So thanks to the two people who reviewed the last chapter lol. So this is chapter one, hope this clears up any confusion over the prologue. Enjoy

Chapter one

Claire Danvers was stressed. Not that saving Morganville countless numbers of times against Bishop and Ada was stressful, but still.

Throwing the physics book onto her bed, Claire lay down next to it. Sighing she closed her eyes and rubbed her forehead where the headache was forming. Downstairs she could hear the laughter of her roommates, Michael, Eve and Shane, but Claire couldn't bring herself to join them, even if she could she didn't think she'd be good company anyway.

Sighing, Claire raised herself from her bed and pulled out a tattered copy of a book that she had acquired from the lab. Opening it she began to read. After a few minutes of reading, a loud knock interrupted Claire's thoughts.

"Claire bear! Come down and watch a movie with us. Come on, we're going to watch the Lost boys." Claire shook her head, she would never figure out how Eve got contraband material into Morganville.

"How did you...Never mind," Claire replied "I can't, Eve. I have too much to do." The knocking came again.

"Come on Claire, lighten up. Work can wait" Claire slammed the book down onto the bed

"It can't Eve. I'm too far behind already" Claire shouted back. The knocking stopped and Claire heard Eve walk away from the door. Claire sighed and threw herself back onto the bed.

Claire woke with a start and looked over at her alarm clock and swore. It was 10.50 and she was late. Rolling out of bed she ran into the bathroom intercepting a bleary eyed Shane on her way and slammed the bathroom door in his face. It took Claire 10 minutes before she was able to dart out of the door and run all the way to the university.

She got there just as the lecture ended and students were packing away books and drifting out of the classroom. Claire started to speak but was interrupted by the teacher.

"Miss Danvers I'm delighted that you were able to join us, however classes have finished and you are too late" Claire sighed quickly before trying to reply

"I'm so sorry. If you give me the chance –" He held up his hand.

"I have had enough. In short Claire you are failing this class."

Failing? She knew she was behind but failing? That couldn't be right.

"I have no option but to drop you. Now please leave my classroom the way that you came."

Dropped? No, no! Claire stood still for a second before leaving the room.

Claire sat in Myrnin's lab watching him go through boxes of crap looking for a small red notepad. "I have no option but to drop you." Those words kept echoing in her head. She'd never dropped or been dropped from a class before. Her whole life she'd been top of her class, every class. She sighed heavily before checking the time once more. She had already had countless texts from Shane wanting to know how long she was going to be.

"Am I holding something up, little bird?" Claire looked up to see Myrnin staring at her with questioning eyes. She sighed before replying sarcastically

"Of course not. I'm the servant. We aren't allowed social lives."

Myrnin slammed a hand down onto the table next to her, making a small crack run down the surface of the table, before leaning in close and whispering threateningly,

"You will not speak to me this way. I am your master. Do you wish for me to revert to the old ways of discipline?"

Wide eyed Claire shook her head at him and grabbed her bag before fleeing the lab.

Claire didn't stop running until she was through the front door. She slammed the door and leaned against it, gasping for air. She hated it when Myrnin's personality turned like that. She straightened up and pulling out her phone to listen to her voice mail messages, walked to the kitchen to grab a soda. Eight messages, all from Shane.

Hey babe, got tired of waiting for you so we've gone to see the movie. See you soon. Love you

Claire dropped onto the sofa and sighed.

She didn't blame them, she'd have got tired of waiting for her too.

She'd never had such an awful day. And that included the ones she'd where she'd been beaten, hunted, abducted and almost killed.

First she'd been dropped from her class. Then she'd been scared out of her wits by Myrnin. Then to top it all off, her friends had abandoned her when she needed them the most.

"I can't do this anymore," she said out loud before heaving herself off the sofa and walking upstairs to her room. As she entered her room she stared at the books that were sprawled across her bed and felt the anger begin to rise. How could all of this happen to her? She had done all that she possibly could for this town and never had a 'thank you' back from anyone. She wasn't the innocent little push over she was when she first came to Morganville, and she was sick of being seen that way. Enough was enough.

Claire dropped onto the floor and pulled out a bigger backpack. Claire yanked her drawers open and started to pull out clothes from them and shove them in. She then grabbed her toothbrush from the bathroom, her emergency cash from under her mattress and threw a few stakes and some bottles of silver nitrate on top, just in case. Claire then hauled it over her shoulder and walked out of the Glass house without a backward glance.

As Claire began to walk to the outskirts of Morganville, she noticed a discarded red Harley motorbike. She looked around to see if anyone was nearby before hurrying over to it. Claire could remember the motorbike lessons her cousin Rex had given her. Stroking the bikes paintwork Claire mumbled to herself

"It's only sat here and if you're going to leave do it in style" Claire smiled to herself and gript the handles of the bike so that she could pull herself on. Starting the bike she crouched forward and accelerated, laughing as it powered off the sidewalk and onto the road. She was near the border and Claire accelerated one last time before shouting

"Goodbye Morganville" before blasting through the border and leaving all her nightmares behind.

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