LRN: Hey Shane, guess what!
Shane: What is it, Lilly?
LRN: I own the Morganville Vampire Series!
Rachel Caine: NO YOU DON'T! *holds a chainsaw*
LRN:*pales and starts to run while screaming* I DON'T OWN MORGANVILLE!
A/N: I know, I've been gone forever! I'm super sorry. My laptop died in October, so I had to wait to buy a new one. It took me a few months to save up to buy a new one but I finally did! So here is the new chapter of It's Life Get Over It. More chapters will be on there way soon! =)
I sat in front of my mom's grave for the rest of the night, just thinking. It wasn't until the sun started to rise, that I realized that my birthday had passed and it was now a new day. I got up from my fetal position and wiped the non-existent dirt off of my jeans, before opening another portal. I stepped through the portal and reached my destination. I looked around the lab. Smiling at seeing the stacks of books in the corners and the various jars sitting on shelfs.
I looked at the chalkboard full of Alchemy that showed how Morganville ran, back when Ada was still around as an evil computer. Morganville was run slightly more different. I studied the signs of Alchemy on the board, smiling to myself at the lessons that Myrnin had given me. In my pondering of the past, I had failed to notice Myrnin come out of the floor, where Ada, in her large computer state, had resided.
A throat was being cleared and a hand had been placed upon my shoulder. I jumped in surprise and turned to face the person. I looked up to meet Myrnin's eyes. He was gazing down at me with a look of suspicion and worry. I always wondered how Myrnin knew whenever something was upsetting me. "You seem troubled, Little One," Myrnin said. He seemed confused about my emotions. I sighed and just started to break down.
I could feel the tears ready to burst from my eyes, when Myrnin wrapped his arms around me. I cried my eyes out into his shoulder. He just held me like a good relative would do. He was looking after me like my parents had asked of him. He loved taking care of Sam and Elizabeth. You couldn't really see the similarities between Elizabeth, Sam, and Myrnin unless you knew what you were looking for.
"Shh, Little One, it's okay. What's wrong?" Myrnin asked.
I swallowed the rest of my sobs and tears. "I had a dream, that Richard killed me and I saw Shane, Sam, and Elizabeth when they're older. They all looked like they were in pain. The kind of pain that I feel from the loss of my parents. I don't know what to do, anymore. I don't want to lose Elizabeth and Sam, they mean the world to me and I need them. I'm scared Myrnin, I don't know what to do anymore," I cried desperate for anything that could save me from Richard and keep my children from living with Shane.
Myrnin let go of me and started to ponder over what I had told him. He paced back and forth across the room, thinking about how to help. I just stood there and watched as he pondered over how to help me solve my problem. Finally, after a few minutes of pacing Myrnin looked up from his pacing. "I've got it!" He exclaimed, then he started going about something or other really fast that I couldn't understand a word he was saying.
"Myrnin, slow down!" I said.
"I'm sorry Little One. I just got so excited!" Myrnin exclaimed. I looked at him, wondering if he had too much sugar, again.
"What is going on? What did you come up with?" I asked wondering if he was as perfectly sane as he appeared to the others.
"It's quite simple, really. I don't even truly understand how you could have missed this Little One," Myrnin exclaimed.
"What is it?" I screeched.
"You just avoid our lovely mayor. If there are times where you cannot avoid him... then just be polite," Myrnin said.
I looked at incredulously. "That's it? That's your plan?" I asked.
"Yes, until you're ready for a confrontation. Which you aren't ready for, no matter how hard you try, you aren't ready!" Myrnin said.
I growled at him in frustration knowing that he was right and it totally sucked right now. I really didn't want to avoid Richard but if I had no choice I guess I was just stuck with that decision. I hoped that all was well with him. I knew that I never really loved Richard, I just liked him but I would never admit to myself that I loved Shane. No, not after what he had done to me. He hurt me so bad that he broke me to pieces and left my pregnant with his children.
"Fine, you're right Myrnin. I'll see you later," I said as I opened a portal and coordinated it to open at my house. As I stepped into the living room and looked around, I realized that it had never truely been a home to me, not ever. My real home was Glass House but I couldn't got there. Not with Eve and Michael being married there or Shane living there with them. I just couldn't go back, I couldn't find myself ever going back there to be apart of the family that we had once been, four years ago when we were all happy. It's hard to be happy in place that had once been your home but then turned into a horrible nightmare.
I desperately missed my home and I knew that I wasn't going to be able to bring my children to my real home until I learned to forgive myself from the entire Shane incident. I should have known that he wasn't going to stay with me or keep his promise. He was going to hurt me in the end, just like everyone had told me. I should have listened to my parents and Michael more, but if I hadn't where would I be now? Probably, turning into another Ada that controlled Morganville.
I walked into my bedroom, which was exactly the same room as Shane's back in Glass House. My room wasn't really that big but I could care less. I sighed and knew that I would need to get Elizabeth and Sam from Amelie soon. No, time like the present. I thought to myself.
I opened the new portal and locked the coordinates that would take me to Amelie's. As the portal appeared and I stepped through, I instantly felt another portal being opened that had the same destination as myself. I quickly wondered who it could be. There was only a handful of people who knew how the use the new portal system: Amelie, Oliver, Myrnin, Michael, Richard, and myself. No one else even new how to use the portals or that they even existed. Of course, Eve knew about them but she really didn't use them.
I walked through the portal to Amelie's and waited for the other person to show themself. I was shocked to see that it was Shane, himself. I wondered how he learned how to use the new portal system seeing as how it wasn't me who showed him. It must have been Michael who showed Shane or accessed it for him.
Sorry it's short. Next chapter will be longer.