I do not own the vampires diaries or twilight. I only own Grace, Aidan and Alexander.
This chapter will focus on Stefan, Edward with some Aidan/Bella interaction
Character Death like in the show. Please ignore the grammar errors, too tired to even care.
PS: I am considering writing another VD/Twilight (OMG another one?) fanfic but with some of the Secret Circle as well. The basic plot is Bella and Klaus were lovers 1000 years ago BUT the Originals weren't the first vampires. It would take place before Twilight but after Nick's death in Secret Circle and beginning of season 3 of VD with the Original family being brought in early.
Should I do it?
Enjoy
Izzie
Eight
Forgive Me
"You're going to have to face him sooner or later, Edward."
The bronze haired boy looked at the brunette Original vampire nestled across from him. Lain out across the couch, Bella was skimming through her worn out copy of Wuthering Heights while the freshly converted vampire was sitting in front of the piano. Tanya had gone out hunting, so he had no need to worry about her pestering him. The other Denali were off enjoying the town now that Bonnie had made them all daylight rings. Speaking the witch, Kol had whisked her away for the rest of the weekend, making sure to write down Caroline Forbes number before crushing his feraline's own cell phone. Her other three siblings were out searching for Finn and their mother while Mike and Jacob had gone off to the cottage Bella had rented just for them a few towns over.
That left the two of them in house until Tanya's return. Edward had been playing the piano aimlessly, his mind still wrapped around Stefan's pained expression when he told him to leave him alone. It had been two weeks since then. Abby had been staying with the Forbes family, while Bonnie switched between her friend's house and staying at the Mikaelsen estate. Stefan had tried coming around a few days after Edward dismissed him but was met with the fury of Rebekah; who had come to enjoy Edward's company. The older female Original had torn the Ripper a new one, and made good on her promise to rip Stefan's genitals off if he so much as came near Edward until the boy said he was ready.
He stopped coming around after that.
"I don't want to forgive him," Edward sighed and turned to her fully. "He hurt Bonnie."
"He wasn't going to kill her,"
"How do you know?"
"Stefan's heart is pure. He may be succumbing to the darkness now but he had always been pure at heart. While you two were together, did he ever kill someone?" Bella questioned and sat up, her book coming to rest on her lap. Edward shook his head no. Stefan had never laid a hand on a human, he had simply been feeding off animals. Mainly wolves and mountain lions. "So what makes you think that he hasn't tried to atone for the things he's done? Bonnie told me about how he came to her asking for forgiveness. And she told him she would think about it. He laid not a hand on her or her mother, it was Damon."
"Stefan's brother."
"Who is more obsessed with Elena than Stefan himself," Bella pointed out. "And the reason for that is because he still cares for Katherine."
"You mean love,"
"No I mean he cares for her." Bella rolled her eyes and stretched. "I care for Katerina, because while she resembles my dear friend Tatia, she is not her. Elijah will hopefully realize that soon and see her for who she really is. Stefan cares for Katherine, or he is hiding quite well. He loved Elena, but having his emotions turned off had given him time to think, hopefully, and from what I've witnessed so far, he loves you."
Sighing, the mind-reader arose from his perch and looked at Bella. "I guess age and wisdom do go hand and hand."
"Don't be mean," Bella pouted and grinned at his laugh.
Stefan sat in front of the fireplace. Damon was crafting up twelve stakes made of white ash from Wickery Bridge to kill off the Originals. Although he wasn't up for the idea, he knew if he didn't do this then Damon would know that he wasn't with them. He knew having them kill the Originals meant he would lose Edward's trust forever; if there was any left. He loved the emerald eyed boy more than anything else.
"Alright, twelve stakes," Damon proclaimed walking into the living room. Alaric was behind him, no longer wearing his daylight ring. Bonnie was trying to get the evil spirit out of it before he could wear it again. "Ready to stake us some Originals?"
Stefan didn't answer. Was staking them worth loosing the one he had mourned for a hundred years?
Damon seemed to sense this and rolled his eyes. "Oh come on Stefan," he handed the bag to Alaric and walked up to his brother. Neither of them noticed the door open and close and Damon grabbed his brother's collar. 'You've been going back on your Bunny diet, you've been reverting back to old Stefan and it isn't for Elena. It's for a guy who you think you love."
"I know I love him Damon."
"No you love Elena," Damon insisted. He pushed his brother up and slapped his back. "Now let's go kill us some-"
He was thrown to the ground and groaned and looked into cold green eyes that were framed by dark locks. He growled up at the younger man who rolled his eyes and throw Damon into the wall. The noise alerted the attention of Caroline and Elena, who had been in the basement and came upstairs to find Damon coughing while a young man Caroline recognized.
"Aidan."
The man turned to her and his expression did not soften. "Caroline."
"You know him Barbie?" Damon croaked and blurred to grab Aidan.
"Damon let him go!" Elena cried.
"He threw me into a wall Elena!" Damon shouted back. "Why should I let him go?"
Aidan narrowed his eyes and reached behind Damon, throwing him over his shoulder and pinning him to the ground. His lips parted and words Damon could not understand flowed into his ear canals. They were hypnotic and drew him. He barely noticed how Aidan's eyes turned an ice blue. "Now listen to me and listen well. Stay on the ground until I say so."
The siren turned his attention towards Elena. "You're going to call off this idiotic attempt at the Mikaelsen family's lives. Do you understand?"
"Klaus tried to kill me."
"Oh boo-fucking-hoo," the ice eyed man rolled his eyes. "So what? You're a danger magnet; it's going to happen."
Elena looked gobsmacked. Turning to Caroline, "Are you willing to loose the things your heart loves most in order to kill someone who has caused you no harm? Because Elena is your 'friend'?"
"Yes,"
Aidan scoffed. He turned to Stefan, "I know you aren't. The one you love will despise you forever."
"What are you talking about," Elena frowned. "Stefan loves me."
"And this never-ending love triangle has been broken you harlot," the siren growled deeply.
"What are the Originals to you?" Alaric asked.
"They are a family that has been through enough," he answered and his hand tightened as he gazed down at Damon. "Mind telling me which one you were going to off first?"
"The one Stefan's boy-toy follows around," Damon rolled his eyes. "Isabella."
That answer sent him across the parlor and against the door. Aidan looked on coldly and he turned towards the others. "Lay a hand on her, or any of her family, and I will make sure you all feel her wrath, not mine. A woman scorned is a terrifying sight."
He stole one last glance at Stefan before taking his leave, "You're not an idiot." He called out over his shoulder as he stepped on Damon's chest and out the door.
Finn came crashing through the mansion and Bella came walking down the stairs as Rebekah and Klaus came walking through. Edward had left to clear his head and she had been alone. Rebekah smiled up at her sister.
"Hello Isa, anyone back?"
"Kol is lounging in his room. Bonnie is waiting for you Nik," Bella said with a slight cold shoulder to her older brother. He nodded and walked off to find the witch. Bella turned back to Rebekah then Finn. "We're all going out. Kol!"
He blurred beside her and smiled warmly at his sister before looking at Finn with anger. "Shall we?"
They all ended up in the square. From across the way, Elena, Matt and Caroline saw them with Stefan beside the doppelganger. "This is our chance," Elena whispered to him and moved towards them when Stefan pulled her back. She looked at him with a frown. "What? This is our chance to end it all and you're holding me back?"
"They look occupied." Stefan explained.
"It is a surprise attack Stefan," Elena rolled her eyes. "You're worse than Jeremy. But he's back in Denver with Grace," she said the werewolf's name with disgust. The two did not like each other, Stefan had seen how Elena looked at the blonde werewolf like she was going to kill her brother any minute at the Mikaelsen ball. Jeremy had gone back to Denver for the rest of the school year and promised to return by the summer's end. Last the vampire heard from him through Ric, Grace was pregnant. He didn't the young hunter had it in him but he did.
"At least Jeremy kill a hybrid."
"Are you two fighting?" Caroline muttered so low only Stefan could hear them. "Now?"
"Yes," Stefan growled out.
"It's not becoming of you," a voice said. Both turned to see Edward looked at them with a look of sheer boredom. He looked like he wanted to off himself but when he laid eyes on Stefan, anger flashed in his eyes. Pure anger. He blamed him still and despite Bella's words, he would not forgive the Ripper.
"Edward," Stefan whispered.
"Ripper," he acknowledged and looked them all up and down. "Barbie Vampire, Quarterback and Slut." He smiled leeringly at Elena who pouted. "You're worse than Katerina, at least she had the nerve to stop. You just string them all along like it's a game."
He pushed past them and towards Bella. She smiled when he took her hand and gave her a hug. He greeted the other Originals and snarled at Finn. The older vampire looked angered but Bella fixed the younger one with a glare and he stopped. She was about to speak when a voice called out to her. The siblings and Edward turned to see Aidan walked towards them with a smile on his face. Bella blushed softly. She had been avoiding him since their kiss and it had worked so far.
"Aidan," she greeted. He smiled and took her hand, placing a kiss to her knuckles.
"I haven't seen you in a while," he explained with a smirk. "I missed you."
Edward hid his laugh while Kol and Rebekah took their older brother towards the Grille to give him a talk. The bronze haired musician smiled and followed them. Caroline and Elena turned to Stefan and Matt, ready to format a plan when they found Stefan had disappeared.
"Where'd he go?" Elena asked.
Matt shrugged. "He was gone before I noticed."
He was lying, Caroline noticed. He knew where he was.
And she knew where he was as well. Following behind Edward Cullen with a mission to win him back. He was throwing caution to the wind and saying screw Elena. She mentally cheered for him. In her opinion, she thought Stefan seemed more at peace with himself when Edward was around and it seemed Mike thought the same.
"Is it done yet?"
Bonnie rolled her eyes. "No." she grumbled. "It's going to take a bit Klaus, so wait."
Klaus sighed and slumped into a chair. "I want this to be over."
Bonnie stopped studying the spell and looked at the hybrid. Was he really so impatience that he was going to be a complete asshole? Yes, she answered her own question and shook her head. She went back to studying the spell.
"What does he see in you?"
She snapped her head up. "Who?"
"Kol," Klaus muttered. "Aside from doing anything Elena says, what's so special about you?"
"What was so special about Tatia?"
He blurred and was in front of her in a second. "How do you know about her?"
"Kol," Bonnie rolled her eyes. "He told me about how you loved her more than anything. You would have died for her, yet her death broke you. Now imagine how I would feel if I lost Kol or any of your family and see where I'm going. I'd be crushed beyond repair."
"You acknowledge us as family?"
"Yes," she answered. "You should thank Bella for that."
Klaus rubbed his face. "I've cause her so much pain."
"What did you do to make her hate you?"
"I kill her lover," Klaus whispered. "I ripped his heart out and gave it to her as a gift. And she has every right not to forgive me for it. I just...I didn't want to loose her."
"You wanted a family," Bonnie realized. "You were alone and they made you feel like you had something until they all betrayed you."
He nodded. "I snapped with Bella and she ran."
Bonnie smiled sadly at him. "You're not so much of an asshole as I thought," she said and went back to the spell. She shut her eyes and placed all the cups of blood on the table and then went to work.
Tossing the dart, Edward hit the mark. Rebekah pouted. "That's no fun," she said.
"Sorry Bekah," he laughed and ran his fingers through her hair to mess it up. The blonde looked him up and down with a look of pure desire in her eyes. She sighed and moved away.
"Are you sure you're gay?"
He arched an eyebrow. "Maybe."
She smirked. "Want to test that?"
He turned his head towards Stefan's back and then shrugged his shoulders and leaned down, kissing the blonde woman. He felt nothing, absolutely nothing and he pulled away. She looked like she felt nothing either and he grabbed two shots of tequila and handed one to her. "Well?" she asked.
"I'm sure as gay as I was when I started," he grinned and they downed their shots. "Another go?"
"Bring it on, Cullen." Rebekah smiled.
Across the way Bella, Finn and Kol were playing pool. Or better yet, Kol and Bella were teaching their brother how to play. Elena slipped Matt the bottle of vervain and watched as he went to get their tray to refill their liquor. Bella could feel Aidan's gaze on her as she bent over to rack up the balls. Kol shot the siren a glare.
"Kol," Bella and Finn chided.
"He won't stop looking at you," Kol pouted.
"He'll get over it." Bella smiled when she heard Aidan grumble under his breath. She looked up at Finn. "Do you understand this game now?"
"Yes,"
Kol bent over and broke the triangle. "Well then brother, you're up first."
Edward leaned against the wall, a cigarette between his lips and the sounds of humans filled his head. "Hello Damon," he called out before blowing out the smoke.
"Aren't you a bit young to be smoking?"
"It won't kill me," the younger boy shot back.
"Uh-huh," Damon leaned up next to him. "Where's my brother?"
"Inside."
"Hmm,"
Edward frowned. Damon was blocking his thoughts. Whatever the hell he was thinking, he had doing a damn good job at keeping it from the mind reader. He turned to ask him what was going on when Damon slammed him against the wall. He coughed and dropped the cigarette. Damon stepped on it and looked into the boy's eyes. "I can't compel you but I am going to warn you. Don't interfere."
"Elena's just using you."
"No she isn't,"
"Keep telling yourself that," Edward rolled his eyes. He shoved Damon off of him and turned to see Caroline looked at him. "Oh great."
"Sorry," she said and blurred to him. He shut his eyes, waiting for the blow when he head a snap and opened his eyes to see Damon drop to the floor. He looked at the blonde for answers. "Matt and I like you more. Now hurry, because Elena is going to stake Finn."
He nodded and blurred off to find his friends and save them.
As he turned the corner, he was met with Elena slammed the stake into Finn's chest, provoking a scream from Bella. The scream alerted not only Edward, but Kol and Rebekah as they came rushing out the door to find Bella rushing over to her brother.
"Finnik!" Bella grabbed her brother and began to stroke his hair, "Listen to me, you weren't a monster, brother. You weren't," she choked on a sob and Kol pulled her against him as Finn began to blaze. Rebekah dropped to her knees, crying beside her watched the scene, watched as Elena rushed off and slumped against the wall. Tears fell from his eyes, his dead heart heavy.
Why the hell was he so weak?
"Edward,"
He looked at Stefan, his eyes cold and the Ripper sighed before turned to leave. "I know you didn't do it," Edward whispered.
"I'm sorry,"
Edward chuckled hollowly.
"And we won," Damon smirked. "Well close to it."
Elena watched as Stefan looked into the flames. "Stefan, we're one step closer to destroying Klaus."
"Leave him alone Elena," Damon grinned into his drink. Caroline, Alaric and Matt sat across from them. Matt had only slipped the vervain their drinks and he felt terrible for it. The door busted open and all six of them turned to see an angry Isabella walking up them. She reached for Damon, throwing him out the window, onto the patio. She turned at a terrified.
"Remember me?" she asked rhetorically. Elena's mouth went dry and she reached to grab another ash stake, only to find the bag gone. Where was it?
"Bella," everyone turned to see Stefan with the bag in his hand near the fireplace.
"Are those the stakes that you used to kill my brother?" she asked.
"Yes."
"Stefan don't you dare!" Damon called coming into the room. He made a beeline for Bella, only to drop to his knees in pain. Bonnie stepped into the room, her eyes trained on Damon. Elena looked shocked and betrayed. "Bonnie..."
"It's your choice," Bella looked at Stefan. "Destroy them or I kill your brother."
He didn't look like he could choice.
"Or would you rather I take Edward's life instead?"
Stefan flinched. He dropped the back into the fire, much to Elena's cry of protest. The smell of burning leather and wood clogged the house. Bella nodded her head in understanding and turned to Elena. "Your time is coming quicker than you think, doppelganger. Murdering my brother only makes it easier for me to kill you."
Elena gulped.
The Original and witch turned to leave when Stefan spoke, "Were you really going to kill him?"
Bella paused and turned to him. "No. I would never tear him from you once more."
Bonnie and Bella nodded and walked out the Boardinghouse.
"You're just not going to quit," Bella scoffed as she walked into her room. Aidan smiled at her and walked up to her.
"Of course not." The siren smiled. "I've fallen for you, Isabella Mikaelsen. I will love you until the day I die."
"How sappy of you," she observed.
He blurred, pinning her to the wall of her room. He could smell her arousal and smirked deeply, pressing his body to hers. "Yet you react to it like a cat in heat," he whispered against her skin. She moaned and ground her hips against his. He hissed and looked deep into her eyes. "Isabella..."
She shoved him onto her and straddled him, grinning down at him. "Enough talk," she growled out and kissed him.
Edward walked up to the Mikaelsen estate and found Stefan sitting on the steps. The former Ripper looked up at him and he just smiled softly. Wordlessly he walked up to him and took a sit next to him. They sat there and somewhere along there, Edward rested his head on his shoulder and entangled their fingers.
They didn't need to say what they were thinking. "I'm sorry" and "I forgive you" didn't need to be spoke between them.
