Chapter 15

Chapter 15
Luke's POV

"What is wrong Lance? She has been out cold for two days."

"Luke, she's depressed... it broke her heart when she thought you had died and it sent her body into protection mode."

"I have been by her side since I found you after we blew up Julias's coven."

"She will come around Luke, her body won't stay like that forever... Keep talking to her, she will eventually hear you and her mind will make a connection."

Lance gave me an I'm sorry look and patted my shoulder before walking away. He had tons on his plate. Not only was his daughter in a coma because she thought I had died, but the members of Julias's coven that agreed to come with me before I blew the place up had to all be sworn in and sign an oath of loyalty to Lance.

I had only a taste of misery of what Lance had gone through. He did lose the love of his life, but I still had a chance with mine. I just had to get through to her somehow. My mind wandered on how I could get her to hear me, but came up with no new solutions. I had barely come out of her room since we'd been back. I had laid in bed with her and just talked to her hoping she would recognize me and something would click and she'd wake up.

I walked up to what was now our room to be by Lila's side. It had been almost a month that she had been in her coma and I couldn't take it. I don't want her to know how sad I am because it might make her never want to wake up, but I can't keep leaving the room every time I break down. I brought my lunch up to her room and sat up in bed beside her  and talked to her as I ate my sandwich.

"Lila Darlin, I miss you more than you know. We've not known each other that long, but it  feels like I've known you for my entire life. It's killin me that you're in this never endin sleep. You're my very own sleepin beauty... I just wish I knew how to break the spell."

I could no longer eat as I was sobbing into my hands next to her. My body shook uncontrollably as I cried. There was a knock at the door and when it opened Lance was in the doorway. He came and sat in a chair near the bed.

" Luke, there might be a way to wake her up."

I was still teary eyed and my voice cracked when I spoke. Running my fingers through my hair " I'll do it... I'd do anything to get her back."

Lance sighed, "it's not foolproof, but I talked to one of the older vampires in the coven Nubru and they've seen it work once before".

" Just tell me what I have to do and I'll do it."

"You need to drink her blood and pull the bad memory from her and then you need to replace the memory with a good one from you, one she's never seen. That's the tricky part because she's got to bite into you and your blood has to go into her directly from you. It can't be infused or from a glass."

"I will get it done",I promised.

He patted my back, "I hope you can because we will both never get over this".

I left with Lance to go and speak with Nubru. I wanted to be sure I did this right to ensure every chance she would wake up. Nubru greeted us with a nod to come sit with him in the dining hall when he noticed us.

" This is a complicated thing you are going to try and conquer. You don't know how far Lila has gone and if you're lucky she's somewhere on the edge trying to get out. Before you drink her blood I want you to push into her mind and try to speak with her telepathically. If you can reach her it will tell you how far in she is and she can help you pull herself out. If you can't find her you will have to use all of your power to bring her out yourself. The latter I've only seen work once, but I've seen people pull people out of comas several times if they can find them telepathically. When you go into her mind I want you to be in a meditative state so that all of your energy is focused on Lila."

I shook his hand, " thank you Nubru"."

"Don't thank me yet Luke wait until you bring her back. I have faith that you can. Just be strong." I nodded.

Just as I turned to leave Lance grabbed my arm. "Bring my baby girl back."

" I will. I  promise, and I won't stop until she is with us."

Once I was in our room I turned off the lights and closed my eyes. I thought about Lila and my love for her. I began to speak to her and mentally see myself moving through the layers of her mind and consciousness. It was like looking through a kaleidoscope with all the array of colors.

"Lila", I screamed for her and didn't get an answer. "Baby please! Darlin just tell me where you  are and I can save you!"I begged, but still no answer. I had to keep myself from breaking down or I'd lose all connection with her and might not be able to make another. I pushed farther and farther into her mind and then there it was almost a whisper.

" Luke is that you?"

"Yeah darlin, it’s me I'm here", I said with excitement. I heard a rustling sound and she  spoke again but a little louder.

" You're dead, it can't be you. My mind is making you up so I won't have to live without you."

"No darlin, I'm sittin’ in your room right now. Use your mind and look."

" You know how much your accent gets me and I know you must be hurting because your accent is only this thick when you're emotional. Wait, my mind is only doing this because I miss you."

"No darlin I'm really here just look ok." I could hear her getting closer  and I felt her grab my hand. Then my body appeared to me in my subconscious. I took her hand and ran with her back to the edge of her mind to the beginning so that I could pull her out. When we got to the edge I pictured myself jumping out of her body and naturally I held on to her pulling her out with me, but I felt a brick wall once it was her time to come. My legs were floating outside of her with my upper body still inside with her.

" I can't do it!",she screamed. " You are not real!" 

I looked into her eyes, not letting go of her hands. " Lila, I know you are scared, but you have to believe me. I am real and alive and I'm sitting right next to the bed. I came here to save you from never waking up. I can't lose you again. I love you darlin and you have to trust me."

" I do trust you, but I saw you die", she reasoned.

"No baby, you saw a house blow up. I blew it up and made it out, but when I found out that you were like this I broke. You've been unconscious for a little over a month and if I let you go we might not ever see each other again. You will regress farther back into your mind and never wake up." I had tears streaming down my face and so did she.

"Okay", she said, "what do I have to lose". She let go and wiped my tears before taking my other hand again.

" Okay, on the count of three", I said.

"One."

"Two.."

"Three!"

As we jumped out there was a white blinding light that sucked me out of her body and back into mine. As I opened my eyes I saw her suck in a deep breath and I ran to her. She began to cry hard into her hands and I went to sit next to her in the bed. I pulled her into me and held her as she cried.

Lila's POV

I can't believe he's alive. It's the best feeling in the world to know we are together alive and we are going to make it.  My tears were finally drying up as I held him tightly and thought now it's our turn. Our turn to make a life with a home and kids that would be special and make the entire human vampire race a better, more resilient one. This will cure tons of diseases and once the pharmaceutical industry found out all hell would break loose, but I aim to do my duty as the vampire princess and one day queen.

"Luke", I said looking up at him.

"Yes darlin."

"I'm ready to be married. I want everything with you, a house and kids."

He held my head in his hands, " Lila just say when and where and I'm there. I can't wait to start our journey in life together."

"Well, I was kind of thinking as soon as possible, but I wanted to talk to you and my dad about a couple of things." He looked questioningly at me and I continued.

" I really don't want to have to have sex in front of everyone at our wedding ceremony. It's not something that I feel like I want to share with anyone except you."

" I understand. Before coming here it was not a standard practice even in my time. It comes from the medieval times where they wanted to be sure that a wife was still a virgin when she was married. The coven thinks we need to do this to prove our love of one another to them. This is to be sure that we weren't forced together so I don't know how easy it will be to get us out of it, but I will try."

" The other thing is  can we not live here?  We can live close because my dad is here, but I just don't want to live here. I want us to have time to just be alone and be together without all of the craziness that the rest of the coven brings."

He smiled, "now that darlin I can promise".