The local supermarket wasn't a place for a vampiress, the scents were distracting. Lillith pushed cart down the aisle, looking at everything that humans ate. She grabbed what she thought a human male would like. She hasn't dealt with a relationship in past four hundred years. She was out of date. She wasn't used to doing the courting.
During her human life; she was the daughter of a Governor, everything was handed to her. She had only to smile and look pretty, which she did but she longed for companionship, she longed for freedom of her father, and most of all, she longed for love. One night during one of the parties that her father had thrown is when she met the one who she thought she would love until her dying day, a man by the name of Maxwell Nicoletti. Little did she know, he was a vampire.
He was everything, she dreamed about. He was refined and sophisticated, handsome, he looked at her like she was the only person in the world. A three weeks later, her perfect world came crashing down, when Maxwell took her out to the gardens of her father's house. There he leaned forward like he was kiss her but he bit her instead, she felt weak as she knew her blood was leaving her body, and that is when he revealed himself to be a vampire.
"I can hear your heart weakening, tell me my sweet Lily, do you want to live?" he had asked
She didn't know what she was doing at the time, she begged for life any life, she was afraid of dieing without knowing what true love felt like, so she answered "Yes, I want to live!"
She watched with weakened human eyes as he raised his wrist to his mouth and jerked it over one of his fangs and pressed his bleeding wrist to her mouth. "Drink, my sweet child, and you will have your life back and more."
Lillith drank until he pulled away and just left her without looking back. Mortal death was agony as she writhed and curled in on herself wishing to die. When the pain finally stopped she opened her eyes to a new world, she was strong, beautiful but frozen at the tender age of twenty one.
The new vampiress took one last look at her father's house, knowing she would never be accepted there again and fled into the night. Rumors over the years, said she had eloped with Maxwell. But she sneered at the name of the creature who gave her eternal life.
Of course, she did meet up with Maxwell twenty years later, let's just say he didn't survive the encounter. Then she learned of the Charmed Ones, she was almost willing to break in to their home, and wait until they vanquished her, to end her very long life, but the Elders had other plans for her. After the Charmed One named Prue had died, they threw out a rule about witches and whitelighters being together to reconstitute the Charmed Ones and they vanquished the first Source of All Evil, and the Elders came to her. Saying she had a greater destiny then just passing along the timelines. She was to save Cole Turner's sanity and life. How was the vampiress going to complete with the memory of loving a Charmed One?
Lillith blinked and noticed she was no longer at the supermarket, instead she was standing in front of Cole's penthouse door.
"How did I get here?" Lillith asks, She figured that she must of just followed his scent. she was about to knock when her cell phone rang. She looked at the caller id and it was a number she didn't recognize. "Hello?"
"Lillith? I'm sorry, did I wake you?" Cole's voice replies,
"Of course not, I was awake at twilight. Please forgive my bluntness, but why are you calling?" Lillith asks.
"I'm not really sure myself, but I would really like someone to talk too." Cole answers,
Lillith gave a breathy laugh, "Well that's good news, but would you mind opening the door, I kinda look like a idiot standing here,"
"Wait, you're outside?" Cole asks
Lillith could hear his footsteps walking closer to the door, when he opened the door. She kinda wrinkled her nose. Cole was still wearing the clothes from the night before. When they first met.
Cole being a gentlemen took a few grocery sacks from the vampiress. "What's this?"
Lillith looks down at her tennis shoes, "I thought you would be hungry, after a night of drinking."
"Thanks, I guess," Cole replies feeling flustered that someone would have taken the time to think about his well being.
Lillith looks up at him, even in his shabby state she felt her heart swell to the point of aching, but she ignored it. "I don't mean to be rude but would you mind taking a shower please."
Cole smiled, "I guess I could, I'm offending your sense of smell aren't I?"
"Just a little bit." Lillith replies, "I'll put these away,"
Cole nods, and walked off after putting the sacks on the counter. A few minutes later, Lillith heard the sound of water running in the bathroom.
The vampiress didn't know what she was doing but she knew the basics of cooking, hours upon hours of watching Food Network. She put away the cold stuff she brought, her hand touched a bottle and when she looked at the label she nearly screamed. She brought Château Lafite Rothschild 1900.
"Where did I go to buy this?" She asks herself. She shook her head, oh well she was rich, one of the perks of being a vampiress, she hordes gold and jewels, over the years. She set to work preparing a small feast.
Lillith couldn't believe what she was doing, cooking for a man she barely knew what is going on with her?
'You like him, you're hoping to heal the wounds of your heart as well as his.' a voice replies,
Lillith stiffen as she heard the voice, she notices time seemed to slow down the steak was barely sizzling, she turned around and came face to face with a Cupid.
"You!" snarls Lillith "Will Leave Me Alone!"
"I can't do that, and how are you able to see me?" the Cupid asks
"Don't they teach anything about vampiresses?" Lillith asks, "I'm outside of time all together."
The Cupid just stared at her.
"Let me break this down for you, You can't plant seeds of blossoming love within my heart. Vampires and Vampiresses don't fall in love by Cupids." Lillith explained very slowly.
"But you're giving up on love. I would go down in magical history for uniting a vampiress and the former Source of All Evil." the Cupid replies,
"Are you brain dead in there, Love is what got me this curse in the first place?" Lillith asks
"But you two are perfect match, the ring doesn't lie." the Cupid explains,
Lillith grabbed his shirt collar and pulled him to her face, "Listen very carefully even if I was willing, I would never earn someone else's love, I'm just here to save him from doing something stupid."
"Keep telling yourself that," the Cupid replies before fading out.
"I hate Cupids." Lillith mutters. She turned back around and noticed someone in a black suit standing there. She snarled at the Avatar. "Leave him be, I won't let him join your ranks."
"Protective, aren't you over someone, who isn't yours." the Avatar replies, "Maybe dare I say you even love him already."
"Leave before I drink your blood," Lillith states, as she went back to cooking.
Cole walked out as he smelled something good, and gasps as he saw Lillith standing in his kitchen like she belonged there, minding her own business, cooking for him.
Lillith didn't look over from the potatoes she was chopping, "You smell better, I mean that in the best possible way, you don't stink like that bar."
"Why are you doing this?" Cole asks as he came nearer
"Doing what? Being nice for someone, who needs a friend?" Lillith asks her heart constricted at the word friend, was the Avatar right?
'Why does she sound so sad when she said the word friend. Could she like me?' Cole thought watched Lillith frying the potatoes, for someone who doesn't need to eat, she sure can make a guy hungry.
Lillith took the steaks off the indoor grill and put them on a plate, along with the artichokes and fried potatoes, 'I can't believe I'm using his favorite foods against him like this.'
she took the plates to the table, and went back for some wine glasses, and the wine, she pour Cole's glass first and set beside his plate.
Cole looked at her with suspicion, how did she know what he liked?
"I had Higher help." Lillith admitted, "They gave me what She wrote about you, they're trying to help."
"Then why did you agree to this in the first place?" Cole asks as he took a bite of the steak and nearly sighed in bliss.
Lillith sighed "Pain, Heartache, rejection, I know well, when I first heard about you, I didn't believe someone else could be hurting as much if not more then I do. I said last night, I'm on a path of redemption. I lived four hundred and fifteen years regretting the choice I made, if I could go back and kicked my human self in the ass, I would."
"What happen to you?" Cole asks
Lillith smiled sadly, "About the same as you, fell in love." she then explained about her human life and how she met and fell in love with the vampire who had left her broken and immortal.
"I'm sorry," Cole apologized, "If I ever see him, I would..." he trailed off, why did he feel so protective of her?
"Don't worry, I caught up with him and he didn't enjoy seeing me again," Lillith replies, "Any way, I said before I want to help, maybe we can heal each other's wounds."
"I don't know, You're asking a lot." Cole replies,
Lillith's eyes blazed, "I wasn't talking about a relationship. I was just saying we could be friends." she stood up and walked over to the doors of the balcony and opened them to the night air, she walked out and looked up at the stars,
She felt the current shift as Cole joined her,
"I never really took the time to just look at the night, I was always was out prowling though the streets searching for demons to hunt." Lillith states, "But what do I know, I never felt truly alive again until now."
"Where do you live?" Cole asks
"You see that bunch of lights just that way," Lillith replies, as she pointed the north, "There's an apartment complex in that direction owned by some demons who turned their back of the Source, oh about fifteen years ago. They decided they were better off living as humans. They're nice anyone of the supernatural seeking a place to stay just has to come to them and they set them up."
"I was wondering about that place. When I was Belthazar I could sense the demons there." Cole replies,
"We of vampiric nature aren't that welcome among demons, I wondered what they did to get banned from the underworld?" Lillith asks
"They wanted to take over," Cole replies, "I remember I was there."
"I'm not welcome among most of those circles either," Lillith laughed,
"Why?" Cole asks
"My diet mostly, I don't like killing my victims." Lillith replies, "If you ever saw someone stumbled out of an alley, like he was drunk or hungover. That would be me."
"I don't think I want to meet you in a dark alley," Cole states,
Lillith turned to him, "Why Mr. Turner was a joke I just heard?"
"I guess it was," Cole replies, for the first time since Lillith arrived, he didn't think about his ex-wife. "So is everything, we were taught about your kind true?"
Lillith turned and glided up to him, and her fangs grazed his skin of his neck, then she backed up, "That we're nothing but soulless, blood thirsty monsters. Depending on who you run into. I haven't killed anyone who didn't deserve it."
"Don't do that, it creeps me out." Cole replies,
"I can't help what I am, but that wasn't like I was going to bite you," Lillith states, "Anyway, Yes, I do sleep in a coffin, no, it doesn't have to have dirt of my homeland, garlic, crosses, don't work on me. But some of my kind do sleep in crypts, they stick to the traditional ways, I have bills to pay, I have a bank account, I live like a mortal, so I'm a freak among immortals."
"I don't think you're a freak, insane maybe, but not a freak." Cole replies,
"I'm suppose to be saving you from your insanity, not adding to mine." Lillith gently teases, "But I guess saving you from your absorbed demonic powers, is going to the toughest part."
Cole just shook his head, "I only did it to return to this world, and claim Phoebe back."
Lillith nods, "First off, no more talk about her. I can't help you if you're going to dwell in the past,"
"But..." Cole protests, but Lillith placed a finger to his lips,
"I'm never good with this sort of thing, but you didn't have many friends living in the Underworld for the past hundred and some years, and neither have I, this is the first time, I haven't left the country." Lillith explains. "You need sleep,"
"I don't want too," Cole replies,
Lillith rolls her eyes, "Unless you're going to take to sleeping during the day, that is I'm going to be taking your nights either way,"
"You are annoying," Cole states,
"You'll learn love me in time, now we have got think of something for you to do, in the daylight." Lillith replies, "Besides sitting here being dark, handsome, and brooding," Lillith's eyes widened, 'Did I just say that outloud, stupid, stupid, stupid,'
"I was the ADA," Cole replies, "But that was just a cover and I was trying to be good."
Lillith laughs "Oh goodness, don't get me started on the legal system, they are bunch of corrupt idiots, no wonder why demons like the job."
"How do you know?" Cole asks
"You're standing in the mists, of one of the world's oldest if I do say so, beautiful lawyers. I have a few law degrees." Lillith answers, "But I only take cases at night."
Lillith walked back into the Penthouse, and started clearing away their dishes.
"You don't have do that," Cole states.
"Let me enjoy being a female, I was raised to do this, besides sitting and looking like china doll." Lillith replies,
The Vampiress cleared the table and washed the dishes, before looking up at Cole though her eyelashes, "I don't suppose, you have enough sense in your head, to do laundry?"
Cole just stared at her, "I thought you were here to help, not be a maid."
"I am, it wouldn't do me any good if I have come to a pig sty every night. Unless you want a change of pace and hang out at my place." Lillith replies, she thought for a few seconds, "On second thought, just pack a suitcase, you need to get out of this place. To many memories."
Cole didn't move,
Lillith glared "Are you waiting for a embossed invitation?"
"Bossy vampiress." Cole muttered
"Arrogant human!" Lillith exclaims, "Great where am I going to put him?"
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