Madison Gilbert or as 'Madds' or 'Maddie' as most people call her is the younger cousin to Elena and Jeremy and she just so happens to be a witch and a world class gymnast as well. Madison didn't find out she was a witch until she was fourteen when her father died which then lead to her moving in with grandmother who told her about her magic ancestry since her mother passed away when she was just a baby. Even though Madison didn't know she was a witch she had known about the supernatural world longer than the rest of her friends because her father Charles Gilbert taught her the basics of the supernatural world when she was just a little girl just to be on the safer side. But anyways, what if Elena wasn't the only doppelganger? What if Katherine had a cousin named Marie and Madison just so happened to be her doppelganger? And if Madison isn't a doppelganger for Klaus's sacrifice like Elena was, then what for? This is the story of how the youngest of the Gilbert's tries to balance high school; the intense world of gymnastics; vampires and werewolves; trying to maintain a social life, and falling in and out of love all at the age of sixteen.

(Okay, so I guess kind of think of Victoria Justice in a way as to what Maddie looks like, I think her and Nina kind of have a similar look to one another, so to me that would make pretty good cousins lol)

Chapter 10

While everyone was stuck in the school for their last hour, Madison lounge around outside enjoying the last few days of summer sitting in the grass against a tree in front of the school. It wasn't long before the last bell rang and students began to pile out of the school. Madds went to her car pulling out her duffle and went back into the school to the girl's locker room to get changed for cheer practice.

Cheerleading went by fast and it went over rather good besides the bickering that went on between Caroline and Rebekah. After practice was over she headed over to the Grill with Caroline to grab some dinner and then before she knew it, it was time to head to gymnastics.

Gymnastics training was really rough for her. Halstad, the specialist, kept saying that for the reigning national champ, she wasn't performing to her limits and had a lot more in her then she was giving. And hearing that she still had a lot more potential left in her was a plus…but he always added that she needed to get more in shape and lose some of that baby fat if she wanted to even hold a chance with China's national champion at World's.

Normally Madison would knock off any blow a person made towards her appearance, but the fact that a gymnastics specialist was saying that if she wanted to get gold at World's she would have to lose a few pounds to hit certain moves and tricks really hit hard with her. And she tried hard to put his comments about her weight to the back of her mind, but he just kept saying it which made it rather difficult to ignore.

After the long four torturous hours of training, Madds finally made her way home. Her Grams was sitting in the family room watching a TV program when she entered the front door. "Hey sweetie, how was training? Was it tough with the specialist?"

Madds kicked her shoes off and flopped down onto the couch sighing as her body made contact with the soft cushions. "The guy is a complete ass, and kept saying that it might do me some good to lose a pound here or there so certain tricks will be easier…"

"What that's ridiculous! You're already as tiny as someone can be without being unhealthy!" Her grandmother shouted obviously already not liking the specialist.

"It's just because of my body-type Grams…he says me and Kaylie Cruz are the only two who could possibly take home a gold against China at Worlds, and he said that he put Kaylie on a new nutrition plan that is healthy and will keep us strong but where it will get rid of any extra weight we might have." Maddie explained closing her eyes feeling the need of sleep starting to take over.

"But your target weight is 104, which has been your target weight for the last two years since you stop growing! And you have never gone above or below that weight since!" She muttered shaking her head angrily.

"I know, but the Chinese and pulling moves that no other gymnast can pull and that's because they are so tiny." Madds murmured back tiredly.

"Because they are all 4'10 or shorter! They are all at least two to four inches shorter then you and the rest of the American gymnast, so of course they are going to weigh less than what you girls weigh! You're 5'1 ½ and when you're five feet you should weigh at least a hundred pounds and every inch after that should be about three to five pounds more, anything less could possibly put someone in danger of being underweight!"

"But be lighter and smaller means bigger and more difficult tricks…I don't like what Halstad is suggesting, and I don't really want to change my diet, but I think I should give the new meal plan a try for a few weeks and see how I feel with it…but no more talk about it, I'm just ready for sleep." She said yawning not wanting to get further into it for the night. She yawned again while standing up from the couch walking over to her grandma. "Night Grams," She slurred kissing her on the cheek before basically crawling up the stairs to her room passing out on her bed.

The next morning she wore her hair straight and braided only the hair closest to her hairline in a side French braid that was in style to the side and wore lighter make-up and dressed in her black converse tennis and wore shin-length black stretchy leggings with a dark navy blue flowery pattern tank. The bottom of the tank was scooped up so it show a little bit of her stomach, (ending just below her bellybutton) where the back flowed out a little covering only half of her bottom.

She wore no jewelry expect for simple pearl stud earrings and her usual rings that she never took off expect for gymnastics and cheer. One of her rings was her mom's engagement/wedding ring that her dad gave to her when she was twelve, wanting her to always have a piece of her mother with her at all times. And the other one was a gift from her dad, which was a blue Tanzanite diamond ring that she got for her fourteenth birthday a few weeks before he died. And yes, she had Stefan put vervain in both of them making sure he was beyond careful while doing so.

Then she went to go gather her bag for practice after school and instead of packing her usual spanks and spandex that she always wore she packed a Leotard, because Ted, the specialist said that it was mandatory that she start wearing those to practice every day since they are what she had to ware for competitions.

She rolled her eyes as she place the custom made leo in the duffle, hating that she had to ware these every day for the next few weeks…it's not that they were horrible to ware or anything. But wearing them while you're training hard nonstop for three to five hours at a time can make it very difficult to get the leo off because of all the sweat…also going to the bathroom was always annoying and a big pain in the ass too!

After eating breakfast and having another little argument with her Grams about Halstad's new dietary plan she drove to school and zoned out through all her classes. When lunch came, she made herself a small little salad that most would only consider a side dish or snack and a protein drank that tasted like shit in her opinion…but hey it's what Halstad order, so she had to at least give it a try.

"Is that all you're gonna eat Madds?" Matt asked in between his bites of his two pizzas and breadsticks.

"Yepppp, sadly I'm on a new meal plan that the specialist has ordered me to be on…" She sighed back sadly looking to her small little bowl of salad and then back over to everyone's pizza and breadsticks making her mouth water in hunger.

"Why's he changing your diet up?" Bonnie asked from her side.

"Because apparently this is the 'gold medal' diet." She replied, her voice dripping with sarcasm. "This is what 'winners' eat."

Tyler picked her protein drink up starring at the can for a second before taking a small sip of it cringing at the taste. "Ew, what the hell is this? It taste like crap!"

"Tell me about it, I have to drink one of these along with a cup of water at every meal I eat…" Madison pouted glaring at the can.

The rest of the school day flew by and before she knew it she was at gymnastics and Halstad was pushing her to land this one vault that only one other gymnast in the world had. A Chinese gymnast. She did the vault for what she felt like was over a hundred times and not once had she nailed it! And if she did manage to land it, it was a sloppy landing that would get her marked down big time by the judges.

"Maybe Madds should take five, yea?" Sasha said wincing as he watched her land full force on her but watching as he face took a form of pain knowing she was probably feeling shoots of pain zoom up her back.

"She will get a break when she deserves one." Halstad hissed, annoyed that she wasn't nailing the move yet, they've been working on vault for just over two hours now and she wasn't improving at all, if anything she was getting worse.

Sasha chewed on his lip shaking his head a little trying to hold back his temper, "But she's exhausted! That's probably why she's not landing this at all anymore!"

"I said she will get her break when she earns it…I think you're forgetting who I am Sasha." Halstad bite out shutting Sasha right up.

Maddie sighed standing back up slowly and made her way back over to the front of the running mat to the vault. She took a deep breath sprinting down the narrow path, running into a round-off double back handspring onto the spring board throwing her arms into the vault pushing off it with her hands twisting in the all sorts of different directions only to land on her knees this time before flopping to the floor smacking her face.

She groaned hitting the mat standing back up knowing she was going to be forced to do it again anyways. This is how the remaining of practice went till finally it was time for her to leave. She groaned making her way to the ice box and made herself two large bags of ice. Then she was off to the Grill for her 'light' dinner.

She slowly walked into the Grill seeing her group of friends in their usual spot on the couches near the fireplace. She sighed and heaved her way over to them with the two bags of icepacks. Before sitting down she laid one of the bags down and sat down right onto it before placing one the others behind her pack and the last she held up to her arm.

"Um Madison?" Elena said.

"Don't ask." Maddie hissed under her breath as she leaned her head back to rest on the couch.

"Okay I won't." Elena giggled.

"Well, if Elena won't ask, then I'm going to...what happened to you?" Caroline said laughing at how uncomfortable her best friend looked sitting on a honk of ice.

"The most impossible move ever created on vault, over; and over; and over again…like a million times!" Maddie muttered back.

"And how'd that go?" Jeremy asked, wincing slightly as she tried shifting her positing only making her wince herself as she opened her eyes to narrow them at her male cousin.

"Jeez Jar, I don't know how does it look like it went?" Madison snapped…she shook her head taking a deep breath before looking at her cousin again. "Sorry, it was just a really bad practice…"

"It's all right Madds…"

"I think I'm just gonna head home guys, I'm beat…" She hummed getting up walking out the Grill door tossing the icepacks in the trash on the way out.

Review please….the story is really going to pick up starting in the next chapter :)))))