"Hey Stefan" I said walking through the front door to the Salvatore house, knowing he would hear me if he was home. It had been 1 year since I turned and surprisingly me and Stefan were still together, Damon had left though as soon as the hunter was gone. He didn't even tell me he was going, Stefan said that one day, he just wasn't there any more All of his stuff was gone except for a half empty glass of bourbon on his bedside table. I cried for days when I heard, Endless sobs ripping through me every couple of seconds until I realized that he would never come back, and I would never see him again.

Flashback.

Damon, Damon Damon that's all I could think about, I had broken his heart way too many times and it was finally time for me to admit my feelings for him, my dark saviour. he was always there for me I thought even when Stefan had gone, even when I blamed him for almost everything. He still stuck by me, he stuck with me and he never let me go. I swiftly got up and ran to my coat and bag, put them on and drove to Damon's.

"Damon!" I called out hoping that he was here not at the bar drinking himself to death... again.

"Elena?" Stefan breathed, I instantly snapped my head up to look at him, noticing the pained look in his eyes I immediately asked what was wrong

"It's Damon. He-, Elena he's gone" Stefan said now monitoring my reactions

"Gone? where did he go?" I asked now becoming increasingly worried and frantic. Whipping my head around I tried to look for him, smell him, anything to tell me he wasn't gone.

"Elena he left mystic falls, and he isn't coming back." Stefan sighed turning away from me

"WHAT! no no no he isn't gone, he isn't gone" I said whimpering. Staring up at his back I whispered "but he promised."

Normal

"Stefan" I called again hoping this time he would answer, since Damon's death he hasn't really said that much to me in fact I think the only words he has spoken to me was a grumbled goodbye and a how are you?

"Down here" I heard him sigh I could tell he was in the basement so zooming down there I searched everyone of the rooms until I found him... and that's not all I found.

"Stefan?" I said staring at him eyes wide, whilst backing up through the door

"Hello Elena hows our extremely selfish, hated and unwanted girl of the evening" Stefan said a smirk on his face and eyes glinting with anger. I still couldn't speak, I could only hold my breath and run. I didn't get far though before he grabbed my ankle and pulled me back, forcing me to fall.

"STEFAN!" I screeched it wasn't just him though that was scaring me, it was the fact that his skin was dyed red with blood... human blood, his clothes were so soaked you would never of been able to guess the colour that they were before. "STEFA-" I tried again desperately struggling against his hold but he cut me off slamming his hand over my mouth causing (if I were still human) my jaw to break.

"Shut up baby" he whispered in my ear before letting me go completely, whimpering I desperately tried to sit up, clawing at the floor the push me up, I was almost sitting and heard a whoosh, Immediately grasped my face in agony as the vervain he had thrown at me burned itself into my at my face too get the vervain out i screamed at it came in contact with my hand and dropped it to the floor.

"Stefan what are you doing?" I said trying to ignore the desperate urge to cry I will not cry in frount of him, I will not. I refuse to give him what he wants

"WHAT AM I DOING!" Stefan yelled "I am giving you some payback, it's because of you that Damon's not here, its because of you I don't have my brother, its because of you everybody dies and suffers and is put through pain, its because of you your parents died!, how do you feel Elena how do you feel killing those people? do you feel sad and bad? like everybody else thinks you feel? but I see through your act" he spat at me grabbing my chin and making me look at him in the eye "the only reason you cry is so others will throw themselves down in front of you, the only reason you offer your self to be killed is so people will think your selfless.

I shook my head quickly giving into the sobs as he screamed insults at me 'he's right you know' the little voice in my head said 'all of these people died for you.. Is 5 peoples lives really just worth your one insignificant life' I thought about and realized something I would of died for them too I would of fought and given everything I have to keep them safe, and in the end they weren't just doing it for me, they were doing it for everybody.