45; Old Witches' House

LILLY

Me and Nik laid on the couch, with a glass of whiskey, me leaning my head on his chest. "You know your brothers aren't gonna be too happy when they find out that we're married" Nik laughed kissing my forehead.

"Yeah, well they don't get a say, and I'm a lot stronger now Nik" I smirked at him. "That you are my lil' witch" He smirked at me, placing my glass along with his onto the table, pushing me down onto the couch, so he was hovering above me.

He didn't say anything, he just slammed his lips against mine, roughly, but before we could get carried away, someone interrupted us. "Please my eyes" Bekah groaned walking into the living room.

I guess she woke up.

"Well it only took you Forty five minutes to wake up" I laughed looking over at her as she sat down on the seat opposite us.

"Well I was literally stabbed in the back" She glared at me.

"Yeah, I spoke to Elena. Don't go after her, Rebekah" I warned her before turning towards Nik, pressing my lips against his.

"I have a family to find... so I'll leave you two to talk... No fighting" I warned them before walking out of the living room.

I was so happy that the renovations were finished. I was sick off the house looking a tip, with tools everywhere.

I might be a vampire, but I like to live in a tidy house. And it looked amazing, just how I imagined it.

I made my way up to mine and Nik's room walking back over to the box, pulling out my candles and placing them in a circle on the floor, before I sat in the middle of them. "Incendia" I chanted making the candle light up.

How I've missed my magic. I don't know how I've coped without it all this time.

Remembering why I was doing this I ran my hand through my hair, sighing. I was going to be scarred for life.

I remembered all the memories between me and Kol as I started chanting. "Custos, quid de evanescit, audite me- adsumat auris vestra. Reperide quid"

I could feel something blocking me, but I was stronger than whatever it is, so I tried again. I'm the strongest witch to exist now.

"Custos, quid de evanescit, audite me- adsumat auris vestra. Reperide quid" I snapped my eyes open as I felt blood dripping down from my nose, but I was going to break through it, I needed to.

"Custos, quid de evanescit, audite me- adsumat auris vestra. Reperide quid" I shouted, only for the candle flames to grow bigger and for me to be sent flying across the room, smashing into the bedroom door.

I landed in the hallway, laid on part of the door, while the rest was all in pieces on the floor or on top of me, and one piece landed in my leg.

"Eugh!" I groaned sitting up, wiping my nose, before I pulled the piece of door that was stuck in my leg and throwing it onto the floor.

"What the hell?" Bekah questioned as she and Nik stood staring at me. "Yeah. I think we might need a new door, Nik" I smiled sheepishly up at him.

"What happened?" Nik asked as he helped me up off of the floor. "I couldn't speak to them, but I know where they are" I mumbled as I scrubbed my hair, making sure there wasn't any wood left in it.

"Where? And why the hell is our door broken?" Nik asked looking down at the now broken door. "Someone was blocking me, then decided to send me crashing through the door. Stupid witches" I grumbled.

"Who was blocking you? Aren't you the strongest witch?" Bekah asked confused. "I am, but when a hundred dead witches join together, even I can't break it, not on my own" I told her, before looking at Nik.

"Looks like we're taking a trip to the old witches' house, love" Nik smiled at me. "Yeah, let me just get freshened up. Can you get one of the hybrids to fix the door please? And get them to put a lock on it. Kol's going to be here, and he never knocks on doors. I'll tidy my mess away" I smiled at him, before I gave him a quick kiss.

I quickly put my candles away before I made my way into the en 'suite, to make sure I looked presentable enough. I'm not bothered what other people think about me, I just don't want to go out looking like crap.

Which I did. I had a line of blood down my face, thanks to the nose bleed and my clothes and hair was a mess.

I sighed before I quickly ran a brush through my hair and wiped the blood off of my face then I made my way into the closet to pick out something to wear.

As I walked back into the bedroom I noticed a hybrid fixing the door that I broke. "Make sure there's a lock on it" I called before rushing downstairs.

"Come on love. We have some coffins to retrieve from your idiotic brother" Nik called walking to the door.

I rolled my eyes. "Hold your horses" I grumbled. "I'm gonna stay here" Bekah called as we walked outside. "Alright" I called before me and Nik rushed off to the old witches' house.

We came to a stop outside the house, looking down at the dead hybrid that was laid on the floor. "There goes another one" Nik mumbled.

As we silently made our way into the house I could feel and hear the hundred dead witches, and they definitely didn't want us there.

Before they could do anything to either me or Nik, I placed a protection spell on us both, strong enough so even they couldn't break through. "Spiritus tueri"

We made our way down to the basement where I could hear Stefan pacing about. Maybe he's realized how idiotic he is for taking the original hybrids family. My family.

I made my way in first and once Stefan heard me he quickly turned around looking at me, with no emotion.

"Lilly. What are you doing here?" Stefan asked, rolling his eyes. "Well, I've being looking all over town for you. A little birdy told me that you took the original family" I spoke as I walked over to the four coffins that held Nik's family.

Stefan turned around watching my every move, as I ran my hand over Kol's coffin.

Ah, Kol. How much trouble he can cause.

Stefan looked at me confused. "You can see the coffins?" Stefan asked confused. "Of course I can, brother. A hundred dead witches aren't going to stop me from seeing four coffins that's taking up most of the room" I rolled my eyes.

I walked over to Elijah's and lifting it open, to reveal the man himself; grey and veiny with a dagger in his heart. "What are you doing?" Stefan asked confused rushing over to me, ready to slam me against the wall.

But before he could, I grabbed him by his neck and slammed him against the wall instead. "Do you mean what are you doing? Seriously Stefan, taking Nik's family. The original family. Are you stupid or just asking for a death wish" I snapped.

Stefan stared at me. "Nik? So your best friends now?" Stefan gasped as I let him go. "We're married Stefan. I'm sure you saw what happened at the homecoming. You know when Damon tried to kill my husband" I snapped, before looking over at the coffins.

"Phasmatos oculacs" I whispered revealing the coffins for Nik, and I knew he could see them when he joined us with a big smile on his face.

"Thank you love" He smiled as he wrapped his arm around me, looking at his family. Well the coffins.

"You have your magic back" Stefan whispered, making me smirk at him. "Of course I do. It's amazing isn't it" I smirked at him, before looking over to Nik.

"I'll meet you outside" I told him before making my way back outside. I knew Nik wanted revenge on Stefan and I didn't want to see that. I know I said I was never going to forgive them again, and I'm not, I just don't want to watch as they die.

Coming out of my thoughts I snapped my head over to the tree line, just as Damon rushed over to me slamming me onto the floor. "What the hell are you doing here?" Damon snapped, gritting his teeth.

I kicked him off of me, and stood up dusting the dirt off of me. "Hello, Damon. So nice to see you again" I smiled sarcastically at him.

"Since when have you been married to the hybrid dick? It was only a couple of months ago, and he had a bounty on your head" He snapped, glaring at me.

"Me and Nik's been married for One hundred and Thirty eight years, Damon" I chuckled at him.

"What? So you knew all about him when you came to town. You knew he was after Elena" He snapped taking a step towards me.

"Technically no" I chuckled, before growing serious. "Mikael compelled me to forget Nik and his family, but when Nik killed Mikael the compulsion stopped, and I got my memories back. So thank you" I smirked at him.

I flicked my eyes behind Damon when I heard someone coming towards us, noticing it was a couple of hybrids. "He's down in the basement. Off you go" I told them, before looking back at Damon.

"You lose Damon. Just like you always do" I chuckled. "What do you mean, I lose?" He asked confused.

"Nik, has his family back. So you lose. You have nothing that's gonna stop him from killing you" I told him, honestly.

"So, you won't stop your husband from killing your brothers?" Damon asked raising his eyebrows, making me laugh.

"You really think that I'd stop him? Countless of times, you've proved to me that I'm not your sister, so why would I help you now? You're not even worth the calories I burn talking to you, so goodbye, Damon" I told him, before Nik walked outside, with the hybrids behind him, along with the caskets.

"I'll go back to the house with the hybrids and wake them" I told Nik before rushing back to the mansion, the hybrids behind me, with the caskets.

No doubt Damon and Stefan was either gonna come away bloody or not come away at all. Either way, I wasn't bothered.

I walked through the mansion door, the hybrids behind me. "Put them in the dining room please" I ordered, just as Bekah made her way down the grand staircase.

"Where's Nik?" She asked confused, as her eyes followed the hybrids and the coffins. "Dealing with Damon and Stefan" I told her as I walked into the dining room, behind the hybrids.

I looked over the coffins before pointing to the one that was locked. "Take this one down to the basement please" I ordered, placing my hand on top of it, so they knew which one I was talking about.

As the hybrids had left, along with the locked coffin, I walked over to stand in front of the remaining ones, before removing the dagger out of Kol, Elijah and Finn's chest.

I knew it would take them a while to wake up, so I decided to speed it up. I didn't have any time to waste. "Spiritus est excitare eos"

A couple of seconds later the three of them sat up with a gasp, looking around confused. "Rise and shine sleepy heads" I sang, making the three of them snap their heads over to me.

I smirked at them all. Finn, bless him, he didn't know what was going off, or who I was. Elijah, at first looked confused until realization took its place. And Kol was shocked, not believing that I was really here, since he thought I was dead.

"L-Lilly?" Kol asked shocked. "Long time no see, Kol" I smirked at him, just as Bekah came walking in with three bloodbags, for them.

"Nik will be home soon, so before you all gang up on him, or plan your revenge, just hear him out first. I promise you, he only daggered you all, to protect you" I told them, making the three of them look at me like I was crazy.

"Yeah, because locking us in a box is protecting us" Kol glared at me, before going back to his bloodbag.

"It is. He daggered Finn because he hated what he is, trying to kill himself, so instead of losing his brother for good, he daggered him. At least his oldest brother was still alive, sort of" I told Kol.

"That explains Finns but what about us?" Elijah asked, stepping out of his casket.

"Well I think Kol's is explanatory. Don't you" I asked raising my eyebrows, crossing my arms over my chest. "And what would that be darling?" Kol, asked as he walked over to me, with a smirk on his face.

"Well I'm gonna take a wild guess, and say you went on another killing spree, attracting Mikael's attention. Getting you all killed, so Nik boxed you up, and took you away before Mikael could kill you" I told him, glaring at him, before flicking my eyes over to Elijah. "And my guess is that he daggered you for trying to kill him, you know what his paranoia's like"

"So, he has reasons. Doesn't mean we have to play happy little families with him" Kol glared as he stood right in front of me, with his arms crossed over his chest. We were that close our arms was touching.

"No, but you bet your ass that the three of you will sit down and listen to him, or I will gladly put you in your boxes again. You know Nik gives me whatever I want" I smirked at him, making his glare intensify.

"Please Lilly. You wouldn't hurt me. I'm your best friend" Kol teased making me raise my eyebrows at him. "Fragmos"

Kol, started gasping for air, so I quickly removed it, making Kol smirk at me. "You did it then?" He asked, raising his eyebrows. "Of course. How did you think I found you?" I asked him, just before he pulled me into a hug.

"Have you both finished now?" Elijah asked making me and Kol look at him smirking. "Come on Lijah, you know that's how we greet eachother" I laughed before getting back to why I woke them straight away.

"Are you all going to listen to what Nik has to say then?" I asked them all, making them sigh, but nod, not looking too happy about it, but then Bekah decided to say something that might just change their minds.

"He killed mother" She whispered as she sat down on a seat. Nik, should have been the one to tell them.

Before any of them could go off, planning Nik's death, I spoke up. "Put yourself in his shoes. He was abused by Mikael – the man he thought to be his father – when he didn't approve of anything Nik did, or if he was disappointed in him. His own mother didn't help him. He watched his little brother get killed by a werewolf and then carried his bloody body back to your home, knowing that he was going to get hit again. He was turned into a vampire, after Mikael shoved a sword into his heart with a smile on his face. He then found out that Mikael wasn't his birth father, and that he was from a werewolf bloodline. Then his mother took away the one piece of his birth farther he had. What would you do? Esther did nothing but ruin his life. It was all her mess and Nik was punished for it" I explained, making them all sit back in their thoughts.

Deciding to leave them with their own thoughts, I walked into the kitchen, grabbing myself a bloodbag out of the fridge.

Just as I was closing the fridge door, a pair of arms wrapped around me and a chin rested on my shoulder. I looked down at the hands, noticing the blood. "Do I even need to ask how idiot one and two are?" I asked him, turning my head towards him.

"They're still alive. I just had to give them a little punishment, then left them to have a little nap" He winked at me, before turning me around pressing his lips against mine.

Before I could even react he had moved away over to the glass cupboard, grabbing us a glass each, before he took the bloodbag out of my hand, pouring it into the two glasses.

"They're in the dining room" I told him, making him look at me. "Awake?" He asked, staring at me. I nodded, keeping my eyes on him. "How long?" He asked, confused.

"Once we got back, I woke them using my magic to rush it so I could have a little talk wity them" I smirked at him, making him raise my eyebrows. "About?" He asked.

I rolled my eyes, before grabbing his hand pulling him towards the dining room. "I made them promise me that they would hear you out first, before they did anything irrational" I told him, before we walked towards the dining room.

As soon as we walked in the four of them snapped their heads towards us, just staring at Nik, who was staring right back.

After a couple of seconds, I decided to break the staring. "Okay. Well I'm gonna go upstairs and leave you to it. I hear any arguing and I will come down and kill you all. I don't want anything breaking" I warned them, before kissing Nik on his cheek and making my way up to mine and Nik's room.

I didn't want to interfere with their family drama, and I knew Nik needed to explain himself. Plus I had my own drama to deal with.

As soon as I walked into the bedroom, I noticed we now had a new door, with a lock. "Thank you hybrids" I mumbled before I jumped onto the bed.

As my eyes closed, I felt my body relax, until I remembered something. Phoebe Anne Lockwood.

I jumped up off of the bed and grabbed the letter out of my bedside cabinet and read it over and over again, until I came to a decision.

I walked over to the box that held all of my grimoires and everything else that I used for my magic, pulling out several candles. I really need to put this all up in my witchy room.

I thought that I would have a world map in with my stuff, but for some strange reason it wasn't there.

Bloody hell Nik, what have you done with it?

Pushing the box away from me, I made my way downstairs to look for it. There had to be one in this mansion somewhere.

I looked in the library first but I couldn't find it, so without thinking I walked into the living room looking everywhere for the world map. Not noticing that the five siblings was sat in the room together, getting on.

I know there's one somewhere. I had one for me to use for locating spells and then Nik had one. So where the hell are the two of them?

"Lilly, love. What are you doing?" Nik asked, but I didn't answer him, I carried on looking through everything.

"Lilly?" Nik asked again strongly, grabbing me by the arms making me look at him. I didn't even know he was next to me.

"Where the bloody hell are they Nik?" I asked, while I thought back to see if I could think of where it could be. There has got to be one somewhere!

"Where's what?" Nik asked, confused, grabbing my chin forcing me to look at him, since I was looking around the room. "The world map. I need to find her" I spoke as I pulled myself out of his grip, walking over to some cabinets and started pulling everything out.

"Find who?" Kol asked looking at me like I was crazy. In fact the five of them was looking at me like I had lost my mind and that I needed locking up in a padded cell.

"Phoebe" I answered as I got to the bottom of the draw I was looking in, something catching my eye. "Got it" I mumbled as I pulled it out, holding it up in the air.

I quickly put everything back where it belonged, not bothered if it looked a mess or not, I had more important things to do.

"Lilly. Just think about this first. What if it's not her? You're getting your hopes up and it might not even be her" Nik spoke as he stood in front of me, stopping me from leaving the room.

I rolled my eyes, pushing him out of my way. "Then someones got a death wish" I snapped before rushing up to our room, spelling the door as I closed it. "Vis porta"

If I locked it Nik would just kick it down, this way he couldn't get in. I knew he was worried about me getting my hopes shattered, but if it really is her, I would always regret not even trying to find her.

I grabbed a bowel and a knife out of the box before I sat down on the floor, with the world map laid out in front of me, surrounded by a circle of candles.

I squeezed the knife blade in my hand letting my blood drop into the bowel, as I heard Nik ranting and raving outside the door because I wouldn't let him in.

I knew he'd try and tell me to leave it for tonight, but I couldn't. I needed to do it now. Before it was too late.

Once there was enough blood in the bowel, I lit the candles before pouring the bowel of blood onto the map, as I started chanting. "Le six ce strul no cruv. Le six ce strul no cruv. Le six ce strul no cruv"

I looked down at the map expecting it to have moved to the where she was, but it did nothing. My blood was still sat on the map, not even moved.

It didn't work! Something was blocking me, but who the hell was strong enough to block me?

"Come on. I need to find her. I need to find her" I whispered, before trying again. But nothing happened.

I screamed out in anger which sent me and everything else in the room flying. Landing on the floor, I pushed myself up, leaning against the wall, as silent tears fell down my cheek.

I could hear as Nik broke down the door, but he still couldn't get in. I was losing control of my magic because of my anger.

Why can't I just find her?!

Once I calmed down, I looked over at the door, noticing they were all stood there staring at me, shocked. "I-I can't find her" I whispered brokenly, before I fell into darkness...

As I opened my eyes I noticed a young woman stood in front of me, she looked familiar but I couldn't place her.

"Do I know you?" I asked her confused. "Who are you?" She asked glaring at me.

"Well, you should know since you brought me here" I snapped.

Who the hell is she?

"My names Samantha Lapson" As soon as the words left her mouth my jaw dropped. "As in Phoebe Ann Lockwood?" I asked with a lump in my throat.

It's her. She's actually here.

"How do you know that name?" She snapped. "Because I chose that name for you" I whispered staring at her shocked.

"Your Lilly Marie Salvatore?" She asked and I could see the tears in her eyes. "Yes" I whispered staring at her, but then I realised I was in a dream sort of thing.

"You're a witch" I stated, staring at her in awe. I couldn't believe she was stood right in front of me.

"Actually I'm a tribrid" She chuckled looking at me in shock, not believing I was really here.

"Witch, werewolf... and vampire" I stated looking at her. I couldn't take my eyes off of her.

"Where are you? I'd really like to meet you Phoebe" I asked looking at her.

"I'll come to you. In Mystic Falls. Goodbye... mother"