Summary: This is my version of a sequel

Summary: This is my version of a sequel. It takes place one month after the movie ended. Michael is now the leader of the Lycan's and Selene is working closely, albeit, coldly with them to find some sort of balance between the Vampires and Lycans. One evening, during one of the many trivial battles these two species rage, both the hybrid and vampire are injured and stumbled upon by a young girl with quite a past. The girl unwittingly becomes the key in restoring some sort of order to the underworld, and in doing so aids in the growing relationship between Michael and Selene and helps restore some humanity to those who have lost it. The story is not about her entirely, but she plays a large role.

Authors note: Al lright, since seeing this movie I have been plagued by plot bunnies who threatened me within an inch of my life till I finally wrote this story. So if it sucks, blame the bunnies! This will be my first and probably last Underworld fic. It is; however, quite a long tale, one I hope will be full of intrigue, mystery, and, of course, romance. I mean what's a good story without romance right? But I do promise to go easy on that stuff. The story is rated PG-13 with fade to black sex scenes. I apologize for my sorry depiction of the action scenes. I'm not at all good at getting a hand on those things, but I gave it my best shot so bare with me. I will say that I have a pretty good leap on this story with a good third of it already written and clear cut path of it's future so I urge you to stick around and tell me what you think. Thanks and enjoy!

Edit: I am reformatting since the updates on ff.n sort of messed up my improve format. Will look much better now. ;)

Disclaimer: I am not now, nor will ever make money off this story. All (except my OC's) are property of Wiseman and crew.

Underworld: My Immortal

By: Lady K

Chapter one: Chance Encounters – Fate Intervenes

She sat perched above the city, reveling in the rain as it beat upon her forehead. Somewhere within the dark reaches of her mind she knew she should be cold, but vampires were always cold. She had grown quite numb in her time as an immortal. Opening her eyes Selene looked down upon the lights. It never failed to amaze her just how bright the night could be in a city of lights. She was a creature of the night yes, but she had all but forgotten just what it felt like to be in utter darkness, but all that had changed. This time she had had her fair share of darkness, the kind that comes from within and without. The last month had been spent hiding in the never-ending shadows of the subway system, tunnels, and sewers. Not as glamorous as her life had once been, but she cared little. She had made her choice and she would live or die by it.

Shaking her thoughts away Selene focused on the task at hand. There were four vampires below her; death dealers like she had once been, but they were not seeking lycans. This time they were looking for her. She looked to the left to the alley where she knew Michael and his lycans were waiting. Taking a deep breath she walked to the lip of the roof overlooking the lycan's. Casually, as she had done so many times before, she stepped off the edge and plummeted the hundred or so feet to the ground, landing right in front of Michael. "Nice." He smiled just a bit. She felt something flutter, but it was so faint she barely noticed it.

"They're a block away. 3 minutes."

He nodded. "Right then. Let's make this quick. Try not to hit anyone else." He hated this type of warfare. These trivial little battles in which all too much blood was spilled and nothing was accomplished. He despised the fact that he couldn't come up with a better plan than these mere assaults upon the vampire's numbers. He knew they would never win this way. They didn't have the numbers, or the strength, and both were diminishing every day. Yet he hadn't been able to come up with a better solution. The lycan's were restless, and he could do nothing but placate them

"They're coming." Selene whispered and gave the signal to raise their weapons. Three...two...one "Now!" Letting instinct take over she opened fire on what were once her soldiers. The light blue bullets punctured the breast of the young man in front. His body bounced backwards as he fell, suffocating from the unleashed synthetic sun. She whirled behind a dumpster as bullets came at her from the right, but they soon ended as Michael came from behind and shot the immortal in the head. She saw, as she always did, the wince just before Michael pulled the trigger, and the momentary look of anguish that crossed his face. He was a doctor's intern. Killing people was not a part of his nature, despite his recent changes he had managed to stay the same at the core.

It was in that moment that the enemy retaliated. A dozen death dealers dropped from the sky to swamp the lycan's. It happened in a flash. Selene unloaded the rest of her clips at the intruders, but it was of little damage. They were moving to quickly, for she had been trained to shoot lycan's, not her own kind. She dropped back down to reload when she heard the howl of the werewolf. She knew that Michael's cohorts had changed and would attempt to rip the vampire's throat. She also knew that they would not succeed. She looked to Michael and he seemed to read her mind.

"Enough!" He hollered and hoped that they would obey. With growling protests the lycan's hurtled the vampires and scrambled up the buildings. Once sure they were safely out of sight he turned to Selene who was rapidly firing at two vampires who were approaching her awfully fast. He briefly noticed that her bullets were having no affect, but the anger inside him at seeing her in danger seared. In moments he had transformed into the hybrid. In a flash he was in front of her, and slashed the face of both vampires. They moved to get behind him. They were quick, but he was quicker. Sliding behind them he grabbed the leg of each and slammed their faces into the ground. No longer in the way of his view he realized in an instant his mistake. He had forgotten the other death dealers and in horror watched as 4 of them unloaded silver bullet after silver bullet. Allergic reaction or not the shear impact of it all knocked him to the ground. He could hear Selene scream and then watched as the leader raised his gun. Moving in spite of his wounds he slammed the captain with everything he had in him, then recovered and grabbed Selene all in the same instant. Without stopping he bolted. He ran as fast as he ever had and used every ounce of his genetic power to propel him through the dark alleyways. When he was about to fall over he stopped and set Selene against the wall.

"Selene?" he touched her face gently.

"Hmmm?" She moaned and tried to open her eyes. Even the faint glow of the street lamps hurt them. Grimacing she placed her hand on her stomach. "I've lost a bit of blood I'm afraid."

"That's okay. We'll get some more." His voice faltered.

She peered at his head and chest. "You have more bullets in you than an armory."

He slumped against the wall next to her and placed his hand in hers as he began the change. It was long and slow with so many bullets to regenerate, and it was painful. He began to growl and moan in pain, but the light squeeze of Selene's hand calmed him. When it was over he was still bleeding from some of the wounds. "You weren't kidding." He rasped. "I think...I need to...just wait..." And his head dropped to Selene's shoulder. She thought momentarily that she should probably get them out of there, but then it all went black.

- - -

Lily absently rubbed the black jewel of her sliver necklace as she whipped the bar down. She liked the feel of it across her fingertips. A pitch- black stone carved loosely in the shape of a heart and surrounded by an intricate weave of sterling silver hung just below her throat from a silver chain. On the chain itself, surrounding each side of the pendent, were two small rings of sterling engraved with strange symbols. She could almost feel an energy coming from the stone.

"'Nite Lily!" Odin the night manager called from behind. He was a large man, built with arms the size of sledgehammers, and skin as black as night. He had done his name justice by shaving his head and keeping a nice small goatee around his mouth, but it was his attitude that was the clincher for he had an ego the size of the moon.

"Hey I thought you were supposed to close tonight." She knew it was pointless, but she enjoyed baiting him either way.

Odin grinned, his teeth like a bright light surrounding his shadowy face. "Sorry Lil, but the girls require the Odin all-father's time. You know how it is." He winked.

"You owe me man, and don't think I won't make you pay up."

"You know I'd do anything you'd like me to darling. Just tell me when and where." He flashed a naughty grin.

Lily laughed. "Not on your life bub. Now get out of here before your ego swells so big you can't fit out the door."

"Low blow Lils, low blow." He threw on his coat, "Have a good night." And shut the door.

Lily sighed. She had about an hour of cleaning left, but no matter. Now that she was alone, she could turn the music up loud and sing as much as she wanted.
An hour and half later Lily was locking the doors and starting the short walk home. She glanced at her watch. "Hm...it must have taken be a bit longer to clean tonight. I must be tired." She smiled. At least the rain had kept the temperature mild. She walked silently, lost in her thoughts. She didn't notice that she was again toying with the pendent about her neck. She might have just walked right past her building if the flash of red hadn't had caught her eye. Turning she glanced down the alley next to her building and nearly gasped. There were two people, slouched against the wall and dripping blood.

Not thinking Lily dropped her bag and kneeled beside them. She felt for a pulse and felt a stirring of energy, but to say it was a pulse would be incorrect. She looked the man over; slightly moving his bangs to revel a head wound still slightly oozing. She ran her hands down his bear chest to see the bullet holes. "Jesus." Looking next to him she spied the leaking stomach of the women. Quickly taking off her sweatshirt she pushed them against the wounds. The woman was bleeding more than the man. While keeping pressure on the stomach Lily turned the woman's head toward her. The woman opened her eyes momentarily to reveal an extremely dilated pupil surrounded by sky blue. Lily's mind reeled.

A glimpse of black and then she was wrapped up in it. The arm crushed her to a body. Guns were being fired in every which way. She couldn't see anything, but the person carrying her was moving quickly. Hazy blue eyes flashed before her and were gone.

"Holy shit." Lily backed away from the bodies. Glancing to her left she noticed the familiar house across the street and ran to it.

"Jace! Jace! Wake up, I need your help man!"

Almost instantly a rather tall, lanky man came down the stairs with his pants barely on, blonde hair a mess, and blue eyes fogged over from sleep. "What the hell Lil! Are you alright?" He grabbed her by the shoulders and began to turn her around, looking for wounds. When he found nothing he lowered his head slightly to look her in the eyes. She had gotten tall he noted. "What the hell is going on Lil? Why are you screaming like that in the middle of the night? You scared the shit out of me." He tried to sound angry.

She would have smiled, but she was too shaken. "Come here." She grabbed his hand and led him across the street and into the alley. She knelt down and began to position Selene to be carried over her shoulder.

"What the fuck are you doing?" Jacen yelled.

Grunting she lifted Selene off the ground. "I need you to carry him down to my house." She motioned with her head.

"Jesus Lily are they still alive?"

"Yes Jace and I need you to fucking hurry and get them into my place." She stepped out of the alley and up the steps into the abandoned building right next to the alley.

Jace knelt and threw Michael over his shoulder with less trouble than Lily. Adrenaline was helping he was sure. He followed Lily into the front room. There was nothing but dust and rotten floorboards covering one large open room. The building had been an old school room at one point, no one knew when. The windows had been caked over with mud and very little moonlight was showing through. He stepped behind Lily as she made her way to the back of the room and watched with a little awe as she opened the basement door with one hand, and supported the woman with the other. Note to self, he thought, don't underestimate her. Down the stairs they went and emerged in the very large basement that had been converted into a rather interesting home.

"Lay him on the table." She shouted, as she not too gently put Selene on the couch.

Jacen pushed the contents of the table to the ground with one arm and all but slammed the guy onto the table. "Jesus he's heavy." He watched as Lily dashed to the kitchen area and returned with a mass of towels. She tossed three to him.

"Put pressure on his wounds." She demanded and knelt by the sofa. She noted the rather heavy, corset like armor the woman was wearing around her chest and waist area. Reaching into her back packet she pulled the switchblade Chris had given her, cut the piece right down the middle and revealed the skintight material underneath soaked in blood. With a heavy breath she whipped the blood away to expose the injuries beneath. "Holy hell." She muttered under her breath, amazed that someone who had lost as much blood as this woman was still alive.

Dashing to her bathroom she grabbed a long pair of tweezers that she had used to scratch the inside of her cast in the sixth grade. She lit the ends with her Zippo lighter and began to dig the bullets from the woman's stomach. One...two...three, she fought the urge to gag...and four. She breathed deeply and using her teeth tore the sheet she had grabbed from the bathroom.

"Jacen come here." She laid the sheet across Selene's stomach. "Sit her up for me."

He did as he was told and watched as Lily wrapped the sheet around the woman twice and tied it tightly around the back. He gently laid her back down and both of them rushed over to the man. Lily removed the towels and examined the many bullet holes. A quick look and she realized that the bullets had already been dug out. When she looked closer, "Jacen, it looks as if this guy's injuries are already starting to heal."

"What?"

"The wounds, they..." She paused, "See how thick the blood is surrounding the holes? It means that the blood is starting to clot, which means scabbing and scaring aren't far behind." She was about to say how weird this was considering it looked like these were fresh wounds, but then she stopped. If Jace suspects even one thing that's strange he'll throw them out so fast. Over protective... She stopped that train of thought.

"Never mind. Just help me lift him up again." And she tore another piece of sheet, wrapped it ounce around his chest, up and over his shoulder two times, and back down for the tie around the chest. Then she used one of her dishcloths and wrapped the man's head. "Help me put him in Christopher's bed."

"What?"

"You've been saying that a lot tonight Jace. Please just do it."

The man did as he was told and returned from the room with a rather angry look on his face. He spied Lily at the sink washing her hands and tweezers. He grabbed her arm and turned her toward him. "Alright, you better tell me what the hell is going on 'cause if you think I'm going to let you keep these strangers here you've got another thing coming." He took a deep intake of air and let it out slowly.

Lily could feel her anger rising. "First of all take your God damn hand off me before I kick you so hard you won't even dream of having children."

Jacen removed his hand quickly and shoved it behind his back. "I'm sorry Lils. That was uncalled for, but you scared the shit out of me. I just want to know what's up all right."

"Fine then." She sighed heavily and went back to washing her hands. "The deal is I found these people in the alley and saved their lives. So they'll stay here till there awake and then leave. No biggie."

Jacen looked confused. "I don't get you Lils. Do you have any idea how dangerous this is? You don't know what you've gotten yourself into, who these people are."

"Thanks for the stranger talk mom." She snickered.

Jacen almost stomped his foot. "Look Lily I'm serious." There was such genuine concern in his voice.

Lily frowned and stared at him gravely. She lowered her voice to almost a whisper. "They were in the alley Jace. Christopher's alley."

Jacen looked hard at her. He could see the residual pain etched on her face. He took a deep breath. "Fine, I'm staying here then." And he moved to sit down, but realized the couch and bed were taken. He hesitated.

"No room Jace. Go home; you have to go to work in..." She glanced at her watch. "Three hours, damn. Get some rest." She winked.

"I'll sleep on the floor."

"No you won't. My house, remember."

"Lily I'm not leaving you with a couple of freaks we don't even know! And that is final!" He was flustered. She could be so damn stubborn.

Lily moved closer to him and gently laid a hand on his arm. "Look Jace. I really appreciate you looking out for me, and I know Christopher appreciates it too, but I'm really ok on this one. Look at them, there not going anywhere for a while. You can go to work and come here right after to check up on me. I promise not to argue." She smiled her most innocent grin.

Jacen's knees wobbled a second. He hated when she smiled like that. "Fine Lils. It is your house." He sighed. "But I'll be back tomorrow evening and you better be here."

"I will Jacen promise." She pecked his cheek gratefully.

"Good night then." The corners of his mouth curved into a smile, and he walked up and out the stairs.

Lily took perhaps the longest exhale of her life. Good lord Chris. Why'd you have to leave such an over protective friend behind. God knows I love him, but damn. She rubbed the back of her neck and yawned. Taking a quick peak into her brother's old room and spied the man sleeping soundly. Moving over to the couch she now took a closer look at the woman. It was the hair that seemed so familiar. Many people had similar hairstyles and colors, but there was something about the glisten of black with a shade of blue running through it that sparked something.

The memory flashed...sudden and fast, like a bullet slicing through flesh.

She watched as her brother used the board to smack the monster upside the head. He turned towards her as the wolf he'd hit retaliated and rose from behind. She was about to scream when shots rang from above. The monster and her brother fell to the ground in one fast movement. The other demon turned towards her when she was enveloped by darkness. There was nothing but a flash of dark hair as a woman grabbed her from around the waist, cradled her against her body, and spun around turning her back toward the animal. Using her left hand she fired shots from underneath her arm and Lily heard the beast drop to the ground. She caught a glimpse of light blue eyes and then all went black.

Lily jumped back, shaken by her memory. She hadn't thought of that night in years. She'd practically forgotten the whole thing, except for her brother. She began to rub the pendent around her neck, and moved toward her twin bed placed directly behind the couch. It had a bar frame that came up along the side and rested on the back of the sofa enclosing the bed on three sides. She lay down and tried to sleep. It would eventually come, but not till after her mind and memories had settled down.