Fears: Claire Bennet
Death. For most people the worst fear of their life is the day of their death. Claire Bennet, an eighteen year-old cheerleader from Odessa, Taxes, has died too many times to be afraid of it…
She's burned, she's broken almost every bone in her body, she's felt her skin slash, she's had the parts of her body being cut off…she can still feel the pain but it's not too hurtful anymore, not too sore…
One of Claire Bennet's fears is to stop feeling the pain. If she can't die for her cell regeneration she wants to at least still be able to feel the pain. But time after time being beaten, cut, shot the feeling transforms into something much more numb, insensitive… She watches another wound heal, her skin getting the flawless sun kissed color once again and can't remember how it felt only a second ago as a massive injury… It is scientifically proved that a human body can adjust to almost everything, including about every kind of pain. And Claire waits anxiously for that day, the day her body stops reacting…
But until that day comes, the blonde former cheerleader has too many other problems to try to care of…to many other fears to cope with...
She's afraid to hurt too many people. She really is…
She's afraid to hurt her boyfriend Isaac Mendez for she certainly knows he will be hurt when he finds out that she's cheating on him.
It's an irony, she repeats to herself every time she's in the arms of her lover. Paradox, she thinks when he kisses her neck and trails butterfly kisses lower. Sarcasm of fate, she believes when she's lying in her bed in early morning with the taste of his kiss still fresh on her lips. But she needs to be in her lover's arms for only in his arms she feels alive, physically alive. She needs to feel a passion equal to hers and Isaac just can't give it to her. It doesn't matter how much her boyfriend loves her he's not able to make her feel to the core. Adam Monroe is.
She's afraid to hurt Isaac even more because she knows for sure that his heart's going to break into lots of tiny pieces when he finds out she doesn't love him either.
Love. Love is the strongest emotion known to human beings and blessed are the ones that have somebody to share it with. Claire doesn't. Well, she is in love with someone but they are not meant to be together.
She doesn't understand why she's been played so dramatically by fortune. When she saw him for the first time…so pure, so full of faith, so willing to help…she knew she was caught in him. And although when he watches her now he's gaze is stained, deep, tainted, fouled for the thoughts that burn in the back of his head, for her he will always be the only one.
Her hero, her strength, her light in the darkness of life, her savior…her uncle…her Peter.
And more then everything, even more then losing the ability to feel she's scared to lose him…