The duo took Stefan's car back to Mystic Falls, the air was full of awkwardness. Neither knew how they were going to tell the others, or if they even would tell the others. "Ooh, I know," Caroline said, "We don't have to tell the others at first. We don't have to come out and tell them that we are dating, they will eventually find out, and that will make it less awkward." Stefan looked at her curiously, "So, the way that you want to prevent us from making things awkward is by not telling anyone that we are dating?" "Look, so if we don't make a big deal out of it, it won't be a big deal trust me," Caroline reasoned. "Well," Stefan replied, "When you put it that way, it actually makes sense." Caroline smiled, and the awkwardness lifted. They were both glad that they got that out of the way before they went home.
Once they arrived back home they acted as if they were still just best friends. They entered the Salvatore Boarding House and Elena looked at Stefan with worry and asked, "What happened?" Stefan looked at Caroline, who got the message and answered for him, "Well, The Travelers took Stefan hostage, and basically raped his mind. The only way to get them to stop was to kill Stefan's doppelganger Tom Avery. Enzo, who has been working with The Travelers for weeks, accompanied me to find Tom and kill him. After he Enzo killed him, I came back to see that Stefan was okay, then we left for home this morning." Everyone sat in silence for awhile taking in everything that she said. "So," Damon responded first, "Well, can't believe I missed out on that, sounds like fun. Why didn't you guys come home last night though?" "Well," Caroline answered blushing with a look at Stefan, "Stefan was in no shape to drive after what they did to him, and I was not feeling the best either." Bonnie furrowed her eyebrows and questioned, "Wait, where did you guys sleep then?" This caused more blushing between the two when Stefan responded, "Well, we kind of slept in a car." "The two of you slept together in a car?" Elena asked with a hint of jealousy. "It wasn't like that though, there was plenty of space for the both of us, I just wanted to be near Stefan to make sure that he was alright," Caroline answered too quickly. This caused them to raise their eyebrows, but they decided to drop it.
Later on that night, Caroline and Stefan were alone at her house. "Today was very awkward," Stefan told her. "Okay, so maybe I was wrong about it not being awkward, but it couldn't be anymore awkward than us outright telling them we're dating could it?" She replied with a hopeful look in her eyes. "If you want to keep pretending, I'll play along with you," he told her making sure she could tell that he was serious. She thought for a few moments and responded, "Well, I say for now we keep doing what we are doing, but if things get too awkward we'll tell them." "Deal," Stefan replied.
The next day Stefan and Elena started to have dreams about each other, these dreams were very vivid and each one was becoming more vivid than the last. Stefan was almost hit by a car at one point, by the end of the day everyone knew about the dreams that Stefan and Elena were having, and both Damon and Caroline were very disturbed by what was going on. Both thought that this was fate trying to get the doppelgangers together, Caroline felt unsure of her relationships ability to last against Stelena. She walked away from everyone else, and hid in the nearest room and began to cry. Within a couple of minutes Stefan found her and started to try to comfort her, telling her that what happened between him and Elena is over and that he only had feelings for Caroline. Eventually, she said she believed him, and decided that they would work through this together. Damon and Enzo went to figure out what was going on between Stefan and Elena and struck gold. They came into contact with a man named Markos, he told the pair that he was "fate" and had been the cause of Stefan and Elena's dreams. He agreed to stop the dreams. Both Elena and Stefan could feel that the dreams had stopped. Caroline looked over at Caroline and whispered in her ear that the dreams were over. Caroline smiled and kissed him on the cheek, they were going to be okay and that was all that mattered.