**Chapter thirty eight**

The new guys

*Damon*

Damon paced in his living room, a glass of bourbon in his hand. He was still upset over his fight with Hailey. They hadn't been together for even a full day, and they were already fighting. He didn't think that that was a good thing.

After he finished his second glass of bourbon, Damon decided to go to Hailey's and apologize for whatever he did to piss her off. She had had enough time to cool off, he decided. The idea of being in a relationship was still so new to him. He was in love, and was loved back. Whenever he used to think of love, he thought of Katherine. But this love with Hailey was so different, and stronger, and… better. This was true love, what he felt for Hailey. What Damon felt for Katherine was more like an infatuation.

Damon was scared that he would screw up what he had with Hailey. He found that it was in his nature to screw up. Before he met her, Damon didn't think that being in love was worth anything. He had just gotten his heart shattered; the last thing that he wanted to do was run into another relationship. He even swore to himself that he wouldn't fall in love again. That love wasn't worth the pain or trouble.

But Damon wanted Hailey, more than he ever wanted anything. She was worth the trouble, the drama, and the crazy girl emotions. This was his chance to get out of this relationship. But Damon grabbed his jacket and started walking to Hailey's. He even had his apology planned out in his head.

Damon called her cellphone a few times, but just got her voicemail. "Congrats, you've reached Hailey's voicemail. If you don't know what to do, you don't deserve to leave a message. And most certainly won't promise to call you back." Hailey's bored, sarcastic voice sang into his ear over and over again.

At first, Damon thought that she was just giving him the silent treatment. But Hailey wasn't one to give the silent treatment. If she had a problem with you, she made sure that you knew about it. His concern was turned into full-fledged fear when he was about five minutes away from Hailey's house. A familiar smell filled the air and made his mouth water and his heart drop at the same time.

Hailey's blood.

*Hailey*

I woke up in an unfamiliar room, in an unfamiliar bed. I was very lightheaded and weak. I heard voices coming from outside of the room that I was in. I caught some of the conversation, as I struggled to remember what happened.

"… and you're sure that she's a fairy?" a familiar female voice asked.

"Yes, I am. If her taste and smell isn't enough for you, Julia, her light is almost blinding." A male voice with a slight European accent answered.

"You have to teach me how to see that light." Julia asked, and a chuckle followed her words.

"You don't really see a fairy's light, Jules, you just… sense it. It's really noticeable when you feed on a fairy." the male voice told Julia.

"I don't know if it was smart to take her, Zane. She has a vampire mate, and she mentioned the tomb vampires. I don't think that they should know that we're here. They'll kill us if we kill the girl before them." Julia said.

"Jules, I promise you that we'll be fine. I know what I'm doing. We'll be out of the country before those lazy sons of bitches even start to track us. I've heard about the Salvatore brothers before, and they're nothing that we can't handle. Besides, fairy blood is so rare to come by. We can't just pass up this chance, darling." Zane soothed Julia.

She sighed. "You're right. You have yet to steer us wrong." She admitted.

"Don't fret love; I won't let anything ever happen to you." Zane told her softly.

There was silence as the two kissed. When they broke apart, Zane said, "How about you get the first taste, love. You did all the work, you deserve it."

"You sure, babe? I normally don't share, but you've always been the exception." Julia said in a giggly, blissful voice. It was like the one I got when I was with Damon.

"I'm sure, sweetheart. I'm fully aware of how selfish you are." Zane teased her.

"I prefer the word 'independent,'" she retorted, as I heard footsteps come closer to me.

The vampire couple reminded me so much of Damon and me. I almost forgot that they had the intention to kill me. Julia walked into my room, and I got a good look at her. She was willowy, with pale skin, dark blonde hair, and gray eyes. Overall, she was very pretty. She had on a sadistic smirk when she realized that I was awake.

"She awakes, finally." Julia said, coming closer to me.

I tried moving away from her, but the needles in my veins connected me to a machine and prevented me from doing so. I was also very weak from blood loss. Julia moved the machine that was slowly draining me of my blood and putting it into a plastic baggy out of her way. The bag was over half full.

Julia straddled me, and brushed my hair away from my neck. I struggled, but it was no use. "Please," I whispered my voice weak and scratchy.

Julia ignored me, as she let her control over her thirst go. Her face contorted as she bared her fangs. I gasped just before she bit roughly into my neck.

Zane could hear the screams of the fairy all the way from the living room, as his mate fed on her. He smiled to himself as he poured himself some whiskey. He loved his Julia more than life itself.

Tonight would be fun.

*Damon*

Damon threw everything in his reach at the wall, breaking the random items. He had no idea what to do. Hailey was missing, and he could easily chalk it up to the tomb vampires. But then there was the blonde vampire waitress. Something wasn't right about her.

The thought of Hailey dying, made him feel worse than dead. And the thought of his last memory of her, being her walking away from him, pissed because he cared too much just made it worse.

Stefan walked into the living room. He took in the mess that Damon was making with raised eyebrows. But he didn't say anything. Damon looked at him impatiently, and Stefan gave his brother the status report.

"The trail ends right outside the diner," he told him.

Damon growled and smashed a lamp. Stefan looked like he wanted to say something, but thought better of it. "There has to be something that we can do." Damon growled, looking for something else to break.

"We'll find her, Damon. The tomb vampires probably got her, but that blonde sounds suspicious." Stefan said, moving a chair out of Damon's reach.

Damon grunted. He knew that he was making his love for Hailey pretty obvious to his brother at that that moment, but he didn't care. If telling Stefan and Elena that he was in love with Hailey was the key to getting her back, he'd do it. "Let's go look, and split up. Check in every twenty minutes. I'm not giving up until I find her." Damon told him emotionlessly, before walking out of the front door.

Stefan ignored how much it sounded like that his big brother was in love with Hailey, and followed him out the door. Damon ran around the area where he found Hailey's blood. He only caught one other scent that smelled like the waitress's. Damon gritted his teeth- whoever took his Hailey from him was going to pay with their life.

Suddenly, Damon heard a twig snap a couple hundred yards away, and his entire body tensed. Then he caught a familiar scent, and all of Damon's anger, fear and guilt caused him to snap. One sixteenth of a second later, Damon had Nicolai pinned to a tree by his neck.

"What did you do to her?" he growled, his hand tightening around Nicolai's neck. "I swear to god, I will rip your throat out if you so much as touched a hair on her head."

Another sixteenth of a second later, Nico had Damon pinned to the ground. He too looked pissed beyond all belief. "What the hell are you talking about, Salvatore? Hailey's missing?" he growled.

Despite his air supply being cut off, Damon managed to gasp out, "Has been for hours."

Nicolai let go of Damon, and stared at him with a look of loathing. But Nico was also terrified of losing Hailey. They didn't take her; if they did he would've known.

"They would've called me if they caught her." Nico shook his head. Suddenly, he remembered what Candace had told him a few days ago. "There are other vampires in town, we think about two. They're just outside of town." He told Damon.

Damon thought that that was a promising lead, and stood up. He was going to get his Hailey back. "Why do you care? Why are you telling me this?" he asked bluntly.

Nicolai took a while to answer, but eventually said, "I let one Ellis girl slip by me Salvatore, I won't let a second."

Damon left one eighth of a second later. Despite having a lead on Hailey, Damon knew that his fight for her didn't end with saving her from the new guys.

~LMF~

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