A secret of my own

Disclaimer: I do not owe any parts of the The Morganville Vampires, or the characters - This is all Rachel Caine's amazing work! Except this story line of course that is 100 % my work

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Chapter 2 – Once again

Claire's POV

I jumped of the couch, ran up the stairs and directly into Eve's bedroom. Michael was already there, looking down on Eve's bed, but not at Eve because she wasn't in her bed. Instead Eve stood in the corner in the other side of the room, as far away from the bed as possible. What the hell, I thought.

Just when I was going to ask the first one of my 10.000 questions, I had in my thoughts at that very moment, Shane appeared in the room.

"Everyone's alright?" he asked a little out of breath. He had probably been running too, just as I did.

"Yeah everything's fine, it's just Eve that chicken!" Michael almost spat out.

"What happened?" I finally asked.

"I was asleep but then I felt something on my hand. Spider! A giant spider was crawling right on my hand. Who wouldn't have screamed? Huh?" Eve almost yelled.

I couldn't argue with her. I would have done exactly the same thing. Clearly the guys thought the same, or at least accepted Eve's actions on the spider-episode, because none of them said anything.

"Did you find it Michael?" I asked.

"No. Unfortunately not, but I'm pretty sure it want come back after that scream." He answered.

I couldn't argue with this neither.

"Well… If that was it, I think I will go back to bed. It's still way too early for me." Shane said, breaking the silence. But before he went on, he gave me his typical little nod and smile, which I right away, knew was an invitation for me to follow.

The chance for me to actually fall asleep again, was probably bigger if I vent with Shane to his room. Plus his bed was ten times more comfortable than the couch and a lot bigger.

But just as I turned around I realized something! This scream, Eve's scream, was the scream I had already heard. There was no doubt at all, I knew it was the same. I remembered every single detail about it, about both of them, and they were the exact the same scream. A wave of dizziness hit me right away. I grabbed the door frame fast, and just as I stabilised myself, the dizziness disappeared again. It went so quick that I wasn't even sure it had happened.

Shane stood outside his bedroom door, looking down in the ground, so he probably hadn't seen anything. Thank God.

Eve's bedroom door got closed behind me, as I walked completely out the door and closer to Shane. He looked up right away.

"Soooo… Why don't you, you know. Uhmm. Spend the rest of the night, or morning, or whatever this is…" Shane said, or rather tried to say.

If I thought I'd been babbling earlier, when we had our discussion, it was nothing compared to his babbling now.

"Shane. Yeah, I would like to sleep the rest of the night together with you."

A small smiled showed on his beautiful lips and together we walked into his room. None of us said anything. We just went to bed, holding hands, with a smile on both of our faces. And just before everything turned completely dark for my eyes, I felled a kiss on my forehead. I'm pretty sure I fell asleep with a smile on my lips.

…

The next morning, the smile was still on my lips. I turned around in the Shane's big, warm arms to see if he was awake. He wasn't. Silently I slipped out of bed, and went into the bathroom to take a quick shower, before I went to my own room and change into some clean clothes.

Michael and Eve were already up and in action. Eve was setting the table in the living room, and Michael was in the kitchen making egg and bacon. The smell of the breakfast was amazing.

For the first time in forever, I actually felt like everything was good. After Shane and I went back to bed last night, after the spider-episode, I only had one dream. And the best about it was the fact that it was a dream, not a nightmare like the scream. The dream was a normal morning and all four of us were enjoying the breakfast in each other's company. Michael broke a plate because he apparently thought he was a little bit too good to serve, but that was the only 'bad' thing that happened. It was actually a really sweet dream.

"Good morning Claire, slept well after everything? You know what I mean." Michael asked, smiling.

"Yeah I did. I actually had a very sweet dream." I answered smiling by the thought of the dream.

"Nasty, Claire! Michael and I do not need to hear about your sex dream with Shane!" Eve laughed.

"Wait what?!" I almost yelled in shock.

"That was not at all what I meant by sweet dream Eve! I'm not that disgusting, what do you think of me?" I continued embarrassed.

And that was when it hit me that Eve was just joking since she was still laughing. When I first moved in here, it took me a very long time to learn the Glasshouse-humour, but after a while I got used to it. But sometimes I still forgot it, as in this moment.

Michael and I joined Eve's laughing, and there didn't go long before we were all out of breath with happy tears sliding down our cheeks. Eve and I even laughed so much so we ended up rolling around on the floor.

"What the hell is going on in here?"

I rose from the kitchen floor to confirm that it was Shane. It was of course.

"Uhmm…" I started, but didn't know what else to say. Instead Eve, Michael and I just laughed a little more.

"Never mind Shane, not important." I finally said with a big smile.

Together all four of us brought the last things to the table in the living room, such as glass, napkins and of course the food.

Eve, Shane and I had just taken a seat when Michael came through the kitchen door with the last plates, and that was when it happened.

Michael's right elbow hit the door frame and the plate he was carrying in the right hand, flew out of his grab. It landed hard on the floor and broke in about a million pieces.

I think Michael yelled "ouch", and Eve and Shane also said something, but what they said I wasn't so sure about. It was like I got pulled through a cloud. Every sound became blurred and my vision went blank. It wasn't because I couldn't see anything; because my eyes were wide open, but it just… To be honest I didn't know what on earth was happening to me. The only thing I was sure about, was that the scream-episode couldn't impossible be a coincidence anymore. Something weird was going on. Something with me. Something that shouldn't be happening.

When I finally was finished by being pulled through the cloud, Michael, Eve and Shane was all on the floor. They were obviously trying to find all the pieces of the plate, and of course the food there also was all over the floor now.

I didn't know what to do, so just like yesterday I lied.

"Uhmm… Sorry guys but Myrnin just texted me, I need to go to the lab right away, hope you'll be fine. Sorry." I said, running out the room and out the door.

What the hell was going on with me? Could I really see into the future? No. It wasn't like that.

I decided to go to Myrnin, even though what I said about the text was just a lie. At least this way, it wasn't so much of a lie. Right now I just needed to get a little bit away from the Glasshouse.

Soooo, that was chapter 2! Can Claire see into the future? Well, she obviously doesn't think so herself. But then what is going on? Maybe you'll find out in chapter 3, which will be uploaded asap, so how about following this story? Or maybe just review?

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