Okay guys, I just want to say that in Chapter 9 I introduced you to Silvia to show you that Stefan, although he has said goodbye, still feels a hole in his heart for Damon. It's his brother; he has known him his whole life (150+ years). The longer Damon is gone the more he misses him. Silvia brought it out of him somehow. That no one, not even Caroline, can make him forget about that void he has and make him forget Damon and miss him any less, though Caroline does help, as you can see... so what are you waiting for, start reading this Chapter _ lol. (BTW I still haven't watched the Originals. Also I'm posting two chapters on the same day because they go together.)

Chapter 10

Caroline P.O.V

We watched as they put her casket in the ground. It was windy out and there were a few people here. Stefan was right; she doesn't have much family left. We met two of Silvia's siblings and three cousins. Her co- workers are here as well. I look at Stefan's face, his eyes were watery but he wasn't crying. I hold his hand and he turns his face and looks at me then grips harder. A tear falls from his face. Since not many people were there they asked Stefan to speak. He just talked about how good of a friend she was and how she would always say the right words and never give up. After the funeral we went back to the motel.

He sits on the bed and puts his head in between his hands. He's breathing harder. I sit next to him and put my hand on his back.

"Stefan, do you want to talk?"

"What do you want to talk about Caroline? How I miss my brother and it hurts like hell that he isn't here? That another person I cared about died? There's no point in talking about anything if it doesn't fix what has happened." his voice was louder than usual. I shake my head and sigh. I understand why he's upset so I ignore his tone. I guess I'm no help.

"Um...I'll be down stairs if you want to be alone." I stand up then turn. I grab the door knob but I feel his hand on my shoulder. I turn around.

He shakes his head. He sniffs his nose and tears fall down his face. "Don't go." He bites his lip but it still trembles. "Please" I frown then hug him tight and he sighs.

"Go take a shower, then we'll eat."

"Its fine... you can e-"

"Stefan you are not doing that again. I'm not going to eat without you."

"Okay" He walks into the bathroom. I sit on the bed and I hear the water turn on. This really hit him hard. I feel terrible. I don't know how to cheer him up or anything. I want to be there but I don't know how. I hear him sigh and sniff his nose... I shake my head. I take off my clothes then open the door to the bathroom slowly so he won't hear me. I close it and take of my bra and underwear.

I get in the shower and wrap my arms around his back. My head is on his back. He flinches. He places his hand on mine. I know he wasn't expecting me. He turns around and looks at me up and down. I look down but quickly look up; I don't want him to think I'm staring. I bite my lip. Things can get awkward really fast. I feel a little shy but I get over it... I wrap my arms around his neck, he's tall and I have to tip toe. He hugs me back. The water was warm. He looks at me straight in the eyes. He looks up and sighs; he gives me a weak smile. He pushes me against the shower wall and kisses my lips. His hands are on my face. My arms are around his waist and my hands on his back. He is pressed against me. All of his emotions were into this. There's anger and love, sadness and relief. I kiss him with compassion and love. I pull away and as much as I want to, it takes my all just too say this.

"Stefan. Not now, not while you're like this." He's breathing hard from the kiss. He takes a deep breath.

"I know" His hands are pressed against the wall on both sides of me. He puts his forehead on mine. "Promise me you won't leave me too. That's the last thing I need to break me... forever" he says a little above a whisper. I look into his eyes. They were still red. I kiss him on the fore head.

"I won't leave you, Stefan... I can't, it'll hurt too much from where ever I am." He sighs then hugs me tight. My chin is on his shoulder.

"I love you so much."

I grab the soap and a bath sponge. He scrubs my back and I scrub his back. We are both sitting in the tub. I decide to wash his hair. He sits between my legs. I smile to myself. He actually let me wash his hero hair. When I finish he washes mine. I sit between his legs. He adds shampoo to my hair then conditioner. After he brushes my hair we both just sit there letting the water hit us. His hands were around my waist. He kisses my neck. I turn around and I sit on him. My legs are on both sides of his legs.

"How are you holding up?" He trails his finger on my collar bone between my breasts down to my stomach. He leans into kiss me.

"I'm doing...okay. I like my view so I'm good." I sigh then smile, I roll my eyes. He smiles then he pulls me closer to him. I kiss him and put my head on his shoulder. His fingers tips are on my back he moves them up and down. It tickles and I laugh. He chuckles. I look at him. "But, I think I'll be fine for now on. I'm bringing Damon back so I'm not going to cry about him being gone anymore. Silvia made me realize that even if I don't get him back I will always have a good memory with him and I can use that. But you are the one that actually made me think about them and I didn't feel so alone. I'll be okay. I'm sure you don't like sad mopey Stefan anyways... Having you here with me and knowing you always are just makes me feel better. I can stay in here for hours with you but I'm hungry and I'm just tired of being here. Let's just go to New Orleans" I blush and he strokes my cheek.

"Okay, Ill drive" We both get out and change. We pack our bags and leave. Georgia is fun and hopefully next time we come, nothing bad will happen. But before we leave the state, Stefan goes to the old diner one last time. It's supposed to close so he just wanted to have a burger one last time. We take it to go. I'm driving so once in a while I put a fry in my mouth or take a bite from my burger.

"Oh my god. This burger is really good. I like the milkshake too. Chocolate whipped cream? Never had this" I say with my mouth full.

"Yeah it's my favorite, and Lexis. Damon liked the cheese steaks with avocado and onions." I look at him with my eyes wide open then I look back at the road. Cheese steaks? That sounds really good right now.

"Sad that they are closing. Why didn't they just sell the place?"

"She was the only one that wanted it open all these years. People have wanted to close it but they never had a reason to. It was always clean and safe and the food was cooked perfectly fine. She worked hard to keep it open" We both drink a blood bag. Before we left the boarding house I filled half of the blood bags with animal blood, so Stefan's drinking that. But I drop a little bit of human blood in them.

"So I didn't tell you the other day, which is really late for me to tell you this. Wow. I waited this long?"

"Caroline. Get to the point." he chuckles. I laugh.

"Shut up... anyways the other day I found a spell to make Damon and Lexi pure human so we can change them right after the spell and they become vampires again no aging problem." I feel his eyes stare right at me.

"You waited this whole time to tell me that? You do know that was the main problem to why we couldn't do the ritual right?"

"Yes but it slipped my mind. Besides we need to find a witch to do it."

"Okay, won't be hard." He lightly punches my arm but it still hurt.

"Ow! What was that for?" he laughs.

"That's for waiting so long to tell me? I would have probably saved a gallon of tears if I knew this information." I smile. I smack him on his shoulder. My eyes are still on the road.

"Hit me again and I'll be sure to make it more than a gallon of tears." I quickly look at him and he puts his hands up in surrender. I laugh. He kisses me on the cheek.

A couple hours later Stefan falls asleep. I wasn't tired. I drove all the way to New Orleans. It's beautiful here. There are many lights and pretty buildings. I asked Klaus to text me the address. By five A.M I finally got to Klaus house. I still wasn't tired, maybe a little. The music kept me up and I stopped at DD and bought a coffee.

"Stefan wake up" He doesn't wake. So I shake him "Stefan..." I take of my seatbelt. I kiss him. He groans. "Wake up"

"Where are we?" He sits up and rubs his eyes.

"Klaus's house" He gives me a confused look.

"We're in New Orleans?" I nod. "You drove this whole time? Babe I'm sorry. You should have woken me up before. You must be tired."

"Nah, not really. I didn't mind. Let's get our stuff and go inside." We grab our bags and ring the doorbell. Klaus opens the door.

"Hello love, welcome." Me and Stefan walk in.

"Hey Klaus" I give him a friendly hug. Why not, he is letting us stay in his home.

Stefan's P. O. V

She hugs Klaus and I can't help but get a little jealous. I shake his hand.

"We can talk in the morning. I think you both should get some rest. I'll show you to your rooms." Klaus gave Caroline and I got our separate rooms. It was weird but we didn't say anything. I put my stuff by my bed and change into sweats and a t-shirt. I lie in my bed and shut my eyes. I feel someone get into the covers and wrap their arms around my waist. I turn around to see Caroline. I pull her in close to me.

"You know this is the second time you sneak up behind me." I smile .She nods and smiles back at me. The next morning, which is like four hours later, I wake up but Caroline is not next to me. My heart beats fast but I calm down. I go into the bathroom and brush my teeth and do my normal routine. I drink a blood bag then go down to the kitchen and Klaus is there with... Hope? He doesn't see me and he's just playing with her. He has her in his arms.

"Hey" I walk in and sit at the table. "She's cute, how many months is she?" He looks up at me.

"She's a month... but she looks and acts about four months." He hands her over to me and I start playing with her. She's beautiful. She has brown hair and she has Klaus nose, eyebrows and eyes. I tickle her and she smiles at me. I smile at her. It's amazing how I'm holding the most powerful creature in my arms. I felt her energy before I walked in the kitchen.

"Do you know where Caroline is?" He walks towards me and hands me a bottle. "Okay. I guess I can feed the baby." The milk was pink. "Why is it pink?"

"I don't know where she is... and there's blood in the milk. She's vampire, remember?" I'm asking too many questions... well here is another questions.

"You wanted to talk, about what?"

"Nothing much, I help you, you help me. Everyone is happy. "He gives me a weird smile. " The full moon is tonight, if you're not aware."

"Yeah I know. Hopefully everything turns out okay." Gosh where's Caroline. She's probably out buying stuff. I decide to call her. I notice her name in my phone is 'Care 3 3' in my phone. I smile. She picks up her phone.

"Hey babe"

"Hey Care less than three less than three." She pauses for a second. Then she laughs.

"I see you saw my name in your phone." I smile.

"Where are you? "Klaus is still in the kitchen. I have my phone between my shoulder and ear while I feed the baby.

"I had to do something's." I can tell she's doesn't want to tell me. But I don't question her, if she wants to tell me she will.

"Okay, I'll see you later."

"Alright, love you." she hangs up the phone. I look at Klaus and he sitting there drinking his tea. Rebekah comes into the kitchen.

"Good morning Stefan." She smiles at me. She comes and smiles at Hope. "Hello, cutie. How's the milk?" She takes the baby and sits down.

"So, Elena has her switch off. But I'm sure once she sees Damon it'll be flipped back on."

"Yes, I saw her. She talked to me the other day. It looks like she doesn't care if Damon is here or not. She refuses to help me but I don't care what she says. I took her blood the other day. All I need is yours." I looked surprise. Wow, that was... something.

"Where is she?"

"Locked somewhere in the house. Don't worry she's fine." I open my mouth to say something but I stop myself. At least she's not going around killing people. I make myself breakfast and some for Caroline if she ever decides to come.

It was the afternoon but the sun was going down. Caroline was still not here. They were preparing everything for the ritual. The witches had set everything up for later on. Caroline comes barging through the door with someone. She smiles at me.

"I found a witch to do the spell." So that's what she was doing the whole time.

"Where'd you find her?"

"I'll tell you later"

Okay, so I stopped it here because, like I said, there will be two chapters. This is the first one. Not much happened. I'll continue it right where I left off. Thanks for reading. Leave a review and tell me what you think :)

What do you think about Stefan's break down?