Stefan POV

I thought nothing could have gone wrong. Well knowing my life it could have but this was a different kind of relief. This relief I thought would have at least lasted a few hours. The few hours I would be with Elena, I thought those hours then would be peaceful. There didn't seem to be any Damon; he hadn't been around for a few hours, the house was ours.

After all the pushing each other away and all of the nonsense going on. We had finally decided to be together we had finally decided to just give in. How could everything have gotten so wrong after that?

"Would you like anything?"

I thought the words would mean nothing. I thought I was merely being kind. I wanted her to be as comfortable as she could be. At that moment I was actually happy. Every one of my past problems had gone away from me. All that mattered was Elena and I. Elena meant everything to me; she was my world.

It wasn't because she looked like the doppelganger of the person who changed both me and my brother Damon. It had nothing to do with that. I loved Elena because she was the complete opposite of Katherine. I hadn't disappeared to get her a drink for a few minutes and she was gone. Elena wasn't in my room but there was one thing I noticed and one thing I could have screamed at with all my voice. With everything I had.

That stupid picture.

Katherine Peirce. 1864.

My hands moved up to my head and I found my face screwed up as the pictured lay on the table with her vervain necklace beside it. She wasn't protected; Elena was out god knows where and she wasn't protected. Damon wasn't my only worry. There were other vampires; vampires that were dying to get there hands on Elena for some reason I- we had not figured out yet.

I couldn't just leave her out there.

But maybe I was being stupid maybe she had just gone home. I wanted to believe that thought so badly but yet my heart was telling me otherwise. Something else was telling me that she wasn't safe; that something was really wrong. That she wasn't just going to go straight home or even make it there. I was being idiotic but how was I supposed to know anything otherwise.

But all this time she was gone I was left worrying. I was left at home not knowing what else to do. She wouldn't talk to me because she looked like Katherine.

Because I hadn't told her about Katherine.

How stupid of me, right from the beginning I should have mentioned her, I should have told Elena the truth. I shouldn't have kept it a secret. Elena meant the world to me and trusting her was something I should have known to do. But then again I was so use to keeping everything a secret that this seemed normal for me.

But against everything I just wanted to know she was safe, Damon wasn't the most trustworthy person I had met and I was sure he would keep her safe but that didn't make me feel any better especially with her necklace still here in my hands. I hadn't been to school in some time but this time I was making an exception this time. I needed to see Bonnie I was more than sure she was the only person that could help me.

Things could have not been more concerning or worrisome for the young Bennett witch because only at school yesterday did Stefan stop by on the lunch hour to track Bonnie down and have her do a spell to find Elena... which she was unable to do then.

But that's because Bonnie was scared. And boy was she scared out of her wits after Damon had basically traumatized her when the spirit of her ancestor Emily Bennett took over Bonnie's body. It was thanks to her Grams did Bonnie know what she had to do, and that was facing her fears of these vampires.

So she went into the woods, at Fell's Church where she tried to clear her mind and make a leaf levitate to no avail. And it was at point did the ground beneath Bonnie crumble as she fell into the room where the tomb was located. The one that held all the vampires from 1864 including Katherine.

Bonnie had been down at the tomb all night, well, mostly all night, trying to find a way out or hoping someone would hear her and to her surprise, it was Stefan who came to her rescue. He helped her get out of the tomb and thus... he helped that fear in her mind, that was blocking her from using her powers simply shatter.

Bonnie –if anyone- would be the one to find Elena. To tell me if she was safe. I thought by giving Bonnie; Elena's necklace that she would be able to find some sort of connection with the brunette but apparently not.

Something was wrong with Bonnie and although it worried me I didn't know what to do to help her. I was stuck trying to help Elena but at the same time I wanted to help Bonnie. She had helped me though a lot and at this time it felt like I was closer to her than I was to Elena. For some reason I didn't think I needed to protect Bonnie as much as I did Elena.

Bonnie I believed could handle herself and my feelings for her- I didn't want to talk about them. I wanted to push them as far out of my head as I possible could even if it meant denying them. But where Elena was concerned I was always afraid that something was going to happen to her. She was more human than I always thought someone could be.

It was after that, when the next day followed did Bonnie test out her powers once more. Only this time, they worked! And Bonnie couldn't have been more grateful to Stefan. Though... she still wasn't able to channel Elena like he wanted. All Bonnie knew was that her best friend was with the devil himself, Damon Salvatore.

Again and Again, over and over did Bonnie try and get a feel of where Elena was, or if she was even okay but she didn't. Bonnie simply wasn't a strong enough which to channel this kind of spell.

However it was on this day did Bonnie go straight to the boarding house after school.

She had to at least thank Stefan for helping her get her powers back and hopefully find out if he had heard from Elena. Or even Damon. Because Bonnie covered for her as best she could.

With her semi straight deep brown locks flowing behind her because of the wind, Bonnie quickly scurried up to the front door of the Salvatore home only to knock on it as the door started to creek open in which Bonnie entered, looking around.

"..Stefan? Stefan are you here? It's Bonnie."

But with nothing else to do I could only wait, Damon and Elena were on there way home that much I knew was true. They had phoned me and let me know and I was thankfully for that. But I couldn't help but still feel worried after all they had been gone for a while and Elena didn't have any protection against Damon's compulsion.

Also I hadn't really talked to Elena. We hadn't discussed the whole Katherine doppelganger situation. I had to wait. That was the worst part of all of this. I was up stairs pacing around in my room still with worry my eyes peered out of the window looking for something to keep my mind on. Anything to keep my mind on and then a voice came from the bottom floor.

Her voice; one I was so use to after just a few days. Bonnie's.

"Bonnie?"

I questioned moving at my vampire pace till the little witch was in my view and I was bouncing down the stairs a little slower.

When Bonnie entered the boarding house this afternoon, she was but a mix of something obviously worried but also.. a little joyful?

Maybe that was because if she looked on the upside of things, like Elena seemed to do, the fact that there was no Damon in Mystic Falls just screamed for a party to be thrown. And to make it even a little extra better, Bonnie could bask in the company of the Salvatore of which she enjoyed being friends with and being around, Stefan.

In a certain degree, Bonnie did envy that Elena was able to get such a catch... Considering it only took a day. But hey, that was Elena, the golden girl, the girl every guy wanted and every girl envied. Hell, that girl had both Salvatore's wrapped around her finger from what Bonnie could guess.

Though these feelings of envy and jealousy, courtesy of that little green monster was anything but attractive. Which is why when Bonnie saw Stefan coming down the stairs, all that was instantly dismissed.

Without even a hello of any sort, Bonnie shut the front door behind her and quickly got straight to the point.

"..Please tell me you've heard from them."

The little witch said as she shook her head, soon running her hands through her curly chocolate brown locks of hair.

I could have honestly believed how happy I was too see Bonnie when she was coming though my door after all when she had disappeared because of her powers I had been worried beyond belief even more so than Elena? Impossible. I dismissed it with a simple word hoping and praying that it would go right to the back of my mind even though I knew it wouldn't.

Bonnie was so different to Elena and yet I cared for her the same. In some ways I enjoyed her company more than Elena although it was wrong to say. It was safe inside my own little head. Bonnie looked nothing like my past and although I cared Deeply for Elena. I cared nothing for Katherine and even if they were different in soul. She stilled looked identical to the Pierce girl who had turned both me and my brother into this monster.

I had a hatred for her and I was always scared that I would see a part of her in Elena.

She knew that trying all morning, trying to make some kind of contact with Elena since she still had her vervain necklace was a complete and utter failure. And though her mind was clear, unblocked of all the fright thanks to Stefan last night, it didn't seem to do any good.

Even though Bonnie knew Elena was safe, because she was with Damon, he was also the reason why Bonnie was so worried. It had been clear Damon too wanted Elena and without her vervain necklace.. she could be compelled. And surely Damon being as unmoral as everyone knew, would in fact compel her just like that.

Reaching into the pocket of her sweater, Bonnie pulled out Elena's vervain necklace. She no longer had anymore use for it. Because even though she'd been trying all morning, because she had her powers back.. it still didn't seem to work.

"Here.. I thought that waking up with my powers that I'd be able to get a feel of where she was but,"

Taking a pause, Bonnie shook her head with a frown.

Of course I was wrong. I would never see her in Elena but it still pierced me with fear. More than I had ever hoped to be true. My smile held though when I was looking towards Bonnie. My decent down the stairs finally coming to an end when I hit the bottom.

Now with Bonnie there just seemed to be no reminders. With Bonnie it was like a future with bright sunshine and I was glad to have her as a friend. It was a tough pick to keep my mind where it should have been with the little witch. But I always was able to keep a straight mind like I should have. Like I always knew I had too.

"They're on their way back now Bonnie I assure you that much; how long it will take now that's a different point"

I couldn't help but sigh in the thought of how Elena had sounded on the phone. Because of that one picture she had changed everything. It was like we didn't even know each other any more. Not when we spoke. Her words were distasteful and….

I didn't know how to explain it.

Who was she kidding, she was no Emily Bennett. Emily knew what she was doing unlike Bonnie. And even though Stefan believed she could do this, it wasn't enough..

"I'm not strong enough Stefan.. I'm sorry."

She aplogized for no apparent reason.

The necklace was the one thing that I wish she had taken with her. How did I knew Damon wasn't compelling her all this time? I guess I had been relying on hope for all this time even if it was so much trouble. But I still wish she had kept it with her. Even if she hated me and cursed for me to never see her again I wanted her to be safe no matter what would happen.

"Don't worry about it Bonnie; You will be some day I'm sure of it. I know she's safe with Damon"

Even if it was a lie it was a truthfully lie to say the least. I trusted Damon more than I ever dared say and if anyone would look after her then it would have been him.

"You'll get the hang of It Bonnie just like Emily did"

I couldn't help but smile a little more towards her my hands swinging slightly by my side until my eyes dropped the floor. I shouldn't have been thinking in any way about Bonnie. I should have been focusing on Elena and how I was going to tell her the truth.