A/N: since Caroline, Stefan, and Bonnie are pretty much my top three favorite characters on the show (Not including Katherine. She would be my number one because well have you seen her, she's freaking awesome). Anyways this is a story about how a friendship between the three of them grows and how they each help one another and become close through their everyday problems. I plan to make this story interconnecting one-shots. So they may bounce around a bit. Still hope you enjoy it.

Stefan stared through the colossal shaped window in his room. The sun had just started to rise as the nocturnal closed their eyes and the day animals awoke. He had been standing here for the past five hours going back and forth between the two windows. Having not slept for the last eighteen hours, he had a lot to think about. Yesterday Elena and Damon had come to him and told him how they had felt about each other. He realized there was no humor in their voice and as they continued to talk Stefan's world fell apart.

Elena and Damon had both told him that they loved each other and at first Stefan wasn't mad. He had simply left the two standing in his room. Once he was outside and deep enough in the woods his anger started to show its head. That mixed wrath and fury had rained down upon him. He needed to let it out so he just punched the tree continuously. Even after it fell he continued to hit it until pieces started flying everywhere.

After thirty minutes of that the heartbreak finally set in and his hitting began to lessen as he hunched over crying in his hands. He knew it was only a matter of time before they wanted each other but he hoped that she wouldn't want him. He had no idea why it was such a surprise but it hurt even more to know it had finally happened.

Stefan thought about their words as he walked back to the manor. Stepping inside he sensed the two were still here. They began to talk as he closed the door, "Stefan we didn't do anything. I promise you, I would never do anything like that to you." Elena pleaded trying to get his attention.

He wanted to talk but he couldn't find the words to say, so he tried to walk up to his room, only to be stopped by Damon's voice. "We thought you should know."

"You thought I should know that my girlfriend and brother are in love with each other, again." He said still turned towards the stairs. His face muscles frozen, not moving an inch.

"It's better than us just sleeping with each other behind your back." His brother added. Looking over to Damon, Stefan lost it. Speeding to a stop in front of him, he held him up against the wall eyes darkening and veins becoming more vivid on his face.

"What are you going to do, kill me?" he asked placing a concerned look in his eyes for his heartbroken brother.

"I could." And boy did he want to.

"Don't," He felt Elena's hand on his forearm which helped him to relax. He let Damon go backing away from him slowly.

"I'm sorry." She said voice low but knowing that he could still hear her as loud as day.

He paused for a moment, looking between the both of them. "I can't do this, Elena can you please go."

She was broken by his request but did as he asked seeing how she was sure she had hurt him so much more. He turned to go upstairs hearing Damon speak behind him.

"He'll come around?" He said to her.

"He hates me now, he probably thinks I'm worst than Katherine."

"You are no Katherine, Elena." He could tell that those words from Damon soothed her because her heart slowed. "Want me to take you home?" He knew she answered yes because Damon's presence was gone.

That's how he ended up standing in front of the window. He turned to glance over his room to see it in disarray. Journals everywhere, desks broken, things cracked. He was sort of glad he couldn't sleep because he knew as soon as he closed his eyes he would see them.

Bonnie and Caroline were sitting at the Grille having lunch and analyzing Elena's whole situation. "I still can't believe Elena's in love with Damon. It's just so…ewwww." Caroline said placing a fry in her mouth.

"I didn't have to use my powers to see that coming." The witch retorted sipping some of her juice.

"And you didn't share this information with me."

"You are usually good at reading people. I thought you would know."

"I guess I have been off my game lately." Bonnie knew it was because she was going through changes, being a vampire and all. To be honest this was the first time in a while that she and Caroline were there old selves again. All the time they were spending collectively to make sure that Elena was okay had made them miss the old days of just being together and worrying about normal teenage girl stuff.

It had been a week since Elena had told them she had told Stefan she was in love with Damon. And they had been there for her anytime she needed it. They would listen as she cried about breaking Stefan's heart but still wanted to see where this thing with Damon could go.

Bonnie and Caroline being the friends they were spoke when they needed to and patted when necessary. They never gave Elena their opinions about the situation because it wasn't the time and she had other things to worry about.

"So what do you thinks' going to happen?" Bonnie asked.

"I don't know but I hope everything turns out okay." Caroline thought about it, they had two friends who were hurt deeply; hearts breaking as they spoke and they were going to be there for both.

Caroline sat in Chemistry class listening to Dr. Williams go on about Oxidation-Reduction Reactions. Her eyes traveled to the empty seat that was usually occupied by Stefan. It had been three weeks and he still hadn't returned. She had stopped by the manor before and after school but according to Damon he wasn't home. She never happened to see him anywhere else and hoped that he was doing okay. Her eyes moved toward Bonnie who was staring at the same seat as well. She watched Bonnie's eyes meet hers and they had an understanding.

Bonnie looked back at Stefan's seat. She wasn't as worried about Stefan as Caroline was because she knew Stefan handled terrible problems well. She still wanted to make sure he was okay because while Elena had her, Caroline, Jeremy, Jenna, Matt, and Damon. Stefan only really had Elena and Damon, and they were a part of the problem, besides that he really had no one.

Once the bell rang for the second period Caroline waited for Bonnie by the door. When she came out, they made their way to Caroline's locker.

"Do you think he's okay?" She asked.

"It's hard to tell with him, but I hope so." Bonnie leaned against the locker while Caroline began exchanging books for next class. When she stopped midway, book not fully out of the locker but not in its place, Bonnie looked over before speaking "Caroline…Car—"

"We should go over there." She blurted out smile spread across her face.

"We both tried that, he's never there."

"Well what if we go now during school?" Bonnie placed a quizzical look on her face. "I mean he probably thinks that everyone is in school now."

"We are." Bonnie answered like the answer was obvious.

"I know but he would never suspect us to miss school and this would be the perfect time for him to be home."

"I don't know. I have Calculus next."

"Come on Bonnie, Stefan would do it for us." She knew that, he had done a lot for both of them.

"Fine but can we at least be back before school ends. I have to pick up Jeremy and Elena." Bonnie placed her books in Care's locker. "Are we taking my car or yours?"

"I parked closer to the building so we can take mine." The two made their way out, when a familiar voice caught their attention.

"Are you two skipping?" They turned to see a smiling Damon.

The pair had stopped, not in the mood to talk to him right now but they had begun to deal with the elder Salvatore a little more because of the feelings Elena had formed for him. "What are you doing here? Elena's in class right now?" Bonnie said.

"I know. I actually came here to talk to Alaric." Caroline's interest peeked a little.

"Is everything okay?"

"Sheriff Forbes found somebody in the woods today, so I'm going to see if Alaric knows anything." They relaxed a bit because when they were needed they would be called on.

"Well I guess we'll see you around then." Caroline said as the two began to turn around.

"If you're going to look for Stefan he's not at home."

"How do you know what we are about to do?" She asked crossing her arms.

"The two of you have been over to the manor almost every day for the past two weeks. I'm not an idiot."

"Could've fooled me," Bonnie whispered but still knew he heard, because of the smile on his face. "Well thanks for that information." She added sarcastically.

"However I can help." He said turning his back. "Talk to you later. Barbie. Judgy."

Bonnie kept an eye on him as he turned away. She had come to understand Damon a little throughout this whole ordeal. Watching him watch Elena when no one else was looking or talking to the brunette even though she was miserable had told her that. While he put on a smile and pretended nothing was wrong she knew his heart had broken too. Knowing Elena would never fully be with him without the blessing from Stefan or that she would never love him like she loved Stefan, had made him despairing. Damon had his own insecurities to deal with and while she did feel sad for him at times, when he opened up his mouth, the feeling vanished until he shut it again. When she realized he was disappearing into the school she turned to get into the car with Caroline.

"So are we still going to the manor?"

"Yeah," Caroline started the car and drove out the parking lot onto the road.

They were standing in front of the manor, before Care knocked hard on the door. There was no answer so she knocked again. "Maybe Damon was right, maybe he's not home," Bonnie spoke observing the Salvatore's home.

"Well if he's not home he won't mind if we go in." Caroline said and pushed the door open. "Alright I know that they are vampires but seriously they don't lock doors around here."

"Who's going to come in here? They can take care of themselves." Bonnie answered. Caroline listened for a minute.

"Okay if he is here he's not downstairs. So next stop Stefan's room." Bonnie closed the door behind her and followed her blonde friend upstairs.

"Where exactly is his room?" Bonnie asked.

"I think it's this way." She led her curly-headed friend into the door by the top of the steps and there were steps leading to another level. They began to make their way up to the next door. "I guess this is it."

Caroline opened the door and their eyes widened at the room around them. It was a mess, shelves broken, books scattered all over the ground, and packs of blood lying around.

"You still think he's okay?" Caroline asked. Bonnie was still taking the room in before she answered.

"Okay so maybe he lost it a bit." Bonnie was looking at the mess when a picture caught her eye. She grabbed the sepia image. She knew about Katherine and how she and Elena looked just alike, but to actually see it still gave her goose bumps. She placed the picture back down and continued to look around.

Caroline noticed how the only things on his bed were his cell phone and journal. She grabbed his phone and read the call log. "At least we know he got our calls. Elena has called him at least twice a day every day."

"Did he answer any of them?"

"No they all read missed calls, but he has a lot of messages in his voicemail."

"Has he called anyone else?"

"Nope," She placed the phone back down and picked up his journal.

"Caroline I don't know if reading that's a good idea. He may have stuff in there that he doesn't want anyone to read."

"I know but we need to know the last time he was here." Bonnie knew it was the only way. She made her way over to the bed and sat beside Caroline. Care opened it up to the last entry. The date was from yesterday;

It's not getting any better. I just want to leave but something's stopping me. Maybe it's me knowing that she won't be with him if I stay or the fact that I just don't want to ever leave her. In the morning I go to the woods and hunt because the poor animals are the only things I can take my anger out on. During the night I go as far away as I can until the sun comes up. I try my best to not be home when Elena's not in school because I know she wants to talk to me but I'm not ready to speak to her or Damon yet. I begin to wonder if my friends are even worried about me. Perhaps I don't even have friends. If I did I don't believe that they would come for me. Why would they? They're her best friends and the only reason they dealt with me was because I dated her. Now they have no reason to be my friends. Now would've been a good time to call Lexi up and talk. I sit on my bed getting ready to go to sleep hoping I don't wake up due to some nightmare about Damon and Elena but I can't be too hopeful. The blood pouch in my hand is empty and I think I need to go to sleep before I—

"You know it's rude to read peoples personal stuff?" Bonnie and Caroline both looked up quickly to see Stefan standing in his doorway. They dropped the journal and hopped off the bed.

"Stefan we have been looking for you for the past two weeks." Caroline yelled as Stefan threw his jacket on the bed and walked past her into the bathroom. "You can't call anyone and tell them you're okay."

He walked back out the bathroom staring at her, "You're not my mother Caroline."

"But we're your friends." Bonnie threw in. He looked over to her as she began to talk. "Look you may think the only reason we are here is because of Elena but you're wrong. We're here because we care Stefan."

"We don't want anything to happen to you." Caroline took over again.

"You must've forgotten what I am." He answered.

"That's not what I mean." She paused to get her words together. "Not physically hurt, more like mentally or emotionally. We are teenage girls, we know what a broken heart can do and so should you. A hundred and some odd years on this planet should have taught you that by now. Isn't that the reason you're dead now because of love."

"And though I don't really care if vampires just start dropping dead, we would miss you if you ever left." Bonnie added not knowing if that was helping but making sure he understood where they were coming from.

"You have been a big part of keeping the town safe and everyone we care about. It's about time someone else did the same for you." Stefan sat there listening to Caroline, not moving or saying a word. "You are the reason I'm still alive, in the not completely dead sense, and functioning like a normal person."

"And the reason that I'm not dead or completely obsessed with killing every vampire there is."

"You're Elena's best friends, isn't it weird for you to be here?" He asked really wanting to know the answer to that.

"We are, but we're also your friends too Stefan. Elena will understand why we both came to this arrangement. She knows you've become a part of our lives as well, so we can't just leave you hanging to deal with this all by yourself." Bonnie said sitting next to him on the edge of the bed.

He finally looked up, the scowl wiped clean from his face, "It's good to know that you guys care."

"We always will." Caroline added sitting on the opposite side of him. He was quiet for a moment letting it simmer in.

"Do you think she will be happier with him?" Caroline and Bonnie didn't know how to answer that. Of course they had thought about it but they didn't know what to tell him.

Caroline saw how Elena and Damon were together; they seemed to enjoy each other's company. Even if Elena was mad at Damon she would still laugh at his jokes or things he said and forgave him almost all the time for the things he did. Then Damon never seemed to be mad at Elena, he didn't always agree with what she did sometimes but he never had gotten angry with her. She thought they wouldn't be a bad couple; they would have their problems just like any other couples. Caroline looked over to Bonnie who was staring down at the ground.

Elena and Damon together wasn't the "worst" idea she could think of. He wouldn't deliberately hurt her and from what Bonnie had seen he deeply cared for her beautiful friend. They were the same if you thought about it, they both were loyal to the people they loved proving that by not sleeping with each other behind Stefan's back, but going to him and telling him how they felt. Bonnie had to admit she didn't really care much for Damon, but the two being together wouldn't make her vomit at the sight.

"I'm assuming by your silence that you think she will be." He said hurt returning to his eyes.

"I don't necessarily think she'll be happier but she would be happy." Caroline said trying to make him feel good but still being honest.

"Come on Stefan," Bonnie said with a smile on her face "no one will make Elena as happy as you've made her. You came and turned her back into joyful and loving self. Besides if he does do anything to hurt her I will burn his ass to a crisp."

"And I'll bring the water to start the fire." Caroline added with a smile. She looked over to see the smile appear on his face, along with a light laugh, "See that was what we came here to do."

"Thank you." He said very grateful they were here.

"That's what friends are for." Bonnie alleged.

"And we're the best at that." Caroline continued. Bonnie looked down at her watch.

"Caroline it's time for us to go."

"Well hopefully we start seeing you around again." Caroline said. "History class was so much better having someone who had lived through it all being there." Stefan smiled as the two made their way to the door.

"Oh, one more thing to show you how awesome being friends with us is." Bonnie grinned and closed her eyes. She began to chant and everything in his room began to move. The broken shelf was back up against the wall, the destroyed desk was amended, and the journals began to fly towards the shelf stacking themselves up. She continued to chant as everything moved back to its place.

She finished up opening her eyes to the clean room and smile on Stefan's face. "Oh yeah, Bonnie's awesome!" Caroline spoke pulling her friend into a hug. "Now do you think you can do that to our garage, my mom has asked me to clean it out and ew it totally has bugs all over the place."

"Good to know being a vampire hasn't made you any less of a girl." Bonnie joked pulling Caroline out of the room to a now happy Stefan.

Back in the car Caroline looked over to Bonnie, "Do you think we made our point?"

"Yup now maybe he will know that he always has someone to talk to."

Stefan was sitting on the Gilberts front porch. He had been there for a minute now, contemplating what exactly he was going to say to her, when he heard the door open. His brother stepped out and immediately looked over to him.

"Stefan?" Hearing the name Elena walked out onto the porch glad that he was actually here.

"I came to talk to you."

"I better go then."

"The both of you," Damon stopped and turned back to his brother. Elena moved over to the chairs and took one. Damon followed her and stood with his back leaning up against the house.

Stefan was quiet again as he tried to piece together everything he was going to say. It was silent for another ten minutes before he finally started to talk. "For the last three weeks I have been trying to ignore the both of you. I couldn't stand to look or think about you, so I tried to keep myself busy. Hunting and running until I couldn't anymore. I didn't want to think about the girl I loved leaving me for my brother and my brother loving the woman I loved. Every time I thought about it I wanted…needed to cause pain to something."

He looked over to Elena who had sorrow in her eyes for ever causing that in him. He sighed and then continued "Damon. You're my brother, my family and though you're the biggest pain in my ass, I love you and wouldn't want anything terrible to happen to you. At least if there was something I could do about it. I actually want you to be happy, to be like you were before you became who you are today. The only time I get to see my brother from 1864 is when Elena's around." Damon looked away letting his brothers words sink in.

"Elena. I love you so much, but I'm not who you want anymore. Apparently I'm not enough for you."

"Stefan—" She started.

"Let me finish. Damon's who you want and I will never know why for sure. I guess you fell in love with the same Damon that I call my brother. Looking back now I see that he could make you happy. So I'm giving you what you are asking for, not my blessing but something close to it because I doubt that it will work out between the two of you but me telling you that isn't going to stop you from wanting to try. So be together, see for yourselves that you two aren't made for each other like you think." Stefan knew it sounded sort of harsh but hoped they didn't expect him to ever really support or like this relationship.

He looked at the two who were looking at each other, love filling their eyes. He had to get away as soon as possible. He was walking down the stairs when Elena called him. "Stefan?"

"Yes?"

"What made you decide to do this?"

"When I thought of you two being together, I thought I would be alone and by myself, no one to talk to or bother me. No one who would care for me anymore, I was proven wrong. Turns out that I have great friends here who do and I plan on making sure I keep them in my life." He finished and walked off leaving the two on the porch. Once he got to the corner, he turned back around, he wasn't sure why he did, but when he did he saw Damon and Elena kiss. He felt the pain in his chest grow watching them, but knew it would be okay. He had people who cared for him and that's what he would need to get use to the fact that the two most important people to him were in love.

The next day at school Caroline was sitting on the bench by the basketball court, checking her make-up in her mirror. "Bonnie do you have any lip gloss without glitter or sparkles in it?"

"Of course," She went through her bag and handed the cherry lip gloss to her friend.

"Thanks!" Applying the gloss she looked in the mirror to see Stefan standing there. "Damn Stefan," She said dropping the mirror "you scared me."

She bent down to pick it up and Bonnie turned to look at him, "you decided to come back?"

"Yeah,"

"How many times have you reenrolled in school?"Caroline asked actually curious about him missing classes.

"This would be my second time."

"Seems like more than that, but glad to have you back." Stefan smiled. Caroline and Bonnie got up and walked to class with Stefan next to them.

As they continued to talk about his attendance at school and why he was still in school after all these years, he shook his head left to right. Being friends with a woman was something he was use to, but somehow he knew being friends with these two supernatural teenage girls would be different than he expected. The thought made him grin from ear to ear because right now different is what he needed.

A/N: Hoped you liked it. To me the Caroline/Stefan/Bonnie friendship would be funny and awesome at the same time, having Caroline being well Caroline, Stefan being serious, and Bonnie being bubbly and sweet sounds great. Of course the girl's friendship with Elena would still be intact as well.

Sorry for any errors or grammatical mistakes.

Anyways, let me know what you think about the friendship between these three and please review. Thanks!