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Disclaimer: All rights go to Rachel Caine I do not own The Morganville vampires or its characters, I just like playing around with it :)


4 years ago

"Erm, Egypt's not it's own continent it's a country Africa..."

Laughing.

"You small, little nerd." Smack!

Those syllables were what set Claire off, she just couldn't help herself but interfere with the not even, 3 against one fight evolving. The dumb, fake girl named Monica used the same meaning words in the same sentence while bullying Sophie Anderson a petite girl, with glasses just for correcting her.

"Are you actually stupid?" Monica turned around stunned. "Or just showing off because there's "hot" jocks around you? You've already been corrected once today need you be corrected again for using small and little in the same context, honey they mean the same thing."

Even more laughing, Monica's face filling with embarrassment, Claires with satisfaction of bringing the attention to her instead of poor Sophie.

Monica composed herself quickly." Honey, the question is do you know who your fucking with?"

"No and I really don't care, all I care about is that you are picking on someone just for being smarter than you. At least Sophie's going to go somewhere and earn money, instead of gaining money from daddy's big pay check." miss a punch. "Oops, Monica you missed, Here let me teach you."

Left punch, right...


It was all over at that point for Claire a 12-year-old English girl who'd moved to Morganville 5 months ago. That was her last warning, Gone. No more fighting they had said, no more standing up to what you believe in even if it's right, they told her. Nothing.

She ignored them though. Defined against her parents, teachers even neighbours that told her to stop, change who she was.

That was the last straw, beating up the mayor of Morganville's daughter. She'd have to move again; leave her best friend Alyssa Collins, the only light in her life...


"You know why your going back to England right?"Claires mother asked, disgust her voice.

Claire gave her mother and father sitting in front of a dirty look. "Because you hate me."

That earned Claire a hard, cold smack.

"No because you are a little brat, a bad child, a sporn of Lucifer himself. we can't say we didn't try to wash you of your sins, show you the light, the ways of God." Claires mother shook her head.

Claire had tears welling up in her eyes. She'd been called these names before, hell she'd been called worse but it doesn't mean she liked it. Nope

Claire was sent up to the box room, they made her call a bedroom.

She cried, she cried her eyes out till no more drops came and she fell asleep. Today will be the last time I cry, today will be the last time I shed a tear for anyone especially them Claire thought.

Honk Honk. The taxi had arrived her "parents" didn't even bother to drive her to the borders of Morganville let alone the airport, Oh well she preferred it that way.

She got in and looked out the window while the taxi pulled away from her old house; her parents didn't even wave just stared at her motionless.

"Goodbye Lyss, Sorry I didn't get to say bye." Claire whispered.