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Finding Home Again | Landon & Liv

It’d been a rough week, to say the very least. Landon had this feeling of immense guilt for not speaking with his baby sister, Sam, for quite awhile. On Tuesday he received a call at his work from the Mystic Falls Medical Examiner-Coroner’s office, requesting his presence for a visual identification of a deceased body they believed may be Samantha Fell. Apparently the cause of death was a presumed animal attack, a bad one. He couldn’t imagine Sam that way, fearing the sight of a malled and battered body. He hoped greatly that it wasn’t her. It was no surprise that his parents were AWOL, per usual. They had never exactly been good parents, or ones that were really ever present. After that call, he dropped absolutely everything, put everything on hold, and booked the first flight out of California. He packed his bags, not knowing how long he would be gone or what was to come, and took off. In just a few hours, he would be finding out whether or not his little sister was dead. Countless times he had tried to ring her cell phone, but there was never an answer. Had the last time he’d seen her really been Thanksgiving, last year? He had needed a fresh start, so a few years back he decided to leave the east coast altogether, trading it for a lifestyle in SoCal. He’d found success in opening a few bars.

As he sat on the plane, contemplating life and death, he remembered some fond memories of Sam and Liv - the two were inseparable in high school, always causing shenanigans. Going home was bringing back a load of memories he’d suppressed. When Olivia and him had broken up, following the advice of his parents to go further in higher education and take the acceptance to Dartmouth. A hole had been left in his heart. After how little love his parents had shown them, notorious for prioritizing money alone, he had become just like them. In the following years, no amount of money earned or success he found ever surpassed the love he had for that woman. Leaving her behind and the grief that came with that choice changed Landon, making him jaded and bitter.

Surely by now she’d been claimed by some nice guy who would give her a nice life, and she would be happy. Part of him hoped this was true, but another part longed for it to not be. Did he even have the courage to speak to her again, after how he’d left? He had made no move to contact her over the years, mostly due to stubbornness and being a coward. Still, he wondered how she was doing.

*A few hours later*

Landon’s hand caught the outside railing and he slumped down onto the concrete step, just outside the Coroner’s office. His whole body felt numb and broken. It was her. She was....gone. He had so many questions, so many worries and concerns surrounding her obviously traumatic death. This was no common animal attack. There were bite marks all over her, but most noticeably on her neck. What had happened to Sam? Landon feared this to be some kind of twisted homicide.

He wasn’t sure how close Sam and Liv had still been. All he knew right now was that he needed to see her. It was all that made sense and automatically, he was driving to the only place he knew where to find her, her mother’s house. He’d been alone for so long and despite everything that happened between them, she needed to know about Sam. What was she up to these days? He wasn’t even sure if she had graduated and become a nurse like she dreamed of.

He knocked on the door, waiting tensely for an answer.

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