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After, I had been kindly thrown out the door, I sprinted to my car. I got inside and drove downtown to Founder's Square. I pulled the car into the underground garage and got out. I was running on time, I had fifteen minutes before the meeting started. I used my vampire speed and ran into the building. I ran into the meeting room to see Amelie, Myrnin, Oliver, and Richard all sitting at the table.

When I walked through the door, it surprised me that all of them were there. But they were also looking at the door as if they were waiting for someone. Odd, I thought to myself as I took my seat on the left hand side of Amelie. Richard was on my other side.

I saw that Jasper and Francoius were in the shadows. They would do anything to protect Amelie and me. They were looking at the walls as if they could see through the walls. I wasn't sure what or who to expect.

We all waited in silence, waiting for the last person to show up. I kept my eyes trained on the wall, like Jasper and Franswa. I listened as footsteps were moving closer and closer to the door. I kept my eyes on the wall as the door opened to reveal the one person, I had never wanted to see again.

"I'm sorry that I'm late. Something, came-," Shane started to say but was stopped when he saw that I was there. I didn't acknowledge him, I just looked at the wall.

"Yes, yes, we all know that Claire is here. Now, Mr. Collins take as seat," Amelie said with her hand in a waving gesture toward a seat that was meant for guests.

"Now, we have some very important matters to discuss about Morganville," Amelie started. "And it's occupants, preferably Samual and Elizabeth Danvers-Collins," Amelie said. At the mention of my children's last name I knew that Shane now knew that he was their father but whether he chose to act on it was his choice to make not mine.

"Amelie, what do my children have to do with this discussion?" I asked, not wanting neither my son nor daughter getting into this business.

"They will take over Morganville when the time comes," Amelie said.

"No, that's not going to happen. Sam and Liz don't understand this town. If this involves my children why is Shane here?" I asked.

"He's their father. He has the right to know," Oliver replied in a bored tone. I could tell that Amelie didn't want to mention this detail while Shane was present.

"Oliver," Amelie, Myrnin, Richard, and I all said at the same time each in different tones.

Everyone besides me, looked at Shane to gauge his reaction. I got up and left room, not before noting that Jasper and Francious had been in the corners of the room, watching the meeting, Amelie, and me. As I walked out the doors, I heard Amelie tell Jasper, to go after me. I heard Shane start to protest but Amelie must have silenced him with a look.

I leaned against the wall, waiting for Jasper. He was always the one to look after me, at all times but it was amazing that my human children, Elizabeth and Sam, had taken a strong liking to him and asked to call him Uncle Jasper. Of course, Jasper hadn't seemed to mind. Sam and Elizabeth adored Jasper and his wife Alice. She was very beautiful with soft emerald green eyes, black spiky hair, and her petite size, you would think that she was a pixie or child when she was changed but that wasn't the case.

"Miss Claire, why are you so upset?" Jasper asked with a southern drawl, he stood next to me placing his hand on my shoulder.

"Shane, knows. He knows that Elizabeth and Sam, are his children. He's now going to think that I purposely kept his own children away from him, when I didn't," I said as my eyes glazed over with tears.

Jasper seemed to be at a loss of words. I got up from the wall and decided that I would take a walk around the Founder's building, needing something. I quickly considered going to the library. I walked towards the library that had just about every vampire reference, possilble in the world. I wanted to learn more about modern vampires to see if they had changed to become any more accurate to the vampires in real life.

I walked over towards the more modern section and saw a few books, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead, Vampire Diaries by L.J. Smith, House of Night by P.C. and Kristin Cast, Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey, and many, many others. I was amazed with the collection, that seemed to grow each year. I quickly decided to that the book by Beth Fantaskey, sounded like something that I would be interested in reading to Elizabeth and Sam.

I noted that Amelie had gotten several copies of the book. I grabbed a copy, knowing that she wouldn't miss one copy. I looked around the library seeing all the history that had been collected here through the years always amazed me. I could hear footsteps coming closer, I knew that Jasper was with me so I listened to the footsteps, trying to determin who they belonged to to. I sniffed the air lightly, smelling barbeque sauce, cinnamon, and something else but I wasn't really sure what. I looked over towards the library entry to see that it was Shane.

Shoot, I definatly don't want to talk to him!

I walked quickly and stealthly through the library shelves. Shane would never be able to find me. I moved closer towards the ancient scrolls that we had, I moved quietly behind the display shelf, there was a secret passage way there. It lead towards the vampire rooms that each vampire had in Founder's Square, there were only a handful of people who knew of the passage. With Jasper behind me, we ski-daddled out there like our lives depended on it.

Once we reached the hallway of rooms, Jasper moved forward towards the room that had his symbol on it. I bid him a 'see you later', before moving towards my room. My symbol looked like a cresent moon with a few swirls and curls appearing from the ends. My children, absolutely adored my symbol, they felt that it was some how related to the moon. In a way it was but to me it represented my two adorable children.

A/N: Thank you for all of the lovely reviews. =) They meant a lot to me. I plan to leave shout outs next chapter so leave a review. I won't update until I have chapter 4 of this story done. I've just finished chapter 3, so as soon as chapter 4 is done you'll get the next update. So leave a review to tell me if you love it, hate it, want changes done.