1 week earlier
Claire's point of view
It was a quiet day in our house. There was no drama apart from Shane and Eve bickering downstairs about what to have to eat. I looked at my invention which I had been meaning to field test but never got around to it. I was studying a book Myrnin had given me on alchemical signs. He was going to test me tomorrrow. The shouting escalated downstairs then I heard the sound of the door slamming. I wonder what that was about...I wondered. I'm bored... I thought.I went downstairs to get something to eat when the someone knocked on the door. I went to answer it and there were two policemen there.
"The Founder wishes to see you." One of them said.
"Okay... Why did you have to come here?" I asked. Amelie could have just rung me.
"Its important. Now come on. She won't be kept waiting." The other policeman said.
"Okay." I got my bag and my coat and followed them to a police car. They drove me to Founder's Square then escorted me to her office. Two of her bodyguards opened the doors and I walked in. Shane was sitting on a chair next to her desk in handcuffs but Amelie wasn't there.
"Shane what are you doing here?" I asked.
"I've been bad." Shane said shrugging.
"What have you done?" I asked, running through my head what he could have done.
"I let slip that you were building a mind wiper thing. She wants to see it. Also I stole something." He said.
"Why did you tell her that?" I asked. Shane shrugged and looked like he wasn't bothered about the whole situation. I was. I am going to be in so much trouble.
"I told you, I let that slip." He said. "While she was interrogating me." He held up his hands in surrender. "Shoot me but yeah." I sighed and looked around. What am I going to do?
"Where's Amelie?" I asked.
"Dunno. She just walked out. Wouldn't answer me." Shane replied. I sighed and sat down in a spare chair. A few minutes later Amelie walked in.
"Claire. I suppose Mr Collins has already told you about why your here." She said. I shook my head. I don't know why I did it. Maybe it was to see if Shane was lying or not. "Yes you have. Now I want to see it. Then I will have a little talk with Myrnin."
"Wait, wait Myrnin doesn't exactly know about it." I said. "He said you wouldn't allow it."
"He is right. Now hand it over and I will dispose of it." Amelie said.
"It's at home but I don't know where it is." I said.
"Stop lying to me, Claire. Hand it over." Amelie said her voice going cooler.
"I'm telling the truth! It's at home!" I said, getting frustrated that she won't believe me.
"She's right, Amelie. Claire is terrible at lying." Shane said. Amelie cast a quick glance at Shane then at me for a moment.
"Okay. Then Gerard will go to your house with you and retrieve it from there." Amelie said telling her bodyguard to come then explained what she wanted him to do. He nodded and started walking out. "Go with him. And don't use whatever you have created on him. I will know."
I nodded and followed the bodyguard out who was waiting impatiently by the door. I got into the limo before Gerard started the engine and drove off then in a few minutes we were at home. I sighed. I should've known it wouldn't last. I got out and went to unlock the door and invited Gerard in then I went up to my room to get the invention.
I got it and held it for a moment. Maybe I could make another one later when she's forgotten about it. I took it downstairs to Gerard who was searching the kitchen and I showed it to him. He got it and went back to the car, me following.
The drive back to Founders Square was the same as the last ones; silent. We drove into the car parking space and I saw something or someone running down the side of the building. I dismissed the thought as an animal and followed Gerard into the building. We walked through the hallways but Gerard stopped.
"What is it?" I asked.
"Nothing... Keep going." He said. I walked to where I think Amelie's office was but I went past it. I found the right door and opened it and gasped.
3 vampires lay with crossbolts in their chest and the window was open.
And Shane was nowhere to be seen. I stood there frozen but Gerard didn't hang around. He rushed the 3rd body on the floor and I saw it was Amelie. He pulled the cross bolt out of her chest. I un-froze and tugged the cross bolts pout of the other vampires. I had to yank twice before they came free.
"Leave now." Gerard said. I took my invention from the floor but Gerard beat me to it. "No leave it here. Just go." I nodded and ran out of the door and outside. The figure I saw running down the side of the building wasn't an animal; it was Shane.
Oh god Shane, what have you done?
Chapter 3 is up! What do yo think about this one? The next chapter will be in Shane's Point of View of what happened.
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