Chapter 4. Struggle for life or death

Damon was walking back and forth in the living room, thinking, "This is crazy! It can't be true." Damon murmured to himself. On the contrary, Stefan just sat on the sofa in front of the fireplace, drinking vodka, silently.

"Oh, come on, Stef. How can you still stay calm like this? Don't you have something to say?" said Damon. Stefan didn't answer. Instead, he just stared at Damon and asked "Do you love her?".

Damon frowned and was kind of astonished at the question that Stefan asked.

"What?! Are you out of your mind? ", said Damon.

Stefan laughed and shrugged, and he got up from the sofa, walking towards Damon peacefully. Then he asked again, "Do you love Elena? Answer me, right now." At that moment, Damon had realized that Stefan was up to do something. So, he answered, "Yes, I love her, Stefan. You knew, didn't you?".

Stefan did not get mad on what Damon had said to him; instead, he smiled and pated on Damon's shoulder, said in a gentle voice, "She is all yours. Please take good care of her".

Far away from being happy, Damon grabbed Stefan's collar with rage, and said "What are you talking about? What do you mean by saying she is all mine, hum?"

"You know what I mean" Stefan answered.

"I don' know! I don't know, Stefan! How can you do this to her? How can you be so cruel?"

Stefan cleaned his throat, and said with grief, "I believe my decision is for the best, for all of us". Tears were gathered underneath his eyelashes.

"No, this is not for the best. Elena cannot lose you. She loves you, and you should know that, Stefan!", said Damon.

"No, no, no, Damon. You know what? You're the one who is getting confused. Elena loved me, but she loves you now." said Stefan. And he walked back to the cabinet, took out a bottle of wine, and refilled his wineglass. Damon kept quiet because he knew how upset Stefan was. He just walked to the sofa and sat beside Stefan, took over Stefan's wineglass and drank up.

"Elena doesn't love me, Stefan. You know it's the sire thing. And I promised you that I'll fix it. You should stay with Elena, taking care of her, instead of sacrifice yourself for the cure", Damon paused, and continued to say, "If someone has to sacrifice, that would be me. I'll do this."

"No. I cannot be so selfish anymore, Damon. Due to my selfishness, I turned you into a vampire, and that is the most disgraceful thing I've ever done. I made a mistake. I don't want to be selfish this time."

Katherine just finished enjoying her shower in Damon's room, and was planning to go upstairs to have some discussions about the cure. While she was walking along the aisle, she heard the discussion between Damon and Stefan. Then, she rushed to upstairs, and grabbed Stefan's collar, panting, and said "No! No! It's not happening! I will not let you sacrifice yourself to get the cure for Elena!"

"I've already made up my mind, Katherine."

"No. Please don't do this, Stefan. We don't know whether the cure works yet. Do you really believe in what Klaus says?"

"I'm not only doing this for Elena; I'm doing this for all of us. With the cure, we can go back to normal life."

"I don't care! All I want is you! I need you to stay with me, forever", Katherine shouted.

"Whoa, this is the first time we reach a consensus, Katherine. I will not let you do that alone, brother" said Damon.

"I…."

The door bell rang when they were discussing about the cure. Damon went to the gate and didn't see anyone. Nevertheless, when he was about to close the door, he found someone lying on the ground with blood, badly injured, and almost dying. He turned the man over and discovered that was Tyler Lockwood. "What happened, Tyler?" Damon asked.

"It…..it….was…Klaus…he killed all the hybrids and werewolves….he wants to revenge…"

"What?"

Katherine and Stefan came to the gate and saw Tyler, "Tyler Lockwood, what is he doing here?" Katherine asked.

Damon looked at Katherine and Stefan, then said "I think we got a problem"

"What problem?" Stefan asked.

"According to what Tyler just said, Klaus killed all the hybrids and werewolves" Damon said.

"What?" Stefan and Katherine were in shock.

"Yep" Damon answered and shrugged.

"Then it's impossible to complete the cure anymore?" Stefan asked.

"Well, for temporary, I'm afraid so."

Katherine smiled behind the Salvatores. She was happy to know that the cure was ruined. "Elena doesn't deserve Stefan at all. Stefan is my, and no one can take him away from me" Katherine murmured to herself.

(To be cont'd)

A/N: Well, as a matter of fact, I didn't realize how difficult it might be to write a fan fiction until I tried to create one by myself. Again, this is my first fan fiction and I'm an L2 learner, so I might make some mistakes on punctuation in writing. However, I hope that you could focus more on my content instead of punctuation Please read and give reviews to my story so that I'd know how to make improvements, and create a more attractive storyline! Thank you! :)