AFTERMATH [ 2 ] | LEGACIES

T W E N T Y - S I X

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Elena and Damon Salvatore had met Lilah Mikaelson a long, long time ago. Well, Damon did. They met in Chicago in the 1920s. On the drive to the Salvatore house, Lilah recalled it all. The sixteen years with Dahlia, the one day she got to spend as a child with Freya, the mother she never had, the desecration for five hundred years, the rest spending it trying not to get close to the Mikaelsons.

She remembered when she first met Roman, the boy who sweats diamonds, when she first kissed him, first fell in love. The cheesy and epicness of that first love.

"You alright?" Rafael asked her from the driver's seat of the Salvatore School car they took, bringing her back to the reality they were in.

It was no longer New Orleans, and their biggest problem was no longer the Hollow and the Mikaelson siblings dying. It was now Landon Kirby constantly being under attack, and her and her newfound friends doing everything they could to prevent it. Even though the monsters were something she never encountered in her 1000 years of being alive, or at least remembered encountering.

Babysitting Damon and Elena's kids was great. Damon, the older brother of the man she fell in love with in the Roaring 20's, her first epic love. Elena, oh Elena. The doppleganger of Lilah's first best friend, Katerina Petrova, before the Mikaelsons broke her. The wild and carefree Katerina, the loving Katerina. The one who kept her secret, even when she met Stefan and Damon, even when Lilah came to Mystic Falls when Katerina came back, too.

Lilah nodded at Rafael, sending him a weak smile. Was she alright? She felt herself falling deeper into the whole she was digging of sadness that she kept trying to climb back out of.

She wished Roman would come home, but she was too much of a coward to admit it.

They were on their way back to the Salvatore School, a lot on Lilah's mind. Being in the Salvatore house brought back a lot of memories, and seeing photos everywhere of a life she almost had felt a bit bitter sweet. She got distracted from her sadness for a bit when Lexi threw up on Landon, both boys letting their paternal instincts kick in, but barely.

Rafael was great with Stefanie, and Lexi even went with him even though she usually just screamed for her parents to be back. Landon tried his hardest to make Stefanie laugh, and by the end of the night, he was her favorite.

"I'd like for your boyfriends to come back," Stefanie told Lilah before they left.

"Boyfriends?" Damon asked, looking at her with a raised eyebrow. "You did not get to be one of my brother's epic loves to end up with them."

He pointed at Rafael and Landon as if he didn't approve, laughing.

"Hey!" scolded Lilah. "And for your information, I am not with either."

"Good. I'm waiting for Goldie-Locks to come back from wherever he is so he can fix whatever it is that's going on with you," Damon sassed.

"Damon!" Elena scolded, smacking her husband's arms.

"What? Lilah's in a funk now that Mommy-dearest is back, won't let us in, won't let us help, and she even pushed her hot vampire boyfriend away," Damon said to his wife.

"And we are going to stop talking about Lils like she isn't in front of us!" Elena scolded. She sighed, and looked at Lilah. "Sorry. You take care of yourself, and know, we're right here. You can visit anytime, just like you used to."

"I know," Lilah said, going to hug Elena. "I love you, Els."

"Love you, too."

She hugged Damon goodbye.

"I guess the wolf is a good second to hot vampire boyfriend," Damon whispered in her ear.

Lilah glared at him, and she turned on her feet to leave with the foster brothers.