Chapter 49:

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Claire's POV:

"Claire, I..." Amelie trails off, at a loss for words at the clothes I have laid out painstakingly neatly all over her bed.

"Don't know how to thank me?" I finish with a grin, Sam winking at me from his stance beside Amelie. The pregnant woman is glowing with the flame haired lover beside her, and at this minute she is barely holding in laughter.

"Thank you, Claire, but I hope you understand that this is an entirely temporary measure and I shall be wreaking my revenge as soon as possible," she finishes, actually laughing now.

"I'd be careful kiddo... This one's revenge is pretty severe," Sam says, mock seriously. I laugh and Amelie smiles, but doesn't deny it!

"Ok, well I'd best be off," I say with a smile, heading out of their bedroom when a slightly scary thought hits me about them. They smile and say bye as I rush out the room, heading for the lab. I rush through the portal and emerge in the living room of my amazing home, crashing into the equally amazing husband.

"Sweetie, I could make a joke about you being an uncoordinated vampire, but I shall refrain myself," Myrnin laughs as he helps me up from the floor. Bloody being older meaning that he doesn't fall over when the weaker do... This isn't good. Why do I have to fall over when he doesn't?

"You dare and..." I begin, but he cuts me off, sounding both cheerful and angry at the same time.

"You have already given the biggest threat you can give and punishment is still in action, therefore you have nothing else to give," he smiles vindictively, knowing that he's got me in a corner.

"Ok, well... I'll make a deal," I say alluringly, bumping myself into him deliberately. He looks confused as to my actions as I wrap my arms around his waist and press my lips to his softly before pulling back again. "I shall lift your punishment when either you create an anger tonic for Amelie that doesn't contain ecstasy or I find out how she got pregnant, whichever first. Deal?"

His lips press to mine again, his hands snaking down my back to clench my bottom tightly, without giving me chance to move away... I love kissing him... But the whole 'no-sex' thing reminds me of before we got married and the whole short term dry spell one of us (I can't remember which one of us was mad enough... I have a feeling, however, it was me) but this time it is entirely by choice.

"Well?" I whisper into his chest as I fall into it, once he finally releases me.

"Absolutely, my beautiful wife, I shall be rising to the challenge most definitely!" he smiles, laughing slightly.

"Whoever wins gets control of everything in life, deal?" I rashly promise, making him grin widely, all teeth showing... Oh my, that smile!

"Deal... Prepare to lose, my wife, prepare to lose," he says, releasing me suddenly.

"Three, two, one, GO!" I yell, darting for the lab. I feel him coming up behind me instantly, so I turn around and push him into the sofa... Unfortunately, he gets back up instantly and speeds past me without me even seeing him.

"Wow, you really take your time," he smiles, from his stance leaning against one of the cupboards in the lab, arms folded.

"Says the man who is like almost a thousand years older than me, so has soooo much more speed," I say waspishly... I always hate losing!

"Shouldn't have challenged me: even for my wife I'm not going to lose," he retaliates, staring at me coolly in the eyes. Sheesh, you can see why he and Amelie have gotten on so well over the years!

"Fine, just get out of my way so that I can work," I say sharply, moving over to the machine that is searching for something that happened on the day the baby was conceived that could be deemed strange and contributing to the baby and stuff. I analyse the events on the screen, running my eyes over the results that have been procured in the hours since someone has been looking at it - anything out of the ordinary could just be something I haven't seen before... but, no. That is definitely strange... I am 99.9% positive that that shouldn't have happened! "Whoop!" I exclaim in ecstasy when I realise that it is the best thing that it could be, causing Myrnin to rush up behind me.

"What is it?" he inquires, sounding rather intrigued but put out at the same time. I suppose he wanted to win, so that he could have the power over me, in a sense. But even if I win, the end result will be the same, so!

"There was a definite something there – the moon and the planets… wait, could there be something to do with the parallax that meant that the moon was closer to us?" I think aloud, but Myrnin nods excitedly. He seems to actually agree with my thesis for a change, rather than trying to edit it to fit his own ideas... that's one of the things that annoys me about being with a scientists - they want you to agree with you all the time. Sometimes, I think we should agree to disagree but, no, that isn't allowed, not by Myrnin anyway!

"That could definitely be one of the possible causes, Claire, I really think that the parallax angle could have affected it somehow – I distinctly remember calculating that something happened on November 11th 2010 that could only happen every thousand years on November 11th 1010," he says, looking far into the distance. Geez, that's great! Couldn't he have mentioned this distinct possibility before now, before I set up this stupid machine to run (using probably thousands of dollars of electricity in it's mission) or something?

One thousand years. Something that can only happen every thousand years.

Could this be it? Could Amelie have something in her blood (ie the thing that allowed her to get pregnant) that only works if you find someone else with it when the parallax hits at that angle, every thousand years? Could this be it? Could it really be as simple as the moon and everything, or could it go down into bloodlines and it turns out that they (Amelie and Sam, somehow) are descended from the same bloodline, of original vampires, that means that they are the only vampires in the world (and also Michael, as he is related to Sam) that can have children? There are so many possibilities.

But how would Michael be able to have children? Unless… unless it is different if you have the child with a human; it doesn't matter about the parallax because you aren't trying to have a child with someone who is frozen like you. Eve is a human and her body can change, so I guess the parallax won't be needed to make an effect there - no, it doesn't bother it at all. So, right... a vampire can have a child with a human without needing the parallax (but does need the three months for the cells to bond) whereas the vampires (and only those with the gene, which is all of three right now) need the parallax, which can only happen once every thousand years... I think that that is everything, anyway.

"This is it," I whisper, grinning in glee. "This is the basic idea – I think I need to do some more research and stuff, but I know how it came to be that Amelie is pregnant right now!" I exclaim, turning to face a shocked Myrnin. He still can't seem to process something; whether it is that I have managed to do this, or that he is just working out whether he can pick a fault in it I don't know, but I did it!

"I'm half done with the anger potion?" he suggests quietly, shrugging his shoulders sheepishly. He really is annoying, always wanting to win, but I love that about him... I love every part of him.

"I win!" I exclaim before kissing him with more passion than in about a month. It's so perfect... it's even better than, what, 5 minutes ago when I propositioned this!

"Does that mean that the punishment is over?" he asks, hope evident extremely so in his voice. I bite my lip, wondering whether or not I should carry on with the work now I am this far in. do I? I mean, I am just on the tip of the iceberg, but also so far in that it is entirely addictive to work more and more…

But Myrnin's hand on the bare skin of my neck changes my mind entirely. I relax against him, unable to resist him already.

"Take me upstairs and you've got a deal," I whisper against his neck, feeling the sudden rush of air.

Well… I lasted this long, didn't I?


I'm not entirely happy with this chapter, but after three rewrites, this is the best you are going to get.

It's short, but it has the reason why Amelie is pregnant (you can tell that I have just been doing about parallaxes in physics, can't you?... well, when I wrote the chapter!) and Claire and Myrnin back together again lol! ARE YOU ALL HAPPY NOW, MYRNIN/CLAIRE LOVERS?

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