done that …I think she has mixed feelings but she is too confused. That's all."
Michael had tried not to hear her but he couldn't, the familiarity with those words are worse now than ever… "I have already heard that…"
"I suppose you have done it…" She says assuming Brianna was the one who had told him, she had noted that she was the only person besides Selene he seemed comfortable and in one occasion she had questioned how deep was their relationship and by the way they looked at each other had let her assuming other things, she shakes her head, his relationship with Brianna was a thing of them not hers, she decides to make her point know, "…It's just that love in our race is very weird and when-"
At that Michael looks at her surprised and remembering the words of Sebastian "Did you say love?" She looks at him frowning and nods "I thought that vampires weren't capable of love…"
She stays silent for a while "I don't know if you had noticed it but we are very different to the heartless and emotionless vampires portrayed in movies and books…"
"I know but I've been living with vampires and lycans for five months and I hadn't seen… a normal couple…"
"…We can love but it's very difficult in our situations… you can't expect to have a relationship as you would have if you were still human…" she says thinking about it "Why are you asking this?" she says suspiciously and sitting again.
"I just told you, the experience I have had and the ones I have asked… the majority almost always answered the same… So…" he says with indecisiveness "…have you been in love after you were turned?"
"…Yes." She says looking directly at him.
He is amused by that "Really?" she nods then he remembers something… "Mmh Did you… Were you… How you…"
"Oh please, stop it, Just ask the damn question!" She says tired of his insecurity.
"Well I don't know how you are going to take it…" He says defensive "Were you monogamous?" He asks and can't read the expression of her face, certainly he wouldn't like to be in a serious relationship and then see the person he is with go to have sex with someone else.
She raises an eyebrow "Spiritual love from the waist up and physical love from the waist down."1 she murmurs smiling.
"What? So that means-"
"It doesn't mean what you think, that was something I read sometime ago… I was… and I know why you are asking that and it is not as different as I suppose human acts… If you want to be, then you said it to the other person and take a decision about it."
"Yes but in our environment that doesn't seem to be the case…"
"I know but if the person you love doesn't want it so he or she is not acting out of love, it's just the need…"
"Wow," he says amused and seeing her face of annoyance he comments "It's just that… I assume you have your time being a vampire…" He says and she nods but he doesn't know if what he is going to say is going to be taken in a bad way "…The way you speak and your attitude… You still are too human…"
She remembers Selene words "Well the majority doesn't like to grasp that…"
"But you don't seem to have a problem with that." Certainly the first time he saw her she wasn't like this and he can't avoid to think that it was for what Selene had recently done.
"And I don't." She says stopping a yawn and lying down again. After several minutes of silence he lays in the floor, normally at this hour he was fast sleep and very comfortable in his bed, as he turns around he feels the sickness again. A couple of hours pass and she hadn't fallen asleep, as more she knows Michael more she realizes that he is just a victim of their war, he certainly is out of place in their environment, she sighs tiredly of thinking so much.
At hearing her tired sigh he knows she is awake "Could you at least give me a pillow?" At hearing that she catches one and throws it to him not knowing that it hits him on the face. What's going on? Why didn't his reflex work? He begins to get worried, he certainly is going to stop taking those pills, he thinks as he leans his head in the pillow. "Fionna?" he murmurs not trying to wake her if she had fallen sleep so quickly.
After a couple of minutes of indecision she answers him "Yeah?"
"What are your real intentions for Selene?"
She had been waiting for him to ask her that, "To say the truth I don't know anymore…"
The sincerity in her voice amuses Michael, he expected she would have said that her intentions were good or that she was going to kill her or something but not that, why she hasn't done her mind in the last months? "If you hurt her I -"
"I will kill you…" She finishes his sentence at hearing his protective tone of voice. "…It is that I assumed things that now I know are not true, the few times we have talked sometimes she is calm and others she is insupportable… she was like that before but now I find her more complicated and that frustrates me, in the best of the cases I want to scream at her… but then I remember that she knows what she wants and I'm not going to do what she expects…"
"You put her like a manipulative..." He says glaring at her.
"Maybe because to my eyes she is…" She says coldly… "…Look she is just to messed up and the only thing she is achieving with her attitude is going deeper in that hole she is making…" Michael knows that although what she has said it's not very complementary it's true that's why he doesn't comment anything. "Although I had always thought that Selene was messed up and she had made some mistakes I have to recognize that without her I wouldn't be here…"
Michael knows she is talking about Selene protecting her before but she said that darkly and that makes him think otherwise "What's that suppose to mean?"
Apparently no one had told him about her turning "…I didn't have the perfect and lovely family as Selene did… one day I came to my house and I found their bodies I was shocked, I didn't know what to do or who had done it, but what scared me the most was that I didn't feel anything by their deaths…" She speaks emotionlessly and makes a pause.
Michael is interested in this and takes advantage of her silence "Who did that?" he asks knowing that even humans could do it.
She looks at him "It wasn't Viktor, or any vampire…" She says assuming what he is thinking.
He doubts about it, if Selene believed a lie for two centuries why not Fionna too, "Are you sure it was the lycans?"
She nodes "When I got out of the house it was daylights as it was when I came back… When I was going to run away from the 'crime scene' Viktor arrived with several Death Dealers between them Selene. I hid not knowing what they were and thinking that if I stayed quiet and silent they wouldn't notice me. They knew what had happened and hearing them talking about it scared me the most, then suddenly I felt someone hissing and pulling me out of where I was, they inspected me and I saw Selene speaking with Viktor, then after a few minutes he approached me and told me… that they couldn't leave me there, that I knew to much so he gave me two options: Death or Turning." She speaks as if that was something normal and that passed so long ago that now it was nothing more than a memory that could belong to someone else, "I was too young I wasn't even fifteen years old when that happened, I arrived to Ordoghaz and being so immature I took the easy way…"
"Didn't Viktor say anything?" He has this preconceived image of Viktor and somehow he thinks that Viktor didn't like that.
"At first no, everyone took it as if I was doing it to forget about what happened, then one day my curiosity picked up and I entered the training room and somehow I felt interested and Viktor was there and he told me that if I liked he could teach me, I doubtfully said yes and he did it… He gave me some good advises and tought me as much as he could… You know, I was jealous of Selene she was his favorite and he was, still he's the father I never had… my attitude towards Selene caused us to have fights and not get along… I said things that I know she didn't like and took advantage of her vulnerability…"
"Her family…" Michael murmurs at remembering what she had said the night she attacked them.
Fionna nodes "Viktor knew about it but he didn't say anything," she smiles "one day I thought that I was ready to go hunting and he told me I wasn't, but I kept insisting, so he called Selene and I thought he was going to let me go if Selene kept an eye on me, I wasn't happy about it but if that was what it took to go hunting then I could live with that, but instead he told us to fight. I was so arrogant that I thought that I was going to show her how to fight properly but she kicked my ass… I was angry but she didn't say anything she just looked at me emotionlessly. Then when they returned a few days later Viktor called me to his room and told me he had a surprise for me but that first we had to talk." She clears her throat before of continue "He told me that the night he turned me Selene had convinced him about it, I was mad of course but he told me that I was like another daughter to him and that he was glad he had turned me but that I had to fix my problems with Selene or at least try to tolerate her because she was going to finish my training, I of course didn't agree with that I asked him to put Kahn instead but he denied …I used to think that Selene was such a hypocrite because I knew she hated me but when I attacked her she didn't act with hate, that was something I couldn't comprehend… Viktor told me that Selene had won because she had more experience and composure and that I was reckless, aggressive and overconfident… I finally agreed with him but I knew that it was going to be very hard. Then a couple of years later he had to go to sleep and I had to stay stuck with Selene…"
"So how did you two become friends?" Michael was surprised by her history he didn't know how Fionna had been turned or how her relationship with Selene was, he had been so wrong.
"We didn't really…" She says frowning. What's that suppose to mean? Michael thinks at hearing that. "With time we learned to tolerate the other and not to attack us we even talked with the other with sincerity… now I have to recognize it, it wasn't good specially for her but still… I believe we had the most resembled thing to a friendship that we could have in our conditions, and I am sure I was the closest person she had after Viktor but…I don't know, now I see things different…" she says sighing.
Michael nods, he knows very well how Selene is but still both of them seem very affected for just saying they never were friends "I think you two are speaking and acting hurt… I don't know how your relationship was but I see both of you are affected by that, In my opinion if you two didn't care one of you would be dead by now…"
"Yeah…" she says feigning looking at the clock and thinking that he may have reason.
Michael looks at her and knows she doesn't want to keep talking of Selene "So… what was the surprise?"
She recognizes what Michael does and maybe for that she answers knowing he is not going to like it "My first lycan…"
"Oh," Michael says don't having imagined something like that.
"…Yeah…"
They stay looking at each other uncomfortable and after a while Michael asks "Were you friend of Gabriel and Brianna when you got to Ordoghaz?"
She frowns "I thought Brianna may have told you that…"
"Mmm… no she has been very occupied in the last month…"
"Yeah, she has been following Marcus everywhere I think he has rested this few days without her on his heels." She comments smiling, "Well I didn't know Gabriel until a month ago… And I was friend of Brianna, we were alike and that was something good, she was the one who helped me to practice, she told me how to do things… we had the same interests… we knew that being Death Dealers was not the only thing we could do so we got in trouble several times by the way we acted… and by our attitude we annoyed Selene…" At that he smiles, he could imagine that… She doesn't want to keep talking about her, "Well… I need my beauty sleep," she says looking at the ray of sun entering by a window, Michael follows her glance and sees it, he knows that its impossible that ray touches her but still he stands and closes the curtain completely, she sees as he does that and as he is going to sit again in the chair she speaks, "Ok… you can sleep in the bed." After that she lays in it. Michael looks at her and nodes, he gathers the pillow he had and lays to her side. "You are a good person Michael don't let that change with the passing of years…" she murmurs after several minutes and turns.
Michael lifts his head of the pillow at hearing that "…Now I know that's possible…" he says relieved referring to him maintaining his humanity.
End Flashback.
After that conversation he had changed the way he thought about some things and about her although he knew that it was a remote possibility that she had been lying. He feels her stir. She looks at her clock, they could go now, after a couple of minutes she climbs out of bed and looks at him quickly to see him looking at her, by his semblance she knows something is bad, he looks worse than last night, he has bags under his eyes, looks tired and its sweating. The look she is giving him is making him uncomfortable "What's wrong?" he asks worried.
"You tell me…" she says frowning, could it be that hybrids get sick?
"I'm not feeling well that's all…" He says standing and feeling dizzy.
She begins to walk towards the door "…Is that possible?" Michael looks at her and just shrugs.
"What's wrong?" Brianna asks a lycan as she makes her way to the house and sees all the Death Dealers getting ready for something.
"I don't know everyone had been very secretive about it…" He murmurs as he goes to do his chores.
"This doesn't look good…" Selene says as they enter Gabriel's office but it is empty.
"Joseph!" Brianna says as she sees him turning a corner. "What the hell is going on?" she asks looking around.
"You are back," Brianna and Selene don't know if that's a good thing, "We have a problem but the Death Dealers are going to take charge of this." He lies looking at Sebastian coming towards them. "He is going to say the rest I have things to do." He says as he begins to walk.
Sebastian had been living in the house for the last month always taking care of Marcus' business and by the way putting an eye on him, Marcus is something he doesn't like and knows he is not the only one. "What happened?" Selene asks a little arrogant.
"Let's go to Gabriel's office," He says as he begins to walk and Brianna and Selene follow him "We had a problem yesterday, but we all hope this will be solved quickly… yesterday Fionna disappeared and no one knows about her whereabouts."
"That's not a big thing…" Brianna murmurs as she remembers when they left Ordoghaz for days.
Selene is frowning and skeptical "There's something else… Why would you care for Fionna's well being? She is no more than a dispensable Death Dealer…?"
"…Something happened and we think she is involved in that… some lycans and vampires had confirmed it and we are going to find her…"
"Tell us what she did." Brianna says sitting in a chair, she was tired after all, but no worry, she knew Fionna and somehow didn't suspect of her.
"We assume Michael is with her…"
At that she is surprised and looks at Selene that it's frowning even more "Are you sure?" Sebastian nodes.
Selene can't avoid feeling worried "This is not good! You should have sent a group immediately after, or have you forgotten that we still doubt about them?" she says feigning tranquility.
"Michael is stronger than her and if she-" He begins to say but it's interrupted by Selene.
"You don't know her! And Michael he is too trustful…" She begins to assume things, "All cars here have a track device you could have used it before Fionna changed of car."
"I think we are overreacting this…" Brianna says calmly "I know it's not in Michael attitude to do that but they could have had a purpose in doing that…" she says looking from Sebastian to Selene at seeing that she is going to interrupt her she looks at Sebastian "Did Fionna oblige him?"
At that Selene looks at Sebastian waiting for an answer "…Actually no… he did it by his own will…"
"Well, I don't see a problem there…" She says knowing that with that she is infuriating them.
"Are you one hundred per cent sure than Fionna is with us?" Selene asks her frowning. She also knew Fionna and had seen her talking with Michael but that Michael hasn't called the house is very strange.
Brianna looks at her frowning and then nodes, "Her only problem is you not him." She says with disinterest.
Selene knows that's true and nods "But you have to admit that's weird… Fionna had never left the house, and you know they have enemies, they could be in trouble or dead by now…"
Brianna sighs and nodes recognizing that, "Does Marcus know about this?"
"Of course he knows, she went in one of his cars that's why we couldn't find them…"
"We haven't put tracking devices in his cars?" Brianna asks distrustful, that could be a very big problem, who knows what his loyal Death Dealers could have been doing without them knowing it?
"That's very irresponsible on your part…" Selene says glaring at him she thought he was the person who was more interested for the lycans and vampires of this house without forgeting Michael.
Sebastian is shocked for being talked to like that but he knows it's true, "We sent several groups to find them as soon as we noticed Michael's disappearance…"
If Selene has right that's not going to work, Brianna thinks as she interrupts Sebastian "Finding them could take days and there is no possibility that they'll be found alive… you know that…"
"We already found the car, they are still in the city not too far from here and we are sending another group one with Death Dealers and other with lycans, they are going well armed… just in case." He says as he gets out a gun meaning that he is going with them.
Selene makes up her mind in joining them as she hears Brianna "Why did it take them so much time to find them?" she recognizes the distrust in Brianna's voice and looks at Sebastian.
Suddenly the door opens and Fionna walks in almost dragging Michael by his jacket "Because they are dumbasses?" She asks smirking.
They are surprised to see her come in and as if nothing had happened, "See… I told you…" Brianna says to Selene, that just ignores her as she looks at Michael and Fionna, for a second she thinks she saw him trembling but looking more carefully she notes it was just her imagination.
"Why did you leave he house without advice?" Sebastian asks angry at Michael.
Michael looks at Fionna and then at Selene whose glare of pure fury says that he is not just in problems with Sebastian, he would have smirked if his head wasn't aching "It was something of the moment…"
Fionna looks at him and then at Sebastian knowing that Michael is going to be in more trouble with that answer "Tell them the truth." she says slapping him softly on his arm and sees the little grimace of pain he does, she sends him a look of sorry and expects he says something but he doesn't, "He followed me because he doubted of me."
"And he had all the reason…" Sebastian says as he begins to walk towards the door, Fionna knew that everybody distrusted of Marcus and his attendants but the way he said that makes her think that there is something he is not telling her, "All of you stay here I'll come in a minute." He orders.
No one says anything so Fionna decides to cut the silence "What's happening?" Fionna asks sarcastically as Brianna stands at Selene's side.
"You are in trouble…" Selene says shrugging disinterested.
Brianna smirks, "Everyone here thinks you kidnapped poor Michael."
Michael rolls his eyes. "She didn't kidnap me, she didn't even invite me…" he says and Fionna nods comically. Selene is exasperated by their fault of seriousness.
"Well, where were you? It took them some time to find you, you know…" Brianna says as Michael out of exhaustion sits in a chair and lays his head against the wall, maybe by the illumination she hadn't noticed the sweat that lined his face.
"In a hotel room." Fionna simply says as she gets close to a little refrigerator and takes out a blood bag.
In a hotel room! She was worried about him and he was in a hotel room with Fionna! She had, after knew Fionna hadn't obliged him, thought they might have had a valid reason to leave the house not that. Selene thinks as she feels a sharp prickle of emotion, immediately she shakes it off, ignoring it. But Brianna is not going to ignore the way Selene's eyes flared for a second, so she smirks and says quietly just for Selene to hear "I can see your brain steaming with jealousy…" At that Selene looks at her and then turns her face what makes Brianna smirk evilly she could see that Selene was still in denial but it was too obvious, then she clears her throat "What did you put him to do? …He looks very tired." Brianna says to Fionna that just keeps drinking the blood, Michael at hearing that looks at Brianna knowing what she was implying, she looks at him and approaches him smirking widely "You are not cheating on me, right Michael?"
"No, he is not." Fionna says for him "He said he is feeling sick… is that possible?"
At that Brianna gets serious and Selene looks at him "Is that true?" Selene asks him foe the first time, her voice emotionless. Michael nods.
"You can't ignore that!" Brianna says scolding him and knowing that's not normal, "I'm going to find Sophie or Charles, they can help you." As she is going to open the door Sebastian, Gabriel and Marcus enter.
"Where are you going?" Sebastian asks a little rudely.
"We need Charles or Sophie." She says and she sees an emotion passing by Gabriel's face but she doesn't know what it is… after all those years.
Sebastian enters "Why?"
"Something is happening to Michael… We thought they could help him." She says recognizing the glance he throws at Fionna.
"Sophie is busy but she will be here in a moment…" Gabriel says looking at Michael.
"Ok, so I'm going to find Charles I will not delay." She begins to walk again but Marcus blocks her path and it seems like he is not going to let her pass. "What are you doing?"
"Sophie will be here in a moment and she will help Michael, don't worry. Stay here, you are going to know what happened." What happened? Brianna, Selene, Fionna and Michael think intrigued, for them the problem was Michael and Fionna disappearing and it seemed like they were taking it very seriously.
"Maybe Fionna will tell us." Sebastian says demanding and approaching her "And what did you do to Michael?" he adds after a couple of minutes.
She looks at them arrogantly as she leans against a wall and crosses her arms "I went out to relax and Michael followed me, that's all, I didn't do anything against him, in my defense he was already sick when we took off."
Michael sees the look of disbelieve in Sebastian's face and he feels the impulse of defend her, "That's true."
Selene looks at Michael and then at Gabriel, she presages this is about something else. "Are you sure of that?" Gabriel asks to Michael.
"Of course I am!" His outburst surprises almost everyone. Selene looks at him and sees that he is struggling against something… Sudenly he looks at her and with his eyes he says that he is going to be fine, although he doubts it.
Selene barely nodes, then looks at Gabriel "What else happened?" She demands.
"Tell us." Sebastian orders looking at Fionna.
She looks at Marcus but he just stares at her then she looks at Sebastian again "Honestly I don't know what the hell you are talking about."
"Ok, if the things are going to be that way…" He says threatening but Fionna doesn't alter.
"If you explain it then I could answer!"
"Where is your knife?" Seeing her face of disconcert Sebastian explains "The knife Viktor gave you the last time you saw him."
She knew of what knife he was talking about but didn't know why he was asking her that "In my room."
"There is not in your room Fionna" Marcus says approaching her.
"What do you mean it's not in my room?" She asks incredulous, she was sure she had left it there!
"Why is her knife so important?" Selene asks looking at Marcus "Could you all just explain what happened."
"Robert was murdered with that same knife, it was found at his side, and then you took off." Sebastian says his tone of voice rising in each sentence. All were surprised, that was the last thing they expected, Brianna had known him since she came to the house and she couldn't think of one enemy he could have had in the house but with the Death Dealers there everything was possible. Selene just knew he was a lycan that was in charge of the investigations they realized and that he was doing something with Michael and Sophie and Michael was a little affected by that, they had shared time together and he never had thought that something like that could happen in the house. Michael looks at Fionna if she would have killed him he would have smelled the blood on her, no matter if she had took a shower or not. Seeing that Fionna doesn't answer the majority assume that with her silence she is accepting it. "Well?"
Fionna was shocked, she hadn't done that! Someone had tried to incriminate her but who? "Well what? I didn't do it but there's no way you are going to believe me. And you think I'm so stupid that if I had murdered him I would have come back?" she says uncrossing her arms.
"She didn't do it." Michael says standing in front of Sebastian. "She and I are the only ones that not smelled at blood recently spilled." He knew that Brianna and Selene had just come from one of their 'missions' and he suspected of everyone else in this room and even out of it. Seeing the face of everyone Michael continues "Did you see a tape or hear a recording where it indicates that it was her?"
Fionna is thankful for what Micahel is doing but she is realist, she no doubts that the person who did that had everything planned. "No, All our devices broke and only were repaired a few hours ago."
"See, you don't have any proof it was her, only the knife nothing else." Brianna says looking at Marcus and then at Selene that she knows is doubting of Fionna.
"That she disappeared puts her in a compromising position."
"She didn't disappear." Selene says still doubting but knowing Fionna is not stupid, she evades the look Fionna is giving her "She is here after all." She begins to think if the microphones she put were still working, she will know it in few minutes. Sudenly she sees Sophie entering in the room.
Gabriel turns and sees Sophie and takes the papers she is handling him "This can be a proof to see if you are indeed innocent." He says looking at Fionna that just stares at him. "Michael, what time did you two leave the house?"
So that is what he has in his hands, Michael thinks. "Almost eleven…" he had seen his clock moments before of Brianna had appeared.
He looks at the papers and begins to read things he didn't know what they were then he finds it "Approximate hour of death one A.M."
Fionna smirks arrogantly and looks at Sebastian and Marcus "Next time obtain more proof." She can see the anger in his face, Marcus and Selene had told her that Sebastian was Viktor's son but she doesn't care that, what is bothering her is that Marcus doubted about her, he has no proof that she is going to betray him.
Brianna using the distraction gets close to Sophie and says what's happening with Michael, Sophie nodes and gets close to him. Marcus approaches Fionna "You are innocent, I had my doubts about it but now everything is clear" he says just for her and she nodes, then he turns "Go to rest, if you want." he looks at Selene, Michael and Brianna "We are going to keep investigating to find proof." He says dispatching them but doubting that rest is what they are going to do. At not hearing her name be mentioned Fionna knows that he needs to talk with her, she looks over his shoulder and sees Sebastian and Gabriel looking at her distrustfully but she ignores them as they get out of the room.
Selene looks at Sophie that is talking with Michael and she directs towards Brianna "Do you suspect of anyone who could have done that or a reason?"
Brianna shakes her head "No, but I'm going to go to the vigilance room and see the recordings of the last month…" She says as she begins to walk out of the office "Are you coming?" she asks to Selene knowing that if Selene is going to help is not because she cares for Charles or any hybrid its just to be sure of Fionna's innocence.
Selene doubts for a few seconds, after all she had her own recordings to see, "I'm going." She says as she sees Fionna getting out of the room, she looks back and sees Michael nodding at Sophie, then calmer she gets out of the office.
"What happened?" Michael asks Sophie as soon she gets close to him.
He knows he is asking like a doctor what were the causes of Charles's death, "Let's go to your room and I will see what's happening."
Michael looks at her "Why my room? The laboratory is the place-"
"We can't go there now." She says giving him a look that makes him understand that that was the place where Charles was murdered. "I will tell you there, now come on." He nodes and looks around and sees Selene getting out of the room and Fionna talking with Marcus.
That Charles death was in the laboratory wasn't a problem to Selene, she has no access to the laboratory but she had arranged to put a little camera and a microphone in an object that no one would suspect, the problem was that her devices also were broken. Now with her hopes down she begins to hear and see some recordings that the vigilance room had provided, recordings that she knows she is not going to find anything. After had finished and hadn't found anything she settles for see the antique files and then her recordings. After a while of this she hears Michael's door being opened so that says that he is awake now, Sophie had told them that what had made him felt ill was the pills he was taking and that she had gave him something and told him to not keep taking the pills until they found out what was the problem. After a while she notes that he stopped to do noises so she stands and directs towards the bathroom door and knocks lightly. "Come in."
She hears Michael says and she turns the knob of the door and opens it just to find him sitting in the floor at the side of the toilet. "What's going on?"
"Sophie gave me something but…" He stops when he feels nausea and takes deep breaths then he continues "It's making me feel worse…"
Selene notes that although he was speaking he seemed absent and certainly he doesn't look better than a few hours ago. "Do you want me to call her?" Michael shakes his head knowing there's nothing else they can do, when he had acceded to take that pills he never imagined it could make him feel sick. Suddenly he feels that he is going to throw up so he gets closer to the toilet. Hear the wet coughs up makes Selene remember humanity and sickness, things she was glad of not remembering. Michael had never imagined that he would throw up blood, he thinks as he flushes the toilet. He cleans the thread of blood of his chin and looks at Selene for the first time since she got in. She sees his embarrassed glance and doesn't say anything she just hands him a little towel for him to clean up, Michael takes it gratefully and tries to stand but he feels more dizziness, he keeps like that four several seconds. "I'm going to call her."
Michael notes her worried tone of voice and despite his pain he smiles and thanks to God she doesn't notices it, "There's nothing she can do… and after that I'm feeling a little better." he lies standing and directs towards the sink to clean himself. Selene just stares at him recognizing the big effort he did and knowing this is not the time to scolding him, she will do it later. Seeing her blank stare Michael knows she is not going to say anything more "Good… night." He says as he turns around and walks to his room.
Selene sees him going away and thinks that's better, she has many things to do to be worrying about his health, if he is not dead by now he will not be soon, at least not for this. She turns around and begins to walk when she hears a thump she immediately looks towards him and sees him on his knees, she knew he was lying! "You are better…" she says with sarcasm as she unconsciously gets closer at him.
"I… I feel better when I'm sitting or lying down." He says taking deep breaths.
She stands at his side and looks down at him "And that's why you are staying there?"
Why is she doing this? Is she really worried about him? Michael thinks as he raises his eyes and sees her frowning "I feel comfortable like this."
That exasperates Selene, he is in pain and making her worried and is not being serious about it or what really is exasperating her it that she is worried about him. "Stand up and get in bed." She orders giving him some space.
He smiles at her but in his face it can be seen the pain "You are quite demanding at times…" Although she knew she shouldn't she can't avoid the smirk, Michael is not sure of hallucinating but he knows he saw it, he makes a last effort and stands up, he immediately after feels his head brutally pounding and the dizziness that its going to make him fall.
Selene doubts but before he begins to fall she puts her arm around his back and rests her hand in his hip, supporting him "Can you walk." she asks looking at him.
Michael looks at her eyes, after the kiss she became nicer with him, the nicer he suppose Selene can be, and that was a problem for him because she always had let very clear than between them was not going to pass anything, he had accepted that until the kiss ruined everything. Now every time he was close to her he had to hide his feelings from her. For a second he looks at her mouth but then turns his face. "Yeah, I can." Selene notes his attitude, when he was looking at her mouth she for a short moment wished to kiss him again, every time he was very close to her she remembered the damn kiss and although she tried to push it to the back of her mind she always finished thinking of it, maybe unconsciously she had been thinking about kissing him for the last months, she feels how Michael frees of her gasp roughly and walks to his bed. "I'm going to be fine." He says sitting in his bed and looking at her, he sees her confused maybe by his attitude but that was something he was not going to think about, not this night.
Selene nodes and leaves the room knowing he wanted privacy. She is beginning to feel frustrated by all this, she had noted that sometimes he was the one who put distance between them, something she thought she was comfortable with but for the emotions she feels when he does that… and was jealousy what she really felt? Or is she so confused that she is letting Brianna brainwash her? She shakes his head at that, she has mixed feelings for him but she is not interested in him, it was because it was Fionna who was with him, nothing more. She decides to watch her recordings of the laboratory to see if she finds anything important. Her 'emotional issues' as Fionna had called them was something she had learned to live with, but has to recognize she has come to hate. Her thoughts are interrupted when she sees something in the monitor, she returns it and sees that it's not the tiredness that it's playing with her mind. She knew it! At the same time her door is yanked open, she is going to reclaim Brianna for had done that but she sees the serious expression she has "You were right." Brianna says frowning.
"I know." Selene says turning the monitor and showing the video at Brianna.
Brianna is confused, where did she get that video? She was sure than the people in the vigilance room were revising those tapes, she ignores it by now. "What are we going to do?" She asks seeing the image, she knows what Selene is going to do and she can't let her do that alone.
Selene gets out her guns and puts inside the magazine full of silver bullets "You know it."
"I'm going with you…" She states, seeing the face of surprise of Selene she adds "Just wait here, I'll have everything ready, I'll be here in five minutes."
Selene doesn't know about it but decides to accept "Don't tell anyone…"
Of course she is not going to tell anyone, she knew if she said it to Gabriel he would have to tell to Marcus and he could be implied in that. "I'm not." She lies knowing there is just one person that can help them without rising suspisions.
At five minutes exactly Brianna hadn't come back so she is ready to go without her, when she is putting her guns in her holsters Brianna enters, "Let's go." Selene says putting her trench coat.
Brianna nodes and closes the door entering in the room "I found Sophie on the way, she sent Michael this" she shows several blood bags and some pills. Selene nodes and turns as Brianna passes by her side, she sees her putting everything over a little table. Brianna just for prevention takes the pills that 'Charles' had given Michael and puts them in her pocket, maybe vaguely of his surroundings he takes the ones that are not, she turns and goes to Selene room but before closing the door she looks back.
"He is going to be fine, don't worry." Selene says suspecting that words are more for herself than Brianna. Briana nodes. At see they are going to the other side of the house Selene stops her "Where are we going? We are going for Robert."
Brianna keeps walking, "I already took care of that." Selene frowns at that, but keeps walking. "No matter, if we have the reason or not lycans here are not going to like that two former Death Dealers tortured a lycan to get out information, so I told Joseph and he is going to help us, he now is waiting for us with Robert in the garage, let's go." Selene had been training Michael and others lycans with Joseph and she didn't suspected of him, she just hopes everything gets out well. Seeing the expression in Selene' face Brianna adds "Not everything solutions with violence."
"But this is not going to be one of these cases." Selene murmurs coldly, and sees in the face of Brianna that she already did her mind. "Tonight is the full moon." She adds only to remember Brianna, she hoped she is well armed, they are two vampires against one normal lycan and maybe against one of the stronger and powerful lycans in the house.
"When has that stopped us?" She asks as they enter the garage and sees them inside of a car, they approach and as Selene is entering she sees Sophie inside too, she looks at Fionna but enters anyway "I'm going to help too…" Sophie says at see Selene looking at her suspiciously.
Fionna shrugs when Selene looks at her, she didn't know Joseph was going to help her "Where are we going?" Robert asks turning.
1 Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez.
Inuyasha-rox: I'm glad you liked, and you are very kind but I think you are exaggerating ;) I'm not that good.
Please R&R.