Wow, I am really pumping these chapters out now. BLESS all y'all who have been reviewing you're literally the encouragement I need to know that writing this is for good reason, I'm happy to be of some entertainment right now! I miss this show so much.. in a way writing this fic helps sustain the hole in my heart for the tv series... I'm getting more and more excited for the future of this fic. :)


There was no time to sit around and chat about what Lily was just able to do. Soon, the Boyd's rolled in with a few vehicles - the perfect distraction so Jesse could get a private moment with Herr Starr, and Jesse had told them they had to do the job of keeping it going long enough to keep Jody and TC occupied.

When they all got out to the middle of the property, the Boyd's had three vehicles on the other side of the fence of Angelville, announcing over a PA system they had attached to one of the cars was a man's voice, "Madame Boyd's got a message for Jesse L'Angelle." Soon after, there was a loud boom, a canon of some sort shot something and it landed a few feet from Jody, TC, Cassidy, Lily and Tulip.

"Wot the Hell is that!?" Cassidy yelled in surprise. It was a smokey mess, but you could see the back end of what looked like an animal. "Dat's a goat." TC proclaimed simply, seemingly unphased. Jody leaned towards Lily, Cassidy and Tulip, "Voodoo Telegram." He explained. Cassidy's brow scrunched as he stood under his umbrella, "Voodoo- wot!?" He asked again, still confused as before.

The engines a ways away from all of them revved as the Boyd crew began rolling out, "Ah," Jody said, lowering his gun slightly, "Looks like all's they wanted was to send us a message." He turned his back to where the Boyd crew had begun leaving from, TC following Jody towards the goat carcass embedded in the ground.

Lily, Tulip and Cassidy exchanged glances briefly, noticing Jesse only just entering the house now. They needed more time. Without thinking twice, Cassidy grabbed a large gun that had been sitting in front of him on a table and pulled the trigger, sending a giant bullet flying into the air and eventually landing on top of one of the Boyd's cars. "What the!-" Jody yelled at Cassidy, turning back towards the Boyd's direction as their vehicles came to a screeching halt before turning and coming back towards Angelville. Jody grunted, sprinting forward again as he took cover behind a large barrel, TC following right behind.

They all got ready, each of them with a gun in hand as they waited for the shoot out to begin. "This is it." Tulip said, adjusting her grip on the gun in her hands, "Here we go."

It was a crazy blur of bullets and commotion - after a while a bullet finally hit one of them, and unfortunately for him, it was Cassidy.

The Boyd's were satisfied that they'd gotten a hit, so they were quick to pack up and turn around before things got more ugly. "Shit." Lily groaned, looking back at Cassidy on the ground. Noticing TC and Jody making their way over, Lily realized she had to do a little better at not seeming so nonchalant about Cassidy being shot, "I mean, shit!" She yelled with more panic in her voice. "Yea," Cassidy groaned quietly, "That sounds better." He pouted.

"You alright?" Tulip asked, not just for the sake of looking worried in front of TC and Jody, but because it looked like a painful wound. Cassidy winced from the ground, holding his head up a bit to look down at the hole in his chest/shoulder area before flopping his head back down to the ground, "Yeh." He groaned. Lily held her hand out to his good arm, "Come on." She urged, "Let's get you inside."

"You guys have anything for a bullet wound like this?" Lily asked, looking to Jody and TC, "Yea." Jody bellowed, "You gotta wound of any kind TC's the man ya want."

Lily raised her eyebrows unintentionally, doubting that TC would be the man she wanted for any kind of wound, but this was Angelville and they needed to keep the men distracted as long as they could for Jesse's sake. "Where to then?" Lily asked with Cassidy's good arm wrapped around her shoulder. "Oh," TC said with an excited step to his jaunt, "I'll go out to my shed and get a couplas stuffs. You just go get 'im nice and all comfortable-like in your bedroom. Meet ya up there."

Lily looked at Tulip, trading a silent message that Lily would distract TC and Tulip should keep with Jody. Tulip turned, grabbing at one of the guns TC had been holding, making conversation with Jody about it as Lily had Cassidy groaning extra dramatically in her ear as she helped him into the house.

When they got into the bedroom, Lily helped Cassidy sit on the bed. "You alright?" She asked in a tone that was more genuine than the false sense of worry she'd had turned on in high gear in front of Jody and TC. "Yeah." Cassidy said honestly, sure, it hurt like a bitch but he'd been through worse, "Jus happy it was me who wore it."

Raising her eyebrows as she rushed into the washroom to grab a towel she huffed, "No shit." She agreed, laying the towel down on the bed that Cassidy sat on. Carefully, Lily placed an arm on his shoulder carefully, bending around him to see if it went clean through. He knew what she was looking for, "It didn't go through." He stated, knowing the difference between a clear through shot in him and one that stuck inside. Lily huffed, urging him to lay down over top of the towel she'd placed over the bed.

As he laid back, he took his sunglasses off, rubbing his eyes with the hand of the arm that wasn't affected by the wound, "It'll either push it all out when I heal, or it'll jus stay in my body." He groaned, "Already set metal detectors off with all the other things that've been stuck inside me, wot's one more thing gonna do."

Lily's brow was scrunched, "Hm." She stated, "Do you have any blood bags around by the way?" He moved his hand off his eyes and looked up to her as she continued, "I was trying to find some earlier when we were trying to wake you up and couldn't find any." He shook his head slightly, "Jus one more, but I was hopin' to keep it handy in case of emergency, y'know?" Lily nodded, walking towards the window to see TC heading back towards the house with an abundance of things in his arms.

Cassidy remembered what had woke him up from the slumber Lily had put him into, the distinct smell he knew well enough to haunt him nearly every day - her blood.

"Wot was that? That y'did earlier?" Cassidy asked, "Thought y'were supposed to just put me out." Lily was already shaking her head, still looking out the window, "I don't know. That didn't happen with TC." She said. "Hm." Cassidy hummed. Lily looked towards him, his eyes moving as she could see he was thinking eternally. She was curious herself, so she moved to the bed and sat at his side, "Was that a dream? Was- was it somewhere you recognized?" She asked.

"It was a memory." Cassidy stated, looking back up at her before peering back down at his wound on his chest, "Haven't thought about that day in ages..." He groaned quietly.

Surprised, Lily found herself sitting more upright, "I didn't mean to pry into your mind like that." She said softly, "I don't know what I'm doing." Cassidy pressed his lips together, "Nah," He groveled, "I know. Not yer fault." Lily could see he was struggling internally, but so was she.

Lily took a deep breath in, mostly out of stress, but when she realized how heavy the scent of Cassidy's blood was, she found her mouth watering and her head begin to spin slightly. She swallowed, her eyes pinned to his blood soaked shirt, "Let's clean this up."

He hadn't said anything as he helped get his shirt off, the blood flowing slowly out of the bullet wound, she could see his eyes still moving, full of busy thoughts.

She assumed his mind was on the memory they'd just relived together earlier, and she remembered what he had looked like in that memory - standing in the sun, glowing with health and radiance, his eyes were crystal blue grey.. "You were still human." Lily blurted, almost like word vomit. Softly, she moved the wet cloth around the wound and held it down in hopes to stop the flow of blood, "Which means it was..." "1918." Cassidy answered before she had to do the math herself, "September 5th, 1918." Cassidy specified, "My brother Bill's birthday." Lily was relieved when she saw Cassidy smirk and let out a soft laugh through his nose, "Hmph. Two of us got into it that day." He reminisced.

Lily remembered there had been someone else approaching them in the memory, "Was that person calling your name your brother?" She asked, "Bill?" She specified.

"Yea." Cassidy said, remembering his voice, "It was."

"I got scared." Lily admitted quickly, "I was a bit consumed in trying to figure out what was happening and I was worried I'd lose control. So I focused on what it was that I was supposed to be doing and put you to sleep." Cassidy laughed softly, "I mean after yer dream goin' arseways the way it did the other night can't say I blame ye fer that." Lily raised her brow, "No shit." She sighed. He looked at her and she looked at him, thankful for the inviting eyes he had on, "Did anything happen for you after?" Lily asked. Cassidy shook his head, "No." He said, "One second we're standin' there. Next second, I was awake."

"Hm." Lily hummed curiously.

"I mean," Cassidy continued, "When I woke up, my head n'ass hurt a whole lot, but I figured it was likely the fact I was layin' on the ground n'I took a fall on my way out, like." Lily mustered up enough in her to laugh feebly, "Sorry. Tulip tried to break your fall but didn't do a great job at it, obviously.. not that I was on the ball about it, either." She groaned apologetically.

Cassidy smiled, before his mind moved to another question, "Y'said it didn't happen with TC." He stated, to which Lily shook her head, "No." "Hm." Cassidy hummed curiously like she had been, seeming to be trying to figure it all out with her as well. It had helped her to talk about her dream the other night, so he was glad to investigate aloud with her.

"Well this is mind, stuff, right?" Cassidy suggested, "Maybe it's somethin' to do with knowin' me better than TC. Or maybe cause I was expectin' it n'he wasn't?"

Lily grabbed a new cloth and threw the one covered in blood to the floor, "Maybe." She stated, wiping the area around Cassidy's wound, "I also wasn't touching TC... and another thing is with TC, I wasn't tired after, but with you, I feel like I almost put myself to sleep. It drained me - energy wise. " They silently thought about that. Cassidy had been holding Lily's hands when she'd tried the same thing on him that she had with TC. Neither of them had come to a conclusion why it had happened, there wasn't enough to go off of to be making definite reasoning - the only way Lily would know was with more experience.

Cassidy looked to his side, Lily's hands holding the cloth tight to his wound as he looked at her face. He thought about the craziness of everything involving Lily, the reaction their blood had on one another, the insane amount Lily had changed from the stubborn cold hearted and closed book type of person she had been when they first met, to now, the person who relied on him for many things, the newest being her self-discovery of whatever supernatural thing it was that consumed her. Lily had surprised him more than anyone in the world ever had - whether it was blowing down an entire building like she did to the Beneke headquarters, her electric attraction to him, being a pro-con artist, her intelligence with many things, that including weaponry and otherwise - or even now with her inner power she processed, bringing him back to living a memory clear as day. He'd never imagined feeling that day so real again.

Cassidy laughed seemingly out of nowhere. "What?" Lily asked. He sighed, "Nothin', jus crazy to me after all these years of me bein' on this planet, yer still 'ere surprisin' me all angles."

"Well imagine being me and not knowing what was going on inside of me my whole fucking life." She sighed, "Jesse says I've got potential, but I don't even know what I'm fucking doing. You say I'm surprising you? Imagine suddenly seeing your dead mother everywhere? Hmph." Lily let out a feeble chuckle, "Talk about surprising."

Lily looked back at him, expecting a smile back at her, but instead she noticed his eyes a little more red suddenly, and she could see he was fighting with emotions brewing inside of him. Her smile faded slightly and she worried what was happening in his mind. "Cass, I'm sorry to have brought up that memory." She apologized again, "I didn't mean to invade like that." Lily said honestly.

As he shook his head, Cassidy took a deep breath. His voice was strained as he fought back at the lump hurting inside his throat, "I could feel the sun... on me." He whispered, "Never thought I'd know that feelin' again." Not knowing what to say back, Lily just kept still, her eyes dropping back down to her hands that held the cloth to Cassidy. Lily had never thought about how Cassidy had felt in the moment of reliving the memory, her mind was stuck on his appearance, not the experience he had. She hadn't upset him by invading his privacy, she'd made him feel something special. His voice broke her internal train of thought, "I think Jesse's right." He cleared his throat, "I think that says somethin' about yer potential." He said, "Bein' able to do somethin' impossible like that."

With a flutter in her stomach, Lily sighed, "Well, as long as things are going Jesse's way right now, we'll be out of here soon." She said with an abundance of positivity, "And if you'll let me use you to practice we can try and do it again if you're up for it?" She asked, leaning into him a bit more, "Promise I won't let you fall on your ass next time."

Lily was relieved to see him smile, "Deal." He agreed. She kept her smile on, looking into his eyes again, "You gonna be OK when shit goes down soon?" Cassidy nodded, "Besides, with Genesis, we'll likely jus be spectatin'."

Raising her brows, Lily let out a laugh, "Yea." Soon what was left of Jesse and Lily's family would be dead, the both of them realized that, and there were no mixed emotions - just the hope to soon feel relief.

"Bill.." Lily repeated aloud. "Wot?" Cassidy asked quickly, finding himself wondering a brief moment if she'd been able to see something about him like she did with her mom. Cassidy felt his heart skip a beat at the thought of having contact with his brother. Lily looked to Cassidy with a curious streak in her eyes, "That's the name you used when we went out that one night back in New Orleans..." He felt himself relax, realizing what she was talking about right away as she continued as if to have to jog his memory, "..That underground betting club... where you won that arm wrestling contest and we left there leaving a total blood bath." She said as if it wasn't as crazy of a scenario as it had been.

She watched his mouth twitch slightly, raising his brow just a bit, "Oh." He said, as if it only just hit him in that moment, "Y'mean the night you did cocaine." Lily's eyes flashed wide to him, and she felt mortifying embarrassment flow through her, "What? I did- Cassidy!" She hissed. She'd hoped to forget about accidently taking a few puffs of one of Cassidy's cigarettes that night - he'd told her that he'd laced the cigarettes with cocaine only after he had discovered she'd helped herself to them. As the moment replayed in her head, Lily felt her cheeks get hot as she groaned. Unable to refrain from letting the laugh escape his lips, she watched his grin grow wider at the sheer enjoyment of her reaction,"Did you," He dragged, "Or did you not smoke one of my cocopuffs?" He teased.

Lily sighed hopelessly, waving her head away from facing him, "Oh my god."

"Well then," Cassidy sang, ignoring the fact she hadn't answered his question, "Y'can't say you didn't do coke that night- ah!" He gasped sharply, feeling her pressing onto his wound noticeably harder, "Ah! Fuck!" He cursed, chuckling a bit as he did, "Enough!" Lily smirked, "Ya, that night." She scoffed, "Jackass."

With an unamused look at her face, she leaned closer to him again, "I was saying.." She dragged, "You used your brother's name that night as your cover name." She stated, trying to bring the conversation back to what she originally intended it to be. It was endearing in many ways - and also a bit sad. But it showed Lily that Cassidy still thought about his brother, and maybe the rest of his family. She made a mental note to go out of her way to hug Jesse later - after Angelville was burnt to the ground, of course.

Cassidy was about to speak, but he wasn't sure what he wanted to say first. A million things filled his mind, but most of him just wanted to kiss her instead of going on about the memories of his dead brother, "Kiss me." He said. She was more than happy to comply with that request, but instead, as she leaned in towards him, Cassidy saw her jolt in alarm. He felt the tension in her immediately, finding himself sitting up with her. Her heart was in her throat and she felt panic consume her - then, there was a gunshot. The panic hadn't originated in her, "Jesse." Lily said, "Oh, fuck." She jumped up to her feet.

"Where are you goin'?" Cassidy asked, rushing to catch up to her, "Wot's happenin'?!" He asked. Lily ran down the stairs, Cassidy close behind her, "I don't know!" She shrieked, "Fuck, fuck, fuck." Lily ran to the front door of the house, practically bursting it down on her way out as she moved towards the inward pull inside of her. The sun was beaming down and soon Lily would be out in the open area where Cassidy couldn't chase her out of - and all he had on was a pair of jeans. His eyes quickly scoured how far the shade line went out from the overhang of the house, "Wait!" Cassidy yelled, lunging forward and grabbing her with both his good and bad arm, pushing through the pain it took to hold onto her, "Wait." He instructed.

Lily listened to Cassidy and stopped in her tracks just barely out the front door of the house. Cassidy could feel Lily's quick paced breaths matching to her heartbeat, her eyes frantically searching down the long driveway leading into Angelville. There was a fleet of white, sleek vehicles peeling away. The dust that rose from the dry, dusty road clouded the area, making it impossible to make anything out. The sound of the engines from the vehicle diminished quickly and soon after, Cassidy noticed Lily begin holding her breath as she stared into the hazy mess.

"Can you hear anything?" She asked Cassidy, who nodded right away, "Jesse. And Tulip, I'm pretty sure."

Suddenly, a wave of anger surged through Lily, "Pretty sure?" She hissed impatiently, worried more than anything. Cassidy shook his head, his arms wrapped around her tight as he feared what might happen if he let her run, "She's not talking." Cassidy explained, "Jesse's talking to her."

"Is she alright?" Lily quickly asked, "Is he alright?"

Cassidy listened intently...

"Get out of here!" Jesse hissed quietly, "You need to get you and Cass out of here, now!"

"I'm not leaving you, Jesse!" Tulip spat back, her voice cracking with raw emotion, "I already told you that! And don't ask me again!"

With his eyes fluttering as he began to process the conversation Jesse and Tulip were having a ways away. He felt his stomach drop at the realization that the plan to get Genesis back must have failed if Jesse was urging Tulip and Cassidy to leave Angelville - but Tulip was right. There was no way she would leave Jesse's side just as Cassidy wouldn't leave Lily's.

"Let's go inside." Cassidy said calmly to Lily, "C'mon." He pleaded, hoping she would listen to him without a fight. But inside Lily, Jesse's emotions were taking her over and clouding her judgement. The annoyance she felt consumed her more and more, "Agh!" She growled, squirming in Cassidy's arms, "What the Hell's going on?!" Lily yelled loudly, her voice echoing out into the long, never-ending driveway.

Madame L'Angelle's voice came from nowhere, "I was about to ask the same thing." She hissed. Lily and Cassidy turned their heads to the side they'd heard her from, Jody and TC standing at her side as Madame L'Angelle sat in her wheelchair. Lily did her best to keep a stone face, looking back to the driveway in front of them. Her heart began pacing faster, hoping her brother would burst through the dark cloud, using Genesis to put an end to it all. When nothing happened, she pushed at Cassidy, "Let go of me!" She yelled angrily at Cassidy, who was startled by the harshness of her voice, as he unwillingly let his arms around her drop, watching her run away from him and towards the dusty, clouded mess that consumed Jesse and Tulip.

Cassidy leaned back as if to go inside to get something to cover him to go after her, but he worried too much to take his eyes off of her for a second.

Marie L'Angelle yelled the loudest any of them had heard from her yet, "Get back here!" Her blood curdling voice screeched directly to Lily, who didn't dare stop. Her grandmother yelled again, "I don't know what it is you two ungrateful shits think you are up to, but you best get your asses back here this instant!" The words motivated Lily to run even faster, just hoping her brother to appear and use Genesis to finally put an end to this terrible moment.

Instead, she felt as if she ran into a brick wall. Her throat closed and her knees buckled.

With his eyes glued to Lily, Cassidy felt his heart drop when she collapsed to the ground. Instinctually, he began moving towards her quickly, but it was as if a wall hit him as the sun blasted down, scorching his skin. Cassidy winced loudly, jumping backwards out of the sun and rushing back to the shade a few feet behind him. There was no way for him to get to her without being a giant ball of fire - which wasn't much help, even if he was able to make it to her before turning into a pile of ash.

Cassidy looked towards Madame L'Angelle. With her mouth twisting back and forth and her brows scrunched so low her eyes were barely visible, he could see a handkerchief in the grasp of her boney hands. Madame L'Angelle tugged on it and mangled it with pulsating fury, and as she did, Cassidy could see Lily practically mimic the motions happening to the fabric in her grandmother's hand. Feeling the overwhelming emotions of everything to do with rage, natural instinct took over, his mouth watered as he prepared to kill. Cassidy moved as quick as it was possible for him, which was equal to lightning given the amount of rage that filled him. In one motion, he lunged himself all the way towards Madame L'Angelle, knocking her over in her wheelchair.

Lily and Jesse simultaneously gasped for air, "Jesse!" Lily choked, "Jesse! Genesis... use..."

It didn't take long for Lily to realize that Jesse's plan hadn't worked the way he'd intended, since Genesis was nowhere to be found. As she struggled to catch her breath, Lily was surprised when Tulip was at her side, Jesse stumbling at Tulip's opposite side, a gun in one hand, "Lily!" Tulip said worryingly, "Ah, shit, Lily. Fuck. Fuck!" Tulip swore, making the realization that things were not going according to their plan even more obvious.

They all looked up to the whirlwind of action happening in front of the house. TC was helping Madame L'Angelle get back up while Cassidy was putting up a fight against Jody, sparing no expense of showing his supernatural capabilities of a vampire. The sun grazed him multiple times, and parts of him were up in smoke.

TC ran off with Madame L'Angelle to safety, and soon the Custer's felt their throats begin to close again. Staring helplessly, Tulip watched the both of them fall to the ground on either side of her, unwilling tears forming in her eyes as she felt entirely helpless, "No, no, no.." She begged, "Stop!" Tulip yelled out to the house, "Stop it! Stop it!" There was a loud crash as Cassidy and Jody kept at their heavy battle.

Tulip looked down to Jesse, who used every bit of will he had to cling onto his sister on the ground at his side. Jesse grasped to his sister, his mouth pressed directly against her ear, "Don't... " He choked out, "let them... know..." He paused, his face going from red to purple as their air supply became less and less, "..we know about Cass... no matter ... wh-" The both of them were trembling, and not long after, in the exact same moment, both Lily and Jesse lost consciousness - their bodies going limp in unison. Tulip was left alone, screaming at the top of her lungs - her shouts echoed throughout the vast area of Angelville - a true Hell, unhinged from anything worldly, with no one to hear or care for Tulip's powerless call.