"The Wraith in Morganville"
Claire stared at machine in front of Her, it was supposed to be boiling but no matter how many times She moved it, replaced parts or hit it, it refused to do anything. Claire sighed and looked at Her watch , It was later then she thought Shane would be on His way home, She went looking for Myrnin which should be easy since the lab only had two rooms but there were wires and random machines all over the floor so you had to watch where you stepped or else you could blow yourself up not to mention the books stacked almost as high as the ceiling
"Myrnin?" " Myrnin I"
There was a blur before He appeared in front of Her "Yes? Did you finish it?"
Claire shook Her head "no matter how many times I try it,.. just leave it alone Ok? I'll be back tomorrow with more ideas"
"Very well though I can't make any promises"
Claire walked to the door and grabbed Her backpack "Just try to not to break it"
"How can I possibly break it if it doesn't even work?"
"Just..I'll see You tomorrow"
"Very well good day Claire"
She walked up the stairs and made sure to lock the door behind Her before starting to walk home It was a hot day but the sun was setting and she didn't want to be out when it got dark, She had one to many bad experience's with Vampires, She would have to take a shout cut, She turned down a ally and made a lot of turns before she ended up by the graveyard, She hated walking by it, between the ghosts that came and attacked them last year, and a weeping angel experience a few months ago, Claire would be perfectly happy if she never had to see the creepy place again
She was about to speed up when Her foot hit something She looked down and saw a strange pendent on a long bronze chain She picked it up , It had a strange symbol on it, it kind of looked like a Y with two lines across its bottom, It had the same thing on the other side and it was the same size as the palm of Claire's hand not to mention heavy with two rocks with designs on them attached to the chain, who ever lost this would have noticed if it fell off, and the chain wasn't broken which meant somebody must have put it here on purpose, but why? What did the symbol mean? Claire would have studied it more but it started to burn in Her hand, She yelped and dropped it back on the ground, it was probably hot from laying on the hot cement,but still Claire jumped over it started jogging home
She would have to try to look up the symbol, maybe it was Greek? It was by the graveyard maybe someone meant to put it by someone's grave, maybe the symbol means something about peace after death or something, Claire was so distracted She almost ran right past the glass house, She quickly ran up the stairs and opened the door where Shane was waiting for Her
"There You are, I was about to go out looking for You, You cut it a little close don't you think?"
" Sorry I was working late trying to fix the machine that refuses to work and got distracted on the way and had to jog"
Shane cut Her off by kissing Her, a soft sweet kiss before pulling away just far enough from Her lips to say
"You work to much, but I won't get mad as long as you promise to answer your phone next time"
"Oh ..right I had it on silent, but ..I promise I'll call next time"
"alright well then should we celebrate with chili?"
"That depends on how much garlic you put in it"
"Just enough to kill a vamp or two" He pulled back and winked at Her,
Claire rolled Her eyes and smiled "Well as good as that sounds I'm exhausted, I think I'm gonna turn in early"
Shane sighed "alright miss no fun if that's how you want to spend a Friday night"
Claire laughed "because you have such amazing plans?"
Shane nodded "Well..I did..If you would have went somewhere or done something with me "
"I'm sorry how about tomorrow?"
"Alright but no getting out of it again"
Claire reached up and kissed Him on the cheek "I won't, Tomorrow I'm all Yours"
Shane leaned down and kissed Her one last time "okay, goodnight miss Collins"
Claire smiled "goodnight"
She turned and walked up the stairs to Her bedroom, She changed into pajama shorts and one of Shane's old T-shirts before flopping on the bed, She didn't realize just how tired She was but within seconds She was Fast asleep.
Claire woke to Her hand Burning, She sat up and turned on a lamp, She looked down at it and saw the symbol from the pendent, it burned into her hand, How could it possibly just now be leaving a burn? It started to hurt even more, Claire looked over at Shane who was fast asleep, She didn't want to wake Him, She quietly slid off the bed and snuck out of the room and down to the kitchen for some ice, as soon as She put it on the burn it felt better, but it wasn't going away.
She started walking back to Her room when She saw Michael on the couch watching TV, She walked over and sat down next to him
"what are you watching?"
Michael looked over at Claire "Just some music show, the bigger question is why are you up this late?"
Claire raised Her hand in response "I seemed to have burned My hand"
Michael looked confused " and How did You do that in your bedroom?"
"I don't really understand it myself, on my way home from work I found a pendent of some kind and it was hot, but it just know started to burn on my hand"
Michael moved the ice and stared at the burn "What does that symbol mean?"
"I have no idea"
"I don't like it..You should get it checked out in the morning"
"I will"
Michael turned off the T.V "And we should both probably go to bed before our spouse's notice were gone"
"Agreed"
They walked up stairs and to there rooms where Claire fell asleep as fast as before.
Claire woke to the sound of braking glass She jumped up and saw a ghost like phantom wearing a black robe headed straight for Her, She jumped out of bed trying to find a weapon but before she could grab her stake it got some kind of force on her, She turned and saw it in front of Her, It had zombie looking hands with half skin half bone reaching out for her And on It's neck was the pendent with the same symbol, Claire's heart was racing, She try'd to move back but It started to pull her in, She Heard Shane yell something
and then Claire burst into pain.
And it all went black.
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