Roman was standing in his bedroom staring out the window, he was lost in thought.
"Wow,look at all the smoke".
Roman turned around to find Stefan standing in his room, giving him an amused grin. Roman's eyes dotted back and forth in confusion, "Uh...What?".
Stefan stepped forward,"It's just seemed like you were thinking pretty hard, thought I saw smoke coming out of your ears".
Roman smirked, but you could see in his eyes that he was apathetic to Stefan's comment. Stefan's expression changed from amused to concerned, "Are you all right?".
Roman tilted his head from side to side a few times, contemplating the question, "I just...I just have a lot on my mind".
Stefan nodded, his expression changing back to amused, "Yeah I bet. Elena still can't quite get rid of the blush in her cheeks".
Roman disregarded Stefan's poke of fun, besides that's not what he meant anyway, "Speaking of. I 'm guessing you guys found a way to get her home?".
Stefan nodded, deciding to drop the Roman and Elena subject for now, "Yeah, Bonnie's down stairs explaining to Elena right now".
Roman waved his fingers in a forwarding motion, gesturing for Stefan to give information "Well how about you give me the rundown".
Stefan casually began to explain, "Well since Elena got here, Bonnie and I have been following leads on finding witches from the Gemini coven".
Roman interrupted as a light bulb went off in his head, "Ah...so that's why two kept disappearing".
Stefan nodded, "Yeah, but in these last two weeks, we finally found one to help us".
Roman spoke up with suspicion, "What's the catch?".
Stefan shrugged, "I don't know, she just said that she would ask for a favor someday and I guess when she calls, we deliver".
Roman looked uneasy at that statement, "I'll be honest man, that does not sound like it will end well".
Stefan seemed unshaken, "Maybe, but we made a promise to Elena...and we kept it".
Roman nodded in agreement, "Well then what do we need to do".
Stefan ran a hand through his hair, "Well the witch helped us create an ascendant".
Roman interrupted, confused, "An ascendant...I thought those things were for prison words".
Stefan shook his head, "Apparently they can be used as portals to multiple worlds if you use them right".
Roman nodded in understanding, "Then what do we do that makes this one different?".
Stefan buried his hands in his jean pockets, "On the next celestial event Bonnie activates the ascendant with her magic and uses Elena's blood to activate the portal to Elena's word".
Roman gave an unamused chuckle, "Her blood...of course".
Stefan ignored the comment, continuing with his explanation, "The next celestial event is the solar eclipse...two weeks from now".
Roman sighed, "Two weeks".
Stefan watched as Romans eyebrows creased and he once again seemed to get lost in thought, the room fell into silence. Stefan waited a moment for Roman to say something more, but when the words never came he began to feel awkward.
"Well I guess I'll leave you too your brooding".
Stefan turned around and walked out of the room, when he was gone Roman peered up with a grim look on his face, 'not brooding...planning'.
As Stefan was walking down the hallway he saw that Elena was walking toward him, 'hey".
Elena stopped in front of him and tucked her hair behind her ear, "Hey".
When she answered Stefan noticed that she was looking at the ground, she seemed to be feeling embarrassed about something, and he could guess what, "Roman's in his room if you need to talk to him".
Elena looked up, meeting Stefan's eyes, "Thanks".
Stefan nodded with a closed smile and walked past Elena, heading down the stairs. Elena began walking to Roman's room, albeit slowly, she was contemplating what she was going to say to him, truth be told the whole thing with Roman just hit her so suddenly, she had no idea what she was even feeling at this point and no time to really think about it, so when she reached his door she realized she was just going to have to play it by ear. Elena stopped just outside the door frame, she saw that the door was open but she decided not to just go in without knocking because she wanted to be considerate, so she knocked on the wall outside the door and called out his name, "Roman".
When Elena got no response her eyebrows creased in confusion, Stefan had said that Roman was in there, so she repeated the knocking and called his name a little louder, "Roman".
Once again Elena got no response, it didn't make any sense. Roman was a hybrid after all and Elena knew that he could hear her and hell smell her coming from a mile away, probably more, so she came to the conclusion that he must have been just ignoring her. Elena, slightly annoyed by Roman disregarding her, decided to just walk into the room, but she didn't see him anywhere in sight. Just to be sure Elena checked his closet and his bathroom, sure enough no Roman. Elena grew confused, she rushed out of the room and downstairs to Stefan and Bonnie, each looking up from their place in the kitchen as Elena walked in, looking around her to spot Roman. Stefan grew concerned at Elena's demeanor, "What's wrong Elena?".
Elena spun to meet Stefan's gaze, "You said Roman was in his room".
Stefan's eyebrows rose, puzzled by the statement, "He was I just talked to him".
Elena took in Stefan's statement, he wasn't up there now and he was nowhere in sight in downstairs. Elena turned and rushed out the front door. Stefan and Bonnie exchanged a look of perplexion before following Elena out the door, they stopped behind her to gaze in the direction she was, they saw that Romans car had disappeared from the driveway.
'Umm how did we miss that'. Stefan was brought out of the thought when Elena turned around, her eyes wide in realization.
"He's gone".