Never Knew,I Needed A Hero

Way Back When...

1991
*Dave's POV*

    "Claire where are you?" I shouted as I looked around all over back stage for her but saw no signs of her.

     "Dave relax man, I'm sure she's alright." Kurt said as he put an arm around me. I was so worried that something hand happened to her.

    "I guess you're right." I said not quite sure if I believed that. We were staying in a hotel that night. I knew she the room number so I tried to put myself at ease and know she would call if something was wrong.

    We all sat in the room for like forty-five minutes and then the phone rang. I got up to answer it.

     "Hello?" I said as I picked up the phone.

      "Dave!" She squeaked. She sounded like she had been crying.

      "Claire, calm down tell me what happened. I don't know one minute I was fine and enjoying the show but I don't remember anything after that." Claire spoke lowly clearly trying her best to calm herself enough to talk.

       "I'm coming to get you, where are you?" I asked her beginning to worry again.

       "I'm by some diner. I can tell I'm still near the venue." Claire said drawing a shaky breath.

      "I'm on my way." I told her before hanging up the phone.

      "Was that Claire?" Krist asked.

      "Yeah and I was right to worry the way I was cause somethings happened. I told them both before darting out of the hotel room without a second thought. Claire was the most important thought on my mind. When I got there I saw her sitting against a diner right next to the payphone she had used to call me.

      "Claire." I said getting her attention. She looked up at me and I could tell she was glad to see me.

      "Dave, thank fucking go you made it." She said as she wiped a stray tear from her eye.

       "Let's get you back to the room." I told her as I helped her to her feet. Something didn't look right her hair was neatly put up last time I saw her. Now it was a mess. I had feared someone had done something to her. However she didn't remember what if anything that had happened.

       "I'm scared." Claire whispered as we walked in the dark back to the hotel room.

        "It's okay Claire. I'm right here." I told her as I put my arm around her and we continued on.

     When we got back to the hotel room, we saw Kurt and Krist pacing like mad men.

      "Holy shit Claire, where have you been and what the he'll happened?" Kurt asked.

       "I have no clue the last thing I remember was enjoying the show and then I come to again I'm lying in alley behind a diner freezing my fucking ass off." Claire said as she shifted her weight from foot to foot uncomfortably.

       We all knew what happened to her, even she herself knew despite not remembering. They just looked at her shocked and in disbelief. Later that night as we were all settling down Kurt and Krist were spralled out over one bed. Claire and I had the other. I was sitting at the table reading, Claire just sat in the bed an almost blank stare in her eyes.

     "Dave." She said a small voice.

     "Yeah?" I said putting the book down to look at her. She hadn't said much since I got her back to the hotel room.

      "Will you come lay with me, I want to go to sleep but I'm scared." She said barely above a whisper.

      "Of course." I said as I got up and climbed into bed next to her. I put my arms around her. She cuddled in close to me, I knew She was terrified. I also knew she felt safe around me. So now remembering that moment way back when still tears me up cause neither of know what happened to this day.