Chapter 4

Reluctantly, Damon let go of the girl who collapsed. The fingers let go. He spun round ready to fight only to come face to face with Lilly. The girl on the ground got to her feet and ran. "What did you do that for?" He spat. He hardly noticed the fire of power had gone until it returned. Suddenly, he realised the full extent of the situation he was in. He had not been able to sense Lilly's power before, apparently, she had kept it hidden. But it was more powerful than anything he had ever felt. Even though she was shorter than him, she gave the impression of towering over him. Damon felt fear for the first time in centuries. She was livid. "Never!" She spat "Ever! Harm a child!" Damon took a steady step backwards trying to look casual. "How dare you!" She screeched. "You animal!" She stepped forwards and slapped him, hard across the face.

"You kill vampires…and humans…and anything else that crosses your path…what makes children so special!" Damon asked trying to keep his voice steady, she was stronger than Klaus and Katherine put together then times by ten. Damon could almost see a black flame circling her. A flame that, any moment could reach out and ensnare him, draining his power for Lilly, adding him to her collection. Lilly relaxed slightly, the black flames, died.

"That is not something I want to relive." She said. She turned and began to walk away.

"So why not kill me?" Damon called after her. Lilly turned her head to face him.

"I'd have thought that was obvious." She said.

"Well, it's not." Damon replied.

"Come Damon, you're not stupid." She continued to walk, but stopped at the gate. "What got you so angry anyway?" She asked him. Damon looked up at her.

"I'd have thought that was obvious." He mimicked.

"Well it's not!" She returned. Damon sighed slightly.

"I told you, Stefan and I fought over Elena. I'm sick of him always being the one who has the woman." He kicked a stone. "What does he have that I haven't?"

"You mean what do you have that he doesn't…" Said Lilly. Damon looked up.

"What?" He asked. She came towards him.

"Look at me Damon Salvatore." He did. He stared down at her eyes. His brown eyes matching hers. "You know how powerful I am. How pretty I am…I could have anyone in the world, any specie, anyone, yet I chose you, not Stefan. I just know Stefan from a previous life." Damon couldn't take his eyes from hers. She however, rested her head on his chest, breaking their gaze. He put his arms around her. "You have potential Damon, one day, you can be as powerful as me, if not more powerful. Just promise me one thing." Damon didn't answer. "Never hurt anyone under the age of 18." Damon tightened his grip. "Do this and I'll help you reach the top."

"All right, it's a deal. I'll never hurt a child, and you'll make me powerful. And I assume I can't touch Stefan either?"

"Obviously. I'd kill you if you hurt him; the two of you are the closest thing I have to a family, even over my mother…" Damon rested his lips against her hair and closed his eyes. "Let's go home." Said Lilly against the leather of his jacket. They separated, and Lilly linked her arm with Damon's, and they walked home.

Damon wasn't in the mood for much when he climbed into bed next to Lilly, which was a first. Usually when he got into bed with a pretty woman, it was for a reason, but not tonight. Tonight, he just held her. The pillows felt like clouds. "If there is a heaven for a vampire like us, then…I guess we found it." He thought to himself. For the first time, he felt at peace. There was no need for anything, just company. That cold feeling he had when he came to England, had been replaced with a mischievous, but content feeling. He and Lilly were going to rock the world. Together they would revel in everything dark. Hand in hand they could rule the world if they wanted…as the humans say, the sky is the limit, except for him and Lilly, it wasn't. Nothing could stop them…Damon didn't notice himself fall asleep.

Three years passed since Damon had made the deal with Lilly. He was lying with her again, asleep. The night had been…exhausting. The sun was bright in the sky, but the black out blinds on Lilly's windows blacked it. Not that she had a problem with sunlight, and Damon never took his ring off, but it was a matter of 'just in case'.

Damon woke suddenly, he could smell smoke. He sat up and rubbed his eyes. It was still too early to me getting up, the sun, was just setting. He realised what he had just smelt as black clouds wafted through the slightly open door. He jumped up and pulled his trousers on. He shook Lilly. She woke up. "WHAT!" She snapped after a third shake.
"Get up! There's a fire!" Damon threw her a nightdress and dressing gown. Lilly pulled them on and got up. She grabbed her handkerchief and put it over her mouth and nose as she pulled the door open, then shut it again.

"We can't go that way, it's blocked off."

"Fire…" Said Damon shaking his head. "One of the only thing that kills us!"

"We'll get out…come on." She pulled the window open, sat on the sill, then jumped out. Damon followed her landing cat like beside her. "See…Told you." She said.

"Oh I had no doubt about that, I'm just wondering if it was a deliberate attempt to kill us…"

"Oh more than likely." Said Lilly calmly as the two of them made there way across the grounds. She stood back and looked at her house. "Look at it!" She said furiously, "I can replace the house and furniture, but all of Jacks things were in there!"
"What's the fuss? I've been telling you to get rid of that junk for years."

"And I always told you, it had sentimental value Damon! That's all I have left of him!" Damon sighed. "If I ever catch the person responsible, I'll kill them I swear!"

"I don't doubt it." Damon said. The rounded the corner to the front of the house, then stopped. In front of them was a band of people, armed with stakes, wooden arrows and various other 'vampire catching' equipment. There was a woman standing slightly in front of the rest of the group. She was dressed in a long black coat, and had long wavy brown hair. She looked young, barely 25. "Belladonna." Said Lilly, "Belladonna Grey, I might have known."

"It's been a while Lilly. I must admit, you had me fooled. I thought I'd killed you with your husband, but it appears I was wrong. I only got your baby…" Said the woman. Lilly scowled. Damon sensed her temper rising along with his own. "Then I heard that you were back and worse than ever…I've been on your trail for months, never dreamed you'd be right where I left you! I'd have thought you were cleaver enough to move."

"Actually, it was smarter to stay, you said it yourself, it was the one place you'd never have expected to find me…but now that you have, I trust you haven't just come for a friendly chat." Belladonna smiled.

"Always a joker Lilly…well, I nearly beat you before, I only failed because I was foolish, but not his time, you just ran out of luck!" Belladonna snapped her fingers and the group, which Damon counted as three men and three woman including Belladonna, moved to surround them.

"You might have beaten me before Belladonna, but that was so long ago, Must have been one hundred years…tell me, why do you hunt what you are?" Belladonna scowled.

"I am nothing like you!" She screamed.

"Are you sure? You're not a vampire, but you are a sorceress, and that makes us kith and kin if I am recalling the law of sorcery correctly…" But Belladonna would hear no more of it. She fired an arrow at Lilly. Lilly caught it without hesitation, and crushed it to dust in her fingers. "I hope you have a better plan than that. I was weak last time because of the baby, but I'm not now. As you said, I'm back, and I'm worse than before." The hunters closed in. Lilly sighed. "Ok, board now…" She said huffily. Damon stepped back as the black ring of fire appeared around Lilly once more, and, as he had imagined, a clawing hand of fire reached out, and grabbed the nearest hunter, pulling him too Lilly who sunk fangs into his neck. Have Fun she said to him mentally. Damon smiled, the fight had begun.

Damon and Lilly waited in the shadows as the fire fighters put out the fire in the house. At Lilly's feet, Belladonna was unconscious. "Are you going to eat that?" Damon asked her pointing at Belladonna.

"No." Replied Lilly.

"Then may I have the pleasure of enjoying her?"

"No."

"Why not?" Damon snapped.

"Because, Damon my love, she's a mother, to kill her would harm a child."

"This bitch is the reason YOU don't have a child! Why do you protect her?"

"I cannot punish her baby for what she's done; I have punished Belladonna by killing her husband before the baby was born…She hates me for it…but we are even." Damon shook his head.

"She can't wake up here." Lilly looked at Belladonna.

"Your right." She leaned down, picked Belladonna up and threw her. Belladonna went over the top of the fence and across the field. Damon smiled craftily.

"Impressive." Lilly smiled.

"Thanks." Damon looked at the house.

"Where are we supposed to go now?" He said sulkily. Lilly took his hand.

"I know a hotel it's not as good as my house, but it'll do…The Ritz?" She held out her hand, and Damon took it.

"I suppose, it'll do…" They walked into the shadows, together…

This one's not very long, and the ending is pretty crap, but I hope you liked Lilly.

I'm gonna say it again, to be safe. NO COPYING LILLY, LILLY'S STOY, OR THE BLACK ANGELS WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!

But I don't own Damon or Stefan or Elena. :-(