I'm sooo sorry for not updating for so long. I've been kind of busy with school, so I just didn't find too much time and I was going too wait for a review but since that didn't come I put it off :( Sorry 'bout that to any silent readers (people who read but don't review) – I know people have been reading so I'm definitely going to continue on but I'd still love to hear what you think of it. Enjoy, this is the first Melissa/Dess scene and I want to know how I did!!

Melissa took a deep breath and glanced at the cars clock, 11:59. She could taste Midnight coming fast and furious from across the desert and sighed as it hit the car she and Dess were seated in.

They were parked at the edge of town, near the badlands, although they couldn't really be called that anymore due to the lack of badness. The darklings left here were only the oldest as far as Melissa could tell and were too much of sissy's to come out and play with one of Dess's new creations.

Speaking of the polymath, she could taste Dess's nerves like licking ink off a freshly printed piece of paper. Of course that could just be Melissa's own feelings.

"Are you sure you're ready" She asked Dess for the tenth time.

"Ya," The Polymath's brain buzzed with a million equations and math problems but she couldn't solve any of them. The frustration rolling off her hit Melissa like a bowling ball hits its target…hard and dead on.

"Calm down," She murmured to her.

Dess's brain settled down a bit, thank god, but her nerves still buzzed.

"We can do this another t-"

"No!" Dess cut her off turning to face Melissa with a look of determination on her face.

"I trust you." Dess's words surprised Melissa and she arched her left eyebrow but felt herself become sure of what she was about to do. She was going to help Dess whether she liked it or not.

Melissa raised both her hands so that her elbows lay on the armrest between them and the palms of her hands faced Dess. Slowly Dess raised her own hands and mimicked Melissa.

The connection was stronger and more intense then Melissa could remember so she pushed their minds apart briefly.

I trust you, the thought lingered in Melissa's mind and she opened the barrier keeping them apart.

At first it hurt, like hell and they were both tempted to release each other but neither of them did. Melissa could taste Madeline in Dess's head and pushed her out. It was harder than any mind casting Melissa had ever done but she did it. She tore the last thread that kept Dess and Maddy bound near the end of midnight and felt the other mindcasters mind go blank, disappearing forever.

Breathing hard Melissa opened her eyes and looked at Dess on the other side of the car, their hands still entwined.

I knew you could do it, Dess thought to her. Melissa smiled, proud of herself for freeing Dess's mind.

I want to show you something, Melissa wasn't sure what Dess wanted to show her but she closed her eyes and entered Dess's mind again. She took her back to Maddy's house.

Dess stomped up the stairs and banged through the door, shouting to see if Rex was there or not. He wasn't, of course so Dess took a seat at the table. Rex was 172 seconds late and she had no clue were he had stashed the papers they were reading over.

"Useless seer," Dess mumbled under her breath.

"Dessdemona!" She heard the ever-helpful second bitchiest mindcaster call.

Stomping up the stairs, Dess reached the attic in 38 seconds. Too quickly for her liking, and proceeded to walk over to were Maddy was standing in front of her pillows, looking up at the ceiling. Dess put her hand on her hip impatiently.

"Yes Maddy?" Dess questioned half-heartedly.

"I've been waiting for you," The crazy old woman mumbled before grabbing a hold of Dess's throat.

The pain was unbelievable and Dess crumbled under the weight of the other mind closing in on hers. She felt like she had lost herself. All the memories and pains of everyone Madeline had ever sensed or touched flowed into Dess like a tsunami. It seemed to go on forever and then the connection was broke and Dess blacked out.

But you're not like that, Melissa heard Dess think, you wouldn't do that.

I'd never do that to you...again. I' so sorry about that Dess, I really am.

I forgave you for that nearly a year ago.

Melissa opened her eyes slowly and glanced at Dess who was only inches away from her, they had begun to lean on each other for support during the disturbing memory.

At the same time, as if connected, they leaned forward and met at the lips. An explosion of tastes broke out on Melissa's tongue and it was amazing, Dess was amazing. She had never tasted anything like it before. Now Dess had all of the Maddy shit out of her head she had a clear, distinct taste, and it was so good. Rex's taste was like licking dirt of the subway floor compared to Dess. It was like eating her favourite food after a year on a deserted island.

Knotting her hands in the back of Dess's hair she yanked the girl closer making the connection even stronger. God, she wanted her.

Melissa felt midnight seeped away and the minds around her explode but she didn't care, she was too focused on kissing Dess. Dess's hands wrapped around Melissa's neck and one slid down below her shirt, slipping under and Melissa moaned against her lips as their tongues battled for dominance.

Another taste invaded Dess's and Melissa recognized it as the very familiar taste of Clancy St. Clair. Pulling away slightly, Melissa casted farter out and picked up his taste at the other end of the street she and Dess were parked on.

"Shit" she muttered Dess took her hand out from under her shirt and Melissa sat back into her seat, putting the car in gear and racing away.

Dess leaned back into her seat, lips chapped and red. Melissa could sense the numbers of pie rolling through her head and she tasted of not thinking about it.

Melissa tried to focus on something else but was unsuccessful. I can't believe I made-out with Dess, but that wasn't the most surprising thing, Melissa had liked it and she new Dess had too.

They drove in silence and Dess got out of the car mumbling a brief goodbye and thanks. Melissa drove straight to Rex's and barged in. She could taste him reading in his room.

She didn't give him time to say hi, just grabbed him and kissed him hard, blocking her mind easily. Nothing, she felt none of the warmth Melissa usually did when she kissed Rex. She pulled away and huffed out a breath.

"So how'd it go?" Rex asked, still surprised by Melissa's entrance.

"Dess is all fixed" a little confused but her heads just fine, Melissa added mentally.

'I'm gunna go to bed, ok?' Melissa finished, stumbling out of his bedroom and into the spare one where Dess usually slept.

She could taste his confusion from inside the room but didn't really care. She sat lightly in the bed and casted out towards Dess's house. Melissa smiled lightly as she tasted Dess thinking about that night and what they had done, she switched to thinking about a complicated math problem all of a sudden and then drifted back to the first thought. Dess's frustration was prominent even from this far away and Melissa fell asleep casting into her room. She didn't know why she all of a sudden had these feelings. They were just going to make things complicated.

Melissa scolded herself in the morning for casting into Dess's mind that night but couldn't resist doing it again that morning.

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