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Chapter 3

I knew I was sleeping But like sleeping, you know the one where your whole body goes numb and you feel like you could sleep for a few more hours or years? Yes, that kind of sleep. So, when I find myself having to wake up because I felt nauseous, you could understand why I would be a tad grumpy.

I tried to find something to vomit into and not mess on the bed, but I couldn't. The pain in my body was far too painful to lift a hand, let alone walk. Maybe I was making too much noise, as the door opened to show Lily in a pale pink bathrobe. She switched on the light and I closed my eyes, temporarily blind. She took one look at how I looked, you know green face and sweaty (BEAUTIFUL ME!), and ran towards me. She felt my forehead, nodded, and ran across the room to a little grey dustbin, which she handed to me. I didn't even have a chance to ask her if I could use it, I felt it travel up my throat. Taste and smell gross.

And so I vomited and vomited, Lily stayed with me the whole time holding my hair back and rubbing my back. Once I was done with only a headache and the disgusting acidic taste in my mouth she let go of my hair and walked to a medicine kit on the bedrooms' table, she examined a couple of jars of various different colors until she found what she was looking for. Don't ask me how she knew what would make me feel better, because I have no clue, each of those potions looked as dodgy as the next. She walked back to me and passed me a tube; I looked at it in my hands then at her in confusion.

She shrugged her shoulders, "I want to be a Healer one day."

"How do I know that this won't make me- I don't know- purple or something?" I asked her, as nice as she was, I wasn't exactly going to down the first potion she gave me. It was the most understandable reaction, I wasn't being mean.

"I grow up with two of the most idiotic brothers in the world who, by the way, enjoy daring each other to consume many strange substances, so if there is one potion I am familiar with it is a Nausea potion." She smirked.

I chuckled a little bit, still eyeing the potion suspiciously. Okay, pros and cons.

Pros:

Nausea will stop.

Headache might go away.

Heal faster.

Might be able to fall asleep again.

Cons:

Might die.

I thought about the reasons for a moment.

Sleep or possible death?

Hmm… Tough, but seeing as I could barely keep my eyes open, I was prepared to face the possible consequences, be that death or whatever other injuries which I might sustain.

I nodded at her and swallowed it. It had cool, minty sort of taste to it and left everything with a clean sort of taste. "Nice" I whispered to her, waiting to feel anything odd or out of place …

Nothing.

I AM A SURVIVOR ( again). I chuckled to myself, that seemed to be a thing I have been doing a lot these days, surviving.

She chuckled quietly, "You sure? 'Cause I have more of that headache potion for you back there if you would like."

Nah-ah! I gave her the I-know-your-joking-but-stop look to which she only laughed. I crossed my arms and pouted, which only made her laugh more. She sat down on the bed and felt my temperature again.

"How do you feel?" She asked, her eyes shining with concern and kindness.

I stopped myself from giving her a sarcastic answer, and maybe you haven't noticed, but sarcasm was MY thing… Obviously.

"Tired that's all."I rested my head back on my pillow (see, no sarcasm. It felt weird, truth be told). My eyes dropping slightly, it was pathetic really. All I ever did was sleep and I'm still tired, what a life. I felt an odd feeling in my stomach, at first I thought it was another wave of nausea which almost made me swear ( 'almost' being the key word here), but it felt a little weirder than that and I took a wild guess and labeled it as gratitude. Strange feeling that, I will tell you that much. Hmm, might as well try to get rid of it.

"Thank you for helping me." I peeked through my nearly closed eyes and let out a great yawn. I was starting to think that my body was just being very lazy and didn't want to move in general.

She shuffled her feet nervously and I opened my eyes a little wider ( which I should get a prize for seeing as it took a lot of energy and will power), wonder what she wanted to say. I didn't have to wait long seeing as she got right to it, "Do you mind if I sleep up here, only for tonight, I swear? James told me a rather unpleasant story in the hopes of scaring me. Which I am not," She said quickly, I raised my eyebrow, "Maybe a little. Please?"

I laughed, she wanted to ask me if she could sleep in her families bed, in her families spare room, on their sheets and pillows, "Hey, it's your house. No need to ask me for permission."

She looked at me sadly for some odd reason, "It is your house too, you know. As long as you are here, everything here is yours too."

I stayed silent, no need to bore her with my bitter thoughts.

Nothing here is mine. Not this house, not this bed, not the pillow I sleep on. Nothing. Just as nothing had ever been mine, except my cell in the dungeon. Yeah, I guess I could call that mine in an odd twisted way, though it wasn't like I could exactly stick a wallpaper up or at least put a bed in for that matter. But it was best not to disagree at this point and besides I was too tired to think logically or sanely for that matter.

"Okay sure, sleep here as long as you want.' I shrugged my shoulders, as I said before not my room, not my house and definitely not my bed( Sadly).

She smiled and climbed in next to me on the double bed , from no bed to double bed what a promotion! It felt so weird having company. I never had company before, so this was a first. But everything seemed so fuzzy that I just put it from my mind, I turned around and was about to nod off, until a question came to mind (No! Sleep mind, sleep!).

"Why a healer of all things?" I asked her. I know it's a little random, but I always wondered why people choose to become healers. Yeah, sure I know it is extremely important, but still all the blood and death was a major. It was your job to make sure people survived whatever injuries or illnesses that they had, that my dear friend, was a lot of pressure to put on someone, believe it or not.

"Because I want help people." She muttered sleepily, I turned around to look at her.

"You can't save everybody. People die you know. It a way of life" I said softly. Remembering all the deaths, I have had to witness, but I promise you this, if I could have saved them in any way I would have. But no, instead I had to see the life leave their eyes and know that there was nothing I could do, depressing isn't it?

"Yes, but there are people who can be saved you know. Mom comes home every day and tells us about a new patient with an unknown sickness and reports back to us the progress they make. I know that I can't save everybody, but if I could save somebody then that is alright with me." I paid attention throughout her story and I couldn't help but feel a little awe about her dreams.

A silence fell over us; I knew we were both thinking about what she just said. To save one person is better than saving no one, though there might be more deaths than success, it is worth it even for that one life.

"What do you want to be when you are older?" She asked quietly.

I stopped and blinked at the ceiling, did she really ask me that?

"What?" I asked unsure if I heard correctly.

"What do you want to be when you are older?" She asked again a lot slower.

I stopped and thought about it: Well, there isn't much I can do if there are almost a thousand vampires chasing me, besides it wasn't exactly something you could exactly explain to your boss. I burst out laughing, " I don't think that far ahead. I am just focusing on staying alive today, tomorrow I will focus on it again and every day after that."

I chuckled for a few moments until I stopped, her question sinking in further than with what I was comfortable with.

What did I want to be when I was older?

I was never given the opportunity to think that far in my life, but I guess it would be an occupation where I help other people or animals-

No, I stopped myself from carrying on with that line of thought. It wasn't going to happen and I was just building myself up for disappointment. I shook my head, trying to rid myself from my thoughts.

Lily let out an audible sigh, "That's sad, everyone should have a dream."

I did have a dream, I had faith, not for a normal life but rather to survive.

I smiled slightly, " Not everyone is fortunate enough to be able to grow up and be allowed to dream."

Silence came over us again, both of us lost in our own thoughts to say anything.

"Are you afraid of death?" She asked me and to be honest I was a little stumped at that question.

I thought about it for a few seconds. Was I afraid of death? Probably not seeing as I am always putting myself in its way. There were many a times where I thought I was going to die, and not all of them was when I looked my best ,let me just tell you that, hey I at least want to look pretty for my death. But in all honesty, I was fine with the thought of dying.

"No, I'm not. Life is a beautiful lie and death is but yet the unspeakable truth. What about you?" I smiled softly.

"No, I am not scared at all. Dad said that someone once told him and I quote, 'to the well planned mind death is but yet another adventure' . Whoever said that must have been extremely smart."

I smiled it was so true, the person who said that deserved a prize and a round of applause too. Yes, I am willing to share my prizes.

"You are really kind you know with helping me tonight and all." I smiled at her and she smiled back. I rolled over and before I nodded off I whispered a goodnight and whether she answered back or not I am not sure. But it didn't matter, I know that I was going to get by just fine.

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