He approached her slowly; she was sitting on the couch with her back to him.

"Why are you here Stefan?" She knew it was him, even though she didn't even take her time to give him a look.

He stopped walking. "Klaus and I found the cure."

She got on her feet instantly and turned to him. "How?"

"It's a long story, just thought you might want to know." He told her and turned around, heading for the door.

"Why?"

He turned around and gave her a weird look.

"Why do you even care anymore? I mean I broke up with you."

"No matter how much I try to ignore or hide my feelings, my feelings for you never went away, and no matter how much it hurts I'm not going to turn them off, because it makes me remember everything we went through, everything I did to you, I need to live with what I've done."

"I'm sorry." she told him. She felt sorry for him; she had never meant to hurt him, and even though he had hurt her, she felt like she had hurt him much more.

"Don't. I lost you when I went away with Klaus, and I never really got you back after that."

"But it shouldn't have been like that, you did that to save Damon."

He nodded. "Yeah and I wouldn't have changed that if I could. If I could though, I would change the fact that I bit you and that I used you to get what I wanted out of Klaus."

"Stefan?"

"Yeah?"

"Would you take it? The cure I mean."

"Being with you forever have sounded tempting, but a human life with you, growing old with you, I think I would want that life more, but you're with Damon and wanting you forever is not a life I wish on anybody. So to answer your question yes I would take it. But it's not up to me. Are you going to take it?"

"I never liked the fact that I was a vampire, but Damon showed me that being one was okay, and I stopped resenting myself for it."

"I guess there's your answer then."

"Unfortunately it's not that easy. I was never supposed to live forever. If my parents could see me now, they would hate me for what I've become, and John, he scarified his life to make me keep mine and look where that got me."

"So what's holding you back?" Stefan asked but he soon answered his own question. "Damon of course. I see, well I'll leave this here in case you change your mind." He placed a small bottle by the couch. "It's your own choice." He headed for the door.

"Thank you."

"For what?" He was confused.

"For still letting me make my own decisions."

"It's the only thing I have left, and after everything it's my fault that you are a vampire."

"No. It's not. You did it because I told you to, and that means something to me. If you hadn't Matt would have been dead, and I know for sure I couldn't live with myself if I had let that happen. I'm actually glad it was you that was there, because Damon would have let Matt die no matter what I'd told him. So thank you."

Stefan gave her a smile and left. Elena took a look at the bottle; it was filled with some yellowish fluid.

A tear fell from her eye. Her choice would change her life for as long as she would live. Jeremy came down from upstairs "I thought I heard voices."

She nodded. "Stefan, he just left."

"What did he want?"

"He came to give me this." She pointed at the bottle and gave him a slight smile.

"He found it?" Jeremy asked surprised.

"Yes he and Klaus did."

"What are you waiting for? Drink it!"

"It's not that easy." She looked down.

"Why not? I thought you hated being a vampire?"

"I did, but Damon…."

He cut her off. "What, Damon just changed that completely, just because you let him in?"

"Jere.."

"Elena, don't do this for him!"

"I'm not." She sighted.

"Then what is it? Cause I sure don't understand."

"If I become human, then what happens? Do we go back to all the old problems? At least right now I'm immortal, and can defend myself."

"But is that really what you want?"

"I don't know. If you had asked me a month ago, I'd say hell no. But I've accepted who I am now."

"Have you?" Jeremy asked her. "Because I think being a vampire has been harder for you than being human."

She sighed and shook her head. "I don't know what to do."

"I think you do Elena, I think you're just afraid you're going to lose someone you love when you do."

Tears began to fall. "It'll never stop. If I become human it'll never stop!"

He nodded and wiped away her tears. "Yes it will. However if you stay a vampire, it'll follow you forever."

"I never wanted this. I wanted to grow old, to have children." She sobbed.

"I know." Jeremy wrapped his arms around her. "I know."

She walked over to the couch and looked at the bottle. I'm going to lose him. She thought to herself. She had chosen Damon hadn't she? But now she got a feeling that she had made the wrong choice or at least that there was something she couldn't explain. She knew she had to choose, but choosing also meant losing. And she didn't want to lose either one.

This should just have been a stupid nightmare, she thought to herself. A nightmare that seemed so real, but when I wake up I'll still be human. Yeah that sounds nice. But being human also meant that she would have to leave them one day, which weren't something she liked the thought of. I guess I have to make one choice before that, she thought to herself. Whether I'm going to become human again, or stay a vampire forever.