Chocolate Milk & Mermaids [Sam]

[clairebear]

Claire was sitting on her bed, lying on her pile of soft bears. The countless bears her dad Noah had brought her back from all his business trips. She had her favourite drink chocolate milk sitting on the bedside table, and she had a sketch pad in front of herself drawing mermaids on it. It made a change from always trying to experiment on herself to see how far she could take things before she wouldn't self heal.

Claire actually didn't like having an ability, she just wanted to be normal. Having to hide the fact she could heal herself was difficult, especially when she had accidents at school. Teachers would fuss about taking her to the nurse, and within seconds she was healed. She had survived fires, and even went to the extent of cutting off her baby toe and it grew back.

However, today she was just relaxing until Sam arrived. Sam was her best friend, soul mate even. In fact, she had a lot of feelings for Sam, she just didn't know if he felt them himself, and Claire wasn't about to make a fool of herself, she'd let him make the first move, if a move was ever going to be made. Looking at the clock and wondering where he was, when she heard a knock on the door.

"I'll get it" she shouted as she ran down the stairs and opened the door grinning, "Hey you"

[nortons99]

Sam awoke from his deep sleep when his alarm had gone off. He lazily sat up and then opened the curtains to the window and then opened the window up to let some air in. Sam didn't have any work to do today because he only tidied houses at request. Sam handed out advertisements every weekend just so that he kept busy working. But when Sam wasn't busy he went out and saw his friends mostly Claire as she was his best friend. Sam looked out of the window and grinned as he saw the sun shining bright on what looked would be a good day. Sam looked around and then wondered out of his bedroom to the bathroom. Sam jumped in and had a quick warm shower before drying off and walking back into his bedroom.

Sam opened up his wardrobe and then looked at the many different clothes he could wear. He thought that because he was seeing Claire he would have to look good for the occasion. Sams hand moved about to look at the various tops he could wear and then he grinned as he found his black t-shirt with multi coloured writing on it saying I love Cheerleaders he had brought as a joke when he first found out Claire was a cheerleader when he moved in and first got to know her. She was the first person that he had made friends with and he had loved the fact that he did. Sam started to put on his clothes before he heard a bark from his husky dog who he had brought so he would not be alone in the house and had company. "Oh god i'm going to have to feed Rocky in a minute" he said grinning because that dog was never happy unless there was food in his bowl. Sam finished getting dressed to see Claire when he had put his jeans on and his trainers. He ran down the stairs picked up his keys and his mobile phone and fed the dog before leaving the house.

Sam ran down the road towards where Claire lived he was pretty glad that she didn't live too far away otherwise he would have been late. When he reached the door he knocked it twice as he found when he looked at his watch he arrived exactly on time. When the door was opened his grinned as he saw Claire "Hey Claire" he said hugging her as this was his usaul greeting for his best friend. "How are you doing" he asked her before he stopped hugging her.

[clairebear]

When Sam hugged her, she tingled, as she felt shivers running down her back, but she wrapped her arms around him and hugged him back just as much as he hugged her. Noticing his top and laughing, as she remembered when he bought it, even if her cheerleading days were over now. She had far more important things in her life than cheerleading and school.

"I'm just fine, thanks Sam" she replied, still grinning and still hugging him, "I was just relaxing, drawing while waiting for you" she added.

She then gently pulled out of the hug and grabbed his hand as she pulled him into the house, and then playfully pushed him in front of her, as she kept her hands on his back and pushed him in the direction of the stairs. Then Mr Muggles started barking around her ankles. She hated that dog.

"Go away" she hissed at it, as she shooed him away with her hand, before continuing to push Sam with her hands towards the stairs. "It's better up there, away from that annoying thing" she said referring to the yapping animal she'd just shooed away.

[nortons99]

Sam grinned as he noticed that Claire was laughing because he was wearing the top he had brought and he then looked at her. "Ah thats cool Claire let me gues you've been drawing mermaids again aint ya, you are always drawing them things" Sam said grinning still. He didn't really know why she had such an obsession with mermaids but she was very good at drawing them. Sam was quite a decent drawer and some of his pictures were ones he had dreamed of being reality because in fact the pictures he had drawn had been of him and Claire together kissing each other as boyfriend and girlfriend. Sam loved Claire as a best friend but also as so much more than that but he didn't know if she felt the same way about him as he did to her.

Sam smiled at her warmly as she had grabbed his hand and pulled him inside the house before letting go and playfully pushing him toward the direction of the stairs and slowly up them. As this was happening Sam saw Mr Muggle run toward them and then start barking "Bloody thing needs to know when to take a break don't it" he said smiling her her he watched as Claire shoed the dog away and then he carried on up the stairs letting Claire push him the rest of the way up.

"So how have you been since I last saw you Claire, been up to much" he asked her grinning as he saw her every day really which was good because he loved hanging out with her. Sam always popped in to see her when he had finished work and all the time when he wasn't working.

[clairebear]

Claire blushed slightly as he had guessed what she had been drawing. "Yeah, you got me, I was drawing mermaids again, and drinking chocolate milk and lying against my teddy bears" she replied, as if he wouldn't know that already. He was in her house just about every day, Sam probably knew as much about her as her own family knew about her.

Yes there really was something very special about Sam, Claire thought. He was very special to her, and she wondered if he knew just how special he was to her. It was a weird situation, because she was desperate to be with him as more than friends, but scared at the same time, in case it would blow things between them and then she'd lose her best friend and she couldn't have that.

"Yeah it does, I hate the thing, but mum loves him, so you know I gotta put up with it, don't I?" she said as she looked at it with disdain before continuing up the stairs.

"I've been fine Sammy, how about you?" she said, giving Sam her special name for him. "I've been experimenting on myself again as always" she said, and got a little sad, "You know I've never liked having this ability Sammy, but now, since Sylar took my ability, I don't even feel pain, I don't even know what I am anymore" she continued, as she could feel tears stinging at her eyes.

[nortons99]

Sam knew quite a lot about Claire but he really wanted to get to know her much more. He grinned when she spoke about lying against her teddy bears and drinking chocolate milk because she did that most of the time when he saw her at her house. Sam was deliberating weather to ask Claire out on this very day as he had been thinking it over the last week. Sam wanted to ask her out before anyone else did just because he knew that if he didn't someone else definatly would because she was gorgeous. "I shall wonder down to the kitchen to get myself some of that lovely chocolate milk later on" he said grinnning Sam knew he didn't love chocolate milk as much as her but he did find it a very good thing to drink though he didn't drink too much in fear of ruining his white teeth which he loved.

"Claire I don't really see much of your parents but what do they think of me they don't find me too much of a bad influence do they and do they know about my powers just like yours" he said as he walked to the top of the stairs.

"Im good thanks Claire I just missed you thats all" he said smiling warmly again. It was the truth even though it was just yesterday he last saw her he already missed her. Sometimes Sam hated being in his house alone but he was glad he had his pet husky to keep him company but sometimes he wanted more than that. He then had Claire starting to talk to him about her abilty and soon after that she was starting to cry. "Claire don't worry I don't think any less of you because of your powers, you are still a human being and best of all my friend Claire, you do have to stop experimenting on yourself though because if you did find a way of killing yourself I would fall apart" he said hugging her tight he hated it when she was upset like this.

[clairebear]

"That's fine, you do that" she said with a grin, when he said he'd get some chocolate milk later. Claire probably drank too much of it, but she liked it, so what did it matter she thought. As they reached the top of the stairs, he asked a question about her parents, which she thought was unusual. Or not unusual, but she wondered how she should answer it. She really wasn't too sure what her parents thought of Sam, but they certainly hadn't stopped her from seeing him.

"They've never said anything about you Sam, and dad is very protective, I imagine if he didn't like you, he'd have said something to me about you by now" she said truthfully, not that she would allow her dad to stop her from seeing Sam, he didn't have that kind of power or control over her, no matter if he thought he did. "I've never mentioned your powers to them, but dad seems to be aware of everybody who has powers" she added.

She closed the bedroom door as they entered, and she sat down on the bed, patting the place beside her for Sam to join. "Well I missed you too, and yes I know we only saw each other yesterday, but I hate it when you're not here" she said, meaning every word. Not that she was lonely without as such, she had her family, but something about Sam made her feel safe, made her feel better about herself, about everything.

She bit back the tears as he asked her not to cry, she didn't want to be upset, and she knew it upset him to see her like that, but after what Sylar had done to her, she felt completely different. She hugged him back, and allowed her head to lean on his shoulder, as she continued to compose herself. "Okay, I'll stop experimenting on myself, just for you" she replied, she didn't want to upset him. "I'd fall apart if I lost you too" she said softly.

[nortons99]

"Ah I supose thats a good thing that they havn't really spoken about me and I am sure that your father couldn't keep me away from you I mean whats his power oh yeah he doesn't have one, I would always find a way of seeing you even if he did not want me to Claire" Sam knew that he would not be made to stop seeing Claire he just wouldn't alow it. He looked deeply into her glistening eyes and grinned as he looked around.

Sam decided that it would be the time right now to ask her out. He sat down on the part of the bed next to her where she had patted and then smiled at her as he had heard that she had missed him as well even if it had just been a day since they last saw each other. Sam knew that this would be his time to find out if she liked him the way he liked her. "Umm Claire, we have been friends for around two years now and I don't want anything between us to change if you say no but well would you go out with me" he asked her crossing his fingers hoping that she would say yes.


With her head leant against his shoulder Sam smiled as he wrapped his arms around her as he hugged her softly. He was pleased that she would stop experimenting on herself to stop him worrying about her and it made him smile that she cared about him so much. "Thanks Claire I don't know what I would do without you" he said smiling more.

[clairebear]

"Well of course it's good they haven't spoken about you, well not in a bad sense anyway, dad often gives me a look when I take you up to my bedroom, but mum always looks at him, so he turns away again" she said laughing a little thinking about her dad and his funny little ways.

"Well that's good, because I wouldn't have him stop me from seeing you either, nobody could keep us apart" she responded, smiling at him. These were words of a girlfriend to a boyfriend she realised, would he even pick up on it?

When Sam spoke again however, after sitting down on her bed, Claire wasn't sure where to look. Not because she didn't like the question, but because she was excited about the question, and wasn't sure on the best response of how to answer. Jump up and down like an idiot, shouting "YES!" or act calmly and rationally?

She decided on the latter. Looking into his eyes, with a warm smile, "I couldn't think of anything better I'd rather do" she said looking into his eyes, not taking them off him even for a split second.

"You're welcome" she said softly, still leaning her head on his shoulder, then smiled as she thought about Sam and how much she really loved him. "I love you Sam" then she jumped slightly, realising she'd said the words out loud. What if he didn't like it? What if it scared him away, but it was too late, it had been said now, so she just bit down on her bottom lip.

[nortons99]

"Your dads a good man though sometimes seems that he could seem a little too overprotective, seeing as we go out now I am going to have to watch out for him he may give me a little chat" Sam said thinking about how Claires father would take the whole Sam going out with her now, Sam was pretty sure that her mother wouldn't mind as Sam was pretty handy around the house. Sam could cook clean and do quite alot of things that were very helpful when he was round.

Suddenly Sam heard a shout coming from the lips of Claire and it made him grin because he could tell that Claire loved him as much as he loved her. Sam already knew that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with this one girl. Sam could now not take his eyes of her he loved her so much he lifted her head from his shoulder and whispered in her ear "I love you Claire" before gently kissing her on the lips.

"So Claire anywhere in particuler that you would like to go for our first date with each other" he asked her seeing whether she had had any ideas, Sam had a few like the beach or taking her out to dinner or in fact cooking a romantic meal at his on time and just inviting her over without her knowing he had cooked a romantic meal which would have been so much better as it would have been a surprise.

[clairebear]

"He is too over protective" Claire agreed and frowning ever so slightly, thinking about how her dad would feel about Sam being her boyfriend now. As a friend he just about managed to accept it, but as a boyfriend, well things were bound to get a bit tricky between her and her dad, of that she was certain. It wasn't as if she had to bother about Nathan, he might be her biological father, but she knew he probably wouldn't care.

"Yes he probably will want to have "that chat" with you" she said using her fingers as quotation marks, "But he wont stop me from seeing you, no matter what he thinks" she added defiantly, but smiling at Sam.

Claire was still blushing slightly after having said the three words out loud, but it seemed she needn't have worried, he felt the same way. When he lifted her head from his shoulder and whispered the words into her ear, she smiled warmly. "I'm glad you feel the same way Sam, I've felt like this for a while now, but was scared to say something" she replied, looking into his eyes, and kissing him back just as gently as he'd kissed her.

First date. He was asking her about their first date. Where would she like to go. She had no idea. "I don't know, why don't you surprise me Sam" she said with a grin.

[nortons99]

"Oh I am very much looking forward to "the chat" said Sam mimicking what Claire had done when she had spoken about the chat. He then thought about two of the things that could happen when he was talking to Claire's father. One it could go all good with her dad saying you are the perfect boyfriend for my Claire Bear to go out with but Sam knew that it would be more like her dad pinning him against the wall saying you will not ever go near my Claire again or you won't see the light of day again. Sam thought once again and knew that it probably wouldn't be as bad as he thought because Sam usually thought the worst about things like that.

Sam grinned as he saw that Claire had blushed and then kissed him back afterward which had made him very happy. He felt good when she had whispered in his ear and when the kiss had stopped Sam replied to what she had said to him. "I have felt this way about you when I first saw you, I just can't believe that I am actually now going out with you this is a dream come true I thought that I had better hurry up because otherwise some other guy would have been going out with you instead" he said gazing into her eyes knowing that he had been quite lucky nobody else had asked her out before him.

"Well seeing as it is just our first date maybe we could watch a movie in front of the tv at my house with some popcorn and chocolate milk" he said nodding he knew that this would now surprise her but he knew that on the day when she would turn up and then they would have their romantic meal that Sam would have prepared before she had got there.

[clairebear]

"I am not looking forward to the chat however" Claire said with meaning, she knew her dad would try and stop them from being together, he couldn't get it into his head she was an adult now, she would always be a child in his eyes. He had to learn this was not the case.

"Just you make sure he doesn't try stopping you from seeing me" she responded, as she looked at a family photo and gave her dad a stern look, as if it would somehow magically reach into his mind and tell him what she was thinking.

"You've felt that way about me, that long?" Claire asked a little shocked, for her, it was a slow build up, but she'd certainly had the feelings for the past few months that was for sure. "Wow" she continued, "That's really something, but you know, nobody else would have got me, not once I knew how I felt about you, how could I be with someone else, when I'm in love with you?" she said softly, lifting her hand up and putting it against his face, and using her finger to trace the outline of his jaw.

"Sounds perfect Sammy, I can't wait" she replied with a warm smile about the intended first date. It sounded romantic, and Claire liked romantic, it would be even better if it was a romantic movie they watched, she loved romantic movies. "But I get to choose the movie we watch" she said with a grin.

[nortons99]

"Nothing and nobody can stop me from seeing you Claire not even the end of the earth could stop me from seeing you" he said to her softly and he meant that as well because even if the world was just about to end he would make sure that he spent his last remaining minutes with the girl he loved.

"Yeah I feel kind of stupid that I didn't ask you out before now really which is quite terrible I know but at least we are together now, I want to spend the rest of my life with you Claire maybe someday get a big house with each other with a pool out back and maybe even have kids if you wanted" he said. Well done Sam he thought to himself you've let yourself get carried away Sam wondered how Claire would take this would he find Sam to be a weird guy or would she see him in a different way after him saying this.

Sam grinned as Claire lifted her hand with her finger tracing the outline of his jaw this made Sam quite happy as he started with his arms around her to massage her back with his hands. "Sure Claire you get to bring whatever movie along that you want I look forward to seeing your choice" he said nodding before kissing her ones again.

[clairebear]

"Wow, now there's a statement" Claire said softly with a grin, "It's nice to know you feel so strongly about me, because that's how I feel about you" she replied softly. She realised just how much she loved him in this very moment. Everything about him, he was just perfect, every girls dream and he belonged to her. It was truly amazing.

"Well you're not stupid" she said scolding him slightly, "You're definitely not stupid, you should have said a lot sooner, but we can make up for it now" she added, smiling softly, and then taking in what he said next with big wide eyes. It was quite a bit of a shock, but not that she didn't like the idea.

"Couldn't think of anything, I'd rather have more to be honest with you Sam" she said seriously. "I really don't think I could spend my life with anybody else" she added, still serious. Then had to laugh a little, "But is that a proposal? Or just a future idea?" she asked, joking slightly, but still pretty serious. Since they had only just officially become a couple they couldn't announce their engagement right away, could they? But at least it was something to aim for, and it's not like they just fell in love today, they'd be in love with each other for ages and just took too long to admit it.

When he put his arms around her back she started to tingle slightly, the feel of his touch on her was wonderful. It had been sending shivers down her spine for quite some time, she was glad she could be open with her feelings now though. "Okay, I'll bring a real good movie for us to watch, I can't wait for this, our first proper date" she replied as she fell into the kiss, allowing her tongue to explore his mouth.