Evil as I am all will be resolved soon….but not too soon hehehee

Myrnin

Although I didn't breath often now was an excuse to use excess of it. I was panting and fighting my way through the police to get to Claire. Not in a million years was this supposed to happen. Claire was strong, but the pain I saw in her eyes made me think she wasn't going to make it. The way she willingly gave in to the exhaustion and sleep made his unbeating heart begin to shatter into a million pieces. They stabbed into my lungs and internal organs like knives. One of the vampire cops – Hans maybe – held me tight, but it was even a hassle for him since my worry, rage, and age staggered against him.

"Claire!" I screamed into the frozen winter air. "Claire!" I bellowed again my voice breaking with tears. I hadn't realized I was crying until I could taste the salty, irony taste of tears around my mouth as I yelled her name. "Why can't I see her? Why won't you let me go?!" I screeched in the officer's face and a peaceful hand was on my forearm, but I shrugged her off. "No I will not be calm she could be dying!" I turned sharply on Amelie and for once wasn't afraid she would do anything.

"Myrnin." She stated queenly. Nothing mattered to her since that evil seed planted himself next to her. Claire was the most valuable person in this entire town and when she was in need Amelie acted like it was just another resident.

"Don't even try to use your damn powers against me. Why can't I go see her!?" I heard the ambulance begin to drive away and Amelie didn't even look after it. Oliver had the slightest hint of smug on his face and I growled so feral and manically that it was gone in an instant, and so were all of the people within a hundred feet of me. Her face turned stone cold and I could feel the power begin to compress the air. I clenched my fists as she tried to command me to stop and calm down. I walked forward despite her resistance to take her mental hold on me. Faster than ever before my hand flashed out and wrapped itself around her throat. A new power washed over me as she had sudden blinding terror in her eyes. I grinned manically as the wave of new power cracked the air around us and Oliver tried to intervene, but I only squeezed harder on Amelie larynx. "Now do you want to start giving me answers or are you going to keep on using me like a pawn?" She made a high pitched scream that was of such frequency that the humans in near vicinity put their hands on their ears. I dropped her with a flick of my wrist and she tried to compose herself. A indent the shape and size of my hand began to heal around her throat. She coughed into a handkerchief and blood dribbled from her lip.

"Myrnin." She looked at me coldly, but didn't try to test me on this. "It wasn't just her. Most of the human population and some of the vampire population did the same thing, but there was something weird just before it happened." She wheezed as her throat began to heal. Oliver had the dirtiest of looks on his face and I debated on killing him as well. The power I had felt wash over me when I had Amelie's neck in my grip began to fade. The storm around us calmed its quarrel with the wind for a short moment. My hair was billowing out behind me giving me a clear look at the pure horror in Amelie's face. I had been insane before, but somehow she always had a hold on me. Well that hold just snapped and she let go a hell hound. "I will need to show you before you go see Claire." I stood stock still waiting for her to get up off the grimy sidewalk. She stood up carefully testing to see what I would do before walking to the limo that waited for her on the sidewalk. Her body guards gave me more dirty looks as they walked out of the shadows and next to her. She got in crammed between Oliver and a guard. I was flanked by two of her guards. We drove in absolute silence as I glared at Amelie with fire in my eyes. She returned with her icy stare. I could see past it that she was shaken and terrified for her safety. Friend or not Claire meant more to me than she did. Claire was the one who tried to help me, not Amelie. Amelie put me in a cage; Claire couldn't keep me out of her mind. Claire left the boy for someone who was so far down the rabbit hole; Amelie gave up true love for a dictator of war. We arrived at her disclosed location home and one by one we filed out. Amelie was immediately surrounded by yet more guards. We walked in and went directly to her drawing room. She didn't draw, but that was the only room that was sound proof. Someone I didn't recognize came in with a laptop and set it on the desk. They brought up the energy grid from an hour ago and I watched. Everything was steady then there was a fluctuation of the power grid centering around one point in founder's square. They replayed it a few times for me.

"So?" I looked up and she was watching me intently.

"This has happened four times in the past day. We were wondering if it has anything to do with your machine." She said it as if it were the only logical reasoning.

"How long ago did this start?" I straightened.

"Yesterday."

"It wasn't my machine." I sneered. "Claire and I updated it a month ago and it was running smoothly." He thought back to yesterday morning with the lights. What if that's how it started. "Give me the power grid for yesterday morning around…..seven o' clock." The kid nodded nervously and his fingers flew over the key board. The same thing happened. Only the center point moved. It was in the old tire factory last time. Today it was in founder's square. What if Claire was right and it wasn't just blips of power mishaps. I turned around swiftly jabbing my fist into the wall behind me. I growled as it shook the whole room and a hole the size of my fist appeared and a crack edged its way up the wall ending at the mantle. Blood began to drip off my knuckles, but I ignored it. If I had just believed her.

"I just had that repainted." Amelie said absent mindedly, not very queenly of her. I opened my hand and it was already healed.

"I am going to go see Claire now. If any of you get in my way I will mercilessly kill you." I said it calmly and not a soul move. Nobody even breathed for that matter. I swiftly opened the door and popped out in a broom closet in the hospital. I could tell from the assault of antiseptic cleaner to my extra sensitive nose. I walked out and saw I was in the basement of the general hospice. I made my trek to find Claire.

Claire

The pain hadn't returned, but the doctor's also didn't know what was wrong with me. It looked like most of the town was here. From the talk around me I could tell they had all experienced the same thing. Some of them were even vampires. I remembered hearing other people around me begin to fall to the ground as my eyes lidded. All of the rooms were full so I was stuck in the hallway with many other people bed to bed. I faced the wall until I heard a strangled cry.

"Claire!" He called and I turned to look around. I didn't feel like getting up yet. He flitted to be right in front of me and grabbed my hand. I saw he had blood on one hand and I brought it close inspecting.

"Myrnin what happened?" I couldn't decide if I meant his hand or my sudden episode. He squeezed my hand answering with a soft kiss.

"Are you in any more pain?" He sounded so scared. I shook my head as he got out of the way of the doctor's path by gracefully almost catlike, jumping on my bed and laying next to me with his back to the wall I had stared at not too long ago. A doctor came by grabbing the clipboard and flipping through the pages and walking away with his nose still in the papers. The chaos around us made me want to run and hide. I never did like hospitals, especially ones with this many people running around in hysterics. I didn't blame them. I was terrified too, but my time spent in Morganville was one that trained me to freeze off my nerves. It kept me level headed in situations like this. I looked around and saw a little boy being wheeled in in a wheel chair and I had to look away burying my face in Myrnin's chest. He kissed my crown and I felt his icy arms wrap around me and cool my burning skin. I breathed in his unique scent and he made incoherent shushing noises.

"There could have been babies that could have felt what I felt. Myrnin I could barely hold that pain what do you think they went through. They could – " I choked on my tears as I thought about a mother trying to calm her crying child, then suddenly they just stop. It all stops. "Who did this? Why is this happening?" I couldn't stop the onslaught of tears that began to soak his black, clothe biker jacket. The buttons irritated my face, so I moved up and he lifted his head so I could hide in the crook of his neck. It suddenly made me think of Eve and Michael. I stopped crying right away. My face turned to almost stone and I pulled out my phone. He moved his head back to look at me. I called Eve. She answered before it was done ringing on the first ring.

"Claire? Are you alright Michael – Michael was in so much pain Claire what happened? The town it just – "

"Eve calmed down. I know I felt the same thing the Michael did – "

"Oh my god Claire are you - "

"Yes I was with Myrnin so I was alright b – "

"Where are you now because I am in the ER – "

"Same, I am," I looked around and Myrnin whispered to me.

"West wing." I nodded thank you.

"I am in the west wing a floor above you. How's Mike is he – "

"Yes they have segregated all of the vampires, and they won't let me in. How did – "

"What? They are segregated? Why –

"I don't know how did Myrnin get in? Anybody who is cold blooded is being hauled off – " I looked around and noticed that the vampire population had dwindled in my alley. I felt suddenly scared.

"Do you know where they're taking them?" Eve sounded like she was pacing.

"No, but I want to know. I want Michael back. I have to know if he is okay." She sounded scared now, and lost.

"Eve he is okay. I will find him I promise just – " My conversation was cut short by the arms around me suddenly vanishing and the sound of snarling filling the air. "I'm sorry."

"Cla- " I hung up the phone and turned around. Myrnin was fending off a man with a needle and he looked feral. The man wouldn't back down. He must have been a vampire.

"Myrnin it's okay he just wants to take a blood sample." I grabbed his jacket sleeve.

"I know what taking a blood sample looks like and that is not just taking a blood sample." The air cracked and the lights flickered. It sounded like a tornado suddenly touched down right in the hospital. There was fear in the man's face briefly, but it was blown away with the wind. I felt the sudden pang of nausea and wondered what was going on. "This secret side of me. I never let you see." He slashed forward as the air around me became almost as tense as I felt. "I keep it caged, but I can't control it." He lunged at the man sending the needle breaking into the wall. "So stay away from me the beast is ugly." He snarled and the other vampire jumped to attack him. "I feel the rage and I just can't hold it." I caught a glimpse of his eyes and they were red beyond any red I had ever seen. I reached out to grab at him to get him to stop, but it wasn't working. He gently took my hand and set it back on the bed. I should have been scared, but he wasn't after me. "It's scratching on the walls. In the closet in the halls. It comes awake and I can't control it." His voice took on an edge as the vampire swiped his nails, but Myrnin bent back almost touching the floor and shooting up to send him straight into the vacant spot of wall next the my bed. "Hidin' under the bed in my body in my head. Why won't somebody come and save me from this. Make it end!" He screamed as the other vampire swung around hitting him square in the chest. As Myrnin flew back he grabbed the attacker's boot and took him with him. They collided and I noticed another one coming up behind Myrnin.

"Myrnin! Behind you!" His red eyes trained on the other assailant. He used the one he had in his hands and threw him at the second one coming at him. He stood snarling.

"It's hiding in the dark. It's teeth are razor sharp." They were persistent I had to give them that. The lunged at him again toppling him to the ground. I was worried he wouldn't get up, but there was a gargling noise and blood pulled around one of the bodies. I screamed. "There's no escape from me. It was my soul it was my heart." He grumbled over the mass of bodies on top of him. "No one can hear me scream. Maybe it's just a dream. Maybe it's inside of me. Starve this monster." He frees himself and neither of them gets up. Blood coats his hand and people around us are screaming. I close my eyes for a second and in that second I hear an ear splitting scream. I open them and Myrnin is doused in water and I scream alongside him. More guards appear and they begin to carry him off. He claws and tries to scratch and kill them, but he is too weakened.

"Myrnin!" I scream. I want to get up, but the pain is back and everyone around us doubled over or screams in pain. Through my blurred eyes I can see him gnaw on the hands that restrain him, but a needle is shoved into his neck and almost immediately he passes out. I close my eyes think that sounds like a good idea.

More cliffhangers. Why are the vampires being taken? Who is hurting the population? Will you review cause if you do I will give you the answer to one of these questions