Claire Petrescu

Claire Petrescu (née Hathaway) was a very powerful hybrid and a recurring character in The Hathaway Chronicles. She briefly appeared in the beginning of Darkness Descending. She also was a main character in the prequel of the series, Everlasting Lies. She was the daughter of Francis Hathaway and Isabella Hartford, and the twin of Adelaide. Before her death, she was married to Orion Petrescu. 
Claire is a member of the Hathaway Family and the noble Hartford Family. She is also member of the Petrescu Family by marriage. 
== History ==
Born to Isabella Hartford and Francis Hathaway, Claire was the older twin sister of Adelaide. By then, her father was a turned hybrid, her mother a witch. Sadly, Isabella died from birth complications after birthing the twins, Francis had tried to turn her, but hybrid's could not turn others into vampires. So, she was raised by her father, who was very protective of his daughters, and trained them to become powerful witches. Around the time she was 17, she began a relationship with Francis's sire, Orion Petrescu. The two fell in love, and in August 1588, Orion turned Claire, since the two wanted to be together. Claire, now then a very strong hybrid like her father, wanted her twin, Adelaide, to become a hybrid as well, but was shocked to discover Adelaide was with child. Though wishing the best for Adelaide, who wanted to remain human and have more children with Jacobi, Claire had confessed to Orion she was upset for her sister, since she foresaw Adelaide's death just months after the birth of her niece Sonia. Not wanting to let Adelaide die, and to keep Claire from losing her sanity if her sister were to die, Orion turned Adelaide, who was in fact dying from the after affects of childbirth. For years, Adelaide harbored resentment towards Orion, and a bit for her sister for being turned, since she wanted to die, but she always loved them no matter what. For a time in 1896, Claire looked after Seana Kane as an infant before she was adopted by the Kane's. Before her death, she had sometime married Orion during the 1600's. 
== The Hathaway Chronicles ==
=== Darkness Descending ===
In the chapter Salvation, she had been tracking down Scott Aldridge, a descendent of her husband's sireline. However she in fact just wanted to kill him, but her sister stopped her and forced his humanity back on. When asked why Claire sought him out, she told him it was her duty to keep their bloodline safe and out of trouble; though she would rather just kill him. When he then threatened to kill Seana, knowing she was her niece and her husband's last living relative, decided to attempt to kill him again by staking him. Adelaide however threw herself in front of him and got stabbed instead but not fatally. The two sisters later had a unseen fight that left both of them bloodied and battered. 
In the chapter Old Scores, Adelaide mentioned that Claire told her to seek Scott out once more as he was going to let the sun burn him and kill him. It was unknown why she had a change of heart. 
In the chapter Before I Go, she came to Seaside with her father to find Adelaide to complete an unknown ritual. It was also discovered that Adelaide had hoped to put a stop to it altogether due to an unknown "sacrifice" that would be made later. Adelaide and Claire yelled at one another about the ramifications, but it was to no avail. Later in the chapter she took part in the ritual to sacrifice herself for her coven and died. Her husband later mentioned to Scott that the ritual was "necessary" and to not lose hope of being reunited with Adelaide again one day, as he would for Claire. 
In the chapter The Glimpse, Claire was mentioned by Scott on how Celesta Moone, who shared an uncanny resemblance to her, seemed to have an instant distaste for him when she first laid eyes on him. However, Celesta quickly changed her expression to one of kindness. Though later on in Darkness Descending, Celesta would always mention how she just didn't like him for "some" reason. Though she blamed it on her fear for Lillian's safety, it was probably linked through Claire's hatred of him and it influenced Celesta's feelings somehow as the two were linked. 
== Appearance ==
Claire was described as being taller than an average woman. She also had distinctive blue eyes that were a deep sapphire blue and long straight brown hair. 
== Personality ==
=== Witch ===
Before she became a hybrid, not much was known about her personality. Only that she was very dedicated to the arts of witchcraft. She also met Orion and fell in love with him. She was also very protective of her sister Adelaide. 
=== Hybrid ===
When Claire became a hybrid, she embraced what she was. However she was shown to be very hostile when she met Scott Aldridge and even attempted to kill him after he almost exposed their kind through his carelessness. Later on, when Adelaide confronted her about people dying, particularly their descendants she did not seem to care about the few "sacrifices" that would have to be made for the greater good. 
== Abilities ==
=== Witch Abilities ===
* Channeling - The act of invoking or summoning extra forms of energy by focusing on external forces.
**Elemental Control - The act of controlling and manipulating the elements of air, earth, fire, and water.
** Spell Casting - The act of changing and controlling events through the use of charms, hexes, rituals, etc.
** Telekinesis - The act of controlling and manipulating the movement of objects and persons through mental influence.
** Witches Brew - The act of brewing and concocting magical potions.
** Ability to know Relationship Ties Between Two or More People - by looking at two people, witches and or hybrids can detect how strong the relationship ties are between them, either if they are friends, together, or allies. Only the strongest and wisest witches can detect family bonds, though the two people have to know they are related.
** Pain Infliction - The power to create excruciating migraines through supernatural means.
** Precognition - The ability to see things that will happen in the future. Claire's visions would normally appear not long before things would happen. Most often, the visions would happen regardless of things trying to be altered. Though a common ability in the Hathaway Coven, Claire was able to predict things farther out, such as centuries. 
=== Hybrid Abilities ===
* Heightened Strength - Hybrids are more stronger then regular vampires who are much older, do to having powers, it made them stronger, faster, and more deadly.
* Can use magic without tiring - due to being already dead, hybrids can extert more power without tiring and overusing their magic, which could often kill a regular witch.
* Super Strength - Vampires are much stronger than humans and grow stronger with time. Even new vampires who are still in transition can toss a fully grown human across a room with great speed and force. Their strength is also more powerful than werewolves that are not in wolf form.
* Super Speed - Vampires can accelerate their movements to cover short instances in an instant, faster than the human eye can see. When running across long distances, they appear as vibrating blurs of motion.
* Emotional Control - Like all vampires, Claire has the ability to switch off her humanity.
* Heightened Senses - They can hear whispered conversations, even ones in far off buildings, smell blood, and see in total darkness.
* Mind Compulsion - Vampires have the ability to control minds, plague people's dreams, and alter/erase human memories.
* Immortality - A vampire stops aging once turned. Upon their transformation, vampires then on become immune to all conventional illness, disease, virus and infection. 
* Healing Factor - Vampires can snap their finger bones back into place after being broken and have been seen to fully recover from gunshots, stab wounds, and torso impalement.
* Fire Opal - She possessed a fire opal ring that enables her to walk in daylight without being harmed
=== Weaknesses ===
* Sunlight (Hybrids Only) - despite still being part witch, hybrids can still burn and die from sunlight.
* Staked - Will result in permanent death
* Broken Neck - will subdue her for a short time
* Werewolf Bite - it weakens a vampire for a limited amount of time, they lose their vampric abilities depending on the severity of the bite, the most common being about a week to a month.
== Book Appearances ==
=== Darkness Descending ===
* Salvation (First Appearance)
* Before I Go 
== Trivia ==
* Claire was the first hybrid shown in the Hathaway Chronicles. 
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