SOS!

Claire dashes into her bedroom, dives for her cell phone, pulling it from underneath her pillow.
Eyes wild, she dials quickly. She's in full on panic mode now, and begs "Pick up pick up pick up pick up...."

"Claire," Shane sounds surprised "I didn't expect to hear from you this soon, is there something wrong darling?"

"Wrong? Oh NOOOO, there's nothing WRONG," Claire freaks "WRONG doesn't even begin to describe what's going on. Disaster, catastrophe, DEFCON 5...maybe but not WRONG!!!"

"Claire, honey, breathe" Shane tries to calm her "Tell me whats happening."

Claire pulls the phone away and takes several deep breaths. She shakes her head and sighs. "Okay, I'm back." She says

"That's better," Shane says "Now please love, tell me what's got you so panicked?"

"Okay," Claire begins "I was just coming back from the Dimera mansion. The tech guys found 3 more laptops and I had to download the hard drives to the ISA mainframe. We found 6 more Cayman Island accounts by the way.."

"Wonderful!" Shane says "Go on.."

"So," Claire continues "I cut through the park and I see my idiot parents standing over by this gazebo thing. Dad is doing the down on one knee proposal thing and I just got this feeling that I needed to hear what they were saying. Luckily I had my long range listening device on me, so I ducked down on the other side of the gazebo and listened in. I hear my Dingbat Barbie mom gushing about how much she loves my Frankenstein headed dad, and was about to stop listening before I tossed my cookies, when I heard Dingbat say something about sailing around the world as a family."

"Sailing around the world?" Shane asks "You mean like your grandparents did when your dad was little?"

"Yeah, exactly like that!" Claire answers "I had to back up the tape I was making and play it 3 or 4 times to make sure I heard it right. These two trailer park rejects want to pack me onto a boat and sail away to God knows where. These are the same two idiots who almost drowned me like 9 times last year, and now...what they want to finish the job?"

"Well, I can certainly see why you might panic hearing that." Shane says

"Ya think!?" Claire says "What do I do? I have months of work to do on the Dimera case, not to mention I am probably going to need therapy if I fall overboard one more time!"

"Let me think, let me think" Shane says. "How are they going to get a boat? They don't have any money, do they?"

"I don't know!" Claire says, "They'll probably just get Grandma Marlena to buy them one. She'll do it just to get rid of them."

"What about your grandpa being sick? Are they going to leave before they know what's going on with him?" Shane asks

"OH PULEEZ," Claire rolls her eyes "Those two are so self absorbed I'm shocked they even realize there are other people in the world."

"Well, in your dad's case, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree does it?" Shane says "Have either one of your grandparents even noticed Ciera is gone?"

"I don't think they even remember she exists!" Claire says "Is she settled in there at headquarters yet?"

"Settled in and shaking the place up" Shane says "The network security software she designed has already found and stopped 17 security breeches in the London office, and identified 5 other potential threats."

"Well, that's my Auntie!" Claire laughs

"Yeah, you know how much she loves it when you call her that!" Shane says "So what will you do about your parents wanting to sail off into the sunset?"

"I don't know" Claire is annoyed "Give them a Viking funeral?"

"CLAIRE!!" Shane tries to sound shocked

"WHAT?" Claire says sarcastically "I should let them use me for shark bait again? Maybe I can just hide out and hope they leave without me."

"That's always an idea" Shane says "But you know how your mom obsesses about you."

"Don't remind me!" Claire says "I am surprised I learned to walk at all! My feet never touched the floor the first 2 years of my life."

"Yes, well it would seem you and Ciera have opposite problems wouldn't it?" Shane points out.

"I'm not sure which I would rather have happen, obsessed over or ignored." Claire sighs

"Well keep me posted on the adventure at sea problem," Shane says "Maybe you'll get lucky and the boat will sink before it leaves the harbor like the last time your dad tried to sail."

"We can hope!" Claire laughs and hangs up her phone. She sits in deep thought for a few minutes, then smiles as an idea comes to her. She dials her phone and waits.

"Dr Rolf!" Claire says "I hope you are finished moving your lab into my Pop-pop's house. I am going to need your cloning abilities ASAP."