A second chance

《VI. I found you》

⇢ ˗ˏˋI found you࿐ྂ

Melanie has been following her dad through the woods. She offered for him to drink for her mainly because he looked so pale she almost thought he was dead. They arrived at a bar and Stefan stumbled into it.

"Hey, man. Last call was 4 hours ago. If you want some coffee, I could put some on, or..." A women says behind the cashier. Stefan keeps walking towards her and then he bares his fangs at her neck.

"Ahhh!"The women screams and Stefan realizes what he's doing and stops and yells "Run. RUN!" The women runs outside. Unfortunately the hunger took over him and ran after her not realizing the sun was coming up and when he stepped into it he burned. Melanie had to bite her lip from screaming out dad in fear. She quickly pulled him back to the gas station. She saw how badly her father looked even after draining a bit out of that women's neck so she found a knife and a cup.

She took a few deep breaths before she bite her lip and sliced the palm of her hand. She only managed to get a little blood into the cup before she had to cut her hand again due to her heightened healing. When the cup was halfway full she brought it to Stefan who was behind one of the stands trying to control his bloodlust.

"Here, come on, you need it"She said and handed him the cup. He looked at her hand that had traces of blood on it but there was no cut visible. Stefan drank the entire cup in almost one sip. "You want more?"She asked and even if everything in him was telling him to say yes he shaked his head no. Even in his darkest times like these he couldn't let another girl cut herself for him to feed on.

"Who are you?" He asked with shaky breathes as he was trying hard not to hurt the her. Melanie was deciding for a moment if she should tell him the truth she told to Caroline or go with the lie.

"My name is Melanie Sebrof and I'm a complicated species"She said with a chuckle at the end. Stefan just looked at the girl baffled.

"Why are helping me? or better question how did you know where I was?" Stefan questioned now fully himself and not driven by bloodlust. At least not completely.

"Because we're family"She decided there was no point in sugar coating it. Based on Stefan's co fused looks she continued. "I'm Zach Salvatores daughter. Along with my sister Sarah" She said and Stefan knew it was lie because, he time to time checked up on Sarah and she was an only child not to mention her last name was Nelson and not Sebrof. In the end he decided he's going to play her game because she obviously had her reasons to lie. He would find out why this girl was posing as his distant niece. Was she an enemy trying to hurt them? Or is she a friend that doesn't know how to tell them?

"Ohh okay I'm Stefan nice to meet you" He said and held out his hand and she shaked it. Then out of nowhere they both fell unconscious and a women entered the bar.