Things We Lost To The FlΔmes (BΔSTILLE fanfic)

Memories Will HΔunt you

The guys piled out of the music room laughing and hitting each other playfully. Kyle slumped next to me and the others scattered around the room. Dan went into the kitchen and offered everyone tea or coffee. He made me a hot chocolate and the others what they wanted. I wanted to help him, but I couldn't move. He walked over with four mugs in his hand, he handed one to me, Kyle, Will and Mark and ran back into the kitchen, returning with two more mugs, one of which he gave to Woody.

We sat watching TV for a while until eventually one by one everyone began to leave, until it was me, Kyle and Dan. I was leaning on Kyle and Dan was leaning on me. My eyes were starting to close and then Kyle moved, causing me to face plant the sofa and Dan to fall on me.

"Kyle!" I squealed.

"What?" He laughed.

"You moved and I fell!" I laughed. "Dan, do you mind?" I asked Dan who was still lying on me.

"Actually I'm quite comfortable" he laughed.

"Well I'm not. You're leaning on my back and my face is being swallowed up by your sofa, so move" I laughed.

"Nope" he said.

"Dan!"

"Fine" he laughed, sitting up.

"Thank you" I muttered sitting up myself.

I needed the toilet so I attempted to stand up. I stood on one foot and managed to hop to the bathroom.

I flushed the toilet and hopped over to the sink. I switched the tap on and it was set to boiling so it burned my hands as I touched it.

"Shit" I muttered, quickly pulling my hands away from the boiling water.

It wasn't really boiling, it was just really hot. I turned the temperature down and out my hands back under. I rubbed my hands with the soap and sighed. We needed foamy soap. I dried my hands and hopped out of he door. Dan and Kyle were watching my every move and I felt slightly self conscious. I cautiously sat down, with them still staring.

"What?" I asked and they burst out laughing. "What?"

"Nothing, we just... Never mind, Kyle's childishness is rubbing off on me" Dan laughed.

"Okay" I said cautiously.

Kyle checked his watch and cursed under his breath.

"Ah sorry guys, I've gotta go, I'll see you later" Kyle smiled.

He hugged me and patted Dan on the back.

"Bye!" We called as Kyle closed the door.

Dan huffed and slumped into the sofa. I was looking at the screen but I saw Dan look at me from the corner of my eye. He opened his mouth to say something, but shook his head and looked back at the screen. There was something on his mind and I wanted to know what. I was too tired to ask, so I let it slide. I'll bring it up later though. I leaned into Dan and my eyes began to close as I listened to his soft heartbeat.


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My eyes opened slowly and I looked around. Where am I? I didn't recognise the place at first, until I saw a figure sitting at the fireplace. My dad.

"Dad?" I asked.

"Yes sweetie" he smiled turning around.

His eyes crinkled when he smiled. He had dark hair that was starting to go grey and bright blue eyes to match mine. He stood up from he chair and wrapped his arms around me. He wasn't that much taller than me so I rested my chin on his shoulder. I took a deep breath of his scent. He smelt exactly like I remembered him.

"I think it's time for bed you" he chuckled, tapping my nose.

I nodded, not knowing what to say. My dad had been dead for three years and now I was hugging him. He lead me up he stairs into my old room. It looked like I remembered it. I thought this place burned down? I smiled as my dad tucked the duvet around me. My mother walked in and kissed my forehead, smiling. Her blue eyes shone as she smiled and her blonde hair tickled my skin. I couldn't believe my own eyes. My parents were here.

"Goodnight" my dad smiled and kissed my cheek.

"Goodnight" I said subconsciously. There were a million questions that I wanted to ask, but I couldn't open my mouth to speak. It was like I was being controlled by someone else. "I love you" I managed to say.

"We love you too sweetie" my mother smiled.

They walked out and shut the door behind them. I smiled as my cat, Alfie, lay on the bed next to me. I played with his tail until I fell asleep.


I felt something hot touch my feet and I sat up quickly. My cat was lying on the floor, or part of him, he had been surrounded by flames, some of them burning his fur. My cat was dead. I burst into tears and ran out of my room, avoiding the growing flames. My house was on fire. I began to panic and I looked round, choking on the smoke that was filling the air. I ran into my parents room and jumped back to see the room lit up by flames. My mother was on the bed crying, with my dad lying in her arms.

"Mum?" I choked with tears in my eyes.

"Oh Lily, call the fire brigade and run, run as far away as you can from this house" my mother cried.

"No! What about you?" I screamed and a piece of wood fell from the ceiling, landing on my parents. "MUM!" I screamed. "DAD! NO!"

I dodged flames as I ran towards my parents bed. I jumped back as flames flicked in my face. I could only just see my mother and father lying underneath a burning piece of wood. I choked on the smoke that was filling the room.

"NO!" I screamed.

I ran downstairs, avoiding more flames and came to a quick halt as flames took over the bottom of the stairs. I saw a clear patch where there was no fire and did what I had to do. I jumped from the middle of the stairs and landed half in the clear patch and half in the flames. My leg sizzled at the flames wrapped around it. I screamed and ran for the door. To my luck there was a clearance so I could just run out. I fumbled to open the door, that was starting to burn, and eventually pushed it open. I sighed with relief as I felt my phone in the pocket of my pyjamas. I pulled it out and dialled 999.

"Hello? Here's a fire at my house!" I screamed down the phone.

I quickly gave them my address and within a matter of minutes a red fire engine arrived. Firemen poured out of the truck and began squirting things at my house. I collapsed onto my knees and began crying. I heard more sirens and an ambulance turned up. Medics jumped out and a few of them ran over to me, wrapping blankets around me. They checked my leg and wrapped it up in some bandages. After a few minutes, my house was no longer in flames, it just looked like on old burned down building. Which it now was. A fireman walked out with a flat expression.

"Lily Coleman?" He asked and I nodded, wiping the tears from my cheeks. "I'm sorry, but your parents are dead"

My heart shattered into a thousand pieces. My parents are dead. I cried harder as I realised that the memory from the night my parents died was playing through my dreams. This is the night that everything went wrong in my life. This is the night that caused me to be who I am now. For the moment, I completely forgot about Dan and everyone who had made my life better. I just sat and cried.

I looked up to see two bodies being carried out of the house. I jumped up and sprinted over to them. I hissed as my leg stung and tears fell as I saw who it was. It was my parents. I hoped that the firemen had got it wrong and that my parents were still alive, but that never happened.

"MUM! DAD! PLEASE WAKE UP! YOU CAN'T BE DEAD!" I screamed as more tears fell down my cheeks. "PLEASE!" I screamed as the firemen put my parents into the ambulance and it drove away.

"Lily" I heard a familiar voice say. I still wept, holding my face in my hands and screaming. "LILY!" The voice came again. "FOR GOD'S SAKE WAKE UP!"


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"LILY! SHIT LILY WAKE UP!" Someone screamed whilst shaking me.

I opened my eyes to see a tall dark figure leaning over me and shaking my shoulders vigorously.

"Dan?" I asked shakily.

"Lily, oh my god" Dan sighed with relief and wrapped his arms tightly around me.

"Dan? I-uh-what?" I stuttered.

"Are you okay? You had a nightmare" Dan whispered into my hair, whilst rocking me gently.

I opened my mouth to speak but burst into tears as I remembered my dream.

"Lily, shh, it's okay" Dan shushed into my ear.

I pulled away and wiped my eyes.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Dan asked quietly.

"I-no-yes" I stuttered and Dan sat patiently awaiting my answer. "It was about the night my parents died" I said sniffling.

Dan didn't say anything he just looked at me, signalling that it was okay to tell him.

"My parents said goodnight to me and I went to sleep, but I was woken up by something hot touching my feet, when I looked I saw that it was fire. I saw my cat lying half burned on the floor. So I ran into my parents room and saw that the hall and their room was filled with fire too. My mum told me to run and then a piece of burning wood fell on her and my dad. I think my dad might have been dead already, because he was lying on my mum's lap. I ran down the stairs, but there was fire at the bottom of the stairs so I jumped, but I burnt my leg, I rang 999 and firemen and an ambulance came, but they told me that my parents were dead" I said, letting tears flow freely down my face.

"Oh Lily" Dan said sympathetically and brought me into another hug. "Do you know what started the fire?" He asked looking into my eyes.

"Apparently it was our fire downstairs, no one had put it out, so it spread. It shouldn't have, but it did" I cried.

"Lily I'm so sorry" Dan said as his eyes teared up.

"Why are you crying?" I asked.

"I'm not" Dan said stubbornly, wiping the tears from his eyes.

"Yes you are" I laughed slightly. "Why?" I asked curiously.

"Because you've been through so much and you're only fifteen. No fifteen year old should have lost everyone that they loved" Dan said.

"I've not lost everyone that I love" I smiled.

"What?" Dan asked clearly confused.

"I've not lost you, or Kyle, Woody or Will" I smiled.

Dan smiled and hugged me again. I smiled and hugged him back. We pulled away and I looked into Dan's eyes.

"I love you" I smiled, kissing his cheek.

"I love you too" Dan smiled, tears flowing down his face. "Now come on, bed" he chuckled wiping his eyes with the sleeve of his hoodie.

"But I-" Dan cut me off as tears formed into my eyes. I couldn't walk and I was scared.

"I'll carry you and you're coming in with me" he smiled.

I smiled at him and he lifted me with ease. He carried me to his room and placed me gently in his bed. He crawled in next to me, wrapping his arms tightly around my shoulders. I sighed, wrapping my arms around his waist and burying my head into his chest. I closed my eyes and fell into unconsciousness known as sleep.


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I felt the bed move and my eyes shot open. I couldn't breath, something or someone was blocking my nose and mouth. I began panicking and tried to push whatever was blocking me, away.

"Lily?" A voice asked.

I looked up to see Dan looking me worriedly.

"Sorry, I-I panicked" I admitted, realising that I had my face buried into Dan's chest.

"What? Why?" He asked.

"I couldn't breath, Twin Peaks Sheriff Department was suffocating me" I laughed as I read what was on Dan's T-shirt.

"Oh" he laughed and shuffled back.

He looked into my eyes and sighed.

"Are you okay?" He asked.

"Wh-" I paused realising that he was referring to my dream last night. "I'm fine" I lied.

"We both know that's a lie" Dan said, looking into my soul with his eyes.

"I am, honestly, it was just a dream" I lied again.

"Lily, stop lying" Dan said.

"Fine, I'm not okay, do you know why? Because my parents are dead. All my relatives don't care about me, and the ones that did are dead. I lost everything, my home, my family, my happiness. Everything that I loved has disappeared from my life. You would think that I would have got over my parents death by now, but I've not. Because they're my parents. They were gone when I needed them the most" I paused to wipe the tears from my cheeks. "I-I" I stopped when I didn't know what to say. "Sorry" I muttered looking down.

"Oh Lily" Dan sighed, wrapping his arms around me. "Why are you sorry? Nothing that happened is your fault"

"Yes it is. It's my fault that no one cares about me, I mean why would they, I'm just an orphan" I cried into his chest.

"No you're not an orphan. Because you've got me. I care about you and so does Kyle and Will and Woody" Dan said.

"But why? I'm just a broken toy" I sighed.

I don't understand why anyone would love me. I'm a stupid orphan who is broken inside and out.

"You're not! You are probably one of the best things that has ever happened to me" Dan sighed.

"How? You're famous, everyone likes you, you've got money, friends, a happy life, and I came in and ruined it" I looked down.

"No you didn't! Why can't you just accept that? I love you and that's all that matters okay?" Dan said, tilting my chin up so I was looking in his eyes.

I smiled. "I love you too" tears fell from my eyes and I wrapped my arms around him.

"Good, now stop with all the 'no one cares about me' crap okay? Because we do" Dan hugged me.

"Okay, I'm sorry" I cried. "I don't know why I'm crying, sorry, I-I-it just happens sometimes"

"It's okay" Dan chuckled.

I pulled away and hopped out of bed.

"Shi-ouch" I screamed as I landed on my bad foot.

Dan jumped out of bed and lifted me up.

"Are you okay!" Dan laughed.

"No! Don't laugh!" I laughed.

"You're laughing" he laughed.

"Because you're laughing" I laughed.

Dan carried me out to the living room as we both laughed. He dumped me on the sofa and made two Nutella sandwiches. He handed one to me and sat on the sofa, switching the TV on.

"I'm sorry about before, I didn't mean it" I sighed.

"Mean what?" Dan tuned to me.

"I didn't mean it when I said that I'd lost my family and my happiness" I looked at Dan. "Well, I did lose it, but I found it again when I met you" I smiled. "I'm sorry for lying, can you forgive me?"

Dan smiled. "Of course"

I smiled and turned back to my sandwich.



Hellooooo sorry strange and slightly emotional chapter, I know it's pretty crap, but I just wanted you to know how Lily's parents died :P oh and when she was talking to Dan, I tried not to make her sound like she was attention seeking, but it didn't work, she wasn't attention seeking, just to make that clear:) Thanks soooo much for the reads and votes :D:D I'll try and update soon :)