AN: Apologies I just realised I think my brain turned to mush when I was writing the last chapter. I have no clue why I put Lily as a younger vampire compared to the Salvatores. She in fact should be older since Katherine is her great grandmother. The age gap should be about 100-150 years. So I'm putting Lily around 350-400 years old. So last chap is exactly the same…Damon still gave his blood to Caroline. And Lily still has animal blood…and the occasional spurt of human blood when nothing is around.
Lily's eyes fluttered open, but all she could see was white. She clenched her eyes shut again. It almost felt like an out of body experience. This time when she opened her deep green orbs she did it much more slowly. When she did her world was out of focused, she was seeing double. Lily took a deep breath and her vision started to return to normal. Lily sat up and looked around she was in a large room, the ceilings were high and the furnishing looked expensive. Where on earth was she? Lily held her head in her hands and pulled her knees up to her chest…she was forced to look at her current attire.
She had been changed, no longer was she wearing her mud streaked saddened nightgown. Instead she was in a chemise. Lily was confused and frightened…she pressed her palms against the sides of her head. As she attempted to recall the events that put her here…she remembered…Clara crying…the rain hitting her skin…running…she remembered running. Her eyes widened when she recalled the terrible pain in her back. But now she felt nothing…almost as if she wasn't shot in the back.
Lily immediately reached behind and touched her back, her skin was smooth. Now this definitely sent her mind reeling wasn't she supposed to have so garish wound…or even bandages. Something was wrong she could sense it. Lily shook her head sending her red locks flying. She needed to get some answers; she swung her legs out of her bed and felt the cool wood beneath her bare feet.
Lily gaped around the good it was beautiful…but wondered why the curtains were drawn. The red head preferred the sunlight against her skin, and from the lack of candles or lanterns being lit so it must be because it was daylight. She strode over to the curtains and took a deep breath and flung them apart. The small smile on her face slipped and she cried out when she saw steam rising off of her skin. The sun was burning her. Lily staggered back and slammed herself against a dark corner. She looked down wide eye at her skin, right before her eyes it was healing.
"What-the-"she whimpered. She jumped when she felt a pulse of air in front of her "Elijah?" she looked at the man in confusion. The last time she had seen him was before he left her. He kneeled down in front of her. "What's happening to me?" she asked her emotions were out of control, one part of her was extremely happy about seeing him and the other part was just so angry for him leaving. She acted on the latter and slapped him hard across the face. But gasped when she sent him staggering a few steps away.
"So I am guessing she is still mad?" her eyes snapped towards the doorway and saw Niklaus leaning against the door way. The blond haired Original strolled over towards the window and closed the curtains.
"It would seem so" Elijah cleared his throat "Lily listen to me-"
But her attention was on Niklaus…she could see the blood dotted around his collar, and instead of feeling disgust she felt an undying need to lick the blood off.
"Lillian-"Elijah said sternly he knew that she was confused and most likely frightened. "Listen to me-"
Lily's eyes darkened and groaned feeling something sharp tearing through her gums. The Original saw the dark veins protruding around her eyes, "Lily-"she shoved him away and blurred towards Klaus pinning him to the wall. Klaus snarled and flipped her around so that he was pinning her against the wall.
"Calm yourself" Klaus ordered he could hear her frantic heartbeat. Lily's eyes seem to return to normal. Her eyes welled up with tears
"What's-what's happening to me?" she whimpered. The fair head Original moved back allowing his brother to take his place.
Elijah decided to take over and moved towards her, "Lily-"
"What am I?" Lily asked, Elijah cupped her face and brushed her tears away.
"You are a vampire" he told her. Neither brothers missed the distraught look on her face.
"I can't be" Lily cried "I do not want to be a vampire…"she sobbed. Her body shook; Elijah swallowed and held her to his chest.
"You have a choice Lillian" he rested his chin atop her head. "You do not have to turn if you do not wish. The transition is only complete if you drink human blood."
"And if I don't?" Lily asked softly, pulling back slightly. Elijah dark eyes roamed her face.
"Well you die" Niklaus said bluntly. "Make the right choice love."
Lily blinked she didn't want to become a creature of the night; she wanted to have children…eventually get married and grow old with her loved ones around her. But then Elijah? Would he hate her if she didn't turn? Their romance had blossomed into something magical when he was at her manor.
"It is your choice Lillian" Elijah assured her, truth was he wanted to force blood down her throat. He would rather have spent an eternity with her than not at all. But this was her decision. He didn't want her to spend her eternity hating him.
Lily swallowed "I…I do not want to be a vampire Elijah" she said truthfully. Elijah closed his eyes and accepted it.
"Ok…it is your choice" he murmured. They were startled when Niklaus stormed out of the room.
"Are you ok with this?" the red head murmured she felt odd. Her skin felt itchy and she felt a thumping in her head.
"No…but I respect your decision" Elijah moved closed, "let's make some of your last few moments thrilling"
Before she could question what he meant his lips smashed against her. Lily moaned and pressed herself against him. Everything was heightened, she could feel every part of his body against her…she felt an urge to strip him and touch his bare skin.
Elijah's large hand clamped down on her upper thigh. She could feel the heat radiating off of him. He pulled back and pressed hot wet kisses against her throat.
"Elijah-Elijah-"she gasped, her lips were red and slightly swollen from beforehand.
"Lillian…Lillian, my sweet Lily." Elijah's accented voice purred. "Lily-"
Her eyes snapped opened, she felt a pleasant sensation against her throat…the dream evaporated from her mind as she was brought crashing back to reality.
It took a few moments to realise that someone was actually kissing her throat. "Damon? do you have a thing for molesting women in their bed?" she asked.
"Only the hot ones-"Damon smirked peering down at her. He was hovering above her, "And I got lonely-"
"Hmm-"Lily nodded and then surprised him, by grasping him around the throat and flipping them over so she was on top of him. Damon grunted it was a huge turn on for him to have a strong woman. "Let me-"she whispered into his ear "tell you something. I am so much more than a distraction little boy" she smiled coyly down at him.
"Oh come on Lily…you want me don't you" Damon drawled. Lily cocked an eyebrow and leant down so her lips were inches away from him.
"Truth is dear…I believe you can't handle me." She dropped a kiss onto his cheek, "now either be a useful friend and make me breakfast…or shoo" within a blink of an eye she was off of him.
Damon flopped down on the bed "You're killing me" he groaned and eyed the shorts she was wearing.
"If I felt like killing you I would have" she headed into the bathroom. "Now do something useful"
Damon rolled his eyes, and got out of the bed. He had woken up a couple of hours ago and went off to check on Lily. When he saw his friend looking rather distressed in bed he had clamoured in beside her…it not only calmed her but he himself felt better. Truth was he rather hang out here with Lily than deal with his brother and this whole Elena mess.
The red head vampire rubbed her hands over her eyes and rolled her shoulders. Today was no doubt going to be a very busy day since the High School carnival would be happening later this evening. Lily stripped out of her clothes, and turned the shower faucet on. She stepped under the rain of hot water and sighed feeling it was over her.
Lily sighed and just took a few moments, she had the feeling this was the only amount of peace she would get for a while, what with Katherine back in town…and this Mason Lockwood showing up. After a few more minutes she hurriedly finished the rest of her shower. Lily reached out to grab her towel, and shook her head feeling the fuzzy material being pressed into her hands.
"Really Damon?" Lily called wrapping the material around herself. She stepped out of the tub and pushed the curtain aside. "You are a peeping vampire aren't you?"
Damon rolled his eyes. "Hey you left the door unlocked"
Lily smiled and shook her head, padding barefooted back towards her bedroom. "Stop starting at my bottom" she called out.
"It's perky" was the younger vampire's excuse. She was back in her room, and Damon was leaning against the doorway. "Anyway I've come to give you breakfast-"he handed her a mug, "and to let you know I'll be off"
Lily nodded and took a sip of the warm blood "Human? I have plenty of animal blood in my fridge" she licked her lips. It felt refreshing to taste this.
"Yeah I know that" Damon replied, Lily wasn't too surprised when the vampire started to root through her closet "but with Katherine back in town you need your stamina." He said. It was true he and Stefan needed Lily's help dealing with the stronger vampire. Since Lily was the only one in town who had a better chance of battling Katherine then him and Stefan.
"Aww you care" Lily took another mouthful of blood. "Still-"
"It's from a blood bag. So I didn't kill anyone" he drawled, and pulled out a dress "Ooh wear this…it's a sexy little number" he wagged his eyebrows up and down.
Lily chuckled and leant against the window. "Hmm…I am going to a school, where I work in. not some club" she drawled.
"Aww…lace looks hot on you-"
"You sure you're not a cross dresser Damon? I think you know more about fashion then me" Lily uttered and took another mouthful of blood. The raven head vampire rolled his icy blue eyes, and noticed the way her eyes seemed to have darkened.
"Lily sure you can handle human blood-"
Lily snorted "I've been around for a while Damon. I do have some semblance of control…I won't pull a Stefan" she uttered, causing Damon to snicker.
"Fine so see ya-"
"Oh and Damon?" she called after him popping her head out of her bedroom. "Try and not piss everyone off"
"Right" he shook his head and walked out slamming the front door behind him. Lily downed the rest of the blood and stretched her arms above her head. She could hear bone cracking.
Without further ado, she rummaged through her closet to pull some clothes out for the day. She glanced out of the window and saw that the sun was out, she opted to wear a skirt.
Lily quickly got dressed and brushed her thick hair, she pulled it into a loose bun and made sure to leave some curls out to frame her face. The red head vampire slipped on her heels and grabbed her bag before locking up.
Lily took a sip of her coffee, she was currently in the staff room and was reading through some essays she needed to grade. She felt a shadow over her and peered up through her thick lashes.
"Mr Louis what can I do for you?" she asked seeing the principle standing before her.
The portly man looked slightly agitated and was wringing his hands. She could hear his frantic heartbeat. The poor man was in a state.
"Caroline Forbes was meant to be in charge of this event" he waved his hand out towards the window, where a few yards away she could make out some students attempting to put the carnival together.
"Yes?"
"Well it's falling apart" Mr Louis uttered, "I was hoping you could help out…run this show"
Lily sighed; she felt some pity for the man. It was usually the volunteers who were up for this. And since the neurotic yet organised Caroline was engaged, it seemed to have fallen on Lily.
"You could just get one of the other kids to help out. Elena Gilbert-"she knew that the brunette would most likely want to keep herself busy and what could be more perfect than organising a carnival.
"I know but I need someone with authority as well. To approve the final decisions…please Lily, you're our youngest teacher here so I was hoping you'd be able to wrangle them together-"M Louis uttered, Lily heard the snort that came from Alaric's mouth, the hunter had heard the last few words leaving the head teacher's had said.
"Sure why not" Lily smiled taking the clipboard from him.
"Thank you…I wouldn't totally disagree with you cracking the whip. If needs be" with one final smile he hurriedly left the room.
Lily sighed and stood up; she dumped the rest of her coffee in the sink and stacked up the essays she yet still had to mark.
"Something funny Alaric?" Lily asked as she walked over to the history teacher.
"Yeah" Alaric grinned leaning against the counter, he was making himself some coffee. "He thinks that you could connect with the students because of how young you are…seems-"
"Ironic." Lily giggled "Wonder what he would say if he knows I'm older than his great-great grandmother" she cleared her throat and looked down at the list. Damn there seems to be a lot of things that needed to be done to get this carnival under way. "Hey Alaric-"
"Please just Ric." It was near impossible at times to get the red head to say things not as formally. But then again he knew she was brought up with those customs.
"Fine Ric" she smiled "want to help me out with this?" she asked.
Alaric snorted "Yeah…no not happening. I am not chaperoning this nor am I going anywhere near this" he wanted to have his night off and spend it with Jenna.
Lily rolled her eyes "Fine. But at least drop this off in my classroom will you?" she nodded towards her stack of essays.
"I can do that-"
"Finally being useful-"
"Mean and uncalled for Lily" Alaric yelled after her. She merely shot him a wink and walked out of the classroom.
"Ok…and this is all of it?" Lily asked the driver. She had managed to wrangle some more students to help out with the carnival. So now things were beginning to come together, she had supervised the last truck coming in that was delivering some prizes for the booths.
"Yes…you could check it" the thin man said.
Lily nodded and looked down at the list, then glanced over to the bed of the truck where several plastic bags that contained stuff toys.
"Yeah I'll do that-thanks Chad. There's some coffee in the staff room so help yourself" she smiled and was about to walk away so she could get to the back of the truck but hand clamped down on her wrist. She cocked an eyebrow and looked at the human.
"I was wondering if you would…erm join me and-"
"Nope…now-"she caught his gaze her pupils dilated "you're going to go get some coffee and forget this ever happened" she compelled him. A blank expression came across his face and he dumbly nodded before walking away. Lily shuddered and gripped onto the clipboard.
"I saw that" Elena called out she was helping out on one of the stands
"Really Lil-Ms Peterson" Bonnie corrected herself,
"What? If you had the trick to get rid of creepers I'd bet you would use it" Lily murmured, her eyes flickering back down to the clipboard and then back over to the truck. "Since you two are currently idle, how about you help me hand these out" she uttered.
"So any word on Katherine?" Lily asked, signing off some of the papers, as Elena and Bonnie started to root round the truck,
"Nope" Elena replied grabbing a bag.
"Hmm…it was eerie her resemblance to you" the vampire uttered, handing a bag over to Bonnie.
"Yeah she looked just like you" the witch nodded "It was freakish."
Lily licked her lips and hummed "You think it'd be better to move the arm wrestling booth into the school?" she questioned pulling out the page that held the current layout of the carnival.
"Yeah. Gives people more of a chance to see what's happening outside." Elena nodded and then turned to Bonnie "And she is my ancestor" the brunette added.
"Your vampire ancestor" Bonnie declared as Lily placed the board on the back of the truck grabbing two backs, she kept an ear out on the two teens conversation.
"Here you go Mel" Lily smiled at the blond teen who was putting the prizes in order for the ring-toss. She ripped the back open for the teen.
"But she didn't just resemble like a family member would" the teens walked over to Lily handing more prizes over "but she was you."
"Just a more evil version of you" Lily commented grabbing a few more bags, to hand them out.
"I don't know how to explain it" Elena admitted "It's creepy; I don't want to focus on that right now. And I don't want to talk about anything vampire related-"
"Well that's awkward then" the red head exclaimed.
"I can talk to you" Elena smiled at her, "oh and Jenna managed to convince Alaric to come to the carnival tonight."
"Ha" Lily snorted much to the teen's amusement "he was so sure he'd get out of it." She grinned and glanced at the time, she needed to get a move on. "Well…you two got five minutes to class. Go I don't want you to be late"
"See yah later Lily, Bon?" the vampire waltzed off to go and yell out some of the jocks who were messing about with the candy floss machine.
"Yeah I'm coming" Bonnie said "I'll meet you there" the witch ran over to Lily, "Lily…I was wondering…erm…would you know anything about Elena and Katherine and how they look alike?" this caught the red head's attention. She did wonder about that.
"All I can say is Elena appears to be a doppelganger…they fit the descriptions." Lily explained just as the bell rang. "And now you're going to be late. Come on"
Lily had just dismissed her class, and was cleaning the chalkboard. It was nearing the end of the day.
"Lily" she looked over her shoulder and saw that it was Stefan who had called her.
"Hey what's up?" she wiped her hands "Did you give it to him?"
The younger vampire nodded "Yep, I gave Jeremy the vervaine bracelet…and some liquidised version as well."
"Good" Lily murmured, she had advised Stefan it be best to give Jeremy some more insights into their kind. "Something else bothering you Stefan?" she asked noticing he hadn't left.
"Do you think it's wise to tell Jeremy about all of this?" Stefan questioned.
Lily crossed her arms in front of her chest "Yes…he needs ways to know how to protect himself. We have a powerful psychotic vampire running around. Who looks exactly like Elena and then we have your brother…who seems unhinged."
Stefan sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. Lily smiled and squeezed his shoulder "Stefan you know what you need to do?"
"What?" he asked.
"Let loose…act like a teenager. Sweep your girlfriend off of her feet. From what I've seen of Katherine, when she makes her move, she would make sure we all know of it." She murmured.
"And Damon?"
"Hmm…I'll keep an eye on him" Lily told him.
"Thanks" Stefan grinned; he didn't know how he would have coped over the last couple of months if the other vampire hadn't been around.
"You're welcome…now go away so I can go home for a bit." She stated. He grinned and with a swift kiss on her cheek he was gone.
Lily spent the next twenty minutes, gathering her things; she hefted up the stack of essays and decided to do most of the marking at home since she had a week to do this. She flicked off the light switch and grasped the various handles of her bags. She exited the school using the front entrance.
Lily could see some of the carnival workers here already who were sorting out the music and whatnot. She dug through her bag to get her car keys and so wasn't paying attention to where she as going.
She slammed into something hard and dropped everything. Lily cursed under her breath and knelt down to gather her things.
Whoever had bumped into her kneeled down and helped "I'm so sorry-"
"It's fine" Lily brushed him off "I wasn't watching where I was going. Really you don't have to help-"
"Of course I do. What kind of man would if I didn't help a gorgeous woman like yourself out." His voice was deep.
Lily laughed and finally looked up so she could meet his gaze, the first thought that ran through her mind was that his eyes were…lovely. In fact he was very handsome. It was Mason Lockwood, she saw him at the party with Carol.
"So I'm guessing you're not from around here" he commented gathering some of the sheets of paper, together they collected them all in about a minute or so.
"The accent right?" Lily smiled "Hmm…originally I'm from England." She uttered standing up. She took the papers off of him.
"England? And you came to Mystic Falls of all places?" he asked. Lily could tell that he was a friendly character. "Seems…a comedown"
Lily canted her head to the side "Aren't you supposed to be I don't know…raving on about your town?" she questioned.
"Hmm I should. Look I should get going…it was nice meeting you" he offered her his hand. Her smaller hand shook his larger one. As soon as they made contact both of them stiffened. With a nod he left.
Lily frowned, she knew he was different…he wasn't a normal human. She had just dumped her bags in the car when her cell rang.
"Damon?"
"Hey sex-"
"No. what do you want?" she asked sliding into her car. She slammed the door behind her.
"I want to know if you're wearing lacy panties." Lily scoffed and started the car. "Can you come round? It's important"
"On my way" Lily replied and hanged up. She revved the engine and tore out of the parking lot.
It wasn't long before the red head had pulled up to the Boarding House, she entered the building without bother to knock. She could hear Damon moving about in the parlour.
"Hello" she greeted the dark haired vampire.
"Hi…drink?" he offered her a glass of blood. Shrugging her shoulders Lily took the drink and sat on the back of the couch as he poured himself one.
"So why did you call?" Lily asked taking a sip of the blood, just as Stefan entered the room. "Hey Stefan. Want some?" she held out the glass of blood but he shook his head.
"No thanks" he sat down beside her. "I'm not hungry I just ate"
Lily took another sip of the blood. It was good once in a while to indulge yourself on human blood. Plus it kept her body ticking over. She didn't fully understand why instead of Stefan trying to control his bloodlust and embrace it, he completely ignored it. Lily thought this would definitely come back to haunt him.
"Aren't you worried that one day all the forest animals are going to band together and fight back?" Damon taunted "Surely they talk"
Lily rolled her green orbs "And aren't you worried, that one day you'll piss someone off who won't hesitate to rip your head off?"
"Nah…someone is going to do that eventually" Stefan uttered causing the red head to giggle. "I'm just happy that's a blood bag and not a sorority girl."
"I like this" Damon smirked swaggering around so that he was standing in front of them. "You walking on eggshells around me because you think I'm going to explode. Very suspensible. Is Elena worried too? I bet I'm in your every conversation."
Lily threw the empty glass tumbler at him; Damon just managed to catch it before she could hit him in the face. "Lily that's not friendly-"
"And you're wasting my time." Lily declared jumping onto her feet. "So did either of you heard from Katherine?"
"I think the Lockwoods have a family secret" Damon stated completely ignoring the red head's question. "Because the Gilbert device affected them, and vervaine didn't. They must be vampires-"
"They're not vampires" Lily shook her head "vervaine affects every vampire in some way. And they weren't at all moved by it."
"So they must be something else" Damon countered.
"So what? Is this your new obsession?" Stefan scoffed.
"What? So would you rather have an unknown supernatural element running rampant in our town, fine I'll drop it" the elder Salvatore shrugged his broad shoulders.
Stefan canted his head to the side "We haven't seen the last of Katherine you do know that. We don't know what she's up to."
Lily nodded, that did put her on edge for the last couple of years she was sure of everything since it was much simple. But with a raging vampire running loose now she had no idea what would happen.
"I know, she came back to confess her undying love for you" Damon smirked. "So I'm going to let you deal with her, while I'm going to…explode." He smirked.
"God how did you survive growing up with him?" Lily asked after a moment of silence. Stefan shook his head.
"Sometimes I even wonder that." He muttered, the red head looked at the time, shoot she should be leaving, since she had to get to the carnival earlier so it would run smoothly.
"I'll catch you later" Lily called over her shoulder, and walked down the corridor. Her heeled shoes pounded against the floor. She was about to open the front door but Damon blurred in front of her.
"Damon?"
"I just wanted to know if you think the Lockwoods are hiding anything?"
"Yes…but I have no clue what they are." Lily replied. "Now if you don't mind I should be going." So with a small smile she left.
"Wow Lily this is great" Jenna declared "You did good"
"Yet you still sound surprise" Lily uttered and elbowed the strawberry blond haired woman in ribs, gently.
"Because you managed to pull it off…and I am surprise" Jenna snorted seeing the glare on her face. "So is there alcohol at this place?"
"This is a school carnival" Lily cocked an eyebrow, the place was filled up with teens and the booths were packed with excited teens. "I doubt we've got any alcohol lingering around" she snorted.
"Gosh Lily…don't be such a buzz-kill. Enjoy yourself" she grinned at her shorter friend. They walked across the grassy grounds.
"It'd be easier if I don't have so many things to worry about" the vampire muttered, "and if-HEY DONNY PUT TONY DOWN-"Jenna nearly jumped out of her skin when Lily started to yell. She stood back and watched as the red head stalked towards a group of jocks.
"Alright Jen?" Alaric pecked her on the cheek, and handed his girlfriend some candy floss. "Damn...they pissed her off"
"Understatement" Jenna snorted and quirked an eyebrow "does the big one look like his going to wee himself?"
Alaric chuckled as he saw Lily berating a group of footballers that were easily twice her size "Yeah…when she's made steer clear" he advised, and soon enough the vampire returned.
"So Ric finally swung by-"
"My choice-"at this both Lily and Jenna erupted in giggles "Fine" Alaric huffed "Jenna dragged me."
"And like the good boyfriend you are you agreed" the petite woman chuckled.
"Alright Lily, so how about you?" Jenna asked, they were now once again walking through the carnival,
"What?" Lily asked, tucking in a loose curl behind her ear.
"Dating front." Jenna clarified "Come on…I've seen the looks you get. Hey why not hook up with Mason?"
Lily coughed loudly and Alaric snorted, earning a hard elbow in the ribs. The hunter winced; he was most likely going to end up with a bruise. "What? Mason?"
"Yes," Jenna eyes lit up, "Oh let me arrange a date for you please! You're both hot-"
"Hey-"Alaric exclaimed slightly offended but both women ignored him causing him to roll his eyes.
"You guys would have the cutest babies-"Jenna gushed.
Lily smiled and shook her head, "Honey you're getting carried away. I think I can managed my own dates"
Jenna sighed dramatically but shrugged her shoulders "Fine whatever. So want to join us for a drink?" she asked. "This carnival is more for the youngsters-"
"So an old woman like you can't handle this Jen?" Lily teased "you can't handle this crowd grandma?"
"Oh-"Jenna's cheeks flushed "just to prove your point me and Ric are going to go to every stand and booth. And we're going to start with the Ferris wheel" with that Jenna dragged a whinging Alaric away. The hunter shot Lily a glare and she smirked at him.
Lily sighed "Ms Peterson-"
"Dude out of school hours don't call me that. What's up Conrad?" she asked, recognising the teen that was in Jeremy's class.
"One of the speakers in the Karaoke stand is busted." He uttered
"Fantastic" Lily said sarcastically, great there was another thing she needed to sort out "Ok thanks for letting me know kid." She smiled and hurried off. She needed a carnival tech to sort that out. She spotted one that she recognised from earlier and he was speaking to Bonnie and Elena. So without further ado Lily weaved her way through the crowd.
"Excuse me-"she called attracting the dark skinned male's attention, he wore a tool belt around waist. "You're Connor right?" she questioned him
"That'd be me." He smiled neither Lily nor Elena missed the way his eyes seem to linger on Bonnie. She hid her smile.
"I was wondering if you know anything about karaoke speakers?" Lily uttered.
"Of course I do…"Connor uttered. "I just need to be shown the problem" he added.
Lily nodded "Hey Bon you mind showing him? Got my hands tied" she watched in amusement as the witch stammered out a reply and then led a grinning Connor away.
The red head noticed the look that the brunette was sending her "What?"
"Hands full?" Elena asked.
"What? It's so obvious he likes Bonnie, Bonnie likes him…and I don't want to show some guy speakers" she uttered.
"Hmm…look I'm meeting Stefan why don't I take I keep an eye on things and you just go and relax" Elena suggested. Lily licked her lips and narrowed her eyes "And don't say no. this night is a success Lily. Go and have fun" she pulled the clipboard off of the vampire.
"Fine. But any problems come and get me" Lily ordered, Elena nodded and scurried off.
Lily helped herself to some candyfloss and grinned seeing a very grumpy looking Alaric being dragged away by a very exuberant Jenna.
"I hate you so much" Alaric muttered knowing that the vampire heard him, Lily smiled and shrugged her shoulders, and she pinched some of the candyfloss between her thumb and forefinger and popped it into her mouth. God it felt like ages since she had some floss.
She strolled pass some of the stands but slowed down hearing familiar voices. And rolled her eyes in annoyance when she saw Damon holding Jeremy in a chokehold and dragged the teen away from the crowd, she quietly walked behind him so as not to alert him to her presence.
"Let's not walk around when it so easy for me to end you" Damon threatened Jeremy, this grated on Lily's nerves and she blurred forward easily ripping the raven head vampire off of the teen. Jeremy gasped and stumbled back.
"And let's not threaten humans shall we?" Lily drawled. Damon grunted feeling her thin fingers digging into his throat. "Got it?"
"Yes" Damon bit out. Lily let him go and ignored the glare that he was shooting her. She turned to face Jeremy.
Jeremy rubbed his sore throat "You ok?" she knew he most likely would end up with bruises.
"Yes" his voice was hoarse.
"Good…now are you going to give it back Damon?" she asked. She noticed Jeremy's bare hand.
Damon sighed dramatically and threw the Gilbert ring at the teen, hitting him on his forehead so that it bounced off.
"Such a buzz kill" Damon huffed. With a quick goodbye to Jeremy Lily caught up with the vampire.
"So you're not smart" Lily commented as they headed inside the school.
"How's that then?" Damon asked.
"Threatening the kid brother of the girl you are hopelessly in love with. Now that is stupid" Lily said and spotted Stefan watching the arm-wrestling man. He was keeping an eye on the Lockwoods, to see if there was anything out of the ordinary. The pair came to a stop beside him.
"So Stefan anything?" Damon asked his brother.
"Not much, except Tyler managed to beat every kid here" Stefan replied. Lily observed the scene, come to think of it the Lockwood boy was quick to anger. And he did have an undeniable amount of strength.
"He's got strength" Damon commented.
"He's a triple varsity athlete of course he's got strength" Lily countered placing her hands behind her back.
"You're reaching" Stefan told Damon, just as Mason made his appearance
"Enter the uncle." The three vampires watched as both Lockwoods battled it out, the raven head vampire nudged the red head, when he noticed that her gaze had fallen on Mason's bulging arm.
"Oh you've got a crush-"Damon cooed.
"Whatever…he is good looking" Lily argued, "look at those hands…they're rather large aren't they? They must be excellent for cupping-"
"Eww-"Damon made an expression of disgust. And Stefan gagged, that just sounded so wrong coming out of her. To the youngest Salvatore she was like an older sister/mentor. And to Damon she was one of his only friends; they so did not need to hear that.
Lily chuckled "Ok, ok" she soothed "children." They saw Mason easily overpowering his nephew and the crowd cheered.
"Is that it?" they heard Mason ask.
"Alright…he's got strength-"Tyler called out to the jeering crowd "who wants to go next?"
Damon decided to stick his oar in and folded his arms across his chest "Stefan wants a go" he volunteered his brother. Stefan looked at Lily she shrugged her shoulders indicating for him to go for it.
Stefan sighed "Sure." He plastered a smile onto his face "I'll have a go."
"You couldn't have offered yourself could you?" Lily muttered as Stefan rolled his sleeves up,
"Ah…I don't like getting my hands dirty" he grinned at her. "Get him Stef."
Lily watched as Mason and Stefan clasped hands and the bell rang, indicating that the match had started. Lily's brows furrowed in confusion when she saw that Mason was winning, she knew for a fact that a vampire would have one this…but it didn't seem so since Mason slammed Stefan's hand down. Stefan strolled over to them, Damon glared at his brother.
"You didn't put in any effort at all" the raven head vampire spat.
"I did though" Stefan argued.
"Ok that's weird" Lily muttered,
"You go challenge him" Damon ordered looking at Lily, "you're older and stronger-"
"Yean that wouldn't look suspicious at all would it?" Lily scoffed, she couldn't exactly challenge Mason now, if she did beat him, would look too odd since the elder Lockwood had beaten both Stefan and Tyler.
"Fair point" Damon muttered. "Come on" he gestured for both vampires to follow him, they walked down the crowded corridor leading them away from Mason. "Is he-"
"He's not a vampire" Lily cut him off.
"He has strength but not that kind…it was more than human strength though. If that makes sense" Stefan told them.
"What the hell is up with that family?" Damon said clearly frustrated, "they're not vampires then what are they?"
"Oh…erm maybe they're ninja turtles…-"Lily snorted "or zombies-"he added.
"You're not funny" Damon snapped "no comedic timing at all"
Lily sighed, attempted to recall any information about the Lockwoods. She hadn't really gotten the chance to explore Mystic Falls and their residents. She was brought out of her musings when Damon walked away; he was heading straight for Connor.
"I said ninja turtles-"she looked incredulously at Stefan and shook her head.
"I'm not even going to ask" she muttered and frowned seeing Damon grabbing Connor, she sighed praying that she wouldn't have to clean up after the eldest Salvatore's mess.
"Damon-"she called out.
But he ignored her and caught the man's gaze "I need you to pick a fight with Tyler Lockwood." He compelled him
"Damon don't this" Stefan uttered
"Nah this is just an experiment-"he caught Lily's stern look "just wanting to see something. Don't back down of the fight. Ok?"
"I won't back down" Connor replied in monotone.
"I know you won't" Damon patted his shoulder and let him go, Lily stared after Connor, her gut feeling was that something bad was going to happen.
"You do realise someone is going to get hurt right?" Damon sighed, sometimes it was eerie when Stefan and Lily were together, and they shared the same moral high-ground. Not wanting innocent humans to end up either dead or hurt.
"No someone is going to get mad, and that Tyler kid is incapable of walking away from a fight, let's see who intervenes, the mystery uncle?"
"You're such a git" Lily yelled after Damon.
"Love you too honey" he called back, and winked at her.
Lily rolled her green eyes. "Well…-"her heightened hearing picked up some trouble at the apple bobbing area. "I have teens to shout out. You follow Connor" she uttered; when Stefan nodded she waltzed away.
Lily returned to the carnival, she had popped home to get a quick drink of blood. And had gotten a call from Jenna saying that she had left the Carnival so Alaric could do dirty things to her
"Ok you are so drunk" Lily laughed into her cell.
"No…I'm not-"she heard the other woman slur,
"She so is-"she heard a scuffle on the other end and knew that Alaric most likely had snatched the device off of her. "Good luck Rick" she stated.
"Thanks I'll need it" they hanged up; she had shoved her cell in the pocket of her skirt. And froze, smelling something familiar it was blood. And it was coming from back of the parking lot.
Lily blurred towards the area and saw a distraught Caroline being comforted by Damon, but what struck her about the scene was the stake that the vampire was holding up behind the teenager's back. Before he could plunge it into her, Lily ripped him away from her and threw him across the parking lot.
"What the hell?" Lily snarled,
"Lily-"Damon shouted. Just then Elena and Stefan appeared.
"What is going on?" the red head demanded, her eyes fell onto Caroline and she saw her face covered in blood.
But before she could get an answer Caroline violently shoved Elena away from her, when the brunette moved forward to comfort her. "Get away from me" Caroline shrieked "You killed me-"
"What the hell happened? I was gone for thirty minutes" Lily exclaimed. She was standing between Damon and the others. She could see that the blond was in hysterics.
"No, no Caroline it wasn't me. It was Katherine you know that" Elena spluttered attempting to calm her frantic friend.
"Then why did she look like you?" Caroline sobbed "and why did she do this to me-"
"We should get her inside" Lily announced "come on Caroline, come with me-"she gently took the younger girl's hand and hushed her.
"She will die it's only a matter of time" Damon called out.
"Yeah well it's not going to happen tonight" Stefan snapped glaring at Damon.
Just then Bonnie came onto the scene, her eyes widened when she took in the state of her friend.
"Caroline? You're not you can't be-"she ran forward and grabbed the other girl's hand. Realisation hit Bonnie, Caroline was a vampire.
"Still have to die blondie-"the elder Salvatore announced. Lily saw Damon coming towards them but she was faster, she grabbed the blond teenager and blurred them into the ladies bathroom.
She ushered her in, and grabbed some paper towers and placed them under the tap. Caroline leant heavily against the sink, she was confused, lost and frightened. Even though Lily's own memory of how she came into becoming a vampire was sketchy but she could imagine herself having the same reaction as the high school girl.
"Caroline honey we have to clean you up" Lily murmured pushing her blond locks back and started to wipe her blood covered face.
"She hates me. Bonnie hates me" Caroline sobbed.
"Forget about Bonnie for now" Lily uttered as she still cleaned her face.
"But what about Matt I feel-"
"You're a vampire now, your emotions will be heightened" Lily explained, she really needed to have a sit down and actually tell the newly turned vampire the gist of being one. "Get the blood off first ok-"she said over Caroline's sobbing. She shoved a wad of tissue into the vampire's hand and went to get more.
"I'm a murderer Lily-"Caroline cried, Lily gently cupped her face she moved so that she was standing in front of the blond "I'm a monster" to the red head she looked like a broken lost little girl.
"Your emotions are heightened…look at me Caroline you're ok. This is perfectly normal." She explained. "Just try and calm down." Lily grabbed another wad of paper towels. She reminded herself to get rid of all the evidence before she left.
Caroline's chest heaved and attempted to calm herself but it wasn't working. She gasped when she caught sight of her face changing. "Ergh-"she cried out turning away from the mirror "why does this keep happening to my face?" she slammed her hands over her face. "I'm hideous-"she screeched.
"Caroline look at me. Caroline" she said sternly and grabbed Caroline's hand and forced them down. "You're not hideous-"Lily let her own face morphed, so now her eyes bled red and the veins around her eyes protruded. "Honey…."she hushed her "you're a vampire. Same as me"
"Same as you?" Caroline asked in a small voice. She watched in amazement as Lily's face changed back.
"It's the blood rush. Your fangs come out…but you can force them down Caroline-"Caroline shook her head. "You can. You're strong. Come on just take some deep breaths-"Lily demonstrated and the baby vampire mimicked. The red head smiled proudly at her when she managed to get rid of the veins and return her eyes back to normal. "That's it." She smiled and brushed aside her head. "You're doing great" she praised her.
Caroline swallowed "Why did Katherine do this to me Lily?" she asked.
"I don't know Caroline" Lily admitted. And saw that the blond once again was beginning to work herself up.
"I can't do this. I can't do this-"she wept "I can't do this on my own-"
"Who said you're going to be on your own?" Lily asked her, using her index finger to tilt her chin up so Caroline's eyes were forced to meet Lily's bright green ones. "I am going to help you…I promise I'll try my best not to let anything happen to you. You're not alone Caroline ok?"
Caroline sniffed and nodded, Lily wrapped her arms around her, and the blond hugged her back just as tightly. Lily rocked her back and forth in a way to calm her; it always uses to work on Clara. They parted when there was a knock on the door.
"Come in" Lily called; Stefan entered the ladies room and looked at Caroline in concern "She's going to be ok…but she needs help Stefan"
Stefan nodded "Yeah…Caroline come on let's get you home." He held out his hand to her. Caroline grabbed onto it but turned back.
"Lily-"
"You're going to be ok. If you need anything my door is always open. Ok?" Lily smiled at her. The blond nodded and bid them goodbye. Stefan walked out and ushered Caroline into his car. He was grateful that Lily had taken Caroline under her wing. He was going to do his part to help the new vampire, he knew that.
Lily exited the ladies room, and scrunched up her nose smelling burning flesh. She followed the smell and placed her hands on her hips seeing the scene.
"Did you piss off witchy Salvatore?" Lily asked strolling over to the vampire. His legs were burnt and he was groaning in pain.
"I didn't-"
"Damon" she said
"Fine I did-OWW" he roared "What the-"
"You were a tiny bit on fire" Lily stated, and shrugged her shoulders as if she had done nothing. "Goodbye Damon" she smiled and turned on her heel. She was still slightly pissed that he would have killed Caroline if she hadn't stepped in.
"You're going to leave me?" he called out and groaned again in pain. Lily sighed and turned back
"You're lucky you're my friend. Even though everyone hates you." She easily picked him up and decided to drop him off at the Boarding house.
"You're my friend too…my sexy friend" Damon uttered, he hissed when she slapped his healing leg. "Ok I deserve that."
"Much more than that" Lily muttered and took off into the darkness with a pulse of air.
Lily wheezed…according to Elijah she had an hour or so before she would die, this time permanently, he had made her last few hours magical. She gave herself to him and it was incredible. But now he had left her to her own thoughts knowing she needed some time on her own.
"You are really giving up love?" she looked over to the doorway and saw Niklaus leaning against it. The Original gazed at her; he could see that she was weak, dark shadows lined beneath her eyes. Her breath rattled, it was a disturbing sight. This woman was so full off light and to see her like this?...no wonder Elijah had needed a moment to compose himself.
"I'm not giving up" Lily whispered even talking exhausted her.
Niklaus snarled and stormed towards her "Then what are you calling this?" he hissed.
"I…never wanted this-"she gasped when he grabbed her by the throat. He pressed his lips against her ear.
"You made my brother fall in love with you. You made my sister fall in love with you-when we learnt of your death and your families we was devastated and when you're a vampire everything is heightened." He sat back on the edge of the bed, and held her face. "You need to feed-"
"I don't want to be a monster-"Lily hissed.
"Is Elijah a monster? Is Rebekah? Am I?" Nicklaus's eyes hardened. "I've lost people my whole life and I'm not about to lose you to." They had a close relationship, he felt like she was the only one who understood him when others did not. She was even the first person to praise him, he couldn't let her go. He wouldn't.
"Klaus what are-"she gasped when he blurred away but within a second he had returned with a maid. "What are you doing?" she cried out scrambling backwards till her back hit the headboard.
"Giving you what you need" the Original uttered. "You see Elijah wants the same…but my brother has too much honour to do this-"Lily swallowed as he bit into the woman's wrist, the still in transition vampire eyes were drawn to the scarlet liquid that was gushing out of the gash. She cried out when she felt something sharp ripping through her gums.
"No" Lily cried covering her mouth violently shaking her head "please don't-"she sobbed when he pushed the woman into her arms. Lily caught her, Niklaus had compelled the woman to remain immobilise. "I don't want to."
"You must." Niklaus stood beside her; he grabbed the maid's arm and held the gash up to Lily's mouth
"No-"
"Drink Lily-"he said when she didn't he gently cupped the back of her neck and forced her lips against the wound.
Lily automatically swallowed and felt the burning sensation within her ease. She moaned and took a few more mouthfuls, Niklaus watched fascinated, he found the sight very erotic. Lily seemed to come back to herself and threw the woman away from her.
"Oh my god-"Lily cried, her lips, cheeks and chin was smeared in blood. She was…she was a an actual real vampire.
"Listen you need to calm-"
"I'm a-I don't want to be one-"Lily sobbed and in anger threw aside the side table.
"Lily-"
"Why?" she cried staring up at him?" Niklaus felt an odd twist in his gut when he saw the look of betrayal and her hurt across her face. "I want Elijah-"just as those words left her mouth. The dark haired Original appeared in the room; Lily saw him and launched herself into his arms crying.
Elijah wrapped his arms around her "What-"he examined her face, and then he glanced over to the maid's body that was strewn across the floor. He linked the dots.
"What did you do?" he growled at his brother.
"Something that needed to be done." Elijah felt his shirt growing wet from her tears. Lily pressed her face into his chest. He ran his large hand up and down her back. "She's going to hate you forever"
"I rather have her hate me for an eternity. Then her not being here at all." Niklaus uttered walking out, leaving behind a distraught newly turned vampire.
"I vow to you Lily you will get through this" Elijah whispered into her ear "I will protect you."
KNOCK-KNOCK-KNOCK KNOCK. Lily's eyes snapped opened, she woke up to the sound of frantic knocks. She glanced at the time and saw that it was two in the morning. KNOCK KNOCK.
She swung her legs out of bed and went to answer the door. Lily frowned in confusion at the person on her doorstep.
"Caroline…what? Do you own a clock?" Caroline could tell that she had just woke her teacher up.
"I-the thing is-sorry never mind-"she stammered. Lily rolled her eyes and grabbed the back of her top pulling her back.
"You woke me up, and you're here at an ungodly hour. There must be something you need? Or want?" Lily murmured.
"Can I stay here for the night?" Caroline asked, "I….my mom was sleeping in the next room…and all I could think about was her heart that was pumping blood around her body and-"
"Ssh" Lily hushed her "come on in. I told you, that you were welcomed anytime" she gestured for Caroline to come in.
"Wow…"Caroline looked around the bungalow "this place is…-"
"Wow?" Lily chuckled. "Come on, I think you should get some rest and we'll talk in the morning." She led Caroline towards the guest room and once she saw the younger vampire settled, she went back to her room.
The last thought that was in Lily's mind before she fell asleep was what on earth had she gotten herself into? Taking care of a baby vamp. Lily's eyes drifted shut.
AN: Apologies for any grammar or spelling mistakes. Outfit link on profile. Thanks to those who reviewed. Yeah so I changed Lily's age now it makes more sense.
So in this Chap-The beginning, a flashback we find out that Elijah and Klaus was the one to find out about her, and told her she was in transition. Klaus gets angry when she doesn't want to become a vampire. Present day, more moments between Lily and Damon...where he attempts to seduce her but doesn't work. Lily get's put in charge of the carnival, she speaks to Bonnie and Elena about Katherine. Lily was the one who told Stefan to talk to Jermey, Lily bumps into Mason. And then heads off to the Salvatores. She knows the Lockwoods are different but can't put her finger on it. Jenna and Lily talk, (I want to include Jenna more in this fic.) She teases her which Alaric's ends up paying for he gets dragged away. Lily steps in between Damon and Jeremy. Lily goes home and returns just in time to see Damon about to stake Caroline, she helps the vampire and takes Damon home. Another flashback. We find out Klaus was the one who forced her to turn. And finally Caroline comes for help.
Next Chap-Lily finds out her connection to Katherine. Remember she doesn't know Katherine's real name was Katerina since Elijah compelled her.
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