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As Allison opened her eyes, it took her a moment to register her surroundings. She didn’t know what she expected. Not to wake up at all, for once. Moments ago - or had it been hours? - she’d been dying in Scott’s arms and now she was-

This wasn’t what she would have expected of an afterlife. There were no bright lights, no sign of paradise or inferno. In fact, it looked like she was in a graveyard. Was this Heaven? Hell? Somewhere else altogether.

It took her a moment to register the blonde who’d been hovering around her. She looked to be around Allison’s age, but there was a regalness to her and some other kind of otherworldly quality that made her seem older, somehow. She’s not human, Allison’s instincts told her. She was too beautiful.

“Are you an angel?” she found herself asking. “Is this- how did I get here?” It seemed presumptuous for her to assume that was where she was, but it was the easiest explanation that came to mind as she took in everything around her.

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There was something to be said for being at the right place at the right time. the seal thing still confused Lissa even though she'd been here a while now, it was still confusing and a little uncomfortable. Regardless she was okay being here now. It was interesting not have a bond with Rose, even now, even though it'd been a long time, now she actually had to say things out loud to her best friend that before she would just think about. It was also really nice though, she felt like she had more privacy and that she was herself.

Lissa liked that, what she didn't like was that she'd been here for months now and without Christian, she felt like she'd been drifting away from him, being that she couldn't even talk to him. It was heartbreaking for her. On the positive side, she was happy to have her sister here, she finally felt like they were becoming closer, they were here and had been long enough that Lissa had been working on building a relationship with her, and she loved that.

Jill was actually on her mind when she first saw a girl with dark hair breathing, bloody, as though she were about to… There wasn't a thought in her mind that Lissa had other than healing her. Darting forward as the book for her class dropped out of her hands, she was on her knees scraping them slightly without a second thought as she reached her hands down. Spirit started to swirl around her, the beauty, the peace, the power, and the desire to help. That was all Lissa wanted to do.

Lissa didn't even notice that the girl before her had died for a second, no she was alive and fine now, Lissa had just focused her energy on saving her. Wide eyes, worried watched as the girl blinked her eyes and looked around.

"What?" Lissa said startled. "No, I'm Lissa." Lissa had been told she looked like an angel before, but she always brushed it off as people making fun of her in a friendly way. "No, no, you're alive, you're okay. How do you feel?" Lissa said knowing how awkward it had been. "This is a graveyard, you’re in a place called Lawrence, but it's not heaven or hell." Lissa added I don't think. In her mind, but didn't voice that one out loud.


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“No, I’m not. I can’t be-” Allison was dying. She knew that much. She distinctly remembered the feeling of triumph that coursed through her as her arrow destroyed the Oni. Silver She remembered the feeling of shock as another of them shoved his sword so easily into her flesh. Right in the middle. It should have hurt, but it didn’t. She’d fallen and there’d been no pain. Allison had known, somehow, that she was done for. She’d tried desperately to tell Scott what she’d just realized. To get him to tell her dad that silver would kill them. It was important.

But then Scott and everyone else had faded from her sight and the next thing she knew, she was waking up here. Her hand went automatically to the spot where the Oni’s sword had pierced her skin. The blood was still there, staining her skin and her dress, but the skin was smooth. The wound was gone.

“I don’t understand. What- I was stabbed. I was dying. If this isn’t Heaven, then how did I get here and what happened to- how am I okay? Where’s Scott? Where’s everyone else?”

Nothing about this made sense at all.

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Lissa bent down getting on her knees not worrying about getting dirty or even thinking about it. All of her attention was on the girl in front of her, the girl that she knew she’d probably just saved her life. Lissa really didn’t know how to answer the questions, or who Scott was, or who everyone else was.

She thought for a moment seriously wishing that Rose was here to just say bluntly what had happened, instead Lissa felt really unsure of how to tell this girl that… well she was fine now, healed, safe, and she’d be okay.

“You were brought through some kind of biblical seal, most of us here have been. I’m sorry I can’t explain it better than that, I don’t really understand all of that myself…. but you’re okay.” Lissa added, well physically the girl was okay.

“What’s your name?” She asked softly as she turned to reach into the purse she’d had with her to pull out a sweater to hand to Allison.

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“I’m Allison.” It was confusing enough to think about how she’d gotten here, to this place that obviously wasn’t home. She could tell she was in another city, one that was hundreds of miles away from Beacon Hills, but even that didn’t explain how she was okay.

Her hand covered the spot where she sword had pierced her and she shook her head again, as if trying to jostle the memory of what had really happened to the surface. “I was dying,” she repeated. Even if she could accept this veil thing having brought her here, that didn’t explain how she was somehow magically okay. “That Oni shoved a sword through my middle, there’s no way I should even be breathing right now, let alone talking. I didn’t just imagine that, it happened!”

She was slowly growing a little hysterical, but could she really be blamed for that? Sword wounds didn’t just spontaneously disappear, not when you were human.

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It’s nice to meet you, didn’t really cover much, and Lissa had opened her mouth to say that, but stopped. Really, how was she going to explain this? How was she supposed to tell this girl in front of her that she was very much alive, and while she had been dying she wasn’t dead… In fact she was going to be okay, she was healed of the…

“What’s an Oni?” Lissa found herself asking, maybe if an Oni was something like an evil vampire she’d really say nothing, or if it was supernatural at all and not some name for some sort of high end killer… Lissa was really not handling this well, and a lot of that had to do with the fact that she was exhausted and a little light headed herself. The shock was wearing off and the fact that she’d used a lot more spirit than she’d even released was starting to hit her.

“Um..” Lissa started as she blinked away the feeling of weakness, or well tried to. “I know this is really insane, and confusing, and probably terrifying, I was terrified when I showed up here too… but you’re going to be okay.”

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“Japanese demon thing, kind of-” How did you really explain an Oni to someone who’d never heard of them? How could she explain any of her life to someone like Lissa? She was clearly nothing like Allison and her friends. Honestly, Allison figured she’d just laugh and think she was crazy.

A wave of dizziness swept over Allison, too, but she decided she’d probably just sat up too quickly. Or maybe it was the shock of this whole... thing. None of it really made any sense. The biggest question burning through her mind right now, though, was how the hell she was even alive.

“How am I going to be okay? I should be dead. I was stabbed. With a sword. How was I dying a minute ago and now I’m just okay?” There had to be an explanation for that. Spontaneous healing just didn’t happen.

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“A Japanese demon thing?” Lissa repeated with a puzzled look. She’d heard of a lot of strange things, she was a vampire after all… but this? Well this was something new to her. She’d even met other supernatural people here that were from different places, different rules… Everything, but Japanese demons were something else to hear about… She just nodded though trying to be understanding and calm.

“Hey…” Her voice dropped to a soft worry as she watched Allison seem a little bit… well dizzy was the best way to put it. Asking if she was okay wasn’t going to be the best thing. She knew that Allison was going to be fine, but it was hard to explain how she was.

Biting her lower lip her expression turned to complete worry. For Allison, and for how shew as going to explain this. “Well, it sounds like there is supernatural stuff where you are from right?” Lissa started, Japanese demons gave that away. “I...I healed you.”

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“You could say that,” Allison admitted with a soft laugh. “My ex-boyfriend is a werewolf. And.. so is the guy I was sort of starting something with.” That made things sound a lot less complicated than it was, but Lissa didn’t want to hear about her complicated love life.

“You... healed me.” That might explain how she was okay, but she was definitely stunned. She didn’t know anyone or anything at home with that kind of power. “How did you- are you, like, a witch or something?” Yeah, this was all totally confusing!

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Actually, Lissa would be completely and totally okay hearing about Allison’s complicated love life. She could handle complicated love lives. That was a lot easier than explaining what she was and making it not sound like something evil. “Oh.” Lissa said at the mention of werewolves. “I don’t think my world has any, at least not that I know of… and I should know… but I guess we all have something to learn…” Lissa said leaving out the part she had thought, which was being Queen of her people.

“I have an elemental magical power called spirit.” Lissa said softly. “I’m not a witch though.” She really wasn’t comfortable telling a human what she was. Sydney would hate it, and Rose, while she’d explain it a lot better, would be upset that she had used so much spirit. “And it allows me to heal… among other things.” Lissa tried a small smile. “I saw you bleeding, I couldn’t just leave you there.”

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“You’re not human, either,” Allison said bluntly, “so... what are you?” It was kind of sad how easy she found it to accept that magic was possible, but it made more sense than anything else she could think of. With everything she’d seen in the last year or so, it wasn’t that much of a stretch to believe that magic could be real.

Honestly, she couldn’t blame Lissa for not wanting to come out and say what she was, but the curious part of Allison couldn’t help asking.

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Lissa looked away when Allison so clearly pointed out that she wasn’t human. “You’re right.” She said softly. “I’m not human.” Lissa said. “But I am mortal.” That was important, and she wasn’t sure how to explain what she was and how she could explain that she wasn’t going to hurt Allison or try and eat her…

“I’m… Moroi.” Okay so that was kind of a cop out, and Lissa knew it, but she knew this world either made vampires out to be horrible or love interests. She wasn’t either of those things. Instead Lissa was a good vampire by all accounts. “I’m a mortal vampire… With a magical ability.” That was the best way to say it right? “Like the ability to heal.” Which was the whole reason that she was alive right now.

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“I’m guessing you don’t want to eat me if you went to the trouble to heal me,” Allison offered. That sounded bad as she said it, but she was really trying to wrap her head around all of this. Finding out vampires existed wasn’t that much of a stretch considering everything, but everything else was still kind of weird. Getting pulled to this place and the fact that she was really okay.

“I mean, thank you, for saving my life.” She couldn’t remember if she’d said that already, but shocking as it was, she was pretty glad to be alive.

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Lissa nodded. “That’s very safe to assume.” She didn’t add in how her kind had to feed, but that was a different story and she didn’t really think that Allison needed to hear about that part of her life right now. Besides, she was just doing what anyone decent would do if they ran across someone bleeding to death. Lissa couldn’t help herself.

“You’re welcome.” She added. “It’s the least I could do.” Well, actually probably not and she knew somewhere in her that there would be side effects to this big of a heal but no one needed to know about that. At least here Rose wasn’t bound to her and wouldn’t feel the darkness of it.

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