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Simone sat in the middle of the woods by an empty bonfire pit, staring up at the sky as it began to rain. She didn't move, she continued to sit there as it rain. The tears cover her face began to mix with the rain now falling from the sky. She couldn't do anything as she wrapped her arms around herself and cried, she cried loudly not caring who or what heard her. She was trying to cry the pain out of her, but it wasn't working, it just seemed to be getting worse. Sitting there she didn't know what to do, she couldn't call the rest of her sisters because that wouldn't be helpful, all she would hear from them would be a gang full of I told you so's. Gazing up at the storm clouds with pure black eyes, the storm began to worsen as the winds picked up and were now making an eerie howling noise. As loose branches from trees began to fall, and old leaves from last year's fall began to fly everywhere in all directions. Simone just sat there rocking back and forth, crying. Next thing a thunderous boom came out of nowhere as a strike of lightening hit a nearby tree, splitting it right down the middle.


"Oh my God. It looks awful out there," Ashlyn said as she sat next to Pogue on the living room floor.

Pogue too looked out the window, "Yea that came out of nowhere. It was really nice and sunny about an hour ago."

Reid entered the room, "It's like someone flicked a weather switch. I also thought that lightening never struck the same place twice, I swear it's hit the same spot out there in the woods at least five times."

"It's Simone," Caleb said as he stared focused out the window as well.

"Why would she be doing something like this?" Tyler asked.

All the girls turned and looked at Caleb. Without him even saying they already knew.

"Caleb," Dani said lightly.

"I had to do it. She's in love with him. You know that."

Hailey sighed, "We have to go find her."

"I wouldn't do that. She's pissed and hurt right now. She has so many different emotions running through her right now that her powers are almost at their highest potential, she probably can't control anything she does right now and anyone is at risk around her," Pogue said which surprised them all.

There was soon a knock on the front door.

"Hey Stefan," Reid said opening the door and stepping aside for him to enter, Elena was with him.

"Hey guys," He said as Elena waved.

Caleb then straightened his posture, "What brings you here?"

"I was looking for Simone. She's not answering her cell, she's not back at the house and no one has seen her in town. I thought maybe she'd be here. Plus we need to close this thing in with Klaus and soon, Tyler has told me that he's began making more hybrids," He told them all.

"Well I do know where Simone is," Caleb said nonchalantly, almost as if he wasn't there in the same room with them.

Stefan gave him a sort of ok where is she look.

Caleb motioned towards the window, "Look. You see the bolt of lightning that just struck? Well count to thirty it's going to strike again, in the same spot."

"That's impossible," Elena said.

"Yes it's impossible when it's natural," He said.

"So what are you saying?" Stefan asked.

"That's Simone. She's created this God awful storm. That's her causing the lightning to continuously strike the same spot." Caleb said.

Pogue then spoke, "She's more powerful than we thought."

"Why would she be doing that?" Elena asked.

Caleb turned to her, "We broke up."

Stefan began backing up towards the door, "Elena, guys, I have to go find her. Stay here as long as you want, take my car back to my house." He said tossing Elena his keys before walking out the door.


Simone stood up, finally, from where she was standing and them all hell broke loose as she let out a scream which resulted in the few trees around her bursting into a million pieces of woodchips around her. The ground then began to tremble a bit, almost like a slight earthquake.

"Stop It!" Simone heard someone yell from the edge of the trees that she hadn't blown apart.

"Stefan?" She called out.

Stefan then began walking towards her, "Simone please stop this, you can hurt yourself or someone else could get hurt."

"Stefan don't come near me. You'll get hurt," She said over the roaring of the thunder.

He didn't listen as he continued towards her, "You won't hurt me."

Still crying she responded, "Stefan."

She then dropped to her knees sobbing as the storm suddenly stopped.

"Stefan. He left me. Caleb left me."

Stefan sat on the wet ground with her, "Simone he didn't leave you. He broke up with you. There's a difference and I'm not siding but he did it for a good reason too."

"But I didn't want to break up. I wanted to be with him," She said.

"You wanted to be with my brother as well. You can't have them both and expect it to be ok because it's not. No matter which way things went someone was going to get hurt. Yes, Caleb broke up with you but he's hurting about it too, he proposed to you, you're the one he wanted to marry. I'm sure he still wants that but he just wants you to be sure if that's what you want," He said.

She laid her head on his shoulder, "Stefan it hurts so bad. I've never hurt this bad. I just want the pain to stop."

"It'll only stop when you find out who you truly are happy with," He told her. "Now can we go home?"


"You are ruining this girl's life!" Stefan said to Damon as they stood in his bedroom.

Damon stared at his brother, "I'm ruining her life? I did nothing to the girl, I tried to stay away. I tried!"

"Well you didn't try hard enough. Caleb broke up with her because she's in love with you," Stefan said as he leaned against the wall.

Damon walked around and sat on his bed, "I don't know if I should be happy about that or if I should feel sorry for her."

"For once can you not think about yourself?"

"How am I thinking about myself? I didn't care if she chose me or Caleb, that was a decision that I left for her to make and obviously Caleb made it for her," Damon said.

Stefan ran his hand over his face, "Man she's hurting right now."

"What? You want me to go talk to her?"

Stefan shook his head, "No that's the last thing I want you to do right now." He finished before leaving out.

"Want to talk?" Stefan asked as he entered Simone's room.

Simone had her face buried underneath the many of pillows on top her bed, she didn't respond.

Stefan walked over to the bed and sat down, "Do you want me to leave you alone?"

"No," She mumbled from underneath the pillows.

"Ok, well talk to me."

She sat up, then instantly laid her head in Stefan's lap as he began to stroke her hair, "Stefan, I wish I couldn't feel. You know like you vampires, I wish I could just turn it off."

"You don't want that. That's basically what makes you human Simone."

"Well I don't want to be human then!" She yelled as she wiped away another tear.

Stefan inhaled deeply as he stared off into space, he did wish that there was something that he could do to take away her pain. There was one thing he could do, but that was out of the question, Damon would kill him and Stefan would probably kill his self because of the guilt.