It was a bright sunny day, almost like the sun itself was smiling upon the world. A gentle breeze blew across the trees, whose branches were dancing along with the wind.

Although, while nature seemed at peace and happier than ever, a dark gloom stretched upon Mystic Falls. Deep within the cemetery a funeral was happening.

About ten people stood around the casket. A girl, average sized with long black hair stared longingly at the coffin. Tears were welling up in her eyes but she refused to let them run free.

"Elena," A tall man, with broad shoulder and brown hair, turned toward her "would you like to say anything."

"No," her voice cracked as a tear broke free and slid down her cheek.

She brushed the tear away and looked around the group, almost everyone was here. Caroline, the blonde but feisty vampire witch held a look of pure surprise. Elena knew why, no one had ever thought he could be killed. Sure he sometimes acted without thinking but everything always seemed to turn out alright in the end.

Her eyes then shifted to Bonnie. Bonnie didn`t hide her tears like Elena. She may not have always agreed with him, or even liked him in the beginning, but he grew on her. It was almost like she had developed a small crush on the vampire whose body lay now in that casket.

"How," was all she could mutter.

Alaric wasn`t holding up any better, it was only a year ago he lost Jenna and now another person close to him was gone. Sure the two of them had their ups and downs, but the two had grown a close friendship.

Elena looked down at the casket. 'How could he die?' How could his own brother not show up for his funeral?' She wasn`t just holding her tears back for no reason; she held them back because she knew she had to stay strong. For him, the man, the vampire, she had fallen in love with.

"Elena, I know this must be hard for you," Mat put his arm around her.

"I just don`t understand," the dams in her eyes were beginning to break down, "He shouldn`t have died. We always survive."

"He`s not even here, his own damn brother isn`t even here! Damn!" her tears finally burst out.

Elena`s face quickly began to turn red as she gasped for breath. Her tears were coming down rapidly and her wailing took most of her breath.

"It was his fault," a piece of snot dripped from her nose, "His fault."

"Elena!" Mat was awestruck at seeing Elena finally break down, fate had put so much crap in her way and now everyone could see it had finally gotten to her.

"Elena, it has to be hard on him to," Bonnie chimed in.

"Who gives a damn, he`s selfish and rude, he left his own brother to die!" Elena turned and ran she couldn`t handle thoughts of him.

He had been a complete asshole for the past year, and now the moment, the moment his own selfishness ended with his brother's death, the man she grew to love, they were defending him. He didn`t even have the nerve to come to his funeral.

Bonnie looked down upon his body. It looked like it had finally found a sense of peace. She sympathized with Elena, she knew how hard it was to lose someone you care about, but Elena didn`t seem to realize that he did it for her. He chose to save Elena instead of his brother, the choice his own brother made him make.

Stephan sat alone in his house. There was a sort of eerie quite. He looked down at his hands, the hands that couldn`t save his own brother and as his humanity and guilt tried to rise up in him, he pushed them down.

How could he face these feelings of guilt? How could he face anyone? His brother was dead, dead! And it was all his fault. He tried to go too far against Klaus, push the hybrid too far and this; this is how it ended up.

Caw-Caw-Caw-Caw

A crow lands on his window sill, Stefan gaze quickly turns to the crow, and in a second he is standing before it. Tears well up in his eyes as a smile appears on his face.

"DAMON!" he breaks into a full grin and turns around hoping to see his brother.

Nothing. Stefan turns back to the crow and grabs it by its tiny neck. His eyes grow blood shot and he shows his fangs to the poor little bird before draining it dry of blood and throwing its body to the floor.

You won. Now nothing can come between you and Elena. Except the truth. The lies catch up to you, the longer you keep lying to yourself about who you are.

"Damon!" Stephan turned once more to the windowsill to see only the sky.

It was noting, only his memories creeping in. All the thoughts he tried so desperately to forget came creeping in. The good times he spent with his brother before Katherine.

Tears rolled down his cheek. Damon was gone, really gone. He just couldn`t believe it, the brother he had once looked up to both in life and death was gone. He quickly moved toward his right wall and slammed his fist against it. Within another second he flung his chair into another wall watching as it wooden parts feel to the floor, broken and alone. Exactly how he felt.

"You were supposed to be the strong one!" he cried out as he moved toward the bookshelves and tore teach and every book to pieces.

I'm stronger than you think.

"I was supposed to kill Klaus and you were supposed to keep Elena save! Damn it!" his voice echoed throughout the room.

Relax, brother. You want your hair to fall out?

Stephan`s body slumped onto the floor. Tears were gushing from his eyes as if they were a fountain. If it weren`t for the fact that he was undead, his face would have been dry red from the amount of tears that were falling from his eyes.

"Why?" was all he could say as he slowly slid his Lapis Lazuli ring off.

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