Part 1
"If you are done with these, there are three more boxes in the car," Caroline told Stefan as they got almost all the boxes brought in to their new apartment that they rented after getting together the summer after Jo's and Alaric's failed wedding.
"Great. Tell me again, why we didn't just hire movers?" Stefan asked Caroline.
"Because we are strong vampires who can do it themselves and it should bring us closer together, you know while working together." Caroline smiled as she opened one of the boxes and started taking things out and putting them in their new places.
"Well, I know one other great activity, that should bring us even closer," Stefan said playfully as he walked closer to her.
"Oh, and what's that?" Caroline asked as Stefan came and wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her closer, starting to kiss her.
"I think you get the idea," he said in between kissing her.
As they were just moving in they didn't have a bed yet, but they had the mattress already delivered and that is where Stefan flashed them on.
Hours later Stefan went to the boarding house to get some more of his things and when he opened bedroom door he almost choked as she found Elena on the bed with a sexy lingerie on and red rose pedals all around her.
"Um, Elena, I think you're in the wrong bedroom, Damon's is across the hall but he's still on his little trip with Alaric. At least that's what he told me this morning."
"I know, I know, but I'm not here for Damon, I'm here for you, silly." Elena said, her voice honey sweet.
"Excuse me?" Was all he could answer to that.
"Damon and I broke up," Elena said and as Stefan didn't find words to say, she continued seductively, crawling off the bed and walking in his direction, "And I thought that you might want to comfort me."
She tried to wrap her arms around him and kiss him, but he turned her down and walked away from her, further into his bedroom.
"I'm sorry about your fight with Damon, Elena, but this is not you, you are not acting anything like yourself right now."
"You don't like my outfit," Elena asked, feigning being hurt.
"It's not that, it's just that this is not an acceptable behaviour." Stefan tried to reason with her.
"Why?"
"Well, because Damon's my brother and secondly because I'm just moving with your best friend. Remember Caroline?"
Elena sighed and dropped the seductive act, "How could I forget! But come on, you are not really in love with Caroline, not like you have been with me all this time and Damon… well he'll get over it."
Stefan was growing inpatient with her, "What is this? Why did you break up with Damon suddenly and what do you want from me, Elena?"
"It's not suddenly, all summer, since becoming human, all I have been thinking about is you Stefan. Seeing you with Caroline all the time has been so hard and today I finally told that to Damon."
"You are insane, you want another brother swap?"
"Is that so hard to believe that I still love you and I want to be with you. I want you to take the cure and that we'd start a family together."
Stefan just looked at her like she had two heads.
"I have to go," Stefan said as he took a box full of his last remaining stuff in the house and started to go.
But Elena was faster as she took the box, threw it across the room and pulled Stefan in for a kiss.
'Damn, it felt good kissing her again after so much time', Stefan thought to himself. 'No, Stefan, you're with Caroline now, focus on that'.
"Elena, I can't…" Stefan tried to protest but she started trailing kisses along his neck and lower while also starting to remove his shirt.
"Yes, you can, forget about Caroline, I'm sure she also will get over you soon. You know she has those lovely feelings for Klaus. So maybe she can turn to Klaus after you break up with her."
Stefan hated that part of her was right. Caroline did have unresolved feelings for Klaus. The only reason she'd choose Stefan was because he was the more decent person of the two.
So while Elena brought her lips up again to kiss him on the mouth, he couldn't resist her anymore and flashed them to the nearest wall, pinning her between the wall and himself and started doing to her the same she just did to him.
The next morning Caroline was worried entering the boarding house, she had looked for Stefan everywhere and hadn't found him. This was the last place he could be. She had brought him a cup of coffee and had one for herself when she went up the stairs to his bedroom, wanting to wake him up and chastise him a little about breaking a promise to return to their apartment yesterday.
'I guess he wanted another night of being alone.' Caroline thought to herself
How wrong was she, when she opened the door to his bedroom and saw that that he was naked in his bed but not alone, in his arms was her best friend Elena who was also naked. Startled and shocked, she dropped the cups on the floor and froze as Stefan who still had vampire hearing, woke and looked at her.
"Caroline.."
Caroline just started at them and couldn't find words to say. Looking back at that moment, she felt like her world shattered into million little pieces in that moment.
Stefan put a sheet around his torso as he started to walk towards her to try to explain but she put up her hands up signalling for him to not come closer.
Slowly she turned around and walked out of the room and down the stairs, not saying a word to him. It was one of those rare moments she didn't find any words to say.
Luckily he didn't follow her, when she got to her car and drove home, while she was shaking all over her body and when she got home and closed the door behind her, she locked it and it was only then that she let it out. She screamed, she yelled, she cried as she took boxes that had the text "Stefan's" on and started to throw them out on the street from the balcony. The few people that passed by on the street looked at her like she was insane and some also seemed compassionate.
Just as she was done with all the boxes and his remaining stuff, his car pulled over. He came out and looking up at her, he tried to talk to her, "Care, let me in, I want to explain."
"It's Caroline to you and there's no way I'm letting you in. Take your shit and GET OUT!"
He had never seen her so angry, she saw it in his eyes. He was scared of what she might do, so he quickly collected his stuff, put them in the car and drove away.
It was done, with only 10 minutes he had moved back out after only living there the same amount of time.
"She closed the balcony door and just collapsed on the floor, bawling her eyes out."
She remained like that for the whole day and the next night, sleeping on the floor. Both Matt and Bonnie had visited her, but she didn't let anyone in. She wanted to be alone.
The next morning, tired of crying, she started to unpack her stuff, going on auto-pilot. She got a lot of stuff done that day, while also managing not to think about Stefan and Elena and their betrayal.
It was already late at night, when she heard the knock on the door. "GO AWAY, whoever you are," she yelled.
"Blondie, it's me," it was Damon's voice, who was slurring his words. Then she remembered that Damon was on the same boat as her. He must be taking it as hard as she was.
So she went and opened the door, "What do you want, Damon?"
They looked at each other for a few seconds, it was like watching herself in mirror. All the feelings and emotions she felt, were mirrored in his eyes. They weren't close friends after everything that had transpired between them but looking at him like that, she couldn't hold back and started to cry again as she fell into his embrace.
They stood there like that for a minute and then Damon asked, "Invite me in?"
"You don't need an invite, I haven't had the time to put in on my neighbours name yet."
"Yeah, I didn't mean that, but okay."
And they broke apart and she let him in. There was already a couch ready in the living room and he went with his bottle of bourbon and sat on it.
"When did you get back?" Caroline asked him.
"This morning, went to talk to her but she wasn't having any of it. "Clean break" is what they call it I think. Can't believe her…" he said, taking another swing from the bottle.
"I can't believe Stefan," she sobbed, starting to cry again.
Damon stood up and went to her and pulled her in for another hug, "Hey, hey, It's their loss okay, don't cry about it."
"I can't, I can't, I'm so upset and I can't calm down. Haven't been able to ever since I found them in bed together." She cried.
Wanting to comfort her, he broke apart and kissed her, slow at first but then it grew more passionate and before she knew it, they were on the couch taking their clothes off.
He managed to calm her down that night as they had sex and then slept in each other's embrace.
Come morning when she woke up in Damon's embrace of all people, she was even more upset and this time with herself for sleeping with Damon. Damon, the guy who has used and abused and raped her in the past and now she let him comfort her. 'How could you sink so low, Caroline?' she berated herself while waking him up and almost throwing him out.
In the morning she didn't care, that he was as hurt as she was and his intentions that night were sincere. She hated him and didn't want anything to do with him.
