Why?

Stefan sat on the couch with a glass of scotch in his hand which he downed quickly before immediatley pouring another from the scotch on the desk beside him. He sat their alone, thinking of only one thing.

Elena

Damon

Elena & Damon, together.

His thoughts were so vivid and painful, he was literally trying to drink to the point where he blacked out. He wanted to black out, to dull the pain, to not feel the anything. He wanted to flip that switch that he knew was oh so easy to turn off.

But he couldn't. He had promised Elena that he would never turn off his humanity again. He promised her and more importantly, himself, that he would never become the ripper again, even though it looked so much more tempting than what he was feeling right now.

He was upset when he and Elena had broken up. He was sad that their relationship had ended because he loved her so much but he had held on too hope that once they found the cure they would find their way back to each other. He had thought that Elena wouldn't act on her feelings for Damon, at least not so soon after they broke up. But she did.

Stefan couldn't describe what he was feeling when Caroline told him the truth. That Elena, literally a day later, had willingly slept with his brother. She had come into his home and fucked his brother, here not 24 hours after their relationship ended without a second thought. They had made love here in his home not caring that about what he was feeling or how heartbroken he was. And that's what hurt Stefan the most.

Elena didn't care.

Elena didn't care about their love, that their realtionship had ended, about him. She didn't care about him. She wasn't heartbroken about what happened happened between them.

Stefan was pulled out of his thoughts by the realisation that his glass was empty. Without thinking he reached to grab the bottle beside him but accidentally pushed the bottle over. It fell to the floor and smashed. He groaned but made no movement to clean it up. He simply looked back at the fire and tried to think about something other than Elena but was failing miserably.

"Stefan!" A voice called from the hallway. He knew who it was but didn't answer. "Stefan are you here?"

"In here." He replied, his voice blank.

Carolines heart broke as she entered the living room, seeing Stefan on the couch. She could tell he was drunk, she could smell it on him plus she noticed the broken bottle of scotch next to him on the ground.

"Stefan," She began slowly, "Did you even leave the house today?" Stefan remained quiet for a moment before answering, "I caught a rabbit earlier today. I came home and sat down here. I'm pretty sure thats my fourth-no fifth-bottle of scotch on the ground there. Shame i didn't get to finish it." He chuckled, miserably.

"Stefan, i'm so sorry." Caroline told him, "I shouldn't of told you." Stefan looked up at Caroline, "I'm glad you told me Caroline." He told her, trying not to slur his words, "Elena and Damon weren't going to tell me and i'd rather hear it from you than to come home and find them fucking on the couch or something."

The thought of that happening brought tears to her eyes and she knew what he said was true.

"What can i do to help you Stefan?" Caroline asked. "There is nothing you can do Caroline." He told her, "All i can do now is deal with it. But i don't know how. Whenever i was heartbroken or lifeless i always had Lexi to help me find my way back. And last time Elena brought me back and even she needed Lexi's help to get through to me. I have to learn how to help myself for once."

Caroline remained silent. She felt helpless, she wanted to help her best friend. But both Caroline and Stefan knew that there was nothing she could do, she was not Lexi, no matter how close they had become. Anger began to stir in Caroline, anger towards Elena and Damon who were the most important people in Stefan's life and they hadn't even asked about him or checked on him because they were both too selfish. She really didn't like the person Elena had become.

Caroline stood up, "I've gotta go, i need to do something." Stefan frowned in confusion and disappointment. He knew he was lousy company right now but Caroline was the only person he had left and he felt slightly better when she was around.

Caroline noticed Stefan's disappointment, "I'll come back in the morning to see you, we'll have breakfast. But you really need to have a shower and get some sleep Stefan. We can just take it one day at a time, i'm not Lexi but i'm gonna do everything i can to help you."

Stefan stood up slowly, trying to stand without falling over, "Thank you Caroline." He said, quietly before embracing her. She hugged him back softly till he pulled away. "I'm uh, i'm gonna go have a shower and go to, um, to bed." She went to help as he moved towards the steps but he shook his head, "I'm fine. I'll see you in the morning." He told her over his shower.

"Good night." She said, as he walked up the stairs. Once he got to the top, she turned around and walked towards the fron door. Their was someone she had to see.

Caroline barged through Elena's front door, almost blasting the door off its hinges. She was so angry she coouldn't be bothered to knock on the door.

She ran into the living room, looking for Elena and found her and Damon cuddled up on the lounge. They looked startled that she had just barged straight onto the house.

"Caroline!" Elena exclaimed, hetting up off the lounge, "What are you doing here?" "Yeah, Barbie," Damon said, annoyed, "We were kind of in the middle of something."

"Fuck you Damon." Caroline snarled. Both Damon and Elena were taken aback by her anger. "Bonnie wants to see you Damon. She wants to see you right now." She lied. She wanted to speak to Elena alone, without his stupid hold over her effecting everything she said.

"Why would Bonnie want to speak to me?" "How the hell should i know? She didn't tell me but she wants to see you now. She said if you don't go over there right now, she'll give you an agomising headache for a week." Caroline didn't miss the angry look on Elena's face, hearing about Bonnie threatning Damon.

"Fine, i'll go see Witch Bitch now." Damon said. He really didn't want too but he really hated the exploding headaches that Bonnie had given him so many times before.

"I'll come with you." Elena said, almost robotically. "No!" Caroline shouted, "I need to speak to you."

"We'll talk tomorrow." "Babe, don't worry." Damon told her, "I'll be back in 15 minutes and we'll do what we were going to do before Barbie showed up." Caroline curled her lip in disgust as Damon kissed her. Than without another word Damon supersped out the front door.

"Whats so important that it couldn't wait till tomorrow?" Elena asked, annoyed that her and Damon had been interupted.

"I can't believe you." Caroline told her, "You disgust me." Elena rolled her eyes, "What now?"

Carloline's anger boiled over and she exploded, "How could you do this! How can you live with yourself! You're here, about to fuck Damon for what, the tenth time in the last two days? Is he all you care about? Have you even thought about Stefan and how heartbroken he is? He's at home trying to drink himself to death and all you care about is getting his brother into bed again!"

Elena was silent for a moment trying to process everything Caroline had just shouted at her. Eventually she replied, "Me and Stefan are over Caroline, i don't love him anymore, if i ever did! I've been wasting the last three years of my life being human and being with Stefan because i couldn't face what i really wanted and that was Damon, being with Damon forever as a vampire. If Stefan wants to torture himself because of that, than thats his problem. I don't care, i don't love him."

Before Elena or even Caroline herself knew what she was doing, she had Elena shoved up against the nearest wall with her hand around her throat. Elena tried to push her off but Caroline was older and her anger was driving her.

"I'm older and stronger thatn you Elena. You're like a sister to me but i hate the person you've become. The Elena i know loved and cared for Stefan more than anything in the world! Stefan, the man who actually deserves to be loved by someone as beautiful as you were, unlike Damon. You need to wake up and realise what you're doing and how you're treating everyone."

"And i swear to God, Elena," Caroline snarled into her ear, "If you rub this stupid relationship with Damon in Stefan's face and if you don't check on him tomorrow, i swear i will shove you and Damon ino a well full of vervain."

Caroline let Elena go and she gasped as the air filled her lunges once again. She slid down the wall as she felt her throat which felt as if it was badly bruised.

"You need to find yourself Elena before you lose all of us. Me, Bonnie, Jeremy, Alaric... and mosr importantly Stefan. Because if their is one thing i know about the real Elena, it's that she loves Stefan more than anything and would hate herself for hurting the way you have."

Caroline than left Elena's house, intending on going straight back to Stefan's boarding house, to make sure he was in bed asleep and to wait for her best friend to wake up to have breakfast with him. She had to look after him and keep him going till the real Elena came back to him because Caroline knew that a love as strong as Stefan's and Elena's couldn't just die.

A/N: I hope this turned out okay. I wanna know what people think and if i should continue. I'm a major STELENA fan and i hope people like this. There is a serious shortage of Stelena fics compared to Delena fics, though i respect peoples opinions on which ship they prefer. Please review, i hope you like this.