my p.o.v.

"I hate you Stefan. I'm going to kill you!" Damon rammed into his brother, pushing him against the wall. However, Stefan was too strong. With one hand, he forced Damon to the ground. "It's your fault you are human. That was my one chance to live a normal, human life with Elena. I may never get that chance again." His voice lowered on the last sentence and he looked back at Elena for a moment. "St. Stefan and his perfect life, with his pretty little princess...do you think I want to be a filthy human?" Damon shuddered violently and looked at the wilted black flower, which lay still on the ground. Stefan stared at Damon with a dark expression. "My life is not perfect." Damon stood up and picked up his leather jacket from the ground. "You have everything you could ever want..." Damon shot a glance at Elena. "I don't have everything...and i don't want anything other than Elena. I can't live without her...I'd rather die." Stefan turned from Damon and started to walk away. "No brother, you have everything I could ever want." Damon spun on his heel and left Stefan in mid-step, with a shocked expression. Stefan turned and shouted after Damon, "Damn you Damon! Damn you to the most lower part of hell!" Stefan stood facing the darkness in which Damon had just disappeared for a long minute. Then he silently turned around and took Elena's hand as they headed toward the boarding house.

Quietly they walked up the stairs and into Stefan's room. Elena sat down on Stefan's bed and moved over so he could sit beside her. He did not. He stayed standing, facing the window with a dark expression on his pale face. Something black shot across the sky outside and Stefan shut the blinds. Elena's breathing quickened as Stefan advanced toward the closet and pulled out a leather bound book. He came to sit beside Elena and turned towards her. "I know you have always been curious about my ex-girlfriend Katherine...I want you to have this." He held out the book to her and she suddenly realized it was a diary...Stefan's diary. Elena looked back up at Stefan. Stefan's expression softened a little and he relaxed. "It's the diary I wrote in on the first day of school...when I met you." Elena took Stefan's hand and stared into his leaf green eyes. She leaned closer and whispered softly, "Thank you".