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𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐰𝐨: 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥, 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐆𝐨𝐝𝐬, 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐆𝐨 𝐖𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠?

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｡･:*:･ﾟ★,‧͙⁺˚*･༓☾ STEFAN was in a strange place. All he saw was darkness but slowly, it started to shift. The darkness dispersed and Stefan found himself in a place. He was first confused but then, he recognized it, he was in Chicago.

The place where he met HIM, where he created the most beautiful memories of his life. It was all the same in comparison to the last time he went there. Is this a dream? He thought at first because the place wasn't real a bit. Everything was the same but there were no people, no cars, no movement in air, water, nothing nada nope.

The question was why is he dreaming this? It's so weird and it really started to creep him. Was someone messing with his head? But why? First, his death, the time travel and then, this? What in the name of god is going on? His mind was filled with the tornado of questions. He swore that if somebody didn't explain him what the hell is going on, he will loose his mind.

"Stefan Salvatore, welcome." A voice comes from behind him causing him to jump a little.

"Who are you? And why I am here?" Stefan says as he look at the really tall man before him. The man has sharp features, broad shoulders, long sharp nose, piercing grey eyes, and ivory white and blue toned hair. He looked good but had a very dark aura, Stefan could sense it, he would be lying if he said he wasn't a little afraid of the man but he didn't let his face reflect this.

"So, many questions. What do you people say, something like... curiosity kills the cat." He says simply with a smirk.

"And satisfaction brings her back." He sneered making Hades scoff. Stefan composed himself, he takes a deep breath and turns to the man again, "You already know who I am, don't you think it would be fair to at least tell me your name."

"I'm Hades. Pleasure." He says in a very nonchalant manner - as if being the God of the underworld is normal.

"Hades?!" Stefan ask, then he starts to spin his own Disney land story in his mind, "Wait! I am in hell. That means all that happened was just a hallucination, it wasn't real, was it? This was a punishment, right? Giving me the one thing I wanted the most, a second chance and then, snatching it. I was a fool to believe it was real. Hell! I won't be in peace. My soul will be punished for its crimes. And then, I committed uncountable crimes. I killed thousands of innocents. I ripped a whole village apart. I killed my own father. I was responsible for the death of Damon's victims. I killed my brother's best friend. I betrayed him. I-" He continued to rant, he felt the guilt consuming him. All those memories came rushing back.

"Well, that certainly entertained me, not that good with human emotions, but you need to relax." He drawls cutting my rant off. "You're not in hell. You're in the Underworld." Stefan once again calmed himself and looked at the Greek God.

"As if it's better than hell." Stefan whispers under his breath while he looks at him without showing any emotion.

"Oh," He realizes.

"Now, if you entertained yourself thoroughly, would you care to explain why exactly I'm in the Underworld and it looks like Chicago?"

"It looks like this, so you don't see the horrible things behind it. The Chicago part was what you chose subconsciously."

"Great, great, great, great..."

"I can take it off though."

"Please, don't take it off. It's of no use. I much prefer Chicago. Anyway, why am I here again?"

"Because I brought you here." He says calmly.

Stefan was loosing his patience, he clenches his fist and says between gritted teeth, "And may I know why?"

"I am Hades, first born of the Titans Cronus and Rhea, God of the Underworld, the Unseen, the Pluton, the attractor of man." He smirks. Stefan was annoyed to another level. He was pulling a Daenerys. Speaking of Daenerys he again felt sad because of some stupid writers, Daenerys died and Jon Snow was forced to kill the love of her life. And now, he wanted to tear apart the underground world ruler, just to open his not so old wounds.

"HADES!" Stefan hears a woman scream as she approaches them and stands beside him with a murderous look, obviously at the narcissistic Greek God, not him. She is also tall, though she is shorter than the arrogant king but at least two to three foot taller than Stefan. He felt like he was worm waiting to be crushed under the giant elephants' foot. She has curly hair of chocolate brown colour, if Caroline saw them she would probably spend the day with Persephone for hair care tips. She has amber golden eyes. The way she dresses, it shows her beauty and richness. Stefan guessed she is Persephone.

"Isn't that Hades wife?" Stefan thought to himself.

"Is that a way to talk? Don't talk to him like that." She scolds him.

"What? Why are you scolding me? He was the one who started bombarding me with questions. He was the one who-"

"- doesn't know what happened to him and has the displeasure of seeing you first thing after he came here." The woman, who Stefan thought was Persephone, finishes for him and I stifle a burst of laughter which resulted in Stefan earning a glare from the God of the Underworld - which wasn't a bit scary when you got abused in your childhood and your rest of the life went earning death threats from other. The woman then turns to Stefan. "I'm Persephone," and Stefan assumed right. "and I'm assuming you're Stefan?" Stefan nods in confirmation.

"I don't wanna sound impolite, but why am I here?" Stefan asks them.

"Of course you don't know, Hades didn't do his job, as usual. He didn't received your soul earlier and sent it back, without your permission." She says daggering glares at him then, smiles at Stefan. She clicks her fingers and a table with three chairs appear. "Why don't we settle down and talk?"

Stefan nods after all who can refuse the Queen of the Underworld. He sits down in silence waiting for her to continue.

"Well, honey, you're here because you died." She says, in a very blunt manner. "But you died saving others."

"Yeah, I know that part, me becoming a martyr saving my brother and town, giving him a human life." Stefan thought to himself. He then, concentrates on what Persephone was saying.

"Like many others do. And when that's the case and a person dies before their time they are sent here to the Underworld with two choices. Which you weren't given because of Hades foolishness. The first one is the chance of entering the Elysian Fields -"

"Isn't that only for heroes and righteous people?" Stefan can't help but blurts out. He knows he saved his brother and his town but he certainly wasn't a righteous person. Hades snorts.

"No." He simply says, "Not only."

"Exactly the fields are offered to those who couldn't reach their whole potential in life. I and Hades fought so it would be that way." Persephone explains, "But if you go in you won't be able to get out. Not that you would notice it anyway. Once you're in is like you restart your life again. But better. More up to perfection. And each time you die you get a better life than the prior."

"But that's utter bullshit!" Stefan blurts out.

"For God's sake keep your mouth shut and dial down the fucking profanity." Stefan whispers to himself.

Persephone gives him a look - that he saw many times in his mom when they were humans - and Hades is just plainly amused.

"I am sorry for my bluntness. But what I really wanted to say is that the fields sound like rubbish. I know it is perfect and all and I wouldn't notice it inside it. But life isn't perfect, and it wouldn't be real. No one would. After all my family and friends aren't dead. In the fields, they wouldn't be the real what I would see would be just what I want to see. My life definitely was not perfect, even though, there were times I hated it but still, I loved it. I don't have to go there, right?"

"No. There is the second choice." Persephone says with - what Stefan assuming is - a proud smile.
"Which I personally think you'll like." Hades smirks, "Most just want their family or have traumas and so on, so they go to the field. But personally, the second choice is much better."

"Yeah, well I think I'll go for it I don't really want a fake family and friends." Stefan tells them.

"What would you say about reincarnation?" Hades asks bluntly.

"Nice way of giving information." Stefan refers to Hades bluntness. "What exactly would be in this reincarnation? Care to elaborate?"

"We mean you can choose to be reborn in a universe." Persephone explains.

"A universe?" Stefan asked.

"My favourite part is where people choose to reincarinate in the fictional universes. I love to see." Hades said with a big grin plastered on his face.

"That's really... cool." Though, Stefan wanted to say not creepy at all.

"You can be reborn in any universe of your choice and you will still have the memory." Persephone tells him. But Stefan, didn't want either of this. He wished if Hades didn't notice soul and let everything go as it was going. He wanted another chance in his life which he was getting but he definitely didn't want a complete different life. Persephone noticed the fight going inside Stefan's mind and knew what he wanted.

"However, reincarnation doesn't only means being reborn in a fictional world, you can be reborn again in your world and life your again but this time with a different choices." Stefan's face shows a glimmer of hope when he hears Persephone say this.

"She is right. And because of my mistake I am ready to give you some gifts to make up for it." Hades says with a smirk.

"Gifts?" Stefan asks.

"Yes, we would conceal you with certain gifts. Consider this as an apology gift." Persephone explains him.

"Can I know what kind of gifts?" Stefan asks out of curiosity.

"Well, that's a... surprise." Hades says with a blank tone but then, emphasized on surprise.

"Oh, okay." Stefan shrugged though he wanted to know what the gifts would be but he was ready to wait.

"So, are you ready to make the choice?" Persephone asks with a very kind smile.

Stefan already made his choice. If circumstances would have been different he would have probably chose to be born in Harry Potter universe. Game Of Thrones also would not be a bad choice and then, there is also Avengers. But right now, he wanted to live his life again and this time he will make the right choices.

"I want to live my life again." Stefan answered. Persephone smiled while disappointment was flashing all over on Stefan's face.

"Really? Are you going to live that miserable life of yours again?" Hades said in a very dull tone.

"That is why I want to live it again. Not just for rectifying my mistakes but maybe, for-"

"-revenge." Hades complete the sentence and Stefan nods.

"Will I see you both again?" Stefan asks them. Though, he found Hades an arrogant prick at first but then, he liked the underworld god. He loved the brunette godess. And deep inside he wanted to meet them again.

"Of course, dear. You will see us again." Persephone said in a very kind voice.

"Can he go now?" Hades asked her wife.

" Are you ready honey?" Persephone asked and Stefan nodded.

The last thing Stefan he saw before blacking out was Hades' smirk and Persephone's reassuring smile. 

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Stefan found himself in his bed again. The encounter with the Greek Gods went nice. He finally knew what was happening and it is reality. He removed the blanket that was laid on him and he extended his hand to reach his mobile phone. He checked the date and knew it was the night of comet. He also saw there were 200 messages from her blonde best friend. It seemed Caroline's patience was very less.  

He grabbed a towel and went to take bath. He opened the shower and felt the drops of water falling on his body. At that time, he relaxed his whole body as well as his mind. He then, grabbed a bottle of shower gel and poured some of its content on his palm. He lathered the soap and applied it on his bare chest and then, slowly on his whole body. Few seconds later, he rinsed the soap and took the towel to dry his skin. 

He stepped out of the bathroom and slipped into his white t-shirt and blue jeans. He grabbed his leather jacket and wore it. 

The first thing he wanted to do is to visit the hospital and clean his brother's mess, which he created intentionally for him. 

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He entered the hospital and was going towards Vicki's room. He noticed Jeremy standing outside Vicki's room and he stood at a distance from there, listening the conversation between the nurse and Jeremy. 

"You can't be in here, hon. Visiting hours don't start till 9:00." The nurse said to him. 

"I just...how is she?" Jeremy asked, true concern was visible in his voice. Stefan felt bad for the boy, he truly loved Vicki but she was just using him, when the Lockwood boy trashes her. 

"She's lost a lot of blood." 

"Yeah, but she's gonna be OK, right?" 

"She needs her rest. So you come back later. Come on." It was visible that Jeremy didn't want to leave her side but still he went away. 

Stefan was waiting for nurse to leave as soon as the nurse left he went inside the room making sure no one saw him. 

Vicki wakes up and starts panicking remembering yesterday events. Stefan looks into her eyes and compels her. 

"Calm down." Vicki calms down.

" It was an animal that attacked you. It came out of the night and jumped you. You blacked out. It's all you remember." He continues compelling her. 

"It's all I remember." Vicki repeats in a monotone voice. Stefan leaves from there without anyone noticing him. 

"This piece of work done." Stefan speaks in his mind. And leaves for school. 

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He groaned in his mind as he realised that it is douchebag's class again. And to irritate him more a specific brunette was continuously checking him out throughout the class. 

"Originally discovered nearly 5 centuries ago, it hasn't been over Mystic Falls in over 145 years. Now, the comet will be its brightest right after dusk during tomorrow's celebration. Are we bothering you, Ms. Gilbert?" Tanner said making Elena look down. The bell rings and Stefan sighs that finally this miserable class is over. 

He was walking in the hallway as Caroline spots him and walks over him. 

"What the hell is wrong with you? You haven't responded to my messages." Caroline's anger exploded. Stefan tried to calm down the blonde. 

"Caroline, I am sorry, I didn't got time to reply to your message. But I promise you I won't repeat it ever again." Stefan apologised in a pleading tone.  

"Fine, you are forgiven! But don't ever repeat it again." Caroline said and look relief flashed all over Stefan's face. He smiled at her friend's dramatics. Stefan takes out a box from his pocket. 

" This is for you." He shows the beautiful bracelet inside the box. Caroline grinned seeing it. 

"This for me?" Caroline asked and Stefan nodded. "This is so beautiful." 

"I am glad you liked it." 

"Liked? Oh, my god, I love it." She quickly put the bracelet on her wrist. She suddenly lunged at the dark blonde haired and wrapped her arms around his chest. Stefan was taken aback. "Thank you." Stefan hugged the blonde back. 

They saw an empty classroom and walked inside it and locked it. 

"You sure it's the place you want me to explain all the supernatural stuff to you. We could this over at somewhere else also." Stefan asked Caroline. 

"No, Stefan if you don't tell me right now, I don't think I would be able to digest any food. Last night, I wasn't able to sleep because of it. I am cooking some weird shit inside my mind. And you were the reason it started in the first place, so you are going to explain me." Caroline ranted out and Stefan sighed in defeat. 

"Okay, what would you like to know first?" Stefan asked her. 

"First, tell me what is truth and what is lie." Stefan nodded.

"I saw you in the sun and you don't sparkle. How is that?" Caroline asked him. 

"First, vampires don't sparkle in sun, they burn in sun. And the answer to your second question is this ring." He showed her his daylight ring. "It prevents us from burning in sun." 

"Are you allergic to garlic because if so, how will you eat the world famous garlic bread I bake." She gasped dramatically, Stefan chuckled at this. 

"No, I love garlic and I can eat it but I am looking forward to eat your world famous garlic bread." Stefan emphasised on world famous. 

"So, what about crucifixes?" 

"Mmm... decorative." 

"Does holy water affects you?" 

"Nah, drinkable." 

"Do you sleep in a coffin? Do you even sleep?" 

"I do sleep, Caroline and no, I much prefer a bed than a coffin." 

"Mirrors! How can you see yourself in it? I mean, if by any chance I become a vampire, how will I do my makeup. Oh my god, I will look ugly and I will make a fool out of myself. How will I see which dress suits me and which not? How-" Stefan cut her in between. 

"Caroline, relax. You are not a vampire Caroline and the second thing is that, mirrors aren't a problem." Caroline sighed in relief. 

"Thank god, I was feeling sorry for those vamp chicks." Caroline sat on the bench. "Are there any other vampires in the town except you and your brother?" 

"Not right now." Stefan answered her. 

"So, how do you survive? You know drinking blood and all that." 

"It's not necessary to kill anyone. You can take a blood bag from hospital." 

"Do you steal the blood bag?" 

"No, the people in the hospital give us, we don't need to steal." 

"They just hand you over?" 

"Not exactly, vampires do have a trick or two. It is called compulsion. We can make people do whatever we want." Caroline's eyes widened in surprise. 

"That's super cool!" Caroline squealed. 

"I know." 

"Did you ever do it on me?" Caroline asked, though her heart knew he never did it to him. 

"No, I never used it on you." Stefan told her and Caroline knew he was telling the truth. 

"So, are there just vampires in the world or something like ninja turtles also exist?" Caroline did the ninja turtle thing with her hand. And Stefan laughed at this. 

"Nope, there is nothing like ninja turtles but still other things do exist in this world." This peaked Caroline's interest. 

"Like what?" 

"Werewolves-" Caroline interrupted him in between. 

" Wow, they really turn into wolves, from human to an animal." 

"They do." "Are there werewolves in the town?" Caroline asked him. 

"Lockwoods." Stefan answered. Caroline was shocked. 

" And no body knows, is Tyler also a?" 

"No, he isn't, not yet." Stefan told her. 

"What does not yet, means?" Caroline asked him. 

"It means that Tyler has to kill someone to activate his werewolf curse." 

"Werewolf Curse?" 

" These werewolf families has this curse of being a werewolf which is passed down from generations. If someone having werewolf curse activates it then, he goes through the transformation every full moon. But those who don't activate the curse remain human their whole life." Stefan explained it Caroline who was listening very attentively. 

"Are their sorcerer's also?" Caroline asked out of curiosity. 

"Not sorcerer's but witches and warlocks do exist." 

"Do they have a magical wand?" 

"No, they don't need a wand, they can cast spells without it." 

"That's super fun. Wait, Bonnie's grandmother says she is a witch, is she a witch?" 

"Yeah, the Bennets are witches. Bonnie's grandmother is a witch and she is also a witch, it's just that she didn't tap into her powers." 

"Are mermaids real?" 

"No, they aren't real but there are a bunch others creatures too, like heretics, half witch-half vampires, then comes siphoners, kind of like special witches, they don't have their own magic but can take it from any magical things. Then, there are travellers, name explains it, enemies of witches because they cursed them." Stefan told his blonde friend. 

"This much, and humans don't know of it." Caroline said in wonder. 

"Not all of the humans but some know about it, like in Mystic Falls, there is a secret council and all the founder families are part of it, Fell, Forbes, Gilberts, Lockwoods and Salvatores." 

"This means my mother also knows about this." Caroline asked him. 

"She knows but only about the vampire part." 

"And she didn't told me as usual." Caroline was angry on her mother for not telling her about this. 

"She didn't wanted you to get involved in this because she wanted to protect you. Humans never survive in supernatural world (except, Matty the Ratty). She did it for your safety." Stefan tried to explain her. Caroline realised Stefan is right. 

"You are right, Stefan." Caroline sighed and cursing herself in mind for getting angry on her mother for something like this. 

"Caroline, one more thing, does your family has a history of cancer?" Stefan asks the blonde confusing her. 

"Yes, there is. My mom told me that my great grandmother died due to cancer but why are you asking that?" Caroline asked him. 

"Will you do one thing for me?" Stefan asked. 

"Of course, Stefan what is it?" Though Caroline, knew the Salvatore boy for a day she had this feeling inside him that she will do anything for him. 

"Tell your mom to have a test to see if she has cancer or not." 

"I don't understand Stefan, why should I tell my mom to that?" Caroline asked still confused by the younger Salvatore's talk. 

" Look, I met some ancestors of your family and they had this same type of cancer, so, I thought there are high chances of your mother being diagnosed with the same problem. That's why you should ask your mom to check, if she has cancer or not." Stefan lied to blonde because he could not tell all the stuff at one time. But lie or not he convinced the blonde to do so. 

Caroline didn't had such a strong relationship with her mom but still the thought of her mother having such fatal disease shook her from inside. She felt very grateful to the forest green eyed Salvatore. "Thank you, Stefan. I will ask my mom to have a check up."

They smiled at each other and then, went outside the class. 

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They were walking in the hallways when they heard the conversation going on between Tanner the Douchebag and Jenna. 

"It's an impossible job, isn't it, raising two teens?" They heard Tanner questioned in an annoying voice to someone. 

"It's been tough, but, no, it's not." They heard Jenna say this to Tanner and Stefan immediately knew that Tanner is going to say something Tanner like. 

"Wrong answer. It is an extremely impossible job, and anything less and you're not doing it properly." Tanner and this was it, Stefan opened the door and walked inside the class. Jenna and Tanner both saw him and Caroline. If it had not been Caroline he would have ripped Tanner apart. He was feeling rage inside his veins. 

"Shut up, you dickhead." Tanner was glaring at him while Jenna was in tears. "What do you know about raising two teens, huh? As far as I seeing, you are still single and don't have any kids. So, you don't get to lecture someone else on parenting their kids. And for facts, she is far better than you." Stefan defended Jenna. 

"Stefan is right, Jenna is amazing. And you have no right to talk like this way to anyone. And I will complain about this to headmaster and make sure you loose your job." Caroline threatened him. 

"Watch your back, Tanner." Stefan said to him. If looks could kill, the history teacher would already have been in a casket.

Caroline and Stefan left with Jenna who was crying. They reached at the parking lot and Jenna broke down into tears. Caroline hugged her. 

"Jenna, you are amazing and Tanner is wrong. You are the strongest woman I have ever seen. Jeremy and Elena, they both appreciate you and if you want, I will talk to them." The blonde tried to comfort Jenna. 

"Thank you, Caroline. I am thankful you too. You didn't know me and still you defended me." Jenna thanked the Salvatore brother. 

"And I will do it again. By the way, I am Stefan friend of Caroline and Jeremy. Elena is my classmate. Now, you go to home and grab a bottle of beer and drown your sorrow with it." 

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 Caroline and Stefan spent the day at Caroline's house watching all the Disney movies while they had there face masks on. Caroline even posted a photo of theirs at her social media account. Stefan told her all about vervain and gave her some and told her to mix it with her food or drinks. 

So, when Elena decided to visit the younger Salvatore she found the older mysterious Salvatore brother who she saw last night at the grill and today at the school. Though Elena, didn't got the younger Salvatore she made a vow to herself to get the older one.  

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Later at the night, Stefan and Caroline were handing out the pamphlets. They lit each other's candles. Elena saw them and approached them. 

"Hey, Caroline. Hi, Stefan." Elena greeted them. Though, Caroline noticed the fakeness in her sound as if she was trying to say 'You bitch'. Stefan looked at Caroline and somehow knew what she was thinking, they walked away from Elena ignoring her, Caroline smiled at this while Elena stomped her foot angrily on the ground. 

"You know, that comet...it's been traveling across space for thousands of years. All alone." Stefan told Caroline. 

"Yeah, Bonnie says it's a harbinger of evil." Caroline said to him. 

"I think it's just a ball of...snow and ice, trapped on a path that it can't escape. And once every 145 years, it gets to come home." He took a deep breathe. "Though, Bonnie is still correct about the evil part, the last time it passed, everything changed." Stefan said in sadness. 

"The night you were turned, right?" Stefan nodded at her. "You know you never told me the story of how you turned." 

"Maybe, I will tell you some other time. For now, we should enjoy the moment life is giving us, who knows what happens tomorrow." Caroline smiled at him. 

"Your sentences always having a deep meaning, it looks like you speak from experience." 

"I do." 

"Okay, enough of the sentimental talk. We should go and find the rest of them. They are probably, inside the Grill." 

They went inside the Grill to talk to the rest of the Scooby Doo gang. Stefan sees Jeremy and smiles at him while he was worried. Stefan understood, it was Damon. 

"Hey, has anyone seen Vicki?" Jeremy questions and Stefan felt bad for him. He deserved better than Vicki Donovan. Though, Tyler made many mistakes in the future but he also deserved better than Vicki. 

"You're her stalker. You tell us." Tyer says. 

"I can't find her." Jeremy says he was still very worried. 

"She probably found somebody else to party with. Sorry, pill pusher, I guess you've been replaced." Tyler says making Elena look at him wide eyed. 

"What's with the pill pusher?" Elena questions Tyler while Caroline looks at Jeremy. 

"Ask him." Tyler said pointing to Jeremy. 

"You wanna do this right now?" Jeremy asks Tyler who was just smirking. 

"Are you dealing?" Elena asks Jeremy who was just glaring at Tyler ignoring his sister. 

"She's never gonna go for you." The Lockwood boy tells Jeremy. 

"She already did. Over and over and over again." Jeremy said making everybody look at him wide eyed, Stefan wasn't surprised at all because he knew about it. 

"Yeah, right." Tyler said scoffing definitely not believing it. 

"You slept with Vickie Donovan? I mean, Vickie Donovan slept with you?" Caroline asks him, she seemed as the most shocked person. 

"There's no way." Tyler said shaking his head. 

"And I didn't even have to force her into it." Jeremy said making Tyler look at him wide eyed. The Lockwolf is now screwed, Stefan knew. 

"What the hell is he talking about, Todd?" Matt questioned his best friend who was just standing their crossing his arms. 

"And he is a pathetic liar." Stefan thought to himself. 

"Nothing, man, just ignore him, he's a punk." Tyler says making Stefan look at him in disbelief. 

"You know what, how about all of you shut up and help me find my sister?" Matt asks as he stands and starts to leave. 

"We'll check the back." Bonnie says as she and Caroline get up. 

 "I'll check the square." Matt says as Jeremy nods. 

"I will also help." Stefan says. 

"I will come with you both." Jeremy says but Elena stops him from going. 

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Stefan and Matt were walking on the street looking for Vicki. 

"I will look that way." Matt says and Stefan nods. Stefan hears a scream nearby, followed by Damon and Vicki's voices.

"You really have to stop screaming." Damon says in an irritated voice. 

"No, please, stop. Don't... " Vicki was pleading to him. 

"Shh. I got you." Damon tells her. 

"Excuse me." Stefan says and he leaves from there. Stefan sees Damon and Vicki. He jumps on the roof. Though, Stefan didn't want to go on Vicki save mission. But he still went, he blamed his hero hairs for this. 

"No! No!" Vicki pleads. 

"I gotta do it. I'm not gonna drop you. Not bad. Have you been eating bunnies?" Damon asks Stefan who just rolls his eyes. 

"Let her go." Stefan said without any interest. 

"Shh. really? Ok." Damon says and Stefan knew what exactly he was going to do but he didn't care. Damon pulls Vicki to the edge of the roof. 

"No!" Vicki pleads to Damon. 

"Oh, please do it Damon. One of my miseries would be less." Stefan thought to himself while Damon gets a little confused as Stefan doesn't try to save Vicki. But he ignores the feeling and thinks his brother is just acting to not care. He throws Vicki to Stefan. 

"Uhh! Relax." Damon says. 

"What's happening?" Vicki asks Damon. 

"I don't need her to be dead, but... you might. What attacked you the other night?" Damon asks her. 

"I don't know. An animal." Vicki replies him. 

"Are you sure about that? Think. Think about it. Think really hard. What attacked you?" Damon asks again trying to get Vicki remember about the incident. 

"An animal. I already said that." Vicki says, this shocked Damon, how did Stefan compelled her? As far as he knew, Stefan was on Bambi diet making his compulsion weaker. 

" You will remember everything that happened to you." Damon compelled her, even though Stefan fed on human blood, Damon was still a little stronger than him, in matters of mind control. But not for long. "Who did this to you?" Damon asks her and Stefan was just sighing, he was getting bored of this stupid conversation. 

"You did!" Vicki points at Damon as she remembered everything.  

"Wrong!" Damon tells her and Stefan already knew what Damon was about to do. 

"It was Stefan." Damon compels her. Damon grabs Vicki on both sides of her head. "Come here. Stefan Salvatore did this to you." 

"Stefan Salvatore did this to me." Vicki repeats in a monotone voice. 

"He's a vampire. A vicious, murderous monster." Damon says to Vicki. 

"Seriously Damon? I am not that bad. I mean I did kill people but don't we all have our fair shares of kill." Stefan says dramatically. "I am hurt." He pointed towards his heart. 

" I see you are learning sarcasm from me brother. But right now, there is a bigger problem ahead of you." He said pointing towards Vicki. "If you couldn't fix it before, I don't know what you can do now." Stefan shakes her head. Damon pulls off Vicki's bandage and throws her to Stefan. 

"Aah!" Stefan was getting annoyed and Vicki's screaming was only turning it worse. 

"Ugh! Your choice of lifestyle has made you weak. A couple of vampire parlor tricks is nothing compared to the power that you could have, that you now need. But you can change that. Human blood gives you that." Damon tells Stefan. 

" No!" Vicki shouts. 

"You have two choices. You can feed and make her forget. Or you can let her run, screaming "vampire" through the town square." Damon says to Stefan. 

" That's what this is about? You want to expose me? You and your games Damon. You never get tired of it, do you?" Stefan asks him. 

"No! I want you to remember who you are!" Damon tells Stefan. 

"Why? So what, so I'll feed? So I'll kill? So I'll remember what it's like to be brothers again? You know what, let her go. Let her tell everyone that vampires have returned to Mystic Falls. Let them chain me up, and let them drive a stake through my heart, because at least I'll be free of you." Damon looks at Stefan. "Oh, this was what you wanted to say me, right? But one thing, Damon, I know you don't want that. You are just doing this because you want to fulfil your promise of eternity of misery. But we both know, deep down, that your hatred for me isn't real, it's just a name that you gave to your anger. You blame me for everything and yeah, it certainly makes thing easier for you. But it isn't real." Stefan tells his brother and sees the flick of emotions in his eyes. 

"Huh. Huh. Wow. Come here, sweetheart." He tells Vicki. 

" No!" Vicki says but Damon doesn't listens. 

" It's ok." Damon tells her. He whispers something into Vicki's ear and she becomes fine. 

"What happened? Where am I? Oh, I ripped my stitches open. Ah..." She say as she forgets everything. 

"Donovan, are you fine?" He asks her though, he couldn't care less but still he asks her, old habits don't leave so easily, they are stubborn. 

" I took some pills, man. I'm good." Vicki tells him and leaves from there. 

" It's good to be home. Think I might stay a while. This town could use a bit of a wake-up call, don't you think?" Damon asks Stefan. 

" You can do whatever you want Damon, I couldn't care less. I am not all curious at all in learning about your planning and plotting." Stefan says to Damon who was a bit surprised. 

" Even if you were I would say, that's for me to know and for you to... dot dot dot. Give your new friend, what was her name, yeah... Caroline, my best. Damon says as he goes from there. 

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Stefan returns to Mystic Grill again. He sees everyone in the Grill except, Elena and her brother. Matt helps Vicki with her bandage. 

"She said you found her wandering around." Matt asks Stefan. 

"Yeah." Stefan answers. 

"So, um, thanks." Matt thanks the Salvatore. The one thing the green eyed Salvatore adored about Matt was her love and care for his sister.  

He approaches Caroline and Bonnie who were seated on another table. 

"Uh, Caroline I was going back home, I wanted to say good bye. " Stefan tells her blonde friend. 

"Bye, Stefan, have a great night." Caroline says. 

"Good bye, Bonnie." Stefan says. 

"Good bye, Stefan. " Bonnie says with a smile. Bonnie accidentally touches Stefan's hand and gets a vision. She pulls her hand back. 

"You okay?" Stefan asks the witch, he thought probably she got some of her witchy joo joo. 

" What happened to you? That's so rude. I'm sorry. Excuse me. " Bonnie says very weirdly and leaves from there. Caroline also got confused. 

" What happened to her?" Caroline asks him. 

" I don't know. " Stefan tells Caroline and leaves from the Grill. 

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Stefan reached the Boarding House, he went directly to his bed and fell asleep hoping one thing, earning his brother's forgiveness as soon as possible. 

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