**Chapter fifty four**

Halloween

*Hailey*

"Hailey, if you don't wake up right now, 'I'm going back to bed."

I opened one eye and glared at Damon. "I'm sleeping, go away," I mumbled, pulling the blanket over my head.

"You're the one who told me to wake you up and drive you to school in the first place," he muttered, as he lay down next to me in his bed.

"I didn't mean it," I mumbled, rolling over and snuggling up to him.

Damon and I got back from Atlantic City last night, the day before Halloween. It was currently six in the morning on Halloween. I had planned to go to school, and show Elena how good I was without her, but his bed was just too damn comfortable.

Suddenly, my cellphone alarm went off, and both of us groaned. "Fine, you win," I mumbled, sitting up.

"Just make it shut up," Damon groaned, as I struggled to turn my phone off.

I groaned, and smashed my phone against the wall.

"I think that you should start buying cellphones in bulk, Hailey," Damon teased, as I got up and sluggishly got ready for school.

After I got dressed in my usual outfit of jeans, a t-shirt, and Damon's leather jacket, Damon drove me to school. I was still half asleep, when Damon got a text message.

"It's Julia, your rebound best friend," he teased, before tossing me his phone.

I gave him the finger, before grinning and texting Julia back. we were talking about our favorite things, and we had a lot in common. I was done feeling guilty about lying to Elena, and was starting to bond with Julia, which Damon was giving me shit for.

We pulled to a stop in front of my school, in front of Caroline and Elena. I made a big show of kissing Damon goodbye, before I got out of his car. "Do you need a ride home?" he asked me.

I nodded. "Yeah, I'll probably skip out early."

"I'll drive by around noon," Damon told me, before putting his car into drive.

"I love you," I told him with a slight smirk.

He smirked back, and mouthed "I love you," something I always did. I rolled my eyes jokingly, and waved as he drove away. I looked at Caroline and Elena, and waved as I walked towards the school.

"Hey Caroline," I called to her, and Elena glared at me. I rolled my eyes and ignored her.

Caroline ran to catch up to me, and I grinned at her. I had grown to like Caroline more, now that I had been through basically the same thing she'd been through. "Was that Damon Salvatore?" she asked.

"Yeah, we're dating," I said casually, as we walked to my locker.

"Oh, that's why you and Elena called it quits, right? Because she hates Damon?" she asked, pushing a lock of blonde hair behind her ear.

I nodded, and Caroline frowned. "What about 'hoes before bros?'"

I bit my lip. "That has a trump card, Care. Love. And I love Damon." I told her.

Caroline smiled softly at me. "I'm happy for you, Hailey. But I heard that Damon was bad news."

I sighed, but realize that Caroline would understand this. "Remember when we were the bane of each other's existences? I thought you were no good for Matt, but he was in love with you. He saw something in you that I couldn't or wouldn't see. But to save our friendship, I just trusted that he knew what he was doing, and now you and I are actually friends. Elena should've done what I did, Caroline."

And then, without another word, I walked to history class, ready to show Elena how good I was without her.

~LMF~

"Trick or treat!"

I smiled at all of the little kids, and gave them all king-sized candy bars. When I was a kid, I always hated it when the rich houses handed out one fun-sized candy bar. I always egged their houses after, and I'm not cleaning up that mess.

I closed the door, and walked back to my living room, where Damon sat. we were watching a Friday the Thirteenth movie marathon. I sat down in his lap, and took the bottle of bourbon from him, before taking a sip.

I brushed my hair away from my neck, where a pair of healing puncture wounds were still visible. Damon eyed them, as I finished the bottle. Tyler was having a party at his house tonight, but I chose to stay in and watch poorly acted horror movies with Damon. my mom was at a work party, so I didn't have to worry about her.

I put the empty bottle down, and stood up to go make more popcorn, when I was suddenly pinned against the couch by Damon. he started kissing my neck, and instantly knew what he wanted. I moaned softly to let him know that I was okay with it.

Damon sunk his fangs into my neck, and I gasped in pain and pleasure. I gripped his hair, as he started to pull off my jeans.

"Woah…"

Damon pulled away from me, and we both looked out the window, to see a nine-year old dressed as a robot watching us.

I got off of the couch, and ran to go give the kid candy. "Nice costume, lady. Are you a victim of a vampire?" he asked curiously, and I smirked to myself. I was relieved that he thought it was just a costume.

"I sure am, kid," I told him, the fresh bite mark still trickling blood down my neck.

"Cool," he said, before leaving. I walked back to Damon, and kissed him. I could taste a little bit of my own blood in his mouth.

Damon wiped the dripping blood off of my neck, and then gave me some of his blood to counter my blood loss. After that, I sat in his lap and watched bad horror movies. Ellie came down from my room, and hissed at Damon.

"Your cat hates me," Damon informed me.

"She's just being a good familiar," I cooed to Ellie. She purred, and rubbed her face against my legs.

Just then, Damon's phone started ringing, and I answered it. "Damon's phone," I said, leaning against him.

"Hailey? You two need to get to the Mystic Falls cemetery. now. There are tomb vampires everywhere," Julia told me.

I sat up instantly. My vision was going to come true tonight.

"We'll be there," I told her. Damon already had the door open for me by the time I hung up on Julia.

It was a two minute drive to the cemetery. When we reached it, Julia and Zane were already fighting tomb vampires. I saw Mathew Lockwood cowering behind a tree. Damon ran up to him, scaring Mathew. "Get in your car and drive away as fast as possible," he told him, before taking down two vampires so that Mathew could get away.

I used my telekinesis to hold vampires in place, so that the good vampires could stake them. It was pretty easy, but Damon stood in front of me as I did it. I heard a yowl of pain, and saw Zane catch Julia after she was stabbed in the stomach with a tree branch.

That's when everything went to hell.

Suddenly, Stefan and Elena were in the middle of the fight. I watched Stefan stake vampires while trying to keep Elena safe. Suddenly, a vampire snuck up on Elena, and grabbed her by the neck.

"Elena!" I screamed, and ran towards her. I managed to distract the vampire from killing her, and he let go of Elena.

I gasped in pain and crumpled to the floor, when I felt a white-hot pain in my stomach. "Hailey!" Damon shouted, but he was held back by vampires. I could taste blood in my mouth, and felt semi-unconscious due to the pain of my injury.

I looked up, and saw a vampire grinning twistedly down at me. his face started to contort, but then he was suddenly gone. A familiar face full of concern replaced his a few seconds later.

Nicolai.

"You're going to be fine, Hailey," he assured me, before picking me up.

Nicolai carried me out of the battle, and to the edge of the forest. He pulled the wooden stake out of my stomach, and then forced me to drink his blood. I tried to struggle, but I couldn't. I was too weak. I just kept muttering "Damon," as I struggled to stay conscious.

"Heal fast, Hailey," Nicolai murmured to me, before kissing me gently.

Damon ran around the cemetery, looking for his fairy. he was terrified that he would find her body drained of blood, especially when he picked up the scent of her blood in the air.

He stopped suddenly at the edge of the cemetery, to see Nicolai kiss a semi-unconscious Hailey. When Nicolai pulled away, he saw Damon staring and smirked at him. before Damon could attack him, he was gone.

The sight of Hailey passed out on the ground was the only thing that kept Damon from chasing after Nicolai.

~LMF~

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