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New chapter! Enjoy!

The Story of Lilith Pierce
Chapter Twenty Five: By the Light of the Moon, pt 2 AKA the Ex Returns Again

Though Jeremy and Lilith were listening to the iPod fairly loudly, the dhampir still heard Elena's gasp. Lilith excused herself to the bathroom and snuck out through the door connecting the bathroom before heading to the stairs. When she reached the bottom step, Elijah was standing there, speaking with Jenna and Elena. Jenna looked up at her. "Hello again, Lilith." She said. "Did you need something?"

Lilith shook her head and her ponytail bobbed. "No, I just thought I heard a familiar voice. I guess I was wrong." She started back up the stairs and Elena followed her.

"I'm just going to go talk to Jeremy real fast," she said, excusing herself from the others' conversation. When they got to the top of the stairs, Elena knocked on Jeremy's bedroom door and looked over to where she'd assumed Lilith was standing. The dhampir was nowhere in sight.

"Over here." Elijah said from behind her. Elena turned to see the original's hand clamped over Lilith's mouth and nose. Lilith was trying her best to pull his hand away from her face to no avail. "As soon as you tell someone I'm here, I'll either snap her neck or suffocate her. If you tell Jeremy everything's fine when he answers that door, she's free to go. What will it be, doppelganger?"

Just then, Jeremy opened the bedroom door, but was standing at an angle at which the original couldn't be seen. "Yeah?" He asked his sister, probably wondering why she was knocking on his door so urgently.

"Nothing," Elena said. "Everything's fine. Jenna just wanted some help with getting some boxes out of the closet." She risked a quick glance over to where Elijah and Lilith were to see that Lilith was standing there, wide-eyed, but Elijah was gone.

Jeremy nodded once. "Let her know I'll be down to help in a minute." He closed the door and Elena turned to Lilith.

"Are you okay?" She asked.

Lilith nodded warily. "I think so, I wouldn't put it past him to actually do it, and so I thank you for that. As if my dad didn't want to kill him already." She gave a small smirk. "I'm gonna have to head home soon, the plan was just to be here to make sure you didn't leave, that obviously didn't happen."

Elena gave a small laugh, "not that I had a choice in that." She paused before continuing. "If you want to grab your stuff, I can give you a ride."

The dhampir shook her head. "You still can't leave. I'll be fine walking, we did what he wanted us too; Elijah won't threaten me again tonight." Elena nodded once and Lilith walked into Jeremy's bedroom. "What amazing music did I miss?"

Lilith started to gather up her stuff and Jeremy went over to help. "Nothing much, just some Daughtry and a Maroon 5 song." He shrugged. "The only good thing you really missed with Ghost of Me."

"The Daughtry song?" Lilith asked, gathering up the last couple pieces of paper. "Not one of my favorites. That was Anna's all time favorite song though." The amount of tension in the air immediately rose and Lilith hurried to grab the rest of her stuff. "It's late," she said, breaking the silence. "I should get going. I'll see you tomorrow."

She went down the stairs and sent a quick wave to Elena and Jenna before leaving through the front door and running smack into Elijah. "Hello Lilith."

Lilith glared up at the original vampire. "Hello cheating bastard."

"Someone's feisty tonight." Elijah mused. "Whatever could be the cause of it?" He raised an eyebrow. "Could it be boyfriend troubles? Who knows if you'll ever go through an entire relationship without those? Maybe an argument with daddy dearest?" Lilith looked to the side, refusing to meet his eyes. "No? Okay then. The fact that your dear Uncle Stefan is trapped with your she-demon of a mother in a tomb and you can't do anything about it? Oh wait, she's not the she-demon. Your namesake is. Tell me Lilith, are you the she-demon from the legends?"

"Shut up!" Lilith shouted, trying to push past him. "I just want to go to bed. It's late and I don't want to deal with you right now."

"Oh, but Lili-" Elijah was cut off before he could finish.

"Don't call me that. Ever." Lilith was right up in his face. "I've been telling you that for twenty years and you won't listen to me. Maybe now you'll get it through your thick head. Then again, maybe you won't. You're just a lying, cheating, son of a bitch who can't deal with his emotions." Elijah was frozen in his place and Lilith shoved past him. "You have a good night, Elijah." She kept walking and didn't stop or look back until she was safely inside the boarding house.

"How was your day?" she heard her dad say from the couch. Lilith looked over to see that he was sitting next to a familiar looking vampire.

"It was fine." She said, setting her work down on the table by the door. "And yours?"

"I provoked a werewolf whose only mission now is to kill me." Damon announced, standing up and heading toward the kitchen. "Your day was probably better than mine."

The dhampir scoffed. "I wouldn't be so sure. I got to cuss out my ex, which was fun, but he also tried to kill me first so I feel like I should get revenge somehow."

Damon was by her side in less than a second, looking her over. "Elijah tried to kill you?" he growled. "Are you okay?"

She nodded, "yeah, I'm fine. I'm just a little tired."

He looked at her one more time. "Alright. Do you want anything to eat or are you going straight to bed?"

Lilith shook her head. "I'll just go to bed; it's been a long day." Damon nodded and she went up the stairs. It felt like she'd had to drag herself up stairs more in one day then she'd ever had to before in her life. Her breaths grew shorter until she was gasping and she entered her room.

A single tear fell before she threw herself into bed.

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I know the chapter is a little shorter than usual, but it's longer than other recent chapters. The whole Elijah thing was just my way of adding suspense and plot twistery. I hope you enjoyed!