Three days later

Roman was currently in his personal gym in the basement of the beach house, he was trying to work out his stress by doing various exercises, now in the middle of doing pull ups when Elena walked in. Elena stopped in her tracks when she saw what Roman was doing, her eyes widened a bit, 'Oh shirtless!, abs! Oh boy'. Elena stood there just staring for a few moments.

"How about you just take a picture. I'll even autograph it for you".

Elena's head snapped up, a blush reaching her cheeks. Roman gave her a sly smile as he dropped from the pull up bar to the ground, he noticed Elena glancing away, looking at anything else but him, so he went over to pick up his shirt and slid it on.

"There...better?".

Elena anxiously turned toward Roman and gave a nervous laugh, "Uh...yeah that's better".

Roman raised his eyebrows curiously, "So what's up? Did you need somethin?".

Elena shook her head, "No. Nothing specific. It's just you haven't spoken to anyone since the whole memory debacle on the beach, so I just thought I would see how you were doing!".

Roman pursed his lips as he thought for a moment, "Well truth be told it's a bit overwhelming, not to mention angering when you find out your head's been screwed with! That things you thought were the truth aren't, but I'll be okay. Just right now I'm trying to work everything out in my head. Everything still feels kind of...jumbled. Speaking of, how are Stefan and Bonnie handling it?".

Elena gave an audible exhale, "Pretty much the same you are. Klaus is working on Elijah right now, luckily he talked him out of trying to kill you when he woke up!".

Roman surprisingly looked amused, "Well I knew I would have to face the music on that one eventually,but I'll just cross that bridge when I get to it".

Roman walked past Elena and grabbed a towel he had laying on one of his exercise machines and began wiping the sweat off of himself. Elena downturned her gaze and twiddled her thumbs, because speaking of crossing bridges, she felt they had a crossing that was long overdue, she turned around to face Roman, biting her bottom lip.

"Roman...I think we need to talk about".

Elena was interrupted by the sound of footsteps coming down the stairs to the basement, both her and Roman shifted their gaze to the stairs, seeing none other than Rebekah Mikaelson. Rebekah stood at the bottom of the stairs with a broad grin, showing she had no guilt in interrupting them.

"Well...thought I might find you two down here".

Elena's lips pressed together in frustration, what on earth could Rebekah want. Roman cocked his head, "Whats up Rebekah?".

Rebekah sauntered toward Elena and Roman, stopping just beside Elena, "Actually. I just needed to borrow Elena for a moment!". With that Rebekah grabbed Elena's arm and sped off, leaving Roman standing in confusion.

Rebekah stopped in a remote hallway in the beach house. Elena yanked her arm away, anger written all over her face, "Okay, what the hell was all that about?".

Rebekah folded her arms, giving her typical nonchalant look, "Easy, no reason to be hostile. I'm not going to hurt you".

Elena raised her eyebrows, "Then what do you want. Roman and I were kind of in the middle of something!".

Rebekah nodded, "I know. I could hear and that's why I saved you from whatever it was you were about to say before you said it!".

Elena's forehead creased, "Rebekah you don't even know what we were talking about".

Rebekah gave Elena a knowing gaze, "Trust me Elena. I know you were about to have a long talk about your feelings. In the few days I've been here I have seen the way he looks at you. I know that look. I mean hell I still need to have a conversation with him of my own!".

Elena frowned at Rebekah, " So this is just about you telling me to stay away from him isn't it? Look Rebekah I'm gonna tell you right now. I'm not going to get into a catfight competition with you over him. I just need".

Elena was cut off with the shock of her life when Rebekah grasped the back of her neck and surged forward, bringing their lips together in a short chaste kiss. When Rebekah pulled away, her eyes were soft, lashes fluttering.

"Actually I just wanted to tell you that I don't mind sharing and that maybe...you should think about that before you make any final decisions about what you feel!".

With a coy smile Rebekah turned on her heel and walked away. Leaving Elena standing there with a slack jaw and wind eyes. Roman arrived just in time to see Rebekah walk away, he stood next to Elena peering down the hallway.

"So how'd that go?".