Chapter 17

Lexi awoke in warm room. She opened her eyes which felt heavy on her eyes. She sat up slowly and rubbed them. When she opened them she realised where she was. She looked around and saw the large blood red drapes which covered two glass doors which led onto a large balcony. Lexi sat up in the large four post bed and looked around the large room. There was a tall old bookcase from the seventeen hundreds and an old bureau from the early nineteen hundreds. Lexi stood and realised she was wearing her old pyjamas only without the dragon. Lexi sighed and walked over to the old pine wardrobe that was hand made two hundred years ago. Lexi opened the door and was greeted by a large thick layer of dust. She scanned the wardrobe but all she could see was a long black dress. Lexi recognised it suddenly as Lily's coronation dress which she was to wear when their father died and she took over from him as leader of the vampires.

"It's a beautiful dress isn't it?" Lexi jumped and turned quickly towards the source of the voice. In a large satin chair next to the door se saw her father. Lexi gasped. "You always did look so beautiful when you slept. Sometimes I think you were always much happier then." Lexi closed the doors quickly without looking away from the man. "You know it would never have fit her." Lexi felt her eyes widen.

"But I thought it was made for her?" Lexi opened the doors again this time she kept her back to Hunter. She looked the dress up and down then realised it would've been too long for Lily.

"It's yours." The voice rang through Lexi's head and chilled her until she was colder than she had ever been before.

"But it wasn't measured to-"

"It was actually your mother's. I had it made for her before I found out what she really was. I'm sure you already know by now. Anyway oddly enough your exactly the same size that she was." Lexi took the dress out of the wardrobe and looked it over. It was longer at the back where the long train was. It was fitted at the top without any straps and hung loose over the hips and legs. Lexi looked at all of the intricate detailing.

"Wait." Lexi turned from the dress to the man who was now stood a few feet closer to her. "If this wasn't made for Lily. Then what was she going to be coroneted in?"

"She wasn't." Lexi froze and glared at Hunter. "You were. Lexi you were always my sole heir." Lexi's legs weakened beneath her. She dropped to her knees in shock. "Try it on then come outside there's something I want to talk to you about." Then he was gone.

Lexi quickly slipped out of her dark pyjamas and into he long beautiful dress which fitted her so perfectly it worried her. After two minutes of admiring her reflection she turned to the door. Before she took hold of the doorknob she turned to her old bedroom once more. She closed her eyes and thought of all her memories of the room. The only memory she could distinctively remember was when she had almost been killed for the first time. A large number of vampire hunters had come to the house one night and had managed to fight their way onto the grounds. They're was a large battle until Lexi became extremely angry when her favourite house keeper was killed by accident. She was a young girl, only fifteen and was working for them because her parents owed a debt to Hunter. Lexi never mentioned her but she was actually her first ever friend as anyone else was to afraid to come into contact with any of the family. That was the night that Quinn had disappeared. Her father and Lily had gone to an island as Lexi had refused to go. She was one of many other vampires who was fighting that night. Lexi at one point became so angry that she lost all sense of control. She killed exactly one thousand vampire hunters that night. That was enough to kill eight hundred full hunter families. It was the only point that she had ever regretted. That night however Lexi was told that Quinn was dead by her father. That was the first night that she had started to see the same face everywhere. Lexi remembered the night before she was sent to the circle daybreak the face had revealed themselves fully. Lexi knew she recognised the face but couldn't name it.

Lexi's thought were interrupted by a knock at the door. Lexi opened the door and saw several vampires stood on the other side. Lexi took a deep breath then stepped out of the room. The door was closed behind her as Lexi's eyes adjusted to the blackness that was the tunnels. Lexi looked back at her door which looked extremely out of place. There was a large silver painted door surrounded by a large grey rocky wall. Lexi looked at the bottom which was covered in soot from a fight she had had with Quinn. Lexi heard a cough behind her and turned to the others.

"Show me the way to go home." Lexi laughed at her joke while the others looked at each other awkwardly. "Hey it's my funeral and if I want to sing I will." Lexi started to half walk half skip down the corridor. She whistled as she walked until she came up to a large oak door which she had only imagined what was behind it.