Kailyn is sat up in her hospital bed, Selene had walked in to find her trying to escape earlier, she is pouting and looking at her mother who is looking right back at her, "Kai no matter how much you pout I'm not going to let you get up and walk about." Kailyn folds her arms as Selene finishes speaking, sure she can tell it's for her own health but damn it waiting around is so boring.
"But mom I'm bored," Kailyn whines and huffs as Selene just rolls her eyes at Kailyn's protest. Man mom is so uptight Kailyn grumbles to herself, Selene is always paranoid when Kailyn is injured because of her slower healing and always makes Kailyn sit and wait in bed to which the Vampyre always whines and eventually threatens until she gets her own way.
Selene gets up from her chair across the room and places herself on the edge of Kailyn's bed, she reaches up and brushes a strand of dyed hair from her daughters face "Baby you almost died and it really scared me could you please just behave for awhile until your better, I just got you back." Kailyn looks into her mother's green eyes and sees the ice being chipped away and her mother's warm eyes staring back at her, the daughter nods to her mother and smiles to her, it is nice to see her old mother back and knows it will be awhile until she is back to how she normally was when she was younger.
"I'll try but this has never been easy for me mom I'm an active kind of girl I can't sit around," sitting around will inevitably lead to questioning and she just isn't ready for the hundred and one questions her mother is bound to ask, she knows it is only a matter of time.
The mother continues to sit on the bed, she half expects Michael to walk in the door but she remembers he is off with Artemis and Drake learning to control his strength, she really wants to ask questions but she recalls the hissing and snarling she directed at Drake earlier and decides to leave it for a time when she daughters nerves weren't so on edge.
Three weeks, Three long weeks, Three fucking weeks she had been restrained to bed rest. Kailyn had been moved to her room after the first week and Selene visited her every day so did Michael, Artemis, Vaughn, Drake, Ashera, Lily and more importantly she had time to bond with her son.
Kailyn is sat against the head board with Chase sat next to her trying to read one of his books, Selene gave it to him the day before, Chase is adamant he can read it on his own so Kailyn and Selene leave him too it. Selene is sat with Michael on her daughters sofa on the opposite wall, they turn to face Kailyn when she sighs "I've had enough" Kailyn says simply as she looks at her mother, her eyes no longer green but vampyric blue it portrays her annoyance at the situation, "three freaking weeks I've behaved and I want to move around."
"Yeah twee weeks," Chase pipes up from his position beside his mother. Chase had bonded with Selene during the three weeks they had all been together and he loved his grandmother to bits, he had won her over easily with his cute behaviour.
Selene opens her mouth to speak but Kailyn cuts her off, Kailyn is looking at her son with a smile "yeah you tell Grandma Baby." Maybe if Chase can convince her she would be able to get up and move around.
Chase smiles and his grey eyes lock onto Selene's green eyes, "yeah Grandma twee weeks that's like this long," Chase holds his arms as wide as he can looking mystified by how long it is. Michael chuckles out how easily distracted Chase seems to get, he has gotten to know the child well over the past three weeks and is impressed with the level of control he has seeing as it is nearing the full moon. Michael has been taught all about Lycans behaviour during the full moon stage and he can see Chase is only slightly affected by the rays of the full moon, Kailyn on the other hand seems to be more affected and he silently contemplates if it is because of the Lycan bite she received when she was younger.
Selene stands up and walks over to the bed where Kailyn is propped up and leans over to pick Chase up, she is wary of Kailyn every time she is near Chase she had heard of mother Vampyres attacking other mothers just because they got too close, but so far Kailyn hasn't seemed too bothered and maybe that is because she is her daughter and knows she won't put Chase in any harm. "Well Chase you see your mother doesn't listen to orders carefully so this is for all the times she's been bad in the past," yes she really is that petty and is loving that Kailyn has to listen to her, she walks towards the door after Kailyn places a kiss to Chase's forehead, Michael follows closely behind her.
"You mother are Evil...Pure Evil," Kailyn's voice sounds after them and Selene doesn't need to turn around to see the pout that is adorning her daughters face.
Luc is pacing, he is worried about Erika she hadn't been seen by anyone since Marcus attacked. Marcus, the only father he really knows, had attacked and taken Erika with him as a way of escape but she wasn't back yet and Helen is worrying like crazy which puts him in a state of panic but then again Marcus knows Erika is close to Kailyn so he could be asking her where Kailyn is. Luc doubts that his father will like the answer to that. Luc walks over to his bed and flops down, he hadn't seen Kailyn in years and he misses the strange Vampyre.
"Luc?" a voices calls from the door, Luc turns to look as the doors opens to reveal Tynan a fellow death dealer that had been trained by Selene a few decades ago. Tynan is Nathaniel's son and was on Kailyn and Luc's team before Amelia split them up.
Luc smiles and approaches Tynan with arms open, the old friends embrace each other "Tynan my friend it's been a while how can I help you?" Luc asks as he pulls back but keeps his hands on the younger Vampyres shoulders.
Tynan grins at his old friends greeting but it quickly falls as he remembers Dmitri sent him for, "Dmitri has requested your presence in chamber apparently he is going to inform us that we are going scouting, he wants Selene's head on a platter," Tynan knows of Luc's relation to Selene and Kailyn. Luc drops his hands and walks briskly to the Elders chamber with the death dealer behind him, he can't believe that Dmitri wants to send untrained death dealers and trained death dealers to certain death as the full moon was only 2 nights away and older Lycans who can't change at will yet can change 3 days before and after the full moon.
Dmitri is stood with Curtis by the throne when Luc barges into the room, "are you mad?" Luc asks as he approaches his Elder, surely he is trying to rile the trainee's up no one in their true mind will send their only defence into deaths grasp.
"Ah here's our veteran now... surely you do not question my orders Luc because that would require punishment," Dmitri knows that getting Luc riled up is not a smart thing but if he is angry then he will be able to take it out on the Lycans. The elder knows that it is dangerous to send his death dealers out but he also knows that the Lycans won't be expecting it so hopefully they would be able to cull the curs, thin the herd a bit so he can get to the hybrid and the hybrids bitch and hopefully draw out the mysterious masked person. "You will be leaving at sunset and do not make me regret sending you Luc because my patience is wearing thin.
Luc clenches his jaw and turns and storms out of the room, he will have to get his special death dealer outfit out because he knows that he will be encountering Kailyn, Selene and Michael if not tonight then the other nights Dmitri will clearly be sending them out to hunt the Lycans.
A horrified scream fills the silence of the night in the Lycans den; Michael shots up in bed and looks around noticing he seems to be the only one who woke to the scream. He gets up and slowly walks to the door and opens it to see no one inhabiting to halls and is slightly spooked by how silent the halls are. The same horrified scream fills the halls again but this time louder. Selene shot up in bed recognising that scream, "oh no Kailyn" Selene scrambles off of the bed and past Michael who quickly follows her towards Kailyn's room. Selene will always remember that scream, she has heard it before and usually close to the full moon, her daughter always woke up screaming claiming she had seen 'her' die and the problem with that was she didn't know who 'her' was and Kailyn refused to say once she was calm.
Kailyn is huddling in the corner of her room when Selene and Michael rush in and they are closely followed by Drake and Ashera who are wearing the same look of concern but also pity. Selene kneels by Kailyn and hears her mumbling the same thing she did every time these screams haunt her ears, "I saw her die...always dying...she died so it's my fault...I killed her...love him but her father kills him" Kailyn rocks back and forth until Selene pulls her into her arms.
Michael's eyes are wide open as he looks at Kailyn, "Sonja" he murmurs and Kailyn's head shots up but her mantra continues, "You dreamt about Sonja?"
"She died...Saw her die," Kailyn replies as she looks away from Michael neither confirming or denying of who she had dreamt of, she never has before and she isn't going to start now, no-one knows who it is that haunts her dreams. Her existence relies on keeping that secret until it is time and it certainly isn't time.
Who do you think Kailyn was dreaming about and why would she be dreaming about her... well just wait and find out :P
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