When they reached the hotel, the tension was thick in the air. Birdy led the way, her usual sharpness muted by the weight of what had just happened. Selene kept glancing at Victor's hulking form, worry gnawing at her insides.
As they entered the dimly lit room, Birdy quietly helped Victor settle on the bed to rest, her hands moving with practiced care. Selene stood nearby, her arms wrapped around herself, feeling small in the vastness of her guilt and exhaustion. The silence between them was almost suffocating, broken only by the sound of Victor's slow, steady breaths.
Selene's gaze never left him. Every bruise, every scratch, every moment he had been vulnerable because of her... it was all too much. Why was he healing so slow? She bit her lip, trying to suppress the rising tide of emotions. What would he say when he woke up? Would he even look at her the same?
The thought sent a chill down her spine, and she found herself whispering, barely loud enough for Birdy to hear. "What if he never forgives me?"
Birdy scowled. "Is that all you're worried about right now? Him forgiving you?" She snapped before pausing and letting out a sigh.
"He will… For some reason you're special to him… Or as special as someone can be to a phsychopath."
Her fingers brushed through Victors hair, smiling softly. "You know, Victor is basically the closest thing I have to a family now." She said, her eyes softening as she looked at Selene.
"I don't know if you deserve to be forgiven, but he doesn't partner up with people he doesn't trust. It's why he never stays in a group for long, he doesn't want inferior people in his pack."
Selene took a deep breath, trying to steady herself and ignore the jealousy at anyone touching her mate, though her eyes still held a fierce intensity. "Look, I'm not here to fight over who's closer to him. I see the bond you two have, and I get it. I'm not trying to take that away." She paused, her gaze softening just slightly as she struggled with what to say next.
"But I need you to understand something." She shifted, her voice firm but laced with an underlying tension. "I have been seeded , Birdy. I feel the life stirring within me. It's probably why I acted as I did earlier today . And I have no idea how Victor's going to react. I'm worried he'll see this as a betrayal, as something I did to trap him or… I don't know." Her fingers brushed over her stomach, absentmindedly . "I'm not afraid for myself, but I am for this child. I don't know if he'll see it as his or as a threat. Or…well. You were there with the Logan situation."
She pressed closer, her eyes locking onto Birdy's. "I need you to keep him calm when he wakes up and until the time is right. Calm him, to help him understand. If things get out of hand, you have to do whatever it takes to keep him from hurting me and my heir.. And I mean anything Birdy. Whatever he needs to hear, whatever it takes to keep him from snapping."
It felt like she was swallowing cement, but Selene still managed to spit what she truly meant out. " Whatever he asks. Whatever he…requires of you."
Selene's voice dropped to a low, urgent whisper. "I'm trusting you with this. Can you do that?" Her intention was clear, as much as it made her feel like a pathetic cuck.
Birdy grimaced, despite her heart rate speeding up. "I-I don't know Selene. Victors…" She gulps, looking over his body.
"Isn't he your mate? I thought that's a big no no in your community?" She asks, biting her lip slightly and not meeting Selene's eyes.
"Plus you're pregnant!" She yelled, gasping as it finally caught up with her. "Do you know what happened the last time he got someone pregnant?" Birdy asked, mentioning Mystique.
"He hunted her for three years before deciding he didn't care anymore. Selene you can't tell him you're pregnant."
Selene's face tightened, and despite her best efforts, a flash of anxiety flickered in her eyes. "Victor is a monster, Birdy," she whispered, her voice trembling slightly. "Mate? No, he's...we haven't properly bonded yet. Fuck. Carrying the child of someone too…unwilling to be properly bonded."
Her arms wrapped around herself protectively as if trying to shield herself from the reality of her situation. "I'm not some helpless bitch like Raven was," she insisted, but the words came out shakier than she intended. "I'm strong enough to face him if I have to... I think."
She glanced down at her stomach, the hint of a tremor in her hand. "This... this changes things. I know it does. But I can't let him find out. Not yet." Her gaze darted back to Birdy, fear bleeding into her expression. "If he knew... God, Birdy, he'll go berserk. I've seen what he's capable of. If he comes after me, I—"
Her voice faltered, and she swallowed hard, forcing herself to meet Birdy's gaze. "I'm not ready to face that. Not yet. I know eventually he'll find out. My body will change and so will my scent. And when that day comes, you need to be by my side."
Birdy gulped. Be on Selene's side? She'd been with Victor for years now, he'd avenged her family, he paid for everything she had ever owned. If she prided herself on one thing it was her loyalty to Victor despite how he treated her, yet Selene was asking her to go against that? "I… I don't know, I have to think. We'll hide it from now, I'll keep him calm for the time being, by any means necessary." Birdy blushed as she said that last part, standing up suddenly. "I forgot I haven't eaten today, children's dead bodies must have ruined my appetite earlier, do you want anything?" Birdy asked as she glanced at Victor, feeling him close to stirring. "Good luck…" Birdy said before leaving the room as Victor let off a soft growl.
Selene's eyes stayed locked on Victor, her heart racing as he began to stir. "You have to keep him calm, Birdy," she whispered, her voice trembling. "If he even suspects something..."
As Birdy left, Selene's eyes darted back to Victor, panic surging as she watched his fingers twitch, the low growl rumbling in his throat. She took a deep breath, forcing herself to stand firm, despite the fear gnawing at her insides.
"Victor," she murmured softly, trying to steady her voice. "It's me, Selene. You're awake ." She shifted slightly, arms wrapping submissively around his neck , hoping to keep her presence calm and non-threatening. "You were out for a while. I... I just wanted to make sure you were okay."
She held her breath as his eyes began to open, his piercing gaze locking onto her. "I'm not here to fight," she continued, forcing a weak smile. "Just... take it easy, alright?"
Victor grabbed Selene by the throat, squeezing tightly and twisting so she was underneath him. His eye bore into hers, but seeing her being submissive he loosened his grip, grinning.
"We'll need to fight again sometime pet," He kissed her roughly, kissing down to her neck and sniffing her.
He tightened his grip again, holding her down just to see her submission. "Don't ever tell me to submit again, next time I'll really kill you. That's your only warning."
He kissed her again, nipping at her flesh before pausing, sniffing harder.
"There's something different about you, Selene," He said, licking up her neck, his eyes glinting. "What is it?"
Selene felt her heart race under Victor's intense scrutiny, and she quickly masked her unease with a sheepish smile. "Different? Oh, you must be imagining things," she said, her voice light and playful as she tried to divert his attention.
She tilted her head slightly, feigning innocence. "Maybe it's just the perfume I've been trying out. You know how it is—always searching for the right scent. I hope you like it, Master."
Her eyes darted away for a moment, then returned to his with a hint of mischief. "But enough about me. Birdy went to get food. Do you want food? Humans love food. I can make you something. Never cooked before but it can't be that hard." She laughed nervously, hoping to shift the conversation away from the tension hanging between them. "What do you think?"
Victor eyed her suspiciously before biting her neck, hard enough to draw the slightest drop of blood. "Only thing I want to taste right now is you pet; do you know just how excited you made me before?" He asked, licking Selene's blood and sniffing her again. "I don't know what it is about you now, but I love it," Victor said sincerely, his eyes practically glowing with lust as he kissed Selene again, his claws tearing at her shirt. He tapped her stomach teasingly. "Want me to tear you open Selene? You do deserve a punishment for that bullshit today…"
Selene felt her heart race as Victor's claws grazed her skin, an unsettling mix of thrill and fear washing over her. She took a shaky breath, trying to steady herself.
"Victor, um… can we slow down a bit?" she said, her voice wavering slightly. "I know you like things intense, so do I…but… that fight took a lot out of me. II'm not really sure I'm ready for that kind of roughness quite yet. I haven't fed today."
She stepped back, her eyes searching his, hoping to convey her unease. "Maybe we could try something a little more… normal instead? I mean, there's a lot we could explore without it getting out of hand. Humans just have fun without shredding their partner and I'm sure we can too."
Her cheeks flushed; fuck. Could she be any more suspicious? This is literally the opposite of the vampire who intrigued him to begin with. She moved his hand from her stomach to her pussy, hoping to lighten the moment. "I promise it could still be exciting without the… well, you know."
Victor, smelling Selene's nervousness, rolled his eyes. "Relax pet, I don't blame you for losing control. It was perfect. Exactly what I expect from my toys."
Victor unzipped his pants, letting everything hang free as he pushed her hand away, smacking her face as he used his other hand to roughly grab her tits. "You like playing cat and mouse slut? You know better than to tease me." Victor growled, his claws raking down Selene's chest, slowly gliding down to her stomach as if he was teasing her.
"I told you to stop." she hissed, shoving his hand away far harder than she meant to. Regret instantly struck her face, knowing this type of pushback from his pet was unacceptable.
"I told you. I'm exhausted. No claws. No teeth. Alright?" She begged, retracting her fangs and talons as if to prove a point. "We get too carried away, every time and you know that. Can't I just suck you off instead?" Selene nuzzled down to his cock, giving a teasing little kiss. "You love how I do that thing with my tongue."
Victor looked at his hand, glaring now. All he wanted to do was fuck his pet into a coma, yet she was denying him the most exciting part? "If you're this weak after a little fight then we might as well do nothing," Victor grumbled. Usually he'd have hit her, or forced her into it, but he wasn't in the mood. He had been feeling romantic and wanted to get bloody with his pet, yet she had ruined it. "If I have to be careful I might as well fuck Birdy instead, you said she wanted it? Then I'll just replace you with her until you remember exactly how to please me."
Victor shoved Selene's head away, walking out of the room naked and leaving the door open so she could hear as he loudly knocked on Birdy's door. She had returned in the middle of their talking, smelling of Chinese food and arousal. Maybe she'd be up for
some real fun…
"How dare—" her hackles instantly rose in confrontation at such an alarming prospect, her mate with another woman. One that he could break. One so young and so stupid and so…
Selene snapped herself out of her rising anger, she couldn't be brash as usual. There was too much on the line. Especially the one thing that mattered most.
"How dare I be so weak and pathetic. I'll make sure it doesn't happen in future. I will learn to please you no matter my current state." She appeased through gritted teeth as he got up to leave.
Going from grail property, to victors property, to a cuckqueen in the span of a month. It truly made her head spin.
Silently, Selene creeped after him, praying she'd open the door and praying she didn't. The vampire had never felt this level of restraint before, but it was needed.
Birdy opened the door.
"Wha-" Birdy began to say only for Victor to slap her hard, sending her sprawling to the floor as he climbed her.
"Are you going to deny me too?" He growled in her face, ripping her clothes to shreds and grabbing her perky tits.
Birdy grit her teeth, moaning as Victor straddled her.
She was about to use the glow, or just knock him out, but then she saw Selene naked behind Victor, her face set in stone and blood dripping from wounds dangerously close to her stomach.
"N-No boss. You can use me to… Relieve yourself," She said with a blush, her hands sliding awkwardly up his chest as she bit her lip.
Victor grinned. "That's more like it, good pets don't say no," He said, wrapping his arm around her fragile little neck as he ripped her booty shorts off, rubbing his dick along her slit.
Birdy looked scared, terrified even as she looked at Selene, her eyes begging for help, yet her body begged to be fucked, her pussy dripping from Victors rough treatment.
Selene stood there still as a statue , the moonlight spilling through the window, casting silver shadows across her room. Her heart raced, a chaotic rhythm that matched the turmoil in her mind. Each pulse of anger reminded her of the life growing within her, urging her to suppress the rage that threatened to consume her.
You need to calm down, she reminded herself, forcing her breath to steady. For the baby. But thoughts of Victor twisted in her gut, fueling her anxiety.
He was dangerous—powerful, feral, and captivating in ways that left her breathless. Yet the thought of him possibly bonding with Birdy gnawed at her, a deep-rooted fear that sparked jealousy and despair. What if he chooses her? The memory of her father's many lovers surfaced unbidden, a bitter reminder of what could happen when bonds were not solidified. Her father had pursued numerous women, but his heart had always belonged to her mother. It was the vampire way—bonding for life, unable to bond with anyone else, but not without temptation.
Her mother had always drilled the lesson into her: if you find someone you desire, you must capture their attention before someone else does. "Keep him close until the bond is complete," she had said, her voice echoing in Selene's mind. But what if Victor's past with Birdy was enough to sway him? The idea of her child being illegitimate filled her with dread. In the vampire world, that meant something different—a stigma that weighed heavily on those born outside the sacred bond.
With an unreadable expression , she knelt beside Birdy, stroking her hair and battling the conflict raging within her. *What if I'm not enough?* The fear clawed at her insides, making her feel small and powerless. Would Victor see her for what she was—an ancient, complex creature—or would he be drawn to someone who fit the conventional mold of beauty and fertility?
Yet still, the ache of uncertainty lingered. Could she find a way to keep him? Would he truly choose her over Birdy? She had to hold on to the hope that this child—this precious life—would be enough to secure the bond they had yet to form. It was all that mattered now.
"Please him or I'll kill you." She said simply, before leaning down to lock a passionate, long kiss with the other woman. She whispered low and deep in her ear, a snarl that ended in a coo.
"Don't disappoint me."
Birdy had tiny tears in the edges of her eyes as Selene kissed her. A look of betrayal crossed her features as Victor slammed his long hard cock into her tight cunt, not being gentle in the slightest as she screamed, crying and moaning as she tried to get used to it quickly.
"Fuck fuck fuck!" Birdy yelled out, her hands on Victor's chest as her vision blurred.
"That's it pet, take what Selene can't. You're stronger than her aren't you? Better?"
Victor said the last few words to rile up Selene, still pissed she'd denied him. As Birdy's pussy squeezed down on his cock he groaned, he should have done this ages ago.
He could have been training this pussy to take his dick since he met her, instead he had wasted time with useless beatings.
"B-Boss!" Birdy moaned, her hips rocking as she cried. "I can take it, you can do it harder…" She said softly, her teeth clenched as she adjusted to Victors rough, primal thrusts.
Humiliation. Shame. Fury. Disgrace. It's all that flooded the vampires mind as her lover buried himself to the balls. She put on a brave face, but if Victor wasn't so busy with his newest conquest, he would have been able to smell the sickening hatred emanating from her pores.
The pair seemed to be in heaven. Selene knew she should have gutted Birdy when she had the chance. She knew this would happen. She prayed to ancient gods that Victor would get so carried away he'd kill the telepath. Thought about egging it on. But then Selene remembered if and when Victor discovered her secret…it might be the only thing keeping her alive.
"Careful, master. She does not heal. A child will eat an entire cake, without caring about the consequences, that still doesn't make it good. She'll take your cruelty, she's such a *good girl..*" Selene cooed, tweaking Birdy's nipples slightly. "But that doesn't mean she should."
Her facade waned with each of Birdy's moans. It was deafening. In an attempt to silence her, Selene straddled the girl's face, facing Victor. "Make me cum or I will let him hurt you." An empty threat. She needed Birdy alive, but she hoped the other would play along .
Birdy ignored the threat, her eyes lidded as Victor abused her poor pussy. She didn't feel the pain though, all she felt was the ecstasy of being taken by Victor, she'd feel it tomorrow, but for now she had blocked her own sense of pain. "Yes Mistress~" Birdy's voice was muffled, sultry and needy as her tongue licked along Selene's slit, sliding down and pushing her tongue into her folds to taste her. 'The bosses dick was in here…' She thought as she explored Selene's cunt with her tongue, her hands coming back to squeeze the vampire's perfect ass.
Birdy hadn't thought about it too much, but as she kissed and sucked and nibbled on Selene's pussy she knew she had to be bi, just from the way her cunt began to soak. She felt victor go harder despite Selene's words, her body being forcefully slid along the floor with each thrust, her tongue moving wildly as she pleased these two beasts. "I love it~" She moaned out, her eyes rolling back as she came all over Victor's dick. She'd never been one to cum quick, but she couldn't possibly hold it like this. All she hoped was that they wouldn't stop, not when she was so horny…
"Yes you do, little Dove. You were made to be our prize, weren't you? Your only purpose is to please us." The vampire hissed in delight, rocking her hips in time with her mate's. She had a feeling she was Buddy's first lesbian experience, and despite the toxic and stressful origins of the three way, she couldn't help but take a large amount of pride in it.
"How good is she, Victor? Tell me…" Selene wrapped a clawed hand around his neck and pulled him in for a deep, toothy kiss. She was still secretly reeling, but the sensation of that warm wet tongue deep inside her folds was enough to push concerns to the back burner.
She could tell Birdy was getting close, and it amused her. They were only getting started. Selene wondered if Victor felt the same way about his pet whenever she would beg like a bitch in heat, endlessly climaxing.
Victor snarled, pumping in and out of Birdy roughly. "Better than yours, nice and tight. Maybe she should be my pet?" He said, just to hurt Selene as Birdy spasmed on his dick again.
She felt bad for Selene, but hearing that from victors lips? Well how could she not love it.
"Ah, fuck you taste so good mistress. The bosses dick feels so good, please use me. Fuck please!" Birdy arched her back again, gripping Selene's ass tightly as she used her pussy to muffle her moans.
Her hand came to Selene's clit, rubbing it gently and trying to assure her Victor was just angry, that he didn't mean the things he was saying.
"Sir, your dick is the best!" She moaned out, trying her best to meet his thrusts. "Hit me! I've been bad!" She yelled as she came once again.
** That's how I felt about Logan's cock. That's the real reason you were so mad, wasn't it? You were feeling inferior?**
Is what she wanted to say , but instead, she bit her tongue so hard it bled, causing her to swallow the metallic substance, along with her bitterness.
"Shh…don't ruin my orgasm, beloved…" she replied softly to Victor, unintentionally bearing an obscene amount of weight onto Birdy's face. Growling deep and low, Selene tipped her head back and shook as pleasure overtook her , the enjoyment only heightened by the fact that Birdy was damn near suffocating.
"You already ruined it. I should rip you open and keep you like that for days for refusing me!" Victor yelled, his anger rising as if he had heard her thoughts. His claws unsheathing and stabbing into Birdy's hips.
"Nngh!" She moaned as her blood soaked Victor's claws, feeling the warmth but not the pain.
"Look how she likes it, she's doing way better than you right now Selene, I suggest you rethink your earlier decision before you get replaced," Victor said smugly, Birdy cumming over and over again now as she used her power to convert pain into pleasure rather than block pain altogether.
-Smart Girl,- Selene thought, instantly realizing what tactic Birdy was using. Her post nut glow was being increasingly dampened by Victor's constant, petty taunts. It seemed as if he was only going to be fully satisfied when he had filled Birdy and properly humiliating Selene. Wait.
Her eyes narrowed, taking a deep inhale. She considered herself somewhat of an expert on the beast known as Sabretooth, The way he was grunting, the change in pace, the scent . He was close, far too close.
"Victor," Selene said in a cautionary, but warning tone, no longer suffocating the submissive female, rising up on her haunches and leaning against him in an almost accusatory way.
"You can have your fun. But I never agreed to let you seed her," she blinked down at Birdy for a moment, as if the message was for her too. "That's different. We don't need you procreating." The irony of that statement was not lost on her.
Birdy widened her eyes, victors thrusts only getting rougher. Her hands came to his abs, trying and failing to push him away as he growled. "Don't fucking need your permission!" Victor yelled, backhanding Selene as he sent his load deep into the struggling Birdy. Birdy moaned, feeling the victors large load flood into her, tears dripped from her eyes. Despite not wanting him too, she loved it, she loved getting creampied, but she doubted Selene would react the same as she was…
Time seemed to stand still. The room went silent. Well, except for heavy panting, Birdy's pathetic moaning, and the sound of Victor's hand slamming into Selene's face. But the strike was inconsequential, unimportant to the true stab, the true betrayal, the true damage that had just been inflicted.
"…."
Selene nursed her cheek, eyes flickering between the most beautiful shades of red, yellow, and black. Her mouth parted, but no words escaped her lips.
Slowly, deliberately, she stood, her eyes never leaving the treacherous pair before her. She gave one last look before turning, and exiting the room.
It was still daylight. Behind the blackout curtains, just a sliver of sunshine trickled through. Almost as if in a trance, Selene reached her hand out, feeling the sizzle, pop, and burn of her skin. And she just let her hand there, until there was nothing but bone remaining.
"Selene!" Birdy called out, coming up behind her and reaching out. "I'm sorry I didn't know he was gonna do that."
The apology might have meant more if Birdy wasn't red faced, victors cum dripping down her leg, and her still smelling of arousal.
"Don't worry I'll take a pill so it doesn't do anything. He's just mad because-" Birdy's words faltered as Victor walked out of the room, his dick still hard as he stared at both of the naked women.
"Are you ready to stop playing hard to get pet?" He hissed in Selene's ear, his claws out as he grabbed her arm and yanked her away from the sun.
"You deserve a punishment now, so I'll be tearing you open. Don't you dare say anything if you don't want to die…"
Victor was pissed off, even more so that he'd had to resort to fucking his weaker servant because his main pet had wanted to be a bitch.
His claws slowly sunk into her stomach, ever so slowly as he wanted to see the pain on Selene's face.
Selene's body trembled in terror as Victor's iron grip held her still, the sharp tips of his claws already pressing into the soft skin of her belly. Her breath caught in her throat, panic surging through her with every shallow inhale. She writhed desperately, her voice breaking as she screamed, her eyes wide with genuine terror.
"Victor, no! Please, stop—stop! You don't know what you're doing! Please!" Her voice cracked with sobs, her hands weakly pushing against him as if she could somehow make him release her. "You don't understand…!"
Tears streamed down her cheeks as she felt his claws press deeper, her mind spinning with the horrifying thought of what he could do to the child inside her. A child he didn't even know about. Her legs buckled, and a warm stream trickled down her thighs as fear overtook her entirely, her body betraying her in its sheer panic .
"Birdy… Birdy, please…!" Selene's voice was now desperate, pleading, barely more than a breathless sob as her gaze darted to Victor's companion. "Please, make him stop. Please, don't let him do this…"
Her heart pounded violently in her chest, her fear raw and consuming, staring up at Victor with eyes that had never been so full of real, helpless dread. She had faced many things, but this—this was something else. "Please… Victor, I'm begging you...
Birdy you promised! Stop him! Give him the Glow! Birdy! BIRDY!"
Birdy stood frozen in horror. From eating, to getting fucked, to Victors anger, she couldn't keep up. She didn't hear Selene's screams, her blood rushing to her head as she watched Selene's blood drip to the ground.
Widening her eyes she remembered the pregnancy, tapping into Victor and trying to calm him down. "What?" She let out, shocked as she saw Victor wasn't even angry, this was just foreplay to him before he fucked his two pets again.
"Victor stop!" She yelled, blocking his sense of touch, smell, sight, anything she could think of. She made a mistake though, all this did was actually bring Victors anger to the surface.
He sunk his claws fully into Selene's stomach, growling from his loss of senses. "Birdy!" He yelled angrily as he held onto Selene tightly.
Despite this, he felt something different, smelled something different… Selene had two different scents to her now, her blood smelled different as if she was…
He froze, not moving as his senses slowly returned and he looked down into Selene's eyes.
Selene's world collapsed into pain. The sharp, searing agony as Victor's claws ripped through her stomach made her gasp, her vision flashing white. She tried to pull away, her body trembling violently, but his grip was ironclad, relentless. Blood poured from her wound, thick and hot, soaking her clothes as her breath came in short, ragged bursts. She couldn't think—couldn't focus on anything but the overwhelming pain—and the nauseating weight of something slipping inside her, shifting.
Then, suddenly, she was free.
She stumbled backward, hands instinctively pressing to her torn flesh, trying to hold herself together, but it was no use. Something slick, warm, and horribly wrong spilled out from her hands and hit the ground with a wet thud.
Her heart stopped.
Her eyes darted down, widening in terror at the sight before her—a small, blackish-red sac lay at her feet. Dread washed over her, cold and suffocating, as the realization struck. Her child. Her baby.
"No..." The word came out in a breathless rasp, barely audible over the roaring in her ears. She dropped to her knees, hands trembling as they reached for the sac, cradling it delicately despite the overwhelming panic surging through her.
She pried it open, desperate, only to find what she feared most.
The fetus lay inside, tiny, fragile… headless.
A scream tore from her chest, a sound of pure, primal anguish. She cradled the child to her chest, her heart shattering into a million jagged pieces. The pain in her stomach was nothing compared to the unbearable emptiness in her soul. Her baby, her unborn child—dead.
"No, no, no, please..." Her voice was a frantic whisper as she tore into her own wrists, blood pouring from the fresh wounds. She covered the baby with it, her hands trembling, her mind frantic with a single thought: bring him back.
"Heal... heal..." She begged, her voice cracking, her sobs choking her. But nothing happened. Her blood, her magic—none of it worked.
Her screams became desperate wails as she kept bleeding, kept offering everything she had, anything, for him to live.
"Please, please, come back! Don't leave me... live!"
Her voice broke, her hands slick with blood as it soaked the lifeless body of her child. She was growing weaker, her vision blurring, but she didn't stop. She couldn't. She had to save him. She had to. She kept cutting, kept bleeding, even as her body grew numb, even as her vision darkened.
"Please… don't leave me."
But the world around her faded, and the child remained silent, still lifeless in her arms.
Victor was silent, staring at the headless fetus and hearing Selene's screams. Despite his brutal nature, despite his phsychotic tendencies, he always had one rule when it came to killing.
Never children.
Yet here it was, a dead child, maybe even his dead child, and he had killed it.
"Victor what the fuck?!" Birdy yelled, her voice panicked as she jumped to Selene's side, seeing the would be mother desperately try and heal her child.
"S-Selene?" She asked nervously.
Selene's breath hitched, her desperate sobs breaking into quiet gasps as a suffocating silence wrapped itself around her. The world slowed, deafening, as the finality of it all settled in. Her child… her baby… was truly gone. Gone before he even took his first breath.
The lifeless form in her arms remained cold, untouched by her blood, her magic, or her pleas. It didn't matter how much she begged, how much she bled—nothing could bring him back. The hollow emptiness consumed her, but the silence was brief.
Rage swelled like a tidal wave, crashing violently against her broken heart. Her sorrow twisted into fury, something dark and unholy rising from the pit of her soul. Her eyes snapped up, wild and filled with a hatred so raw it almost hurt.
Her voice, trembling at first, erupted in a guttural scream. "You bastards!" She shot to her feet, clutching her dead child to her chest as she advanced on Victor and Birdy. "You damned me—damned him!" she shrieked, her voice splitting with fury. "To hell with both of you! To hell with your twisted games!"
Her words grew darker, slipping into Latin, ancient and venomous. "Infernus vos devoret! Maledicti in aeternum sitis, vestra animae ignibus damnatae! Non erit requies in morte, non erit salus!" Her curse rang out like a thunderclap, thick with the weight of something demonic. Her voice warped, deepening, growling like a beast threatening to surface. Her body trembled violently as if the monster inside her was about to break free.
But then—her voice cracked.
It shattered under the weight of her sorrow, her fury bleeding into despair. She stood there, panting, trembling, her knees threatening to give way. Her head hung low, her chest heaving with sobs as she collapsed back to her knees. The curse died in her throat, replaced by a broken whisper. "He's gone... he's gone."
With a soft, pained whimper, she turned away from them, her tears falling freely as she clutched the headless body of her child. Not another word passed her lips as she stumbled away, her mind fracturing with each step. She moved like a ghost, disconnected, numb, retreating into the bathroom, her sanctuary from the living hell she was trapped in.
The door clicked shut behind her.
Stripping bare, she slid into the cold bathtub, her body curling in on itself as she lay her child gently in her lap. Her blood still dripped from her wrists, staining the water dark red. She stared blankly ahead, the weight of her grief pressing down on her, suffocating her, pulling her deeper into the void.
She couldn't feel anything but the unbearable loss. The world outside ceased to exist. There was no Victor. No Birdy. No noise, no life—nothing but the silence of her broken heart.
She cradled her child, rocking gently as if he were only sleeping. Tears streamed down her face, her voice a quiet, broken whisper as she slipped further from reality.
"Please... come back to me..."
She was going to name him Sevic.