Disclaimer: I do not own The Vampire Diaries or any of the characters. I only own my OC Melanie Gilbert.

Btw this chapter is a continuation from the last one. Enjoy. (:


"A sister is both your mirror – and your opposite."

Elizabeth Fishel

Chapter 7: Late night conversations

Melanie closed the front door as gently as she could, trying to sneak in without attracting anyone's attention. All she wanted to do was sleep, she was tired due to all the walking she did from the boarding house. Her sister kept calling her several times, but she ignored her calls every time. To be honest she just wanted to be aloneespecially from her sister. She was still feeling giddy and excited all because of Rebekah and she didn't want that feeling to go away. The whole entire time she was walking the smile that had appeared at the boarding house never left her face, along with the butterfly feelings she had in her stomach as well.

Tip toeing she made her way towards the stairs, but a sudden cough made her come to a halt. She paused and stayed in place, as if she were caught red handed doing something bad. Turning her head sheepishly she saw her sister leaning against the door way that lead into the kitchen. She had her arms crossed and was giving her a scrutinizing look, but Melanie could see the concern she had in her doe brown eyes.

"Do you have any idea what time it is?" Elena said in a chastising tone. Clearly she was in her mother hen mood once again.

"Umm... a little over midnight?" Melanie said shrugging, making it sound more like a question.

"It's passed midnight, Mel! It's one o'clock!" She said vehemently at the younger Gilbert. "Why didn't you answer your phone? I called you like five times. Do you know how worried I was about you?"

Melanie sighed and ran a hand through her brown hair.

"Look I'm sorry I just wanted some time to myself okay?"

"What do you mean time by yourself ?" Elena said her eyes widening. "Did you seriously walk all the way back here from the boarding house? Do you know how dangerous that is? Not to mention the last time I saw you, you were with Rebekah."

Melanie let out an agitated huff, not liking what Elena was implicating about Rebekah. How many times did she have to tell her that the original blonde vampire was in no way a threat to her. If anything, tonight proved that to be true.

"Elena, I told you she's not gonna-"

"That doesn't matter, Mel." She said cutting her off as she walked over towards where she was standing. "I still don't trust her. I mean I know she didn't hurt you now, but what about later? Huh? You ever think about that?" She reprimanded her younger sister. "She's a vampire, not to mention a thousand years old, she can't be trusted."

Melanie scoffed, having enough of her sister's over-protectiveness.

"Yeah, right."

"What's that suppose to mean?" Elena said surprised by her sister's tone.

"Nothing, Elena. Look it's just that after you left Rebekah needed someone there for her, you know? After all, you did just walk in there and dropped all that information on her like a bomb. How did you think she was going to react?" She said sternly to her sister, inwardly hoping she would drop the subject already, knowing that if she insulted Rebekah one more time, she would probably loose it.

"I know I shouldn't have dumped all that information on her like that." Elena said blankly. "But she needed to know the truth about what Klaus was lying to her about. It was for her own good."

"Really? Her own good? " Melanie said furrowing her eyebrows. "Cause it sounds like you did it more for your own good."

Elena gave her an incredulous look. "What? How could you say that? I told her because it was the truth. She had a right to know who killed her mother."

"Yeah, and I'm pretty sure it had nothing to do with the fact that now she'll be on your side when it comes to killing Klaus." Melanie said crossing her arms giving her older sister a pointed look.

Elena sighed exasperatedly. "Well of course her knowing the truth will allow her to be on our side, but that wasn't the only reason to why I told her, Mel." She said giving her younger sister a doleful expression. "You honestly think I would try to hurt her on purpose?"

Melanie took a deep breath, controlling the urge to snap at her sister. She loved her sister she really did, but sometimes she suffocated her to much with her protectiveness. She knew that one day she wouldn't be able to hold in that urge and would eventually lash out at her. But that wasn't going to be tonight. So she did what she did best and pushed down that urge until it was hidden deep enough, that she forgot about it orat least tried to.

She softened her gaze towards her sister and sighed.

"No I know you wouldn't. It's just that I hated seeing her cry like that, it reminded me when I would cry about mom and dad. Seeing her so broken like that brought back memories..."

"Oh, Mel." Elena said bringing her into a hug. "I'm so sorry."

Melanie put her head on her sister's shoulder and accepted her hug.

"It's okay." She replied meekly back to her.

"Why didn't you just tell me that?" Elena asked gently.

"I didn't really want to bring up the subject about mom and dad." She mumbled into her shoulder.

"Well like I said I'm really sorry." Elena said sincerely and let out a breath of relief. "Well at least now I know why you were so keen on staying with Rebekah. You just felt bad, that's perfectly understandable."

Melanie chewed her bottom lip out of nervousness and pulled away from the hug. "Yeah, that's the why I did it." She uttered, knowing deep down that wasn't the only reason as to why she comforted the vampire. But she in no way was gonna tell her older sister that or about the fact that she liked touching the blonde vampire. Not to mention she had no idea how she was gonna tell her she agreed to go to homecoming with her.

"So uh I should probably go to sleep now." Melanie almost whispered, just wanting to end the conversation already. It had been a long night and all she wanted to do was to lay on her bed and hopefully have a peaceful dream that involved a certain blonde and her oceanic blue eyes.

"Yeah I should too." Elena said giving her a small smile. "Goodnight Mel."

Melanie tired smiling back, but it came out more like a grimace.

"Night, Lena."

She gave her older sister a finale wave before she climbed her way up the stairs and made her way towards her bedroom. Once she was inside she closed the door and went to sit on the edge of her bed. After a minute or two of just staring into the empty space in front of her she leaned back and laid down on her bed, closing her eyes she took a deep breath. Not caring that she was still wearing her day clothes, her sleepiness was now catching up to her, just as she was now ready to pass out.

The sound of her phone vibrating though caused her wake up, she absently reached for it inside her jean pocket and groaned. Who in the world would be sending her messages at this hour? She wiped the sleep away from her eyes and looked at her phone, reading the message that was displayed on the screen.

Hey I know it's late, but I just wanted to make sure you got home alright. - Rebekah.

As soon as she read the message, Melanie's sleepiness went away just as quickly as it came. She propped herself up from her bed and stared at her phone, rereading the message again. She couldn't help the smile that appeared on her face, all because of the message Rebekah had sent her. For some odd reason she liked that she sent a message asking her if she got home alright, letting her know that she cared for her well being.

Melanie quickly began texting, responding back to her message.

Hey it's okay no worries, and yes I got home safe and sound. Thanks for asking :) - Melanie.

She sent the message and immediately regretted sending the smiley face. What if she thought that was weird and her responses wouldn't be what she expected it to be...

Her phone vibrated again making her open and quickly read the message with eagerness.

That good to hear, I just wanted to make sure nothing happened. - Rebekah.

Although what Rebekah wrote was nice and heart warming, Melanie still felt sad she didn't return the smile...even if it was through the phone.

Just as she was about to put her cell phone on her desk it vibrated again, making her slide the screen to see what she had sent her.

So did your darling older sister wait up for you? - Rebekah.

Even through text messaging Melanie could practically hear the disdain the original vampire had for her older sister.

Melanie looked towards the door almost expecting Elena to walk in, but she shook her head and focused on responding back to Rebekah.

Yeah she did, we had a late night discussion. - Melanie.

She didn't even have to wait five seconds before Rebekah replied back to her.

Hmmm I wonder about what. - Rebekah.

Melanie playfully rolled her eyes, even though she knew Rebekah wouldn't be able to see her. She knew the vampire was using sarcasm, she wasn't that naive. Just like how Rebekah wasn't naive enough to know what kind of conversation Elena and her had.

I think you already know the answer to that question. But it doesn't matter, its done. Anyways I'm glad I saw you today, even under the circumstances. Hopefully we can hang out soon, just the two of us. Perhaps before homecoming? - Melanie.

She knew it was risky sending that but she had to ask even if it was through text. She just wanted to spend more time with her before homecoming, like maybe watch a movie or eat lunch together. It didn't matter as long as she was there. But after a few minutes of her not answering she began to feel a pit feeling in her stomach. Maybe she didn't want to hang out...maybe she changed her mind about Homecoming too...

Now what?

She felt like face palming herself.

Just as she was about to give up hope, her phone vibrated again.

I would like that very much. How about later on today? - Rebekah.

And just like that the pit feeling went away and was replaced with the butterfly feelings she felt from earlier. Melanie smiled at the phone and started texting back, her fingers practically shook with happiness.

Sounds good, lunch and maybe go shopping? I still need to find a Homecoming dress. - Melanie.

Which was true she needed to find one. All the dresses she had either didn't fit her or she just didn't like them anymore. Besides she wanted to look nice...

You still need a dress? You should of told me before you left, of course will go shopping. Can't wait. - Rebekah.

Sorry kind of forgot, but I'll find one when were together. Night Bekah. :) - Melanie.

She texted her another smiley not expecting her to respond back to her, but was shocked when she did and was even more surprised when she read what she had messaged her back with.

See you later Mel, Goodnight :) - Rebekah.

Melanie almost practically squealed when she saw the smiley face in the text message. She wrote one back! The giddiness returned and her face started to hurt from all the smiling she was doing, but she didn't care. Now her sleepiness was fully gone and was instead replaced with excitement, she couldn't wait until later on today. She just had to make sure none of her friends and family found out about itespecially Elena.


A/N: Hey guys! So I know this chapter is probably shorter than the others but that's because I really wanted to focus more on Melanie and Elena's sister relationship. As you can tell in this chapter Elena isn't liking how Mel is getting close with Rebekah and that will continue to play out throughout the story, especially when I start writing season 4. My story is not only just gonna focus on Mel's relationship with Rebekah but also with her family, since she will have to make difficult decisions later on and also when she comes out to them about her sexuality as well. I really hope you guys continue to read this story since I am putting my heart and soul in to it (: Btw if you guys haven't seen the finale for TVD for season six go watch it! It brought tears to my eyes. Anyways love you guys, have a wonderful day or a good night! And remember Relanie FTW! ;)