Disclaimer: I don't not own Morganville Vampires. Rachel Caine does.

Chapter 1

I hate walking home of a night time!

I had just left from working with Myrnin, well after hours because I was really caught up in this new project has going on. You never now what to expect with his experiments and I never know how they work they just do.

When I got to work this afternoon he was working on something that looked a lot like a vacuum but obviously wasn' thing you will learn very quickly when Myrnin is around is that nothing is EVER what I seems.

I was two blocks away from home when I was hit on the back of the head and everything went dark.

Eve P.O.V

Claire is over an three hours late in getting home. She is never that late, and hour at best.

When Michael got home I was panicking and rushing through the door to my car to go and find her.

"What's going on?" he asked jumping in the passenger seat.

"I'm going to find Claire, she's late. She's never this late and Shane won't help me. I'm gonna start by going to Myrnin's to find out when she left."

I'm about a block and a half away from home when Michael tenses up and his eyes flash red.

"I smell blood." He says and my blood runs cold. Please don't let it be Claire.

About another half block away I pull over next to the sidewalk. There is someone slumped against the fence.

"Oh god, it's Claire." Michael says rushing over to her side.

"CLAIRE!" I scream running to them. "Is she hurt bad? What happened?"

"A vampire happened,I can't tell who. She's bleeding at the back of her head, we need to get her to the hospital now!" he says picking her up and disappearing into the dark.

I quickly get back in the car and follow.

Tenses minutes later I arrive at Morganville's only hospital and find Michael pacing the waiting room and chewing on his lip.

"What's happening? Have you called Shane?" he shook his head.

"They're still working on her and no I haven't."

"I'll do that now then." I told him and moved to the corner of the room and pulled out my phone.

He answered after five rings. "…ello?"

"were you just asleep? Don't answer that I know you were. You ditched helping me find your girlfriend for sleep?"

"I assume you calling means you found her? Let me guess, she was with Myrnin." He sounded both annoyed and smug at the same time.

"No smartass, Michael and I found her unconscious, bitten and bleeding on the sidewalk two blocks from home. Now if you care at all, get off your god damned lazy as and get to the hospital. Now!" I snapped and hung up just as the doctor came around the corner.

"Claire Danvers?" he called.

"How is she?" Michael asked walking over to him.

"Are her parents around?"

"No, her family are on the outside and don't know about us." I told him. "What's going on?"

"I'm sorry, but without her parents around I need to speak with her protector. They need to be here before I can't do or say anything else." The doctor said then turned and left.

"Asshole. You go get Amelie, I will stay here and wait for Shane." I told Michael as I was on one of the hard plastic chairs near the door.

XxX

Turns out Amelie and Myrnin cared more about Claire then Shane did. While he took thirty minutes to get here, they took ten. Ten whole minutes after they arrived, Shane did.

It was silent in the waiting room, Michael and I sat in silence ignoring Shane while waiting for Amelie, why was speaking with Claire's doctor, to come and inform us in what was going on.

A few minutes later they came back over to us and I swear Myrnin looked like he was going to cry, which is strange because every time I see him he's all hyper and bouncing all over the place. Not to mention you can't understand a word he is saying, the only person that can understand him and mildly control him is Claire.

"What's going on? Why does he look like that?" Shane said looking from Myrnin to Amelie.

"Claire is in a coma, they don't believe she will wake up. She has crash four times already, they said the next time she crashes she won't pull through because her heart can't handle anymore stress." Amelie said looking rather upset. A look I only saw on her once before and that was when Sam Glass, Michaels grandfather, died.

"What does that mean?" I asked numbly leaning into Michael.

"It means that our young Claire, will die." Myrnin said and sat in a chair in the corner pulling on his hair.

"Can we see her?" I Asked.

"I wanna see her first." Shane said and I glared at him "She's my girlfriend." He stated like that solved everything.

"Oh, so now you care?" I asked incredulously "So tell me, where were you when I asked for help in finding her? Huh? You haven't even spoken to her in days, it's your fault this happened. If you hadn't been treating her like crap the past few days she wouldn't have taken extra hours to avoid you." I yelled.

"That's enough Eve. Just let him say his goodbyes and leave." He said to me and turned to Shane "You've got five minutes, any longer I'm coming to get you and throwing you out myself." He glared at him then stalked down the corridor, following the doctor to where Claire was being held.

XxX

"Hey Claire Bear, I'm so sorry I didn't come for you sooner. Maybe if I did this wouldn't have happened.

You're the best friend I have ever had or ever will have and I love you like you were my sister.

I hope they find whoever did this to you, they deserve to rott whether they are human or vampire.

I'll miss you so much. Goodbye." I whispered holding her hand with tears streaming down my face. I stood and kissed her forehead and left the room.

Walking back to the waiting room where Michael, Myrnin and Amelie were waiting, I walked straight up to Amelie ignoring everyone else.

"Change her."