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Story details:

Title: Friendship or Complication

Rating: T

OFC: Melanie Gilbert is the younger sister of Elena and Jeremy Gilbert(who is older than her by 11 months. Meaning they are Irish twins). She's an introvert who likes to spend time with people she knows and trusts, such as her family and close friends like Bonnie, Caroline, Stefan, Damon, Tyler, Matt, and Alaric. Just like her older sister she is a compassionate person who always puts others before herself. She tends to keep everything to herself not wanting to bother others with her personal problems. Since she is the youngest of the Gilbert's they tend to be overprotective towards her—especially Elena. When she has time to herself she is usually reading, playing the piano, or taking photos with her camera. She's the type of person that enjoys the little things in life such as watching the sunset or looking at the stars at night. She thought she had everything figured out about herself, until she met a certain blonde original vampire who ends up opening new doors for her to go through, making her question who she really is.

Age:16

Main Pairing: Rebekah/OFC

Warning: This story will include same sex pairings, so if you don't like that then this story is not for you.

Setting: Takes place in season 3 and so on.

Hey guys! So I've been wanting to write a Fan-Fic about The Vampire Diaries for a while now but I wanted to make it different from the others one I've read. I've read lots of story's with the originals having love interest but haven't found any with Rebekah having one so I decided that I would try to write one myself using an OFC. I hope you guys give this story a shot and end up liking it (: If your wondering who I picture as Melanie I would say think of Hailee Steinfeld :)

Anyways please review and favorite, it would mean the world to me (:

"Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth."

Herman Melville

Chapter 1:Who is she?

Senior prank night.

That's what I was doing right now with my older sister and friends. Though it didn't really make any sense to me to why I was here. Since I'm not a senior yet, but they kept insisting for me to go, so I gave in into their pleas. It's not like I had anything else to do. Jeremy wasn't at home for me to bother him and well this just seemed like the better option to go with. Besides, I was having fun putting all these mouse traps on the floor. I couldn't wait to see the look on the teacher's face when class started tomorrow. I could already practically see the look of shock on their face in my mind.

Just as we were about to finish setting the mouse traps, someone opened the classroom door making them all go off.

Oh man. Just Great. Now we were gonna have to set them up again!

I looked up to see who had opened the door only to see Matt standing there with a confused look on his face.

Caroline apparently felt the same way as I did, annoyed that all the traps had gone off. She huffed. "Oh come on! Seriously! Do know how long it took for us to set all this up?!" She yelled at Matt.

"Forgot about senior prank night huh?" Tyler asked Matt while leaning on a desk.

Matt just shook his head. "Clearly."

"How could you forget? We've only been waiting for this since like freshmen year!" Caroline told him with her arms in the air.

My sister, who was sitting on top of a desk just smiled at him. "Yeah Matt, if Melanie and I are doing this then so are you."

I looked towards Matt smiling. "She's right Matt, have some school spirit." I told him doing a little lame dance causing everyone to laugh.

"I'm kind of surprised any of you are doing this, especially you Mel." Matt said.

"Well, Caroline's making us, plus everyone wouldn't stop bugging me about it until I caved in." I told him shrugging my shoulders.

Caroline sighed before looking back at him. "We're about to be seniors."

I coughed and raised my hand. "Except me." I said with a grin.

Caroline gave me a playful eye roll before continuing. "These are the memories that stay with us forever. Doesn't matter if you're a senior or not Melanie." She said staring back at me. "Because if we don't-"

"If we don't create these memories now, then what's the point of it all." My sister finished for her with a smile on her face making everyone snicker.

"Go ahead and make fun I don't care." Caroline told us with an eye roll.

Tyler just scoffed at us. "You're all lame, and I've got ten more classrooms to prank." Grabbing a large black bag off the floor, he made his way through the rooms door and left us.

My sister then jumped from where she was sitting and headed towards the door as well.

"Hey! Where are you going?" Bonnie asked her.

My sister glanced over her shoulder and smirked. "To superglue Alaric's desk shut." She winked at us. "I'm making memories."

"That's genius!" I told her laughing along with the rest of my friends.

"I love you!" called out Caroline to her as she walked out of the room.

Bonnie then turned to me and grinned. "Hey you want to go teepee the pool?"

My eyes lit up instantly. "Psh, of course."

As we were walking out I turned towards Matt and smiled. "Yo Matty, you coming?"

Matt just gave me a smile back and nodded.

Bonnie, Matt, and I were throwing toilet paper all around the pool. Bonnie then looked over towards Matt and I.

I smiled as she threw a roll in the air. "This is fun, right?" She asked us.

"Yeah it is." I told her was I threw another roll making it land in the middle of the pool.

"Nice throw." said Matt before he turned to Bonnie and sighed. "You sound like Caroline."

Bonnie just shrugged her shoulders. "Come on, I am embracing her philosophy, you should be more into this like Melanie is."

I just threw another roll as she said my name. The role landed in the middle of the pool again. I clapped my hands and shouted. "Yes another one!"

Matt and Bonnie just gave me small side glance smiles.

"I know." Matt sighed. "By the way where's Jeremy tonight? He questioned.

I just shook my head. "I haven't seen him all day."

"I haven't talked to him either." Bonnie then looked down on the floor awkwardly. "We're having, um...he told me about you seeing Vicki."

Ah, so Jeremy did tell her about that. I was wondering if he did or not.

Matt looked relived when she said that. "Oh good, I'm glad that you know."

Bonnie frowned. "I'm sorry, is it weird talking about your sister like this?"

Matt then sighed and shook his head., "No I-I just kind of want to see her myself, you know? I mean, I never got to say goodbye to her." He exhaled a large breath. "Do you realize just last summer You and I were life guards at the pool?"

Bonnie nodded her head. "Mm."

"Yeah I remember that. You guys taught me how to swim." I said smiling at the memory.

Matt nodded his head. "Yeah and the only problems I had in my life was teaching Mel how to swim, Elena breaking up with me, and me sucking at CPR."

Bonnie looked mused and nodded. "Everything was so different then." Yeah things were different. I can still picture those summer days when I was just hanging out with them. I missed those days.

Matt had a sad expression on his face. "Yeah now Elena's dating a vampire, you're a witch, my sister's a ghost ...and I'm just a guy wondering how life got screwed up."

Poor Matt...It sucked that he was going through this alone.

Bonnie gave Matt a sincere look. "It's crazy, Matt I...I can't Imagine what it must be like for you."

He gave us a fake smile. "It just, uh, kind of explains why I'm not that into senior prank night. I'll go grab a couple more rolls. Then we'll hit the gym." He said walking away to go to one of the bathrooms.

I looked towards Bonnie and saw she had the same expression on her face as me.

Sadness for our friend.

We were walking back to the gym to go see how everyone else was doing.

As soon was we opened the doors though we became instantly shocked.

"You guys get out of here!" Yelled my sister.

Our eyes grew wide when we saw the original hybrid next to her.

Klaus then flashed towards Bonnie. "Ah I was wondering when you'd show up. Now we can get started." He smiled at her before looking over his shoulder and stared at the other two teens that where there. "Dana, why don't you relax? You and Chad sit tight." He then turned back to Bonnie and gave her an accusing look. "I assume you're the reason Elena's still walking around alive?"

Bonnie just gave him a hard look, not showing any ounce of fear. "That's right if you want to blame someone, blame me."

Klaus just smirked at her. "There's no need for blame love. Just your witchy interference seems to have caused some undesirable side effects. And since you caused the problem, I'm going to have you find the fix." Just as he finished his sentence I heard the gym door open again and saw a young blonde girl walk in holding Tyler.

Who was she?

Tyler groaned at the blonde girl. "Get off me!"

"Tyler!" I yelled moving over towards him only to be stopped by Klaus.

"Ah, can't have you interfering little Gilbert" He said pushing me back to where my sister was.

When I came close to my sister she instantly took a hold of me putting me behind her.

Klaus then pointed at the blonde girl. "I'd like you all to meet my sister Rebekah, word of warning...she can be quite mean." He said smirking.

"Don't be an ass." She said as she threw Tyler at him.

I noticed that she also to had an accent like him and had ocean blue eyes that I couldn't stop staring at for some reason.

As if she sensed me staring she turned towards me and gave me a smirk. I quickly looked away embarrassed that I was caught.

"Leave him alone!" My sister yelled at Klaus.

"I'm gonna make this very simple." Klaus started off saying. "Every time I attempt to turn a werewolf into a vampire hybrid they die during transition. It's quite horrible actually." I watched as Klaus bit into his wrist and forced feed his blood into Tyler's mouth. "I need you to find a way to save my hybrids Bonnie, and for Tyler's sake you better hurry." He then snapped Tyler's neck killing him.

Bonnie, Matt, My sister, and I stood there in shock as one of our friends laid on the floor dead.

I was next to Matt as he was near Tyler's dead body. "He killed him." He whispered in hate looking at Klaus.

I began shaking my head. "He's not dead."

My sister just nodded while she was pacing. "He's not dead. Klaus blood will turn him into a vampire."

"And if Bonnie's successful he'll live through his transition. Go on, then go fetch your grimories and enhancement and what-not I'll hold on to Elena and little Gilbert here for safe keeling." Klaus said smiling as he took a hold of mine and my sister's arm.

We just nodded our heads at Bonnie letting her know it was alright.

She just gave us a sad look as she and Matt left the gym to try to find that spell.

Leaving us in a room with two original vampires...

Oh great...

Rebekah then came up and turned to look at my sister with a hard grimace on her face. "So this is the latest doppelganger? The original one was much prettier."

My sister just gave her a glare after she heard her say that.

Rebekah then turned to look at me. After a few more second of just looking at me, a smirk appeared on her face before turning towards Elena again. "Your sister here is much prettier."

I gave her a questioning look while I tried to control the blush that was trying to appear on my cheeks. Except I think it was noticeable since Rebekah wouldn't stop smirking at me.

"Enough Rebekah, take the wolf boy elsewhere would you." Klaus told her and I watched as Rebekah gave us one last look as she grabbed Tyler's ankle pulling him behind her.

Klaus then whispered to us. "Just ignore her, petty little thing." I watched her walk away unable to stop thinking about those haunting blue eyes of hers.

Elena and I were sitting on the floor trying to comfort the other two teens that were stuck in here with us.

I then heard the gym doors open and saw Stefan walk in. "Oh my God." I whispered in a low voice.

Elena must off had the same feeling because her face was full of surprised. "Stefan..."

Stefan looked towards the hybrid. "Klaus."

Klaus just gave him a tight smile. "Come to save your damsel mate?" He asked as he stood up from the bleachers he had been siting on.

"I came to ask for your forgiveness." Stefan replied to him, ignoring the looks of confusion my sister and I were sending him. "And pledge my loyalty."

Klaus just his head not believing him. "Well, you broke that pledge one already."

"Elena means nothing to me anymore." Stefan told him with a serious voice. I saw the look of devastation on my sister's face. I rubbed her back trying to comfort her. "And whatever you ask of me I will do."

Klaus looked towards the other two teens before he spoke to Stefan again. "Fair enough. Let's drink on it. Kill them." When he saw Stefan wasn't moving he grew impatient." What are you waiting for? Kill them."

"No!" Elena yelled, "Stefan don't. He's not going to hurt me. He already said-" Before my sister could finish saying her sentence she was suddenly slapped across the face by Klaus making her fall onto the floor.

"Elena!" I cried as I rushed over to her to make sure she was alright.

Damn hybrid.

I saw how Stefan lunged at Klaus ready to attack him. Klaus though got a hold on his neck, stopping him in time.

"She means nothing to you?! Your lies keep piling up." Klaus said with an angry glare.

Stefan looked panicked. "Let them go! I'll do whatever you want, you have my word!"

"Your word doesn't mean much. I lived by your word all summer, during which time I never had to resort to this..." I then saw how he started compelling him, Oh no Stefan! I thought. "Stop fighting."

Stefan started begging him. "Don't do this, don't do this."

"I didn't want to. All I wanted was your allegiance. Now I'm going to have to take it." Klaus told him.

"Don't, don't." Stefan continued to beg.

Klaus not listening to him, continued on with his compulsion. "You will do exactly as I say when I say it. You will not run, you will not hide, you will simply obey."

"No Stefan!" Elena yelled.

As saw how Stefan was looking at the two teens with an expressionless face. This wasn't the Stefan I knew. This was someone else. Someone else who had no care about human life.

Klaus looked pleased. "Now kill them ripper."

Stefan then lunged at the teens, as Elena and I helplessly watched him drain their blood.

3rd POV

Rebekah was sitting besides the lockers, waiting for Caroline to wake up from her 'nap' when she decided to go through her phone.

Interesting inventions the modern world has come up with. She thought to herself as she was observing the device.

She heard a groan letting her know that Caroline was waking up.

Caroline turned towards her and Rebekah gave her a fake smile. "We didn't have mobile telephone's in my day. Would have made life a whole a lot easier, I suppose." She told her as she took a picture of herself.

"Where's Tyler?" asked Caroline.

"He's dead." Rebekah replied in a bored voice. "Ish."

Caroline then saw Tyler's body laying on the floor and she began to panic. "What did you do to him?"

Rebekah, tired of talking to her, simply sighed. "Think of it as he's having a nap, when he wakes up he'll be a hybrid."

She continued to go through her phone looking at all the pictures she had. Which included pictures of Caroline and Tyler smiling at the camera, Stefan and Caroline too, Bonnie making a funny face with her tongue sticking out. Except what made her stop and stare for a while was when she got to a picture of the doppelganger's sister. It was a simple picture of her just standing near a lake smiling at the camera her smile showing off her dimples and bright eyes. For some reason it made her happy...she quickly shook those thoughts away and moved to the next picture. It was a picture of Stefan and Elena together.

"Ugh, vomit." She hissed and was about to click on the next picture when she noticed something. Her blue eyes narrowed at the photo. "Is that my necklace..."

She immediately got up and walked towards Caroline showing her the picture with Elena wearing her necklace. "Why is that doppelganger bitch wearing my necklace?!"

Elena and I watched as Stefan was draining the life out of the boy in front of us. After a minute or two he dropped his body on the floor dead.

"It's always nice to see a vampire in his true element. The species has become such a broody lots." Klaus told us, taking in our disturbed faces.

"No you did this to him." I told him with a glare.

"I invited him to the party, love. He's the one dancing on the table." He told me not taking my glare seriously.

All of a sudden I heard the doors open and saw Rebekah storm in rushing towards Elena.

"Where is it? Where's my necklace?!" She ordered at my sister with a furious look.

"What are you talking about?" Klaus ask her while pinching his nose. I'm guessing her outburst annoyed him.

"She has my necklace, look!" I saw her hand him what looked like Caroline's phone and showed him a picture of Elena and Stefan. I'm guessing she was wearing the necklace in the picture.

Klaus just sighed. "Well, well, more lies."

Rebekah's voice got low and deadly. "Where is it?" She asked full on glaring at my sister.

"I don't have it anymore." Elena said shaking her head. Which was true she didn't.

Rebekah though didn't believe her. "You're lying!" She screamed at her before she lunged at her, biting her neck.

"No!" I yelled, as Klaus got his sister off Elena.

"Knock it off!" Klaus yelled at Rebekah.

"Make her tell me where it is Nik!" She yelled back him.

I made my way to Elena and crouched down to give her a hug and comfort.

Klaus made his way towards and bent down and looked at her. "Where's the necklace sweetheart? Be honest."

Elena whimpered as she put a hand on her injured throat. "I'm telling the truth. Katherine stole it."

"She's right she took from her." I said backing her up while continuing to comfort her.

Klaus just sighed. "Katerina...Of course. Well, that's unfortunate. If we had the necklace it would make things a whole lot easier for your witch, but since we're doing this the hard way, let's put a clock on it shall we?" he then walked towards the board timer and locked in '20 minutes' on it. "If Bonnie hasn't found a solution by then, I want you to feed again. Only this time I want you to feed on Elena. You know you want to." He told Stefan, taunting him.

"No! Klaus! Don't do this to him!" Elena begged him.

"She tries to leave fracture her spine." Klaus told him and then gave me a side glance. "Same goes for little Gilbert as well."

After that he walked off with Rebekah following him as she gave me one quick look before leaving completely.

Stefan was pacing back and forth trying to control himself. The timer only had six minutes left and timing was running out.

Elena's face lit up as if she remembered something. "Caroline's dad! Stefan he was able to resist compulsion. I don't know how but he did it. Maybe it's possible."

Stefan just took a huge breath before laughing bitterly. "Yeah, yeah, maybe it's mind control right? Maybe it just takes some focus, a couple of decades of training. No big deal."

I looked towards Elena who was giving Stefan a serious face. "Stefan you can control this. When the buzzer goes off just drink from me."

His voice suddenly got cold making me take a hold of Elena's hand. "You don't get it! I can't stop, Elena! I'm a ripper! A ripper doesn't stop ! I listen to the words from your mouth, and all I hear is the sound of your heart pumping blood through your body. And when that clock ticks...down I'm going to have to feed on you. And you want to know what's worse? I'm not going to be able to stop."

I gave a Elena a worried glance but she kept her hard stare on Stefan determined not give up on him. " I don't believe that! You can fight it. You just have to want it bad enough."

He looked at her as if he was broken. "Why because I love you?"

Tears rolled down my sister's cheeks as she spoke to him, "Yeah! That's right Stefan, because you love me! I know you wouldn't hurt me or Mel! You'll fight because after everything we've been through, you owe me that!"

I saw the love that was coming from both of them, and I knew immediately that these two still cared for each other despite everything that has happened.

"You know what, you're right. You're right. I owe you everything. Because through all this, you are the one thing that has kept me from giving up, from turning it all off. But I can't help what I am, Elena. The more blood that I get, the more I want and if I get so much as near yours...you are dead." He told her with a painful look.

I looked at the clock and it was down to a few seconds. The tension in the room was high and we all felt it.

Elena took a a hold of my hand.

Stefan was pacing back and fourth and his breathing was getting heavy. "You guys have to run."

"But Klaus said that if we run-" Elena tried to explain to Stefan.

"I know what he said, if you guys stay here it won't matter." He told us, his panicking getting worse. "Please, please, pleas. There's no other way."

"There is another way Stefan. It's for you to fight." She told him just as the buzzer went off. "Stefan I love you. Fight. Don't give up.

Stefan face changed causing Elena and I to get scared. " I can't hold it!" He dropped to the ground trying to fight himself. "Run! Elena, Mel! Run!"

Elena pulled on my hand, and we ran as fast as we could from the gym.

She then turned to me. "Go! Run to the house and get out of here!"

Was she insane? "What?! I can't just leave you-" But she was quick to stop me.

"Listen to me, he's mostly gonna chase after me. This is your shot to get out! I'll be fine but I have to know you'll be unharmed from this!" I tried to argue with her but she only interrupted me again. "Don't argue back with me I'm your older sister so listen to what I'm saying to you. Go home and see if you can get help! Now!" She told me before she took off running towards the other end of the hall.

With that I quickly tried to find a away out to make it home to call for help. If only I brought my cellphone with me tonight. Damn it. Would have made things more easier.

As soon as I got home I called out Jeremy's name and Alaric's but nobody was answering. Damn it where was everybody tonight?!

I quickly went upstairs to get my cellphone. I was about to dial Damon's number when my phone started ringing.

It was Damon! Thank God someone was finally answering.

"Damon! Where are you! Elena-" I started to tell him.

"I know, I know I have her. She's fine don't worry about her." He said trying to calm me down.

"Oh thank God. I was really worried, please promise you'll watch over her tonight?" I asked him.

"I promise, now get some sleep Mel you need it after tonight." He told me before sighing.

"Damon, where were you tonight? Elena really needed you." I asked curious to were he was. He was always there for Elena, especially since they bonded over the summer.

"I needed some time to myself. I know that I shouldn't have left, but I had my reason I'll explain tomorrow. Now get some sleep." He said clearly not wanting to get into depth about it.

"Alright night, Damon." I told him gently.

"Night, baby Gilbert." he said then hung up the phone.

After that I got ready for bed, finally feeling better that I knew my sister was safe and sound. I then let sleep take me away to a place were I dreamt about a certain blonde and her ocean blue eyes.