Lily x Nell starter
@thelilblacksheep
Nothing in Nell’s life had ever been secure and stable. If she made one mistake it just became a slippery slope to her downfall. She always had to work harder to gain even an inkling of appreciation from her parents. Now they had moved to Falls Church specifically for Nell to find out about her past. It only added to the pressure. Because if her quest to find out more about her birth parents wasn’t successful she knew that the blame of them uprooting their lives would fall onto her. Thankfully it wasn’t a complete failure yet. Something she’d come to learn was that her birth mother was apparently well known around the town. Or at least to certain people she was. Being leaded to a local bar that she often frequented Nell managed to talk herself into a job as a bartender. She was under probation but she was holding a good standing. Mixing drinks wasn’t that difficult and dealing with drunks gave her an outlet for her outlet at being able to cut them off and throw them out.
The young brunette had just finished her break, coming back to relieve the other bartender. The apron they tried to get the bartender’s to wear was ridiculous. She wasn’t a waitress, so she simply refused to wear it. It wasn’t like she was carrying around a pen or paper. If people wanted a drink they came up to the bar to get it anyway. While everyone seemed settled for a moment Nell started to clean some of the glasses. It wasn’t long after that a newcomer came up to the bar. Resting the towel over her shoulder she walked up to the girl and offered a smile. “What can I get for you?” she questioned, her brown hues studying the girl momentarily.
Lily hadn’t quite gotten the courage to actually find her siblings and confront them. There was a part of her that was angry that she had to be the one to apologize to them and ask them to let her back into there lives. It wasn’t even like she had done anything to them other than be alive. If it wasn’t for the fact that her father had wanted things between her and her siblings to be good instead of what it was now she wouldn’t even bother with it. Lily suspected that he felt guilty that he never realized what it was like for her to stay with them when he didn’t have her. That Brett had found a way to make her life miserable while her own mother wouldn’t even look at her. Then there were her siblings who blamed her for their parents fighting because her father wasn’t Brett which meant she was the odd one out. Lily knew that eventually she would have to make the effort to at least get to know them better and try to fix some of what happened.
Despite knowing that she would have to interact with her siblings she had decided that tonight wasn’t going to be that night. No, there was somewhere else she had to go, but she wasn’t ready for that without some liquid courage. Lily was kind of glad that so far no one had recognized her in this town, to be fair no one had seen her here since she was fourteen. When she was sixteen she hadn’t come back to the area but hadn’t really interacted with anyone or told anyone she was there much less go back to school or anything else social. Lily walked into the bar and took a seat her attention going to the brunette behind the bar. Lily didn’t recognize the brunette and couldn’t quite get a read on her or where she was from. “Can I get a double shot of vodka, I don’t really care what kind, whatever is good around here.” To be honest Lily couldn’t care what brand of vodka it was as long as it was strong. “So, are you knew around here?”
Something that Nell had learnt to do was to be able to have a conversation with someone while still focusing on everything around the bar. For once in her life Nell was actually in her element and she wasn’t being compared to anyone else. That was probably the best part about it, that she was able to have something that was just hers. A breath of fresh air compared to how she’d spent the rest of her life. Glancing at the girl in front of her Nell gave a nod. Sizing people up had always been something that Nell was good at. Although she couldn’t quite tell what kind of person the girl was, one thing she did know was that she looked like she could definitely use a drink.
Deciding to do at least something nice the brunette grabbed a shot glass and poured one of their highest quality vodka into. Surprisingly it wasn’t the most expensive vodka that they stocked in the bar but it was definitely the one that did the trick. Setting the now filled to the rim shot glass in front of the girl, Nell did a quick glance around to make sure everyone else was settled before turning her attention back to the girl in front of her. “Is it that easy to tell?” she questioned, curious to how this girl instantly knew. Then again it was a small town. It was easy to say that most people probably knew each other, or at least saw them around.
To be honest was a little strange that she still recognized some of the people sitting in the bar. It wasn’t unusual for people to be born in this town and buried in the local cemetery without ever living anywhere else. The fact that she had managed to only be born here and have a part time residence in this postal code as a kid was a rarity. She had gone between her mother’s place in Falls Church to the city close by where her father lived was a miracle. She had also managed to leave both places not once but twice, but here she was back again in this small town. Maybe this place really was just cursed to be where she died, and if things didn’t go well with her siblings that could possibly be soon.
Lily didn’t know what to expect with them considering they could be rather volatile and Brett had made sure she knew from a young age she couldn’t hold a candle to their abilities with her inferior werewolf part of her genetic makeup. There she was just with vampire and werewolf abilities while her siblings were marked to be children of prophecy wanted by both heaven and hell. No, if they really wanted to kill her it wouldn’t take too much effort on any of their parts to do so. Maybe, things would be easier if that was what happened because at least then she wouldn’t have to seek their approval or have to live through the reminder this town was for what had happened to her and what she had lost.
“Well, I mean it’s a been a while since I was last here so pretty much any face I don’t immediately recognize is new in some way. Although, in this town people rarely ever leave or move here.” Lily commented with a shrug. “So I suppose it really is just a guess on my part.” Her attention turned towards the shot the brunette had set in front of her and she brought it to her lips then tipped her head back downing it in one go. The liquid stung a little as it went down her throat but outside of that it tasted relatively decent. With a sigh she brought her attention back to the brunette, “So what brought you to this crap town in the middle of nowhere?”
Nell never really had a choice over where she lived. Although born in Falls Church she didn’t grow up there. As soon as her adoptive parents began fostering her they took her far away from the small town. She had a good life, as difficult as gaining attention or approval may have been her needs were still being met. She wasn’t starved or locked in a room, it was just emotional needs that her parents lacked to provide her with after her brother came along. From some reason they thought moving to Falls Church was some miracle cure to the fact that they had essentially ignored her for the last however many years.
Being able to learn about her past was actually something that Nell had been wanting to do for a while. She tried to do some before the move but there was only so much that she could find on the internet without an actual name linking to her birth mother or father. Being in her birth town definitely made the search a lot easier. It led her to the bar where she was able to talk her way into a job. What she didn’t realise was how much she would actually enjoy the work itself. Originally she just thought of it as a way to get introduced to her birth mother that frequented the bar. The concept of actually finding enjoyment out of it hadn’t even been a thought in her mind. But she had actually grown to love the job. It wasn’t tedious and there was always someone in the bar to amused the young brunette.
The girl’s words made sense. In the small town everyone seemed to know each other in one way or another. But since she never actually grew up there it was difficult for her to feel like this was her home. “By the sounds of it you left,” she mumbled. It wasn’t meant in a malicious or attacking kind of way. It was more curiosity considering how many regular faces she had come to know in the bar. It was rare that she saw someone she didn’t recognise from around the town. This girl was the first unusual face she had seen. “What brought you back? Because I know it’s not for the bar food.” Absentmindedly Nell began going back to washing the glasses while still paying attention to the girl who she was having a conversation with. One way or another work did have to get done otherwise she’d be having to stay late. Nell was always cautious of other people. She didn’t just simply throw information around willy nilly. The idea of anyone doing it was completely ridiculous in her mind. “Reconnecting with family,” she explained with a shrug. It wasn’t a lie, but she also had never actually had anything to do with her birth family.
Ever since leaving the city her dad was in she couldn’t help but feel like she was waiting for something bad to happen. Maybe it was just years of things always going poorly when she was anywhere near Falls Church. She had to admit the happiest point of her life had been her time in New York and the only reason she was here was because of her father in the nearby city. Lily just wanted to get this all over with and either die at the hands of her siblings or just be rejected per usual by them. Both would land her in the she tried category and then she could just go back to the city until her dad died. This town was the last place she really wanted to be, but she could never seem to avoid it.
Lily glanced around the bar just to be sure that no one that would actually recognize her or pick up that she wasn’t human walked in. Strange to have to worry about her status as a hybrid giving her away and the fact that her siblings were a major presence in this town. Not seeing anyone of any particular interest she turned her attention back to what the girl was saying. “I supposed left is one way of putting it.” Lily commented darkly. The first time she had truly left had been with her fathers coworker Mark which at the time considering her age was kidnapping. After him she had come back to the nearby city but hadn’t gone into the town except to see the grave site for her daughter which her father had insisted that they put in Falls Church instead of the city. To be back now was strange and left her with a hollow feeling in her gut.
“Oh come on bar food is the best part, as long as its liquid.” Lily said with a small smile. “Sadly, no it wasn’t the bar. A dying mans guilty conscious is my reason for being here... so I guess family is why I am back here.” Even before Lily had left she hadn’t seen the girl or even really people that looked relatively like her. She couldn’t place who her family could be in this town. From what she could gather from the girls scent was that she wasn’t too far from human, but there was something a bit supernatural about her. She couldn’t gather much more than that, in terms of using her abilities she was rather rusty considering she had it trained into her to push them down because if she showed any hint of it her mothers husband would hurt her because it disgusted him to have yet another reminder of his wife's infidelity and the fact that Lily was different from the rest of his children. “Family is a bitch isn’t it?” Lily remarked with a sigh. “Well, hopefully it ends well for you.” Lily paused then continued, “I am Lily by the way, Lily Scott.” She hoped that her surname wouldn’t give her away too much but her gaze still drifted to the few people she did recognize in the bar just to be sure they hadn’t overheard.
