**Chapter three**

Bloodlines

*Hailey*

"You cannot do this!" I screamed at the woman in front of me. "You cannot kill our family!"

"I have the Power now, brother. I can do whatever I please," she replied coldly. "Now the question is, are you with me or not?"

I didn't answer. I didn't know how to answer. She was my sister, I would do anything for her, but she was planning to kill our family. I couldn't let that happen. I suddenly regretted helping my sister get the Power, helping her expand her powers. If I hadn't, our family wouldn't be at risk.

"I will only kill the ones that refuse to join us," she soothed me. "We can be so powerful together, brother. No witch, wolf, or vampire will stand in our way. Everyone will worship us. Fairies will be the strongest people in this world. We will be like gods to the humans."

She had told me this before, and I had fallen for it before. But not now. All our hard work to find the Power had damaged her mind- it had driven my closest sister to insanity. I knew that if I didn't agree to help her, she'd kill me without a blink of the eye.

"Our family could be like gods, you say?" I said finally. She smiled and nodded quickly. I smiled shakily, my heart pounding in my chest. "Alright. I am with you, sister. Until the end."

"Until the end," she repeated, smiling. "Now, I have something I need to take care of. One of our sisters needs to die for her disloyalty-" she cut off suddenly when she was attacked by a wild dog.

I took off running, needing to find one of my siblings, to warn them of her madness. I had made a terrible mistake, but it wasn't too late to fix it. Suddenly, I clutched my head in pain and fell to my knees.

"So, you are against me, are you brother?" her cold voice rang behind me. with her all her new power she would have no problem fighting off the dog I had attack her.

There was no time for me to speak, for me to try to redeem my actions. Before I could even open my mouth, she stabbed me in the throat with the knife in her hand.

I gasped, my eyes popping open as Damon shook me awake. I was breathing heavily has I placed a hand over my throat, making sure that there was no wound there.

"Another one?" Damon sounded exasperated as he laid back down on our bed.

"It was the same dream I first started with. They're repeating," I mumbled, rubbing my eyes. I rested my head on Damon's chest and he hugged me to him. that was when I realized that I was soaking wet.

"I was trying to wake you up for five minutes. You were convulsing, and I even tried dumping cold water on you. Nothing worked," he explained.

"It was like I couldn't wake up until it was over," I whispered. I didn't know what to make of these dream visions. They were like flashbacks, like the ones Victoria gave me before she possessed me. I didn't share this with Damon, though. It would only make him more worried.

What was weird, though, was that all seven flashbacks were about different people. The latest one was starring a man, while four others were about women. The other two were also about men. I didn't know what to make of them.

"Do you want me to go get you some blood? or some bourbon?" Damon asked, knowing that I never went to bed after one of my dreams/visions/flashbacks.

"Bourbon would be nice," I mumbled. He left, and I instantly regretted him leaving, even though he'd be back in less than a minute. I always felt extra vulnerable after a dream, and Damon leaving me alone in the bed didn't help.

Ellie purred and jumped up onto the bed, as if sensing my distress. When I first became a vampire, she wouldn't go anywhere near me. she had adjusted, though. "So, familiar," I started, scratching her behind the ears. "Do you have any wise familiar advice to offer me about my unnerving visions?"

"I still can't believe that you talk to your cat." I didn't even jump when Damon came back into bed and handed me my drink. Ellie didn't hiss and run away when he joined us. Ever since I died, she had become much more comfortable with him.

"Animals are better listeners than people sometimes. Their only downfall is that they can't talk back, though that's what makes them such good listeners in the first place," I said, taking a sip of my bourbon. The familiar burn calmed me.

I rested my head on Damon's chest and Ellie curled up at my side. I knew only one way to stop having my unsettling dreams- not to dream in the first place.. So, when Damon eventually fell asleep again, I stayed up. My visions were driving me to stop sleeping, but I didn't care, as long as I could stop having those horrific visions.

A tear escaped from my eye as I finished my drink. Because the most unsettling thing about my visions weren't the visions themselves. It was the pain I felt after them.

Because watching those people die in my visions, it was like watching family die.

~EL~

"Hailey, you look ready to pass out."

I hadn't slept in two days, and I hadn't had a vision in two days. The good thing about being a vampire was that I could go longer without sleep than a human, but my sleeping habits were going to catch up to me eventually. I was exhausted and cranky and my brain was slower than usual.

"What are you talking about? I'm not even a little tired," I lied. I took a gulp of my coffee- it was my fourth cup.

"Damon told me that you're not sleeping." Elena frowned sympathetically at me. "Is it because of your visions?"

We were at the Grill, and I was scanning the crowd for motorcycle guy. I hadn't seen him since I found out that he was looking for my dead dad. I sighed and looked into Elena's big brown eyes. "Yeah," I admitted.

"Are they really bad enough that you're not sleeping?" she asked.

"It's not the visions themselves, Elena," I said. "It's how they make me feel. How the people dying in them make me feel."

"Feel like what?"

"Like… like I'm losing my family. I feel like the dying people in my dreams are my family," I admitted. I stifled a yawn and finished my cup of coffee.

Elena went silent as she processed what I had told her. "Maybe you're reliving the deaths of the fairies before you, the other ones of your bloodline," she said finally.

I shook my head. "About half of the people in my visions were men."

"Then I don't know, Hailey. Maybe they'll just go away eventually," she said hopefully.

"Yeah, maybe," I said doubtfully. But until that happened, I was going to stick with my plan. It was working for me so far.

"Only three more days until our senior year begins," Elena said with a smile, changing the subject.

"Oh goodie," I said sarcastically. Sitting through history was definitely going to make me fall asleep.

"Caroline wants us to help with senior prank night tonight," Elena said and I groaned.

"I'd rather stake myself," I said bluntly.

"Hailey…" she said in a warning tone.

"Don't worry, I'm going to show up. For Caroline." It was funny, how last year we were enemies and I hated her. now she was one of my closest friends.

"Matt isn't talking to her," Elena said softly.

"Of course he isn't. she broke his heart. When you broke up with him, he avoided you like you were an STD," I said bluntly.

"Thanks for comparing me to a sexually transmitted disease, Hailey. I really appreciate it," she said sarcastically, and I offered her a sleepy smirk.

"Do you want to know about motorcycle guy?" I asked suddenly, remembering that I had yet to catch her up on him.

"Motorcycle guy?" Elena asked, confused.

"That guy you thought was hot, that ran into me a few days ago. He had a pretty awesome motorcycle," I explained.

"What about him?"

"So, Damon peer pressured me into joining the council, and I 'overheard' MG talking to the sheriff- and by overhearing I mean eavesdropping- after a meeting. He was asking about my dad," I explained.

"So?" she asked, clearly not getting the point.

"So, I need to know why he was asking about my dad!" I explained. "Plus, I have this feeling about him… like I know him somehow. But I've never met him in my entire life."

Suddenly, I saw motorcycle guy walk into the Grill. he made a beeline for the bar. I smirked at Elena. "Speak of the devil."

Elena sighed as I stood up and walked over to motorcycle guy. I sat down next to him, but he didn't spare me a glance. "A glass of bourbon," I ordered from a bartender I had compelled to serve me free drinks.

Motorcycle guy raised his eyebrows at me. "Aren't you a little young to be drinking?" he asked skeptically.

"Shh," I said, putting a finger to my lips exaggeratedly, then I offered him a charming smile. "I'm Hailey."

He sighed, looking like he thought he was beneath a young, alcoholic girl. "Jace," he said finally.

"Hi," I said, forcing myself to be a cheerful, friendly person. Forcing myself to be Caroline. "You don't live here, do you?"

He raised his eyebrows at me. "How'd you know?"

"Small towns." I shrugged. "Everybody knows everybody here. so why are you here?"

"Looking for somebody." Jace clearly didn't like how pushy I was, and only offered me vague answers.

"Who?" I pushed.

"Why the hell does it matter to you?" he snapped. I frowned, though I would've reacted the same way.

"Because maybe I know who you're looking for," I muttered. "Jackass," I breathed.

He sighed. "I doubt you would."

"Try me."

Jace was fed up with me. "Fine. Do you know William Ellis?" he asked, finishing his drink.

My frown deepened. "Yeah, I do actually," I answered. Now I had him exactly where I wanted him.

He looked surprised. "How?"

"He's my dad," I answered. "Or was, technically."

Jace's eyes widened, and that's when I noticed they were a vivid green. A familiar green. He tossed a couple of bills onto the bar and stood up. "It was nice meeting you, Hailey," he said in a way that made it clear he thought the opposite.

"Wait," I said, standing up. "How do you know my dad?"

"Doesn't matter," he said gruffly.

"Yes, it does," I snapped back, grabbing his arm. His eyes widened at my strong grip before narrowing.

"How do you know my dad?" I repeated, so close to just compelling it out of him.

"Do you really want to know?" he snapped, clearly pissed.

"Uh, yeah," I said impatiently, letting go of his arm.

"He's my dad!" he snapped. "And you're my sister."

~EL~

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