She stepped forward braced herself and took a deep breath as she walked up to the door.

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Elena and clay sat entwined on the sofa, Elena leaning heavily on clay's shoulder, clay holding Elena around her waist. Neither spoke, both just sat in comfortable silence enjoying each other's company, something that Elena thought was very rare so should be taken advantage of. After just getting back from warning a mutt to move on from Brooklyn everyone was tired. It wasn't the warning itself that was tiring, no, with clay there no words where even needed, it was the traffic and queuing for food that left everyone drained especially in the heat.

The calm lasted for what felt like ever, it was pure bliss. Then the door bell rang echoing throughout the silent house, clay swore under his breath but didn't make any attempt to move, no one did everyone they knew didn't need to ring for entrance so he didn't care who it was. Soon the ringing stopped and they assumed that whoever the human was they'd given up...they were wrong.

Around the same time the next day the doorbell rang, this time Elena answered it, not because it was what you were meant to do when a doorbell rang but just out of curiosity. Elena opened the door, a warm breeze sweeping at her feet as it fell open. The wind blowing hair all over her face so for a moment she couldn't see who was in front of her. Elena spat her hair out of mouth, moved it away from her eyes and then stopped, frozen when she caught sight of the visitor. A young girl, about 18 stood before her, beautiful long blonde hair flowing in the wind with bangs just covering the tops of her eyes. She was beautiful, thin with model looks but that wasn't what shocked Elena, it was her bright blue eyes, so familiar it scared her a little. She gave the girl a weak smile and got one in return.

"Is there a Clayton Danvers here?"

Elena thought for a moment before she spoke, who would want to know where clay was? The only thing she could think of was some over eager college student wanting to see the man behind the papers or some ex-student who hadn't gotten over her crush and was now taking it a bit too far, sounds over the top but it wouldn't be the first. He may hate it, but clay got a lot of female attention. She knew she should lie or at least say he wasn't in and take an aggressive approach to make sure she didn't come back but there was something about her that made her want to see where it was going.

"Yeah, one minute..." Elena reverted back into the house walking slowly to the living room trying to decide what to say.

"Clay, door now"

He glanced at Elena for a moment.

"Who is it?" he said calmly but with suspicion. Stuck Elena said the first thing she could think of.

"Some guy wants you to sign for something, I told him to leave it at the post office in town but he won't budge says it's got to be now" Elena smiled to herself, that actually sounded pretty good she thought.

Clay huffed, and then got to his feet. Elena inhaled a sigh of relief following clay to the door. she knew what he would do if it was just a delivery guy, sign as requested then give 'the look' that meant he wouldn't disturb him at home again. This was different.

Clay rounded the corner slowing when he caught sight of long blonde hair in the door way. He knew it wasn't some postman, yet he didn't stop and turn back, just shot Elena a 'you'll pay for that' look and carried on. The girl caught sight of clay and half smiled, ok definitely school girl crush. She looked extremely nervous fidgeting with her fingers only giving eye contact every so often.

"My name is Lana Andrews and I...I...ok this probably might mean nothing to you because you've moved on and have a life here and everything but I'm not asking for anything I swear..." she continued to ramble on, clay looked bored and about to leave, Elena just looked confused. Lana took a deep breath and started again. She looked up into clays eyes as she spoke not breaking eye contact.

"...I think you're my brother."

She stood there for several minutes fidgeting nervously, waiting for some form of reply but all that followed was silence. It's not that clay was being rude, in fact all signs of annoyance had gone from his face, he was shocked and had no idea how to process this information. Lana looked at her watch made some excuse about deadlines and started for the gate before turning back.

"I get this is a lot to take in so I'm gonna go, I'll be at the bear lodge motel for the next two days room 226 if you wanna talk I'll be there, if not ill take the hint and go and you won't hear from me again. Either ways fine...ok so...bye." she gave a brief nod to Elena and headed to a car parked just outside.