Later that night Elena was getting a little concerned. Roman had been gone for hours and in her experience, when someone had disappeared for a lengthy period of time it was a bad thing,so she was searching around the house for Stefan and Bonnie to see if they had heard from him,she found them in the kitchen.
"Hey guys have you…..Oh god I'm so sorry". Stefan and Bonnie broke apart. Elena had caught them 's cheeks turned beat red and Stefan cleared his throat.
"No...No it's okay, what did you need Elena?". Elena awkwardly shook her head.
"No, I'll come back later, you two were clearly in the middle of something". Elena turned to walk away, but Bonnie spoke up.
"Wait, I actually need to go search for something in my grimoire, so if you need something, you can talk to Stefan". Bonnie gave Stefan a quick peck on the lips before walking out of the kitchen, leaving Stefan and Elena alone. Stefan smiled at Elena trying to break the awkwardness.
"So seriously, did you need something Elena". Elena walked closer to him.
"I was just wondering if you've heard anything from Roman?, he's been gone for hours". Stefan waved the question away.
"Don't worry about it, he does it all the time". Elena looked confused at him, obviously not too happy about the vague answer. Stefan slightly chuckled at her before sighing.
"Come on, let take a walk". Elena looked at him now with even more confusion as he left the kitchen, but she decided to follow him.
Elena and Stefan were now walking around the side of the Salvatore Boarding House,lost in conversation.
"So Roman disappears like this all the time". Stefan nodded.
"Yeah, sometimes for days. I don't know exactly why and truth be told I don't really want to know, but he always comes back, so I've learned to stop worrying". Elena nodded, then got a questioning look on her face.
"So, why exactly did we have to go for a walk for you to tell me that?". Stefan laughed.
"Well, truth be told I always thought I did my best conversing while outside and since you've been sitting around mostly since you've been here I thought you might want to move a little bit". Elena smiled at him, she remembered that most of their best conversations had been outside. Stefan continued on.
"Plus, to be honest I kind of wanted to talk to you. I'm really curious about you and your world,...and I figure you feel the same about us". Elena nodded, she had to agree with that. Stefan continued once again.
"I figured that you would probably be more comfortable asking the first question, so...go ahead, ask away". Stefan gave a small smirk. Elena thought for a moment,trying to come up with the thing she most wanted to know about this version of Stefan.
"How did you meet Bonnie?". Stefan stopped dead in his tracks and looked at her, his face dropping into sadness. Clearly that wasn't something he wanted to get into. Elena stammered for a second.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to". Stefan held a hand up to stop her.
"No, it's okay, it's just a little touchy".
Flashback
Mystic Falls,2009
Roman was driving,Stefan in the passenger seat, Damon in the back. Damon was laid across the back seat with his feet kicked up, complaining about Roman's choice of music.
"Seriously baby brother this song sucks". Roman scoffed.
"Well Damon considering you like to listen to Taylor Swift.I don't particularly trust you're judgment in music". Damon replied annoyed.
"Hey I listen to that stuff for the enjoyment of the women, not the enjoyment of the artist...Why couldn't I drive?". Roman replied back now also very annoyed.
"Because it's my car Damon, which we chose to take because it's better than yours". Damon got a bit angry, his tone sarcastic.
"It won't be when I break all the windows on it". Roman Got angry now too, his voice growing serious.
"You touch my car I'll break you in half". Damon smirked.
"Oh,I'd like to see that". Roman looked back at him, his voice rising.
'OH WOULD YA". Just then Stefan popped up from his seat, seeing something as they came to Wickery bridge.
"ROMAN STOP THE CAR". Roman and Damon stopped their bickering and looked at Stefan when they heard his yell, before quickly turning to see what Stefan was looking at. Roman's eyes widened and he pumped the brakes. There stood a girl waving for help, she was obviously hurt,blood seeping from both her nose and a gash in her forehead and limping as she tried to walk toward the car as they came to a stop. At the end of the bridge there was an SUV that had crashed. All three brothers hopped out, Stefan reaching the girl first.
"Hey what happened?". The girl spoke through her tears and slight sobs.
"We were coming home from eating out, something jumped in the road, we swerved...My Mom, My Dad, Please help". Stefan nodded at her, gently grabbing her shoulders, trying to keep her calm, he looked back at Damon and Roman, they could tell by the look in his eyes that he wanted them to do something, so they each ran off toward the wrecked SUV. Damon found the man on the drivers side, while Roman looked for the woman on the passenger side and the back. Damon checked the man's pulse, Roman looked as he did, concern prevalent on his face.
"He alive?". Damon nodded.
"Yep,just barely though". Damon drug the man out to feed him some of his blood. Roman continued to look around for the girls Mom, finding no sight of her, his eye brows creased in confusion before he looked back at the SUV and noticed a huge hole in the windshield. Roman's eyes went from the hole to the railing of the bridge, noticing the trajectory, his eyes widened as he realized that the woman had been thrown from the car over the bridge, so he quickly ran over the railing, dropping to the water below. Stefan busied himself trying to distract the injured girl from the action going on behind her, his voice calm and soothing.
"Hey, look at me. What's your name?". The girl looked at him,her sobs still breaking through, she was clearly scared.
"B..B...Bonnie". Stefan nodded at her.
"Okay Bonnie, we are going to do everything we can to help alright". Bonnie nodded back at him. Stefan looked back at Damon and Bonnie's Dad walking towards them, he turned Bonnie around, who let out a squeal of relief and flung her arms around her father.
"Oh Daddy, you're okay". Bonnie pulled back from him and looked him over, he did not seem to have anything wrong with him at all, which confused her,but she was too relieved to care. Bonnie's Dad looked at her from head to toe, his concern obviously for her and not himself.
"I'm fine, but you don't look like you are, we need to get to a hospital". Bonnie's Dad then began to look around him, his eyebrows creasing.
"Where's your Mother". Bonnie's eyebrows now also creased.
"She wasn't in the car?". Just then Bonnie saw Roman behind her Dad, walking with her Mom in his arms, her Mom had a huge wound on her head and looked to be unconscious. Roman laid her down in front of them, the sadness in eyes obvious.
"I'm so sorry". Roman then backed away. Bonnie's eyes widened when she knew why he said it. Bonnie broke down, heavy sobs coming from her, tears pouring down her face, her father held her as she cried, trying to be strong as his own tears came down. All three Salvatore brothers looked on at the scene, sympathy on all their faces, nothing any of them could do as Bonnie's Mom laid dead..
Present day.
Elena had tears in her eyes now, stammering for her words.
"That's...that's horrible". Elena remembered her own similar story, how Stefan had saved her from drowning, but had lost her parents on Wickery bridge, she felt so bad for Bonnie. Stefan sighed and nodded.
"Yeah..not exactly the best story to tell on how someone first met their wife".During Stefan's story they had made their way back to the front of the Salvatore house where they stood in silence for a few moments, each not sure what to say next,but then the silence was interrupted by the sound of a car coming at an absolutely horrendous speed. Stefan and Elena both looked up to see what was going on, only to see the car come in the driveway and screech to a halt right in front of them, startling each of them. Elena saw that it was Roman's car, she was relieved for a brief second that he had come back before the relief was replaced by a look of absolute horror. Roman got out of the car covered almost head to toe in blood.