Continuing from : FADE OUT ...End of chapter 12
"Two steps to your left, and jump straight forward, hard. I'll catch you."
"Myrnin--"
"I'll catch you," he whispered into the dark. "Jump."
She took two running steps and before she could let herself think about what she was doing, dug in her toes and leaped forward.
She felt the air glide across her skin for a meer секунда until she felt a hard yank. Her shoe, her shoe had gotten caught. She screamed, letting out all the air in her lungs.
"Claire!" Myrnin yelled. It was the last thing she heard before she felt the cold stone floor under her and then everything went black.
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As Claire began to gain consciousness, she couldn't help but feel this urgent craving. Something in her was just burning and her whole body ached and everything was so cold. Freezing. She heard voices, they were barely audible and she didn't recognize them, but she heard them, barely.
"...needed her..."
"...not your fault...rest...weak...Collin's boy...friends...now..."
A moan escaped her lips and the voices stopped and she heard footsteps coming toward her. The burning inside her got worse and she opened her eyes. Amelie and one of her guards was leaning over her. She studied the room they were in, they were in the cave where Ada was kept. She hadn't noticed that within the few секунды that she examined the room, she had started to hyperventilate. Her head was pounding, the air was freezing, and she felt as if her insides were burning. What's happenning to me? Why...why do I feel like this? Claire began to moan, her moan's turned into yells and soon her yells to screams. She couldn't handle whatever was surging through. It passed quickly and Claire was left with the same burning inside her. She tried to get up, to do something, anything. She quickly stood ip and was about to run when Amelie's guards grabbed her by the arms. But Claire's thrashing didn't stop.
Amelie stood infront of Claire. Stared her deep in the eye's and reached down to grab Claire's left wrist. In one быстрый, стремительный, свифт movement, Amelie glided her bracelet through her wrist and removed it. She held it up in front of Claire's face, and dropped it. "Your one of us now."
No. She couldn't...No. No!
She filled with anger and kicked and pushed, trying to get out of the guard's grip, but couldn't. She sceamed an ear shattering scream and the sound echoed through the cave.
"How could this...What..I don't understand!" Her throat burned and she moaned. Myrnin crawled over to where Claire ws and looked up at her. "I'm so sorry Claire." He whispered, but Claire heard it loud and clear. "I couldn't lose you. We need you." He moaned and stood up, held out his wrist and with the быстрый, стремительный, свифт movement of his finger, slit a small cut with his finger along his wrist and held it out to her.
There was such a strong pull, she wanted to, no she needed to have it.
No Claire! This isn't you! No! She felt her eye's water, tears spill over the brim of her eye's, rollling down her face.
But she needed, she leaned in and was about to press her lips to Myrnin, when she heard someone running. No, еще than one person.
I can't do this. She gave up trying to escape the guards and just let her head slump down. She stared down at the ground, praying this was just a dream.
She bit her lip and began to whisper to herself. "Wake up, Claire. Your just dreaming. This isn't happenning. This isn't --" She broke of with a strangled gasp. A gasp of pain and weakness. еще tears came down her face, and a sob escaped.
"Claire!" It was Michael, she recognized his voice instantly. "Claire!" Michael stopped instantly and stared at Claire. Her head slumped down, but when she heard his voice, she looked up."Your eye's. What?" The look of confusion crossed his face, and then he got it. He understood what was going on. "No!" A guard ran towards him and held him back. He struggled.
Eve ran up behind Michael, and Shane was behind her.
"Hey! Get off him!" Yelled Eve to the guard holding Michael, and one quickly grabbed ahold of her aswell. Michael didn't stop struggling and neither did Eve. The two guards holding Claire dropped her and she hit the floor and moaned.
Shane ran in, saw Claire on the ground and sprinted towards her. "Claire!" He had anger splashed across his face, but in his eye's was fear. The two guards grabbed him and held him in place.
"Quiet! All of you!" Amelie yelled. The sound was like a gunshot and echoed through the tunnel. Myrnin slowly walked over to Claire, and helped her up, and firmly held on to her arm. Claire took a deep breathe in, and she плавить, корюшка it. She tried to get out of Myrnin's grip, when suddenly, Oliver was beside her, holding her other arm.
"Claire?" Shane said. He was confused."Claire, what's wrong? What did you..." He turned towards Amelie. "What did Ты do to her?" He looked and stared at Claire again, his eye's widened and it registered in his head. "No." He сказал(-а) quietly. Claire watched and saw the pain in his face."No! What the fuck did Ты do to her! No!"
Eve was kneeling down and was crying. Michael's was watching Claire closely with a pained expression.
"I'm sorry Shane. We did what had to be done. Surely Ты understand. We saved her. Myrnin saved her. It was either this или death."
Claire tried to sy something, but everytime she inhaled, her lungs burned. Shane stared at her. His eye's full of anger and something else. Was it disgust?
"She's one of us now. No different than your friend Michael. I understand that this is a shock to you. But it can't be undone." Amelie looked around and nodded to Oliver. "We must be on our way now." Claire looked at Shane. "Shane, I--" What was she going to say?
He turned to Amelie. "She's not going with you."
Amelie stared at Shane with an angred look. "And why not?" Ты could tell Amelie was getting annoyed. Her eye's were wide and she looked as if she would pounce on Shane any секунда now.
He tried to shake the guards off but the just tightened their grip. "You let Michael stay. He didn't have to go with you. Neither does she."
Claire re-adjusted herself and tried not to inhale. "Shane, it would probably be best."
He slowly turned to her, moving as much as the guards would alow. "What?"
This is my life now. She thought. I don't want to hurt him. I could lose control and...I can't hurt him like that. But he was already hurt. This wasn't just hurting him. It was killing him.
"Just for a while." She said. "I don't--" Oh God, the smell, so good..Shane saw the look on her face, and her eye's turned red.
Shane just stared at her, which such anger in his eyes. "Jesus, Claire! First Michael, now you! God! At least he had the decency to stay with us and try to not kill us. You, your just giving up on the spot! Not even trying!"
"This wasn't my choice! I just don't want to hurt you. Any of you, espescially you!" She yelled, staring at him, trying, trying to get him to understand.
"Yea, well guess what? Ты already did." He shoved the guards off, Amelie nodded towards them and they let him go. He walked towards the way they had came in.
"Shane! Please!" She shoved off Oliver and took a few steps forward. Shane paused for a секунда and turned around. But he wasn't looking at her, he was staring down Myrnin. He glared at him and took a step towards him.
"You know, she was all I had." He сказал(-а) pointing to Claire. His eye's were watering and he began to walk away when Myrnin spoke up.
"I don't understand why your being so dramatic about this. She only had минуты of her life left. I decided to change her, to save her. It took a very great deal of effort of mine." And it did. Ты could hear it in his voice. He was speaking very slowly, and was sitting down on the floor пересекать, крест legged leaning on the palm of his hand. "It was either become a vampire или die. If it wasn't for me, she would have been dead right now."
Shane turned around and began to walk out. "She might as well be." He muttered. But Claire heard it. They all did. Myrnin actually hissed at the remark. But no one felt as much pain as Claire did in that moment.
Shane paused for a second. Turned to look back at Claire, and they looked at eachother, into eachother's eyes, but then Shane turned and kept walking. Michael and Eve stood up, Michael ran over in a секунда and hugged her tight. As he held her, he whispered "Don't worry. You'll get through this. Come Главная whenever Ты want." He squeezed her tight, and let go. Eve was right behind him. Michael looked a little uncertain and stood and watched as Eve came over and hugged Claire.
She pulled back and held Claire at her shoulders. "Your still the same Claire to me." And hugged her again. The burn in Claire's throat intensified and she tried to hold her breath. Michael pulled her back and gave a small smile towards Claire. "See Ты soon, kid." He and Eve walked away frowning.
Oliver turned to Amelie to say something but Claire tuned it out. She couldn't believe what had just happenned. She stared at where Michael, Eve and Shane had been standing. The tears from had stopped but as she thought about the events of what just happenned, she felt a new one roll down her cheek and heard it as it splashed onto the stone floor. Soon enough, еще came. Myrnin stepped infront of her with an apoligetic look and held his arms.
She was about to hug him when a very specific thought ran through her brain. Jump. Her sadness turned to anger and she shoved him, and suprisingly, he actually Остаться в живых his footing and stumbled back a couple feet. "What the hell happenned to 'I'll catch you.' !?" She yelled.
He held his hands up in surrender. "Claire, I wasn't expecting Ты to trip. Your shoe шнурок, кружева got caught on a nail that conveniently sticking out from the floor. I would have caught Ты if I could. i tried." he сказал(-а) frowning.
She felt her face drop and she felt sad again. "You didn't mean to turn me on purpose?"
He looked confused now. "No of course not. I would never doom someone to a life like this. No on purpose anyways. I honestly wasn't expecting Ты to fall. I didn't let Ты fall. I needed to save you, and make sure Ты were safe," He сказал(-а) watching her. Maybe Myrnin did have a genuinelyy nice, soft side. She thought. "Because of course we couldn't loose all that knowledge Ты know. Ты are a good assistant after." He continued. He watched her face drop. She had thought that maybe he might of saved her maybe because we were friends.
He sighed, and pulled a lollipop out of his куртка pocket, un wrapped it and started to lick it. "I guess also because your kind of interesting, and things would be extremley boring without you, child.
Good enough. She thought. He gave her a light hug and patted her back. He whirled around to face Amelie. "Where will the child be staying, Amelie? I'm sure that after that whole little charade we had witnessed, she wouldn't feel comfortable at the Glass house. And she is a new vampire after all. We have to get her some blood."
Amelie raised her eyebrows in suprise. "You changed her. Ты take care of her." She turned to Claire. "Not that I hate your pressence, Claire. I am just too tired at the moment to watch over a younge one. I would like both of Ты to Сообщить back to me tomorrow." She turned back to Myrnin. "I suggest Ты get her some blood before she bites you. The poor girl is suffering and thirsty. Ты can see it in her eyes. Now go Myrnin. Take care of your new, apprentice. We will clean up here."
Claire didnt even notice the tunnel. But she, did notice that Ada wasn't running. It was shut down. She was sure to ask Myrnin what had happenned later on. But fo now, as much as she hated to admit it. She was thirsty.
"Two steps to your left, and jump straight forward, hard. I'll catch you."
"Myrnin--"
"I'll catch you," he whispered into the dark. "Jump."
She took two running steps and before she could let herself think about what she was doing, dug in her toes and leaped forward.
She felt the air glide across her skin for a meer секунда until she felt a hard yank. Her shoe, her shoe had gotten caught. She screamed, letting out all the air in her lungs.
"Claire!" Myrnin yelled. It was the last thing she heard before she felt the cold stone floor under her and then everything went black.
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As Claire began to gain consciousness, she couldn't help but feel this urgent craving. Something in her was just burning and her whole body ached and everything was so cold. Freezing. She heard voices, they were barely audible and she didn't recognize them, but she heard them, barely.
"...needed her..."
"...not your fault...rest...weak...Collin's boy...friends...now..."
A moan escaped her lips and the voices stopped and she heard footsteps coming toward her. The burning inside her got worse and she opened her eyes. Amelie and one of her guards was leaning over her. She studied the room they were in, they were in the cave where Ada was kept. She hadn't noticed that within the few секунды that she examined the room, she had started to hyperventilate. Her head was pounding, the air was freezing, and she felt as if her insides were burning. What's happenning to me? Why...why do I feel like this? Claire began to moan, her moan's turned into yells and soon her yells to screams. She couldn't handle whatever was surging through. It passed quickly and Claire was left with the same burning inside her. She tried to get up, to do something, anything. She quickly stood ip and was about to run when Amelie's guards grabbed her by the arms. But Claire's thrashing didn't stop.
Amelie stood infront of Claire. Stared her deep in the eye's and reached down to grab Claire's left wrist. In one быстрый, стремительный, свифт movement, Amelie glided her bracelet through her wrist and removed it. She held it up in front of Claire's face, and dropped it. "Your one of us now."
No. She couldn't...No. No!
She filled with anger and kicked and pushed, trying to get out of the guard's grip, but couldn't. She sceamed an ear shattering scream and the sound echoed through the cave.
"How could this...What..I don't understand!" Her throat burned and she moaned. Myrnin crawled over to where Claire ws and looked up at her. "I'm so sorry Claire." He whispered, but Claire heard it loud and clear. "I couldn't lose you. We need you." He moaned and stood up, held out his wrist and with the быстрый, стремительный, свифт movement of his finger, slit a small cut with his finger along his wrist and held it out to her.
There was such a strong pull, she wanted to, no she needed to have it.
No Claire! This isn't you! No! She felt her eye's water, tears spill over the brim of her eye's, rollling down her face.
But she needed, she leaned in and was about to press her lips to Myrnin, when she heard someone running. No, еще than one person.
I can't do this. She gave up trying to escape the guards and just let her head slump down. She stared down at the ground, praying this was just a dream.
She bit her lip and began to whisper to herself. "Wake up, Claire. Your just dreaming. This isn't happenning. This isn't --" She broke of with a strangled gasp. A gasp of pain and weakness. еще tears came down her face, and a sob escaped.
"Claire!" It was Michael, she recognized his voice instantly. "Claire!" Michael stopped instantly and stared at Claire. Her head slumped down, but when she heard his voice, she looked up."Your eye's. What?" The look of confusion crossed his face, and then he got it. He understood what was going on. "No!" A guard ran towards him and held him back. He struggled.
Eve ran up behind Michael, and Shane was behind her.
"Hey! Get off him!" Yelled Eve to the guard holding Michael, and one quickly grabbed ahold of her aswell. Michael didn't stop struggling and neither did Eve. The two guards holding Claire dropped her and she hit the floor and moaned.
Shane ran in, saw Claire on the ground and sprinted towards her. "Claire!" He had anger splashed across his face, but in his eye's was fear. The two guards grabbed him and held him in place.
"Quiet! All of you!" Amelie yelled. The sound was like a gunshot and echoed through the tunnel. Myrnin slowly walked over to Claire, and helped her up, and firmly held on to her arm. Claire took a deep breathe in, and she плавить, корюшка it. She tried to get out of Myrnin's grip, when suddenly, Oliver was beside her, holding her other arm.
"Claire?" Shane said. He was confused."Claire, what's wrong? What did you..." He turned towards Amelie. "What did Ты do to her?" He looked and stared at Claire again, his eye's widened and it registered in his head. "No." He сказал(-а) quietly. Claire watched and saw the pain in his face."No! What the fuck did Ты do to her! No!"
Eve was kneeling down and was crying. Michael's was watching Claire closely with a pained expression.
"I'm sorry Shane. We did what had to be done. Surely Ты understand. We saved her. Myrnin saved her. It was either this или death."
Claire tried to sy something, but everytime she inhaled, her lungs burned. Shane stared at her. His eye's full of anger and something else. Was it disgust?
"She's one of us now. No different than your friend Michael. I understand that this is a shock to you. But it can't be undone." Amelie looked around and nodded to Oliver. "We must be on our way now." Claire looked at Shane. "Shane, I--" What was she going to say?
He turned to Amelie. "She's not going with you."
Amelie stared at Shane with an angred look. "And why not?" Ты could tell Amelie was getting annoyed. Her eye's were wide and she looked as if she would pounce on Shane any секунда now.
He tried to shake the guards off but the just tightened their grip. "You let Michael stay. He didn't have to go with you. Neither does she."
Claire re-adjusted herself and tried not to inhale. "Shane, it would probably be best."
He slowly turned to her, moving as much as the guards would alow. "What?"
This is my life now. She thought. I don't want to hurt him. I could lose control and...I can't hurt him like that. But he was already hurt. This wasn't just hurting him. It was killing him.
"Just for a while." She said. "I don't--" Oh God, the smell, so good..Shane saw the look on her face, and her eye's turned red.
Shane just stared at her, which such anger in his eyes. "Jesus, Claire! First Michael, now you! God! At least he had the decency to stay with us and try to not kill us. You, your just giving up on the spot! Not even trying!"
"This wasn't my choice! I just don't want to hurt you. Any of you, espescially you!" She yelled, staring at him, trying, trying to get him to understand.
"Yea, well guess what? Ты already did." He shoved the guards off, Amelie nodded towards them and they let him go. He walked towards the way they had came in.
"Shane! Please!" She shoved off Oliver and took a few steps forward. Shane paused for a секунда and turned around. But he wasn't looking at her, he was staring down Myrnin. He glared at him and took a step towards him.
"You know, she was all I had." He сказал(-а) pointing to Claire. His eye's were watering and he began to walk away when Myrnin spoke up.
"I don't understand why your being so dramatic about this. She only had минуты of her life left. I decided to change her, to save her. It took a very great deal of effort of mine." And it did. Ты could hear it in his voice. He was speaking very slowly, and was sitting down on the floor пересекать, крест legged leaning on the palm of his hand. "It was either become a vampire или die. If it wasn't for me, she would have been dead right now."
Shane turned around and began to walk out. "She might as well be." He muttered. But Claire heard it. They all did. Myrnin actually hissed at the remark. But no one felt as much pain as Claire did in that moment.
Shane paused for a second. Turned to look back at Claire, and they looked at eachother, into eachother's eyes, but then Shane turned and kept walking. Michael and Eve stood up, Michael ran over in a секунда and hugged her tight. As he held her, he whispered "Don't worry. You'll get through this. Come Главная whenever Ты want." He squeezed her tight, and let go. Eve was right behind him. Michael looked a little uncertain and stood and watched as Eve came over and hugged Claire.
She pulled back and held Claire at her shoulders. "Your still the same Claire to me." And hugged her again. The burn in Claire's throat intensified and she tried to hold her breath. Michael pulled her back and gave a small smile towards Claire. "See Ты soon, kid." He and Eve walked away frowning.
Oliver turned to Amelie to say something but Claire tuned it out. She couldn't believe what had just happenned. She stared at where Michael, Eve and Shane had been standing. The tears from had stopped but as she thought about the events of what just happenned, she felt a new one roll down her cheek and heard it as it splashed onto the stone floor. Soon enough, еще came. Myrnin stepped infront of her with an apoligetic look and held his arms.
She was about to hug him when a very specific thought ran through her brain. Jump. Her sadness turned to anger and she shoved him, and suprisingly, he actually Остаться в живых his footing and stumbled back a couple feet. "What the hell happenned to 'I'll catch you.' !?" She yelled.
He held his hands up in surrender. "Claire, I wasn't expecting Ты to trip. Your shoe шнурок, кружева got caught on a nail that conveniently sticking out from the floor. I would have caught Ты if I could. i tried." he сказал(-а) frowning.
She felt her face drop and she felt sad again. "You didn't mean to turn me on purpose?"
He looked confused now. "No of course not. I would never doom someone to a life like this. No on purpose anyways. I honestly wasn't expecting Ты to fall. I didn't let Ты fall. I needed to save you, and make sure Ты were safe," He сказал(-а) watching her. Maybe Myrnin did have a genuinelyy nice, soft side. She thought. "Because of course we couldn't loose all that knowledge Ты know. Ты are a good assistant after." He continued. He watched her face drop. She had thought that maybe he might of saved her maybe because we were friends.
He sighed, and pulled a lollipop out of his куртка pocket, un wrapped it and started to lick it. "I guess also because your kind of interesting, and things would be extremley boring without you, child.
Good enough. She thought. He gave her a light hug and patted her back. He whirled around to face Amelie. "Where will the child be staying, Amelie? I'm sure that after that whole little charade we had witnessed, she wouldn't feel comfortable at the Glass house. And she is a new vampire after all. We have to get her some blood."
Amelie raised her eyebrows in suprise. "You changed her. Ты take care of her." She turned to Claire. "Not that I hate your pressence, Claire. I am just too tired at the moment to watch over a younge one. I would like both of Ты to Сообщить back to me tomorrow." She turned back to Myrnin. "I suggest Ты get her some blood before she bites you. The poor girl is suffering and thirsty. Ты can see it in her eyes. Now go Myrnin. Take care of your new, apprentice. We will clean up here."
Claire didnt even notice the tunnel. But she, did notice that Ada wasn't running. It was shut down. She was sure to ask Myrnin what had happenned later on. But fo now, as much as she hated to admit it. She was thirsty.
