Beta?
I knocked on Vera's door a few minutes after leaving my house. I heard footsteps walking to the door and I quickly straightened out my dress trying to look as presentable as possible. The door opened and I met the blue bloodshot eyes of Vera. She look just as bad, if not worse, as me. If only Rosalie knew how much she affected people.
"Oh Lilly!" She said softly.
"Vera." Was all I could say. Seeing her was slowly breaking down the barrier that was holding me together.
"How are you?" She replied. She opened the door completely and invited me inside. I walked in and followed her to her living room and sat on the same couch that Rosalie and I sat on a week earlier.
"As best as possible." I answered, "My family is in shambles. I needed to get out of the house for a while. Everything reminded me of her."
She nodded and took a deep breath. "Yes, well, I am glad you came. I am so sorry for your loss, I don't know what I would do if I lost one of my siblings." She said and put her hand on my shoulder in sympathy.
"She didn't deserve to have this happen to her." I whispered, tears were threatening to drip from my eyes. "The police have yet to find her or her body, they are still looking but they give us no hope."
"Maybe they will find her. These are hard times; someone could have taken her for ransom." Vera said, trying to give me hope.
"We thought that but it's been a week and we haven't heard anything. Father has given up." My voice cracked when speaking.
"I am so sorry, Lillian." Vera whispered, "If there is anything, anything at all, that I can do you will let me know right?" I nodded. Henry started crying from the other room and Vera smiled weakly at me and left to get him. She came back moments later with a crying Henry in her arms.
"May I hold him?" I asked, putting my arms out. She nodded and handed him over to me. Henry kept on whining, I tried to see what Rosalie saw in babies when I was holding them. But I really saw nothing. He just kept squirming in my arms so I handed him back to Vera quickly. She laughed softly and started rubbing his back, calming him.
"Not a baby person are you?" She questioned. I snorted very unladylike.
"I like them perfectly fine, just when they are older. Like 10 or more years older. I am not one for diapers or burping them." I replied, looking down at Henry who had a weird face of concentration. Seconds later a foul smell covered the air and I almost gagged.
"Um, I think it is time to leave you Vera." I said quickly and stood up.
"I can change him quickly, you get used to the smell." She laughed.
"How nice, but truly I must go." And started heading towards the door, the smell disappearing behind me.
"Goodbye Lilly." She called behind me.
"Goodbye Vera."
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I was just leaving Vera's house when I heard a laughing down an alleyway that I was passing by. I stopped and looked down it and saw nothing but a stray cat and some trash. I started to walk but I heard soft whispers coming from it. I looked down the alleyway harder and saw a shadow that was by an indent of the building. I usually would just ignore it but curiosity got ahold of me.
I started walking down the alleyway and my curiosity and fear mixed together to create adrenaline. My heart started to beat quicker and my ears picked up on every sound that was close to me.
I could hear two distinct voices but couldn't pick up what they were saying because they were speaking so quickly, it almost sounded like humming.
Fear washed over me and I turned around to start heading back to the main street but something grabbed onto my shoulders. I tried to scream but nothing came out.
"Shh sweetie, it will be over soon." A smooth voice whispered into my ear and then the voice's mouth latched onto my neck and bit on it hard.
A flash of red, a pounding thump that was screaming in my head. Fire coursing through though my veins – covering every inch of my body. My body was jerking and spasms were twisting and contorting my body in unnatural ways. Months, years went by and the pain and anguish never left my body or mind. The pounding continued and it got progressively worse as time went by.
As the pain was unrelenting I tried to force my mind to another place, to somehow forget what my body was going through at the moment. Because all I really wanted to do was through myself off a cliff to kill myself and end this pain. But what if I am already dead and this is hell. Sunday sermons always spoke of the flaming pits of hell; I don't think it could get anymore worse than this. Were my selfish thoughts the reason God sent me to this place?
If this is hell then I will never be able to see my sister ever again. For someone as perfect as her deserves nothing less than heaven.
The burning pain slowly retracted from my fingers and toes then up my arms and legs to ease my whole body. The only place where the pain still was at was the center of my chest where my heart is and my throat, but that was a different pain.
Maybe my suffering in hell was over and I earned a place in heaven with my sister.
Thump, thump, thump. It was silent.
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Okay you guys, I need you to tell me what you want her power to be and her mate like ASAP, I cannot go any further than this.
My original thought was Henry, Vera's son all grown up. Henry was the thing that Rosalie could never have that Lilly got.
My ideas:
1). James
2). Felix (Volturi)
3). Demetri (Volturi)
I have good ideas for all three of them. But the choice isn't limited to them.
Reviewing is a must! ;)
