FFIII ficlette -- Quiet (Underworld)

[mhalachai]

Title: Quiet
Characters: Selene, Michael from Underworld
Disclaimer: All Underworld characters belong to Lakeshore Entertainment and all those happy people. I am only borrowing them for a short while and am receiving nothing.
Author's Note: cissasghost wanted Michael/Selene from Underworld, doing something mundane. It sort of fits the bill. Takes place after Underworld: Evolution, and has some spoilers for that. Okay, mega spoilers. (Ficlette Fiasco III master list found here)

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"So what are we going to do?"

Michael's voice fell into the silence of the room. He knew that behind him, Selene was doing something with her guns, but he couldn't hear her over the sound of the outside traffic. Outside traffic; it's four in the morning and we're blocks from the nearest car. Being able to hear like this was going to take some getting used to.

"About what?" Selene finally murmured.

"I don't know, all of it." Michael turned around and leaned against the motel wall, crossing his arms over his chest. "Food? Money? Hell, are we even staying here?"

He just kept running his mouth off, in the hopes she'd say something. He wasn't used to a woman who was so quiet. Since Corvinus's men had pulled them off the little island prison, she'd said about thirty words. He'd been the one who got them this motel room, got them upstairs and behind closed doors. All she'd wanted to do was hold her guns like some sort of deadly security blanket.

She hadn't even told him how she had stood in the sun and not burst into flames.

"We'll go past some safe houses and collect the blood, before the sun comes up." Selene slowly dismantled her gun, in such a way that made Michael wonder if she even knew what she was doing. "I can restock up on ammunition at the same time."

"And then?"

She laid the gun pieces down on the bedspread. "There is no 'and then'."

Michael swore in broken Hungarian. "What about money? I'm still paying back my loans from medical school, and I can't go back to work! Not after what happened! The police are probably still looking for us!"

"So we leave the country."

"What, by stealing another car?"

Selene rose off the bed in a motion so fluid it startled Michael. She seemed more graceful now, more human. Or maybe my brain broke while I was dead.

He closed his eyes. He'd always wondered what it was like to die. Was there the big white light? Singing angels? Then he'd died, for real, and everything had just...

Stopped.

Warm hands settled on his face. He opened his eyes to find Selene so very close. Those ancient eyes in that young face startled him, just like the first time he'd seen her in the subway station. "We are going to be fine," she said awkwardly, as if reassuring someone wasn't in her nature.

"We haven't got any money."

She gave him an odd look. "Do you remember the mansion?"

"What about it?"

Selene stepped back lightly and went over to the desk. "Do you know anything about the structure of a vampire coven?"

"A what?"

"It's not just how we lived, it's how we organized everything." She turned off the light on the desk, leaving only the dim light from the dingy bathroom to shine into the room. "In spite of how things looked, all of our funds were pooled collectively. If anything were to happen to the coven, the remaining members can take the money and seek safe haven elsewhere."

Michael frowned, trying to understand. "But Marcus killed everyone in the... coven, except you."

Selene sat back on the bed to reassemble the gun.

"So that means we've got enough money to go anywhere." Michael frowned. "Really?"

"Really."

"So where are we going to go?"

Selene's fingers stilled on the metal of the unloaded weapon. "I don't know," she finally said. "I've never... I've been here for a very long time."

Michael leaned back against the wall and watched as she slowly and silently reloaded her gun.

--fin

Comments

[sabriel-0405.livejournal.com]

Wow. You make whatever fandom you deal with just pop off the page, or in this case, screen. It's like a deleted scene on the DVD come to life.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm always up to trying new fandoms, and this is the first I've written for Underworld, I think. I really want the DVD now, for the shiny non-run-out-of-bullets guns :)

It was a nice break from writing Inevitable, too.

[goddessvicky.livejournal.com]

Break from Inevitable? There is no such thing. ::scoffs:: You write that in your sleep at the rate you turn it out.

Oh, and I liked this too. ::grin::

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Well, aside from this one (which I wrote this AM), I've got 3,181 words of the next chapter of Inevitable. The only thing that's stopping me from finishing it tonight is that I'm going to my ex-roommates one year closer to death birthday party in about an hour. And I can't get the Slughorn scene right. I mean, just how diplomatic is Harry, anyway? We know he can be a brat, but is he smooth?

Answer: No.

But it's a good a chance as any to set Hermione on edge. But I digress.

[catherinecookmn.livejournal.com]

The closest Harry ever comes to 'smooth' in JKR-canon is when he's under the influence of Felix Felicis (which I used to think meant "happy cat"). As for your version of Harry, he may eventually be able to achieve smooth without pharmacological help, but I think that's a ways off, yet. :-)

[houses7177.livejournal.com]

Oh, yay! I do so love Michael and Selene. Very nice, and I particularly enjoyed his ruminations on being dead. Poor guy.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Thanks :) I like Michael as a character in the movies more and more. For a guy who a week ago, story time, was just another guy, he pulled himself together nicely when everything went to hell.

Anyway, as I an wont to do, now I want to cross Underworld and Anita Blake. Oh, like I need another WIP, eh? ;)

[thekams.livejournal.com]

I am so evil, but really...that'd be an amazing cross. I can just see Anita's brain exploding trying to figure out Michael (and Selene, for that matter). hehehe

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

I think she'd *get* Michael -- just an ordinary guy thrust into the preternatual world. Like Richard without all the soulsucking angst.

Selene, on the other hand.... Hide the fine china, folks, cuz things are about to get messy.

[cissasghost.livejournal.com]

Selene, on the other hand.... Hide the fine china, folks, cuz things are about to get messy.

Oh, so very true.

I'd love to read your take on that crossover. I'm close to ready to post my prequel thingie .. okay, by "close" I mean "halfway done and I work a 10-hour day tomorrow and then Lost and Invasion are on", so, probably this weekend. Sci-fi Friday's in reruns now. And I am queen of the tangent, but anyway, yeah, UW/AB crossovers, yay!

I am such a dork.

-Sonya

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

I'm worried that my idea will be too much like the discussions we've had, your telling me stuff you've got planned.... I dunno. I'll jump onto IM in a few days, we can chat over it and see if I'm nuts, or have subconciously taken on details that were yours. Le sigh.

[cissasghost.livejournal.com]

. . well, the odds of my ever writing a Nathaniel who isn't at least vaguely yours are nil to none, so, I'm prepared to be lenient on the borrowing of details. ;)

But yes, hop on IM, we will discuss. *evil cackle*

-Sonya

[penyn-1600.livejournal.com]

This is perfect! Its so in-character and the just...like an epilogue to the movie.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Thanks you :)

[thekams.livejournal.com]

This was wonderful, very in character. Poor Michael, with the slight...dissapointment?...about his death. And just what is it with black-haired, shortish-type (can't really remember Selene's height) women and their guns, vampires and werewolfs?? Like, seriously, now...=P

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

It's the Buffy syndrome: Little girls killing the big bads. Not that I'm complaining -- it's very empowering, for a female to take charge, be the protector, without having to give up her fem... femin.... femininity *whew*.

[catherinecookmn.livejournal.com]

Now you'll be writing Anita/Selene femmeslash -- and Michael, Micah and Richard will be trading facepunches over who gets to videotape their sex scenes. :-p

[cissasghost.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeee, you wrote Underworld fic! *squee!*

.. ahem. *attempts dignity*

Very nice character voice, very realistic concerns for Michael to have, and Selene's dissociative, mechanical behavior is completely in-character. Thank you!

-Sonya

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

You're quite welcome! I'm slowly being sucked into Underworld-goodness. All I need to do now is get the extended version of the first movie. and U:E on dvd. And then write more fic.

Oh, I love writing fic. It's like my drug. No, actually, that's beer, but this is a close and much more productive second.

So, um, got any Underworld fic sites I can post this on? Aka I lost the url of your site.

[cissasghost.livejournal.com]

http://underworld.toomanythoughts.net (catchy and appropriate, no? I love my URL . . )

Some friends of the best friend person's brought this REALLY good beer to her New Year's Eve party, from a local brewery, and after sampling everything there of an even vaguely similar color, I've determined that it must have been something seasonal that they're not making right now. I am vastly depressed about this. That was damned good beer. It should be available year-round.

. . I am completely incapable of staying on-topic tonight. Oh well.

Yes, you must get the extended cut. There's like, five more minutes of film, total, but they're five necessary minutes and I don't really know why they cut them in the first place 'cause see above re: only five minutes. They make Michael make more sense. They make Michael/Selene make MUCH more sense. And they illustrate the utter fucked-up-ness that is Erika/Kraven, too.

. . and U:E needs to come out on DVD, like, RIGHT NOW! (I can't even find a site saying when it's due out. This is upsetting me.)

-Sonya (being very manic, OMG someone hit me over the head 'cause I must go to sleep now, I have work in the morning!)

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'll upload tomorrow. And yes, is very catchy.

It was probably a Christmas Ale. They tend to do that, the phuckers.

*gets the bat*

I can't find a release date either. *is sad* I'm sure it'll be out in a few months.

Srsly, go to bed!

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Erm, by *gets the bat* I mean *get Sonya a glass of warm milk/sleeping aid of your choice*. Not that I'm advocating violence.

Maybe I should go to bed too.

[mlady-rebecca.livejournal.com]

That was excellent. I think that's the first Underworld fic I've read. Very much in character.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Thank you :) I had a blast writing in a new fandom. With vampires and guns and werewolves and stuff :P

[elle-blessing.livejournal.com]

This is great. It's so realistic that I feel it could have been part of the story. It's pretty amazing how you're able to get into the head of so many characters that arn't even yours. It'd be something to see if you created something all your own...yep, pretty much wow :)

♥

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I had fun writing it. It was a good time, writing something that's *not* AB fic :)