48; Life Stories

LILLY

As we walked into the mansion, Kol was walking back up from the basement. "She's down there" Kol smirked at me.

I rolled my eyes as I followed Nik and Phoebe into the living room where Elijah, Finn and Bekah was waiting for us.

Nik pulled me down as he sat down, pulling me next to him, with Phoebe next to me. Once Kol joined us I looked over at Phoebe and grabbed her hand. "What happened when you woke up?" I asked her.

"Katherine gave me a woman to feed off of, I tried to stop myself, but I couldn't. But halfway through I stopped. I couldn't kill her" She started as she stared blankly at the floor. "Katherine couldn't believe that I stopped myself, before she laughed at me calling me a silly little girl. She told me that I had no chance of getting anywhere near you and that I was better off without you. Then she left me, taking the human with her"

Nik grabbed my hand rubbing his thumb against it. Knowing I wanted nothing more than to go and kill Katherine now. "I went back to the Lapson's home, to get my belongings. Mainly the necklace and the letter, before I left town... For the first couple of months I tried to find out as much about you as I could

"I came to terms with what I am. If it was the only way to meet you, I would live with it. Five months later I made my first kill" She stared at the wall.

"I was on my own and so scared. I didn't know what was happening. My bones started to break as I slowly shifted into a werewolf. I woke up a day later, confused and naked. I found out that I was a hybrid, because my father carried the werewolf gene"

I gripped her hand tighter. "After that I put all my time into finding anything on you and my father. I found out that you're my mother and that George Lockwood was my father. I found out that you were a vampire but that my father was dead"

Phoebe looked into my eyes, and all I could see was hurt, and it hurt me to know that she's being hurting all this time.

I should have gone back for her.

"In 1878 I found out that you were living in New Orleans, so I went to look for you" She laughed shaking her head, before looking back at me. "Everyone was talking about their Queen; Lilly Marie Mikaelson. I obviously didn't pay any attention to it because I knew you as a Salvatore. I thought that it was a coincidence that you both had the same name"

She looked down at her hands. "It wasn't until I saw you walking down the street with Klaus" She started before looking at me and Nik. "You both looked so happy and I didn't want to ruin that, so I left before you knew I was there"

"Why would you coming to me ruin my happiness?" I asked her softly.

"From the moment I found out that you were alive, I always believed that you were out there somewhere searching for me. So when I saw you in New Orleans it made me realize that you wasn't. You were just living your life not thinking about me. I thought you didn't want me, and that's the reason why you gave me away. So I left leaving New Orleans and you behind"

I know she didn't mean it nasty but it hurt to hear that she wanted to leave me behind her. Tears fell down my cheeks and I had a horrible lump in my throat. Nik pulled me so my head was on his chest.

"Believe me when I say this Phoebe, but all your mother wanted was for you to be with us, but she thought that she should leave you to live your human life. She always threw a ball for your birthday, even if you wasn't there to celebrate it with us, it made her feel like you were there with her" Nik told her.

I wiped my eyes before I looked back at Phoebe. "I wanted to come and get you so much, I really did. But I didn't want to drag you into this. I wanted you to live your life. Fall in love. Get married. Have children, grandchildren. I wanted you to have a normal human life" I explained to her.

She rolled her eyes. "I couldn't exactly have a normal human life when my father was a werewolf and my mother is the Salvatore witch" She chuckled shaking her head, before smiling at me. "I don't blame you, mum. Honestly"

"You should blame me. I should have came for you, but I couldn't take you away from the family you had" I smiled weakly at her. "What happened when you left New Orleans?" I asked wanting to change the subject.

"I travelled around. I found out that I was a witch, so after that I started practicing... I also came across a Salvatore grimoire" She smiled, before pulling it out of her bag that she had with her.

As she handed it me, my jaw dropped. "Where did you get this?" I asked her as I opened the grimoire flicking through the spells.

"A fake witch out to make some money" She chuckled shaking her head. "She wasn't taking vervain, so I compelled her to give it to me, then forget she even had it. I knew it belonged to you"

"Do you know what it is?" I asked as I looked at her, I could tell the others were confused. "Obviously it's a grimoire with some intense spells in it" She chuckled shaking her head.

"These are my very first spells. I've had it since I was Ten" I chuckled as I flicked through landing on a spell. One that stood out to me.

I quickly closed it before anyone could see it. "So what's your story?" Phoebe asked looking interested.

I looked down at my hands, before leaning against Nik. "I had the perfect family. My parents loved me and Damon was my best friend. We were like two peas in a pod. On my fifth birthday I tapped into my magic. I freaked out, I mean I was five, so I went to tell my mother. She started panicking before going to tell my father.

"I spent my birthday practicing with my magic, since I was forced to spend the day in my room. I sneaked downstairs that night, when I heard my mother and father talking. He wanted her to tap into her magic that he forced her to neglect, and to take my magic away"

I chuckled shaking my head. "I knew I was stronger that my mother. After all she had neglected her magic, so I put my magic into one of my teddies, so when she tried, there was nothing there for her to take.

"Father was so angry that he beat me and my mother just stood there. I knew she couldn't do much, since she was pregnant with Stefan, but she didn't have to stand there, she could have told him to stop it.

"After that father turned everyone against me, even my own twin. He hated that I had magic and he didn't. Mother never spoke to me when father was around since in his eyes I was a disgrace. For a month I was beaten as he tried to get me to tell him what I'd done with my magic. But I wouldn't. I took every beating so he couldn't take the one thing I had left.

"Two years later they finally stopped asking me where it was, but father never stopped the beatings. I took my magic back and started practicing. I wasn't disturbed by anyone since nobody spoke to me. I thought that as long as I had my magic that I would be happy.

"In 1858, I thought that I was finally getting the happily ever after I always dreamt about, but you were ripped from my arms. When father came back I was beaten black and blue, but I didn't feel anything. I was already broken. Damon and Stefan stood by and watched, not even stopping him.

"In 1859 my mother fell ill and was sent away before she died of consumption. My father wasn't really bothered since he was off with one of the maids" I shook my head before getting back to my life story.

"On Stefan's Fourteenth birthday I was nearly beat to my death, but thankfully a maid helped me. She was the only person in our home that didn't hate me. She was more of a mother to me than my own was.

"In 1864 Katherine came to town, sleeping with both Damon and Stefan. Nobody believed me that she was evil, but when father found out, he had her shipped away with the rest of the vampires that was in town. Damon and Stefan tried to save her, and like an idiot I followed them, but we were all shot down, by our own father. Turned out that not only had she been letting Damon and Stefan drink her blood, she had also been putting it in my drinks every day.

"Stefan forced me to complete the transition, so in return I promised him and Damon an eternity of misery. Katherine's hand maiden, also a witch; Emily Bennett, made me a daylight ring, so once I had it I left the town I grew up in, along with my brothers.

"I hated them both. Stefan more for forcing me to feed. I didn't want to because I knew I didn't have my magic, and it was the only thing I had, that nobody could take from me.

"I was in Georgia in 1866, when I met Nik, and the others. We got married in 1872 before we moved to New Orleans in 1873, we helped build it and became royalty. A few years later I found a witch with one of my grimoires, and found out that there was a way for me to tap back into my magic, thanks to Emily Bennett.

"All I needed was the Salvatore stone, but we couldn't find it. In 1919, we went out for a family night when I was vamp-napped and compelled to forget everything I did with Nik and his family, erasing them all from my memory.

"I was tortured for a year, then left to desiccate for Seventy years. When I finally woke up I was compelled to think that I spent the past Seventy one years travelling, partying and killing others. I spent the rest of the time traveling and terrorizing my brothers.

"I came back to Mystic Falls in 2009, to stop Damon from opening the tomb, which he opened; but that's another story. I was nearly burnt to death by a stupid human and the Gilbert Invention. I was vamp-napped, along with the doppelgänger, and when Damon and Stefan came to rescue her, they left me there. I flipped the switch. I killed a werewolf, because he was working with Katherine, and when his pack found out they came to town torturing me and Damon, but Lijah came to the rescue.

"When Nik came back to town I was dragged onto a road trip with him and Stefan, looking for a pack of werewolves, thinking that he had a bounty on my head. I found out that you were alive before coming back to Mystic Falls to find out that Elena was alive even though Nik killed her in his sacrifice.

"I was then dragged onto another road trip with Nik, after he found out he needed Elena's blood for his hybrids to work. Nik killed his father, so I got my memories back. I finally got my magic back, since Nik found the Salvatore stone. I have my daughter in my life. I hate my brothers. All is right in the world again" I chuckled.

"Uh..." Phoebe didn't know what to say, and I didn't blame her. My life story is kind of messed up.

I sighed as I stood up. "Well I'm going to see the little bitch we all call Katherine" I mumbled before I made my way down to the basement.

I knew that by the end of this, I wouldn't like the reason she had for turning my daughter, but I would figure out what to do with it and her.