AN: I'm so sorry that it has taken me this long to be able to get the next chapter out I just once again was hit by an annoying case of writer's block and then I got a review that was just plain evil. If you haven't read it this was what was written 'wooow its kinda good BUT its got nothing inresting in it so to sum it up its BORING! no hard feelings... hope you get better at your crappy writing!:)' and that was a completely direct quote. In response all I have to say is that thank you for opinion which everyone is entitled to but who are you to judge what is good writing or not, are you a real editor that publishes books cause I know that you cannot and should not compare me to writers who have actually published books as I know for a fact that my writing is nit to that standard which is why I write these stories so that I can then get better at my writing. Also I would like to say that you need to work on your grammar and spelling and if you do have an account with FF have the decency to login when you post your reviews that 'criticize' as it means that you don't have a fear of people sending you messages about why you wrote what you did, if you don't have one then I will overlook that.

Now that I have all that out of my system on with the next chapter.

Chapter 10

One year later

Third person's POV

It had now been a year since Claire and Shane had finally managed to get married. All of their friends were glad that they had got married and so happy for them but they did not expect that when Claire and Shane would get married that they would then start to become more affectionate to each other to the point when they would sometimes have troubl4e getting through the front door because they would be there making once again after one of them had returned home. Eve and Michael were really happy for them but they did just wish that they would constantly show their feelings like they do all their time. It would sometimes even get to the point where people could start to feel slightly sick from the sweetness coming off of Claire and Shane when they were near each other.

Claire and Shane have also moved into their own house now. They moved out a week after coming home from their honeymoon and even though Eve and Michael would love for them to still live with them as they are best friends and have lived together for years they were a tiny bit happy that when they did move out they would not have to suffer with constantly seeing Claire and Shane making out.

It was the day before they were due to move out and Claire had just come back home from work. Shane had spent the day at home with the children as it was his day off (he has also been toying with the idea of quitting his job as Claire earns plenty of money for them to live on) and the moment Shane heard the front door close he Had gone to see who it was, either Eve or Claire as Michael was already at home.

It was Claire and as soon as their eyes met Shane immediately swept Claire into his arms and began to kiss as though it has been days since they last saw each other instead of rather hours.

"I love you so much Claire" Shane told her when they had managed to come up for air.

"I love you too Shane. I missed you whilst I was at work."

"I missed you as well. Why do you still have to carry on working for that maniac? I think that it would be much nicer and safer if you were to stay home with me and the kids."

"I would love to if it were possible for us to be able to live without having to work but sadly you can't anything for free, we need money so that we can care for our children and any future children as well. And we also now have a house that will need money so that we can keep the house and make sure that it will not fall apart."

"It can't hurt to dream though can it?"

"No it doesn't."

And they began to start to kiss again and getting very into it very quickly and not stopping until they were interrupted by Eve coming home.

"Michael are you aware that Claire and Shane are standing in the hall making out. Again" Eve yelled.

Michael came into the hall to see what Eve was yelling about.

"It's horrible isn't it. I'm surprised that they are still going t it even with the yelling and talking. Hey you two if you want there is a very good room upstairs if you need to use it."

This made them jump apart and remember that they are not the only people who live in the house. It also made Claire start to blush at being caught kissing Shane the way she was.

"You two really can't control yourselves when you are left only together can you?"

They just looked at each other and then turned back to face Eve and Michael.

"It's hard to control myself when I have Claire, my gorgeous wife, right here beside me looking so very enticing to me." Shane had tilted Claire's face up so that he could look into her eyes when he told of how he really feels about Claire.

This made Claire blush and she then tried to look away but Shane would not allow her to look away.

"Aww, that sweet and I'm so happy for the two of you but do you really feel the need to always be constantly showing your love for each other and making out in front of the door so that you two are always the first thing that is seen when you walk through the door."

"I just blame Shane, as he finds me so irresistible he is the one who starts the making out and then I just feel so powerless to stop him from keeping the kissing going." This was all said whilst Claire and Shane where still staring into each other's eyes.

Then the words "mama" and "dada" could be heard over the baby monitor that Shane had kept attached to his jeans meaning that the children had woken up from their nap and wanted their parents' attention now and so then stopping Claire and Shane from kissing anymore.

Another thing that had now happened is that the children had now turned two years old.

On this day was feeling very emotional about it as the children were now another year older and all Claire would like is for them to be able to stay as children so that she would always be needed to help them with taking care of all their needs. They were already walking and stating to talk and Claire just wanted for them to stay as children until they had more children. Shane also wanted something similar as he would love for Abigail to stay as a child so that he could always protect her from any boys who aren't her brother but he wouldn't mind if Ethan was to grow up a little bit as he could then teach him how to play sports and have someone else that he could 'manly' things with but still love for them to stay as children filled with love and innocence which will all one day be ruined by growing up and having to be told that they live in a town that is ran by vampires and that they will more than likely be unable to ever leave.

On the morning of the twins' birthday Claire and Shane were both hours awake before the children would have woken up which had never happened before but it was due to Claire waking up early. She knew that this would be a big day for their children and she wanted to make sure that everything would be okay today and had then ended up waking up Shane as she was wrapped up in his arms and couldn't get free.

"Claire what are you doing? Isn't it too early to be waking up yet?" Shane asked after looking at the clock to see that it was five in the morning.

"I'm sorry Shane I was hoping that I wouldn't end up waking up but then I couldn't get free from your arms."

"That's good cause I only like to sleep with you in my arms. Are we okay now to get back to sleep or did you need to do something?" You could hear that Shane really wanted to get back to sleep.

"You can go back to sleep if you want to but I feel restless considering what today means for our children. Why won't they ever stop growing up? I just want for them to stay as children forever or at least until we have some more children."

"Yes but what happens when we decide to not have more children, do they then have to stay as children?"

"No they can grow up as there will come a time when we can no longer keep up with chasing after our children."

"You do know that they are only two years old are so are still very young. I bet that as the year goes on you'll want very much for them to grow up and get passed this year as isn't often referred to as 'the terrible twos'"

"I guess you do have a point there but this does also then mean that they are now another year closer to a point to where they will start to longer need me like now." Then some tears started to fall. There is possible only one thing that Shane might hate more than Vampires is seeping Claire and the children crying especially if it should turn out that he was the reason for them to start crying.

"Baby, it's okay. Shh, shh, shh. Children still want their parents and need them even when they have all grown up. Do you remember what you told your dad when we told your parents that we were getting married 'Dad I'll always be your little girl but I'll be married. I'll still you Dad just not as much as I did before I met Shane', if that's true for you why wouldn't it be true for our children. "

"It wouldn't be they would still feel the same unless of course they decide that they hate us."

"It would be pretty hard for our children, me possibly, but you not as it's impossible for anyone to hate you."

"That not true as Kim, Monica hate me. There are also probably some vampires who hate me."

"Kim and Monica don't count as they hate everyone and the vampires don't count either as they will hate anyone who will try to stop them from getting whatever it is that they want." This made Claire smile once again. "How about we now get some more sleep as it's still really early?"

They then snuggled back down under the covers and were then able to sleep for another couple hours before they would before they would be woken up by the children.

When the children did wake up Claire and Shane and they were then sorted out for the day Claire and Shane had decided that they would have a small celebration with just the four of them before all the family and friends would come over later on.

They had decided that during their family time they would give their presents to the twins as it was guaranteed that they would get many more later as their family and friends do love to spoil them at any possible chance that they get. They had just decide that they would just get them some more toys that they probably didn't need as the twins didn't really have any specific interests that could help them to get any gifts that they knew the children would like. There was one thing that happened that wasn't expected was that the children would have much rather played with the boxes, something that Claire and Shane had never really thought that they would enjoy playing with as they did just see as packaging and not a plaything. It seemed that they may never understand what would ever be going through their children's minds at any point in time.

Seeing Abigail and Ethan playing and having fun with the boxes made Claire want to cry once again as it occurred to her that she was silly to think that it wouldn't be for a while until she could consider herself obsolete in her children's life.

She did even at one point start to cry once again. She tried to hide her tears as she didn't want Shane to see her crying as she knew how much Shane didn't like it and he would immediately become worried that something bad aha happened to her or the children. Hs also didn't want to feel as though she was going to be ruining the day by being sad about the fancy then she had realised that she has a few years before becoming obsolete and that there was also nothing that she could do to stop their children from growing up either.

She tried to make it possible that Shane wouldn't see her crying but it was too late.

"Claire are you alright? What's wrong? Has something happened to the children?"

"No nothing has happened. I don't know what is wrong with me but it just occurred to me that you were right when you said to me that it would be a few years before our children won't need me any longer."

"Baby, come here. It's going to be okay. Everything will be alright."

"I know it will be, I guess my emotions are just running a little high today or something. I was hoping that I could hide my tears from you but in the end you saw before I could do anything."

"There's not a lot, if anything, that I won't notice about you. It's my job to know if you or the children need to be protected from anything."

"I don't think that you can really do much for me when it comes to protecting me when you consider what my job entails me to do."

"You couldn't let me have my knight in shining armour moment could you?" he even started to pout which Claire thought was really cute and adorable. Something that Claire would never say to his face as he would deny it and want to be called something more 'manly' like 'handsome'.

"I'm sorry Shane. You'll always be my knight in shining armour who comes riding in on his white horse to carry me off into the sunset. Better."

"Yes thank you." This managed to put the smile back on her face and they then defiantly managed to forget about the little crying episode that had just happened as they then started to kiss but it was pretty tam as they knew that the children wouldn't want to see their parents kissing each other.

Later on in the day it was time for the party and Claire was hoping that she would be able to spend some time not wanting to be always bursting into tears. She didn't want that as she knew that it would lead to lots of questions coming from all their friends and family. Well mainly Eve and Claire's Mum. There weren't many people there just Eve and Michael and Claire's parents. Amelie though did stop by for a short while which surprised some people.

It was quite an enjoyable time for everyone who was there especially as there got to see the children acting as children should playing with their toys and trying to get into anything and everything. Ethan did even at one point though that it would be fun to try and run out the room but Shane was able to spot the escaping child straight away and stop him.

After the presents were opened the children once again just want to play with boxes and want to ignore the toys and things that they had been given. The toys were looked at but they just weren't interested in them. Or at least Ethan wasn't Abigail did look at the toys and did take an interest in one of the teddy bears that had been given to her. She also then wanted to sit on Claire's lap and get a cuddle from her.

After seeing the children taking the most interest in some boxes made Claire wonder what she was like as a child.

"Was I ever like that as a child? Would I have ever rather played with boxed instead of playing with toys?"

"You did for a bit but you the rather quickly grew out of it. You also were never really one for playing with toys and dolls. You actually grew up rather quickly especially once you reached school age and then most of you interest levels went into your school work and things related to school. You did though quite like having teddy bears and the like."

"You can always hug bears. Plus from what I can remember wasn't my first toy some form of cuddly toy. I don't remember if I still have it or not."

"I remember that one. It quickly became your favourite one as well."

It felt nice to hear about what she was like as a child. Hearing how she was as a child made her wonder about what Abigail and Ethan would be like when they grow up.

She would love it if they would take after her but there was a part of her that wished that before it would happen that they would spend their childhood being happy and acting and behaving like children should and then when they reached school age they didn't feel the need to skip any years unless that was what they truly wanted to do as she had been through it and hated that it made it hard for her to make many friends.

Who knows maybe they would end up taking after Shane instead of her which she didn't mind either so long as they did better than Shane did in school which was just barely passing. In truth Claire and didn't really mind so long as they were happy or at least as happy as a person can be in a town that is ran by vampires.

Claire and Shane's life for as far as they could see couldn't get any more perfect from their point of view or so it seem as there is no such thing as a truly perfect life.

Especially for the people who live in Morganville.

AN: so there we have it another chapter finished. What did you think of it? Good? Bad? Needs work doing to it? Let me know I'd love to know your opinions.

I will try to get the next chapter out soon than this one, just know that if it does take a while that I will never forget about this story as I would hate to know that I have never finished a story that people have taken an interest in.