*Southern Comfort*

Here I am at the bar waiting for my pal, Ray. He's apart of the Shadow-moon pack. Yes, werewolf, but I'm not stupid. We have an agreement. I help him and his pack get supplies and cover their tracks and I get to stay on their territory bite free. Of course them biting me wouldn't do anything but more on that later.

I actually enjoy Rays company. He isn't brudy like Stefan, isn't conceited like Damon, he's not one for death threats like Klaus, and he can still pull off being classy and old school in overalls unlike Eli. God, I'm pathetic.

Okay fine, I miss them. Not so much as Klaus since I barely knew the guy but everyone else were very important to me. Even him. I don't know what it is about Klaus. He's different. In a bad, good, weird kind of way. I mean sure he's attractive but I don't think we could even make it past physical attraction. Great job Hayden, your already making a guy you don't have a chance in Hell with 'we' people. I don't want to be with him, maybe just a one night thing and get him out of my system.

I was brought out of my thoughts by a voice,"A beer today, thanks Red." I turn my head as Ray sits in the stool next to me. "Your late." I say blandly. He shrugged,"Only by 2 minutes." I laugh. He takes the cap of his bottle off as I finish my bourbon. As soon as my glass hits the counter Ray shoots his cap into the glass, making it spin on the rim a bit before falling to the middle of the glass. "I give it an 8 for dramatics, and a 6 for shot." He chuckled, though it was cut short by a voice,"Ray? Ray Sutton?"

I growl as Klaus' voice fills my ears. What the hell was he doing here? I figured he lived but of all the packs to be searching for he had to choose the one I like? "Actually," I get up from my stool blocking his view of Ray,"he is Bendon Higal. Now leave us alone." He smirked at me,"Jade love, I wasn't aware you'd left."

I gritt my teeth taking a threatening step forward,"It's Hayden." I feel a hand on my shoulder,"I wouldn't do that." I glanced over my shoulder expecting to see Ray, but was surprised to see a pair of forest green eyes with frown lines. I frowned,"Do I even want to know?" I ask exasperated. He openend his mouth, then closed it shaking his head. Great, what the Hell did I miss now? Figure that out later. If Klaus is a hybrid he'll want to make other hybrids and Ray isn't going to become one.

"C'mon Brendon," I say coming up with an excuse to leave,"we better get back to the house before Allison has a fit." It wasn't exactly a lie. Allison was a red headed bitch. She is defiant, stubborn, and she really couldn't shut up to save her life. If I let Ray get hurt by Twiddle-dee and Twiddle-dum, it'll be both our heads. I take his arm and lead him away towards the exit.

We would have made it to, if a certain hybrid dick with a Salvatore prick weren't in our way. "Oh come now Jade the poor lad just got here." Klaus says teasingly. He thinks he's winning. "Vampires..." Ray murmurs clearly annoyed. How do you think I feel?

Klaus just smiles slyly at the accusation,"Yes, Ray. My friend here," he gestured to Stefan,"is a vampire, and he has compelled the whole bar so don't look to them for any help. Now me, I'm a different type of monster. I've got some vampire, I've got some were-wolf -" He was cut off from his 'this is how it is, your screwed speech' by Ray. "You what?" I turn to give Ray an exasperated look,"A hybrid Ray, he's both." His face contorted between fear and distress.

I turn my attention back to Nikky knowing that he was going to say more. "Now your kind, are very hard to come by. I'm going to need you to direct me to your pack." I stepped in front of Klaus making his attention go from Ray to me," My boyfriend and I need to chat before you murder his pack." Klaus growled lowly when I said boyfriend. I ignored it, for now.

I made my way to speed Ray and I out when was thrown into the brick wall. Yeah, it's brick, very painful. I stand with a groan that quickly turned into a growl as I saw it was Stefan who did this. I was especially annoyed now since he knew that nobody touches me without loosing a limb.

"What the Hell?" I hiss lowly at him pinning him to the wall I was just thrown to by his throat. His face contorted with pain as his back made chips of brick come off. My fangs were threatening to come out as I forced my eyes to stay normal not wanting to spoil my surprise."You, do not touch me. Ever!" I growled menacingly. He looked like he actually feared for his life as he nodded quickly trying to escape my grip. Of course I was stronger.

I smirked darkly as an idea came to mind. I punched him in the face,"That's for Anna." I punch his stomach making him choke up blood,"That's for Damon." I knee him in the balls, he goes limp against me groaning,"And that was for the Hell of it." with that I walked away leaving him to fall to the floor.

I walked past Klaus, who looked almost pleased with my work, and to Ray,"I need you to go to your car and go to my apartment, stay there I'll come get you. Got it?" I asked but my tone left no room for argument. Ray nodded knowing not to mess with me in this mood. As he had opened the door I quickly called out to him. "Ray?!" He turned to face me. "Your going to want to find a new pack." He gulped looking down before nodding once more. He was out of my sight in no time.

I turned my attention back to Klaus and a now healed Stefan,"I didn't expect to see you alive." Klaus smirked knowingly,"Yes, your friends an I had a bit of a misunderstanding." I rolled my eyes at that. I knew Eli couldn't kill his brother. Hell, Klaus may be an asshole but he was his brother.

I flip my attention to Stefan,"Me, you, words, now." I tell Stefan before returning my eyes to Klaus' gaze,"A moment please, Nikky." Klaus rolled his eyes giving us a dismissive gesture before going to the bar. I speed Stefan out and push into a brick wall making an actual hole in the wall holding him by his throat,"What the Hell did you people do to me?" I hiss at him my fangs emerging and I could feel my eyes flashing amber at him.