Okay, BEFORE you start reading I need you to understand that Claire hasn't slept or fed on blood in 3 days. She's been avoiding drinking blood because she considers herself to be a monster and blames herself for Shane dumping her. She also doesn't know Shane left. So anyways, she's W E A K because she hasn't been eating and also not sleeping because she's been helping Myrnin with Ada.
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Claire was scared. Confused. She had nowhere to go. The smoke was rising and filling her lungs. Her eye's were stinging from the smoke and she could feel it get hotter and hotter. There was no way out. What was she going to do?
She slightly opened the curtain, to see how sunny it was outside, and when the light touched her skin she yelped in pain. Where the light touched, the skin was scorched red.
Soon enough, the flames were burning the door. She was running out of time, she had to cover herself up, to avoid the sun. She yanked on a pair of jeans, and her converse and socks. She also put on a white camisole and a blue sweater and yanked the hood over her head. She looked around and grabbed the blanket off the bed.
She walked towards the door, the closer she got, the hotter she felt. She grabbed the handle, then screamed as her hand burned.
Claire took deep breaths and pulled her sleeve around her hand and quickly turned the handle, throwing the door open.
The flames burste through the thresh hold and forced Claire to take steps back. They were blocking her only way out.
I'm gonna die. I have nowhere to go. I'm gonna die.
She tried to take more deep breaths but only inhaled smoke. Her eye's began to water and soon enough, tears spilled over. She was scared.
I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. I just...What do I do?
She sighed and rubbed her eye's, trying to get rid of the sting from the smoke. She readied herself, and wrapped the blanket around herself. Without thinking, she ran through the threshold, trying to dodge the flames, but she felt them against her ankles. She ran for the stairs, but tripped over the first step and fell.
She landed at the bottom of the stairs, moaning and crying, when she felt the burn. Her sweater. The sleeve of her sweater was on fire and was burning her skin. She was about to stand up when a part of the ceiling fell and smacked her in the head, pushing her into another flame.
Her screams were loud and ear shattering, and they continued as she crawled along the floor, dodging the debris. She felt so weak as she pulled the blanket on top of her. She was infront of the door now, she reached up and ignoring the burning in her hand yanked it open to be revealed to the bright Texas sun.
She hissed in response and quickly stood, covering herself with the blanket and heading for shade under a tree. The minute she hit the shade, she collapsed. Myrnin ran over and stomped out the flames on what was left of the blanket.
When Myrnin really looked at Claire, he gasped.
All along the right side of her face was burnt. Stretching around her eye, over to her ear, along the bridge of her nose, to the corn of her lips and down her neck. Her hands were dark red and had blisters forming. Tears were running down Claire's face. Her ankle was also burnt, worse than her hands but not nearly as bad as her face.
"Oh, Claire." Myrnin whispered.
In the distance, you could hear sirens hollaring and firetrucks honking. About a minute later, firefighters were swarming the property, yelling and commanding orders.
Claire sat up and looked at Myrnin. "Take me home." She whispered.
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Michael was sitting on the couch, flipping through the channels when Eve bounced over.
"Hey, whatcha got there?" He asked, pointing to the device in her hands.
"My new camera. Listen, I was wondering, if I take a picture of you, will you show in the picture?" She grinned, and lifted the camera up, zooming in on Michael. But before she could take the picture, Michael was behind her, grabbing the camer, laughing. He held her around the waist and stretched out his arm, steadying the camera. As he pushed down on the button, Eve swerved and pushed his arm.
Michael dropped the camera and bent down to pick it up, when Eve gasped. Michael stood back up and looked at Eve's face. She was staring at something behind him. He quickly turned around.
"Oh my gosh." Was all that escaped his mouth.
Claire stood there, Myrnin's arm around her shoulders, supporting her. Her hands and ankle burned, and her face looked as if someone held a blowtorch to all of the right side of her face. There were tear streaks down her face and what was left of her clothes and skin was covered in soot and dirt.
Michael quickley walked over and carefull picked Claire up, careful not to put pressure on any burns.
He turned to Myrnin. "What the hell happenned!"
"Someone tried to burn my house down. Well, they did burn my house down. I got out in time, but she was stuck on the second floor. She was sleeping while it happenned, she hadn't slept in days, or fed for that matter. Poor thing." He sighed. "I suggest you let her rest. She's only a week old so the injuries won't heal as quick as mine or yours would. So those burns will need some time to heal. I'd give it two or three days."
Michael looked down at Claire. "Claire," he whispered, "are you okay?"
She winced and mumbled something.
Eve walked over, crying, and sighed. "I'm going to kill whoever did this to her. I swear I will." She wiped the tears away and began to walk upstairs. "I'm going to go grab some clothes to change her into, and a washcloth. Michael, bring her upstairs."
Michael began to turn around, but then stopped when Claire reached out and grabbed Myrnin's hand and squeezed. "Thank you." She whispered.
Myrnin squeezed back and slightly smiled. Michael nodded to him and Myrnin nodded back, turning around to leave. Michael carried Claire upstairs and laid her on her bed. Claire winced as her burns pressed against the bed. Michael left and Eve came in to help Claire clean the dirt and burns and change her clothes. When they were done, Eve gave Claire a kiss on the head and tucked her in.
Claire was tired, and weak, but she couldn't sleep. She couldn't stop crying. She laid there for about twenty minutes and then heard a knock at the door.
"Come in." She said, barely audible. The door opened and Michael walked in, frowning.
He grabbed the chair from Claire's desk and sat down next to Claire's bed. Claire looked at him, her eye's wet from tears.
"Shane left, didn't he?" She asked.
Michael just nodded.
"Because of me."
Michael just frowned and looked in a different direction. He leaned forward and gently held her hand, comforting her as she cried. He left for a second and came back with his quitar. He sat next to Claire and began to play a soothing lullaby he had written a while ago. He hummed along, quietly and slowly.
When Claire fell asleep, he stopped playing, stood up and kissed her on the forehead. He walked out of her room and gently closed the door behind him.
He walked into Shane's room and looked around. "You sure have really fucked things up, Collins." He sighed and went downstairs to to turn off the tv. No sense in wasting electricity. He was about to leave when something caught his eye. He bent down and picked up Eve's camera. He turned it on and looked at the last picture taken. Michael did show up in the picture, but only his arm from when Eve pushed him, and it was out of focus in the bottom left corner of the screen. But in the middle of the picture, was Claire, standing there with Myrnin, all burnt and dirty. The flash from the camera made Claire look even worse, enhancing the colours of the dirt, soot and large red burns.
He frowned at the photo and turned the camera off, placing it on the table. It was about 8am. Eve left for work and Michael was tired. He headed up the stairs, and slep till sunset.
BY THE WAAAAY, no one knows it was Shane who started the fire. Everyone thought he just picked up and left pretty much.
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