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Watch Yourself

Chapter Twenty-One

Selene hefted the crossbow in her arms and aimed between the bars. Her gaze never left the monstrous form of the lycan in the small cell.

It was four hours before sunrise and she, Michael, Eve, David, Tanis and Erazebet were standing around the cage. Eve had left her parents to watch their prisoner for a few hours to shower and change out of her bloodied clothes. When she had returned, she had brought David, Erazebet and Tanis with her along with a few weapons.

In the time that she had been gone there had been no change.

Dominic was still the gruesome beast that they had trapped in the cage. He had spent those few hours, growling, watching them with his dark cobalt blue eyes and occasionally slamming his lycanthropic body against the bars of his prison. The beast never flinched when his cursed flesh touched the silver.

"So, how are we going to do this?" Tanis questioned. "Are we going to perhaps take turns torturing him until he dies?" He sounded excited at the prospect of torturing the beast.

Erazebet shifted forward at his words beside him and hissed softly, fangs bared as she glared into the silver cell. "Yes, that sounds like the perfect plan."

Selene shook her head, electric blue eyes focused on the monstrous beast. "No," she said, raising her crossbow to her shoulder and pulling the trigger. The beast reared back and let out a roar, roughly throwing his body against the bars of the cell, as the silver arrowhead struck his shoulder. "I want to question him before we kill him. I want to know exactly what it is that he wanted with Eve." Unflinchingly, she raised the crossbow and pulled back on the trigger again, placing another bolt in its chest less than two inches away from the first one.

Interrogating lycans was something she hadn't done in decades. In recent years pumping hot silver laced rounds into the filthy beasts with the intent to kill rather than question had become first instinct considering the rapid change the world and her life had undergone. But nonetheless, interrogation was something she had perfected into an art during her six centuries as a Death Dealer and it was something she was going to enjoy doing after all of the turmoil the beast had caused.

Stony faced, Selene handed the crossbow to David in exchange for the pistol in his hands. She ejected the clip and checked that the rounds were solid silver before firing two off into the beast's chest. It roared in pain and slammed its heavy body against the bars over and over again, mindlessly snapping its massive jaws at them. Behind her Tanis flinched and jumped, but unperturbed she fired off three more rounds.

Her gaze narrowed as she eyed the still fully transformed lycan. "Tanis." The historian stepped forward, yellow eyes also tracking the beast. "How much more silver do I have to put in him until he turns human again?"

He glanced up at the moon and nervously ran his tongue over his fangs. "I don't know, Selene. I usually didn't stick around once he transformed under the full moon and people started shooting." Tanis leaned toward the cage to get a better look only to jump back with a yelp when the beast snapped its jaws in between the bars dangerously close to his face. "You should just kill him."

She frowned and proceeded to empty the clip in the beast. A few minutes passed as it thrashed against the cage and let out a terrible animalistic roar that slowly turned human accompanied by the sound of bones cracking and breaking as they watched the lycan shift back into a man. A dark chuckle came from him as he leered at them from between the bars.

"Hello, pet," Dominic greeted Erazebet, a dark glint in his eyes. "I was going to pay you another visit before I sent Tryn, but your friends came and took you away." His gaze roved over the other faces, lingering on the Death Dealer's daughter, before focusing on the Death Dealer herself. "Thank you for that by the way. I never would have found you and your precious daughter otherwise."

Selene gave a low hiss that was echoed by David and Eve as a menacing growl rumbled from Michael. She was going to enjoy ending the lycan's life.

"Excuse me a moment." The irises of Dominic's eyes turned pitch black before shifting to cobalt blue as he threw his head back and, with an inhuman moan, pushed the rounds Selene had fired from his body. The flesh where the bullets had pierced him smoked as the silver forced its way out. "That's better," he groaned, pulling the two bolts from his shoulder.

Dominic smirked before focusing again on the little vampire. He eyed her hungrily, liking the way her tits were spilling out of the top of her dress. The memory of fucking her tight cunt made his cock stir and he decided that once he got what he wanted he was going to punish her for leaving without his permission.

"When I get out of here, pet, I'm going to enjoy destroying that cunt of yours," he leered at her, grasping his hard dick in his hand and stroking.

An enraged scream pierced the night air as the little vampire leaped at the cage, but Tanis and the male Death Dealer caught her by the arms and held her back. "You bastard! You fucking bastard!" she snarled. Laughter clawed its way out of his throat, but turned into a roar of pain as a crossbow bolt pierced the wrist of the hand holding his cock, trapping it to his thigh.

Selene pulled back on the trigger and planted another bolt in the shoulder of that same arm, forcing another scream of pain from between his lips.

"Get her out of here!" Michael yelled. David and Tanis dragged Erazebet back through the trees in the direction of the manor and out of sight as she continued to struggle and scream.

The lycan made to pull the bolts out but before he got the chance, Selene had already put another one in him, trapping the second hand to his chest. He roared in pain and slammed his body against the bars of the cell in rage, making his skin smoke and burn at the contact.

Eve crossed her arms and stared dispassionately at the lycan, unimpressed by what she had just witnessed. "Tanis was right, Mom. You should kill him and get it over with."

"Selene…" Michael eyed his lover, noting the dark look in her blue eyes. He blinked and watched as the familiar blue faded to ice white and knew that her anger had reached its boiling point.

Her frown twisted into a scowl, showcasing the long white fangs in her mouth. Without warning, she lifted the crossbow again and put yet another silver-headed bolt in the lycan's kneecap, forcing him down to the ground.

"Why were you hunting for my daughter?" Selene questioned, her voice carrying an undertone of menacing darkness that made Eve pause and glance at her mother with mild alarm.

The lycan glared up at her. "Go fuck yourself, you bitch," he spit out.

Her scowl deepened at his response and she put a bolt in his other kneecap. He screamed in pain and attempted to reach out and pull the bolts from his knees but failed. "Why were you hunting my daughter?" she repeated.

Michael stepped forward, the iris and sclera of his eyes pitch black. "Answer her," he grounded out, sensing as Eve moved closer to him and Selene until her shoulder was pressed against his.

Sensing that there was nothing left to do, that there would be no escape as he had originally thought, Dominic accepted his fate. His cobalt eyes settled on the daughter of the Death Dealer and the descendent of Corvinus where she stood between them. "I had plans, plans to take over the world. And I was going to use her to do it. Use her like I did with that little vampire and force her to bear my child. And then I'd kill her, bury her with the two of you, that other Death Dealer, and that fucking bastard Tanis."

A scream clawed its way out of his throat as hot silver was pumped into his stomach. Blood spilled from his mouth as he glared up at the girl, the gun in her hand still smoking, her strange two colored hybrid eyes staring at him with a rage that rivaled the look that her mother was giving him. He gave her a bloody smile. "There are others out there who want the same thing. They'll come for you just like I did."

Eve glared down at the lycan. "Then their lives are fated to end like yours," she told him before putting a round between his eyes.

Her shoulders sagged in relief as she holstered her pistol. Finally, it was over. Slim arms came up to wrap around her and she tightly clung to her mother as her father pulled them both into his embrace. After some time her dad pulled away, but her mom held tight and Eve buried her head deeper into the crook of her neck.

Michael met Selene's eyes. "I'm going to take care of this," he said, gesturing to the cage and the dead lycan inside. She nodded before squeezing Eve tight to her chest once and pulling her through the trees back to the manor.

She thought back to the lycan's last words before Eve killed him. It wasn't surprising. It was only a matter of time before someone tried to take her children away from her for some nefarious plan or another like Lane had all those years ago. But as Eve had said, anyone who came for them would be looking into the face of death. She would make sure of it.

As the manor came into view and they spotted David with Adam on his hip waiting for them, Selene pressed a kiss to her daughter's temple, breathing in the soft scent of her skin, reassuring them both that it was going to be okay.

The future looked uncertain, but as long as she had her family by her side, they would overcome any obstacle put in front of them.

Thank you for sticking with me for these past two and a half years, lovelies. I'm sorry that it took me so long to finish this story, but I had developed a major case of writer's block and I got sucked into the awesomeness that is the TV show Arrow and started to write for that fandom. But nonetheless, I love you all and thank you for reading this story all the way through whether this is the first time you've stumbled upon it or have been silently following since the very beginning.

Maybe after the next movie I'll revisit this fandom :)

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