Ok, I'm back with a new chapter! And I got a question from a reader asking if the brunette man was Shane, and though I think it would make it a lot more dramatic I'm not really interested in those cross relationships. So no where in any story I write will the main characters switch boyfriends or girlfriends. Ill break em up sure but not put them with another main character. Now with that in mind lets continue and see who the man is and what happened to Claire and Shane (cause if nobody noticed they were not around in the last chapter)

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EPOV

(in the arms of the stranger)

I feel nothing. I'm so ashamed of myself. Here I am kissing an insanely hott guy and all I can think of is Michael. About kissing Michael, about being in his arms, talking with him. He bit me and yet he's all I can think of. I pull back from Marco (!) about to explain when he turns.

"Hey, man you looking for somebody?"

I turn to see who he's talking to and freeze. Its like my dream- or nightmare- has come to life. I feel giddy, fear, and anger all at once. And… Grief. I missed him. How messed up is that? Michael freezes when he sees me, still in Marcos arms. His eyes were red and he was angry. Slowly the redness faded from his eyes and I saw the pain, the rejection, the true, powerful, anger… And the betrayal that I had seen not to long ago. But as slowly as it had come, the redness came back and he lunged. I put myself in front of Marco, one arm in front of me, the other going for the stake on my back. I didn't even have time to pull it out as he pushed me out of the way and grabbed Marco just like he did Shane in the hospital. Damn, now what was I supposed to do? My arm hurt like hell but there was nothing I could do about that at the moment. I had to get Michael off Marco before he killed him. And murder was so in his eyes. I pull the stake out and run at him, ready to stab him again as Michael presses on Marco's neck, knocking him out, and grabbing my arm, twisting it behind me. Oh, great. Now both my arms hurt like hell. He laughed evilly, sorta like those creepy cheap villains off TV.

"You really think I'm gonna let you stab me twice, babe?" He whispered in my ear, his teeth actually touching me. "Nah, your not that damn lucky. So here's what's gonna happen. One, I'm gonna kill your boy toy - cause that's all he really he is isn't he, sweetie? Just a stupid little toy. I'm gonna kill him, hide the body, and then your going to tell me where the hell the other two are, got it? And then were gonna go back to Morganville and you are going to pay for what you've done. Got it?"

He let go of me -after taking the stake away from me- and I immediately turned back full of rage.

"You touch Marco and I swear ill kill you."

"Marco! So boy toy has a name? But you know what Eve? I don't care. You think you can just leave and then run around screwing every guy you meet? Not gonna happen. So tell me Eve, the love of my life, how many others have there been? Ill find out with or with out you, but I'm giving you a chance to get on my good side. So, how many? Three? Four? Come on, Eve, give me a hint at least."

His smug smile made both my heart and my head hurt. But in that smile I realized something. This was not Michael. He may look like Michael, talk like Michael, hell even smell like him. But this is not Michael.

"None! None, Michael! Listen to yourself! This isn't like you! Your just not like this! I know-"

"YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING!"

Pain exploded in my head and everything went black

MPOV

I take a deep breath as Eve falls to the ground. At that moment if anybody had asked me what had just happened I wouldn't have had any idea. Not that I cared. It made things easier. However I didn't actually want her to pass out but I wasn't going to argue at this point. I looked back at the man-Marco- and got down to business.

EPOV ( two hours later )

I woke up in the backseat of a car, my hands and wrist taped together. I remembered passing out and looked (or tried) out the tinted window. No luck. All I could see was desert. I looked at Michael driving, totally at ease with his vampire bastard self. I wanted to scream, kick, kill. I wanted to stab him. I had no doubt that he killed Marco. But I had to ask.

"What did you do with Marco?"

His eyes went to the rear-view mirror and then back to the road. He didn't look like he would answer. I kicked the back of his seat.

Next thing I know we were pulled over and Michael had me by the throat (his favorite new position apparently).

"You want to know what I did with your friend? Huh? Do you really want to know?"

I could tell this wasn't a rhetorical question so I answered honestly.

"No. I don't want to think of you as a killer Michael"

" Well you better get that out of your idiotic little head Eve Rosser. Because that's what I am. I'm a killer. Just like I'm a vampire. I gave you choices to leave, but no. Whether you admit it to yourself or not your obsessed with the idea of vampires. I know your greatest desire Eve. And I gave it to you didn't I? But you had to play the little victim. You enjoyed my bite. But you couldn't let others know that, so you pretended like you hated it. Like you hated vampires. But nobody's around now Eve. So why don't we try again? Huh? Whatdya say?"

I wanted to kill him. He knew that I hated it. He knew in my past I had been obsessed. And now he was using it against me. But I wasn't a defenseless kitten either. No this kitty had claws. I looked him straight in the eye.

"I swear to you Michael, you bite me again and ill kill you. I swear on everything and everybody I love I will freakin KILL YOU!" He looked at me and I felt like I was staring at the old Michael for a minute. His eyes weren't red and he didn't seem smug like he new the world and owned it to. He just looked normal. He rubbed his thumb on my cheek.

"No you wont. You'll never have that chance."

And then he kissed me…

SO? Whatdya think? Ok well I didn't reveal where Claire and Shane were. But that comes later. Oh and btw, I'm going to be writing a new story. Problem is Idk where to place it at. Cause its going to combine two series. One is just a prequel to the other on. So should I put it in the prequel or keep it in the original series? Id really appreciate some help!

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