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Chapter 9
Claire's POV
I hate it here.
What the hell did I ever do wrong?
Kim is officially mental. I hope that when she gets arrested she can get some of the help she needs.
I miss Shane. I wish that he would save me.
I've lost track of what day it is. I keep hoping that soon this will all be over and it can just become a nightmare.
I'm guessing Kim's here.
She's a bit of an idiot really. You would have thought that if you are going to kidnap a person that you would always be with them or have someone with them to make sure that they don't escape but she always leaves me alone and there is no one near me.
Maybe it's because this is Morganville and she thinks a vampire will get me.
I hope someone comes soon I feel so weak.
"Hello again Claire," she said. "Do you want to know something?"
"What?"
"Shane doesn't love you anymore. He loves me still. You were just a mistake in his life and he only thought he loved you because you were always there and his feelings got confused and he really just loves you like a brother would a sister if even that. And since you are no longer there he has come to his senses and realises that he still loves me."
What? That can't be true. Can it? No, I can't let myself think like that. She's lying, she wants me to think that there's no hope. But she could be telling the truth. Ugh, I don't know what to think anymore.
She interrupted my internal musings by talking some more.
"I also have some more good news. Well for me anyway. In two days time Monica will be coming here to get you and also when I leave now I will never have to see you again. So I'm going now have fun with Monica. Bye."
And with that she left.
I have two days left. I have to leave now. Although it is getting dark now I've first got to get free as I really don't want to end up in the hands of Monica.
Kim or whoever tied these ropes needs to learn how to tie then tightly cause after about a minute of struggling I was able to get my hands free.
As it's too dark now not to end up getting killed by vampires I'll wait until it becomes light enough.
(Next morning)
I don't know what time it is now but I think at some point I did fall asleep.
Now I've just got to figure a way out of here and get back to (hopefully) Shane.
There's a door but I can't seem to move it. It's either too heavy and I'm weak from lack of food (Kim didn't feed me. She did give me a bit of water but that was the day before last since I last had a drink.), there's something blocking it or Kim locked it.
There are windows but I don't even want to try to get through them.
Hey I've just found my bag. I thought that they would have chucked it out the window or something.
I'm gonna try and find my phone maybe then I could call Shane and he can save me or something.
Crap! Battery is dead.
I'm never getting out of here
Shane's POV
Kim's getting on my nerves now. She came around earlier and tried to convince me yet again that I should love her and not Claire.
I wish she would release Claire and leave me the fuck alone.
Today I'm going to try to save Claire as Kim's not giving her up and showing no signs of doing so anytime soon.
It feels like she was taken ages ago and I need to feel her again in my arms and wait for this to just become a nightmare.
The plan for today is that Eve and I are going to go to Kim's place to try and see if it's possible that Claire's not there and if she not then that means that Claire will be in one of the abandoned warehouses.
After we've been to Kim's Eve sadly has to go to work and if we don't find Claire I'm going to go look for Claire at the warehouses even though I bet that Eve and Michael will hate that but I would find it impossible to not look for Claire.
"Okay Eve, you're staying here, right. Kim's more than likely to be here so if I'm not back in 10 minutes you give me a call and pretend like there's some emergency or something."
"Okay."
Here we go. I just hope this can be over quickly.
"Shane? What are you doing here? Finally realised that you love me?"
"Kim, quit being do deluded. I'm never going to love you again. Just release Claire and then we can stay out of each others' lives."
"Yes well, you're never going to see her again. Sorry."
"So you're finally admitting that you were the one that kidnapped her."
"Might as well seeing a how I'm never going to get you back."
"You fucking bitch. When I find her I will kill you."
I stormed off then
"How did it go?"
"Eve, how long do you have until you have to get to work?"
"Not long, why?"
"Claire's at the abandoned warehouses and Kim told me that I'm never going to see her again. I have to head there now."
"Okay and I'll come with you, I need a new job anyway. I'm also0 going to make a call to Hannah so that she can meet us there and help. Also she can arrest Kim 'cause I believe we now have the proof we need."
We are so close I feel as I can almost feel her back in my arms.
When Eve hung up with Hannah we met her before we started looking in the warehouses.
"Hey Hannah"
"Hey guys. Okay, just so we're clear we are here to find Claire who was kidnapped by Kim and placed in one of these. Do you know for certain that she is here?"
"Yes. There's no where else that she could be. If Claire was placed here no one would find her as we are the only ones looking for her."
"Alright let's go then."
There were about five of them still standing which I was really surprised at.
I thought that it would have been quicker if we had split up but that ideas was shot down as soon as I'd said it cause I didn't think about if Kim had people with Claire.
I just hope that she's still alive.
The first three were empty and I'm starting to feel as though I'll never see her again.
"Hey Shane. We will find her and she will be okay."
"How do you know that? We don' even know how well or how badly she was cared for."
"Hush you two. I think I hear something."
There was something. Something that sounded like...crying.
I ran towards the sound hoping I wasn't hearing things and trying not to get my hopes up as it might not be Claire.
The warehouse looked to be in the best condition as it had the majority of its windows still left in tact but still had that abandoned look.
When I got there the door blocked was blocked and I could clearly hear something coming from inside.
"Claire? Claire!"
"Shane?"
"Yes it's me don't worry I'll get you out of there soon. Eve, Hannah, over here I've found her."
I started moving things to clear the door and only one word came to my mind; heavy.
After a couple of minutes I was able to get to the door and get it open.
"Claire, where are you?"
"Over here."
"Claire, what happened to you? Don't worry I'm here now and I'll take care of you."
"That's good." Then she passed out.
"Eve? Hannah? We need to get Claire to the hospital like now."
Hannah got her phone out to call for an ambulance.
About ten minutes later Claire was put into the back of the ambulance with Eve and I following and Hannah going to take Kim for questioning.
I just keep hoping that we aren't too late.
When we got there Claire was being hooked up to an I.V as she had been severely dehydrated. That and the fact that she need to get some food into her was the only problems along with some minor cuts on her wrist and ankles from, I'm guessing the ropes she was tied up with.
The doctor told me that she would be coming around shortly when she became more hydrated and when she wakes up they would begin feeding her. If you looked at her you could tell that she had not eaten in a few days.
"Shane? What's going on? Where am I?"
"Claire, you have no idea how good it is to here your voice again and see that you're awake. You're going to be fine. At the moment you're in the hospital. The doctor's going to be in a view minutes to check on you and bring you some food."
"What's going to happen with Kim?"
"I don't know. All I know is that she was taken for questioning. The moment I know something I'll tell you."
"When can I get out of here?"
The doctor then came in. Great timing or what?
"I would like to keep you in over night for observation because of how you were when you came in. It seems you are still a little week but we will see how you are in the morning."
He checked her over and gave her some food then left.
"I hate that I have to leave now but I will be here first thing in the morning, alright."
I kissed her goodbye then.
"It feels so good to be able to do that. I'm so glad that you're safe."
"Me too. I'm also glad that you still love me."
"Of course I still love you. I have never loved someone as much as I love you and I will never stop loving you. I'll see you tomorrow."
I gave her one final kiss and left to get the best nights sleep than I'd had since she got taken and looked forward to what will happen in the future.
AN: Okay. That was chapter nine.
The next chapter will sadly be the last chapter of this story but I need some help with it. There is poll set up asking who's POV you want it to be wriitten in I've done both and don't know which one to post. It will be up for a week.
Thank you for reading and I'll see you next week.
