This is a story about Morganville Vampires by Rachel Caine. I hope you enjoy it :)
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"Claire?" Myrnin stepped towards Claire, who was concentrating intensely on their new project, a new programme for Myrnins computer.
Claire jumped, she had forget she wasn't alone. She looked round, her eyes on level with Myrnins chest, who was now stood closely behind her, gazing at the programme she has been working on for the last three hours.
"Yes?" She asked Myrnin, looking up to his face. She couldn't tell what he thinking, although she never really could.
He looked down at her, smiling. "It is half past ten, you are free to leave now, your work here is done, for tonight."
"Oh. I hadn't realised how late it was. Yeah I better go, Shane will be worried…" She replied, not breaking his gaze. Myrnin looked away, his smile disappearing. He walked towards his favourite armchair in the corner of his dimly-lit room, taking a thick, old, yellowing book and opened it to the page he last left it at.
Claire closed down the programme, saving it first. She turned off Myrnins modern computer, which didn't completely fit in with the rest of his lab, and grabbed her coat off the table. She looked back at Myrnin, who was still concentrating on his book, and walked towards the portal. She took her backpack and swung it over her shoulder. "Myrnin, can you open me a portal please; it's too cold to be walking home in?" She asked him hopefully. Claire didn't like opening portals; the physics of it still confused her, and after working on the computer so hard it had left her with the start of a headache. And it also was unbelievably cold at night.
Myrnin looked up from his book at Claire. She had changed so much since he first met her. Back then she was just a child, not fully used to the world around her. But now… well, now she understood. And Myrnin now looked at her in a completely different light.
"Of course." He stood up, placing his book down, and walked towards Claire. A portal formed in front of her. She smiled up at him. "Thanks." And then she disappeared, back into the Glass House.