Michael" pov

Whoa, why is the ceiling spinning? I groaned as the pain racked my body. And what's that wailing noise. Why does it sound like a baby crying? But more importantly, what the hell happened to me? I thought groggily as I tried to sit up. What was I doing before now, C'mon think. Thankfully I didn't have to think to long as before Eve landed by my side. "Dad are you alright, mom pushed you pretty hard back there." She said as she leaned down to help me up. Wait, does she mean Selene pushed me. I didn't have long to ponder on this because the wailing noise was once again piercing the air. "What is that noise?" I said out loud, searching for the source. "Oh that, the twins are crying. Well they were just born after all."

Those words riveted me to the ground. Memories snapping back into place as my jaw went slack and my eyes wide. I remember now, damn how could I have forgotten. How could I have forgotten that Selene was giving birth today?

Flashback

"You know I really wish you would push yourself like this." I complained for what must have been the thousandth time. But I really couldn't help it, not when she's nine months pregnant. This wasn't like with Eve, I didn't get the chance to panic at every little thing. I didn't get the chance to prepare for the fact that I was about to become a father. I should have had this experience before, this fear, this joy. But this was all new to us and that fact hurt more than I realized it would... for the both of us. Selene rolled her eyes for what must have been the thousandth time. "Yes I know Michael. And as I've told you before I am perfectly alright. Now stop being such a worry-wart and come help your pregnant wife." I know I was may be overreacting a bit but can you blame me. Even if she was just shuffling some boxes around, I still felt antsy.

I know how much Selene hates to not be doing something. She needs to be active, to have her hands doing something. However the pregnancy had left her with very few options. OK that was mostly me but only for the sake of the baby. "Alright fine, but after this I want you in bed and resting." She smiled and rolled her eyes again. "Yes sir. I hope you can be this strict when-" I looked up to see why she'd trailed only to see her staring at me with a blank face. "What?" I asked with an eyebrow raised. She slowly looked to the ground, a small puddle of water between, then back at me. "Honey I think my water just broke."

End of Flashback

Yes I remember now. Selene had gone into labour. I was right beside her, holding her hand and whispering sweet nothings to her. Then her face snapped to me, eyes glazed in pain and rage. "This is all your fault" She screamed, squeezing and crushing the bones in my hand. "Either get these things out of me right now or get the hell out of my sight." And with that she pulled me in close, sunk her nails into my chest, and then pushed me full force through the wall. Now ironically this was not the first time I've been thrown through a wall, but this one definitely hurt more. So that's why I now lay in rubble with a pounding headache. Once again the wailing cry sounded, shooting through me this time as I now knew what is was. "Get your ass in gear dad, moms waiting for you." Eve encouraged me with a smile on her face. Her words propelled me to my feet and I raced back to Selene's side. As soon as I entered the room I stopped cold. And not just my Legs, my brain, my breath, my heart, everything seems to just forget how to function. For there, not ten feet from me, was the single most incredible thing I've ever seen.

Selene was lying with propped up against pillows. Her hair was soaked in sweat and clung to her face, her breathing slow and even. But that's not what gripped my attention; it was the two squirming bundles in her arms. I moved forward slowly, unsure if I was walking or floating. I fell to my knees when I reached her side; she slid her eyes open and greeted me with a heaven sent smile. "Hey honey, glad to have you back" she chuckled and I just steered at her, not realizing I was crying. "I, um, you, that, what." Dammit my brain still wasn't working right; at least I made her laugh. "Listen dear I'm really sorry about throwing you through the wall, but I was going through childbirth and all." She apologized and that seemed to get my brain going again. "Hey if you need to throw me through a wall then by all means throw me. Besides I doubt it will be the last time you do." I chuckled softly as I kissed her forehead. "

"Well I am happy to report the delivery was a smashing success, both your boys and your wife a perfectly healthy." Olivia the coven's chief healer announced with a smile. "However there is one thing that I found, well... incredible." Both Selene and I looked at her, panicked a little by her words. Eve returned to her mother's side and gently gripped Selene's shoulders to calm her. She had grown so mature and beautiful in the past year. "What's incredible" Selene asked in a guarded voice. "Well you see since twins are born when a embryo splits completely instead of multiplying during its first replication. Now as for the twins, um." She paused and gestures at the now feeding newborns. Her body language clearly indicating she wanted to know their names.

"Oh the one on the left is Dante and the one on the right's name is Virgil." Eve announced before her mother and I had the chance, the pride in her voice thick enough to cut. She then realized what she'd done and looked away from Selene's raised eyebrows, muttering a quick sorry. "Ah Dante and Virgil, those are good names, strong names, prince's names. Now they will be about 95% identical in terms of the physical appearance. However on a genetic level they will be complete opposite, truly incredible." Olivia said with awe and I see Selene's face grow more and more anxious by the second. "Olivia could you please tell what this incredible thing is, like right now, before my wife decides to throw you through a wall." That snapped her back.

"Oh yes of course. Well as know these boys have an unparalleled lineage. Excluding their exceptionally powerful parents, their roots can be traced all the way back to the very first immortal, Alexander Corvinus." She said as she paced slowly. "Now you can call this destiny or chance or whatever else you wish to. Regardless it makes it no less unique. Now you Michael are a hybrid, but you are a lycan dominant hybrid. This is due to you being a lycan first before becoming a hybrid. However your daughter Eve, being born a pure hybrid has no dominant side." I nodded along to her reasoning.

"Now as it stands the same should have happened with your sons, but it didn't. I can't truly explain it because quite frankly I don't understand it. But what I can tell you is this." She stood straight infront of us and cleared her throat. "It would seem that your son Dante is a lycan dominant hybrid, whereas Virgil is a vampire dominant hybrid. Like I said,,, incredible." Selene and I looked at our sons, then each other, and then back to our sons. I guess Dante must have felt us staring because he instantly began to wail. And the cutest, funniest thing I've ever seen happened. He must have been upset that his brother had woken him with his crying because Virgil reached his little hand out and promptly slapped his brother across the face. Dante went silent almost immediately but the same couldn't be said for us. I laughed loudly as I scooped the boys out of their mother's reluctant arms. Feeling their tiny bodies shake from their protest of my fit of laughter. Selene stared at me with tears, love and pure joy in her eyes as I kissed the foreheads of each baby repeatedly. Chanting "I love you" with each peck. "Sleep tight my sons. I will make this world one in which you can live freely and without fear. That I swear.

A Month Later

Selene's pov

I awoke yet again to an empty bed; I sighed heavily and rolled my eyes. "This is becoming tiresome" I groaned as I got out of bed and headed to the twins room. Sure enough there he was, standing guard between their cribs. Watching every twitch they made, ready to tend to them the second they started crying. I felt nothing but pride seeing the way he acted so protective toward them. But I know the cause that drove him to stand here night after night. It was same cause that compelled him to check in on Eve almost as much as he did the baby's. A felling I knew as well and Hated just as much... Fear. After all we had not known eve for twelve years, her childhood stolen from us. Of course he would be terrified of losing the boys too. But this was getting ridiculous now. "Michael you're doing it again" I whispered softly as I came up behind him and wrapped my arms around his waist, resting my head on his shoulder blade. He said nothing as he continued to watch them sleep. "Michael they're perfectly safe in here. as if anyone in this coven would be stupid enough to come near them in the first place."

Still he was silent and I pouted at his unresponsiveness. "What are you thinking of that has you so afraid?" I said a little louder and finally felt his shoulders slump. "It's not that I'm afraid of something. It's what Alexander said to us that time." I'll admit that one stumped me a bit. Before I cloud ponder it further he swung me around in front of him so I faced the boys. He wrapped his arms around me and I just wanted to melt into his embrace but I could feel an important question coming. "When you confronted him he asked you something but you never truly answered him. I want to hear that answer now." I was racking my brain for important questions from that time but it was eluding me. "What question was that?" he was quiet for a long time before he spoke softly and slowly.

"Could you kill your own sons?"

That one question hit me harder than anything ever had before, worst than a battering ram to the face. It knocked the wind right out of me and brought the blood in my veins to a complete halt. The thought along made me violently ill and I wanted nothing more than to purge it from my mind.

"How could you even ask me that?" I shook as I answered.

"Could you?" He pressed.

"Of course not, not in a million years. I refuse to even so much as think It." My face went slack as realization hit me, so this is what he meant. No wonder I couldn't see it before, I wasn't a mother then. "Back then it was easy to call him a coward. For not killing Marcus and William and putting an end to all that bloodshed even though he was the only one who could. It was so easy to ridicule back then. But now, standing here watching our sons sleep so soundly. Knowing they could very well become monsters like Marcus and William someday. I would never be able to do it. Even if I knew I had to, even if the whole world be me to. I would never be able to." His words made me feel like an utter fool. I had spouted such words to him without the slightest clue as to the severity of them. I now understood him better, understood why he could never bring himself to do it. now that I stand where he surely once stood, gazing at my beautiful sons and he surely did his. I could truly say that I would rather let the world burn than kill them.

I turned in Michael's arms to kiss him. He had yet again opened my eyes, how he keeps doing that I have no idea. But I love him for it. "Thank you dear, for telling me this. I know that had I been in Alexander's position I would have done no different. Truly, thank you. Now do try to get some rest. Remember the family will be arriving tomorrow to celebrate the twin's birth." I kissed him on the cheek and headed back to our room. I turned to look at him one last time and he stood guard. He was probable going to keep this up for the foreseeable year. But know it didn't bother me, who knows I might even join him. But not tonight, tonight I needed my beauty sleep.

Besides their father was watching over them, I took comfort in knowing he would never allow anything to happen to them.

The End

Author's note: Sup my peeps, just another side story for ya. and please don't panic 'The End' at the end means the end of the side story. Please don't freak out. Anyway like always read and review.

P.S I heard that they've started filming the fifth in Underworld movie. Feel free to squeal, I know I did. :o