Disclaimer: see chapters 2 and 4

A/N: I made up a few figures during this chapter, and this one is a bit heavy on the Selene and Michael but I hope to have it even out a bit more in the next few chapters. Anyway, hope you like the chapter.

Chapter 8: Realizing True Feelings

Felicite took Serina's advice and waited to address her suspicions with Trevor. But instead of a few days, it was more like two weeks. Felicite had waited so long, because she was unsure how to bring it up. They had continued to grow closer over the time and had grown accustom to spending time in each other's room, just talking about anything from strategies for against lycans to their lives. It was just such an occasion, when they were together in Felicite's room, in which the opportunity opened itself for her to address her concerns with him.

"Did we find anything?" Trevor asked sitting next to her on her bed.

"Well, we know where they aren't," Felicite answered lying her head back on the pillow.

"And where is that?"

"With in a three mile radius of the subway hole they were in," she said. "Which is nothing considering we knew that the day we realized that they had left."

"Do you have any ideas where we might find them?"

"No, just like the last time you asked," she said, a bit annoyed he was asking her again.

"Sorry, just hoping you might have found one," ha said.

"Why, is it that you always ask me if I know?" she asked.

"Because, you're the head of informant relations?"

"That is nothing more than a title to keep me trusting you isn't it? But you want nothing more than what I know of Selene. What happens after that, do you and Marcus plan to kill me or just put me in the place where all the other young vampires go, servitude?" she asked. She was unsure what sparked the words she had wanted to speak for weeks but, once she said them, all the emotion and passion of the argument that had played over and over in her head, surfaced.

"Where is this coming from?"

"I've been wondering about this for a bit," she confessed. "I just… why did you take such an interest in me when I came?"

"I don't know, I just trusted you," he said.

"Why is it then that every chance you get, you bring up Selene, and where you think she may be, even though I tell you I don't know?" she countered.

"Because, you knew her best, if anyone will know where she might have gone, it would be you," he said, the logic was true, but he did not wish to continue to pester her, but Marcus requested it.

"Is Marcus the one who told you to watch me, to make sure I do nothing wrong? He doesn't trust me at all," she argued, barely able to hold back the tears.

"No, he trusts me and I trust you, so in turn he trusts you," he argued.

"Then why are you protecting me?" she asked tears beginning to fall down her cheeks.

"Because, I can't stand being away from you," he confessed, turning to face her. "I can't stand the idea of loosing you, ever since that first training session, I just couldn't keep away."

"What?" she asked confused.

"I have known you about a month, yet I can barely keep my feelings for you at bay. Every time I'm around you, I just want to be closer, I don't know why but I do," he explained.

"Me too," she confessed, crawling across the bed to where he leaned on it, and kissed him. She could not believe how could it felt. The kiss soon escalated as both gave into their feelings. It was not long before the bed became much more than a place to sit.

The meeting had dragged on for what seemed like hours, the lycans continued to argue over what Selene thought was ridiculous and petty. 'The hierarchy in this Army is weak and indecisive,' she thought for the thousandth time during this series of arguments. She made a mental note to talk to Michael and Ildiko about dealing with the army hierarchy. They would not listen to her; she was merely an informant against the vampires. Her stomach was also no help. It had been bothering her fora fewweeks or so but today was the worst. She felt like she was going to constantly through-up. When the stupid meeting was over she was going to the lycan doctor. She hadn't wanted to, but it was better than telling Michael. He would flip out and over react if he knew she felt ill. He would likely coup her up in the room and make her rest, in other words bore the sickness out of her. That would not do.

She leaned forward and rubbed her eyebrow and temple. But that was apparently a bad idea. A horrible wave of dizziness came over her, knocking her out. She slumped over in her chair, unconscious. Felora had been sitting next to her and was the first to realize Selene's sudden change in consciousness and called for someone to tell Michael about Selene and that she was being taken to Talon, the doctor. Another male picked up the unconscious Selene and walked out behind Felora while the male ordered to go get Michael ran out before them.

Michael came running down the hall to where Talon's make shift office was. But before he could barge in on his girl friends appointment, Felora stopped him. "Whoa boy, hold up, she'll be done in a minute," she said physically stopping him.

"What happened?" he asked out of breath.

"She passed out during our planning meeting," she explained. But before he could interrogate her further, Talon stepped out the door to talk to them both.

"What's wrong? Will she be okay?" Michael asked before the poor man could close the door. Michael could see Selene still passed out on the examination table.

"I fear I have both good and bad news," the middle aged doctor admitted.

"What is it?"

"Selene is about a month pregnant," Talon answered.

Michael stood in shock, unsure what to think.

"What is bad about that, I mean that was the bad news right?" Felora asked.

"No, the bad news is she is a Vampire carrying the first hybrid child since Sonya, who died by the way, so we never saw what the pregnancy did to her. Plus Sonja was pure born and Selene is not. I don't know how it is going to affect her but with an incident like this one this early, I fear it could kill her," he admitted.

"What?" Michael asked numbly.

"Talk it over with Selene, make a decision. I'll be here no matter what you decide. But for now, take her back to your room and allow her time to wake. Come and get me when she wakes though, I wish to talk to her." He opened the door to his office and allowed Michael to take her up to their room.

Selene woke up a little bit before sunrise, four hours after passing out in the meeting. She sat up, Michael beside her, in their room. "What happened," she asked her nausea much better.

"You passed out," he told her. She nodded with a sigh and a stretch.

"Well it was a nice nap," she joked.

"This isn't funny, Selene. Why didn't you tell me you still hadn't been feeling well?"

"I knew you would over react," Selene argued back, becoming defensive.

"Selene this is serious, this isn't just a bug, you're pregnant," Michael said genuinely scared.

"I was worried that you would say that," she said a look of hurt came over her face and she was about to cry. "You don't want the baby, do you?"

"Did you know?"

"Well I suspected", she admitted.

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"I was afraid of how you would react," she confessed, tears still threatening to fall down her cheeks. "Obviously my fears were not so unjustified."

"Oh Selene," he said taking her face in his hands and wiping the tears from her eyes. "It was just so sudden and soon," he said.

"I didn't expect this either. I didn't purposely get pregnant, but it's happened," she argued beginning to cry again.

"No Selene, I just mean I was just caught off guard," he comforted lovingly. "And then…" he paused. "I'll let Talon explain," he said, getting up and leaving the room.

Talon soon followed Michael into the room, ready to explain what he felt might happen if they decided to keep the baby. He pulled up a chair from along the near wall and sat facing the couple; Michael sat next Selene on the bed, holding her hand and caressing the top of it with his thumb for comfort. "Alright," he started, looking straight at Selene. "Now in the end, Selene it is your decision, but I want you to understand the risks. I fear that this pregnancy will take a horrible toll on your body."

"Why, I don't understand? Pregnancy always is a strain on the body," she stated.

"Selene, when we are turned, we have perhaps a twenty percent chance of surviving. Yet even if we survive our body is in a constant state of struggle with itself keeping us from the total potential power. The only time this doesn't happen is in a pure-born. I think this is why Sonja did better in her short-lived pregnancy then you have so far. The fact that your child is part lycan, it will attack your body and with this constant battle and the normal toll that a pregnancy takes, it could do some serious damage to you, permanent damage."

"What do you mean by damage?" Selene asked.

"During the pregnancy, I would say, just feeling ill, becoming very weak. But after wards I fear you may not get back to full strength, never be at top performance. The biggest fear I have though is that it may very well kill you Selene," Talon said. Selene stopped breathing for a moment, letting sink in all that he said. It made sense why Michael had been so freaked out over this whole thing.

"Is this a guarantee?" Michael asked before Selene could begin to breathe again.

"No, there is no guarantee that any of this would happen, but I wanted you to know it was possible. However, you are the 'daughter' of Viktor, the strongest Vampire and Michael and you are quit compatible, you could make it through unscathed," he comforted.

Selene looked at Michael for a clue at how he felt. He showed her nothing.

"I will give the two of you some time to talk it over," Talon said getting up and leaving them alone.

"Michael, what do you want?" Selene asked.

"I want you. I can't do this without you. But at the same time, when Talon first said you were pregnant I almost jumped for joy. But like he said Selene, it is your body, if you want this, if you are willing to try, I will support you 100 and if you don't I am there for you too," Michael answered.

"But do you want to have a baby?" she asked again, feeling unsatisfied with his previous answer.

"Selene, I want the baby," he answered straight.

She smiled, holding back tears. "I want it too," she said looking down at her stomach where the new life there they had been debating about was growing.Michael smiled and lifted her face to kiss her, both excited and scared about what they had just decided.

Felicite lay in the crock of Trevor's arm with her head on his shoulder, as he played absent mindedly with her hair. Both hosted smiles on their faces as they lay. "What is the deal with you and Marcus?" Felicite asked, breaking the silence.

"I'm his representation while in hibernation," he said formally, not truly focusing on her question.

"That isn't what I meant," she restated her question.

"I don't understand what you want to know?"

"I mean, why does he trust you so much? Usually you have a past with that kind of relationship?" she asked, sitting up and looking at her new lover.

Trevor's smile faded from his face. Felicite realized that she had struck a nerve, and was worried this may not be the best subject to bring up right now. "I'm sorry," she said.

"No, I guess I should explain why it is I'm so close to the Elder," he said.

"It's not a big deal, if you don't want to say," she said a little disappointed.

"I was best friends with Nicolae, Marcus' son," he said.

"What happened to him?" she asked.

"It was the first move the Vampires made in the war against the lycans. The moon was down, and we came forward with such might, there was no way we could loose. And yet there was one way, we could loose someone we did not want to loose. You see Nicolae was engaged to Sonja before all the Lucian nonsense occurred. So he was a bit revengeful when we went into battle. He took off straight after Lucian. This was just what that beast wanted. Lucian tried to escape through a cave, but later Viktor and I found Nicolae's body, mauled in a small side outlet. He had tried to stop the beast and he killed my best friend. But not only did I loss my best friend, I lost my father. He was killed by a century man for the lycans, but there I got my revenge, just after he killed him, I cut off the beasts head.

"But as if loosing both a friend and father in one night was not enough, I was who told Marcus about loosing his son almost two hundred years later when he was awakened. I still was not over his death or the death of my father. We leaned on each other to finally be able to get over the losses we had suffered that night. That same night, he practically adopted me and I willingly accepted the makeshift adoption," he admitted. It was painful to talk about.

"Thank you for telling me," Felicite said, tenderly kissing his lips and then his muscular, bare chest. He stroked her cheek and then ran his fingers gingerly through her hair as she lay back on his chest.

While Selene took a shower, Michael picked up his phone and dialed one of the few numbers he knew by heart. "Hello," a man said from the other end.

"Um," he responded caught off guard. "Is Felicite there?"

"Yeah, just a moment," the man answered.

"Licit," Trevor called softly as he opened the door to her room.

"What do you want now?" she asked playfully.

"Some guy is on your cell for you," he answered.

"Jealous?" she asked still being quit playful. "Why do you have my cell anyway?"

"Oh, you know, to check up on you for Marcus," he said now also being playful.

"Well, can I have it?" she asked.

"You can kiss me for it," he mandated.

"Really, I guess I have no choice," she said kissing him deeply and taking the cell from his relaxing hand. "Hello."

"Felicite?"

"Yes?"

"Who was the guy who answered your phone?"

"I'm sorry I can't hear you, with all the noise in my other ear, just a second," she answered putting the phone down on the bed. Trevor had been blowing in her ear and nipping at her neck playfully. "Trevor, I need to talk to this guy, he is one of the human informants I got a few daysago and he might have some good information." He gave her a nod and with a final kiss, left the room so she could talk. "Sorry Michael had to get rid of Trevor."

"Why was your trainer in your room with your cell?" he asked suspiciously.

"Because he was talking with me earlier and accidentally picked up my cell and was returning it to me when you called," she lied. It was partly true; he had accidentally picked up the cell.

"Well, I have news!" Michael said believing her lie without question.

"And what would that be?" she asked in response.

"Selene and I are having a baby!" he exclaimed.

"Oh, so she went to the doctor and was right. How great, congratulations, dad," she said excitedly.

"Wait, you knew?" he asked.

"Yeah, she called me crying, when she was suspicious. Then we decided it would be a good thing and I knew you would be thrilled so she was going to tell you once she got it confirmed. It just took a little while for her to have the time I guess," she answered.

"So she told you, how long ago?"

"I'd say about two weeks," she answered.

"Oh, well she got it confirmed because she passed out in a planning meeting," he said. The sound of a door opening and closing came to her ear through the phone. Then Selene's voice could be heard behind him.

"Let me speak with Cat, since I'm sure that is who you are on the phone with," she requested as she was tring her hair with a towel.

"Alright," he caved. He kissed her as he passed and handed her the phone.

"Well I hear you are officially going to be a mommy," Felicite said.

"Very funny Cat," she said.

"You more excited now?" she asked.

"A little, knowing he is with me," she answered.

"See I told you he would be happy," she said. "I'll come and visit in a few nights, using the idea that I got a tip as to a lycan arms dealer."

"Just be careful when you say those types of things," Selene cautioned.

"It's me, I'm always careful," she said. "Okay, see you soon."

"Bye, and be careful."

"Yes mommy," she said mockingly. Felicite got up and went to go find Trevor. She found in the shooting range. She walked up behind him as he reloaded, wrapping her arms around his shoulders and kissing his cold, pale neck.

He turned and kissed her lips. "What did you learn?"

"A possible lycan weapons dealer."

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