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Chapter 17

Loneliness

Lily sat in her hospital bed willing Kenny to come back. It took her a while to realize she could feel her legs. She hadn't realized anything was wrong when she was human, but now that she was vampire again she felt pain begin to surge up her legs and spine.

Lily grabbed sheets and wadded them in her fists. The pain was so horrendous. It felt as if every bone in her leg was being hit with a hammer. She knew her body was healing itself, her spinal cord was being mended, and her legs were beginning to heal. The wound at the back of her head was already closed, though blood still clotted her hair.

It took about ten minutes for her body to heal itself. The pain simply turned into a vague tingling. Lily threw the covers off her legs and sat up, scooting to the edge of the bed. She gingerly put one foot on the ground, and then the other bringing herself to a standing position. She stepped forward and smiled, it was as if nothing had been broken.

It was at that point that the door opened and Jake and Riche walked in. Their jaws dropped as she stood there, scantily clad in a hospital gown.

"You- you're-" Jake whispered, not able to finish his thought.

"Walking," Riche finished for him. She smiled and shrugged, sending a call through the hospital for her family.

"How?" Jake asked his chocolate eyes wide with disbelief and shock.

"I'm a very fast healer," she said. The door opened behind them, bumping into Riche as he hadn't moved away from it. He did so then, allowing Ash, Shiloh, and Noah entrance.

"Glad to see the kid helped you out," Ash said with a smirk.

"Mom, dad, and Thiery are talking with your Doctors and Kaleb, Jason and Josh are talking with the parents," Shiloh said.

"We were looking for these two," Noah told her. She nodded and walked to them.

"I have to find Kenny, can you take care of it?"

"First of all you're not walking around this hospital with a severed spine, second you're not walking around alone, and third, you shouldn't walk around in next to nothing," Ash said with a smirk. She sighed audibly.

"No one will see me, and I have to."

"How is she walking?" Jake whispered again.

Shiloh looked at him, then at Riche and placed a hand on either's shoulder. Noah followed his example. A dazed look came over their faces as Shiloh and Noah wiped their memories. Lily walked past them and out of the room. Ash followed closely behind her.

"I'm not going to leave your side Lily," he said as he grabbed her hand and held on tight. Lily looked at him and suddenly realized she didn't want to be alone. She smiled and nodded.

"Fine."

"So how do you plan on not being seen?" He asked.

Lily shrugged. "A simple spell of invisibility." Lily closed her eyes and began to chant as her mother had taught her a month ago, visualizing hers and Ash's invisibility. She opened her eyes and looked down only to see nothing. Ash gasped. "Keep a hold on my hand so you don't get lost," she whispered and began walking.

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They searched the hospital for an hour before Lily got the word that she was needed in bed, now. So they abandoned the search and returned to her room. Lily walked in and dropped the spell with a feeling of relief. She looked around the room to see Jake and Richie asleep in a couple chairs, Shiloh and Noah standing and talking quietly, and Thiery.

"The Doctor will be in shortly, I thought it best if you were here," Thiery said. Lily nodded and got back into bed. She had just settled down when a light knock came followed by a friendly face popping through the door. The woman was in her late thirties and seemed very friendly and happy. Lily smiled unconsciously at the woman.

"I'm Dr. Katz, nice to see you're finally awake miss, Ambrose was it?" Lily nodded in response and waited for the woman to continue. "Well I've been discussing things with your cousin Thiery and he seems to think you would be better off if I released you into his care. He tells me he can get the best medical attention money can buy. My stance on the situation is that someone with a spinal injury shouldn't be moved, but your parents agree with him and I have no legal recourse. So I want to check you before they take you."

"That's not necessary," Thiery said quickly. "As I said she will be fine." Thiery moved to intercept the woman before she could reach Lily, who was already healed from her wounds.

"I'm sure I'll be fine," Lily told Dr. Katz, catching the woman's eyes and trying to control her mind. She was taken off guard when the woman pushed past Thiery and began taking Lily's pulse.

Lily glanced anxiously at Thiery who only shrugged and in mind speech said, "We haven't been able to influence her either." Lily turned her attention back to the doctor who was pulling down the covers and beginning to examine her legs. Lily freaked out.

"Stop," she yelled, making the Doctor pull away and look up at her. "I'm sorry I just don't like people I don't know touching me, I have anxiety," she said, thinking quickly. Thiery nodded and interceded himself between the Doctor and Lily again.

"She doesn't like us to mention it to others, but now we can fly in her normal Doctors, they're on their way in fact, to diagnose her."

"Fine, but I'm telling you this once, she doesn't leave until she has a Doctor's say so," Dr. Katz said, standing and turning to leave.

Thiery smiled as he walked her to the door. "I wouldn't have it any other way; they should be here in the next half hour." The Doctor nodded and left. As soon as the door closed Thiery opened his cell phone and walked to the other side of the room.

"Shiloh?" She asked and Shiloh and Noah came over to her bedside.

"Yeah?" He asked.

"Do you think, I mean, could you look, um," she blushed slightly.

"You want us to look for the dumb ass Kenny?" Noah asked knowingly. She nodded and smiled.

"Please?" She asked. They both laughed and left the room.

"You shouldn't worry over much," Thiery said as he hung up the phone and walked to her bedside. "He's just upset, he'll get over it and realize it's not your fault soon enough."

"What's not her fault?" Ash asked.

"That she has two soulmates." Ash's jaw dropped as the implications of this hit him.

"B-but how?"

"I'm having some people check that out as we speak, the best idea I've heard is that both Kenny and Azheda are old souls and somewhere along the lines their soul split in half."

"Now that you mention it he is an old soul, so am I apparently, and Kenny," Lily sat up in bed as she thought about this. "When we were together I saw his mind and," she shuddered at the darkness he had inside him and continued, "I saw myself in a memory, and I saw Kenny."

"Did he tell you anything?" Thiery asked.

Lily nodded, "when I saw Kenny I asked how he knew him, and Azheda said they were brothers."

"A soul can split?" Ash asked.

"It doesn't happen very often but there have been stories and even some reports of it happening before. Only to a reincarnated soul however, it would be something like an embryo splitting and a woman having twins, instead of just the embryo splitting the soul splits with it," Thiery said thoughtfully.

"So you're saying that they were one soul and then they just spontaneously split into two?" Lily asked. Thiery nodded.

"Lay down we're about to have company." Lily lay down quickly and covered herself with the blankets. Dr. Katz entered leading a group of three men, all vampires Lily's senses screamed. Thiery laid a reassuring hand on her arm and smiled.

"I'm happy to see you all made it, Dr. Lufin, Jackson, and Redfern," Thiery said. The men smiled and nodded.

"I hear you got into a little trouble Lily," a man with golden eye and dark red hair said with a smile.

"Just a little."

"Well let's see if we should move you," the man with dark brown hair and grey eyes said. Ash backed away from her bed and stood beside Thiery.

"Okay," she said. The three gathered around her, blocking her from Dr. Katz view. They lifted her blankets and began to poke around, doing things she was sure no real doctor would do. After about thirty minutes of them poking, prodding, and tickling her until she was sure she would burst out laughing and ruin their cover, the three vampires turned the blanket up and stepped away from her.

"What is your diagnosis Doctors?" Katz asked.

"One moment, please. Allow us to confer," the golden eyed vampire said. She nodded and stood silently, watching as they gathered in a circle talking about, to Lily's ears at least, a dirty joke one of them had told on the plane. Lily, again, tried to not crack up.

The golden eyed vampire smiled and stepped away from the group and over to Katz.

"Dr. Redfern?" Katz asked.

"The conclusion we have come to is that the young lady may indeed never walk again, but that while it may be a bit dangerous to move her familiar settings may have better effects upon her healing. Moving her would be worth the risk."

Dr. Katz looked at each vampire in shock. "You're insane, all of you," she yelled.

"I am Lily's psychiatrist, her anxiety will only increase the longer she is away from familiar settings, and as her anxiety grows her body will become exhausted leaving no room for healing," the brown haired vampire said. The third vampire, who had light blond hair, had yet to speak and she wondered why.

"You asked for a diagnosis and now you have one. Lily will be leaving with us now," Thiery said.

The door opened and in walked her mother leading two men with a gurney. She rolled her eyes at this extravagance but allowed herself to be lifted by the two men and gingerly laid upon the gurney. They brought her into the elevator, Thiery, Ash, her mother, and the three vampires flanking her, and down they went. She felt odd being carried, but remained still and calm incase there were cameras or someone watching. They made it to the bottom floor and the two men carried her out side where a van was waiting. The back doors opened and she smirked to see her brothers and Kenny smiling from the empty back of the van. They laid her, gurney and all, onto the floor, closed the doors, and left.

Lily heard the front door of the van open and the engine roar to life. The van began to move, and Lily still lay unmoving on the floor.

"You can get up now," the man Katz had called Redfern said. She sighed and sat up, stretching her legs that ached from tensing them to not move.

"Thanks," she said. "Back to Thiery's?" She asked.

"Yes," Thiery said from the driver's seat. Lily smiled and turned to Kenny who was smiling a bit hesitantly at her. He had forgiven her, she knew without their contact; still smiling she reached out and grabbed his hand. Everything would be okay if they just stayed together, nothing could beat them.

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Yay, another update! Anyway, review everybody! I hope you liked this chapter and, I don't think it was confusing… but let me know. Anyway I've been thinking about putting in a little part entitled, "What those who haven't read LJ Smith books should know" just for those of you reading this that haven't read her. If you think you need it let me know in a review or email, same if you don't want it.

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