Time to get the full Stefan (relationship) backstory guys
Previously on, I have loved you forever…
"Happy 17th gorgeous"
"I got some amazing information today about today being a special day for someone" Stefan loves when he gets special requests to sing to someone because singing to someone makes them feel special, wanted and loved. That's all he wants for anyone. "May a Miss Elena Gilbert come onto the stage?"
He turned to find Elena staring at him, he wanted to look away but something compelled him not to. Her eyes were so alluring, so captivating, they bore into his more and more with each second that passed.
This is going to be the talk of the town and she can't wait for it
Elena practically bolted off stage so she could see if Caroline got a video and some pictures of her on stage. After Stefan had some conversation with people backstage and got everything situated for his next surprise he came back out onto the stage. "Alright guys I have a couple more surprises for you tonight" the crowd whistled and clapped. Stefan smiled and looked around, his gaze dropping on Elena who looked to be admiring him. He cleared his throat "uh I have three backstage passes that I'll be giving away!" he shouted into the microphone. Screams and applause could be heard all around. There are people with their fingers crossed, praying that they'll be chosen "alright alright alright" he waved his hands to get the crowd to quiet down. He explained to them that him and Alaric did agree upon throwing the passes into the crowd but he decided against it last minute. "Lexi and I decided it's better to do a trivia" he got a round of applause. With the amount of clapping tonight he's surprised their hands don't hurt already
Lexi walked up to Stefan, standing next to him with a microphone in her hand "I need six volunteers" multiple girls ran up to the front of the stage and waved their hands around causing as much attention to themselves as possible
"We would like the birthday girl and two people of her choice to come up on stage first, please" Stefan caught himself smiling at the mention of Elena. He quickly put on a straight face, questioning himself. A few minutes later, she walked on stage with both Caroline and Jenna hot on her heels. They stood to the left of Lexi and talked amongst themselves. Stefan went over to the group of girls while Lexi picked out the other three people
"Hey ladies" he gave each of them a kiss on the cheek, Elena felt like her knees were going to buckle. Stefan conversed with them a little, he got to know them and actually enjoyed talking to the beautiful ladies, he actually laughed and smiled with them which is something he only ever genuinely did around Lexi. "I hope you guys win" he winked before pivoting on his heels and walking toward the other group of girls
"I think he likes us" Elena squealed, she's been dreaming of this moment. She felt that electricity on stage, it wasn't normal
She hadn't realized that everything went silent until she snapped back to reality. She looked in the crowd and saw everyone staring at a naturally stunning blonde girl with beautiful blue eyes and slender long legs. She's wearing a baby blue dress with sequins decorating the top with her straight blonde hair pinned back. She looks like royalty. Elena turned to look at Stefan and saw that he was staring at her with horror written clearly on his face. He turned around and rushed behind the stage. Elena looked back at the girl and saw her walking to the stage, she sashayed up the stairs and strutted to Elena, her hips swaying back and forth elegantly. She stands in front of her and stares her in the eye "stay away from my man" she said harshly. Caroline put her arms in front of Elena and gently pushed her back, stepping in front of her protectively "and you are?" she asked politely in an attempt to keep her cool
The girl smiles wickedly "how rude of me to not introduce myself, I'm Rebekah Salvatore" she holds her hand out "Stefan's wife" Elena's jaw dropped to the ground. She heard Stefan talk about an ex girlfriend when she watched his interviews and he definitely implied how much of a bitch she is, which Elena can clearly see but he never mentioned a wife. Elena assumed the woman was lying and stepped up "You're lying" she spat out
Rebekah laughs "Of course he doesn't know that we're-" but she's stopped short when a fuming Lexi stomps up to her and slaps her across the face, a hard smack sound echoing in the auditorium. There are sprinkles of laughter in the crowd which helps Lexi cool down a little "you little bitch" Lexi crossed her arms and watched Rebekah rub her now reddened cheek. She then grabs Rebekah by her wrist and basically drags her backstage, leaving everyone confused and scared for Stefan. She can't get the look of pure terror out of her head. Who is this woman?
"Hey everyone" the crowd and the 6 girls on stage looked over to the middle of the stage. Alaric stood there awkwardly with a microphone up to his lips. "Stefan will be back with us shortly so just sit back and enjoy the food" not even seconds after he placed the microphone down, everyone started rambling on and on about what they think is happening backstage. Elena looked toward the backstage exit, where she saw him leave and sighed. She tapped Caroline on the shoulder "I gotta pee, tell Jenna I'm in the bathroom" Caroline nodded then begun talking to Tyler again
She slowly walked to the bathroom, glancing back every three steps to make sure no one is watching her then makes a beeline to the backstage exit. She's not sure what she's doing and she could probably get in trouble for this but something is pulling her there and telling her to make sure Stefan is okay. She walks down the long backstage corridor and looks around helplessly. She has never been back here so she doesn't know where to go or what to do. She suddenly hears shoes scuffling against the hard tile floor, distant voices becoming closer. She looks around in a panic and opens a door that has the word janitor written on it. Once she's inside she presses her ear to the door hoping to hear bits and pieces of the conversation
"What the hell is she doing here Alexia?" an unfamiliar male voice shouted. It sounds very muffled so she can't make it out clearly. She knows Stefan's voice by heart so there is no way that it could be him
Elena hears Lexi shush the man "as if I'm supposed to know" the man said something quietly she can't make it out through the door but it offended Lexi "you really think I would do that to my best friend? He despises the bitch" a few minutes of silence pass by and Elena begins to think that they left. "Go find her and get her ass out of this school and out of Mystic Falls" the man eventually demanded. She heard footsteps descend down the hall. Her heart is beating rapidly as she opened the door and stumbled out of the closet, a mop and a broom fell out behind her
She looked down both ends of the hallway to make sure it was clear then continued down the long corridor. It felt as if the corridor got longer the more you walked and darker the more you kept your eyes open. She wanted to just turn around and run back out to Caroline but she can't, she's in this already
Elena reached the end and peeked around the corner. She wasn't going to go down there until she heard glass shatter down the hall. She takes off, running as fast as her heels would let her. She stops at Stefans door and hears more class break "oh my god" she bangs on the door rapidly, scared that she'll find him hurt or worse. He probably doesn't care about her but she cares about him even if all she knows is stuff that she sees on T.V. The door flies open mid bang and in front of her stands a very depressed looking Stefan, he tried to blink away the tears that blurred his vision as he tried to figure out who was at his door "are you okay?" she suddenly asked
He noticed it was Elena "uh yeah just practicing some music" he lied. She obviously knew that he wasn't practicing any music unless the glass shattering is for a background sound. She looked behind him and gasped. Papers were thrown everywhere, glass was scattered all around the floor in pieces and there was a hole in the wall. He noticed where she was looking and sadly chuckled "I'll pay for it". She shook her head, not being able to take her eyes off of the room "uh no it's fine my uncle is the uhm principle" she stated. That girl obviously does something to his head she thought to herself
After a few moments of silence she looks into his eyes. Her eyes search his forest green eyes. They don't have that spark that he had thirty minutes ago on stage. Her eyes bore into his, carving the look in them, into her memory. He doesn't know what it is about her looking at him so intensely, he doesn't know the feeling that he's getting right now but something is telling him that it's okay to cry in front of her and it's okay to tell her what's going on. She's safe, he doesn't know how he knows and he may be wrong but for now she's safe
Suddenly he collapsed to his knees, dejected, swollen with emotions and thoughts of his past swirling around in his mind. Broken glass poked at him through his jeans but he doesn't care, he can't even feel the physical pain through all of the emotional pain. He sees Elena bend down and he feels her hold him to her chest but he can't hear her. All he could hear is a ringing sound piercing through his ears. Tears poured down from within and stained his cheeks
After a while the tears subsided and he somehow ended up with his head in her lap, curled up in a ball. The blank, emotionless expression swept over his face once reality hit him. She's back. He closed his eyes and gazed into the field of nothingness
XOXOXOXOXOXO
Elena starts to stroke Stefan's hair as he softly snores. He fell asleep in the middle of his crying, he looked so peaceful. This feels right in a weird way, like she was meant to find him in this state and hold him in her arms. He needed her and she was there for him. Elena pulls her hand away from his hair when Stefan stirs in her arms. The back of her legs are slightly cut from the glass but she doesn't care. He yawned, then looked up at her, his eyes flew open wide and he sat up quickly "uhm I- uh" he stuttered over his words "what the hell happened?" he managed to ask, He was genuinely curious
She rubs her neck "well you uh kind of fell asleep" she blushed out of embarrassment and looked away. He lifted a brow and opened his mouth to speak but she doesn't let him "uhm it's fine I- I guess I overstepped some boundaries" she quickly stood up and screamed as she stretched, her legs were cut up in the back and the stinging pain finally hit her
Stefan looks up at her then looks down at her legs. He stood up and touched the cuts on her leg, causing her to shiver slightly, he noticed but didn't point it out. "I should get you cleaned up" she winced and nodded her head "I'm sorry about everything that happened back there" the memories of the past hour start to flood in as he leads her down the hall into the restroom. She just nods and looks away but he continued to talk "just looking at her makes me want to break down and scream" he grabbed a plush towel and ran it under the cold water "I told myself I wouldn't let this happen, that I wouldn't let her get this reaction out of me" he slowly kneels down onto one knee, wincing slightly from the small damage the glass caused on him, and gently patted each cut on her legs. She jumped from the cold contact but easily eased into it
"Why does she make you this way?" she knows this is probably a step way past what she's allowed to ask but she had to. He stopped patting and clenched the towel in his fist. She looks at him through the mirror "I'm sorry" she nervously looked at everything in the room except for him. He shook his head "no no it's fine" in exhales roughly "it's just hard to talk about" She nods her head and stands there quietly, letting him take his time. He pushed himself up off of the floor with a groan and walked over to a cabinet, pulling out and opening up a first aid kit. "Rebekah used to be a magnificent woman. We used to talk all the time, go on dates, hold hands, take pictures and do what all the couples do in the beginning. But it was just a phase because the longer we dated the more insecure, distant and rude she became. She would call me rude things, hit me if I didn't give her attention for two seconds but I put up with it because I was blindly in love with her" his voice shook as he talked. "We started dating when we were 14 years old up to 16 years old. One day on our three year anniversary, three days after my 16th birthday, we decided to go on a trip. I was already making money from posting my music on youtube so I had enough money to buy her anything she wanted. We went to Vegas, her eyes always lit up when talking about visiting Vegas one day" He smiled to himself sadly, Elena watched him through the mirror intently. He was back by her legs, patting the cuts gently with a cotton ball, he put some stuff on it but she didn't know what it was. "When we got there we got drunk out of our minds, so drunk that I'm surprised that I even remember" he chuckled causing her to join in "but uh good times like that never lasted with her. She started screaming and yelling at me when we got back to our room. She told me that I just fuck up our relationship and that I should just die. She told me this because I walked past a female in the elevator" he laughed to himself, thinking back on the memory "I was walking her to the room and in order to get in the elevator I had to walk past this very nice old lady which made Rebekah jealous. She jumped on me, scratched me and yelled at me but I let her because I'd never lift my hand to a woman and she knew that"
He stood up and faced the mirror, she looked up. He tugged on the hem of his shirt and yanked it off, she watched as it slowly peeled over his abs. Elena's breath caught in her throat, he is so well sculpted. Her eyes traced all over, eventually noticing the scars. She placed a hand over her mouth and gasped. He chuckled and handed it to her to put on "your shivering" she hesitantly grabbed the shirt but put it on nonetheless
She took a deep breath "what are the scars from?" she swallowed hard. He laughed at her hesitasncy then lifted her onto the counter so she could sit. It surprised her at first but she's oddly comfortable around him so she didn't care much
"Alot of deep scratches and knife wounds" her eyes flew up to his, she didn't have to speak for him to know what she was going to ask "deep scratches were Rebekah but the knife wounds are a whole 'nother story" Elena decided not to ask about it because they only knew each other for like 3 hours, she's honestly baffled that he's telling her this. "Sorry if I'm scaring you" he rubbed the back of his neck "you're just easy to talk to" the only other person his age that he talks to is Lexi. He's always traveling and doing interviews so he doesn't have much time to sit and make friends
She looked into his eyes "I'm not scared, you're broken. Sometimes I think we all are but that doesn't make each of our struggles any less painful and definitely doesn't wash away the trauma" he stared at her. Her voice is so calm and confident. His gaze flickers down to her lips again and he clears his throat "yeah uhm so anyway I left the room after she went to go take a shower and I got wasted at the bar downstairs of the hotel we were staying at. She came out a couple hours later looking for me. I was scared not gonna lie, I didn't want her to find me. She'd just hurt me again but when she found me she didn't yell. She looked like the girl I fell in love with. She had her yellow pajamas on and had no makeup on her face. She was more beautiful than ever" he smiled and stared at the wall with a longing look in his eye. A tear rolled down his cheek "so I asked her to marry me, right that second I saw the girl I loved and i thought that marrying her would keep her with me, and she wouldn't turn into who she is used to being now" Elena looks away and swings her legs on the counter "a bitch?" he laughs and nods his head
"We went to the place and got married right then and there, no second guessing. Her parents were furious when we got back home and they said how can vegas even let this happen but turns out if the person you plan on marrying is pregnant then you can get married at 16" Elena gasped and shook her head, not expecting what came next "she's been pregnant for 5 weeks and didn't tell me a damn thing. She sat there and got drunk with me while she was carrying my fucking child!" His voice was rising with each word which caused her to jump a little, he glanced at her apologetically and continued "I was so hurt that she would do this to me, to us and our relationship but she didn't Care that I was hurt. She never gave a damn about anyone but herself." He ran his hands through his hair "eventually she had a miscarriage due to stress, and the heavy heavy drinking she did." he sighed "she blamed it on me. She looked dead in the face and told me that our baby is dead because I couldn't be a good boyfriend" tears started falling down his face. It feels so good to let this out in the open. Once again Lexi is the only other person who knows the gruesome details of his pathetic relationship. "I believed her and drove myself crazy over it. I got high and drunk, I broke up with her and told her to get us an annulement but that didn't stop her from being overly obsessive" he paused as his cell phone rang
"Hello" his voice sounded rough and broken. He looked at Elena and brought a finger to his lips. She nodded her head and sat still
"Where are you?" a girl yelled from the other side of the phone "It's been an hour, the crowd can only wait so long" she added
"Okay okay I'm coming Lex calm down" Stefan hung up the phone and smiled at Elena "I guess we gotta get back out there. He grabbed her waist and pulled her off of the counter, his hands still holding her tightly after he set her down on her feet. He licked his lips, he can feel her breast rub against his chest as he pulls her closer. Her perfume is intoxicating, that smell will forever be stuck with him. Her plump pink lips part slightly as her hands rest on his chest. "Thanks for listening to me" he whispered, his hot breath fanning over her face, making shivers run down her spine. "No problem" They stood there for a few more seconds before his grip loosened and he backed away. He tried to hide his face as he blushed. He opened the door for her and fanned his arm out. They walked back to the room to get him a new shirt and then ran down the long corridor back to the stage
Elena said bye to him behind the stage so she can go sneak back next to Caroline. She gave him a long hug, expecting to never see him again. He held her waist tight like he did in the bathroom except the air isn't hard to breathe "I'll see you, Elena" he said right before she snuck out the back. He watched as she rounded the corner
He adjusted his headset and straightened out his shirt one more time before running back on stage "let's pick up where we left off y'all!" he shouted into the microphone. The crowd welcomed him back by screaming and clapping endlessly. The smile on his face is genuine as he looks at Elena smiling at him in the crowd, wearing his shirt
This chapter was so hard *insert crying emoji* I tried to come up with a backstory that fits their ages but it was hard when I had to come up with stuff off the top of my head. This one was pretty dark and I like to write sad and dark so it was my favorite.
Btw Stefan is 17, Elena just turned 17. They got close pretty quickly but don't worry Stefan is oh so damaged, it isn't THAT easy
also I'm starting a new story. It's gonna be dark as fuck so watch out for it, a stefonnie story