He felt like an idiot, a complete idiot that he didn't think of this sooner. Lynn coming to visit probably knocked this thought right out of his head but as that woman approached him on the beach and told him that his Bonnie has been looking for him for weeks, he rushed over to Lynn's house, but before he could make it there, he saw her.

She was walking along the sidewalk ready to head home when she stopped in her trail. She felt something, a shift in the air and her heart started pounding. Closing her eyes, Bonnie turned around and when her eyes landed on him, her knees weekend, but before she could hit the ground, Stefan catches her and instantly she meets their lips. She starts to cry, but continues kissing him, missing him more than she thought that she did.

Stefan let a few tears slip himself and pulled away so he could hug her tears away.

"Where were you?" She asked through her madness of tears.

"I don't know, Damon, he- he told me you were dead, that you've been dead for a year and all this time I was just dreaming about us." He held her closer.

"You didn't believe him, did you? You promised, you promised that if anyone told you that I was gone that you wouldn't believe them, you promised."

He cried. "Only for a second, I swear. I only believed him for a second, because he had made up proof and I was weak and I- I- I'm sorry, baby, I'm so sorry."

She held him tighter and closer, her nails piercing through his shoulders. "It's okay,"

He shucked in his tears, lifting her legs around his waist before he took them to Lynn's house. She was shocked to see him and wanted to ask many questions, but the way Bonnie was clinging to him, she knew that they needed their time alone. She was just glad that everything was okay.

Stefan laid her on the bed and met their lips again before pulling away.

"What?"

He smiled breathing out, "You're pregnant."

Her eyes narrowed. "W-what, how can I-"

"I can hear the heartbeat. I can hear it beating."

He quickly moved down to her stomach lifting her shirt then slowly placed his head down until his ear was pressed against in lightly. A tear fell from his eye and he moved his head to kiss her there.

"I've been throwing up a lot lately but I just thought it was because I was without you, but I guess I was wrong." She chuckled on the verge of tears. "I was pregnant, I'm pregnant."

He smiled and met their lips moving his hand down touching her stomach. "I love you so much."

"I love you so much." Their lips met again before they pulled each other into an embrace.

Side by side they lay, looking into each other's eyes, holding hands with small smiles on their faces. They've been enjoying the quiet for two hours after talking to Lynn who made them both eat. They kept the news about their baby to themselves for now because they wanted to enjoy this alone for now. After their meal, they headed back to their room to be alone together.

Stefan moved his arm around her running it up her back kissing her twice.

"You have to leave me tonight." Bonnie whispered.

"I'm never leaving your side ever again."

"You have to. Damon is still out there, this will be the first place he looks. I can't put Lynn in danger or our baby."

"I'll kill him. Tonight, I'll rip his heart out from his chest. He took me away from you, I will kill him."

Bonnie nodded knowing that it was the only way that they would truly be protected and free from him. She had their baby to think about and though she didn't want Stefan to kill his own brother, it was honestly the only way.

When night fell, Stefan kissed her goodbye for a couple of hours. He still didn't want to leave her, but he needed to get this done. The thought of killing his brother hurt him, but Damon's more sick then he thought.

He compelled someone to put Bonnie's picture in the obituary, made up a sick lie, watched him suffer and all for what? He gets that he was upset about them leaving suddenly, but why not torture him? Why lie about it?

Stefan stood beside his brothers bed not so much watching him sleep. Knowing that he might regret this, Stefan shook him awake and his eyes opened instantly.

"Stefan?"

"I have to kill you, Damon."

He looked at his brother like he was insane sitting up. "What the hell are you talking about?"

"We found each other. Bonnie was looking for me, passing out fliers and this girl told me, and I found her. I just don't understand why. Why stay here when she is here, she wouldn't give up on me. Why make up this lie, why not just kill me?"

Damon sighed. "We were only going to stay here one more day, I was going to convince you to leave." He confessed. "And I didn't kill you, because like I said back in New York, I actually miss my brother. I didn't kill Bonnie because I wanted her to suffer. She took you away from me."

Stefan narrowed his eyes surprised by his answer. "I don't want to have to kill you, Damon,"

"And yet here you are." He smiled. "So what are you waiting for?"

He stepped back some as he stood from the bed and spread his arms out challenging his brother. When he didn't move, Damon smiled then slapped his arms down back to his sides.

"You can't do it. No matter how much you may want to, you can't do it." Stefan remained silent. "I'm willing to put this all behind us, forgive you for this little stunt on one condition. You leave Bonnie. We make ourselves scarce, leave town."

"I can't do that. I'm not leaving her."

His face went straight then after a while, lifted his eyebrow up to his hairline. "Fine. Then I guess I'll have to kill you."

Stefan narrowed his eyes then quickly moved out of the way as his brother sped towards him and repeated.

Damon found himself on his back. "Don't make me do this, Damon. Just. Just promise that you'll leave us alone and I won't have to do this."

"I'm not a child, Stefan. You and your stupid promises." He switched their positions holding his brother's neck in his hand. "Last chance, brother."

"Damon," he reached his arms up holding his hand back forcing it away from his chest. "Stop this!"

"You started it! I'm just going to finish it."

He removed the hand from around his neck to punch him a few times and once his other hand was free from his hold, Damon aimed for his heart once again, but found himself being flung back, crashing into a wall.

Stefan looked shockingly over growing more shocked as his eyes landed on Bonnie. She rushed over to him making sure that he was okay.

"Bon—" he tried to warn but was too late as Damon kicked her in the stomach knocking her over.

He sped over to his older brother grabbing him by the neck smashing his head against the wall in rage. He then threw him on the floor, punching and over and over having his blood marking his face and continued to beat him, and just as he was slowly fading, Stefan tore his heart out from his chest.

His breath grew heavy as he stared at his brother but then hurried over to Bonnie's side helping her up gently as she held her stomach. She winched in pain the let out a cry feeling liquid rub down her legs as she bled.

Stefan shook his head repeated the word 'no' over and over realizing what had happened. "This is all my fault, Bonnie, I- I'm so sorry. It's all my fault, everything is all my fault."

He held her as she cried in mourn and he soon joined in as well, crying as he said his apology to her and to their lost child.

Bonnie stood there numb as Stefan rubbed soap on her body to wipe away the dried blood. A tear would run down her cheek occasionally, but she never moved to wipe it away. They spoke not a word as he scrubbed too roughly turning her thighs a shade of red before he realized that he was going too hard on her. He turned on the water and used a different cloth to wash it away this time using gentle movements. After the blood was off he lifted her out and started a bath, filling it with her favorite scent as the warm water filled the porcelain tub.

He laid her in once it was full and lightly bumped his forehead against the side of hers. He needed her. He needed her more than ever, but it would take a while before she returns back and he knew that.

Taking the loofah, he started rubbing the parts of her body that weren't soaked by the lavender bath then decided to sing softly to her.

"Now all the birds have fled, the hurt just leaves me scared

Losing everything I've ever known
It's all become too much, maybe I'm not built for love

If I knew that I could reach you, I would go... "

Bonnie sat there listening to his voice letting more tears fall then opened her mouth and her shaking voice joined him.

He watched her sleep looking as if she was faking it, but her heart told him that she wasn't. He hates himself for what he's done, and a part of him wanted to leave her since she deserved so much better than him. He wanted to leave her a note and sneak off tonight, find a cliff and slip off his ring as the sun started to shine.

He never thought that things would happen like this, if only he was strong enough, they would've still had their baby. Bonnie wouldn't have interfered and Damon wouldn't have kicked her on the stomach.

He starts to wonder if he had done that on purpose. He told him that he wanted Bonnie to suffer and what better way would that have been than taking away her child. Their child.

Stefan let's out a breath holding her closer and whispered an apology to her again closing his eyes for the rest of the night.

His eyes moved along her face as he moved her hair back with his hand repeatedly. Humming a steady tune as he did so smiling a little when a smile came to her face. He was glad that she wasn't upset with him like he's upset with himself, but her love and forgiveness made his anger disappear slowly each hour.

Her voice was a whisper, "I love you."

"I deserve nothing from you. Especially your love, but I have it and I never want to lose it. I love you so much, Bonnie. You are the love of my life, my soul, my everything. I love you, I love you."

She kisses him gently and he moves his hand to the side of her face kissing her deeper then pulled away meeting their foreheads.

"I'm sorry. Our baby, it's my fault."

"It just wasn't meant to be. When the right time comes, then we'll have our baby without complications. We won't have to worry about anyone or anything besides our baby."

"How did it happen?"

"I don't know. We'll figure it out though. We always do."

He kissed her once before pulling her close into his arms.

A/N: Let me know your thoughts!