Disclaimer: I don't own any characters at the moment, just borrowing so please don't sue.

Author's Note: Well I'm just a newbie to this, so be nice and feel free to comment on anything you don't like. At the moment I'm not exactly sure where I'm going with this but bear with me. After all good things come to those who wait.

1

Selene knew that their would be grave repercussions as a result of that night. Two elders had been slain, Viktor by her very own hand. A thousand endless panicked thoughts entered her head as she turned and began to find her way back out of the darkened, blood-stained Underworld. What would happen to her and Michael now? Where should she go to find safety? and particularly when will she get her vengeance on Kraven ?

Michael gazed at Selene, scanning her face for assurance that somehow amongst all the chaos that surrounded them they would be alright. As long as they could rely on each other, he knew they would survive. He failed to find any emotion on her frozen features. Sometimes he wondered if she harboured any at all inside her icy exterior. If she did, she failed do show it. Only on rare occasions such as in the night in the interrogation room when she shared with him intimate details about the death of her family had he ever witnessed her acknowledge feelings of any sort. Of course she dismissed it almost as quickly believing emotion to be a sign of weakness. A weakness which could easily lead to your death in her opinion. It was this knowledge alone which prevented her from growing attached to Michael. It would only be used against her in the event of a battle or war and she could not bare loss of that magnitude again. It was difficult enough keeping herself alive throughout the war never minding having to worry about someone else's safety. Life was just easier for her to just avoid emotional ties with people; it avoided unnecessary complications. This was something she agreed to countless years ago when she first became an immortal. All emotional ties with the outside world must be severed to ensure her survival.

This knowledge always made Michael uneasy. To know that Selene may never allow herself to love or feel for Michael the way he loved her. If only she would let him in. But he knew this was no easy task especially for someone like Selene who spent the majority of her life avoiding such affections. The relationships she kept were strictly professional, nothing more.

Michael felt a wave of guilt overcome him, he was being selfish thinking about her like that. He knew that being with him had not been easy for her, being in such close proximity to a human . She had taught him everything he knew about life as an immortal. An immortal. He always found it strange thinking about himself as this, he still regarded himself outwardly human. Selene had assured him that this would eventually dissipate.

"But what if I don't want it to fade?" The thought of losing his humanity frightened him most of all, he couldn't bare the thought of becoming a cold hearted killer like he once viewed Selene to be .

"I'm a doctor… I…was a doctor" he reminisced sadly reflecting on a life that now seemed so far out of his reach.

Selene took out one of her Berettas from its holster as she and Michael began to make their way through the damp and shadowy twists and turns of the seemingly endless underworld tunnels, heading for an unknown exit.

"Here" She said, breaking the silence and held out the gun to Michael urging him to take it.

"No way! I…I…can't. I don't know how to" was all he managed to stutter, pushing the gun back towards her hand.

"You mustn't allow fear to rule you Michael, this is a human flaw, one which ultimately divides them from more powerful beings such as immortals. Now here, take it!"

Knowing better than to argue with one such as Selene, Michael obediently nodded taking the gun from her and reluctantly held it in his hand, trying to avoid irritating her any further. He secretly prayed that he would never have to use it . However, Michael knew that somehow under Selene's command this was very, very unlikely, her being so fond of them and all.

"Come on, it can't be far now" Selene informed Michael impatiently as she pressed onwards into the darkness. He still pondered the unfamiliar weight of the gun she had placed in his hands.

They continued to walk in silence for the following few minutes until Selene found a grate leading to an escape from the madness of the underworld.

"Here" she stated unnecessarily to Michael whom had already spotted the grate long before Selene, with his newly acquired heightened hybrid senses. He found himself greatly relieved to be finally leaving this place, especially with Selene by his side but just as she raised her hands to open the grate, BANG!

Selene staggered backwards as a bullet from an unknown assailant hit her stomach.

Well that was chapter one kids, please review and tell me what you thought.