It was close to being 8, with Lilith still asleep, meaning she was going to miss her classes. That was until Billy started to bang against her door, knowing that she was not awake.

After no answer, the sound of her door unlocking stirred Lilith slightly awake as she opened her eyes. "Morning!" Billy shouted, the sound causing Lilith to groan. "I hate that i gave you a key." Billy laughed as he closed the door behind him. Lilith had given Billy a key incase he wanted to get away from Lex, as Lex is 'very very irritating" according to Billy, so giving him a key, he could escape whenever.

"Get up! You're gonna be late!" Billy began to shout, Lilith giving him the cut-eye, grabbing her pillow from under her head, throwing it in Billy's direction, him ducking to avoid it. "What have we got?" Lilith sat up on her bed as she rubbed her eyes.

"Hand to hand." Lilith smiled as she climbed out of bed, looking down to see herself still in the dress from last night. "I'll wait outside." Billy said as he walked out of the door, standing outside of it.

Lilith laughed at the boy, as she walked past the mirror, to see her hair all knotted. "Fuck me, i look like a state." She heard Billy laugh from outside the door after hearing what she said. "Shut up Billy! You could have told me i looked this bad." She shouted through the door.

"If i did you would have attacked me!" He shouted back as Lilith nodded to herself as she opened her wardrobe, grabbing her uniform before grabbing some new underwear from the drawers next to the wardrobe.

As she quickly got changed she opened the door, letting Billy back in as she went over to her sink. Billy closed the door behind him as Lilith wetted down her toothbrush, placing toothpaste on it. She turned around to face the green haired boy as she placed her toothbrush in her mouth, as she started to brush her teeth.

"Have you seen Marcus this morning?" Lilith's eyebrows drew together as she looked at Billy. She shook her head as she turned around to spit out some of the toothpaste, placing the toothbrush back in her mouth.

Lilith stuck her hand up to Billy, as she finished brushing her teeth, spitting out the excess toothpaste , rinsing it off before placing it back in its holder.

"Did you check his room?" It wasn't really a room as Master Lin didn't give new students a proper room until they proved their worth to be at Kings Dominion. Billy nodded his head, once again causing Lilith's eyebrows to draw together. She shrugged her shoulders as she walked over to her bed, sitting down.

She grabbed her doc martins placing them on her feet, tying them up effortlessly. "He might have gone to class early." Billy nodded his head at Lilith's thoughts as they headed their way to her door, leaving to go to hand to hand combat.

As they left her room, Lilith locked her dorm room as usual, to prevent any unwanted people looking through her personal belongings. Lilith took a deep breathe as a sharp pain struck through her head. "Fuck i really should stop drinking." Billy laughed at the girl, who walked alongside him holding her head in her hands. "You say that, but come tonight or whenever we have drinks it won't stop you." She laughed as she shoved the boy, pushing him into the wall, him fake gasping.

Lilith classed Billy as being the only person she could trust with anything, as he helped her when she first arrived at Kings Dominion a few years ago.

When Lilith first arrived at Kings Dominion, everyone was scared of her, most of them still to this day, because of her reputation. But as well as being scared of her, everyone wanted her in their "crew" as she was seen as being a 'strong member'. The only person who didn't care about her reputation was Billy and Lex. Even though Lilith was a legacy, meaning it looked down upon for her to hang around with the 'rats'. But Lex and Billy, and also Petra, were the only people who actually cared for Lilith, and didn't just want to be friends with her because of her reputation. During her first year, she hung around with them, building the closest friendships she has ever had.

But as the years went on, Lilith began to distance herself as she began to lose her sense of feeling during her second year of being at Kings Dominion. Lilith lost this sense of feeling any type of way, due to her outburst of killings. Lilith and Billy look back at it as being her "psychotic break" or "psychotic episode". Billy described it to Lilith as her seeing a 'red mist' of which wouldn't disappear until she had killed or fatally injured someone. This 'red mist' wouldn't disappear until Lilith attacked multiple people, mainly criminals.

Lilith didn't want to be around the friends she classed as her family, as she didn't want to harm them during her episode, as she couldn't control the red mist she was seeing. She had distanced herself from the group, only speaking to them every now and then, up until the mission of retrieving Marcus for Master Lin. In the first time in years that was the first time she had been in close proximity with Billy, and also Willie.

Just like Billy, Willie helped Lilith during her first year at Kings Dominion, Willie told Lilith about his 'reputation' and that he was a pacifist, and didn't want to cause any harm to anybody. As Willie had told Lilith that, it explained her doubt towards the boy when he was explaining how he killed the man for his assignment as she knew he didn't have it in him to do.

Lilith and Willie grew more distant over the years, leaving their close friendship in the past as he got more immersed with his crew, not bothering to look at Lilith or the 'rats' unless he was alone.

When Lilith went on the mission with Billy and Willie, as well as Saya and Maria, she didn't realise how much she missed being around the boys, bringing back the memories of their close friendships. Since that night, Lilith realised that Billy, Lex and Petra would never judge her for her episodic behaviour, and she began to believe that she no longer had to be alone during her school years. Lilith didn't care that she was hanging around with the rats of the school, the bottom of the hierarchy, as she felt more like one of them, rather than feeling like a legacy.

So here she was now stood with her Billy, as they met up with Lex and Petra, the group she loved dearly, walking their way to hand to hand combat. As her and Billy walked with Lex and Petra, she felt Lex wrap his arm around her neck, pulling her to the side of him. She elbowed her fellow Briton, him fake gasping at her actions. She felt good to be back with her group, but one person was missing to make her feel completely at ease. Marcus.

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The school day at Kings Dominion finished, Lilith glad it was finally over. The hangover she was suffering from, made the day feel like it was going so much slower, so when she got out of poison class, she never felt so glad to have finished the day.

"I need fresh air." Lex said, Lilith nodding quickly at him, causing Petra and Billy to laugh. The group made their way through the corridor with surprisingly no hassle as they made their way up to the graveyard. Opening the door to the graveyard, Lilith saw Marcus sat on the wall. Lilith's eyes trailed down Marcus's body as she saw that he wasn't in his uniform, but in fact a suit.

"Holy fuck!" Lex shouted towards the boy, catching him off guard as he jumped slightly. "Look at you looking all posh" he continued, making the group and Marcus laugh as they made their way over to him.

Lilith stared at the boy, as she grabbed a hold of a cigarette from his packet. She noticed that the boy looked drained, emotionally to be specific. "Marcus?" He looked up at the girl standing across from him, smiling slightly. "You okay?"
She mouthed to him, as she didn't want the rest of the group seeing that he wasn't looking the best. He nodded in return as she shook her head.

Marcus held out his lighter for Lilith, leaning down indicating for him to light it, to which he did. As she leaned back, she winked at the boy, causing heat to rise to Marcus's cheeks. Lilith tilted her head backwards, telling Marcus to talk somewhere else. "If you need me guys," the group looked at Lilith, "i will be teaching Marcus the art of archery." She grabbed his hand pulling him off from the wall.

"Oh no she's going to kill you!" Billy shouted towards the pair as they walked away, causing the group to laugh. "Nice knowing you guys!" Marcus threw a kiss towards the three teenagers, as Lilith laughed continuing to pull Marcus towards her training area.

"Welcome to my place to relax, and to ease my anger." Lilith sat herself down on the wall looking at the target opposite her. "Sit yourself down Arguello." Marcus sat next to the girl as she patted the cold stone next to her.

"Obviously I didn't bring you here to teach you Archery." She smiled as she took a puff of her cigarette, blowing the smoke out of her mouth. "Oh really? I thought you did." Sarcasm flooded Marcus's words as Lilith shook her head.

"Where were you today? If it wasn't for Billy i would have never gotten up for any of my classes today because you didn't come and wake me up like you promise." She jabbed his chest, causing him to shove the girl back in return.

"Lin took me to a funeral." Lilith grew confused, "Lin took you to a funeral? Why?" She repeated Marcus's words. "He took me to the funeral of the guy Willie killed."

Lilith placed her index finger up at Marcus, "if i may correct you," she interrupted Marcus before she spoke further, "you killed the guy Willie spoke about for his assignment." She correctly told Marcus, as he rose his eyebrows.

"How did you know?" He questioned the girl sitting next to him, as he studied her face, admiring her features. "Because Marcus i know Willie, and unfortunately." She took a breath, "i know how someone copes with killing someone for the first time." Lilith looked into his eyes as she continued. "Have you been seeing things?" She asked, the boy reluctantly nodding his head.

"Have you felt anything, any feelings after killing the man?" He shook his head as he looked down. "And now because Master Lin took you to the funeral, you finally feel some type of way towards killing the man?" He nodded still looking down.

Lilith placed her hand on top of Marcus's, his head looking up towards her. "Hey it's fine, i went through the same thing. After i killed someone in my first year, i felt nothing, even though i have killed multiple times before." Lilith took her hand of Marcus's her turn to now look down, avoiding his eye contact. "I didn't feel any type of way towards the killing. So Lin took me to the funeral of the man i killed, and I began to feel a certain way towards my actions."

She looked up to see Marcus staring at her intensely, "it's okay Marcus to not feel anything, or not to feel bad about killing someone. It doesn't make you a bad person in this type of world we live in. Trust me if it did, i would be the worst person alive during my time here at Kings Dominion." She laughed lightly; stopping quickly after to see Marcus not laughing. "Sorry i have a sick sense of humour, blame the British part of me." Marcus smiled as he placed his hand on top of Lilith's.

"Thank you." He said as he pulled her into a hug. "Well i must say Master Lin putting in a suit is an nice sight." Lilith laughed as she got up, walking over to her archery rack.

Marcus gasped, alarming Lilith as she turned around. "What?" She worried at the sound but Marcus just began to laugh, "did the great, feisty Lilith Grey just compliment me?" His voice going up as the end, almost acting like a high pitched girl.

"Don't get too excited Arguello, that's the only time you'll get a compliment from me." She smirked as she turned around picking up her bow and quiver full of arrows. "You know i actually want to know how to shoot with a bow." Marcus said as Lilith set herself up, in her shooting stance.

"Well watch and learn." She smiled to herself as Marcus couldn't see the upturn of her lips as she was behind her, focusing on her stance as she pulled back the bow with an arrow in between her fingers.

As she steadied her aim, she let go of the arrow, as it flew straight across the air and into the target. "Wow, bullseye." Marcus said from behind her, the tip of the arrow cut through the material of the target, making it a perfect shot. "I never miss." Lilith turned herself around looking at Marcus.

She placed her arm out with the bow in her hand, giving it to Marcus as he stood up from the wall. Marcus looked around at her back, "I won't give you quiver." She shook her head as she grabbed an arrow out of the quiver on her back. "But i will give you this." She smiled as she handed over the arrow to Marcus.

Looking at the pair from afar was the three remaining teenagers of the group. "Have you noticed it's just like old times?" Billy started the conversation as he smoked his cigarette smiling at the girl showing Marcus how to shoot with a bow and arrow.

"It's nice that Lilith is finally allowing herself to come back to us. I hated when she distances herself after her episode." Petra smiled too, as she spoke to Lex and Billy.

"If it wasn't for Lin adding her to our mission to bring him here." Billy pointed to the new addition to the group, "she would still be in a dark place, not associating herself with us."

"It wasn't just that." Lex spoke up. "It was Marcus too." Petra nodded her head as she dropped her cigarette on her floor, stomping her boot on it. "She cares about that kid. You can see it." She said as she looked at the boys.

"She didn't care about speaking to him, she didn't care about associating herself with the 'new rat on the block.'" Billy smiled at his two closet friends laughing at Marcus's failure at shooting the target.

"She cares. And that hasn't happened since you Lex."

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