A/N: I wanna thank everyone for the reviews and for those who are following this story. The support means a lot. I did not mean for the wait to be so long but I got a little stumped lol. I hope to have this be more regular. Hope you guys like this next chapter, which is longer. Please review!

Chapter 1

Stefan walked into his girlfriend's house and smiled when he saw her going through papers. "Hey, baby."

Elena turned around, a huge grin on her face. "Stefan!" She squealed as she jumped into his arms.

Stefan smiled as he held his girlfriend tightly. "Not that I don't love having you in my arms, but what's it for?"

Elena pulled back, her smile still on her face. "I just missed you is all."

Stefan raised an eyebrow at her. "You saw me five minutes ago,"

Elena shrugged. "Five minutes is too long."

"Stefan?"

Stefan lifted his head up, bolted out of his thoughts. "Hey, Caroline."

Caroline continued to stare at him in concern. "You were thinking about Elena, weren't you?"

Stefan smiled sadly. "I never stop thinking about her, Caroline. You know, ever since she disappeared all I do is remember everything we ever said to each other."

Caroline nodded understandingly. "Of course."

"You know," Stefan continued. "I used to give her such a hard time when she would say she missed me. Just now, I was remembering going over to her house and she threw herself in my arms," Stefan smiled at the memory. "and I asked her what it was for, and she said she missed me."

Caroline looked at him with empathy. This was hard for her, but she couldn't imagine how hard this was for Stefan. She'd known the two of them ever since kindergarten, she knew how in love they were. She thought about losing Tyler and it have her a cold stab in the chest, she couldn't imagine how Stefan was even keeping it together.

Stefan laughed brokenly. "I'd only been gone for five minutes! I told her that, and she said 'five minutes is too long'."

"Stefan," Caroline began.

"I took her for granted, Caroline!" Stefan cried. "I took Elena for granted. I always did. I always took her for granted. I took it for granted that she loved me, I took it for granted that she would forgive me no matter what stupid thing I did!" He ran his hand over his face. "That night...I took her for granted that night too."

"Stefan, this wasn't your fault." Caroline said firmly.

"Isn't it?" Stefan demanded. "I left her alone, Caroline! I left my girlfriend alone in a bar in some foreign country with a guy I didn't know from fucking adam! It is my fault!"

"Listen," Caroline began. "Elena's not entirely innocent here. Take a look back and think about why you left her alone in that bar."

"Because I was pissed at her," Stefan said softly as his mind began to drift back.

"What the hell are you doing, Elena?!" Stefan roared angrily.

Elena was laying on the bar with her shirt halfway up. "Stefan!" Elena giggled uncontrollably as she fought to sit up. "This is my...my..." Elena struggled to get words out, as she tried to introduce this stranger to her boyfriend.

"BOYFRIEND!" Stefan roared impatient with her. He was so mad, he couldn't see straight.

"Right!" Elena laughed, oblivious to her pissed off boyfriend. "My guy...my guy! Stefan, this is.-"

"I don't give a fuck who he is, Elena!" Stefan snapped. "What I do give a fuck about though is this random stranger drinking body shots off of you, and oh yeah!" He went on sarcastically. "Kissing you! I kinda give a fuck about that too!"

Elena continued to laugh, all the alcohol completely gone into her head.

"You blow off meeting my friends for this!" Stefan continued pissed off. "You say you're uncomfortable around a bunch of people you don't know, yet you seem to have no problem being around this loser!"

"Hey!" The guy protested, starting to get a little pissed. "I'd watch your mouth if I were you,"

"Oh!" Stefan laughed. He was about ready to kick this guy's ass anyway, just give him a reason. "I'd better watch my mouth?! Well, buddy right fucking back at you!" Stefan shoved him.

"Stefan!" Elena whined. "You're ruining this! I'm not having fun anymore!"

"Oh!" Stefan turned back to her. He was so pissed off that he didn't seem to realize that this was not the way she acted when she was wasted. His jealousy and anger was just completely taking over him. "You're not having fun anymore? Ok. Well, since you seemed to be having so much fun before I so rudely interrupted you, I think I'll go!"

Stefan turned around to stalk off. "Have fun, Elena!" He yelled over his shoulder. "By all fucking means!"

"I was such a bastard," Stefan whispered, angry with himself.

"You weren't," Caroline insisted. "any guy would have reacted that way! No guy is gonna be okay with their girl doing what Elena did. I still can't believe she did it. It's so not like her."

"And if I hadn't been so busy being jealous and pissed off, I would've realized that." Stefan went on, beating himself up. "I left her there. I left her with Klaus, I didn't even know his name at the time. I went up the stairs to a different section of the bar, because if I didn't cool myself off quickly I was gonna stomp back on down there and beat the shit out of that guy."

Stefan half laughed. "I wish I had now, Caroline. I really wish I had, because Elena would be here right now. She may not be thrilled with me, hell she may not even be with me right now...but at least I'd know that she was ok. Now, I'm stuck with this gut wrenching pain in my stomach."

Stefan looked at Caroline with tear-filled eyes. "I'm so scared, Caroline. I'm scared to death that she's not-"

"Don't say it, Stefan!" Caroline cut in quickly, not able to bare hearing such an negative thought. "Don't even think it! We have to remain positive here."

"I know," Stefan replied, nodding his head rapidly. He breathed in deeply. "and I am, okay? I'm not giving up, I will find her. I owe her that. Hell, I owe her family that."

"You can't blame yourself either, Stefan." Caroline told him firmly. "What's done is done, okay? Maybe you both behaved badly. Now, it's time to do something about it. Because if you just sit here and blame yourself, and something really does happen to her...then you really are at fault."

Caroline took a deep breath, she didn't mean to be that harsh. She was just as scared as he was, and she was saying things that she didn't wanna be saying. "I didn't mean that, Stefan. I'm sorry."

"It doesn't matter if you did or not, Caroline." Stefan said softly. "You're right. If I focus on my self-pity, than I really could lose Elena. And I'd never forgive myself for that. I'll also never forgive myself for leaving her there. I just...you don't know what that feels like Caroline."

"I sympathize," Caroline started to say.

"But you don't understand!" Stefan snapped. "You don't know what it's like to know that someone you love has been taken away from you, and God knows what could be happening to them! You don't know what it's like to carry the feeling that it's all your fault!"

Caroline sighed. "Stefan.."

"That you let it happen!" Stefan continued on, his whole face anguished. "It's like watching a movie inside your head that never fucking ends! I see the bar, I see me and Elena, and than I see her with Klaus."

Stefan's face twisted in anger. "I see her shirt half pulled up and him doing a shot off of her, his lips touching her skin! And than, I see her raise up and I see him pull her into his arms and kiss her! Kiss her, Caroline! I see Klaus kiss my girlfriend! Instead of getting pissed at him, I get pissed at her!"

"Of course, you did!" Caroline's face was twisted with different emotions. She loved Elena, but she also understood Stefan's side. "She-"

"I should've realized!" Stefan yelled. "I should've realized that it wasn't really her! You know how many times we've all been wasted? All those times that we've been wasted together, has Elena ever acted like that?!"

Caroline slowly shook her head. "Never."

"You know, they found an assortment of Mickeys on Klaus," Stefan told her.

Caroline gasped. "What?"

"Yeah," Stefan nodded. "I was so pissed at Elena for thinking that she was just cheating on me right in front of me! I never even took the time to realize that something very different was going on with her."

"That wasn't your fault, Stefan." Caroline tried to assure him. "You couldn't have known that this would happen."

"Elena's mom trusted me to take her down here," Stefan said, his self-hatred just growing. "her dad didn't want me to take her here. Her dad never even wanted us to be together!" He laughed bitterly. "He said that I wasn't good enough for her! I sure proved him wrong, didn't I?"

Meanwhile a loud slam woke Elena Gilbert up.

"Good to see you're awake, Elena." Elijah said.

Elena just rolled her eyes defiantly. "This is never gonna work, you know?"

"I think it's been working just fine." Klaus said as he entered the room.

"You are both such fools," Elena replied with a shake of her head. "you're never gonna get away with this. Speaking of which, what are you trying to get away with? You never did answer me before."

"Oh?" Klaus questioned, appearing to take offense. "Did I not tell you? Was I rude to you, Elena Gilbert?"

"Ok," Elena laughed, beginning to get pissed off. "why do you keep calling me by my full name? What the hell is up with that?"

"We go way back, Elena." Klaus replied with a smirk. "We're practically family."

"Ok, I'm really sick of your psychological mind games." Elena said angrily. "What do you want with me?!"

"All in good time, Elena Gilbert." Klaus laughed as he walked back out the door. "All in good time."

"Elijah," Elena said softly, she could tell that he wasn't like Klaus. There was a softness to him. "please, what is-"

"I'm sorry, Elena." Elijah said softly, as he turned to go out the door. "I just...I'm really, really sorry."

"Elijah, please!" Elena cried, tears beginning to form in her eyes. "I don't understand! Please, don't leave me here. Just tell me!"

Elijah gave her one last sorrowful look, before turning around and walking out the door. He shut it behind him, and locked it, leaving Elena Gilbert in the darkness all alone.