A/N: In case you're wondering, all that stuff in the last chapter and this chapter are made up. Nothing's true except that Lindsey had six siblings and two died during flue season. I got that info from "Blind Date".
Chapter Six: The Road to Redemption

Darla chooses to ignore this statement. "What about the rest of your family? They got their chance. How did they turn out?"

"Well, my parents are both dead. Good riddance to my pathetic father. Curtis was never too happy with the way I'd decided to live my life. Brian still loved his big brother, but then again, he was never too bright. I think Curtis was trying to turn him against me, but he wouldn't. I really don't know what happened to Adrian. I think he went off to New York to seek his fortune or something like that."

Darla settles back onto the bed. "If I'd gotten my chance, I wonder how I would have turned out."

Lindsey knows she's referring to her being sired again. Hoping to avoid diving into that subject again, he asks, "What about your family?"

"Mmm... It was so long ago, I barely remember. I had two sisters, Abigail and Bethany, and an Aunt Catherine. It's odd; I remember their names, but I don't remember my own original one."

"If it also began with a D, you have the first four letters of the alphabet right there," he says with a smile.

"If you'd been named with a D, you and your brothers would have the first four letters, too." Then she sobers. "They never got their chance."

"My brothers?"

"My sisters. My aunt. I killed them all."

"It wasn't you."

"No, it wasn't ... But I want to apologize to them anyway. In order to do that, I need to get where they are." She looks down at Lindsey. "The road to redemption is a bloody and difficult one. There's the threat of complete annihilation of the souls of anyone who takes a wrong step, but it could get us where everybody wants to be. I'll accept your apology for taking away my chance if you help me give my apology for taking theirs."

He looks at her. "How do you know it's going to work?"

"I don't," she admits. "But if there's the possibility for redemption after death, then I'm going to go for it."

"How?"

"On the surface you'd save the world. Here you'd save the Shadowlands. Every so often, someone slips into the Shadowlands instead of going to hell. These are only the most powerful of demons and warlocks. There's a way to banish them to where they belong, but it's not going to be easy."

"And there's the possibility for a ticket to heaven."

"Maybe."

"Alright."
A/N: (Insert plea for review here) Thanks.