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Did she really just see that?
No, she mentally shook herself.
Just a figment of her imagination.
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"Hey, uh, excuse me? Miss?"
Miss?
Mae turned around. "What?"
"Do you, um . . . have any clothes . . . I could use? . . . Maybe?"
Well that was an awkward question.
If she heard it right.
"Come again?"
Niall blushed. It was quite an awkward question.
"Do you have any spare clothes I could use?"
Years of discipline on looking someone in the eyes when he spoke to them was the only thing that kept him looking at Mae at that very moment.
"Do I have any clothes? Yes but I'd think that you would want to wear guy clothes.
Niall blushed even harder. "I . . . Um. Uh. I . . . Uh."
Mae slightly bent her head back and laughed. "I'm just teasing," she said."Sure, I'll get you some of my older brothers clothes. He's away at college so I don't think he'll really mind. Hopefully you both are the same size. You look like you will be."
And with that she left the room.
Niall closed and locked the door and began to dry himself off while he waited for her to return.
Five minutes later Mae returned and knocked on the door, making Niall jump.
How odd it was for him. He was expecting her and yet again she managed to slip by completely undetected.
"Hello? Stranger? You in there?" Mae called.
Niall chuckled to himself at that.
"Yes?" He answered.
"I have your clothes. They're right outside the door," she said.
Niall waited a moment before opening the door. He wanted to make sure she had left.
Then he opened the door and grabbed the small pile of neatly folded clothes.
It included a black, grey and red plaid shirt, a pair of dark but faded jeans, some clean underwear, a pair of socks, and even a pair of old but not worn out sneakers.
The clothes might have been clean but he could easily smell her brothers scent on them.
After changing he went up stairs to find Mae but found a newly lit fire burning inside the fireplace instead.
Niall took the chance and without hesitation threw the clothes he had been originally wearing into the fire. Then he sat there and waited for Mae to return.
He waited for hours.
In the corner of his eye he saw movement and he turned towards it.
It wasn't Mae but a mouse.
Being very hungry Niall lunged silently for the mouse and began to drink its blood.
They were tiny and barely offered any blood so he caught a few more and drank their blood too.
He had just finished his 4th mouse and was looking for more mice.
Either they all were hiding, they were asleep or he had caught them all.
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Fanfiction"I said that I would save you. And I did." It's not her fault. She didn't know. She didn't know who he was. She didn't know what he was. Okay . . . Maybe she did. But still. She didn't know that when he promised he could save her, what he meant. S...
