Continued from TVD 4x06, Stefan and Elena are on the porch.
"What will you do?" Elena asked, rubbing her arms as though she were cold.
He sighed, still unable to look at her. "I don't know. I might go away for a while." He felt Elena about to protest, but continued, "While Klaus is in town, and now that he knows about Jeremy, you'll all be safe. No more hunters after you, and Klaus will protect him."
"That's not what I was worried about." Elena said softly.
He smiled and looked at her. "I know." It was those moments that killed him; those moments where she was exactly who he'd always known her to be, who he'd fallen in love with. Those moments when she was human. "But I'll be fine." He dropped his gaze from her again. "And what about you? What will you do?"
Elena looked away from him and back out to the front garden. The garden where her parents had taught her how to swim in a paddling pool, where Jeremy took off his training wheels from his bike for the first time. So many memories all dancing around in her head; it felt like a lifetime ago. It was a lifetime ago. "There's a loaded question." She smiled feebly.
"And it's none of my business." He nodded.
"No, that's not what –" Elena reacted, then took a breath. "I just don't know is all."
"I guess we've both got a lot of thinking to do." Stefan said.
Elena looked at the first man she loved with a mixture of sadness and regret. "I am sorry Stefan, I am truly sorry."
He smiled at her. "So am I." He took her hand. "Goodbye." He stood up from her porch and began the last walk away from her.
"What will you tell Damon?" Elena shouted after him.
Stefan swung round, and in the moments before he walked out of her life, perhaps for the last time, the last words to her were, "I'll leave that to you."