I wake up to her eyes. She smiles and they sparkle and I can't stop myself from kissing her. She holds me close kissing me back and my heart races just as fast as I hear hers beat. I tell her that I love her and am relieved when she tells me that she loves me back. She tells me that she just wants to lay here all day so the time would go by slower making it seem like we have more seconds together. I promised her that if we needed to go anywhere, I'd use my speed so we wouldn't waste time. She laughed some but agreed. We shut off our phones and anything that can get an alert and strip down to our underwear and be together. We touch, we kiss, we feel. She lets me bite her and she drinks my blood. Sex follows and I take her slow. We exchange breaths and I feel her soul become mine. We kiss and my hips move faster within her until she comes digging her nails into my skin. Our lips meet again and she holds me close as I with her.

I read my journal aloud as her head rests on my chest following along. I want to open up more to her so I decided to spill out all my secrets. The good, the bad, and the terrible. She doesn't flinch or utter a word as I go into detail about a kill, she doesn't tell me to stop with all the blood. But she laughs at the good, trail her fingertips down my arm learning of my control. It's then when I come to realize that she fully accepts me.

I watch her eyes as she lays on me and rests her chin on her folded arm to keep her head up. She hums lightly and beautifully then moved to rest her head down and draw circles on my chest. I want to ask her what she's thinking about, what has her humming such a light tune. Is it because our bodies are touching? Because though in a dark situation we're alone together? I decide to just let it be and rub my hand along her back and I see her cheek lift in a smile.

"Can I ask you a question?"

Her voice startled me some as it shattered the silence. "Sure,"

"Where do vampires go after…"

"It's called the Other Side. It's death but you're alive with the souls of other supernatural beings."

"So you won't really be gone?" She looks up at me with wide eyes.

"I won't really be gone. I promise."

She kisses me relieved. I move my hand to the side of her face and stroke her cheek with my thumb. Her eyes smile.

We go for a walk next to enjoy the day. It's a woodsy area in my backyard so that's where we walk to avoid any others. It's like I'm blind and Bonnie's my only source of sight so I gawk at her the entire time. She talks softly to me and holds my hand. We end up laying on the grass feeling connected to earth. I'm going to miss it here, miss my life and most importantly Bonnie, but I keep those just as thoughts. You would think that you would want to know your fate. Know exactly when and where you'll die, at the exact hour but knowing isn't all it's cracked up to be. I'm actually scared and I'm afraid that if I talk my voice would be shaking. But it's for Bonnie, her safeness, her wellbeing. I love her and I would rather die a thousand times over just so she could be spared.

"Stefan?"

I turn my head towards her. "Yes?"

"I sometimes wish that I just killed you on the spot like with others so you wouldn't have to go through this."

"Why didn't you?"

"For some reason, my mission was to make you fall in love with me then reveal to you that I'm a hunter and kill you. I never thought that I would fall for you. I bought time by saying that it wasn't the right time but at Caroline's party, they were able to see time was past due. They threatened me so that's why I left in a hurry because I don't want to do this."

"Caroline's in on it too?"

She nodded. "And that's the last of the people that you know. Well, besides Elijah. That's how she and I met though, through the Society. We created a backstory just for the fun of it and lied to our friends who didn't know us before."

"Why would you join such a place like that anyway? I know you, this isn't like you at all."

"You only know what I tell you, Stefan." I frown. "I was in a dark place at the time, my grams passed away due to the hands of a vampire and that triggered the abandonment that my mom put me through and how I was practically all alone in this world that the only thing to comfort me at night was my pillow. I started practicing my magic more and I never knew that my anger could give me such power. One day I decided to avenge my grams and I found the vampire and killed him, easily. I guess he was already on the list because one of them came out and slow clapped at me. I was ready to charge again until he told me who he was and about the Society and what they do. At the time it was an easy decision, hell yes all the way but then as time passed I realized that I was still angry. That no matter how many vampires I kill it would never substitute the pain in my heart. And then I was handed your folder. Elijah hates you for a reason he wouldn't tell so he wanted you to suffer the most. I hated this plan because I just knew that there was no way that I could ever make a thing that I hate so much love me. Do you remember the first time we met?"

"Of course I do,"

"I studied you for quite some time. Saw who you knew, what you did and what time, how many people you killed. Very surprised to find out that you feed off animals more than humans and drank from blood bags more than the vein. I knew then that it wouldn't be so hard because you're one of the good ones. So at four o'clock pm, Saturday, June third, I walked in the library and headed to the nonfiction section and looked at you for the first time without studying your every move. You were so concentrated that it took you some time to actually notice me." We smiled. "When I met your eyes for the first time, I felt paralyzed. My spine was stiff, my legs couldn't move-"

"Yet you walked away very quickly."

She laughs and my heart speeds. "I was embarrassed, I- that wasn't how I planned things to go. I thought that I blew it and I was just going to trade missions with someone else but then I feel your hand grab my arm and you turn me around and you smile at me. If they were about, I would've swallowed about five flies." She smiled at me. "Next thing I remember, we're talking about books and I share parts of my life with you, and you do as well to me. And ever since then that's all we've done. When I started feeling something for you, I would shut down and turn away. When you tried to kiss me, when you tried to hold me, touch me, anything at all, I wanted none of it because I knew that this day had to come. I love you, Stefan. And if there was a way that we wouldn't have to run for the rest of our lives then I would jump on it but there isn't. I promise you that I will make things right. I'll leave the Society and I'll never look back."

The only thing that I could really do in that moment was to hold her. I'm glad that she opened up to me about all of this, it helps me find the peace that I need to pass over smoothly.

It gets dark soon after that so we head back inside. She leads me upstairs and removes her clothes wanting me to do the same. We kiss and she climbs on top of me teasing me with her hand. I enjoy every touch, every kiss, every stroke because this will be the last. I take her slow wanting to remember every inch of her. She asks me to bite her and I do. Her blood is running through my veins and she drinks my blood so mine is rushing through hers.

When it's over, we get dressed and she kisses me climbing on my lap. I can smell the vervain in the air but I continue to kiss her. She shortly pulls away and looks straight into my eyes. "I love you."

"I love you more."

"You promise?"

"I swear."

It's then when I feel weak and the last thing I remember before drifting away is a tear sliding down her cheek."

Celene blinked for the first time since he started the story. She found Stefan roaming around three days ago and he was the first face that she had seen who didn't look angry. She studied him for an hour until he finally called on her. She was embarrassed but revealed herself and asked him how he could be so at peace in a place like this. That's when he told her his story and she couldn't imagine ever going through anything like that in either Stefan's or Bonnie's position. There's a noise and they both look up and over towards the sound. Stefan narrows his eyes before they widen and he stands and walks over to it. Celene wonders what he's doing but then she sees it for herself. A woman lurking, just as she was when she first spotted Stefan.

"Bonnie?"

Her heart races and she stands feeling everything inside her grow with warmth.

Stefan halts in his stride when she comes from out of the shadows and drops to his knees. Bonnie smiles and gets on her knees as well holding his face.

"It can't- I- I don't understand."

"After everything, I gathered some of your blood. I called Elijah and told him everything and he came to get you. When he left was when I cried and cleaned everything up. I went to the Society and they congratulated me, told me that I was moving up in the ranks, but I didn't want to do that anymore. I wanted out and I needed to escape so I waited a few days before I packed everything and left. I put my stuff in storage so if they go looking they could see that I have gone. That night I filled my veins with your blood and I took some pills and laid in the bathtub thinking of you. When I woke up, I wasn't the same, there was a shift that was addicting but it didn't matter. The next adult I saw, I drank from and compelled and then I drove further away so I could kill myself one last time."

"You're alone,"

"My body is with nature, Stefan, I'm hardly alone. If I could, I would die next to you."

He kisses her three times then pulled her in for a hug."I love you so much."

"I love you so much more." She pulls back some from the hug and met their lips.

A/N: Thank you all for reading this story it was a short little one that I really love.

Until next time!

XO
Ashlyne