Chapter 11

Michael's POV

So that was it. We had no idea who had taken the cure or knocked out Shane and staked Myrnin, and no cure. But I knew it was too good to be true, Eve and I would just have live a life of being together, without actually being together. We were in a married relationship, but we couldn't be together in the same way as if I was human. We couldn't have kids, heck; we couldn't even have sex without me trying the drain the blood out of her.

I stared miserably through the window of the hearse, Morganville. I grew up in this town, I didn't know anything else asides from this miserable little town in East Texas, that was also controlled by vampires. That's it; I could never be human again, I would have to stay a bloodsucker until someone staked me. It wasn't fair on Eve either, I couldn't give her a normal life, instead she would have to turn into a bloodsucker, it was the only we could be together longer than Eve managed to live. Tragic as well as harsh, I know.

I got out of the car as Eve rolled up in front of the house. Shane gently carried Claire from the backseat of the car. She had tear stains running down her face and her hair was a mess, worse than a really bad bed head. But what worried everyone were the deep red scratches that ran down her arms and her neck. Shane had checked for fang bites, and said she was clear, but didn't explain Claire's current state. She had been asleep on Shane's shoulder for the whole car ride, with his arms around her holding her close.

We weren't sure what Claire had been through, but by the looks of it, it had been pretty traumatic.

Captain Obvious POV

I threw another glass object across the room, hoping it would suppress my anger. It didn't.

All I wanted is a town, a town free of vampires. Was that so much to ask? Was it? I heard the sound of glass shattering on the far side of the room as I threw something else.

I was shaking with anger. Was it so hard to re-create this damn cure? We had some of the best geniuses in the whole town, and how could they not possibly re-create it? How the actual fuck could they not re-create it?

Unless it was a fake. Unless this was a fake cure. Yes, that was it. This so called cure was a fake! It didn't work, that's why they couldn't re-create it! Yes! But that leaves me back on square one, back where it all started. I was going to create a cure for vampires to turn back into humans.

But firstly I was going to make the person who led me on this so called wild goose pay.

Claire's POV

I felt strong arms wrapped around me and my face lay on his strong muscular chest. His finger traced softly across my cheek bone and then I felt him kiss the top of my head. I breathed in Shane's scent, happy to be away from the pain, the pain that hurt so bad. I wrapped myself around Shane, vowing never to let go of him, burying my face in the crook of his neck and let the tears fall one at a time.

Shane's hand gently stroked the length of my back, he didn't say anything, he was giving me space. The pain had gone away now, but it still lingered. It was like a slow creep along everywhere in my body, occasionally touching me in places causing me to shudder or spasm against him. Shane would murmur things in my ear, telling me everything would be okay and it would go away soon.

It eventually went away, it wasn't for a while and I could feel Shane's muscles rigid against me.

"Shane," I murmured, so quiet I wasn't sure he heard me. It was the first actual thing I had said to him since I had woke up.

"Yeah baby?" his arms tightened around me, I buried myself closer to him.

"Thank you for taking me away," I felt my eyes get heavy, the pain had taken a lot out of me and now I was finally free of the pain.

His response came back to me muffled; I was already asleep against him.

Oliver's POV

Claire no longer had any use to me, the cure was gone and I didn't see the point of making her suffer any longer. I had let her go, whether that was a stupid decision, I didn't know. The worst she could do was to go tattle to Amelie, but what could Amelie do? Fine me? Amelie didn't scare me. Amelie had grown weak, the emotional attachment she had formed with some of the human residents in this town was ridiculous and it made her soft and vulnerable. Nobody respected her like the way they used to, she treated humans as equals despite how much strength, power and knowledge we had over them. Idiocy had clearly taken over.

"Hey, you're not allowed in there..."

The door suddenly opened wide, revealing one of my little spies and the current Captain Obvious, the human's so called saviour from vampires, but once he died, there would soon be another. I gestured that my spy let him go and he stumbled into my office. He slammed his fist down revealing... it couldn't be... no, it was. The cure.

"Thank you for your so called cure..."

What on earth was he talking about?

"But you see Oliver, I'm too clever for your little plan..."

What little plan?

"I know this is a fake..."

It was a fake?

"But I'm going to make my own..."

Are you now?

"And then I'm going cure this town of this ridden vampire curse!"

And with that he turned around and left. I stared down at the cure in front of me. I allowed a small smile from myself. Idiocy had clearly spread around town.

Oliver has the cure... But what will he do with it...?

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