o-0-o-0-o Thank you so much Stelena lover, laugh4life, Anna-Lisa, Raya, celia, Marie, Hooked-On-TVD and David Fishwick for the reviews. I killed some hearts last chapter including my own lol, and I think I might be killing some more hearts in this chapter for a different reason. Anna-Lisa, I wouldn't call you crazy for thinking the way you do lol but that's all I'm gonna say on that. Chapter 50 is here. Chapter 50! Thanks for supporting me so far with this story and I hope you guys will stick around with me until the end because I've still got more story to tell. Hope you'll enjoy the chapter. Please leave me a review and let me know what you think o-0-o-0-o
Stefan took a deep breath and wiped his eyes with one hand, as he smashed a hole through the wall with the other.
The best thing in his life was gone. She left him. He felt lost and confused and desperate. Something truly felt broken inside of him, and he didn't think it could be fixed.
When his mother had died, he was only four years old. He had loved her so much, but it was his fault she was dead. She had jumped into that freezing lake to save him from drowning. That's probably when this all started. He was four years old when he started to ruin, kill and lose the people he loved in one way or other. Mother, Father, Katherine, Damon, Lexi and now Elena.
He would rather be stuck in that well full of vervain with it burning away at his skin slowly and painfully than be here wondering how in the hell he'd just lost the girl he loved.
Stefan wished for physical pain right now, that would be so much better than this.
With the thought of pain in his head, his mind flew back to the bad feeling he had had earlier, and ran out after Elena.
She may have just broken up with him, but he wasn't letting her walk home alone at night when he had been feeling what he felt earlier on. He felt like there was danger in the air, and he didn't want danger anywhere near Elena.
He caught up with her in a flash. She immediately wiped her eyes, not wanting Stefan to see her cry more than he had already seen. She didn't want to make him feel worse than he was already feeling.
"Go home Stefan. I'll see you tomorrow," she said quietly.
"You don't have to talk to me. You don't even have to look at me if you don't want to, but I've had a feeling like there's some serious danger around the corner and I don't want you out here alone right now."
"Fine," she said weakly.
Elena walked as quickly as she could, clutching at her stomach. Her body was aching, as if the pain she was feeling in her heart had spread throughout the rest of her. She also felt sick to her stomach. If she threw up soon, she wouldn't be surprised. This break-up was taking its toll on her physically and emotionally.
This walk home with Stefan might just be the most uncomfortable walk she'd ever taken. Stefan, her heart, her love, her no-longer-boyfriend- was next to her, and she tried not to look at him. This hurt so badly.
"Are you okay, Elena?" Stefan asked, concerned. Elena was in pain and he could tell. "We can stop for a minute if you want."
"I'm fine, Stefan. I don't want to stop. The sooner I get home, the better," she said, trying not to look at him.
"Okay," Stefan said quietly.
Elena trying to look anywhere but at him was almost too much for him to take. Those eyes, those eyes that he loved- they wouldn't meet his and he broke a little more inside.
She saw him looking at her out of the corner of her eye, and she felt her heart break a little bit more, too. He looked hurt by her avoidance of eye contact.
"It'll be better tomorrow, Stefan. It just hurts too much right now. If I look at you right now, the tears are gonna come and they're not gonna stop. I don't wanna cry anymore tonight, and I don't want you to, either."
Stefan nodded, closing his eyes for a second.
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Bonnie called her father's cell phone for the sixth time in half an hour. Her dad should have been here awhile ago and he still hadn't arrived. He wasn't answering his phone.
"Maybe he just lost his phone and the car broke down or something... That's got to be it. He said he was already in Mystic Falls. He said he'd be here in ten minutes. It's already been half an hour. I'm gonna go look for him," Bonnie said out loud.
Bonnie went outside and only then remembered that her car was in the garage because something was wrong with it.
"Bullshit!" she muttered.
Bonnie picked her phone up again, and this time she dialed Caroline.
"Hello," Caroline answered quietly.
"Hey Care. Can you do me a favour, babe?" Bonnie asked. "What the hell was that noise?"
"Give me a second, I can't hear you. Let me get out of here and then say that again," Caroline said, leaving Tyler's full-moon werewolf prison.
When she got back out into the fresh night air she could no longer hear Tyler's wolf snarls and howls. Tyler was grateful for her presence during the transformation, but after it was complete, he didn't want her to be there. Tyler had insisted that she leave when he actually transformed into the wolf, and she was respecting his wish, "Okay, I can hear now. Can you say that again?"
"Where the hell are you? What was that sound? Are you okay?" Bonnie asked, now concerned for her friend.
"I'm fine. I was with Tyler. It's the full moon tonight. That was wolfy-Tyler you heard. But I'm out of there now, so what's up?"
"My dad's supposed to be here by now and he's not, and he's not answering his phone either. I'm getting worried and I want to go look for him, but my car is in the garage. Would you mind either lending me your car or driving around with me? He must have lost his phone or something. His car probably broke down."
"I'll be there really soon, okay?" Caroline said. "I'll grab the car and meet you at your place."
"Thanks Care," Bonnie said, trying not to worry about her dad.
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It served Damon very well, so he wasn't complaining- he'd just gotten quite a nice little snack out of it, but he wondered how some girls could be so completely and utterly stupid. He had barely said a whole sentence to the girl who ended up becoming his snack, a snack that he didn't kill, before she was following him out the door of the bar and into an alley. This wasn't new to Damon, sometimes he just wondered, though, how some people could be so stupid as to follow a stranger into a dark alley. Sure, he knew he was hot, but still, people were dumb.
He found his thoughts wandering to Elena and Stefan and to what was going on with them. Elena hadn't been happy earlier, and he wanted to know what was up. He decided to head to her house even though it was late. He wanted to see if she was okay.
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Stefan didn't bother heading back to his house after he brought Elena to hers. He just kept on walking. He'd been walking for about half an hour now.
He was still hoping to wake up at any moment and find out that he'd only been having a nightmare. He didn't know what to do. He didn't know how not to be with Elena. Even when they'd broken up the last time, deep down he knew it wasn't really over between them, but now, he really didn't know if he was ever going to get Elena back and that hurt like hell.
"Shit Caroline, that's my dad's car! Oh God. Daddy, are you there? Please tell me you're okay."
That was Bonnie's voice. Stefan changed his direction and went to find Bonnie and Caroline.
"B, don't panic yet. Let's get closer to see," Caroline said, trying to calm her friend.
"Oh my God!" Bonnie screamed.
Stefan didn't walk now, he ran to see what was wrong.
And then Bonnie screamed again. "No, no, no! No. Please, no."
Stefan arrived to see both Caroline and Bonnie on there knees. Bonnie was sobbing, and Caroline's jaw was dropped open as tears fell down her face.
Stefan's heart sunk again. Oh good God, this could not be happening. This couldn't be real, but he knew that it was.
"They're dead," Caroline choked out, finally noticing Stefan.
Matt, Jeremy, and Bonnie's father all lay on the ground, bloody and murdered.
Stefan was sure that Caroline must have already checked, but he did so anyway. He checked heartbeats, and there were none.
When he took a closer look, his anger rose even more. Jeremy and Matt each had one arm literally ripped off of them. Jeremy's was the one that held the finger that wore the Gilbert ring- the one that would have saved him from a supernatural death.
Caroline was pulling on her hair as she continued to cry.
Bonnie had gone silent now. The tears still rolled down her cheeks, but she didn't make a sound anymore. She couldn't take her eyes off the three bodies.
"Stefan, this isn't real, right? We're gonna wake up, aren't we? This isn't real," Caroline said desperately, clutching at his hand.
"Bonnie! Where are you? Are you okay?" That was Elena's voice.
"What the hell are you doing out here, Bennett?" Damon yelled. "What's wrong?"
And then everything happened so quickly.
Something lunged at Caroline and knocked her to the ground. A wolf knocked her to the ground. Stefan had completely forgotten about the full moon tonight.
All Stefan could think of at that moment was the promise he had made to Caroline to never let anything happen to her. He wasn't going to break that promise.
The wolf was about to sink its teeth into Caroline's neck, but Stefan lunged at the creature, knocking it away from the blonde vampire.
"What the fuck?" Damon yelled, and then the wolf turned to him.
If it was possible for a wolf to grin, that's what Damon would say it just did.
And then recognition hit Damon. He'd seen this wolf before. This was the bitch that bit Rose! This was Jules, he'd bet anything on it.
"Jules, you're gonna pay for this and Rose, you bitch," Damon sneered. "I do believe I told you you'd be dead if you came back here."
It was only when Elena made it over to everyone and let out a shriek of agony that Bonnie snapped out of her daze. She looked from the wolf who was snarling, to the three bodies of people she loved, and a hate of epic proportions rose up inside of her. This thing had been the one to kill them.
The wolf stalked toward Damon, and Stefan yelled at Elena to move. Elena wasn't hearing anything. She couldn't stop looking down at the dead bodies, she couldn't move. Stefan rushed to her and moved her beside Caroline.
Damon and the wolf looked like they were playing a game, very slowly getting closer to one another. Damon smirked and then the wolf that was Jules lunged at him.
Damon threw her off and snarled, and then he lunged at the wolf.
Stefan felt his own sadness over the deaths at the moment, but it could nowhere near compare to what any of the girls were feeling. All three of them were still crying.
He tried to squeeze Elena's hand in some effort to comfort her, but she was lost in her own world of grief right now, as were Bonnie and Caroline.
Bonnie was still crying, but she looked completely focused on something. She was glaring at the wolf.
Jules growled and started snapping her jaws at Damon, getting dangerously close to biting him.
Stefan went to his brother and threw the wolf off, trying to avoid getting too close to her teeth. A bite from a werewolf would ultimately lead to a vampire's death, one way or another.
"Oh come on, I had her," Damon said.
"Oh yeah, the wolf was about to sink her teeth into you. You really had her," Stefan said, pulling Damon up.
"Let's kill her together then," Damon said. "Look what she did. Look what the bitch did. It's time she dies."
"I agree," Stefan said.
And then out of nowhere Caroline was flying towards Jules with a huge rock in her hand, fangs bared.
Jules and Caroline collided, and Caroline smashed the rock into the wolf's side. Damon and Stefan ran to Caroline and the three vampires prepared to kill the wolf once and for all. But it wasn't any of the three vampires that ultimately made the wolf start writhing on the ground.
All three vampires turned to Bonnie who had a look of pure hatred on her face. Her eyes were locked on Jules, and soon the wolf wasn't just writhing in pain, soon blood started to seep through the fur. Bonnie was trying to kill her, and it looked like she was going to succeed.
Bonnie's nose started to bleed as a police siren was heard. Someone must have called the cops, either because they saw something or because of the screaming.
Bonnie finally came out of what seemed like a trance when she heard the sirens.
Bonnie hadn't killed Jules in the end, she came close but the sirens that said police were arriving threw her off. In the end, it was Damon, with the gun of the Sheriff, Caroline's mother, who finished off Jules. Of course she had no idea that it wasn't just a wolf getting shot, she had no idea Jules was a werewolf.
Liz Forbes had run out of her car and saw three dead bodies- three dead bodies of people she knew, and she saw three girls with tear-stained faces. Damon and Stefan stood over a wolf that looked very close to death.
"Are you all okay?" Liz asked. "Physically, I mean?"
None of the girls answered. Their eyes were on the dead.
"What happened here?"
Stefan and Damon looked at each other, deciding that they'd cover the story of what happened, leaving the supernatural out of it.
"We were out walking, and Bonnie and Caroline were in the car and we just came across this," Stefan said.
"They were dead when we got here, and then this thing came back, mouth all bloody. It killed them. We need to get rid of it," Damon told the older woman.
She nodded.
"Let me do it," Damon said. "Give me the gun. I'll end it. You make sure the girls are okay. They haven't said a word."
Liz would never hand off her gun, but this was Damon who'd helped her out many times. She gave him the gun, and went to the girls.
She went to her own daughter first.
"Are you hurt at all?" she asked, taking Caroline's hands in hers.
Liz felt horrible for her daughter. Her boyfriend was dead.
Caroline shook her head weakly as Damon fired the gun and killed Jules once and for all.
Her boyfriend, the sweetest boy she knew, a boy she loved was dead. The brother of one of her best friends was dead. The father of her other best friend was dead, too.
"Elena, sweetheart?" Liz said, putting her hand on Elena's shoulder.
Liz felt horrible, Elena hadn't lost her parents all that long ago, and now her little brother was dead.
Elena shook her head, and then tried to move away from the group as quickly as possible. She was going to throw up. Her childhood friend and ex-boyfriend, who happened to be the current boyfriend of one of her best friends was dead. Her other best friend's father was dead. Her brother was dead. Jeremy- her little brother was gone, and nothing was ever going to be right again. There was only pain and sadness.
"Bonnie, honey, you're bleeding,' Liz said gently.
Liz looked at her daughter's best friend and she felt heart-broken for her. Bonnie didn't have much in the way of family after her grandmother died, and now along with her cousin Lucy, Bonnie's father was dead, too. Bonnie was pretty much completely alone now.
"It's just a stupid nose-bleed," Bonnie choked out.
Matt, sweet Matty- her friend since early childhood was dead. Jeremy- her Jeremy was dead. Her dad was dead. There was pretty much no family left. Bonnie felt like she was being stabbed repeatedly. There was only pain.
Damon and Stefan looked at the three girls who were usually quite full of life, faces strewn with tears, and they felt helpless. There was nothing that could be done for them right now.
Stefan's heart had been breaking all night, and it was only getting worse. Elena had already been suffering tonight, and now this was just too much. She shouldn't have to go through this too. None of these girls should have to go through this.
"Elena, do you want me to call your aunt and uncle?" Liz asked, going over to her.
Elena shook her head. She pulled out her phone and stared at it for a minute. She stomped her foot and squeezed her eyes shut to try to stop crying. She didn't want to be crying when she talked to Jenna and John.
There was nothing good about this night, not one single thing. The only thing that had a part in it that wasn't entirely horrible was when John arrived and Elena literally ran into his arms and hugged him with whatever was left of the strength she had.
John let his tears fall freely. He let them fall for his poor nephew and he let them fall because he just got something he had wanted for a long time- he just wanted to get to hold his daughter close to him.
