Chapter 5: Chapter 4- What Do You Remember?

Lily's POV~

It's been a few days since my dad was brought back from the dead. And I basically rekilled him. Alaric found the monster who did that, but I've been watched like a hawk so I could never go down there.

Until now.

"You've got a powerful scent of death on you girly. Dead family? Killed people? A little bit of both perhaps?" the necromancer asked as I walked in. I don't answer. Only open the cell door. "Oh have you come to free me? Good girl." "Not exactly," I say and vamp speed to him, hitting him so hard the chair goes into the ground. And I repeat it. Again. And again. And again. Over and over with all my strength before lifting him up by the collar of his suit and yelling at him.

"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU DID!" I scream and continue to beat him. "YOU MADE ME LOSE HIM! AGAIN!"

Then I feel someone pulling off of him. "Hey! Hey! Calm down it's me!" I turn around and see Hope. "Oh come to make sure your little girlfriend didn't come near me did ya?" The dweeb in the cell says to Hope. "Why don't you just shut up." Hope says not even looking at him, instead, looking at my hand making sure nothing is broken. "How dare you talk to me that way. I'm the almighty Necro-" "Would you shut up about that. Literally, no one knows who you are." Hope says looking at him.

"Impossible." "Don't believe me? Read up." she hands him books and unlocks the chains on his hands. I just walk away.

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A while later, I'm in my room reading when Hope barges in. "What the hell was that earlier?" not bothering to look up form my book I say "Just releasing some anger. Which is completely justified."

Hope sighs and comes to sit in front of me. Taking the book from me she places two fingers under my chin and makes me look at her. "Lil, I know you're not okay. You can talk to me whenever you need to you know. I'll always be here." she says in a quiet voice. I just nod. "I know. And when I'm ready, I will talk to you. Now, what do you need? You have that look on your face that you need something."

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"So let me get this straight, you're going to have MG do a head dive, into that? And you want me as back up?" I say pointing to the necromancer. "I am not a that you impompous child." I just punch him again, hearing a breaking sound of his neck, he looks at Hope and points to me. "Oh, keep this one deary. She's got quite the swing in her. From my days, those ones are always the best in bed if you know what I mean." I just look at him with a grossed-out face, then I hit him again. "That's not the way to talk about a girl dickhead."

I go out of the cell, and Hope and I leave the basement. "I'm going to the kitchen to get something to eat, come find me when you have MG," I say to Hope then leave.

Going to the kitchen, I go in the pantry and grab an apple. Closing the door, Kaleb is right behind the door. "What the fuck do you want Kaleb," I say walking away to wash the apple. "I need blood" "There's a whole room right there. Have at it." I say taking a bite of the apple I have. "Not bunny blood. Human blood." "And I need a love life. Neither is going to happen today. So get lost." I go to walk away but he gets in front of me. "What you're so good you can't help a brother out? The Salvatore girl. Or are you a Saltzman? Hard to tell nowadays." Getting tired of the shit he's saying, I shove my apple in his mouth and walk out. Passing Hope and MG on the way.

"It's so cool! It's like compulsion but while I'm on the surface of his mind, heroic like, I'm plunging you into the deep end- holly mary mother of demons." MG says looking at the necromancer. "Hello, Milton. Your great nana Imogene is waving hello just over your shoulder." MG looks behind him and takes a step to the side "You can see my great nana?" "Oh, I can see everything. She's most disappointed in you for forsaking Jesus, who I can also see but, oh, I know, that's another can of worms. Shall we begin?" He says as Hope goes to open the cell.

"We're going in there? With-with him?"  MG asks walking to Hope. "With me the Almighty necrom-" "Please can we not do all that again?!" I ask. "Did you really steal the keys from Dr. Saltzman?" MG asks Hope, so she answers. "Nope. Lily did." I smirk and do a little wave. "MG, pull it together." I say and we walk in, Hope closes the cell behind us.

"You have no reason to fear me I assure you." "You're basically the grim reaper." This makes him shake his head in annoyance "The reaper is a carnival sideshow hack! No, you, you dirty your mouth mentioning his name in my presence. Perhaps I should summon nana to wash it out with soap." MG shakes his head, "No you leave my nana be. Don't nobody need to be whupped by nana right now."

"Enough with the chit chat. Are we starting?" I say crossing my arms. MG goes in front of the necromancer and Hope goes behind him. "Okay, I stand here, hands on his shoulders-" Hope does as he said, "then you and I join hands-" MG reluctantly grabs the monsters hands. "Hey, if you need me, I'll go in and find you," I say looking at Hope, she nods. MG gets eye-level with him. "Open your mind to me. Like lifting a window to let the breeze in." then it works.

Soon, Hope wakes up, or whatever it is you would call it. "Hoo I'm glad that's over, I'm shaky, my hands are sweaty-" MG let's go and starts talking. "Unbelievable. He ditched me." Hope says waving her hand in necromancer's face. "Send me back in." "Hope, are you sure?" I ask and MG says "I'm not that good at this."

"You'll be fine. If he's going in search of answers I need to be there when he finds them. I'm ready" Hope tells us and she puts her hands on his shoulders again. "Yeah that makes one of us." MG sends her back in.

Hope starts hyperventilating. "Hope? Hope? Aye man let her out she's scared! Let her out!" MG yells necromancer. Going over, I stand next to Hope and grab his shoulders. "MG, send me in." "Lil I don't think that's a good idea." Hope starts crying and freaking out. "MG send me in there right now or so help me I will rip you to shreds!" I yell, and he nods and I go in.

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Opening my eyes, I'm at a bar in New Orleans. I've been here a few times when I would visit Hope for a week during the summer with her mom. Following pictures of necromancer pointing to a door, there's a staircase, leading to darkness. "fuck fuck fuck. Okay, nothing to worry about Lily, just darkness." I say going down the staircase. I've always hated the dark. It's pathological fear, so it will never go away. But I suck it up. Hope needs me. Then I fall.

"Ow," I say standing up. Looking around, I don't see much, but I hear Hope. "I need to know that he's not alone. Because I can't live with myself if he's alone. No one should have to be alone like this. Please." I run to her voice. "HOPE! HOPE WHERE YOU!" I yell trying to find her. And then I do.

"Hope!" I tel and go towards her. "Lily? You came?" she asks standing and I just hug her. "I told you I would." we pull apart when we hear footsteps. "Oh, hey! See your little girlfriend came too." he says walking up to us. "Don't 'hey' me get us out of here." Hope yells at him. "With pleasure." he snaps, and we're back in the cell. Alaric is there with MG. "Uh-oh. Daddy's home" necromancer laughs.

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"How could you be so reckless!" Alaric yells at Hope and I as we walk into his office. "You weren't getting anywhere." Hope glares at him. "Yeah, and how did that go?" "Not well." I say through gritted teeth. "Yeah, well I have it under control girls!" he yells at us. Making me walk over to his desk. "Oh yeah, you want to explain this. Or this!" I say holding up an empty bottle and half-empty bottle of bourbon. "I am grieving Lily. Maybe you both should try instead of pushing everyone away." Alaric yells looking at both of us.

"Look I am trying to protect you both. That thing is a master manipulator, it brought back my dead fiancee, your father! It raised a cemetery of zombies and brought back Rafael's dead girlfriend so let's just talk about the ways it could torment you. Starting with your dead mother, ending with your dead father. And what about the trail of bodies you both left along the way! I can't believe you would do this-" He yelled that part mainly at Hope. But that last part was at both of us. This made Hope yell at him. "Don't do that! You don't like that I broke your rules as a headmaster fine. But don't you dare play disappointed dad because you are not my father." "Oh, I know that. And where do you think you're going?" "To finish what I started." Hope replies and locks the door with magic.

"You Lily. Why the hell would you go along with this?!" Alaric yells at me after trying to open the door. "Because it's just like Hope said. You may have adopted me, but you are not my father. I just had to kill my father by draining the magic that was keeping him alive! So the sooner we get answers. The faster I can kill that thing!" I say venomously and siphon the door, leaving before putting the spell back up. Leaving Alaric in his office.

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I went to the cemetery to visit my dad's grave. But on the way, I saw Kaleb feeding on a guy, and then MG did. "MG that's enough, dudes not that big. MG calm down." Speeding over there, I pull MG off of the kid, and Dorian stabs him with vervain.

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"What the hell do you think you were doing back there?!" Dorian yelled at Kaleb while we were in the library. "Man we know all you feeding us is that bunny blood. That's not being a real vamp. You talk a big game about shaping young minds bu you won't let us be who we really are." Kaleb yells at Dorian. "Do you know why I was at the cemetery today? Why I only take this one day off a year. This day off every year?! It's because I was honoring my father and my little sister, both of whom were murdered by the vampire who's memorial library we are standing in right now! The place I come to work everyday! 364 days a year I love my job. But one day a year, I can not stand the sight of this place." Dorian pauses, so I continue.

"Do you even know what a ripper is Kaleb? Do you?" I ask and he shakes his head. "A ripper is a vampire driven by obsession. Who lives only by the gratification of their deepest desires. A ripper will feed until there's nothing left to feed off of. Until their preys, body parts are torn off. Do you know what kind of vampires turns into a ripper? In most cases, normally the most moral ones. And I'd say that the impressionable, clinically ADHD, hormonal teen like Milton Greasley is one. So no, the school doesn't give out human blood. Not every vampire can handle human blood." "And how do you know that little Salvatore? You're not even a real vamp. You don't even drink blood." Kaleb asked getting in my face. "Because my father was one of the worst rippers of all time. Check your history books." I say glaring at him, and then I walk away.

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There's something I need to tell you. I just don't know how. So to make you understand maybe we should start from the end.

On second thought, maybe not.

It was around 3 am. I've been in the secret room that the piano Hope had gotten me for hours. Playing random notes that come into my head.

"Lily, I need your help. Landon's in trouble, can you come with me to get him?" Turning around, I see Hope, she already has a bag packed for me. I smile and take it from her. "We I could use a girls trip anyway. Let's go. We can take my car." I wrap my arm around hers. "You have a car?" she looks at me like I'm kidding. "Yeah, my uncle Damon gave it my sisters and I on our birthday last week. He also took me to get my license."

Walking to the front doors of the school, someone behind us makes us stop. "Going somewhere? More importantly, with my keys and without telling me." Shit. "We were going to a secret club for supernaturals outside of town. Needed to let off some steam." I say jokingly. "Also these are my keys." I say holding them up smiling. "Hope, Lily, neither if you have drivers licenses, you're ditching school just before midterms and it's 3 am." Alaric says walking up to us. "Firstly, I do have a drivers license, Uncle Damon took me to get it last week, secondly I'm not worried about either of our midterms because I'm passing all my classes with an A and so is Hope because we study together, and thirdly... Hope what's the third thing?" I look at her. "Landon is in trouble so we're going to save him." she says and Alaric just looks at us.

"Then we're going. And I'm driving. My car." He goes to leave and we just stare at him, "What?" he asks looking at us seeing as we're not following him. "You might want to change Alaric. We'll be in the car." I say and walk out not bothering to look at him. But out of the corner of my eye, I can see his saddened face from me not calling him dad.

After changing, he makes Hope and I sit in the back seat since we had a mini argument on who would sit there when. So now, we're driving and I'm laying down with my head in Hope's lap while she plays with my hair.

I didn't know it yet, but Landon was in Kansas looking for his mom. He had no idea what he was walking into. None of us did.

Crossing the border to Indiana Alaric starts singing, "Indiana crossroads of America. What's the capital." I sit up and roll my eyes. "We learned that I'm like the eighth grade." I say looking out the window. "Oh good, then you should know it." "Never said I remembered the information taught in that class." I say shaking my head and Hope nods her head in agreement.

"Neither of you are saying much of anything. If you can't handle grade school geography you're going to flunk all of your exams." He says glancing at us. "Are Lizzie and Josie studying? Maybe you should focus on them." Hope says looking annoyed. "Yeah well, they're still in Europe with Caroline. Thank god." he says focusing back on the road. "Religion has no place in the classroom, Dr. Saltzman. The Supreme Court made sure if that with it's ruling on Engel v. Vitale." I say with a smirk, and Hope matches it when she adds "And Indianapolis is the capital of Indiana. We're getting A's in geography. Chill." with that, he focuses on the road, and we high five.

"Take the next left, he's moving." Hope says looking at the bracelet. "Indiana, surrounded by what four States?" he asks, and I roll my eyes. "Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and Kentucky. See, just fine." I say with an annoyed expression. "Fine. Let's move onto science." he says and I sarcastically say "Why? You don't know A.P. physics."

18 and a half hours is a long time on the road. And even longer when you're being car schooled.

"And that is how osmosis works." Alaric says as he stops the car. "This the place?" I ask pointing the house we're in front of. "Yep and not a moment too soon. I'm pretty sure that you were about to tell us how babies were made." Hope said with a sarcastic smile, making me laugh. "Hey, I just make sure we're clear." he stops us from getting out of the car. "Yep crystal, you're Professor X I'm Wolverine and Lily's-" "I was more of a DC kid myself" he interrupts her. "Then your Batman and we're the Justice League, point is you call the shots. So how are we doing this? Fireball? Wind torrent" I say raising an eyebrow.

"I was thinking we'd knock." "How original." I say and get out.

"We should come in hot. There could be a Jabberwocky on the other side of the door for all we know." Hope says as we reach the porch. "Nonsensical poem written by..." "Charles Dodgson." Hope and I say at the same time. "Wrong Lewis Carrol." and I laugh and reply "The pen name of Charles Dodgson. We're crushing English too." We hear a scream and Hope blasts the door off its hinges.

Hearing Alaric apologize I stay outside. "Someone knew we were coming," Hope says walking out. I sigh and walk to the car. "Yay, back in the car we go"

Spoiler alert. Our stories about to take one hell of a turn. A monstrous turn. I used Landon's bracelet to do a locator spell. But all it located was more trouble.

Pulling up to a new house that Landon was supposed to be at, there were blockades. Getting out we walk up and a man walks up to us. "Hey, can I help you?" "Yeah, I hope so uh, say what's going on here?" Alaric asks nodding his head to the house. "Gas leak. Don't worry though we have it under control. You wouldn't happen to know who lives here, would you? We tried knocking but no one's home." the guy asks and we shake our heads. "um we're looking for-" "The highway. See we're lost and well, we saw you guys we thought we'd ask for directions." Alaric interrupts Hope.

The man nods. "Yeah at the end of the road you make a right, can't miss it." Alaric nods, "thank you. Let's go... Jessica, Estrella." "Yeah, babe lets go, can't miss date night being lost out her now can we," I say and wrap an arm around Hope's waist pulling her away from the guy. I let go when we're near the car. "Jessica? Really? You couldn't call me by middle name like you did with Lily?" Hope says annoyed with the name he gave her.

"Oh, I've been apart of enough cover-ups to smell on a mile away." "Do you think they have Landon?" Hope asks and I answer her. "Well, they wouldn't have asked about him if they had him, so... We just have to find him before they do." and we start driving away.

It seems like the whole world was chasing Landon, but only one person was actually with him.

Doing the locator spell again, we track Landon to a motel. To make sure he's in the right room, I listen to the conversation in the room. "Do you have a girlfriend?" "No. There's this girl I like, Hope. But she likes someone else. They'd be a great couple honestly, she and Lily are tough. They'd probably kill us both if they heard us talking about them as if they were a couple. They don't see it, even when everyone else does." "They do sound tough." "Yeah, you'd probably hate them."

I stop listening. And look at Alaric and Hope. "He's in there, I only heard one other person, a woman." Alaric picks the lock and walks in. I hear the cock of a gun and Alaric says "Uh, I'm looking for Landon Kirby." and I hear the woman's voice again, "And who the hell are you?" she asks.

Hope magically takes her gun, and I speed in pinning her to the wall. "People who care about him, now tell us where he is before I blow your head off." Hope says pointing the gun at her. "You must be Hope and Lily." She lady says, and Landon comes out of the bathroom. "Dr. Saltzman? Hope? Lily? What are you guys doing here?" I let the lady go and say "you called. We came. We care. Oh, and by the way, I won't kill you. This time." I say and point to my ears making his eyes go wide.

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"So you're the headmaster of a private school for supernaturals, you're his adopted daughter, and you're the teacher's pet?" Landon's mom asks. "Actually they're both a pain in my ass," Alaric says walking away from the window. "Little judgy for an absentee mother don't you think?" Hope says and I fire back as well "And a kidnapper who was going to torture her own son."

She smirks and turns to Landon. "You were wrong... I like them." "Well, now you know about us. But all we know about you is that you gave birth to Landon, he says a monster attacked you, and now there's some sort of fake gas company after you two. So, I think it's time you start filling in the blanks." Alaric says to the woman and I just look at my nails before saying "Or you know. I could make you tell us, but you won't like my methods." looking up, she raises an eyebrow and I just smile sweetly and say "Your choice."

She turns back to Landon and points to me, "And I really like this one. Feisty. An alpha and she knows it." she went and sat down across from us then started explaining everything. "When I finished my service in the army, I was recruited by an intelligence organization. The states sounded like a better life. I didn't know what I was signing up for, but soon I learned that things like you exist in this world. My job was very much like yours Dr. Saltzman. To keep the supernatural world a secret. Whenever a monster went bump in the night, I tracked it down and brought it back to headquarters."

"We're not monsters" Hope and I say at the same time. "You are to me." she said looking at the both of us. "This headquarters, where is it?" Alaric asks, she just shakes her head "Sorry. You just seemed too morally inclined to do something stupid and there's too much blood on my hands as it is. A few years in, I saw something I shouldn't. I became the hunted, instead of the hunter." "Well, what did you see?" I asked sitting next to Hope on the bed. "I wanted to know what was happening to the monsters. Because even though I spent all that time studying their every move, I couldn't remember them at all. So I started taking notes. I realized my memory was being erased. The question was: how?"

"Malivore" Alaric said making she look at him "How do you know about Malivore?" He rubbed his hands together and answered, "Landon took a knife that belonged to our school's collection. Now monsters that shouldn't exist have been showing up trying to take it." I decide to speak up again, "He means Landon stole it. Then lied about stealing it. Twice." Landon continued "Then I like woke it up or something. What's Malivore?"

"It's a hell dimension that consumed creatures then wipes their existence from the collective conscience. Sound about right?" Hope looks towards Landon's mom. "More or less." "The last monster that came was a necromancer. Who screwed us over and took the knife back to Malivore. Long story. But he said the knife was one of three keys that kept Malivore contained, so why are monsters coming for you now?" Hope said looking at Landon.

"I don't know. I didn't really get to ask the last one. It just tried to eat me." Alaric looks to the lady and smiles. "As you can see it's been a rough semester." "It will only get harder if you don't go home and forget you heard the name." She gets up to leave the room but Landon stops her. "Woah, wait you have to tell us more I mean-" "I don't know who your father is. Work was stressful so I had a lot of flings to blow off steam. And just like the power couple here said. I'm not equipped to be a mother. Sorry, I thought I was giving you a better life." and she walks out.

You wanna know the worst part? That wasn't the worst part.

"Landon I'm really sorry." Hope says looking out the window. I don't really pay attention to their conversation, I'm listening to the one Alaric and Landon's mom are having outside. "When my employers found out I was trying to remember what that had made me forget they tossed me into the pit." "So how are we having this conversation?" "I don't know. I don't even know how long I was in the pit. Only that I felt the things you described, the isolation, the loneliness. And then one day I found myself back here. I woke up in the middle of nowhere, covered in mud, having absolutely no idea how I got there. Turns out two years had gone by, but there was a bright side. No one remembered me."

"So you were free?" "I wouldn't go that far, because there was also a catch. I was pregnant." "So Landon is basically supernatural immaculate conception." At this, I was out of the room to join the conversation. "I'll be damned, you believe me."

"Of course he would. His twins were magically transplanted into their birth mother, who is a vampire and was quote on quote 'pregnant' with me who was never supposed to be born because my parents are both vampires, and then said twins transferred some of their siphoner magic to me making me actually be able to live and creating a living vampire witch hybrid." I say sitting down between them.

Alaric shrugs and nods his head. "Yeah, what she said. So that makes my belief tolerance is pretty high." and he laughs. Something felt off, so I went back to the room only to find Landon leaning in to kiss Hope, and she leaned away. "Woah. Hi guys." and they look at me really fast.

I should warn you. Our story's about to get a lot fishier.

Alaric walks in. "Girls, uh, get another room. Now." and we walk out. I grab Seylah's keys. Which is apparently the name of Landon's mom. We walk out and grab our bags only to see her hot wiring a car. Hope shakes her head and laughs. "Let me guess, pizza run?" "Alaric was right. You two are a pain in the ass." "We're not the ones stealing a car at the moment." I say crossing my arms. "It's my car, so it's not really stealing."

This makes Hope laugh dryly, "Oh then you're just afraid to go upstairs and get your keys. Because then you'd have to tell Landon that you're abandoning him again." Then Saylah says some crappy shit about not wanting to be a mom and thinking about how Landon was every few years. When she finally got the engine she closed the door. But the window was down so I threw her keys inside. "You had my keys the whole time?" she looked at me in disbelief and I just shrugged.

"What he needs doesn't matter. All that he's gonna remember is that you abandoned him again" I say glaring at her. "No, he won't remember me period. And neither will either of you." and then she shoots us with tranquilizers.

When we wake we go upstairs, when we walk in, there's a giant fish. "Ictus!" "Ignogus" Hope and I tell at the same time.

"Oh, you idiot. What the hell did you touch now?!" I ask walking to his bag. Opening in, I sigh "Great." and I pull out an urn.

"This is Seylah's I picked it up, but I did not steal it, okay I would not do that again. Not on purpose anyway." Landon says taking the urn from me. "Landon, we believe you, for now, let me see that." I take the urn and Landon's bracelet, press the button, and I put the bracelet in the urn and set it down. "Okay, let's leave." I say and grab Hope's hand and walk towards the door.

"Are you crazy you're just gonna give it the urn?!" Alaric says looking at me. "Yes, that's exactly what I'm gonna do, then we're going to follow it to where it's supposed to take it. Now let's go before it breaks free." I explain "He's a freshman on land how fast can he be?" and we all leave just in time for me to hear the bathroom door breaking.

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"Turns out he's pretty fast." Hope says looking at the bracelet. "Lily this was your idea. So it within my bounds as the headmaster to tell you both to shut it." "No, technically I own the school. With it being my dad's house and all." I smile sarcastically and sit back.

"What if we don't get there in time?" Landon asks and Hope answers "Seylah doesn't have that much of a lead on us." "I can't believe she wants to erase herself just to get out of being a parent." "Better than you erasing them from existence. Trust me. It sucks." I say dryly. "What the hell is that?!" Landon yells and we make a very fast stop so we don't run into the fence in front of us.

"Triad industries." I read out loud looking at the logo. "Explosives?" Landon says reading the sign next to it. "Well on the bright side, maybe this fence stopped our fishy friend." Alaric says looking at it. Walking through the giant hole in the fence I say "Don't think so. Now let's go." and I walk forward.

Running after it, we reach a field and there's the fishy friend. Landon tries to run after him. "Stay back he's dangerous," I say pulling him back. "I have to get in there!" he yells and pulls away. We start to run after Landon, and there's an explosion.

I can only speculate what happened after that, but it's pretty obvious. Seylah went to Triad. And then she went to Malivore. I'm guessing they tried to stop her. But she had a reason to fight. I'm guessing she won. She sacrificed herself, for Landon. And then she was erased.

Waking up, we all stand up in the field. Landon asks "where the hell are we? What happened?" "I don't know. But I don't think we're in Kansas anymore." Alaric says looking around. Hope and I just look at them. Do they not remember?

In the car, Landon is in the front seat, and Hope and I are in the back. I'm just looking at the scenery outside. "Thank you again. For coming to help me." "Sorry, we didn't find your mother. What I don't understand is how we can't remember how we found you. Hope, Lily? Any ideas?" Alaric looks at us in the rearview mirror. We just shake our heads. "Work in progress." I lied. And I'm pretty sure Hope did too.

"Uh, I think the bus stop is actually that way Dr. Saltzman." Landon says pointing behind us. "Oh that's okay, I'll drive you." "where?" "Home." Alaric says and smiles.

"Why the change of heart?" Landon asks looking at the three of us. "Call it a gut feeling. Just add this to the list of things I don't know."

It took a few hours to get back. When we did, I went to my room to shower and change. Being almost blown up doesn't leave a nice smell on your clothes.

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"And that's it," Hope says, "Which brings me to my question. What do we do next?" "I don't know, you tell me. I don't remember anything you said we did."

"You'll know because, despite everything we said, you're a good headmaster and a good dad." I say from where I'm leaning on a chair. "The real question is, why are you the only one that remembers?" Dad asks.

"She's not." I say uncrossing my arms and standing up from where I was leaning on Alaric's office. "The real question is: why do we remember and no one else?" Alaric and Hope both look at me. "You remember too Lil?" Hope asks and I just nod.

"I really don't know why we remember. But I can't imagine it's good. And I can lie to Landon, but Dr. Saltzman, Lily I just can't lie to you. Speaking of, there's one more thing." Hope says and she walks to her bag. When I see what she pulls out I groan. "Great. You brought it back with us. Why am I not surprised." I say looking at the urn she puts on the desk.

"I'm guessing that's the urn I don't remember?" Alaric asks. "Yeah..... I figured it was better to have it here than to just leave it lying around." Hope says looking at it. "So what happens now?" Alaric asks again, and right on cue, the urn starts to glow. "I think we're about to find out." I say and watch it glow.

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Later that night. Or should I say morning, it's 2 am, Hope and I are in Alaric's office looking through books, we'll she's looking, I'm falling asleep in the chair. I doze off and the last thing I hear is "so where did you hide the urn?"

In Lily's Dream-

I'm in the school, but there's no one here. Walking around, I see absolutely no one. Then I hear a noise. It's the sound of a piano. My piano.

Walking to the room, the piano is playing by itself. "Strange" I say out loud. Then I hear a loud banging noise, turning around, the door is slammed shut, but no ones there. The piano starts playing a dark tune.

I start hearing whispers all around me, I keep turning in different directions trying to find the source, and the piano stops. Turning back around to it, there's a man, a scary angry looking man. And he yells "DIE WITCH!" Then I feel a sharp pain in my stomach, looking down, he removes the knife, and stabs me again, this time twisting it, making me scream.

End of Lily's dream-

"AHHH!" I wake up screaming holding my stomach. "Hey, Lily, it's okay it was just a dream." Hope says, but I move my hand from where I was stabbed in my dream, and there's blood.

"Dr. Saltzamn!" Hope yells seeing the blood too. It's not healing as fast as it should so more blood is coming out. "Lily! What happened to her Hope?!" he yells coming over to me while Hope is putting her hands on the wound trying to get it to stop bleeding.

"Th-the man in-in my dream. H-he s-stabbed me." I say and then I start coughing up blood. Hope takes away one of her hands, and makes her werewolf fangs come out. Biting her hand, she puts it to my mouth "Lil, drink, it's gonna heal you." I do what she says, but after, I blackout.

Hope's POV~

Lily wakes up screaming. She has nightmares sometimes like me, so I go to her and tell her that she's fine and it was just a dream. But she moves the hand that she had against her stomach, and there's blood. A lot of blood. And she's still bleeding. "Dr. Saltzman!" I call him over and he sees it too.

"Lily! What happened to her Hope?!" he yells and I place my hands on the wounds to stop the bleeding. Why isn't she healing?! Then she answers the question "Th-the man in-in my dream. H-he s-stabbed me." and she starts coughing up blood.

Without thinking, I make my fangs come out, and I bite my hand then put it to her mouth. "Lil, drink, it's gonna heal you." she does as I said, and then she blacks out. She fell out of the chair but I caught her and placed her on my lap.

"Hope, it's working. She's healing." Ric says to me, I look and sure enough, he's right. A few minutes later, she bolts up. "Hey, -" I touch her shoulder and she jumps, but calms down when she sees it's me. "Hey, it's okay. I'm here, you're safe." I say gently and hug her. She basically melts into my arms. I look to Ric and say "I'm gonna take her to my room, keep an eye on her." he nods and I pick Lily up bridal style.

Getting in my room I set her down, she's a bit reluctant to let go. "Lil, go shower, I'll be here when you're done." slowly, she gets up and goes to shower. I sigh. "Guess we have a new monster." I say and get up to change.

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