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Watch Yourself

Chapter Five

Eve held Adam tight in her arms as they watched the sad scene in front of them.

Tanis was curled up in the armchair beside the fireplace with one of Erazebet's dresses clutched in a vise grip in his fingers, his cries and howls echoing throughout the manor. David stood over him, eyes blazing in anger, as he continued to yell at the historian. If the situation was different Eve would have found herself jumping her husband's bones since he looked even hotter angry. Unfortunately, it wasn't different.

Erazebet was still missing and captured by lycans. Andreas Tanis was still howling and crying like the world was ending. David was still standing over the aforementioned historian, yelling and screaming at him. On top of all of that, Adam and Eve's parents still hadn't returned to the manor.

It was disconcerting to see a millennia plus vampire behave in such a way. In fact it down right scared Eve. If this was Tanis proclaiming his love for Erazebet after she has been snatched away, then image how David or Eve would react if either of them were taken away from the other. As for her parents, they would avenge the other's death or fight until the other was reunited with them.

The thought of her parents comforted Eve. They would know what to do.

"If you weren't such a coward, Tanis, you would have been out there with us! You could have prevented the lycans from taking her!" David roared. He paced back and forth quickly in front of the fireplace, clearing one end to the other and back in a second each time. "You are weak, Tanis. You'll never be strong enough to protect anyone you love or care about. The only thing you will ever be able to do is protect yourself."

David gave the historian a sarcastic smile and leaned toward him until they were nose to nose. "Oh, that's right," he whispered softly, placating him. Then he roared, "You do that by fucking running away!" Tanis flinched away and whimpered.

Eve frowned at her husband but didn't try to stop him. It was best for all of them to let David rant and get everything off his chest. She turned away from them and walked into the family room. Gracefully she sat down on the sofa and turned the television on.

Adam settled onto her lap and placed his head on his sister's shoulder as she started to flip through the channels until finally settling on some news station. A news anchor came on the screen and started to report about lycan sightings in and around downtown Budapest and also near the Danube.

It still fascinated the young child how blasé the humans spoke about lycans and vampires. He had learned from Tanis that prior to the First Purge both clans had been hidden from existence for centuries. Adam also learned that their messes were cleaned up by an elite force of humans once known as the Cleaners who were led by a man by the name of Alexander Corvinus, an important ancestor of his.

The tone of the news anchor's voice caught Eve's attention from listening to David continue to yell at Tanis. There was a distinct undertone of fear in the human's voice as she spoke about the skirmish between a couple vampires and a pack of lycans that ensued the night before. She scoffed at the human in response. What reason did the humans have to fear them? Tanis had shown them that the humans had proved during the two Purges that they could take care of themselves from the monsters that had once only plagued them in their wasn't as if the vampire and lycan clans were actively hunting them in the first place. The war was between the clans, not the clans and the humans.

Eve was brought out of her musings by the sound of the front door slamming open and close. Moments later she heard the tell tale sound of one of her mother's Berettas being cocked and the unmistakable sharp intake of breath from her father that she only ever heard when Selene was going to do something he didn't agree with. Just as she was about to move back to the parlor, Eve lost her sight of the television in front of her only for it to be replaced by that of her father's in the next room.

Her mother was standing over Tanis with her gun raised to his head as he whimpered and cringed away from her. David stood a few feet away and looked on in shock. Through both her own ears and those of her father's, Eve listened as her mother spoke in her cold, demeaning way.

"Tanis. I suggest you stop before I am forced to shoot you."

The vision slipped away from her eyes as Tanis gave one final whimper before falling silent.

Eve stood from the sofa and moved into the sitting room to stand beside her husband. Her younger brother was still clutched in her arms, his dark hair mussed with eyelashes resting on the apples of his cheeks and his eyelids were a pale, lovely lavender as he slept. To add to his innocence his pale pink lips were open in a slight o.

Selene's cold mask broke and was replaced with a wide smile as she took in the sight of her two children. She holstered her pistol and held out her arms to receive her son and daughter. Eve returned her smile and wrapped an arm around her mother's waist as they shuffled Adam from one to the other. The boy latched on his mother as if she was a life preserver as he always did even when he was awake. It seemed to be an instinct that developed soon after his birth.

"I'm glad you're home, Mom," Eve whispered.

A traitor tear slipped down Selene's porcelain face. "I'm glad, too, sweetheart," she choked out.

A/N: Okay, so I've been, for lack of a better word, snooping around reading the reviews of the Underworld fanfics that I'm reading. There is one question that has continued to circulate: Is Erika still alive? If you think back to Evolution, it was stated that Marcus had slaughtered his entire coven, both in movie and novelization. That coven included Erika and everyone else that lived in Viktor's mansion, Ördögház. I thought that was clear, but apparently not. Hopefully that clears it all up.

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