At Home (Claire/West)

[nortons99]

6th December, 2008

Sitting indoors, that was what Sam was up to at the moment, it was the weekend and Sam was home from work from teaching the kids at the school for Heroes and Villians alike unfortunatly, as Sam knew that some of those kids had the potential to be very bad villians. Sam wanted to make sure that all of those kids left that school with a good future while keeping an eye on what they were doing outside of school, thats why Sam was planning a trip somewhere for the students that he took to see how they acted.

This was quite strange for Sam as he was living in a house that was just amazing now. The money for this house was given to him and Claire by Nathan but Sam wanted that job pinned down that he had, not for the money but to give the kids a chance and make sure that they got the best out of life and picked the right side to be on, the side of the heroes.

Now there was Sam sitting on the sofa in front of the wide screen TV and he was loving it. There was no way that Sam would change his life in any way or form right now he was going to be happy with a nice little family when him and Claire decided to have children and well Sam was just living this life up at the moment. What better way to live than sit down on the weekend waiting for his beautiful Claire to come home after he had finished eating the massive pizza.

Just then Sam heard the door open he quickly shut the pizza box and shoved it under the sofa he was meant to be laying off the pizza as it was really unhealthy for him because he ate too much of it. But there was one thing Sam forgot to do was to wipe his mouth from the pizza that was around it. It was too late now his Claire was in the room and he straight away got up and then he went to kiss her on the lips.

[clairebear]

Claire had spent the night in Costa Verde with West. It had been so good to catch up with him again. Although she hadn't banked on catching up with him, she hadn't even banked on them sleeping together, but that's what had happened. The bad thing was Claire hadn't even felt guilty the whole time she had been with West. It had felt so natural, she hadn't even given Sam a thought, it was like The Haitian had wiped her mind or something.

West had wanted her to stay in Costa Verde with him, but she knew she couldn't. Not right away. Sam had come back into her thoughts eventually and she realised she had to go back home to him. She had hated to leave West, but deep down in her heart all the love she had for Sam came back to the top and that's when she started to feel guilty. Very guilty.

When she'd left West, she hadn't even bothered to put on her clothes she had been wearing, instead just threw on her red and white cheerleader outfit and asked West to fly her back home. He had obliged, and dropped her off in the back garden giving her one final kiss before taking off back to his own flat in Costa Verde. It wouldn't be the last time she'd see West, of that she was sure.

She walked into the house quite tentatively, but Sam was already waiting for her, he jumped up and came toward her to kiss her. She caught the pizza around his mouth, and immediately rolled her eyes, and also backed away from the kiss slightly. She was feeling so guilty, she just couldn't bring herself to kiss him properly.

"Don't Sam" she began, "And you've been eating pizza, you eat too much of that stuff" she added, as she sort of scowled slightly. She didn't want to push him away, but she felt so guilty. She sat down on the other end of the sofa and curled herself up into a ball.

[nortons99]

Sam watched as this kiss felt different, almost as if she didn't want to do it, something was definitely wrong because she was now in here in her old cheerleader outfit. Sam was very confused right now. Sam wiped the pizza topping from his mouth area and then went to kiss her once more to see if she was going to back out of it at all. All of a sudden his thoughts then turned back to why in the hell she was wearing what she was wearing. She had been out last night and had only just got back, he thought that she was going to stay round her friends or something. "Why are you wearing your cheerleader outfit Claire thats not what you left in last night, did something happen did you have an accident and have to clean it or something" Sam was really confused right now he didn't know what to think.

Though Claire did look amazing in her old outfit that wasn't going to change Sam worrying about her right now. "Claire I think we have to sit down and talk, has someone tried to hurt you or something because I mean it if I find out who it is they are going to be a dead man or woman" he said, with that Sam immeidately turned off the TV and offered her to sit down. This was going to be quiet time between the two Sam was hoping that with this chat he would be able to get to the bottom of this and sort this person out. He watched her as she slumped down on the side of the chair and curled up into a ball, what was wrong with the girl. Sam walked over to the chair once again and then he sat down next to his wife. He then tried to lift her and then hugged her tight. "Come on somethings wrong you can tell me baby" he said looking at her in some discomfort that she was upset.

[clairebear]

Claire felt really guilty now. Was it actually possible to love two guys she asked herself, shaking her head and feeling nauseous inside. He then went to kiss her again, only this time she didn't have the heart to push him away, so she kissed him back, but it still didn't have the love or passion behind it she'd normally have for Sam and what's more, he would know it.

In fact he already knew there was something wrong with her, just by the way she had been acting, and of course he'd picked up on the fact she was now wearing one of her cheerleader outfits. As he questioned her about it, she sighed. She didn't know whether to do a cover story or tell him the truth. When he asked if she'd had an accident, she just nodded her head.

"Yeah, that's it, I spilled something and this was the best thing I could find to wear" she said and shrugged, trying to smile at him, but knowing it wasn't really there. When he said they needed to talk, Claire felt herself begin to crumble inside. Especially when he was sure someone had hurt her and he was going to hurt them. He had it all so wrong. She felt herself begin to shake. "No, it's not that" she managed to squeak when he asked about someone hurting her.

Then when he lifted her up and began to hug her in a comforting way, Claire finally began to cry. She wrapped her arms around him and hugged him back, she was so angry at herself for doing to him what she had done. How was she ever going to live with herself? Could she really live a lie? When he asked what was wrong and said she could tell him, she didn't know if she should or not. "Oh Sam, I don't even think you would want to know, you're going to hate me" she said, it was all she could say, as she broke free from the hug and leaned back in the seat. He was going to hate her. She knew it.

[nortons99]

"Claire tell me the truth I won't be mad as long as you tell me the real reason that you are wearing your Cheerleader stuff because you definatly could have just come home and found something to wear here and wasn't that cheerleader stuff at the Bennet house why did you go there insted of here thats like ages away" Sam said really confused now what was going on with this girl. He just wanted to know the truth why couldn't she just be straight with him.

Just then a lot of bad thoughts came into his mind had she killed someone, or hurt someone. Sam was very confused right now, he could never imagine Claire killing someone let alone hurt them. What was making Sam so worried right now, well he could tell what it was the fact that she was like this his gorgeous wife was currently trembling and Sam felt really upset for her but he had to be strong for his wife. "Claire just tell me I want to know whats wrong please your killing me not telling me whats wrong" he said to her.

[clairebear]

Sam was beginning to mess with Claire and her head with all the questions he kept asking about her cheerleader outfit, and why she was wearing it. Wasn't it in Costa Verde, which was ages away. He's seen through her little story. Why hadn't she come home to get changed. She was going to have to tell him the truth. Tears running down her face, and finding it really difficult to even find her voice, she started off slow trying to tell him the truth.

"I couldn't come home and get changed, because I wasn't here, I was in Costa Verde all night" she answered, well that was one part of the truth told. Now he would ask why she was in Costa Verde and how did she get there. She knew the questions were coming next, she should just answer them. However, she found she couldn't. Not yet anyway.

Why did he have to keep asking she thought to herself. She couldn't keep it back from him any longer. It wasn't fair on her, it wasn't fair on West and more importantly it wasn't fair on Sam. He was going to hate her, she just knew it. "I was with West, you remember West?" she began, wiping at her eyes, and trying to keep her composure so she could tell him the complete truth.

"Well he sent me a text and asked me to meet him, he flew to here and collected me and flew me to Costa Verde" she explained, she still couldn't tell the rest. And she knew he would ask again why she was in her cheerleader outfit. It was all going to be so awkward.

[nortons99]

Sam looked at Claire with the tears running down her face, Sam was still so full of questions but he didn't want he upset even more so he decided that he would lay off the majority of them. Soon she wiped her eyes and the started to tell him the truth. "You with West, right, why were you with him, I remember you used to speak of him quite a lot" he then thought and was still very confused why was she with a guy all night and not told him about it, surely she couldn't have been well cheating on Sam, how could he even think that about his wife they had recently been married why would she do that so soon into the marrige.

"Right sure he text you but you still havn't told me why you were in your cheerleader outfit with this guy, remembering the old times were we now, you know the good old days back when you didn't have me and could choose from every guy and any guy that took your fancy, is that it Claire is that why you were with him, because he took your fancy" Sam was starting to get quite angry now. If Claire had done what he thought she had done he was going to have to go for a couple of pints. Though couple was in fact an understatment.

[clairebear]

Claire was competely distraught and felt completely guilty now and so she should be. How could she do this to Sam, how could she do it so soon after their marriage. The tears were flooding from her eyes, there was just no way to stop them from falling. She had done wrong, she had upset Sam, she had betrayed him, and she knew now it really didn't feel good.

"Yes, I was with West" she managed to say as he asked if that's what she was indeed doing. "He was one of my best friends, just like you in many ways Sam, but he was also like my first love" she tried to explain, as the tears were still flowing. She wiped them away a few times. Sam would never understand, and she couldn't blame him. She'd hurt him badly.

As Sam rattled on about the text she got and the reason why she was wearing her cheerleader outfit, he had pretty much guessed what had happened, and it made Claire break down all the more. What had she done? However, for Claire she was beginning to think it was possible to love two men, because that's exactly how Claire felt right now. She loved Sam, but being with West made her realise her love for him had never left.

"I'm sorry Sam, I'm so, so sorry, I never thought it could be possible to love two men, but it must be" she managed to say between her heavy sobbing. Sam would shout at her, maybe even take her in his arms and shake her, and he'd have every right. What she had done to him was unforgiveable.

[nortons99]

" I just can't believe that this is happening so soon into our marriage, your an evil person Claire, that guy that was stalking you told me you turned evil and I am starting to believe him what kind hearted person could go behind my back and potentionaly do stuff with another guy" Sam was really pissed off right now he looked around and then looked at the china vase on the table right next to the chair he had been sitting on.

Most people would be in two minds weather to throw it straight at Claire right now but Sam wasn't like that he was still very angry and had to take his anger out on something. Sam picked up the vase and threw it at the wall behind Claire. His face was red with anger he really did need to calm down right now otherwise he would end up doing something he truly regretted. Calming himself down a little Sam looked at Claire then sat down on the sofa for a minute smashing his head against his hands. He then got back up off the seat and looked at Claire "I'm going for a walk" he said to her not even looking at her, he threw his mobile down onto the floor so he couldn't be contacted by anyone. Sam left the room without looking at Claire and then took his wallet from the side and slammed the door behind him.

[clairebear]

Claire was devastated, she was so upset at what she had done, and so angry at herself for upsetting Sam the way she had, she didn't know what else to do other than to sit in the seat curled up and crying.

"I don't even know who you're talking about, stalker person, and I'm not evil Sam, I'm just confused and I don't know what else to say, I'm sorry" she said crying. She had caused a huge mess, West just returning the way he had caused a huge mess in her life.

Next thing she knew he'd picked up a vase and threw it at the wall behind her. Claire screamed, not because it had hurt her, because nothing could do that, but because she was scared at how angry Sam was. He then got up and left, telling her he was going out and slammed the door behind him.

Claire just continued to cry, and then so upset, and not really knowing what she was doing, or why she was doing it, she picked up her cell phone and dialled West's number. It went to voice mail like it normally did. She left a very unclear, through her tears message for him.

West, West I need you, I've just told Sam, and he's so angry at me, he threw something and he's walked out the house, I don't want to be alone, please come.

[west]

He had been flying overhead, not leaving when he dropped Claire off, trying his hardest to listen in but only catching brief things, until the yelling started. Sam was obviously getting angry, she must have told him. He heard something smash, and was tempted to fly in the house through the back door and take Sam for a little bit of a sky dive, even though he would survive.

West had underestimated how calm Sam actually was, calm enough to decided to leave the house. West heard the door close and Claire start crying, and his phone went off in his pocket. By the time he managed to get to the phone however it had stopped ringing. Then the phone bleeped at him to tell him he had a voicemail message. He listened to it, and got very worried about his Claire. He immediately flew down and into the house.

"Claire" He said, running over to her and hugging her, "Claire, are you ok?" He asked her, holding her tightly to his chest and cradling her in his arms, rocking her back and forth and running his hands through her hair.

"Everything will be okay, I promise Claire, you know I wouldn't let anybody hurt you Claire, right?" he asked, whispering into her ear and still holding her close to him.

[clairebear]

Claire couldn't believe what had happened, the smashed vase, Sam calling her evil, walking out on her. It was all a mess. Had being with West been worth it she began to wonder? But she regretted that thought almost immediately, yes it had been worth it. It had definitely been worth it. She loved West, but she still loved Sam, maybe now she realised it wasn't the same love she had for West, but it was love just the same.

She and Sam should have stayed friends. If they'd stayed friends then this wouldn't be happening now. However only a couple of minutes after Claire left the voicemail for West, he was walking into their house. West, walking into her and Sam's house. He had to have been still in the area, because even he couldn't have flown that fast from Costa Verde.

Claire allowed herself to be held by West, and immediately she felt better, she felt safer. In West's arms was where she belonged, she knew that now. She was still crying, as West held her tightly, and rocked with her back and forth and ran his hands through her hair.

"He said I was evil West, threw a vase at me, well not at me, behind me, but still, he hates me West" Claire said through her sobs, while she remained in his arms, she would happily stay there.

"But I don't care, I love you West, you're the one I want to be with" she said, she was more than sure West was the one, Sam, she loved him, but it must just be the love for a friend, it wasn't like the love she had or felt for West.

[west]

With Claire in his arms, and her husband getting angry, West didn't know what was going on. Claire was married, and she had chosen him, surely? Claire was a little confused, obviously, about who she would rather be with between him and Sam.

Of course, his solution, as always, was to just fly away. But he wouldn't do that without Claire, so he stood up, and lifted her up into his arms. "Claire, we need to get out of here" He said, hugging her and walking to the back garden, before flying off.

In the air, he kissed Claire, looking down and seeing Sam walking away, feeling bad, but at the same time not caring. Sam wasn't right for Claire anyway, they should be together, West and Claire. He thought this as he flew off into the distance.

[clairebear]

Claire was confused. She was very confused. The day before her old boyfriend had come back into her life and they'd spent the night together. Now she was sitting in her house with Sam, telling him about West and how she had just cheated on him the night before.

Sam had walked out in a rage, which you couldn't really blame him for. However, Claire was pretty sure she'd made her choice. Now West was back in her life, she could admit that it was West, it had always been West.

"You're right, we do" she replied when he said they had to get out of there.

The next thing she knew West had picked her up into his arms, walked out to the back of the house, and flew off with her. She wrapped her arms around his neck and hugged him close to her.

As he flew with her in his arms, he kissed her, she kissed him back and then stopped briefly. "It's you West, I've been fooling myself, it's always been you West" she whispered into his ear before kissing him again, as he flew her off.