I'm being bad by starting another but... oh well I don't own Morganville.

He watched as her chest repeated the pattern of rising and falling. He focused on her slow but steady heart beat. His hands were clenched tightly in fist. He didn't want to think about the time left or that after he left he would never be the same.

If it were not for her plea that she did not wish to turn he would have done it. It was killing him knowing he could save her but at the cost of going against her wishes. His mind kept whispering that she would eventually forgive him even if it took a few years. He bit the inside of his cheek tasting his own blood.

It was all he could do to remain sane. No he would honor her wish and he would leave here broken when it was over. Perhaps he would murder everyone vampire and human in this town so she wouldn't be going alone. He shook his head, she his kind hearted little bird would never forgive him if he did that.

His mind went back to all the events that had led to this time and moment. From the first day he saw the small girl. He hadn't thought much of her at first. Though even then he had a strong want to protect the innocent girl.

It was ironic that most of the time it ended up being her protecting him. Even when she hadn't known it. She had saved him in more than one way and more than one time. Yet here he was forced to watch her in her last moments.

The small little girl... Claire had soon proven she was much more than anyone could have imagined. She was brave and often the first to take a stand to protect this town which held people she loved. She was all that was good in this world and yet here she was dying. The world was taking her from him and he wanted to damn the whole thing to the farthest depths of hell and then some.

He cursed in his head why couldn't it have been him instead. He briefly got the idea of following her when she passed but he knew she would not like that. She had told him she wished for him to live on and find happiness. Did she not understand that she was his happiness and that without her he could never be happy again.

The day he first found out that she was ill she had asked him what would you do if I was gone. He had replied immediatly he would find her. When she said not like that what will you do when I'm dead and gone. He hated hearing those words slip out of his little birds mouth.

Yet he answered her. "If that were to happened I would follow you." He was serious and he saw that she knew he was. So she tried to make him promise not to.

She told him if she ever left this earth she wanted him to find happiness again. He had told her he would find her no matter what. For everything has to die eventually even vampires. It was only when he had taken her home that night that she finally told him.

He cried and he didn't care who saw at that moment. That was also the night she said the words he had longed to hear from her. She confessed that she loved him. Yet she said she could not change even if she loved him.

He of course spent weeks months even trying to change her mind. God she was still so young. Only eighteen. Which wasn't even a fraction to the years he had lived even if he had been frozen at age 25.

She was said to have a year at most so they spent that time doing everything she wished to before her time was up. Only the last two items would never happen and that killed him. If she would just wake and tell me I could change her that she changed her mind and wanted to live is what he kept thinking.

Hell he even prayed for the first time in hundreds of years. Prayed that some miracle would save this girl that he loved more than anything. Or that she would decide last minute to let him save her. She was leaving behind so many people and they all would prefer her change then die.

Even the boy Shane he had even tried to tell her to turn and he disliked vampires. She didn't dislike them so why was she so damned on staying human. He snapped out of his thoughts as her eye lids fluttered a bit. Immediatly he was at her side.

She slowly opened her eyes to look at the man she loved. "I love you." She whispered to weak to even speak above a whisper. She tried to smile but he knew it was for his sake.

"Claire please... I can't do this I can't live without you." He begged stroking her cheek. "Myrnin I love you. Your strong I want you to live on and.."

He cut her off by gently pressing his lips to hers. His tears falling down and onto her face mixing with her own. "Please I can't... I won't I refuse to live in a world without you." He whispered against her lips.

Suddenly she couldn't bare to part with him. She had kept it in this whole time saying it was for his sake but now she felt all those hidden feelings pour out of her weak body. "I don't want to die it's not fair! I just got you I don't want to lose you now!" She finally admitted the words in her heart they came out as a cry.

For once she wanted to be selfish. That was all he needed to hear. He gently lifted her cradling her close to him. He lowered his lips to her neck and bestowed upon her imortality.