Sorry it took so long to get this one up, I've been really busy, but here it is! :) This chapter has a couple of new characters and plenty of Stelena. I hope you guys like it! :)

"Are you blind? Can't you see me standing here waiting in line, for you? Are you mine? Not just when you wanna be, all of the time. Are you, are you blind? Don't you see me standing here, won't you tell me what it is I'm waiting to find? With you, it's always midnight…"~Always Midnight-Pat Monahan

Elena

I slowly woke up and resettled into the body that I was lying beside. It took me a minute to remember that body belonged to Klaus. I looked up at his face and found that he was already looking down at me.

"Good morning love." He smiled

"Good morning." I said sleepily.

"I was wondering when you were going to wake up."

"Well, someone kept me up almost all night."

He smirked. "You're the one who asked me to stay."

"I know."

He sighed. "Well I hate to say this, but I have to go."

"You're running out on me again?"

"Afraid so."

"Apparently being an Original hybrid in Mystic Falls is very time consuming."

He chuckled. "You'd be surprised."

"Ok, so what is it this time?"

"What?"

"Why do you have to go?" His eyes met mine, and I raised an eyebrow, challenging him.

When he realized I wasn't going to let it go, he finally said, "I have to go back to the house to uncompel Stefan."

I sat up in the bed. "You compelled Stefan? Why?"

He sat up beside me. "When Damon called last night, I didn't know what was going to happen or what Elijah could be planning, so I compelled Stefan to stay at the house until I got back and to not talk to Rebekah. So that neither of them could come."

"Wow." I said.

He looked at me. "What?"

"You actually really care about Stefan and your sister."

"And I should go." He started to get up.

I grabbed his arm. "Why do you always want to hide from your feelings?"

"Why do you always ask so many questions?"

"Because I'm curious. Now answer yours."

He frowned. "I don't know Elena. I guess a thousand years of habit."

"Well then I guess we're just going to have to break that."

He rolled his eyes. "You're always so determined. I like it." He leaned over and kissed my forehead and I let go of his arm.

"Bye Elena. See you later."

"Bye Klaus."

Right after Klaus left, Jeremy came in my room. "Is the hybrid finally gone?"

"Yes." I rolled my eyes.

"So how many vampires have you actually had in your bed?"

I threw one of my pillows at him. "Shut up!"

He laughed. "But speaking of vampires, Damon came by last night."

"What?"

"Yeah. I tried to stop him, but he went upstairs anyway, and I think he took one look in your room and came back down."

"Oh no. Where did he go?"

"No idea. But he met that blonde girl on the porch."

"Blonde girl? Rebekah?"

"I guess."

"What was she doing here?"

"Looking for Klaus. I think. Her and Damon left together though."

"You've got to be kidding me." I mumbled. I grabbed a jacket from my closet. "I'll be back later Jer."

Klaus

I opened the door to the house. "Stefan? Rebekah?"

Stefan darted in front of me and stabbed me in the stomach with a stake.

I pulled it out. "Thank you for that."

He crossed his arms. "I think we can both agree that you deserved it."

"Fair enough. Where did you get that from anyway?"

"Rebekah's room. Turns out she had several."

I nodded. "That sounds about right. I was actually trying to protect you though, by the way."

"Oh really? Because we're such good friends?"

"We are friends Stefan."

"Where were you all night?"

"With Elena."

"Where with Elena?"

"Her bed." I admitted.

He pushed me, hard. "I'm leaving." He swung the door open.

"Don't be stupid Stefan. I could always just compel you again."

He slammed the door back. "And what does that prove Klaus? That you're stronger than me? That you can do and take whatever you want? That you can steal my girlfriend?" He shook his head. "We're not friends." He turned to leave.

"Stefan." He looked back at me. "I'm sorry."

"I just, need to get out of here for a while."

I nodded and looked after the man that had held a quiet effect over me for the past ninety years.

Elena

I opened the door to the boardinghouse. "Damon!" He didn't answer, but I heard laughter coming from another part of the house. I followed the sound, and smelled pancakes? Was Damon cooking?

I entered the kitchen that I had never even been in and found Damon trying to show Rebekah how to flip a pancake.

"I can't believe you've never made pancakes."

"I've been in a coffin for ninety years."

"So? That's no excuse. They had pancakes before then."

"Nik's search for the doppelganger and a way to make hybrids was very time consuming."

Damon nudged her and then quickly stole the pan from her and flipped it himself.

"Hey! I almost had it!" She pushed him. He smirked and leaned in close to her and it almost looked like he was going to kiss her, but then he didn't.

"Damon." I said before anything else could happen.

He turned around. "Good morning Elena. Pancakes?"

"No thanks. Uh, hi Rebekah."

She looked at me through narrowed eyes. "Hello Elena." She turned back to Damon. "I should probably go."

"You sure?"

"Yeah, I need to go see what Nik's up to. Maybe we can finish this some other time." She leaned in to Damon and kissed his cheek right beside his lips. "Bye Damon."

"Bye." He smiled.

I waited until I heard the door shut. "What the hell was that?"

"What?"

"Making pancakes with Rebekah? And you came home with her last night! Did you sleep with her?"

"Calm down Elena."

"No! This really pisses me off actually."

"Nothing even happened. We didn't even kiss." He was standing in front of me now. "And besides, you're allowed to run after Stefan and have sleepovers with Klaus, what about me? What do you want from me Elena?"

"It's not that simple."

"It could be."

I sighed. "I guess you're right." I looked down at my keys. "I need to go."

Damon raised an eyebrow. "Go where?"

"Uh, to see Caroline. I haven't really told her about what's been going on the past few days."

He nodded. "Ok. See you later Elena."

I half smiled. "Bye Damon."

Stefan

I had to get away from Klaus. I was tired of looking at him and imagining him with Elena, and knowing that the possibility of them being together was now very real. I needed to talk to my best friend, but that was impossible now, so I was going with the next best thing.

I knocked on Caroline Forbes' door and silently prayed she was home.

She came to the door about a minute later, and her face changed when she saw me. "Stefan?"

"Hey Caroline." I smiled.

She looked concerned. "What are you doing here?"

"I was just wondering if I could come in and talk to you…about Elena."

"Is she ok?" Caroline stepped aside and let me in.

"Yeah. I just wanted to talk about her. And Damon. And Klaus." I sighed.

Caroline nodded. "So this is going to be a brooding session? Or does ripper Stefan still do that?" I laughed and Caroline smiled, and I felt her arms wrap around me. "I'm glad you're ok Stefan."

I pulled back and smiled at her. "Thanks. I've missed you Caroline."

"Likewise." She walked over to the couch and sat down and I followed her. "So what is this about Elena?"

I told her everything. Walking in and seeing Damon and Elena kissing. Elijah's fake plan. Klaus spending the night with her. Fighting with Klaus and feeling some unnamable feeling for him. And just wanting Elena back and for her to love only me so much it hurts.

Caroline frowned. "My best friend doesn't call me for a few days and this is what happens." She looked at me curiously. "If Elena told you she wanted to be with Damon or Klaus, what would you do?"

"It would hurt like hell, but I would leave her alone."

"You wouldn't fight for her?"

"Not if it meant she wouldn't be happy."

Caroline shook her head. "You are the most selfless person I've ever met."

I sunk down on to the couch. "And look where that's gotten me."

Caroline had a sad smile on her face. "You really love Damon and Elena." She looked over at me. "And if they can't see that, then they're crazy."

I just smiled at the young blonde, who had changed so much from when I'd first met her.

Caroline's phone buzzed in her lap. She looked down. "It's a text from Elena. It says Hey. Are you home?"

Before we could do or say anything else, there was a knock at the door. Caroline looked over at me. "Is that?"

I listened and heard Elena's impatient sigh and the familiar sound of her heartbeat. "Elena."

I followed Caroline to the door. "Hey Elena." Caroline opened the door.

"Hey. Sorry to just randomly show up, but I really needed to talk to someone."

I stepped forward. "Hey Elena."

"Stefan? What are you doing here?"

"I, needed to talk to Caroline. But I was just leaving." I started to step past her.

"No, wait." She grabbed my arm. "I'm going to talk to Stefan for a minute." She looked at Caroline.

Caroline nodded and we went outside. "I'm actually really glad you're here." Elena said. "I've been wanting to talk to you."

"About what?" A part of me wanted to make this hard for her.

"You know. You saw me kissing Damon."

I nodded. "You love him more than I thought you did."

She frowned. "I'm so sorry Stefan. It's just for the past year, you've always been there to comfort me and hold me and make me feel safe again, but now you're not there and," She looked down at the ground. "And I guess that I found comfort in Damon."

"And what about Klaus?" I said before I could stop myself.

"What about Klaus?"

I shook my head. "It doesn't even matter." I took her face in my hands. "Elena. I'm here right now, with you. And I will do everything I can to stay here to hold you and protect you and love you and just be here. I don't care if that means I have to kill Klaus, or fight with Damon, or whatever it takes. I just—"

She shook her head. "Stefan stop. Neither one of us can guarantee that right now. We just can't."

"What do you mean?"

"I can't be with anyone right now. And I don't want Klaus to hurt you or compel you."

I dropped my hands from her face. "So does that mean you're going to run to Damon or Klaus? Whichever one you can find "comfort in" by sleeping with them? I don't even care anymore."

"You don't mean that."

"Actually, I do."

"No, you don't." She grabbed my face this time. "Stefan listen to me. We don't even need to be having this conversation right now. We're both a complete mess and caught in the middle of something that we can't really control. Do I care about Damon and Klaus? Yes. But I'm in love with you Stefan. Don't forget that." She lightly kissed my lips.

She pulled back, but I didn't want to let go. I held her hand. "Can I please come by your house later so that we can actually talk? Klaus knows that I'm pissed at him, so I don't think he really cares about what I do today."

Elena's eyebrows furrowed. "How much did he tell you?"

I kissed her forehead. "We can talk about it later."

"Ok." She sighed.

Elena

My conversation with Caroline was still running through my head as I walked up the stairs of the boardinghouse. She wanted me to be happy and do whatever I wanted, but when it came down to it, she was on Stefan's side.

"Ok, Elena, listen. The point is, we can't help who we fall in love with. So you really don't have to feel guilty." "I know. But I feel like I'm just hurting all three of them. All the time." Caroline looked at me through accusing eyes. She didn't know how hard this really was. "Why don't you just make a choice then Elena, if you don't want to hurt anyone?" "Because I'm so scared that if I do then they'll leave and stop caring about me, and I don't know if I'd be able to handle that Caroline." I admitted. Caroline nodded. "Ok. But I think you should at least be honest with Stefan and try to sort out your feelings because he really loves you, and anyone can see that. And he deserves someone who loves him just as much back."

I ended up in Damon's bedroom. I was really tired and I knew that Stefan was probably at my house waiting to talk, and I just couldn't do that right now.

I went through Damon's drawers like he had done to mine multiple times, and found a long black button up shirt to trade for my own that was getting really uncomfortable. You could barely see my shorts under the shirt and with just a small with camisole underneath it, it was ridiculously comfortable.

I didn't know where Damon was or when he was going to be back, so I went downstairs and made myself a drink and laid back on the couch. Thinking of all the things, good and bad, that had happened here.

The front door opening broke my thoughts. "Elena?" Damon called out as he opened the door.

"Over here."

He walked further into the house and I saw several emotions cross his face when he saw me. "What, are you doing?"

"I'm not really sure." I answered honestly. "I guess I'm just getting away from everything for a while. And your shirts are really comfortable. How did you know I was here?"

He laughed. "I saw your car."

"Right."

"And you have clothes in Stefan's room by the way."

"How did you?"

"Long story."

I knew it probably wasn't, but I didn't care enough to push it. "Ok. Will you go get them for me?"

"Why lazy?"

I laid my head back. "I'm just tired, and you're faster."

He grinned and started walking toward me.

"Damon, what are you—" Damon swooped me up in his arms and before I knew it I was laying on Stefan's bed with Damon holding himself up over top of me with his hands.

"Fast enough?" He smiled.

I could feel my heart pounding in my chest. "Yeah."

Damon and I noticed at the same time that several of the buttons on the shirt had come undone. We locked eyes. "Damon." I breathed out as my hands pulled on his shirt and brought him down to me.

He kissed me softly and I kissed him back. He moved down to my neck and I couldn't think about anything else. Until I looked up and saw the picture of me and Stefan staring back at me. "Damon stop." I said quickly.

He instantly pulled back. "What? What's wrong?"

"I can't do this here in Stefan's room. And he still wants to talk to me. And I'm a terrible person, and I just—"

Damon rolled over. "Elena, stop. Calm down. I'll go downstairs and you can get dressed and—" He paused, listening. "Katherine and Elijah are back anyway."

A few minutes later I came downstairs and found Katherine, Elijah, and Damon talking.

"Elena." Katherine smiled when she saw me. "Just the person I needed."

"I actually have to go."

"Can you wait a few minutes?"

"Why?"

"Hold on. I'll be right back." She walked out of the room. Elijah smiled at me before following her out.

Damon walked over to me. "I'm sorry about earlier."

He always wanted to blame himself. "Damon, it's not your fault. I'm the one who made you kiss me."

"Well you didn't exactly make me." We both laughed. "This may not be the best time to say this, but I love your laugh Elena."

I shook my head and couldn't help but smile. "It's not, but thank you."

There was a knock on the door. "I'll get it." I said.

"You sure? Remember who it was the last time you did that?"

I shrugged. "Might as well."

I opened the door and found a gorgeous man looking back at me. But I had no idea who he was. "Um?"

"Katerina?" The beautiful man looked at me curiously.

"Uh, no." I studied him. "Damon!"

Damon came up behind me. "Who is this?"

"I don't—" It was then that I realized he looked very similar to Klaus. I stepped back a little. The man smiled. "Elijah!" I yelled. "Come here. It's important."

Elijah walked in and gave me a strange look when he saw us standing by the door. He came over and looked at the man.

The man smiled. "Elijah."

"Hello Finn. Who let you out?"

"I have no idea."

Elijah stepped forward and clenched his teeth. "Who let you out?"

"I told you, I don't know."

"I did." Katherine said from behind us.

Finn's eyes lit up. "Katerina?"

"Hi Finn."

"Still with Elijah?"

She half smiled. "Something like that."

I turned to Elijah. "So I'm guessing this is another one of your brothers?"

"Yes." He sighed.

Finn looked at me and smiled. "And I'm guessing you're the newest doppelganger?"

I nodded. "I'm Elena."

He held out his hand. "Finn."

I just had to add in another one of the Originals, even though he hasn't actually been on the show yet. :) A lot of ships happening in the next chapter. But thanks for reading, and reviews are always appreciated! :)