AN : So guys, i received a Private Message from one of you (i won't name the person) telling me that i should stop writing in English because i speak English very bad. (it also said that the fact that i write in English is an insult to this language.) FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT I AM FRENCH AND ENGLISH ISN'T MY NATIVE LANGUAGE. IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE WAY I WRITE DON'T READ MY STORY. IT IS SIMPLE !

Anyway for the others, i am glad you like my story and the way i write. So here is chapter 7. Enjoy !

Chapter 7 :

Stefan's point of view.

I was shocked. I couldn't speak let alone move. I was just staring at her chest, at her body, her vampire body. How could she be a vampire again ? What was that supposed to mean ? For us ?

"Stefan, please say something" she whispered.

"How?" was the only thing I managed to get out of my mouth.

"I didn't know. I woke up in the morgue in the middle of dead bodies."

"Then where have you been those last two days?"

"I wanted to find out how it was possible. How I woke up."

"So?"

"I found the witch that gave us the solution that saved me. She told me that the cure was running through my veins. But I still had some vampire blood in my system. It was as if the cure was a way to shut the vampire blood out. But still it was in my body and the only thing that made me human was the cure. When I lost this huge amount of blood the vampire blood 's'est régénéré' really quickly and that got the cure out of my system and the vampire blood was the only thing left. So I turned again. And here I am. Katherine Pierce the survivor is a vampire again."

I was speechless. Her explanations were logical.

"Stefan, it doesn't change the way I feel about you. On the contrary, it hightens it ! My feelings for you are so hightened. Those last two days were awful because I didn't have you by my side. And I am so sorry I left you alone these days. I just needed to know what had happened to me." she paused, came towards me and hold my hands. " I hope you didn't miss me too much."

When these words came out of her mouth, one single thing came to my thoughts : Elena. I had spent the night with her. I...I cheated on Katherine with her.

"I need a minute." I said taking my hands back.

"Are you okay ?" she asked concerned.

"Yeah. I just...I need some time to process all this. You were dead and now you are back. But you are indeed dead.. Anyway just give me the day please."

"Okay. I know it is a lot to process. When you finally are okay to talk then you'll find me upstairs."

"Okay. Good"

She kissed my cheek and ran upstairs.

I instantly began heading to the door.

"Wait, where are you going brother?" Damon shouted from behind.

"I just...There is something I need to do."

I ran out and headed directly to Elena's place. I needed to talk to her. I needed to get this clear.

As I arrived at her porch I knocked on the door and within a few seconds later she opened it.

Her face immediately brightened.

"Well I didn't think it would be so fast for you to get over the guilt." she said grabbing my hand leading me inside and crushing her lips to mine. I couldn't kiss her back yet I did. It was so natural for me that I did kiss her back with all my heart. But when I remembered why I came here in the first place I pulled away.

"Is anything wrong?" she asked.

"We need to talk."

"Uh-Uh.. That doesn't sound good."

"There just is something I need to tell you."

"Ok tell me." she said sitting down in the living room.

"It just..It is so hard to say..."

"Hey Stefan, It is okay. Just say it."

I turned around. I couldn't face her. I didn't want to see her face once I'd tell her. I knew that it would hurt too much.

"Stefan?"

I took a deep breath and then let the words come out of my mouth.

"Katherine is alive."

The room fell silence. No noise. No sobs. No shouts. No sighs. Nothing. She didn't do anything. After a few seconds I turned around. She was still sitting on the couch. But her gaze was empty. Tears were running down her face. She seemed to be in shock. She wasn't even moving one finger.

"Elena?"

No answer. Her eyes didn't even move. She sitted still.

"Elena!" I said getting on my knees just in front of her.

As I brought my hand to her cheek she looked at me.

"What does it means?" she whispered

"What?"

"What does this means for us Stefan?"

"I don't know Elena. I...I thought she was dead. That is the reason why I slept with you."

"Right. You just slept with me because you needed to be comforted. It has nothing to do with your feelings for me of course." she said getting up.

"No Elena, that's not what I meant."

"Then what is it that you meant? What is it that you want?! Katherine or Me?"

"I..I don't know Elena. I can't choose."

"Yes you can. Just like I did. Just ask yourself who you want to spend your life with."

"And you made the wrong choice."

"I know. It is just that. I know now that I want to spend my life with you. And if you give me the chance to make you happy than I will do everything I can to do so. I love you Stefan. With all my heart. And I wish I didn't make you suffer this much. But I can not remake the past. But I sure can try to make your future amazing. I can make you happy. So I am here asking you to choose me! I know that's selfish but I don't care. There is nothing I want more than to be with you again. I want us again. I want people to see us again as the perfect couple we once were. The couple who is meant to be. The lovers who are going to end their lives together. That is what I want. And I need you to tell me that it is what you want too. So please Stefan tell me. Tell me you want me."

I was speechless. I didn't know that these was what she really wanted. I knew she wanted me again, I just didn't know she wanted me that bad.

"Stefan, please say it."

"Elena, I can't." I said.

"Wh...Why not?" she said as tears began rolling down her cheeks.

"Please don't cry Elena. Please. Not because of me." I said as I pulled her into a hug. I held her tight as If I didn't want her to let her go. Ever.

"Why can't we just be together? Is it because of me ? Are you still mad at me for the whole Damon thing ? Because if that is the case I swear I will do anything to make you forget I ever dated him, I ever chose him. I will show that you are the only one, that we are soulmates."

"Elena. It has nothing to do with you. I just...I don't know what I feel and who I want."

"Wait" she said as I let go of her "You are saying that you love both me and Katherine."

"I think so Elena." she shook her head with disbelief as I continued "I love you, I really do. And if you hadn't chose Damon a while ago, right now, we would be together. But when you were with Damon and I was miserable, Katherine was there for me. She helped me out with my PTSDs and I found back the Katherine I was in love with in 1864. I am so sorry to hurt you like this. I am sorry that I don't know what I feel."

After a few seconds of silence she spoke again.

"Do you realize how ironic the situation is?" she said

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"A few months ago I had to make a choice, Damon or you. And the situation hurt you a lot. Now it is my turn to be hurt. I guess that is how destiny is trying to make me pay for what I did to you."

As I remained silent she continued " But I don't care. If it means we get to be together again, I'll take the pain. I'll handle the hurt and I will wait for you. Even if you chose Katherine I won't let you go. I'll always be there telling you how much I love you and how much I want to be with. There is no way I am letting you live your life with Katherine. You and I are meant to be. I won't let Katherine take you away from me. I will fight for you. Forever and after. Even if I hope you will choose me in the first place."

After a few seconds it seemed like she has realized something and spoke again.

"No actually that is not what I am going to do. I am going to let you go with Katherine.

"What?" I exclamed "A few seconds earlier you wanted to fight. I just don't get it."

"I am letting you have your time with Katherine. I am giving you time to have a taste at what could life be with her. You will know what to expect from her. You will have a taste of what your future would be like if you choose her. And then you will be able to see what really makes you happy. Life with her or life with me. I am not saying I won't be jealous or hurt to see both of you together during this time but I think you need to try it with her. Just like I needed to try it with Damon. That's how I realized that I wanted you and nobody else."

"I don't know what to say Elena." that was the only thing I could say after that speecH.

"Just say yes. Say that you will try. But even with Katherine you will still love me. And even If you choose her there is still a part of you that is going to love me. Please. I need you to tell this to me so that seeing you with her won't be so painful that it is unbearable."

"Yes. I will try Elena. But keep in mind that I love you, that there is this part in my heart where your name is engraved. And it will still be there in 150, 1000 or 2000 years. You are my first real love Elena. You never forget your first love especially when you loved her as much as I love you."

Tears were now completely flooding her face yet she was smiling, a true franc smile which came directly from her heart.

"I love you too Stefan Salvatore."

She rested her hands on my chest and brought her lips to mine. I could feel she put all her heart in the kiss afraid it would be our last one for good. So I kissed her back with all my heart too. It was a chaste kiss but full of feelings. As we broke it she rested her forehead against mine. I cupped her cheeks with my hands wipping away the tears.
"I told you not to cry because of me" I whispered.

"Easier to say than to do." she laughed.

"Please Elena. I don't want to be the source of your happiness."

"No Stefan you will never be source of unhappiness to me."

"Then Promise me you will stop crying."

"I promise. Instead of crying i'll be hoping. Hoping that you will come back to me. Hoping that you will be source of my happiness again."

"That is a good thing."

"Yeah.."

We stayed like this a few more minutes before she let go of her hold on me.

"You should go before your..g-..Girlfriend worries." she said.

"Yeah. I should."

I headed to the front door but turned to face her again.

"I'll see you around eventually."

"You bet you will. Don't expect me not to keep an eye on you now that you are with Katherine."

"Bye Elena." I said laughing.

As I walk out, I could hear her whisper a quick "Bye Stefan" and sigh. I quickly headed back to the mansion and got upstairs. Katherine was there, writing in one of my diaries. She didn't seem to notice me so after a few seconds I talked.

"What are you writing in this exactly?" I said causing her to jump out of the chair.

"God you scared the crap out of me."

"I am sorry. But remember that you are a vampire again. There is no need for you to get scared."

"Yeah...you are right." she said as if she hadn't realized It.

"So what were you writing? Care to read it to me?"

"Sure." she said as she grabbed the book " So it says "Today, the love of my life has came back to life. Yet, instead of making love to her and kissing her, I went out god knows where." The end." she read with a little bit of anger.

"You are the one who said that if I needed time to think I could take it."

"Yeah. I meant 10 minutes or 30 minutes. Not 3 whole hours. And I also meant here not god knows where!" she laughed bitterly.

" I am sorry Katherine." was all I could say.

The room fell silent and as I rose my eyes to look at her I could see her staring at me as if she was waiting for something.

"What? Do I have something on my face?" I asked.

"Where the hell have you been those last 3 hours?!" she souted.

"Hey easy there. I just needed to think. I went to the woods to walk."

"Oh. Alright. You could have walked here you know?"

"Is that a joke ?"

"Nope. Not everything is a joke you know."

As I made my way to the closet to change clothes, I felt guilty for lying to her so I stormed out of the closet and talked again.

"Actually no I am going to be honest with you."

"What ?" she said taken aback by my sudden behaviour.

"I wasn't in the woods. I wasn't trying to think."

"So where were you?" she asked her face becoming serious.

"I was with Elena."

"Why?" she asked.

"I needed to talk to her and we-"

"Please if the next word coming out of your mouth are "had sex" I am going to kill her Stefan, and you too."

"No we didn't" that wasn't really a lie right. "We just talked."

"What did you need to talk to her about?"

"The truth is Katherine, I love you, I really do. But there is this part of me that is still madly in love with Elena. I thought I could make it shut up and be with you and make you happy but I can't. I can't ignore it. She told me I had to chose. You or Her."

"So...Are you breaking up with me because you chose her?"

"No Katherine I am not breaking up with you. I just...i thought you deserved to know the truth. I just needed to be honest with you. That is all. Now it is up to you."

"What do you mean?"

"Now that you know my feelings for Elena, Now that you know that I still don't know what I feel for both of you, Now that you know that I don't know who I want to spend my life with , do you still want to be with me?"

"So you are telling me that you want us to be together so that you will be able to compare our relationship with your relationship with her? It is all going to be a test?"

"I know that sounds selfish Katherine. I really do. And I know that asking this to you is horrible. And I would understand if you didn't want to. I really would."

"I understand Stefan."

"I know that it is a hard decis- Wait, What did you just say?" I asked.

"I understand. And I am in." she said with her usual smile "I understand why you need to be with me for a while to see if I am able to make you happy. I really understand Stefan. Don't worry."

"Ok..." I said a little taken aback by the fact she had agreed that fast.

"But keep in mind that I am going to make you so happy that you won't even remember who Elena is. You won't have time to think about her. You won't have any feelings for her once you will realized what I can give to you."

"Wow...It sounds like I have provoked a war between you guys."

"Oh you have . You have." she said as she approached me.

"Hey, remember I don't want you to hurt each other. Don't go after her, and more important, do not try to kill her."

"Do you think I am an idiot." she said resting her hands on the nape of my neck, playing with the little hair she could find there "That would ruin my chances with you."

"Good." I smiled.

"Maybe I will just torture her. Or call an original to compell her to forget you. I would call Rebekah probably seeing as how she is jealous that you replaced her."

"Hey. Nothing like that okay?" I said faking a pout.

"Okay. I was just joking." she said getting on her tip toes to give me a quick kiss.

"Hey what did you mean Rebekah was jealous?"

"Oh come on baby. That blonde original has always loved you. That is why she hates Elena and I."

I smiled.

"Hey!" she said hitting my shoulder. "Don't be pride because you have success with women."

"How did you know what I was thinking?!" I exclamed surprised.

"That is because I know you by heart Stefan, because I have always kept an eye you through those last 145 years. And because I love you Stefan Salvatore."

"I love you too Kath."

Katherine and I spend the day home doing things a normal couple would do. I felt happy, really happy. Yet, Elena was still there in a part of my head. I couldn't help but compare Katherine to Elena at every move she made. I didn't know yet what that was supposed to mean to I had time to find out.

END OF CHAPTER 7

So ends the 7th Chapter. Katherine and Elena are at war and the price for the winner is Stefan Salvatore. Who is going to win? How long will Elena wait to have the answer to the Katherine? Will the latter really keep her promise not to harm Elena? We will see!