Disclaimer: I do not own Morganville vampires, just this plot.

Shanes POV:

I went to my bedroom and lied on my bed looking at the patterns on the ceiling while thinking about about Claire, she seemed so familiar to my Claire, her hair, her eyes, hell even her attitude, but it couldn't be, when you come back to Morganville you remember everything from before you left- it just comes back and that didn't seem like the case with this Claire, also her last name wasn't Danvers, actually I didn't actually know what her last name is, I didn't know much about her.

I got off my bed and walked to Claires bedroom she did want to know more about me, so might as well take this to my advantage; I knocked.

"Come in." I walked in to Claires bedroom seeing her sprawled out on her bed staring at the ceiling like I was, I stopped by the door as I saw that once again she was just wearing an oversized t shirt and it had risen to her stomach. Oh shit...

"Ah, Claire come with me I want to show you something." I looked at Claire trying not to let my eyes trail down.

Claire sat up with a confused expression, "Why?"

"You wanted to get to know me right?" I gave her a dazzling smile then turned out her door expecting her to follow which she did, I went to the secret door with the room and lead Claire in.

We were in the small room where there was a small love seat and a small side table next to it with a Tiffany lamp, the door closed it self unexpectedly, making Claire jump looking scared and me chuckling, I couldn't help it, it's like she thought I was going to murder her.

She looked at me, "What the fuck Shane? A-are you going to kill me?" she back up against the wall looking for a way out, which there was none.

"The thing about this room Claire is that there's only one way out." I pointed to the door we came through, " and there is only one way of opening that way out, also the room is sound proof, no one would hear your cry for help." Claire looked terrified with made me laugh even more. "I'm joking Claire, well not about the door thing or the sound proof room but...basically I'm not going to do anything to you, you should of saw your face." I carried on laughing.

Claire rolled her eyes, slapping me on the arm, "I had a moment of weakness okay, shut up before I punch you in the face." Claire sat the love seat pulling her legs to her chest, I sat next her.

"I'd like to see you try." I said smirking, She rolled her eyes. I all of a sudden became serious and nervous and the thought of telling Claire about my fucked up life, but it just felt right to, I mean I trust her and she did ask, "So you want to know about my family?" She nodded, I swallowed making my Adams apple bobble, "I had a sister named Alyssa, a father named Frank and a mother called Molly, Michaels always been my best friend and Lyss had a best friend named Claire.

My family weren't exactly respected around Morganvile and Claires family hated her hanging around with us for that reason, they blamed us for the way she was, Don't get it confused Claire wasn't weird or evil like they told her she was, she was just very independent and a fighter- not afraid of anything, that's probably what attracted me to her, she was like me." I smiled at the memories of Claire...

Flashback

It was 9:00 and I was with Michael and some girl from our school called Eve waiting for Claire to arrive for a little 'double date', we weren't officially 'dating' just hanging out more with added hugs and kisses, our first kiss had been a while ago now, maybe a month ago and ever since I've noticed more bruises and strange cuts on her wrist I'd asked Claire if she was self harming and she'd always touch her wrists and pulling her sleeve down as if to hide the marks she'd then reply with a no and explain how it was her cat.

yeah sure, she hasn't even got a cat.

"Hey guys!" Claire greeted us wearing a normal grey tracksuit as I told her to come in comfortable clothes.

"Hi". We all replied in unison.

Claire came next to me. "So what exactly are we doing?" Me and Michael looked at each other with a secret smile while Eve and Claire made eye contact with confusion...

"We are going into that abandoned amusement park." Michael said pointing to the old sign falling apart that said 'Land of illusion'.

Eves eyes bulged out while Claire just shrugged casually, "What do you mean in there? Are you crazy, There's probably Vamps lurking in the shadows, waiting for a bunch of stupid kids like ourselves to go in there!"

"Speak for yourself." Claire mumbled, Eve gave her a dirty look. "You and Michael have protection, which okay doesn't stop vamps all the time but...the majority of it!

"So are you in or not?" I asked Eve.

She looked at me then whispered, "In." moving closer to Michael who put his arm round her shoulders.

I smiled proudly, "Good." Then handed everyone a stake just in case.

Claire started giggling, "Land of illusion' four out of five dentists recommend Land of illusion, the other one was too "drained!"

Everybody looked at the sign and saw the slogan, "Can't say they don't have a sense of humour." Michael said.

Me and Claire held hands walking through some ticket barriers, while Michael and Eve followed.

Bumper cars ripped from there over head grid, a damaged scrambler, a fragmented Ferris wheel and many more other rides that are considered popular but out dated were scattered around the park looking destroyed as if hadn't been used for more then a few years.

"Who would have thought Morganville had an amusement park." Eve commented shaking her head in disbelief. "I wonder how long its been out of use for."

Claire bent down to the floor picking up a brown looking tea stained old fashioned newspaper, "'Land Of Illusion' new theme park built in Morganville with shiny, new modernised rides no one has seen before, accompanied with the old rides we all love." Claire read looking down the paper. "Ah, here it is. The date was 1913 when it was made!"

"Damn Morganvilles old." I said, everyone nodded in agreement. We ventured in further till we saw a Carousel with gold and silver coloured horses.

Eve started jumping up and down and Claire was looking at it confused almost as if she could see someone, "Does none of you see that little girl in a pink dress with a pink balloon?" she was pointing to a a horse with nobody on it, Me and Michael looked at her confused and Eve stopped jumping.

"What do you mean Claire? No ones there." Michael said touching Claire on the shoulder.

She shook her head. "Nothing." We all brushed it off.

"Do you think we could get it working." Eve asked pointing at the Carousel, Me and Michael shrugged while Claire walked over to the control panel and started messing with it till we saw lights come on and eerie Carousel music play.

Claire looked at us, "Are you gonna go on then?" Eve sat on one while Michael sat on one behind her, I just moved next to Claire, she smiled a small smile at me, then pressed a button on the panel so the Carousel started spinning around.

"Claire are you okay?"

She looked up at me, "I'm fine Shane."

"You don't look fine, you look like you saw a ghost." I said raising my voice a bit.

Claires face paled then she swallowed a lump, "I said I'm fine." She stopped the Carousel and Eve and Michael came towards us with big smiles, Claire smiled back then pointed to a big haunted house, "Ooh lets go in there!" Eve nodded eagerly and they both held hands walking ahead of me and Michael.

Michael looked at me with concern written over his face, "You okay man?"

"It's just Claire, she's been acting quiet since the situation on the Carousel ." I ran my hand through my hair.

"Maybe she just thought she was seeing things because this place is creepy, you know trick of the mind."

I shook my head, "Michael You know as well as I do; Claire doesn't get scared."

We got to the haunted house ride thing that you just walk through and it looked strangely like..."Hey, does anyone else think that looks like Mikeys house?" everyone nodded and ventured in. The layout was different from Michaels house, we entered into a skinny hallway which was quite a squeeze Claire and Eve was still leading which I wasn't happy about but oh wells, It was pitch black, you could barley make out stuff on the walls, but still we kept walking in deeper.

"Boo!" a ghost cut out jumped out making the girls scream, Eve in particular, Me and Michael just rolled our eyes at how cliché it was.

We carried on walking till we got into a huge sitting room that held four fusia coloured love seats surrounding a fire place there was also a piano in the corner, Michael walked towards it and brushed his finger on it. "Dust." He said.

I rolled my eyes. "Of course there's dust this place hasn't been running since..."

"1924." Claire said cutting me off."

We all looked at her, "How do you know that?" Asked Michael, voicing all our thoughts.

Claire turned away from us, "I just do, Lets move on to another area ."

We all followed her saying nothing but with many unanswered questions going through our heads, the important one being 'what's going on with Claire?' We were going though another skinny hallway that seemed to be getting skinnier and skinnier as we went further in till there was a door.

"Ooh I wonder what's in here!" Eve said excitedly before we got to stop her she opened the door, She jumped back screaming, I pushed her behind me getting a look at what was there.

A pale vampire wearing a dress suit with loads of creases, he had a messy moustache on his face and he was looking at Claire while licking his lips edging closer to her while she backed up.

"Get away from her." I said through clenched teeth.

He looked at me moving his head to the side as if studying me. "Or you'll do what young boy?" He said with a posh sickening voice.

"I'll..." Before I got to finish my sentence, he'd plunged towards Claire in an unbelievable speed but before I got to help her she stabbed her stake piercing his skin and in turn his heart, He let out a blood curling scream, face gone powdery white, while slumping in her arms like stone.

We looked at Claire shocked that a 12 year old killed a vampire. "Are you just going to keep staring at me or do something useful and pass me a fucking lighter?" We snapped out of it and Eve passed Claire a lighter she had, "Ta." Claire lit the vamp turning him into dust, she turned to us with a small smile, "Better to be be safe then sorry right?" Me, Eve and Michael nodded still unable to say anything, Claire took lead again and lead us all out 'Land of Illusion'...

"And ya'll said that the vamps wouldn't do anything..."

End of Flash back

Claire was looking at me, listening to every word.

"one day Claire just left out of the blue telling no one, her mum and dad told us she ran away but I suspected that they were lying, hell it wouldn't have surprised me if they had murdered her then covered it up...Every thing just went down hill from when Claire left, Lyss became depressed and lonely and that's where Monica comes in, we went to high school together and were 14 at the time, she used to flirt with me all the time, I always told her to fuck off,

then she started bullying Lyss saying she'd stop if I went out with her." I shook my head, getting angry, "One day she got me in a school cupboard, trying to kiss me while taking her clothes off." I laughed an angry laugh. "She had her top off with her bra showing and that's when I opened the door, and called her a fucking whore and everyone saw, Monica's face went bright and she pointed to me telling me how she'd get revenge...A few days after that she had her revenge. My sister..."

I put my head down and I felt Claire touch my hand, I looked up into her blue eyes, "I was going home one day and my house was on fire, my sister was screaming, I tried to go in and help but a fireman stopped me, by the time the house was burnt down to the ground my mum and dad had arrived, mum was on the ground crying her eyes out while dad stood motionless, that's when I saw Monica with a Lighter, that's when I knew.

No matter how much I blame her, I still blame myself...I should have done something-anything..."

"Shane, there wasn't anything you could have done apart from get yourself killed, then your parents would have lost two children." Claire said still touching my hand.

I rubbed my eyes, "My parents were never the same after that, deep down I know my father blames me, my mother... she was like a statue after my sister death always starting out into space, my father moved us out of Morganville thinking it would be better for the all us.

The thing about Morganville Claire, is that when you leave you forget everything most particularly the vampires, when you come back however all your memories also come back. When we left My mum didn't forget she'd always mumble vampires, they did it. My dad thought she was going mad from Lyss's death but I knew what she meant. The vampires new also so when me and my dad weren't keeping an eye on her, they killed her...made it look like suicide by placing her in a bath tub with a razor, I knew it wasn't suicide and in the end so did my dad..." I felt tears drop from my eyes, I looked away from Claire not wanting to let her see me cry.

"Shane look at me." I still didn't look, then she did the most unexpected by turning my face towards her and moving closer till our lips were almost touching. "Don't be ashamed to cry." she whispered then kissed me on the lips softly, where I deepened it, licking her bottom lip as if asking for entry which she obliged by and before I knew it we were tonguing and it felt amazing, our lips fit perfectly together as if they were made for each other, we broke apart gasping for air, I layed my head against her head whispering, "Jail-bait."

Claire chuckled, "Way to spoil a moment Collins." She got up and before I got to ask what her last name was she'd pressed the button to open the door which only Me, Eve, Michael and Claire as in Claire danvers knew of.

"How did you know there was a switch?"

Claire shrugged, "Just a hunch."