A/N: Hey All! So, since many of you wanted me to write a sequel to "The Thin Line Between Love & War" Here it finally is! Please let me know what you think and if your just starting to read this story, I will be referring back to my old one and the old characters a lot so check out "The Thin Line Between Love & War" first before reading this one!
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Chapter 1-The Thin Line Between Us
Elena had been out of the life that she had once feared the most. Yet, she still looked around every corner of a grocery store and she would scan every inch of a mall before she would feel comfortable enough to breath.
After Elijah and most of The Vipers gang had been arrested and thrown into jail for their criminal acts. She still felt as if living in New York City was the best choice. But, to be honest it wasn't the fact that it was the only place that she felt safe and had known for most of her life. She had tried going back to live with her parents in the suburbs, but it had only lasted for up to a month before they decided that they couldn't trust her and they started to blame her once again, for Jeremy never being found. Elena hated that her parents were blaming her for it, she hated that even though she had apologized to them over and over again, that they still looked at her as if she was a criminal, which made her feel as if she was thrown back into the life of gangs and drugs all over again.
So after her parents had scolded her on being into it all in the first place. Elena packed up all her bags and took off without another proper goodbye. After months of trying to get an apartment under her name, she had finally found a small studio apartment in downtown New York that would suit her needs.
It had been almost a year since she had heard anything about the still open cases on Elijah and Klaus Mickealson. She knew that there was still a possibility that the cops would call her to testify against him again and the thought of it all made her stomach sick. She couldn't face Elijah, after all the threats that he had thrown at her while he was still in jail, Elena was emotionally drained from trying to get a protective order against him...even though he was still in jail, he had some of his left over people in the now crumbling Vipers, contact her and try their best to make her new attempt at having a life, a living hell.
So, that's how she had ended up at the local police station, sitting in the detectives chair as her legs nervously bounced up and down from sitting to long. But, her face quickly softened when she heard the familiar voice of none other than the green eyed undercover officer that had saved her life.
"So, all I was saying was that he needs to go to jail and then the girl was like, ...I think I love you! I swear Damon, this job gets harder and harder each time I go under! So, how's the case going so far? I still can't believe that your part of our team now...Ha, I can't believe I'm about to even say this. But, I'm happy that you got your shit together brother!" Stefan laughed into the cell phone in his hands as Elena sat in the busy police station, her eyes locking on his back that was covered up by a black leather jacket.
She watched as Stefan turned and then suddenly as his eyes fell upon hers. She hadn't seen him in almost a year and the stubble on his chin and his over grown dark hair, instantly told her that he had just gotten back from another long and drawn out undercover mission. She watched as he eyed her up and down. His green eyes instantly darkened as they landed on her long lean legs that were covered by a pair of dark wash skinny jeans and her top, that was a dark red wine color as he watched her lean against the chair and cross her legs over each other.
"Damon, I need to call you back. Something just showed up and...I...I need to go." He told his brother quickly as he hung up the phone and watched as Elena smiled at him shyly.
"Elena Gilbert? Wow, you look stunning! What are you doing in New York City?" Stefan asked her with a smile on his face as he watched Elena get up from her chair and the familiar smell of her floral perfume and vanilla scented shampoo filled his nostrils as he inhaled deeply and Elena could swear that Stefan was trying his hardest to control himself.
He watched as Elena laughed and then she leaned into him and without thinking wrapped her small arms around his neck. "Thank you for saving my life! You have no idea how much you helped me. I'm alive because of you, Stefan." She told him as she felt his hands travel to her back and he held her tightly for a moment as she felt him nod his head.
He watched as she broke their hug , and smiled up at him. "I need a protective order against Elijah, he's still threatening me..he's saying that he doesn't want me to testify again and if I do...He'll send someone out to make sure that I don't." She told him sincerely as he watched her intertwine her fingers together nervously.
"Elena, Elijah's in jail. He's not supposed to be contacting you at all...we made sure of it when we sent him to Riker's Island...Him and Klaus." Stefan told her reassuringly as he watched her nod and then she smiled at him sadly.
" I know. But, he's still somehow contacting me. That's why I'm here, I need a protective order against him and his friends." Elena said in an unsure tone as she watched Stefan nod.
"Yeah, sure...I will get right on that." He told her as she watched him sit behind the same desk that she had been waiting in front of.
"So, what are you doing in this precinct? I thought that you were in Albany?" She asked him in a curious tone as she watched him tilt his head to the side in a bit of confusion, she somehow knew that he was originally from Albany. Yet, he hadn't ever really told her that information at all.
"How did you-" Stefan began to ask as he tapped his hands on a stack of papers in front of him nervously.
"How can a girl forget that a guy promised to keep her safe and help her...I also looked you up because I wanted to see if you were any closer to finding my brother?" She told him as she looked down at her hands and then back up at Stefan who was now looking at the computer screen in front of him, typing something.
"Oh. Elena, I don't know...I...We're still working on the case. It's now gone onto homicide." He told her as he swallowed the lump in his throat and heard her repeated his last word.
"Homicide?" She asked in disbelief as she watched Stefan shake his head.
"We've been looking everywhere for Jeremy. But, it's been so long since we've had a new lead that we think that maybe..." Stefan told her softly.
"He's not dead, Stefan! I know my brother and I can feel it..He's out there and he's still alive." She told him in a hopeful tone.
"Well, that's what Damon and I believe...We actually just got back from an undercover operation on another lead for finding him." Stefan said as he watched Elena's head snap up and a puzzled expression crossed her face.
"Damon and You? Your both doing police work?" She asked.
Stefan nodded as he looked over at her and tried to explain. "Yeah, Damon became an informant and now we use him for deep undercover ops. Like, the one that we're working on...He's actually still there and I came back to check on things." He told her quickly as she watched him turn to the printer behind him that was now printing out a document.
"Check on things?" She asked him as she watched Stefan give her a smile.
"You know that I can't tell you more than that.." His voice trailed off as Elena shook her head.
"Come on, Stefan..You told me a lot more than that when you were undercover...What's going on?" She asked him in a curious tone.
Stefan placed the freshly printed document in front of her as he handed her a pen. "We're looking for someone and we need a woman to go in with us, a female informant...someone who knows the ins and outs of the gang life..someone who could be under the radar for a while and be undetected." He informed her as she watched her eyes lit up and then she cleared her throat.
"So, I think it's funny that you came in here today. I personally think that you'd be good for it." He told her in a serious tone as he watched her sign the protective order and let out a deep sigh.
"Stefan, I'm not in that life anymore and I just-" She began to say as he cut her off.
"I know that you're not and that you don't want anything to do with that lifestyle anymore. But, just think about it." He told her.
Elena handed him the signed document as she watched him sigh and then place his hands across his seemingly even bulker chest.
"So, who would I be going in as...That was, if I did decide to go?" She asked him curiously as she to leaned back into the chair that she sat in and glanced over at him.
Stefan smiled widely as he looked over at her and he replied. "Well, Elena...Funny you should ask that question. If you did decide to go under cover with me and Damon...You'd be going under as my girlfriend." He said with a wink as he watched Elena's smile widen and her eyes lit up once more at his words.