ANUNEXPECTEDLOVEAFFAIR-PART2
Fan Fic Season 2 TV-Vampire Diaries
New readers: I am strongly suggesting for you to read "An unexpected love affair – Part1", before starting to read this sequel story
Chapter 3
"If lies could tell"
Stefan got out of the shower, while passing a rapid hand on his wet hair, before straightening his arm to reach for a body towel placed on the towels holder. Last night, he had slept like a baby! It was nice to be back in his home after these last few years. His plan had worked like a charm! He knew that if he could enroll Liz around his little finger, it would be easy for him to stay in the boarding house. His main purpose now was that he needed to get through Caroline! He needed to talk to her…to explain to her…He needed time! Of course, she was not willing to give any to him; she was as stubborn as ever! They were cut in the same fabric…He knew her next move in advance without even thinking too hard about it…because she was like him! The perfect yang of his yin! And he had finally realized that! He took a few steps toward the sink cabinet, sweeping away with his right hand the mist off the mirror, before holding his movement, with a big smirk on his face. She was here! Actually, standing in his bedroom…Probably more pissed than yesterday night, when she had realized the fast one he had pull on her, by practically inviting himself to stay with her and Rose in what used to be his house. He took the towel in his hands, to wrap it around his waist, before holding his movement, and let it drop on the floor instead a second later, while smiling deviously to himself in the mirror. "Stefan Salvatore, you can be such a player when you want to be!" He thought to himself, before slowly walking toward the adjacent bathroom door.
He opened the door, and as he already knew, she was showing her back at him, with her arms crossed on her chest. He walked, naked, toward his bed.
"Oh Caroline, good morning…Did not noticed that you were there…How are you, cupcake?" He mockingly asked her.
Caroline turned to look at him, before opening her mouth in shock, blushing, and turning his back at him once again.
"You're naked!" She exclaimed to him.
"Well, yes, I believe I am!" He responded mockingly to her, taking a few steps to reach her standing position, lowering his head near her right shoulder, while gluing his chest on her back, and whispering his lips near her ear. "Nothing you haven't seen before though…But the question is: Do you remember, Caroline?"
A burst of mixed anger and shyness emerged inside of Caroline, making her close her fists, walking toward the bed a second later, taking in her hands a pair of boxer that were lying on top of the bedspread, before throwing it in his direction.
"Get dressed!" She ordered him to do.
Stefan grabbed the boxer in his hands, while looking straight at her, with the biggest smile on his face.
"I did not knew you had become a prude, Caroline…Is it Tyler that is bringing this new side in you?" Stefan asked her, while slowly and seductively sliding his black boxer on his legs, before dressing his naked body, adding. "I remember a wilder, passionate, crazy, hot, Caroline!" He added while taking a few steps to reach her standing position.
"I remember her also, Stefan!" She started answering him with pure anger in her voice, while crossing her arms in front of her chest as a protective mechanism against his near body proximity, adding. "The "so sweet Caroline", so understanding, always putting the others ahead of her own needs, and what happen to that so precious passionate Caroline? She's been tossed aside by so many, but especially by you!" She explained to him, continuing. "So…If you have an ounce of decency left in you, you would stop making fun of me…and now that I've changed and grow up I am deserving of your respect, like I deserved it so many years ago…but you had preferred to fool me around and laugh at my face after playing with me…the little girl is grown up now, Stefan…Maybe it is time for you to do the same…And she is not willing to play your sick game of the month anymore…So I would gladly appreciate if you could leave the house, or tell me what is your game in all of this, because I can assure you that I will not play it!"
Stefan put his hands on each side of his waist while looking straight at her in the eyes. Who was this wonderful, strong, independent woman that was standing in front of him? She had changed so much since he had left…she had become a woman that he could not recognize anymore…he felt lost, and ashamed and angry with himself …because all that she just had said to him was in a way the truth!
"There is no game, Caroline, I swear to you…Except…" He paused, lowering his head, before continuing. "…Except...That I enrolled your mother to help me stay here, I give you that…but, I needed to find away to talk to you, you are still refusing to do that with me…It's been days now…" He said to her, while raising his right hand to caress one of her cheeks.
"Don't do that!" She asked, before pushing his hand away from her, taking a few steps away from him, directing her walk to the opposite side of the bedroom.
"Why?" Stefan asked her.
"Because you make me feel uncomfortable…" She replied to him. "…I am in a serious relationship with Tyler, Stefan!"
"And why is that Caroline?" He asked her, while turning on himself to look at her. "It's my presence here that makes you feel uncomfortable? Or is it when I touch you? You seem to be apparently more than disgusted by me, if I listen to your: Oh, so well rehearsed speech…So, make me understand…" He asked her, while taking slow, calculated steps to reach her new standing position. "…Because you see, each time I am near you, I can feel that you are shivering, I can feel that what you are saying to me, and what you are really feeling inside of you, are two different things…" He added to her, while taking a strand of her blond hair in his right hand, playing with it with his fingers. "…Like now!" He whispered, while lowering his forehead on hers, keeping his eyes locked with Caroline's. "I just want to be able to talk to you, explain a lot of things, Caroline…" He murmured to her, before lowering the back of his hands on her bare arms, creating goosepumbs all over her body. "See how you react with every of my touch…Is Tyler able to make you feel the same sensations?" He continued whispering to her.
Caroline closed her eyes; trying to get a grip on her mixed emotions…It has been so long without feeling his proximity…So many years without touching his skin…She thought, without realizing that her hands were sliding on his muscular chest in a slow caress, while opening her eyes again, keeping her stare fixated on her present gesture.
"Caroline?" Stefan whispered as a question.
She blushed, stopped her movement on his chest, while keeping her hands on his skin, before raising slowly her stare, and looking at him in the eyes.
He took her chin with his right hand, before raising her head, and slowly lowering his lips on hers.
"You want me to stop?" He murmured to her, his lips in top of hers, his eyes locked with Caroline's.
She did not responded to him, she kept her stare locked with his, giving him none verbal approbation to kiss her. He crashed his lips on hers, in a demanding and passionate kiss. She tried to pushed him away, as a reflex of keeping her dignity, by pushing her hands on his chest, but he encircled her waist and brought her in full contact with his half naked body, before raising her in the air, making her crossed her legs around his waist, and encircling his neck with her arms to keep her balance. He carried her toward the bed, before dropping himself on it, while maintaining her underneath him, his hands rubbing every inch of her body through her clothes, while his tongue was invading her warm mouth, and playing with hers in the most erotic ways possible. She was wearing a yellow tank top, with a white skirt. It did not take him long, to slide his right hand between her legs, slowly raising it on the inside of her thighs, while caressing the tender part of her skin, before reaching her feminine center, making her raised her pelvic in a silence demand for him to continue, before feeling his fingers gently caressing her folds through the sheer fabric of her panties.
"Stefan…." She said to him in a whisper, while turning her head from right to left, her eyes closed, her hands in his hair, feeling his lips sliding on the right side of her neck in mix of licking and kissing.
"Mm…" He mumbled to her.
"…We can't…" She whispered to him, by contradicting herself by continuing to kiss him.
"I'll say we are pretty much doing it, Caroline…" He responded in a murmur on her lips, while cupping one of her breast through her tank fabric, while passing his thumb on her standing nipple. "No bra? Is it because I'm here?" He mockingly asked her.
"Stefan…" She whispered to him again, adding. "…I'm with Tyler now…Please!"
"I can honestly tell you, Caroline…That I don't give a damn about Lockwood at this moment!" He said to her, before crashing him mouth back on hers, while rolling on her belly the bottom of her tank top.
"Hello…." They heard a little voice calling, before jumping out of their skins with surprise, making Caroline pushed Stefan away from her in an instant, while straightening her upper body on the bed in a sitting position in a matter of seconds.
"What…What are doing here, Rose?" Caroline asked the little girl, pushing her tank top down on her skirt, while getting a glimpse of Stefan, who was reaching for his jeans, turning his back and dressing himself, before passing one of his t-shirt.
"Watching you and Uncle Stefan kiss…" Rose answered her, while smiling and putting her little hand in front of her mouth to laugh.
"Ok…Little mouse!" Stefan exclaimed, before walking toward Rose to pick her up in his arms, sitting her on his shoulder, while making her giggled. "You want Uncle Stefan to make you pancakes for breakfast?" Stefan asked Rose.
"Oh yes! Can I have strawberries on top?" Rose asked Stefan.
"You sure can!" Stefan answered her, while turning to look at Caroline, who was now standing in front of his bed with a guilty and worrying look on her face. He timidly smiled to her, while nodding his head to make her understand that he had took the situation under his control.
"Are you coming, Aunty Caroline?" Rose asked her.
"In a minute, sweetie…" Caroline answered her, before seeing Stefan leave his bedroom with Rose on his shoulders, and sitting on the bed one more time, while closing her eyes, and putting her right hand on her chest.
This could not continue …She thought that she could control her feelings around him, but she had mistaken her strength! And she needed to be honest to herself: She was still as much in love with Stefan Salvatore as five years ago! But…He was not in love with her! He never was! He was just here to reconnect for a brief moment with what used to be his life and helping Elena with the upcoming return of Klaus…and she was only convenient to him…Like she used to be in the past, a way for him to forget his problems! She had promise herself to never be treated that way again! And she needed to keep this promise to herself; she needed to keep him at arms length …For her own protection! And if this was not enough, Rose was adding a big part in the balance of her problems! Stefan had no idea that this little girl was his own niece…and no idea that Elena had left to try to rescue Damon! And even if in Caroline's book he was not deserving of a better treatment, she was feeling bad for lying to him! She knew how much Stefan love Damon, and how much Elena had counted for him…And probably still count in the present moment.
Now, her only hope was to discourage him to pursue her! But Stefan Salvatore was not that easily discouraged when he wanted something…And Caroline knew that! Her only hope was Tyler now!
Caroline was sipping her coffee, while keeping her stare in the emptiness of the room and sitting at the kitchen table. From time to time she was giving a glimpse at the other side of the kitchen table, watching Stefan and Rose talk, laugh and play games with each other. She could feel knots in her stomach…This was almost unbearable to watch for her! She had promise herself to never be mixed in lies again! And yet again…She was in the middle of one for Elena! But, she also knew that she owed it to her! She needed to repay her the lies she kept herself in the past.
"Aunty Caroline, can I stay with Uncle Stefan today, Please?" Rose asked her, putting her little hands together as a prayer, while tilting her head to the right.
"For God sake…" Thought Caroline "…There was way too much of "Damon" in Rose!"
"Ste…Uncle Stefan is probably very busy today; you'll come with me at the bakery shop, sweetie…" Caroline answered the little girl, while getting up and putting her coffee cup in the kitchen sink.
"I'm not!" Stefan answered her, while turning his head to asked Rose. "What do you want to do today, Rose?"
"I want to go to the zoo!" Rose exclaimed, while clapping in her little hands.
"Zoo it is then!" Stefan responded to Rose, while passing a hand in Rose's hair.
"So cool…Thanks, Uncle Stefan!" Rose answered him.
"I don't think…." Caroline started to say, before being cut by Stefan.
"Caroline, please…It's not a problem…You are busy and working, and I have free time…It is the least I can do to repay your hospitality." Stefan said to her.
Caroline looked at him in the eyes, and only could see truthfulness in his saying and stare…He was not making fun of her.
"Oh please, Aunty Caroline!" Rose asked her, with sad eyes.
"Ok…Ok…For today, you can be with Uncle Stefan...But for now, just go brush your teeth…" She approved and asked Rose to do in the same sentence.
Rose got down of her kitchen chair, before running out of the kitchen. Stefan rise on his feet, and took a few steps to reach Caroline's position near the kitchen sink.
"Leave it…I will clean everything!" He told her, while leaning his right side body on the kitchen counter. "Caroline…My only problem for the day is my feeding, with Rose who will be glued to me…"
"Oh...Right!" She answered him, while reaching for a key in her skirt pocket. "In the cellar, there are a couple of blood bags in the fridge…I kept it closed…Especially since Rose is here!"
"Thanks!" Stefan responded to her, while taking the key in his right hand. "How do you manage?" He asked her.
"I manage! That is the important thing…" She responded to him, while nodding her head, and taking a few steps to exit the kitchen, before turning and adding to him:
"What happen this morning can't happen again, Stefan! I know that I've been harsh to you since your return, but it's because I wanted to make things clear between us…What happened between us in the past…is in the past now, Stefan! I am with Tyler now, I love him…And I want to try to build a life with him…And I would like for you to respect it…" She said to him.
Stefan kept his silent for a while, before nodding his head to her.
"Ok…But, I'll still want for us to be friends again; Caroline…I still want to explain some of the things to you…Could you at least give me that, for old time sake?" He asked of her.
She looked at him in the eyes, before nodding her head in approval.
"OK, I….I promise that I'll listen to you…Soon…" She replied to him, adding. "Now, promise me that if you have any kind of problems with Rose, that you will call me at the bakery shop, ok?" Caroline asked him, adding once again. "I'll try to get back early, I promise…."
"Scout honour!" Stefan answered her, with a sarcastic smile on his face, making the scout sign, while looking at Caroline's walk toward the kitchen exit, adding. "Caroline? Thank you! And…She'll be fine,she'll be with me!" He added to her with a smile.
"Gosh, Stefan Salvatore…" Caroline thought in her mind. "…If only you knew who Rose is….And that being with you is really her safe place!"
Caroline put the key in her house lock, before turning the door handle, entering inside, and lowering her back on the wood of the door, before closing her eyes. She was completely exhausted! She had a lot of customers at the bakery shop, and she thought that the day will never end!
"Aunty Caroline!" She heard a little girl voice calling, before seeing Rose running toward her standing position in the entrance. "Look!" Rose told her, while showing her a pink stuffed elephant. "Uncle Stefan bought me this at the zoo!"
"He did!" Caroline answered her, making Rose nodding her head. "Well…Did you thank him?"
"Yes….And he's making… s…paghti for diner!" She exclaimed to Caroline, while making her smile.
"Spaghetti, sweetheart…" Caroline pronounced to her, while caressing the little girl's head.
"Did you have a nice day?" She heard a voice asking her, before raising her head to look at Stefan who was leaning the left side of his body on the wall, while crossing his arms in front of his chest, with a wooden spoon in his right hand, wearing an apron around his waist, and smiling at her.
She blushed at his sight…this was so strange to her! It was like coming back to her family after a hard day at work…Being welcomed by a gorgeous husband and a daughter.
"It was a busy day, I had a lot of customers…But then again, I am happy, the business is running!" She answered, while smiling at him.
"Well…I prepared the diner, I thought it would make you relax after your day at work…" Stefan added to her.
"I appreciate your help, thank you!" Caroline answered him, while lowering her head to look at Rose. "You want to go put your elephant in your bedroom, sweetheart?"
"Ok!" Rose answered her, before running toward the stairs.
Caroline took a few steps away from the entrance door, before standing in front of Stefan.
"Thank you, it was nice of you to take care of Rose." She said to him.
"You are welcome, she is adorable!" Stefan answered her, adding. "Though, I have to confess that if she seems a bit hyper tonight, it is completely my fault!"
"What did you do? You bought her ton of cotton candy?" Caroline asked him, while holding her laughter.
"Yes, that…and ice cream, and chocolate bars, and soda…" Stefan answered to her.
"This time you'll be forgiven, Mister Salvatore!" She answered back to him, with a smile.
"Well…Thank you, Miss Forbes!" Stefan answered with laughter. "I made meat balls spaghetti…I hope you love Italian?"
Caroline got rid of his jean jacket, before taking a few steps toward the parlour room, and throwing it on a chair.
"Sounds good…" She answered him back "…Thank you!" She added one more time to him, while turning and looking at him in the eyes.
"…There is no need to thank me none stop, Caroline?" Stefan said to her.
"Well…You took care of Rose, helped with the diner…Just gave me an ernormous hand today…It's appreciated!" Caroline answered him.
Stefan nodded his head, while smiling at her.
"If you could keep her occupied while I go feed, before the actual food diner!" She said to him, while blushing and passing near him, before being stopped on her track by the door bell.
"I'll get it!" Stefan told her.
"No it's ok, I'll get it….It's probably my mom who's bringing me foods again…She always think that I am starving to death or something…" She answered him back, while directing her walk toward the entrance door, before turning the door handle and freezing all her movements, while seeing Tyler in front of her.
"Hey, Love! Missed me?" He asked her, taking a few steps to reach her, dropping a big traveling bag at his feet, encircling her waist with his left hand, while bringing her in full contact with his chest, grabbing her hair in his right hand to bring her face in proximity of his, before kissing her passionately on the mouth a second later.
Stefan who was directing his walk toward the kitchen corridor, hold his steps, turned and crossed his arms in front of his chest, while looking at the exchange and embrace between the two, while turning his head in negation.
"Tyler!" Caroline exclaimed, while pushing him gently away from her. "What are you doing here?" She asked him.
"Well…." Tyler started to explain, while reaching for his travelling bag on his feet, and bringing it on his shoulders. "..I was supposed to finish the semester on Friday…But, I was able to take one last test earlier...So, here Iam, Caroline…Here to stay for good now!" He added to her, passing beside her, while caressing her left cheek, before dropping his traveling bag at his feet again, just in front of Stefan standing position.
"Salvatore! Back in town as I can see…Here to cause troubles, or maybe trying to steal my girlfriend, what will it be?" Tyler asked Stefan, while putting his faces at a near inch of Stefan's, in a copy cat version of Stefan's standing position with his arms crossed in front of his chest.
"Tyler…So nice to see you again…And, if you insist…" Stefan started answering him, while lowering his head nearer of Tyler's in a confrontation gesture. "...And ask nicely, I'm sure it could be arranged between me and Caroline!"
"Both of you please! You're acting like children!" Caroline said to them, while approaching their standing position.
"You are dreaming Salvatore!" Tyler answered him, while pushing Stefan on his chest with both of his hands, before lowering his head to look at a little girl who was standing behind Stefan's legs, mostly afraid, while grabbing Stefan with her little hands. "…Oh hi sweetie, I did not see you there, you must be Rose, I am Tyler, a friend of Caroline!" He exclaimed to the little girl, with a smile on his face, while lowering himself on his knees to be at her height.
Rose stayed behind Stefan, while keeping silent. Stefan reached for her little hand, before raising her in his arms.
"It's ok, sweetie, Tyler is one of mine and Caroline's old friend…Aren't you, Tyler?" Stefan asked mockingly to him. "He won't hurt you!" Stefan added to Rose, while watching her hidden her face in the hollow of his right shoulder, before hearing her say in his ear, loud enough for Tyler to hear it:
"I don't like him, Uncle Stefan…Make him go away!"
"Well…" Stefan replied to Rose, with the biggest sarcastic smile on his face. "That is not nice of you, isn't it?" He added to her, while trying to hold his laughter, making Tyler crossed his arms in front of his chest in anger
"What is it, sweetie?" Caroline asked Rose, while caressing her hair. Rose turned her head to look at Caroline, keeping her silence, before turning it back in the opposite side.
"I think she is tired…and hungry…" Stefan replied to Caroline, while starting to walk into the corridor toward the back kitchen, adding. "Hope you like meat balls spaghetti, Tyler, because that is what we are having for diner!" Stefan said to him, while leaving a speechless Caroline and Tyler behind him, in the entrance corridor.
When this had happened? When did she loose all control over Rose to Stefan? Caroline thought to herself.
Caroline pushed Tyler inside the room, entered herself, before half-closing the door, putting a finger on her lips, telling Tyler to keep silent…While lowering her ear on the bedroom door to listen.
"Ok…They are still in the kitchen!" She said to Tyler, before putting her hands on each side of her waist and adding. "What are you doing here, Tyler? You almost gave me a freaking heart attack!"
"What am I doing here?" Tyler repeated to her, continuing. "It's you who called me two days ago, like a damsel in distress asking me for my help: Please Tyler, you know how much I suffered because of Stefan, could you help me…Could you come back, could you made up that we are together for the time he'll be in Mystic Falls…"
"Yes, I know! But then you did not answer me back …You kept silent…and you hanged up on me, making me wonder?" Caroline replied to him.
"Yes…I hanged up on you, Caroline, and I was mad as hell that you would, once again, play games to get rid of him, after the way he left you all alone five years ago…I was mad, because five years ago you rejected me…and I quote: I will always love him,Tyler…I can't be with you, I'm sorry…" Tyler screamed at her, while explaining all his anger.
"I'm sorry, I truly am…But you understood me at that moment…and we stayed friends…Are we friends,Tyler?" Caroline asked him.
"We are Caroline! And yes and no…I had to swallow the fact that this jerk was the love of your life, while I was tossed on the side by you! Who stayed with you all the nights that you were crying when he left? Me! I was the one! Only to been told that your heart would stay with him forever! And now…Five years later, you are asking me to help you…You are asking me to play the role of the loving boyfriend to push him away from you! Are you realizing how it makes me feel – and how hard it is?" Tyler asked her.
"I do…" Caroline replied to him, while lowering her head, and trying to hold her tears, adding. "I panicked…I called you, and for two seconds…it was the only thing I could think! You deserve better, Tyler…I was selfish…I did not even consider that you could have a girlfriend…and…I'm sorry!" Caroline said to him.
Tyler looked at her, before nodding his head, taking a few steps toward her standing position, and taking Caroline in his arms, while starting to caress her hair.
"It's ok! For the record…I don't have a girlfriend at the moment….And if I am here, it is because I decided to play the role of the loving boyfriend, Caroline!" Tyler explained to her.
"But why then?" Caroline asked him.
"Because I can't stand Salvatore, Caroline…And because I want to assure myself that you will never be with him!" Tyler said to her.
Screaming for the most part from the top of their lungs, they did not heard the little steps in the corridors, or noticed the little girl head and ear glued to the half closed bedroom door. Rose smiled, and started to run toward the stairs, before entering the dinning room.
"Uncle Stefan…Uncle Stefan!" Rose screamed from the top of her lungs, while rushing toward him.
Stefan turned on himself before catching Rose in his arms.
"Hey little mouse…Did you tell Caroline and Tyler that diner is served?" Stefan asked Rose.
"No…" The little girl responded to him.
"Rose, I asked you to go tell them that the diner is being served, what did you do instead?" Stefan asked Rose with a false angry expression on his face, while tilting his head.
"I listen to them while hiding behind the bedroom door…" Rose explained naturally to him.
"Rose! That is not something that a good little girl do…This was a private moment between them!" He said to her, before raising one of his eyebrows and adding with a sarcastic smile on his face. "…And?"
"The bad man…" Rose started explaining in her childish way.
"Tyler?" Stefan asked her.
Rose nodded her head as approbation.
"He said to Aunty Caroline that he wanted to play with her…" She said to him.
"Oh…." Stefan replied to Rose, while closing his eyes and trying to not burst into laughter. "…That is not for little girl to hear…It is something between adults, sweetie…"
"Like when you and Aunty Caroline were kissing this morning in your bedroom?" Rose asked him, making Stefan laugh and blush.
"Something like that!" He responded to her.
"OK…." She said to him, adding. "So he will play the friend of Aunty Caroline as a game then?"
Stefan raised his head and eyebrows with questionable doubts showing on his face.
"What do you mean by: he will play the friend of Aunty Caroline, sweetie?" Stefan asked the little girl.
"He said that he will play with her …and be his boy….." She tried to explain to him.
"His boyfriend…" He asked her, while seeing Rose nodding her head to him.
The biggest smile appeared on Stefan's face, before he lowered Rose on the floor.
"Go wash your hands before eating, sweetie!" Stefan asked Rose, while seeing her nodding her head to him, before leaving the room.
Then he turned, putting his hands on each side of his waist, with the biggest smirk on his face, while saying to himself:
"Ok Caroline, you want to play this game….Game on, sweetheart! But, I can assure you that it won't be in Tyler's bed that you'll end up!"
I can't wait to read your reviews guys!
Hope you enjoyed this third chapter of this sequel story.
Awww the fun I am having bringing back Tyler to the mix! You have no idea!
Now the game is really on between Stefan and Caroline! Plus, in the next chapters, you'll know a bit more about Stefan's past five years…and what is in store for all of them!