**Chapter thirty nine**

Rescue me

*Hailey*

I was on the verge of unconsciousness, as Julia wiped her mouth. She stared at me, and a look of pity crossed her face. She quickly bit her wrist and offered the blood to me.

"You look like you're going to pass out." She told me. I shook my head slightly, but Julia pressed her wrist to my mouth a forced me to drink.

I gasped for air, but felt stronger as Julia's wrist healed. "Why are you doing this?" I whispered.

Julia stared at me for a little while, before saying, "Fairy blood is hard to come by."

"He's going to come for me, you know." I whispered. We both knew who I was talking about. "And when he does, he's going to kill both of you."

Julia gave me a meaningful look, before standing up. "We will see."

With my strength back, I tried to use my powers. But nothing worked. I tried everything, but I couldn't even nudge my pillow using telekinesis. Julia smirked at me slightly, as she walked to the door. "You see those rocks?" she gestured to the crystals that were placed around me. "They render a fairy powerless. Don't even try to use your powers, they're useless."

As Julia left, I let a tear escape as I thought about Damon. He would come rescue me, wouldn't he?

It seemed to take hours, but I eventually got some sleep, though it was spotty. About two hours later, I felt somebody shake me awake. I opened my eyes to see Julia holding a tray full of food.

"Time to eat, Hailey." She said, and set the tray in front of me.

I shook my head. "I'm not hungry." I mumbled, though I was actually starving.

Julia gave me a look. "Don't be stubborn."

"You and your boyfriend are slowly draining me of my blood, and eventually plan to kill me when I run out of it- I have every right not to listen to you." I snapped.

Julia rolled her eyes, and continued to push me to eat. "Come on, Hailey. You need to eat food with iron in it, since you lost so much blood. I went to three different stores to get this stuff for you. I made you a cheeseburger, a salad with spinach and collards, and some raisins."

I made a face- I hated raisins. Julia sighed "Fine, starve." She told me, before walking out of my room. Though, she left the food.

I stared at the food, and felt my mouth water. Despite my pride, I devoured the burger, and picked at the salad. A half an hour later, a woman who looked like a nurse came into my room, and hooked me back up to the blood sucking machine. I flinched as she put the needles into my veins- I hate needles- and watched with a morbid curiosity as the plastic bag started filling up with my blood.

I was scared. I would be drained dry in a matter of days if Damon or Stefan or somebody didn't find me soon. I was staring up at the ceiling, thinking of escape plans that I could never pull off, when Julia came back into the room.

"Ugh, what?" I snapped, and she rolled her gray eyes.

"I thought you would be bored out of your mind, so I bought you a TV." She said, before rolling in one. I stared at her, as she turned it on and started flipping through channels.

"Yes!" she exclaimed, stopping at How I Met Your Mother. Julia sat down at the foot of my bed and watched the show. I was obsessed with that show, so I didn't protest, but I couldn't help but be suspicious by Julia's repeated acts of kindness.

"Why are you being so nice to me?" I asked bluntly during a commercial break.

Julia looked like a kid caught with her hand in the cookie jar. "I don't know what you're talking about. She mumbled.

"Oh, really? Giving me your blood, feeding me, bringing a TV into my room so that I wouldn't be bored- normal vampires don't do that for fairies they plan on killing." I told her.

Julia sighed, and tossed her blonde hair out of her face. "You remind me of somebody, okay?" she admitted, sounding annoyed.

"Who?" I asked curiously.

"Me."

I raised my eyebrows at her, and Julia sighed and explained. "Everything about you, Hailey, your pride, your stubbornness, your bravery, your loyalty, how sarcastic, reckless, and impulsive you are, how you hate relying on people to save you- I know that you don't really want your vampire to rescue you. You're grateful for it, but you'd much rather save yourself- that's just like me, Hailey. You're just like me.

I pursed my lips, a little freaked out that she described me perfectly. Julia stared out the window, the sun just peeking out through the blinds. She made sure to stay out of its path. Julia had a distant look in her gray eyes. "I know that your vampire will come for you too, because Zane wouldn't stop until he got me back. And then he'd make sure to kill whoever took me slowly and painfully." She shuddered, and took a deep breath.

"When I was human, I lived in Santa Clarita- a suburb outside of Los Angeles. I hated it; I hated suburbia and how much I felt like a fish out of water there. It was boring for me, and I planned to escape when I graduated. Then I met Zane for the first time, at a diner where I waitressed. We struck up a small conversation, and became friends really quickly. My friends hated him- they thought that he was an arrogant ass- which he is." She giggled.

"But I saw something in him that nobody else could see, not even Zane. I saw his humanity. We started dating, and I fell head-over-heels in love with him. Though I didn't get the courage to tell him that until he told me his secret.

"There had been a number of missing people in my town, but people stopped going missing when Zane and I started dating. Eventually, Zane told me what he was. I won't lie, I was terrified of him. But he managed to convince me that he was still the man that I was madly in love with. And I eventually got over his lack of mortality.

"Eventually, we exchanged 'I love yous' and I knew that we were pass the point of no return. I kept getting older, and he stayed young and hot. So on my birthday, he bluntly told me that he would change me into a vampire if I wanted him to. I agreed to, he changed me, and we've been together ever since." She smiled, obviously as much in love with Zane as she was when she was human.

"Why did you agree to become a vampire?" I blurted out. I knew that that was a very real possibility for my future.

Julia raised an eyebrow at me. "If you had the option to be with the person you loved forever, why would you say no?"

I didn't answer, but Julia didn't expect me to. "So, tell me your story." She demanded, sitting crossed legged in front of me, like we were at a sleepover.

I did as told, and told her every detail about Damon's and I's messy love story. I started from coming back to Mystic Falls, up until when she kidnapped me. An awkward silence filled the room, as we both remembered that she and Zane planned to kill me.

Despite that fact, it felt really nice to tell somebody Damon and I's love story. Somebody who wouldn't judge me, who would understand what it was like to be in love with a vampire who had the tendency to be an egotistical dick, and who was hated by your friends.

"Wow, you win." Julia said to break the awkward silence. I grinned at her. It was ironic, how we had this spark of friendship happening, when she kidnapped me to drain me of my blood.

Julia stood up. "I have to go find Zane." She said abruptly, before leaving. I only hoped that the next time she came back wouldn't be to kill me.

*Julia*

Julia walked out of Hailey's room, and into their living room. Zane had left last night for supplies, and since the sun would burn him, he was due home soon, now that it had set. As if reading her mind, strong arms suddenly wrapped around her waist, and lips planted themselves on her neck.

Julia absentmindedly leaned into her mate, and he noticed that her mind was elsewhere. "What's on your mind, love?" Zane murmured into her hair.

Julia took a deep breath, preparing herself for the fight they were going to happen in four seconds. "I don 't want to kill Hailey."

Zane stiffened behind her, and Julia braced herself. "Are you out of your bloody mind?" he said it casually, but Julia knew that he meant it.

"For the love of God, Zane, we're killing an innocent girl just because we can!" Julia exclaimed, facing her mate with a fire in her eyes.

"We're killing for food, Julia! Last time I checked, that's what we do!" Zane shouted.

"No Zane, that's what you do, or did. I made it very clear that I don't want to become a murderer, yet here I am, killing this girl who's barely gotten to live." Julia crossed her arms over her chest defiantly.

Zane ogled her. "You've befriended the fairy, haven't' you?" when Julia didn't answer, he glared at his mate.

"Julia, we're already in too deep." He said dismissively, walking away from her and their fight.

"We're taking her from her vampire." Julia said abruptly. "Have you ever thought of that? If we kill her, he's going to have to live with that pain for the rest of his existence. And you know that that pain can kill. He's' going to be dead from that pain forever, and then he's going to spend forever trying to kill us."

Julia took a deep breath. "What if it was the other way around, Zane? If I was taken from you? Can you honestly tell me that you can kill Hailey, guilt-free, knowing that you're putting her vampire through that?"

Zane didn't answer her, he just walked to the fridge and poured himself a glass of fairy blood. "Zane, if you kill her, it's the end of us." Julia threatened, and Zane froze.

Julia left the room, leaving Zane to process her threat and how much she meant it.

*Hailey*

I was curled up in my bed, just wanting Damon. I looked up to see Julia walking into my room, looking pissed.

"You're not going to die, Hailey." She told me bluntly. I gaped at her, not knowing how to process her words.

Suddenly, Julia was slammed against the wall. I saw Damon, looking like he could kill, holding a stake against her heart. I was so happy, so relieved to see Damon. And then I understood what he planned to do to the girl who just saved my life.

"Damon, don't!" I exclaimed, and Damon turned around to stare at me in shock.

"Are you crazy?" he asked in a disbelieving tone.

"She wasn't going to kill me, Damon. Don't kill her, please. Let's just leave." I begged. The blood loss was getting to me. I had been hooked up to the blood sucking machine longer than I ever had been, and I was starting to become very light headed and exhausted. I just wanted to go home, if I didn't pass out soon.

*Damon*

Hailey looked so pale her skin was transparent. Damon saw needles poking out of her veins, and a bite mark on her neck. He felt fury blur his self-control, as his possessiveness over Hailey reared its head. Though she had never- willingly- let him drink her blood, he saw it in his mind that he and only he had the right to drink from her.

Despite her paleness, Damon saw that annoying yet sexy glint in her eyes- the one that meant she wasn't going to give in, that she was going to get what she wanted. Damon sighed, and let Blondie go. He just wanted to get Hailey out of here. Blondie stayed flat against the wall and didn't make a move to attack.

As Damon moved to get Hailey, he was suddenly slammed against a wall by a man who was baring his fangs. "Zane, just let them go." Blondie exclaimed.

Damon didn't pay any attention to Blondie. His own fangs were bared, and he threw Zane against the farthest wall. Not even a second passed, and Damon was tackled again.

"Give it up, I'm older than you." Zane drawled.

"Yeah, but I'm really pissed off." Damon retorted, throwing the man off. He knew eventually that Zane would overpower him, so he just went for Blondie.

She gasped, as Damon held the stake against her heart. At the same time, Zane went for Hailey, his hands around her neck. The two men stared each other down, but all Damon could focus on was Hailey's green eyes, widened in fear.

"Get away from Hailey, and I'll let Blondie go." Damon bargained. He noticed that Zane's eyes were firmly on Blondie. There was no question that they were mates.

Zane nodded slowly, and Damon moved the stake away from Blondie. Slowly, Zane stepped away from Hailey. Both men were ready to exact their revenge on the other if they killed the others' mate. But neither wanted to risk that pain, so neither did.

Eventually, Damon let Blondie go, and she flew into Zane's arms while Damon ran to Hailey. She was unconscious, as Damon pulled the needles out, ignoring the burn in his throat her blood caused.

He scooped her up into his arms, her head resting against his chest. Damon stared at the vampire couple, daring them to attack. Then he ran from the cottage. He finally had his Hailey back.

It was so strange for Damon, loving somebody so much that losing them felt like losing yourself.

~LMF~

A/N: SomebodyWhoCares, Kelsey, jacquline, Carrie9586, CassieSalvatore, vdemily, and Angelfang for reviewing!

I love reviews!

~Abby :D