Any Other Person
She has so much power over him and she doesn't even know it. Doesn't even begin to comprehend how she can affect him. She just keeps on going about her business like it's the business of any other person on the planet. He knows better though. Her business is far more important. Everything she does, says, thinks, is more important. To him, at least. And that's all that matters, right? What matters to him.
She makes him feel like he has rarely felt before. Rarely, because once, he had Katherine in his life. And now he's feeling things he thought he'd never know again, things that he thought back in his past, back in his human life when he was stupid and naive.
And he doesn't know what to do about any of it. He's not the type to sit back and wait and hope that she will come to her senses and drop his brother for him. He knows how unlikely that scenario is. So, instead, he sits back and waits and watches her and he hopes that Stefan will screw things up with her and leave the way open for him.
Maybe one day she'll see that there is more to him than the dark being he pretends to be. Maybe one day she'll care for him. Maybe one day she will love him like he already loves her.
fin.