Hey readers, here is chapter 7 of this story. It shows a couple different perspectives during the chapter which are briefly showing Michael's, Myrnin's, and Amelie's perspective. Also, I thought it was time to finally give some more insight into why Amelie was starving Myrnin. So here it is.
Chapter 7
Michael's perspective
I start to wake up slowly in a room with my arms tied to a chair. Utilizing my vampire strength I quickly break the ties holding me to the chair. Before I can move, a human with a mask on enters the room and says in a dark voice, "Now, Mr. Glass, please stay contained in your chair."
I look at him and let my fangs drop before I say, "Hell no, I won't stay contained in this chair. Where the fuck is Claire?"
The man clucks his tongue at me and says, "Calm down, Mr. Glass. You wouldn't want your precious Eve to have the same fate as Claire."
I growl at him and angrily say, "Don't you even try to threaten Eve, you fucking bastard. What the fuck have you done to Claire, you psychopath?"
The human manically chuckles at that comment before pulling a picture out of his pocket and holding it out towards me. I look at it and see a picture of Claire, looking stiff and extremely lifeless. He looks at me and says, "She was not behaving herself, so we had to take care of the problem. Now do you want your precious Eve to suffer the same terrible fate?"
My back stiffens as I look back at the picture, it looks like Claire's neck is in a very unnatural position meaning that they had broken her neck because she was misbehaving. They had killed her and would do the same to Eve if I misbehaved. I couldn't lose both of them. I sit calmly and he walks up to me and reties my arms to the chair arm. After he leaves, I break down acknowledging the fact that Claire is dead.
Claire's Perspective
As I start to come to after being thrown in the van, before I open my eyes I take in what I can determine of my surroundings without seeing anything so I can defend myself if needed. I flex my arms and figure out that they are tied to what I believe to be chair arms. Also, I determine that I am sitting in a chair by the posture I am. I finally open my eyes and look around to find that I am sitting in a chair in an empty room by myself. I try to remember what happened to Michael, but can't figure out if they had taken him or not. I am guessing they took him because they wouldn't want to give anyone any hints to what had happened to me. As I survey the room again, the door opens and the doctor from the hospital walks in. He looks at me and says, "Oh look, you're awake. That's very good. I've got a friend of yours to keep you company until it's time. Don't worry, we won't hurt him as long as you behave yourself and patiently wait until we get the word that we can kill you."
I watch the door open and I expect to see Michael being brought into the room, but am shocked when I watch the nurse from the hospital pull a tied up, unconscious Shane into the room. He is tied to a chair like me, but still looks to be knocked out by whatever drug they had put in my system. I flatten myself back in the chair knowing that even with everything that Shane had done to me that I would never do anything to get him killed. The doctor smiles at me and then says, "That is very good, Miss Danvers. We will return when it is time."
As I watch him and the nurse walk out of the room, I know that by when it is time that he means when it is time to kill me. I also realize that when Shane wakes up I can't tell him any of this. He may have been ready to kill me in his angry haze earlier today, but that doesn't mean that he wouldn't fight if someone else was trying to kill me. I continue to sit in the chair calmly and inspect the room. A short while later, I hear grunts and look over to see Shane waking up. His eyes open and he looks at me. In his eyes, I first see hurt and anger, but then it turns to concern and sadness. I finally speak, "Shane, are you alright?"
Shane looks at me again before saying, "Yeah, Claire I am fine. I am sorry about how I reacted though to everything. I should never have hit you over it. I understand why you did what you did. Can you ever forgive me?"
I nod my head with tears in my eyes slightly. I finally say, "It's alright, Shane. I have already forgiven you. I understand why you did what you did, but it also helped me to discover in myself who I want to be at this moment and who I want to be with. Even before everything happened, I had seen that we were having more and more issues and growing apart by the day, so in some ways it is good that this all happened. I think a part of me will always love you Shane, but I don't think we should be together anymore."
He nods his head, but looks slightly sad again. He finally responds, "I can understand that Claire and I think I was feeling that as well, which is why I was getting so jealous and overprotective all the time. I am always going to have a part of my heart devoted to you, but I think it would be best if we just stay friends from now on. We both deserve better."
I smile back at him and say, "Yes, we are totally going to stay friends and find what our lives need to complete themselves adequately."
Shane smiles at me finally and I notice the sadness in his features decreasing. He then looks around the room and says, "So what is going on, Claire? Where are we?"
I already know that I can't tell him the truth because he would flip a gasket and not let me sacrifice myself for him. I think over all the different things that I could possibly say to try and keep him from being overly crazy. I finally say, "I am not exactly sure where we are Shane. I believe what is going on though is that some of the anti-vampire fanatics of Morganville decided to grab me to try and cause some issues with the vampires or draw them in to try and take out some of the vampires. I believe you are here because they wanted to make sure that I would stay calm and behave myself so their plan would work."
He looks around the room all suspicious like before saying, "While we should try and surprise them by trying to attack them and escape."
I shake my head and say, "No, we are going to play this sane and safe. The vampires will be here soon to save us and they will take care of our captors."
I know I am lying hard core to Shane, but I can't have him trying to attack the humans. I have accepted my fate and am ready to die as long as it means that no one else gets hurt for me. I am not sure how Myrnin will handle my death, but I am sure that he will be fine because I am after all just his assistant.
Myrnin's Perspective
I had quietly broke into the house where I had determined Claire had to be. I hope that I am not wrong and I hope that everything is alright. I look around the house and enter the first room to find Michael tied to a chair. I look at the binds and see that they are just normal rope, so I wonder why he hadn't escaped. I look at Michael and he looks at me before saying, "Your too late, Myrnin."
Confusion runs over me and I wonder what he means by the fact that I am too late. He can't mean that whoever had taken them had killed Claire, he can't. My world would just be lost if Claire was gone. I don't know what I'd do if I could never hear her voice or see her face again. I finally stutter out, "What do you mean?"
Michael looks at me with tears in his eyes, "They killed her, Myrnin. They killed Claire and they are going to kill Eve too if I try to fight them."
I feel parts of myself start to shut down, but I also realize that I had already been fooled once by these people into thinking she was dead and even if she really was dead, I had to fight for her memory and hopefully kill those who had kill her. If she truly was gone, then I would do whatever it would take to get me killed so I could join her because I know that I can't live without her. I look at Michael and say, "We will protect Eve, but let's go kill those son of bitches who killed Claire."
He nods and breaks his ties standing up. We exit the room we are in to survey the house and try to find those who had taken and possibly killed Claire.
Claire's Perspective
Shane and I are talking about different things when the doctor from the hospital runs in to the room. He walks over to me and breaks the ties on my arms. He roughly pulls me up out of the chair and hold me tight in his arms. I can see Shane trying to fight himself out of his chair to help me, but I shake my head at him and he stops. The doctor dials a number on his phone and says, "He's coming. I thought you said, he wouldn't find out she was still alive until after we truly killed her?"
Amelie's Perspective
My phone is ringing and I can see that it is that pesky human who I had dispatched to handle Claire. I know that Myrnin will mourn her loss for a short while, but then once it was all done he would be fine. As I reflect on the path I have taken, I know that Claire doesn't have to die, but with her alive I am unsure if Myrnin will be able to work up a solution to the crisis the town is facing. I have kept it a secret from everyone, except Oliver about the evil that is happening. I know that once Myrnin can focus on a solution, with his best frame of mind, that he will be able to save my town. Without that frame of mind though, I know all is lost because the threat facing our town and our way of life is too much. I pick up the phone and listen to what the human says before saying, "He shouldn't be, but you must have had some flaw in your plan that caused him to be able to find out earlier that she was still alive. None the less, hold her and when he enters the room, kill her. It is now time to implement the plan."
Thank for reading this chapter! The next chapter will be up probably next Sunday. If I can get at least 4 reviews on this chapter before then, I will try to post it earlier! As always, feel free to send me messages with ideas and thoughts on the story.
