A/N I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING! PARTS OF THIS CHAPTER ARE TAKEN FROM SEASON 3 EPISODE 19 I DO NOT OWN IT! I'm so sorry this has taken me so long to get out. I hope it was well worth the wait. Enjoy the next chapter. THANKS TO MY BETA ELENA RAIN!

The next morning Elena stirred and opened her eyes. She smiled when she saw Stefan sleeping peacefully next to her. It wasn't a dream. Everything from the previous night had happen and they were together again. Elena rolled onto her side and watched Stefan sleep.

"You're gazing." He muttered.

She just giggled. "Yeah, so what if I am?"

"It's creepy."

"I thought you said staring was creepy? Gazing is romantic."

He chuckled and rolled them over so he was on top of her. He let out a playful growl and she giggled. She wasn't scared at all.

"Oh no, someone help, the big bad vampire is going to eat me." She cried playfully.

He growled playfully at her and put his face into her neck. She squealed when he blew a raspberries.

"Stefan!"

He chuckled and did it again.

She started to giggle. "Stefan stop it!"

Suddenly he pulled away breathing heavy.

"Are you all right?" she asked.

He nodded and took a few deep breaths. Elena rubbed his back. She knew what had happen.

"I'm sorry." He whispered.

"It's ok. It's not your fault. You were just fooling around. I'm fine."

She sat up and handed him her hand. "Here, take a litte"

"No." he said quickly pushed her hand away. "Not yet, it's too soon. I don't know if I'd be able to control it right now."

Elena nodded and waited for him to regain control. After a couple minutes he looked to her and his eyes were full of guilt. "I'm sorry."

"Don't be sorry, Stefan. We both knew this would be hard. But we're going to get through this. I promise."

He nodded softly.

"Are you ready now?"

He nodded again. "I think so."

Elena reached down to the floor and grabbed the stake from the previous night. She stabbed herself in the hand and handed it to Stefan. He put her hand into his mouth and drank the blood and let her go. A loud growl left his throat. Her blood was the best blood he had ever tasted and he hated that. He took a few deep breaths again.

Once he was calm again he looked to Elena. "Give me your hand." He said.

"What? Why?" she asked.

"Trust me; just give me your hand."

Elena gave him her hand. She looked at him curiously but fully trusting him to not hurt her. Stefan smiled at that and kissed the small wound on her hand. She giggled and tried to pull her hand away. He chuckled and let her hand go.

"Why do you always do that?" she wondered.

"Makes me feel better about feeding off you. Do you not like it?"

"No, it's not that. I was just wondering, it…it tickles that's all."

Stefan chuckled. "Well if you really don't like it, I won't do it anymore."

"I love it when you do that." She smiled.

He smirked and they kissed passionately on the lips. Stefan pulled away suddenly. "Incoming." He said.

His bedroom door swung open and Damon walked in. Elena gasped knowing she had yet to tell him about this. Damon looked too shocked but didn't comment on it.

"Look, I have an idea on how to find who turned Rose, but Elena I need your help."

"What can I do?"

"Well, it would really help if we could find someone who has been known to talk with dead vampires…"

Elena sighed. "Jeremy?"

"Bingo."

"He's all the way in Denver. I sent him there to get him away from all this."

"So we go on a little road trip visit him, get the answers we need come home and Jeremy is fine."

Elena sighed. "I don't know, Damon. I compelled Jeremy to leave so he wouldn't be involved in this anymore. By going back I'm doing what I promised I wouldn't."

"Let me put it this way, I'm going to see Jeremy tomorrow morning and you can either come with me and help me or you can stay here and sleep with my brother some more. Just remember if I go alone I'll get angry and you and I both know what happens when I get angry and Jeremy has a magic ring that can save him."

Elena leaped off the bed. "You wouldn't!"

"Come with me tomorrow and I won't have to."

"Fine! I'll come with, just give me today to pack."

Damon smiled. "Thanks so much for helping me, Elena. I knew you'd understand."

He walked out and Elena sighed and covered her face with her hands. Stefan come up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed the back of her head. "Are you all right?"

She shook her head but didn't speak. Stefan kissed her head. "As much as I hate to admit this, if you go Damon will behave. If not there is no telling what will happen."

Elena sighed once more and nodded."I know." She whispered. "I just wish you were coming with me."

"I do too, but I have to stay here and keep an eye on Ric. It's not safe to leave him alone right now."

Elena nodded in understanding. She turned in Stefan's arm and laid her head in his chest. They hugged each other tightly. Neither of them wanted her to leave but they both knew she didn't really have a choice. In was better for everyone if she went.

The day went by quickly and before Elena knew it she was in the car with Damon on her way to see Jeremy. A part of her was super excited to see Jeremy again, but the other knew it wasn't going to be a fun exciting visit.

The car ride took forever but they finally arrived and found out where Jeremy was. They found him inside a cage playing baseball. Elena smiled when she saw him.

"Next time we compel him let's make him better at baseball."

Elena sighed and rolled her eyes. She went over to the cage. "Hey, Jer!"

He turned to her and smiled widely. "Elena?" When he saw Damon he frowned. "What wrong?"

Elena frowned too. Damon went on and told him the entire story.

"…Katherine sired us, Rose sired Katherine, now we just have to figure out who sired Rose."

"So you traveled across the country to get me to talk to a dead vampire." Jeremy asked.

"Well…'dead vampire' is redundant but yes."

"Well I can't. I can talk to Vikki and Anna because I knew them. I never even met Rose."

"What good is you dying and coming back to life if you can't talk to a ghost when I need you to?"

Elena knew she had to step in. Before one of them, mainly Jeremy, ended up dead. Maybe if Stefan had come Jeremy would listen to them better. She sighed at the thought but looked to Jeremy.

"Rose spent a lot of time running from Klaus as well. She and Damon were really close so maybe we can use him as a connection?"

Jeremy sighed. "Fine, I'll do it. But it will have to be later. My friend just showed up…and yes Damon I actually have some. I'll call you when I'm done."

Jeremy walked away from them giving Elena a kiss on the cheek as he passed. She smiled softly and turned to watch him but gasps when she realized who his "friend" really was. "Damon, it's Kol."

Just as Damon turned around he was smacked in the head with the wooden baseball bat making it break and Damon fall to the ground.

"What are you doing?" Jeremy asked.

"Jeremy get back he's an original!" Elena ordered.

"No hard feelings, Mate but we aren't Buds." Kol said. He grabbed another bat from the rack. He went to smack Damon again but Damon grabbed it and stabbed him with the broken baseball bat causing him to fall to the floor.

"Did you kill him?" Jeremy asked,

"No, but it will give us a head start, come on."

The three of them quickly left and headed back to the hotel.

They finally arrived at the hotel and everyone got out. "Just so you know it was your sister's idea to stop at a hotel." Damon said.

Elena just glared at him. She didn't think it was possible for him to be serious for even a second. He was really starting to annoy her longer she was with him the more she missed Stefan.

"Where are we?" Jeremy asked again.

"The corner of somewhere and nowhere" Damon answered."

"I can't believe Kol, was really a vampire." Jeremy sighed.

"Well…didn't you find it weird you made a friend so fast, I mean…have you met you?"

Elena spun around to send him another glare. "You're not helping." Now she was getting angry. Why was he always being so mean to Jeremy? He never did anything wrong to hurt Damon and yet Damon treated him like dirt.

They reached their room and went inside.

"All right Woopi, what do need, candles, insets, pottery wheel?" Damon asked as he closed the curtain.

"It doesn't work like that." Jeremy answered.

"I know." Damon sighed.

Jeremy sat down on the chair by the table. "Do you have a picture of her?"

"Of what our trip to Disney Land?" Damon asked annoyed. "Come on, Rose you aren't actually going to make up wait are you? I know you're obsessed with me."

Elena sighed and sat down on the chair. She really wished Stefan and her had come to visit Jeremy. Maybe then things wouldn't be as stressful on her right now.

"All right, um…tell me something about her." Jeremy said once more.

"Well…she did this thing with her tongue." He said sitting on the bed.

Elena groaned in disgust. "Something that matters, Damon please."

"Ok, ok, um…she spent her finally moments in paradise, soaking in the sun. Reminiscing about what it meant to be human. Then when death came she didn't fear it."

A look of shock crossed Elena's face. She never knew that before. "I was with her that day too. It wasn't paradise."

"It was in the dream you gave her?" Jeremy said. "She's here."

"Is she lonely on the other side?" Elena asked.

Jeremy was quiet for a minute before he answered. "She says not to worry she's happy."

"Is she still hot?" Damon asked.

Elena watched Jeremy's face trying to figure out what Rose was saying to him. By the look on his face she guessed it was some sexy remark about Damon. "She misses you." He said and then another moment later he said "She misses both of you."

Jeremy listened carefully for a minute and then said "She was sired by someone named Mary Porter."

Damon groaned. "Scary Mary, well where is she, Rose?"

Jeremy sighed. "She doesn't know, but she says if we wait here she'll try and figure it out."

Elena sighed and nodded. "Ok."

"Fine, Jeremy go outside." Damon said.

"Why?"

"So Elena and I can make out." Damon joked.

"Ugh!" Elena groaned once more. "Damon!"

"No way!" Jeremy growled.

"Relax, I was just kidding."

"It wasn't funny." Jeremy bit back.

"No, you're right. What to know what else isn't funny? Me walking in on your sister and my brother in bed together, after your sister kissed me and led me on for months!"

Elena sighed. "Damon, I didn't mean for that to happen."

"You should have told me before you hoped into bed with him, Elena, or should I start calling you Katherine?"

Elena stood up and looked to Jeremy. "I'm going to get us some ice and drinks, come with me."

"I'm fine. I'll stay here."

"Jer…"

"Go, I'll be fine."

Elena sighed and looked to Damon. "Touch him and I'll never forgive you."

"Whatever you say…Katherine."

Elena stormed out of the hotel room slamming the door behind her.

Once she was alone she let the few tears fall down her cheeks as she sniffed them back. She reached into her pocket and grabbed her cell phone. She dialed Stefan's number hoping he'd answer.

"Hey, Beautiful Girl, how is Denver?"

Elena sniffed back more tears. "Hey…" she answered softly.

"Elena, Baby, are you crying?" Stefan asked worry clear in his voice.

"No…" she lied.

"I know you better than that. What's the matter? Did Damon do something to hurt you? Did he hurt Jeremy?"

"No…" she lied again.

"Elena, please, you've got to talk to me. What happen? Are you hurt?"

"Not physically."

Stefan sighed on the other end. He hated moments where she was so far away and hurting and he couldn't help her. "Mentally then?"

Elena nodded softly, only to remember he couldn't see her. "Yes."

"Who hurt you?"

"The only person who could."

Stefan sighed. "What did he say to you? You don't cry easily, so it had to be something bad."

"Stefan do you…do you think I'm like her?" Elena asked softly.

"Like who, Baby?"

"Katherine?"

Stefan sighed again. He knew what Damon had said now and he was furious.

"Elena Gilbert, you listen to me, you are not Katherine, you are nothing like her You may look alike but your personalities are completely different. Katherine is a heartless monster who cares about nobody but herself. You have the biggest heart of anyone I know and you'd give someone the shirt off your back if they asked for it. You care for your friends and family, even strangers before you care for yourself. You are so completely selfless and it's what I admire most about you. It's what drew me in after I realized you weren't Katherine."

Elena sniffed back more tears. "But I did what she did. I played both you and Damon against each other. I dated you then when we broke up I went after Damon!"

"Yeah, after we broke up. You were allowed to go after anybody you wanted and even though you and Damon were never official, and even though we are together again, the guilt is tearing you apart. Katherine dated Damon and I at the same time and didn't care that she wasn't even really in love with Damon. She wanted us both so she took us. Till this day she doesn't feel guilty or even have any remorse for what she did. Elena, listen to me, no matter what Damon tells you, you are not Katherine, you are nothing like Katherine and you never will be Katherine. Do you understand?"

"Yes." Elena cried. "Thank you, Stefan, you have no idea how badly I needed to hear that."

"I love you, Elena, just remember by tomorrow you'll be home and back in my arms."

"I love you too, Stefan. I can't wait. So, what's happening on your end? How are things with Alaric?"

Stefan sighed. "Do you want the honest truth?"

"Yes?" Elena sad more as a question.

"At the moment he's dead."

"WHAT!"

"Don't worry, he was wearing his ring."

Elena sighed. "What happen?"

"Klaus was here; let's just say he doesn't like waiting."

"Kol, must have told him we were here."

"Wait, Kol? When did you see him?"

"He's been here this entire time, pretending to be Jeremy's friend. The thought alone of what he could have done to Jeremy makes me want to throw up."

"Is Jeremy ok?"

"Yeah, he's fine, but I guess after everything we've been through and everyone I've lost, my overprotective sister instincts are in overdrive right now."

Stefan chuckled. "That's only natural. Where is Jeremy now?"

Elena sighed. "We stopped at a hotel so Kol couldn't find us. We talked to Rose and found out who sired her, but nobody knows where she is so we've just got to wait for Rose to get back with the information on where she is."

"So you're in a hotel room, with Jeremy and Damon?"

"No, I left after Damon made the Katherine comment and I'm just walking to get some ice and drinks."

"Well, I don't mean to sound like the overprotective boyfriend but.."

"But.." Elena said with a smile. "You don't like me walking around outside at night by myself."

Stefan chuckled. "Yes."

Elena giggled and shook her head. "I'm fine. I promise."

"I know, but it was worth it to hear you giggle."

Elena smiled and just shook her head. "I'll stay on the phone with you until I get back into the room all right?"

Stefan smiled. "Thank you."

Elena and Stefan continued to talk as Elena went to the ice machine and grabbed some ice and went back to the room. She opened the door and went inside.

"Ok, I'm back inside safe and sound…teeth brush ready for bed." She added with a smile.

Stefan chuckled. He could easily remember her calling when she'd get home from his house late at night and saying that to him. "All right, Baby, tell Jeremy I said hello and sleep good ok."

"I will. Good night, Stefan."

"Good night, Elena, I love you."

Elena looked to Damon and she knew he could hear everything. "I love you too."

She hung up and looked to Jeremy who was on the bed unmoving with his eyes closed. Elena gasped. "Damon!" She rushed to him and started to shake him.

He shot up with a gasp. "What happen?"

"Are you ok, what did Damon do? Did he hurt you?"

"What? Elena, I was fine. I was sleeping peacefully until you woke me up."

"Huh?"

"It's been a long day and I'm tried so I crashed early. Damon and I haven't said a word to each other since you left."

Elena sighed. "I'm sorry. I just thought he hurt you."

"No, I'm fine."

"Ok. I'm sorry. Go back to sleep."

Elena turned her back to set the ice bucket down.

Damon spoke. "So how is my brother?"

"He's fine, Damon. Any news from Rose?"

"None."

Elena sighed and nodded. She grabbed her bag and went into the bathroom locking the door behind her. She and Jeremy crashed early. Damon stayed awake drinking a bottle of scotch.

A little later into the evening Elena started to whimper in her sleep. "No, no, stop, stop."

Damon looked at her to see her breathing a bit heavier. Her heart was racing and she was squirming around in the bed. It was clear she was having a nightmare.

"Help, help, please, someone help."

Damon stood up and went over to her.

"Stefan help please, Stefan help."

Damon froze and just glared. "If its Stefan's help she wants then it's his help she'll get. He turned away from her and sat back down on the chair.

Her whimpers turned cries and her cries turned to screams.

"NO NO! PLEASE HELP ME! HELP ME PLEASE!"

Jeremy shot up in bed and looked to his sister. He quickly went to her side and started to shake her. She shot up in bed with a scream.

"It's ok, it's ok, you're ok." Jeremy told her.

Elena looked to him and sighed. "I'm sorry; it was just a bad dream. You can go back to sleep."

"Are you sure?"

Elena nodded. "I'm fine."

She lay back down and rolled onto her side. Jeremy sighed and looked to Damon. He glared at him. "You saw her having a bad dream and you just sat there?"

"She cried out for Stefan to help her not me. I was just giving her what she wanted."

"You're a monster." Jeremy said.

He turned back to his sister and kissed her head. "You're safe. I love you." Then he went back into his own bed and went to sleep.

A/N so what do you think? Are all you Stelena fan enjoying this? Also for any Damon fans I promise he won't always be a jerk! He's just angry because Elena didn't pick him so he's acting out. I promise he will be a good guy again!

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