I'm so so so sorry for the late post! But been so busy lately.. However I did watch the recent episode of vampire diaries. My stelena heart breaks :( although I still have hope for them!

Stefan's P.O.V
I could feel their eyes watching me but I didn't want to look. I knew what their expressions would be... It was the same as mine. Shock. Wasn't I supposed to be a human? Hadn't the ring worked? Wait, what about Katherine? If I was like this, wouldn't she be the same?... I clutched at my head. So many thoughts were racing through it. So many questions.

I heard footsteps slowly walk towards me, hesitant.
"Stefan?" It was barely a whisper. I didn't look up. I just stared at the floor as I sat there with blood dripping from the corners of my mouth. "Stefan... Are-are you okay?" She said squatting down beside me. Her hand reached towards mine.
I didn't know what to say. Was I okay?
"What's going on-" I heard Katherine say from the doorway but she immediately stopped. "That means it wasn't only my ring." She said almost to herself. My eyes jolted towards her. It wasn't only me. The same thing had happened to her.
"What do you mean?" Elena said raising her eyebrows.
"The spell must have been too strong for the ring. The vampire blood coursing through our veins must have been the thing that saved us." She explained. "He's a vampire, just like me, just like you and almost everybody in this room."
Everyone's eyes were back on me.
"It's okay." I said quietly. "It's okay." I repeated again more to elena. I could feel her panic.
"How's-how's your thirst?" She asked. I knew what she was thinking. That I was going to become the rippah again.
"It's seemingly under control." I said clutching my throat. "I feel like I'm in control."
"And you're okay about... About not being human?" She asked hesitantly.
I looked into her big brown eyes. My hand caressed her cheek. "I get to be with you for the rest of eternity. That is more then anything I could ask or dream of. It's what I've always wanted. You." I told her and our lips touched. Her lips on mine felt so good. The kiss started getting heated and I could hear a cough in the background. We parted lips and laughed.

"Isn't it funny how everything worked out?" Caroline said with the biggest grin on her face. "We are all alive. I have my best friends back, Jeremy is with Bonnie, Damon is with Katherine, Stefan is with elena, Silas is gone and I'm going to New Orleans to see klaus."
"Wait what?!" I said at the last part. Klaus? I always knew that he had a crush on her but was she for real?
"I'm going to see klaus." She said looking down.
Elena squeezed my hand. "Are you sure?" She said looking at Caroline. "I mean after everything he did?"
"I know all the wrong that he's done but what about all of us? We're no different from him. Maybe I should just give him a chance... I feel something that I've never felt before when I'm with him."
Katherine shivered. "Sorry," she said. "But he and I just don't get along."
"If that's what you want then go for it." Elena said. "But I am going to miss you."
"I will always visit of course." Caroline said. Elena got up to hug her and Bonnie joined in as well. I smiled at seeing elena happy, it was always what I wanted.
"She's not the only one leaving. We are too." Damon said looking at me.
"What?" I asked.
"Europe! Vacation! Fun!" Katherine said with excitement.
"Yea, everything she just said." Damon told me as he kissed the side of her forehead.
"Will you come back?" I asked him.
"No." He said and then he smirked. "Of course, how would I go on without teasing my baby brother." He told me.
Damon and I had always had this mutual understanding of our brotherly love and respect for each other even though we never said it. He was the only family that I had left.

"I'll be seeing you guys around." Damon said as we hugged. "Try not to get into too much trouble here as I won't be around to save the day." He said with a smile.
I gave Katherine a hug as well. After how many years of truly disliking her, she was the one that made my brother truly happy and that's all I ever wanted.
"Welcome to the family." I told her and she smiled.
I waved as they left for the airport. After years of being with Damon, it felt so weird to not have him around. I had gotten used to him alway being there. I stood there for a moment letting it all in.

I turned back around and walked to another car. It was Caroline's. Bonnie and Elena and Caroline were there crying while Jeremy tried to console all of them.
"I guess it's time to say goodbye." Caroline said through sobs.
"For now. Goodbye for now." Bonnie said hugging Caroline again. "You will visit every week!"
"Of course of course, I'm too scared of your witchy powers!" She said with a scared look.
"I'll miss you so much!" Elena said hugging Caroline as tears rolled down her face.
"As I will too." Caroline said. Bonnie's joined in on the hug. "I love you both so much!"
"I love you too." They both said crying. Jeremy just shook his head in amazement.
"You guys are going to see each other again. You know that right?" He said.
"Hey, you take care of Bonnie, okay!" Caroline said.
"Of course." He said. Caroline gave him a hug as well.
"And you." She said turning to me. "You take care of elena and yourself. I know we haven't talked that much since everything happened but it so good to have you back." She said pulling me into a hug. "You got the girl." She said in my ear.
I smiled. "Thank you for everything." I said to her. "If anything goes wrong, we are just a call away." I said to her and she smiled nodding.
She gave the girls one last hug and got into the car. She honked the horn as she left waving.

"So now what?" Elena said as we stood there.
"Well I don't know about you guys but Bonnie and I are going off to have fun." He said with a smile as he held Bonnie and Bonnie just stood there giggling.
"Don't have too much fun. Curfew is at 10pm remember?" Stefan said in a jokingly fatherly tone.
"We won't." They said as they walked away giggling.
I looked at Elena.
"I guess it's just us." I told her.
"Forever and ever." She said and I pulled her into a kiss.

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