But, wait! If I was a vampire, shouldn't I be burning right now, considering I was lying in the sun. Every made sense, quick speed, HD eyesight, the... thirst. Except the sun thing. Vampires were known for there extreme allergy to sunlight and if I was a vampire, I was missing the most important characteristic.

I put it to the back of my mind. There was still time to save Amelie (and therefore, Morganville). I could ask whether I was a vampire later. Now, I just had to save her.

Save now, worry later.

I noticed that I was still wearing Amelie's trademark golden bracelet. It was normally swirling but it had no faded. It was weak and flimsy, as though it could break any second. That was definite bad sign. The contract I'd signed made me Amelie's for the rest of both of our lives. If it was breaking, it meant only two things were possible; Amelie was dead, or I was.

Some of the magic was retained though. It gave me a pull to somewhere that I knew would lead to Amelie. I just had to follow it and find her. I let my feet control me.

Luckily, the Common Grounds wasn't too far away from where Amelie was. About half an hour while running, but I didn't get tired, just thirsty. I appeared at a ivory coloure house with ivy swinging down around it. So this was were Amelie lived? It was beautiful, although I didn't expect any less from the founder.

The scene was ruined however, at the sight of two decapitated guards lying limply infront of the front door. It was very gruesome, and I had to take a deep sigh to remind myself that I had to do this. I walked inside, using my newfound grace to be silent. I wondered if Oliver would be able to hear me. Did he know I was a vampire, or did he expect me to still be lying in a ditch when he got back to the Common Grounds? Hopefully, it was the latter.

I heard voices from upstairs although I couldn't make them out yet. I flashed to outside of the door where they were talking. Fortunatly, they hadn't noticed me here. Or if they had, they hadn't said anything, anyway.

"The hospital night nurses said they haven't heard anything suspicious, either..." I heard Amelie whisper sadly.

I heard a crash and Myrnin growling, "Damnit, Amelie, you should have let me stay with her instead of that human, he's no good for her. He left her alone"

"I only went for coffee," Shane protested. He was quiet, not really sounding angry, but I could only imagine the scowl on his face and anger in his eyes. He didn't like vampires, as it was, but having one blame him for me getting hurt would make him see red, surely.

"Yes, and look at what happened," Myrnin snarled, his words like venom, "You're supposed to love her and you let her go missing again."

"You little bloo-"

Shane was cut off, by Oliver, speaking smoothly and emotionlessly, "Calm down, no harm will come Claire. She had ensured that herself,"

"What are you talking about?" Michael blurted out. I'm sure everyone else in the room was thinking the same thing. Hell, even I was wondering what he was talking about. No harm would come to me? Oliver pushed me off of a building, of course harm had came to me!

"This is all one of the girl's plots, I'm afraid," Oliver looked around at the confused faces staring at him before explaining, "She was not supposed to be rescued, you see. Claire was planning on faking her death and leaving town. She is part of a pro-human revolution gang and that would be the perfect way to gain sympathy for her!" What. The. Fuck. Seriously? Oliver was telling the that I 'faked my own' death to get sympathy for a pro-human group.

That wasn't even the worst thing. Although it was silent, I could see a bit through the crack of the door. Nobody was defending me or protesting. They all acted like they believed that bastard! Damnit, I was so angry. I wanted to run in there and rip his head off. I wanted to scream and defend myself, but I knew that I couldn't. Well... Not until the time was right, anyway.

"Claire wouldn't do that," Shane argued. Thank you! Finally, someone who knows me and has even a miniscule amount of sense.

"Of course she would," Oliver growled back, showing his fangs, "She's not the girl you thought you knew. She is just trying to save herself, that's why she ran away"

Silence, again. This time, Amelie spoke up first, actually sounding... Hurt? "Order my guards to find her and bring her to me for punishment. The only thing I hate more than betrayal is betrayal from someone we trusted,"

After all I had done? The hours of work put in to making an endless amount of machines. All the lives, friendships and grades I had sacrificed for Amelie and her town, and this is how I am paid? By being shrugged off as a 'betrayer' and nothing else. Brushed away like an annoying speck of dust on one of her fancy suits. Like I meant/did nothing for this town.

I didn't even bother to listen to the rest of the conversation. It was all about how they could defend themselves from humans and I wasn't even mentioned once. Great. Obviously no one cared much about me, if they got rid of me that easily.

Soon, they'd see. They'd all see!