Chapter 24/1 This is for secret lies and sins - it is short, but I hope you still like it...
...and for everybody else who follows my story, thank you so much and I wish you all Merry Christmas :)
Three people had lost their lives ,three funerals were held - Morganville was holding it's breath and mourning .
Michael Glass funeral was the last . The church, he and Eve had just visited days before , to mark their union as husband and wife , was now filled with a sea for flowers and wreaths , the benches filled to the last seats and even people standing in the aisles .
Eve was sitting in the front row , on her left side Claire , the other one occupied by Amelie , her hand calmingly lying on Eve's lap.
In the front of the altar was a large picture of Michael, his guitar draped next to it, like he just stopped playing and went for a break.
Amelie got up and walked to the lectern . She seemed frail, her skin thin as paper and as white , but her look was one of determination.
She was standing at the desk, searching for the eyes of the congregation.
" Michael Glass was one of us. As a human born into Morganville he had to make a choice after he was fataly injured . Michael choose life - he became a Vampire! ..." Amelie stopped for a few seconds , rethinking her speech . She closed her eyes for a few seconds and restarted.: "
" ...it maybe sounds paradox to some of you, to combine life and Vampire - the undead - in one sentence , but as many of you know by now, we are not so different and for Michael , this choice gave him the possibility to live a life , that otherwise would have ended far to early.
His life DID end too early, because again -life - was his choice. Life for the woman he loved , he fought for so desperately and for whom , he was willing to defy even me.
He also fought for your rights...for Humans and Vampires alike , for your freedom to choose the person you want to be with - because of him , I realized, that we are not so different after all.
Michaels final present to us , was the unity he build , by giving his most precious possession - his life - away . I do not know, how long this most unusual arrangement between Humans and Vampires will last - maybe a day, a month ,a year - maybe longer - we don't know, but what we know is, that it never would have happened , if Michael wouldn't have made his final choice - to end his life , so others could live. "
Amelie stood silently at the lectern , her face hardened , Eve looking up to her with her eyes filled with tears and never-ending pain over the loss of Michael, her best friend , husband , lover and soulmate.
Then something happened no one ever expected, a person got up, turned around to Eve and started to clap, showing her his gratitude , his solidarity and most of all , his respect - that person was Oliver .
Soon others got up , Myrnin, Claire , Richard Morell, Theo Goldman - the entire community , all turned to Eve , clapping and showing her the respect Michael deserved . Eve's pain was eased at this moment - and was it only for a short time.
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