Carolines POV

A baby. I was not expecting this.

"She's Klaus and Haleys daughter" what? Vampires can't have children, can they? "She's two weeks old. Klaus asked me to take care of her, nobody can know Caroline" he warned, his eyes piercing through mine, holding my wrist.

"What... I.I" I didn't know what to say. Little Hope started to cry and Stefan took her out of the crib into his strong arms. We sat dawn on the floor with Hope in his arms waiting for her to fall asleep again. "How long is he expecting you to take care of his child?"

"Caroline I don't know, I wasn't in a position to ask questions. All he told me was that she was special and that she needed to be protected."

"Why you? I don't want to sound rude but you weren't best friend when he left Mystic Falls after our graduation."

"I'm the only one that he can trust now, Elijah's with him and Haley in New Orleans trying to set things right and Rebekah left after their fight. He didn't have a lot of choice" after a moment of silence as we watch the little angel finally giving up and falling asleep he adds "Family means everything to him. He wants her to have a normal life, even if it's for a few years."

He puts the baby back into her crib and we go downstairs to sit at the table in the kitchen.

"What are you going to do? Have you actually thought everything through?"

"No, I have no idea what I'm going to do" he said sadly "I missed you, you know" that last part brought back a small smile to my face

"Ok then... I won't tell anyone but I want to help you if you're willing to have your best friend in your new life"

"Thank you"

"No need to thank me" I said to him taking his hand in mine, I can see how stressed and exhausted he was "we need each other, Stefan".

It was really late so I decided to head back to Whitmore College where I was staying for the time being even though I wasn't attending any classes anymore. We decided that the only person I told was my mum because if I was going to help him raise a baby my mum needed to know where I was going to be. We also agreed that from next week he would go back to work and I would go over to his place and take care of her, it's not like I had better things to do.

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After seeing him I was happy that somehow he finally wants to start over, not grieving over his brother or worse turning into the ripper again. I tried looking for a way to bring Bonnie and Damon back, even Enzo helped me, for nothing. There is nothing that can be done unfortunately.

I never imagined Stefan with a baby, and it's not because he is a vampire but because he doesn't seem like the family type apart from Damon I mean. But seeing him with this little girl, I've never seen him like this.

I don't know how is this going to work, when I dropped out of college I wanted to do something different. I was a vampire for God's sake, I wouldn't age, and I could do anything I wanted. I suddenly remembered the conversation that I had with Klaus at the ball; even if he wanted to charm me he was right, I wanted to travel, go places, and do different things because I knew the truth that I could never have a family, a baby being a vampire.

And of course I will help him, he is my best friend but I'm just scared that it will be hard for me knowing the truth. That this... can never be mine.

Stefan POV

It's been 3 months since the unexpected visit Caroline paid us. I have to say though I am grateful though that Caroline was being... Caroline. She helped me a lot with things I had no idea about, and in exchanged she could forget about everything else while taking care of this little girl. Both of us have gotten attached to Hope.

We started to have this routine - every morning I would get up feed Hope, wait for Caroline as she got over from Whitmore, got to work, come back and have peaceful diner that Caroline made earlier on in the day. With blood bags for dissert.

Today I got off work earlier with Nathan, a guy that I'm working with at the garage, because our boss was off. He lives near my neighbourhood so we walked back together talking about last night's football game, as I got near to my house I saw Caroline trying to take the stroller inside the house with Hope inside failing miserably. Nathan must have seen her too because he said,

"Man, you never told me you had such a hot wife" he said punching me lightly in my chest "although if I were you I wouldn't want her to go out of the house too, wouldn't want a man to steal such a beauty" I chuckled quietly, but deep inside I started to wander if Caroline was ever going to leave me and Hope. How long could we keep this up? I didn't want her to leave, ever. I needed her and so did Hope. But whenever she wasn't with me she was with Enzo, she says they're not together but I know she has a thing for man with accents.

I said my goodbye and run up to Caroline to help her with the stroller,

"Thank God Stefan, I couldn't get the dumb thing inside" even whe she was angry she was adorable "You're early, we were just at the park weren't we Hope?" She says picking up Hope talking and making funny faces at her as though she understood everything that was being said. She had grown so much from the little infant she was just not long ago. Her little blue sparkling eyes were staring straight at me smiling, she must have missed me just as much as I missed her, but these weren't the eyes that I was focused on right now "Yeah why don't you take Hope and play with her or something while I go and make us and Hope something for dinner"

"Yep, no problem" I said as she handed me Hope over. I placed as small kiss on the little girls head and did the same to Caroline's cheek automatically.

Carolines POV

I turned around, and sprinted to the kitchen as fast as I could because I could already feel my cheeks were turning red. God, what it happening to me? Why does he have to have such an effect on me? Get over yourself Caroline! I told myself. You can't think of him as more than a friend. He doesn't feel the same way.

Through the past few months Stefan and I had been spending a lot of time together. Raising a child wasn't as easy as it looked. Sometimes I even stayed to watch a movie with Stefan or order Chinese like the older days without so much drama that was going on in Mystic Falls. Was this how our lives were going to look like? Sometimes when I was alone I wondered what I was doing, I could just walk out and start over somewhere like Stefan. Without looking back and even Enzo was confused to why I was really doing it. I didn't own anything to Klaus. Truth was that I didn't want to let Stefan go, I didn't want to lose him. And now when I have grown so attached to Hope, I am scared that one day someone will take her away from us. I love that little girl.

I microwaved the spaghetti that I made earlier today and made Hope her milk and mashed little pieces of apple that she could eat now, to take my mind of things.

"Diner's ready!" I called them over and walked over to the counter were my phone was sitting at, Elena called me earlier today but I didn't have time to call her back " You two eat while I'll call Elena and see what's wrong" I said smiling

"Elena...?"

Stefan POV

I loved her food, even though it was microwaved today it still tasked so good. Her baking was even better, I guess now she had a lot of time to perfect it being at home with Hope. Once I finished I looked over at where Hope was sitting with a mess on her baby chair that she made with her apples still drinking her milk.

I noticed that throughout the whole conversation that Caroline had with Elena over the phone, she would look my way first worried and then smiling once in a while whispering something to her. I couldn't hear anything they said because I was a little busy trying to clean up Hope's mess.

After I was finished I placed Hope in the crib and waited patiently for Caroline to come and tell me what was going on.

"Stefan?"

"In here," I shouted from my bedroom "What's going on Caroline?" I really started to worry

"You might want to sit down" she said with a big smile plastered on her face. I did as she said, sitting on my bed and waited for her to explain. "Demon's back".

To say that I was shocked was an understatement. I just reconciled with the fact that Damon was dead, gone and now he was back. How?

"What do you mean he's back?"

"I don't know, Elena told me he was in some kind of prison on the other side but he got out Stefan" I didn't know what do think. I looked for a way for him to come back and I found nothing. And now, after all this time he appears again? "I think you should go there and see him" she said putting her fragile hand on my back. Even though she wasn't a big fan of Damon she knew how important he was to me.

"What about Hope? It's already really late and I can't bring her with me there"

"Don't worry, I will stay the night and take care of her. You go and see your brother" I knew that there wasn't a point in trying to argue with her so I just agreed eager to see my brother after all this time.

"Damon?" I called once I entered the house.

The lights were on but he wasn't anywhere in sight. I walked into one of the bigger living rooms and found him holding Elena up against the wall.

I just walked in on them having sex, great.

"Stefan?! " Elena shouted surprised and got away from him and put her shirt back on using her vampire speed. This couldn't be more awkward, "Ok... I'm going to go, It's good to see you Stefan and I'll see you tomorrow Damon" she said and left after giving him one last kiss.

About a year ago that would still have an effect on me. Elena used to be my first love, and of course I will always love her but not in the same way. I am happy that she and Damon are back together at last, she was shuttered after Damon left and I loved her in a sisterly way so of course it hurt me too.

Elena makes my brother a better person, I know that their meant to be together now.

"So...came back from the dead and got laid the same day. Impressive brother" I said smirking

"Come here" he said as we met each other half way and hugged.

"I missed you"

"I missed you two Stefan" after our little moment, we sat down in front of the fire place, facing each other with vintage whiskey between as.

We talked about everything that was going on while he wasn't here and of course I told him about Hope and our little arrangement with Caroline. Actually it was me talking most of the time; I could see that he didn't want to talk about things that happened to him when he was on the other side. He had told me though that it was Bonnie that helped him get out and that he was going to bring her back no matter what.

"Soo... Blondie and Stefan sitting on a tree" He started to sing with his eyes half closed

"Damon" I warned

"What? You two got awfully close during those last few months. Don't tell me there is nothing between the two of you!"

"There is nothing..."

"Yet!" he exclaimed without even letting me finish what I was going to say "Do you feel something towards her? Do you want something to be there?" What was I supposed to say?

"It's complicated"

"Oh it always is, just don't wait too long to realise you actually want to be with her. And it's about time you were the the one that got laid."

At that he quickly changed the subject probably not wanting to piss me of tonight or not wanting it to turn into some kind of fight.

The hours went on and before I realised it was early in the morning. He knew that I couldn't visit often from now on because of Hope but he could come over whenever I was home. He agreed and promised he will let me know when Bonnie will be back home, safe.

When I got home I thought Caroline and Hope would have been already up knowing that little angle didn't like to sleep in the mornings, but judging from the awfully quite house they were both probably still asleep.

I walked to upstairs to my room and found Caroline and Hope both in my bed. They both looked so peaceful, so quiet unlike their usual selves. I noticed that Caroline was wearing one of my old shirts that she probably found in the back of one of my drawer, she could have it. It looked much better on her. She also had short shorts that didn't cover much and didn't leave much to imagination. Her arm was safely wrapped around Hope probably making sure she didn't fall off the bed during the night. Looking at my girls made my heart speed up.

I sat down on the edge of the bed and stared at them peacefully sleeping for a little longer before Caroline started to stir in her sleep and finally woke up.

"Stefan, Hi" she said still rubbing her sleepy eyes with her soft hands "I'm sorry I guess I must have fallen asleep on your bed last night after Hope woke up in the middle of night I should have..."

"Caroline It's fine" she smiled, gave me a kiss on the cheek and started to walk back to the guest room where I guess she slept before "Hey wait" she stopped and looking in my direction. "Look I.. I think you should move in. I mean.. you spend most of your days with us anyway soo..."

"Really?" she asked, and I could see how happy she suddenly was.

"Yeah there is more than enough space for the three of us, you can have the guest room"

"Oh my Gosh thank you Stefan" she run up to me and gave me a quick peck on the lips that surprised me.

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