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Chapter 21
Gone

It had been two days since Elena found out Stefan left, two day since she had her still beating heart ripped from her chest. She'd been going through everything numbly, not really paying full attention to anything, She'd burnt Margaret's food multiple times in those two days, she'd done a lot wrong. The house was a total mess because she hadn't picked up at all, it wasn't right.

Elena had just put the twins down for a nap when there was a knock at the door. She'd learned to to get her hopes up that it was Stefan but she always thought about it. This time it made her think about the honeymoon for an odd reason. They'd wanted to go on Monday next week, it was Saturday, Stefan had those days to come back or Elena's hope was dead.

"Coming." she said before the person knocked again. She got to the door and opened it, standing there before her in ripped, ragged, dirt covered clothes was her Stefan. Tears ran down her cheeks and she hugged him tightly, he hugger her back.

"I though you left me." her voice broke a little.

"I would never leave for that long without telling you, Elena." he said, rubbing her back and walking in the door with her still attached to him and kissed the top of her head.

"Well then why did you?"

"I went to meet up with Damon and I thought it would be a lot easier and I'd walk out of there just fine but Viv decided she wanted to take me back ot Italy so she dragged me onto a plane and finally Damon got there yesterday and decided to be Damon and beat me and then he and Viv went God knows where and I got out of here last night." he explained.

"Oh, my poor Stefan!" Elena said, hugging him tighter and taking him to the sofa. She sat down and he sat next to her and pulled her into his lap. She tipped her head back and exposed her neck.

"No" he refused as usual.

"Stefan, if I know the old Damon he bled you, drink." she said.

"He did but I don't want to take advantage of you." he said.

"Stefan, so help me I will force you to if you don't in about five seconds." Elena said, it sounded funny, forcing a vampire to drink blood. He groaned audibly and bit down gently on her neck. She smiled as he did, stars streaking and comets falling around her in her bliss. He stopeed all to quickly it seemed, as usual.

"Thank you." Elena managed to say in her state.

"Mmmhmm." he said dazed. They sat there like that for a long while. both coming back to normal before Elena got off the couch.

"So, how was everything while I was gone?" he asked, getting up and pulling Elena close again.

"Really super crappy, you have no clue how depressed I was, I couldn't do anything."

"I'm really sorry about that." Stefan said, pecking her on the lips.

"It's alright, I guess, just so long as you swear not to let it happen again." Elena said.

"I swaer, how were the twins and Margaret."

"I honestly can't say. I wasn;t peying a whole lot of attention."

"Oh, my poor Elena." Stefan said, mocking her from earlier.

"Shut up!" she smiled, playfully slapping his arm.

"You hit like a girl." he smirked.

"And you are awfully obnoxious today, Mr. Salvatore."

"I think I need to be tought a lesson, Mrs. Salvatore."

"Alright, follow me to the classroom, then." she smiled, taking his hand and going upstairs.

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Elena liad in stefan's arms happily. It felt so right again, just like that. She felt wetness on her cheeks and realized she was crying again.

"What's wrong, love?" he asked, his thumb wiping the tears away.

"Nothing," she said, sniffling, "I"m just so happy to have you back with me."

"And I'm happy to be back." he said, kissing her forehead tenderly.

"I love you, Stefan, so much."

"I loce you, too." Stefan said, and as usual their tender moment was interupted by a cry from to twins. Elena got up and dressed quickly, running her finger through her hair and running to their room. She picked them both up and cradeled them.

"What's wrong?" Stefan asked, leaning against the door.

"Nothing, sometimes they just need cuddle time, here, take Erica." Elena said. They'd stopped fussing and Ricky was staring into Elena's eyes, like he did quite a lot these days.

"Hello." she cooed to him, bouncing his a little bit, "Is everything al better now, you just wanted Mommy and Daddy?" Stefan laughed a little, she turned around and it was because Erica was holding his gaze.

"I think she remembers you." Elena said, putting Ricky back down after a few more moments with him.

"I hope so." he said, puting Erica down. Elena kissed each ones forehead and walked out with Stefan.

"They're getting so big, its hard to imagine that in two more weeks they'll only be a month." she said, walking to the computer.

"I lknow, what are you doing."

"See when we should expect a smile or a giggle from them." Elena said, getting onto Google.

"Topeka, what the hell." Elena muttered, Stefan laughed.

"It's their April Fool's Day joke."

"What ever you say." Elena said, typing in 'When does a baby first smile or giggle' and hitting search. She clicked on the first link that seemed useful and read up.

"Looks like we can expect a smile at two and a half months and a laugh a three or so." Elena said, getting out of the website and getting up.

"We don't have long to wait." Stefan said.

"Stefan, I don't want them to grow up"

"I know, I know, but you're perfectly capable of having more children."

"I wnt to live in the now, Stefan, don't go talking about the future. It's unknown."

"Calm down, Elena." he said, hugging her as she began to cry. She took a deep, shaky breath and looked up at him, "Thank you."

"You're welcome, love." he said, kissing the top of her head.

Super duper sorry this took so long!!!!! I can't be on the computer till midnight anymore so it takes FOREVER plus I had some writers block so I basically made a filler. Everyone knows that feeling, you wanna take the story somewhere but you can't right then becuse it would be, like, really overwhelmin on both author and reader. And I have five billion idea spinning around in my head while is really getting to me, simce my mom took my computer away and my file for Psychic is on there I can't work on my book and 50% of the ideas I have are for the book it really sucks. But I guess I deserved it, even though a C isn't that bad in this hows being average is like a crime, no, a felony. And, for some strage reason on my grandma's computer I get side tracked a lot easier, something'll come into my head and I'll get when I need then I go to osme other websote and I'll be there for twenty minutes. Today it was and evanescence video, yesterday it was the Google prank for Topeka. DFTBA guys, and remember to REVIEW!! The last chapter and I think the one before that I haven't gotten any. But I've gotten favorites and alerts:). so yeah, clickety clickety on the little green botton down there!

-Erin