**Chapter fifty nine**
Held captive
*Hailey*
When I woke up, I had one of the worst headaches I had ever had- hangovers and visions included. I felt very, very weak, like I had no energy at all. I felt like there was fog in my mind, not allowing me to think or move or do anything.
I groaned softly, my eyes fluttering open. I couldn't move a muscle. I stared up at a dingy white ceiling, and was on a very uncomfortable bed. My eyelids drooped closed, just as I heard a familiar voice.
"Hailey? Are you awake?"
Elena's voice gave me enough inspiration to open my eyes again. I managed to twitch my neck to the left, to see Elena tied to a chair near my bed. "Elena?" I mumbled, barely a whisper. I didn't know why I felt like this, though the feeling was vaguely familiar.
"They dosed you up on vervain," Elena explained, and I shut my eyes again.
"Where are we?" I mumbled, keeping my eyes shut.
"At the tomb vamp headquarters, as you would call it." At any other situation, Elena would've smiled.
"We're screwed, Elena. How'd they get into your house?" I asked, as I slowly started to get my energy back.
"They must've compelled Jenna or Jeremy or something. We've been here for over a day, Hailey. Every couple of hours, they come in and give you a shot of vervain. They usually ignore me, but last time, I might've possibly said a smartass remark to Candace, and she bit me," Elena admitted sheepishly.
I opened my eyes a crack to see a bite mark on Elena's neck- much more ugly, bruised, and painful than any bite Damon had ever given me. I groaned, letting my eyes fall shut again. "Of all the times to pick up my smartass personality, Elena…"
"I know, but I couldn't help it," she sighed. Suddenly, I heard the door leading into our room click open, and Elena gasped.
"Sorry to interrupt the girl talk, but somebody's overdue for their shots," said a cold, drawling voice.
Candace.
"It's about time you woke up, Hailey. You've been missing all the fun," Candace smirked, as I managed to sit up slightly. I craned my neck, to see the redheaded bitch put on gloves and stick a needle into a mixture that had to be vervain.
"I think that we're going to give Best Friend a hit too- we don't want the brothers to get inside her head, do we?" she said, as she grabbed Elena's wrist roughly, and injected her with the shot of vervain.
Elena flinched, as Candace reloaded the needle. "Why are we still alive?" I whispered bluntly, in a hoarse voice. As the vervain left my system, my energy started to come back.
Candace raised her eyebrows at me. "Would you rather have your heart on the floor, Hailey? Because I can easily fulfill those wishes."
I rolled my eyes at her. "No, you evil bitch, I was wondering why my heart isn't on the floor, not that I want it there. I like it in my chest, thank you very much." I was near normal again, and that didn't go unnoticed.
"Not good, the vervain is leaving you system faster than we thought," Candace muttered, and she walked closer to me.
"To answer your question Hailey, the Salvatores have exactly two weaknesses. One, their girlfriends. Two, each other. We plan to use both against them," she said, preparing the needle. I felt anxiety and fear roll in my stomach. We were bait- they were going to use us to lure Damon and Stefan here, so that they could kill them.
"What, no snotty retort, Hailey?" Candace sneered, as she grabbed my wrist, and plunged the needle into my vein. I moaned in pin, as the fog rolled back into my head.
"I'm going to enjoy killing you, Hailey. I'm going to enjoy breaking every bone in your body, ripping every organ from you. I'm going to enjoy drinking every drop of blood from your veins. I'm going to enjoy destroying you until there's nothing left except for mush. And I'm going to enjoy making Damon watch as I kill the fairy that he's in love with."
Then Candace broke my left arm, and I cried out in pain. She smirked with satisfaction at the sickening crack. She gathered up her supplies, and walked to the door. "I'll be back later, ladies- don't miss me too much," she said sarcastically, before shutting the door behind her. I felt tears roll down my cheeks at the terrible pain in my arm.
We were screwed.
~LMF~
*Damon*
"They're giving them vervain," Damon announced, as he failed to get into Hailey or Elena's mind. Another thought entered Damon's mind, but he couldn't say it.
"They're not dead, Damon," Stefan said firmly, reading his brother's mind. "They're going to use them to get to us, they wouldn't kill them. Not yet."
Damon felt rage surge through him- a mix of rage, fear, and guilt. He would save Elena and Hailey, even if he died doing it.
And that's exactly what the tomb vampires wanted.
"I know where we can get help," Damon said suddenly, an idea coming to him.
"Where?" Stefan asked curiously, as he paced the living room.
"Julia and Zane."
~LMF~
"You can't just go marching into their headquarters, Damon. It's stupid, reckless, suicidal, and what they're expecting," Julia argued, as she and Zane sat at their kitchen table. Stefan leaned against the doorway, and Damon angrily paced the kitchen.
"This whole situation screams 'trap!' Every possible thing that you could do, they planned for it. Anything you do, you'll lose," Zane said, his gray eyes analyzing Damon.
"Then what do we do?" Damon asked angrily, stopping his pacing.
"Nothing," he said simply.
"Nothing?" Damon repeated. Stefan watched his brother carefully, ready to stop him from doing something that they would both regret.
"Let them come to you. They won't hurt the girls, because they know as long as you think that they're alive, you'll be desperate and emotionally unstable- the perfect ingredients in the formula to kill you. They won't waste that. So, you wait for them to make their move, so that it's on your terms and not theirs."
"Well, thanks for all your helpful advice," Damon said dryly. "But we have a rescue mission to plan. Come on, Stefan," he said, walking towards the door. Stefan followed him hesitantly.
Julia stood up. "Damon, we want to help, we do. Don't do something stupid or reckless, or you're going to get you all killed. Just stop and think, and let us help you."
Damon slammed the front door behind him.
~LMF~
*Hailey*
I had been drifting in and out of consciousness the entire. I had been imagining Damon's face, and it calmed me down, enough to realize that we weren't out of options.
We still had Nicolai.
I imagined that they had forbidden him from visiting us, since the last time they attacked, he saved my life. I shared my thoughts with Elena, and she agreed with me. "You're right, but he'll see us eventually. The pull will be too strong," she said.
As if predicting the future, twenty minutes later I heard the door creak open. I looked up to see Nicolai staring down at me. "Nico," I whispered hoarsely, and he flinched slightly.
"I shouldn't be here," he said, acting like Elena wasn't in the room. "But I had to see you." He walked closer to me.
"I know, and I'm glad that you're here. I needed to see you," I told him, hoping that I wasn't laying it on too thick.
Nicolai looked a little surprised, but walked even closer to me. His fingers brushed my cheek, and I tried not to shudder. I pretended that it was Damon, as I stuck out my chest slightly, and bit my lip. I was trying to seduce Nicolai into letting us go, but I still felt guilty, like I was cheating on Damon.
"They're going to kill me Nico," I whimpered. "Don't let them kill me."
Nico looked torn, as Elena raised her eyebrows behind him. I didn't look at her, and just hoped that she understood what I was trying to do. "I'll let you go," Nicolai whispered suddenly. I looked up at him, surprised.
"You will?" I asked, wondering who he meant by "you."
"I'll let both of you," he clarified, looking determined now. "On one condition.
"What's that?" I asked.
"Let me change you into a vampire, so that we can be together forever."
~LMF~
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