Merry Christmas everybody!i know I haven't posted for this in a long time so try to think of this as my Christmas gift to you guys.i hope you like it and please don't kill me for taking my time with this.i may to speed the posting frequency up with this story if I can.

Chapter 6

Lily woke up a few hours later not feeling quite as tired as she was when she got into the bed. She let out a sigh and looked up at the figure lying next to her. Patronus was still asleep and she could hear him snoring slightly, occasionally shifting around in his sleep. Smiling she scooted closer to him and slipped her hand under his lower jaw, slowly lifting it up and she placed her head under it, the side of her face pressed against his chest. She let his jaw go and it fell back down on top of her head.

She couldn't help but smile when she thought about how strange this would look to anyone else if they saw them like this.

If they ever got out of there that is.

Tears sprung to her eyes when she thought about what was to come if they actually did escape the castle. He would never be accepted. Not by anyone she knew or will meet. She figured her parents would disown her once they found out about the rape but now, that she has begun to care for this creature that was once a man, what would they do then?

She hated her parents. Hated them and everything they did. They wanted her to be perfect in every way, to be just like her older twin sisters, Isabelle and Elizabeth, who were married to rich lawyers in the better part of town.

Ever since they let her mother, father, and herself move in with them they had pressured Lily into becoming what Isabelle and Elizabeth had become. They both married for money and they didn't really seem to care who knew about it. They often went to local pubs, conning other men out of their money and drinks.

But Lily didn't want to be like that. She preferred her life in the poor part of town, she didn't like it, but it was certainly better than being put up on a pedestal in skimpy dresses and set up on forced blind dates with men twice her age that ended with him getting a slap in the face and running home to cry her eyes out.

She didn't want to be what her sisters had become. She just wanted to marry a nice man who loved her, build a house in the middle of nowhere, and have a child or two.

She wanted to be with Patronus, the only living thing that has shown her any kindness in her life. She wanted him to be that man she married, built a home with, and had children with. She didn't care what others think or said, she loved him and she knew he was going to make her happy.

In her tears she had tightened her grip on her sleeping protector, and his eyes slowly opened and he looked down, moving his elongated jaw to see Lily sobbing, tears and snot smeared across her face. He looked at her worried and lifted her face up to his. He looked at her in a way as if to say 'What's wrong?'

"Patronus…you-you won't leave me right? You won't…leave me if we make i-it out of here?" She said to him through the gasps and sobs. He looked at her sadly and nodded, brushing her hair out of her face and wiping the tears and snot away. She tightened her grip on him a bit. "Promise?" She asked him, wanting to have a bit more security with his answer. With a smile he nodded again and pulled her into a hug. She rested her head on his shoulder and continued crying, her warm tears rolling off her face and onto his skin.

He sat there, letting her cry until she couldn't cry anymore, stroking her hair and patting her back, comforting her as best he could without words. Finally she sat up, sniffing and wiped the wetness from her face.

Patronus gave her a reassuring smile and began rubbing up and down her arm with nonlethal hand and she gave a small smile back.

"I'm sorry. I had a bit of a break down." She said with a tiny laugh. Patronus nodded and stood up, looking towards the door. "Yeah. I guess we should get going." She stood up and walked over beside him as he moved the chair out from under the door knob. He turned to her and held out his hand, which she took with a smile. He opened the door and looked out and when he decided it was safe he lead her out the door and down the dark, murky hallway.

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"What do you mean a prisoner is missing?" Alexander practically yelled at the brute in front of him. It flinched away from him and began to frantically gurgle and hiss, trying to explain. "I don't want to hear your excuses! Just get the prisoner back and the creature that helped them escape!"

The brute flinched again and nodded, running out of the room. Alexander gritted his teeth in anger. The portal needed to be opened soon and he needed every ounce of vitae he could get his hands on. He could not let this prisoner escape. He had to recapture them and the grunt or brute that helped them.

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