This is a continuation to another fic - s/12203499/1/Zero-Hopes

I didn't realize how many people really kept up with the fic until I ended it, ha. Thanks for letting me know and I'll keep going as long as people are entertained. Enjoy!

A summary for the first fic to those who haven't read or don't care to:

The plot of this fic takes place same time frame as the show.

The first part is through season 1-2, where Jesses sister (an OC) takes a role as Cassidy's love interest.

There was always something about Lily that was unique. Some would say it was luck or above average intuition, but those people were wrong. It was something she didn't understand. At random times, she saw visions of things that would play out as exact in reality as they would when they first appeared in her mind. Jesse called it a gift. To Lily, it was inconstant and confusing, only causing frustration most times, so she did her best to suppress it.

After a hiatus of not talking to each other for almost two years, Lily had a vision - coincidently, her first vision since she'd stopped talking to Jesse. In the vision she saw Jesse die, and she recognized it happening in Annville.

Immediately, she rushed to his aid, only to discover he had a gift of his own now - Genesis. She spent the first couple days struggling to communicate with Jesse, being as they'd never made amends since they separated. Lily stayed committed and found herself spending more time in Annville than anticipated.

One night, after a group of vampire vigilantes ambushed Cassidy, Lily ended up in the middle of it all, getting terribly hurt. All while Cassidy revealed himself as a vampire in a brutal manner.

Feeling somewhat responsible for her getting messed up in his disaster of a life, Cassidy (in his eyes) "rescued" Lily from the clutches of the Annville hospital in hopes to smooth things over.

In a typical Cassidy fashion, things did not smooth over as anticipated. In her weak and vulnerable state, he condoned her desire to drink whisky in his company after taking heavy medication. He'd essentially (and accidentally) promoted an overdose.

Luckily for Lily, this was not Cassidy's first accidental overdose. There was an instance - an accident - where Cassidy had discovered his blood had a unique affect on humans. (A story not yet told in this fic).

In a panic, Cassidy took a single drop of blood and laced a glass of water, doing his best to get Lily to ingest it.

When she did, everything changed. Not only was she instantly sober and coherent, her broken bones and bruises healed in minutes. Above all that, she craved more. She was suddenly entirely reliant and attracted to Cassidy's blood, igniting the dysfunctional relationship they developed very quickly.

They're bound together by a reliance of blood, a confusing situation neither of them truly understand. One thing they know for sure is that if Lily doesn't get her fill, it takes both a psychological and biological toll on her, proving to send her into distress and more than likely killing her.

It doesn't take much, a simple drop every day or so, but nonetheless, it's a situation that has yet to be truly acknowledged.

Jesse had no idea about his sister and his best friends relationship, let alone the crazy and absurd extent of it. Until recently, though all he really knows is that Lily and Cassidy have a romantic relationship developed, Jesse has no idea how complicated things really are between them.

Things blew up fast and Jesse found himself incredibly hurt, separating completely from those closest to him, tunnel visioning into the Grails request for him to play as the Messiah.

A phone call changed all that in an instant - Tulip had been shot. With Tulip dead, Jesse has no choice but to bring the gang to Angelville - a place he worked so hard to have wiped from their lives to begin with.

Lily knows little to nothing about the Custer family history, not even knowing their parents as they died when she was very young. Jesse made sure of that.

Now it's time to visit Angelville to save Tulip and get some answers.

ZERO HOPES PART TWO

IRELAND

ONE MONTH IN THE FUTURE

Lily sat in the hotel room. It may be have been silent, but on the inside, her mind was so busy it was impossible to silence. Her stomach was twisted in a tight knot that hurt and her heart was racing. She had never had her entire being so riddled with anxiety. As reached for the bottle of vodka, her hand was shaking. The bottle was already open as she began to pour the alcohol into the glass in front of her. With her shaky grasp, a good amount of the vodka missed and ended up on the counter the glass sat on.

She placed the bottle back down against the counter top with a harder than anticipated clank and leaned over in defeat, stifling a sob as she struggled to calm herself - feeling as if she'd be out of control forever.

Behind her, the door opened. She didn't have to look to know who it was, but she turned around slowly anyways.

Just as she expected, it was Seamus.

Like Cassidy, Seamus was a vampire. He was tall, well built and had piercing blue eyes, however, at this moment they seemed awfully grey.

He was a new acquaintance, but a proven trusted ally at the very least.

While keeping his eyes on hers, he closed and locked the deadbolt on the large door behind him.

"They jus' landed." He assured softly, staying still in place, "They'll be 'ere in less than an hour." His accent was much thicker than she was used to, being as Seamus had spent most of his time in Ireland, unlike Cassidy.

With another heavy tear streaming down each side of her face, Lily held her breath and nodded, choking back another sob. She turned back around and exhaled through her mouth, her nose too stuffed from as much crying she'd done to breathe out of it. Every breath she took, her chest felt like it was going to collapse it was so incredibly tight. Lifting the glass up to her mouth, she swallowed a gulp of warm vodka.

Seamus found himself sitting on a chair at her side. He waited a few moments before leaning closer to her. Carefully, he placed a hand on her arm, "Proinsias..." Seamus started, trailing off. He took another few seconds to think before breathing in, "He's a tough son'ova bitch. 'Es been through nearly it all. This isn't the first time 'es got 'imself into somethin' like this."

His words proved to be empty and an unsuccessful attempt to reassure her. Stifling another sob, she drank from the glass again. He leaned towards her even closer, "It is the first time I've ever seen anyone give such a damn about 'im."

Lily finally lifted her eyes to Seamus. Her eyes were sore and she could hardly see straight. The tears kept pouring out, following the red tracks they'd burned into her cheeks. Her heart was beating so erratically he could hear it as if it was his own.

Readjusting himself to face her completely, he moved her hand to put the glass of vodka down and grabbed each of her hands. He took a deep breath, staring into her eyes, "We'll find 'im." He assured in pure confidence, "If these two people y'called t'come 'ere are anythin' like ye..." Seamus raised his brows at her before narrowing his eyes, "Those bastards who took Proinsias don't stand a bloody chance."

PRESENT DAY

HIGHWAY TO ANGELVILLE

The couple hours of driving out of New Orleans consisted of silence between the all of them.

Jesse, Lily and Cassidy were all sitting in the front of Tulips car - Lily in the middle of her brother and Cassidy, of course. Tulip's body was laid out in the back seat and Lily did her best not to think about that fact. She noticed Cassidy at her side look back at Tulip many times, his eyes were incredibly red beneath his sunglasses. He seemed less sad and more frustrated as time went on.

When Lily glanced at her brother on her other side, he seemed somewhat unfazed. Part of that made her hopeful - his lack of grief and loss was a sign that he was so confident he could bring her back that he wasn't bothering with grieving that she was gone... The other part of her was terrified - was the reason he was so unbothered because Jesse lost himself and his mind completely?

It made her all too confused to really take in any facts, she wasn't sure what to think or believe about anything.

Inside the mind of Jesse was chaos, imagining that he was willingly bringing himself back to Angelville - a terrible place he'd tried so long to escape what felt like many lifetimes ago - he risked and sacrificed a lot to be free from Angelville, and here he was now rushing as fast back there as he could, hoping that his plead for help would work. To make matters worse, he was bringing his sister into it after he'd done everything in his being to avoid that entirely. He dreaded opening up this side of their lives to her but would also do anything to get Tulip back.

Cassidy had spoke his mind in his fury and meant it. He hated Jesse in this moment. If Lily hadn't made it so clear she needed them to be civil he would be acting a lot more irrationally, instead he had to use his imagination to vision the things he wanted to do. It was only a matter of time before Lily finally let reality hit her and soon her back would be to her brother for good and she would be all Cassidy's. In efforts to keep his mind leveled, he imagined where he would take her first.

The only time any of them spoke was when Jesse asked his sister a question and it was about four hours into their drive, "Have you seen anything?" Lily blinked, turning her head to him. He moved his attention from the road briefly and peaked his eyes over his sunglasses frames, to catch hers, "Your gift." He specified, "Has it shown you anything?"

Lily barely shook her head, "No."

Her premonition wasn't something she could control and Jesse knew that. It had been nearly absent since she'd overdosed on Cassidy's blood many weeks before.

That had been the closest she felt to the internal "gift" as Jesse referred it in her entire life and she was convinced that she'd driven it out of her completely.

Jesse turned his head fully forward again, straightening his lips, "You tell me if anything happens. Or anything out of normal you notice happening with you at all." Jesse requested, "Where we're going, it's more than likely. Just.." Jesse struggled to find the right words, knowing how vague everything was sounding, "Come to me if there's anything, alright?"

Lily didn't know what any of that meant, but nonetheless, she simply nodded, turning entirely forward again as Cassidy exhaled deeply at her other side.

As they reached their destination, a large metal gate guarded the opening of the long, seemingly never ending driveway into the property. Massive trees created a wall all the way down the driveway. Before they entered, Lily's stomach dropped when her eye caught a massive metal sign that displayed ANGELVILLE appeared along with the symbol Lily had recognized as Jesse's tattoo.

She remembered the poster she'd come across weeks ago with Cassidy. She had been right - it was connected somehow - but how exactly?

When they drove past the front entrance it felt like they passed through a wall. The air was heavy and suddenly there was a sour smell. The eeriness multiplied by a thousand and they all felt their hairs stand on their skin.

Lily felt a freezing chill through her body and she wanted desperately to ask Jesse what this place was, but her voice was gone. For the first time in a long time, Lily felt scared.

After the car skidded to a stop, Jesse moved very quickly, grabbing Tulip out of the back and heading for the large house. Cassidy opened the door at his side and had to pull on Lily to get her to move.

Practically bursting down the front door, Jesse was already screaming, "Gran'ma!"

As they followed his lead, Cassidy could see how entirely shocked Lily was at the discovery that this was their grandmother's home - or that they had a grandmother to begin with. In an instant, Lily's skin was tinted a different color and too many things overwhelmed her. She stared up in the large front entrance area of the massive home. There was hardly any natural light to be seen. As her eyes slowly trailed up further, following the staircase upwards until they stopped. At the very top, a figure caught her eye and she felt her stomach turn.

At the same time, Jesse carefully placed Tulip's body down on a nearby couch, before standing up and turning back to Cassidy and Lily, "Wait here." Jesse ordered. He saw his sister staring straight up - her face white and her eyes glazed over as Cassidy was quick to try and grab her attention, "Are you alright?" Jesse heard him ask softly.

"Gran'ma!" Jesse continued walking into the other rooms.

Finally he found her. It was easy to miss her, she blended perfectly into the dark, back corner of the room. Jesse readjusted himself, taking a deep breath and preparing for what Hell was to come, "Gran'ma." He said softly, "I need you. My girlfriend, the love of my life, Tulip... she's dead."

Still not moving from her spot, Jesse's grandmother sat completely still and silent.

He shifted his weight, "You can bring her back, though." His voice hit the back wall flatly. With no return of conversation he stood there in the middle of the room feeling alone, "Right?" He asked in hopes to get a response.

When his grandmother still said nothing, he took a deep breath, rubbing his chin as he stared at the ground a moment. Jesse's patience was diminishing quickly and his softer tone was fading. Taking a sharp breath he stared back towards the dark outline of her, "You need to help me." Jesse stated.

Finally, Jesse's grandmother made a movement. He saw one of her long, bony fingers reach out of the darkness, pressing on a button on the wheelchair she sat on.

As she slowly rolled forward, he could make out a better image of her. She looked even more awful than he remembered. The last fifteen years or so had not been kind to her. Her cheeks were sunken in, her skin was nearly transparent - covered in all sorts of marks and spots, her skin looked like a thin, withered cloth draped over her veins as they bulged out at every glance of her.

Finally she came to a stop a few feet in front of him.

His eyes caught hers - they were nearly black and her thin lips were twisted as if she'd just tasted something sour. They quivered in a raging way as she finally spoke, "To help an ungrateful individual who turned their back on the people who needed them most." Her brow lowered even more as her eyes proved to be able to show even more fury, "For that I don't need to do fuck all." She spat.

Jesse knew it was useless to try and justify and try to apologize. He cut to the chase, "I'll do anything."

His grandmother didn't change her expression on her face, only straightened a bit. Closing her eyes, "That's a big, big word for you to be using to me."

With his shoulders dropping slightly, Jesse nodded, his eyes showing the true desperation he was suffering from, "I know."

There were several seconds of uncomfortable silence before she finally hissed under her breath, "You know exactly what I want."

He did. She wanted him bound to her. She wanted total control over him. It didn't matter to him, he'd do anything to get Tulip back.

"Fine." Jesse said immediately, instantly fuming from her selfishness.

When she didn't move, and he noticed the malicious streak in her eye he raised his brow impatiently, "Well, let's do it then. Tulip's only got so much time, right?"

"No," His grandmother hissed, "Not just you."

Jesse felt a cold chill through his body. His voice was clenched due to the lump in his throat, "No." He choked out.

"You brought her here." His grandmother hissed in a satisfied manner, "I felt the both of you long ago. Together, you're much easier to sense." She took a deep, hissy breath through her nose as if she was smelling something delicious.

Jesse shook his head, and suddenly there was a harsh bite to his tone, "You have me, I'd say that's more than fair."

Moving her head side to side, his grandmother straightened her mouth and clasped her hands together, unbothered, "You can spend the time we've got left to save your girl arguing a senseless cause or you can do as I say."

Jesse glared daggers at her until she finally lifted her cold eyes. Her glance told him that she knew she had him wrapped around her finger. In defeat, he let a heavy huff escape him, feeling his stomach drop.

With a heavy heart Jesse stepped out of the room, Lily's eyes looking up to him immediately, "I need you." He said.

There was a broken look in his eye and it only worried her even more.

Cassidy watched her stand up from the bench they'd found a place on beside Tulip. He grabbed her arm and she turned to look down at him.

"Cass." Jesse said softly from the doorway, "She's going to be fine." He assured, "We gotta hurry if Tulip stands a chance." Jesse urged.

With major doubt, Cassidy looked back at Lily, feeling worried for her and the entire situation. Her eyes told him she wanted to do anything had it meant giving Tulip a chance to come back. Reluctantly, he let go of her.

As the Custers stepped into the room, Jesse closed the door behind them. When Lily saw the woman that was their grandmother, she was shocked.

Studying her horrifying appearance, Lily felt sick. When her grandmother began moving her wheelchair, she got nervous.

"Wow." Their grandmother hissed, moving her chair until she was directly in front of Lily. "Look at you." The way she had said that wasn't as endearing as it should have been coming from a grandmother. It had a bite to it.

Jesse watched as their grandmother smiled in the purest form of evil satisfaction, "Give gran'ma a hug." She growled.

Unable to hide how incredibly uncomfortable she felt, Lily twitched on spot. As her grandmother opened her arms, Lily noted how very fragile she seemed. Her boney arms were like twigs and Lily could see every bone pop out of her chest area. Awkwardly, Lily leaned over slowly. When she felt her grandmothers seemingly fragile arms wrap around her, she felt entirely constricted. Though she had seemed weak and broken, her embrace proved the complete opposite.

Lily felt winded, choking a bit as she struggled to catch her breath. Her heart raced as her desperate eyes found Jesse's, who's expression said it all. He had tears welling up in his eyes and his face was red for many reasons of different emotions - but Lily could see in his eyes something she hadn't seen in them before that worried her the most.

He was scared too.