3. The Parting of Ways


Lol, I can't remember what I was thinking of her finding….I think it was a letter, so it's going to be a letter.


Dear Elena,

Leaving you, for the sake of my brother, should be hard, it should be something I look back at and I regret.

But I don't think I ever will. He's the only family I have left, and you know how hard it is to lose family, even those you despise at times, and I just can't lose him.

But it's not just for him that I'm leaving. I'm leaving for you, also. You're the single most important person to me, and if I thought I was leaving you in danger, or in the same amount of danger you're in while Klaus is here, I would never go. But Klaus has said we will leave this town, which means you should be free of harm, of danger, and you will be able to move on with your life. You're strong, and have made it through the worst things that life brings. And I know you can find the strength to find happiness without me, without anything to do with creatures like vampires and werewolves, creatures you shouldn't know about in the first place.

Just remember, wherever you go, how much I love you.

Yours Always,

Stefan Salvatore

I clutched the letter hard to my chest, after reading it for the fifth time. I couldn't believe his words, he thought I was better off without him. But he didn't know the truth, that he was all I had left. "Elena." My name was soft on the tongue it came from. Damon Salvatore, his brother.

"What do you want Damon?" I asked, holding back the tears that wanted to fall from my eyes. I was not in the mood to even talk to Damon at the moment.

"I'm leaving." He said, causing me to sigh, and feel even more upset, "I came to say goodbye." His hair was slicked back, but also falling forward near his eyes, and for a moment, I couldn't look away from those sorrowful ice blue eyes that seemed to read a message that he did not want to leave, a message pleading with me to tell him to stay.

"Goodbye Damon." I said, imagining the wall I was placing between the two of us, barriers we both held that had just recently started to crumble, but were now repaired, it seemed.

He came over to me, bent down; squeezing his eyes shut as if with so much pain and agony, and then kissed me on the forehead, "Goodbye Elena."

That was the last time I saw him for two more weeks.


Dear Diary,

This is the first time I write to you in a long while….but still, I should be happy right? Today I'm 18 years old, old enough to buy a lottery ticket, to be a guardian to Jeremy and myself, old enough to get my inheritance.

Yet I'm not happy.

I used to have so much, be so much, until nearly a year ago a path started, one that devoured everything. The only people left are Bonnie, Jeremy, Caroline, and Alaric, and they can't do anything to fix all that's gone horribly wrong. They can only hope there friendship is enough to make me happy again.

I'm not sure it is. Although, I'm not sure about much anymore. Life is uncertain where it once wasn't, and I don't know where to go from here.

Love,

Elena

"Are you ready yet?" Damon called up to me on the fateful morning of my eighteen birthday. He'd gotten back nearly a week earlier, saying that there was no other place for him to look, that all hope was lost in the search for Stefan. When he said he'd bring back Stefan, all I knew was I never should have believed him.

"Not yet, Damon." I called back, pulling my ever so long brunette hair back in a ponytail and then grabbing my bag. I hated the fact that they were making me go out, and to endure hours of a party they were throwing for me. All I wanted to do was crawl up and sleep, forget the world, but I needed to make them happy. They were all I had left. "Now I'm ready."

And we headed out the door.


"It's time for cake!" A little girl exclaimed as Bonnie pushed me in front of a large cake. My stomach was filled with butterflies, as everyone sang happy birthday. I scanned the crowd, smiling in thanks, not knowing what was about to happen, who I was about to see. And then, when I did see the face, my world went black.


I thought, although this was a really short chapter, that it was a good chapter. =] I hope you all agree, and therefore, read and review! Back soon,

-It'sYouAndMeStefan. Always