Demon-in-my-view13

Hello everyone. Well all I can say about this chapter is that something happens. But first...

Lady K2- Thank you. I tried to get some excitement into that one. Yeah, I haven't seen any fics yet where Michael had an alter ego. I tried to do something original. Yeah the tone of the song didn't really go with the story but the lyrics did. And I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Midnightqueen6- I was thinking of having Michael knock her unconscious as well but then I realized that ok this is Michael, he's knew to everything and is gonna need someone to help him get control. What better person than Selene?

Serendipity9- Lol, thank you. Yes...Yes I do rock. You almost had it but not really. Lol. Michael only has two personalities. One is the regular hybrid Michael. The one who cares deeply for Selene, makes friends with the lycans and all that jazz. The second is the evil one. He takes advantage of people and manipulates people by their emotions. He is the 'hybrid power'. But you'll obviously hear more about him later. So basically they are like yin and yang. Get it?

Undying Love

The next day Selene kept a close eye on Michael. She felt stupid for letting the hybrid get out of control. She was not going to let it happen again. She had one of her guns loaded with her regular silver bullets. The other was loaded with tranquilizers. One shot was enough to take down an elephant. Selene only hoped it was enough.

Ravyn and Aubrey didn't seem to have hard feelings against Michael. If they did, Selene couldn't sense it.

One day came when they were all in the common room. A bunch of lycans were milling restlessly about, doing random and miscellaneous activities. Some were calm enough to relax and chat with friends. But there was one ebbing question on everyone's mind. What about Marcus? As Michael passed by he heard two lycans talking about him. One was surprisingly optimistic; they said that Marcus had no clue where their hideout was and would not find it in enough time to fend off the lycan attack. Michael sighed; some lycans actually thought he already had a plan? The other lycan was quite pessimistic. He said that Marcus knew exactly where they were located and was just waiting to attack when they least expected it.

Aubrey walked up to Michael. "Hey Michael, you busy?"

"No"

"I think we need to go out and hunt Michael, we are running short on blood. And people are getting restless. And it will make them feel better if a hunting team comes back unharmed." Aubrey had worked that out in his head before coming to Michael.

Michael pondered this for a moment. Aubrey had a point. The pack was getting restless. It probably would make them feel better if someone came back unharmed. But Michael did not want to endanger any of his pack mates. "I don't want anyone getting hurt Aubrey. If we have to then fine but.... Can't we just get some of that plasma blood stuff?"

"Nah, the pack will know the difference." Aubrey said, looking down.

Michael was silent for a moment. It seemed there was no choice. "Ok but I'm going."

"No Michael you can't, what if you were to get injured...or killed even? We can't survive without you. You are the only reason this pack has stayed together as long as it has. You're the glue. They have faith in you, they won't live without you." Aubrey defended. "I'll have my best men go out."

"And if they were to get killed? Who else would help protect the pack?"

"Better them than you!"

"Look Aubrey, I won't risk the lives of the pack just so I can be safe. I can't explain it but it makes me feel like Victor. Having my men do my bidding for me, not caring if they died. I don't want to be like that. I want to understand what this pack is going through and I can't do that sitting on the sidelines. I'm sorry I just won't. I'm going and that's that!" Michael argued.

Aubrey looked like he was going to say something but he thought better of it. The thought of Michael taking command of this pack so quickly brought a smile to his face. "I'll assemble the team."

Michael looked all over the common room for Selene. She was nowhere. Neither was Ravyn. He walked into the mess hall. Not there either. But he did see Jared, who Michael figured was on serving duty. The lycans rotated jobs every week or so.

"Hey Jared!" Michael called to him.

"Oh hey Michael, Aubrey told me you were coming out to hunt with us?" Jared questioned happily. He too, also held no hard feelings against Michael's hybrid.

"Yeah, have you seen Selene recently?" Michael asked.

"Uhh yeah. She and Ravyn were in here about fifteen minutes ago."

"Did you catch where they said they were going?" Michael asked anxiously.

"Umm...Ravyn said something about introducing Selene to TV, why?"

"But I was just in the common room, they weren't there."

"Don't you have one in your room?" Jared wondered, filling up three styro-foam cups with some sort of liquid.

"Oh right! Thanks Jared! See ya later!" Michael said, jogging away.

"Wait Michael here!" Jared called after him.

Michael turned ran back. Jared gave him the three cups and found they had tops on them and were labeled. "What's this?" he asked.

"Blood. A positive for Ravyn, AB positive for Selene, and AB negative for you."

"Oh thank you Jared. Later!" Michael said, jogging away again.

Michael hadn't really gotten used to drinking blood yet. But his system wouldn't accept anything else. It would, but Michael would never feel full. So he just coped with blood. He had to admit that some part of him craved it. He knew which part...

Michael reached the door. He switched all the cups into his left hand as he knocked with his right. Though it was his room too, he thought he'd just be polite. He heard the TV going. He also heard Ravyn say, "I smell blood!" He heard her run over to the door.

"Password?" she yelled from the other side.

"Password? No one told me anything about a password!" Michael teased. Despite Ravyn's age she was still a kid inside. Even though he couldn't see her, Michael knew Selene was smiling slightly. He had developed a sixth sense for her.

"Sorry, can't enter without a password!" Ravyn yelled.

Michael sighed happily. "How's this for a password? I have blood and if you don't open the door then I get it all to myself! On second thought...Leave the door closed, I'm hungry!" he joked.

The door immediately opened and Ravyn grabbed Michael's black T- shirt and pulled him in with, not to mention, great strength. The room was dark except for the glow of the TV. Michael could see it had landed on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.' "Oh god..."

"We were channel surfing I swear!" Ravyn smiled.

Michael didn't have the chance to give Ravyn her cup. But he gently passed Selene hers even though there was a lid on it. Then he took his own and sipped some. He felt his system come to life as the crimson liquid made it's way down to his stomach.

They watched the show until it ended, Michael and Ravyn commenting on how unrealistic it was. Selene just sat and said her share in her head. She knew exactly what a TV was and how it worked and even watched it when she had time back at the coven. Ravyn was only introducing her to the cartoons and the lighter side of it, even though Selene knew it existed.

As the watched the credits, a knock came from the door. "Password?" Ravyn shouted without taking her eyes away from the glowing box.

"New England clam chowder!" Came a voice Michael recognized as Aubrey's.

"Hey how come you told him the password and not me?" He teased.

Ravyn ignored him. Instead she shouted, "Red or white!?" she shouted back.

"I can never remember that...red?" Aubrey took a lucky guess.

Ravyn opened the door and Aubrey was excited. So for a while Michael, Selene, Ravyn, and Aubrey watched TV making all sorts of cynical and not so cynical comments. After a while Jared opened the already ajar door.

"Aubrey, Michael, Ravyn what are you doing?" he asked with a confused look on his face.

Ravyn answered for all of them. "Resting?" she asked as if for confirmation. She looked at Michael and then to Aubrey, noting their relaxed positions and moods. Then she studied her own relaxed position. "Yes, yes most assuredly resting." She replied with a grin on her face.

"C'mon they're ready to go!" Jared said, making 'come on' gestures with his hands.

"Who?" Selene asked, looking to Michael.

"Oh damn, sorry Selene I completely forgot. Aubrey, Jared, Ravyn, some other lycans, and I are going out hunting." Michael told her.

"I'm coming too." Selene invited herself.

"No I want you to stay here, where you are safe." Michael argued.

Selene hated when they argued. She wished he could just accept what she wished. Then again, people who agreed right off the bat weren't to be trusted either. " So you would rather have me sit here, bored out of my mind instead of coming out to help where I am actually useful?" she questioned him.

"I'm not willing to risk your safety" Michael countered.

"Michael I'm coming and you can't stop me." She stared straight into his blue eyes. She felt hers beginning to turn their icy blue color.

Somewhere from deep inside Michael came the thought of 'Wanna bet?' But he just shook his head slightly. Apparently the beast inside him could speak. But Michael knew that when Selene had her mind made up that there was no stopping it. He walked past her and grabbed their trench coats. He through Selene's to her as he pulled his on. "Let's go"

Walking on the street, the group passed an old restaurant that Michael used to eat breakfast and sometimes dinner at everyday. A waitress came out with a bag of trash. She looked up at Michael and then looked back down. Michael ducked next to Aubrey just as the waitress looked back up again with wide eyes. When she didn't see who she thought she saw she shook her head and mumbled something about getting to old. Aubrey looked from him to the waitress. He shook his head and kept walking.

"What was that about?" Aubrey asked once they were safely out of view of the diner.

"I used to know her." Michael said staring blankly.

The group, consisting of Aubrey, Michael, Selene, Ravyn, Jared, Nikolas, and two lycans named Vincent and Frost, found themselves in an alley. No one was on the streets. Aubrey decided they should split up. Frost, Nikolas, Jared, and Vincent went to the south part of the city. Aubrey, Ravyn, Selene, and Michael took the north side and would meet the others in the central part of the city. The night went on long as they took people, bite them, put their drained blood in capsules, and moved on. Several times Michael thought he was going to throw up. But he held his stomach. Perhaps the only reason why he didn't was because of the hybrid inside of him. Aubrey told him "For every mortal that dies tonight, three more will take its place." That helped Michael a little bit.

Michael and the group found themselves walking down yet another alley. They had enough blood to feed almost half the pack. Michael only hoped that the others had done just as well. Aubrey was right. Mortals weren't his people anymore. The lycans were. Suddenly something went into his back at such a force that it made Michael stumble to the ground. He felt blood coming out of his back. He turned around and saw someone with a gun on top of a building. He looked to Aubrey who had already turned into his lycan form. He jumped up to the building, but the man shot and Aubrey came tumbling down. Suddenly vampires, by their scent, came out of the shadows.

Selene saw Michael change into his hybrid form. She got a feeling of dread in the pit of her stomach. Hopefully he would be able to maintain control. She whipped out her twin Beretta's. Luckily she remembered to change the rounds before they left. They were both filled with UV bullets. She fired one single shot at the vampire on the top of the building. The vampire on top the building saw it almost in slow motion. Selene, the traitor to his kind, fired a bullet at him. As it got closer he could see it was glowing in a bluish color. He crossed his eyes trying to keep his eyes on it, as it got closer. It hit him between the eyes. He was dead before the bullet even took its affect. His corpse burned from the inside as he fell to the street.

Meanwhile, Michael broke one vampires neck and jumped on the back of another one. To anyone else the hunting group would look out numbered matched with the vampires. But just him and Aubrey alone was enough power to take out half of them. He heard Selene fire her gun. He looked up momentarily and saw the vampire on top of the building fall twenty stories and hit the ground. He was snapped back to attention as he got punched in the jaw. Any normal human would have been knocked unconscious by such a blow but he just backhanded the vampire with extreme force, breaking its neck in the process. Suddenly Selene appeared in front of him. She pulled the trigger on her gun. A UV bullet shot past Michaels head and hit a vampire behind him. He mouthed a 'thank you' to her and turned to help Aubrey who was struggling with three vampires.

Selene was shooting at some vampires that were cornering Ravyn when she got pounded in the back of the head with immense force. She fell to her knees. Even though she remained conscious, Selene's vision went black and she couldn't see. She felt a vampire jump on her back and she blindly shot. The vampire slid off. Her vision, yet cloudy, came back to her. Her head was throbbing with sharp pain.

Michael looked happily at the massacre of vampires around him. He looked in Selene's direction. He saw her get hit in the head and fall. He ran over to the vampire. The male vampire was just about to bit her, but Michael sank his teeth into it first. He got a rush when the vampire's delicious blood entered his system. The vampire looked up in surprise. Michael saw Selene raise her gun. She shot blindly and the bullet hit him in the chest.

Michael raised his head and gasped in pain. He snapped the vampire's neck and the vampire fell off. Michael touched his chest. The bullet almost ripped through his lung.

Selene got to her feet and looked around. "Michael?" she asked. "Michael" she asked again, almost as if he wasn't even there. Suddenly she sank to her knees.

Michael rushed over and caught Selene before she completely hit the ground. All the attacking vampires were dead, and they had the blood needed, but this was the price. Deep down in his gut Michael knew something like this was going to happen and he cursed himself for giving in so easily and letting her come.

Michael slipped his arm behind Selene's knees. With one arm around her back, he picked her up. He looked around to the lycans around him, the other Jared, Vincent, Nikolas, and Frost having tracked them down and standing there wide eyed.

He sighed. He needed to take care of Selene and the pack, but he wasn't sure which was more important at the moment. He shook his head. "Collect the blood from the fallen vampires, then lets head back. There's been enough of a massacre for one night."

The group took the back alleys to the den. A group of people wearing all black and covered in blood, holding tons of capsules, beakers, cups, bowls, and buckets full of a dark red liquid would look pretty suspicious. "All it takes is one mortal screaming to blow a hole operation." Aubrey had told Michael. Michael had been in a sort of daze ever since the left that one alley. Aubrey saw him continuously looking down at Selene, making sure she was still breathing and all that jazz. That just made Aubrey put his arm around Ravyn and bring her close to him. He would probably break down him he had to carry her unconscious form home after a hunt like that. He didn't know how Michael did it all the time. Like when Michael hurt Selene that one day. Aubrey would have killed himself if he had ever let himself hurt anyone he loved as much as he loved Ravyn. But he just shuddered and kept walking, bringing Ravyn's questioning eyes up to him. She mouthed the words, 'Are you alright' to him. He just smiled and looked on, with his cold, distant eyes.

When back at the den, Michael bid everyone a good night and took Selene up to their room. He laid her on the bed gently. He couldn't go to sleep so he decided to pick up all the roses still scattered everywhere. Most of them were wilting and about to die except for a few. Michael put them in a vase of water. One of them he noticed, was the one Selene had picked up when they first came into the room. Her scent, mixed with that of the rose was absolutely intoxicating.

After he picked up all the roses, Michael decided it was time for a shower. He went quickly so that when Selene awoke he would be there. He finished up in a hurry and got dressed quickly, dark blue jeans, black combat boots and no shirt. Michael didn't see the need for one. If he was going to leave the room he would simply put one on.

Michael walked over to the bed. He went in a position that was a mix of sitting and lying down. Selene shifted her position so that her head was resting on his bruised abdomen. He didn't mind though.

He kept watch over Selene for the rest of the night and on until about noon. Soon she started to take in the right amount of breath necessary for a vampire. Then he saw her eyes flutter open.

Selene opened her eyes. She remembered last night. She remembered being knocked unconscious. Then she had gained some of her consciousness back and remembered being carried through the streets in Michael's arms. How warm they felt on her cold skin. Then it skipped to when she moved herself in a different position and she could feel him breathing, his abdomen going up and down. Carefully collecting her thoughts Selene realized she had her head on Michael's abs. She got up quickly.

"Well good afternoon to you too." She heard him say.

She turned back to him, searching for words. They still had never talked about their kiss. Oh well, they'd have to do that later...right now Selene had to many questions on her mind...

"Selene are you sure this is a good idea?" Michael asked.

"Michael if you're going to learn how to keep control then you need practice in battle. And since your alter ego likes to come after me I can't see any better idea." Selene replied.

It was the day after she woke up from being unconscious. She needed to teach Michael how to keep control by battling him. So far it was obvious that his alter ego was triggered by physical pain.

Michael was surprised at how calm Selene was. He tried to take her example and feel calm himself but he couldn't help but worry about her safety. He looked at the scar his other self left on her cheek. Michael felt himself shudder. Though his friends and Selene forgave him and as much as he'd like to think better of the situation, he knew better. Things would never be the same between him and them again...