Lily
Think back. Back to the happiest moment in your life, was it your wedding day? Prom? The day your first child opened there eyes? I have never been married, been to prom, had a kid, but the moment you meet your death, face it, stand up to it, survive it, your life seems to always be happy. Or at least have some meaning behind it. Mine didn't.
Lily Rivers, age 18, long unnatural blonde hair, gold eyes that could pierce your skin, and skin like snow white, had the darkest secret anyone could ever imagine. Even to herself though blocking her repressed memories of her pathetic and withering life before her. Yes that is me. No not my real name, I forgot my birth name I was taken when I was young. I don't know who my real parents are and I don't know where I am from. I grew up in a room. A small and stuffy room with no window, I don't remember what it was like to look outside, I don't remember anything but my first attempt at escape was a fail and I was probably about 7. I ran deep into the forest, for that was the only thing surrounding the building, I don't remember how I got out but I woke up by a river covered in lilies. I didn't know my name so I named myself Lily Rivers it was the first true time I had ever known the feeling of happiness.
I was supposed to be punished I knew that much, not by the people who kept me but for something I did before that. No one told me that but I somehow just knew. I woke up on a small bed with a headboard, chains connected to it, even though I hardly knew why, because no one ever locked me up. Once I got up I used the hole in the wall, which is my bathroom. I go to the door and knock twice, then food is slipped in a little cubby in the side of the wall and I get my food. The guards will bring me books and sometimes things to listen too. Though I can't see outside I can tell it is night, that's when I hear the voices walking down the hall. I'm a case, that's what they call it, I don't remember life before this cell, I don't want to leave it either. They say I don't remember because I don't want to, I'm legit crazy. I don't think I am, I know I'm not but I don't want to live in the outside world either.
I am not normal. Not because of my home life but because when I sleep I go to heaven. Not exactly heaven but the place you go right before you walk through the pearly gates. Again, not really pearly gates either, more like a bridge.
Since I was 7, after my first escape I go there at night, help people, if they can be saved, I save them, if they are at peace I give them a hand to hold in the final moments, there is my place, there I am at home. But I always wonder when I will go to that place. When I finally give up and die, what will those people do without me?
Damon
I could feel it, the bite leaking into my veins the poison lurking, through every inch of me. A werewolf bite is lethal to a vampire but I didn't expect it to hurt this badly. I was hoping to say goodbye to her. I walked the earth for hundreds of years and she taught me how to love. I was a monster before I met her, even though she loved me she was in love with the one who made me. We would never be together but to be around her made me feel like a man, a man I used to be before all of this. She sat by my bedside I could feel her there but I couldn't bring myself to open my eyes. To say the words I needed to say. "No, please not yet" cried Elaina, which was her name.
"Elaina" was all I could get out before I fell into oblivion.
I awoke in a beautiful place which I knew wasn't heaven because there was no way I would end up there. Elaina had died before and didn't ever describe this place maybe it was something you couldn't say when you fall back into life. The beauty of it wouldn't come into words, a river that flowed with life with flowers surrounding it, Lily's my favorite flower. A bridge crossing the river to a place that surely led to another world. I saw it, just a spark of life inside the stillness. She was hiding behind a tree, I could barely see her, and she had no fear in her eyes. It was strange because even Elaina had her fear of me.
"I didn't want to scare you" she said. I realized I was lying in the lilies and tried to stand but settled just for sitting up against a nearby tree. "Don't flatter yourself" I said with my most devilish smile. Is she an angel? Is she apart of my imagination? Even though what I said had no meaning she returned a smile one that could kill Satan himself with kindness. "I'm Lily" she walked over and held out her hand I tried to reach it but couldn't the bite had made me incapable of moving. Her walk had a grace to it, one that defined an angel. She sat next to me.
"Why are you here?" She looked curious.
"Where are we?" I retorted
"I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you" laughing she turned around and picked up a lily handing it to me. I smiled as well, she just had that effect. "Do you want to live?" Her tone suddenly serious.
"I haven't been alive for a long time"
"But you have, just because your heart doesn't beat doesn't mean you don't have one. You take in the beauty of every day, the sounds, the scenery, the smells" she put the lily up to my nose and the smell was intoxicating. No one has ever talked to me like that before but something about the way she spoke made me feel alive. She touched my arm and an electric jolt went through me. I felt human. Then she let go, and I couldn't help I grabbed her and pulled her arm, I needed to feel it again. Then Elaina came to my mind. I immediately let go and she didn't even act like it happened.
"What are you?" I whispered and all she did was take my shoulder where the bite had peeled off the skin in my back. She touched it and I could feel the slightest gentleness of her fingertips the pain was gone, and she smiled at me again. I couldn't describe it but suddenly everything that I had felt moments ago was gone.
"You can wake up now" she said so slightly in my ear, I didn't want to Elaina's face had gone and I couldn't stand the thought of leaving lily. She put another lily in my hand.
"Why did you save me?" I asked, though I wanted to tell her everything I was feeling. But how could this angel love me? How could she ever want me after everything I had done? I could feel this dream world dissolving, her beautiful blonde hair shimmered in the wind, her white dress swayed. She looked like she couldn't answer or it hurt her too.
"Because you were worth saving." The just like that I woke up to Elaina's lips on mine.
"Lily" I whispered.
Lily
I don't know why I did it, vampires were un natural, they weren't supposed to be here. I just let one live because of the connection I had felt toward him. When I touched him, I had to pry my hand off. The world had stopped, my life suddenly had more meaning then it ever did. I couldn't put the feeling into words, kind of like music. The feeling it sometimes gives you is overwhelming and everything in the world feels right, you can hear it, and feel it, but can't describe it. Werewolf bites were almost the worst thing to cure and I had to put all my power into it, so I would be asleep for the day. I drifted off thinking of his angelic smile and his dark brown hair.
Damon
"Damon Damon!" cried Elaina, I could hear her but I needed to get back to Lily. "Your alive!" I could feel her, but I needed lily. "Your fever, bite, everything is gone!" I finally opened my eyes, and I could see her, but I wanted to see Lily. Katherine came running in, my maker, and instantly Elaina took a step back from me. Obviously feeling guilty for the kiss.
"Lily, what happened to Lily? I need to find her!" I was frantic trying to get up until Katherine came and pushed me lightly on the bed. "You need to rest" he said stunned not believing his eyes that I was okay. I fought him, though he was older I was stronger, then came a needle in my arm from Elaina, and I drifted back into unconsciousness but I saw her face.
Then I woke up and saw her face again. She was lying next to me, sound asleep my arm around her and she curled up into me. She stirred, I knew I was dreaming but I couldn't help but smile. "Stop staring at me, its creepy." She giggled and I laughed in spite of everything. I knew this wasn't real, but I couldn't help but enjoy it. I didn't even know if she was real, I could have dreamed everything, I could be dead this could be heaven? She was looking at me now. " Good morning" she said quietly kind of curious.
