Weeping Angels in Morganville

Claire woke up to the sounds of birds outside her window. Oddly nice and peaceful which in Morganville is as weird as waking up to the sound of unicorns on your roof. She rolled over to Shane who was still fast asleep. He looked so peaceful she didn't want to wake him, so she very carefully slid off the bed without waking him and went to her drawer and pulled out a pair of jeans and a old, but cute looking blue top and very quietly dressed and left the room. She beat Eve and Michael to the bathroom and quickly brushed her teeth and washed her face before Eve could come banging on the door.

She went downstairs to start making the coffee. Which to her surprise, Michael hadn't done yet. He was always the first one up and drinking coffee. Claire must have woken up more early then she thought. She started the Coffeemaker and waited until it filled up, made herself a cup and went to go and get the mail. She unlocked the door and walked out to find it was going to be another hot day in Morganville, not a surprise. She got it from the mailbox and walked back up the steps closed and locked the door behind her, walked through the Parlor which none of them ever really spent time in. She went and sat in a dusty, older looking chair and started shifting through the mail. Bills, bills, some junk mail and even more bills. She put them on the small table beside her chair and started drinking her coffee.

She had never really looked around this room much. There was a older looking sofa across from her chair covered in dust. There were chairs stacked up in the corner with an old broken table, all of which were also covered in dust. Someone would have to clean this room sometime, someone being her of course, since the only things any of the others cleaned was the dishes and that was only because if they didn't, they wouldn't have any left to use for tomorrow. She heard someone coming down the stairs and a few seconds later Shane was standing in the hallway, still in his pajama pants holding Claire's cellphone and from the look on his face he didn't like who was on it.

"There you are, what are doing in here? Crazy is on the phone for you." He walked over and handed the phone to Claire who took it.

"Hello? Myrnin? Please tell me you didn't blow up that bomb thing you were working on."

Myrnin sighed, "That's it? No good morning? No how was your day?"

Claire rolled her eyes. "Fine, Good morning Myrnin, how was your day? Did you blow up that bomb thing again?"

"Very good. Thank you, for asking and about that it... seems that I may have a few things to work out with the bomb... so I don't belive it's safe in the lab for you at the moment. You have the day off. I will call tomorrow and let you know if it's safe again." With that he hanged up. Claire sighed and closed her phone just another normal talk with Myrnin.

"What did he want?" Claire jumped and looked up to find Shane in the hallway he changed into jeans and was holding a cup of coffee staring at her.

Claire looked down at her phone. "He blew up yet another bomb so I get the day off."

Shane shook his head. "I wish I could get off work that easy. What are you going to do for the day?"

"Well..." She looked around the room. "I suppose I could clean up this room... I don't think anyone ever has."

Shane looked around. "I'm sure someone has... maybe Michael's great great great grandmother when she first moved in." Claire laughed, which made Shane smile. He walked over to Claire. "Are you going to be okay here by yourself, Miss Collins? Should I call off for today?" A shiver went through Claire every time he called her that. It had been two months since they were married, but she was still surprised and happy every time someone called her it.

"No... that is unless you want to help clean?"

Shane put his hands up in defense. "On second thoughts, I think I'll stick to fixing cars." He bent down and kissed Claire, a slow and amazing kiss. It could have lasted forever until Shane's watch beeped. He pulled back to look at it. "Damn, I'm going to be late. See you in a few hours?" Claire picked up the mail and stood up.

"I'll be here covered in dust if you need me." Shane kissed her on the lips one last time, then went out the door. Claire went out to the living room just as Michael and Eve were leaving it.

"Sorry CB, we slept in, I gotta drop Michael off before I go to work so see you later! Lock the door behind us!" Claire did and watched through the window as Eve's hearse pulled out of the drive into the streets. Claire sighed and went to the kichen closet and got out anything she may need from cleaners to brooms to dusters, found her iPod and went to start work on the room.

4 hours later, the room looked way better. The chairs and sofas were dust free and put in order and the floor was clean. It looked like a new room. Claire was covered in dust and cleaner, she needed to get a shower, but first she wanted to find some decor for the room. She went out the kitchen door to the shed in the backyard which no one ever spent anytime in. It was just where they put stuff none of them used. She opened the shed and found it packed with more stuff then she could remember. It took about another hour to go through, but she found some cool stuff one of which was a life size statue of a Angel with its hands over its eyes like it was weeping. It looked pretty old and Claire had no idea where it came from but it would look good in the empty corner.

She found a boxmover and manged to roll it into the house and into the corner of the Parlor. She set up the tablecloth and other little things and took one final look around the room. Odd. She could have sworn the Angel had its hands over its eyes but now it was up as if asking something in class. Claire must have breathed in too much dust. She went upstairs and got a shower. (Authors Note)= ( SHOUT OUT to the Amazing TheWolf 32 Who Was My Beta! She did a AWESOME Job! Sorry I didn't really get to the action yet but trust me The next chapter will have a lot of everything! So stay tuned!)