So these are just flowing out like well nevermind but I'm going to make this a four shot the chaps will be longer due to this and there MIGHT be a happy ending…aint I a stinka. Enjoy

Present – Claire

"Please let me go I don't know why you want me please B –"He cut me off with a scream.

"That is not my name! You will call me Master. Got it little Claire." He said with a sneer and I flinched further into the chair. I hate how he used such an endearing name given to me by my love and used it against me.

"Yes M-Maste-r –r." He sauntered over with a wicked grin and came up behind my chair. I closed my eyes and he pulled on my hair pulling my head back. "Ahh!" I scream and he silenced me with his hand.

"Now now Claire we don't want to make a fuss." His hot breath trailed my neck and my own breath became rugged and shallow. He released my hair and my head was thrown violently forward. I hung my head and silent tears trailed my face. I could hear him leave and I coughed. He came back and put a gag on me. The tears poured even more down my face. He was facing me again and I saw for the first time he had rope. I also noticed he replaced my rope dug hands with chains. The cold was eminent. I tried to scream, but the gag wouldn't let me and it was muffled yells. Like trying to talk to someone through a pillow. He pried my legs apart and tied each ankle to the leg of the chair. Each of my legs on either side of the chair. My tears clouded my sight. Frankly I didn't want to see anything to begin with. I heard the sound of a zipper and then his hands were on my hips working their way in.

Forty Hours Earlier – Myrnin

I woke up with Claire on my chest and her mouth was slightly open. I gently lifted her off and she made a slight sound of protest. I got mostly dressed and hopped into the tiny kitchenette. I opened the freezer that Claire insisted I buy and stock with food. I found some frozen waffles and tossed them in the toaster. I read the directions carefully and timed it for two minutes. As I waited I put some blood in the microwave and down two glasses easily. The waffles are finally done and I carry them in hand to my room. Claire had just opened her eyes as I walked in and dashed to my side of the bed. I jumped and bounced on the bed sending her flying roughly four feet in the air.

"Ah!" She screamed with shock and joy. When she landed she was more awake than before. "Remind me to never go into a bouncy house with you." I gave her a look and handed her one of the waffles. She gladly took it nibbling on the edges then snarfing it down. I had just begun on mine when she looked at it with a hungry stare. She scurried ever so slightly closer still staring at me. I took a bite and she had gotten yet closer. I was going to take another bite when she closed the distance and was hugging my side, her legs wrapped around my midsection and her hands clinging to my arm, with a dangerous ferocity and her face was inches from mine. Then she whispered, "Can I have. Your. Wafffflllleeee?" I looked at her out of the corner of my eye and she licked her lips.

"Uhhhmmm…." Her eye twitched and she had a manic look in her eye. Better safe than sorry I handed it to her and she stuffed half of it in her mouth. She let go of her death grip and ate the rest of the waffle. "Are you sure they are just waffles? Is there anything in there?" She swallowed and shook her head,

"Leggo my Eggo." She said with a smile and I rolled my eyes. Of course. I waited until she finished and pounced on her. Sending the bed into a fury. She squealed and laughed.

"You owe me a waffle. Or you can pay off the guard." I gave her a sly look and she returned it.

"Well Mr. Mean Guard sir, what is it I pay you with?" She trailed her finger down my chest, then my stomach only to stop and pull at my waistband. My breath hitched and I quickly composed myself.

"Just a kiss." I gave a mischievous smile and she reached up with both hands and pulled me down. Our lips met in a clash of electricity. I reached around behind her and pulled her closer. Her hands grabbed my upper arms and worked their way to my back. We broke away and I began trialing kisses along her collar bone. Before I could capture her lips again she rolled away and landed in a sprint to the kitchen. I was left grasping a pillow and her scent on the sheets. "Hey!" I called and I heard her giggling. I got off the bed and walked human speed to the kitchen where she was on her tip toes reaching into the freezer. I leaned with my shoulder and hip against the door jamb and watched her.

"Don't think I don't know you're there." She popped a few more waffles into the toaster and put them back. They went off and I flashed to grab them. She turned to grab hers and her mouth dropped open. "Myrnin. Give. Me. My. Waffles!" She ran to me and I raised them above my head. So much taller than she could reach. She growled in frustration and I chuckled.

"You ate mine." I stuck one of hers in my mouth. She gasped and jumped her hand flailing to reach. She stopped and assessed quickly before jumping up onto my chest and reaching some more. "Chetarrb." I said through the waffle and she looked at me. She looked like she was leaning in to kiss me, but when she got close enough she bit the other side of the waffle taking a bite.

"Mine." She said and climbed up on my shoulders grabbing the rest of the waffles. With my hands free I went to take my waffle out of my mouth, but she was quicker and took the rest leaving me with a bite and stuffing the other part into hers. "Meeeiine." She said with her mouth full and crawled back down to the floor holding the waffles against her chest. I gave up with a flourish of hands and walked out of the kitchen. I began to throw a shirt on whilst she finish off her waffles.

"How can you eat those so quickly?" I asked popping my head through the collar. Sitting down to analyze work we had finished.

"Mh mont." I looked at her and she swallowed. "I don't." She looked at her watch and shock spread through her face. She stuffed the rest of the waffle in her mouth. "Mah manna moh." I didn't have time to decipher when she fled to my room and was back fully clothed. She threw on her back pack as well. She swallowed breathing into her hand before running back into the room. She came back minutes later and ran over to me. She gave me a quick kiss and I grabbed her.

"Do you have to go?" I commented pulling her onto my lap.

"Yes Amelie's orders." She said getting up.

"Ah yes I need to persuade her that you could learn all that here. Plus some extracurricular activities to follow." I gave a sly smirk.

"Do not tell Amelie that I will stake you." She said with one final kiss and ran to the steps. I waved my hand absently and continued to read the work. After a few moments I heard the opening of a portal and looked around in question. I saw it and a strange face peered from behind it. Before I could get a good glimpse the portal shut and I ran to trace it. It came from an unknown area. I stood in question when someone cleared their throat. I turned and saw Oliver sitting on my couch. I rolled my eyes.

"What in hell possesses you come here?" I sighed in exasperation.

"Just checking up on you. Amelie sent me, for I would not step a foot in here if it was the only escape from burning to a crisp." He rests his arms on the back of the couch. "And it reeks of Claire on this couch." He took another sniff and shot up with a look between disgust and terror. I looked at him with a knowing smile.

"Why would Amelie be worrying about me? I have not even attempted to kill anyone in these past few days. You just might be the exception." I disregarded him like a piece of trash. He proceeded to walk around searching and finally sitting down in my chair. Only to instantly shoot back up with pure disgust.

"Is there any where you two haven't courted?" He said 'courted' with a sneer.

"Well we were thinking about trying out your office for a little adventure nex–"He had a terrified look and was gone. I smirked and turned back to where the portal once was. I scratched my chin and moved my hand to my hair and brushed it back in confusion. Who could that have been? I shook myself and walked back over to the desk sitting down and grabbing one of Claire's journals and reading a formula. I was intrigued and continued to work at it.

xXx

I heard the sound of Claire laughing and stopped tinkering with my experiment. I rushed to the door and swung it open. She walked in with that human and I quickly shut it on his face. I heard a satisfying thud. She stopped and turned around to give me a cold stare.

"Open. The door." I grunted.

"No."

"Myrnin…" She said suggestively. I crossed my arms.

"No." She arched an eyebrow.

"I'm going to cancel our little play date in Oliver's office if you don't let him in." Terror spread across my face and I begrudgingly opened the door. He sat fixing his glasses in the darkness.

"Ah Myrnin a joy to see you again. Sorry for not telling you sooner I was coming."

"Apology not accepted. So nice of you t join us, but you best be leaving no –"

"Myrnin what did I say." I gulped and growled cutting across to to stand beside her, but my back to Barley. I whispered in her ear.

"Fine have it your way, but one wrong move and he's out." I flitted to the table and just finished up the equation pouring the right solution into the right vial and set it down running, grabbing Claire, and jumping in the bunk. The boy was left dazed and quickly ran for cover unknowing to what was going to happen next. Claire and I lay shoulder to shoulder and I barely looked out over the top of the trench. The liquid spilled over and then congealed when it hit the wooden table. I clapped and jumped out excited in one fluid movement. I offered my hand to Claire. She took it dusting herself off and joining me next to the table. Bacon came over looked interestingly at it.

"What does it do?" I looked at him dully.

"It's a bonding agent." I stated as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

"But how?" I rolled my eyes grabbed a good handful and threw it at a wall. It held firm without falling. After a few seconds it began to crystallize and I threw something at it. The object bounced off and hit the floor. The bonding agent held firm. He looked at me and my hand. "Won't it bond your hand?" I threw a dab at his face and he flipped. He began to wipe it off only to realize it was only sticking to his clothes.

"Only crystallizes on unnatural objects. Things that are undead." He opened his mouth and I put a finger up to silence him. "I am still alive by definition, but that wall over there, the cotton in your shirt and even the metal on the chair are all unnatural objects. So you may now calm down and all you have to do is throw it in the wash. It'll be grand." I turned to Claire and she had a blank expression. "What?"

"I told you to be nice."

"You could have told him not to be dim witted." I walked over to the wall to admire the now solid substance. I knocked on it and it held firm. Good. I looked back over and saw the child was trying desperately to get some of it off of his glasses. Claire reached up, grabbed them from his hands, brushing his forehead in the process, and going to the kitchen to clean of his spectacles. He looked around and focused on me.

"On second thought Claire you can soak them. The view is much better with them off." I growled balling my fists. He hardly flinched.

"Okay. Myrnin fangs away it was a joke." She called from the other room.

"Don't test me Bastard."

"Ooh close its Barkley, but A for effort." He winked and I swear had not Claire just come through the door I would demonstrate what kind of effort I really would put to cease his existence. Claire handed his glasses back and he took her hand raising it to his lips to give a gentle kiss. My eyes grew red around the edges and I stalked to the kitchen. I grabbed a bag of blood not caring for the cold taste and downed it easily. I threw away the bag and leaned against the kitchen counter. I could hear them talking in the next room.

"I'm sorry he can be a bit possessive sometimes." She said it caringly without a hint of snide to make it offensive.

"It's okay although I had worked with tougher." Tougher? He hadn't even seen the slightest touch of 'tough'.

"Ha doubt it." There was a disturbance like she reached through her hair. Her scars. He cursed himself for those, but he was somewhat glad he did it. It staked claim on her sending a red flag to every other vampire not to touch his precious Claire. And to any human who wanted she had to face me.

"What are those?" I heard him brush her hair back and I grabbed the counter to stop me from moving.

"Nothing." She said hurriedly and I heard her move as her steps wondered around the lab.

"So how powerful do you think this stuff is?" Why would he care? I listened closer.

"Oh knowing Myrnin, it could probably take on a tornado. Or a very old vampire." I was honored.

"Hmmm…." The peasant moved around and there was a rustling of papers and I walked out of the kitchen walking up behind Claire. He had his hands behind his back as Claire moved around some of the papers to put them in order, or just back in place. She looked around and her eyes locked onto a book somewhere above me.

"Myrnin may you get me that book." She pointed and I followed her finger. I nodded grabbing it with a clatter of dust and rainbows. Still hadn't cleaned it all up. I was working on it. I blew it off and handed her the book.

"That's a very old one. What are you looking for in there?" She shook her head.

"It just looked fun." She sat down on the chair and I darted over lifting her up, so she may sit on my lap. She chuckled and I eyed Bollywood with a careful eye. She opened the book and yet more dust scampered of the pages. She held the binding of the book on both sides and shook it out. Color and black exploded from the book and she sneezed. When she finally got 99% of the dust and smoke out she began to look at the pages. They were old pictures of the world. Drawings of what supposedly the Earth looked like thousands of years ago. "So you must remember this vividly uh Myrnin?" She teased.

"Hah Hah." I leaned in to whisper in her ear. "Well I don't hear you complaining." I nipped her ear slightly and she squeaks.

"Not fair she gets a sarcastic laugh and I get my head bitten off. The deal man?" I looked over her head just slightly.

"Well let's see what she has on you, shall we? I like her more, she doesn't make rude jokes, and we have –" She jabbed my stomach making me stop. "What?"

"He doesn't need details." She said her nose in the book not looking at me.

"I see you biased bipolar vampire. Anything else we can add to the list Claire?" He said putting his hand on the table.

"Sexy as hell." She said absent mindedly and then she looked up registering what she said. "Scratch that I mean not that you aren't Mir, but I u just don't talk to me." A chuckle emitted from my mouth and she put the book to her face hiding her embarrassment. I lowered the book from her face and took it from her, so she could relax.

"Well I'm sad to say that I can't quite add that to the list, or he might murder me in cold blood." He said walking around the room.

"Finally you have said something of intelligence." She laid her head on my shoulder and sighed her disapproval.

"Myrninnnnn be niiicceee." She dragged out. "You're innocence is at risk." She whispered into my ear and I flipped the page with a shaky hand.

"I regret to inform you, but I find I need be going. It's getting late and I am afraid I have over stayed my welcome."

"You did the moment you stepped in the door." I waved an absent hand and heard the scrape of something move from a shelf. "Put that down and you won't get hurt." There was a hesitation then the soft thud of it being put back and his steps echo up the stairs and he left. I put the book down with a flick of my wrist and turned Claire 180 degrees, so she was facing me. She wrapped her arms around my neck and he legs around my waist. I held her by her hips. "I don't like him." She rolled her eyes.

"I wouldn't have guessed. You just gotta give him a chance." She said giving me a light kiss.

"I did. Two in fact." I said pulling her ever closer.

"That's not what I mean. He was only returning your hostility." I gave a look of mock hurt.

"Hostility why whatever do you mean dear Claire?" She smirked and kissed me again. It got more and more heated and she finally pulled away.

"Besides making an indestructible Elmer's glue what else did you do today?"

"Oh the usual, Oliver came by, we threatened each other, he left, and I got to work." She slid off of me.

"Good job." She walked into the kitchen and I followed.

"Are you hungry?"

"Did you cook?" She asked behind the fridge door. "And how many times have I said this? Experiments and vials go in the fridge with your blood not my food." She pulled them out and transferred them.

"What and risk my blood?" She gave a glare. "Fine fine move them." She shut the door to the fridge and opened the other one. "And in answer to your other question no, I did not cook, but we can order take out. Pizza my dear?"

"Sure sounds great." I handed her the phone and she dialed whilst I ordered. The pizza was there in fifteen minutes. I met him at the alley rather than the door, for he might not have gotten closer than the alley way. I paid and walked back into the shamble. She lay on the couch with her hands behind her head and her eyes almost closed.

"Pizza's ready." I slid a piece under her nose and she rose to eat it. Same with the waffles she nibbled a little then continued to eat four more slices. "For a small girl you eat a lot."

"Well you don't help any." She said full and lied back on the couch. She closed her eyes and she scooted closer to me. I wrapped my arm around her and she fell asleep almost instantly.

Hello readers so I am so happy that this is just movin right along. Keep at it with the reviews and more chapters will come. Well actually I don't really mind because this is Echo's so I am going to finish this whether I get reviews or not that would be unfair to Echo's now wouldn't it alright till next time