This chapter is short today. I apologize. I'm in the middle of going through a family death right now.

Chapter 7, I'll Always Be With You

Thomas seemed more protective of Elena lately. After seeing the ghost of Sam made him think that his sister could have been responsible for his death. His trust for his sister was very limited. After losing Edith for so long made him change. He started to view things much differently than before. Knowing he could have a second chance at life made him appreciate things, especially Elena. He had suffered so long without her.

Even in the after life, she was no where to be found. Thomas only assumed that she must have married that doctor, guessing that her spirit must have been with him. The thought of her coming back to him was very misleading. Even if she did, he had already moved on. She was his past that he spent years grieving on. Elena seemed to show him a new light.

He walked into his room seeing Elena on the bed. Thomas felt very intrigued by her looks. Despite her looks, she was a completely different person than Edith. She looked up at him as he walked towards her. He sat on the bed. "Look, if you want I can find Edith for you. I'm sure you must miss her," she said slowly.

"Maybe I do, but if I'm what I am now, which is make myself fully human or ghost I want to live and get my second chance," he looked at her.

"Who would you want to spend it with? Do you want a family?" Elena wondered.

"I would love to have a family and a wife. It's something I should have done long ago. If I only knew what I know know back then. Things would be different," he took her hand in his.

"I think that's our biggest mistake. We tend to realize things when they have already happened. The only thing I have found for you is that you are here for a reason. Rather if it's unfinished business or something that happened that night I saw a light, there is a reason. My theory is when the time is right. You will have to make a choice on what matters the most." Elena explained.

"I think I know what matters the most," he said meaning that to be towards her. She smile catching on to that.

"Thomas, i'm serious."

"So am I." Elena sighed at that knowing where this was going. She didn't want him to get his hopes up if nothing happens or works. Lucille was around listening to them talk. She hated how her brother had moved on pretending that she didn't even exist. Whatever that was meant to happen, she would put a stop to it. She wouldn't lose the only family she had.

"You really think you can just leave her?" Lucille asked Thomas coming out from hiding.

"That is my intentions. I will move on and forget this place." She looked at Elena then back at her brother.

"You are a fool allowing yourself to fall for this one. It's only because she looks like her isn't it?" Lucille said rudely.

"At first, but now I realize. She's different and shes not her." His tone with her was calm.

"Only to get your hopes up and leave you." Lucille said insulting him.

"I'm not going to leave him. I haven't and I won't. So why don't you stay the hell out of my way?" Elena was in no mood to put up with Lucille and her rude antics. Lucille left them angry.

"Don't worry about her. I will not let her harm you," he said comforting her.

"She's the least of my worries. I just don't want you to get too attached to me if this doesn't work." Thomas took her hand in his.

"It's already too late for that," he leaned in kissing her a moment. Elena pulled back looking at him.

"I don't want to hurt you." she said worried.

"The only way you would hurt me is if i'm not by your side," she pulled him into a hug. Thomas wasn't going to give up on her. He loved her enough to not let her give up on him. It angered Lucille to no end. She was losing him because of her.

Elena couldn't help that she had feelings for him. He made it more difficult for her to put her feelings aside knowing what the outcome could be. Thomas was so patient with her. She loved that about him. As much as she tried to deny her feelings, she was falling for him. He was now becoming her world as she was his. Times had changed, but that didn't seem to phase Thomas. When he could get out of here, he would marry Elena and start over the right way. That was something he would sit and think about. Thomas wished he would be freed of whatever this was.

They both gazed into each others eyes. "Are you sure this is what you want? You don't want to find Edith?"

"I've never felt so sure about something until I met you." She loved how sweet he was towards her. There was no other man out there like him. That was something Elena loved most about him, he was different.