I'm Half A Heart Without You // Morganville Vampires

Chapter 3 - Nothing ever goes to plan.

The day we met, frozen, I held my breath.

Right from th start, I knew that I'd found the home for my heart

Beats fast, colours and promises.

I have died every day waiting for you.

Time has brought your heart to me.

I have loved you for a thousand years.

I'll love you for a thousand more.

One step closer......

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Claire's origional plan-of-the-day was to go to her classes. She'd missed a lot lately, but the text she recieved from Myrnin this mornin, sounded more interesting than sitting in several classrooms with people she hated, listening to the professors mumble on about stuff she already knew, and finishing her work before everyone else. Maybe even ace a surprise test without getting a single question wrong. 

She just couldn't wait to go home and lay on the couch with Shane, cuddling into his warm body and kissing him lightly as if nothing could ever break her. She couldn't wait to go up to bed with him and lay under the covers with him and fall asleep in his arms after eating his special chilli-dogs. That seemed like the most perfect plan in the world.

She was suddenly dragged out of the plans in her head as she decended the steps to be greeted by Myrnin.

"Myrnin....I'm here..." She was cut off suddenly.

"Finally, Claire! What time do you call this?" Yes, Myrnin was impatiant. He still didn't seem to realise that Claire was human, not vampire, which meant she didn't have any super-speed-walking tactics up her sleeve.

"I'm...sorry?" she dumped her backpack in the corner of the room next to the stairs, like any other usual day, and sat on top of one of the almost-tidy lab tables. As she looked around, she realised that the place was a mess again.

Everything dragged off the shelves, books ripped and scattered everywhere, and even broken glass all over the floor in the corner of the room.

"Seriously, Myrnin. How do you manage this?" she laughed.

"Manage what, young Claire?" he looked up from his book, his glasses balancing on the end of his nose. On anyone else, it would look weird and almost pathetic. On Myrnin, it looked sassy, but kind of cute. Okay, she did not just say that Myrnin looked cute.

Trying to wipe that thought from her memory, with a slight blush creeping up on her, she looked around the room again and guestered with her hands. "This. The mess. I tidy this lab every day, Myrnin. Then when I come back the next day, you totaly destroy it. Is it so difficult for you to keep it clean for once whilst I'm not here?" she giggled slightly as she finished her statment, and Myrnin looked at her and tilted his head slightly.

"Really, Claire. You think I have time to clean up after myself? I think you will find that it is your job to tidy up after every one of my disasters." he joked and winked at her. Winked. Myrnin. Winked! Myrnin actually knows how to do that?

Claire pondered over that for a few seconds and said "Okay then, is that my task for today?"

"Pretty much, yes." Myrnin replied, still looking at her. Deep into her eyes.

"Okay, challenge accepted. But.." she started,

"But what, Claire?" he tilted his head again.

"You have to help me. Teamwork, understand? Think of it as....build up your people skills, yes?" she laughed, and he laughed back.

"Fine. But only for today." he tried to enlighten his words a little with a grin at the end, but Claire saw something. Something flash across his face. And it worried her a little. 

Myrnin jumped up and started shoveling broken glass into his hands to dispose of.

Claire crouched next to him, picking up books and placing them on the bottom shelf of his antique bookcase. "Erm, Myrnin?.." she asked cautiously.

He turned his head slightly in a partial response "hmm?" was all he said for the other half of his response. 

"Um, how are you feeling today? Are you alright? You look kind of...sad. Like something's bothering you." she turned on her heels as she was crouching, and sat on the floor cross-legged infront of him. He did she same.

"Oh, Claire. You know me too well," he sighed "Even if I was to tell you, you most likely wouldn't understand." he looked down at the glass in his hand, and it shimmered in the light.

"What makes you think I wouldn't understand? I'm your friend, you can tell me about whatever's on your mind. You know that, right?" she gave him a sympathetic smile.

"I do, and I sorely appreciate that, little Claire. But I'm really not sure you would like what I have to tell you.

"Try me." she finished and stared at him with no change in her facial expressions at all. The only thing that changed, was the speed of her heart.

Oh God, no. Please don't let it be about this morning....She saw a flash infront of her eyes for a split second. As if she knew it was what he was going to say. 

"It-" Myrnin started to say, but then he realised her change in heart rate and said, "you need to come here and look a second. I'm sorry" he said as he guided her over to the wall where the main portal would be.

He opened it up, and she looked through into the Glass House. That changed everything.

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