Nikki's POV

The next morning I woke up around 6. am, and decided to have a quick shower and change my pajamas to a new change of clothes. I was wearing a beige sleeveless polka dot caged tie chiffon shirt, black skinny jeans, veste smoking noir and Oxford ballet flats with my cynthia doctor satchel hadbag. I wore my feather drop earrings and my hair was done in a updo.

I decided to go to Starbucks before heading to work, but when I came to the door of the hotel, I just saw flashes. The paparazzi were waiting for me. Of course. I had to call security to help me to get to my car, and two strong and tall guys lead me to my car.

"Nikki, Nikki! Are you heading to the set of The Vampire Diaries?" I heard a guy screaming.

"Nikki, do you think that this experience is going to be good for your career?" Another guy shouted.

"Nikki, is true that you are done with your musical career?"

I just continued to walk toward my car, and when I finally managed to get in. I just smiled and waved to them and drove off to work.

When I arrived to the set was greeted by Ian who had two cups of coffe. I smiled at him, and walked over .

"So I'm guessing that one coffe is for me." I replied with a smile.

"You are guessing right, I thought I could greet you with coffe since clearly you didn't have too much to sleep." He said.

"Oh, I'm used. When I was in tour I just had 3 hours to sleep, because we were always moving from show to show." I replied with a yawn.

"That must be hard, I see you have a very busy schedule." He replied handing a coffe to me.

I just nodded and took the coffe and said "Thanks." to him, then we started making our way to make-up and costuming.

"So, I'll see you on set." I told him.

"Yeah, I'm really excited to start to work with you, you are a really talented actress so I have to learn a few things with you." He complimented me.

I just stared him in awe, the guy was so polite and sweet. Have a hold on yourself Nikki, now is not the time for you to get involved with anyone, I heard a voice in my head.

"You're making blush Mr. Somerhalder." I joked. "But thank you, you are a great actor too maybe I'm the one who has to learn a few things." I started to walk toward my dressing room, but before I open the door, and looked to him one more time and said "I love sugar cream on my coffe, not many people knows my favourite coffe aside from my mannager, so you already made an impressive impression on me and I'm not easily impressed." I replied then I winked at him and enter the room leaving him with a goofy smile on his face.

While they were doing my hair and make-up, I was reading the script. Julie and Kevin had told me that I could write my own songs to sing in the show and I loved the idea. After my scene with Ian I was going to audiction potential band members to form my band on the show.

I was all done with my hair, make-up and clothes. I was wearing a gray sweater, leather pants, leather jacket and silver high heels. My hair was wavy and I was wearing pink lipstick. I have to say I absolutely love my character's style, she is so sexy and fashionable. She truly has a great sense of style, and I personally loved fashion too, I'm really a shopping-person.

Then they proceeded to put my contacts and my fake fangs. And words can't describe how much my eyes hurts right now. But I needed to suck it up, because it is part of the job.

Then when I was walking to the set to shoot the scene, I looked to my left and saw Nina Dobrev and Paul Wesley.

"Oh my God, you're Nikki Bongiovi!" She said excitedly.

"Yup, that's my name. Nice to meet you." I extend my hand and she took it immediatly.

"Oh, I'm sorry about my reaction, I'm Nina, is just... I'm really a fan of yours and can't believe that you joined our cast" She said amazed.

"Thank you so much Nina, well believe it. Because now we are co-workers." I replied. Then I looked to the guy who was smiling at me.

"And you must be Paul Wesley." I stated.

"Is what they call me. I'm a fan of yours too Nikki, I hope you will enjoy to work with our team." He replied shaking my hand.

"I'm sure I will. Look it was great meeting you guys but I have to go now, it's my scene with Ian." I said. "So we can catch up later."

"No problem, good luck." Nina replied with a smile. I waved at them then I continued walking toward the set. I saw Kevin talking with Ian, probably giving him some notes about the scene. Then the director of the episode pulled me aside and started to give me some tips too. And Kevin walked towards us and joined in our conversation. Everybody took their places, and I felt a presence behind me, I turned around and saw Ian with a pouty face.

"I was trying to scare you from behind, you just had to spoil my fun." He faked pouted at me. And I just laughed.

"Well, sorry but you should work a little in your scary methods." I teased him. He just smirked at me and he moved forward and whispered into my ear.

"You're on."

I smirked back at him, and gave him a meaning look with my contacts.

"So how are those contacts treating you?" He asked with a teasingly smile.

"Like a bitch. I think I'm getting blind." I groaned and he just laughed.

"Yeah, I know. In the beginning I struggled too but then you just get used" He winked at me.

"I really hope so" I sighed.

"Quiet on the set! And action!" The director yelled. Then we both got into places. Ian was walking towards the place where he had seen 'me' pairing. And I walked beside him and grabbed his shoulder, but he grabbed my wrist throwing me against the wall, and he held my throat. When he looked at me he froze and I smirked at him. And I grabbed his throat and slammed him against the wall baring my fangs.

"Didn't know you liked rough Damon, you almost hurt me." I pouted.

"What? H-how do y-you?" He stoped for a second then he continued. "You're a vampire"

"And cut!" The director yelled. "You guys were great, Nikki you can take off your fangs and contacts lenses now."

"Thank GOD!" I exclaimed. Hearing a couple of laughs from the people around the set incluiding Ian.

Then a blonde woman pulled me aside and leaded me to my dressing-room again. Where I took off my fangs and lenses, and I was feeling more reliefed than ever. So they started retouch my make-up and hair again. I heard a knock at the door and I yelled 'come in' and saw Nina in the doorframe through my mirror.

"Hey, I just wanted to say that you were amazing on the set, your chemistry with Ian truly stands out." She replied.

"Thank you so much Nina, it really means a lot to me." I smiled at her. "I would appreciate it if you wouldn't stand in the doorframe staring at me, you can come in you know?" I said to her with a smile.

"Sorry, it's just I'm kinda starstruck by you to be honest." She trailed off shyly.

"Don't be seriously." I replied with a chuckle.

We were engaged in a very interesting conversation, when they called me back to the set to finish shooting the scene with Ian.

"Hey, Nikki. When you finish shooting the scene, me, Paul and Ian were thinking about go out for dinner. Do you want to come?" She asked.

"Sure, I'll meet you guys later." I said with a wave and hurried to the set. We got to our places and continued the last take.

"Silence on the set! And... Action!" The director yelled. And I blacked out and woke up as Claire.

"And two points for the pretty boy, took you long enough." I replied with exasperation.

"How, I didn't realized at the bar that you were a vampire? It doesn't make sense."

"Probably because, you were so blinded by my good looks, to notice." I shot back with a smug smirk on my face.

"Cocky much aren't we?" He smirked back. I just winked at him and he walked closer to me.

"So, are you going to tell me your name? It's only fair because I told you mine." He replied.

"Hmm, if you want to know that bad, why not? ... Claire." I said in a vague tone.

"No last name?" He asked.

"Well... That's a information for another time, just thought I could surprise you with my presence." I looked at him, then kissed his cheek. "See you soon, Damon" Then I ran of the set with my 'vampire speed'.

"And... Cut! That's a wrap everybody!" The director exclaimed. And everyone on the set started clapping their hands. Ian gave me a large smile and I smiled back at him.

Nikki's POV

We walked to our dressing-rooms to change to our clothes. As much I loved my characters 'style', I really wanted the comfort of my clothes.

I grabbed my blackberry from my purse to see one missed call. It was from my sister, when I was going to call her back, I felt a breath in my ear and suddenly I heard a 'boo' and I literally jumped of my skin.

I turned my head to see Ian laughing uncontrably, and I just glared at him.

"Oooh, you think this is funny huh?" I asked him in a mock tone.

"I think it was hilarious." He replied still laughing.

"Is that so?" I asked with a evil smile, I grabbed the compact that it was on my desk and scattered to Ian's face.

I laughed my ass off when I saw his face and he grabbed a towel from the chair and cleaned his face.

"Wait! I was going to take a picture!" I whined, but didn't stop laughing at him.

"Now that wasn't very nice." He tried to say in a serious tone, but ended up laughing too.

We stoped laughing when we heard two clearing throats, we moved our heads to see Nina and Paul with a confused face. I just shook my head in a 'you don't want to know' motion. And we walked out of my dressing-room.

When we arrived to a small but cozy little restaurant, we were surrounded by the paparazzis. Again. Nina and Paul were the first ones to get out of the car, following me and Ian next. When we were almost at the door of the restaurant, I was becoming blind by the flashes of their cameras.

"Nikki! Nikki! How was your first day shooting at the set?" I hear someone shout.

"It was awesome. Thanks." I replied polietly. Even though I couldn't stand the paparazzis, I wasn't ill-mannered, my parents always thaught me to be polite with everyone.

"Nikki! Over here! How far do you like your cast?"

"So far, I've only met Ian, Paul and Nina. I'm looking forward to meet the rest of the cast!" I said with a smile.

"Ian! What is like working with Nikki?" Another guy asked.

"I only worked and met her yesterday, but I can say that working with her is fantastic." Ian said with a smile. He was so nice and polite, I blushed a little with his reply.

Before they could ask more questions, we rushed inside of the restaurant. And we made our way to a table with a waiter right behind us. The waiter noted our requests, then I turned my head to see the paparazzis waiting on the door of the restaurant.

"They don't give up, especially that Nikki is here." Paul commented.

"Tell me about it. Do you have to deal with them, everyday 24/7?" Nina asked me. "I mean even though we have to deal with them as well, they don't follow us around all the time..."

"Yup, but you just get used it. I mean the paparazzis had been around me since I was 3 years old, because of my dad." I replied.

"Wow, so you didn't have a easy childwood." Nina said with sympathy in her voice.

"Can't say that I have, I was always moving around because my dad was on tour all the time. I would play with my dad's guitars, drums, and stuff like that. But that was the way that I discovered my passion for music. One time I sang with my dad on his concert, I was pretty crazy when I was a kid, I guess it's the price of being a daughter of a famous singer." I said having a memory lane moment.

They all listened to my stories about how I started my musical careerer, then I started acting, then modeling. Nina's phone rang and she answered it while me, Ian and Paul continued our conversation.

"But enough about me, I want to know how you started your career too." I asked them with a smile.

"Well, I started modeling when I was 10 years old. Then I started doing tv jobs at 17, I gained more prominence when I did Lost, but my big opportunity was of course when I audictioned for The Vampire Diaries." Ian explained.

"That was Julie. She said that we are doing promo shoots for season 2, tomorrow!" Nina said as she hung up her phone.

"Cool, I love doing photoshoots." I said excitedly.

"So you were a photoshoot model too?" Paul asked curiously.

"Oh yes, I am photoshoot model, and I have my own design clothes!" I said taking a sip of my water.

"Wow, I mean you have it all then! Is actually making me nervous to be around such a superstar like you." Ian said teasingly. I smacked his arm playfully with a smile.

"Ian actually has a Foundation about environment and endagered animals." Nina added.

"No way, are you serious?" I almost choked on my water, which made Nina and Paul laugh.

"Yup. I think it's important to approach these kinds of stuff, kids these days don't know how to appreciate the world they live in." Ian stated a macter-of-factly.

I just stared at him in awe, not only he is very handsome, a gentleman, fun, sweet and caring and he worries about the kind of world we live in. I don't want to start feeling something more than friendship for him but he kinda makes it hard not to.

"I love animals too but I really love kids, and I'm embassador of ONU. Think it's important to acknowledge that not everyone can be as blessed as we are." I replied.

"Agreed. That's pretty awesome that you are one of the embassadores of ONU. I had been in Africa last year to visit the kids with AIDS. Totally changed my prespective about them." Nina said sweetly.

"I know right? I mean as much as we help them, it feels like ist's never enough you know?" I said averting my eyes to my plate.

I felt Ian's eyes burning a hole on my head, but I kinda was a bit shy to meet his eyes. So I continued staring my food.

Ian's POV

Wow, was this girl for real? I mannaged to know almost everything about her in just one night. She is so beautiful and caring. It's been a while since I saw a woman like Nikki, I really don't want to develop deep feelings for her, but she makes hard not to.

Then Nikki's phone rang, and she grabbed her purse to answer her phone call. I couldn't help but wonder if it was her boyfriend, a woman like her surely has a boyfriend, I mean what is not to love about her?

"Hi daddy!" She said with a huge smile. I kinda felt reliefed to know that it was her father calling her. Whoahh, here that thought came from?

"It's been great, I'm having dinner with them actually." She said glancing at me, Nina and Paul.

"You're the one to talk, you've been there remember? Look tell mom and Steph that I miss them. I'll call you tomorrow okay?" She replied. "Okay. Bye. Love you" Then she hung up the phone.

"Look who's a daddy girl." I teased her. I loved to joke with her she had a great sense of humour.

"Ha ha. I can't help it okay? Always had been, always going to be." She shrugged.

"You're the one to talk Ian, I think there is a momma's boy between us." Paul smirked.

Then Nina and Nikki burst out laughing with Paul's comment. And I threw daggers with my eyes at him and he winked at me.

"He's funny today. We all know that if Torrey jumps you say how high." I shot back with a smirk. And he shoved me playfully.

"Uhm... Torrey is your girlfriend?" Nikki asked clearly not getting it.

"Fianc ... We are dating for a while now." Paul said with a small smile.

"Aww how cute, you must really love her. Congrulations on your engangement." Nikki said giving Paul a hug, since he was sitting next to her.

"Thanks, I'm expecting you to perform in my wedding you know... Not everyone can have Nikki Bongiovi on our weddings." Paul said with a cocky grin.

"Of course! You just have to say the word then, I'll be more then happy to perform in your wedding." Nikki said running her hand across her dark brown hair.

"Cool, Torrey is a fan of yours, you know... When I told her that you would be a part of our cast, she kinda blackmailed me to ask you an autograph." He said playfully. Then we all laugh, you gotta love Paul, we knows how to make people laugh.

"I'll make sure to give her one, don't worry." She said with a sweet smile.

"Hey Nikki do you have a twitter?" Nina asked.

"Yep, I'm kinda wasn't really into it the first time, but now can't stop tweet!" She replied.

"That's great, Ian here is kinda tweet-obsessed you know." Nina smirked.

"Yeah, coming from you, who forced Paul to make one." I said rolling my eyes. Nina just stick her tongue at me, and put a hand on my chest faux mocked.

"You can all follow now, it's nikkibongiovi. I'll make sure to follow you guys back." She said typing on her blackberry.

We decided to call it a night, since we had to work tomorrow early and then we had the shoots. So we walked towards the door, surprised to see the paparazzis still there.

They were snappong pictures of us, especially of me and Nikki. We got into the car and drove away from them.

Nikki's POV

When I arrived to my hotel I was going to take a hot bath, and sleep like a baby because today was pretty hard.

Then I heard my phone buzz, and went to see a text from Ian. We had exchanged each other's numbers at the dinner.

- Hey, already following you on twitter. I really enjoyed dinner tonight, especially since I got to know you better :)

I couldn't help but blush at his text, I really enjoyed to get to know him better, with Paul and Nina too, but I kinda took a special attention to Ian. But I wouldn't let him know that, of course.

-I really enjoyed dinner too. I got to know you, Nina and Paul better, I had fun :').

I know that it was kinda pathetic reply, but I don't want to things get 'heated' between me and Ian. My phone buzzed again, with Ian's reply.

- Good to know. Not gonna bother you anymore. Sweet dreams Nikki.

- Good night Ian :]

I texted back, and let out a breath that I didn't know I was holding. I seriously don't want to fall in love right now. But I guess that destiny has plans for everyone, and like my mom says 'if it's destined, then it will happen'. I was so tired that I climbed in bed on my shirt and mini-shorts and shut my eyes and fell into sleep.

Storylover3: I'm really glad you like it :), as for Nina in this story she's just Ian's friend! I don't get me wrong, I love Nian they're the perfect couple, but this an OC story, a little fantasy I had in my head so I decided to write it! Maybe in the future, I'll write a Nian fanfiction ;)