Chapter 1.
Claire had been avoiding Shane as much as she could.
She hated keeping secrets from him but Myrnin had been very persistent, not to mention frank.
"Claire you can't tell Shane" Frank's crackly voice had said through her cellphone.
"I don't won't to upset him even more then I've already done" Frank had been a terrible father to Shane most his life.
He'd been a drunk that didn't care about anyone,leaving Shane to take care of the family instead. Then bishop had turned him into a vampire and that had only made everything much worse. Shane wasn't a part of the vampire fan club, he despised them.
After their house had burned down Shane and his parent's had been allowed to leave,
but his mother had begun to remember things from Morganville no outsiders should know about, she had made Shane and his dad remember too.
But the vampires had found out about her so they killed her and made it look like a suicide.
Shane had been so sad and angry that he decided to make a plan, he would go back to Morganville and when the time was right call his dad and he would bring some of his drinking buddies and they would kill of the vampires.
Of course nothing never really goes as planned.
"just promise me you won't tell Shane" Frank's voice said.
I stood motionless in front of a brain in a jar that used to be inside a skull, Frank's skull but somehow it managed to still be alive and transmit it's voice over to my cellphone.
Some weird science/alchemy Myrnin had figured out how to do.
Claire knew she was supposed to be freaking out because a brain with no body was talking to her but she wasn't- she'd already been through this with Ada, Myrnin's previous assistant. They had supposedly been in love, but Myrnin had been very sick with the bishop disease so he'd drained her, but he hadn't been able to let her go so he cut out her brain and wired it to the machine- she was freaking out because it was frank's brain.
Okay she was kind of also freaking out about the whole thing altogether.
She really hadn't wanted anyone else to suffer this fate.
Claire had tried building a machine that could control the town but something had gone wrong and people had started loosing their memories, and that's how we got in this situation in the first place.
A guilty part of her was happy it wasn't her brain in the jar, but this was still to much for Claire to handle at four a clock in the morning.
"have you lost your mind!" she burst out and turn to stare at Myrnin instead.
"claire please this was the only way it could be done, we tried your way and it didn't work, besides he was dying anyway, this way no one else will have to get hurt" he justified.
"you've put his brain in a jar!" she yelled.
"yes" Myrnin said calmly. How could he be so calm about this?
It was all just to much, she had to get out of there.
She turned to leave, walking up to the portal and thinking of the glass house when Myrnin said "you'll keep this a secret, won't you?" Claire turned to look at him. He had a a more demanding than pleading look on his face.
Claire said nothing, just walked through the portal and into her home.
She couldn't sleep after the big news and besides Shane was in her bed, if she walked into her room and accidentally woke him up now he would know something was wrong.
She couldn't tell him this, as bad of a father Frank had been, Shane had still loved him even though he wouldn't ever admit to that, and he was still dealing with the fact that his dad was gone for good.
Besides -a guilty part of her thought- it really isn't her secret to tell.
She kept telling herself that, but it didn't help much, there were still a pressure in her heart.
So what do you think? Tell me if I should continue.
