Lily was dragged kicking and screaming to the barn. Simon tied her Wrists together with a thick, scratchy rope before hoisting her up and tying her arms to the beam that ran across the middle of the barn, leaving Lily dangling in mid air.

She could barely breath as she struggled to hold on to the rope above her head to stop her wrists from breaking under the pressure. Her entire body was still aching from the last beating she had taken from them a couple of days before. She panicked at the thought of what they would do to her this time. They would kill her and she did not doubt that they would make it as painful as possible for her. She wouldn't be allowed to go peacefully.

'Stop struggling my dear or you will wear yourself out before any of us get to have any fun with you.' Her aunt had appeared in the doorway with a sickening grin on her face.'Now look at you, we need to get you cleaned up' she said lifting a facecloth, soaking it in what looked like water but Lily knew it wasn't, that would be too aunt began forcefully rubbing at Lily's face, causing Lily to squeal as her cheeks burnt underneath the facecloth. 'You see child, this is a thing called vervain. Think of it as Holy water, it doesn't burn me does it?' She smiled, wiping the cloth across her own face 'that's because I am a child of God; I am in his grace but you…. you, you little tramp are something else entirely.'

Lily cried from the pain of the vervain soaked cloth, her tears only making the blisters on her cheeks burn more. Her whole life they had hated her because she wasn't 'pure'. She had the devil in her according to them. She didn't understand what they meant, she was just a normal girl, she looked and acted like anyone else, in fact it was her so called 'pure' family that had repeatedly beaten and abused her, treated her like a slave. She was just a girl who wanted to be accepted and loved and they continually denied her this simple wish. It was them who were evil, surely a creature of God would never do this to another human being?

'Now now Loretta, I can't let you have all the fun' laughed her uncle Harold as her strolled into the barn. Whip in hand. With a quick flick of his wrist, Lily screamed in agony as the leather whip, which felt like it had thousands of tiny thorns in it, ripped across her stomach. Her Uncle let out a sigh, circling her, 'we took you in, gave you a home, tried to take the darkness out of you and this is how you repay us? By running off?' Another scream escaped Lily's mouth as this time the whip caught the back of her legs. She whimpered as she tried to hold herself up and stay conscious.

'Your pathetic, your mother should have killed you when she killed herself, you're an abomination! Just like her.' Another lashing came, hitting the wound on her stomach again; blood began to soak through her clothes as Lily gasped for air.

'I see you got new clothes? And Simon tells me of a job? Now who did you meet? Huh? Who helped you?'

Another whipping.

'Answer me!'

Lily cried, sweat and tears now pounding down her face. She would let them kill her before she told them anything. She might not be able to fight back but she did have a did have a bit of dignity left.

'Nev….never, I will…. will never tell yo… you' She whispered between gasps.

'Very well, we will have to do this the hard way'

Another whipping.

'New Orleans is an evil place, we should have known you would run there eventually, to your own kind, the devils creatures.'

Another whipping.

'Ahhhh please!' Lily could not take anymore, she was losing a lot of blood, her arms felt like ton weights above her and the room was beginning to look blurry. What were they talking about her own kind? She had seen that Klaus was something else, not human but she was just normal, she didn't have veins appear underneath her eyes or fangs that shot out of her gums. She was human. Normal. She was one of them. She was related to them by blood. Why did they have to treat her this way? She could feel her legs beginning to numb from hanging in mid air, as she struggled to stay conscious a million thoughts where running through her head. Her whole life she had been treated as abomination, something evil to stay away from, she didn't understand. These people, she could no longer call them family were all insane. Lily felt the anger began to rise in her. She couldn't take it any longer. Nobody deserved this. As the anger inside her grew Lily started to tremble as she felt something ignite within herself.

'You may look all innocent and pretty, but we know the truth, you are pure filth, sin and we tried to cleanse you but now we see that will be impossible.'

Another whip, hitting her across the back, her head began to drop, and she could feel the bones in her wrists snapping as she could no longer hold herself up. Her uncle's words became a buzzing sound as the room spun and everything went black.