Hello guys! So I finally got this chapter ready, cause I was trying to figure out how to proceed (still am tbh) but I have like 12% of a plan, but while I come to terms with my plan, please enjoy this fluffy piece.

Now to your reviews:

Amulet Sugar: Oh my god, thank you! At first I thought that you guys were going to not like the pairing, cause most people prefer OC's with Damon or one of the Originals, but I'm glad that you ship this. Stefan is an absolute sweet guy and he deserves the best (still salty about TVD ending .) so yeah, I have a couple of ideas of how this will play out, I'm examining the Timeline of the show to see how to best continue, some characters will be included, some will play big parts, others won't, but we'll see ^^ thank you for the review!

Laraliz16: Gracias por tu comentario! Me encanta la aceptacion que ha tenido la partida de Elena, como he mecionado anteriormente, creo que tengo masomenos un 12% del plan de lo que hare con este fic. Respecto a tu pregunta te sugiero que leas este capitulo en especifico ;) y pues, mil gracias por leer mis historias y por dejar comentarios, eres un encanto!

AngelicSailor: Our girl did it didn't she? Huh? (luv ya hunny!)

LenaMiaH: Bem querida, posso dizer-lhe que este capítulo responderá a alguns dos seus desejos, nem todos, lembre-se, porque ainda estou tentando ver qual caminho vou seguir com essa história. Como sempre agradeço pela revisão, adoro ler seus comentários e eles me ajudam com o meu português. Também acho que devemos um pedido de desculpas da minha parte. Sinto muito que meu português é um pouco estranho, estou tentando o meu melhor, então ... desculpe por assassinar sua língua (espero que eu não seja tão ruim assim).

SuperWhoLock1408: Well I hope you stay around to find out.

Simbacurls: So glad you like the pairing! And well... I can't say anything cause I know nothing.

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Thank you so much for reading guys!

- Alex

~So come over here and sit next to me

We can see where things go naturally

Just say the word and I'll part the sea

Just come over here and sit next to me~

- Sit Next To Me, Foster The People.

May 25th 2009.

I walked back to the car with a dumb smile on my face. I couldn't believe my luck. Stefan liked me back, I felt like a school girl with her first crush. Stefan, who had seen me at rock bottom, liked me. It was surreal and yet he was walking next to me, my hand held safely in his, as if it was always meant to be there.

"Hey," Stefan said softly as he opened the door for me, Ghost jumping into the car.

I looked at him and smiled, he bent his head down and pressed a kiss to my lips, "What was that for?"

"Just cause," he said with a smirk on his face, I smiled and shook my head.

"You're a dork," I said poking his face, he grinned at me.

"Your dork,"

"My dork."

Stefan continued driving and at some point I'm sure I dozed off because the next time I opened my eyes night had already fallen and we were already driving through a small homey town. Stefan spared a glance to my side as I straightened myself up, I looked to the backseat and Ghost was napping.

"Where are we?" I asked sleepily as I tried to look around.

Stefan smiled at me, "We're almost there, the house is in the outskirts of the town, I guess my family preferred the calm."

"I can't blame them, small towns can be…chaotic," I said remembering another place and another time.

Stefan chuckled, "That's a word to describe them."

He continued driving until he pulled over some trees into a big driveway, the house was a huge beauty done in wood and dark bricks, I looked at him, wide eyed and found him smiling at me.

"That house is beautiful," I said, Stefan laughed.

"Glad you like it," he said as he parked the car.

I didn't wait for him to open the door for him, but rather stepped out, Ghost following close behind and took a better look of the architectural masterpiece in front of me.

I felt a hand on the small of my back and turned to press my lips against Stefan's, "This place looks fantastic, thank you for bringing me here, Stef."

Stefan grinned at me, "You're welcome, Alex."

I noticed that he was carrying our bags already, I went and grabbed Ghost's leash and Stefan guided us to the door, it was a huge door that looked to be made of oak, I was almost jumping with excitement as he led me into the house, it had an actual foyer, it was small, yes, but it was the thought that counted.

"Stefan, is that you?" said a voice from deep within the house.

"Yes, uncle Zach," Stefan answered as he steered me towards an ornamented living room.

The place was wicked cool, it even had a fireplace and it looked to be functional and everything seemed to have been done tastefully in wood. Stefan's uncle stepped away from the fireplace and turned to look at us, I smiled at him shyly and waved awkwardly.

"Uncle Zach, this is Alex, Alex, this is my uncle Zach," Stefan said as his uncle walked to us.

"Miss Black, is it?" he said offering his hand, I shook it with a strong grip, he smiled at me, "Welcome to the Salvatore Boarding House."

"The what now?" I asked because surely I must have heard wrong.

"The Salvatore Boarding House," Zach repeated, and there it was, that name again, I looked at Stefan a frown on my face.

"Is that like a family name?" I asked him.

Stefan at least had the decency to look ashamed and scratched the back of his neck.

"You never told the lady your full name did you?" asked Zach, clearly amused by our situation.

"Yeah, uh… that's my family name, Salvatore," Stefan said with a shy smile.

"Stefan Salvatore," I said slowly as I tried to come to terms with it. It surely was a coincidence, too much of a coincidence, "It has a nice ring to it."

Stefan looked relieved and Zach smiled at him again, I smiled at them as I tried to come to terms with the fact that my… my potential boyfriend could be a fictional, well, not so fictional character. I could see it, the resemblance to Paul Wesley was uncanny, boyish looks, a pretty smile and lovely green eyes. Had I been too drunk to notice before? And then too accustomed to my Stefan to notice?

And now that I was approaching the subject, what else had I missed?

Ghost's barks brought me out of my thoughts, Zach looked at Stefan funny and Stefan smiled at him.

"This is Ghost, Alex's baby," Stefan said amused, Zach squinted his eyes at him.

"I thought you had meant a real baby," Zach pointed out, I couldn't help but to smile.

"Hey, he's real," I couldn't help but to say, both men looked at me and smiled.

"Hey, how about we get changed and I take you out for dinner?" asked Stefan, I smiled at him and nodded.

He led me upstairs, leaving Ghost with Zach who promised to walk him. I tried to appear as unbothered as I could by the fact that I knew that he was a vampire, not that he knew that I knew, but it was the principle of the thing.

"Uh… I figured, we could share," he said before opening a door and leading me into his room.

I looked at him, a smile on my face, even if Stefan Salvatore was a vampire and this was the most bizarre thing that had ever happened to me, I couldn't help but to see my Stefan, the guy who had stayed with me through my lowest low. The guy who loved to eat raspberry snow cones and take my dog and me out for walks around New York. The guy who had kissed me as if I could somehow break in his hands and the guy that I had been slowly but steadily falling for.

"You won't hear me complaining," I said softly and he snorted.

Stefan showed me around the room and then the bathroom, it was a big bathroom, and then left me to my own devices, but not without me pressing a kiss to his lips just to reassure myself that he was real.

I stepped into the bathroom with a change of clothes, the bathroom was probably the coolest feature of the entire room. I got out of my clothes in autopilot and into the shower. The fact that Stefan Salvatore existed was such a disturbing yet illuminating thought. It certainly explained certain things. I had died. I was sure of that, I had died, a bullet through my head, that much I could remember. Angry brown eyes staring into mine as the trigger was pressed and then nothing.

Until I felt something again, I wondered if this happened to everyone who had died. If God or some higher power just decided to chuck people into other universes just to mess with people. I was now sure that I had usurped this world's Alexandra's life. But who knows, maybe it was better if she was dead, our whole family was, and despite my confusion and all, I had managed to move forward, with the help of Stefan.

I wondered briefly what would've happened if this world's Alexandra had survived, what would have happened to Stefan then? or Ghost? I couldn't dwell much on it, I was here now, she was not.

And as callous as it sounded, I was happy that my family was alive somewhere in the universe, although I knew that I was going to continue to mourn this universe Alexander and Rose Black, because I knew that no matter the universe my parents didn't deserve to die.

I got out of the shower in a mid haze and when I walked into the room, only missing my jacket and my boots and toweling my hair, Stefan was already styling his hair. I couldn't help but to smile at Stefan, and I understood him a little better now. Whatever I remember from a show that I had watched back when I had been a teen, Stefan Salvatore had been a troubled guy, always striving to be better, to be good.

"Do I have something on my face?" Stefan asked, I grinned at him and shook my head.

He walked up to be, holding my face in his hands tenderly, "You're gorgeous," I whispered as he brought his face closer to mine.

A smirk was dancing on the corners of his mouth as he looked at me, and he looked at me as if I was the only thing that mattered in the world and in that moment I decided that I was going to cherish that feeling, it didn't matter that the guy that was holding my entire heart in his hand was a vampire, or that he had been a fictional character once, this man that was holding me was real.

"Look who's talking," he murmured almost against my lips.

I didn't care about his last name and I wouldn't care about what the future held in store for us, I was living for the Now and at the moment I could only feel Stefan's, my Stefan's lips against mine. And perhaps it was not about us being broken together but rather holding each other up anew.

I was certain about one single thing though, vampire or not, Stefan knew how to kiss a woman and I was going to enjoy every second of it.