Thank you for waiting after that short chapter and for all your nice reviews. Thank you Lunabloodmoon666 and Invisibilgirl for your reviews. I'm thinking about a confrontation between Claire and Alice and a possible interest in Shane but maybe not cos she hates humans now and see's them as meat but I think there will be a human love interest for Alice later on but no more spoilers. Also thanks for making me smile wid your reviews, I was always worried I wouldn't get the characters right but Luna you have made me believe in my sense of characterisation much more. This is a nice long one just for you guys and to make up for the extra short one. Thank you. Hope you enjoy this next chapter.
Alice's POV.
Alice chuckled to herself as her father left to fetch her some new clothes. She had seen her father's wardrobe and knew that this task was going to take him a while. She heard the soft click as the door closed and locked. She thought him stupid for thinking he could contain her so easy, and for thinking she would obey his orders to stay. She could've easily broke down the door but what's the point in making needless mess when it was easy just to pick the lock. She pulled a pin out of her hair and got to work opening the lock. She had learned these things when she was travelling. Her group had taught her how to pick locks so that you could sneak into someone's house without them knowing, ether to steal items or blood. People often didn't fight when they were still fast asleep. She remembered back to those days of living on the road. No real place to call her own. She and her group travelled everywhere and anywhere. They fed on who they liked but left before they could be found out. She also remembered the dark times, when the group took advantage of the fact she was the only girl. She shivered at the thought, putting it to the back of her mind. She remembered Lucas ,her now ex-boyfriend. She used to love his short black hair and his bright green eyes. She thought about how he used to kiss her, hard and passionate. Her hands would tangle themselves in his soft dark hair, she loved the way he would hold her by the waist and pull her closer. She had loved him with all her heart, but it still wasn't enough. She caught him one day, snogging some human slut. From that day forward she hated humans, especially the females. She remembered killing the girl and confronting him…well attacking was a better word. She remembered leaving him with a stake through his chest and when the rest of the group saw him they pulled it from him. When he woke he swore he would kill her for what she had done. She ran for a while and met a kind old vampire, well he looked old at least. He had long blond hair and winkles, frozen at the age of around 60. She had told him about her story and he said he knew Amelie. She remembered her as Untie Amy. I knew she wasn't really her untie but she remember her and her father where quite close. Best friends, brother and sister. They would always work together on projects , she would often be the leader and he would be the brains. The kind old man told her how Amelie was making a town for vampires. She had had no doubt in her mind that her father would be there too. He told her where to go and that's when she found Morganville.
She heard the sound of the tumblers drop. She pushed the door open easily. Now I can look for some real food. She thought. She remembered that it was probably too light to go outside. So she quickly went back inside and grabbed her sun-shielding coat ,hat and gloves. Much more stylish then the one's Myrnin had worn when he left. She left with a wide smile. She walked down the street and through the alleyway. There was a young human girl sitting reading on the porch of her house. She had cocoa brown skin and nice dark eye's. Her hair in many ,many braids. She was pretty, all the more reason to kill her ,Alice thought. She walked silently. The girl looked up and saw her, she started to head for the door but she was too slow. In less than a second Alice was in front of the door, blocking her exit. Alice grinned at her terrified face . She enjoyed playing with her prey so she watched as the girl backed away. The girl ran and grabbed something that was under her chair. A shotgun. Stupid girl. Didn't she know that using a gun on a vampire was just wasting bullets. Alice laughed, the girl shot her. It landed right in her chest. She shot again, this time on her stomach. She reloaded her gun with bullets she took out from the cushions. Alice noticed the bullets stung, worse then they should. She grabbed her chest and stomach in pain. She groaned and screamed in pain. She watched as the girl insert the two bullets into place, silver. The pain made Alice growl in anger. She reached out ,fast as lightning, and wrapped her hand around the girl's neck, the girl took one last shot before Alice crushed her neck in her hand, killing her in an instant. She dropped the dead girl and clutched her stomach, which now had two bullets through it. She knew she hadn't long till she would pass out from the silver. She staggered back to the lair, knowing that if she passed out here, she would surly die from the sunlight. She reached the door. It was still open from when she left, she pulled it open and tried to get to the couch but she was too weak. The silver was eating into her insides. Burning her ribs and starting to work its way towards her heart. She screamed out in pain and collapsed, too weak to stay conscious.
Myrnin's POV.
Myrnin ran at blurring speed. He ran to the street where his lair was, He looked over and saw that the young human, Lisa Day, was laying on her porch, dead. Her neck was crushed and pouring with blood. He also saw the gun laying on the floor, he ran over and smelt it. It smelt like gun powder and silver. It had been fired, with silver bullets. He ran towards his lair. The door was wide open, he ran through and saw Alice, laying on the floor clutching her chest. He dropped the bags in his hands and pulled her into his arms and gave her a kiss on the forehead before opening a portal to the hospital. He pushed past the humans that were lining up at the desk. He told the woman at the desk what had happened. She nodded and quickly got some doctors to take Alice away. Myrnin tried to follow but one of the doctors held him back.
"I'm afraid your going to have to wait sir. She needs emergency treatment and we will need you to stay out here."
"But she's my daughter." Myrnin said, watching as the other doctors carted her into a surgery room.
"I understand sir but she needs you to wait here." Myrnin sighed and nodded. Knowing that putting up a fuss would just slow things down and Alice needed help fast. He sat on one of the chairs outside the operating theatre. He suddenly felt utterly and completely alone. He pulled out his phone and called the only person he knew would pick up.
"Hello? Myrnin?" Said Claire's voice on the other end. "What happened?"
"I'm at the hospital." Said Myrnin grimly.
"What have you done?" She sighed. He could practically hear the rolling eye's in her voice.
"No it's not me…it's Alice. Please could you come." Claire was silent for a while. "Please Claire."
"Ok I'll be there in twenty minutes." It was the most aggravating twenty minutes of his life. He felt so alone in his own misery. He thought of how he had let this happen. How his own stupidity had led to this. He knew what she was like, she had never listened to him. She had always favoured her mother, but when she died she had to settle for him. If he had stayed she wouldn't be like this. If he had thought it through more. If he had been a better father to her in the first place. He remembered back to when he would be tinkering in his studies. He remembered one day when Alice had finally grown tall enough to reach his door handle and had wandered in. Nothing really bad had happened. But she had walked straight up to him, her china doll in her small little fist, she tugged on his lab coat. He had turned and sighed, annoyed that she had interrupted his studies. She asked in her girlish voice,
"Father will you play with me?" He had groaned at this. I don't have time for this, he remembered thinking. He remembered simply picking her up and placing her outside his lab with just the words,
"Your father is busy, maybe another day." There was no other day. That was when he started to lock his lab door so he wouldn't be disturbed by her again. When her mother died he grew closer to her, but it was too late to erase those memories of banging on his door for hours when mother was out, crying after a while and only stopping when she fell asleep, from her mind. Of course she had nannies, but she hated them, she would cry when they held her and after a while the nannies would quit. He felt a tear fall as he remembered her small cry, she wasn't a bad child, she would always try to be polite and kind. She would never cry loudly and scream, mainly because she was mostly happy and felt no need to use tears to get attention. But when she sat outside his lab she would cry silently, little sobs which he wouldn't know about until he would walk outside and see her tear stained face. He would often call her names and tell her she was being silly for crying.
He laughed at himself at that moment because he realised he himself was crying. He wiped away the tears but didn't stop the new tears leaking from his eye's.
"Myrnin? What's wrong?" He looked up to see Claire standing there, looking very concerned. He opened his mouth but any words he could've said were drowned by tears. Claire sat down next to him and wrapped her arms around him. He felt slightly better with her warmth and comfort. He finally stopped crying and was glad to have Claire by his side. She rubbed a hand on his back and whispered sweet words into his ear. He realised just how much he needed Claire. For so long he had been trapped away, void of touch and warmth. And then suddenly she brought it, along with her kindness, knowledge and love. He knew he wasn't in love with her, not that he hadn't thought about what it would be like to keep her as forever his. But he still needed her, because he needed that touch ,that kindness, that friendship ,that love, to keep him from dropping off the edge of sanity. She was the one who made him feel human, because she never judged him based on his immortality. She had saved his life so many times and in so many ways, and there was nothing he could do to repay her. He felt safe now in her arms, with her warmth calming him. He pulled back and put his head in his hands. He sighed and began to explain to Claire what had happened. She listened intently. He told her about the girl Alice had obviously killed.
"What? Who?" She asked, worried and shocked.
"Miss. Day ,I think." He said ,shrugging.
"Grandma day?" She shouted at him.
"What? No the other one, her names Lisa I believe."
"Oh my god! She can't have, Grandma Day is going to be devastated." She said, her hands clapping round her mouth.
"Loss is a regular thing in this town, I'm sure Miss day is quite aware of that." That's when a doctor walked out of the operating theatre where Alice was. He was smiling which meant it was good news. He spoke happily,
"The surgery was a complete success, obviously because of her fast healing, she will be awake in a few minutes." Stood up and offered the doctor his hand,
"Thank you, so much."
"Your very welcome, would you like to see her?"
"You know there was no need to ask that question." Myrnin said, he gleefully walked into the white room, Claire following behind. He walked straight to Alice, grasping her hand as she woke just like the doctor had said. He smiled as her eye's met his.
"Where am I?" She asked confused.
"The hospital, you was shot remember." replied Myrnin.
"Silver bullets." She sighed. She smiled up at Myrnin and he smiled back. She quickly frowned, "What's she doing here?" She looked at Claire, who was standing near the door, smart thinking. Alice didn't lunge at her this time but still flashed her fangs at her. Myrnin's face suddenly changed to one of rage.
"Don't you dare Alice! I told you before ,she's a friend! So are most humans, remember ,like the ones how saved your life!" This time Alice hissed at him, her fangs baring him straight in the face. His own fangs quickly snapped into place. "Don't test me Alice!"
"No ,don't test me!" She stood on her bed, crouching in a defensive pose, which made her look much taller and more threatening then Myrnin, even with the hospital gown on.
"Alice you are my daughter and you will listen to me!" Shouted Myrnin at the top of his voice.
Claire's POV.
Claire watched as the father and daughter shouted at each other.
"Since when have I ever listened to anything you say!" Shouted Alice.
"Since now Alice." Shouted Myrnin, matching her exactly.
"Why should I even care what you say? You was never there when I was a kid. Just off playing with your stupid chemistry set! Since when did you ever care? Because you don't! You've never cared!" That hurt, Claire could see it on Myrnin's face. His face was the picture of regret and misery.
"Since I spent centuries thinking you was dead." he said softly.
"Too little to bloody late!" Alice shouted, she looked on the verge of tears, she didn't look as angry anymore, just hurt. Myrnin walked up to her placed his hands on her shoulders.
"I know Alice, and I can never make up for what I've done. But I don't want to lose you again. I can't lose you again." The two of them shared a long gaze. At the same time they melted into each others arms. Myrnin held her close and stroked her hair. She cried into his shoulder ,as did he. Myrnin was the first to say what they had been holding back since Alice got there,
"I love you, soo much. You know that right?"
"Yes. And I love you too you stupid excuse for a dad." She mumbled into his shoulder. Claire was almost in tears from watching this, she was also slightly creeped out by how similar the two were in the sense that they were both bio-polar maniacs. Alice's eye's opened where her head rested on Myrnin's shoulder. She looked straight at Claire. It wasn't a glare or an evil stare at all, it also wasn't extremely kind ether. She was just looking at her, like she was trying to actually see past her humanity. She looked Claire over, Claire felt frozen under her examining gaze. She tried to smile timidly. Alice gave a small smile and nodded slightly.
"I can see why you like her, she seems nicer than others. At least she doesn't look the type to shot me." Said Alice, that was practically the equivalent her giving Claire a million compliments. Myrnin looked at Alice and smiled.
"I wouldn't underestimate if I was you. Remember some of the most deadly things come small." Alice rolled her eye's at him. She whispered something to him. He looked at her thoughtfully. He was clearly considering whatever she had said. He nodded. Alice went to walked over to Claire, which made her flinch and start to back away towards the door. Myrnin quickly grabbed Alice's shoulders. Alice looked at him with an annoyed expression.
"I'm not going to do anything." she said
"I sure you wasn't but your track records show you can't be trusted around humans." Alice sighed and rolled her eye's at Myrnin.
"Fine have it your way." She turned back to Claire. She held out her hand and smiled, it wasn't a bad smile at all. It was kind and apologetic, it was fakely huge but still looked like it was genuine. Claire looked at Myrnin, who seemed unsure of what Alice might do as well.
"Don't worry ,I won't hurt you. I promise. I want to say sorry and start afresh." She sounded slightly pained to say it to a human but it really looked like she was telling the truth. Claire decided that Alice deserved a chance ,as does everyone ,to redeem herself. Claire slowly held out her hand and took Alice's. Alice shook her hand slowly, trying to be careful not to crush her hand or tear it off completely. Alice looked slightly confused and shocked at the first touch, probably at the warmth of Claire's hand against hers. "I'm sorry for what I have done. I will still find it hard to be kind around humans, but you seem different. Well I think you're the only one who would be crazy enough to have taken my hand then." Claire laughed nervously at that. Well this is a start.
Thanks for reading. This chapter was defiantly my favourite to write because this is where I think most of the questions of Myrnin's past with his daughter are answered. If not then I will prop answer them later. This is a good turning point for Alice and Myrnin and now I've revelled how I think Myrnin really see's Claire. Because I don't think he is in love with her. It just he needs her because he misses the feeling of human touch and misses being loved in anyway. He has obviously been locked away for so many years and obviously the disease made it worse for him because he couldn't even trust himself. I believe he needs her to make him feel human again, that's all, I don't think he want's to be in a relationship with her ,even though that would be awesome. So thank you again for reading this chapter, I hope it was good enough to repay you for being such brilliant readers.
