Okay I have an idea. Its probs been used before but still I wanna use it. Right, on certain chapters I'm going to give you guys a link to a song I think would work well in the chapter, you don't have to listen to it but I like songs that can make stories into films in your head, that's what I do in my head :D so yeah that's what im gonna do and I've got a gooden for a later chapter xx
Claire woke up with a very uncomfortable crick in her neck from leaning on Myrnin's shoulder while she slept. She groaned quietly as she tried to moved it, flaring pain in the muscles at the side.
With a small jolt Myrnin woke up next to her, his head jerking up in fright from the unexpected movement on his shoulder. It didn't help that Claire groaned right next to his ear; with his hearing it probably would have sounded like a scream.
He surveyed the room dazedly with his eyes half drooping closed- obviously still tired- and took a deep breath before straightening up on the sofa. Claire did the same yet with a lot more stretched and cracking of her neck.
"Sorry for waking you," Claire mumbled round a huge yawn.
He glanced at her with his half lidded eyes and shrugged, "It's quite alright, I would have woken soon anyway," he said, before standing up to stretch like a strangely happy cat, he even made a little noise like one too.
Claire followed him over to a cluttered lab table before carrying on into the small kitchen tucked away in the corner of the lab.
She made some strong coffee, in an attempt to wake herself up, and poured some in two mugs for her and Myrnin before venturing over to a cupboard where she miraculously found some in-date bread and an unplugged toaster. She had no idea why the toaster was in a cupboard yet she wasn't too surprised, after all, this is Myrnin that lives here.
Myrnin was connecting some sort of metal blade to another block of iron when Claire returned to the lab, carrying two cups of coffee, a bag of blood and some toast. She placed them down on a lab table and handed Myrnin his coffee and blood bag, which he accepted with a muttered thanks and a nod, while taking a bite of her toast and chewing enthusiastically.
She only just realised how hungry she was when the two slices of toast that were previously stacked on a plate had disappeared so she went to back to the kitchen to make some more and Myrnin drank in silence.
When she returned the blood bag was nowhere in sight and Myrnin's coffee mug was standing empty on the table. She grabbed it and wandered back into the kitchen to wash it, grateful that Myrnin had drank the blood while she wasn't watching, she always got queasy when he didn't.
After guzzling her millionth slice of toast Claire ambled back into the lab and peered over Myrnin's shoulder, standing on tiptoes and still not being able to see very well.
"What are you doing?"
"I am creating yet another invention little Claire, it's a kind of weapon."
"What type of weapon?"
"This, my dear, is a form of a shuriken."
When Claire just raised her eyebrows in puzzlement he sighed and continued.
"A shuriken is a weapon designed for ninjas originally to distract the opposition in order to help them escape, however in films and media they portrayed it as a weapon of destruction. It was sometimes used as a killing weapon by dipping the ends in poison, intoxicating any being it cut, but more often than not it was the ninja throwing the shuriken that got cut so that plan failed."
At the mention of ninjas a wide smile spread across Myrnin's face, a sort of mischievous grin that made Claire nervous yet attracted to him at the same time.
"So…is it just…a knife?"
Once again Myrnin sighed, this time rolling his eyes too.
"Really child? Have you never heard of or seen any ninja weapons before?"
Claire shook her head. The main films Claire saw were childhood films or Shane's films and neither really contained ninjas, Shane preferred zombies.
"What a shame. A shuriken is a flat piece of metal, or silver if the attacker is a vampire, with sharpened points along the edges," he showed her various examples as he explained it, "the shuriken that I'm making had multiple blades attached to a metal ring which would spin around once its been thrown, causing serious injury."
The smile crept back across his face, this time a lot creepier that the cute mischievous version, creepy enough to cause Claire to edge away a step. He wasn't getting fangy on her, or even manic, he just seemed kind of…odd.
Claire quickly tried to change the subject to force that smile away, it was seriously starting to scare her now.
"Any news of Ceri?"
As soon as she mentioned the name the smile vanished, replaced with a look of frustration and a slight hint of hatred.
"No, and Ceri is no business of yours Claire, I would hate for you to get involved in this, Ceri has no limits when it comes to what she wants, and when she doesn't get it she can be pure evil," he said. Then he looked up at her with gentle eyes that seems to make Claire's heart squeeze as he said, "I don't want you to get hurt Claire, even seeing you upset makes me feel awful. After what the Collins boy said to you, you've been so quiet and…I hate it. I don't want you to get hurt because of her, I care too much about you."
The squeeze of Claire's heart turned into a full on ache as he spoke the sweetest words she had heard in what must have been weeks. She couldn't get any words out. Everything blurred slightly as her eyes became wet with the beginnings of tears which she tried to blink away. She couldn't think properly, and the next thing she did took her totally by surprise.
She kissed him.
He was completely still with surprise as she pressed her lips against his, pulling him closer while she stretched up as high as she could. She clamped her hands on either side of his face, twining her fingers in his surprisingly soft hair, to keep their lips connected, not that he seemed to be making any move to escape, in fact he had started to relax slightly.
His hands hesitantly moved up to her lower back, one continuing to stroke absent-mindedly through her hair as the other gently eased her body closer to his. He leaned down, so Claire could stand flat footed on the floor again, as he started to move his lips tenderly against hers. His hand left her back to join the other one in her hair, this time he ran his hand through the back of her hair and rested it against the nape of her neck, holding her head to his.
After a while the kiss started to slow as Myrnin slowly pulled away, giving Claire chance to catch her breath before she passed out. He kept his face close to hers, with his hands still at the back of her head, as he brushed his lips softly against hers in sweet kisses.
Clare had no idea what had just happened. All she knew was that she liked it. A lot.
She liked Myrnin, definitely more than a friend, and from the way he responded to the kiss she really hoped that he liked her back in the same way.
They pulled their heads apart, disconnecting their hands from each others hair as they stepped away from each other.
Claire glanced up to see Myrnin looking abash, a slight blush forming high on his cheekbones and the slight curve of a smile playing on his mouth.
She suspected from the intense heat radiating from her face that she was blushing too, and obviously a lot brighter than Myrnin.
He cleared his throat as he started to talk.
"Erm.. That was- I- uh…thank you…I suppose."
Claire couldn't help but smile at his nervous stutters. She had never seen him like this before. He had always been manic, sad, scared, angry or his normal eccentric self, but never nervous. Claire supposed that was a good sign. She could send him to a stuttering mess with just a kiss when that had never happened before. Well…not that Claire knew of.
"I'm sorry," Claire said.
She wasn't.
"There's no need to apologize my dear."
He beamed at her with a dazzling smile which she attempted to match, yet Myrnin's version of dazzling was angelic compared to Claire's so she settled with a wide grin.
Suddenly a lively tone rang throughout the room, interrupting the embarrassed smiles directed at each other. It was an alarm. Claire's alarm for school.
She quickly scampered over to her bag and unzipped her pocket open to reveal her phone. She switched the tune off, drenching the lab in silence before she heard Myrnin speak from right behind her.
"Got somewhere to be?"
Claire turned to meet his gaze and nodded glumly.
"Yeah I have school, I completely forgot about it."
He smiled at her with the smiled she had started to love so much.
"Well I suppose you better get going then. Wouldn't want you to be late now would we."
Claire nodded and turned to pick up her bag, shoving her phone back in the pocket she got it from and starting for the portal.
Before she could make it strong hands clasped onto her shoulders and spun her round to come centimetres away from Myrnin's face. He tentatively leaned forward, eyes closed, and placed a sweet kiss on her lips before twirling her back around to face the portal, already focused on the glass house.
"Have fun." He whispered close to her ear, sending tingles down her body, as she stepped forward into her home.
She briskly got ready and realised she had made record time as she skipped out the door while plugging her ipod in, feeling the happiest she had felt in months.
Hope you like it! I'm just gonna start the song thing off by saying this can be the song she's listening to on the way out:
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