Hello readers, sorry for the delay in getting this new chapter up. I meant to post it on Friday, but this chapter was just not wanting to piece itself together for me. Here it is and as I stated at the beginning of the story, I will try to post at least once a week. Thanks for all the great reviews, favorites and follows. A special shout out to Emeline Rousselot -rainedakota, thanks for your review and for fans of my stuff please go read all their great stories. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this chapter.

Chapter 4

Myrnin stands still watching me in the bed for about a minute before he says carefully, "How are you feeling, Claire?"

I watch him standing just inside the door and I realize that the manic nature I had just heard in the hallways has been calmed as soon as he saw me conscious in the bed. I am unsure if it is because he realized I was awake and wanted to hide that side of himself or if it is because being in my presence has calmed the crazy monster inside him. Before I can respond to his question, one of the nurses walks in and smiles kindly at me and says, "Hello dear, it is good to see you awake. You took some trauma from the attack, but overall it seems like you will be alright after a short time."

I smile at her and wince slightly with the motion. Myrnin turns towards the nurse and says, "What's all wrong with her?"

The nurse looks back from me to him and then finally says with a timid nature in her voice, "We believe that she has a mild concussion which would have been the cause of her passing out for so long after the attack. The things we know for sure though are that Miss Danvers has one broken rib and may bruises covering her body, but overall the absolute shock of the attack and pain from the beating she took is most likely what caused her the most discomfort and to stay unconscious for the time that she did."

I am shocked as she describes my condition to discover that it isn't worse. I had felt so sure during it that I was going to die and that would be the end of this all, but apparently Shane was not able to hurt me as much in his anger as he could possibly do. The one thing I notice she doesn't mention, but living in Morganville I am not surprised she left out the part about the bite mark on my neck. I know from her expression that they didn't go unnoticed. Myrnin finally nods his head after looking me over and looks back at the nurse before saying, "Thank you for that answer. May Miss Danvers and I be alone now?"

A smile comes to my face as I hear Myrnin call me Miss Danvers. Also, I feel a shiver run through my veins and a small pulsation in my nether regions. Myrnin looks over at me with a questionable look before the nurse responds with, "Of course, if you need anything feel free to push the button on your bed, Miss Danvers."

I smile at her in response and say, "Thank you. I will use the button if I need to."

She walks out the door and closes it behind her, but not before saying, "I will also let your friends know that you are awake so they may come for a visit soon as well."

After she exits the room and closes the door behind her, Myrnin walks closer to my bedside and says, "How are you feeling, Claire?"

I am slightly disappointed to hear him call me just my first name after all the shivers that were running through my body because of his calling me Miss Danvers. I smile at him and say, "I am sore, but overall I am alright Myrnin. I'm alive and that is all that really matters."

Myrnin watches my reactions and looks over me to somewhat inspect the damage before he says with slight anger, "I am going to kill that boy. He had no right to hurt you this way and he has to pay for what he has done."

I reach out carefully and grab at Myrnin's hand before calmly saying, "No, Myrnin, you will not kill or injure Shane. He had a right to be angry and upset about this, but how he reacted to that anger was not correct. He isn't going to get away with hurting me, we both know that Hannah will intervene in this human versus human situation and put Shane in jail for assaulting me. This doesn't need to be an issue involving you or any other vampires in town because his assault was solely against me, a human."

Before Myrnin has a chance to respond to my statement the door to my room bursts open with a breathless, semi-distressed Eve coming running through the door. Michael follows behind her shortly and quickly evaluates the situation of the room to see Myrnin standing beside me with my hand in his. I drop his hand and Myrnin backs away slightly from my bedside upon seeing Michael's expression. Eve walks up to my bedside and looks me over before saying, "You had me so worried, Claire-bear. I am so glad that you are okay. I just can't believe what Shane did to you."

Michael walks up to my other side, almost blocking my view of Myrnin as I look back at Eve and say, "It's alright, Eve. I am alright. It was all my fault and I deserved everything I got, but I am sorry for worrying you like that. I didn't realize that for being so strong against vampires, that an assault from someone I cared about would send me over the edge into shock and an unconscious state."

Michael finally speaks after hearing my comment to Eve, but not before carefully turning slightly to watch Myrnin and his reaction, "You did not deserve that Claire. Nothing you could do would be deserving of such a brutal assault and we all know that if I hadn't stopped him that his desire was to kill you in that moment and you didn't deserve to die for helping out a friend."

Myrnin nods his head in response to Michael's statement before looking at Eve and speaking for the first time since Eve and Michael entered the room, "Eve, has Hannah Moses been notified of the assault between Claire and Shane?"

Eve looks shocked as she processes the question and looks at Myrnin before she states, "No, she has not. We wanted to wait until Claire was conscious to decide how we would handle the situation. Do you want us to call Hannah and have her go after Shane, Claire?"

I look carefully between Eve and Myrnin at their exchange and can see that Eve is questioning Myrnin's motives behind asking that question. I look back at Eve and finally say, "Yes, I would like you to call Hannah. I understand why Shane did what he did, but he still needs to be punished and handled for assaulting me. If he so quickly flew off the handle at me, I don't want to think what would happen in a situation with someone else. I am helping him in the same way I was helping Myrnin, I am protecting him from hurting someone else."

Eve nods her head in response to that which I notice briefly, but I focus on Myrnin to see how he responds to my statement. He looks at me carefully and I see his eyes being drawn to the bite mark on my neck. He shakes slightly and then says, "Eve, Michael, while you work on getting ahold of Hannah to have her start the search for that boy, could you leave Claire and I alone for a short while?"

Before I or Eve have a chance to react to his statement, Michael turns to face him and says, "Eve may leave, but I will not leave you alone with Claire. It may have been her decision to let you bite her earlier today, but right now she is injured because of an action related to you and I don't trust you alone with her. Look at what happened to her because she had to save your starving ass."

I watch Myrnin go into a defensive stature and growl quietly at Michael. I look between them and say, "Stop it Michael! I am fine. You can leave me alone here with Myrnin, you don't need to incite or anger him right now."

Michael looks between Myrnin and I before huffing, walking over to Eve, taking her hand and saying, "Fine, but if you need anything Claire, I am right outside."

I nod my head and watch as he and Eve leave the room closing the door behind him. I look back over at Myrnin and see him slowly coming out of his defensive posture. He then slowly walks back towards my bed and says, "Michael is correct, Claire. None of this would have happened if I hadn't been starving. I just wish I knew what I had done to anger Amelie so much that she would not provide any blood for me."

I smile at him and gently grasp his hand and says, "It's alright, Myrnin. Things with Shane would have come to a head at some point or another because he was just too overly jealous about the connection and friendship that we have. He may not have reacted as violently, but there would have been some blow up with him eventually and quite possibly I could have ended up in the hospital for absolutely nothing then as well."

Myrnin bends his head and kisses my hand gently before saying, "Well then it was my pleasure, Miss Danvers, to rid you of an inevitable problem."

Between his kiss on my hand and hearing him call me Miss Danvers a rush of desire flows through me and I feel my core pulse in response to it. I look at his face and see him manically grin almost as if he can sense my body's response to his words and action. Before I can respond to his action and words, a doctor walks in and says, "Hello, Miss Danvers. My name is Thomas Nelson and I have been one of the doctors attending to your case since you entered the hospital. How are you feeling?"

I feel Myrnin stiffen slightly next to me, but then I respond to the doctor with, "I am feeling sore all over and my head hurts slightly, but overall I feel alright considering the beating I know I took."

The doctor nods and takes notes of my responses before responding with, "Well that is good to hear, Miss Danvers. We are going to keep you overnight for observation, but you should be able to go home tomorrow morning."

I smile at him and say, "Thank you, doctor for letting me know the plan."

He smiles back at me before heading out the door off to check in on another patient. Myrnin squeezes my hand and I look at his face. I didn't notice the change in his expression until I look up at him, but I see that in the time of our conversation with the doctor he has become very defensive and reserved. I am unsure of why the change in his actions came about, but I know I will find out. I finally speak and ask, "What's up, Myrnin?"

Well there was chapter 4. If I receive 3 reviews of this chapter, I will try and post a new chapter of this story earlier then planned. Also, feel free to message me if you have any ideas. No guarantees it will get incorporated into the story, but I would love to see any ideas that could possibly be added into the story. Anyways, as always feel free to review in that little box under this writing. Night!