Here's the next chapter. This one features Myrnin! Yey!
She stared at his hand and then began to slowly back up. She came to stand beside Amelie who currently had raised eyebrows.
Fallon frowned at her and also backed up, grabbing the handle to the door as he did so, "fine, but if one of them gets peckish it's not my problem." With that he slammed the door. Leaving Claire in a dimly lit room with a bunch of blood-sucking Vampires.
Michael was the first to speak, "what the hell are you thinking Claire?!"
She turned to look at him and answered, "you need to trust me. Don't worry I'm on both sides but I have to see Myrnin and I need to know what's going on." She spoke the truth and as Michael opened his mouth to say something more, Claire caught a glimpse of someone she knew in the shadows. The Vampire's dark curls fell about his face and his eyes were a crimson red. "Myrnin." She whispered.
He looked her dead in the eye and then turned away, "Myrnin, wait." She called out after him but Oliver stood in her way.
"That's not a good idea. He refused to feed unless they got that thing off his neck. He's not had blood in quite some time." His warning only went half noticed as she dodged around him and continued to pace after Myrnin who'd now gone into one of the four back rooms.
The room he was in had a double bed, a lamp and a plant. That was it. There was also Myrnin who looked part of the décor as he stood in the middle of the room, as still as a statue. "Don't." He whispered.
She ignored him. "Myrnin you need to feed. You can't starve yourself. You'll go insane!"
At that he turned to face her; a manic smile spread across his pale face. "Am I not already insane my dear?" Ok, yes... but when your hungry you're dangerously insane. She reached a hand out to him and the words that left her mouth stunned her. Had she just said that?
He stared at her wrist, the hunger within him was now evident on his face and he clasped her hand in his. "I don't want to hurt you." He whispered, his hair fell over his eyes as though he was trying to hide himself from her.
"You won't. I trust you. I know you always say I shouldn't, but..." She let the words trail off her tongue as his lips met her wrist. She gasped as his fangs grazed her skin and then he bit down. This time she held in a gasp. She wasn't sure how long they stood there in the centre of the room whilst Myrnin fed off her wrist, but in what seemed like one hazy minute, he pulled away and licked the blood off his bottom lip.
"You should pay attention to my advice." He muttered.
The smile she had on her face quickly vanished as she told him, "I'm sorry. Myrnin, I really, truly am sorry about what I did to you back in Boston, but-" He pressed a slender finger to her lips, making her heart flutter, and shook his head.
"I deserved it my dear. After all of the times I have hurt you, twice I nearly killed you – draining you of your blood. I believed Ada over you when I shouldn't have and I've even tried to kill the boy your so fond of. What was his name... Collins?" He smiled at her, "I more than deserved it."
No, he didn't. Myrnin was so delicate, one touch and she thought she'd break him – not physically but mentally. That time they'd left for Dallas, he'd asked her if he could go too and when she said no he'd looked like a little, lost child. "How about we never mention it again?" She questioned and Myrnin nodded, this time smiling. Not his half-hearted smile but a proper, adoring smile that lit up his face.
"Now, my dear, we must discuss why you're here." She gave him a puzzled look and he continued. "Being trapped in a room full of Vampires isn't exactly what one would call sensible thinking. Has that mind of yours stopped functioning?"
"I needed to see you and I need to find out what's going on."
He raised an eyebrow, "what is there to know? Humans have finally taken over Morganville, shouldn't you be happy about that? I bet Collins is." Shane's name darkened his eyes for a brief second.
"Actually, no, I'm not happy about. The situation out there is worse than it was when you Vamps were ruling the place. Believe it or not I felt safer before leaving for Boston." And that was nothing but the truth. Unlike Shane, she had learnt to work alongside the Vampires and she felt... safe around them. Shane wouldn't have liked hearing her say that but she wasn't going to put on an act for him. Not anymore.
When she focused back on Myrnin she saw him scratching the area around the neck collar. "We need to get that off you."
He cocked his head to the side and gazed at her, "and how do you suppose we go about that, my dear. Please, share, as I am praying for it to be removed." He then tried to yank it off and winced at the sudden electric current that went through him.
"Myrnin stop." She said as she walked over to him and placed her fingers on the device. "There must be some sort of key that unlocks them. Hannah might have one, not that she can be trusted."
Someone behind her cleared their throat and when she turned around she saw Michael stood there; his hands in his jeans pockets. "Can I speak with you." She nodded. "Alone."
Claire glanced at Myrnin, who said, "go ahead my dear, I must speak with Amelie at once." With that he flashed out of the room before she could blink; leaving her and Michael standing there in an awkward silence.
It was soon broken when Michael said, "so, what's your brilliant plan?"
She sighed, "if I told you, you'd flip." He frowned at her.
"Great. On another note was seeing Myrnin that important that you had to trap yourself in here with us lot?" Meaning the Vampires.
"No, sort of. Look that's not the point. If you want to get out of here then you need a human on your side. Fallon isn't going to just leave me be here. Knowing him, he'll want to take me in for questioning. It seems they want to know more about you Vamps and I'm the human that can give him all the information he needs. Not that I would." Her loyalty to the Vampires somewhat startled her but they were her friends, blood-suckers or not.
Michael shook his head, "I don't like where this is going."
"Of course you don't. Because innocent, little Claire is about to do something that could break her and ruin Morganville. But it's a risk I have to take."