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Elena and Stefan sat down at Elena's kitchen table. Aunt Jenna was at work and Jeremy was off somewhere. Elena had the faintest idea he was with Bonnie. This made her smile to herself. Stefan looked at her quizzically but didn't say anything.

"You don't have to feel alone in this Elena." Stefan's eyes didn't leave Elena's. Elena shook her head.

"That's not what I want to talk about Stefan." As a vampire Elena had more control over her facial expressions. If she didn't want her eyes to tear up, they wouldn't. If she didn't want her throat to close up, it wouldn't. Her body only acted normal when she allowed it to, and that was only when no one else was around.

While Stefan stared at Elena in confusion, Damon was standing atop the nurse's building at the high school. He had a tall, pretty girl in his clutches. Blood flowed freely from pin pricks that covered both sides of her neck. Damon's whole face was contorted into that of the beast he was. He was tired of being the hero. He tore into a bite-free part of the girl's pulsing neck. He devoured every last drop of blood from her until she was nothing more than a sickly light green corpse. He cast her aside easily, her body hitting the railing of the building and sliding over the edge to smack the ground with cracking bones and a bursting skull. Damon seemed to float as he jumped over the ledge, his arms outstretched with his trench coat dramatically catching the wind as if he were part of the Matrix.


"Well, over night you turned into this hot guy who's really sweet-" Jeremy cut in before Bonnie could finish her sentence.

"Wait, you think I'm hot?" A silly grin spread across his face.

"Umm…with everything that's going on… you know…" Bonnie didn't want to meet Jeremy's gaze. It was too awkward. "You're Elena's little brother, and yeah…I just-" Jeremy cut her off again.

"Enough already!" He took Bonnie's face in his hands, leaned down and kissed her sweetly but with a great need. Bonnie kissed him back like she had never kissed anyone else. It felt so right.


"I guess this is for the best." Elena stood to leave. Stefan stood up so fast that the chair he had been seated in, flew back. He hardly noticed.

"Elena!" He pleaded. "Please, I want you." He was close to shouting. "How can you leave knowing all our memories will have been for nothing?" He sounded accusing.

"Stefan, don't make me resent you." Elena wanted to roll her eyes but didn't. "I can't be with you while at least part of you likes one of my best friends." Elena shook her head.

"I should have know Damon would get to you." This one comment infuriated Elena. "All I asked for was for you to love me." Stefan continued. "You must know I'd do anything for you, Elena." He droned on. "Anything." Elena clenched her teeth together before she said something she would live to regret. Stefan's eyes pleaded with her but it did no good.

"This time I need to walk alone, Stefan." Elena spoke softly before she had even thought it over. "I don't expect you to understand, just like I never expected you to understand why I would go through so much pain for the people I love." Her gaze was steady and her voice was even. Stefan didn't want to hear anymore, but he couldn't bring himself to make Elena stop talking. For all he knew, this was the last time he would hear her speak. Seeing the truth in Elena's eyes made him fall even more in love with her, which made it that much harder to let go. He lacked the strength to chase after her as she walked out the door, leaving him standing in her kitchen all alone.

;) You know what to do now.