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Meredith's POV
The beeping of my alarm clock woke me up. I reached over to touch the space beside me, only to find it empty. Either Alaric hadn't come home or he left before I woke up. I sighed. This had been happening a lot lately. How was I supposed to explain this to my family and friends when I went down to Saturday breakfast without my husband?
Matt's POV
"Jenny, love, come back to bed." I state with a groan when I notice she was out of bed.
"You want to take care of him?" Jenny countered gesturing to Jeremy.
I sigh as I sit up and stare at the women I loved holding our child. When I first met Jenny, I had just gotten to Duke with my scholarship, she was the campus nurse. Well she wasn't really the nurse at the time, just an intern but she was the first person I saw after waking up from a concussion.
"Shh." A voice of above me whispered. I tried to open my eyes to see who it was. Standing above me was a beautiful brunette with lovely brown eyes (think Nina Dobrev).
"What happened?" I ask, groggily.
"You got tackled pretty nasty but not before throwing the game winning touchdown." She says with a smile on her face.
"You're really pretty." I state before realizing what I said. As I tried to mumble some excuse she just giggled.
"We'll blame the concussion for that one." She says smiling.
"Then can I ask you out and blame it on the concussion too?" I ask cheekily.
"Sure." She says laughing.
"By the way, what is your name?" I ask, remembering I didn't know it.
"Jenny." She replied.
"Yeah sweetie. I'll take him, you go have a shower." I say, surprising her by getting up.
"You sure?" she asks, handing Jeremy to me.
"Yeah and by the way, I love you." I state.
"I love you too." She replies.
Stefan's POV
I opened my eyes and the first thing I noticed was how hot it was in my bed. I looked to my right and saw Elena, I looked to my left and saw Sophie. In the middle of the night, Elena came and got me saying that Meredith had gone back to her own bed and she wanted me to join in on girls night.
I stare at my newfound niece. "She has your mouth." Elena's voice whispers in my ear.
"You think so?" I ask with a smile of fondness gracing my face.
"Yeah and when she talks about books and literature, all I hear is you." Elena states.
"She is going to fit in well here. Do you think Bonnie is going to stay?" I ask.
"I don't know, Sophie and her already have a life outside of us. I mean if they want to they are more than welcome but… Meredith came to stay with us because Alaric and her couldn't afford to buy a house right away, they stayed because we are there family. Matt came to visit after he heard about Bonnie, he stayed because he knew this was his home. Bonnie already has a home, Sophie has friends, a life." She explains.
"Damon won't lose Bonnie again. He'll go with her." I state, rolling over to face her.
"I know." Elena replies, a grim look on her face.
"You know guys it is really early and not all of us are beautiful vampires that don't need sleep, but I'm half human so… Shhhhh!" Sophie exclaims rolling over to stare at us.
Elena and I look at each other with mischievous grins before turning to Sophie and saying at the exact same time. "Did you just shush us?" We watch, amused, as Sophie gulped before pouncing on her.
She squealed and shrieked as we both tickled her. "I give I give. I'm sorry for shushing you." She exclaims. Elena and I back off wearing grins.
"Sorry, we thought you were asleep." Elena says.
"Obliviously or else you wouldn't be talking about me. And just for the record, I have a life but that doesn't mean you guys can't be a part of it. Whether I am here or at home." She states, with that smile that Bonnie and her share.
Just then, Will and Jay burst through the door. You could see Nicholas and Blake in the background, huddled around the girls.
"We heard screaming what's happening?" Jay asked, taking in the scene in front of him.
Sophie, Elena and I all glanced at each other before laughing out loud (LOL get it?). Just as we calmed down, Sophie used vampire speed to pounce on Will and started tickling him. Elena and I took this as invitation to pounce on the others and soon everyone was shrieking and laughing.
"What is going on?" a scary calm voice says above them. Everyone looked up to see Meredith standing over them.
"He/She started it." Elena, Sophie and I say at the same time pointing to each other. Before Meredith could get a word out, Nathan came out of his room rubbing his eyes.
"Hey, why is everyone having a party without me?" he asked, using his cute voice, getting all the women to swoon.
"Dude we should take lessons from him." Blake whispers to Jay, who nods.
Alyssa came out of her room as well and if you looked far enough down the hall you could see Matt, Jenny and baby Jeremy standing there, smiling.
Elena's right. This is our family, as weird and dysfunctional as it is. The truth is though; I wouldn't change it for the world.
"Wait a minute, where the heck are my parents?" Sophie asks.
Sophie's POV
"Went to get stuff for breakfast be back soon." Elena read from the little note that was attached to the fridge.
"I guess they didn't expect us to be up this early." Stefan says. He was right it was only seven thirty. AM.
"Well you guys can sit here and wait if you want but I'm going back to sleep." Will states and everyone was quick to agree with him.
I run up behind him and kiss his cheek. "Morning." I whisper in his ear.
"Hey." He simply said before brushing me off and heading to his room.
Jay must have seen my confused face because he stopped to explain. "Will's not a morning person."
"Are you sure that's all it was? Because that felt like a personal brush off." I state, glancing into his trustworthy eyes.
"Yeah I'm sure." He said flashing his brilliant smile.
"Okay, goodnight." I say with a smile of my own. He ruffled my hair as he passed by. Bethany walked by me with a glare, her puppies following her.
Alyssa, Meredith daughter, stopped to talk to me. "Hey are you heading back up to bed?" she asked.
"Nah, I'm the type of person that once there awake they can't go back to sleep. I'm just going to wait for my parents." I reply.
"You want some company?" she asked, looking semi hopeful.
"Yeah I'd like that." I state with smile, might as well make some friends while I'm here.
We head to the living room and sit on the couch my dad and I had sat on.
"So what's your story?" Alyssa asked.
"Half witch, half vampire. I've grown up all over the place but my home is New Orleans." I explain, the less exciting version of my life.
"What about you?" I ask.
"Lived here my whole life, never seen or known anything different." She replies.
"So your parents just showed up at the doorstep and never left?" I asked openly curious.
"Something like that. Aunt Elena and Uncle Stefan came here when they needed to get away. They couldn't exactly stay in Fells Church. Too many bad memories, I guess. So my mom and dad came here to get married, what better place to hold a wedding then Florence Italy? From what I've heard your mom was at Dalcrest College and your dad was hanging around Fells Church. So anyways my parents had their wedding, your mom disappeared and everyone just packed up here and never left." She explained.
"So who do you talk too?" I inquire.
"Nicole mostly. She is the freckled quite one. I take it you don't get along with Bethany?" She replies with a question of her own.
"Difference in opinion. I kind of sort of like Will and she doesn't like that much." I comment, looking down at my feet.
"He likes you though. Last night I was with the girls and Will was mad at her because he thought she had threatened you." Alyssa states.
"You think so?" I ask, letting hopefulness creep into my voice.
"Yeah, I do." She replies, smiling.
Alaric's POV
"You do realize what you're doing right? How your wife is going to take it." Marco's malicious voice says.
"I know. But I'm tired of living with those demons. They are monsters and my children will not grow up around them." I state, with a glance to him.
"Excellent." He says grinning.
Sorry about the wait and I know this was a filler chapter it was just to explain something's. And I noticed the other day that I kept changing Bethany's name by accident. But her name is Bethany. So thanks and please review. Hope you like it.