**Chapter twenty five**

Adora

*Hailey*

"We have a problem."

"Understatement of the century, Hails." Ava scoffed.

I glared at her. "Shut up Ava, I'm on the phone. Go haunt a cemetery."

"What are you talking about, Hailey? Did you say Ava?"

Ava rolled her eyes and muttered something to herself before wandering off. I focused back on my conversation with Damon. "Yeah, I'll fill you in on that craziness later. But right now we have a problem. A huge problem."

"Oh, joy. What is it now?"

I took a deep breath. "Adora's gone."

A few beats of silence passed before Damon spoke again. "What? Please tell me exhaustion has gotten to you, Hailey," he said disbelievingly.

"I wish I could, Damon. But I can't. Adora's gone. She's nowhere to be found. And we're totally screwed. I don't want to be the one to tell Bella that her psycho sister who murdered half her family is out wandering about." I sighed and ran a hand over my face.

"Sucks to be you, then. Because you probably will be." Damon sighed too. "What are we going to do?"

"I have no idea."

Damon was silent on the other line, as we both debated what to do. What did you do- what could you do- when a formerly dead original fairy with a few screws loose was alive and running around Mystic Falls?

I knew the answer. You drank. Unfortunately for me, there were no bars out in the middle of the woods. So there was nothing I could do.

"How are the originals doing?" I asked finally. There was nothing else to talk about, involving the Adora situation.

"They're really shaken up. Jace is with them right now. They don't like me being too near them, since I'm a vampire. They trust Jace, though."

"Is Bella there yet?" I asked.

"Nope. But the sooner she gets here, the better."

"I'll be back soon, okay?" I said to Damon.

"Alright. Just… be careful. There's a crazy fairy on the loose."

My smile was weak as I hung up on him. I looked around for Ava, but she was long gone. Hopefully she would pop up again. I had to get back to the original fairies. I needed to work on damage control.

The run back to the tomb was quick. Damon was waiting outside as I pushed past the branches and joined him.

"You look exhausted," he noted as I rubbed my eyes.

I nodded. "I feel like I'm about to drop dead," I muttered.

"Well, I'll make sure nobody steps on you," he joked. I just rolled my eyes.

"Are you coming?" I asked as I walked down the steps.

Damon shook his head. "Like I said, I freak them out. I'll just wait out here."

I nodded and then walked into the tomb. A few minutes later I came across a room lit up with fire lit torches. I stifled a yawn before joining my brother and our ancestors.

"…It's the 21st century. When Hailey gets back, we'll explain everything. Alright?" Jace was saying.

The four original fairies trained their eyes on me as I walked to my brother's side. "Bella," Adrian breathed, looking relieved. "Thank God you're here."

Garrett shook his head slightly. "But that is not Bella. I do not know where Bella is, but she is not here."

"I'm Hailey," I introduced myself again. "And I'm Bella's descendant. I guess I'm your descendant too."

"Hailey." Gemma looked up at me. She looked shocked and confused and a little terrified. But she looked relieved, too. Relieved that she actually recognized something from this century. Me.

"I remember you," she said. "You were the one with the ghost problems. How did that work out for you?"

"Fine, I suppose," I said, though I did get depressed after my dad left me again, so it hadn't been a good experience in my life.

"Where's my sister? She would be here if she knew that we had been raised from the dead. Where is Bella?" Gemma's eyes widened slightly. "She- she is still alive, isn't she?"

I nodded. "Bella's still alive. She should be here anytime now," I said.

"Hailey," Joseph cut in, bringing my attention to him. "How- how are we here right now? We died, all of us, a thousand years ago."

"Well, long story short, I was trying to bring Halia back to life, and I somehow brought you guys back to life with her," I said a little bluntly, crossing my arms over my chest and leaning against a rocky wall.

There was a collective silence among the siblings. All of their eyes widened. "Halia," Garrett said in a hushed whisper. "Halia, you say? She- she is alive too?"

I nodded. "Halia is alive too," I said.

"How?" Gemma all but demanded. "How did you do it? How did you bring us all back to life?"

"I have absolutely no idea," I replied honestly.

There was the sudden rush of wind that only I could here. I looked up at the threshold, the five confused humans following my lead. Then, in the blink of an eye, Bella was there. Her eyes were wide in shock and disbelief.

She stared at her four siblings like she couldn't believe they were there. I noticed that her hair was messy. It was sex hair. Her clothes were badly wrinkled, and she pretty much smelled like sex. Despite how tired I was, despite the fact that Adora was God knows where, my nose wrinkled and I allowed one brief second to think about how disgusting Bella and Elijah sex was.

"It's true," she whispered. "I don't know how it's possible, but it's true. You're all alive."

Gemma took a step forward towards her younger sister. "Bella," she breathed, looking like she might cry.

As Gemma pulled Bella into her arms, I turned to Jace. "Let's go, alright? I have to talk to Elijah," I said.

Jace's eyebrows furrowed. "Why?" he asked, oblivious to the emotional sibling reunion going on around us.

I just scoffed and rolled my eyes. I wanted to give Bella some privacy with her siblings, but if I said that out loud, it could kill the mood.

"We're going, alright?" I said, before roughly grabbing Jace by the arm and dragging him out of the room.

We came across Elijah before we even made it to the surface. "Hailey, I assume," he said, stepping towards me. "It's a pleasure to meet you face to face."

I nodded. I knew that Elijah needed to know what was going on with Adora. "Jace, leave," I said bluntly, not bothering to look at my brother.

He muttered something about me being extra bitchy when I was tired, before he walked past Elijah and up to the ground.

"We have a problem," I said as soon as my brother was out of hearing range.

Elijah raised an eyebrow. "What is it?"

"Adora's gone. I have absolutely no idea where she is."

Elijah's face darkened, and he cursed silently. "That is a problem," he said finally.

"Should we tell her?" I asked, meaning Bella. I could hear her talking softly, soothingly to her siblings, not too far away from Elijah and I.

He shook his head. "No, not tonight."

I frowned. "She needs to know, Elijah," I said.

"And she will," he replied. "But not tonight. It would all be too much for Bella to take on in one day. I will tell her myself tomorrow, once we get her siblings settled into this century."

I nodded. "Fine, I'm too tired to argue anyway."

"You can go home, Hailey. Bella and I have this all under control," he said. "I can only imagine how draining bringing a family of fairies back from the dead is."

I smiled slightly. "I'm ready to pass out." I paused. "Are you sure?"

He nodded. "We'll contact you if you're needed."

"Fine. I'll see you tomorrow, and we'll take care of the Adora problem then," I said, already walking up towards the ground, towards Damon.

The sky was lightening when I finally found Damon and my brother. "Let's go home," I said to them. "There's nothing left for us to do here."

As we started to leave, I thought about the mess that awaited us tomorrow.

Adora was going to be the death of all of us, I was sure of it.

~EL~

"We're screwed. We're all screwed."

I dropped onto my bed, barely bothering to take off my shoes before getting under the blankets. The mattress felt even more comfortable than usual.

"I think you're being a little overdramatic," Damon replied, as he tossed his jacket onto the back of a chair.

Ellie hoped up on our bed and curled up against my side. She purred adoringly, and I scratched the top of her head. "I don't think so. I think we're all screwed. I think Adora is going to mess shit up badly. Hell, she might even kill us all," I said.

Damon sighed, and got into bed next to me. "Relax Hailey, okay?" he said. "Just relax."

I sighed too. "How can I relax when there's a crazy pyscho running around Mystic Falls?" I whined.

"Crazy psycho is redundant, but that's not the point. You forgot that she's running around in the same town her siblings are in. And I'm willing to be that they're not gonna be too happy with her. Hell, Klaus is going to want to wear Adora's ribs as a hat after she took his precious Halia away from him," he soothed.

"I'm just scared, Damon," I admitted, resting my head on his chest. "I'm scared of Adora."

"Don't be, okay Hailey?" he said, kissing my forehead. "Because there are a dozen powerful people she'll have to answer to when we do finally track her down."

I took a deep breath and closed my eyes. I was so, so tired. And a tiny bit paranoid. I didn't even answer Damon as I fell into a state of unconsciousness.

How dangerous could Adora be anyways, was my last thought. She was in a century she was completely unfamiliar in. She had no allies here, no one who would help her.

I knew the answer, though. It just made her even more dangerous.

~EL~

Adora looked hastily around her as she made her way down a street. She had no idea where she was, what was going on. She kept seeing things that were completely new to her, like cars and houses. She had no idea what those things are. A few of them even frightened her a bit.

"Hey, you there."

Adora looked up to see a young woman, eyebrows furrowed slightly. She was wearing clothes that were semi-hilarious to Adora, and standing on a porch connected to a house.

"Yes?" Adora raised an eyebrow. For some reason, the woman wasn't affected by her dirty appearance. She didn't pay any mind to the dirty, bloody dress she wore, that belonged in a century too long ago to mean anything.

Adora could practically feel it, though. She knew what the woman was. She was a witch.

"I don't know why," she started to say. "But I'm supposed to help you. The spirits said so. She said so."

Adora smirked slightly. Usually, she never would accept the help of a witch, but she was in no place to get picky.

"Well, you can start by explaining to me what century I'm in," Adora said, walking towards the woman.

Adora did have allies in this century after all. At least, for now she did.

~EL~

A/N: Sorry it took me so long to update. I was on vacation, and then I found this chapter really hard to write.

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