A Struggling Stefan Salvatore

Bonnie and Caroline went back to the Salvatore House, and Elena was brought in by Stefan. She was still sleeping.

Stefan was sitting beside her. Caroline and Bonnie were sitting beside each other on the couch. Bonnie was holding William.

Elena woke up with a gasp.

"What happened?" She sat up.

"I don't want to be so hard…." He held her hand, "But you are transitioning…."

"How did that happen?"

It took them almost an hour to calm Elena. Caroline was called into the set, with an emergency and she left. And Bonnie went home to find a daylight spell.

Klaus was waiting outside Caroline's house but she wasn't there. After thirty minutes of waiting,

"Hello…."

"Hello, love…" Klaus said,

"Oh...I am so sorry…" She was holding Will, and she opened the door. "I went to scream at Stefan.,...But we found out that Elena was driven off the Wickery bridge with vampire blood, and then..."

She was talking very fast,

"So, I forgot everything…"

"It's alright!" Klaus came inside with her. He took Will from her hands.

"Aren't you cute, little one…" He smiled at her.

She had the best time with Klaus she had had all year. She was happy, she talked, she vented, and laughed.

It was as if her cares in the world melted away.

She had fallen asleep on the sofa with Klaus. She woke up with the sound of a call.

She woke up drowsily.

"Uh….Klaus…The phone's ringing…" She reached for her phone.

"It's Stefan…" Klaus handed it to her.

"It must be something important!" She told him, and took the phone from his hand. She had to snatch it out of his hand, and he laughed.

"Hi, Stefan…." She said. "How are you?"

"She broke up with me, Caroline…" He told her, "She broke up with me…"

"Who? Elena?" She sat up straight. "But why?"

"Damon…."

"Okayy…" She stood up, "Okay, don't do anything rash…..Don't kill someone, cuz you know what i will do…..and not intentionally."

"What's happening..?" Klaus asked.

"Nothing, Stefan….I have to go..!" She was going towards the bathroom.

"Always running from me, Love." Klaus said,

"I know…" She smiled, "It's much more fun….!"

He had one sided smile.

"See you tonight?" He asked.

"If Stefan doesn't need me." She told him. "Then, Yes."

She was at the Salvatore House once again. William had started walking, and she usually allowed him to walk whenever they went out. But right now she was in a hurry.

SHe picked him up,

"Momma.." He said,

"Yes, my little baby…." She kissed him on the forehead. "It's your first word, and we don't have a recorder!"

She sighed. She loved all the baby stuff, and making scrapbooks about everything.

But this was Stefan, and she couldn't let him go crazy. She opened the door without asking.

"STEFAN!" She shouted,

"Actually, Stefan isn't her...….." Elena stepped out of the kitchen with a bottle.

"Elena…" Caroline heard Damon shout.

"I'll deal with you later!" Caroline said sharply.

She went outside, and slammed the door shut.

"Stefan!!" She shouted, and went to the Wickery bridge. She guessed he would be there and he was.

"Stefan?" He was sitting under the Wickery Bridge, on a stone. She sat beside him.

"Stefan…"

"I can't believe it, Caroline." She looked at him, his eyes were filled with tears, but they didn't fall.

She held his face in her hands. "I'm sorry, Stef…" He hugged her, "I am so sorry…."

"I loved her…"

He was now crying, but she couldn't hear him. It was the tears falling on her hands.

"I'll turn it off…." He exclaimed sharply.

"No, no, no, no...." Caroline shook his shoulders, "You can't do this…."

She told him.

"Why not?" He almost yelled. It made William cry.

"Look here, Stefan!" She told him she was holding Will and she pushed him in his arms, "Look at him…."

Stefan was quiet.

"What do you expect of him….when I spend the next fifty years trying to get you back on track….Because I made a pact with you?" She told him, "What do you expect him to think of me, when I am going to be absent for the rest of his life?"

He looked at her.

"You can just help me to let you help you….." She exclaimed. "Or I'll chase you down for the next fifty years, when my son loses a mother and an Uncle?"

"You know, you are being really selfish right now!" Stefan said, Caroline looked upset, but he was talking to the baby.

"Stefan, please!" She held his hand, "You know I'll always be here for you, day and night!"

"I know…" His chin was rubbing on William's soft brown hair.

"But, please…..Don't put me in a crazy position." She told him, "I know, I have a pact to come after you if you flip the switch…..But that was way back before this little baby was in my life."

He nodded softly,

"It doesn't mean I won't honor it." She reassured him. "But don't make me choose between you and Will. Because I need you both!"

"I know," he repeated.

"You'll get through…" She squeezed his hand, it was as if she was assuring herself more than him.

"Caroline?" He said,

"Yes!" She looked at him.

"I want to move out of the house…."

"Sure….!" She told him, "I have an extra bedroom! Ohh….We can have so much fun!!"

She clapped her hands.

"Really?" Stefan asked.

"Yes….Don't be stupid!!" She took Will from Stefan's hands. She swooshed him in the air, "Isn't it exciting, Will! Uncle Stef's going to stay with us!!"

Stefan smiled, he loved that Caroline got excited about little things. It was catching, and he got up.

"Let's go!" Stefan got up, "Okay…."

"Good!" She told him. "You are handling this great!"