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Watch Yourself

Chapter Seven

Selene studied Eve and David when they returned. She took in their disheveled appearances, mussed hair and wrinkled clothes with twigs and leaves stuck to them. It was obvious as to what took them so long in the forest.

"Did you find anything?" she asked them.

Eve shook her head. "No, not really. There was a trail but it stopped once we reached the road. We think that the lycans had a car waiting."

Selene nodded. That seemed most likely as to what might have happened. "Your father and I found something on the security cameras that you should see." Eve nodded her assent and watched as her mother walked up the staircase and out of sight.

The young hybrid turned to her husband and gave him a grim smile before pulling him to the armory behind her.

"What do you think they found?"

"I don't know, Eve. It could be anything," David replied as he opened the door to the armory, holding it open for her to pass.

Eve stepped into the vast room with David hot on her heels and walked to the very back until she reached her father where he sat in front of one of the monitors. She leaned down and gave him a swift kiss on the cheek. "Hi, Dad. Mom said you found something?"

Michael leaned back and said a quick hello back to his daughter. "Yeah, we did. Let's just wait for her to come back, okay?" Eve nodded and pushed David to sit in a chair before taking perch on his lap. David smiled and laughed, wrapping his arms around her. They looked carefree and happy, the way he always wanted to see his daughter.

And hopefully she would stay like that in years to come.

A few minutes passed as they sat there and Selene still hadn't returned. Michael was becoming concerned; she said it would only take a few minutes and she would be back. Ten minutes more passed and Michael stood abruptly, making Eve and David jump and stare up at him.

He gave them a tight smile before turning and walking out of the armory.

Eve turned to look at David and he shrugged in response. A moment later a single shot was fired somewhere within the manor and screams echoed through the silent halls. Adam, Eve, and David all tipped their heads up and listened as the screams got closer and closer.

"Eve, what's going on?" Adam whispered. Eve slowly shook her head and stared into his scared dark brown eyes. She didn't know what was going on but hopefully it was nothing bad.

A moment later their father walked back into the armory, his head turned to look back over his shoulder. "Selene, don't kill him."

"I won't, Michael, as long as he cooperates."

Adam, Eve, and David stared in shocked awe as Selene stalked into the armory, dragging a weeping Tanis behind her. She had dug her fingers deep into the flesh of his shoulder and his immortal blood flowed free from the wound, soaking his clothes and leaving behind a bloody trail that someone would have to clean up later.

Tanis gave one last pitiful cry of pain as Selene curled her fingers into his wound before releasing him. "Pull yourself together, Tanis," Selene told him before sweeping her son up in her arms and sitting down in the seat he had previously occupied.

There was silence aside from the sounds of Selene cooing at her young son and making him laugh for several moments before David was brave enough to break the tension.

"What happened?"

Michael simply shook his head and started to type away at the keyboard in front of him. Selene pressed a kiss into her son's hair and looked up at her son-in-law. "Nothing that wasn't going to happen eventually."

"She almost ripped Tanis' head from his shoulders," Michael said, never taking his off the screens. David nodded in understanding, resting his chin on Eve's shoulder.

A click of the mouse later and the picture of the man was pulled up on the monitors. Eve and David leaned in closer to look at the man. Neither recognized him.

Eve glanced at her parents before looking back at the face of the human. "Who is he?"

"We don't know," said Selene. "He stood at the edge of the tree line as David and Erazebet fought the lycans, watching."

"When I turned after Erazebet screamed I didn't see him standing there," David told them.

Michael nodded. "He walked off into the forest just before they took her."

Selene, Michael, Eve, and David then started to discuss how they would attempt to track the mystery man down and figure out what his connection was to the lycans who took Erazebet. But before they could come up with a solid plan of action, Tanis spoke up.

"I know who and exactly what he is."

The four of them turned to look down at the old historian who still sat on the floor of the armory in a pool of his own blood.

"Do you remember when I first came here? When you brought me to Alvóház for the first time?" he asked, directing the second question to Michael. "Remember how I told you about how I was chased out of London and into Budapest by a pack of filthy lycans?"

Michael nodded; he could see where this was going. He remembered that night, the night that Eve and David didn't return until the next morning. Now that he thought about it, the couple still didn't exactly tell them what had happened to them. But then again, maybe he didn't want to know.

But he did remember when he first saw Tanis.

Michael had just stolen some blood from the local hospital when he had bumped into the historian he had thought to be long dead on his way to his car.

It had been raining and Tanis had been heavily soaked, like he had been out in the rain already for several hours. The vampire had had a scared, pleading expression on his face that mingled with relief once he realized who he had literally run into. But Tanis barely had a moment to relax before the lycans caught up to him. He had stood frozen in fright, barely noticing at the time that Michael had shoved the cooler of blood into his arms and the sweatshirt he was wearing to transform into his hybrid form to fight off the lycans.

After the squabble, Michael brought Tanis back to the manor and the rest is history…

Tanis looked back up to the image of the man. "His name is Dominic…and he's a lycan. To be more precise, he's the leader of the pack of lycans who chased me across Europe."

See, I told you the next chapter would be up much quickly than last time :) And now you know who that mysterious man we saw last chapter is and we're going to go in-depth on why Tanis was forced back into Hungary (as we first saw in my Eve/David one-shot, Bite to Break Skin) after he left and never looked back. But next chapter we're going to see what Erazebet is going through.