Elena had done nothing but lying in her bed and staring at the ceiling all day. Literally. She didn't want to celebrate her birthday nor go to that birthday party she knew Damon had organized. She just wanted to stay in bed and forget what happened this morning. How could he actually show up like this? Pretending everything to be fine. She asked herself how this was supposed to work. Stefan being back, her being married to Damon. She closed her eyes but all she saw was Stefan handing her the rose, wishing her happy birthday. She shook her head, realizing how pathetic she was. It's been 3 years since she had seen Stefan the last time she wouldn't let one briefly appearance of him ruin this. Maybe he was already gone again. Well the thing is she didn't want him gone. She wouldn't admit it to herself but she enjoyed this briefly talk with Stefan. It's been a while but it still felt like home.

"Elena you're not even dressed? I have to bring you to the birthday party. Don't tell your husband I told you this."

Elena gasped when she heard the word 'husband' coming out of Stefan's mouth. "Wait, wait, wait Demon knows you're here?"

"Yes he does. I caught up with him. We had a nice talk. Now please get dressed and come down we need to get going. Oh and I'm moving back in." he said before slamming the door.

Wait what? No, no, no Stefan could not move in. This was all wrong, this could not work. She covered her whole body under the blanket for several minutes. She didn't want this to be real. Maybe she just had a bad dream. She sighed. This was not a dream. This was reality and she needed to start facing reality. If Stefan wants to move back in fine. Let him. Elena would not care. She stood up and searched for the prettiest dress she could find, did her make up and hair and walked downstairs where Stefan waited on the couch.

"Wow you look.. stunning." He said, running his fingers through his hair. Elena smiled. She didn't even want to smile but she did it anyway. It was not only a smile. It was her Stefan smile. The look she got when he was with her. That hadn't changed. They walked outside to his car where he opened her the door. She sat down and within less than a second Stefan sat next to her and started the car.

They drove without speaking for a while but when a Bon Jovi song came on Stefan turned the radio up and started singing. Elena let him enjoy himself for a minute before she turned the radio down. "You seem different. More .. happy, alive."

"That's because I am more happy and alive." He said with a cold smile. That was when Elena got it. Stefan had turned off his humanity. That's why he was so 'not caring-ish' that's why he could say the word 'husband' without feeling any pain.

"Stop the car." Elena yelled. When he didn't react she yelled louder. "Stefan I said stop the car." He finally pulled over and Elena jumped out of the car walking a few steps into the forest.

"Elena what are you doing?" he whispered knowing she could hear him.

Elena turned around but wouldn't stop walking. "I know that you turned off your humanity and I don't want you to do that so I'm just gonna walk to the party." She said quietly before turning around and walk on. She knew he wouldn't let her walk even with his humanity turned off. It maybe took 2 seconds for him to decide to follow her.

"What are you Elena? 5? Is that really necessary?"

"Obviously it is." she sighed and stopped walking. "Why are you doing this Stefan? You come back on my birthday but instead of telling me the reason that you're here, you turn off your humanity. I don't get it." she crossed her arms infront of her chest.

"Come on Elena don't play dumb. You know exactly why I have it turned off. Do you really think I could stand all of this in any other way? But I couldn't.. I couldn't stay away from you anymore. I needed to see you again. See if you're fine, see if .. the sire bond is still up."

Elena felt freezing whenever someone metioned the sire bond. Though nobody had mentioned it in a while. She didn't know if it was still up. But what she could feel was that she felt different for Stefan than she did when he left. When he left all she could see was Damon and now there was Stefan everywhere.

What if she was really just sired to Damon all this time? What is that made her love him?