As Cassidy made his way back up the stairs with all the baggage and linens gathered in his arms, his eye caught a figure down the hallway. It was Lily. He dropped everything he had in front of the room they'd claimed as theirs and walked towards her.

Lily continued to stare into the room, and Cassidy put two and two together fairly soon that Tulip must be in the room Lily was looking into.

Leaning against the door frame, Lily studied Tulip laying on the bed in the room as she took another deep breath in her slumber. Tulip's skin was glowing again and it was hard to imagine that just moments before she was the dead image of her Lily had in her head.

Cassidy was close at her side, "You had a feelin' didn't ye?" He asked quietly.

Lily kept her eyes on Tulip and her voice low, turning her chin slightly towards Cassidy as her eyebrows crinkled slightly, "What do you mean?"

"When you wanted t'go after 'er back at the apartment." Cassidy explained, "Right before she went back in and got shot. You had a feeling." He remembered the look in her eyes and the uneasiness in the vehicle as Tulip left them. Shaking her head slowly, Lily shrugged a shoulder, her eyes still glued on Tulip, "I don't know. Maybe." She said with little confidence. There was quite a long pause between them, the only sound was Tulip's faint snoring.

"Where's Jesse?" Lily asked, finally looking to Cassidy.

"Downstairs." Cassidy said shortly.

Lily nodded, "Hm." She hummed, her eyes thoughtful as they trailed away back to Tulip. After a few seconds of silence, Cassidy tilted his head down the hallway, "Got all our stuff."

With her eyes flickering to the bags in the hallway, Lily took one last glance of Tulip before pushing off the door frame and making her way back to the bedroom Cassidy had brought her in.

"I wanted to get out of 'ere." Cassidy stated, throwing their bags on the ground in the room as he closed the bedroom door behind them, "But yer brother said wotever it was you n'him did in that room with your gran'ma earlier - it pretty much signed yer life over to 'er." Lily was quiet, finding herself sitting on the bed, not very attentive to Cassidy as he went off, "He'd rather have each of you give up your free will than for Tulip to have ended up like me." Cassidy growled bitterly.

As Cassidy continued, Lily's mind was going off on it's own tangent of it's own.

Tulip was alive.

Since Lily had seen her laying in the room down the hallway, seemingly perfect - sleeping peacefully - her mind had been rattled again. Tulip's lively glow was back and she was alive again. It was an overwhelming thing to realize. Sudden grief and relief hit her all at once.

Cassidy's words stopped suddenly and his stomach began to drop as he saw Lily's bottom lip begin to quiver and almost immediately following, tears began streaming down her face. Lifting a hand to her mouth, she couldn't choke back the urge to cry any longer. Her sobs shocked Cassidy. In an instant, he suddenly felt terrible for making the snide remarks and going on the way he was.

Quickly, he rushed to her side, sitting and wrapping an arm around her as she cried, "I'm sorry." He said, "Lily, I didn't mean to sound-" The harder she cried the harder it was to find words. He made the decision to stay quiet instead.

Finally, she took a choppy breath and leaned over, pulling out of Cassidy's arms and groaning, more than a little frustrated that she couldn't control herself as the tears kept pouring, "I'm overtired." She finally choked out, attempting to justify her breakdown.

"It's fine. It's fine." He assured, "It's a lot happenin' right now."

She let her face sit in her hands a moment, her eyes still leaking in a steady stream as she stared forward at the wall. Holding her breath and trying to stop the tears, she sighed in frustration.

Cassidy stared at her. It had been nearly two days of this chaotic blur of Hell, and Lily was entirely drained. There was nothing that could be done about them being stuck there. He tried changing the tone a bit from his sour one just seconds before, "There's a nice big tub in the bathroom." He pointed his thumb behind them towards the bathroom that was attached to the bedroom, "Want me to run you a bath?"

That was an idea that sounded so good. She nodded, wiping both of her hands across her face as more tears trailed down. Letting out a choppy breath and stifling the sobbing sounds, she nodded, "Yea." He was more than a bit frazzled, the more she cried, the more his heart broke and he wanted to do anything and everything to make it stop.

He stood up and made his way quickly to the bathroom. It didn't look like anyone had used it in years. He did his very best to give it a rinse before beginning to fill the tub. Grabbing Lily's smaller bag, he dug through her stuff until he found something through the toiletries to make some bubbles - squeezing nearly half the bottle into the hot water as it began foaming up into bubbles.

Lily had her hands pressed against her eyes as if that would stop them from leaking the way they were, she hadn't noticed Cassidy already back at her side, "Here." He said, pulling her up. They walked into the bathroom, and she found it easy to strip down out of the dirty clothes and step into the hot, bubbly water. "Jesse threw some beddin n' towels n'that in 'ere for us earlier." Cassidy explained, "Said he ran them through the wash 'imself, so y'know they're clean." He assured, using Jesse's words he'd just rolled his eyes to. Not that Lily cared too much in the moment anyway, but it was definitely a nice gesture. She sniffled and grabbed a face cloth that was rolled up on top of the small pile of towels as she let out another frustrated sigh.

It felt so good to be in the hot bath. Cassidy watched her lean back and dunk the face cloth she had in her hand in the water before placing it on her face. She let out a broken huff mixed with a groan. As much as he wanted to stay at her side, he knew it was best to give her some space to decompress as best as she finally could, "I'll let you relax." Just as he was about to leave, her voice pulled him back, "Cassidy?"

"What?" He asked, walking to the side of the tub. When she didn't answer right away he lowered himself to sit on the ledge at her side. The cloth was still on her face, covering her eyes.

"I know you're really mad at Jesse-" Lily started, but she wasn't sure where else to go with that topic. She took a moment to piece some careful words together, "I'm thankful you've been able to keep peace the last couple days." Cassidy stared at her, nodding and looking down at his hands folded into each other before shifting his weight a bit, "Of course." He said, raising his brows as he thought about how hostile he had been with Jesse the last couple of days.

"I know it's not easy for you." Lily said, pulling the cloth off of her tired face, "After the way he acted. The hurtful things he said." Her eyes were red and they felt like they were on fire as they continued to leak tears that she had no control over.

She thought about her last conversation with Tulip in the closet at the apartment in New Orleans. Tulip had told her to give Cassidy some credit, and right now, Lily was really feeling like Tulip's words were burning into Lily's conscious. She reached a hand out of the water, covered in film soapy bubbles and grabbed his forearm closest to her, "I don't know how I would've managed through all of this without you, Cass."

He was shaking his head before she'd even finished that last sentence, "You would've been jus fine - with less broken bones at the very least.. definitely one more tooth in you."

"Mmm." She hummed, her tongue finding the gap towards the back of her mouth. He was relieved to see her smirk slightly. She'd already forgotten about that, with how much had happened more recently.

Her eyes were burning, she closed them, and Cassidy spoke again, "I'm sorry I couldn't get us out of here." He paused before he chuckled darkly, "I was jus sayin' how I was gonna make sure things were gonna be better n'then I almost had you killed."

Lily opened her eyes slightly before closing them again, her lip pressed in a flat line as she sank lower into the water, her hand still grasping his forearm, "You didn't know that was going to happen." She rasped lowly.

When it was quiet for a while Cassidy nodded, even though Lily's eyes were closed. He spoke softly, careful to be less snide and bitter, "Like you said, Tulip's alive. Lets jus focus on getting back to as normal as possible here before we try anythin' else."

"I just want to talk to her." Lily stated with her throat tight, "I just want to see that she's still... her." She said nervously. Her eyes had the same intense amount of worry that were in them when she begged Cassidy to leave Angelville earlier. It made his heart hurt. "What if.." She trailed off, her eyes wandering as she tried to compress her thoughts. The water she laid in swished around slightly as she adjusted herself, "What if she comes back from dead and she's not... herself." Lily stated. Cassidy thought on that for a little bit. Adjusting himself on the side of the tub he raised his brows, "Well, I suppose you can say I came back from dead."

Opening her sore eyes slightly, Lily looked up at him, her mind jumping around a bit before she finally got the courage to ask the burning question in her mind, "What happened?"

Cassidy spoke quietly, almost too quiet for Lily to hear, "I was walking in a marsh, beside a swampy sorta area, like." He started, "N'out of nowhere from behind me somethin' grabbed at me. I heard it jump outta the water but I couldn't react quick enough. It dragged me under the thick water an' pretty soon I was runnin' out of breath. Thought I was gonna drown."

Lily stayed quiet, her eyes closed again as she listened intently as she could.

"Suddenly it stuck its teeth in my neck. It hurt so fuckin' bad, an' then I knew I was dead. Next thing, I was awake again. There wasn't no seeing-the-light moment, or pearly gates or anythin' like that. I was under the water. Drowning. I kept trying to get out, but ev'ry time I would breach the surface, the bloody sun would hit me n'I would light up like the fourth of fuckin' July and 'ave to go back under to put myself out. I had t'wait for night an-." Cassidy's words stopped suddenly mid-sentence.

It took a moment for Lily to notice he'd stopped talking before she open her eyes and looked up at him, "What?" She asked.

Cassidy shook his head softly, "Don't know why I'm goin' on about me right now." He stated, feeling a bit selfish, as if he was making this whole thing suddenly about him.

"Keep going." Lily insisted, squeezing at his arm feebly as she began sinking further into the hot water, "It's a good distraction from everything else going on in my head." She stated honestly.

He nodded, taking a breath before he continued, "I had the slightest clue wot happened to me exactly, but goin' off my reaction to the sun n'the way that thing bit me, I had a pretty good idea." He cleared his throat, "There were new things to get used to, o'course. But I was still... me." His lips twisted a bit as he let out a sigh, "I guess wot I'm gettin' at wit all this, is that it's possible to come back from the dead n'not be so bad."

"Hm." Lily hummed thoughtfully. Several seconds passed as she finally opened her burning eyes again, "That's a good point, Cass." Lily shut her sore eyes again and it was silent for a while. Finally, Cassidy noticed Lily's eyes open again, letting them wander around a bit. Her eyes caught her shampoo bottle upside down in the far corner of the bath. She sniffled, finding it hard to smell with her nose as stuffed up as it was, "Did you pour my shampoo in here?"

"I dunno." He stated honestly, "I was in a panic an' jus grabbed the first thing I found."

That shampoo was expensive. It was nearly brand new and Cassidy had emptied out the better half of it. He was as shocked as he was relieved to see her laugh softly as she wiped under her eyes again. "What?" Cassidy asked. With a smile she shook her head slowly, "Nothing." She sank lower into the hot water, thinking about how in different circumstances, she would have reamed him out for wasting her expensive shampoo. How stupid and naive she'd been to how privileged a life she lived for so long. She would give anything to not be where she was now.

While her hand slid off of his arm, he couldn't help but smile down at her. Before he got up, he leaned down and kissed the top of her head, closing the bathroom door behind him. Cassidy was careful to give her space all well listening to her every breath from the bedroom on the other side of the wall.

Cassidy stared at the clean bedding Jesse had given him and decided to start putting the bed together. After several minutes, Cassidy had noticed someone approaching the room, and soon after there was a soft knock at the door. Cassidy stood up from the bed and opened the door to see Jesse standing out on the other side, "Hey." Jesse said softly, "How's she doing?" He asked quietly.

Shifting on spot, Cassidy huffed, "She's a mess." He whispered as he shook his head.

Jesse nodded, his eyes full of understanding, "Is she awake?" He asked.

"Actually, I jus drew 'er a bath so she's tryin' to relax a bit." Cassidy stated shortly.

Jesse nodded simply, "That's good." He said with a soft huff, Cassidy's cold front not going unnoticed to himself, "Alright then. I'll talk to her in the morning." Jesse said. Cassidy nodded, his lips pressed into a line as he struggled to look Jesse directly in the eye. With a polite smile, Jesse began turning from the door, "Night, Cass." He said. "Night." Cassidy said back.

Closing the bedroom door, Cassidy took a deep breath. Things between himself and Jesse had gotten so fucked up so quickly. He felt the burning part of him that despised Jesse grow weaker as the desperation to smooth things out started growing. The torn emotions were annoying Cassidy - Lily's words burning in his mind - how thankful she was for keeping the peace, when in reality, Cassidy wanted to kick Jesse's ass. He groaned to himself. One thing he knew for sure was that he wasn't the one who needed to apologize. He refused. With yet another frustrated grumble, Cassidy went back to the bed, trying to silence his mental struggle going on in his mind.

After a long while, he recognized Lily's breathing pattern of that while she slept. He decided to peak into the bathroom and check on her. Just as he thought, she'd fallen asleep. The bubbles in the bath had all deflated and laid as a flat, white foam blanket on the surface of the water. He was gentle to wake her, "Hey." He sang softly, "Lily."

When she opened her eyes she realized the bath water was nearly cold. Cassidy already had a towel in his arms, "Let's go to bed." She took a deep breath as he helped her out of the bath. He was quick to wrap the towel around her and she couldn't care less about drying off properly.

When they walked back into the bedroom, her eyes caught the open wardrobe, noticing that he'd began hanging and putting away their stuff, before they moved to the freshly made bed. He grabbed her some comfortable clothes to wear to bed and she got into them slowly in her exhausted trance.

"Feelin' any better?" Cassidy asked hopefully.

Sluggishly, Lily got into the bed. Exhaling deeply, as her eyes had hardly opened since she got out of the tub. "Yea, actually." She stated honestly, nestling into the blankets, "I do." Physically, she felt much less sore, but mentally she was still completely drained.

It didn't take long for Cassidy to crawl into the bed with her, turning off the small lamp at the bedside. The moon was bright as it shone through the two small windows, lighting up the room a good amount. Lily lifted her hand, she stared at her palm with heavy eyes, the cut had sealed over with a dark red, almost black - but it wasn't healing. "This hasn't healed yet." She stated.

"Hm." Cassidy grabbed her hand and studied it curiously. It looked like it was scarred already. "Give it some time, I suppose."

"Hm." She hummed sleepily back, his hand still holding onto hers as she slowly began fading into a slumber again.

"Kinda nice not havin' t'crawl in and out of a window jus t'be wit ye." He joked, adjusting himself to have his arm underneath her as her head rested against his chest. She let out a sleepy chuckle, which he was thankful for. Not much time passed before Lily practically fell asleep on spot, leaving Cassidy wide awake for the night to let his mind sort everything going on inside it.