Summary

- Magnus rose to the new power in town, Amelie seems mortally wounded, chaos is imminent in Morganville if not Claire and friends stop the new evil - a continuation of Last Breath

Claire enters Myrnin's lab thru the portal where he anxiously waited for her. She still has not forgotten, that her sometimes crazy boss tried to kill her boyfriend and be it only because of orders from Amelie.

"I think I got it Claire! I really think I did it." Myrnin rushed over to Claire to show her a suspiciously looking vial with greenish fluid in it.

"I do not know exactly, how much we need, but I prepared 30 vials of it."

"You got the cure for Amelie?" , Claire was excited. Amelie was not a friend per say, but an authority in every way, someone you had to respect no matter what. "

No, not...that, ...but", Myrnin stepped closer to Claire, " but I got the cure to get rid of Magnus." he was full of anticipation and looking for approval from Claire .

"How do you know this will work?" Claire was observing the little bubbles rising in the vial. It looked to her more like the little kids toy Slimey, she used to play with it, when she was 10, but she was sure, whatever it was, certainly wasn't as harmless.

Myrnin opened the vial and took with a small scoop, some of the greenish fluid dropped it into a petrie dish, which was labeled "Magnus" . As soon as the liquid hit the sample, it started to violently hiss and smoke, and within a few seconds, the sample, which was a blood sample obtained from Amelie with Magnuses DNA separated, turned rock hard as zement and slowly brittled away.

"Wow!" Claire was amazed. Whatever it was, it might do the job. " But how do you want to administer it? I doubt, he won't let you just walk up to him and inject it"

"You are absolutely right, my little Claire. That's why I developed this one to go with it" Myrnin pulled out of his baggy pants something, that looked very much like a small nerve gun, just instead of small foam bullets in the chamber, it had 10 vials inserted.

" I have three of them. If we are able to put all three chambers in him at pretty much the same time, we should be able to destroy him - in theory" Myrnin seemed very pleased with himself, but he eagerly looked at Claire, like he was waiting for an approval from her.

Claire smiled at him, she just couldn't resist his boyish smile, " Yes, I think it might work..." , but how anybody could get close to Magnus, was a big mystery to Claire, but she felt bad even mentioning that to Myrnin. He really tried hard to gain her trust again, and she still wasn't sure if she could, but she knew, that he never would do anything against her or her friends - again!

Suddenly, Myrnin opened his arms and hugged Claire. Claire did not know what to do, he felt very cold and stiff, but how awkwardly it was, she did not mind it. Yes, he was her crazy boss, yes, he was a vampire and yes, he tried to kill Shane, but deep down, she also knew that Myrnin was good and he was a friend. Myrnin looked down at her and smiled

" I knew you would like it..." , he said and continued to smile. Claire started to feel a bit uncomfortable , why wouldn't Myrnin let her go? She just wanted to say something, when Shane said it for her

" Let her go, Myrnin, or I show you how I can put a stake thru you! "

" Shane! ? He did not do anything! He just..." Claire could not finish, because Shane pushed Myrnin hard, very hard. If Myrnin didn't have a vampire equilibrium, he would have topped over and fell right on Claire.

" Are you crazy Shane?" , Claire said very quietly. " Why did you do that? He didn't do anything and I do not like your stupid jealousy" Claire felt guilty , that she didn't stop Myrnin earlier, but Shane's growing jealousy made her more and more angry.

" So, you liked it?" , Shane replied ," ...you want to hang out more with this bloodsucker?"

Claire did not say anything nor did she want to. She told him a million times how much she loved him, she forgave him almost as much,..., but now, she run out of words. Shane turned and left thru the still open portal back into the Glass House. ..to be continued