So glad to see you reading this and Echo's I'm glad you liked it I wanted to put a twist on these oh and if you would be so kind everyone knows the DUHNG DUNH from Law and Order please please think of that when I change scenes it makes everything SO MUCH BETTER because I am terrible and story ensues DUHNG DUNH
Present – Claire
I bit down on my tongue as I tugged once again at the chains. Not even a budge and I thought I heard something snap in my wrist. I didn't care I stopped feeling hours ago. The only time my hands were free were when he came to feed me. And he never left. He watched me as though I was a piece of meat. Which in a way I was. I thought getting bit was the most emotional and physical pain I had ever endured. That was only a joke now. I stopped crying. I stopped fighting. I knew it was no use. The fact I escaped the first time was because he let me. He took my necklace. Broke it in fact after it sprayed him in the face causing him to go on a rampage and use me as the dummy. From what I could assess two of my ribs were broken, at least four fingers were cracked; my head throbbed when I tried to focus or even think. I looked around and finally managed to spit out the gag. I coughed and my throat responded with a fury of pain. I tried listening once again for anything that would tell me where I was, but it was the same still silence that surrounded me since my time here. I lost track of how long I was gone. I couldn't decipher if it was day or night. It was all the same. I heard voices on the other side of the door and quickly tried to get my gag back on. He stepped through and I cringed at the light. I tried to get a look at what the outside looked like, but there were only white walls surrounding the entire door frame. He had a tray and I could faintly smell something in the air besides the dank musk of dust and mold. I hadn't been able to smell correctly since the last time.
"Oh dear sweet Claire, you have been so good recently. I have decided to reward you." I cringed knowing his rewards were very different from mine.
"You're letting me go?" I croaked and he gave despicable laugh.
"Always the fighter uh Pretty." He unclasped my hands and set the tray in from of me. I looked down my appetite lost and only took the water. Which tasted a lot like iron, but I didn't care. I downed the water easily and stared at the food feeling all the water want to come back up. "Aren't you going to eat? You won't get food until breakfast and that is quite a long time from now." He said the last part with something in his voice I couldn't distinguish, but it made me want to hurl. I shook my head and he swiped the tray away it clattered to the floor. I tried to melt into the chair, but it didn't work. He took my hands into a different set of cuffs looking around nervously. "I have decided to get you a more comfortable arrangement. Stand." I did so, but almost fell when my legs decided to give out. He yanked me up and I managed a standing position. We walked to the door. Well he walked I hobbled and dragged myself to the door. He flung it open looking out first then dragged me with him. I closed my eyes because the light hurt too much. I could smell faintly the smell of antiseptic and I opened one eye. It was some sort of hospital arrangement. We trudged a few more doors down and opened one he threw me in and I lost my balance falling on my face into the dark room. The wind was knocked out of me and I turned on my side. I tried to look around, but he flung me up and sat me down on a cot of some sorts. I turned to look up and saw the gleam of his menacing eyes. The eyes I had once found friendly. I wanted nothing to do with him and I took what little saliva the water had allowed me to produce and spat in his face. He growled, but it didn't have the same effect as a vampire growl. He walked out and slammed the door. I sat in inky blackness for god knows how long until I felt a tickle on my ankle. I looked down out of habit and I still couldn't see anything. It crawled ever closer and I felt a tingle on the shoulder I wasn't laying on. I felt a leg on my face and I wanted to scream. The spider crawled onto my chest and looked at me. I looked at it and I never in my 17 years will I ever be so happy to see a spider ever ever again.
"Bob!" I whispered loudly not to draw attention and it made a weird motion with its legs indicating that it indeed was Bob. My heart soared. He found me. He was here. "Bob go get him go lead him here." I shook him off and I could faintly see him scurry off under the door and I was left only hoping that I never tell anyone how happy I was to see something so grotesque.
Twenty Hours Ago – Myrnin
It had been four hours since she had gone missing. I was in a fury looking everywhere for her. No one saw anything. I had ordered Frank to help, but she was somewhere even he didn't have eyes on. I had spent all four of those hours searching until Amelie told me I could no longer search for her. It hurt me to hear that. That I could not search for the one I truly loved. I went through my lab scouring for anything that could be off use. I thought back to when I remembered she was still here. I lay holding her and I remembered she had to get up to go to school. I decided against waking up and I beat myself up for not doing so or this wouldn't have happened. She left a note saying she went to school. It was an outrageously long note for her just saying she went to school. Wait. That note. I went to the trash and dug it out. I looked at it carefully and saw something was off about her hand writing. I went to some of her notes and compared them side by side. Her 'I's were scrambled. Her normally uniform 'I's were sloppy and the dot above it was hurried. That would only mean she wrote this out or pressure. I reread the note once again and the way she worded some things were off. Come on you fool she is sending you a message. I tried as I may and I couldn't think of what kind of code she was working at. I thought back to the time period we were studying. The revolution of early America. What kind of codes did they use? Wait. I rushed over to one of the many shelves and grabbed the book I was looking for. A piece of paper fell out and it had perfectly cut squares in it. Oh Claire I knew I loved you for a reason. I grabbed the paper as it fell and ran back over to her note. I began to scan the paper. I almost gave up when my eyes caught something and I held the key firmly to the note. I read it and growled. I knew I didn't like him for a reason. I reread it.
Myrnin,
If you are reading this this means I have not been found. I want you to know that Barkley has taken me and I don't know what he is planning to do to me. I hope you get this soon. If not, I love you.
Claire.
I crumpled up the paper and stalker over to the portal. I threw it open walking into Amelie's office.
"Myrnin what is it you possess of me?"
"That child took her. He will have to deal with me." I slapped my hands on her desk and a crack appeared in one of the legs.
"Myrnin, what child?"
"Barkley." I sneered and my vision was going red. I knew I didn't like him for some reason.
"Barkley Fields. Why he is just a child. A weak one at that how did you come to this?" She was looking at the crack a little for longingly.
"Claire, the clever girl, left me a clue. In her note. Now I need to find her. Do you know where he lives?" I began and stood back not taking the risk of breaking her desk.
"Do you honestly think he is dumb enough to send her somewhere we would look first chance we got?" She put a hand on her forehead.
"He did study psychology." I paced and tried to think of something that would help me find her.
"Did you try tracking her? You did take her blood." I stopped and looked at her dead on.
"Don't you think that's what I tried first?" I almost screeched. How could she think me so foolish?
"Myrnin now is no time to lo-"
"She has been missing for four hours, longer even if she was taken from my – my –" My voice broke. She was taken from me in the lab and I did nothing about it. I began to hit my head with my hand. I continued until blood welled around my eye and my palm was covered. The blood ran down my face and it was mixed with my tears. "How could I be so stupid?" I started up again and Amelie grabbed my hand.
"No Myrnin stop." She was stronger than I as I struggled. I already began to heal, but the remaining blood still slide down the side of my face. "We will find her." She waited a little bit then let me go. She walked over to her desk and called her secretary. "Bring Oliver in here." She demanded and the secretary said nothing only proceeded to get a hold of Oliver. Amelie hung up.
"What good will he do?" I asked feeling my unbeating heart breaking.
"You say she always goes to Common Grounds for a break yes?" I nodded. "Then maybe she was there and he could have seen something." Within seconds of saying that Oliver burst through the door. I didn't turn around.
"What?" He said with more stern than needed. I couldn't speak. Thankfully Amelie could.
"Claire has gone missing. Did you see her at Common Grounds?" I still couldn't speak or turn around.
"No I'm sorry. I am deeply bothered that we have lost one of our most valued humans." My eyes flared red and I flashed over to him pinning him by the neck to the floor.
"You don't know how valued she really was. Without her the disease would have consumed us, without her the draug would have destroyed us, without her I would have lost all control. So do not tell me how sorry you are!" My hand tightened around his larynx and he tried to scratch at my hands.
"Myrnin…" Amelie said softly. "Let him go. He has done nothing wrong."
"Yet." I spat in his face before giving one last squeeze and letting him go. He coughed and he tried to speak, but it came out as a gargle. I stalked back and forth my anger emanation off of me in tidal waves.
"Oliver did you over hear anything that would have sparked alarm regarding Claire?" He coughed one last time and managed to answer.
"No I hadn't seen or heard anything regarding her." He croaked and rubbed his neck. I stopped pacing.
"When was the last time you saw her?" He shot a glare at me and I dismissed it.
"Not since yesterday afternoon. When she came in for her regular." I continued to pace. We were getting nowhere. I wanted to go out and search the town, but I couldn't. Amelie made sure of that. I stopped again and opened a portal to the Glass house. I stepped through walking into their living room. The young vampire was there.
"Have you heard or seen of Claire recently?" He stood up.
"Why what's wrong? Where is she?" The young girl came down the stairs.
"If I knew would I be asking?" I snapped. The girl stepped back onto the stairs fear was eminent.
"Woah Myrnin calm down. What happened?" The young vampire regarded me like a hostile dog.
"She's gone missing that's what. She was taken by that foolish child." The Goth girl came down the stairs.
"Wait I got a text from her a few hours ago, but it was odd." There was hope.
"Let me see." She nodded clunking up the stairs then back down and handed me the electronic. Hey Eve love and miss you guys always C. I looked at the time stamp. Only an hour ago. I felt something flutter inside me. "She could be alive." I accidently said out loud. Eve made a choking noise and I took the device. "I'll be back I need to trace this." I opened the portal to my lab. I stepped through closing the portal and running to the machine. "Frank I need you to run this text and trace the electric piece so I may locate Claire." I said setting the cellular device on the table. After a few seconds a voice came from the speaker.
"Her phone is off, but I got where she was last. There is a good chance she might still be there. The text was sent an hour ago and she was last in this area fifteen minutes ago…" He had more to say, but I was already looking at the printout of her location. She was under the college. I left through a portal back to Amelie's office. I was still looking at the paper.
"Myrnin what is that?" She asked as I rushed up and showed her.
"She could still be alive." It pained me so to say that. She looked at it and nodded somewhere behind me.
"You go with my guards and take the front. Oliver and I with others will look for anywhere they could escape." I was already moving. I was a blur of motion moving through the sidewalks of Morganville. I finally arrived at the gates of TPU and bolted right in not waiting to see if Amelie's guards were still following. I shot through the masses of humans dallying around. I checked my map once again and saw she was under the science building. Ironic really. I crashed through the doors pushing through the standing humans. A few shouts of anger then silence as they realized I was not some human. I found the stairwell and it was locked on my first try. I backed up and kicked the door down with one good kick. It landed with a bang and I ran down the other flight of stairs leading deeper down. I could smell her in here. Except it was faint. I didn't let myself get discouraged and I continued down. I hit the end of the stairs and a door lay ahead. I tried it and once again it was locked. I repeated my action with the previous door. Same reaction from the door. I looked in. There were boxes stacked everywhere and dust littering everything. I looked at the ground and focused on the footsteps. There was a pair perfectly made whilst the other set was scuffs here and there. I could see the image of Claire being dragged by that wretched being and I shook myself. The scent as before was stale, but I continued. Amelie's guards had caught up and I told them to look around as well. A few feet in I saw pieces of something lie on the floor. It was Claire's cellular. She was here. I angrily kicked a box for not being sooner and a pile of them fell to the ground with a clatter. I stalked out and proceeded to the nearest portal. I stepped through into my lab.
"Frank tell me the places you don't have eyes on." I paced once again. Amelie came via portal into my lab.
"She wasn't there?" She asked.
"No and I'm just pacing because I got the wrong blood type." I clenched my fists. Oliver stepped through with her.
"This is why you should never fall in love." He stated bitterly.
"Do not tell me what to do Oliver. Love is the only emotion that separates us from animals. You only focus on the bad things that happen because of it you never see what joy and greatness can become of it. You will never know." I snarled and Frank finally replied.
"The old hospital, the old high school civic center, and the old tire factory." That means she has to be in one of those. She had to be.
"Good, I'll take the hospital. Oliver the tire factory and we rendezvous back at the civic center." I was going to start off when Amelie halted me.
"Myrnin I'll take the civic center if you take my guards." I shook my head.
"No." I was almost out of the lab.
"Then take them anyways." They materialized and I growled, but didn't say anything. I leapt out of the lab before they could say anything else. I was at the old hospital in no time. I looked up the front side and it glared menacingly back. It had my Claire and I was going to get her back. I was about to open the door when a high frequency screech pierced the air cause all four of us to crumble to the ground in pain. It was the worst thing I had ever experienced. It went into my skull like knives and stayed there imploding like landmines. I curled up on the ground trying to block out the sound but it was no good. After a few minutes it stopped and my ears were gushing blood. I felt light headed and only two of the guards stood up. Oh she was in there for sure. Why would he rig it to distract us? The guards carried the fallen vampire back to my lab and Amelie looked at her fallen soldier and ran over to him. "George no." She whispered and sighed. "What happened?"
"He set up something triggering the door to sound of a frequency that only we can hear. And that is the end result. We must find some –" I was going to finish, but I fainted from blood loss and only remember Amelie looking at me with worry.
xXx
Sixteen Hours Ago – Myrnin
I woke up on my couch and I bolted upright. How long had I been out? My throat closed up with hunger and my fangs snapped down puncturing my lip. I flashed to the kitchen and down four whole bags cold. I stuck another bag in the microwave whilst I waited for the red to clear. I took it out and savored this one. I went to my lab and started to rummage through the drawers. Come on it had to be here somewhere. I didn't have time to make a new – ah! I pulled out the sound canceling device and attached it to my jacket. I didn't want Amelie to find out I left. I put on a hat and heard someone clear their throat.
"Where do you think you're going?" Amelie sat queenly on my chair.
"Out." I began to climb the steps.
"No you're not." She stated coolly.
"Watch me." I made it to the door and four guards faced back at me. "Get out of my way." They didn't move. "Amelie order them to move." She said nothing. "Amelie! Now would be great." I turned around and she was looking at her hand in fascination.
"No you need rest. A good rest." She stood up dusting herself off.
"I don't need rest. I will rest when I find Claire." She clasped her hands in front of her.
"You need your sanity. You must rest. When was the last time you had a rest?"
"That doesn't matter I need to go she could very well be de – "I couldn't get myself to say it. I had just gotten her I didn't want to lose her so soon.
"She wouldn't want you to get yourself killed because you haven't rested. Have you even taken your medication?" I dodged the question knowing I hadn't.
"You can't keep me here." I said softly. "And you can't make me rest."
"Oh but I can. To both." She nodded and a powder wafted in front of me knocking me out cold.
Two Hours Ago – Myrnin
I was going to kill her after I was done with Barnabos. I woke up groggily and I heard my name being called. Claire. I bolted up, my world momentarily fuzzy and rocking, throwing myself out of the shack. I saw her tied up and bruised. Everything about her seemed damaged. Nothing was safe. That meant I got to return the favor to Barney.
"Claire!" I tried to grab her, but he already had her halfway through the portal. He gave a manic smile and yanked her back making me even angrier. So he was the one who had been making strange portals appear then disappear. I knew it. I tried to open one to where she was, but it was no use his lock was greater than mine. I didn't know how he did it, yet all I knew was my anger was even more flared than before. I tried to focus on Claire and her battered body and fell to my knees. I wailed into the fall night and cursed the day I didn't wake up for her. I collected myself and I felt my body take ice as a persona. I walked stiffly back to my lab and grabbed an assortment of knives. I grabbed Bob for help and finally stuffed the knives in my pockets and a portal opened behind me. I took no time to run out. I flashed to the old hospital and turned on the noise canceller. I put it on the approximate setting and was about to touch the door when a hand grabbed my shoulder. I whirled around kicking the person and they flew back. Oliver landed and looked at me.
"I'm here to help." I was shocked to say the least.
"Why do you care?" I said coldly.
"I have a terrible feeling in the pit of my stomach and I have a hunch it will only be resolved if I help you." He stepped forward and I decided it was better than sending Amelie.
"Fine stay with me this is going to hurt." I ran through the glass doors and the noise if it went off at all was silent. I burst down the hallways kicking down every door I came across. Oliver checked the rooms. Not in this wing. I let go of Bob and he scurried away. He knew what to do. He missed her as much as I. Okay not as much, but he did miss her. We continued down and I saw out of the corner of my eye movement. Bob had come back and I picked him up. He jumped out of my hands and hurried down the corridor. I followed.
"We are following a spider?" Oliver said disgusted.
"That's the plan." I said turning the last corner and saw the face I had wanted to tear apart for the past day and a half. Broccoli.
Ok so I finally finished woot woot and I wanted to add a little humor to try and lighten the mood, I hope you liked it so you get one more chappy then I'm callin it quits I gots too many amazing ideas up my sleeve I don't want to scamper away in the wash. Till next chappy.
