AN: Hell again readers. I'm sorry that I left the last chapter on a cliffhanger. I hadn't done one before so I thought i'd give it a try. I've had my first bad review this week but as you can see I have not let it effect me and I never will as people are entitled to there own oppinion.

Disclaimer: I do not own Morganville Vampires, Rachel Caine does.

Chapter 5

Previously

"Claire, are you alright?" She'd started to fall over and I had to keep her up-right

"Shane, I'm not sure...I think something's wrong." Then she passed out in my arms.

"Claire. Claire! Claire wake up sweetie, come on." Her face had become clammy and pale. "Eve call an ambulance! Stay with me Claire, Stay with me." God I hope everything is alright. I don't know what I'll do without Claire.

Shane's POV

Why do things like this always happen to Claire? There has to be nothing else that can go wrong for her now. Everything that has happened to her since she moved to Morganville should never have happened to her. If she hadn't of mover here she wouldn't have been beaten up by Monica, which then forced her to move in with us. If that had never happened then she wouldn't have met me and then she wouldn't have been kidnapped by Kim, she wouldn't have had to work with Myrnin which could mean that she is in constant risk of being killed and also not that long ago there was all that business with Bishop and then Ada went insane and wanted to kill her.

Although I will say that I am in a way thankful that Morganville cause then we wouldn't have met and she is the best thing that has happened to me but I do just wish that she wasn't in so much danger and trapped.

"Eve how long is the ambulance going to take?"

"Shane, I only just put the phone down a minute or so ago. It'll be here soon." She tried to comfort me but the only thing that could comfort me right now is Claire waking up.

It feels as though

It feels as though it has been hours since Eve hung up there phone. Yeah alright I'm probably being really dramatic and a bit OTT but I'm really worried about Claire and I'm really tempted to grab her and run to my car to drive her myself. I mean who knows if there is something wrong with Claire or the twins or both.

Finally the ambulance arrived. They quickly put her in the back and then especially moved quickly when Claire started to bleed very heavily. That really made me start to panic.

"Shane, just let them, do their job. Claire will be alright. She will be fine. Just let them do their job." She could probably tell that I wanted to go over there and check on Claire. I also noticed that she didn't mention the twins. All I want is for Claire and the twins to be alright.

"Shane, (Mr Danvers) and I are going to follow the ambulance. If you want we can give you a lift?" Claire's mum said.

"Thank you. I really appreciate it." I really did as this couldn't be easy on them.

"Good come on then. Also Eve is right just keep thinking positive, that Claire will be just fine."

I gave my keys to Eve so that she could go and tell Michael what was going on with Claire and then meet us at the hospital.

When we got to the hospital we saw them rush Claire off somewhere and she looked so pale. He has to survive. I don't know what I'd do without her. She has to survive.

The waiting room was really becoming my personal hell. Claire's parents at first had to fill out forms but I had nothing to do but sit there and that then allowed my mind to do its own thing and think it's own thing and to be honest that is not a good thing. I should never be allowed to be left to my thoughts at a time like this. I tried to keep thinking that everything was going to be alright but then it kept veering off to what could happen if Claire didn't survive and I had to take of twins by myself. And there was also what I would do if none of them survived. That was basically blackness. IO just couldn't imagine what would happen.

"Shane, how's Claire? Have you heard anything?"

"No we haven't heard a thing yet. I really want to though. I mean what if Claire dies or they all do." I could feel tears pricking my eyes.

"Oh Shane, what happened to positive? Everything will be fine alright. She's a strong girl. How else would she have survived this long in Morganville? Have a little bit of faith please. Also how likely is it that they are going to die?"

"Well I don't know cause I don't know anything about what's happening with her."

"Tell you what why don't we go and get some drinks?"

"I'm fine thanks."

"Yeah you might be bit you have no choice in the matter. You are clearly thinking about possibilities that you shouldn't be thinking about and this will give you something to do."

I really didn't want to go, I'd have rather just stayed there and waited for news but when a person starts trying to drag you some where it's often just best to just comply with them and go where they what you to go. Then again this is probably better than just pacing up and down watching the clock that keeps mocking me by telling me that only a few minutes have passed since I last looked at the clock. It feels like we've already been here for hours and not just minutes.

Okay, I will admit that I felt better when I'd had something to drink, even if it was not that nice but it was better than nothing.

"Claire Danvers' family?"

I was immediately out of my seat. "Yes, I'm Shane her fiancé and these are her parents. How is she and the twins?"

"Claire will be fine we are just waiting for her to wake up now. When she arrived she went straight to delivery. Something had happened that caused the twins to become distressed and Claire almost miscarried but we got to her just in time. We are still running tests on them but someone will come and find as soon as you can see them. I'll take you to Claire now."

"Thank you so much doctor."

Thank God they are all going to be fine. My family is still in one piece.

When I walked into Claire's room and I saw her lying in the bed I swear my heart skipped a beat with relief that she was still alive and was really going to be okay. All I needed to know now is that the twins are going to okay and to see them with my own to eyes. I hope that this is it for all the drama that Claire will have to face. Well life threatening drama. I say that because I know that we still have all the drama that comes with teenagers still to face, but at least that won't be something that she'll have to face alone. I will be with her every step of the way.

Eventually I was allowed to see the twins. I would have rather stayed with Claire so that we could see them for the first time together but then I thought that it might be nice for Claire to have pictures of them to see when she wakes up cause I don't know when she'll be allowed to leave her bed and therefore see them.

When I did see them I first thought that they are so small and really adorable. They were both wrapped up in a blanket and had small hats on their heads. I can't believe that these are mine that I actually helped to create them. I was thankful that this had happened on Claire's graduation cause I still had my camera.

We haven't decided on names yet because we couldn't agree on them but people do say that when you see your child for the first time that it makes it easier to pick names for them. Before being faced with this situation I had thought that you'd just pick a name that you really liked or meant something to either you personally or your family. Now that I'm faced with having to actually name a person I realise that it's not that easy as you want to pick one that you like but you want your child to then hate it or for them to end up being bullied due to their name. Now I'm actually looking at them I have managed to think of a couple of names that I like and will run past Claire, Abigail and Blake. Why Blake I don't know but I think it could be a good middle name.

Looking at the two of them I thought that it looked as though our daughter was actually bigger than her brother height wise. That thought then led me to wonder which one was older than the other.

I first went up to my daughter who was asleep. "Hello little one, I'm your daddy. You don't know how happy I feel now that I know that you and your brother are going to be alright. You both had me very worried earlier and something tells me that it won't be the last time that it'll happen." I then turned to look at her brother who was awake. "I wish that you would both end up staying little forever cause I am not looking forward to you two becoming teenagers. Although I guess that I will have 13 years to get used to it. I can't wait for your mummy to see you. I know that she already loves you and the moment he wakes up she'll immediately want to come and see you even though. Hopefully when she sees the pictures I have of you it will hold her of doing so if the doctor says that she can't."

I really didn't want to leave them but I did really want to check on Claire and see if there had been any change with her yet.

When I got back to Claire's room I was so happy. When I opened the door I saw that Claire was awake and was sitting up. I was actually frozen for a minute but then I rushed right over to Claire and gently pulled her into a hug.

"Oh Claire. Thank God that you're alright. I was so worried about you. Can you try not to do that to me ever again please? I swear I never want to feel like that again."

"I'll try not to." She laughed. It was so good to hear her laugh. It was so good just to hear her speak and be able to hold her in my arms.

Claire's POV

After I passed out I was surrounded by darkness. It was not good as I couldn't move a thing nor could I hear a thing. I'm not even sure what happened cause I was fine one minute but then the next I'm having to be held up by Shane and then the darkness appeared. I hope nothing's wrong with the twins and that it's just me that's been affected.

I really hope that I'm not dead as that would really destroy Shane.

Suddenly I could hear a noise. It wasn't really anything specific, it was a bit like when you turn on a radio and the signal goes or when it's not tuned into a station. There was also a really bright light.

I know people are always saying that you should never go into the light but in this case I didn't want to top my body as it was better than staying in the dark and also I found that the louder and clear the sound became.

I ended up opening my eyes to a bright hospital room with my parents and Eve and Michael with me. Shane must have just come from somewhere as he was standing in the doorway just staring at me. He then rushed over to me and pulled me into a hug.

"Oh Claire, thank God that you're alright. I was so worried about you. Can you try not to do that to me ever again please? I swear I never want to feel like that again." He told me completely serious

"I'll try not to." I laughed. It felt so nice to be wrapped up in his arms. This is where I belong.

I didn't want to ruin the moment but I had to ask a very important question. "Shane, what's happened to the twins?"

"Now before you get to worked up they are perfectly fine. I've actually just come back from seeing them and I also took some photos for you."

That made me want to start to cry cause he got to see them before I did and that we couldn't have seen them for the first time together. But at least I get to see the pictures before anyone else so I guess that's better than nothing.

He handed me his digital camera so I could flick through them.

"Are they really this small?" They looked so tiny. But they were both really cute, especially our daughter who was asleep.

"Yeah our little boy is the smallest. I kind of want to know who's the older of the two."

"Why?"

"I don't know. I hope it's our boy."

"I wonder why that is." I muttered sarcastically.

"You don't know what I'm thinking."

"Shane I might not be a mind reader but I do know some of your thoughts based on things you've already told me. You want our boy to be older cause you then think that will help when later on in life when you want to ruin our daughter's chances of getting a boyfriend and you want our son to use the whole I'm the older brother trick in helping to scare away boys."

He didn't have a response to that and I couldn't help but feel smug that I'd just proven the fact that I know something that he didn't want me to know about.

I then felt tired all of a sudden.

"I think that we should let Claire rest now." My mum said.

They all said their goodbye's and left to let me and Shane have some privacy.

"I'm so glad that you and our children are going to be alright. We really need to name them but it can wait another day. I'll speak to the doctor and find out when you can see the children and also when you can leave. I'll come back later with some clothes and pyjamas. I will make sure that they are tasteful enough for your parents to be able to see you in."

"Thank you Shane. I really appreciate it. I love you." I smiled at him.

"I love you too, so much." He placed a kiss on my forehead and a chaste kiss on my lips before letting me fall into a sleep filled with dreams of Shane and our children.

AN: So there is the fifth chapter. What did you think? Let me know.

See you all next Wednesday.

Thank you.