This one's super short just so you know. But I hope it doesn't disappoint. After all, it is one whole day earlier than I expected. I do know what's happening next chapter, but after that, I'm not a hundred percent sure. Maybe it's time for a party. I don't know. If any of you have an idea, I'd be glad to hear it. I also keep forgetting to say that I don't own Morganville Vampires, but seriously if I had, I wouldn't be posting this here, I'd be posting it on my own website. Soo... I still don't own anything except my own pure genius. I hope you guys like it :)

The next month and a half passed quickly and silently. Except for the fact that Claire had gone to the doctor's again and discovered that the 'gas' that was becoming more frequent was really the baby's kicking. And now Claire had a new thing to be excited about. Claire was now 27 weeks along, the baby was healthy as could be, and the warming June temperatures brought with them the sound of songbirds everyday.

On this day, June 16th, Claire's mother and father were coming over to have dinner with them. Claire's mother was over at the house, helping Claire prepare dinner while the men were out, still at work.

"Well, they better like it," Claire's mom was saying. "I don't know what it's going to be, maybe a casserole, but whatever it is, they're going to like it. They have to."

Claire laughed. Her mother had shown up with two paper bags full of groceries and at the moment they were snapping the ends off green beans over the kitchen counter, talking at the same time.

They were silent for a while as they snapped and then her mother said, "You know, I'm still not completely thrilled over the order you're doing things in."

"I'm snapping them, just how you showed me," Claire said defensively.

"No, no I mean about you and the baby and Shane." Claire sighed. One of these talks again.

"Mom, it may not be your order, or the right order, but it's still my order. What happens, happens. And this is the order things are happening in." She didn't look at her mother as she said this.

"Yes, I know, but- you should have been more careful." Claire laughed but quickly stopped at the look on her mom's face.

"Sorry," Claire said, ashamedly.

"It's just that you're much too young for all of this to be happening to you," her mother said.

"Mom, you were married when you were nineteen. I'll be twenty by the time we have the wedding."

"Yes, yes, I know," her mom said, but her voice had changed to be a bit more relaxed. "You always know how to make an argument, you always have. Maybe it's just because you'll always be our little girl, no matter how old you get and how much our lives change." Claire smiled. The mood in the room had greatly changed since a minute ago, and was now more cheerful, so Claire knew she was being let off the hook for the moment.

At that moment the phone rang. Claire wiped off her hands on her jeans and picked up the handset from it cradle. "Hello?" she said into it.

There was silence on the other end. All she could hear was breathing. "Hello?" she said again. "I can hear you breathing." Claire was starting to feel a little nervous. "Eve, is this you?"

"This isn't your little goth friend," came a low voice from the other end. Claire's heart stopped. A mysterious call from someone you didn't know was always bad in Morganville. "You'll soon find out who I am, though."

"Why?" Claire tried not to sound scared but failed at it. Her mother was now looking at her, watching Claire's face to try and tell what was going on.

"I know your secret. I know what your kid will be. It'll be a monster and I'll make sure to get rid of it." Then the line went dead.

Claire, in shock and scared for her life and the baby's, couldn't even put the phone back down. All she could think as she stood there, the phone still pressed to her ear, was OhmyGodOhmyGodOhmyGod.

"Claire?" she heard her mother saying, somewhere in the distance. "Claire honey, are you okay?"

Claire shook her head half an inch in either direction and whispered, "No" before she crumpled to the floor and cried like she'd never cried before.

Whoo! Getting some action in here! I mean, you can't have a multi-chapter Morganville story without a little action. That's how the pros do it. FYI, that guy won't turn up for a few chapters yet so just sit tight ;) Remember to review!